1 Changes in version 0.3.5.4-alpha - 2018-11-08
2 Tor 0.3.5.4-alpha includes numerous bugfixes on earlier versions and
3 improves our continuous integration support. It continues our attempts
4 to stabilize this alpha branch and build it into a foundation for an
5 acceptable long-term-support release.
7 o Major bugfixes (compilation, rust):
8 - Rust tests can now build and run successfully with the
9 --enable-fragile-hardening option enabled. Doing this currently
10 requires the rust beta channel; it will be possible with stable
11 rust once Rust version 1.31 is released. Patch from Alex Crichton.
12 Fixes bugs 27272, 27273, and 27274. Bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
14 o Major bugfixes (embedding, main loop):
15 - When DisableNetwork becomes set, actually disable periodic events
16 that are already enabled. (Previously, we would refrain from
17 enabling new ones, but we would leave the old ones turned on.)
18 Fixes bug 28348; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
20 o Minor features (continuous integration):
21 - Add a Travis CI build for --enable-nss on Linux gcc. Closes
23 - Add new CI job to Travis configuration to run stem-based
24 integration tests. Closes ticket 27913.
26 o Minor features (Windows, continuous integration):
27 - Build tor on Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2016 using
28 Appveyor's CI. Closes ticket 28318.
30 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, also in 0.3.4.9):
31 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
32 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
35 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
36 - Fix a pair of missing headers on OpenBSD. Fixes bug 28303; bugfix
37 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
39 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, OpenSolaris):
40 - Fix compilation on OpenSolaris and its descendants by adding a
41 missing include to compat_pthreads.c. Fixes bug 27963; bugfix
44 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
45 - Refuse to start with relative file paths and RunAsDaemon set
46 (regression from the fix for bug 22731). Fixes bug 28298; bugfix
49 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, also in 0.3.4.9):
50 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
51 with a different relay, instead of a BUG() warning with a
52 backtrace. Fixes bug 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
54 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
55 - Build the service descriptor's signing key certificate before
56 uploading, so we always have a fresh one: leaving no chances for
57 it to expire service side. Fixes bug 27838; bugfix
60 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client authorization):
61 - Fix an assert() when adding a client authorization for the first
62 time and then sending a HUP signal to the service. Before that,
63 Tor would stop abruptly. Fixes bug 27995; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
65 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
66 - Unless we have explicitly set HiddenServiceVersion, detect the
67 onion service version and then look for invalid options.
68 Previously, we did the reverse, but that broke existing configs
69 which were pointed to a v2 service and had options like
70 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient set. Fixes bug 28127; bugfix on
71 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
73 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
74 - Make the OPE code (which is used for v3 onion services) run
75 correctly on big-endian platforms. Fixes bug 28115; bugfix
78 o Minor bugfixes (protover, rust):
79 - Reject extra commas in version strings. Fixes bug 27197; bugfix
82 o Minor bugfixes (relay shutdown, systemd):
83 - Notify systemd of ShutdownWaitLength so it can be set to longer
84 than systemd's TimeoutStopSec. In Tor's systemd service file, set
85 TimeoutSec to 60 seconds to allow Tor some time to shut down.
86 Fixes bug 28113; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
88 o Minor bugfixes (rust, also in 0.3.4.9):
89 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
90 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
91 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
92 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
93 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
95 o Minor bugfixes (rust, directory authority, also in 0.3.4.9):
96 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
97 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
98 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
99 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
101 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
102 - Avoid hangs and race conditions in test_rebind.py. Fixes bug
103 27968; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
105 o Minor bugfixes (testing, also in 0.3.4.9):
106 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
107 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
108 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
109 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
111 o Documentation (onion service manpage):
112 - Improve HSv3 client authorization by making some options more
113 explicit and detailed. Closes ticket 28026. Patch by Mike Tigas.
116 Changes in version 0.3.4.9 - 2018-11-02
117 Tor 0.3.4.9 is the second stable release in its series; it backports
118 numerous fixes, including a fix for a bandwidth management bug that
119 was causing memory exhaustion on relays. Anyone running an earlier
120 version of Tor 0.3.4.9 should upgrade.
122 o Major bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
123 - Fix compilation on ARM (and other less-used CPUs) when compiling
124 with OpenSSL before 1.1. Fixes bug 27781; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
126 o Major bugfixes (mainloop, bootstrap, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
127 - Make sure Tor bootstraps and works properly if only the
128 ControlPort is set. Prior to this fix, Tor would only bootstrap
129 when a client port was set (Socks, Trans, NATD, DNS or HTTPTunnel
130 port). Fixes bug 27849; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
132 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
133 - When our write bandwidth limit is exhausted, stop writing on the
134 connection. Previously, we had a typo in the code that would make
135 us stop reading instead, leading to relay connections being stuck
136 indefinitely and consuming kernel RAM. Fixes bug 28089; bugfix
139 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
140 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
141 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
142 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
144 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
145 - Don't do a distcheck with --disable-module-dirauth in Travis.
146 Implements ticket 27252.
147 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
148 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
149 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
150 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
151 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
152 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
153 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
155 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
156 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
157 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
158 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
160 o Minor features (geoip):
161 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
162 Country database. Closes ticket 27991.
164 o Minor bugfixes (32-bit OSX and iOS, timing, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
165 - Fix an integer overflow bug in our optimized 32-bit millisecond-
166 difference algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Previously, it
167 would overflow when calculating the difference between two times
168 more than 47 days apart. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
170 - Improve the precision of our 32-bit millisecond difference
171 algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139;
172 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
173 - Relax the tolerance on the mainloop/update_time_jumps test when
174 running on 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
177 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
178 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
179 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
182 o Minor bugfixes (CI, appveyor, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
183 - Only install the necessary mingw packages during our appveyor
184 builds. This change makes the build a little faster, and prevents
185 a conflict with a preinstalled mingw openssl that appveyor now
186 ships. Fixes bugs 27943 and 27765; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
188 o Minor bugfixes (code safety, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
189 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
190 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
192 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
193 - Stop reinstalling identical packages in our Windows CI. Fixes bug
194 27464; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
196 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
197 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
198 with a different relay, instead making a BUG() warning. Fixes bug
199 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
201 o Minor bugfixes (directory connection shutdown, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
202 - Avoid a double-close when shutting down a stalled directory
203 connection. Fixes bug 26896; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
205 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
206 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to an
207 HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix
210 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
211 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
212 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
214 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
215 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
216 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
219 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
220 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
221 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
222 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
223 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
225 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
226 - When selecting a v3 rendezvous point, don't only look at the
227 protover, but also check whether the curve25519 onion key is
228 present. This way we avoid picking a relay that supports the v3
229 rendezvous but for which we don't have the microdescriptor. Fixes
230 bug 27797; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
232 o Minor bugfixes (protover, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
233 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
234 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
237 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
238 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
239 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
240 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
241 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
242 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
243 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
244 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
246 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
247 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
248 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
249 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
251 o Minor bugfixes (rust, directory authority, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
252 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
253 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
254 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
255 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
257 o Minor bugfixes (rust, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
258 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
259 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
260 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
261 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
262 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
264 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
265 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
266 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
267 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
268 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
269 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
271 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
272 - Make the hs_service tests use the same time source when creating
273 the introduction point and when testing it. Now tests work better
274 on very slow systems like ARM or Travis. Fixes bug 27810; bugfix
277 o Minor bugfixes (testing, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
278 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
279 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
280 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
281 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
284 Changes in version 0.3.5.3-alpha - 2018-10-17
285 Tor 0.3.5.3-alpha fixes several bugs, mostly from previous 0.3.5.x
286 versions. One important fix for relays addresses a problem with rate-
287 limiting code from back in 0.3.4.x: If the fix works out, we'll be
288 backporting it soon. This release is still an alpha, but we hope it's
289 getting closer and closer to stability.
291 o Major features (onion services):
292 - Version 3 onion services can now use the per-service
293 HiddenServiceExportCircuitID option to differentiate client
294 circuits. It communicates with the service by using the HAProxy
295 protocol to assign virtual IP addresses to inbound client
296 circuits. Closes ticket 4700. Patch by Mahrud Sayrafi.
298 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
299 - Fix compilation on ARM (and other less-used CPUs) when compiling
300 with OpenSSL before 1.1. Fixes bug 27781; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
302 o Major bugfixes (initialization, crash):
303 - Fix an assertion crash that would stop Tor from starting up if it
304 tried to activate a periodic event too early. Fixes bug 27861;
305 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
307 o Major bugfixes (mainloop, bootstrap):
308 - Make sure Tor bootstraps and works properly if only the
309 ControlPort is set. Prior to this fix, Tor would only bootstrap
310 when a client port was set (Socks, Trans, NATD, DNS or HTTPTunnel
311 port). Fixes bug 27849; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
313 o Major bugfixes (relay):
314 - When our write bandwidth limit is exhausted, stop writing on the
315 connection. Previously, we had a typo in the code that would make
316 us stop reading instead, leading to relay connections being stuck
317 indefinitely and consuming kernel RAM. Fixes bug 28089; bugfix
320 o Minor features (continuous integration):
321 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
322 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
323 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
324 - Report what program produced the mysterious core file that we
325 occasionally see on Travis CI during make distcheck. Closes
328 o Minor features (geoip):
329 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
330 Country database. Closes ticket 27991.
332 o Minor bugfixes (code safety):
333 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
334 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
337 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
338 - Compile the ed25519-donna code with a correct declaration of
339 crypto_strongest_rand(). Previously, we built it with one type,
340 but linked it against another in the unit tests, which caused
341 compilation failures with LTO enabled. This could have caused
342 other undefined behavior in the tests. Fixes bug 27728; bugfix
345 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, netbsd):
346 - Add a missing include back into procmon.c. Fixes bug 27990; bugfix
349 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, appveyor):
350 - Install only the necessary mingw packages during our appveyor
351 builds. This change makes the build a little faster, and prevents
352 a conflict with a preinstalled mingw openssl that appveyor now
353 ships. Fixes bugs 27765 and 27943; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
355 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions):
356 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
357 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
358 were the same, the default setting (0) for
359 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
360 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
363 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
364 - Fix a small memory leak when calling Tor with --dump-config. Fixes
365 bug 27893; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
367 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
368 - In retry_listeners_ports(), make sure that we're removing a member
369 of old_conns smartlist at most once. Fixes bug 27808; bugfix
371 - Refrain from attempting socket rebinding when old and new
372 listeners are in different address families. Fixes bug 27928;
373 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
375 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
376 - Stop dumping a stack trace when trying to connect to an intro
377 point without having a descriptor for it. Fixes bug 27774; bugfix
379 - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
380 descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
381 gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
382 authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
383 - When selecting a v3 rendezvous point, don't only look at the
384 protover, but also check whether the curve25519 onion key is
385 present. This way we avoid picking a relay that supports the v3
386 rendezvous but for which we don't have the microdescriptor. Fixes
387 bug 27797; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
389 o Minor bugfixes (protover):
390 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
391 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
394 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
395 - Make the hs_service tests use the same time source when creating
396 the introduction point and when testing it. Now tests work better
397 on very slow systems like ARM or Travis. Fixes bug 27810; bugfix
399 - In test_rebind.py, check if the Python version is in the supported
400 range. Fixes bug 27675; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
402 o Code simplification and refactoring:
403 - Divide more large Tor source files -- especially ones that span
404 multiple areas of functionality -- into smaller parts, including
405 onion.c and main.c. Closes ticket 26747.
406 - Divide the "routerparse.c" module into separate modules for each
407 group of parsed objects. Closes ticket 27924.
408 - Move protover_rust.c to the same place protover.c was moved to.
410 - Split directory.c into separate pieces for client, server, and
411 common functionality. Closes ticket 26744.
412 - Split the non-statistics-related parts from the rephist.c and
413 geoip.c modules. Closes ticket 27892.
414 - Split the router.c file into relay-only and shared components, to
415 help with future modularization. Closes ticket 27864.
418 - In the tor-resolve(1) manpage, fix the reference to socks-
419 extensions.txt by adding a web URL. Resolves ticket 27853.
420 - Mention that we require Python to be 2.7 or newer for some
421 integration tests that we ship with Tor. Resolves ticket 27677.
424 Changes in version 0.3.5.2-alpha - 2018-09-21
425 Tor 0.3.5.2-alpha fixes several bugs in 0.3.5.1-alpha, including one
426 that made Tor think it had run out of sockets. Anybody running a relay
427 or an onion service on 0.3.5.1-alpha should upgrade.
429 o Major bugfixes (relay bandwidth statistics):
430 - When we close relayed circuits, report the data in the circuit
431 queues as being written in our relay bandwidth stats. This
432 mitigates guard discovery and other attacks that close circuits
433 for the explicit purpose of noticing this discrepancy in
434 statistics. Fixes bug 23512; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
436 o Major bugfixes (socket accounting):
437 - In our socket accounting code, count a socket as closed even when
438 it is closed indirectly by the TLS layer. Previously, we would
439 count these sockets as still in use, and incorrectly believe that
440 we had run out of sockets. Fixes bug 27795; bugfix
443 o Minor bugfixes (32-bit OSX and iOS, timing):
444 - Fix an integer overflow bug in our optimized 32-bit millisecond-
445 difference algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Previously, it
446 would overflow when calculating the difference between two times
447 more than 47 days apart. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
449 - Improve the precision of our 32-bit millisecond difference
450 algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139;
451 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
452 - Relax the tolerance on the mainloop/update_time_jumps test when
453 running on 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
456 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
457 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
458 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
459 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
460 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
462 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
463 - Fix an unlikely memory leak when trying to read a private key from
464 a ridiculously large file. Fixes bug 27764; bugfix on
465 0.3.5.1-alpha. This is CID 1439488.
467 o Minor bugfixes (NSS):
468 - Correctly detect failure to open a dummy TCP socket when stealing
469 ownership of an fd from the NSS layer. Fixes bug 27782; bugfix
472 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
473 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
474 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
475 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
477 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
478 - Revise the "conditionvar_timeout" test so that it succeeds even on
479 heavily loaded systems where the test threads are not scheduled
480 within 200 msec. Fixes bug 27073; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
482 o Code simplification and refactoring:
483 - Divide the routerlist.c and dirserv.c modules into smaller parts.
487 Changes in version 0.3.5.1-alpha - 2018-09-18
488 Tor 0.3.5.1-alpha is the first release of the 0.3.5.x series. It adds
489 client authorization for modern (v3) onion services, improves
490 bootstrap reporting, begins reorganizing Tor's codebase, adds optional
491 support for NSS in place of OpenSSL, and much more.
493 o Major features (onion services, UI change):
494 - For a newly created onion service, the default version is now 3.
495 Tor still supports existing version 2 services, but the operator
496 now needs to set "HiddenServiceVersion 2" in order to create a new
497 version 2 service. For existing services, Tor now learns the
498 version by reading the key file. Closes ticket 27215.
500 o Major features (relay, UI change):
501 - Relays no longer run as exits by default. If the "ExitRelay"
502 option is auto (or unset), and no exit policy is specified with
503 ExitPolicy or ReducedExitPolicy, we now treat ExitRelay as 0.
504 Previously in this case, we allowed exit traffic and logged a
505 warning message. Closes ticket 21530. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
506 - Tor now validates that the ContactInfo config option is valid UTF-
507 8 when parsing torrc. Closes ticket 27428.
509 o Major features (bootstrap):
510 - Don't report directory progress until after a connection to a
511 relay or bridge has succeeded. Previously, we'd report 80%
512 progress based on cached directory information when we couldn't
513 even connect to the network. Closes ticket 27169.
515 o Major features (new code layout):
516 - Nearly all of Tor's source code has been moved around into more
517 logical places. The "common" directory is now divided into a set
518 of libraries in "lib", and files in the "or" directory have been
519 split into "core" (logic absolutely needed for onion routing),
520 "feature" (independent modules in Tor), and "app" (to configure
521 and invoke the rest of Tor). See doc/HACKING/CodeStructure.md for
522 more information. Closes ticket 26481.
524 This refactoring is not complete: although the libraries have been
525 refactored to be acyclic, the main body of Tor is still too
526 interconnected. We will attempt to improve this in the future.
528 o Major features (onion services v3):
529 - Implement onion service client authorization at the descriptor
530 level: only authorized clients can decrypt a service's descriptor
531 to find out how to contact it. A new torrc option was added to
532 control this client side: ClientOnionAuthDir <path>. On the
533 service side, if the "authorized_clients/" directory exists in the
534 onion service directory path, client configurations are read from
535 the files within. See the manpage for more details. Closes ticket
536 27547. Patch done by Suphanat Chunhapanya (haxxpop).
537 - Improve revision counter generation in next-gen onion services.
538 Onion services can now scale by hosting multiple instances on
539 different hosts without synchronization between them, which was
540 previously impossible because descriptors would get rejected by
541 HSDirs. Addresses ticket 25552.
543 o Major features (portability, cryptography, experimental, TLS):
544 - Tor now has the option to compile with the NSS library instead of
545 OpenSSL. This feature is experimental, and we expect that bugs may
546 remain. It is mainly intended for environments where Tor's
547 performance is not CPU-bound, and where NSS is already known to be
548 installed. To try it out, configure Tor with the --enable-nss
549 flag. Closes tickets 26631, 26815, and 26816.
551 If you are experimenting with this option and using an old cached
552 consensus, Tor may fail to start. To solve this, delete your
553 "cached-consensus" and "cached-microdesc-consensus" files,
554 (if present), and restart Tor.
556 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
557 - Actually check that the address we get from DirAuthority
558 configuration line is valid IPv4. Explicitly disallow DirAuthority
559 address to be a DNS hostname. Fixes bug 26488; bugfix
562 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process):
563 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
564 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
565 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
567 o Minor features (admin tools):
568 - Add a new --key-expiration option to print the expiration date of
569 the signing cert in an ed25519_signing_cert file. Resolves
572 o Minor features (build):
573 - If you pass the "--enable-pic" option to configure, Tor will try
574 to tell the compiler to build position-independent code suitable
575 to link into a dynamic library. (The default remains -fPIE, for
576 code suitable for a relocatable executable.) Closes ticket 23846.
578 o Minor features (code correctness, testing):
579 - Tor's build process now includes a "check-includes" make target to
580 verify that no module of Tor relies on any headers from a higher-
581 level module. We hope to use this feature over time to help
582 refactor our codebase. Closes ticket 26447.
584 o Minor features (code layout):
585 - We have a new "lowest-level" error-handling API for use by code
586 invoked from within the logging module. With this interface, the
587 logging code is no longer at risk of calling into itself if a
588 failure occurs while it is trying to log something. Closes
591 o Minor features (compilation):
592 - Tor's configure script now supports a --with-malloc= option to
593 select your malloc implementation. Supported options are
594 "tcmalloc", "jemalloc", "openbsd" (deprecated), and "system" (the
595 default). Addresses part of ticket 20424. Based on a patch from
598 o Minor features (config):
599 - The "auto" keyword in torrc is now case-insensitive. Closes
602 o Minor features (continuous integration):
603 - Don't do a distcheck with --disable-module-dirauth in Travis.
604 Implements ticket 27252.
605 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
606 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
607 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
608 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
609 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
610 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
611 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
612 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
613 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
615 o Minor features (controller):
616 - Emit CIRC_BW events as soon as we detect that we processed an
617 invalid or otherwise dropped cell on a circuit. This allows
618 vanguards and other controllers to react more quickly to dropped
619 cells. Closes ticket 27678.
620 - For purposes of CIRC_BW-based dropped cell detection, track half-
621 closed stream ids, and allow their ENDs, SENDMEs, DATA and path
622 bias check cells to arrive without counting it as dropped until
623 either the END arrives, or the windows are empty. Closes
625 - Implement a 'GETINFO md/all' controller command to enable getting
626 all known microdescriptors. Closes ticket 8323.
627 - The GETINFO command now support an "uptime" argument, to return
628 Tor's uptime in seconds. Closes ticket 25132.
630 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
631 - Make our OOM handler aware of the DNS cache so that it doesn't
632 fill up the memory. This check is important for our DoS mitigation
633 subsystem. Closes ticket 18642. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
635 o Minor features (development):
636 - Tor's makefile now supports running the "clippy" Rust style tool
637 on our Rust code. Closes ticket 22156.
639 o Minor features (directory authority):
640 - There is no longer an artificial upper limit on the length of
641 bandwidth lines. Closes ticket 26223.
642 - When a bandwidth file is used to obtain the bandwidth measurements,
643 include this bandwidth file headers in the votes. Closes
645 - Improved support for networks with only a single authority or a
646 single fallback directory. Patch from Gabriel Somlo. Closes
649 o Minor features (embedding API):
650 - The Tor controller API now supports a function to launch Tor with
651 a preconstructed owning controller FD, so that embedding
652 applications don't need to manage controller ports and
653 authentication. Closes ticket 24204.
654 - The Tor controller API now has a function that returns the name
655 and version of the backend implementing the API. Closes
658 o Minor features (geoip):
659 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
660 Country database. Closes ticket 27631.
662 o Minor features (memory management):
663 - Get Libevent to use the same memory allocator as Tor, by calling
664 event_set_mem_functions() during initialization. Resolves
667 o Minor features (memory usage):
668 - When not using them, store legacy TAP public onion keys in DER-
669 encoded format, rather than as expanded public keys. This should
670 save several megabytes on typical clients. Closes ticket 27246.
672 o Minor features (OpenSSL):
673 - When possible, use RFC5869 HKDF implementation from OpenSSL rather
674 than our own. Resolves ticket 19979.
676 o Minor features (Rust, code quality):
677 - Improve rust code quality in the rust protover implementation by
678 making it more idiomatic. Includes changing an internal API to
679 take &str instead of &String. Closes ticket 26492.
681 o Minor features (testing):
682 - Add scripts/test/chutney-git-bisect.sh, for bisecting using
683 chutney. Implements ticket 27211.
685 o Minor features (tor-resolve):
686 - The tor-resolve utility can now be used with IPv6 SOCKS proxies.
687 Side-effect of the refactoring for ticket 26526.
689 o Minor features (UI):
690 - Log each included configuration file or directory as we read it,
691 to provide more visibility about where Tor is reading from. Patch
692 from Unto Sten; closes ticket 27186.
693 - Lower log level of "Scheduler type KIST has been enabled" to INFO.
696 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
697 - Try harder to get descriptors in non-exit test networks, by using
698 the mid weight for the third hop when there are no exits. Fixes
699 bug 27237; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
701 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
702 - Avoid casting smartlist index to int implicitly, as it may trigger
703 a warning (-Wshorten-64-to-32). Fixes bug 26282; bugfix on
704 0.2.3.13-alpha, 0.2.7.1-alpha and 0.2.1.1-alpha.
705 - Use time_t for all values in
706 predicted_ports_prediction_time_remaining(). Rework the code that
707 computes difference between durations/timestamps. Fixes bug 27165;
708 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
710 o Minor bugfixes (client, memory usage):
711 - When not running as a directory cache, there is no need to store
712 the text of the current consensus networkstatus in RAM.
713 Previously, however, clients would store it anyway, at a cost of
714 over 5 MB. Now, they do not. Fixes bug 27247; bugfix
717 o Minor bugfixes (client, reachableaddresses):
718 - Instead of adding a "reject *:*" line to ReachableAddresses when
719 loading the configuration, add one to the policy after parsing it
720 in parse_reachable_addresses(). This prevents extra "reject *.*"
721 lines from accumulating on reloads. Fixes bug 20874; bugfix on
722 0.1.1.5-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
724 o Minor bugfixes (code quality):
725 - Rename sandbox_getaddrinfo() and other functions to no longer
726 misleadingly suggest that they are sandbox-only. Fixes bug 26525;
727 bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
729 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, Onion Services):
730 - In rend_service_parse_port_config(), disallow any input to remain
731 after address-port pair was parsed. This will catch address and
732 port being whitespace-separated by mistake of the user. Fixes bug
733 27044; bugfix on 0.2.9.10.
735 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
736 - Stop reinstalling identical packages in our Windows CI. Fixes bug
737 27464; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
739 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
740 - Consider all routerinfo errors other than "not a server" to be
741 transient for the purpose of "GETINFO exit-policy/*" controller
742 request. Print stacktrace in the unlikely case of failing to
743 recompute routerinfo digest. Fixes bug 27034; bugfix
746 o Minor bugfixes (directory connection shutdown):
747 - Avoid a double-close when shutting down a stalled directory
748 connection. Fixes bug 26896; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
750 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel):
751 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to an
752 HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix
755 o Minor bugfixes (ipv6):
756 - In addrs_in_same_network_family(), we choose the subnet size based
757 on the IP version (IPv4 or IPv6). Previously, we chose a fixed
758 subnet size of /16 for both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. Fixes bug
759 15518; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
761 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
762 - As a precaution, do an early return from log_addr_has_changed() if
763 Tor is running as client. Also, log a stack trace for debugging as
764 this function should only be called when Tor runs as server. Fixes
765 bug 26892; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
766 - Refrain from mentioning bug 21018 in the logs, as it is already
767 fixed. Fixes bug 25477; bugfix on 0.2.9.8.
769 o Minor bugfixes (logging, documentation):
770 - When SafeLogging is enabled, scrub IP address in
771 channel_tls_process_netinfo_cell(). Also, add a note to manpage
772 that scrubbing is not guaranteed on loglevels below Notice. Fixes
773 bug 26882; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
775 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding):
776 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
777 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
779 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v2):
780 - Log at level "info", not "warning", in the case that we do not
781 have a consensus when a .onion request comes in. This can happen
782 normally while bootstrapping. Fixes bug 27040; bugfix
785 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
786 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
787 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
790 o Minor bugfixes (OS compatibility):
791 - Properly handle configuration changes that move a listener to/from
792 wildcard IP address. If the first attempt to bind a socket fails,
793 close the old listener and try binding the socket again. Fixes bug
794 17873; bugfix on 0.0.8pre-1.
796 o Minor bugfixes (performance)::
797 - Rework node_is_a_configured_bridge() to no longer call
798 node_get_all_orports(), which was performing too many memory
799 allocations. Fixes bug 27224; bugfix on 0.2.3.9.
801 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics):
802 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
803 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
804 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
806 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
807 - Consider the fact that we'll be making direct connections to our
808 entry and guard nodes when computing the fraction of nodes that
809 have their descriptors. Also, if we are using bridges and there is
810 at least one bridge with a full descriptor, treat the fraction of
811 guards available as 100%. Fixes bug 25886; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
812 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
813 - Update the message logged on relays when DirCache is disabled.
814 Since 0.3.3.5-rc, authorities require DirCache (V2Dir) for the
815 Guard flag. Fixes bug 24312; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
817 o Minor bugfixes (rust, protover):
818 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
819 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
820 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
821 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
822 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
823 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
824 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
826 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
827 - Fix two unit tests to work when HOME environment variable is not
828 set. Fixes bug 27096; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
829 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
830 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
831 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
832 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
833 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
834 - When logging a version mismatch in our openssl_version tests,
835 report the actual offending version strings. Fixes bug 26152;
836 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
837 - Fix forking tests on Windows when there is a space somewhere in
838 the path. Fixes bug 26437; bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
840 o Code simplification and refactoring:
841 - 'updateFallbackDirs.py' now ignores the blacklist file, as it's not
842 longer needed. Closes ticket 26502.
843 - Include paths to header files within Tor are now qualified by
844 directory within the top-level src directory.
845 - Many structures have been removed from the centralized "or.h"
846 header, and moved into their own headers. This will allow us to
847 reduce the number of places in the code that rely on each
848 structure's contents and layout. Closes ticket 26383.
849 - Remove ATTR_NONNULL macro from codebase. Resolves ticket 26527.
850 - Remove GetAdaptersAddresses_fn_t. The code that used it was
851 removed as part of the 26481 refactor. Closes ticket 27467.
852 - Rework Tor SOCKS server code to use Trunnel and benefit from
853 autogenerated functions for parsing and generating SOCKS wire
854 format. New implementation is cleaner, more maintainable and
855 should be less prone to heartbleed-style vulnerabilities.
856 Implements a significant fraction of ticket 3569.
857 - Split sampled_guards_update_from_consensus() and
858 select_entry_guard_for_circuit() into subfunctions. In
859 entry_guards_update_primary() unite three smartlist enumerations
860 into one and move smartlist comparison code out of the function.
862 - Tor now assumes that you have standards-conformant stdint.h and
863 inttypes.h headers when compiling. Closes ticket 26626.
864 - Unify our bloom filter logic. Previously we had two copies of this
865 code: one for routerlist filtering, and one for address set
866 calculations. Closes ticket 26510.
867 - Use the simpler strcmpstart() helper in
868 rend_parse_v2_service_descriptor instead of strncmp(). Closes
870 - Utility functions that can perform a DNS lookup are now wholly
871 separated from those that can't, in separate headers and C
872 modules. Closes ticket 26526.
875 - Copy paragraph and URL to Tor's code of conduct document from
876 CONTRIBUTING to new CODE_OF_CONDUCT file. Resolves ticket 26638.
877 - Remove old instructions from INSTALL document. Closes ticket 26588.
878 - Warn users that they should not include MyFamily line(s) in their
879 torrc when running Tor bridge. Closes ticket 26908.
882 - Tor no longer supports building with the dmalloc library. For
883 debugging memory issues, we suggest using gperftools or msan
884 instead. Closes ticket 26426.
885 - Tor no longer attempts to run on Windows environments without the
886 GetAdaptersAddresses() function. This function has existed since
887 Windows XP, which is itself already older than we support.
888 - Remove Tor2web functionality for version 2 onion services. The
889 Tor2webMode and Tor2webRendezvousPoints options are now obsolete.
890 (This feature was never shipped in vanilla Tor and it was only
891 possible to use this feature by building the support at compile
892 time. Tor2webMode is not implemented for version 3 onion services.)
896 Changes in version 0.2.9.17 - 2018-09-10
897 Tor 0.2.9.17 backports numerous bugfixes from later versions of Tor.
899 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
900 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
901 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
902 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
904 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
905 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
907 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
908 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
909 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
910 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
912 o Minor features (geoip):
913 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
914 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
916 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
917 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
918 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
919 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
921 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
922 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
923 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
924 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
925 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
926 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
927 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
928 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
931 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
932 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
933 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
934 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
936 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
937 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
938 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
939 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
941 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
942 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
943 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
944 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
946 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
947 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
948 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
949 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
950 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
952 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
953 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
954 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
957 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
958 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
959 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
960 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
961 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
963 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
964 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
965 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
968 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
969 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
970 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
971 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
973 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
974 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
975 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
977 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
978 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
979 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
982 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
983 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
984 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
985 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
986 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
988 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
989 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
990 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
993 Changes in version 0.3.2.12 - 2018-09-10
994 Tor 0.3.2.12 backport numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
996 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
997 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
998 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
999 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
1001 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
1002 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
1004 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
1005 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
1006 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
1007 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
1009 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
1010 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
1013 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
1014 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
1015 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
1016 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
1018 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
1019 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
1020 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
1021 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
1023 o Minor features (geoip):
1024 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
1025 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
1027 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
1028 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
1029 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
1030 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
1031 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
1032 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
1033 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
1035 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
1036 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
1037 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
1038 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
1039 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
1040 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
1041 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
1042 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
1045 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
1046 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
1047 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
1048 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
1050 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
1051 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
1052 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
1053 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
1055 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
1056 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
1057 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
1058 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
1059 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
1061 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
1062 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
1063 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
1064 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
1065 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
1067 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
1068 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
1069 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
1072 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
1073 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
1074 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
1075 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
1076 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
1078 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
1079 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
1080 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
1083 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
1084 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
1085 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
1088 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
1089 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
1090 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
1093 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
1094 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
1096 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
1097 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
1098 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
1099 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
1101 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
1102 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
1103 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
1104 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
1106 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
1107 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
1108 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
1110 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
1111 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
1112 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
1113 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
1114 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1115 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
1116 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
1119 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility):
1120 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on OpenSSL
1121 internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL behavior in
1122 a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p. Fixes bug 27226;
1123 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
1125 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
1126 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
1127 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
1128 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
1129 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
1131 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
1132 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
1133 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
1136 Changes in version 0.3.3.10 - 2018-09-10
1137 Tor 0.3.3.10 backports numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
1139 o Minor features (bug workaround, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
1140 - Compile correctly on systems that provide the C11 stdatomic.h
1141 header, but where C11 atomic functions don't actually compile.
1142 Closes ticket 26779; workaround for Debian issue 903709.
1144 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
1145 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
1146 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
1147 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
1149 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
1150 - Backport Travis rust distcheck to 0.3.3. Closes ticket 24629.
1151 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
1153 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
1154 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
1155 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
1156 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
1158 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
1159 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
1162 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
1163 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
1164 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
1165 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
1167 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
1168 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
1169 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
1170 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
1172 o Minor features (geoip):
1173 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
1174 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
1176 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
1177 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
1178 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
1179 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
1180 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
1181 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
1182 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
1184 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
1185 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
1186 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
1187 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
1188 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
1189 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
1190 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
1191 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
1194 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
1195 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
1196 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
1197 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
1199 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
1200 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
1201 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
1202 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
1204 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
1205 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
1206 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
1207 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
1208 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
1210 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
1211 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
1212 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
1213 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
1214 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
1216 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
1217 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
1218 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
1221 o Minor bugfixes (in-process restart, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
1222 - Always call tor_free_all() when leaving tor_run_main(). When we
1223 did not, restarting tor in-process would cause an assertion
1224 failure. Fixes bug 26948; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
1226 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
1227 - Fix a bug in our sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
1228 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
1229 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
1230 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
1232 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
1233 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
1234 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
1237 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
1238 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
1239 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
1242 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
1243 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
1244 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
1247 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
1248 - Work around two different bugs in the OS X 10.10 and later SDKs
1249 that would prevent us from successfully targeting earlier versions
1250 of OS X. Fixes bug 26876; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
1252 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
1253 - Fix compilation of the unit tests on GNU/Hurd, which does not
1254 define PATH_MAX. Fixes bug 26873; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch
1257 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
1258 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
1260 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
1261 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
1262 - Protover parsing was accepting the presence of whitespace in
1263 version strings, which the C implementation would choke on, e.g.
1264 "Desc=1\t,2". Fixes bug 27177; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
1265 - Protover parsing was ignoring a 2nd hyphen and everything after
1266 it, accepting entries like "Link=1-5-foo". Fixes bug 27164; bugfix
1268 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
1269 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
1270 - cd to ${abs_top_builddir}/src/rust before running cargo in
1271 src/test/test_rust.sh. This makes the working directory consistent
1272 between builds and tests. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
1274 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
1275 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
1276 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
1277 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
1279 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
1280 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
1281 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
1283 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
1284 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
1285 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
1286 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
1287 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1288 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
1289 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
1292 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
1293 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
1294 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
1295 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
1296 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
1298 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
1299 - Stop sending ed25519 link specifiers in v3 onion service introduce
1300 cells and descriptors, when the rendezvous or introduction point
1301 doesn't support ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 26627;
1302 bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
1304 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
1305 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
1306 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
1309 Changes in version 0.3.4.8 - 2018-09-10
1310 Tor 0.3.4.8 is the first stable release in its series; it includes
1311 compilation and portability fixes.
1313 The Tor 0.3.4 series includes improvements for running Tor in
1314 low-power and embedded environments, which should help performance in
1315 general. We've begun work on better modularity, and included preliminary
1316 changes on the directory authority side to accommodate a new bandwidth
1317 measurement system. We've also integrated more continuous-integration
1318 systems into our development process, and made corresponding changes to
1319 Tor's testing infrastructure. Finally, we've continued to refine
1320 our anti-denial-of-service code.
1322 Below are the changes since 0.3.4.7-rc. For a complete list of changes
1323 since 0.3.3.9, see the ReleaseNotes file.
1325 o Minor features (compatibility):
1326 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
1327 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
1328 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
1330 o Minor features (continuous integration):
1331 - Log the compiler path and version during Appveyor builds.
1332 Implements ticket 27449.
1333 - Show config.log and test-suite.log after failed Appveyor builds.
1334 Also upload the zipped full logs as a build artifact. Implements
1337 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1338 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
1339 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
1340 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
1341 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
1342 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
1343 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
1344 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
1347 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
1348 - Disable gcc hardening in Appveyor Windows 64-bit builds. As of
1349 August 29 2018, Appveyor images come with gcc 8.2.0 by default.
1350 Executables compiled for 64-bit Windows with this version of gcc
1351 crash when Tor's --enable-gcc-hardening flag is set. Fixes bug
1352 27460; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
1353 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
1354 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
1355 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
1356 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
1358 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
1359 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
1360 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
1363 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney):
1364 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
1365 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
1366 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
1367 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1368 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
1369 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
1372 Changes in version 0.3.4.7-rc - 2018-08-24
1373 Tor 0.3.4.7-rc fixes several small compilation, portability, and
1374 correctness issues in previous versions of Tor. This version is a
1375 release candidate: if no serious bugs are found, we expect that the
1376 stable 0.3.4 release will be (almost) the same as this release.
1378 o Minor features (bug workaround):
1379 - Compile correctly on systems that provide the C11 stdatomic.h
1380 header, but where C11 atomic functions don't actually compile.
1381 Closes ticket 26779; workaround for Debian issue 903709.
1383 o Minor features (continuous integration):
1384 - Backport Travis rust distcheck to 0.3.3. Closes ticket 24629.
1385 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
1387 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
1388 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
1389 - Only post Appveyor IRC notifications when the build fails.
1390 Implements ticket 27275.
1391 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
1392 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
1394 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust):
1395 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
1398 o Minor features (directory authorities):
1399 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
1400 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
1401 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
1403 o Minor features (geoip):
1404 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
1405 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
1407 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows):
1408 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
1409 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
1410 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
1412 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
1413 - Improve Appveyor CI IRC logging. Generate correct branches and
1414 URLs for pull requests and tags. Use unambiguous short commits.
1415 Fixes bug 26979; bugfix on master.
1416 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
1417 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
1418 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
1419 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
1421 o Minor bugfixes (in-process restart):
1422 - Always call tor_free_all() when leaving tor_run_main(). When we
1423 did not, restarting tor in-process would cause an assertion
1424 failure. Fixes bug 26948; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
1426 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
1427 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
1428 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
1429 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
1430 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
1432 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
1433 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
1434 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
1437 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
1438 - Fix compilation of the unit tests on GNU/Hurd, which does not
1439 define PATH_MAX. Fixes bug 26873; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch
1442 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
1443 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
1445 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
1446 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
1447 - Protover parsing was accepting the presence of whitespace in
1448 version strings, which the C implementation would choke on, e.g.
1449 "Desc=1\t,2". Fixes bug 27177; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
1450 - Protover parsing was ignoring a 2nd hyphen and everything after
1451 it, accepting entries like "Link=1-5-foo". Fixes bug 27164; bugfix
1453 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
1454 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
1455 - cd to ${abs_top_builddir}/src/rust before running cargo in
1456 src/test/test_rust.sh. This makes the working directory consistent
1457 between builds and tests. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
1459 o Minor bugfixes (testing, bootstrap):
1460 - When calculating bootstrap progress, check exit policies and the
1461 exit flag. Previously, Tor would only check the exit flag, which
1462 caused race conditions in small and fast networks like chutney.
1463 Fixes bug 27236; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
1465 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility):
1466 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
1467 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
1468 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
1469 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
1471 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation):
1472 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
1473 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
1476 Changes in version 0.3.4.6-rc - 2018-08-06
1477 Tor 0.3.4.6-rc fixes several small compilation, portability, and
1478 correctness issues in previous versions of Tor. This version is a
1479 release candidate: if no serious bugs are found, we expect that the
1480 stable 0.3.4 release will be (almost) the same as this release.
1482 o Major bugfixes (event scheduler):
1483 - When we enable a periodic event, schedule it in the event loop
1484 rather than running it immediately. Previously, we would re-run
1485 periodic events immediately in the middle of (for example)
1486 changing our options, with unpredictable effects. Fixes bug 27003;
1487 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
1489 o Minor features (compilation):
1490 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
1491 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
1493 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
1494 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
1495 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
1496 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
1497 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
1498 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
1500 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
1501 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
1502 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
1503 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
1505 o Minor features (controller):
1506 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
1507 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
1508 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
1510 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
1511 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
1512 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
1515 o Minor features (geoip):
1516 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
1517 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
1519 o Minor features (Rust, portability):
1520 - Rust cross-compilation is now supported. Closes ticket 25895.
1522 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1523 - Update build system so that tor builds again with --disable-unittests
1524 after recent refactoring. Fixes bug 26789; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
1525 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
1526 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
1527 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
1528 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
1530 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
1531 - Report the port correctly when a port is configured to bind to
1532 "auto". Fixes bug 26568; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
1533 - Parse the "HSADDRESS=" parameter in HSPOST commands properly.
1534 Previously, it was misparsed and ignored. Fixes bug 26523; bugfix
1535 on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
1537 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, flow control):
1538 - Upon receiving a stream-level SENDME cell, verify that our window
1539 has not grown too large. Fixes bug 26214; bugfix on svn
1542 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness):
1543 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
1544 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
1546 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
1547 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
1548 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
1551 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
1552 - Avoid a compilation error in test_bwmgt.c on Solaris 10. Fixes bug
1553 26994; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
1554 - Work around two different bugs in the OS X 10.10 and later SDKs
1555 that would prevent us from successfully targeting earlier versions
1556 of OS X. Fixes bug 26876; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
1558 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web):
1559 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web
1560 clients fail to authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes
1561 bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
1563 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
1564 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
1565 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
1567 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility):
1568 - When running the ntor_ref.py and hs_ntor_ref.py tests, make sure
1569 only to pass strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python
1570 subprocess module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this.
1571 Fixes bug 26535; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha (for ntor_ref.py) and
1572 0.3.1.1-alpha (for hs_ntor_ref.py).
1574 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
1575 - Stop sending ed25519 link specifiers in v3 onion service introduce
1576 cells and descriptors, when the rendezvous or introduction point
1577 doesn't support ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 26627;
1578 bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
1581 Changes in version 0.3.4.5-rc - 2018-07-13
1582 Tor 0.3.4.5-rc moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
1583 bridge relays should upgrade.
1585 o Directory authority changes:
1586 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
1587 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
1588 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
1591 Changes in version 0.3.3.9 - 2018-07-13
1592 Tor 0.3.3.9 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
1593 bridge relays should upgrade.
1595 o Directory authority changes:
1596 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
1597 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
1598 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
1601 Changes in version 0.3.2.11 - 2018-07-13
1602 Tor 0.3.2.11 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
1603 bridge relays should upgrade. We also take this opportunity to backport
1606 o Directory authority changes:
1607 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
1608 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
1609 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
1611 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.3.3.7):
1612 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
1613 Closes ticket 26343.
1615 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
1616 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
1617 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
1618 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
1619 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
1621 o Major bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
1622 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
1623 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
1625 o Minor features (sandbox, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
1626 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
1627 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
1628 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
1630 o Minor feature (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
1631 - Update the Travis CI configuration to use the stable Rust channel,
1632 now that we have decided to require that. Closes ticket 25714.
1634 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
1635 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
1636 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
1637 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
1638 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
1639 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
1641 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
1642 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
1643 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
1644 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
1646 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
1647 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
1648 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
1651 o Minor features (geoip):
1652 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
1653 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
1655 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
1656 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
1657 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
1658 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
1659 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
1661 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
1662 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
1663 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
1665 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
1666 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
1667 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
1668 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
1669 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1670 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
1671 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
1672 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
1675 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
1676 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
1677 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
1678 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
1679 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
1680 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
1682 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
1683 - Document that the PerConnBW{Rate,Burst} options will fall back to
1684 their corresponding consensus parameters only if those parameters
1685 are set. Previously we had claimed that these values would always
1686 be set in the consensus. Fixes bug 25296; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
1688 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
1689 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
1690 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
1691 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
1692 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
1694 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
1695 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
1696 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
1699 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
1700 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
1701 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
1703 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
1704 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
1705 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
1706 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
1708 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
1709 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
1710 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1711 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
1712 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
1713 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
1714 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
1716 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
1717 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
1718 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
1719 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
1722 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
1723 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
1724 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1726 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
1727 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
1728 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1730 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
1731 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
1732 onion service introduction point creation finishing within 5
1733 seconds of real clock time. Fixes bug 25450; bugfix
1736 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
1737 - Fix a C99 compliance issue in our configuration script that caused
1738 compilation issues when compiling Tor with certain versions of
1739 xtools. Fixes bug 25474; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
1741 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
1742 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
1743 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
1745 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
1746 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
1747 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
1750 Changes in version 0.2.9.16 - 2018-07-13
1751 Tor 0.2.9.16 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
1752 bridge relays should upgrade. We also take this opportunity to backport
1755 o Directory authority changes:
1756 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
1757 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
1758 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
1760 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.3.3.7):
1761 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
1762 Closes ticket 26343.
1764 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
1765 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
1766 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
1767 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
1768 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
1770 o Minor features (sandbox, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
1771 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
1772 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
1773 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
1775 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
1776 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
1777 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
1778 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
1779 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
1780 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
1782 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
1783 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
1784 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
1787 o Minor features (geoip):
1788 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
1789 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
1791 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
1792 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
1793 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
1794 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
1795 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
1797 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
1798 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
1799 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
1801 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
1802 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
1803 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
1804 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
1807 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
1808 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
1809 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
1810 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
1811 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
1812 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
1814 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
1815 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
1816 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
1817 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
1818 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
1820 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
1821 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
1822 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
1825 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
1826 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
1827 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
1829 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
1830 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
1831 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
1832 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
1834 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
1835 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
1836 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
1838 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
1839 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
1840 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
1843 Changes in version 0.3.4.4-rc - 2018-07-09
1844 Tor 0.3.4.4-rc fixes several small compilation, portability, and
1845 correctness issues in previous versions of Tor. This version is a
1846 release candidate: if no serious bugs are found, we expect that the
1847 stable 0.3.4 release will be (almost) the same as this release.
1849 o Minor features (compilation):
1850 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
1851 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
1854 o Minor features (geoip):
1855 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
1856 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
1858 o Minor features (Rust, portability):
1859 - Rust cross-compilation is now supported. Closes ticket 25895.
1861 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1862 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
1863 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
1864 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
1865 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
1867 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
1868 - Report the port correctly when a port is configured to bind to
1869 "auto". Fixes bug 26568; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
1870 - Handle the HSADDRESS= argument to the HSPOST command properly.
1871 (Previously, this argument was misparsed and thus ignored.) Fixes
1872 bug 26523; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
1874 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, flow control):
1875 - Upon receiving a stream-level SENDME cell, verify that our window
1876 has not grown too large. Fixes bug 26214; bugfix on svn
1879 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness):
1880 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
1881 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
1883 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility):
1884 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
1885 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
1886 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
1887 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1888 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
1889 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
1890 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
1894 Changes in version 0.3.3.8 - 2018-07-09
1895 Tor 0.3.3.8 backports several changes from the 0.3.4.x series, including
1896 fixes for a memory leak affecting directory authorities.
1898 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
1899 - Stop leaking memory on directory authorities when planning to
1900 vote. This bug was crashing authorities by exhausting their
1901 memory. Fixes bug 26435; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
1903 o Major bugfixes (rust, testing, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
1904 - Make sure that failing tests in Rust will actually cause the build
1905 to fail: previously, they were ignored. Fixes bug 26258; bugfix
1908 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
1909 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
1910 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
1913 o Minor features (geoip):
1914 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
1915 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
1917 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
1918 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
1919 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
1920 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
1922 o Minor bugfixes (circuit path selection, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
1923 - Don't count path selection failures as circuit build failures.
1924 This change should eliminate cases where Tor blames its guard or
1925 the network for situations like insufficient microdescriptors
1926 and/or overly restrictive torrc settings. Fixes bug 25705; bugfix
1929 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
1930 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
1931 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
1932 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
1933 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
1935 o Minor bugfixes (control port, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
1936 - Handle the HSADDRESS= argument to the HSPOST command properly.
1937 (Previously, this argument was misparsed and thus ignored.) Fixes
1938 bug 26523; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
1940 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
1941 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
1942 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
1944 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
1945 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
1946 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
1947 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
1950 o Minor bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
1951 - When shutting down, Tor now clears all the flags in the control.c
1952 module. This should prevent a bug where authentication cookies are
1953 not generated on restart. Fixes bug 25512; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
1955 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
1956 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
1957 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
1958 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
1959 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1960 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
1961 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
1962 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
1966 Changes in version 0.3.4.3-alpha - 2018-06-26
1967 Tor 0.3.4.3-alpha fixes several bugs in earlier versions, including
1968 one that was causing stability issues on directory authorities.
1970 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
1971 - Stop leaking memory on directory authorities when planning to
1972 vote. This bug was crashing authorities by exhausting their
1973 memory. Fixes bug 26435; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
1975 o Major bugfixes (rust, testing):
1976 - Make sure that failing tests in Rust will actually cause the build
1977 to fail: previously, they were ignored. Fixes bug 26258; bugfix
1980 o Minor feature (directory authorities):
1981 - Stop warning about incomplete bw lines before the first complete
1982 bw line has been found, so that additional header lines can be
1983 ignored. Fixes bug 25960; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha
1985 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic):
1986 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
1987 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
1988 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
1990 o Minor features (unit tests):
1991 - Test complete bandwidth measurements files, and test that
1992 incomplete bandwidth lines only give warnings when the end of the
1993 header has not been detected. Fixes bug 25947; bugfix
1996 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1997 - Refrain from compiling unit testing related object files when
1998 --disable-unittests is set to configure script. Fixes bug 24891;
1999 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
2000 - When linking the libtor_testing.a library, only include the
2001 dirauth object files once. Previously, they were getting added
2002 twice. Fixes bug 26402; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
2003 - The --enable-fatal-warnings flag now affects Rust code as well.
2004 Closes ticket 26245.
2006 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
2007 - Recompute some consensus information after detecting a clock jump,
2008 or after transitioning from a non-live consensus to a live
2009 consensus. We do this to avoid having an outdated state, and
2010 miscalculating the index for next-generation onion services. Fixes
2011 bug 24977; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2013 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
2014 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
2015 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
2016 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
2019 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
2020 - Fix compilation of the doctests in the Rust crypto crate. Fixes
2021 bug 26415; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
2022 - Instead of trying to read the geoip configuration files from
2023 within the unit tests, instead create our own ersatz files with
2024 just enough geoip data in the format we expect. Trying to read
2025 from the source directory created problems on Windows with mingw,
2026 where the build system's paths are not the same as the platform's
2027 paths. Fixes bug 25787; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
2028 - Refrain from trying to get an item from an empty smartlist in
2029 test_bridges_clear_bridge_list. Set DEBUG_SMARTLIST in unit tests
2030 to catch improper smartlist usage. Furthermore, enable
2031 DEBUG_SMARTLIST globally when build is configured with fragile
2032 hardening. Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
2035 Changes in version 0.3.3.7 - 2018-06-12
2036 Tor 0.3.3.7 backports several changes from the 0.3.4.x series, including
2037 fixes for bugs affecting compatibility and stability.
2039 o Directory authority changes:
2040 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
2041 Closes ticket 26343.
2043 o Minor features (geoip):
2044 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
2045 Country database. Closes ticket 26351.
2047 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
2048 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
2049 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
2050 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
2051 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
2052 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
2054 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
2055 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
2056 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2058 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
2059 - Improve accuracy of the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port event's
2060 TIMEOUT_RATE and CLOSE_RATE fields. (We were previously
2061 miscounting the total number of circuits for these field values.)
2062 Fixes bug 26121; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2064 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
2065 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
2066 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
2068 o Minor bugfixes (path selection, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
2069 - Only select relays when they have the descriptors we prefer to use
2070 for them. This change fixes a bug where we could select a relay
2071 because it had _some_ descriptor, but reject it later with a
2072 nonfatal assertion error because it didn't have the exact one we
2073 wanted. Fixes bugs 25691 and 25692; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
2076 Changes in version 0.3.4.2-alpha - 2018-06-12
2077 Tor 0.3.4.2-alpha fixes several minor bugs in the previous alpha
2078 release, and forward-ports an authority-only security fix from 0.3.3.6.
2080 o Directory authority changes:
2081 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
2082 Closes ticket 26343.
2084 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authority, denial-of-service, also in 0.3.3.6):
2085 - Fix a bug that could have allowed an attacker to force a directory
2086 authority to use up all its RAM by passing it a maliciously
2087 crafted protocol versions string. Fixes bug 25517; bugfix on
2088 0.2.9.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2018-005.
2090 o Minor features (continuous integration):
2091 - Add the necessary configuration files for continuous integration
2092 testing on Windows, via the Appveyor platform. Closes ticket
2093 25549. Patches from Marcin Cieślak and Isis Lovecruft.
2095 o Minor features (geoip):
2096 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
2097 Country database. Closes ticket 26351.
2099 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl):
2100 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
2101 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
2102 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
2103 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
2104 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
2106 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
2107 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
2108 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2109 - Fix compilation when using OpenSSL 1.1.0 with the "no-deprecated"
2110 flag enabled. Fixes bug 26156; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
2111 - Avoid a compiler warning when casting the return value of
2112 smartlist_len() to double with DEBUG_SMARTLIST enabled. Fixes bug
2113 26283; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
2115 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
2116 - Do not count 0-length RELAY_COMMAND_DATA cells as valid data in
2117 CIRC_BW events. Previously, such cells were counted entirely in
2118 the OVERHEAD field. Now they are not. Fixes bug 26259; bugfix
2121 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
2122 - Improve accuracy of the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port event's
2123 TIMEOUT_RATE and CLOSE_RATE fields. (We were previously
2124 miscounting the total number of circuits for these field values.)
2125 Fixes bug 26121; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2127 o Minor bugfixes (hardening):
2128 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
2129 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
2131 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
2132 - Fix a bug that blocked the creation of ephemeral v3 onion
2133 services. Fixes bug 25939; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
2135 o Minor bugfixes (test coverage tools):
2136 - Update our "cov-diff" script to handle output from the latest
2137 version of gcov, and to remove extraneous timestamp information
2138 from its output. Fixes bugs 26101 and 26102; bugfix
2142 Changes in version 0.3.3.6 - 2018-05-22
2143 Tor 0.3.3.6 is the first stable release in the 0.3.3 series. It
2144 backports several important fixes from the 0.3.4.1-alpha.
2146 The Tor 0.3.3 series includes controller support and other
2147 improvements for v3 onion services, official support for embedding Tor
2148 within other applications, and our first non-trivial module written in
2149 the Rust programming language. (Rust is still not enabled by default
2150 when building Tor.) And as usual, there are numerous other smaller
2151 bugfixes, features, and improvements.
2153 Below are the changes since 0.3.3.5-rc. For a list of all changes
2154 since 0.3.2.10, see the ReleaseNotes file.
2156 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, security, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
2157 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
2158 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
2159 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
2160 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
2162 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authority, denial-of-service):
2163 - Fix a bug that could have allowed an attacker to force a directory
2164 authority to use up all its RAM by passing it a maliciously
2165 crafted protocol versions string. Fixes bug 25517; bugfix on
2166 0.2.9.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2018-005.
2168 o Major bugfixes (crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
2169 - Avoid a rare assertion failure in the circuit build timeout code
2170 if we fail to allow any circuits to actually complete. Fixes bug
2171 25733; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
2173 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
2174 - Avoid a crash when testing router reachability on a router that
2175 could have an ed25519 ID, but which does not. Fixes bug 25415;
2176 bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
2178 o Major bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
2179 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
2180 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
2182 o Major bugfixes (relay, denial of service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
2183 - Impose a limit on circuit cell queue size. The limit can be
2184 controlled by a consensus parameter. Fixes bug 25226; bugfix
2187 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
2188 - Avoid some compilation warnings with recent versions of LibreSSL.
2189 Closes ticket 26006.
2191 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
2192 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
2193 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
2194 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
2195 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
2196 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
2198 o Minor features (geoip):
2199 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 1 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country
2200 database. Closes ticket 26104.
2202 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
2203 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
2204 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
2207 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
2208 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
2209 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
2210 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
2211 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
2213 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
2214 - Stop saying in the manual that clients cache ipv4 dns answers from
2215 exit relays. We haven't used them since 0.2.6.3-alpha, and in
2216 ticket 24050 we stopped even caching them as of 0.3.2.6-alpha, but
2217 we forgot to say so in the man page. Fixes bug 26052; bugfix
2220 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
2221 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
2222 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
2224 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
2225 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
2226 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2227 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
2228 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
2229 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
2230 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
2232 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
2233 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
2234 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2236 o Documentation (backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
2237 - Correct an IPv6 error in the documentation for ExitPolicy. Closes
2238 ticket 25857. Patch from "CTassisF".
2241 Changes in version 0.3.4.1-alpha - 2018-05-17
2242 Tor 0.3.4.1-alpha is the first release in the 0.3.4.x series. It
2243 includes refactoring to begin reducing Tor's binary size and idle CPU
2244 usage on mobile, along with prep work for new bandwidth scanners,
2245 improvements to the experimental "vanguards" feature, and numerous
2246 other small features and bugfixes.
2248 o New system requirements:
2249 - Tor no longer tries to support old operating systems without
2250 mmap() or some local equivalent. Apparently, compilation on such
2251 systems has been broken for some time, without anybody noticing or
2252 complaining. Closes ticket 25398.
2254 o Major feature (directory authority, modularization):
2255 - The directory authority subsystem has been modularized. The code
2256 is now located in src/or/dirauth/, and is compiled in by default.
2257 To disable the module, the configure option
2258 --disable-module-dirauth has been added. This module may be
2259 disabled by default in some future release. Closes ticket 25610.
2261 o Major features (main loop, CPU usage):
2262 - When Tor is disabled (via DisableNetwork or via hibernation), it
2263 no longer needs to run any per-second events. This change should
2264 make it easier for mobile applications to disable Tor while the
2265 device is sleeping, or Tor is not running. Closes ticket 26063.
2266 - Tor no longer enables all of its periodic events by default.
2267 Previously, Tor would enable all possible main loop events,
2268 regardless of whether it needed them. Furthermore, many of these
2269 events are now disabled with Tor is hibernating or DisableNetwork
2270 is set. This is a big step towards reducing client CPU usage by
2271 reducing the amount of wake-ups the daemon does. Closes ticket
2273 - The bandwidth-limitation logic has been refactored so that
2274 bandwidth calculations are performed on-demand, rather than every
2275 TokenBucketRefillInterval milliseconds. This change should improve
2276 the granularity of our bandwidth calculations, and limit the
2277 number of times that the Tor process needs to wake up when it is
2278 idle. Closes ticket 25373.
2279 - Move responsibility for many operations from a once-per-second
2280 callback to a callback that is only scheduled as needed. Moving
2281 this functionality has allowed us to disable the callback when
2282 Tor's network is disabled. Once enough items are removed from our
2283 once-per-second callback, we can eliminate it entirely to conserve
2284 CPU when idle. The functionality removed includes: closing
2285 connections, circuits, and channels (ticket 25932); consensus
2286 voting (25937); flushing log callbacks (25951); honoring delayed
2287 SIGNEWNYM requests (25949); rescanning the consensus cache
2288 (25931); saving the state file to disk (25948); warning relay
2289 operators about unreachable ports (25952); and keeping track of
2290 Tor's uptime (26009).
2292 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, security):
2293 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
2294 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
2295 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
2296 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
2298 o Major bugfixes (crash):
2299 - Avoid a rare assertion failure in the circuit build timeout code
2300 if we fail to allow any circuits to actually complete. Fixes bug
2301 25733; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
2303 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
2304 - Avoid a crash when testing router reachability on a router that
2305 could have an ed25519 ID, but which does not. Fixes bug 25415;
2306 bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
2308 o Major bugfixes (onion service):
2309 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
2310 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
2312 o Major bugfixes (protover, voting):
2313 - Revise Rust implementation of protover to use a more memory-
2314 efficient voting algorithm and corresponding data structures, thus
2315 avoiding a potential (but small impact) DoS attack where specially
2316 crafted protocol strings would expand to several potential
2317 megabytes in memory. In the process, several portions of code were
2318 revised to be methods on new, custom types, rather than functions
2319 taking interchangeable types, thus increasing type safety of the
2320 module. Custom error types and handling were added as well, in
2321 order to facilitate better error dismissal/handling in outside
2322 crates and avoid mistakenly passing an internal error string to C
2323 over the FFI boundary. Many tests were added, and some previous
2324 differences between the C and Rust implementations have been
2325 remedied. Fixes bug 24031; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2327 o Major bugfixes (relay, denial of service):
2328 - Impose a limit on circuit cell queue size. The limit can be
2329 controlled by a consensus parameter. Fixes bug 25226; bugfix
2332 o Minor features (accounting):
2333 - When Tor becomes dormant, it now uses a scheduled event to wake up
2334 at the right time. Previously, we would use the per-second timer
2335 to check whether to wake up, but we no longer have any per-second
2336 timers enabled when the network is disabled. Closes ticket 26064.
2338 o Minor features (code quality):
2339 - Add optional spell-checking for the Tor codebase, using the
2340 "misspell" program. To use this feature, run "make check-typos".
2341 Closes ticket 25024.
2343 o Minor features (compatibility):
2344 - Tor now detects versions of OpenSSL 1.1.0 and later compiled with
2345 the no-deprecated option, and builds correctly with them. Closes
2346 tickets 19429, 19981, and 25353.
2347 - Avoid some compilation warnings with recent versions of LibreSSL.
2348 Closes ticket 26006.
2350 o Minor features (compression, zstd):
2351 - When running with zstd, Tor now considers using advanced functions
2352 that the zstd maintainers have labeled as potentially unstable. To
2353 prevent breakage, Tor will only use this functionality when the
2354 runtime version of the zstd library matches the version with which
2355 Tor was compiled. Closes ticket 25162.
2357 o Minor features (configuration):
2358 - The "DownloadSchedule" options have been renamed to end with
2359 "DownloadInitialDelay". The old names are still allowed, but will
2360 produce a warning. Comma-separated lists are still permitted for
2361 these options, but all values after the first are ignored (as they
2362 have been since 0.2.9). Closes ticket 23354.
2364 o Minor features (continuous integration):
2365 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
2366 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
2367 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
2368 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
2369 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
2371 o Minor features (control port):
2372 - Introduce GETINFO "current-time/{local,utc}" to return the local
2373 and UTC times respectively in ISO format. This helps a controller
2374 like Tor Browser detect a time-related error. Closes ticket 25511.
2375 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2376 - Introduce new fields to the CIRC_BW event. There are two new
2377 fields in each of the read and written directions. The DELIVERED
2378 fields report the total valid data on the circuit, as measured by
2379 the payload sizes of verified and error-checked relay command
2380 cells. The OVERHEAD fields report the total unused bytes in each
2381 of these cells. Closes ticket 25903.
2383 o Minor features (directory authority):
2384 - Directory authorities now open their key-pinning files as O_SYNC,
2385 to limit their chances of accidentally writing partial lines.
2386 Closes ticket 23909.
2388 o Minor features (directory authority, forward compatibility):
2389 - Make the lines of the measured bandwidth file able to contain
2390 their entries in any order. Previously, the node_id entry needed
2391 to come first. Closes ticket 26004.
2393 o Minor features (entry guards):
2394 - Introduce a new torrc option NumPrimaryGuards for controlling the
2395 number of primary guards. Closes ticket 25843.
2397 o Minor features (geoip):
2398 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 1 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country
2399 database. Closes ticket 26104.
2401 o Minor features (performance):
2402 - Avoid a needless call to malloc() when processing an incoming
2403 relay cell. Closes ticket 24914.
2404 - Make our timing-wheel code run a tiny bit faster on 32-bit
2405 platforms, by preferring 32-bit math to 64-bit. Closes
2407 - Avoid a needless malloc()/free() pair every time we handle an ntor
2408 handshake. Closes ticket 25150.
2410 o Minor features (testing):
2411 - Add a unit test for voting_schedule_get_start_of_next_interval().
2412 Closes ticket 26014, and helps make unit test coverage
2414 - A new unittests module specifically for testing the functions in
2415 the (new-ish) bridges.c module has been created with new
2416 unittests, raising the code coverage percentages. Closes 25425.
2417 - We now have improved testing for addressmap_get_virtual_address()
2418 function. This should improve our test coverage, and make our test
2419 coverage more deterministic. Closes ticket 25993.
2421 o Minor features (timekeeping, circuit scheduling):
2422 - When keeping track of how busy each circuit have been recently on
2423 a given connection, use coarse-grained monotonic timers rather
2424 than gettimeofday(). This change should marginally increase
2425 accuracy and performance. Implements part of ticket 25927.
2427 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth management):
2428 - Consider ourselves "low on write bandwidth" if we have exhausted
2429 our write bandwidth some time in the last second. This was the
2430 documented behavior before, but the actual behavior was to change
2431 this value every TokenBucketRefillInterval. Fixes bug 25828;
2432 bugfix on 0.2.3.5-alpha.
2434 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
2435 - Add a missing lock acquisition in the shutdown code of the control
2436 subsystem. Fixes bug 25675; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Found by
2437 Coverity; this is CID 1433643.
2439 o Minor bugfixes (circuit path selection):
2440 - Don't count path selection failures as circuit build failures.
2441 This change should eliminate cases where Tor blames its guard or
2442 the network for situations like insufficient microdescriptors
2443 and/or overly restrictive torrc settings. Fixes bug 25705; bugfix
2446 o Minor bugfixes (client):
2447 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
2448 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
2451 o Minor bugfixes (code style):
2452 - Fixed multiple includes of transports.h in src/or/connection.c
2453 Fixes bug 25261; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
2454 - Remove the unused variable n_possible from the function
2455 channel_get_for_extend(). Fixes bug 25645; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha
2457 o Minor bugfixes (control interface):
2458 - Respond with more human-readable error messages to GETINFO exit-
2459 policy/* requests. Also, let controller know if an error is
2460 transient (response code 551) or not (response code 552). Fixes
2461 bug 25852; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
2463 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
2464 - Make CIRC_BW event reflect the total of all data sent on a
2465 circuit, including padding and dropped cells. Also fix a mis-
2466 counting bug when STREAM_BW events were enabled. Fixes bug 25400;
2467 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
2469 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client):
2470 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the cell
2471 immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for close, but
2472 continue processing the cell as if the connection were open. Fixes bug
2473 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
2475 o Minor bugfixes (directory client):
2476 - When unverified-consensus is verified, rename it to cached-
2477 consenus. Fixes bug 4187; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
2478 - Fixed launching a certificate fetch always during the scheduled
2479 periodic consensus fetch by fetching only in those cases when
2480 consensus are waiting for certs. Fixes bug 24740; bugfix
2483 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
2484 - Stop saying in the manual that clients cache ipv4 dns answers from
2485 exit relays. We haven't used them since 0.2.6.3-alpha, and in
2486 ticket 24050 we stopped even caching them as of 0.3.2.6-alpha, but
2487 we forgot to say so in the man page. Fixes bug 26052; bugfix
2490 o Minor bugfixes (error reporting):
2491 - Improve tolerance for directory authorities with skewed clocks.
2492 Previously, an authority with a clock more than 60 seconds ahead
2493 could cause a client with a correct clock to warn that the
2494 client's clock was behind. Now the clocks of a majority of
2495 directory authorities have to be ahead of the client before this
2496 warning will occur. Fixes bug 25756; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
2498 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
2499 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
2500 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
2502 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
2503 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
2504 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2505 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
2506 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
2507 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
2508 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
2510 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
2511 - Only select relays when they have the descriptors we prefer to use
2512 for them. This change fixes a bug where we could select a relay
2513 because it had _some_ descriptor, but reject it later with a
2514 nonfatal assertion error because it didn't have the exact one we
2515 wanted. Fixes bugs 25691 and 25692; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
2517 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
2518 - Do not align mmap length, as it is not required by POSIX, and the
2519 getpagesize function is deprecated. Fixes bug 25399; bugfix
2522 o Minor bugfixes (portability, FreeBSD):
2523 - In have_enough_mem_for_dircache(), the variable DIRCACHE_MIN_MEM_MB
2524 does not stringify on FreeBSD, so we switch to tor_asprintf().
2525 Fixes bug 20887; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2527 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics):
2528 - When a relay is collecting internal statistics about how many
2529 create cell requests it has seen of each type, accurately count
2530 the requests from relays that temporarily fall out of the
2531 consensus. (To be extra conservative, we were already ignoring
2532 requests from clients in our counts, and we continue ignoring them
2533 here.) Fixes bug 24910; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
2535 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash):
2536 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
2537 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2539 o Minor bugfixes (restart-in-process):
2540 - When shutting down, Tor now clears all the flags in the control.c
2541 module. This should prevent a bug where authentication cookies are
2542 not generated on restart. Fixes bug 25512; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2544 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
2545 - When testing workqueue event-cancellation, make sure that we
2546 actually cancel an event, and that cancel each event with equal
2547 probability. (It was previously possible, though extremely
2548 unlikely, for our event-canceling test not to cancel any events.)
2549 Fixes bug 26008; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
2550 - Repeat part of the test in test_client_pick_intro() a number of
2551 times, to give it consistent coverage. Fixes bug 25996; bugfix
2553 - Remove randomness from the hs_common/responsible_hsdirs test, so
2554 that it always takes the same path through the function it tests.
2555 Fixes bug 25997; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2556 - Change the behavior of the "channel/outbound" test so that it
2557 never causes a 10-second rollover for the EWMA circuitmux code.
2558 Previously, this behavior would happen randomly, and result in
2559 fluctuating test coverage. Fixes bug 25994; bugfix
2561 - Use X509_new() to allocate certificates that will be freed later
2562 with X509_free(). Previously, some parts of the unit tests had
2563 used tor_malloc_zero(), which is incorrect, and which caused test
2564 failures on Windows when they were built with extra hardening.
2565 Fixes bugs 25943 and 25944; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by
2567 - While running the circuit_timeout test, fix the PRNG to a
2568 deterministic AES stream, so that the test coverage from this test
2569 will itself be deterministic. Fixes bug 25995; bugfix
2572 o Minor bugfixes (vanguards):
2573 - Allow the last hop in a vanguard circuit to be the same as our
2574 first, to prevent the adversary from influencing guard node choice
2575 by choice of last hop. Also prevent the creation of A - B - A
2576 paths, or A - A paths, which are forbidden by relays. Fixes bug
2577 25870; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2579 o Code simplification and refactoring:
2580 - Remove duplicate code in parse_{c,s}method_line and bootstrap
2581 their functionalities into a single function. Fixes bug 6236;
2582 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
2583 - We remove the PortForwsrding and PortForwardingHelper options,
2584 related functions, and the port_forwarding tests. These options
2585 were used by the now-deprecated Vidalia to help ordinary users
2586 become Tor relays or bridges. Closes ticket 25409. Patch by
2588 - In order to make the OR and dir checking function in router.c less
2589 confusing we renamed some functions and
2590 consider_testing_reachability() has been split into
2591 router_should_check_reachability() and
2592 router_do_reachability_checks(). Also we improved the documentation
2593 in some functions. Closes ticket 18918.
2594 - Initial work to isolate Libevent usage to a handful of modules in
2595 our codebase, to simplify our call structure, and so that we can
2596 more easily change event loops in the future if needed. Closes
2598 - Introduce a function to call getsockname() and return tor_addr_t,
2599 to save a little complexity throughout the codebase. Closes
2601 - Make hsdir_index in node_t a hsdir_index_t rather than a pointer
2602 as hsdir_index is always present. Also, we move hsdir_index_t into
2603 or.h. Closes ticket 23094. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2604 - Merge functions used for describing nodes and suppress the
2605 functions that do not allocate memory for the output buffer
2606 string. NODE_DESC_BUF_LEN constant and format_node_description()
2607 function cannot be used externally from router.c module anymore.
2608 Closes ticket 25432. Patch by valentecaio.
2609 - Our main loop has been simplified so that all important operations
2610 happen inside events. Previously, some operations had to happen
2611 outside the event loop, to prevent infinite sequences of event
2612 activations. Closes ticket 25374.
2613 - Put a SHA1 public key digest in hs_service_intro_point_t, and use
2614 it in register_intro_circ() and service_intro_point_new(). This
2615 prevents the digest from being re-calculated each time. Closes
2616 ticket 23107. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2617 - Refactor token-bucket implementations to use a common backend.
2618 Closes ticket 25766.
2619 - Remove extern declaration of stats_n_seconds_working variable from
2620 main, protecting its accesses with get_uptime() and reset_uptime()
2621 functions. Closes ticket 25081, patch by “valentecaio”.
2622 - Remove our previous logic for "cached gettimeofday()" -- our
2623 coarse monotonic timers are fast enough for this purpose, and far
2624 less error-prone. Implements part of ticket 25927.
2625 - Remove the return value for fascist_firewall_choose_address_base(),
2626 and sister functions such as fascist_firewall_choose_address_node()
2627 and fascist_firewall_choose_address_rs(). Also, while we're here,
2628 initialize the ap argument as leaving it uninitialized can pose a
2629 security hazard. Closes ticket 24734. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2630 - Rename two fields of connection_t struct. timestamp_lastwritten is
2631 renamed to timestamp_last_write_allowed and timestamp_lastread is
2632 renamed to timestamp_last_read_allowed. Closes ticket 24714, patch
2634 - Since Tor requires C99, remove our old workaround code for libc
2635 implementations where free(NULL) doesn't work. Closes ticket 24484.
2636 - Use our standard rate-limiting code to deal with excessive
2637 libevent failures, rather than the hand-rolled logic we had
2638 before. Closes ticket 26016.
2639 - We remove the return value of node_get_prim_orport() and
2640 node_get_prim_dirport(), and introduce node_get_prim_orport() in
2641 node_ipv6_or_preferred() and node_ipv6_dir_preferred() in order to
2642 check for a null address. Closes ticket 23873. Patch by
2644 - We switch to should_record_bridge_info() in
2645 geoip_note_client_seen() and options_need_geoip_info() instead of
2646 accessing the configuration values directly. Fixes bug 25290;
2647 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2649 o Deprecated features:
2650 - As we are not recommending 0.2.5 anymore, we require relays that
2651 once had an ed25519 key associated with their RSA key to always
2652 have that key, instead of allowing them to drop back to a version
2653 that didn't support ed25519. This means they need to use a new RSA
2654 key if they want to downgrade to an older version of tor without
2655 ed25519. Closes ticket 20522.
2658 - Correct an IPv6 error in the documentation for ExitPolicy. Closes
2659 ticket 25857. Patch from "CTassisF".
2662 - Directory authorities will no longer support voting according to
2663 any consensus method before consensus method 25. This keeps
2664 authorities compatible with all authorities running 0.2.9.8 and
2665 later, and does not break any clients or relays. Implements ticket
2666 24378 and proposal 290.
2667 - The PortForwarding and PortForwardingHelper features have been
2668 removed. The reasoning is, given that implementations of NAT
2669 traversal protocols within common consumer grade routers are
2670 frequently buggy, and that the target audience for a NAT punching
2671 feature is a perhaps less-technically-inclined relay operator,
2672 when the helper fails to setup traversal the problems are usually
2673 deep, ugly, and very router specific, making them horrendously
2674 impossible for technical support to reliable assist with, and thus
2675 resulting in frustration all around. Unfortunately, relay
2676 operators who would like to run relays behind NATs will need to
2677 become more familiar with the port forwarding configurations on
2678 their local router. Closes 25409.
2679 - The TestingEnableTbEmptyEvent option has been removed. It was used
2680 in testing simulations to measure how often connection buckets
2681 were emptied, in order to improve our scheduling, but it has not
2682 been actively used in years. Closes ticket 25760.
2683 - The old "round-robin" circuit multiplexer (circuitmux)
2684 implementation has been removed, along with a fairly large set of
2685 code that existed to support it. It has not been the default
2686 circuitmux since we introduced the "EWMA" circuitmux in 0.2.4.x,
2687 but it still required an unreasonable amount of memory and CPU.
2688 Closes ticket 25268.
2691 Changes in version 0.3.3.5-rc - 2018-04-15
2692 Tor 0.3.3.5-rc fixes various bugs in earlier versions of Tor,
2693 including some that could affect reliability or correctness.
2695 This is the first release candidate in the 0.3.3 series. If we find no
2696 new bugs or regression here, then the first stable 0.3.3 release will
2697 be nearly identical to this one.
2699 o Major bugfixes (security, protover, voting):
2700 - Revise Rust implementation of protover to use a more memory-
2701 efficient voting algorithm and corresponding data structures, thus
2702 avoiding a potential memory-based DoS attack where specially
2703 crafted protocol strings would expand to fill available memory.
2704 Fixes bug 24031; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2706 o Major bugfixes (performance, load balancing):
2707 - Directory authorities no longer vote in favor of the Guard flag
2708 for relays without directory support. Starting in Tor
2709 0.3.0.1-alpha, clients have been avoiding using such relays in the
2710 Guard position, leading to increasingly broken load balancing for
2711 the 5%-or-so of Guards that don't advertise directory support.
2712 Fixes bug 22310; bugfix on 0.3.0.6.
2714 o Minor feature (continuous integration):
2715 - Update the Travis CI configuration to use the stable Rust channel,
2716 now that we have decided to require that. Closes ticket 25714.
2718 o Minor features (config options):
2719 - Change the way the default value for MaxMemInQueues is calculated.
2720 We now use 40% of the hardware RAM if the system has 8 GB RAM or
2721 more. Otherwise we use the former value of 75%. Closes
2724 o Minor features (geoip):
2725 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
2726 Country database. Closes ticket 25718.
2728 o Minor bugfixes (client):
2729 - When using a listed relay as a bridge, and also using
2730 microdescriptors, and considering that relay as a non-bridge in a
2731 circuit, treat its microdescriptor as a valid source of
2732 information about that relay. This change should prevent a non-
2733 fatal assertion error. Fixes bug 25691; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
2735 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
2736 - Restore the correct operation of the RESOLVE command, which had
2737 been broken since we added the ability to enable/disable DNS on
2738 specific listener ports. Fixes bug 25617; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
2740 o Minor bugfixes (distribution, compilation, rust):
2741 - Build correctly when the rust dependencies submodule is loaded,
2742 but the TOR_RUST_DEPENDENCIES environment variable is not set.
2743 Fixes bug 25679; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2744 - Actually include all of our Rust source in our source
2745 distributions. (Previously, a few of the files were accidentally
2746 omitted.) Fixes bug 25732; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
2748 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
2749 - Document that the PerConnBW{Rate,Burst} options will fall back to
2750 their corresponding consensus parameters only if those parameters
2751 are set. Previously we had claimed that these values would always
2752 be set in the consensus. Fixes bug 25296; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
2753 - Revert a misformatting issue in the ExitPolicy documentation.
2754 Fixes bug 25582; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2756 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay DNS retries):
2757 - Re-attempt timed-out DNS queries 3 times before failure, since our
2758 timeout is 5 seconds for them, but clients wait 10-15. Also allow
2759 slightly more timeouts per resolver when an exit has multiple
2760 resolvers configured. Fixes bug 21394; bugfix on 0.3.1.9.
2762 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
2763 - Re-instate counting the client HSDir fetch circuits against the
2764 MaxClientCircuitsPending rate limit. Fixes bug 24989; bugfix
2766 - Remove underscores from the _HSLayer{2,3}Nodes options. This
2767 expert-user configuration can now be enabled as HSLayer{2,3}Nodes.
2768 Fixes bug 25581; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha
2770 o Code simplification and refactoring:
2771 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
2772 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
2774 o Documentation (manpage, denial of service):
2775 - Provide more detail about the denial-of-service options, by
2776 listing each mitigation and explaining how they relate. Closes
2780 Changes in version 0.3.3.4-alpha - 2018-03-29
2781 Tor 0.3.3.4-alpha includes various bugfixes for issues found during
2782 the alpha testing of earlier releases in its series. We are
2783 approaching a stable 0.3.3.4-alpha release: more testing is welcome!
2785 o New system requirements:
2786 - When built with Rust, Tor now depends on version 0.2.39 of the
2787 libc crate. Closes tickets 25310 and 25664.
2789 o Major bugfixes (relay, connection):
2790 - If we have failed to connect to a relay and received a connection
2791 refused, timeout, or similar error (at the TCP level), do not try
2792 that same address/port again for 60 seconds after the failure has
2793 occurred. Fixes bug 24767; bugfix on 0.0.6.
2795 o Minor features (geoip):
2796 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the March 8 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
2797 Country database. Closes ticket 25469.
2799 o Minor features (log messages):
2800 - Improve log message in the out-of-memory handler to include
2801 information about memory usage from the different compression
2802 backends. Closes ticket 25372.
2804 o Minor features (sandbox):
2805 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
2806 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
2807 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
2809 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
2810 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
2811 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
2812 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
2814 o Minor bugfixes (channel, client):
2815 - Better identify client connection when reporting to the geoip
2816 client cache. Fixes bug 24904; bugfix on 0.3.1.7.
2818 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
2819 - Fix a C99 compliance issue in our configuration script that caused
2820 compilation issues when compiling Tor with certain versions of
2821 xtools. Fixes bug 25474; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
2823 o Minor bugfixes (controller, reliability):
2824 - Avoid a (nonfatal) assertion failure when extending a one-hop
2825 circuit from the controller to become a multihop circuit. Fixes
2826 bug 24903; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
2828 o Major bugfixes (networking):
2829 - Tor will no longer reject IPv6 address strings from Tor Browser
2830 when they are passed as hostnames in SOCKS5 requests. Fixes bug
2831 25036, bugfix on Tor 0.3.1.2.
2833 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
2834 - string_is_valid_hostname() will not consider IP strings to be
2835 valid hostnames. Fixes bug 25055; bugfix on Tor 0.2.5.5.
2837 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
2838 - Avoid an assertion failure when the next onion service
2839 descriptor rotation type is out of sync with the consensus's
2840 valid-after time. Instead, log a warning message with extra
2841 information, so we can better hunt down the cause of this
2842 assertion. Fixes bug 25306; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2844 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
2845 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
2846 onion service introduction point creation finishing within 5
2847 seconds of real clock time. Fixes bug 25450; bugfix
2849 - Rust crates are now automatically detected and tested. Previously,
2850 some crates were not tested by `make test-rust` due to a static
2851 string in the `src/test/test_rust.sh` script specifying which
2852 crates to test. Fixes bug 25560; bugfix on 0.3.3.3-alpha.
2854 o Minor bugfixes (testing, benchmarks):
2855 - Fix a crash when running benchmark tests on win32 systems. The
2856 crash was due to a mutex that wasn't initialized before logging
2857 and options were initialized. Fixes bug 25479; bugfix
2860 o Minor bugfixes (warnings, ipv6):
2861 - Avoid a bug warning that could occur when trying to connect to a
2862 relay over IPv6. This warning would occur on a Tor instance that
2863 downloads router descriptors, but prefers to use microdescriptors.
2864 Fixes bug 25213; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2866 o Code simplification and refactoring:
2867 - Remove the old (deterministic) directory retry logic entirely:
2868 We've used exponential backoff exclusively for some time. Closes
2872 - Improved the documentation of AccountingStart parameter. Closes
2874 - Update the documentation for "Log" to include the current list of
2875 logging domains. Closes ticket 25378.
2878 Changes in version 0.3.1.10 - 2018-03-03
2879 Tor 0.3.1.10 backports a number of bugfixes, including important fixes for
2882 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
2883 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
2885 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
2886 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
2888 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
2891 All directory authorities should upgrade to one of the versions
2892 released today. Relays running 0.3.1.x may wish to update to one of
2893 the versions released today, for the DoS mitigations.
2895 Please note: according to our release calendar, Tor 0.3.1 will no
2896 longer be supported after 1 July 2018. If you will be running Tor
2897 after that date, you should make sure to plan to upgrade to the latest
2898 stable version, or downgrade to 0.2.9 (which will receive long-term
2901 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
2902 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
2903 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
2904 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
2907 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
2908 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
2909 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
2910 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
2911 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
2912 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
2913 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
2914 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
2915 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
2916 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
2917 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
2918 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
2919 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
2921 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
2922 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
2923 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
2925 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
2926 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
2927 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
2928 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
2929 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
2930 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
2931 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
2933 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
2934 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
2935 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2937 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
2938 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
2939 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
2940 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
2941 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
2942 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
2943 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2945 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
2946 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
2947 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
2948 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
2950 o Minor feature (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
2951 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
2952 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
2953 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
2955 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
2956 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
2957 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
2958 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
2959 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
2960 Closes ticket 24978.
2962 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors, backport from 0.3.2.9):
2963 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
2964 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
2965 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
2966 information. Closes ticket 24801.
2967 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
2968 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
2969 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
2970 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
2972 o Minor features (geoip):
2973 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
2976 o Minor bugfix (channel connection, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
2977 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
2978 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
2979 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
2980 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
2982 o Minor bugfix (directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
2983 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
2984 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
2985 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
2986 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
2988 o Minor bugfixes (address selection, backport from 0.3.2.9):
2989 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
2990 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
2991 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
2992 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
2995 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
2996 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
2997 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
2998 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
2999 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
3000 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
3001 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
3002 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
3003 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
3004 - Don't try fetching microdescriptors from relays that have failed
3005 to deliver them in the past. Fixes bug 23817; bugfix
3008 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.7-rc):
3009 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
3010 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
3012 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
3013 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
3014 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
3017 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
3018 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
3019 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
3020 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
3021 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
3022 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
3023 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
3025 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
3026 - Recover better from empty or corrupt files in the consensus cache
3027 directory. Fixes bug 24099; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3028 - When a consensus diff calculation is only partially successful,
3029 only record the successful parts as having succeeded. Partial
3030 success can happen if (for example) one compression method fails
3031 but the others succeed. Previously we misrecorded all the
3032 calculations as having succeeded, which would later cause a
3033 nonfatal assertion failure. Fixes bug 24086; bugfix
3036 o Minor bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
3037 - Tor now updates its guard state when it reads a consensus
3038 regardless of whether it's missing descriptors. That makes tor use
3039 its primary guards to fetch descriptors in some edge cases where
3040 it would previously have used fallback directories. Fixes bug
3041 23862; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
3043 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
3044 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
3045 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
3046 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3048 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage, backport from 0.3.2.8-rc):
3049 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
3050 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
3051 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
3052 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
3055 o Minor bugfixes (network layer, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
3056 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
3057 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
3058 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
3059 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
3060 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
3062 o Minor bugfixes (path selection, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
3063 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
3064 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
3065 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
3066 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
3067 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
3068 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
3069 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
3070 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
3071 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
3072 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
3073 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
3075 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
3076 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
3077 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
3078 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3080 o Minor bugfixes (OSX, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
3081 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
3082 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
3083 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
3085 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc, backport from 0.3.2.9):
3086 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
3087 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
3088 to cyptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
3091 o Minor bugfixes (relay, partial backport):
3092 - Make the internal channel_is_client() function look at what sort
3093 of connection handshake the other side used, rather than whether
3094 the other side ever sent a create_fast cell to us. Backports part
3095 of the fixes from bugs 22805 and 24898.
3097 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
3098 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
3100 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
3101 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
3103 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
3104 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
3105 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
3108 Changes in version 0.2.9.15 - 2018-03-03
3109 Tor 0.2.9.15 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
3112 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
3113 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
3115 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
3116 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
3118 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
3121 All directory authorities should upgrade to one of the versions
3122 released today. Relays running 0.2.9.x may wish to update to one of
3123 the versions released today, for the DoS mitigations.
3125 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
3126 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
3127 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
3128 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
3131 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation):
3132 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
3133 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
3134 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
3135 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
3136 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
3137 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
3138 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
3139 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
3140 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
3141 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
3142 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
3143 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
3145 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping):
3146 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
3147 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
3148 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
3149 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
3150 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
3151 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
3152 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
3153 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
3155 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior):
3156 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
3157 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
3158 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
3159 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
3160 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
3161 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
3163 o Minor feature (relay statistics):
3164 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
3165 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
3166 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
3168 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL):
3169 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
3170 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
3171 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
3172 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
3173 Closes ticket 24978.
3175 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
3176 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
3177 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
3178 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
3180 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
3181 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
3182 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
3183 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
3184 information. Closes ticket 24801.
3185 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
3186 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
3187 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
3188 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
3190 o Minor features (geoip):
3191 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
3194 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
3195 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
3196 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
3198 o Minor bugfix (channel connection):
3199 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
3200 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
3201 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
3202 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
3204 o Minor bugfix (directory authority):
3205 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
3206 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
3207 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
3208 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
3210 o Minor bugfixes (address selection):
3211 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
3212 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
3213 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
3214 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
3217 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
3218 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
3219 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
3221 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
3222 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
3223 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
3226 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
3227 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
3228 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
3229 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
3230 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
3231 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
3232 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
3234 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage):
3235 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
3236 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
3237 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
3238 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
3241 o Minor bugfixes (network layer):
3242 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
3243 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
3244 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
3245 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
3246 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
3248 o Minor bugfixes (OSX):
3249 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
3250 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
3251 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
3253 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
3254 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
3255 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
3256 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
3257 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
3258 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
3259 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
3260 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
3261 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
3262 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
3263 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
3264 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
3266 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc):
3267 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
3268 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
3269 to cryptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
3272 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
3273 - Make the internal channel_is_client() function look at what sort
3274 of connection handshake the other side used, rather than whether
3275 the other side ever sent a create_fast cell to us. Backports part
3276 of the fixes from bugs 22805 and 24898.
3278 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
3279 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
3281 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
3282 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
3285 Changes in version 0.3.2.10 - 2018-03-03
3286 Tor 0.3.2.10 is the second stable release in the 0.3.2 series. It
3287 backports a number of bugfixes, including important fixes for security
3290 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
3291 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
3293 Additionally, it backports a fix for a bug whose severity we have
3294 upgraded: Bug 24700, which was fixed in 0.3.3.2-alpha, can be remotely
3295 triggered in order to crash relays with a use-after-free pattern. As
3296 such, we are now tracking that bug as TROVE-2018-002 and
3297 CVE-2018-0491, and backporting it to earlier releases. This bug
3298 affected versions 0.3.2.1-alpha through 0.3.2.9, as well as version
3301 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
3302 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
3304 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
3307 Relays running 0.3.2.x SHOULD upgrade to one of the versions released
3308 today, for the fix to TROVE-2018-002. Directory authorities should
3309 also upgrade. (Relays on earlier versions might want to update too for
3310 the DoS mitigations.)
3312 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
3313 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
3314 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
3315 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
3318 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, KIST, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
3319 - Avoid adding the same channel twice in the KIST scheduler pending
3320 list, which could lead to remote denial-of-service use-after-free
3321 attacks against relays. Fixes bug 24700; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3323 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
3324 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
3325 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
3326 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
3327 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
3328 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
3329 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
3330 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
3331 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
3332 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
3333 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
3334 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
3335 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
3337 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
3338 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
3339 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
3340 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
3341 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
3342 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
3343 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
3344 - New-style (v3) onion services now obey the "max rendezvous circuit
3345 attempts" logic. Previously they would make as many rendezvous
3346 circuit attempts as they could fit in the MAX_REND_TIMEOUT second
3347 window before giving up. Fixes bug 24894; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3349 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
3350 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
3351 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3353 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
3354 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
3355 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
3356 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
3357 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
3358 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
3359 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3361 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, consensus, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
3362 - The scheduler subsystem was failing to promptly notice changes in
3363 consensus parameters, making it harder to switch schedulers
3364 network-wide. Fixes bug 24975; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3366 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
3367 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
3368 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
3369 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
3371 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
3372 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
3373 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
3374 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
3375 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
3376 Closes ticket 24978.
3378 o Minor features (geoip):
3379 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
3382 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
3383 - When logging a failure to create an onion service's descriptor,
3384 also log what the problem with the descriptor was. Diagnostic
3387 o Minor bugfix (channel connection, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
3388 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
3389 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
3390 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
3391 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
3393 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
3394 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
3395 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
3396 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
3397 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
3398 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
3399 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
3401 o Minor bugfix (directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
3402 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
3403 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
3404 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
3405 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
3407 o Minor bugfixes (build, rust, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
3408 - When building with Rust on OSX, link against libresolv, to work
3409 around the issue at https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/46797.
3410 Fixes bug 24652; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3412 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
3413 - Remove a BUG() statement when a client fetches an onion descriptor
3414 that has a lower revision counter than the one in its cache. This
3415 can happen in normal circumstances due to HSDir desync. Fixes bug
3416 24976; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3418 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
3419 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
3420 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
3421 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3423 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
3424 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
3425 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
3426 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3428 o Minor bugfixes (OSX, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
3429 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
3430 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
3431 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
3433 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
3434 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
3436 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
3437 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
3439 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
3440 - Fix a memory leak in the scheduler/loop_kist unit test. Fixes bug
3441 25005; bugfix on 0.3.2.7-rc.
3443 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
3444 - Look at the "HSRend" protocol version, not the "HSDir" protocol
3445 version, when deciding whether a consensus entry can support the
3446 v3 onion service protocol as a rendezvous point. Fixes bug 25105;
3447 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3449 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
3450 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
3451 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
3453 o Documentation (backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha)
3454 - Document that operators who run more than one relay or bridge are
3455 expected to set MyFamily and ContactInfo correctly. Closes
3459 Changes in version 0.3.3.3-alpha - 2018-03-03
3460 Tor 0.3.3.3-alpha is the third alpha release for the 0.3.3.x series.
3461 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
3462 against directory authorities tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
3464 Additionally, with this release, we are upgrading the severity of a
3465 bug fixed in 0.3.3.2-alpha. Bug 24700, which was fixed in
3466 0.3.3.2-alpha, can be remotely triggered in order to crash relays with
3467 a use-after-free pattern. As such, we are now tracking that bug as
3468 TROVE-2018-002 and CVE-2018-0491. This bug affected versions
3469 0.3.2.1-alpha through 0.3.2.9, as well as 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3471 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
3474 Relays running 0.3.2.x should upgrade to one of the versions released
3475 today, for the fix to TROVE-2018-002. Directory authorities should
3476 also upgrade. (Relays on earlier versions might want to update too for
3477 the DoS mitigations.)
3479 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority):
3480 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
3481 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
3482 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
3485 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL):
3486 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
3487 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
3488 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
3489 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
3490 Closes ticket 24978.
3492 o Minor features (logging):
3493 - Clarify the log messages produced when getrandom() or a related
3494 entropy-generation mechanism gives an error. Closes ticket 25120.
3496 o Minor features (testing):
3497 - Add a "make test-rust" target to run the rust tests only. Closes
3500 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service):
3501 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
3502 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
3503 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
3504 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
3505 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
3506 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
3508 o Minor bugfixes (DoS mitigation):
3509 - Add extra safety checks when refilling the circuit creation bucket
3510 to ensure we never set a value above the allowed maximum burst.
3511 Fixes bug 25202; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
3512 - When a new consensus arrives, don't update our DoS-mitigation
3513 parameters if we aren't a public relay. Fixes bug 25223; bugfix
3516 o Minor bugfixes (man page, SocksPort):
3517 - Remove dead code from the old "SocksSocket" option, and rename
3518 SocksSocketsGroupWritable to UnixSocksGroupWritable. The old option
3519 still works, but is deprecated. Fixes bug 24343; bugfix on 0.2.6.3.
3521 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
3522 - Reduce the number of circuits that will be opened at once during
3523 the circuit build timeout phase. This is done by increasing the
3524 idle timeout to 3 minutes, and lowering the maximum number of
3525 concurrent learning circuits to 10. Fixes bug 24769; bugfix
3528 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance):
3529 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
3531 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
3532 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
3534 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, rust):
3535 - Resolve a denial-of-service issue caused by an infinite loop in
3536 the rust protover code. Fixes bug 25250, bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3537 Also tracked as TROVE-2018-003.
3539 o Code simplification and refactoring:
3540 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
3541 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
3544 Changes in version 0.3.3.2-alpha - 2018-02-10
3545 Tor 0.3.3.2-alpha is the second alpha in the 0.3.3.x series. It
3546 introduces a mechanism to handle the high loads that many relay
3547 operators have been reporting recently. It also fixes several bugs in
3548 older releases. If this new code proves reliable, we plan to backport
3549 it to older supported release series.
3551 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation):
3552 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
3553 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
3554 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
3555 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
3556 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
3557 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
3558 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
3559 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
3560 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
3561 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
3562 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
3563 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
3565 o Major bugfixes (netflow padding):
3566 - Stop adding unneeded channel padding right after we finish
3567 flushing to a connection that has been trying to flush for many
3568 seconds. Instead, treat all partial or complete flushes as
3569 activity on the channel, which will defer the time until we need
3570 to add padding. This fix should resolve confusing and scary log
3571 messages like "Channel padding timeout scheduled 221453ms in the
3572 past." Fixes bug 22212; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3574 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions):
3575 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
3576 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3578 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, consensus):
3579 - The scheduler subsystem was failing to promptly notice changes in
3580 consensus parameters, making it harder to switch schedulers
3581 network-wide. Fixes bug 24975; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3583 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
3584 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
3585 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
3586 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
3588 o Minor features (directory authority):
3589 - When directory authorities are unable to add signatures to a
3590 pending consensus, log the reason why. Closes ticket 24849.
3592 o Minor features (geoip):
3593 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
3596 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic):
3597 - When logging a failure to create an onion service's descriptor,
3598 also log what the problem with the descriptor was. Diagnostic for
3601 o Minor bugfix (channel connection):
3602 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
3603 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
3604 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
3605 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
3607 o Minor bugfix (directory authority):
3608 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
3609 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
3610 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
3611 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
3613 o Minor bugfixes (all versions of Tor):
3614 - Use the "misspell" tool to detect and fix typos throughout the
3615 source code. Fixes bug 23650; bugfix on various versions of Tor.
3616 Patch from Deepesh Pathak.
3618 o Minor bugfixes (circuit, cannibalization):
3619 - Don't cannibalize preemptively-built circuits if we no longer
3620 recognize their first hop. This situation can happen if our Guard
3621 relay went off the consensus after the circuit was created. Fixes
3622 bug 24469; bugfix on 0.0.6.
3624 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
3625 - Remove a nonworking, unnecessary check to see whether a circuit
3626 hop's identity digest was set when the circuit failed. Fixes bug
3627 24927; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
3629 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
3630 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
3631 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
3632 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3633 - Fix a (mostly harmless) race condition when invoking
3634 LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN message from a subthread while the torrc options
3635 are changing. Fixes bug 23954; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
3637 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
3638 - Remove a BUG() statement when a client fetches an onion descriptor
3639 that has a lower revision counter than the one in its cache. This
3640 can happen in normal circumstances due to HSDir desync. Fixes bug
3641 24976; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3642 - If we are configured to offer a single onion service, don't log
3643 long-term established one hop rendezvous points in the heartbeat.
3644 Fixes bug 25116; bugfix on 0.2.9.6-rc.
3646 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
3647 - Avoid calling protocol_list_supports_protocol() from inside tight
3648 loops when running with cached routerinfo_t objects. Instead,
3649 summarize the relevant protocols as flags in the routerinfo_t, as
3650 we do for routerstatus_t objects. This change simplifies our code
3651 a little, and saves a large amount of short-term memory allocation
3652 operations. Fixes bug 25008; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
3654 o Minor bugfixes (Rust FFI):
3655 - Fix a minor memory leak which would happen whenever the C code
3656 would call the Rust implementation of
3657 protover_get_supported_protocols(). This was due to the C version
3658 returning a static string, whereas the Rust version newly allocated
3659 a CString to pass across the FFI boundary. Consequently, the C
3660 code was not expecting to need to free() what it was given. Fixes
3661 bug 25127; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3663 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler, KIST):
3664 - Avoid adding the same channel twice in the KIST scheduler pending
3665 list, which would waste CPU cycles. Fixes bug 24700; bugfix
3668 o Minor bugfixes (unit test, monotonic time):
3669 - Increase a constant (1msec to 10msec) in the monotonic time test
3670 that makes sure the nsec/usec/msec times read are synchronized.
3671 This change was needed to accommodate slow systems like armel or
3672 when the clock_gettime() is not a VDSO on the running kernel.
3673 Fixes bug 25113; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
3675 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
3676 - Look at the "HSRend" protocol version, not the "HSDir" protocol
3677 version, when deciding whether a consensus entry can support the
3678 v3 onion service protocol as a rendezvous point. Fixes bug 25105;
3679 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3681 o Code simplification and refactoring:
3682 - Remove the unused nodelist_recompute_all_hsdir_indices(). Closes
3684 - Remove a series of counters used to track circuit extend attempts
3685 and connection status but that in reality we aren't using for
3686 anything other than stats logged by a SIGUSR1 signal. Closes
3689 o Documentation (man page):
3690 - The HiddenServiceVersion torrc option accepts only one number:
3691 either version 2 or 3. Closes ticket 25026; bugfix
3695 Changes in version 0.3.3.1-alpha - 2018-01-25
3696 Tor 0.3.3.1-alpha is the first release in the 0.3.3.x series. It adds
3697 several new features to Tor, including several improvements to
3698 bootstrapping, and support for an experimental "vanguards" feature to
3699 resist guard discovery attacks. This series also includes better
3700 support for applications that need to embed Tor or manage v3
3703 o Major features (embedding):
3704 - There is now a documented stable API for programs that need to
3705 embed Tor. See tor_api.h for full documentation and known bugs.
3706 Closes ticket 23684.
3707 - Tor now has support for restarting in the same process.
3708 Controllers that run Tor using the "tor_api.h" interface can now
3709 restart Tor after Tor has exited. This support is incomplete,
3710 however: we fixed crash bugs that prevented it from working at
3711 all, but many bugs probably remain, including a possibility of
3712 security issues. Implements ticket 24581.
3714 o Major features (IPv6, directory documents):
3715 - Add consensus method 27, which adds IPv6 ORPorts to the microdesc
3716 consensus. This information makes it easier for IPv6 clients to
3717 bootstrap and choose reachable entry guards. Implements ticket 23826.
3718 - Add consensus method 28, which removes IPv6 ORPorts from
3719 microdescriptors. Now that the consensus contains IPv6 ORPorts, they
3720 are redundant in microdescs. This change will be used by Tor clients
3721 on 0.2.8.x and later. (That is to say, with all Tor clients that
3722 have IPv6 bootstrap and guard support.) Implements ticket 23828.
3723 - Expand the documentation for AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity when it is
3724 set by different numbers of authorities. Fixes 23870
3727 o Major features (onion service v3, control port):
3728 - The control port now supports commands and events for v3 onion
3729 services. It is now possible to create ephemeral v3 services using
3730 ADD_ONION. Additionally, several events (HS_DESC, HS_DESC_CONTENT,
3731 CIRC and CIRC_MINOR) and commands (GETINFO, HSPOST, ADD_ONION and
3732 DEL_ONION) have been extended to support v3 onion services. Closes
3733 ticket 20699; implements proposal 284.
3735 o Major features (onion services):
3736 - Provide torrc options to pin the second and third hops of onion
3737 service circuits to a list of nodes. The option HSLayer2Guards
3738 pins the second hop, and the option HSLayer3Guards pins the third
3739 hop. These options are for use in conjunction with experiments
3740 with "vanguards" for preventing guard enumeration attacks. Closes
3743 o Major features (rust, portability, experimental):
3744 - Tor now ships with an optional implementation of one of its
3745 smaller modules (protover.c) in the Rust programming language. To
3746 try it out, install a Rust build environment, and configure Tor
3747 with "--enable-rust --enable-cargo-online-mode". This should not
3748 cause any user-visible changes, but should help us gain more
3749 experience with Rust, and plan future Rust integration work.
3750 Implementation by Chelsea Komlo. Closes ticket 22840.
3752 o Minor features (storage, configuration):
3753 - Users can store cached directory documents somewhere other than
3754 the DataDirectory by using the CacheDirectory option. Similarly,
3755 the storage location for relay's keys can be overridden with the
3756 KeyDirectory option. Closes ticket 22703.
3758 o Major features (v3 onion services, ipv6):
3759 - When v3 onion service clients send introduce cells, they now
3760 include the IPv6 address of the rendezvous point, if it has one.
3761 Current v3 onion services running 0.3.2 ignore IPv6 addresses, but
3762 in future Tor versions, IPv6-only v3 single onion services will be
3763 able to use IPv6 addresses to connect directly to the rendezvous
3764 point. Closes ticket 23577. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3766 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior):
3767 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
3768 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
3769 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
3770 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
3771 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
3772 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
3773 - New-style (v3) onion services now obey the "max rendezvous circuit
3774 attempts" logic. Previously they would make as many rendezvous
3775 circuit attempts as they could fit in the MAX_REND_TIMEOUT second
3776 window before giving up. Fixes bug 24894; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3778 o Major bugfixes (relays):
3779 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
3780 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
3781 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
3782 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
3783 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
3784 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3786 o Minor feature (IPv6):
3787 - Make IPv6-only clients wait for microdescs for relays, even if we
3788 were previously using descriptors (or were using them as a bridge)
3789 and have a cached descriptor for them. Implements ticket 23827.
3790 - When a consensus has IPv6 ORPorts, make IPv6-only clients use
3791 them, rather than waiting to download microdescriptors.
3792 Implements ticket 23827.
3794 o Minor features (cleanup):
3795 - Tor now deletes the CookieAuthFile and ExtORPortCookieAuthFile
3796 when it stops. Closes ticket 23271.
3798 o Minor features (defensive programming):
3799 - Most of the functions in Tor that free objects have been replaced
3800 with macros that free the objects and set the corresponding
3801 pointers to NULL. This change should help prevent a large class of
3802 dangling pointer bugs. Closes ticket 24337.
3803 - Where possible, the tor_free() macro now only evaluates its input
3804 once. Part of ticket 24337.
3805 - Check that microdesc ed25519 ids are non-zero in
3806 node_get_ed25519_id() before returning them. Implements ticket
3807 24001, patch by "aruna1234".
3809 o Minor features (embedding):
3810 - Tor can now start with a preauthenticated control connection
3811 created by the process that launched it. This feature is meant for
3812 use by programs that want to launch and manage a Tor process
3813 without allowing other programs to manage it as well. For more
3814 information, see the __OwningControllerFD option documented in
3815 control-spec.txt. Closes ticket 23900.
3816 - On most errors that would cause Tor to exit, it now tries to
3817 return from the tor_main() function, rather than calling the
3818 system exit() function. Most users won't notice a difference here,
3819 but it should be significant for programs that run Tor inside
3820 a separate thread: they should now be able to survive Tor's exit
3821 conditions rather than having Tor shut down the entire process.
3822 Closes ticket 23848.
3823 - Applications that want to embed Tor can now tell Tor not to
3824 register any of its own POSIX signal handlers, using the
3825 __DisableSignalHandlers option. Closes ticket 24588.
3827 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
3828 - Avoid selecting fallbacks that change their IP addresses too
3829 often. Select more fallbacks by ignoring the Guard flag, and
3830 allowing lower cutoffs for the Running and V2Dir flags. Also allow
3831 a lower bandwidth, and a higher number of fallbacks per operator
3832 (5% of the list). Implements ticket 24785.
3833 - Update the fallback whitelist and blacklist based on opt-ins and
3834 relay changes. Closes tickets 22321, 24678, 22527, 24135,
3837 o Minor features (fallback directory mirror configuration):
3838 - Add a nickname to each fallback in a C comment. This makes it
3839 easier for operators to find their relays, and allows stem to use
3840 nicknames to identify fallbacks. Implements ticket 24600.
3841 - Add a type and version header to the fallback directory mirror
3842 file. Also add a delimiter to the end of each fallback entry. This
3843 helps external parsers like stem and Relay Search. Implements
3845 - Add an extrainfo cache flag for each fallback in a C comment. This
3846 allows stem to use fallbacks to fetch extra-info documents, rather
3847 than using authorities. Implements ticket 22759.
3848 - Add the generateFallbackDirLine.py script for automatically
3849 generating fallback directory mirror lines from relay fingerprints.
3850 No more typos! Add the lookupFallbackDirContact.py script for
3851 automatically looking up operator contact info from relay
3852 fingerprints. Implements ticket 24706, patch by teor and atagar.
3853 - Reject any fallback directory mirror that serves an expired
3854 consensus. Implements ticket 20942, patch by "minik".
3855 - Remove commas and equals signs from external string inputs to the
3856 fallback list. This avoids format confusion attacks. Implements
3858 - Remove the "weight=10" line from fallback directory mirror
3859 entries. Ticket 24681 will maintain the current fallback weights
3860 by changing Tor's default fallback weight to 10. Implements
3862 - Stop logging excessive information about fallback netblocks.
3863 Implements ticket 24791.
3865 o Minor features (forward-compatibility):
3866 - If a relay supports some link authentication protocol that we do
3867 not recognize, then include that relay's ed25519 key when telling
3868 other relays to extend to it. Previously, we treated future
3869 versions as if they were too old to support ed25519 link
3870 authentication. Closes ticket 20895.
3872 o Minor features (heartbeat):
3873 - Add onion service information to our heartbeat logs, displaying
3874 stats about the activity of configured onion services. Closes
3877 o Minor features (instrumentation, development):
3878 - Add the MainloopStats option to allow developers to get
3879 instrumentation information from the main event loop via the
3880 heartbeat messages. We hope to use this to improve Tor's behavior
3881 when it's trying to sleep. Closes ticket 24605.
3883 o Minor features (log messages):
3884 - Improve a warning message that happens when we fail to re-parse an
3885 old router because of an expired certificate. Closes ticket 20020.
3886 - Make the log more quantitative when we hit MaxMemInQueues
3887 threshold exposing some values. Closes ticket 24501.
3889 o Minor features (logging, android):
3890 - Added support for the Android logging subsystem. Closes
3893 o Minor features (performance):
3894 - Support predictive circuit building for onion service circuits
3895 with multiple layers of guards. Closes ticket 23101.
3896 - Use stdatomic.h where available, rather than mutexes, to implement
3897 atomic_counter_t. Closes ticket 23953.
3899 o Minor features (performance, 32-bit):
3900 - Improve performance on 32-bit systems by avoiding 64-bit division
3901 when calculating the timestamp in milliseconds for channel padding
3902 computations. Implements ticket 24613.
3903 - Improve performance on 32-bit systems by avoiding 64-bit division
3904 when timestamping cells and buffer chunks for OOM calculations.
3905 Implements ticket 24374.
3907 o Minor features (performance, OSX, iOS):
3908 - Use the mach_approximate_time() function (when available) to
3909 implement coarse monotonic time. Having a coarse time function
3910 should avoid a large number of system calls, and improve
3911 performance slightly, especially under load. Closes ticket 24427.
3913 o Minor features (performance, windows):
3914 - Improve performance on Windows Vista and Windows 7 by adjusting
3915 TCP send window size according to the recommendation from
3916 SIO_IDEAL_SEND_BACKLOG_QUERY. Closes ticket 22798. Patch
3919 o Major features (relay):
3920 - Implement an option, ReducedExitPolicy, to allow an Tor exit relay
3921 operator to use a more reasonable ("reduced") exit policy, rather
3922 than the default one. If you want to run an exit node without
3923 thinking too hard about which ports to allow, this one is for you.
3924 Closes ticket 13605. Patch from Neel Chauhan.
3926 o Minor features (testing, debugging, embedding):
3927 - For development purposes, Tor now has a mode in which it runs for
3928 a few seconds, then stops, and starts again without exiting the
3929 process. This mode is meant to help us debug various issues with
3930 ticket 23847. To use this feature, compile with
3931 --enable-restart-debugging, and set the TOR_DEBUG_RESTART
3932 environment variable. This is expected to crash a lot, and is
3933 really meant for developers only. It will likely be removed in a
3934 future release. Implements ticket 24583.
3936 o Minor bugfix (network IPv6 test):
3937 - Tor's test scripts now check if "ping -6 ::1" works when the user
3938 runs "make test-network-all". Fixes bug 24677; bugfix on
3939 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
3941 o Minor bugfixes (build, rust):
3942 - Fix output of autoconf checks to display success messages for Rust
3943 dependencies and a suitable rustc compiler version. Fixes bug
3944 24612; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
3945 - When building with Rust on OSX, link against libresolv, to work
3946 around the issue at https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/46797.
3947 Fixes bug 24652; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3948 - Don't pass the --quiet option to cargo: it seems to suppress some
3949 errors, which is not what we want to do when building. Fixes bug
3950 24518; bugfix on 0.3.1.7.
3951 - Build correctly when building from outside Tor's source tree with
3952 the TOR_RUST_DEPENDENCIES option set. Fixes bug 22768; bugfix
3955 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, IPv6):
3956 - When creating a routerstatus (vote) from a routerinfo (descriptor),
3957 set the IPv6 address to the unspecified IPv6 address, and
3958 explicitly initialize the port to zero. Fixes bug 24488; bugfix
3961 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directory mirrors):
3962 - Make updateFallbackDirs.py search harder for python. (Some OSs
3963 don't put it in /usr/bin.) Fixes bug 24708; bugfix
3966 o Minor bugfixes (hibernation, bandwidth accounting, shutdown):
3967 - When hibernating, close connections normally and allow them to
3968 flush. Fixes bug 23571; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Also fixes
3970 - Do not attempt to launch self-reachability tests when entering
3971 hibernation. Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
3972 - Resolve several bugs related to descriptor fetching on bridge
3973 clients with bandwidth accounting enabled. (This combination is
3974 not recommended!) Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix
3976 - When hibernating, do not attempt to launch DNS checks. Fixes a
3977 case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
3978 - When hibernating, do not try to upload or download descriptors.
3979 Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
3981 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, bridges):
3982 - Tor now always sets IPv6 preferences for bridges. Fixes bug 24573;
3983 bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
3984 - Tor now sets IPv6 address in the routerstatus as well as in the
3985 router descriptors when updating addresses for a bridge. Closes
3986 ticket 24572; bugfix on 0.2.4.5-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
3988 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
3989 - When running with the sandbox enabled, reload configuration files
3990 correctly even when %include was used. Previously we would crash.
3991 Fixes bug 22605; bugfix on 0.3.1. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
3993 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
3994 - Avoid possible at-exit memory leaks related to use of Libevent's
3995 event_base_once() function. (This function tends to leak memory if
3996 the event_base is closed before the event fires.) Fixes bug 24584;
3997 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3998 - Fix a harmless memory leak in tor-resolve. Fixes bug 24582; bugfix
4001 o Minor bugfixes (OSX):
4002 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
4003 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
4004 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
4006 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening):
4007 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
4008 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
4009 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4011 o Minor bugfixes (performance, timeouts):
4012 - Consider circuits for timeout as soon as they complete a hop. This
4013 is more accurate than applying the timeout in
4014 circuit_expire_building() because that function is only called
4015 once per second, which is now too slow for typical timeouts on the
4016 current network. Fixes bug 23114; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
4017 - Use onion service circuits (and other circuits longer than 3 hops)
4018 to calculate a circuit build timeout. Previously, Tor only
4019 calculated its build timeout based on circuits that planned to be
4020 exactly 3 hops long. With this change, we include measurements
4021 from all circuits at the point where they complete their third
4022 hop. Fixes bug 23100; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
4024 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
4025 - Give out Exit flags in bootstrapping networks. Fixes bug 24137;
4026 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
4027 - Fix a memory leak in the scheduler/loop_kist unit test. Fixes bug
4028 25005; bugfix on 0.3.2.7-rc.
4030 o Code simplification and refactoring:
4031 - Remove /usr/athena from search path in configure.ac. Closes
4033 - Remove duplicate code in node_has_curve25519_onion_key() and
4034 node_get_curve25519_onion_key(), and add a check for a zero
4035 microdesc curve25519 onion key. Closes ticket 23966, patch by
4036 "aruna1234" and teor.
4037 - Rewrite channel_rsa_id_group_set_badness to reduce temporary
4038 memory allocations with large numbers of OR connections (e.g.
4039 relays). Closes ticket 24119.
4040 - Separate the function that deletes ephemeral files when Tor
4042 - Small changes to Tor's buf_t API to make it suitable for use as a
4043 general-purpose safe string constructor. Closes ticket 22342.
4044 - Switch -Wnormalized=id to -Wnormalized=nfkc in configure.ac to
4045 avoid source code identifier confusion. Closes ticket 24467.
4046 - The tor_git_revision[] constant no longer needs to be redeclared
4047 by everything that links against the rest of Tor. Done as part of
4048 ticket 23845, to simplify our external API.
4049 - We make extend_info_from_node() use node_get_curve25519_onion_key()
4050 introduced in ticket 23577 to access the curve25519 public keys
4051 rather than accessing it directly. Closes ticket 23760. Patch by
4053 - Add a function to log channels' scheduler state changes to aid
4054 debugging efforts. Closes ticket 24531.
4057 - Add documentation on how to build tor with Rust dependencies
4058 without having to be online. Closes ticket 22907; bugfix
4060 - Clarify the behavior of RelayBandwidth{Rate,Burst} with client
4061 traffic. Closes ticket 24318.
4062 - Document that OutboundBindAddress doesn't apply to DNS requests.
4063 Closes ticket 22145. Patch from Aruna Maurya.
4064 - Document that operators who run more than one relay or bridge are
4065 expected to set MyFamily and ContactInfo correctly. Closes
4068 o Code simplification and refactoring (channels):
4069 - Remove the incoming and outgoing channel queues. These were never
4070 used, but still took up a step in our fast path.
4071 - The majority of the channel unit tests have been rewritten and the
4072 code coverage has now been raised to 83.6% for channel.c. Closes
4074 - Remove other dead code from the channel subsystem: All together,
4075 this cleanup has removed more than 1500 lines of code overall and
4076 adding very little except for unit test.
4078 o Code simplification and refactoring (circuit rendezvous):
4079 - Split the client-side rendezvous circuit lookup into two
4080 functions: one that returns only established circuits and another
4081 that returns all kinds of circuits. Closes ticket 23459.
4083 o Code simplification and refactoring (controller):
4084 - Make most of the variables in networkstatus_getinfo_by_purpose()
4085 const. Implements ticket 24489.
4088 Changes in version 0.3.2.9 - 2018-01-09
4089 Tor 0.3.2.9 is the first stable release in the 0.3.2 series.
4091 The 0.3.2 series includes our long-anticipated new onion service
4092 design, with numerous security features. (For more information, see
4093 our blog post at https://blog.torproject.org/fall-harvest.) We also
4094 have a new circuit scheduler algorithm for improved performance on
4095 relays everywhere (see https://blog.torproject.org/kist-and-tell),
4096 along with many smaller features and bugfixes.
4098 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support each stable release
4099 series for at least the next nine months, or for three months after
4100 the first stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. If
4101 you need a release with long-term support, we recommend that you stay
4102 with the 0.2.9 series.
4104 Below is a list of the changes since 0.3.2.8-rc. For a list of all
4105 changes since 0.3.1, see the ReleaseNotes file.
4107 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
4108 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
4109 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
4110 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
4111 information. Closes ticket 24801.
4112 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
4113 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
4114 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
4115 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
4117 o Minor features (geoip):
4118 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 5 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
4121 o Minor bugfixes (address selection):
4122 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
4123 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
4124 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
4125 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
4128 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
4129 - Resolve a few shadowed-variable warnings in the onion service
4130 code. Fixes bug 24634; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4132 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc):
4133 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
4134 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
4135 to cryptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
4139 Changes in version 0.3.2.8-rc - 2017-12-21
4140 Tor 0.3.2.8-rc fixes a pair of bugs in the KIST and KISTLite
4141 schedulers that had led servers under heavy load to overload their
4142 outgoing connections. All relay operators running earlier 0.3.2.x
4143 versions should upgrade. This version also includes a mitigation for
4144 over-full DESTROY queues leading to out-of-memory conditions: if it
4145 works, we will soon backport it to earlier release series.
4147 This is the second release candidate in the 0.3.2 series. If we find
4148 no new bugs or regression here, then the first stable 0.3.2 release
4149 will be nearly identical to this.
4151 o Major bugfixes (KIST, scheduler):
4152 - The KIST scheduler did not correctly account for data already
4153 enqueued in each connection's send socket buffer, particularly in
4154 cases when the TCP/IP congestion window was reduced between
4155 scheduler calls. This situation lead to excessive per-connection
4156 buffering in the kernel, and a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug
4157 24665; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4159 o Minor features (geoip):
4160 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
4163 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service v3):
4164 - Bump hsdir_spread_store parameter from 3 to 4 in order to increase
4165 the probability of reaching a service for a client missing
4166 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 24425; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4168 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage):
4169 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
4170 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
4171 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
4172 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
4175 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler, KIST):
4176 - Use a sane write limit for KISTLite when writing onto a connection
4177 buffer instead of using INT_MAX and shoving as much as it can.
4178 Because the OOM handler cleans up circuit queues, we are better
4179 off at keeping them in that queue instead of the connection's
4180 buffer. Fixes bug 24671; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4183 Changes in version 0.3.2.7-rc - 2017-12-14
4184 Tor 0.3.2.7-rc fixes various bugs in earlier versions of Tor,
4185 including some that could affect reliability or correctness.
4187 This is the first release candidate in the 0.3.2 series. If we find no
4188 new bugs or regression here, then the first stable 0.3.2. release will
4189 be nearly identical to this.
4191 o Major bugfixes (circuit prediction):
4192 - Fix circuit prediction logic so that a client doesn't treat a port
4193 as being "handled" by a circuit if that circuit already has
4194 isolation settings on it. This change should make Tor clients more
4195 responsive by improving their chances of having a pre-created
4196 circuit ready for use when a request arrives. Fixes bug 18859;
4197 bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
4199 o Minor features (logging):
4200 - Provide better warnings when the getrandom() syscall fails. Closes
4203 o Minor features (portability):
4204 - Tor now compiles correctly on arm64 with libseccomp-dev installed.
4205 (It doesn't yet work with the sandbox enabled.) Closes
4208 o Minor bugfixes (bridge clients, bootstrap):
4209 - Retry directory downloads when we get our first bridge descriptor
4210 during bootstrap or while reconnecting to the network. Keep
4211 retrying every time we get a bridge descriptor, until we have a
4212 reachable bridge. Fixes part of bug 24367; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
4213 - Stop delaying bridge descriptor fetches when we have cached bridge
4214 descriptors. Instead, only delay bridge descriptor fetches when we
4215 have at least one reachable bridge. Fixes part of bug 24367;
4216 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
4217 - Stop delaying directory fetches when we have cached bridge
4218 descriptors. Instead, only delay bridge descriptor fetches when
4219 all our bridges are definitely unreachable. Fixes part of bug
4220 24367; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
4222 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
4223 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
4224 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
4226 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
4227 - Fix several places in our codebase where a C compiler would be
4228 likely to eliminate a check, based on assuming that undefined
4229 behavior had not happened elsewhere in the code. These cases are
4230 usually a sign of redundant checking or dubious arithmetic. Found
4231 by Georg Koppen using the "STACK" tool from Wang, Zeldovich,
4232 Kaashoek, and Solar-Lezama. Fixes bug 24423; bugfix on various
4235 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
4236 - Fix a race where an onion service would launch a new intro circuit
4237 after closing an old one, but fail to register it before freeing
4238 the previously closed circuit. This bug was making the service
4239 unable to find the established intro circuit and thus not upload
4240 its descriptor, thus making a service unavailable for up to 24
4241 hours. Fixes bug 23603; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4243 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler, KIST):
4244 - Properly set the scheduler state of an unopened channel in the
4245 KIST scheduler main loop. This prevents a harmless but annoying
4246 log warning. Fixes bug 24502; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
4247 - Avoid a possible integer overflow when computing the available
4248 space on the TCP buffer of a channel. This had no security
4249 implications; but could make KIST allow too many cells on a
4250 saturated connection. Fixes bug 24590; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4251 - Downgrade to "info" a harmless warning about the monotonic time
4252 moving backwards: This can happen on platform not supporting
4253 monotonic time. Fixes bug 23696; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4256 Changes in version 0.3.2.6-alpha - 2017-12-01
4257 This version of Tor is the latest in the 0.3.2 alpha series. It
4258 includes fixes for several important security issues. All Tor users
4259 should upgrade to this release, or to one of the other releases coming
4262 o Major bugfixes (security):
4263 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
4264 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
4265 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
4266 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
4267 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
4268 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
4269 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
4270 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
4271 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
4272 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
4274 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
4275 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
4276 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
4277 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
4278 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
4279 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
4280 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
4283 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2):
4284 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
4285 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
4286 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
4287 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
4289 o Major bugfixes (security, relay):
4290 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
4291 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
4292 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
4293 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
4294 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
4295 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
4296 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
4297 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
4299 o Minor feature (relay statistics):
4300 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
4301 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
4302 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
4304 o Minor features (directory authority):
4305 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
4308 o Minor bugfixes (client):
4309 - By default, do not enable storage of client-side DNS values. These
4310 values were unused by default previously, but they should not have
4311 been cached at all. Fixes bug 24050; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
4314 Changes in version 0.3.1.9 - 2017-12-01:
4315 Tor 0.3.1.9 backports important security and stability fixes from the
4316 0.3.2 development series. All Tor users should upgrade to this
4317 release, or to another of the releases coming out today.
4319 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
4320 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
4321 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
4322 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
4323 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
4324 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
4325 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
4326 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
4327 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
4328 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
4329 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
4331 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
4332 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
4333 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
4334 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
4335 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
4336 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
4337 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
4340 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
4341 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
4342 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
4343 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
4344 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
4346 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
4347 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
4348 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
4349 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
4350 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
4351 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
4352 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
4353 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
4354 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
4356 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
4357 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
4358 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
4359 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
4360 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
4361 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
4364 o Minor features (bridge):
4365 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
4366 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
4367 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
4368 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
4371 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
4372 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
4375 o Minor features (geoip):
4376 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
4379 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
4380 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
4381 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
4382 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
4383 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
4385 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
4386 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
4387 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
4389 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
4390 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
4391 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
4392 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
4393 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
4394 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
4396 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
4397 - Rename the consensus parameter "hsdir-interval" to "hsdir_interval"
4398 so it matches dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 24262; bugfix
4401 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
4402 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
4403 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
4404 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
4405 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
4408 Changes in version 0.3.0.13 - 2017-12-01
4409 Tor 0.3.0.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
4410 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
4411 to another of the releases coming out today.
4413 Note: the Tor 0.3.0 series will no longer be supported after 26 Jan
4414 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
4415 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
4417 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
4418 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
4419 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
4420 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
4421 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
4422 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
4423 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
4424 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
4425 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
4426 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
4427 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
4429 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
4430 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
4431 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
4432 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
4433 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
4434 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
4435 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
4438 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
4439 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
4440 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
4441 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
4442 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
4444 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
4445 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
4446 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
4447 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
4448 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
4449 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
4450 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
4451 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
4452 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
4454 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
4455 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
4456 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
4457 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
4458 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
4459 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
4462 o Minor features (security, windows, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
4463 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
4464 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
4465 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
4466 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
4467 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
4469 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
4470 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
4471 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
4472 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
4473 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
4476 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
4477 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
4480 o Minor features (geoip):
4481 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
4484 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
4485 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
4486 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
4487 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
4488 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
4490 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
4491 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
4492 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
4494 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
4495 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
4496 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
4497 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
4498 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
4499 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
4501 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
4502 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
4503 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
4504 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
4505 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
4507 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
4508 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
4509 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
4512 Changes in version 0.2.9.14 - 2017-12-01
4513 Tor 0.3.0.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
4514 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
4515 to another of the releases coming out today.
4517 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
4518 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
4519 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
4520 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
4521 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
4522 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
4525 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
4526 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
4527 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
4528 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
4529 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
4530 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
4531 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
4532 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
4533 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
4534 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
4535 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
4537 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
4538 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
4539 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
4540 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
4541 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
4542 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
4543 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
4546 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
4547 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
4548 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
4549 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
4550 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
4552 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
4553 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
4554 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
4555 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
4556 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
4557 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
4559 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
4560 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
4561 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
4562 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
4563 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
4566 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
4567 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
4570 o Minor features (geoip):
4571 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
4574 o Minor features (security, windows, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
4575 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
4576 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
4577 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
4578 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
4579 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
4581 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
4582 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
4583 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
4584 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
4585 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
4587 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
4588 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
4589 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
4591 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
4592 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
4593 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
4594 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
4595 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
4596 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
4598 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
4599 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
4600 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
4601 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
4602 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
4604 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
4605 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
4606 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
4609 Changes in version 0.2.8.17 - 2017-12-01
4610 Tor 0.2.8.17 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
4611 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
4612 to another of the releases coming out today.
4614 Note: the Tor 0.2.8 series will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
4615 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade with
4616 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
4618 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
4619 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
4620 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
4621 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
4622 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
4623 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
4624 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
4625 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
4626 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
4627 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
4628 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
4629 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
4630 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
4631 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
4632 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
4635 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
4636 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
4637 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
4638 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
4639 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
4641 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
4642 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path through
4643 ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the version of
4644 our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part of bug 21534;
4645 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012
4648 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
4649 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
4650 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
4651 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
4652 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
4655 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
4656 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
4659 o Minor features (geoip):
4660 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
4663 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
4664 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
4665 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
4668 Changes in version 0.2.5.16 - 2017-12-01
4669 Tor 0.2.5.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
4670 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
4671 to another of the releases coming out today.
4673 Note: the Tor 0.2.5 series will no longer be supported after 1 May
4674 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade to
4675 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
4677 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
4678 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
4679 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
4680 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
4681 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
4682 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
4683 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
4684 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
4685 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
4686 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
4687 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
4688 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
4689 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
4690 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
4691 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
4694 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
4695 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
4696 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
4697 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
4698 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
4699 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
4701 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
4702 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
4703 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
4704 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
4705 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
4708 o Minor features (geoip):
4709 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
4713 Changes in version 0.3.2.5-alpha - 2017-11-22
4714 Tor 0.3.2.5-alpha is the fifth alpha release in the 0.3.2.x series. It
4715 fixes several stability and reliability bugs, including a fix for
4716 intermittent bootstrapping failures that some people have been seeing
4717 since the 0.3.0.x series.
4719 Please test this alpha out -- many of these fixes will soon be
4720 backported to stable Tor versions if no additional bugs are found
4723 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping):
4724 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
4725 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
4726 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
4727 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
4728 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
4729 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
4730 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
4731 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
4732 - Don't try fetching microdescriptors from relays that have failed
4733 to deliver them in the past. Fixes bug 23817; bugfix
4736 o Minor features (directory authority):
4737 - Make the "Exit" flag assignment only depend on whether the exit
4738 policy allows connections to ports 80 and 443. Previously relays
4739 would get the Exit flag if they allowed connections to one of
4740 these ports and also port 6667. Resolves ticket 23637.
4742 o Minor features (geoip):
4743 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
4746 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
4747 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
4748 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
4750 o Minor features (logging):
4751 - Downgrade a pair of log messages that could occur when an exit's
4752 resolver gave us an unusual (but not forbidden) response. Closes
4754 - Improve the message we log when re-enabling circuit build timeouts
4755 after having received a consensus. Closes ticket 20963.
4757 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
4758 - Fix a memory leak warning in one of the libevent-related
4759 configuration tests that could occur when manually specifying
4760 -fsanitize=address. Fixes bug 24279; bugfix on 0.3.0.2-alpha.
4761 Found and patched by Alex Xu.
4762 - When detecting OpenSSL on Windows from our configure script, make
4763 sure to try linking with the ws2_32 library. Fixes bug 23783;
4764 bugfix on 0.3.2.2-alpha.
4766 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
4767 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
4768 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
4771 o Minor bugfixes (control port, onion services):
4772 - Report "FAILED" instead of "UPLOAD_FAILED" "FAILED" for the
4773 HS_DESC event when a service is not able to upload a descriptor.
4774 Fixes bug 24230; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
4776 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache):
4777 - Recover better from empty or corrupt files in the consensus cache
4778 directory. Fixes bug 24099; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4779 - When a consensus diff calculation is only partially successful,
4780 only record the successful parts as having succeeded. Partial
4781 success can happen if (for example) one compression method fails
4782 but the others succeed. Previously we misrecorded all the
4783 calculations as having succeeded, which would later cause a
4784 nonfatal assertion failure. Fixes bug 24086; bugfix
4787 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
4788 - Only log once if we notice that KIST support is gone. Fixes bug
4789 24158; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4790 - Suppress a log notice when relay descriptors arrive. We already
4791 have a bootstrap progress for this so no need to log notice
4792 everytime tor receives relay descriptors. Microdescriptors behave
4793 the same. Fixes bug 23861; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
4795 o Minor bugfixes (network layer):
4796 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
4797 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
4798 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
4799 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
4800 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
4802 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
4803 - The introduction circuit was being timed out too quickly while
4804 waiting for the rendezvous circuit to complete. Keep the intro
4805 circuit around longer instead of timing out and reopening new ones
4806 constantly. Fixes bug 23681; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
4807 - Rename the consensus parameter "hsdir-interval" to "hsdir_interval"
4808 so it matches dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 24262; bugfix
4810 - Silence a warning about failed v3 onion descriptor uploads that
4811 can happen naturally under certain edge cases. Fixes part of bug
4812 23662; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4814 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
4815 - Fix a memory leak in one of the bridge-distribution test cases.
4816 Fixes bug 24345; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
4817 - Fix a bug in our fuzzing mock replacement for crypto_pk_checksig(),
4818 to correctly handle cases where a caller gives it an RSA key of
4819 under 160 bits. (This is not actually a bug in Tor itself, but
4820 rather in our fuzzing code.) Fixes bug 24247; bugfix on
4821 0.3.0.3-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz as issue 4177.
4824 - Add notes in man page regarding OS support for the various
4825 scheduler types. Attempt to use less jargon in the scheduler
4826 section. Closes ticket 24254.
4829 Changes in version 0.3.2.4-alpha - 2017-11-08
4830 Tor 0.3.2.4-alpha is the fourth alpha release in the 0.3.2.x series.
4831 It fixes several stability and reliability bugs, especially including
4832 a major reliability issue that has been plaguing fast exit relays in
4835 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS):
4836 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
4837 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
4838 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
4839 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
4840 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
4843 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, channel):
4844 - Stop processing scheduled channels if they closed while flushing
4845 cells. This can happen if the write on the connection fails
4846 leading to the channel being closed while in the scheduler loop.
4847 Fixes bug 23751; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4849 o Minor features (logging, scheduler):
4850 - Introduce a SCHED_BUG() function to log extra information about
4851 the scheduler state if we ever catch a bug in the scheduler.
4852 Closes ticket 23753.
4854 o Minor features (removed deprecations):
4855 - The ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses flag can once again be set in
4856 non-testing Tor networks, so long as they do not use the default
4857 directory authorities. This change also removes the deprecation of
4858 this flag from 0.2.9.2-alpha. Closes ticket 21031.
4860 o Minor features (testing):
4861 - Our fuzzing tests now test the encrypted portions of v3 onion
4862 service descriptors. Implements more of 21509.
4864 o Minor bugfixes (directory client):
4865 - On failure to download directory information, delay retry attempts
4866 by a random amount based on the "decorrelated jitter" algorithm.
4867 Our previous delay algorithm tended to produce extra-long delays
4868 too easily. Fixes bug 23816; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
4870 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, v3 single onion services):
4871 - Remove buggy code for IPv6-only v3 single onion services, and
4872 reject attempts to configure them. This release supports IPv4,
4873 dual-stack, and IPv6-only v3 onion services; and IPv4 and dual-
4874 stack v3 single onion services. Fixes bug 23820; bugfix
4877 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
4878 - Give only a protocol warning when the ed25519 key is not
4879 consistent between the descriptor and microdescriptor of a relay.
4880 This can happen, for instance, if the relay has been flagged
4881 NoEdConsensus. Fixes bug 24025; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4883 o Minor bugfixes (manpage, onion service):
4884 - Document that the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option is
4885 0-10 for v2 services and 0-20 for v3 services. Fixes bug 24115;
4886 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4888 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
4889 - Fix a minor memory leak at exit in the KIST scheduler. This bug
4890 should have no user-visible impact. Fixes bug 23774; bugfix
4892 - Fix a memory leak when decrypting a badly formatted v3 onion
4893 service descriptor. Fixes bug 24150; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4894 Found by OSS-Fuzz; this is OSS-Fuzz issue 3994.
4896 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
4897 - Cache some needed onion service client information instead of
4898 constantly computing it over and over again. Fixes bug 23623;
4899 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4900 - Properly retry HSv3 descriptor fetches when missing required
4901 directory information. Fixes bug 23762; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4903 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
4904 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
4905 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
4906 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
4907 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
4908 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
4909 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
4910 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
4911 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
4912 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
4913 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
4914 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
4916 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash):
4917 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
4918 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
4919 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
4920 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
4922 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
4923 - Fix a spurious fuzzing-only use of an uninitialized value. Found
4924 by Brian Carpenter. Fixes bug 24082; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
4925 - Test that IPv6-only clients can use microdescriptors when running
4926 "make test-network-all". Requires chutney master 61c28b9 or later.
4927 Closes ticket 24109.
4930 Changes in version 0.3.2.3-alpha - 2017-10-27
4931 Tor 0.3.2.3-alpha is the third release in the 0.3.2 series. It fixes
4932 numerous small bugs in earlier versions of 0.3.2.x, and adds a new
4933 directory authority, Bastet.
4935 o Directory authority changes:
4936 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
4937 Closes ticket 23910.
4938 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
4939 Closes ticket 23592.
4941 o Minor features (bridge):
4942 - Bridge relays can now set the BridgeDistribution config option to
4943 add a "bridge-distribution-request" line to their bridge
4944 descriptor, which tells BridgeDB how they'd like their bridge
4945 address to be given out. (Note that as of Oct 2017, BridgeDB does
4946 not yet implement this feature.) As a side benefit, this feature
4947 provides a way to distinguish bridge descriptors from non-bridge
4948 descriptors. Implements tickets 18329.
4950 o Minor features (client, entry guards):
4951 - Improve log messages when missing descriptors for primary guards.
4952 Resolves ticket 23670.
4954 o Minor features (geoip):
4955 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
4958 o Minor bugfixes (bridge):
4959 - Overwrite the bridge address earlier in the process of retrieving
4960 its descriptor, to make sure we reach it on the configured
4961 address. Fixes bug 20532; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
4963 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
4964 - Document better how to read gcov, and what our gcov postprocessing
4965 scripts do. Fixes bug 23739; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
4967 o Minor bugfixes (entry guards):
4968 - Tor now updates its guard state when it reads a consensus
4969 regardless of whether it's missing descriptors. That makes tor use
4970 its primary guards to fetch descriptors in some edge cases where
4971 it would previously have used fallback directories. Fixes bug
4972 23862; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
4974 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service client):
4975 - When handling multiple SOCKS request for the same .onion address,
4976 only fetch the service descriptor once.
4977 - When a descriptor fetch fails with a non-recoverable error, close
4978 all pending SOCKS requests for that .onion. Fixes bug 23653;
4979 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4981 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
4982 - Always regenerate missing hidden service public key files. Prior
4983 to this, if the public key was deleted from disk, it wouldn't get
4984 recreated. Fixes bug 23748; bugfix on 0.3.2.2-alpha. Patch
4986 - Make sure that we have a usable ed25519 key when the intro point
4987 relay supports ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 24002;
4988 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4990 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, v2):
4991 - When reloading configured hidden services, copy all information
4992 from the old service object. Previously, some data was omitted,
4993 causing delays in descriptor upload, and other bugs. Fixes bug
4994 23790; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
4996 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, defensive programming):
4997 - Clear the target address when node_get_prim_orport() returns
4998 early. Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
5000 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
5001 - Avoid a BUG warning when receiving a dubious CREATE cell while an
5002 option transition is in progress. Fixes bug 23952; bugfix
5005 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
5006 - Adjust the GitLab CI configuration to more closely match that of
5007 Travis CI. Fixes bug 23757; bugfix on 0.3.2.2-alpha.
5008 - Prevent scripts/test/coverage from attempting to move gcov output
5009 to the root directory. Fixes bug 23741; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
5010 - When running unit tests as root, skip a test that would fail
5011 because it expects a permissions error. This affects some
5012 continuous integration setups. Fixes bug 23758; bugfix
5014 - Stop unconditionally mirroring the tor repository in GitLab CI.
5015 This prevented developers from enabling GitLab CI on master. Fixes
5016 bug 23755; bugfix on 0.3.2.2-alpha.
5017 - Fix the hidden service v3 descriptor decoding fuzzing to use the
5018 latest decoding API correctly. Fixes bug 21509; bugfix
5021 o Minor bugfixes (warnings):
5022 - When we get an HTTP request on a SOCKS port, tell the user about
5023 the new HTTPTunnelPort option. Previously, we would give a "Tor is
5024 not an HTTP Proxy" message, which stopped being true when
5025 HTTPTunnelPort was introduced. Fixes bug 23678; bugfix
5029 Changes in version 0.2.5.15 - 2017-10-25
5030 Tor 0.2.5.15 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
5031 series. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
5033 Note: the Tor 0.2.5 series will no longer be supported after 1 May
5034 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade to
5035 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
5037 o Directory authority changes:
5038 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
5039 Closes ticket 23910.
5040 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
5041 Closes ticket 23592.
5043 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
5044 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
5045 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
5046 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
5047 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
5049 o Minor features (geoip):
5050 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
5053 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
5054 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
5055 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
5056 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
5057 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
5058 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
5059 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
5060 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
5061 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
5063 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
5064 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
5065 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
5066 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
5067 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
5068 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
5069 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
5070 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
5071 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
5074 Changes in version 0.2.8.16 - 2017-10-25
5075 Tor 0.2.8.16 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
5076 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
5077 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
5079 Note: the Tor 0.2.8 series will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
5080 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
5081 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
5083 o Directory authority changes:
5084 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
5085 Closes ticket 23910.
5086 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
5087 Closes ticket 23592.
5089 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
5090 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
5091 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
5092 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
5094 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
5095 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
5096 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
5097 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
5098 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
5100 o Minor features (geoip):
5101 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
5105 Changes in version 0.2.9.13 - 2017-10-25
5106 Tor 0.2.9.13 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
5107 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
5108 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
5110 o Directory authority changes:
5111 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
5112 Closes ticket 23910.
5113 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
5114 Closes ticket 23592.
5116 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
5117 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
5118 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
5119 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
5121 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
5122 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
5123 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
5124 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
5125 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
5127 o Minor features (geoip):
5128 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
5131 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
5132 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
5133 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
5134 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
5135 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
5136 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
5137 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
5138 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
5141 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
5142 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
5143 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
5145 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
5146 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
5147 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
5148 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
5149 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
5150 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
5151 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
5154 Changes in version 0.3.0.12 - 2017-10-25
5155 Tor 0.3.0.12 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
5156 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
5157 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
5159 Note: the Tor 0.3.0 series will no longer be supported after 26 Jan
5160 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
5161 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
5163 o Directory authority changes:
5164 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
5165 Closes ticket 23910.
5166 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
5167 Closes ticket 23592.
5169 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
5170 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
5171 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
5172 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
5174 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
5175 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
5176 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
5177 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
5178 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
5180 o Minor features (geoip):
5181 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
5184 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
5185 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
5186 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
5187 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
5188 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
5189 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
5190 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
5191 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
5194 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
5195 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
5196 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
5197 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5199 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
5200 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
5201 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
5203 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
5204 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
5205 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
5206 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
5207 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
5208 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
5209 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
5212 Changes in version 0.3.1.8 - 2017-10-25
5213 Tor 0.3.1.8 is the second stable release in the 0.3.1 series.
5214 It includes several bugfixes, including a bugfix for a crash issue
5215 that had affected relays under memory pressure. It also adds
5216 a new directory authority, Bastet.
5218 o Directory authority changes:
5219 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
5220 Closes ticket 23910.
5221 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
5222 Closes ticket 23592.
5224 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
5225 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
5226 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
5227 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
5229 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
5230 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
5231 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
5232 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
5233 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
5235 o Minor features (geoip):
5236 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
5239 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
5240 - Fix a compilation warning when building with zstd support on
5241 32-bit platforms. Fixes bug 23568; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
5242 and fixed by Andreas Stieger.
5244 o Minor bugfixes (compression, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
5245 - Handle a pathological case when decompressing Zstandard data when
5246 the output buffer size is zero. Fixes bug 23551; bugfix
5249 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
5250 - Remove the length limit on HTTP status lines that authorities can
5251 send in their replies. Fixes bug 23499; bugfix on 0.3.1.6-rc.
5253 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
5254 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
5255 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
5256 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5258 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
5259 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
5260 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
5262 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
5263 - Fix additional channelpadding unit test failures by using mocked
5264 time instead of actual time for all tests. Fixes bug 23608; bugfix
5268 Changes in version 0.3.2.2-alpha - 2017-09-29
5269 Tor 0.3.2.2-alpha is the second release in the 0.3.2 series. This
5270 release fixes several minor bugs in the new scheduler and next-
5271 generation onion services; both features were newly added in the 0.3.2
5272 series. Other fixes in this alpha include several fixes for non-fatal
5273 tracebacks which would appear in logs.
5275 With the aim to stabilise the 0.3.2 series by 15 December 2017, this
5276 alpha does not contain any substantial new features. Minor features
5277 include better testing and logging.
5279 The following comprises the complete list of changes included
5282 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure):
5283 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
5284 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
5285 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
5287 o Major bugfixes (scheduler):
5288 - If a channel is put into the scheduler's pending list, then it
5289 starts closing, and then if the scheduler runs before it finishes
5290 closing, the scheduler will get stuck trying to flush its cells
5291 while the lower layers refuse to cooperate. Fix that race
5292 condition by giving the scheduler an escape method. Fixes bug
5293 23676; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5295 o Minor features (build, compilation):
5296 - The "check-changes" feature is now part of the "make check" tests;
5297 we'll use it to try to prevent misformed changes files from
5298 accumulating. Closes ticket 23564.
5299 - Tor builds should now fail if there are any mismatches between the
5300 C type representing a configuration variable and the C type the
5301 data-driven parser uses to store a value there. Previously, we
5302 needed to check these by hand, which sometimes led to mistakes.
5303 Closes ticket 23643.
5305 o Minor features (directory authorities):
5306 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
5307 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
5308 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
5309 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
5311 o Minor features (hidden service, circuit, logging):
5312 - Improve logging of many callsite in the circuit subsystem to print
5313 the circuit identifier(s).
5314 - Log when we cleanup an intro point from a service so we know when
5315 and for what reason it happened. Closes ticket 23604.
5317 o Minor features (logging):
5318 - Log more circuit information whenever we are about to try to
5319 package a relay cell on a circuit with a nonexistent n_chan.
5320 Attempt to diagnose ticket 8185.
5321 - Improve info-level log identification of particular circuits, to
5322 help with debugging. Closes ticket 23645.
5324 o Minor features (relay):
5325 - When choosing which circuits can be expired as unused, consider
5326 circuits from clients even if those clients used regular CREATE
5327 cells to make them; and do not consider circuits from relays even
5328 if they were made with CREATE_FAST. Part of ticket 22805.
5330 o Minor features (robustness):
5331 - Change several fatal assertions when flushing buffers into non-
5332 fatal assertions, to prevent any recurrence of 23690.
5334 o Minor features (spec conformance, bridge, diagnostic):
5335 - When handling the USERADDR command on an ExtOrPort, warn when the
5336 transports provides a USERADDR with no port. In a future version,
5337 USERADDR commands of this format may be rejected. Detects problems
5338 related to ticket 23080.
5340 o Minor features (testing):
5341 - Add a unit test to make sure that our own generated platform
5342 string will be accepted by directory authorities. Closes
5345 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrapping):
5346 - When warning about state file clock skew, report the correct
5347 direction for the detected skew. Fixes bug 23606; bugfix
5349 - Avoid an assertion failure when logging a state file clock skew
5350 very early in bootstrapping. Fixes bug 23607; bugfix
5353 o Minor bugfixes (build, compilation):
5354 - Fix a compilation warning when building with zstd support on
5355 32-bit platforms. Fixes bug 23568; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
5356 and fixed by Andreas Stieger.
5357 - When searching for OpenSSL, don't accept any OpenSSL library that
5358 lacks TLSv1_1_method(): Tor doesn't build with those versions.
5359 Additionally, look in /usr/local/opt/openssl, if it's present.
5360 These changes together repair the default build on OSX systems
5361 with Homebrew installed. Fixes bug 23602; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
5363 o Minor bugfixes (compression):
5364 - Handle a pathological case when decompressing Zstandard data when
5365 the output buffer size is zero. Fixes bug 23551; bugfix
5368 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
5369 - Fix manpage to not refer to the obsolete (and misspelled)
5370 UseEntryGuardsAsDirectoryGuards parameter in the description of
5371 NumDirectoryGuards. Fixes bug 23611; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
5373 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service v3):
5374 - Don't log an assertion failure when we can't find the right
5375 information to extend to an introduction point. In rare cases,
5376 this could happen, causing a warning, even though tor would
5377 recover gracefully. Fixes bug 23159; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5378 - Pad RENDEZVOUS cell up to the size of the legacy cell which is
5379 much bigger so the rendezvous point can't distinguish which hidden
5380 service protocol is being used. Fixes bug 23420; bugfix
5383 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay):
5384 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
5385 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
5386 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5388 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance):
5389 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
5390 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
5391 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
5392 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
5393 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
5395 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler):
5396 - When switching schedulers due to a consensus change, we didn't
5397 give the new scheduler a chance to react to the consensus. Fix
5398 that. Fixes bug 23537; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5399 - Make the KISTSchedRunInterval option a non negative value. With
5400 this, the way to disable KIST through the consensus is to set it
5401 to 0. Fixes bug 23539; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5402 - Only notice log the selected scheduler when we switch scheduler
5403 types. Fixes bug 23552; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5404 - Avoid a compilation warning on macOS in scheduler_ev_add() caused
5405 by a different tv_usec data type. Fixes bug 23575; bugfix
5407 - Make a hard exit if tor is unable to pick a scheduler which can
5408 happen if the user specifies a scheduler type that is not
5409 supported and not other types in Schedulers. Fixes bug 23581;
5410 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5411 - Properly initialize the scheduler last run time counter so it is
5412 not 0 at the first tick. Fixes bug 23696; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5414 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
5415 - Capture and detect several "Result does not fit" warnings in unit
5416 tests on platforms with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 21800; bugfix
5418 - Fix additional channelpadding unit test failures by using mocked
5419 time instead of actual time for all tests. Fixes bug 23608; bugfix
5421 - The removal of some old scheduler options caused some tests to
5422 fail on BSD systems. Assume current behavior is correct and make
5423 the tests pass again. Fixes bug 23566; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5425 o Code simplification and refactoring:
5426 - Remove various ways of testing circuits and connections for
5427 "clientness"; instead, favor channel_is_client(). Part of
5430 o Deprecated features:
5431 - The ReachableDirAddresses and ClientPreferIPv6DirPort options are
5432 now deprecated; they do not apply to relays, and they have had no
5433 effect on clients since 0.2.8.x. Closes ticket 19704.
5436 - HiddenServiceVersion man page entry wasn't mentioning the now
5437 supported version 3. Fixes ticket 23580; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5438 - Clarify that the Address option is entirely about setting an
5439 advertised IPv4 address. Closes ticket 18891.
5440 - Clarify the manpage's use of the term "address" to clarify what
5441 kind of address is intended. Closes ticket 21405.
5442 - Document that onion service subdomains are allowed, and ignored.
5443 Closes ticket 18736.
5446 Changes in version 0.3.2.1-alpha - 2017-09-18
5447 Tor 0.3.2.1-alpha is the first release in the 0.3.2.x series. It
5448 includes support for our next-generation ("v3") onion service
5449 protocol, and adds a new circuit scheduler for more responsive
5450 forwarding decisions from relays. There are also numerous other small
5451 features and bugfixes here.
5453 Below are the changes since Tor 0.3.1.7.
5455 o Major feature (scheduler, channel):
5456 - Tor now uses new schedulers to decide which circuits should
5457 deliver cells first, in order to improve congestion at relays. The
5458 first type is called "KIST" ("Kernel Informed Socket Transport"),
5459 and is only available on Linux-like systems: it uses feedback from
5460 the kernel to prevent the kernel's TCP buffers from growing too
5461 full. The second new scheduler type is called "KISTLite": it
5462 behaves the same as KIST, but runs on systems without kernel
5463 support for inspecting TCP implementation details. The old
5464 scheduler is still available, under the name "Vanilla". To change
5465 the default scheduler preference order, use the new "Schedulers"
5466 option. (The default preference order is "KIST,KISTLite,Vanilla".)
5468 Matt Traudt implemented KIST, based on research by Rob Jansen,
5469 John Geddes, Christ Wacek, Micah Sherr, and Paul Syverson. For
5470 more information, see the design paper at
5471 http://www.robgjansen.com/publications/kist-sec2014.pdf and the
5472 followup implementation paper at https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.01044.
5473 Closes ticket 12541.
5475 o Major features (next-generation onion services):
5476 - Tor now supports the next-generation onion services protocol for
5477 clients and services! As part of this release, the core of
5478 proposal 224 has been implemented and is available for
5479 experimentation and testing by our users. This newer version of
5480 onion services ("v3") features many improvements over the legacy
5483 a) Better crypto (replaced SHA1/DH/RSA1024
5484 with SHA3/ed25519/curve25519)
5486 b) Improved directory protocol, leaking much less information to
5489 c) Improved directory protocol, with smaller surface for
5492 d) Better onion address security against impersonation.
5494 e) More extensible introduction/rendezvous protocol.
5496 f) A cleaner and more modular codebase.
5498 You can identify a next-generation onion address by its length:
5499 they are 56 characters long, as in
5500 "4acth47i6kxnvkewtm6q7ib2s3ufpo5sqbsnzjpbi7utijcltosqemad.onion".
5502 In the future, we will release more options and features for v3
5503 onion services, but we first need a testing period, so that the
5504 current codebase matures and becomes more robust. Planned features
5505 include: offline keys, advanced client authorization, improved
5506 guard algorithms, and statistics. For full details, see
5509 Legacy ("v2") onion services will still work for the foreseeable
5510 future, and will remain the default until this new codebase gets
5511 tested and hardened. Service operators who want to experiment with
5512 the new system can use the 'HiddenServiceVersion 3' torrc
5513 directive along with the regular onion service configuration
5514 options. We will publish a blog post about this new feature
5517 o Major bugfixes (usability, control port):
5518 - Report trusted clock skew indications as bootstrap errors, so
5519 controllers can more easily alert users when their clocks are
5520 wrong. Fixes bug 23506; bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha.
5522 o Minor features (bug detection):
5523 - Log a warning message with a stack trace for any attempt to call
5524 get_options() during option validation. This pattern has caused
5525 subtle bugs in the past. Closes ticket 22281.
5527 o Minor features (client):
5528 - You can now use Tor as a tunneled HTTP proxy: use the new
5529 HTTPTunnelPort option to open a port that accepts HTTP CONNECT
5530 requests. Closes ticket 22407.
5531 - Add an extra check to make sure that we always use the newer guard
5532 selection code for picking our guards. Closes ticket 22779.
5533 - When downloading (micro)descriptors, don't split the list into
5534 multiple requests unless we want at least 32 descriptors.
5535 Previously, we split at 4, not 32, which led to significant
5536 overhead in HTTP request size and degradation in compression
5537 performance. Closes ticket 23220.
5539 o Minor features (command line):
5540 - Add a new commandline option, --key-expiration, which prints when
5541 the current signing key is going to expire. Implements ticket
5542 17639; patch by Isis Lovecruft.
5544 o Minor features (control port):
5545 - If an application tries to use the control port as an HTTP proxy,
5546 respond with a meaningful "This is the Tor control port" message,
5547 and log the event. Closes ticket 1667. Patch from Ravi
5549 - Provide better error message for GETINFO desc/(id|name) when not
5550 fetching router descriptors. Closes ticket 5847. Patch by
5552 - Add GETINFO "{desc,md}/download-enabled", to inform the controller
5553 whether Tor will try to download router descriptors and
5554 microdescriptors respectively. Closes ticket 22684.
5555 - Added new GETINFO targets "ip-to-country/{ipv4,ipv6}-available",
5556 so controllers can tell whether the geoip databases are loaded.
5557 Closes ticket 23237.
5558 - Adds a timestamp field to the CIRC_BW and STREAM_BW bandwidth
5559 events. Closes ticket 19254. Patch by "DonnchaC".
5561 o Minor features (development support):
5562 - Developers can now generate a call-graph for Tor using the
5563 "calltool" python program, which post-processes object dumps. It
5564 should work okay on many Linux and OSX platforms, and might work
5565 elsewhere too. To run it, install calltool from
5566 https://gitweb.torproject.org/user/nickm/calltool.git and run
5567 "make callgraph". Closes ticket 19307.
5569 o Minor features (ed25519):
5570 - Add validation function to checks for torsion components in
5571 ed25519 public keys, used by prop224 client-side code. Closes
5572 ticket 22006. Math help by Ian Goldberg.
5574 o Minor features (exit relay, DNS):
5575 - Improve the clarity and safety of the log message from evdns when
5576 receiving an apparently spoofed DNS reply. Closes ticket 3056.
5578 o Minor features (integration, hardening):
5579 - Add a new NoExec option to prevent Tor from running other
5580 programs. When this option is set to 1, Tor will never try to run
5581 another program, regardless of the settings of
5582 PortForwardingHelper, ClientTransportPlugin, or
5583 ServerTransportPlugin. Once NoExec is set, it cannot be disabled
5584 without restarting Tor. Closes ticket 22976.
5586 o Minor features (logging):
5587 - Improve the warning message for specifying a relay by nickname.
5588 The previous message implied that nickname registration was still
5589 part of the Tor network design, which it isn't. Closes
5591 - If the sandbox filter fails to load, suggest to the user that
5592 their kernel might not support seccomp2. Closes ticket 23090.
5594 o Minor features (portability):
5595 - Check at configure time whether uint8_t is the same type as
5596 unsigned char. Lots of existing code already makes this
5597 assumption, and there could be strict aliasing issues if the
5598 assumption is violated. Closes ticket 22410.
5600 o Minor features (relay, configuration):
5601 - Reject attempts to use relative file paths when RunAsDaemon is
5602 set. Previously, Tor would accept these, but the directory-
5603 changing step of RunAsDaemon would give strange and/or confusing
5604 results. Closes ticket 22731.
5606 o Minor features (startup, safety):
5607 - When configured to write a PID file, Tor now exits if it is unable
5608 to do so. Previously, it would warn and continue. Closes
5611 o Minor features (static analysis):
5612 - The BUG() macro has been changed slightly so that Coverity no
5613 longer complains about dead code if the bug is impossible. Closes
5616 o Minor features (testing):
5617 - The default chutney network tests now include tests for the v3
5618 hidden service design. Make sure you have the latest version of
5619 chutney if you want to run these. Closes ticket 22437.
5620 - Add a unit test to verify that we can parse a hardcoded v2 hidden
5621 service descriptor. Closes ticket 15554.
5623 o Minor bugfixes (certificate handling):
5624 - Fix a time handling bug in Tor certificates set to expire after
5625 the year 2106. Fixes bug 23055; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Found by
5626 Coverity as CID 1415728.
5628 o Minor bugfixes (client, usability):
5629 - Refrain from needlessly rejecting SOCKS5-with-hostnames and
5630 SOCKS4a requests that contain IP address strings, even when
5631 SafeSocks in enabled, as this prevents user from connecting to
5632 known IP addresses without relying on DNS for resolving. SafeSocks
5633 still rejects SOCKS connections that connect to IP addresses when
5634 those addresses are _not_ encoded as hostnames. Fixes bug 22461;
5635 bugfix on Tor 0.2.6.2-alpha.
5637 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
5638 - Call htons() in extend_cell_format() for encoding a 16-bit value.
5639 Previously we used ntohs(), which happens to behave the same on
5640 all the platforms we support, but which isn't really correct.
5641 Fixes bug 23106; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
5642 - For defense-in-depth, make the controller's write_escaped_data()
5643 function robust to extremely long inputs. Fixes bug 19281; bugfix
5644 on 0.1.1.1-alpha. Reported by Guido Vranken.
5646 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
5647 - Fix unused-variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
5648 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
5650 o Minor bugfixes (consensus expiry):
5651 - Check for adequate directory information correctly. Previously, Tor
5652 would reconsider whether it had sufficient directory information
5653 every 2 minutes. Fixes bug 23091; bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha.
5655 o Minor bugfixes (directory protocol):
5656 - Directory servers now include a "Date:" http header for response
5657 codes other than 200. Clients starting with a skewed clock and a
5658 recent consensus were getting "304 Not modified" responses from
5659 directory authorities, so without the Date header, the client
5660 would never hear about a wrong clock. Fixes bug 23499; bugfix
5662 - Make clients wait for 6 seconds before trying to download a
5663 consensus from an authority. Fixes bug 17750; bugfix
5666 o Minor bugfixes (DoS-resistance):
5667 - If future code asks if there are any running bridges, without
5668 checking if bridges are enabled, log a BUG warning rather than
5669 crashing. Fixes bug 23524; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5671 o Minor bugfixes (format strictness):
5672 - Restrict several data formats to decimal. Previously, the
5673 BuildTimeHistogram entries in the state file, the "bw=" entries in
5674 the bandwidth authority file, and the process IDs passed to the
5675 __OwningControllerProcess option could all be specified in hex or
5676 octal as well as in decimal. This was not an intentional feature.
5677 Fixes bug 22802; bugfixes on 0.2.2.1-alpha, 0.2.2.2-alpha,
5680 o Minor bugfixes (heartbeat):
5681 - If we fail to write a heartbeat message, schedule a retry for the
5682 minimum heartbeat interval number of seconds in the future. Fixes
5683 bug 19476; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
5685 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, logging):
5686 - Fix some messages on unexpected errors from the seccomp2 library.
5687 Fixes bug 22750; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
5689 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
5690 - Remove duplicate log messages regarding opening non-local
5691 SocksPorts upon parsing config and opening listeners at startup.
5692 Fixes bug 4019; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
5693 - Use a more comprehensible log message when telling the user
5694 they've excluded every running exit node. Fixes bug 7890; bugfix
5696 - When logging the number of descriptors we intend to download per
5697 directory request, do not log a number higher than then the number
5698 of descriptors we're fetching in total. Fixes bug 19648; bugfix
5700 - When warning about a directory owned by the wrong user, log the
5701 actual name of the user owning the directory. Previously, we'd log
5702 the name of the process owner twice. Fixes bug 23487; bugfix
5704 - The tor specification says hop counts are 1-based, so fix two log
5705 messages that mistakenly logged 0-based hop counts. Fixes bug
5706 18982; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha and 0.2.4.5-alpha. Patch by teor.
5707 Credit to Xiaofan Li for reporting this issue.
5709 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
5710 - Stop using the PATH_MAX variable, which is not defined on GNU
5711 Hurd. Fixes bug 23098; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5713 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
5714 - When uploading our descriptor for the first time after startup,
5715 report the reason for uploading as "Tor just started" rather than
5716 leaving it blank. Fixes bug 22885; bugfix on 0.2.3.4-alpha.
5717 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
5718 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
5719 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
5720 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
5722 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
5723 - Fix a broken unit test for the OutboundAddress option: the parsing
5724 function was never returning an error on failure. Fixes bug 23366;
5725 bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
5726 - Fix a signed-integer overflow in the unit tests for
5727 dir/download_status_random_backoff, which was untriggered until we
5728 fixed bug 17750. Fixes bug 22924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
5730 o Minor bugfixes (usability, control port):
5731 - Stop making an unnecessary routerlist check in NETINFO clock skew
5732 detection; this was preventing clients from reporting NETINFO clock
5733 skew to controllers. Fixes bug 23532; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
5735 o Code simplification and refactoring:
5736 - Extract the code for handling newly-open channels into a separate
5737 function from the general code to handle channel state
5738 transitions. This change simplifies our callgraph, reducing the
5739 size of the largest strongly connected component by roughly a
5740 factor of two. Closes ticket 22608.
5741 - Remove dead code for largely unused statistics on the number of
5742 times we've attempted various public key operations. Fixes bug
5743 19871; bugfix on 0.1.2.4-alpha. Fix by Isis Lovecruft.
5744 - Remove several now-obsolete functions for asking about old
5745 variants directory authority status. Closes ticket 22311; patch
5747 - Remove some of the code that once supported "Named" and "Unnamed"
5748 routers. Authorities no longer vote for these flags. Closes
5750 - Rename the obsolete malleable hybrid_encrypt functions used in TAP
5751 and old hidden services, to indicate that they aren't suitable for
5752 new protocols or formats. Closes ticket 23026.
5753 - Replace our STRUCT_OFFSET() macro with offsetof(). Closes ticket
5754 22521. Patch from Neel Chauhan.
5755 - Split the enormous circuit_send_next_onion_skin() function into
5756 multiple subfunctions. Closes ticket 22804.
5757 - Split the portions of the buffer.c module that handle particular
5758 protocols into separate modules. Part of ticket 23149.
5759 - Use our test macros more consistently, to produce more useful
5760 error messages when our unit tests fail. Add coccinelle patches to
5761 allow us to re-check for test macro uses. Closes ticket 22497.
5763 o Deprecated features:
5764 - Deprecate HTTPProxy/HTTPProxyAuthenticator config options. They
5765 only applies to direct unencrypted HTTP connections to your
5766 directory server, which your Tor probably isn't using. Closes
5770 - Clarify in the manual that "Sandbox 1" is only supported on Linux
5771 kernels. Closes ticket 22677.
5772 - Document all values of PublishServerDescriptor in the manpage.
5773 Closes ticket 15645.
5774 - Improve the documentation for the directory port part of the
5775 DirAuthority line. Closes ticket 20152.
5776 - Restore documentation for the authorities' "approved-routers"
5777 file. Closes ticket 21148.
5780 - The AllowDotExit option has been removed as unsafe. It has been
5781 deprecated since 0.2.9.2-alpha. Closes ticket 23426.
5782 - The ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses flag can no longer be set on
5783 non-testing networks. It has been deprecated since 0.2.9.2-alpha.
5784 Closes ticket 21031.
5785 - The controller API no longer includes an AUTHDIR_NEWDESCS event:
5786 nobody was using it any longer. Closes ticket 22377.
5789 Changes in version 0.2.8.15 - 2017-09-18
5790 Tor 0.2.8.15 backports a collection of bugfixes from later
5793 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
5794 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
5795 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
5796 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
5798 Note that Tor 0.2.8.x will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
5799 2018. We suggest that you upgrade to the latest stable release if
5800 possible. If you can't, we recommend that you upgrade at least to
5801 0.2.9, which will be supported until 2020.
5803 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
5804 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
5805 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
5806 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
5807 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
5810 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
5813 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
5814 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
5815 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
5818 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
5819 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
5820 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
5821 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
5822 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
5823 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
5824 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
5825 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
5826 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
5828 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
5829 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
5830 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
5831 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
5832 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
5833 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
5834 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
5835 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
5836 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
5839 Changes in version 0.2.9.12 - 2017-09-18
5840 Tor 0.2.9.12 backports a collection of bugfixes from later
5843 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
5844 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
5845 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
5846 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
5848 o Major features (security, backport from 0.3.0.2-alpha):
5849 - Change the algorithm used to decide DNS TTLs on client and server
5850 side, to better resist DNS-based correlation attacks like the
5851 DefecTor attack of Greschbach, Pulls, Roberts, Winter, and
5852 Feamster. Now relays only return one of two possible DNS TTL
5853 values, and clients are willing to believe DNS TTL values up to 3
5854 hours long. Closes ticket 19769.
5856 o Major bugfixes (crash, directory connections, backport from 0.3.0.5-rc):
5857 - Fix a rare crash when sending a begin cell on a circuit whose
5858 linked directory connection had already been closed. Fixes bug
5859 21576; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
5861 o Major bugfixes (DNS, backport from 0.3.0.2-alpha):
5862 - Fix a bug that prevented exit nodes from caching DNS records for
5863 more than 60 seconds. Fixes bug 19025; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
5865 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
5866 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
5867 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
5868 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
5870 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
5871 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
5872 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
5873 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
5874 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
5876 o Minor features (code style, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
5877 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
5878 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
5879 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
5881 o Minor features (geoip):
5882 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
5885 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
5886 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
5887 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
5888 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
5890 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
5891 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug 22915;
5892 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
5893 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt support
5894 on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
5895 - When building with certain versions the mingw C header files, avoid
5896 float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions isfinite(),
5897 isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
5899 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.7):
5900 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for running tor_sscanf()
5901 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
5903 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
5904 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
5905 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
5908 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.1.7):
5909 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
5910 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
5911 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an
5912 empty body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
5914 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
5915 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
5916 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
5917 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
5918 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
5919 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
5921 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
5922 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
5923 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
5924 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
5925 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
5926 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
5927 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
5928 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
5929 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
5931 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
5932 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
5933 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
5934 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
5936 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
5937 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
5938 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
5940 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
5941 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
5942 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
5943 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
5944 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
5946 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.0.5-rc):
5947 - Avoid a double-marked-circuit warning that could happen when we
5948 receive DESTROY cells under heavy load. Fixes bug 20059; bugfix
5951 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
5952 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
5953 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
5954 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
5955 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
5957 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
5958 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
5959 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
5960 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
5961 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
5962 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
5963 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
5964 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
5965 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
5968 Changes in version 0.3.0.11 - 2017-09-18
5969 Tor 0.3.0.11 backports a collection of bugfixes from Tor the 0.3.1
5972 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
5973 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
5974 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
5975 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
5977 o Minor features (code style, backport from 0.3.1.7):
5978 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
5979 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
5980 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
5983 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
5986 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.7):
5987 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for calling tor_sscanf()
5988 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
5990 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.1.7):
5991 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
5992 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
5993 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an empty
5994 body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
5996 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
5997 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
5998 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
5999 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
6001 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
6002 - Remove a forgotten debugging message when an introduction point
6003 successfully establishes a hidden service prop224 circuit with
6005 - Change three other log_warn() for an introduction point to
6006 protocol warnings, because they can be failure from the network
6007 and are not relevant to the operator. Fixes bug 23078; bugfix on
6008 0.3.0.1-alpha and 0.3.0.2-alpha.
6011 Changes in version 0.3.1.7 - 2017-09-18
6012 Tor 0.3.1.7 is the first stable release in the 0.3.1 series.
6014 With the 0.3.1 series, Tor now serves and downloads directory
6015 information in more compact formats, to save on bandwidth overhead. It
6016 also contains a new padding system to resist netflow-based traffic
6017 analysis, and experimental support for building parts of Tor in Rust
6018 (though no parts of Tor are in Rust yet). There are also numerous
6019 small features, bugfixes on earlier release series, and groundwork for
6020 the hidden services revamp of 0.3.2.
6022 This release also includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a security bug
6023 that affects hidden services running with the SafeLogging option
6024 disabled. For more information, see
6025 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
6027 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support each stable release
6028 series for at least the next nine months, or for three months after
6029 the first stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. If
6030 you need a release with long-term support, we recommend that you stay
6031 with the 0.2.9 series.
6033 Below is a list of the changes since 0.3.1.6-rc. For a list of all
6034 changes since 0.3.0, see the ReleaseNotes file.
6036 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden services, loggging):
6037 - Fix a bug where we could log uninitialized stack when a certain
6038 hidden service error occurred while SafeLogging was disabled.
6039 Fixes bug #23490; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This is also tracked as
6040 TROVE-2017-008 and CVE-2017-0380.
6042 o Minor features (defensive programming):
6043 - Create a pair of consensus parameters, nf_pad_tor2web and
6044 nf_pad_single_onion, to disable netflow padding in the consensus
6045 for non-anonymous connections in case the overhead is high. Closes
6048 o Minor features (diagnostic):
6049 - Add a stack trace to the bug warnings that can be logged when
6050 trying to send an outgoing relay cell with n_chan == 0. Diagnostic
6051 attempt for bug 23105.
6053 o Minor features (geoip):
6054 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
6057 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
6058 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for calling tor_sscanf()
6059 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
6061 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
6062 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
6063 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
6064 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an empty
6065 body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
6067 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
6068 - Inform the geoip and rephist modules about all requests, even on
6069 relays that are only fetching microdescriptors. Fixes a bug
6070 related to 21585; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6072 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
6073 - Fix a channelpadding unit test failure on slow systems by using
6074 mocked time instead of actual time. Fixes bug 23077; bugfix
6078 Changes in version 0.3.1.6-rc - 2017-09-05
6079 Tor 0.3.1.6-rc fixes a few small bugs and annoyances in the 0.3.1
6080 release series, including a bug that produced weird behavior on
6081 Windows directory caches.
6083 This is the first release candidate in the Tor 0.3.1 series. If we
6084 find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable 0.3.1 release
6085 will be nearly identical to it.
6087 o Major bugfixes (windows, directory cache):
6088 - On Windows, do not try to delete cached consensus documents and
6089 diffs before they are unmapped from memory--Windows won't allow
6090 that. Instead, allow the consensus cache directory to grow larger,
6091 to hold files that might need to stay around longer. Fixes bug
6092 22752; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6094 o Minor features (directory authority):
6095 - Improve the message that authorities report to relays that present
6096 RSA/Ed25519 keypairs that conflict with previously pinned keys.
6097 Closes ticket 22348.
6099 o Minor features (geoip):
6100 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 3 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
6103 o Minor features (testing):
6104 - Add more tests for compression backend initialization. Closes
6107 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache):
6108 - Fix a memory leak when recovering space in the consensus cache.
6109 Fixes bug 23139; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6111 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
6112 - Increase the number of circuits that a service is allowed to
6113 open over a specific period of time. The value was lower than it
6114 should be (8 vs 12) in the normal case of 3 introduction points.
6115 Fixes bug 22159; bugfix on 0.3.0.5-rc.
6116 - Fix a BUG warning during HSv3 descriptor decoding that could be
6117 cause by a specially crafted descriptor. Fixes bug 23233; bugfix
6118 on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Bug found by "haxxpop".
6119 - Rate-limit the log messages if we exceed the maximum number of
6120 allowed intro circuits. Fixes bug 22159; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6122 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
6123 - Remove a forgotten debugging message when an introduction point
6124 successfully establishes a hidden service prop224 circuit with
6126 - Change three other log_warn() for an introduction point to
6127 protocol warnings, because they can be failure from the network
6128 and are not relevant to the operator. Fixes bug 23078; bugfix on
6129 0.3.0.1-alpha and 0.3.0.2-alpha.
6131 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
6132 - When a relay is not running as a directory cache, it will no
6133 longer generate compressed consensuses and consensus diff
6134 information. Previously, this was a waste of disk and CPU. Fixes
6135 bug 23275; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6137 o Minor bugfixes (robustness, error handling):
6138 - Improve our handling of the cases where OpenSSL encounters a
6139 memory error while encoding keys and certificates. We haven't
6140 observed these errors in the wild, but if they do happen, we now
6141 detect and respond better. Fixes bug 19418; bugfix on all versions
6142 of Tor. Reported by Guido Vranken.
6144 o Minor bugfixes (stability):
6145 - Avoid crashing on a double-free when unable to load or process an
6146 included file. Fixes bug 23155; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
6147 with the clang static analyzer.
6149 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
6150 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
6151 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
6152 - Port the hs_ntor handshake test to work correctly with recent
6153 versions of the pysha3 module. Fixes bug 23071; bugfix
6156 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service):
6157 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
6158 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
6159 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
6160 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
6161 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
6162 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
6165 Changes in version 0.3.0.10 - 2017-08-02
6166 Tor 0.3.0.10 backports a collection of small-to-medium bugfixes
6167 from the current Tor alpha series. OpenBSD users and TPROXY users
6168 should upgrade; others are probably okay sticking with 0.3.0.9.
6170 o Major features (build system, continuous integration, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
6171 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
6172 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
6173 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
6174 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
6175 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
6176 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
6177 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
6178 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
6180 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
6181 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
6182 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
6183 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
6185 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
6186 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
6187 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
6188 handling of "0xbar" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
6189 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
6191 o Minor features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
6192 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
6195 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting, backport from 0.3.1.2-alpha):
6196 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
6197 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
6198 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
6200 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warnings, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
6201 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug 22915;
6202 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
6203 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt
6204 support on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
6205 - When building with certain versions of the mingw C header files,
6206 avoid float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions
6207 isfinite(), isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix
6210 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
6211 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
6212 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
6215 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
6216 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
6217 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
6218 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
6219 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
6220 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6222 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
6223 - When rejecting a router descriptor for running an obsolete version
6224 of Tor without ntor support, warn about the obsolete tor version,
6225 not the missing ntor key. Fixes bug 20270; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
6227 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
6228 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
6229 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
6231 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha)
6232 - Fix a memory leak in the link-handshake/certs_ok_ed25519 test.
6233 Fixes bug 22803; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6236 Changes in version 0.3.1.5-alpha - 2017-08-01
6237 Tor 0.3.1.5-alpha improves the performance of consensus diff
6238 calculation, fixes a crash bug on older versions of OpenBSD, and fixes
6239 several other bugs. If no serious bugs are found in this version, the
6240 next version will be a release candidate.
6242 This release also marks the end of support for the Tor 0.2.4.x,
6243 0.2.6.x, and 0.2.7.x release series. Those releases will receive no
6244 further bug or security fixes. Anyone still running or distributing
6245 one of those versions should upgrade.
6247 o Major features (build system, continuous integration):
6248 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
6249 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
6250 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
6251 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
6252 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
6253 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
6254 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
6255 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
6257 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service):
6258 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
6259 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
6260 handling of "0xbar" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
6261 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
6263 o Major bugfixes (relay, performance):
6264 - Perform circuit handshake operations at a higher priority than we
6265 use for consensus diff creation and compression. This should
6266 prevent circuits from starving when a relay or bridge receives a
6267 new consensus, especially on lower-powered machines. Fixes bug
6268 22883; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6270 o Minor features (bridge authority):
6271 - Add "fingerprint" lines to the networkstatus-bridges file produced
6272 by bridge authorities. Closes ticket 22207.
6274 o Minor features (directory cache, consensus diff):
6275 - Add a new MaxConsensusAgeForDiffs option to allow directory cache
6276 operators with low-resource environments to adjust the number of
6277 consensuses they'll store and generate diffs from. Most cache
6278 operators should leave it unchanged. Helps to work around
6281 o Minor features (geoip):
6282 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
6285 o Minor features (relay, performance):
6286 - Always start relays with at least two worker threads, to prevent
6287 priority inversion on slow tasks. Part of the fix for bug 22883.
6288 - Allow background work to be queued with different priorities, so
6289 that a big pile of slow low-priority jobs will not starve out
6290 higher priority jobs. This lays the groundwork for a fix for
6293 o Minor bugfixes (build system, rust):
6294 - Fix a problem where Rust toolchains were not being found when
6295 building without --enable-cargo-online-mode, due to setting the
6296 $HOME environment variable instead of $CARGO_HOME. Fixes bug
6297 22830; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fix by Chelsea Komlo.
6299 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, zstd):
6300 - Write zstd epilogues correctly when the epilogue requires
6301 reallocation of the output buffer, even with zstd 1.3.0.
6302 (Previously, we worked on 1.2.0 and failed with 1.3.0). Fixes bug
6303 22927; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6305 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warnings):
6306 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug
6307 22915; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
6308 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt
6309 support on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
6310 - Compile correctly when both openssl 1.1.0 and libscrypt are
6311 detected. Previously this would cause an error. Fixes bug 22892;
6312 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6313 - When building with certain versions of the mingw C header files,
6314 avoid float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions
6315 isfinite(), isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix
6318 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support):
6319 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
6320 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
6321 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
6322 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
6323 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6325 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
6326 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
6327 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
6328 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
6329 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
6330 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
6331 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
6332 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
6335 o Minor bugfixes (error reporting, windows):
6336 - When formatting Windows error messages, use the English format to
6337 avoid codepage issues. Fixes bug 22520; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-alpha.
6340 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx):
6341 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
6342 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
6343 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
6345 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
6346 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
6347 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
6349 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
6350 - Fix a small memory leak when validating a configuration that uses
6351 two or more AF_UNIX sockets for the same port type. Fixes bug
6352 23053; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. This is CID 1415725.
6354 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
6355 - test_consdiff_base64cmp would fail on OS X because while OS X
6356 follows the standard of (less than zero/zero/greater than zero),
6357 it doesn't follow the convention of (-1/0/+1). Make the test
6358 comply with the standard. Fixes bug 22870; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6359 - Fix a memory leak in the link-handshake/certs_ok_ed25519 test.
6360 Fixes bug 22803; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6363 Changes in version 0.3.1.4-alpha - 2017-06-29
6364 Tor 0.3.1.4-alpha fixes a path selection bug that would allow a client
6365 to use a guard that was in the same network family as a chosen exit
6366 relay. This is a security regression; all clients running earlier
6367 versions of 0.3.0.x or 0.3.1.x should upgrade to 0.3.0.9
6370 This release also fixes several other bugs introduced in 0.3.0.x
6371 and 0.3.1.x, including others that can affect bandwidth usage
6375 - To build with zstd and lzma support, Tor now requires the
6376 pkg-config tool at build time. (This requirement was new in
6377 0.3.1.1-alpha, but was not noted at the time. Noting it here to
6378 close ticket 22623.)
6380 o Major bugfixes (path selection, security):
6381 - When choosing which guard to use for a circuit, avoid the exit's
6382 family along with the exit itself. Previously, the new guard
6383 selection logic avoided the exit, but did not consider its family.
6384 Fixes bug 22753; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2017-
6385 006 and CVE-2017-0377.
6387 o Major bugfixes (compression, zstd):
6388 - Correctly detect a full buffer when decompressing a large zstd-
6389 compressed input. Previously, we would sometimes treat a full
6390 buffer as an error. Fixes bug 22628; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6392 o Major bugfixes (directory protocol):
6393 - Ensure that we send "304 Not modified" as HTTP status code when a
6394 client is attempting to fetch a consensus or consensus diff, and
6395 the best one we can send them is one they already have. Fixes bug
6396 22702; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6398 o Major bugfixes (entry guards):
6399 - When starting with an old consensus, do not add new entry guards
6400 unless the consensus is "reasonably live" (under 1 day old). Fixes
6401 one root cause of bug 22400; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6403 o Minor features (bug mitigation, diagnostics, logging):
6404 - Avoid an assertion failure, and log a better error message, when
6405 unable to remove a file from the consensus cache on Windows.
6406 Attempts to mitigate and diagnose bug 22752.
6408 o Minor features (geoip):
6409 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
6412 o Minor bugfixes (compression):
6413 - When compressing or decompressing a buffer, check for a failure to
6414 create a compression object. Fixes bug 22626; bugfix
6416 - When decompressing a buffer, check for extra data after the end of
6417 the compressed data. Fixes bug 22629; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6418 - When decompressing an object received over an anonymous directory
6419 connection, if we have already decompressed it using an acceptable
6420 compression method, do not reject it for looking like an
6421 unacceptable compression method. Fixes part of bug 22670; bugfix
6423 - When serving directory votes compressed with zlib, do not claim to
6424 have compressed them with zstd. Fixes bug 22669; bugfix
6426 - When spooling compressed data to an output buffer, don't try to
6427 spool more data when there is no more data to spool and we are not
6428 trying to flush the input. Previously, we would sometimes launch
6429 compression requests with nothing to do, which interferes with our
6430 22672 checks. Fixes bug 22719; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
6432 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming):
6433 - Detect and break out of infinite loops in our compression code. We
6434 don't think that any such loops exist now, but it's best to be
6435 safe. Closes ticket 22672.
6436 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
6437 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
6438 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
6439 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
6440 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
6441 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
6442 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
6443 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
6445 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
6446 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
6447 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
6448 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
6449 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
6450 - Fix a crash in the LZMA module, when the sandbox was enabled, and
6451 liblzma would allocate more than 16 MB of memory. We solve this by
6452 bumping the mprotect() limit in the sandbox module from 16 MB to
6453 20 MB. Fixes bug 22751; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6455 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
6456 - When decompressing, do not warn if we fail to decompress using a
6457 compression method that we merely guessed. Fixes part of bug
6458 22670; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
6459 - When decompressing, treat mismatch between content-encoding and
6460 actual compression type as a protocol warning. Fixes part of bug
6461 22670; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
6462 - Downgrade "assigned_to_cpuworker failed" message to info-level
6463 severity. In every case that can reach it, either a better warning
6464 has already been logged, or no warning is warranted. Fixes bug
6465 22356; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
6466 - Demote a warn that was caused by libevent delays to info if
6467 netflow padding is less than 4.5 seconds late, or to notice
6468 if it is more (4.5 seconds is the amount of time that a netflow
6469 record might be emitted after, if we chose the maximum timeout).
6470 Fixes bug 22212; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6472 o Minor bugfixes (process behavior):
6473 - When exiting because of an error, always exit with a nonzero exit
6474 status. Previously, we would fail to report an error in our exit
6475 status in cases related to __OwningControllerProcess failure,
6476 lockfile contention, and Ed25519 key initialization. Fixes bug
6477 22720; bugfix on versions 0.2.1.6-alpha, 0.2.2.28-beta, and
6478 0.2.7.2-alpha respectively. Reported by "f55jwk4f"; patch
6482 - Add a manpage description for the key-pinning-journal file. Closes
6484 - Correctly note that bandwidth accounting values are stored in the
6485 state file, and the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. Closes
6487 - Document more of the files in the Tor data directory, including
6488 cached-extrainfo, secret_onion_key{,_ntor}.old, hidserv-stats,
6489 approved-routers, sr-random, and diff-cache. Found while fixing
6493 Changes in version 0.3.0.9 - 2017-06-29
6494 Tor 0.3.0.9 fixes a path selection bug that would allow a client
6495 to use a guard that was in the same network family as a chosen exit
6496 relay. This is a security regression; all clients running earlier
6497 versions of 0.3.0.x or 0.3.1.x should upgrade to 0.3.0.9 or
6500 This release also backports several other bugfixes from the 0.3.1.x
6503 o Major bugfixes (path selection, security, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
6504 - When choosing which guard to use for a circuit, avoid the exit's
6505 family along with the exit itself. Previously, the new guard
6506 selection logic avoided the exit, but did not consider its family.
6507 Fixes bug 22753; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2017-
6508 006 and CVE-2017-0377.
6510 o Major bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
6511 - Don't block bootstrapping when a primary bridge is offline and we
6512 can't get its descriptor. Fixes bug 22325; fixes one case of bug
6513 21969; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
6515 o Major bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
6516 - When starting with an old consensus, do not add new entry guards
6517 unless the consensus is "reasonably live" (under 1 day old). Fixes
6518 one root cause of bug 22400; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6520 o Minor features (geoip):
6521 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
6524 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
6525 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
6526 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
6527 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
6528 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
6530 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
6531 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
6532 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
6533 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
6534 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
6536 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
6537 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
6538 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
6539 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
6540 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
6541 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
6542 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
6543 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
6544 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
6547 Changes in version 0.3.1.3-alpha - 2017-06-08
6548 Tor 0.3.1.3-alpha fixes a pair of bugs that would allow an attacker to
6549 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
6550 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
6551 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-004 and TROVE-2017-005.
6553 Tor 0.3.1.3-alpha also includes fixes for several key management bugs
6554 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
6555 bugfixes described below.
6557 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
6558 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure when a hidden service
6559 handles a malformed BEGIN cell. Fixes bug 22493, tracked as
6560 TROVE-2017-004 and as CVE-2017-0375; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6561 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
6562 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
6563 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
6566 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake):
6567 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
6568 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
6569 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
6570 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
6571 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
6572 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
6575 o Major bugfixes (relays, key management):
6576 - Regenerate link and authentication certificates whenever the key
6577 that signs them changes; also, regenerate link certificates
6578 whenever the signed key changes. Previously, these processes were
6579 only weakly coupled, and we relays could (for minutes to hours)
6580 wind up with an inconsistent set of keys and certificates, which
6581 other relays would not accept. Fixes two cases of bug 22460;
6582 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6583 - When sending an Ed25519 signing->link certificate in a CERTS cell,
6584 send the certificate that matches the x509 certificate that we
6585 used on the TLS connection. Previously, there was a race condition
6586 if the TLS context rotated after we began the TLS handshake but
6587 before we sent the CERTS cell. Fixes a case of bug 22460; bugfix
6590 o Major bugfixes (torrc, crash):
6591 - Fix a crash bug when using %include in torrc. Fixes bug 22417;
6592 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
6594 o Minor features (code style):
6595 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
6596 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
6597 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
6599 o Minor features (diagnostic):
6600 - Add logging messages to try to diagnose a rare bug that seems to
6601 generate RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificates dated in the 1970s. We
6602 think this is happening because of incorrect system clocks, but
6603 we'd like to know for certain. Diagnostic for bug 22466.
6605 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
6606 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
6607 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
6609 o Minor bugfixes (directory protocol):
6610 - Check for libzstd >= 1.1, because older versions lack the
6611 necessary streaming API. Fixes bug 22413; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6613 o Minor bugfixes (link handshake):
6614 - Lower the lifetime of the RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificate to six
6615 months, and regenerate it when it is within one month of expiring.
6616 Previously, we had generated this certificate at startup with a
6617 ten-year lifetime, but that could lead to weird behavior when Tor
6618 was started with a grossly inaccurate clock. Mitigates bug 22466;
6619 mitigation on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6621 o Minor bugfixes (storage directories):
6622 - Always check for underflows in the cached storage directory usage.
6623 If the usage does underflow, re-calculate it. Also, avoid a
6624 separate underflow when the usage is not known. Fixes bug 22424;
6625 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6627 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
6628 - The unit tests now pass on systems where localhost is misconfigured
6629 to some IPv4 address other than 127.0.0.1. Fixes bug 6298; bugfix
6633 - Clarify the manpage for the (deprecated) torify script. Closes
6636 Changes in version 0.3.0.8 - 2017-06-08
6637 Tor 0.3.0.8 fixes a pair of bugs that would allow an attacker to
6638 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
6639 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
6640 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-004 and TROVE-2017-005.
6642 Tor 0.3.0.8 also includes fixes for several key management bugs
6643 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
6644 bugfixes described below.
6646 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security, backport
6647 from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
6648 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure when a hidden service
6649 handles a malformed BEGIN cell. Fixes bug 22493, tracked as
6650 TROVE-2017-004 and as CVE-2017-0375; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6651 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
6652 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
6653 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
6656 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
6657 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
6658 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
6659 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
6660 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
6661 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
6662 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
6665 o Major bugfixes (relays, key management, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
6666 - Regenerate link and authentication certificates whenever the key
6667 that signs them changes; also, regenerate link certificates
6668 whenever the signed key changes. Previously, these processes were
6669 only weakly coupled, and we relays could (for minutes to hours)
6670 wind up with an inconsistent set of keys and certificates, which
6671 other relays would not accept. Fixes two cases of bug 22460;
6672 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6673 - When sending an Ed25519 signing->link certificate in a CERTS cell,
6674 send the certificate that matches the x509 certificate that we
6675 used on the TLS connection. Previously, there was a race condition
6676 if the TLS context rotated after we began the TLS handshake but
6677 before we sent the CERTS cell. Fixes a case of bug 22460; bugfix
6680 o Major bugfixes (hidden service v3, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
6681 - Stop rejecting v3 hidden service descriptors because their size
6682 did not match an old padding rule. Fixes bug 22447; bugfix on
6685 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
6686 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
6687 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
6688 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
6689 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
6691 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
6692 - Do not crash when starting with LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0. Fixes
6693 bug 22252; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
6695 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
6696 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
6697 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
6699 o Minor bugfixes (link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
6700 - Lower the lifetime of the RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificate to six
6701 months, and regenerate it when it is within one month of expiring.
6702 Previously, we had generated this certificate at startup with a
6703 ten-year lifetime, but that could lead to weird behavior when Tor
6704 was started with a grossly inaccurate clock. Mitigates bug 22466;
6705 mitigation on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6707 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority, backport from
6709 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
6710 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
6711 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
6714 Changes in version 0.2.9.11 - 2017-06-08
6715 Tor 0.2.9.11 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
6716 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
6717 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
6718 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
6719 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
6721 Tor 0.2.9.11 also backports fixes for several key management bugs
6722 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
6723 bugfixes described below.
6725 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security, backport
6726 from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
6727 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
6728 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
6729 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
6732 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
6733 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
6734 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
6735 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
6736 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
6737 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
6738 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
6741 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
6742 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
6743 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
6744 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
6745 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
6747 o Minor features (future-proofing, backport from 0.3.0.7):
6748 - Tor no longer refuses to download microdescriptors or descriptors if
6749 they are listed as "published in the future". This change will
6750 eventually allow us to stop listing meaningful "published" dates
6751 in microdescriptor consensuses, and thereby allow us to reduce the
6752 resources required to download consensus diffs by over 50%.
6753 Implements part of ticket 21642; implements part of proposal 275.
6755 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.0.4-rc)
6756 - Directory authorities now reject relays running versions
6757 0.2.9.1-alpha through 0.2.9.4-alpha, because those relays
6758 suffer from bug 20499 and don't keep their consensus cache
6759 up-to-date. Resolves ticket 20509.
6761 o Minor features (geoip):
6762 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
6765 o Minor bugfixes (control port, backport from 0.3.0.6):
6766 - The GETINFO extra-info/digest/<digest> command was broken because
6767 of a wrong base16 decode return value check, introduced when
6768 refactoring that API. Fixes bug 22034; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6770 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
6771 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
6772 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
6774 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.0.7):
6775 - The getpid() system call is now permitted under the Linux seccomp2
6776 sandbox, to avoid crashing with versions of OpenSSL (and other
6777 libraries) that attempt to learn the process's PID by using the
6778 syscall rather than the VDSO code. Fixes bug 21943; bugfix
6781 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority, backport
6782 from 0.3.1.2-alpha):
6783 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
6784 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
6785 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
6787 Changes in version 0.2.8.14 - 2017-06-08
6788 Tor 0.2.7.8 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
6789 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
6790 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
6791 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
6792 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
6794 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
6795 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
6796 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
6797 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
6800 o Minor features (geoip):
6801 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
6804 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
6805 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
6806 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
6807 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
6808 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
6810 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
6811 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
6812 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
6814 Changes in version 0.2.7.8 - 2017-06-08
6815 Tor 0.2.7.8 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
6816 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
6817 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
6818 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
6819 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
6821 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
6822 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
6823 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
6824 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
6827 o Minor features (geoip):
6828 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
6831 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
6832 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
6833 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
6836 Changes in version 0.2.6.12 - 2017-06-08
6837 Tor 0.2.6.12 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
6838 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
6839 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
6840 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
6841 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
6843 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
6844 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
6845 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
6846 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
6849 o Minor features (geoip):
6850 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
6853 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
6854 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
6855 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
6857 Changes in version 0.2.5.14 - 2017-06-08
6858 Tor 0.2.5.14 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
6859 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
6860 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
6861 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
6862 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
6864 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
6865 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
6866 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
6867 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
6870 o Minor features (geoip):
6871 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
6874 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
6875 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
6876 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
6878 Changes in version 0.2.4.29 - 2017-06-08
6879 Tor 0.2.4.29 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
6880 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
6881 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
6882 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
6883 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
6885 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
6886 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
6887 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
6888 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
6891 o Minor features (geoip):
6892 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
6895 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
6896 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
6897 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
6900 Changes in version 0.3.1.2-alpha - 2017-05-26
6901 Tor 0.3.1.2-alpha is the second release in the 0.3.1.x series. It
6902 fixes a few bugs found while testing 0.3.1.1-alpha, including a
6903 memory corruption bug that affected relay stability.
6905 o Major bugfixes (crash, relay):
6906 - Fix a memory-corruption bug in relays that set MyFamily.
6907 Previously, they would double-free MyFamily elements when making
6908 the next descriptor or when changing their configuration. Fixes
6909 bug 22368; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6911 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
6912 - Log a better message when a directory authority replies to an
6913 upload with an unexpected status code. Fixes bug 11121; bugfix
6916 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority):
6917 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
6918 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
6919 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
6922 Changes in version 0.3.1.1-alpha - 2017-05-22
6923 Tor 0.3.1.1-alpha is the first release in the 0.3.1.x series. It
6924 reduces the bandwidth usage for Tor's directory protocol, adds some
6925 basic padding to resist netflow-based traffic analysis and to serve as
6926 the basis of other padding in the future, and adds rust support to the
6929 It also contains numerous other small features and improvements to
6930 security, correctness, and performance.
6932 Below are the changes since 0.3.0.7.
6934 o Major features (directory protocol):
6935 - Tor relays and authorities can now serve clients an abbreviated
6936 version of the consensus document, containing only the changes
6937 since an older consensus document that the client holds. Clients
6938 now request these documents when available. When both client and
6939 server use this new protocol, they will use far less bandwidth (up
6940 to 94% less) to keep the client's consensus up-to-date. Implements
6941 proposal 140; closes ticket 13339. Based on work by Daniel Martí.
6942 - Tor can now compress directory traffic with lzma or with zstd
6943 compression algorithms, which can deliver better bandwidth
6944 performance. Because lzma is computationally expensive, it's only
6945 used for documents that can be compressed once and served many
6946 times. Support for these algorithms requires that tor is built
6947 with the libzstd and/or liblzma libraries available. Implements
6948 proposal 278; closes ticket 21662.
6949 - Relays now perform the more expensive compression operations, and
6950 consensus diff generation, in worker threads. This separation
6951 avoids delaying the main thread when a new consensus arrives.
6953 o Major features (experimental):
6954 - Tor can now build modules written in Rust. To turn this on, pass
6955 the "--enable-rust" flag to the configure script. It's not time to
6956 get excited yet: currently, there is no actual Rust functionality
6957 beyond some simple glue code, and a notice at startup to tell you
6958 that Rust is running. Still, we hope that programmers and
6959 packagers will try building Tor with Rust support, so that we can
6960 find issues and solve portability problems. Closes ticket 22106.
6962 o Major features (traffic analysis resistance):
6963 - Connections between clients and relays now send a padding cell in
6964 each direction every 1.5 to 9.5 seconds (tunable via consensus
6965 parameters). This padding will not resist specialized
6966 eavesdroppers, but it should be enough to make many ISPs' routine
6967 network flow logging less useful in traffic analysis against
6970 Padding is negotiated using Tor's link protocol, so both relays
6971 and clients must upgrade for this to take effect. Clients may
6972 still send padding despite the relay's version by setting
6973 ConnectionPadding 1 in torrc, and may disable padding by setting
6974 ConnectionPadding 0 in torrc. Padding may be minimized for mobile
6975 users with the torrc option ReducedConnectionPadding. Implements
6976 Proposal 251 and Section 2 of Proposal 254; closes ticket 16861.
6977 - Relays will publish 24 hour totals of padding and non-padding cell
6978 counts to their extra-info descriptors, unless PaddingStatistics 0
6979 is set in torrc. These 24 hour totals are also rounded to
6982 o Major bugfixes (connection usage):
6983 - We use NETINFO cells to try to determine if both relays involved
6984 in a connection will agree on the canonical status of that
6985 connection. We prefer the connections where this is the case for
6986 extend cells, and try to close connections where relays disagree
6987 on their canonical status early. Also, we now prefer the oldest
6988 valid connection for extend cells. These two changes should reduce
6989 the number of long-term connections that are kept open between
6990 relays. Fixes bug 17604; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
6991 - Relays now log hourly statistics (look for
6992 "channel_check_for_duplicates" lines) on the total number of
6993 connections to other relays. If the number of connections per
6994 relay is unexpectedly large, this log message is at notice level.
6995 Otherwise it is at info.
6997 o Major bugfixes (entry guards):
6998 - Don't block bootstrapping when a primary bridge is offline and we
6999 can't get its descriptor. Fixes bug 22325; fixes one case of bug
7000 21969; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
7002 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support):
7003 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
7004 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
7005 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
7007 o Minor features (security, windows):
7008 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
7009 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
7010 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
7011 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
7012 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
7014 o Minor features (config options):
7015 - Allow "%include" directives in torrc configuration files. These
7016 directives import the settings from other files, or from all the
7017 files in a directory. Closes ticket 1922. Code by Daniel Pinto.
7018 - Make SAVECONF return an error when overwriting a torrc that has
7019 includes. Using SAVECONF with the FORCE option will allow it to
7020 overwrite torrc even if includes are used. Related to ticket 1922.
7021 - Add "GETINFO config-can-saveconf" to tell controllers if SAVECONF
7022 will work without the FORCE option. Related to ticket 1922.
7024 o Minor features (controller):
7025 - Warn the first time that a controller requests data in the long-
7026 deprecated 'GETINFO network-status' format. Closes ticket 21703.
7028 o Minor features (defaults):
7029 - The default value for UseCreateFast is now 0: clients which
7030 haven't yet received a consensus document will now use a proper
7031 ntor handshake to talk to their directory servers whenever they
7032 can. Closes ticket 21407.
7033 - Onion key rotation and expiry intervals are now defined as a
7034 network consensus parameter, per proposal 274. The default
7035 lifetime of an onion key is increased from 7 to 28 days. Old onion
7036 keys will expire after 7 days by default. This change will make
7037 consensus diffs much smaller, and save significant bandwidth.
7038 Closes ticket 21641.
7040 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
7041 - Update the fallback directory mirror whitelist and blacklist based
7042 on operator emails. Closes task 21121.
7043 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
7044 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
7045 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
7046 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
7048 o Minor features (hidden services, logging):
7049 - Log a message when a hidden service descriptor has fewer
7050 introduction points than specified in
7051 HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints. Closes tickets 21598.
7052 - Log a message when a hidden service reaches its introduction point
7053 circuit limit, and when that limit is reset. Follow up to ticket
7054 21594; closes ticket 21622.
7055 - Warn user if multiple entries in EntryNodes and at least one
7056 HiddenService are used together. Pinning EntryNodes along with a
7057 hidden service can be possibly harmful; for instance see ticket
7058 14917 or 21155. Closes ticket 21155.
7060 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
7061 - We now have a document storage backend compatible with the Linux
7062 seccomp2 sandbox. This backend is used for consensus documents and
7063 diffs between them; in the long term, we'd like to use it for
7064 unparseable directory material too. Closes ticket 21645
7065 - Increase the maximum allowed size passed to mprotect(PROT_WRITE)
7066 from 1MB to 16MB. This was necessary with the glibc allocator in
7067 order to allow worker threads to allocate more memory -- which in
7068 turn is necessary because of our new use of worker threads for
7069 compression. Closes ticket 22096.
7071 o Minor features (logging):
7072 - Log files are no longer created world-readable by default.
7073 (Previously, most distributors would store the logs in a non-
7074 world-readable location to prevent inappropriate access. This
7075 change is an extra precaution.) Closes ticket 21729; patch
7078 o Minor features (performance):
7079 - Our Keccak (SHA-3) implementation now accesses memory more
7080 efficiently, especially on little-endian systems. Closes
7082 - Add an O(1) implementation of channel_find_by_global_id(), to
7083 speed some controller functions.
7085 o Minor features (relay, configuration):
7086 - The MyFamily option may now be repeated as many times as desired,
7087 for relays that want to configure large families. Closes ticket
7088 4998; patch by Daniel Pinto.
7090 o Minor features (safety):
7091 - Add an explicit check to extrainfo_parse_entry_from_string() for
7092 NULL inputs. We don't believe this can actually happen, but it may
7093 help silence a warning from the Clang analyzer. Closes
7096 o Minor features (testing):
7097 - Add a "--disable-memory-sentinels" feature to help with fuzzing.
7098 When Tor is compiled with this option, we disable a number of
7099 redundant memory-safety failsafes that are intended to stop bugs
7100 from becoming security issues. This makes it easier to hunt for
7101 bugs that would be security issues without the failsafes turned
7102 on. Closes ticket 21439.
7103 - Add a general event-tracing instrumentation support to Tor. This
7104 subsystem will enable developers and researchers to add fine-
7105 grained instrumentation to their Tor instances, for use when
7106 examining Tor network performance issues. There are no trace
7107 events yet, and event-tracing is off by default unless enabled at
7108 compile time. Implements ticket 13802.
7109 - Improve our version parsing tests: add tests for typical version
7110 components, add tests for invalid versions, including numeric
7111 range and non-numeric prefixes. Unit tests 21278, 21450, and
7112 21507. Partially implements 21470.
7114 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting):
7115 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
7116 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
7117 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
7119 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
7120 - Accurately identify client connections by their lack of peer
7121 authentication. This means that we bail out earlier if asked to
7122 extend to a client. Follow-up to 21407. Fixes bug 21406; bugfix
7125 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
7126 - Do not crash when starting with LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0. Fixes
7127 bug 22252; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
7129 o Minor bugfixes (connection lifespan):
7130 - Allow more control over how long TLS connections are kept open:
7131 unify CircuitIdleTimeout and PredictedPortsRelevanceTime into a
7132 single option called CircuitsAvailableTimeout. Also, allow the
7133 consensus to control the default values for both this preference
7134 and the lifespan of relay-to-relay connections. Fixes bug 17592;
7135 bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
7136 - Increase the initial circuit build timeout testing frequency, to
7137 help ensure that ReducedConnectionPadding clients finish learning
7138 a timeout before their orconn would expire. The initial testing
7139 rate was set back in the days of TAP and before the Tor Browser
7140 updater, when we had to be much more careful about new clients
7141 making lots of circuits. With this change, a circuit build timeout
7142 is learned in about 15-20 minutes, instead of 100-120 minutes.
7144 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
7145 - GETINFO onions/current and onions/detached no longer respond with
7146 551 on empty lists. Fixes bug 21329; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
7147 - Trigger HS descriptor events on the control port when the client
7148 fails to pick a hidden service directory for a hidden service.
7149 This can happen if all the hidden service directories are in
7150 ExcludeNodes, or they have all been queried within the last 15
7151 minutes. Fixes bug 22042; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
7153 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
7154 - When rejecting a router descriptor for running an obsolete version
7155 of Tor without ntor support, warn about the obsolete tor version,
7156 not the missing ntor key. Fixes bug 20270; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
7157 - Prevent the shared randomness subsystem from asserting when
7158 initialized by a bridge authority with an incomplete configuration
7159 file. Fixes bug 21586; bugfix on 0.2.9.8.
7161 o Minor bugfixes (exit-side DNS):
7162 - Fix an untriggerable assertion that checked the output of a
7163 libevent DNS error, so that the assertion actually behaves as
7164 expected. Fixes bug 22244; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by Andrey
7165 Karpov using PVS-Studio.
7167 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
7168 - Make the usage example in updateFallbackDirs.py actually work, and
7169 explain what it does. Fixes bug 22270; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
7170 - Decrease the guard flag average required to be a fallback. This
7171 allows us to keep relays that have their guard flag removed when
7172 they restart. Fixes bug 20913; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
7173 - Decrease the minimum number of fallbacks to 100. Fixes bug 20913;
7174 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
7175 - Make sure fallback directory mirrors have the same address, port,
7176 and relay identity key for at least 30 days before they are
7177 selected. Fixes bug 20913; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
7179 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
7180 - Stop printing a cryptic warning when a hidden service gets a
7181 request to connect to a virtual port that it hasn't configured.
7182 Fixes bug 16706; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
7183 - Simplify hidden service descriptor creation by using an existing
7184 flag to check if an introduction point is established. Fixes bug
7185 21599; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
7187 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
7188 - Fix a small memory leak at exit from the backtrace handler code.
7189 Fixes bug 21788; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
7191 o Minor bugfixes (protocol, logging):
7192 - Downgrade a log statement about unexpected relay cells from "bug"
7193 to "protocol warning", because there is at least one use case
7194 where it can be triggered by a buggy tor implementation. Fixes bug
7195 21293; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
7197 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
7198 - Use unbuffered I/O for utility functions around the
7199 process_handle_t type. This fixes unit test failures reported on
7200 OpenBSD and FreeBSD. Fixes bug 21654; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
7201 - Make display of captured unit test log messages consistent. Fixes
7202 bug 21510; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
7203 - Make test-network.sh always call chutney's test-network.sh.
7204 Previously, this only worked on systems which had bash installed,
7205 due to some bash-specific code in the script. Fixes bug 19699;
7206 bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc. Follow-up to ticket 21581.
7208 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency):
7209 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
7210 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
7211 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
7212 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
7214 o Minor bugfixes (windows, relay):
7215 - Resolve "Failure from drain_fd: No error" warnings on Windows
7216 relays. Fixes bug 21540; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
7218 o Code simplification and refactoring:
7219 - Break up the 630-line function connection_dir_client_reached_eof()
7220 into a dozen smaller functions. This change should help
7221 maintainability and readability of the client directory code.
7222 - Isolate our use of the openssl headers so that they are only
7223 included from our crypto wrapper modules, and from tests that
7224 examine those modules' internals. Closes ticket 21841.
7225 - Simplify our API to launch directory requests, making it more
7226 extensible and less error-prone. Now it's easier to add extra
7227 headers to directory requests. Closes ticket 21646.
7228 - Our base64 decoding functions no longer overestimate the output
7229 space that they need when parsing unpadded inputs. Closes
7231 - Remove unused "ROUTER_ADDED_NOTIFY_GENERATOR" internal value.
7232 Resolves ticket 22213.
7233 - The logic that directory caches use to spool request to clients,
7234 serving them one part at a time so as not to allocate too much
7235 memory, has been refactored for consistency. Previously there was
7236 a separate spooling implementation per type of spoolable data. Now
7237 there is one common spooling implementation, with extensible data
7238 types. Closes ticket 21651.
7239 - Tor's compression module now supports multiple backends. Part of
7240 the implementation for proposal 278; closes ticket 21663.
7243 - Clarify the behavior of the KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth sub-option.
7244 Closes ticket 21873.
7245 - Correct documentation about the default DataDirectory value.
7246 Closes ticket 21151.
7247 - Document the default behavior of NumEntryGuards and
7248 NumDirectoryGuards correctly. Fixes bug 21715; bugfix
7250 - Document key=value pluggable transport arguments for Bridge lines
7251 in torrc. Fixes bug 20341; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
7252 - Note that bandwidth-limiting options don't affect TCP headers or
7253 DNS. Closes ticket 17170.
7255 o Removed features (configuration options, all in ticket 22060):
7256 - These configuration options are now marked Obsolete, and no longer
7257 have any effect: AllowInvalidNodes, AllowSingleHopCircuits,
7258 AllowSingleHopExits, ExcludeSingleHopRelays, FastFirstHopPK,
7259 TLSECGroup, WarnUnsafeSocks. They were first marked as deprecated
7260 in 0.2.9.2-alpha and have now been removed. The previous default
7261 behavior is now always chosen; the previous (less secure) non-
7262 default behavior is now unavailable.
7263 - CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout and
7264 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout were deprecated in
7265 0.2.9.2-alpha and now have been removed. HS circuits never close
7266 on circuit build timeout; they have a longer timeout period.
7267 - {Control,DNS,Dir,Socks,Trans,NATD,OR}ListenAddress were deprecated
7268 in 0.2.9.2-alpha and now have been removed. Use the ORPort option
7269 (and others) to configure listen-only and advertise-only addresses.
7271 o Removed features (tools):
7272 - We've removed the tor-checkkey tool from src/tools. Long ago, we
7273 used it to help people detect RSA keys that were generated by
7274 versions of Debian affected by CVE-2008-0166. But those keys have
7275 been out of circulation for ages, and this tool is no longer
7276 required. Closes ticket 21842.
7279 Changes in version 0.3.0.7 - 2017-05-15
7280 Tor 0.3.0.7 fixes a medium-severity security bug in earlier versions
7281 of Tor 0.3.0.x, where an attacker could cause a Tor relay process
7282 to exit. Relays running earlier versions of Tor 0.3.0.x should upgrade;
7283 clients are not affected.
7285 o Major bugfixes (hidden service directory, security):
7286 - Fix an assertion failure in the hidden service directory code, which
7287 could be used by an attacker to remotely cause a Tor relay process to
7288 exit. Relays running earlier versions of Tor 0.3.0.x should upgrade.
7289 should upgrade. This security issue is tracked as TROVE-2017-002.
7290 Fixes bug 22246; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7293 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
7296 o Minor features (future-proofing):
7297 - Tor no longer refuses to download microdescriptors or descriptors
7298 if they are listed as "published in the future". This change will
7299 eventually allow us to stop listing meaningful "published" dates
7300 in microdescriptor consensuses, and thereby allow us to reduce the
7301 resources required to download consensus diffs by over 50%.
7302 Implements part of ticket 21642; implements part of proposal 275.
7304 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
7305 - The getpid() system call is now permitted under the Linux seccomp2
7306 sandbox, to avoid crashing with versions of OpenSSL (and other
7307 libraries) that attempt to learn the process's PID by using the
7308 syscall rather than the VDSO code. Fixes bug 21943; bugfix
7312 Changes in version 0.3.0.6 - 2017-04-26
7313 Tor 0.3.0.6 is the first stable release of the Tor 0.3.0 series.
7315 With the 0.3.0 series, clients and relays now use Ed25519 keys to
7316 authenticate their link connections to relays, rather than the old
7317 RSA1024 keys that they used before. (Circuit crypto has been
7318 Curve25519-authenticated since 0.2.4.8-alpha.) We have also replaced
7319 the guard selection and replacement algorithm to behave more robustly
7320 in the presence of unreliable networks, and to resist guard-
7323 This series also includes numerous other small features and bugfixes,
7324 along with more groundwork for the upcoming hidden-services revamp.
7326 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support the Tor 0.3.0
7327 release series for at least the next nine months, or for three months
7328 after the first stable release of the 0.3.1 series: whichever is
7329 longer. If you need a release with long-term support, we recommend
7330 that you stay with the 0.2.9 series.
7332 Below are the changes since 0.3.0.5-rc. For a list of all changes
7333 since 0.2.9, see the ReleaseNotes file.
7335 o Minor features (geoip):
7336 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
7339 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
7340 - The GETINFO extra-info/digest/<digest> command was broken because
7341 of a wrong base16 decode return value check, introduced when
7342 refactoring that API. Fixes bug 22034; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
7344 o Minor bugfixes (crash prevention):
7345 - Fix a (currently untriggerable, but potentially dangerous) crash
7346 bug when base32-encoding inputs whose sizes are not a multiple of
7347 5. Fixes bug 21894; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
7350 Changes in version 0.3.0.5-rc - 2017-04-05
7351 Tor 0.3.0.5-rc fixes a few remaining bugs, large and small, in the
7352 0.3.0 release series.
7354 This is the second release candidate in the Tor 0.3.0 series, and has
7355 much fewer changes than the first. If we find no new bugs or
7356 regressions here, the first stable 0.3.0 release will be nearly
7359 o Major bugfixes (crash, directory connections):
7360 - Fix a rare crash when sending a begin cell on a circuit whose
7361 linked directory connection had already been closed. Fixes bug
7362 21576; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
7364 o Major bugfixes (guard selection):
7365 - Fix a guard selection bug where Tor would refuse to bootstrap in
7366 some cases if the user swapped a bridge for another bridge in
7367 their configuration file. Fixes bug 21771; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7368 Reported by "torvlnt33r".
7370 o Minor features (geoip):
7371 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the March 7 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
7374 o Minor bugfix (compilation):
7375 - Fix a warning when compiling hs_service.c. Previously, it had no
7376 exported symbols when compiled for libor.a, resulting in a
7377 compilation warning from clang. Fixes bug 21825; bugfix
7380 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
7381 - Make hidden services check for failed intro point connections,
7382 even when they have exceeded their intro point creation limit.
7383 Fixes bug 21596; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
7384 - Make hidden services with 8 to 10 introduction points check for
7385 failed circuits immediately after startup. Previously, they would
7386 wait for 5 minutes before performing their first checks. Fixes bug
7387 21594; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
7389 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
7390 - Fix a memory leak when using GETCONF on a port option. Fixes bug
7391 21682; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
7393 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
7394 - Avoid a double-marked-circuit warning that could happen when we
7395 receive DESTROY cells under heavy load. Fixes bug 20059; bugfix
7398 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
7399 - Run the entry_guard_parse_from_state_full() test with the time set
7400 to a specific date. (The guard state that this test was parsing
7401 contained guards that had expired since the test was first
7402 written.) Fixes bug 21799; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7405 - Update the description of the directory server options in the
7406 manual page, to clarify that a relay no longer needs to set
7407 DirPort in order to be a directory cache. Closes ticket 21720.
7411 Changes in version 0.2.8.13 - 2017-03-03
7412 Tor 0.2.8.13 backports a security fix from later Tor
7413 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.8.12 or earlier should upgrade to this
7414 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
7415 release series, and if they build Tor with the --enable-expensive-hardening
7418 Note that support for Tor 0.2.8.x is ending next year: we will not issue
7419 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.8.x series after 1 Jan 2018. If you need
7420 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
7422 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
7423 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
7424 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
7425 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
7426 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
7427 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
7428 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
7430 o Minor features (geoip):
7431 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
7435 Changes in version 0.2.7.7 - 2017-03-03
7436 Tor 0.2.7.7 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
7437 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.7.6 or earlier should upgrade to
7438 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
7441 Note that support for Tor 0.2.7.x is ending this year: we will not issue
7442 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.7.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
7443 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
7445 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
7446 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
7448 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
7449 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
7450 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
7452 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
7453 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
7454 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
7457 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
7458 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
7459 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
7460 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
7461 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
7462 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
7463 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
7464 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
7465 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
7467 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
7468 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
7469 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
7470 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
7471 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
7472 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
7473 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
7474 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
7475 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
7476 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
7477 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
7478 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
7479 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
7481 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
7482 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
7483 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
7484 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
7485 Reported by Guido Vranken.
7487 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
7488 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
7489 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
7491 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
7492 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
7493 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
7494 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
7495 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
7496 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
7497 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
7500 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
7501 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
7502 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
7503 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
7504 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
7505 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
7506 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
7508 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
7509 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
7510 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
7511 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
7514 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
7515 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
7516 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
7517 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
7519 o Minor features (geoip):
7520 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
7524 Changes in version 0.2.6.11 - 2017-03-03
7525 Tor 0.2.6.11 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
7526 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.6.10 or earlier should upgrade to
7527 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
7530 Note that support for Tor 0.2.6.x is ending this year: we will not issue
7531 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.6.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
7532 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
7534 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
7535 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
7537 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
7538 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
7539 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
7541 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
7542 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
7543 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
7546 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
7547 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
7548 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
7549 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
7550 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
7551 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
7552 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
7553 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
7554 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
7556 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
7557 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
7558 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
7559 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
7560 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
7561 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
7562 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
7563 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
7564 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
7566 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
7567 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
7568 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
7569 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
7570 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
7572 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
7573 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
7574 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
7575 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
7576 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
7579 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
7580 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
7581 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
7582 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
7583 Reported by Guido Vranken.
7585 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
7586 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
7587 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
7589 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
7590 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
7591 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
7592 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
7593 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
7594 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
7597 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
7598 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
7599 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
7600 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
7601 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
7602 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
7603 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
7606 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
7607 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
7608 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
7609 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
7610 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
7611 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
7612 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
7614 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
7615 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
7616 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
7617 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
7620 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
7621 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
7622 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
7623 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
7625 o Minor features (geoip):
7626 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
7629 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
7630 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
7631 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
7634 Changes in version 0.2.5.13 - 2017-03-03
7635 Tor 0.2.5.13 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
7636 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.5.13 or earlier should upgrade to
7637 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
7640 Note that support for Tor 0.2.5.x is ending next year: we will not issue
7641 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.5.x series after 1 May 2018. If you need
7642 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
7644 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
7645 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
7647 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
7648 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
7649 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
7651 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
7652 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
7653 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
7656 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
7657 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
7658 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
7659 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
7660 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
7661 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
7662 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
7663 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
7664 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
7666 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
7667 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
7668 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
7669 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
7670 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
7671 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
7672 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
7673 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
7674 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
7676 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
7677 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
7678 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
7679 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
7680 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
7682 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
7683 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
7684 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
7685 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
7686 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
7689 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
7690 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
7691 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
7692 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
7693 Reported by Guido Vranken.
7695 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
7696 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
7697 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
7699 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
7700 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
7701 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
7702 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
7703 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
7704 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
7707 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
7708 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
7709 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
7710 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
7711 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
7712 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
7713 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
7716 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
7717 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
7718 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
7719 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
7720 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
7721 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
7722 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
7724 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
7725 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
7726 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
7727 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
7730 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
7731 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
7732 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
7733 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
7735 o Minor features (geoip):
7736 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
7739 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
7740 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
7741 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
7743 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling, backport from 0.2.7.2-alpha):
7744 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
7745 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
7746 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
7747 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
7748 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
7750 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
7751 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
7752 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
7756 Changes in version 0.2.4.28 - 2017-03-03
7757 Tor 0.2.4.28 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
7758 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.4.27 or earlier should upgrade to
7759 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
7762 Note that support for Tor 0.2.4.x is ending soon: we will not issue
7763 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.4.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
7764 a Tor release series with long-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
7766 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
7767 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
7769 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
7770 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
7771 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
7773 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
7774 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
7775 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
7778 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
7779 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
7780 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
7781 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
7782 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
7783 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
7784 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
7785 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
7786 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
7788 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
7789 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
7790 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
7791 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
7792 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
7793 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
7794 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
7795 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
7796 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
7798 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
7799 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
7800 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
7801 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
7802 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
7805 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
7806 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
7807 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
7808 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
7809 Reported by Guido Vranken.
7811 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
7812 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
7813 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
7815 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
7816 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
7817 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
7818 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
7819 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
7820 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
7823 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
7824 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
7825 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
7826 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
7827 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
7828 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
7829 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
7832 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
7833 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
7834 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
7835 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
7836 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
7837 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
7838 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
7840 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
7841 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
7842 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
7843 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
7846 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
7847 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
7848 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
7849 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
7851 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
7852 - Make it harder for attackers to overload hidden services with
7853 introductions, by blocking multiple introduction requests on the
7854 same circuit. Resolves ticket 15515.
7856 o Minor features (geoip):
7857 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
7860 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
7861 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
7862 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
7864 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
7865 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
7866 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
7870 Changes in version 0.3.0.4-rc - 2017-03-01
7871 Tor 0.3.0.4-rc fixes some remaining bugs, large and small, in the
7872 0.3.0 release series, and introduces a few reliability features to
7873 keep them from coming back.
7875 This is the first release candidate in the Tor 0.3.0 series. If we
7876 find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable 0.3.0 release
7877 will be nearly identical to it.
7879 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
7880 - When the same bridge is configured multiple times with the same
7881 identity, but at different address:port combinations, treat those
7882 bridge instances as separate guards. This fix restores the ability
7883 of clients to configure the same bridge with multiple pluggable
7884 transports. Fixes bug 21027; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7886 o Major bugfixes (hidden service directory v3):
7887 - Stop crashing on a failed v3 hidden service descriptor lookup
7888 failure. Fixes bug 21471; bugfixes on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7890 o Major bugfixes (parsing):
7891 - When parsing a malformed content-length field from an HTTP
7892 message, do not read off the end of the buffer. This bug was a
7893 potential remote denial-of-service attack against Tor clients and
7894 relays. A workaround was released in October 2016, to prevent this
7895 bug from crashing Tor. This is a fix for the underlying issue,
7896 which should no longer matter (if you applied the earlier patch).
7897 Fixes bug 20894; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Bug found by fuzzing
7898 using AFL (http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/).
7899 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
7900 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
7901 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
7902 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
7903 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
7904 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
7906 o Minor feature (protocol versioning):
7907 - Add new protocol version for proposal 224. HSIntro now advertises
7908 version "3-4" and HSDir version "1-2". Fixes ticket 20656.
7910 o Minor features (directory authorities):
7911 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors that claim to be
7912 malformed versions of Tor. Helps prevent exploitation of
7914 - Reject version numbers with components that exceed INT32_MAX.
7915 Otherwise 32-bit and 64-bit platforms would behave inconsistently.
7916 Fixes bug 21450; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
7917 - Directory authorities now reject relays running versions
7918 0.2.9.1-alpha through 0.2.9.4-alpha, because those relays
7919 suffer from bug 20499 and don't keep their consensus cache
7920 up-to-date. Resolves ticket 20509.
7922 o Minor features (geoip):
7923 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
7926 o Minor features (reliability, crash):
7927 - Try better to detect problems in buffers where they might grow (or
7928 think they have grown) over 2 GB in size. Diagnostic for
7931 o Minor features (testing):
7932 - During 'make test-network-all', if tor logs any warnings, ask
7933 chutney to output them. Requires a recent version of chutney with
7934 the 21572 patch. Implements 21570.
7936 o Minor bugfixes (certificate expiration time):
7937 - Avoid using link certificates that don't become valid till some
7938 time in the future. Fixes bug 21420; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha
7940 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
7941 - Repair a couple of (unreachable or harmless) cases of the risky
7942 comparison-by-subtraction pattern that caused bug 21278.
7943 - Remove a redundant check for the UseEntryGuards option from the
7944 options_transition_affects_guards() function. Fixes bug 21492;
7945 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7947 o Minor bugfixes (directory mirrors):
7948 - Allow relays to use directory mirrors without a DirPort: these
7949 relays need to be contacted over their ORPorts using a begindir
7950 connection. Fixes one case of bug 20711; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
7951 - Clarify the message logged when a remote relay is unexpectedly
7952 missing an ORPort or DirPort: users were confusing this with a
7953 local port. Fixes another case of bug 20711; bugfix
7956 o Minor bugfixes (guards):
7957 - Don't warn about a missing guard state on timeout-measurement
7958 circuits: they aren't supposed to be using guards. Fixes an
7959 instance of bug 21007; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7960 - Silence a BUG() warning when attempting to use a guard whose
7961 descriptor we don't know, and make this scenario less likely to
7962 happen. Fixes bug 21415; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7964 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
7965 - Pass correct buffer length when encoding legacy ESTABLISH_INTRO
7966 cells. Previously, we were using sizeof() on a pointer, instead of
7967 the real destination buffer. Fortunately, that value was only used
7968 to double-check that there was enough room--which was already
7969 enforced elsewhere. Fixes bug 21553; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7971 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
7972 - Fix Raspbian build issues related to missing socket errno in
7973 test_util.c. Fixes bug 21116; bugfix on 0.2.8.2. Patch
7975 - Rename "make fuzz" to "make test-fuzz-corpora", since it doesn't
7976 actually fuzz anything. Fixes bug 21447; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
7977 - Use bash in src/test/test-network.sh. This ensures we reliably
7978 call chutney's newer tools/test-network.sh when available. Fixes
7979 bug 21562; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
7982 - Small fixes to the fuzzing documentation. Closes ticket 21472.
7985 Changes in version 0.2.9.10 - 2017-03-01
7986 Tor 0.2.9.10 backports a security fix from later Tor release. It also
7987 includes fixes for some major issues affecting directory authorities,
7988 LibreSSL compatibility, and IPv6 correctness.
7990 The Tor 0.2.9.x release series is now marked as a long-term-support
7991 series. We intend to backport security fixes to 0.2.9.x until at
7992 least January of 2020.
7994 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, 0.3.0.3-alpha):
7995 - During voting, when marking a relay as a probable sybil, do not
7996 clear its BadExit flag: sybils can still be bad in other ways
7997 too. (We still clear the other flags.) Fixes bug 21108; bugfix
8000 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 Exits, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
8001 - Stop rejecting all IPv6 traffic on Exits whose exit policy rejects
8002 any IPv6 addresses. Instead, only reject a port over IPv6 if the
8003 exit policy rejects that port on more than an IPv6 /16 of
8004 addresses. This bug was made worse by 17027 in 0.2.8.1-alpha,
8005 which rejected a relay's own IPv6 address by default. Fixes bug
8006 21357; bugfix on commit 004f3f4e53 in 0.2.4.7-alpha.
8008 o Major bugfixes (parsing, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
8009 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
8010 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
8011 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
8012 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
8013 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
8014 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
8016 o Minor features (directory authorities, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
8017 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors that claim to be
8018 malformed versions of Tor. Helps prevent exploitation of
8020 - Reject version numbers with components that exceed INT32_MAX.
8021 Otherwise 32-bit and 64-bit platforms would behave inconsistently.
8022 Fixes bug 21450; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
8024 o Minor features (geoip):
8025 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
8028 o Minor features (portability, compilation, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
8029 - Autoconf now checks to determine if OpenSSL structures are opaque,
8030 instead of explicitly checking for OpenSSL version numbers. Part
8032 - Support building with recent LibreSSL code that uses opaque
8033 structures. Closes ticket 21359.
8035 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
8036 - Repair a couple of (unreachable or harmless) cases of the risky
8037 comparison-by-subtraction pattern that caused bug 21278.
8039 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
8040 - The tor-resolve command line tool now rejects hostnames over 255
8041 characters in length. Previously, it would silently truncate them,
8042 which could lead to bugs. Fixes bug 21280; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
8043 Patch by "junglefowl".
8046 Changes in version 0.3.0.3-alpha - 2017-02-03
8047 Tor 0.3.0.3-alpha fixes a few significant bugs introduced over the
8048 0.3.0.x development series, including some that could cause
8049 authorities to behave badly. There is also a fix for a longstanding
8050 bug that could prevent IPv6 exits from working. Tor 0.3.0.3-alpha also
8051 includes some smaller features and bugfixes.
8053 The Tor 0.3.0.x release series is now in patch-freeze: no additional
8054 features will be considered for inclusion in 0.3.0.x. We suspect that
8055 some bugs will probably remain, however, and we encourage people to
8058 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
8059 - During voting, when marking a relay as a probable sybil, do not
8060 clear its BadExit flag: sybils can still be bad in other ways
8061 too. (We still clear the other flags.) Fixes bug 21108; bugfix
8063 - When deciding whether we have just found a router to be reachable,
8064 do not penalize it for not having performed an Ed25519 link
8065 handshake if it does not claim to support an Ed25519 handshake.
8066 Previously, we would treat such relays as non-running. Fixes bug
8067 21107; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8069 o Major bugfixes (entry guards):
8070 - Stop trying to build circuits through entry guards for which we
8071 have no descriptor. Also, stop crashing in the case that we *do*
8072 accidentally try to build a circuit in such a state. Fixes bug
8073 21242; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8075 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 Exits):
8076 - Stop rejecting all IPv6 traffic on Exits whose exit policy rejects
8077 any IPv6 addresses. Instead, only reject a port over IPv6 if the
8078 exit policy rejects that port on more than an IPv6 /16 of
8079 addresses. This bug was made worse by 17027 in 0.2.8.1-alpha,
8080 which rejected a relay's own IPv6 address by default. Fixes bug
8081 21357; bugfix on commit 004f3f4e53 in 0.2.4.7-alpha.
8083 o Minor feature (client):
8084 - Enable IPv6 traffic on the SocksPort by default. To disable this,
8085 a user will have to specify "NoIPv6Traffic". Closes ticket 21269.
8087 o Minor feature (fallback scripts):
8088 - Add a check_existing mode to updateFallbackDirs.py, which checks
8089 if fallbacks in the hard-coded list are working. Closes ticket
8090 20174. Patch by haxxpop.
8092 o Minor features (ciphersuite selection):
8093 - Clients now advertise a list of ciphersuites closer to the ones
8094 preferred by Firefox. Closes part of ticket 15426.
8095 - Allow relays to accept a wider range of ciphersuites, including
8096 chacha20-poly1305 and AES-CCM. Closes the other part of 15426.
8098 o Minor features (controller, configuration):
8099 - Each of the *Port options, such as SocksPort, ORPort, ControlPort,
8100 and so on, now comes with a __*Port variant that will not be saved
8101 to the torrc file by the controller's SAVECONF command. This
8102 change allows TorBrowser to set up a single-use domain socket for
8103 each time it launches Tor. Closes ticket 20956.
8104 - The GETCONF command can now query options that may only be
8105 meaningful in context-sensitive lists. This allows the controller
8106 to query the mixed SocksPort/__SocksPort style options introduced
8107 in feature 20956. Implements ticket 21300.
8109 o Minor features (portability, compilation):
8110 - Autoconf now checks to determine if OpenSSL structures are opaque,
8111 instead of explicitly checking for OpenSSL version numbers. Part
8113 - Support building with recent LibreSSL code that uses opaque
8114 structures. Closes ticket 21359.
8116 o Minor features (relay):
8117 - We now allow separation of exit and relay traffic to different
8118 source IP addresses, using the OutboundBindAddressExit and
8119 OutboundBindAddressOR options respectively. Closes ticket 17975.
8120 Written by Michael Sonntag.
8122 o Minor bugfix (logging):
8123 - Don't recommend the use of Tor2web in non-anonymous mode.
8124 Recommending Tor2web is a bad idea because the client loses all
8125 anonymity. Tor2web should only be used in specific cases by users
8126 who *know* and understand the issues. Fixes bug 21294; bugfix
8129 o Minor bugfixes (client):
8130 - Always recover from failures in extend_info_from_node(), in an
8131 attempt to prevent any recurrence of bug 21242. Fixes bug 21372;
8132 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
8134 o Minor bugfixes (client, entry guards):
8135 - Fix a bug warning (with backtrace) when we fail a channel that
8136 circuits to fallback directories on it. Fixes bug 21128; bugfix
8138 - Fix a spurious bug warning (with backtrace) when removing an
8139 expired entry guard. Fixes bug 21129; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8140 - Fix a bug of the new guard algorithm where tor could stall for up
8141 to 10 minutes before retrying a guard after a long period of no
8142 network. Fixes bug 21052; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8143 - Do not try to build circuits until we have descriptors for our
8144 primary entry guards. Related to fix for bug 21242.
8146 o Minor bugfixes (configure, autoconf):
8147 - Rename the configure option --enable-expensive-hardening to
8148 --enable-fragile-hardening. Expensive hardening makes the tor
8149 daemon abort when some kinds of issues are detected. Thus, it
8150 makes tor more at risk of remote crashes but safer against RCE or
8151 heartbleed bug category. We now try to explain this issue in a
8152 message from the configure script. Fixes bug 21290; bugfix
8155 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
8156 - Restore the (deprecated) DROPGUARDS controller command. Fixes bug
8157 20824; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8159 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
8160 - Clean up the code for expiring intro points with no associated
8161 circuits. It was causing, rarely, a service with some expiring
8162 introduction points to not open enough additional introduction
8163 points. Fixes part of bug 21302; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
8164 - Stop setting the torrc option HiddenServiceStatistics to "0" just
8165 because we're not a bridge or relay. Instead, we preserve whatever
8166 value the user set (or didn't set). Fixes bug 21150; bugfix
8168 - Resolve two possible underflows which could lead to creating and
8169 closing a lot of introduction point circuits in a non-stop loop.
8170 Fixes bug 21302; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
8172 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
8173 - Use "OpenBSD" compiler macro instead of "OPENBSD" or "__OpenBSD__".
8174 It is supported by OpenBSD itself, and also by most OpenBSD
8175 variants (such as Bitrig). Fixes bug 20980; bugfix
8177 - When mapping a file of length greater than SIZE_MAX, do not
8178 silently truncate its contents. This issue could occur on 32 bit
8179 systems with large file support and files which are larger than 4
8180 GB. Fixes bug 21134; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8182 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve):
8183 - The tor-resolve command line tool now rejects hostnames over 255
8184 characters in length. Previously, it would silently truncate them,
8185 which could lead to bugs. Fixes bug 21280; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
8186 Patch by "junglefowl".
8188 o Minor bugfixes (Windows services):
8189 - Be sure to initialize the monotonic time subsystem before using
8190 it, even when running as an NT service. Fixes bug 21356; bugfix
8194 Changes in version 0.3.0.2-alpha - 2017-01-23
8195 Tor 0.3.0.2-alpha fixes a denial-of-service bug where an attacker could
8196 cause relays and clients to crash, even if they were not built with
8197 the --enable-expensive-hardening option. This bug affects all 0.2.9.x
8198 versions, and also affects 0.3.0.1-alpha: all relays running an affected
8199 version should upgrade.
8201 Tor 0.3.0.2-alpha also improves how exit relays and clients handle DNS
8202 time-to-live values, makes directory authorities enforce the 1-to-1
8203 mapping of relay RSA identity keys to ED25519 identity keys, fixes a
8204 client-side onion service reachability bug, does better at selecting
8205 the set of fallback directories, and more.
8207 o Major bugfixes (security, also in 0.2.9.9):
8208 - Downgrade the "-ftrapv" option from "always on" to "only on when
8209 --enable-expensive-hardening is provided." This hardening option, like
8210 others, can turn survivable bugs into crashes--and having it on by
8211 default made a (relatively harmless) integer overflow bug into a
8212 denial-of-service bug. Fixes bug 21278 (TROVE-2017-001); bugfix on
8215 o Major features (security):
8216 - Change the algorithm used to decide DNS TTLs on client and server
8217 side, to better resist DNS-based correlation attacks like the
8218 DefecTor attack of Greschbach, Pulls, Roberts, Winter, and
8219 Feamster. Now relays only return one of two possible DNS TTL
8220 values, and clients are willing to believe DNS TTL values up to 3
8221 hours long. Closes ticket 19769.
8223 o Major features (directory authority, security):
8224 - The default for AuthDirPinKeys is now 1: directory authorities
8225 will reject relays where the RSA identity key matches a previously
8226 seen value, but the Ed25519 key has changed. Closes ticket 18319.
8228 o Major bugfixes (client, guard, crash):
8229 - In circuit_get_global_origin_list(), return the actual list of
8230 origin circuits. The previous version of this code returned the
8231 list of all the circuits, and could have caused strange bugs,
8232 including possible crashes. Fixes bug 21118; bugfix
8235 o Major bugfixes (client, onion service, also in 0.2.9.9):
8236 - Fix a client-side onion service reachability bug, where multiple
8237 socks requests to an onion service (or a single slow request)
8238 could cause us to mistakenly mark some of the service's
8239 introduction points as failed, and we cache that failure so
8240 eventually we run out and can't reach the service. Also resolves a
8241 mysterious "Remote server sent bogus reason code 65021" log
8242 warning. The bug was introduced in ticket 17218, where we tried to
8243 remember the circuit end reason as a uint16_t, which mangled
8244 negative values. Partially fixes bug 21056 and fixes bug 20307;
8245 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
8247 o Major bugfixes (DNS):
8248 - Fix a bug that prevented exit nodes from caching DNS records for
8249 more than 60 seconds. Fixes bug 19025; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
8251 o Minor features (controller):
8252 - Add "GETINFO sr/current" and "GETINFO sr/previous" keys, to expose
8253 shared-random values to the controller. Closes ticket 19925.
8255 o Minor features (entry guards):
8256 - Add UseEntryGuards to TEST_OPTIONS_DEFAULT_VALUES in order to not
8257 break regression tests.
8258 - Require UseEntryGuards when UseBridges is set, in order to make
8259 sure bridges aren't bypassed. Resolves ticket 20502.
8261 o Minor features (fallback directories):
8262 - Select 200 fallback directories for each release. Closes
8264 - Allow 3 fallback relays per operator, which is safe now that we
8265 are choosing 200 fallback relays. Closes ticket 20912.
8266 - Exclude relays affected by bug 20499 from the fallback list.
8267 Exclude relays from the fallback list if they are running versions
8268 known to be affected by bug 20499, or if in our tests they deliver
8269 a stale consensus (i.e. one that expired more than 24 hours ago).
8270 Closes ticket 20539.
8271 - Reduce the minimum fallback bandwidth to 1 MByte/s. Part of
8273 - Require fallback directories to have the same address and port for
8274 7 days (now that we have enough relays with this stability).
8275 Relays whose OnionOO stability timer is reset on restart by bug
8276 18050 should upgrade to Tor 0.2.8.7 or later, which has a fix for
8277 this issue. Closes ticket 20880; maintains short-term fix
8279 - Require fallbacks to have flags for 90% of the time (weighted
8280 decaying average), rather than 95%. This allows at least 73% of
8281 clients to bootstrap in the first 5 seconds without contacting an
8282 authority. Part of ticket 18828.
8283 - Annotate updateFallbackDirs.py with the bandwidth and consensus
8284 weight for each candidate fallback. Closes ticket 20878.
8285 - Make it easier to change the output sort order of fallbacks.
8286 Closes ticket 20822.
8287 - Display the relay fingerprint when downloading consensuses from
8288 fallbacks. Closes ticket 20908.
8290 o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.9.9):
8291 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
8294 o Minor features (next-gen onion service directories):
8295 - Remove the "EnableOnionServicesV3" consensus parameter that we
8296 introduced in 0.3.0.1-alpha: relays are now always willing to act
8297 as v3 onion service directories. Resolves ticket 19899.
8299 o Minor features (linting):
8300 - Enhance the changes file linter to warn on Tor versions that are
8301 prefixed with "tor-". Closes ticket 21096.
8303 o Minor features (logging):
8304 - In several places, describe unset ed25519 keys as "<unset>",
8305 rather than the scary "AAAAAAAA...AAA". Closes ticket 21037.
8307 o Minor bugfix (control protocol):
8308 - The reply to a "GETINFO config/names" request via the control
8309 protocol now spells the type "Dependent" correctly. This is a
8310 breaking change in the control protocol. (The field seems to be
8311 ignored by the most common known controllers.) Fixes bug 18146;
8312 bugfix on 0.1.1.4-alpha.
8314 o Minor bugfixes (bug resilience):
8315 - Fix an unreachable size_t overflow in base64_decode(). Fixes bug
8316 19222; bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Found by Guido Vranken; fixed by
8317 Hans Jerry Illikainen.
8319 o Minor bugfixes (build):
8320 - Replace obsolete Autoconf macros with their modern equivalent and
8321 prevent similar issues in the future. Fixes bug 20990; bugfix
8324 o Minor bugfixes (client, guards):
8325 - Fix bug where Tor would think that there are circuits waiting for
8326 better guards even though those circuits have been freed. Fixes
8327 bug 21142; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8329 o Minor bugfixes (config):
8330 - Don't assert on startup when trying to get the options list and
8331 LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is set to 0: we are currently parsing the
8332 options so of course they aren't ready yet. Fixes bug 21062;
8333 bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
8335 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
8336 - Make the GETINFO interface for inquiring about entry guards
8337 support the new guards backend. Fixes bug 20823; bugfix
8340 o Minor bugfixes (dead code):
8341 - Remove a redundant check for PidFile changes at runtime in
8342 options_transition_allowed(): this check is already performed
8343 regardless of whether the sandbox is active. Fixes bug 21123;
8344 bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
8346 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
8347 - Update the tor manual page to document every option that can not
8348 be changed while tor is running. Fixes bug 21122.
8350 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
8351 - Stop failing when a relay has no uptime data in
8352 updateFallbackDirs.py. Fixes bug 20945; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
8353 - Avoid checking fallback candidates' DirPorts if they are down in
8354 OnionOO. When a relay operator has multiple relays, this
8355 prioritizes relays that are up over relays that are down. Fixes
8356 bug 20926; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
8357 - Stop failing when OUTPUT_COMMENTS is True in updateFallbackDirs.py.
8358 Fixes bug 20877; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
8360 o Minor bugfixes (guards, bootstrapping):
8361 - When connecting to a directory guard during bootstrap, do not mark
8362 the guard as successful until we receive a good-looking directory
8363 response from it. Fixes bug 20974; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8365 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
8366 - Fix the config reload pruning of old vs new services so it
8367 actually works when both ephemeral and non-ephemeral services are
8368 configured. Fixes bug 21054; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8369 - Allow the number of introduction points to be as low as 0, rather
8370 than as low as 3. Fixes bug 21033; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
8372 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
8373 - Make IPv6-using clients try harder to find an IPv6 directory
8374 server. Fixes bug 20999; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
8375 - When IPv6 addresses have not been downloaded yet (microdesc
8376 consensus documents don't list relay IPv6 addresses), use hard-
8377 coded addresses for authorities, fallbacks, and configured
8378 bridges. Now IPv6-only clients can use microdescriptors. Fixes bug
8379 20996; bugfix on b167e82 from 19608 in 0.2.8.5-alpha.
8381 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
8382 - Fix a memory leak when configuring hidden services. Fixes bug
8383 20987; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8385 o Minor bugfixes (portability, also in 0.2.9.9):
8386 - Avoid crashing when Tor is built using headers that contain
8387 CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, but then tries to run on an older kernel
8388 without CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE. Fixes bug 21035; bugfix
8390 - Fix Libevent detection on platforms without Libevent 1 headers
8391 installed. Fixes bug 21051; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
8393 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
8394 - Honor DataDirectoryGroupReadable when tor is a relay. Previously,
8395 initializing the keys would reset the DataDirectory to 0700
8396 instead of 0750 even if DataDirectoryGroupReadable was set to 1.
8397 Fixes bug 19953; bugfix on 0.0.2pre16. Patch by "redfish".
8399 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
8400 - Remove undefined behavior from the backtrace generator by removing
8401 its signal handler. Fixes bug 21026; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
8403 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
8404 - Allow the unit tests to pass even when DNS lookups of bogus
8405 addresses do not fail as expected. Fixes bug 20862 and 20863;
8406 bugfix on unit tests introduced in 0.2.8.1-alpha
8407 through 0.2.9.4-alpha.
8409 o Code simplification and refactoring:
8410 - Refactor code to manipulate global_origin_circuit_list into
8411 separate functions. Closes ticket 20921.
8413 o Documentation (formatting):
8414 - Clean up formatting of tor.1 man page and HTML doc, where <pre>
8415 blocks were incorrectly appearing. Closes ticket 20885.
8417 o Documentation (man page):
8418 - Clarify many options in tor.1 and add some min/max values for
8419 HiddenService options. Closes ticket 21058.
8422 Changes in version 0.2.9.9 - 2017-01-23
8423 Tor 0.2.9.9 fixes a denial-of-service bug where an attacker could
8424 cause relays and clients to crash, even if they were not built with
8425 the --enable-expensive-hardening option. This bug affects all 0.2.9.x
8426 versions, and also affects 0.3.0.1-alpha: all relays running an affected
8427 version should upgrade.
8429 This release also resolves a client-side onion service reachability
8430 bug, and resolves a pair of small portability issues.
8432 o Major bugfixes (security):
8433 - Downgrade the "-ftrapv" option from "always on" to "only on when
8434 --enable-expensive-hardening is provided." This hardening option,
8435 like others, can turn survivable bugs into crashes -- and having
8436 it on by default made a (relatively harmless) integer overflow bug
8437 into a denial-of-service bug. Fixes bug 21278 (TROVE-2017-001);
8438 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
8440 o Major bugfixes (client, onion service):
8441 - Fix a client-side onion service reachability bug, where multiple
8442 socks requests to an onion service (or a single slow request)
8443 could cause us to mistakenly mark some of the service's
8444 introduction points as failed, and we cache that failure so
8445 eventually we run out and can't reach the service. Also resolves a
8446 mysterious "Remote server sent bogus reason code 65021" log
8447 warning. The bug was introduced in ticket 17218, where we tried to
8448 remember the circuit end reason as a uint16_t, which mangled
8449 negative values. Partially fixes bug 21056 and fixes bug 20307;
8450 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
8452 o Minor features (geoip):
8453 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
8456 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
8457 - Avoid crashing when Tor is built using headers that contain
8458 CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, but then tries to run on an older kernel
8459 without CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE. Fixes bug 21035; bugfix
8461 - Fix Libevent detection on platforms without Libevent 1 headers
8462 installed. Fixes bug 21051; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
8465 Changes in version 0.3.0.1-alpha - 2016-12-19
8466 Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha is the first alpha release in the 0.3.0 development
8467 series. It strengthens Tor's link and circuit handshakes by
8468 identifying relays by their Ed25519 keys, improves the algorithm that
8469 clients use to choose and maintain their list of guards, and includes
8470 additional backend support for the next-generation hidden service
8471 design. It also contains numerous other small features and
8472 improvements to security, correctness, and performance.
8474 Below are the changes since 0.2.9.8.
8476 o Major features (guard selection algorithm):
8477 - Tor's guard selection algorithm has been redesigned from the
8478 ground up, to better support unreliable networks and restrictive
8479 sets of entry nodes, and to better resist guard-capture attacks by
8480 hostile local networks. Implements proposal 271; closes
8483 o Major features (next-generation hidden services):
8484 - Relays can now handle v3 ESTABLISH_INTRO cells as specified by
8485 prop224 aka "Next Generation Hidden Services". Service and clients
8486 don't use this functionality yet. Closes ticket 19043. Based on
8487 initial code by Alec Heifetz.
8488 - Relays now support the HSDir version 3 protocol, so that they can
8489 can store and serve v3 descriptors. This is part of the next-
8490 generation onion service work detailed in proposal 224. Closes
8493 o Major features (protocol, ed25519 identity keys):
8494 - Relays now use Ed25519 to prove their Ed25519 identities and to
8495 one another, and to clients. This algorithm is faster and more
8496 secure than the RSA-based handshake we've been doing until now.
8497 Implements the second big part of proposal 220; Closes
8499 - Clients now support including Ed25519 identity keys in the EXTEND2
8500 cells they generate. By default, this is controlled by a consensus
8501 parameter, currently disabled. You can turn this feature on for
8502 testing by setting ExtendByEd25519ID in your configuration. This
8503 might make your traffic appear different than the traffic
8504 generated by other users, however. Implements part of ticket
8505 15056; part of proposal 220.
8506 - Relays now understand requests to extend to other relays by their
8507 Ed25519 identity keys. When an Ed25519 identity key is included in
8508 an EXTEND2 cell, the relay will only extend the circuit if the
8509 other relay can prove ownership of that identity. Implements part
8510 of ticket 15056; part of proposal 220.
8512 o Major bugfixes (scheduler):
8513 - Actually compare circuit policies in ewma_cmp_cmux(). This bug
8514 caused the channel scheduler to behave more or less randomly,
8515 rather than preferring channels with higher-priority circuits.
8516 Fixes bug 20459; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
8518 o Minor features (controller):
8519 - When HSFETCH arguments cannot be parsed, say "Invalid argument"
8520 rather than "unrecognized." Closes ticket 20389; patch from
8523 o Minor features (diagnostic, directory client):
8524 - Warn when we find an unexpected inconsistency in directory
8525 download status objects. Prevents some negative consequences of
8528 o Minor features (directory authority):
8529 - Add a new authority-only AuthDirTestEd25519LinkKeys option (on by
8530 default) to control whether authorities should try to probe relays
8531 by their Ed25519 link keys. This option will go away in a few
8532 releases--unless we encounter major trouble in our ed25519 link
8533 protocol rollout, in which case it will serve as a safety option.
8535 o Minor features (directory cache):
8536 - Relays and bridges will now refuse to serve the consensus they
8537 have if they know it is too old for a client to use. Closes
8540 o Minor features (ed25519 link handshake):
8541 - Advertise support for the ed25519 link handshake using the
8542 subprotocol-versions mechanism, so that clients can tell which
8543 relays can identity themselves by Ed25519 ID. Closes ticket 20552.
8545 o Minor features (fingerprinting resistance, authentication):
8546 - Extend the length of RSA keys used for TLS link authentication to
8547 2048 bits. (These weren't used for forward secrecy; for forward
8548 secrecy, we used P256.) Closes ticket 13752.
8550 o Minor features (infrastructure):
8551 - Implement smartlist_add_strdup() function. Replaces the use of
8552 smartlist_add(sl, tor_strdup(str)). Closes ticket 20048.
8554 o Minor bugfixes (client):
8555 - When clients that use bridges start up with a cached consensus on
8556 disk, they were ignoring it and downloading a new one. Now they
8557 use the cached one. Fixes bug 20269; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
8559 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
8560 - Accept non-space whitespace characters after the severity level in
8561 the `Log` option. Fixes bug 19965; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
8562 - Support "TByte" and "TBytes" units in options given in bytes.
8563 "TB", "terabyte(s)", "TBit(s)" and "terabit(s)" were already
8564 supported. Fixes bug 20622; bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
8566 o Minor bugfixes (consensus weight):
8567 - Add new consensus method that initializes bw weights to 1 instead
8568 of 0. This prevents a zero weight from making it all the way to
8569 the end (happens in small testing networks) and causing an error.
8570 Fixes bug 14881; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
8572 o Minor bugfixes (descriptors):
8573 - Correctly recognise downloaded full descriptors as valid, even
8574 when using microdescriptors as circuits. This affects clients with
8575 FetchUselessDescriptors set, and may affect directory authorities.
8576 Fixes bug 20839; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
8578 o Minor bugfixes (directory system):
8579 - Download all consensus flavors, descriptors, and authority
8580 certificates when FetchUselessDescriptors is set, regardless of
8581 whether tor is a directory cache or not. Fixes bug 20667; bugfix
8582 on all recent tor versions.
8583 - Bridges and relays now use microdescriptors (like clients do)
8584 rather than old-style router descriptors. Now bridges will blend
8585 in with clients in terms of the circuits they build. Fixes bug
8586 6769; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
8588 o Minor bugfixes (ed25519 certificates):
8589 - Correctly interpret ed25519 certificates that would expire some
8590 time after 19 Jan 2038. Fixes bug 20027; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
8592 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
8593 - Stop ignoring misconfigured hidden services. Instead, refuse to
8594 start tor until the misconfigurations have been corrected. Fixes
8595 bug 20559; bugfix on multiple commits in 0.2.7.1-alpha
8598 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak at exit):
8599 - Fix a small harmless memory leak at exit of the previously unused
8600 RSA->Ed identity cross-certificate. Fixes bug 17779; bugfix
8603 o Minor bugfixes (util):
8604 - When finishing writing a file to disk, if we were about to replace
8605 the file with the temporary file created before and we fail to
8606 replace it, remove the temporary file so it doesn't stay on disk.
8607 Fixes bug 20646; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Patch by fk.
8609 o Minor bugfixes (Windows):
8610 - Check for getpagesize before using it to mmap files. This fixes
8611 compilation in some MinGW environments. Fixes bug 20530; bugfix on
8612 0.1.2.1-alpha. Reported by "ice".
8614 o Code simplification and refactoring:
8615 - Abolish all global guard context in entrynodes.c; replace with new
8616 guard_selection_t structure as preparation for proposal 271.
8617 Closes ticket 19858.
8618 - Introduce rend_service_is_ephemeral() that tells if given onion
8619 service is ephemeral. Replace unclear NULL-checkings for service
8620 directory with this function. Closes ticket 20526.
8621 - Extract magic numbers in circuituse.c into defined variables.
8622 - Refactor circuit_is_available_for_use to remove unnecessary check.
8623 - Refactor circuit_predict_and_launch_new for readability and
8624 testability. Closes ticket 18873.
8625 - Refactor large if statement in purpose_needs_anonymity to use
8626 switch statement instead. Closes part of ticket 20077.
8627 - Refactor the hashing API to return negative values for errors, as
8628 is done as throughout the codebase. Closes ticket 20717.
8629 - Remove data structures that were used to index or_connection
8630 objects by their RSA identity digests. These structures are fully
8631 redundant with the similar structures used in the
8632 channel abstraction.
8633 - Remove duplicate code in the channel_write_*cell() functions.
8634 Closes ticket 13827; patch from Pingl.
8635 - Remove redundant behavior of is_sensitive_dir_purpose, refactor to
8636 use only purpose_needs_anonymity. Closes part of ticket 20077.
8637 - The code to generate and parse EXTEND and EXTEND2 cells has been
8638 replaced with code automatically generated by the
8642 - Include the "TBits" unit in Tor's man page. Fixes part of bug
8643 20622; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
8644 - Change '1' to 'weight_scale' in consensus bw weights calculation
8645 comments, as that is reality. Closes ticket 20273. Patch
8647 - Correct the value for AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee in the manpage, from
8648 250 KBytes to 2 MBytes. Fixes bug 20435; bugfix
8650 - Stop the man page from incorrectly stating that HiddenServiceDir
8651 must already exist. Fixes 20486.
8652 - Clarify that when ClientRejectInternalAddresses is enabled (which
8653 is the default), multicast DNS hostnames for machines on the local
8654 network (of the form *.local) are also rejected. Closes
8658 - The AuthDirMaxServersPerAuthAddr option no longer exists: The same
8659 limit for relays running on a single IP applies to authority IP
8660 addresses as well as to non-authority IP addresses. Closes
8662 - The UseDirectoryGuards torrc option no longer exists: all users
8663 that use entry guards will also use directory guards. Related to
8664 proposal 271; implements part of ticket 20831.
8667 - New unit tests for tor_htonll(). Closes ticket 19563. Patch
8668 from "overcaffeinated".
8669 - Perform the coding style checks when running the tests and fail
8670 when coding style violations are found. Closes ticket 5500.
8671 - Add tests for networkstatus_compute_bw_weights_v10.
8672 - Add unit tests circuit_predict_and_launch_new.
8673 - Extract dummy_origin_circuit_new so it can be used by other
8677 Changes in version 0.2.8.12 - 2016-12-19
8678 Tor 0.2.8.12 backports a fix for a medium-severity issue (bug 21018
8679 below) where Tor clients could crash when attempting to visit a
8680 hostile hidden service. Clients are recommended to upgrade as packages
8681 become available for their systems.
8683 It also includes an updated list of fallback directories, backported
8686 Now that the Tor 0.2.9 series is stable, only major bugfixes will be
8687 backported to 0.2.8 in the future.
8689 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backported from 0.2.9.8):
8690 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
8691 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
8692 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
8693 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
8694 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
8695 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
8696 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
8697 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
8699 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backported from 0.2.9.8):
8700 - Replace the 81 remaining fallbacks of the 100 originally
8701 introduced in Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha in March 2016, with a list of 177
8702 fallbacks (123 new, 54 existing, 27 removed) generated in December
8703 2016. Resolves ticket 20170.
8705 o Minor features (geoip, backported from 0.2.9.7-rc):
8706 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
8710 Changes in version 0.2.9.8 - 2016-12-19
8711 Tor 0.2.9.8 is the first stable release of the Tor 0.2.9 series.
8713 The Tor 0.2.9 series makes mandatory a number of security features
8714 that were formerly optional. It includes support for a new shared-
8715 randomness protocol that will form the basis for next generation
8716 hidden services, includes a single-hop hidden service mode for
8717 optimizing .onion services that don't actually want to be hidden,
8718 tries harder not to overload the directory authorities with excessive
8719 downloads, and supports a better protocol versioning scheme for
8720 improved compatibility with other implementations of the Tor protocol.
8722 And of course, there are numerous other bugfixes and improvements.
8724 This release also includes a fix for a medium-severity issue (bug
8725 21018 below) where Tor clients could crash when attempting to visit a
8726 hostile hidden service. Clients are recommended to upgrade as packages
8727 become available for their systems.
8729 Below are the changes since 0.2.9.7-rc. For a list of all changes
8730 since 0.2.8, see the ReleaseNotes file.
8732 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security):
8733 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
8734 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
8735 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
8736 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
8737 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
8738 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
8739 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
8740 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
8742 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
8743 - Replace the 81 remaining fallbacks of the 100 originally
8744 introduced in Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha in March 2016, with a list of 177
8745 fallbacks (123 new, 54 existing, 27 removed) generated in December
8746 2016. Resolves ticket 20170.
8749 Changes in version 0.2.9.7-rc - 2016-12-12
8750 Tor 0.2.9.7-rc fixes a few small bugs remaining in Tor 0.2.9.6-rc,
8751 including a few that had prevented tests from passing on
8754 o Minor features (geoip):
8755 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
8758 o Minor bugfix (build):
8759 - The current Git revision when building from a local repository is
8760 now detected correctly when using git worktrees. Fixes bug 20492;
8761 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
8763 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
8764 - When computing old Tor protocol line version in protover, we were
8765 looking at 0.2.7.5 twice instead of a specific case for
8766 0.2.9.1-alpha. Fixes bug 20810; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
8768 o Minor bugfixes (download scheduling):
8769 - Resolve a "bug" warning when considering a download schedule whose
8770 delay had approached INT_MAX. Fixes 20875; bugfix on 0.2.9.5-alpha.
8772 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
8773 - Downgrade a harmless log message about the
8774 pending_entry_connections list from "warn" to "info". Mitigates
8777 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
8778 - Fix a small memory leak when receiving AF_UNIX connections on a
8779 SocksPort. Fixes bug 20716; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
8780 - When moving a signed descriptor object from a source to an
8781 existing destination, free the allocated memory inside that
8782 destination object. Fixes bug 20715; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
8784 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, use-after-free, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
8785 - Fix a memory leak and use-after-free error when removing entries
8786 from the sandbox's getaddrinfo() cache. Fixes bug 20710; bugfix on
8787 0.2.5.5-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
8789 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
8790 - Use the correct spelling of MAC_OS_X_VERSION_10_12 on configure.ac
8791 Fixes bug 20935; bugfix on 0.2.9.6-rc.
8793 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
8794 - Stop expecting NetBSD unit tests to report success for ipfw. Part
8795 of a fix for bug 19960; bugfix on 0.2.9.5-alpha.
8796 - Fix tolerances in unit tests for monotonic time comparisons
8797 between nanoseconds and microseconds. Previously, we accepted a 10
8798 us difference only, which is not realistic on every platform's
8799 clock_gettime(). Fixes bug 19974; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
8800 - Remove a double-free in the single onion service unit test. Stop
8801 ignoring a return value. Make future changes less error-prone.
8802 Fixes bug 20864; bugfix on 0.2.9.6-rc.
8805 Changes in version 0.2.8.11 - 2016-12-08
8806 Tor 0.2.8.11 backports fixes for additional portability issues that
8807 could prevent Tor from building correctly on OSX Sierra, or with
8808 OpenSSL 1.1. Affected users should upgrade; others can safely stay
8811 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
8812 - Avoid compilation errors when building on OSX Sierra. Sierra began
8813 to support the getentropy() and clock_gettime() APIs, but created
8814 a few problems in doing so. Tor 0.2.9 has a more thorough set of
8815 workarounds; in 0.2.8, we are just using the /dev/urandom and mach
8816 monotonic time interfaces. Fixes bug 20865. Bugfix
8819 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
8820 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 1.1 and less commonly-used CPU
8821 architectures. Closes ticket 20588.
8824 Changes in version 0.2.8.10 - 2016-12-02
8825 Tor 0.2.8.10 backports a fix for a bug that would sometimes make clients
8826 unusable after they left standby mode. It also backports fixes for
8827 a few portability issues and a small but problematic memory leak.
8829 o Major bugfixes (client reliability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
8830 - When Tor leaves standby because of a new application request, open
8831 circuits as needed to serve that request. Previously, we would
8832 potentially wait a very long time. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
8835 o Major bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
8836 - Clients now respond to new application stream requests immediately
8837 when they arrive, rather than waiting up to one second before
8838 starting to handle them. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
8841 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.6-rc):
8842 - Work around a bug in the OSX 10.12 SDK that would prevent us from
8843 successfully targeting earlier versions of OSX. Resolves
8846 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
8847 - Fix implicit conversion warnings under OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug
8848 20551; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
8850 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
8851 - Work around a memory leak in OpenSSL 1.1 when encoding public
8852 keys. Fixes bug 20553; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
8854 o Minor features (geoip):
8855 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
8858 Changes in version 0.2.9.6-rc - 2016-12-02
8859 Tor 0.2.9.6-rc fixes a few remaining bugs found in the previous alpha
8860 version. We hope that it will be ready to become stable soon, and we
8861 encourage everyone to test this release. If no showstopper bugs are
8862 found here, the next 0.2.9 release will be stable.
8864 o Major bugfixes (relay, resolver, logging):
8865 - For relays that don't know their own address, avoid attempting a
8866 local hostname resolve for each descriptor we download. This
8867 will cut down on the number of "Success: chose address 'x.x.x.x'"
8868 log lines, and also avoid confusing clock jumps if the resolver
8869 is slow. Fixes bugs 20423 and 20610; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
8871 o Minor bugfixes (client, fascistfirewall):
8872 - Avoid spurious warnings when ReachableAddresses or FascistFirewall
8873 is set. Fixes bug 20306; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
8875 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
8876 - Stop ignoring the anonymity status of saved keys for hidden
8877 services and single onion services when first starting tor.
8878 Instead, refuse to start tor if any hidden service key has been
8879 used in a different hidden service anonymity mode. Fixes bug
8880 20638; bugfix on 17178 in 0.2.9.3-alpha; reported by ahf.
8882 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
8883 - Work around a bug in the OSX 10.12 SDK that would prevent us from
8884 successfully targeting earlier versions of OSX. Resolves
8886 - Run correctly when built on Windows build environments that
8887 require _vcsprintf(). Fixes bug 20560; bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
8889 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web):
8890 - Stop complaining about long-term one-hop circuits deliberately
8891 created by single onion services and Tor2web. These log messages
8892 are intended to diagnose issue 8387, which relates to circuits
8893 hanging around forever for no reason. Fixes bug 20613; bugfix on
8894 0.2.9.1-alpha. Reported by "pastly".
8896 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
8897 - Stop spurious failures in the local interface address discovery
8898 unit tests. Fixes bug 20634; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha; patch by
8902 - Correct the minimum bandwidth value in torrc.sample, and queue a
8903 corresponding change for torrc.minimal. Closes ticket 20085.
8906 Changes in version 0.2.9.5-alpha - 2016-11-08
8907 Tor 0.2.9.5-alpha fixes numerous bugs discovered in the previous alpha
8908 version. We believe one or two probably remain, and we encourage
8909 everyone to test this release.
8911 o Major bugfixes (client performance):
8912 - Clients now respond to new application stream requests immediately
8913 when they arrive, rather than waiting up to one second before
8914 starting to handle them. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
8917 o Major bugfixes (client reliability):
8918 - When Tor leaves standby because of a new application request, open
8919 circuits as needed to serve that request. Previously, we would
8920 potentially wait a very long time. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
8923 o Major bugfixes (download scheduling):
8924 - When using an exponential backoff schedule, do not give up on
8925 downloading just because we have failed a bunch of times. Since
8926 each delay is longer than the last, retrying indefinitely won't
8927 hurt. Fixes bug 20536; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
8928 - If a consensus expires while we are waiting for certificates to
8929 download, stop waiting for certificates.
8930 - If we stop waiting for certificates less than a minute after we
8931 started downloading them, do not consider the certificate download
8932 failure a separate failure. Fixes bug 20533; bugfix
8934 - Remove the maximum delay on exponential-backoff scheduling. Since
8935 we now allow an infinite number of failures (see ticket 20536), we
8936 must now allow the time to grow longer on each failure. Fixes part
8937 of bug 20534; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
8938 - Make our initial download delays closer to those from 0.2.8. Fixes
8939 another part of bug 20534; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
8940 - When determining when to download a directory object, handle times
8941 after 2038 if the operating system supports them. (Someday this
8942 will be important!) Fixes bug 20587; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
8943 - When using exponential backoff in test networks, use a lower
8944 exponent, so the delays do not vary as much. This helps test
8945 networks bootstrap consistently. Fixes bug 20597; bugfix on 20499.
8947 o Minor features (geoip):
8948 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
8951 o Minor bugfixes (client directory scheduling):
8952 - Treat "relay too busy to answer request" as a failed request and a
8953 reason to back off on our retry frequency. This is safe now that
8954 exponential backoffs retry indefinitely, and avoids a bug where we
8955 would reset our download schedule erroneously. Fixes bug 20593;
8956 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
8958 o Minor bugfixes (client, logging):
8959 - Remove a BUG warning in circuit_pick_extend_handshake(). Instead,
8960 assume all nodes support EXTEND2. Use ntor whenever a key is
8961 available. Fixes bug 20472; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
8962 - On DNSPort, stop logging a BUG warning on a failed hostname
8963 lookup. Fixes bug 19869; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
8965 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
8966 - When configuring hidden services, check every hidden service
8967 directory's permissions. Previously, we only checked the last
8968 hidden service. Fixes bug 20529; bugfix the work to fix 13942
8971 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
8972 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 1.1 and less commonly-used CPU
8973 architectures. Closes ticket 20588.
8974 - Use ECDHE ciphers instead of ECDH in tortls tests. LibreSSL has
8975 removed the ECDH ciphers which caused the tests to fail on
8976 platforms which use it. Fixes bug 20460; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
8977 - Fix implicit conversion warnings under OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug
8978 20551; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
8980 o Minor bugfixes (relay bootstrap):
8981 - Ensure relays don't make multiple connections during bootstrap.
8982 Fixes bug 20591; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
8984 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
8985 - Work around a memory leak in OpenSSL 1.1 when encoding public
8986 keys. Fixes bug 20553; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
8987 - Avoid a small memory leak when informing worker threads about
8988 rotated onion keys. Fixes bug 20401; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
8989 - Do not try to parallelize workers more than 16x without the user
8990 explicitly configuring us to do so, even if we do detect more than
8991 16 CPU cores. Fixes bug 19968; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
8993 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services):
8994 - Start correctly when creating a single onion service in a
8995 directory that did not previously exist. Fixes bug 20484; bugfix
8998 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
8999 - Avoid a unit test failure on systems with over 16 detectable CPU
9000 cores. Fixes bug 19968; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
9003 - Clarify that setting HiddenServiceNonAnonymousMode requires you to
9004 also set "SOCKSPort 0". Fixes bug 20487; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
9005 - Module-level documentation for several more modules. Closes
9006 tickets 19287 and 19290.
9009 Changes in version 0.2.8.9 - 2016-10-17
9010 Tor 0.2.8.9 backports a fix for a security hole in previous versions
9011 of Tor that would allow a remote attacker to crash a Tor client,
9012 hidden service, relay, or authority. All Tor users should upgrade to
9013 this version, or to 0.2.9.4-alpha. Patches will be released for older
9016 o Major features (security fixes, also in 0.2.9.4-alpha):
9017 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
9018 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
9019 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
9020 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
9021 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
9022 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
9023 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
9024 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
9026 o Minor features (geoip):
9027 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
9031 Changes in version 0.2.9.4-alpha - 2016-10-17
9032 Tor 0.2.9.4-alpha fixes a security hole in previous versions of Tor
9033 that would allow a remote attacker to crash a Tor client, hidden
9034 service, relay, or authority. All Tor users should upgrade to this
9035 version, or to 0.2.8.9. Patches will be released for older versions
9038 Tor 0.2.9.4-alpha also adds numerous small features and fix-ups to
9039 previous versions of Tor, including the implementation of a feature to
9040 future- proof the Tor ecosystem against protocol changes, some bug
9041 fixes necessary for Tor Browser to use unix domain sockets correctly,
9042 and several portability improvements. We anticipate that this will be
9043 the last alpha in the Tor 0.2.9 series, and that the next release will
9044 be a release candidate.
9046 o Major features (security fixes):
9047 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
9048 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
9049 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
9050 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
9051 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
9052 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
9053 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
9054 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
9056 o Major features (subprotocol versions):
9057 - Tor directory authorities now vote on a set of recommended
9058 subprotocol versions, and on a set of required subprotocol
9059 versions. Clients and relays that lack support for a _required_
9060 subprotocol version will not start; those that lack support for a
9061 _recommended_ subprotocol version will warn the user to upgrade.
9062 Closes ticket 19958; implements part of proposal 264.
9063 - Tor now uses "subprotocol versions" to indicate compatibility.
9064 Previously, versions of Tor looked at the declared Tor version of
9065 a relay to tell whether they could use a given feature. Now, they
9066 should be able to rely on its declared subprotocol versions. This
9067 change allows compatible implementations of the Tor protocol(s) to
9068 exist without pretending to be 100% bug-compatible with particular
9069 releases of Tor itself. Closes ticket 19958; implements part of
9072 o Minor feature (fallback directories):
9073 - Remove broken fallbacks from the hard-coded fallback directory
9074 list. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor.
9076 o Minor features (client, directory):
9077 - Since authorities now omit all routers that lack the Running and
9078 Valid flags, we assume that any relay listed in the consensus must
9079 have those flags. Closes ticket 20001; implements part of
9082 o Minor features (compilation, portability):
9083 - Compile correctly on MacOS 10.12 (aka "Sierra"). Closes
9086 o Minor features (development tools, etags):
9087 - Teach the "make tags" Makefile target how to correctly find
9088 "MOCK_IMPL" function definitions. Patch from nherring; closes
9091 o Minor features (geoip):
9092 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
9095 o Minor features (unix domain sockets):
9096 - When configuring a unix domain socket for a SocksPort,
9097 ControlPort, or Hidden service, you can now wrap the address in
9098 quotes, using C-style escapes inside the quotes. This allows unix
9099 domain socket paths to contain spaces.
9101 o Minor features (virtual addresses):
9102 - Increase the maximum number of bits for the IPv6 virtual network
9103 prefix from 16 to 104. In this way, the condition for address
9104 allocation is less restrictive. Closes ticket 20151; feature
9107 o Minor bugfixes (address discovery):
9108 - Stop reordering IP addresses returned by the OS. This makes it
9109 more likely that Tor will guess the same relay IP address every
9110 time. Fixes issue 20163; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha, ticket 17027.
9111 Reported by René Mayrhofer, patch by "cypherpunks".
9113 o Minor bugfixes (client, unix domain sockets):
9114 - Disable IsolateClientAddr when using AF_UNIX backed SocksPorts as
9115 the client address is meaningless. Fixes bug 20261; bugfix
9118 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, OpenBSD):
9119 - Detect Libevent2 functions correctly on systems that provide
9120 libevent2, but where libevent1 is linked with -levent. Fixes bug
9121 19904; bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha. Patch from Rubiate.
9123 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
9124 - When parsing quoted configuration values from the torrc file,
9125 handle windows line endings correctly. Fixes bug 19167; bugfix on
9126 0.2.0.16-alpha. Patch from "Pingl".
9128 o Minor bugfixes (getpass):
9129 - Defensively fix a non-triggerable heap corruption at do_getpass()
9130 to protect ourselves from mistakes in the future. Fixes bug
9131 19223; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Bug found by Guido Vranken, patch
9134 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
9135 - Allow hidden services to run on IPv6 addresses even when the
9136 IPv6Exit option is not set. Fixes bug 18357; bugfix
9140 - Add module-level internal documentation for 36 C files that
9141 previously didn't have a high-level overview. Closes ticket #20385.
9143 o Required libraries:
9144 - When building with OpenSSL, Tor now requires version 1.0.1 or
9145 later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 and earlier are no longer supported by the
9146 OpenSSL team, and should not be used. Closes ticket 20303.
9149 Changes in version 0.2.9.3-alpha - 2016-09-23
9150 Tor 0.2.9.3-alpha adds improved support for entities that want to make
9151 high-performance services available through the Tor .onion mechanism
9152 without themselves receiving anonymity as they host those services. It
9153 also tries harder to ensure that all steps on a circuit are using the
9154 strongest crypto possible, strengthens some TLS properties, and
9155 resolves several bugs -- including a pair of crash bugs from the 0.2.8
9156 series. Anybody running an earlier version of 0.2.9.x should upgrade.
9158 o Major bugfixes (crash, also in 0.2.8.8):
9159 - Fix a complicated crash bug that could affect Tor clients
9160 configured to use bridges when replacing a networkstatus consensus
9161 in which one of their bridges was mentioned. OpenBSD users saw
9162 more crashes here, but all platforms were potentially affected.
9163 Fixes bug 20103; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
9165 o Major bugfixes (relay, OOM handler, also in 0.2.8.8):
9166 - Fix a timing-dependent assertion failure that could occur when we
9167 tried to flush from a circuit after having freed its cells because
9168 of an out-of-memory condition. Fixes bug 20203; bugfix on
9169 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to "cypherpunks" for help diagnosing
9172 o Major features (circuit building, security):
9173 - Authorities, relays and clients now require ntor keys in all
9174 descriptors, for all hops (except for rare hidden service protocol
9175 cases), for all circuits, and for all other roles. Part of
9177 - Tor authorities, relays, and clients only use ntor, except for
9178 rare cases in the hidden service protocol. Part of ticket 19163.
9180 o Major features (single-hop "hidden" services):
9181 - Add experimental HiddenServiceSingleHopMode and
9182 HiddenServiceNonAnonymousMode options. When both are set to 1,
9183 every hidden service on a Tor instance becomes a non-anonymous
9184 Single Onion Service. Single Onions make one-hop (direct)
9185 connections to their introduction and renzedvous points. One-hop
9186 circuits make Single Onion servers easily locatable, but clients
9187 remain location-anonymous. This is compatible with the existing
9188 hidden service implementation, and works on the current tor
9189 network without any changes to older relays or clients. Implements
9190 proposal 260, completes ticket 17178. Patch by teor and asn.
9192 o Major features (resource management):
9193 - Tor can now notice it is about to run out of sockets, and
9194 preemptively close connections of lower priority. (This feature is
9195 off by default for now, since the current prioritizing method is
9196 yet not mature enough. You can enable it by setting
9197 "DisableOOSCheck 0", but watch out: it might close some sockets
9198 you would rather have it keep.) Closes ticket 18640.
9200 o Major bugfixes (circuit building):
9201 - Hidden service client-to-intro-point and service-to-rendezvous-
9202 point circuits use the TAP key supplied by the protocol, to avoid
9203 epistemic attacks. Fixes bug 19163; bugfix on 0.2.4.18-rc.
9205 o Major bugfixes (compilation, OpenBSD):
9206 - Fix a Libevent-detection bug in our autoconf script that would
9207 prevent Tor from linking successfully on OpenBSD. Patch from
9208 rubiate. Fixes bug 19902; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
9210 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
9211 - Clients now require hidden services to include the TAP keys for
9212 their intro points in the hidden service descriptor. This prevents
9213 an inadvertent upgrade to ntor, which a malicious hidden service
9214 could use to distinguish clients by consensus version. Fixes bug
9215 20012; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch by teor.
9217 o Minor features (security, TLS):
9218 - Servers no longer support clients that without AES ciphersuites.
9219 (3DES is no longer considered an acceptable cipher.) We believe
9220 that no such Tor clients currently exist, since Tor has required
9221 OpenSSL 0.9.7 or later since 2009. Closes ticket 19998.
9223 o Minor feature (fallback directories):
9224 - Remove 8 fallbacks that are no longer suitable, leaving 81 of the
9225 100 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha in March
9226 2016. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor.
9228 o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.8.8):
9229 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
9232 o Minor feature (port flags):
9233 - Add new flags to the *Port options to finer control over which
9234 requests are allowed. The flags are NoDNSRequest, NoOnionTraffic,
9235 and the synthetic flag OnionTrafficOnly, which is equivalent to
9236 NoDNSRequest, NoIPv4Traffic, and NoIPv6Traffic. Closes enhancement
9237 18693; patch by "teor".
9239 o Minor features (directory authority):
9240 - After voting, if the authorities decide that a relay is not
9241 "Valid", they no longer include it in the consensus at all. Closes
9242 ticket 20002; implements part of proposal 272.
9244 o Minor features (testing):
9245 - Disable memory protections on OpenBSD when performing our unit
9246 tests for memwipe(). The test deliberately invokes undefined
9247 behavior, and the OpenBSD protections interfere with this. Patch
9248 from "rubiate". Closes ticket 20066.
9250 o Minor features (testing, ipv6):
9251 - Add the single-onion and single-onion-ipv6 chutney targets to
9252 "make test-network-all". This requires a recent chutney version
9253 with the single onion network flavours (git c72a652 or later).
9254 Closes ticket 20072; patch by teor.
9255 - Add the hs-ipv6 chutney target to make test-network-all's IPv6
9256 tests. Remove bridges+hs, as it's somewhat redundant. This
9257 requires a recent chutney version that supports IPv6 clients,
9258 relays, and authorities. Closes ticket 20069; patch by teor.
9260 o Minor features (Tor2web):
9261 - Make Tor2web clients respect ReachableAddresses. This feature was
9262 inadvertently enabled in 0.2.8.6, then removed by bugfix 19973 on
9263 0.2.8.7. Implements feature 20034. Patch by teor.
9265 o Minor features (unit tests):
9266 - We've done significant work to make the unit tests run faster.
9267 - Our link-handshake unit tests now check that when invalid
9268 handshakes fail, they fail with the error messages we expected.
9269 - Our unit testing code that captures log messages no longer
9270 prevents them from being written out if the user asked for them
9271 (by passing --debug or --info or or --notice --warn to the "test"
9272 binary). This change prevents us from missing unexpected log
9273 messages simply because we were looking for others. Related to
9275 - The unit tests now log all warning messages with the "BUG" flag.
9276 Previously, they only logged errors by default. This change will
9277 help us make our testing code more correct, and make sure that we
9278 only hit this code when we mean to. In the meantime, however,
9279 there will be more warnings in the unit test logs than before.
9280 This is preparatory work for ticket 19999.
9281 - The unit tests now treat any failure of a "tor_assert_nonfatal()"
9282 assertion as a test failure.
9284 o Minor bug fixes (circuits):
9285 - Use the CircuitBuildTimeout option whenever
9286 LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled. Previously, we would respect
9287 the option when a user disabled it, but not when it was disabled
9288 because some other option was set. Fixes bug 20073; bugfix on
9289 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch by teor.
9291 o Minor bugfixes (allocation):
9292 - Change how we allocate memory for large chunks on buffers, to
9293 avoid a (currently impossible) integer overflow, and to waste less
9294 space when allocating unusually large chunks. Fixes bug 20081;
9295 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Issue identified by Guido Vranken.
9296 - Always include orconfig.h before including any other C headers.
9297 Sometimes, it includes macros that affect the behavior of the
9298 standard headers. Fixes bug 19767; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha (the
9299 first version to use AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS).
9300 - Fix a syntax error in the IF_BUG_ONCE__() macro in non-GCC-
9301 compatible compilers. Fixes bug 20141; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
9302 Patch from Gisle Vanem.
9303 - Stop trying to build with Clang 4.0's -Wthread-safety warnings.
9304 They apparently require a set of annotations that we aren't
9305 currently using, and they create false positives in our pthreads
9306 wrappers. Fixes bug 20110; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
9308 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
9309 - Die with a more useful error when the operator forgets to place
9310 the authority_signing_key file into the keys directory. This
9311 avoids an uninformative assert & traceback about having an invalid
9312 key. Fixes bug 20065; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
9313 - When allowing private addresses, mark Exits that only exit to
9314 private locations as such. Fixes bug 20064; bugfix
9317 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
9318 - Document the default PathsNeededToBuildCircuits value that's used
9319 by clients when the directory authorities don't set
9320 min_paths_for_circs_pct. Fixes bug 20117; bugfix on 02c320916e02
9321 in 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch by teor, reported by Jesse V.
9322 - Fix manual for the User option: it takes a username, not a UID.
9323 Fixes bug 19122; bugfix on 0.0.2pre16 (the first version to have
9326 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
9327 - Stop logging intro point details to the client log on certain
9328 error conditions. Fixed as part of bug 20012; bugfix on
9329 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch by teor.
9331 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, testing):
9332 - Check for IPv6 correctly on Linux when running test networks.
9333 Fixes bug 19905; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc; patch by teor.
9335 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
9336 - Add permission to run the sched_yield() and sigaltstack() system
9337 calls, in order to support versions of Tor compiled with asan or
9338 ubsan code that use these calls. Now "sandbox 1" and
9339 "--enable-expensive-hardening" should be compatible on more
9340 systems. Fixes bug 20063; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9342 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
9343 - When logging a message from the BUG() macro, be explicit about
9344 what we were asserting. Previously we were confusing what we were
9345 asserting with what the bug was. Fixes bug 20093; bugfix
9347 - When we are unable to remove the bw_accounting file, do not warn
9348 if the reason we couldn't remove it was that it didn't exist.
9349 Fixes bug 19964; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from 'pastly'.
9351 o Minor bugfixes (option parsing):
9352 - Count unix sockets when counting client listeners (SOCKS, Trans,
9353 NATD, and DNS). This has no user-visible behaviour changes: these
9354 options are set once, and never read. Required for correct
9355 behaviour in ticket 17178. Fixes bug 19677; bugfix on
9356 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by teor.
9358 o Minor bugfixes (options):
9359 - Check the consistency of UseEntryGuards and EntryNodes more
9360 reliably. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch
9362 - Stop changing the configured value of UseEntryGuards on
9363 authorities and Tor2web clients. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on
9364 commits 51fc6799 in 0.1.1.16-rc and acda1735 in 0.2.4.3-alpha.
9367 o Minor bugfixes (Tor2web):
9368 - Prevent Tor2web clients running hidden services, these services
9369 are not anonymous due to the one-hop client paths. Fixes bug
9370 19678. Patch by teor.
9372 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
9373 - Fix a shared-random unit test that was failing on big endian
9374 architectures due to internal representation of a integer copied
9375 to a buffer. The test is changed to take a full 32 bytes of data
9376 and use the output of a python script that make the COMMIT and
9377 REVEAL calculation according to the spec. Fixes bug 19977; bugfix
9379 - The tor_tls_server_info_callback unit test no longer crashes when
9380 debug-level logging is turned on. Fixes bug 20041; bugfix
9384 Changes in version 0.2.8.8 - 2016-09-23
9385 Tor 0.2.8.8 fixes two crash bugs present in previous versions of the
9386 0.2.8.x series. Relays running 0.2.8.x should upgrade, as should users
9387 who select public relays as their bridges.
9389 o Major bugfixes (crash):
9390 - Fix a complicated crash bug that could affect Tor clients
9391 configured to use bridges when replacing a networkstatus consensus
9392 in which one of their bridges was mentioned. OpenBSD users saw
9393 more crashes here, but all platforms were potentially affected.
9394 Fixes bug 20103; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
9396 o Major bugfixes (relay, OOM handler):
9397 - Fix a timing-dependent assertion failure that could occur when we
9398 tried to flush from a circuit after having freed its cells because
9399 of an out-of-memory condition. Fixes bug 20203; bugfix on
9400 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to "cypherpunks" for help diagnosing
9403 o Minor feature (fallback directories):
9404 - Remove 8 fallbacks that are no longer suitable, leaving 81 of the
9405 100 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha in March
9406 2016. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor.
9408 o Minor features (geoip):
9409 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
9413 Changes in version 0.2.9.2-alpha - 2016-08-24
9414 Tor 0.2.9.2-alpha continues development of the 0.2.9 series with
9415 several new features and bugfixes. It also includes an important
9416 authority update and an important bugfix from 0.2.8.7. Everyone who
9417 sets the ReachableAddresses option, and all bridges, are strongly
9418 encouraged to upgrade to 0.2.8.7, or to 0.2.9.2-alpha.
9420 o Directory authority changes (also in 0.2.8.7):
9421 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
9422 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
9424 o Major bugfixes (client, security, also in 0.2.8.7):
9425 - Only use the ReachableAddresses option to restrict the first hop
9426 in a path. In earlier versions of 0.2.8.x, it would apply to
9427 every hop in the path, with a possible degradation in anonymity
9428 for anyone using an uncommon ReachableAddress setting. Fixes bug
9429 19973; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
9431 o Major features (user interface):
9432 - Tor now supports the ability to declare options deprecated, so
9433 that we can recommend that people stop using them. Previously,
9434 this was done in an ad-hoc way. Closes ticket 19820.
9436 o Major bugfixes (directory downloads):
9437 - Avoid resetting download status for consensuses hourly, since we
9438 already have another, smarter retry mechanism. Fixes bug 8625;
9439 bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
9441 o Minor features (config):
9442 - Warn users when descriptor and port addresses are inconsistent.
9443 Mitigates bug 13953; patch by teor.
9445 o Minor features (geoip):
9446 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 2 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
9449 o Minor features (user interface):
9450 - There is a new --list-deprecated-options command-line option to
9451 list all of the deprecated options. Implemented as part of
9454 o Minor bugfixes (code style):
9455 - Fix an integer signedness conversion issue in the case conversion
9456 tables. Fixes bug 19168; bugfix on 0.2.1.11-alpha.
9458 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
9459 - Build correctly on versions of libevent2 without support for
9460 evutil_secure_rng_add_bytes(). Fixes bug 19904; bugfix
9462 - Fix a compilation warning on GCC versions before 4.6. Our
9463 ENABLE_GCC_WARNING macro used the word "warning" as an argument,
9464 when it is also required as an argument to the compiler pragma.
9465 Fixes bug 19901; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
9467 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, also in 0.2.8.7):
9468 - Remove an inappropriate "inline" in tortls.c that was causing
9469 warnings on older versions of GCC. Fixes bug 19903; bugfix
9472 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories, also in 0.2.8.7):
9473 - Avoid logging a NULL string pointer when loading fallback
9474 directory information. Fixes bug 19947; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha
9475 and 0.2.8.1-alpha. Report and patch by "rubiate".
9477 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
9478 - Log a more accurate message when we fail to dump a microdescriptor.
9479 Fixes bug 17758; bugfix on 0.2.2.8-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
9481 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
9482 - Fix a series of slow memory leaks related to parsing torrc files
9483 and options. Fixes bug 19466; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
9485 o Deprecated features:
9486 - A number of DNS-cache-related sub-options for client ports are now
9487 deprecated for security reasons, and may be removed in a future
9488 version of Tor. (We believe that client-side DNS caching is a bad
9489 idea for anonymity, and you should not turn it on.) The options
9490 are: CacheDNS, CacheIPv4DNS, CacheIPv6DNS, UseDNSCache,
9491 UseIPv4Cache, and UseIPv6Cache.
9492 - A number of options are deprecated for security reasons, and may
9493 be removed in a future version of Tor. The options are:
9494 AllowDotExit, AllowInvalidNodes, AllowSingleHopCircuits,
9495 AllowSingleHopExits, ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses,
9496 CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout,
9497 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout,
9498 ExcludeSingleHopRelays, FastFirstHopPK, TLSECGroup,
9499 UseNTorHandshake, and WarnUnsafeSocks.
9500 - The *ListenAddress options are now deprecated as unnecessary: the
9501 corresponding *Port options should be used instead. These options
9502 may someday be removed. The affected options are:
9503 ControlListenAddress, DNSListenAddress, DirListenAddress,
9504 NATDListenAddress, ORListenAddress, SocksListenAddress,
9505 and TransListenAddress.
9508 - Correct the IPv6 syntax in our documentation for the
9509 VirtualAddrNetworkIPv6 torrc option. Closes ticket 19743.
9512 - We no longer include the (dead, deprecated) bufferevent code in
9513 Tor. Closes ticket 19450. Based on a patch from U+039b.
9516 Changes in version 0.2.8.7 - 2016-08-24
9517 Tor 0.2.8.7 fixes an important bug related to the ReachableAddresses
9518 option in 0.2.8.6, and replaces a retiring bridge authority. Everyone
9519 who sets the ReachableAddresses option, and all bridges, are strongly
9520 encouraged to upgrade.
9522 o Directory authority changes:
9523 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
9524 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
9526 o Major bugfixes (client, security):
9527 - Only use the ReachableAddresses option to restrict the first hop
9528 in a path. In earlier versions of 0.2.8.x, it would apply to
9529 every hop in the path, with a possible degradation in anonymity
9530 for anyone using an uncommon ReachableAddress setting. Fixes bug
9531 19973; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
9533 o Minor features (geoip):
9534 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 2 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
9537 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
9538 - Remove an inappropriate "inline" in tortls.c that was causing
9539 warnings on older versions of GCC. Fixes bug 19903; bugfix
9542 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
9543 - Avoid logging a NULL string pointer when loading fallback
9544 directory information. Fixes bug 19947; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha
9545 and 0.2.8.1-alpha. Report and patch by "rubiate".
9548 Changes in version 0.2.9.1-alpha - 2016-08-08
9549 Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha is the first alpha release in the 0.2.9 development
9550 series. It improves our support for hardened builds and compiler
9551 warnings, deploys some critical infrastructure for improvements to
9552 hidden services, includes a new timing backend that we hope to use for
9553 better support for traffic padding, makes it easier for programmers to
9554 log unexpected events, and contains other small improvements to
9555 security, correctness, and performance.
9557 Below are the changes since 0.2.8.6.
9559 o New system requirements:
9560 - Tor now requires Libevent version 2.0.10-stable or later. Older
9561 versions of Libevent have less efficient backends for several
9562 platforms, and lack the DNS code that we use for our server-side
9563 DNS support. This implements ticket 19554.
9564 - Tor now requires zlib version 1.2 or later, for security,
9565 efficiency, and (eventually) gzip support. (Back when we started,
9566 zlib 1.1 and zlib 1.0 were still found in the wild. 1.2 was
9567 released in 2003. We recommend the latest version.)
9569 o Major features (build, hardening):
9570 - Tor now builds with -ftrapv by default on compilers that support
9571 it. This option detects signed integer overflow (which C forbids),
9572 and turns it into a hard-failure. We do not apply this option to
9573 code that needs to run in constant time to avoid side-channels;
9574 instead, we use -fwrapv in that code. Closes ticket 17983.
9575 - When --enable-expensive-hardening is selected, stop applying the
9576 clang/gcc sanitizers to code that needs to run in constant time.
9577 Although we are aware of no introduced side-channels, we are not
9578 able to prove that there are none. Related to ticket 17983.
9580 o Major features (compilation):
9581 - Our big list of extra GCC warnings is now enabled by default when
9582 building with GCC (or with anything like Clang that claims to be
9583 GCC-compatible). To make all warnings into fatal compilation
9584 errors, pass --enable-fatal-warnings to configure. Closes
9586 - Use the Autoconf macro AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS to automatically
9587 turn on C and POSIX extensions. (Previously, we attempted to do
9588 this on an ad hoc basis.) Closes ticket 19139.
9590 o Major features (directory authorities, hidden services):
9591 - Directory authorities can now perform the shared randomness
9592 protocol specified by proposal 250. Using this protocol, directory
9593 authorities generate a global fresh random value every day. In the
9594 future, this value will be used by hidden services to select
9595 HSDirs. This release implements the directory authority feature;
9596 the hidden service side will be implemented in the future as part
9597 of proposal 224. Resolves ticket 16943; implements proposal 250.
9599 o Major features (downloading, random exponential backoff):
9600 - When we fail to download an object from a directory service, wait
9601 for an (exponentially increasing) randomized amount of time before
9602 retrying, rather than a fixed interval as we did before. This
9603 prevents a group of Tor instances from becoming too synchronized,
9604 or a single Tor instance from becoming too predictable, in its
9605 download schedule. Closes ticket 15942.
9607 o Major bugfixes (exit policies):
9608 - Avoid disclosing exit outbound bind addresses, configured port
9609 bind addresses, and local interface addresses in relay descriptors
9610 by default under ExitPolicyRejectPrivate. Instead, only reject
9611 these (otherwise unlisted) addresses if
9612 ExitPolicyRejectLocalInterfaces is set. Fixes bug 18456; bugfix on
9613 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by teor.
9615 o Major bugfixes (hidden service client):
9616 - Allow Tor clients with appropriate controllers to work with
9617 FetchHidServDescriptors set to 0. Previously, this option also
9618 disabled descriptor cache lookup, thus breaking hidden services
9619 entirely. Fixes bug 18704; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Patch by "twim".
9621 o Minor features (build, hardening):
9622 - Detect and work around a libclang_rt problem that would prevent
9623 clang from finding __mulodi4() on some 32-bit platforms, and thus
9624 keep -ftrapv from linking on those systems. Closes ticket 19079.
9625 - When building on a system without runtime support for the runtime
9626 hardening options, try to log a useful warning at configuration
9627 time, rather than an incomprehensible warning at link time. If
9628 expensive hardening was requested, this warning becomes an error.
9629 Closes ticket 18895.
9631 o Minor features (code safety):
9632 - In our integer-parsing functions, ensure that maxiumum value we
9633 give is no smaller than the minimum value. Closes ticket 19063;
9636 o Minor features (controller):
9637 - Implement new GETINFO queries for all downloads that use
9638 download_status_t to schedule retries. This allows controllers to
9639 examine the schedule for pending downloads. Closes ticket 19323.
9640 - Allow controllers to configure basic client authorization on
9641 hidden services when they create them with the ADD_ONION control
9642 command. Implements ticket 15588. Patch by "special".
9643 - Fire a STATUS_SERVER controller event whenever the hibernation
9644 status changes between "awake"/"soft"/"hard". Closes ticket 18685.
9646 o Minor features (directory authority):
9647 - Directory authorities now only give the Guard flag to a relay if
9648 they are also giving it the Stable flag. This change allows us to
9649 simplify path selection for clients. It should have minimal effect
9650 in practice, since >99% of Guards already have the Stable flag.
9651 Implements ticket 18624.
9652 - Directory authorities now write their v3-status-votes file out to
9653 disk earlier in the consensus process, so we have a record of the
9654 votes even if we abort the consensus process. Resolves
9657 o Minor features (hidden service):
9658 - Stop being so strict about the payload length of "rendezvous1"
9659 cells. We used to be locked in to the "TAP" handshake length, and
9660 now we can handle better handshakes like "ntor". Resolves
9663 o Minor features (infrastructure, time):
9664 - Tor now uses the operating system's monotonic timers (where
9665 available) for internal fine-grained timing. Previously we would
9666 look at the system clock, and then attempt to compensate for the
9667 clock running backwards. Closes ticket 18908.
9668 - Tor now includes an improved timer backend, so that we can
9669 efficiently support tens or hundreds of thousands of concurrent
9670 timers, as will be needed for some of our planned anti-traffic-
9671 analysis work. This code is based on William Ahern's "timeout.c"
9672 project, which implements a "tickless hierarchical timing wheel".
9673 Closes ticket 18365.
9675 o Minor features (logging):
9676 - Provide a more useful warning message when configured with an
9677 invalid Nickname. Closes ticket 18300; patch from "icanhasaccount".
9678 - When dumping unparseable router descriptors, optionally store them
9679 in separate files, named by digest, up to a configurable size
9680 limit. You can change the size limit by setting the
9681 MaxUnparseableDescSizeToLog option, and disable this feature by
9682 setting that option to 0. Closes ticket 18322.
9683 - Add a set of macros to check nonfatal assertions, for internal
9684 use. Migrating more of our checks to these should help us avoid
9685 needless crash bugs. Closes ticket 18613.
9687 o Minor features (performance):
9688 - Changer the "optimistic data" extension from "off by default" to
9689 "on by default". The default was ordinarily overridden by a
9690 consensus option, but when clients were bootstrapping for the
9691 first time, they would not have a consensus to get the option
9692 from. Changing this default When fetching a consensus for the
9693 first time, use optimistic data. This saves a round-trip during
9694 startup. Closes ticket 18815.
9696 o Minor features (relay, usability):
9697 - When the directory authorities refuse a bad relay's descriptor,
9698 encourage the relay operator to contact us. Many relay operators
9699 won't notice this line in their logs, but it's a win if even a few
9700 learn why we don't like what their relay was doing. Resolves
9703 o Minor features (testing):
9704 - Let backtrace tests work correctly under AddressSanitizer. Fixes
9705 part of bug 18934; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
9706 - Move the test-network.sh script to chutney, and modify tor's test-
9707 network.sh to call the (newer) chutney version when available.
9708 Resolves ticket 19116. Patch by teor.
9709 - Use the lcov convention for marking lines as unreachable, so that
9710 we don't count them when we're generating test coverage data.
9711 Update our coverage tools to understand this convention. Closes
9714 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
9715 - Remember the directory we fetched the consensus or previous
9716 certificates from, and use it to fetch future authority
9717 certificates. This change improves bootstrapping performance.
9718 Fixes bug 18963; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
9720 o Minor bugfixes (build):
9721 - The test-stem and test-network makefile targets now depend only on
9722 the tor binary that they are testing. Previously, they depended on
9723 "make all". Fixes bug 18240; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Based on a
9724 patch from "cypherpunks".
9726 o Minor bugfixes (circuits):
9727 - Make sure extend_info_from_router() is only called on servers.
9728 Fixes bug 19639; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
9730 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
9731 - When building with Clang, use a full set of GCC warnings.
9732 (Previously, we included only a subset, because of the way we
9733 detected them.) Fixes bug 19216; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
9735 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
9736 - Authorities now sort the "package" lines in their votes, for ease
9737 of debugging. (They are already sorted in consensus documents.)
9738 Fixes bug 18840; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
9739 - When parsing a detached signature, make sure we use the length of
9740 the digest algorithm instead of an hardcoded DIGEST256_LEN in
9741 order to avoid comparing bytes out-of-bounds with a smaller digest
9742 length such as SHA1. Fixes bug 19066; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
9744 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
9745 - Document the --passphrase-fd option in the tor manpage. Fixes bug
9746 19504; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
9747 - Fix the description of the --passphrase-fd option in the
9748 tor-gencert manpage. The option is used to pass the number of a
9749 file descriptor to read the passphrase from, not to read the file
9750 descriptor from. Fixes bug 19505; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-alpha.
9752 o Minor bugfixes (ephemeral hidden service):
9753 - When deleting an ephemeral hidden service, close its intro points
9754 even if they are not completely open. Fixes bug 18604; bugfix
9757 o Minor bugfixes (guard selection):
9758 - Use a single entry guard even if the NumEntryGuards consensus
9759 parameter is not provided. Fixes bug 17688; bugfix
9761 - Don't mark guards as unreachable if connection_connect() fails.
9762 That function fails for local reasons, so it shouldn't reveal
9763 anything about the status of the guard. Fixes bug 14334; bugfix
9766 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service client):
9767 - Increase the minimum number of internal circuits we preemptively
9768 build from 2 to 3, so a circuit is available when a client
9769 connects to another onion service. Fixes bug 13239; bugfix
9772 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
9773 - When logging a directory ownership mismatch, log the owning
9774 username correctly. Fixes bug 19578; bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta.
9776 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
9777 - Fix a small, uncommon memory leak that could occur when reading a
9778 truncated ed25519 key file. Fixes bug 18956; bugfix
9781 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
9782 - Allow clients to retry HSDirs much faster in test networks. Fixes
9783 bug 19702; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
9784 - Disable ASAN's detection of segmentation faults while running
9785 test_bt.sh, so that we can make sure that our own backtrace
9786 generation code works. Fixes another aspect of bug 18934; bugfix
9787 on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
9788 - Fix the test-network-all target on out-of-tree builds by using the
9789 correct path to the test driver script. Fixes bug 19421; bugfix
9792 o Minor bugfixes (time):
9793 - Improve overflow checks in tv_udiff and tv_mdiff. Fixes bug 19483;
9794 bugfix on all released tor versions.
9795 - When computing the difference between two times in milliseconds,
9796 we now round to the nearest millisecond correctly. Previously, we
9797 could sometimes round in the wrong direction. Fixes bug 19428;
9798 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
9800 o Minor bugfixes (user interface):
9801 - Display a more accurate number of suppressed messages in the log
9802 rate-limiter. Previously, there was a potential integer overflow
9803 in the counter. Now, if the number of messages hits a maximum, the
9804 rate-limiter doesn't count any further. Fixes bug 19435; bugfix
9806 - Fix a typo in the passphrase prompt for the ed25519 identity key.
9807 Fixes bug 19503; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
9809 o Code simplification and refactoring:
9810 - Remove redundant declarations of the MIN macro. Closes
9812 - Rename tor_dup_addr() to tor_addr_to_str_dup() to avoid confusion.
9813 Closes ticket 18462; patch from "icanhasaccount".
9814 - Split the 600-line directory_handle_command_get function into
9815 separate functions for different URL types. Closes ticket 16698.
9818 - Fix spelling of "--enable-tor2web-mode" in the manpage. Closes
9819 ticket 19153. Patch from "U+039b".
9822 - Remove support for "GET /tor/bytes.txt" DirPort request, and
9823 "GETINFO dir-usage" controller request, which were only available
9824 via a compile-time option in Tor anyway. Feature was added in
9825 0.2.2.1-alpha. Resolves ticket 19035.
9826 - There is no longer a compile-time option to disable support for
9827 TransPort. (If you don't want TransPort; just don't use it.) Patch
9828 from "U+039b". Closes ticket 19449.
9831 - Run more workqueue tests as part of "make check". These had
9832 previously been implemented, but you needed to know special
9833 command-line options to enable them.
9834 - We now have unit tests for our code to reject zlib "compression
9835 bombs". (Fortunately, the code works fine.)
9838 Changes in version 0.2.8.6 - 2016-08-02
9840 Tor 0.2.8.6 is the first stable version of the Tor 0.2.8 series.
9842 The Tor 0.2.8 series improves client bootstrapping performance,
9843 completes the authority-side implementation of improved identity
9844 keys for relays, and includes numerous bugfixes and performance
9845 improvements throughout the program. This release continues to
9846 improve the coverage of Tor's test suite. For a full list of
9847 changes since Tor 0.2.7, see the ReleaseNotes file.
9849 Changes since 0.2.8.5-rc:
9851 o Minor features (geoip):
9852 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
9855 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
9856 - Fix a compilation warning in the unit tests on systems where char
9857 is signed. Fixes bug 19682; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
9859 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
9860 - Remove 1 fallback that was on the hardcoded list, then opted-out,
9861 leaving 89 of the 100 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
9862 0.2.8.2-alpha in March 2016. Closes ticket 19782; patch by teor.
9864 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
9865 - Allow more syscalls when running with "Sandbox 1" enabled:
9866 sysinfo, getsockopt(SO_SNDBUF), and setsockopt(SO_SNDBUFFORCE). On
9867 some systems, these are required for Tor to start. Fixes bug
9868 18397; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
9869 - Allow IPPROTO_UDP datagram sockets when running with "Sandbox 1",
9870 so that get_interface_address6_via_udp_socket_hack() can work.
9871 Fixes bug 19660; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9874 Changes in version 0.2.8.5-rc - 2016-07-07
9875 Tor 0.2.8.5-rc is the second release candidate in the Tor 0.2.8
9876 series. If we find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable
9877 0.2.8 release will be identical to it. It has a few small bugfixes
9878 against previous versions.
9880 o Directory authority changes:
9881 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
9883 o Major bugfixes (heartbeat):
9884 - Fix a regression that would crash Tor when the periodic
9885 "heartbeat" log messages were disabled. Fixes bug 19454; bugfix on
9886 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by "kubaku".
9888 o Minor features (build):
9889 - Tor now again builds with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development
9890 branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre6-dev). Closes ticket 19499.
9891 - When building manual pages, set the timezone to "UTC", so that the
9892 output is reproducible. Fixes bug 19558; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
9893 Patch from intrigeri.
9895 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directory selection):
9896 - Avoid errors during fallback selection if there are no eligible
9897 fallbacks. Fixes bug 19480; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha. Patch
9900 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, microdescriptors):
9901 - Don't check node addresses when we only have a routerstatus. This
9902 allows IPv6-only clients to bootstrap by fetching microdescriptors
9903 from fallback directory mirrors. (The microdescriptor consensus
9904 has no IPv6 addresses in it.) Fixes bug 19608; bugfix
9907 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
9908 - Reduce pointlessly verbose log messages when directory servers
9909 can't be found. Fixes bug 18849; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha and
9910 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
9911 - When a fallback directory changes its fingerprint from the hard-
9912 coded fingerprint, log a less severe, more explanatory log
9913 message. Fixes bug 18812; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
9915 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandboxing):
9916 - Allow statistics to be written to disk when "Sandbox 1" is
9917 enabled. Fixes bugs 19556 and 19957; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha and
9918 0.2.6.1-alpha respectively.
9920 o Minor bugfixes (user interface):
9921 - Remove a warning message "Service [scrubbed] not found after
9922 descriptor upload". This message appears when one uses HSPOST
9923 control command to upload a service descriptor. Since there is
9924 only a descriptor and no service, showing this message is
9925 pointless and confusing. Fixes bug 19464; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
9927 o Fallback directory list:
9928 - Add a comment to the generated fallback directory list that
9929 explains how to comment out unsuitable fallbacks in a way that's
9930 compatible with the stem fallback parser.
9931 - Update fallback whitelist and blacklist based on relay operator
9932 emails. Blacklist unsuitable (non-working, over-volatile)
9933 fallbacks. Resolves ticket 19071. Patch by teor.
9934 - Remove 10 unsuitable fallbacks, leaving 90 of the 100 fallbacks
9935 originally introduced in Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha in March 2016. Closes
9936 ticket 19071; patch by teor.
9939 Changes in version 0.2.8.4-rc - 2016-06-15
9940 Tor 0.2.8.4-rc is the first release candidate in the Tor 0.2.8 series.
9941 If we find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable 0.2.8
9942 release will be identical to it. It has a few small bugfixes against
9945 o Major bugfixes (user interface):
9946 - Correctly give a warning in the cases where a relay is specified
9947 by nickname, and one such relay is found, but it is not officially
9948 Named. Fixes bug 19203; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
9950 o Minor features (build):
9951 - Tor now builds once again with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development
9952 branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre5 and 1.1.0-pre6-dev).
9954 o Minor features (geoip):
9955 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
9958 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
9959 - Cause the unit tests to compile correctly on mingw64 versions that
9960 lack sscanf. Fixes bug 19213; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
9962 o Minor bugfixes (downloading):
9963 - Predict more correctly whether we'll be downloading over HTTP when
9964 we determine the maximum length of a URL. This should avoid a
9965 "BUG" warning about the Squid HTTP proxy and its URL limits. Fixes
9969 Changes in version 0.2.8.3-alpha - 2016-05-26
9970 Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha resolves several bugs, most of them introduced over
9971 the course of the 0.2.8 development cycle. It improves the behavior of
9972 directory clients, fixes several crash bugs, fixes a gap in compiler
9973 hardening, and allows the full integration test suite to run on
9976 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy):
9977 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
9978 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
9979 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
9980 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
9982 o Major bugfixes (security, compilation):
9983 - Correctly detect compiler flags on systems where _FORTIFY_SOURCE
9984 is predefined. Previously, our use of -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE would
9985 cause a compiler warning, thereby making other checks fail, and
9986 needlessly disabling compiler-hardening support. Fixes one case of
9987 bug 18841; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta. Patch from "trudokal".
9989 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authorities):
9990 - Fix a crash and out-of-bounds write during authority voting, when
9991 the list of relays includes duplicate ed25519 identity keys. Fixes
9992 bug 19032; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
9994 o Major bugfixes (client, bootstrapping):
9995 - Check if bootstrap consensus downloads are still needed when the
9996 linked connection attaches. This prevents tor making unnecessary
9997 begindir-style connections, which are the only directory
9998 connections tor clients make since the fix for 18483 was merged.
9999 - Fix some edge cases where consensus download connections may not
10000 have been closed, even though they were not needed. Related to fix
10002 - Make relays retry consensus downloads the correct number of times,
10003 rather than the more aggressive client retry count. Fixes part of
10005 - Stop downloading consensuses when we have a consensus, even if we
10006 don't have all the certificates for it yet. Fixes bug 18809;
10007 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patches by arma and teor.
10009 o Major bugfixes (directory mirrors):
10010 - Decide whether to advertise begindir support in the the same way
10011 we decide whether to advertise our DirPort. Allowing these
10012 decisions to become out-of-sync led to surprising behavior like
10013 advertising begindir support when hibernation made us not
10014 advertise a DirPort. Resolves bug 18616; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
10017 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 bridges, client):
10018 - Actually use IPv6 addresses when selecting directory addresses for
10019 IPv6 bridges. Fixes bug 18921; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch
10022 o Major bugfixes (key management):
10023 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
10024 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
10025 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
10026 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
10027 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
10028 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
10031 o Major bugfixes (testing):
10032 - Fix a bug that would block 'make test-network-all' on systems where
10033 IPv6 packets were lost. Fixes bug 19008; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
10034 - Avoid "WSANOTINITIALISED" warnings in the unit tests. Fixes bug 18668;
10035 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
10037 o Minor features (clients):
10038 - Make clients, onion services, and bridge relays always use an
10039 encrypted begindir connection for directory requests. Resolves
10040 ticket 18483. Patch by "teor".
10042 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
10043 - Give each fallback the same weight for client selection; restrict
10044 fallbacks to one per operator; report fallback directory detail
10045 changes when rebuilding list; add new fallback directory mirrors
10046 to the whitelist; and many other minor simplifications and fixes.
10047 Closes tasks 17905, 18749, bug 18689, and fixes part of bug 18812 on
10048 0.2.8.1-alpha; patch by "teor".
10049 - Replace the 21 fallbacks generated in January 2016 and included in
10050 Tor 0.2.8.1-alpha, with a list of 100 fallbacks generated in March
10051 2016. Closes task 17158; patch by "teor".
10053 o Minor features (geoip):
10054 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
10057 o Minor bugfixes (assert, portability):
10058 - Fix an assertion failure in memarea.c on systems where "long" is
10059 shorter than the size of a pointer. Fixes bug 18716; bugfix
10062 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
10063 - Consistently use the consensus download schedule for authority
10064 certificates. Fixes bug 18816; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
10066 o Minor bugfixes (build):
10067 - Remove a pair of redundant AM_CONDITIONAL declarations from
10068 configure.ac. Fixes one final case of bug 17744; bugfix
10070 - Resolve warnings when building on systems that are concerned with
10071 signed char. Fixes bug 18728; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha
10073 - When libscrypt.h is found, but no libscrypt library can be linked,
10074 treat libscrypt as absent. Fixes bug 19161; bugfix
10077 o Minor bugfixes (client):
10078 - Turn all TestingClientBootstrap* into non-testing torrc options.
10079 This changes simply renames them by removing "Testing" in front of
10080 them and they do not require TestingTorNetwork to be enabled
10081 anymore. Fixes bug 18481; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
10082 - Make directory node selection more reliable, mainly for IPv6-only
10083 clients and clients with few reachable addresses. Fixes bug 18929;
10084 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by "teor".
10086 o Minor bugfixes (controller, microdescriptors):
10087 - Make GETINFO dir/status-vote/current/consensus conform to the
10088 control specification by returning "551 Could not open cached
10089 consensus..." when not caching consensuses. Fixes bug 18920;
10090 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
10092 o Minor bugfixes (crypto, portability):
10093 - The SHA3 and SHAKE routines now produce the correct output on Big
10094 Endian systems. No code calls either algorithm yet, so this is
10095 primarily a build fix. Fixes bug 18943; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
10096 - Tor now builds again with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development
10097 branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre4 and 1.1.0-pre5-dev). Closes
10100 o Minor bugfixes (directories):
10101 - When fetching extrainfo documents, compare their SHA256 digests
10102 and Ed25519 signing key certificates with the routerinfo that led
10103 us to fetch them, rather than with the most recent routerinfo.
10104 Otherwise we generate many spurious warnings about mismatches.
10105 Fixes bug 17150; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
10107 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
10108 - When we can't generate a signing key because OfflineMasterKey is
10109 set, do not imply that we should have been able to load it. Fixes
10110 bug 18133; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
10111 - Stop periodic_event_dispatch() from blasting twelve lines per
10112 second at loglevel debug. Fixes bug 18729; fix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
10113 - When rejecting a misformed INTRODUCE2 cell, only log at
10114 PROTOCOL_WARN severity. Fixes bug 18761; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
10116 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
10117 - Avoid reporting a spurious error when we decide that we don't need
10118 to terminate a pluggable transport because it has already exited.
10119 Fixes bug 18686; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
10121 o Minor bugfixes (pointer arithmetic):
10122 - Fix a bug in memarea_alloc() that could have resulted in remote
10123 heap write access, if Tor had ever passed an unchecked size to
10124 memarea_alloc(). Fortunately, all the sizes we pass to
10125 memarea_alloc() are pre-checked to be less than 128 kilobytes.
10126 Fixes bug 19150; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha. Bug found by
10129 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
10130 - Consider more config options when relays decide whether to
10131 regenerate their descriptor. Fixes more of bug 12538; bugfix
10133 - Resolve some edge cases where we might launch an ORPort
10134 reachability check even when DisableNetwork is set. Noticed while
10135 fixing bug 18616; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
10137 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
10138 - We now include consensus downloads via IPv6 in our directory-
10139 request statistics. Fixes bug 18460; bugfix on 0.2.3.14-alpha.
10141 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
10142 - Allow directories in small networks to bootstrap by skipping
10143 DirPort checks when the consensus has no exits. Fixes bug 19003;
10144 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
10145 - Fix a small memory leak that would occur when the
10146 TestingEnableCellStatsEvent option was turned on. Fixes bug 18673;
10147 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
10149 o Minor bugfixes (time handling):
10150 - When correcting a corrupt 'struct tm' value, fill in the tm_wday
10151 field. Otherwise, our unit tests crash on Windows. Fixes bug
10152 18977; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
10155 - Document the contents of the 'datadir/keys' subdirectory in the
10156 manual page. Closes ticket 17621.
10157 - Stop recommending use of nicknames to identify relays in our
10158 MapAddress documentation. Closes ticket 18312.
10161 Changes in version 0.2.8.2-alpha - 2016-03-28
10162 Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha is the second alpha in its series. It fixes numerous
10163 bugs in earlier versions of Tor, including some that prevented
10164 authorities using Tor 0.2.7.x from running correctly. IPv6 and
10165 directory support should also be much improved.
10167 o New system requirements:
10168 - Tor no longer supports versions of OpenSSL with a broken
10169 implementation of counter mode. (This bug was present in OpenSSL
10170 1.0.0, and was fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.0a.) Tor still detects, but no
10171 longer runs with, these versions.
10172 - Tor no longer attempts to support platforms where the "time_t"
10173 type is unsigned. (To the best of our knowledge, only OpenVMS does
10174 this, and Tor has never actually built on OpenVMS.) Closes
10176 - Tor now uses Autoconf version 2.63 or later, and Automake 1.11 or
10177 later (released in 2008 and 2009 respectively). If you are
10178 building Tor from the git repository instead of from the source
10179 distribution, and your tools are older than this, you will need to
10180 upgrade. Closes ticket 17732.
10182 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers):
10183 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
10184 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
10185 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
10186 Reported by Guido Vranken.
10188 o Major bugfixes (bridges, pluggable transports):
10189 - Modify the check for OR connections to private addresses. Allow
10190 bridges on private addresses, including pluggable transports that
10191 ignore the (potentially private) address in the bridge line. Fixes
10192 bug 18517; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by gk, patch by teor.
10194 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
10195 - Repair hardened builds under the clang compiler. Previously, our
10196 use of _FORTIFY_SOURCE would conflict with clang's address
10197 sanitizer. Fixes bug 14821; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
10199 o Major bugfixes (crash on shutdown):
10200 - Correctly handle detaching circuits from muxes when shutting down.
10201 Fixes bug 18116; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
10202 - Fix an assert-on-exit bug related to counting memory usage in
10203 rephist.c. Fixes bug 18651; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
10205 o Major bugfixes (crash on startup):
10206 - Fix a segfault during startup: If a Unix domain socket was
10207 configured as listener (such as a ControlSocket or a SocksPort
10208 "unix:" socket), and tor was started as root but not configured to
10209 switch to another user, tor would segfault while trying to string
10210 compare a NULL value. Fixes bug 18261; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
10213 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash):
10214 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
10215 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
10217 o Major bugfixes (relays, bridge clients):
10218 - Ensure relays always allow IPv4 OR and Dir connections. Ensure
10219 bridge clients use the address configured in the bridge line.
10220 Fixes bug 18348; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by sysrqb,
10223 o Major bugfixes (voting):
10224 - Actually enable support for authorities to match routers by their
10225 Ed25519 identities. Previously, the code had been written, but
10226 some debugging code that had accidentally been left in the
10227 codebase made it stay turned off. Fixes bug 17702; bugfix
10229 - When collating votes by Ed25519 identities, authorities now
10230 include a "NoEdConsensus" flag if the ed25519 value (or lack
10231 thereof) for a server does not reflect the majority consensus.
10232 Related to bug 17668; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
10233 - When generating a vote with keypinning disabled, never include two
10234 entries for the same ed25519 identity. This bug was causing
10235 authorities to generate votes that they could not parse when a
10236 router violated key pinning by changing its RSA identity but
10237 keeping its Ed25519 identity. Fixes bug 17668; fixes part of bug
10238 18318. Bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
10240 o Minor features (security, win32):
10241 - Set SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE on Win32 to avoid a local port-stealing
10242 attack. Fixes bug 18123; bugfix on all tor versions. Patch
10245 o Minor features (bug-resistance):
10246 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
10247 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
10248 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
10250 o Minor features (build):
10251 - Detect systems with FreeBSD-derived kernels (such as GNU/kFreeBSD)
10252 as having possible IPFW support. Closes ticket 18448. Patch from
10253 Steven Chamberlain.
10255 o Minor features (code hardening):
10256 - Use tor_snprintf() and tor_vsnprintf() even in external and low-
10257 level code, to harden against accidental failures to NUL-
10258 terminate. Part of ticket 17852. Patch from jsturgix. Found
10261 o Minor features (crypto):
10262 - Validate the hard-coded Diffie-Hellman parameters and ensure that
10263 p is a safe prime, and g is a suitable generator. Closes
10266 o Minor features (geoip):
10267 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the March 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
10270 o Minor features (hidden service directory):
10271 - Streamline relay-side hsdir handling: when relays consider whether
10272 to accept an uploaded hidden service descriptor, they no longer
10273 check whether they are one of the relays in the network that is
10274 "supposed" to handle that descriptor. Implements ticket 18332.
10276 o Minor features (IPv6):
10277 - Add ClientPreferIPv6DirPort, which is set to 0 by default. If set
10278 to 1, tor prefers IPv6 directory addresses.
10279 - Add ClientUseIPv4, which is set to 1 by default. If set to 0, tor
10280 avoids using IPv4 for client OR and directory connections.
10281 - Try harder to obey the IP version restrictions "ClientUseIPv4 0",
10282 "ClientUseIPv6 0", "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort", and
10283 "ClientPreferIPv6DirPort". Closes ticket 17840; patch by teor.
10285 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
10286 - Reject attempts to change our Address with "Sandbox 1" enabled.
10287 Changing Address with Sandbox turned on would never actually work,
10288 but previously it would fail in strange and confusing ways. Found
10289 while fixing 18548.
10291 o Minor features (robustness):
10292 - Exit immediately with an error message if the code attempts to use
10293 Libevent without having initialized it. This should resolve some
10294 frequently-made mistakes in our unit tests. Closes ticket 18241.
10296 o Minor features (unix domain sockets):
10297 - Add a new per-socket option, RelaxDirModeCheck, to allow creating
10298 Unix domain sockets without checking the permissions on the parent
10299 directory. (Tor checks permissions by default because some
10300 operating systems only check permissions on the parent directory.
10301 However, some operating systems do look at permissions on the
10302 socket, and tor's default check is unneeded.) Closes ticket 18458.
10305 o Minor bugfixes (exit policies, security):
10306 - Refresh an exit relay's exit policy when interface addresses
10307 change. Previously, tor only refreshed the exit policy when the
10308 configured external address changed. Fixes bug 18208; bugfix on
10309 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by teor.
10311 o Minor bugfixes (security, hidden services):
10312 - Prevent hidden services connecting to client-supplied rendezvous
10313 addresses that are reserved as internal or multicast. Fixes bug
10314 8976; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by dgoulet and teor.
10316 o Minor bugfixes (build):
10317 - Do not link the unit tests against both the testing and non-
10318 testing versions of the static libraries. Fixes bug 18490; bugfix
10320 - Avoid spurious failures from configure files related to calling
10321 exit(0) in TOR_SEARCH_LIBRARY. Fixes bug 18626; bugfix on
10322 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
10323 - Silence spurious clang-scan warnings in the ed25519_donna code by
10324 explicitly initializing some objects. Fixes bug 18384; bugfix on
10325 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by teor.
10327 o Minor bugfixes (client, bootstrap):
10328 - Count receipt of new microdescriptors as progress towards
10329 bootstrapping. Previously, with EntryNodes set, Tor might not
10330 successfully repopulate the guard set on bootstrapping. Fixes bug
10331 16825; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
10333 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
10334 - Update to the latest version of Trunnel, which tries harder to
10335 avoid generating code that can invoke memcpy(p,NULL,0). Bug found
10336 by clang address sanitizer. Fixes bug 18373; bugfix
10339 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
10340 - Fix a tiny memory leak when parsing a port configuration ending in
10341 ":auto". Fixes bug 18374; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
10343 o Minor bugfixes (containers):
10344 - If we somehow attempt to construct a heap with more than
10345 1073741822 elements, avoid an integer overflow when maintaining
10346 the heap property. Fixes bug 18296; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
10348 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
10349 - Fix a bad memory handling bug that would occur if we had queued a
10350 cell on a channel's incoming queue. Fortunately, we can't actually
10351 queue a cell like that as our code is constructed today, but it's
10352 best to avoid this kind of error, even if there isn't any code
10353 that triggers it today. Fixes bug 18570; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
10355 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
10356 - When generating a URL for a directory server on an IPv6 address,
10357 wrap the IPv6 address in square brackets. Fixes bug 18051; bugfix
10358 on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Malek.
10360 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directory mirrors):
10361 - When requesting extrainfo descriptors from a trusted directory
10362 server, check whether it is an authority or a fallback directory
10363 which supports extrainfo descriptors. Fixes bug 18489; bugfix on
10364 0.2.4.7-alpha. Reported by atagar, patch by teor.
10366 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, client):
10367 - Handle the case where the user makes several fast consecutive
10368 requests to the same .onion address. Previously, the first six
10369 requests would each trigger a descriptor fetch, each picking a
10370 directory (there are 6 overall) and the seventh one would fail
10371 because no directories were left, thereby triggering a close on
10372 all current directory connections asking for the hidden service.
10373 The solution here is to not close the connections if we have
10374 pending directory fetches. Fixes bug 15937; bugfix
10377 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, control port):
10378 - Add the onion address to the HS_DESC event for the UPLOADED action
10379 both on success or failure. It was previously hardcoded with
10380 UNKNOWN. Fixes bug 16023; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
10382 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, directory):
10383 - Bridges now refuse "rendezvous2" (hidden service descriptor)
10384 publish attempts. Suggested by ticket 18332.
10386 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
10387 - Allow the setrlimit syscall, and the prlimit and prlimit64
10388 syscalls, which some libc implementations use under the hood.
10389 Fixes bug 15221; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10390 - Avoid a 10-second delay when starting as a client with "Sandbox 1"
10391 enabled and no DNS resolvers configured. This should help TAILS
10392 start up faster. Fixes bug 18548; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10393 - Fix the sandbox's interoperability with unix domain sockets under
10394 setuid. Fixes bug 18253; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
10396 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
10397 - When logging information about an unparsable networkstatus vote or
10398 consensus, do not say "vote" when we mean consensus. Fixes bug
10399 18368; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
10400 - Scrub service name in "unrecognized service ID" log messages.
10401 Fixes bug 18600; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha.
10402 - Downgrade logs and backtraces about IP versions to info-level.
10403 Only log backtraces once each time tor runs. Assists in diagnosing
10404 bug 18351; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by sysrqb and
10405 Christian, patch by teor.
10407 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety):
10408 - Avoid freeing an uninitialized pointer when opening a socket fails
10409 in get_interface_addresses_ioctl(). Fixes bug 18454; bugfix on
10410 0.2.3.11-alpha. Reported by toralf and "cypherpunks", patch
10412 - Correctly duplicate addresses in get_interface_address6_list().
10413 Fixes bug 18454; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by toralf,
10414 patch by "cypherpunks".
10415 - Fix a memory leak in tor-gencert. Fixes part of bug 18672; bugfix
10417 - Fix a memory leak in "tor --list-fingerprint". Fixes part of bug
10418 18672; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10420 o Minor bugfixes (private directory):
10421 - Prevent a race condition when creating private directories. Fixes
10422 part of bug 17852; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13. Part of ticket 17852.
10423 Patch from jsturgix. Found with Flawfinder.
10425 o Minor bugfixes (test networks, IPv6):
10426 - Allow internal IPv6 addresses in descriptors in test networks.
10427 Fixes bug 17153; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Patch by teor, reported
10430 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
10431 - We no longer disable assertions in the unit tests when coverage is
10432 enabled. Instead, we require you to say --disable-asserts-in-tests
10433 to the configure script if you need assertions disabled in the
10434 unit tests (for example, if you want to perform branch coverage).
10435 Fixes bug 18242; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
10437 o Minor bugfixes (time parsing):
10438 - Avoid overflow in tor_timegm when parsing dates in and after 2038
10439 on platforms with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 18479; bugfix on
10440 0.0.2pre14. Patch by teor.
10442 o Minor bugfixes (tor-gencert):
10443 - Correctly handle the case where an authority operator enters a
10444 passphrase but sends an EOF before sending a newline. Fixes bug
10445 17443; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by junglefowl.
10447 o Code simplification and refactoring:
10448 - Quote all the string interpolations in configure.ac -- even those
10449 which we are pretty sure can't contain spaces. Closes ticket
10450 17744. Patch from zerosion.
10451 - Remove specialized code for non-inplace AES_CTR. 99% of our AES is
10452 inplace, so there's no need to have a separate implementation for
10453 the non-inplace code. Closes ticket 18258. Patch from Malek.
10454 - Simplify return types for some crypto functions that can't
10455 actually fail. Patch from Hassan Alsibyani. Closes ticket 18259.
10458 - Change build messages to refer to "Fedora" instead of "Fedora
10459 Core", and "dnf" instead of "yum". Closes tickets 18459 and 18426.
10460 Patches from "icanhasaccount" and "cypherpunks".
10462 o Removed features:
10463 - We no longer maintain an internal freelist in memarea.c.
10464 Allocators should be good enough to make this code unnecessary,
10465 and it's doubtful that it ever had any performance benefit.
10468 - Fix several warnings from clang's address sanitizer produced in
10470 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on FreeBSD until we
10471 solve bug 17808. Closes ticket 18204.
10474 Changes in version 0.2.8.1-alpha - 2016-02-04
10475 Tor 0.2.8.1-alpha is the first alpha release in its series. It
10476 includes numerous small features and bugfixes against previous Tor
10477 versions, and numerous small infrastructure improvements. The most
10478 notable features are a set of improvements to the directory subsystem.
10480 o Major features (security, Linux):
10481 - When Tor starts as root on Linux and is told to switch user ID, it
10482 can now retain the capability to bind to low ports. By default,
10483 Tor will do this only when it's switching user ID and some low
10484 ports have been configured. You can change this behavior with the
10485 new option KeepBindCapabilities. Closes ticket 8195.
10487 o Major features (directory system):
10488 - When bootstrapping multiple consensus downloads at a time, use the
10489 first one that starts downloading, and close the rest. This
10490 reduces failures when authorities or fallback directories are slow
10491 or down. Together with the code for feature 15775, this feature
10492 should reduces failures due to fallback churn. Implements ticket
10493 4483. Patch by "teor". Implements IPv4 portions of proposal 210 by
10494 "mikeperry" and "teor".
10495 - Include a trial list of 21 default fallback directories, generated
10496 in January 2016, based on an opt-in survey of suitable relays.
10497 Doing this should make clients bootstrap more quickly and reliably,
10498 and reduce the load on the directory authorities. Closes ticket
10499 15775. Patch by "teor".
10500 Candidates identified using an OnionOO script by "weasel", "teor",
10501 "gsathya", and "karsten".
10502 - Previously only relays that explicitly opened a directory port
10503 (DirPort) accepted directory requests from clients. Now all
10504 relays, with and without a DirPort, accept and serve tunneled
10505 directory requests that they receive through their ORPort. You can
10506 disable this behavior using the new DirCache option. Closes
10509 o Major key updates:
10510 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
10511 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
10514 o Minor features (security, clock):
10515 - Warn when the system clock appears to move back in time (when the
10516 state file was last written in the future). Tor doesn't know that
10517 consensuses have expired if the clock is in the past. Patch by
10518 "teor". Implements ticket 17188.
10520 o Minor features (security, exit policies):
10521 - ExitPolicyRejectPrivate now rejects more private addresses by
10522 default. Specifically, it now rejects the relay's outbound bind
10523 addresses (if configured), and the relay's configured port
10524 addresses (such as ORPort and DirPort). Fixes bug 17027; bugfix on
10525 0.2.0.11-alpha. Patch by "teor".
10527 o Minor features (security, memory erasure):
10528 - Set the unused entries in a smartlist to NULL. This helped catch
10529 a (harmless) bug, and shouldn't affect performance too much.
10530 Implements ticket 17026.
10531 - Use SecureMemoryWipe() function to securely clean memory on
10532 Windows. Previously we'd use OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() function.
10533 Implements feature 17986.
10534 - Use explicit_bzero or memset_s when present. Previously, we'd use
10535 OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() function. Closes ticket 7419; patches
10536 from <logan@hackers.mu> and <selven@hackers.mu>.
10537 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
10538 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
10539 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
10542 o Minor features (security, RNG):
10543 - Adjust Tor's use of OpenSSL's RNG APIs so that they absolutely,
10544 positively are not allowed to fail. Previously we depended on
10545 internal details of OpenSSL's behavior. Closes ticket 17686.
10546 - Never use the system entropy output directly for anything besides
10547 seeding the PRNG. When we want to generate important keys, instead
10548 of using system entropy directly, we now hash it with the PRNG
10549 stream. This may help resist certain attacks based on broken OS
10550 entropy implementations. Closes part of ticket 17694.
10551 - Use modern system calls (like getentropy() or getrandom()) to
10552 generate strong entropy on platforms that have them. Closes
10555 o Minor features (accounting):
10556 - Added two modes to the AccountingRule option: One for limiting
10557 only the number of bytes sent ("AccountingRule out"), and one for
10558 limiting only the number of bytes received ("AccountingRule in").
10559 Closes ticket 15989; patch from "unixninja92".
10561 o Minor features (build):
10562 - Since our build process now uses "make distcheck", we no longer
10563 force "make dist" to depend on "make check". Closes ticket 17893;
10564 patch from "cypherpunks."
10565 - Tor now builds successfully with the recent OpenSSL 1.1
10566 development branch, and with the latest LibreSSL. Closes tickets
10567 17549, 17921, and 17984.
10569 o Minor features (controller):
10570 - Adds the FallbackDir entries to 'GETINFO config/defaults'. Closes
10571 tickets 16774 and 17817. Patch by George Tankersley.
10572 - New 'GETINFO hs/service/desc/id/' command to retrieve a hidden
10573 service descriptor from a service's local hidden service
10574 descriptor cache. Closes ticket 14846.
10575 - Add 'GETINFO exit-policy/reject-private/[default,relay]', so
10576 controllers can examine the the reject rules added by
10577 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate. This makes it easier for stem to display
10580 o Minor features (crypto):
10581 - Add SHA512 support to crypto.c. Closes ticket 17663; patch from
10583 - Add SHA3 and SHAKE support to crypto.c. Closes ticket 17783.
10584 - When allocating a digest state object, allocate no more space than
10585 we actually need. Previously, we would allocate as much space as
10586 the state for the largest algorithm would need. This change saves
10587 up to 672 bytes per circuit. Closes ticket 17796.
10588 - Improve performance when hashing non-multiple of 8 sized buffers,
10589 based on Andrew Moon's public domain SipHash-2-4 implementation.
10590 Fixes bug 17544; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
10592 o Minor features (directory downloads):
10593 - Wait for busy authorities and fallback directories to become non-
10594 busy when bootstrapping. (A similar change was made in 6c443e987d
10595 for directory caches chosen from the consensus.) Closes ticket
10596 17864; patch by "teor".
10597 - Add UseDefaultFallbackDirs, which enables any hard-coded fallback
10598 directory mirrors. The default is 1; set it to 0 to disable
10599 fallbacks. Implements ticket 17576. Patch by "teor".
10601 o Minor features (geoip):
10602 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 5 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
10605 o Minor features (IPv6):
10606 - Add an argument 'ipv6=address:orport' to the DirAuthority and
10607 FallbackDir torrc options, to specify an IPv6 address for an
10608 authority or fallback directory. Add hard-coded ipv6 addresses for
10609 directory authorities that have them. Closes ticket 17327; patch
10610 from Nick Mathewson and "teor".
10611 - Add address policy assume_action support for IPv6 addresses.
10612 - Limit IPv6 mask bits to 128.
10613 - Warn when comparing against an AF_UNSPEC address in a policy, it's
10614 almost always a bug. Closes ticket 17863; patch by "teor".
10615 - Allow users to configure directory authorities and fallback
10616 directory servers with IPv6 addresses and ORPorts. Resolves
10618 - routerset_parse now accepts IPv6 literal addresses. Fixes bug
10619 17060; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
10620 - Make tor_ersatz_socketpair work on IPv6-only systems. Fixes bug
10621 17638; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Patch by "teor".
10623 o Minor features (logging):
10624 - When logging to syslog, allow a tag to be added to the syslog
10625 identity (the string prepended to every log message). The tag can
10626 be configured with SyslogIdentityTag and defaults to none. Setting
10627 it to "foo" will cause logs to be tagged as "Tor-foo". Closes
10630 o Minor features (portability):
10631 - Use timingsafe_memcmp() where available. Closes ticket 17944;
10632 patch from <logan@hackers.mu>.
10634 o Minor features (relay, address discovery):
10635 - Add a family argument to get_interface_addresses_raw() and
10636 subfunctions to make network interface address interogation more
10637 efficient. Now Tor can specifically ask for IPv4, IPv6 or both
10638 types of interfaces from the operating system. Resolves
10640 - When get_interface_address6_list(.,AF_UNSPEC,.) is called and
10641 fails to enumerate interface addresses using the platform-specific
10642 API, have it rely on the UDP socket fallback technique to try and
10643 find out what IP addresses (both IPv4 and IPv6) our machine has.
10644 Resolves ticket 17951.
10646 o Minor features (replay cache):
10647 - The replay cache now uses SHA256 instead of SHA1. Implements
10648 feature 8961. Patch by "teor", issue reported by "rransom".
10650 o Minor features (unix file permissions):
10651 - Defer creation of Unix sockets until after setuid. This avoids
10652 needing CAP_CHOWN and CAP_FOWNER when using systemd's
10653 CapabilityBoundingSet, or chown and fowner when using SELinux.
10654 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
10655 - If any directory created by Tor is marked as group readable, the
10656 filesystem group is allowed to be either the default GID or the
10657 root user. Allowing root to read the DataDirectory prevents the
10658 need for CAP_READ_SEARCH when using systemd's
10659 CapabilityBoundingSet, or dac_read_search when using SELinux.
10660 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
10661 - Introduce a new DataDirectoryGroupReadable option. If it is set to
10662 1, the DataDirectory will be made readable by the default GID.
10663 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
10665 o Minor bugfixes (accounting):
10666 - The max bandwidth when using 'AccountRule sum' is now correctly
10667 logged. Fixes bug 18024; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch
10668 from "unixninja92".
10670 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
10671 - When closing an entry connection, generate a warning if we should
10672 have sent an end cell for it but we haven't. Fixes bug 17876;
10673 bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
10674 - Assert that allocated memory held by the reputation code is freed
10675 according to its internal counters. Fixes bug 17753; bugfix
10677 - Assert when the TLS contexts fail to initialize. Fixes bug 17683;
10680 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
10681 - Mark all object files that include micro-revision.i as depending
10682 on it, so as to make parallel builds more reliable. Fixes bug
10683 17826; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10684 - Don't try to use the pthread_condattr_setclock() function unless
10685 it actually exists. Fixes compilation on NetBSD-6.x. Fixes bug
10686 17819; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
10687 - Fix backtrace compilation on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 17827; bugfix
10689 - Fix compilation of sandbox.c with musl-libc. Fixes bug 17347;
10690 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from 'jamestk'.
10691 - Fix search for libevent libraries on OpenBSD (and other systems
10692 that install libevent 1 and libevent 2 in parallel). Fixes bug
10693 16651; bugfix on 0.1.0.7-rc. Patch from "rubiate".
10694 - Isolate environment variables meant for tests from the rest of the
10695 build system. Fixes bug 17818; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
10696 - Replace usage of 'INLINE' with 'inline'. Fixes bug 17804; bugfix
10698 - Remove config.log only from make distclean, not from make clean.
10699 Fixes bug 17924; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
10701 o Minor bugfixes (crypto):
10702 - Check the return value of HMAC() and assert on failure. Fixes bug
10703 17658; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by "teor".
10705 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
10706 - Mark fallbacks as "too busy" when they return a 503 response,
10707 rather than just marking authorities. Fixes bug 17572; bugfix on
10708 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
10710 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
10711 - Update the limits in max_dl_per_request for IPv6 address length.
10712 Fixes bug 17573; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
10714 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
10715 - Fix a crash when using offline master ed25519 keys with the Linux
10716 seccomp2 sandbox enabled. Fixes bug 17675; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
10718 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
10719 - In log messages that include a function name, use __FUNCTION__
10720 instead of __PRETTY_FUNCTION__. In GCC, these are synonymous, but
10721 with clang __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ has extra information we don't
10722 need. Fixes bug 16563; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Fix by Tom van
10724 - Remove needless quotes from a log message about unparseable
10725 addresses. Fixes bug 17843; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
10727 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
10728 - Remove an #endif from configure.ac so that we correctly detect the
10729 presence of in6_addr.s6_addr32. Fixes bug 17923; bugfix
10732 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
10733 - Check that both the ORPort and DirPort (if present) are reachable
10734 before publishing a relay descriptor. Otherwise, relays publish a
10735 descriptor with DirPort 0 when the DirPort reachability test takes
10736 longer than the ORPort reachability test. Fixes bug 18050; bugfix
10737 on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "starlight", patch by "teor".
10739 o Minor bugfixes (relays, hidden services):
10740 - Refuse connection requests to private OR addresses unless
10741 ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set. Previously, tor would connect,
10742 then refuse to send any cells to a private address. Fixes bugs
10743 17674 and 8976; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by "teor".
10745 o Minor bugfixes (safe logging):
10746 - When logging a malformed hostname received through socks4, scrub
10747 it if SafeLogging says we should. Fixes bug 17419; bugfix
10750 o Minor bugfixes (statistics code):
10751 - Consistently check for overflow in round_*_to_next_multiple_of
10752 functions, and add unit tests with additional and maximal values.
10753 Fixes part of bug 13192; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
10754 - Handle edge cases in the laplace functions: avoid division by
10755 zero, avoid taking the log of zero, and silence clang type
10756 conversion warnings using round and trunc. Add unit tests for edge
10757 cases with maximal values. Fixes part of bug 13192; bugfix
10760 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
10761 - The test for log_heartbeat was incorrectly failing in timezones
10762 with non-integer offsets. Instead of comparing the end of the time
10763 string against a constant, compare it to the output of
10764 format_local_iso_time when given the correct input. Fixes bug
10765 18039; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
10766 - Make unit tests pass on IPv6-only systems, and systems without
10767 localhost addresses (like some FreeBSD jails). Fixes bug 17632;
10768 bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by "teor".
10769 - Fix a memory leak in the ntor test. Fixes bug 17778; bugfix
10771 - Check the full results of SHA256 and SHA512 digests in the unit
10772 tests. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha. Patch by "teor".
10774 o Code simplification and refactoring:
10775 - Move logging of redundant policy entries in
10776 policies_parse_exit_policy_internal into its own function. Closes
10777 ticket 17608; patch from "juce".
10778 - Extract the more complicated parts of circuit_mark_for_close()
10779 into a new function that we run periodically before circuits are
10780 freed. This change removes more than half of the functions
10781 currently in the "blob". Closes ticket 17218.
10782 - Clean up a little duplicated code in
10783 crypto_expand_key_material_TAP(). Closes ticket 17587; patch
10785 - Decouple the list of streams waiting to be attached to circuits
10786 from the overall connection list. This change makes it possible to
10787 attach streams quickly while simplifying Tor's callgraph and
10788 avoiding O(N) scans of the entire connection list. Closes
10790 - When a direct directory request fails immediately on launch,
10791 instead of relaunching that request from inside the code that
10792 launches it, instead mark the connection for teardown. This change
10793 simplifies Tor's callback and prevents the directory-request
10794 launching code from invoking itself recursively. Closes
10796 - Remove code for configuring OpenSSL dynamic locks; OpenSSL doesn't
10797 use them. Closes ticket 17926.
10800 - Add a description of the correct use of the '--keygen' command-
10801 line option. Closes ticket 17583; based on text by 's7r'.
10802 - Document the minimum HeartbeatPeriod value. Closes ticket 15638.
10803 - Explain actual minima for BandwidthRate. Closes ticket 16382.
10804 - Fix a minor formatting typo in the manpage. Closes ticket 17791.
10805 - Mention torspec URL in the manpage and point the reader to it
10806 whenever we mention a document that belongs in torspce. Fixes
10809 o Removed features:
10810 - Remove client-side support for connecting to Tor relays running
10811 versions of Tor before 0.2.3.6-alpha. These relays didn't support
10812 the v3 TLS handshake protocol, and are no longer allowed on the
10813 Tor network. Implements the client side of ticket 11150. Based on
10814 patches by Tom van der Woerdt.
10817 - Add unit tests to check for common RNG failure modes, such as
10818 returning all zeroes, identical values, or incrementing values
10819 (OpenSSL's rand_predictable feature). Patch by "teor".
10820 - Log more information when the backtrace tests fail. Closes ticket
10821 17892. Patch from "cypherpunks."
10822 - Always test both ed25519 backends, so that we can be sure that our
10823 batch-open replacement code works. Part of ticket 16794.
10824 - Cover dns_resolve_impl() in dns.c with unit tests. Implements a
10825 portion of ticket 16831.
10826 - More unit tests for compat_libevent.c, procmon.c, tortls.c,
10827 util_format.c, directory.c, and options_validate.c. Closes tickets
10828 17075, 17082, 17084, 17003, and 17076 respectively. Patches from
10830 - Unit tests for directory_handle_command_get. Closes ticket 17004.
10831 Patch from Reinaldo de Souza Jr.
10834 Changes in version 0.2.7.6 - 2015-12-10
10835 Tor version 0.2.7.6 fixes a major bug in entry guard selection, as
10836 well as a minor bug in hidden service reliability.
10838 o Major bugfixes (guard selection):
10839 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
10840 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
10841 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
10842 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
10843 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
10846 o Minor features (geoip):
10847 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 1 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
10850 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
10851 - When checking for net/pfvar.h, include netinet/in.h if possible.
10852 This fixes transparent proxy detection on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
10853 17551; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Patch from "rubiate".
10854 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
10855 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
10857 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
10858 - When displaying an IPv6 exit policy, include the mask bits
10859 correctly even when the number is greater than 31. Fixes bug
10860 16056; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch from "gturner".
10861 - The wrong list was used when looking up expired intro points in a
10862 rend service object, causing what we think could be reachability
10863 issues for hidden services, and triggering a BUG log. Fixes bug
10864 16702; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
10865 - Fix undefined behavior in the tor_cert_checksig function. Fixes
10866 bug 17722; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
10869 Changes in version 0.2.7.5 - 2015-11-20
10870 The Tor 0.2.7 release series is dedicated to the memory of Tor user
10871 and privacy advocate Caspar Bowden (1961-2015). Caspar worked
10872 tirelessly to advocate human rights regardless of national borders,
10873 and oppose the encroachments of mass surveillance. He opposed national
10874 exceptionalism, he brought clarity to legal and policy debates, he
10875 understood and predicted the impact of mass surveillance on the world,
10876 and he laid the groundwork for resisting it. While serving on the Tor
10877 Project's board of directors, he brought us his uncompromising focus
10878 on technical excellence in the service of humankind. Caspar was an
10879 inimitable force for good and a wonderful friend. He was kind,
10880 humorous, generous, gallant, and believed we should protect one
10881 another without exception. We honor him here for his ideals, his
10882 efforts, and his accomplishments. Please honor his memory with works
10883 that would make him proud.
10885 Tor 0.2.7.5 is the first stable release in the Tor 0.2.7 series.
10887 The 0.2.7 series adds a more secure identity key type for relays,
10888 improves cryptography performance, resolves several longstanding
10889 hidden-service performance issues, improves controller support for
10890 hidden services, and includes small bugfixes and performance
10891 improvements throughout the program. This release series also includes
10892 more tests than before, and significant simplifications to which parts
10893 of Tor invoke which others.
10895 (This release contains no code changes since 0.2.7.4-rc.)
10898 Changes in version 0.2.7.4-rc - 2015-10-21
10899 Tor 0.2.7.4-rc is the second release candidate in the 0.2.7 series. It
10900 fixes some important memory leaks, and a scary-looking (but mostly
10901 harmless in practice) invalid-read bug. It also has a few small
10902 bugfixes, notably fixes for compilation and portability on different
10903 platforms. If no further significant bounds are found, the next
10904 release will the the official stable release.
10906 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness):
10907 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
10908 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
10909 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
10910 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
10913 o Major bugfixes (correctness):
10914 - Fix a use-after-free bug in validate_intro_point_failure(). Fixes
10915 bug 17401; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
10917 o Major bugfixes (memory leaks):
10918 - Fix a memory leak in ed25519 batch signature checking. Fixes bug
10919 17398; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
10920 - Fix a memory leak in rend_cache_failure_entry_free(). Fixes bug
10921 17402; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
10922 - Fix a memory leak when reading an expired signing key from disk.
10923 Fixes bug 17403; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-rc.
10925 o Minor features (geoIP):
10926 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
10929 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
10930 - Repair compilation with the most recent (unreleased, alpha)
10931 vesions of OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes part of ticket 17237.
10932 - Fix an integer overflow warning in test_crypto_slow.c. Fixes bug
10933 17251; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
10934 - Fix compilation of sandbox.c with musl-libc. Fixes bug 17347;
10935 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from 'jamestk'.
10937 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
10938 - Use libexecinfo on FreeBSD to enable backtrace support. Fixes
10939 part of bug 17151; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from
10942 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox):
10943 - Add the "hidserv-stats" filename to our sandbox filter for the
10944 HiddenServiceStatistics option to work properly. Fixes bug 17354;
10945 bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from David Goulet.
10947 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
10948 - Add unit tests for get_interface_address* failure cases. Fixes bug
10949 17173; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by fk/teor.
10950 - Fix breakage when running 'make check' with BSD make. Fixes bug
10951 17154; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by Marcin Cieślak.
10952 - Make the get_ifaddrs_* unit tests more tolerant of different
10953 network configurations. (Don't assume every test box has an IPv4
10954 address, and don't assume every test box has a non-localhost
10955 address.) Fixes bug 17255; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by "teor".
10956 - Skip backtrace tests when backtrace support is not compiled in.
10957 Fixes part of bug 17151; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha. Patch from
10961 - Fix capitalization of SOCKS in sample torrc. Closes ticket 15609.
10962 - Note that HiddenServicePorts can take a unix domain socket. Closes
10966 Changes in version 0.2.7.3-rc - 2015-09-25
10967 Tor 0.2.7.3-rc is the first release candidate in the 0.2.7 series. It
10968 contains numerous usability fixes for Ed25519 keys, safeguards against
10969 several misconfiguration problems, significant simplifications to
10970 Tor's callgraph, and numerous bugfixes and small features.
10972 This is the most tested release of Tor to date. The unit tests cover
10973 39.40% of the code, and the integration tests (accessible with "make
10974 test-full-online", requiring stem and chutney and a network
10975 connection) raise the coverage to 64.49%.
10977 o Major features (security, hidden services):
10978 - Hidden services, if using the EntryNodes option, are required to
10979 use more than one EntryNode, in order to avoid a guard discovery
10980 attack. (This would only affect people who had configured hidden
10981 services and manually specified the EntryNodes option with a
10982 single entry-node. The impact was that it would be easy to
10983 remotely identify the guard node used by such a hidden service.
10984 See ticket for more information.) Fixes ticket 14917.
10986 o Major features (Ed25519 keys, keypinning):
10987 - The key-pinning option on directory authorities is now advisory-
10988 only by default. In a future version, or when the AuthDirPinKeys
10989 option is set, pins are enforced again. Disabling key-pinning
10990 seemed like a good idea so that we can survive the fallout of any
10991 usability problems associated with Ed25519 keys. Closes
10994 o Major features (Ed25519 performance):
10995 - Improve the speed of Ed25519 operations and Curve25519 keypair
10996 generation when built targeting 32 bit x86 platforms with SSE2
10997 available. Implements ticket 16535.
10998 - Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 signature verification by
10999 using Ed25519-donna's batch verification support. Implements
11002 o Major features (performance testing):
11003 - The test-network.sh script now supports performance testing.
11004 Requires corresponding chutney performance testing changes. Patch
11005 by "teor". Closes ticket 14175.
11007 o Major features (relay, Ed25519):
11008 - Significant usability improvements for Ed25519 key management. Log
11009 messages are better, and the code can recover from far more
11010 failure conditions. Thanks to "s7r" for reporting and diagnosing
11012 - Add a new OfflineMasterKey option to tell Tor never to try loading
11013 or generating a secret Ed25519 identity key. You can use this in
11014 combination with tor --keygen to manage offline and/or encrypted
11015 Ed25519 keys. Implements ticket 16944.
11016 - Add a --newpass option to allow changing or removing the
11017 passphrase of an encrypted key with tor --keygen. Implements part
11019 - On receiving a HUP signal, check to see whether the Ed25519
11020 signing key has changed, and reload it if so. Closes ticket 16790.
11022 o Major bugfixes (relay, Ed25519):
11023 - Avoid crashing on 'tor --keygen'. Fixes bug 16679; bugfix on
11024 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by "s7r".
11025 - Improve handling of expired signing keys with offline master keys.
11026 Fixes bug 16685; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by "s7r".
11028 o Minor features (client-side privacy):
11029 - New KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth option to indefinitely extend circuit
11030 lifespan when IsolateSOCKSAuth and streams with SOCKS
11031 authentication are attached to the circuit. This allows
11032 applications like TorBrowser to manage circuit lifetime on their
11033 own. Implements feature 15482.
11034 - When logging malformed hostnames from SOCKS5 requests, respect
11035 SafeLogging configuration. Fixes bug 16891; bugfix on 0.1.1.16-rc.
11037 o Minor features (compilation):
11038 - Give a warning as early as possible when trying to build with an
11039 unsupported OpenSSL version. Closes ticket 16901.
11040 - Fail during configure if we're trying to build against an OpenSSL
11041 built without ECC support. Fixes bug 17109, bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha
11042 which started requiring ECC.
11044 o Minor features (geoip):
11045 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
11048 o Minor features (hidden services):
11049 - Relays need to have the Fast flag to get the HSDir flag. As this
11050 is being written, we'll go from 2745 HSDirs down to 2342, a ~14%
11051 drop. This change should make some attacks against the hidden
11052 service directory system harder. Fixes ticket 15963.
11053 - Turn on hidden service statistics collection by setting the torrc
11054 option HiddenServiceStatistics to "1" by default. (This keeps
11055 track only of the fraction of traffic used by hidden services, and
11056 the total number of hidden services in existence.) Closes
11058 - Client now uses an introduction point failure cache to know when
11059 to fetch or keep a descriptor in their cache. Previously, failures
11060 were recorded implicitly, but not explicitly remembered. Closes
11063 o Minor features (testing, authorities, documentation):
11064 - New TestingDirAuthVote{Exit,Guard,HSDir}IsStrict flags to
11065 explicitly manage consensus flags in testing networks. Patch by
11066 "robgjansen", modified by "teor". Implements part of ticket 14882.
11068 o Minor bugfixes (security, exit policies):
11069 - ExitPolicyRejectPrivate now also rejects the relay's published
11070 IPv6 address (if any), and any publicly routable IPv4 or IPv6
11071 addresses on any local interfaces. ticket 17027. Patch by "teor".
11072 Fixes bug 17027; bugfix on 0.2.0.11-alpha.
11074 o Minor bug fixes (torrc exit policies):
11075 - In torrc, "accept6 *" and "reject6 *" ExitPolicy lines now only
11076 produce IPv6 wildcard addresses. Previously they would produce
11077 both IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard addresses. Patch by "teor". Fixes part
11078 of bug 16069; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
11079 - When parsing torrc ExitPolicies, we now warn for a number of cases
11080 where the user's intent is likely to differ from Tor's actual
11081 behavior. These include: using an IPv4 address with an accept6 or
11082 reject6 line; using "private" on an accept6 or reject6 line; and
11083 including any ExitPolicy lines after accept *:* or reject *:*.
11084 Related to ticket 16069.
11085 - When parsing torrc ExitPolicies, we now issue an info-level
11086 message when expanding an "accept/reject *" line to include both
11087 IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard addresses. Related to ticket 16069.
11088 - In each instance above, usage advice is provided to avoid the
11089 message. Resolves ticket 16069. Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug
11090 16069; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
11092 o Minor bugfixes (authority):
11093 - Don't assign "HSDir" to a router if it isn't Valid and Running.
11094 Fixes bug 16524; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
11095 - Downgrade log messages about Ed25519 key issues if they are in old
11096 cached router descriptors. Fixes part of bug 16286; bugfix
11098 - When we find an Ed25519 key issue in a cached descriptor, stop
11099 saying the descriptor was just "uploaded". Fixes another part of
11100 bug 16286; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
11102 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
11103 - Repair a warning and a spurious result when getting the maximum
11104 number of file descriptors from the controller. Fixes bug 16697;
11105 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
11107 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
11108 - When calling channel_free_list(), avoid calling smartlist_remove()
11109 while inside a FOREACH loop. This partially reverts commit
11110 17356fe7fd96af where the correct SMARTLIST_DEL_CURRENT was
11111 incorrectly removed. Fixes bug 16924; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
11113 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
11114 - Advise users on how to configure separate IPv4 and IPv6 exit
11115 policies in the manpage and sample torrcs. Related to ticket 16069.
11116 - Fix the usage message of tor-resolve(1) so that it no longer lists
11117 the removed -F option. Fixes bug 16913; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
11118 - Fix an error in the manual page and comments for
11119 TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir[IsStrict], which suggested that a HSDir
11120 required "ORPort connectivity". While this is true, it is in no
11121 way unique to the HSDir flag. Of all the flags, only HSDirs need a
11122 DirPort configured in order for the authorities to assign that
11123 particular flag. Patch by "teor". Fixed as part of 14882; bugfix
11126 o Minor bugfixes (Ed25519):
11127 - Fix a memory leak when reading router descriptors with expired
11128 Ed25519 certificates. Fixes bug 16539; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
11130 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
11131 - Allow bridge authorities to run correctly under the seccomp2
11132 sandbox. Fixes bug 16964; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
11133 - Allow routers with ed25519 keys to run correctly under the
11134 seccomp2 sandbox. Fixes bug 16965; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
11136 o Minor bugfixes (open file limit):
11137 - Fix set_max_file_descriptors() to set by default the max open file
11138 limit to the current limit when setrlimit() fails. Fixes bug
11139 16274; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch by dgoulet.
11141 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
11142 - Try harder to normalize the exit status of the Tor process to the
11143 standard-provided range. Fixes bug 16975; bugfix on every version
11145 - Check correctly for Windows socket errors in the workqueue
11146 backend. Fixes bug 16741; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
11147 - Fix the behavior of crypto_rand_time_range() when told to consider
11148 times before 1970. (These times were possible when running in a
11149 simulated network environment where time()'s output starts at
11150 zero.) Fixes bug 16980; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
11151 - Restore correct operation of TLS client-cipher detection on
11152 OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug 14047; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
11154 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
11155 - Ensure that worker threads actually exit when a fatal error or
11156 shutdown is indicated. This fix doesn't currently affect the
11157 behavior of Tor, because Tor workers never indicates fatal error
11158 or shutdown except in the unit tests. Fixes bug 16868; bugfix
11160 - Unblock threads before releasing the work queue mutex to ensure
11161 predictable scheduling behavior. Fixes bug 16644; bugfix
11164 o Code simplification and refactoring:
11165 - Change the function that's called when we need to retry all
11166 downloads so that it only reschedules the downloads to happen
11167 immediately, rather than launching them all at once itself. This
11168 further simplifies Tor's callgraph.
11169 - Move some format-parsing functions out of crypto.c and
11170 crypto_curve25519.c into crypto_format.c and/or util_format.c.
11171 - Move the client-only parts of init_keys() into a separate
11172 function. Closes ticket 16763.
11173 - Simplify the microdesc_free() implementation so that it no longer
11174 appears (to code analysis tools) to potentially invoke a huge
11175 suite of other microdesc functions.
11176 - Simply the control graph further by deferring the inner body of
11177 directory_all_unreachable() into a callback. Closes ticket 16762.
11178 - Treat the loss of an owning controller as equivalent to a SIGTERM
11179 signal. This removes a tiny amount of duplicated code, and
11180 simplifies our callgraph. Closes ticket 16788.
11181 - When generating an event to send to the controller, we no longer
11182 put the event over the network immediately. Instead, we queue
11183 these events, and use a Libevent callback to deliver them. This
11184 change simplifies Tor's callgraph by reducing the number of
11185 functions from which all other Tor functions are reachable. Closes
11187 - Wrap Windows-only C files inside '#ifdef _WIN32' so that tools
11188 that try to scan or compile every file on Unix won't decide that
11190 - Remove the unused "nulterminate" argument from buf_pullup().
11193 - Recommend a 40 GB example AccountingMax in torrc.sample rather
11194 than a 4 GB max. Closes ticket 16742.
11195 - Include the TUNING document in our source tarball. It is referred
11196 to in the ChangeLog and an error message. Fixes bug 16929; bugfix
11200 - The internal pure-C tor-fw-helper tool is now removed from the Tor
11201 distribution, in favor of the pure-Go clone available from
11202 https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor-fw-helper.git/ . The libraries
11203 used by the C tor-fw-helper are not, in our opinion, very
11204 confidence- inspiring in their secure-programming techniques.
11205 Closes ticket 13338.
11206 - Remove the code that would try to aggressively flush controller
11207 connections while writing to them. This code was introduced in
11208 0.1.2.7-alpha, in order to keep output buffers from exceeding
11209 their limits. But there is no longer a maximum output buffer size,
11210 and flushing data in this way caused some undesirable recursions
11211 in our call graph. Closes ticket 16480.
11214 - Make "bridges+hs" the default test network. This tests almost all
11215 tor functionality during make test-network, while allowing tests
11216 to succeed on non-IPv6 systems. Requires chutney commit 396da92 in
11217 test-network-bridges-hs. Closes tickets 16945 (tor) and 16946
11218 (chutney). Patches by "teor".
11219 - Autodetect CHUTNEY_PATH if the chutney and Tor sources are side-
11220 by-side in the same parent directory. Closes ticket 16903. Patch
11222 - Use environment variables rather than autoconf substitutions to
11223 send variables from the build system to the test scripts. This
11224 change should be easier to maintain, and cause 'make distcheck' to
11225 work better than before. Fixes bug 17148.
11226 - Add a new set of callgraph analysis scripts that use clang to
11227 produce a list of which Tor functions are reachable from which
11228 other Tor functions. We're planning to use these to help simplify
11229 our code structure by identifying illogical dependencies.
11230 - Add new 'test-full' and 'test-full-online' targets to run all
11231 tests, including integration tests with stem and chutney.
11232 - Make the test-workqueue test work on Windows by initializing the
11233 network before we begin.
11234 - New make target (make test-network-all) to run multiple applicable
11235 chutney test cases. Patch from Teor; closes 16953.
11236 - Unit test dns_resolve(), dns_clip_ttl() and dns_get_expiry_ttl()
11237 functions in dns.c. Implements a portion of ticket 16831.
11238 - When building Tor with testing coverage enabled, run Chutney tests
11239 (if any) using the 'tor-cov' coverage binary.
11240 - When running test-network or test-stem, check for the absence of
11241 stem/chutney before doing any build operations.
11244 Changes in version 0.2.7.2-alpha - 2015-07-27
11245 This, the second alpha in the Tor 0.2.7 series, has a number of new
11246 features, including a way to manually pick the number of introduction
11247 points for hidden services, and the much stronger Ed25519 signing key
11248 algorithm for regular Tor relays (including support for encrypted
11249 offline identity keys in the new algorithm).
11251 Support for Ed25519 on relays is currently limited to signing router
11252 descriptors; later alphas in this series will extend Ed25519 key
11253 support to more parts of the Tor protocol.
11255 o Major features (Ed25519 identity keys, Proposal 220):
11256 - All relays now maintain a stronger identity key, using the Ed25519
11257 elliptic curve signature format. This master key is designed so
11258 that it can be kept offline. Relays also generate an online
11259 signing key, and a set of other Ed25519 keys and certificates.
11260 These are all automatically regenerated and rotated as needed.
11261 Implements part of ticket 12498.
11262 - Directory authorities now vote on Ed25519 identity keys along with
11263 RSA1024 keys. Implements part of ticket 12498.
11264 - Directory authorities track which Ed25519 identity keys have been
11265 used with which RSA1024 identity keys, and do not allow them to
11266 vary freely. Implements part of ticket 12498.
11267 - Microdescriptors now include Ed25519 identity keys. Implements
11268 part of ticket 12498.
11269 - Add support for offline encrypted Ed25519 master keys. To use this
11270 feature on your tor relay, run "tor --keygen" to make a new master
11271 key (or to make a new signing key if you already have a master
11272 key). Closes ticket 13642.
11274 o Major features (Hidden services):
11275 - Add the torrc option HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints, to
11276 specify a fixed number of introduction points. Its maximum value
11277 is 10 and default is 3. Using this option can increase a hidden
11278 service's reliability under load, at the cost of making it more
11279 visible that the hidden service is facing extra load. Closes
11281 - Remove the adaptive algorithm for choosing the number of
11282 introduction points, which used to change the number of
11283 introduction points (poorly) depending on the number of
11284 connections the HS sees. Closes ticket 4862.
11286 o Major features (onion key cross-certification):
11287 - Relay descriptors now include signatures of their own identity
11288 keys, made using the TAP and ntor onion keys. These signatures
11289 allow relays to prove ownership of their own onion keys. Because
11290 of this change, microdescriptors will no longer need to include
11291 RSA identity keys. Implements proposal 228; closes ticket 12499.
11293 o Major features (performance):
11294 - Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 operations by using the
11295 public-domain Ed25519-donna by Andrew M. ("floodyberry").
11296 Implements ticket 16467.
11297 - Improve the runtime speed of the ntor handshake by using an
11298 optimized curve25519 basepoint scalarmult implementation from the
11299 public-domain Ed25519-donna by Andrew M. ("floodyberry"), based on
11300 ideas by Adam Langley. Implements ticket 9663.
11302 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy, also in 0.2.6.9):
11303 - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream
11304 isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group
11305 was being overwritten by a default value when the listener
11306 connection was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on
11307 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by "jojelino".
11309 o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability, also in 0.2.6.10):
11310 - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a
11311 client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug
11312 14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability
11313 regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since
11314 we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in
11315 some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much
11316 of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix
11319 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
11320 - When cannibalizing a circuit for an introduction point, always
11321 extend to the chosen exit node (creating a 4 hop circuit).
11322 Previously Tor would use the current circuit exit node, which
11323 changed the original choice of introduction point, and could cause
11324 the hidden service to skip excluded introduction points or
11325 reconnect to a skipped introduction point. Fixes bug 16260; bugfix
11328 o Major bugfixes (open file limit):
11329 - The open file limit wasn't checked before calling
11330 tor_accept_socket_nonblocking(), which would make Tor exceed the
11331 limit. Now, before opening a new socket, Tor validates the open
11332 file limit just before, and if the max has been reached, return an
11333 error. Fixes bug 16288; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
11335 o Major bugfixes (stability, also in 0.2.6.10):
11336 - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds
11337 of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400;
11338 bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch
11339 by "cypherpunks_backup".
11340 - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when
11341 connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden
11342 service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix
11345 o Minor features (directory authorities, security, also in 0.2.6.9):
11346 - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag.
11347 For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806
11348 HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil
11349 attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable to
11350 require at the very least 7 days, while maintaining the 96 hours
11351 uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243.
11353 o Minor features (client):
11354 - Relax the validation of hostnames in SOCKS5 requests, allowing the
11355 character '_' to appear, in order to cope with domains observed in
11356 the wild that are serving non-RFC compliant records. Resolves
11358 - Relax the validation done to hostnames in SOCKS5 requests, and
11359 allow a single trailing '.' to cope with clients that pass FQDNs
11360 using that syntax to explicitly indicate that the domain name is
11361 fully-qualified. Fixes bug 16674; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
11362 - Add GroupWritable and WorldWritable options to unix-socket based
11363 SocksPort and ControlPort options. These options apply to a single
11364 socket, and override {Control,Socks}SocketsGroupWritable. Closes
11367 o Minor features (control protocol):
11368 - Support network-liveness GETINFO key and NETWORK_LIVENESS event in
11369 the control protocol. Resolves ticket 15358.
11371 o Minor features (directory authorities):
11372 - Directory authorities no longer vote against the "Fast", "Stable",
11373 and "HSDir" flags just because they were going to vote against
11374 "Running": if the consensus turns out to be that the router was
11375 running, then the authority's vote should count. Patch from Peter
11376 Retzlaff; closes issue 8712.
11378 o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.6.10):
11379 - Update geoip to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
11380 - Update geoip6 to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
11382 o Minor features (hidden services):
11383 - Add the new options "HiddenServiceMaxStreams" and
11384 "HiddenServiceMaxStreamsCloseCircuit" to allow hidden services to
11385 limit the maximum number of simultaneous streams per circuit, and
11386 optionally tear down the circuit when the limit is exceeded. Part
11389 o Minor features (portability):
11390 - Use C99 variadic macros when the compiler is not GCC. This avoids
11391 failing compilations on MSVC, and fixes a log-file-based race
11392 condition in our old workarounds. Original patch from Gisle Vanem.
11394 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, also in 0.2.6.9):
11395 - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is
11396 installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on
11397 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
11399 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
11400 - Add the descriptor ID in each HS_DESC control event. It was
11401 missing, but specified in control-spec.txt. Fixes bug 15881;
11402 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
11404 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling, also in 0.2.6.10):
11405 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
11406 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
11407 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
11408 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
11409 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
11411 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
11412 - Fix a crash when reloading configuration while at least one
11413 configured and one ephemeral hidden service exists. Fixes bug
11414 16060; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
11415 - Avoid crashing with a double-free bug when we create an ephemeral
11416 hidden service but adding it fails for some reason. Fixes bug
11417 16228; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
11419 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
11420 - Use the sandbox in tor_open_cloexec whether or not O_CLOEXEC is
11421 defined. Patch by "teor". Fixes bug 16515; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
11423 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.10):
11424 - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need
11425 these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix
11426 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor".
11428 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.9):
11429 - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relay, by allowing the
11430 renaming of secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex
11431 syscalls. Fixes bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by
11433 - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox
11434 code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by
11437 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
11438 - Fix a rarely-encountered memory leak when failing to initialize
11439 the thread pool. Fixes bug 16631; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
11440 from "cypherpunks".
11442 o Minor bugfixes (systemd):
11443 - Fix an accidental formatting error that broke the systemd
11444 configuration file. Fixes bug 16152; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
11445 - Tor's systemd unit file no longer contains extraneous spaces.
11446 These spaces would sometimes confuse tools like deb-systemd-
11447 helper. Fixes bug 16162; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
11449 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
11450 - Use the configured Python executable when running test-stem-full.
11451 Fixes bug 16470; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
11453 o Minor bugfixes (tests, also in 0.2.6.9):
11454 - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug
11455 16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
11457 o Minor bugfixes (threads, comments):
11458 - Always initialize return value in compute_desc_id in rendcommon.c
11459 Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug 16115; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
11460 - Check for NULL values in getinfo_helper_onions(). Patch by "teor".
11461 Fixes part of bug 16115; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
11462 - Remove undefined directive-in-macro in test_util_writepid clang
11463 3.7 complains that using a preprocessor directive inside a macro
11464 invocation in test_util_writepid in test_util.c is undefined.
11465 Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug 16115; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
11467 o Code simplification and refactoring:
11468 - Define WINVER and _WIN32_WINNT centrally, in orconfig.h, in order
11469 to ensure they remain consistent and visible everywhere.
11470 - Remove some vestigial workarounds for the MSVC6 compiler. We
11471 haven't supported that in ages.
11472 - The link authentication code has been refactored for better
11473 testability and reliability. It now uses code generated with the
11474 "trunnel" binary encoding generator, to reduce the risk of bugs
11475 due to programmer error. Done as part of ticket 12498.
11478 - Include a specific and (hopefully) accurate documentation of the
11479 torrc file's meta-format in doc/torrc_format.txt. This is mainly
11480 of interest to people writing programs to parse or generate torrc
11481 files. This document is not a commitment to long-term
11482 compatibility; some aspects of the current format are a bit
11483 ridiculous. Closes ticket 2325.
11485 o Removed features:
11486 - Tor no longer supports copies of OpenSSL that are missing support
11487 for Elliptic Curve Cryptography. (We began using ECC when
11488 available in 0.2.4.8-alpha, for more safe and efficient key
11489 negotiation.) In particular, support for at least one of P256 or
11490 P224 is now required, with manual configuration needed if only
11491 P224 is available. Resolves ticket 16140.
11492 - Tor no longer supports versions of OpenSSL before 1.0. (If you are
11493 on an operating system that has not upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0 or
11494 later, and you compile Tor from source, you will need to install a
11495 more recent OpenSSL to link Tor against.) These versions of
11496 OpenSSL are still supported by the OpenSSL, but the numerous
11497 cryptographic improvements in later OpenSSL releases makes them a
11498 clear choice. Resolves ticket 16034.
11499 - Remove the HidServDirectoryV2 option. Now all relays offer to
11500 store hidden service descriptors. Related to 16543.
11501 - Remove the VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 option, since all
11502 authorities have long set it to 1. Closes ticket 16543.
11505 - Document use of coverity, clang static analyzer, and clang dynamic
11506 undefined behavior and address sanitizers in doc/HACKING. Include
11507 detailed usage instructions in the blacklist. Patch by "teor".
11508 Closes ticket 15817.
11509 - The link authentication protocol code now has extensive tests.
11510 - The relay descriptor signature testing code now has
11512 - The test_workqueue program now runs faster, and is enabled by
11513 default as a part of "make check".
11514 - Now that OpenSSL has its own scrypt implementation, add an unit
11515 test that checks for interoperability between libscrypt_scrypt()
11516 and OpenSSL's EVP_PBE_scrypt() so that we could not use libscrypt
11517 and rely on EVP_PBE_scrypt() whenever possible. Resolves
11521 Changes in version 0.2.6.10 - 2015-07-12
11522 Tor version 0.2.6.10 fixes some significant stability and hidden
11523 service client bugs, bulletproofs the cryptography init process, and
11524 fixes a bug when using the sandbox code with some older versions of
11525 Linux. Everyone running an older version, especially an older version
11526 of 0.2.6, should upgrade.
11528 o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability):
11529 - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a
11530 client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug
11531 14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability
11532 regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since
11533 we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in
11534 some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much
11535 of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix
11538 o Major bugfixes (stability):
11539 - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds
11540 of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400;
11541 bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch
11542 by "cypherpunks_backup".
11543 - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when
11544 connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden
11545 service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix
11548 o Minor features (geoip):
11549 - Update geoip to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
11550 - Update geoip6 to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
11552 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling):
11553 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
11554 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
11555 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
11556 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
11557 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
11559 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
11560 - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need
11561 these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix
11562 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor".
11565 Changes in version 0.2.6.9 - 2015-06-11
11566 Tor 0.2.6.9 fixes a regression in the circuit isolation code, increases the
11567 requirements for receiving an HSDir flag, and addresses some other small
11568 bugs in the systemd and sandbox code. Clients using circuit isolation
11569 should upgrade; all directory authorities should upgrade.
11571 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
11572 - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream
11573 isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group was
11574 being overwritten by a default value when the listener connection
11575 was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
11578 o Minor feature (directory authorities, security):
11579 - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag.
11580 For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806
11581 HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil
11582 attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable which
11583 takes at the very least 7 days to do so and by keeping the 96
11584 hours uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243.
11586 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
11587 - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is
11588 installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on
11589 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
11591 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
11592 - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relaymby renaming of
11593 secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex syscalls. Fixes
11594 bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by Peter Palfrader.
11595 - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox
11596 code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by
11599 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
11600 - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug
11601 16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
11604 Changes in version 0.2.6.8 - 2015-05-21
11605 Tor 0.2.6.8 fixes a bit of dodgy code in parsing INTRODUCE2 cells, and
11606 fixes an authority-side bug in assigning the HSDir flag. All directory
11607 authorities should upgrade.
11609 o Major bugfixes (hidden services, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
11610 - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
11611 flag to relays without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
11612 can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
11615 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
11616 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
11617 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
11620 o Minor features (geoip):
11621 - Update geoip to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
11622 - Update geoip6 to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
11626 Changes in version 0.2.7.1-alpha - 2015-05-12
11627 Tor 0.2.7.1-alpha is the first alpha release in its series. It
11628 includes numerous small features and bugfixes against previous Tor
11629 versions, and numerous small infrastructure improvements. The most
11630 notable features are several new ways for controllers to interact with
11631 the hidden services subsystem.
11633 o New system requirements:
11634 - Tor no longer includes workarounds to support Libevent versions
11635 before 1.3e. Libevent 2.0 or later is recommended. Closes
11638 o Major features (controller):
11639 - Add the ADD_ONION and DEL_ONION commands that allow the creation
11640 and management of hidden services via the controller. Closes
11642 - New "GETINFO onions/current" and "GETINFO onions/detached"
11643 commands to get information about hidden services created via the
11644 controller. Part of ticket 6411.
11645 - New HSFETCH command to launch a request for a hidden service
11646 descriptor. Closes ticket 14847.
11647 - New HSPOST command to upload a hidden service descriptor. Closes
11648 ticket 3523. Patch by "DonnchaC".
11650 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
11651 - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
11652 flag to relays without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
11653 can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
11656 o Minor features (clock-jump tolerance):
11657 - Recover better when our clock jumps back many hours, like might
11658 happen for Tails or Whonix users who start with a very wrong
11659 hardware clock, use Tor to discover a more accurate time, and then
11660 fix their clock. Resolves part of ticket 8766.
11662 o Minor features (command-line interface):
11663 - Make --hash-password imply --hush to prevent unnecessary noise.
11664 Closes ticket 15542. Patch from "cypherpunks".
11665 - Print a warning whenever we find a relative file path being used
11666 as torrc option. Resolves issue 14018.
11668 o Minor features (controller):
11669 - Add DirAuthority lines for default directory authorities to the
11670 output of the "GETINFO config/defaults" command if not already
11671 present. Implements ticket 14840.
11672 - Controllers can now use "GETINFO hs/client/desc/id/..." to
11673 retrieve items from the client's hidden service descriptor cache.
11674 Closes ticket 14845.
11675 - Implement a new controller command "GETINFO status/fresh-relay-
11676 descs" to fetch a descriptor/extrainfo pair that was generated on
11677 demand just for the controller's use. Implements ticket 14784.
11679 o Minor features (DoS-resistance):
11680 - Make it harder for attackers to overload hidden services with
11681 introductions, by blocking multiple introduction requests on the
11682 same circuit. Resolves ticket 15515.
11684 o Minor features (geoip):
11685 - Update geoip to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
11686 - Update geoip6 to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
11689 o Minor features (HS popularity countermeasure):
11690 - To avoid leaking HS popularity, don't cycle the introduction point
11691 when we've handled a fixed number of INTRODUCE2 cells but instead
11692 cycle it when a random number of introductions is reached, thus
11693 making it more difficult for an attacker to find out the amount of
11694 clients that have used the introduction point for a specific HS.
11695 Closes ticket 15745.
11697 o Minor features (logging):
11698 - Include the Tor version in all LD_BUG log messages, since people
11699 tend to cut and paste those into the bugtracker. Implements
11702 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
11703 - When launching managed pluggable transports on Linux systems,
11704 attempt to have the kernel deliver a SIGTERM on tor exit if the
11705 pluggable transport process is still running. Resolves
11707 - When launching managed pluggable transports, setup a valid open
11708 stdin in the child process that can be used to detect if tor has
11709 terminated. The "TOR_PT_EXIT_ON_STDIN_CLOSE" environment variable
11710 can be used by implementations to detect this new behavior.
11711 Resolves ticket 15435.
11713 o Minor features (testing):
11714 - Add a test to verify that the compiler does not eliminate our
11715 memwipe() implementation. Closes ticket 15377.
11716 - Add make rule `check-changes` to verify the format of changes
11717 files. Closes ticket 15180.
11718 - Add unit tests for control_event_is_interesting(). Add a compile-
11719 time check that the number of events doesn't exceed the capacity
11720 of control_event_t.event_mask. Closes ticket 15431, checks for
11721 bugs similar to 13085. Patch by "teor".
11722 - Command-line argument tests moved to Stem. Resolves ticket 14806.
11723 - Integrate the ntor, backtrace, and zero-length keys tests into the
11724 automake test suite. Closes ticket 15344.
11725 - Remove assertions during builds to determine Tor's test coverage.
11726 We don't want to trigger these even in assertions, so including
11727 them artificially makes our branch coverage look worse than it is.
11728 This patch provides the new test-stem-full and coverage-html-full
11729 configure options. Implements ticket 15400.
11731 o Minor bugfixes (build):
11732 - Improve out-of-tree builds by making non-standard rules work and
11733 clean up additional files and directories. Fixes bug 15053; bugfix
11736 o Minor bugfixes (command-line interface):
11737 - When "--quiet" is provided along with "--validate-config", do not
11738 write anything to stdout on success. Fixes bug 14994; bugfix
11740 - When complaining about bad arguments to "--dump-config", use
11741 stderr, not stdout.
11743 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, unit tests):
11744 - Only add the default fallback directories when the DirAuthorities,
11745 AlternateDirAuthority, and FallbackDir directory config options
11746 are set to their defaults. The default fallback directory list is
11747 currently empty, this fix will only change tor's behavior when it
11748 has default fallback directories. Includes unit tests for
11749 consider_adding_dir_servers(). Fixes bug 15642; bugfix on
11750 90f6071d8dc0 in 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
11752 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
11753 - For correctness, avoid modifying a constant string in
11754 handle_control_postdescriptor. Fixes bug 15546; bugfix
11756 - Remove side-effects from tor_assert() calls. This was harmless,
11757 because we never disable assertions, but it is bad style and
11758 unnecessary. Fixes bug 15211; bugfix on 0.2.5.5, 0.2.2.36,
11761 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
11762 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
11763 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
11765 - Remove an extraneous newline character from the end of hidden
11766 service descriptors. Fixes bug 15296; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
11768 o Minor bugfixes (interface):
11769 - Print usage information for --dump-config when it is used without
11770 an argument. Also, fix the error message to use different wording
11771 and add newline at the end. Fixes bug 15541; bugfix
11774 o Minor bugfixes (logs):
11775 - When building Tor under Clang, do not include an extra set of
11776 parentheses in log messages that include function names. Fixes bug
11777 15269; bugfix on every released version of Tor when compiled with
11778 recent enough Clang.
11780 o Minor bugfixes (network):
11781 - When attempting to use fallback technique for network interface
11782 lookup, disregard loopback and multicast addresses since they are
11783 unsuitable for public communications.
11785 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
11786 - Disregard the ConnDirectionStatistics torrc options when Tor is
11787 not a relay since in that mode of operation no sensible data is
11788 being collected and because Tor might run into measurement hiccups
11789 when running as a client for some time, then becoming a relay.
11790 Fixes bug 15604; bugfix on 0.2.2.35.
11792 o Minor bugfixes (test networks):
11793 - When self-testing reachability, use ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses to
11794 determine if local/private addresses imply reachability. The
11795 previous fix used TestingTorNetwork, which implies
11796 ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses, but this excluded rare configurations
11797 where ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set but TestingTorNetwork is
11798 not. Fixes bug 15771; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by "teor",
11799 issue discovered by CJ Ess.
11801 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
11802 - Check for matching value in server response in ntor_ref.py. Fixes
11803 bug 15591; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported and fixed
11805 - Set the severity correctly when testing
11806 get_interface_addresses_ifaddrs() and
11807 get_interface_addresses_win32(), so that the tests fail gracefully
11808 instead of triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 15759; bugfix on
11809 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported by Nicolas Derive.
11811 o Code simplification and refactoring:
11812 - Move the hacky fallback code out of get_interface_address6() into
11813 separate function and get it covered with unit-tests. Resolves
11815 - Refactor hidden service client-side cache lookup to intelligently
11816 report its various failure cases, and disentangle failure cases
11817 involving a lack of introduction points. Closes ticket 14391.
11818 - Use our own Base64 encoder instead of OpenSSL's, to allow more
11819 control over the output. Part of ticket 15652.
11822 - Improve the descriptions of statistics-related torrc options in
11823 the manpage to describe rationale and possible uses cases. Fixes
11825 - Improve the layout and formatting of ./configure --help messages.
11826 Closes ticket 15024. Patch from "cypherpunks".
11827 - Standardize on the term "server descriptor" in the manual page.
11828 Previously, we had used "router descriptor", "server descriptor",
11829 and "relay descriptor" interchangeably. Part of ticket 14987.
11832 - Remove `USE_OPENSSL_BASE64` and the corresponding fallback code
11833 and always use the internal Base64 decoder. The internal decoder
11834 has been part of tor since 0.2.0.10-alpha, and no one should
11835 be using the OpenSSL one. Part of ticket 15652.
11836 - Remove the 'tor_strclear()' function; use memwipe() instead.
11837 Closes ticket 14922.
11839 o Removed features:
11840 - Remove the (seldom-used) DynamicDHGroups feature. For anti-
11841 fingerprinting we now recommend pluggable transports; for forward-
11842 secrecy in TLS, we now use the P-256 group. Closes ticket 13736.
11843 - Remove the undocumented "--digests" command-line option. It
11844 complicated our build process, caused subtle build issues on
11845 multiple platforms, and is now redundant since we started
11846 including git version identifiers. Closes ticket 14742.
11847 - Tor no longer contains checks for ancient directory cache versions
11848 that didn't know about microdescriptors.
11849 - Tor no longer contains workarounds for stat files generated by
11850 super-old versions of Tor that didn't choose guards sensibly.
11853 Changes in version 0.2.4.27 - 2015-04-06
11854 Tor 0.2.4.27 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that
11855 could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients
11856 visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as
11857 possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available.
11859 This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden
11860 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
11862 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
11863 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
11864 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
11865 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
11866 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
11867 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
11868 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
11870 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
11871 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
11872 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
11873 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
11874 Resolves ticket 15515.
11877 Changes in version 0.2.5.12 - 2015-04-06
11878 Tor 0.2.5.12 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that
11879 could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients
11880 visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as
11881 possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available.
11883 This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden
11884 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
11886 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
11887 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
11888 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
11889 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
11890 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
11891 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
11892 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
11894 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
11895 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
11896 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
11897 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
11898 Resolves ticket 15515.
11901 Changes in version 0.2.6.7 - 2015-04-06
11902 Tor 0.2.6.7 fixes two security issues that could be used by an
11903 attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients visiting hidden
11904 services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as possible; clients
11905 should upgrade whenever packages become available.
11907 This release also contains two simple improvements to make hidden
11908 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
11910 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
11911 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
11912 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
11913 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
11914 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
11915 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
11916 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
11918 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
11919 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
11920 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
11921 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
11922 Resolves ticket 15515.
11923 - Decrease the amount of reattempts that a hidden service performs
11924 when its rendezvous circuits fail. This reduces the computational
11925 cost for running a hidden service under heavy load. Resolves
11929 Changes in version 0.2.6.6 - 2015-03-24
11930 Tor 0.2.6.6 is the first stable release in the 0.2.6 series.
11932 It adds numerous safety, security, correctness, and performance
11933 improvements. Client programs can be configured to use more kinds of
11934 sockets, AutomapHosts works better, the multithreading backend is
11935 improved, cell transmission is refactored, test coverage is much
11936 higher, more denial-of-service attacks are handled, guard selection is
11937 improved to handle long-term guards better, pluggable transports
11938 should work a bit better, and some annoying hidden service performance
11939 bugs should be addressed.
11941 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
11942 - Use the correct datatype in the SipHash-2-4 function to prevent
11943 compilers from assuming any sort of alignment. Fixes bug 15436;
11944 bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
11946 Changes in version 0.2.6.5-rc - 2015-03-18
11947 Tor 0.2.6.5-rc is the second and (hopefully) last release candidate in
11948 the 0.2.6. It fixes a small number of bugs found in 0.2.6.4-rc.
11950 o Major bugfixes (client):
11951 - Avoid crashing when making certain configuration option changes on
11952 clients. Fixes bug 15245; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported
11955 o Major bugfixes (pluggable transports):
11956 - Initialize the extended OR Port authentication cookie before
11957 launching pluggable transports. This prevents a race condition
11958 that occurred when server-side pluggable transports would cache the
11959 authentication cookie before it has been (re)generated. Fixes bug
11960 15240; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
11962 o Major bugfixes (portability):
11963 - Do not crash on startup when running on Solaris. Fixes a bug
11964 related to our fix for 9495; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Reported
11967 o Minor features (heartbeat):
11968 - On relays, report how many connections we negotiated using each
11969 version of the Tor link protocols. This information will let us
11970 know if removing support for very old versions of the Tor
11971 protocols is harming the network. Closes ticket 15212.
11973 o Code simplification and refactoring:
11974 - Refactor main loop to extract the 'loop' part. This makes it
11975 easier to run Tor under Shadow. Closes ticket 15176.
11978 Changes in version 0.2.5.11 - 2015-03-17
11979 Tor 0.2.5.11 is the second stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
11981 It backports several bugfixes from the 0.2.6 branch, including a
11982 couple of medium-level security fixes for relays and exit nodes.
11983 It also updates the list of directory authorities.
11985 o Directory authority changes:
11986 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
11987 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
11988 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
11989 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
11990 closes ticket 14487.
11992 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
11993 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
11994 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
11997 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
11998 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
11999 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
12000 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
12001 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
12002 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
12003 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
12004 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
12006 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
12007 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
12008 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
12009 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
12011 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
12012 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
12013 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
12014 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
12016 o Minor features (controller):
12017 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
12018 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
12019 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
12021 o Minor features (geoip):
12022 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
12023 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
12026 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
12027 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
12028 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
12029 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
12030 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
12031 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
12033 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
12034 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
12035 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
12036 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
12038 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
12039 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
12040 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
12041 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
12042 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
12043 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
12044 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
12045 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
12047 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
12048 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
12049 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
12051 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
12052 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
12053 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
12054 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
12055 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
12059 Changes in version 0.2.4.26 - 2015-03-17
12060 Tor 0.2.4.26 includes an updated list of directory authorities. It
12061 also backports a couple of stability and security bugfixes from 0.2.5
12064 o Directory authority changes:
12065 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
12066 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
12067 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
12068 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
12069 closes ticket 14487.
12071 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability, also in 0.2.6.3-alpha):
12072 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
12073 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
12074 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
12076 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security, also in 0.2.6.4-rc):
12077 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
12078 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
12079 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
12080 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
12081 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
12082 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
12083 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
12085 o Minor features (geoip):
12086 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
12087 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
12090 Changes in version 0.2.6.4-rc - 2015-03-09
12091 Tor 0.2.6.4-alpha fixes an issue in the directory code that an
12092 attacker might be able to use in order to crash certain Tor
12093 directories. It also resolves some minor issues left over from, or
12094 introduced in, Tor 0.2.6.3-alpha or earlier.
12096 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
12097 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
12098 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
12101 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
12102 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
12103 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout is passed to
12104 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
12105 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
12106 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
12107 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
12108 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
12110 o Major bugfixes (FreeBSD IPFW transparent proxy):
12111 - Fix address detection with FreeBSD transparent proxies, when
12112 "TransProxyType ipfw" is in use. Fixes bug 15064; bugfix
12115 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
12116 - Pass IPPROTO_TCP rather than 0 to socket(), so that the Linux
12117 seccomp2 sandbox doesn't fail. Fixes bug 14989; bugfix
12119 - Allow AF_UNIX hidden services to be used with the seccomp2
12120 sandbox. Fixes bug 15003; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
12121 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
12122 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
12123 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
12125 o Minor features (controller):
12126 - Messages about problems in the bootstrap process now include
12127 information about the server we were trying to connect to when we
12128 noticed the problem. Closes ticket 15006.
12130 o Minor features (geoip):
12131 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
12132 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
12135 o Minor features (logs):
12136 - Quiet some log messages in the heartbeat and at startup. Closes
12139 o Minor bugfixes (certificate handling):
12140 - If an authority operator accidentally makes a signing certificate
12141 with a future publication time, do not discard its real signing
12142 certificates. Fixes bug 11457; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
12143 - Remove any old authority certificates that have been superseded
12144 for at least two days. Previously, we would keep superseded
12145 certificates until they expired, if they were published close in
12146 time to the certificate that superseded them. Fixes bug 11454;
12147 bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
12149 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
12150 - Fix a compilation warning on s390. Fixes bug 14988; bugfix
12152 - Fix a compilation warning on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 15151; bugfix
12155 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
12156 - Fix endianness issues in unit test for resolve_my_address() to
12157 have it pass on big endian systems. Fixes bug 14980; bugfix on
12159 - Avoid a side-effect in a tor_assert() in the unit tests. Fixes bug
12160 15188; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha. Patch from Tom van der Woerdt.
12161 - When running the new 'make test-stem' target, use the configured
12162 python binary. Fixes bug 15037; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
12163 from "cypherpunks".
12164 - When running the zero-length-keys tests, do not use the default
12165 torrc file. Fixes bug 15033; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported
12168 o Directory authority IP change:
12169 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
12170 closes ticket 14487.
12173 - Remove some lingering dead code that once supported mempools.
12174 Mempools were disabled by default in 0.2.5, and removed entirely
12175 in 0.2.6.3-alpha. Closes more of ticket 14848; patch
12179 Changes in version 0.2.6.3-alpha - 2015-02-19
12180 Tor 0.2.6.3-alpha is the third (and hopefully final) alpha release in
12181 the 0.2.6.x series. It introduces support for more kinds of sockets,
12182 makes it harder to accidentally run an exit, improves our
12183 multithreading backend, incorporates several fixes for the
12184 AutomapHostsOnResolve option, and fixes numerous other bugs besides.
12186 If no major regressions or security holes are found in this version,
12187 the next version will be a release candidate.
12189 o Deprecated versions:
12190 - Tor relays older than 0.2.4.18-rc are no longer allowed to
12191 advertise themselves on the network. Closes ticket 13555.
12193 o Major features (security, unix domain sockets):
12194 - Allow SocksPort to be an AF_UNIX Unix Domain Socket. Now high risk
12195 applications can reach Tor without having to create AF_INET or
12196 AF_INET6 sockets, meaning they can completely disable their
12197 ability to make non-Tor network connections. To create a socket of
12198 this type, use "SocksPort unix:/path/to/socket". Implements
12200 - Support mapping hidden service virtual ports to AF_UNIX sockets.
12201 The syntax is "HiddenServicePort 80 unix:/path/to/socket".
12202 Implements ticket 11485.
12204 o Major features (changed defaults):
12205 - Prevent relay operators from unintentionally running exits: When a
12206 relay is configured as an exit node, we now warn the user unless
12207 the "ExitRelay" option is set to 1. We warn even more loudly if
12208 the relay is configured with the default exit policy, since this
12209 can indicate accidental misconfiguration. Setting "ExitRelay 0"
12210 stops Tor from running as an exit relay. Closes ticket 10067.
12212 o Major features (directory system):
12213 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors from a directory
12214 server, we no longer launch multiple simultaneous requests to the
12215 same server. This reduces load on the directory servers,
12216 especially when directory guards are in use. Closes ticket 9969.
12217 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors over a tunneled
12218 connection, do not limit the length of our requests to what the
12219 Squid proxy is willing to handle. Part of ticket 9969.
12220 - Authorities can now vote on the correct digests and latest
12221 versions for different software packages. This allows packages
12222 that include Tor to use the Tor authority system as a way to get
12223 notified of updates and their correct digests. Implements proposal
12224 227. Closes ticket 10395.
12226 o Major features (guards):
12227 - Introduce the Guardfraction feature to improves load balancing on
12228 guard nodes. Specifically, it aims to reduce the traffic gap that
12229 guard nodes experience when they first get the Guard flag. This is
12230 a required step if we want to increase the guard lifetime to 9
12231 months or greater. Closes ticket 9321.
12233 o Major features (performance):
12234 - Make the CPU worker implementation more efficient by avoiding the
12235 kernel and lengthening pipelines. The original implementation used
12236 sockets to transfer data from the main thread to the workers, and
12237 didn't allow any thread to be assigned more than a single piece of
12238 work at once. The new implementation avoids communications
12239 overhead by making requests in shared memory, avoiding kernel IO
12240 where possible, and keeping more requests in flight at once.
12241 Implements ticket 9682.
12243 o Major features (relay):
12244 - Raise the minimum acceptable configured bandwidth rate for bridges
12245 to 50 KiB/sec and for relays to 75 KiB/sec. (The old values were
12246 20 KiB/sec.) Closes ticket 13822.
12248 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
12249 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
12250 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
12251 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
12253 o Major bugfixes (mixed relay-client operation):
12254 - When running as a relay and client at the same time (not
12255 recommended), if we decide not to use a new guard because we want
12256 to retry older guards, only close the locally-originating circuits
12257 passing through that guard. Previously we would close all the
12258 circuits through that guard. Fixes bug 9819; bugfix on
12259 0.2.1.1-alpha. Reported by "skruffy".
12261 o Minor features (build):
12262 - New --disable-system-torrc compile-time option to prevent Tor from
12263 looking for the system-wide torrc or torrc-defaults files.
12264 Resolves ticket 13037.
12266 o Minor features (controller):
12267 - Include SOCKS_USERNAME and SOCKS_PASSWORD values in controller
12268 events so controllers can observe circuit isolation inputs. Closes
12270 - ControlPort now supports the unix:/path/to/socket syntax as an
12271 alternative to the ControlSocket option, for consistency with
12272 SocksPort and HiddenServicePort. Closes ticket 14451.
12273 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
12274 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
12275 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
12277 o Minor features (Denial of service resistance):
12278 - Count the total number of bytes used storing hidden service
12279 descriptors against the value of MaxMemInQueues. If we're low on
12280 memory, and more than 20% of our memory is used holding hidden
12281 service descriptors, free them until no more than 10% of our
12282 memory holds hidden service descriptors. Free the least recently
12283 fetched descriptors first. Resolves ticket 13806.
12284 - When we have recently been under memory pressure (over 3/4 of
12285 MaxMemInQueues is allocated), then allocate smaller zlib objects
12286 for small requests. Closes ticket 11791.
12288 o Minor features (geoip):
12289 - Update geoip and geoip6 files to the January 7 2015 Maxmind
12290 GeoLite2 Country database.
12292 o Minor features (guard nodes):
12293 - Reduce the time delay before saving guard status to disk from 10
12294 minutes to 30 seconds (or from one hour to 10 minutes if
12295 AvoidDiskWrites is set). Closes ticket 12485.
12297 o Minor features (hidden service):
12298 - Make Sybil attacks against hidden services harder by changing the
12299 minimum time required to get the HSDir flag from 25 hours up to 96
12300 hours. Addresses ticket 14149.
12301 - New option "HiddenServiceAllowUnknownPorts" to allow hidden
12302 services to disable the anti-scanning feature introduced in
12303 0.2.6.2-alpha. With this option not set, a connection to an
12304 unlisted port closes the circuit. With this option set, only a
12305 RELAY_DONE cell is sent. Closes ticket 14084.
12307 o Minor features (interface):
12308 - Implement "-f -" command-line option to read torrc configuration
12309 from standard input, if you don't want to store the torrc file in
12310 the file system. Implements feature 13865.
12312 o Minor features (logging):
12313 - Add a count of unique clients to the bridge heartbeat message.
12314 Resolves ticket 6852.
12315 - Suppress "router info incompatible with extra info" message when
12316 reading extrainfo documents from cache. (This message got loud
12317 around when we closed bug 9812 in 0.2.6.2-alpha.) Closes
12319 - Elevate hidden service authorized-client message from DEBUG to
12320 INFO. Closes ticket 14015.
12322 o Minor features (stability):
12323 - Add assertions in our hash-table iteration code to check for
12324 corrupted values that could cause infinite loops. Closes
12327 o Minor features (systemd):
12328 - Various improvements and modernizations in systemd hardening
12329 support. Closes ticket 13805. Patch from Craig Andrews.
12331 o Minor features (testing networks):
12332 - Drop the minimum RendPostPeriod on a testing network to 5 seconds,
12333 and the default on a testing network to 2 minutes. Drop the
12334 MIN_REND_INITIAL_POST_DELAY on a testing network to 5 seconds, but
12335 keep the default on a testing network at 30 seconds. This reduces
12336 HS bootstrap time to around 25 seconds. Also, change the default
12337 time in test-network.sh to match. Closes ticket 13401. Patch
12339 - Create TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir to correspond to
12340 TestingDirAuthVoteExit/Guard. Ensures that authorities vote the
12341 HSDir flag for the listed relays regardless of uptime or ORPort
12342 connectivity. Respects the value of VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2.
12343 Partial implementation for ticket 14067. Patch by "teor".
12345 o Minor features (tor2web mode):
12346 - Introduce the config option Tor2webRendezvousPoints, which allows
12347 clients in Tor2webMode to select a specific Rendezvous Point to be
12348 used in HS circuits. This might allow better performance for
12349 Tor2Web nodes. Implements ticket 12844.
12351 o Minor bugfixes (client DNS):
12352 - Report the correct cached DNS expiration times on SOCKS port or in
12353 DNS replies. Previously, we would report everything as "never
12354 expires." Fixes bug 14193; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
12355 - Avoid a small memory leak when we find a cached answer for a
12356 reverse DNS lookup in a client-side DNS cache. (Remember, client-
12357 side DNS caching is off by default, and is not recommended.) Fixes
12358 bug 14259; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
12360 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
12361 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
12362 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
12363 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
12364 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
12365 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
12366 - Prevent changes to other options from removing the wildcard value
12367 "." from "AutomapHostsSuffixes". Fixes bug 12509; bugfix
12369 - Allow MapAddress and AutomapHostsOnResolve to work together when
12370 an address is mapped into another address type (like .onion) that
12371 must be automapped at resolve time. Fixes bug 7555; bugfix
12374 o Minor bugfixes (client, bridges):
12375 - When we are using bridges and we had a network connectivity
12376 problem, only retry connecting to our currently configured
12377 bridges, not all bridges we know about and remember using. Fixes
12378 bug 14216; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
12380 o Minor bugfixes (client, IPv6):
12381 - Reject socks requests to literal IPv6 addresses when IPv6Traffic
12382 flag is not set; and not because the NoIPv4Traffic flag was set.
12383 Previously we'd looked at the NoIPv4Traffic flag for both types of
12384 literal addresses. Fixes bug 14280; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
12386 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
12387 - The address of an array in the middle of a structure will always
12388 be non-NULL. clang recognises this and complains. Disable the
12389 tautologous and redundant check to silence this warning. Fixes bug
12390 14001; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
12391 - Avoid warnings when building with systemd 209 or later. Fixes bug
12392 14072; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "h.venev".
12393 - Compile correctly with (unreleased) OpenSSL 1.1.0 headers.
12394 Addresses ticket 14188.
12395 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
12396 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
12397 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
12398 - Do not compile any code related to Tor2Web mode when Tor2Web mode
12399 is not enabled at compile time. Previously, this code was included
12400 in a disabled state. See discussion on ticket 12844.
12401 - Remove the --disable-threads configure option again. It was
12402 accidentally partially reintroduced in 29ac883606d6d. Fixes bug
12403 14819; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
12405 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
12406 - Report "down" in response to the "GETINFO entry-guards" command
12407 when relays are down with an unreachable_since value. Previously,
12408 we would report "up". Fixes bug 14184; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
12409 - Avoid crashing on a malformed EXTENDCIRCUIT command. Fixes bug
12410 14116; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
12411 - Add a code for the END_CIRC_REASON_IP_NOW_REDUNDANT circuit close
12412 reason. Fixes bug 14207; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
12414 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
12415 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
12416 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
12417 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
12418 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
12419 - Do not attempt to download extrainfo documents which we will be
12420 unable to validate with a matching server descriptor. Fixes bug
12421 13762; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
12422 - Fix a bug that was truncating AUTHDIR_NEWDESC events sent to the
12423 control port. Fixes bug 14953; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
12424 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
12425 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
12426 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
12428 o Minor bugfixes (file handling):
12429 - Stop failing when key files are zero-length. Instead, generate new
12430 keys, and overwrite the empty key files. Fixes bug 13111; bugfix
12431 on all versions of Tor. Patch by "teor".
12432 - Stop generating a fresh .old RSA onion key file when the .old file
12433 is missing. Fixes part of 13111; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
12434 - Avoid overwriting .old key files with empty key files.
12435 - Skip loading zero-length extrainfo store, router store, stats,
12436 state, and key files.
12437 - Avoid crashing when trying to reload a torrc specified as a
12438 relative path with RunAsDaemon turned on. Fixes bug 13397; bugfix
12441 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
12442 - Close the introduction circuit when we have no more usable intro
12443 points, instead of waiting for it to time out. This also ensures
12444 that no follow-up HS descriptor fetch is triggered when the
12445 circuit eventually times out. Fixes bug 14224; bugfix on 0.0.6.
12446 - When fetching a hidden service descriptor for a down service that
12447 was recently up, do not keep refetching until we try the same
12448 replica twice in a row. Fixes bug 14219; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
12449 - Successfully launch Tor with a nonexistent hidden service
12450 directory. Our fix for bug 13942 didn't catch this case. Fixes bug
12451 14106; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
12453 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
12454 - Avoid crashing when there are more log domains than entries in
12455 domain_list. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
12456 - Add a string representation for LD_SCHED. Fixes bug 14740; bugfix
12458 - Don't log messages to stdout twice when starting up. Fixes bug
12459 13993; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
12461 o Minor bugfixes (parsing):
12462 - Stop accepting milliseconds (or other junk) at the end of
12463 descriptor publication times. Fixes bug 9286; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25.
12464 - Support two-number and three-number version numbers correctly, in
12465 case we change the Tor versioning system in the future. Fixes bug
12466 13661; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
12468 o Minor bugfixes (path counting):
12469 - When deciding whether the consensus lists any exit nodes, count
12470 the number listed in the consensus, not the number we have
12471 descriptors for. Fixes part of bug 14918; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
12472 - When deciding whether we have any exit nodes, only examine
12473 ExitNodes when the ExitNodes option is actually set. Fixes part of
12474 bug 14918; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
12475 - Get rid of redundant and possibly scary warnings that we are
12476 missing directory information while we bootstrap. Fixes part of
12477 bug 14918; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
12479 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
12480 - Fix the ioctl()-based network interface lookup code so that it
12481 will work on systems that have variable-length struct ifreq, for
12483 - Fix scheduler compilation on targets where char is unsigned. Fixes
12484 bug 14764; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Reported by Christian Kujau.
12486 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox):
12487 - Allow glibc fatal errors to be sent to stderr before Tor exits.
12488 Previously, glibc would try to write them to /dev/tty, and the
12489 sandbox would trap the call and make Tor exit prematurely. Fixes
12490 bug 14759; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
12492 o Minor bugfixes (shutdown):
12493 - When shutting down, always call event_del() on lingering read or
12494 write events before freeing them. Otherwise, we risk double-frees
12495 or read-after-frees in event_base_free(). Fixes bug 12985; bugfix
12498 o Minor bugfixes (small memory leaks):
12499 - Avoid leaking memory when using IPv6 virtual address mappings.
12500 Fixes bug 14123; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by Tom van
12503 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
12504 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
12505 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
12507 o Minor bugfixes (systemd support):
12508 - Fix detection and operation of systemd watchdog. Fixes part of bug
12509 14141; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from Tomasz Torcz.
12510 - Run correctly under systemd with the RunAsDaemon option set. Fixes
12511 part of bug 14141; bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc. Patch from Tomasz Torcz.
12512 - Inform the systemd supervisor about more changes in the Tor
12513 process status. Implements part of ticket 14141. Patch from
12515 - Cause the "--disable-systemd" option to actually disable systemd
12516 support. Fixes bug 14350; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch
12519 o Minor bugfixes (TLS):
12520 - Check more thoroughly throughout the TLS code for possible
12521 unlogged TLS errors. Possible diagnostic or fix for bug 13319.
12523 o Minor bugfixes (transparent proxy):
12524 - Use getsockname, not getsockopt, to retrieve the address for a
12525 TPROXY-redirected connection. Fixes bug 13796; bugfix
12528 o Code simplification and refactoring:
12529 - Move fields related to isolating and configuring client ports into
12530 a shared structure. Previously, they were duplicated across
12531 port_cfg_t, listener_connection_t, and edge_connection_t. Failure
12532 to copy them correctly had been the cause of at least one bug in
12533 the past. Closes ticket 8546.
12534 - Refactor the get_interface_addresses_raw() doom-function into
12535 multiple smaller and simpler subfunctions. Cover the resulting
12536 subfunctions with unit-tests. Fixes a significant portion of
12538 - Remove workaround in dirserv_thinks_router_is_hs_dir() that was
12539 only for version <= 0.2.2.24 which is now deprecated. Closes
12541 - Remove a test for a long-defunct broken version-one
12545 - Adding section on OpenBSD to our TUNING document. Thanks to mmcc
12546 for writing the OpenBSD-specific tips. Resolves ticket 13702.
12547 - Make the tor-resolve documentation match its help string and its
12548 options. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
12549 - Log a more useful error message from tor-resolve when failing to
12550 look up a hidden service address. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
12552 o Downgraded warnings:
12553 - Don't warn when we've attempted to contact a relay using the wrong
12554 ntor onion key. Closes ticket 9635.
12556 o Removed features:
12557 - To avoid confusion with the "ExitRelay" option, "ExitNode" is no
12558 longer silently accepted as an alias for "ExitNodes".
12559 - The --enable-mempool and --enable-buf-freelists options, which
12560 were originally created to work around bad malloc implementations,
12561 no longer exist. They were off-by-default in 0.2.5. Closes
12565 - Make the checkdir/perms test complete successfully even if the
12566 global umask is not 022. Fixes bug 14215; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
12567 - Test that tor does not fail when key files are zero-length. Check
12568 that tor generates new keys, and overwrites the empty key files.
12569 - Test that tor generates new keys when keys are missing
12570 (existing behavior).
12571 - Test that tor does not overwrite key files that already contain
12572 data (existing behavior). Tests bug 13111. Patch by "teor".
12573 - New "make test-stem" target to run stem integration tests.
12574 Requires that the "STEM_SOURCE_DIR" environment variable be set.
12575 Closes ticket 14107.
12576 - Make the test_cmdline_args.py script work correctly on Windows.
12577 Patch from Gisle Vanem.
12578 - Move the slower unit tests into a new "./src/test/test-slow"
12579 binary that can be run independently of the other tests. Closes
12581 - Avoid undefined behavior when sampling huge values from the
12582 Laplace distribution. This made unittests fail on Raspberry Pi.
12583 Bug found by Device. Fixes bug 14090; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
12586 Changes in version 0.2.6.2-alpha - 2014-12-31
12587 Tor 0.2.6.2-alpha is the second alpha release in the 0.2.6.x series.
12588 It introduces a major new backend for deciding when to send cells on
12589 channels, which should lead down the road to big performance
12590 increases. It contains security and statistics features for better
12591 work on hidden services, and numerous bugfixes.
12593 This release contains many new unit tests, along with major
12594 performance improvements for running testing networks using Chutney.
12595 Thanks to a series of patches contributed by "teor", testing networks
12596 should now bootstrap in seconds, rather than minutes.
12598 o Major features (relay, infrastructure):
12599 - Complete revision of the code that relays use to decide which cell
12600 to send next. Formerly, we selected the best circuit to write on
12601 each channel, but we didn't select among channels in any
12602 sophisticated way. Now, we choose the best circuits globally from
12603 among those whose channels are ready to deliver traffic.
12605 This patch implements a new inter-cmux comparison API, a global
12606 high/low watermark mechanism and a global scheduler loop for
12607 transmission prioritization across all channels as well as among
12608 circuits on one channel. This schedule is currently tuned to
12609 (tolerantly) avoid making changes in network performance, but it
12610 should form the basis for major circuit performance increases in
12611 the future. Code by Andrea; tuning by Rob Jansen; implements
12614 o Major features (hidden services):
12615 - Make HS port scanning more difficult by immediately closing the
12616 circuit when a user attempts to connect to a nonexistent port.
12617 Closes ticket 13667.
12618 - Add a HiddenServiceStatistics option that allows Tor relays to
12619 gather and publish statistics about the overall size and volume of
12620 hidden service usage. Specifically, when this option is turned on,
12621 an HSDir will publish an approximate number of hidden services
12622 that have published descriptors to it the past 24 hours. Also, if
12623 a relay has acted as a hidden service rendezvous point, it will
12624 publish the approximate amount of rendezvous cells it has relayed
12625 the past 24 hours. The statistics themselves are obfuscated so
12626 that the exact values cannot be derived. For more details see
12627 proposal 238, "Better hidden service stats from Tor relays". This
12628 feature is currently disabled by default. Implements feature 13192.
12630 o Major bugfixes (client, automap):
12631 - Repair automapping with IPv6 addresses. This automapping should
12632 have worked previously, but one piece of debugging code that we
12633 inserted to detect a regression actually caused the regression to
12634 manifest itself again. Fixes bug 13811 and bug 12831; bugfix on
12635 0.2.4.7-alpha. Diagnosed and fixed by Francisco Blas
12638 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
12639 - When closing an introduction circuit that was opened in parallel
12640 with others, don't mark the introduction point as unreachable.
12641 Previously, the first successful connection to an introduction
12642 point would make the other introduction points get marked as
12643 having timed out. Fixes bug 13698; bugfix on 0.0.6rc2.
12645 o Directory authority changes:
12646 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
12647 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
12648 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
12650 o Major removed features:
12651 - Tor clients no longer support connecting to hidden services
12652 running on Tor 0.2.2.x and earlier; the Support022HiddenServices
12653 option has been removed. (There shouldn't be any hidden services
12654 running these versions on the network.) Closes ticket 7803.
12656 o Minor features (client):
12657 - Validate hostnames in SOCKS5 requests more strictly. If SafeSocks
12658 is enabled, reject requests with IP addresses as hostnames.
12659 Resolves ticket 13315.
12661 o Minor features (controller):
12662 - Add a "SIGNAL HEARTBEAT" controller command that tells Tor to
12663 write an unscheduled heartbeat message to the log. Implements
12666 o Minor features (geoip):
12667 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 15 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
12670 o Minor features (hidden services):
12671 - When re-enabling the network, don't try to build introduction
12672 circuits until we have successfully built a circuit. This makes
12673 hidden services come up faster when the network is re-enabled.
12674 Patch from "akwizgran". Closes ticket 13447.
12675 - When we fail to retrieve a hidden service descriptor, send the
12676 controller an "HS_DESC FAILED" controller event. Implements
12678 - New HiddenServiceDirGroupReadable option to cause hidden service
12679 directories and hostname files to be created group-readable. Patch
12680 from "anon", David Stainton, and "meejah". Closes ticket 11291.
12682 o Minor features (systemd):
12683 - Where supported, when running with systemd, report successful
12684 startup to systemd. Part of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
12685 - When running with systemd, support systemd watchdog messages. Part
12686 of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
12688 o Minor features (transparent proxy):
12689 - Update the transparent proxy option checks to allow for both ipfw
12690 and pf on OS X. Closes ticket 14002.
12691 - Use the correct option when using IPv6 with transparent proxy
12692 support on Linux. Resolves 13808. Patch by Francisco Blas
12695 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
12696 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
12697 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
12698 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
12699 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
12701 - Clear all memory targeted by tor_addr_{to,from}_sockaddr(), not
12702 just the part that's used. This makes it harder for data leak bugs
12703 to occur in the event of other programming failures. Resolves
12706 o Minor bugfixes (client, microdescriptors):
12707 - Use a full 256 bits of the SHA256 digest of a microdescriptor when
12708 computing which microdescriptors to download. This keeps us from
12709 erroneous download behavior if two microdescriptor digests ever
12710 have the same first 160 bits. Fixes part of bug 13399; bugfix
12712 - Reset a router's status if its microdescriptor digest changes,
12713 even if the first 160 bits remain the same. Fixes part of bug
12714 13399; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
12716 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
12717 - Silence clang warnings under --enable-expensive-hardening,
12718 including implicit truncation of 64 bit values to 32 bit, const
12719 char assignment to self, tautological compare, and additional
12720 parentheses around equality tests. Fixes bug 13577; bugfix
12722 - Fix a clang warning about checking whether an address in the
12723 middle of a structure is NULL. Fixes bug 14001; bugfix
12726 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
12727 - Correctly send a controller event when we find that a rendezvous
12728 circuit has finished. Fixes bug 13936; bugfix on 0.1.1.5-alpha.
12729 - Pre-check directory permissions for new hidden-services to avoid
12730 at least one case of "Bug: Acting on config options left us in a
12731 broken state. Dying." Fixes bug 13942; bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
12732 - When adding a new hidden service (for example, via SETCONF), Tor
12733 no longer congratulates the user for running a relay. Fixes bug
12734 13941; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
12735 - When fetching hidden service descriptors, we now check not only
12736 for whether we got the hidden service we had in mind, but also
12737 whether we got the particular descriptors we wanted. This prevents
12738 a class of inefficient but annoying DoS attacks by hidden service
12739 directories. Fixes bug 13214; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported
12742 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
12743 - Make transparent proxy support work along with the seccomp2
12744 sandbox. Fixes part of bug 13808; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch
12745 by Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera.
12746 - Fix a memory leak in tor-resolve when running with the sandbox
12747 enabled. Fixes bug 14050; bugfix on 0.2.5.9-rc.
12749 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
12750 - Downgrade warnings about RSA signature failures to info log level.
12751 Emit a warning when an extra info document is found incompatible
12752 with a corresponding router descriptor. Fixes bug 9812; bugfix
12754 - Make connection_ap_handshake_attach_circuit() log the circuit ID
12755 correctly. Fixes bug 13701; bugfix on 0.0.6.
12757 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
12758 - Stop allowing invalid address patterns like "*/24" that contain
12759 both a wildcard address and a bit prefix length. This affects all
12760 our address-range parsing code. Fixes bug 7484; bugfix
12763 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks, fast startup):
12764 - Allow Tor to build circuits using a consensus with no exits. If
12765 the consensus has no exits (typical of a bootstrapping test
12766 network), allow Tor to build circuits once enough descriptors have
12767 been downloaded. This assists in bootstrapping a testing Tor
12768 network. Fixes bug 13718; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch
12770 - When V3AuthVotingInterval is low, give a lower If-Modified-Since
12771 header to directory servers. This allows us to obtain consensuses
12772 promptly when the consensus interval is very short. This assists
12773 in bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718
12774 and 13963; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
12775 - Stop assuming that private addresses are local when checking
12776 reachability in a TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when testing, assume
12777 all OR connections are remote. (This is necessary due to many test
12778 scenarios running all relays on localhost.) This assists in
12779 bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes bug 13924; bugfix on
12780 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by "teor".
12781 - Avoid building exit circuits from a consensus with no exits. Now
12782 thanks to our fix for 13718, we accept a no-exit network as not
12783 wholly lost, but we need to remember not to try to build exit
12784 circuits on it. Closes ticket 13814; patch by "teor".
12785 - Stop requiring exits to have non-zero bandwithcapacity in a
12786 TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when TestingMinExitFlagThreshold is 0,
12787 ignore exit bandwidthcapacity. This assists in bootstrapping a
12788 testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718 and 13839; bugfix
12789 on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
12790 - Add "internal" to some bootstrap statuses when no exits are
12791 available. If the consensus does not contain Exits, Tor will only
12792 build internal circuits. In this case, relevant statuses will
12793 contain the word "internal" as indicated in the Tor control-
12794 spec.txt. When bootstrap completes, Tor will be ready to build
12795 internal circuits. If a future consensus contains Exits, exit
12796 circuits may become available. Fixes part of bug 13718; bugfix on
12797 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch by "teor".
12798 - Decrease minimum consensus interval to 10 seconds when
12799 TestingTorNetwork is set, or 5 seconds for the first consensus.
12800 Fix assumptions throughout the code that assume larger intervals.
12801 Fixes bugs 13718 and 13823; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch
12803 - Avoid excluding guards from path building in minimal test
12804 networks, when we're in a test network and excluding guards would
12805 exclude all relays. This typically occurs in incredibly small tor
12806 networks, and those using "TestingAuthVoteGuard *". Fixes part of
12807 bug 13718; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha. Patch by "teor".
12809 o Code simplification and refactoring:
12810 - Stop using can_complete_circuits as a global variable; access it
12811 with a function instead.
12812 - Avoid using operators directly as macro arguments: this lets us
12813 apply coccinelle transformations to our codebase more directly.
12814 Closes ticket 13172.
12815 - Combine the functions used to parse ClientTransportPlugin and
12816 ServerTransportPlugin into a single function. Closes ticket 6456.
12817 - Add inline functions and convenience macros for inspecting channel
12818 state. Refactor the code to use convenience macros instead of
12819 checking channel state directly. Fixes issue 7356.
12820 - Document all members of was_router_added_t and rename
12821 ROUTER_WAS_NOT_NEW to ROUTER_IS_ALREADY_KNOWN to make it less
12822 confusable with ROUTER_WAS_TOO_OLD. Fixes issue 13644.
12823 - In connection_exit_begin_conn(), use END_CIRC_REASON_TORPROTOCOL
12824 constant instead of hardcoded value. Fixes issue 13840.
12825 - Refactor our generic strmap and digestmap types into a single
12826 implementation, so that we can add a new digest256map
12830 - Document the bridge-authority-only 'networkstatus-bridges' file.
12831 Closes ticket 13713; patch from "tom".
12832 - Fix typo in PredictedPortsRelevanceTime option description in
12833 manpage. Resolves issue 13707.
12834 - Stop suggesting that users specify relays by nickname: it isn't a
12835 good idea. Also, properly cross-reference how to specify relays in
12836 all parts of manual documenting options that take a list of
12837 relays. Closes ticket 13381.
12838 - Clarify the HiddenServiceDir option description in manpage to make
12839 it clear that relative paths are taken with respect to the current
12840 working directory. Also clarify that this behavior is not
12841 guaranteed to remain indefinitely. Fixes issue 13913.
12844 - New tests for many parts of channel, relay, and circuitmux
12845 functionality. Code by Andrea; part of 9262.
12846 - New tests for parse_transport_line(). Part of ticket 6456.
12847 - In the unit tests, use chgrp() to change the group of the unit
12848 test temporary directory to the current user, so that the sticky
12849 bit doesn't interfere with tests that check directory groups.
12851 - Add unit tests for resolve_my_addr(). Part of ticket 12376; patch
12855 Changes in version 0.2.6.1-alpha - 2014-10-30
12856 Tor 0.2.6.1-alpha is the first release in the Tor 0.2.6.x series. It
12857 includes numerous code cleanups and new tests, and fixes a large
12858 number of annoying bugs. Out-of-memory conditions are handled better
12859 than in 0.2.5, pluggable transports have improved proxy support, and
12860 clients now use optimistic data for contacting hidden services. Also,
12861 we are now more robust to changes in what we consider a parseable
12862 directory object, so that tightening restrictions does not have a risk
12863 of introducing infinite download loops.
12865 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to be
12866 bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should stay
12867 with 0.2.5.x for now.
12869 o New compiler and system requirements:
12870 - Tor 0.2.6.x requires that your compiler support more of the C99
12871 language standard than before. The 'configure' script now detects
12872 whether your compiler supports C99 mid-block declarations and
12873 designated initializers. If it does not, Tor will not compile.
12875 We may revisit this requirement if it turns out that a significant
12876 number of people need to build Tor with compilers that don't
12877 bother implementing a 15-year-old standard. Closes ticket 13233.
12878 - Tor no longer supports systems without threading support. When we
12879 began working on Tor, there were several systems that didn't have
12880 threads, or where the thread support wasn't able to run the
12881 threads of a single process on multiple CPUs. That no longer
12882 holds: every system where Tor needs to run well now has threading
12883 support. Resolves ticket 12439.
12885 o Removed platform support:
12886 - We no longer include special code to build on Windows CE; as far
12887 as we know, nobody has used Tor on Windows CE in a very long time.
12888 Closes ticket 11446.
12890 o Major features (bridges):
12891 - Expose the outgoing upstream HTTP/SOCKS proxy to pluggable
12892 transports if they are configured via the "TOR_PT_PROXY"
12893 environment variable. Implements proposal 232. Resolves
12896 o Major features (client performance, hidden services):
12897 - Allow clients to use optimistic data when connecting to a hidden
12898 service, which should remove a round-trip from hidden service
12899 initialization. See proposal 181 for details. Implements
12902 o Major features (directory system):
12903 - Upon receiving an unparseable directory object, if its digest
12904 matches what we expected, then don't try to download it again.
12905 Previously, when we got a descriptor we didn't like, we would keep
12906 trying to download it over and over. Closes ticket 11243.
12908 o Major features (sample torrc):
12909 - Add a new, infrequently-changed "torrc.minimal". This file is
12910 similar to torrc.sample, but it will change as infrequently as
12911 possible, for the benefit of users whose systems prompt them for
12912 intervention whenever a default configuration file is changed.
12913 Making this change allows us to update torrc.sample to be a more
12914 generally useful "sample torrc".
12916 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
12917 - Do not assign the HSDir flag to relays if they are not Valid, or
12918 currently hibernating. Fixes 12573; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
12920 o Major bugfixes (directory bandwidth performance):
12921 - Don't flush the zlib buffer aggressively when compressing
12922 directory information for clients. This should save about 7% of
12923 the bandwidth currently used for compressed descriptors and
12924 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 11787; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
12926 o Minor features (security, memory wiping):
12927 - Ensure we securely wipe keys from memory after
12928 crypto_digest_get_digest and init_curve25519_keypair_from_file
12929 have finished using them. Resolves ticket 13477.
12931 o Minor features (security, out-of-memory handling):
12932 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, allocate less memory for
12933 temporary data structures. Fixes issue 10115.
12934 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, consider more types of
12935 buffers, including those on directory connections, and zlib
12936 buffers. Resolves ticket 11792.
12939 - When identity keypair is generated for first time, log a
12940 congratulatory message that links to the new relay lifecycle
12941 document. Implements feature 10427.
12943 o Minor features (client):
12944 - Clients are now willing to send optimistic data (before they
12945 receive a 'connected' cell) to relays of any version. (Relays
12946 without support for optimistic data are no longer supported on the
12947 Tor network.) Resolves ticket 13153.
12949 o Minor features (directory authorities):
12950 - Don't list relays with a bandwidth estimate of 0 in the consensus.
12951 Implements a feature proposed during discussion of bug 13000.
12952 - In tor-gencert, report an error if the user provides the same
12953 argument more than once.
12954 - If a directory authority can't find a best consensus method in the
12955 votes that it holds, it now falls back to its favorite consensus
12956 method. Previously, it fell back to method 1. Neither of these is
12957 likely to get enough signatures, but "fall back to favorite"
12958 doesn't require us to maintain support an obsolete consensus
12959 method. Implements part of proposal 215.
12961 o Minor features (logging):
12962 - On Unix-like systems, you can now use named pipes as the target of
12963 the Log option, and other options that try to append to files.
12964 Closes ticket 12061. Patch from "carlo von lynX".
12965 - When opening a log file at startup, send it every log message that
12966 we generated between startup and opening it. Previously, log
12967 messages that were generated before opening the log file were only
12968 logged to stdout. Closes ticket 6938.
12969 - Add a TruncateLogFile option to overwrite logs instead of
12970 appending to them. Closes ticket 5583.
12972 o Minor features (portability, Solaris):
12973 - Threads are no longer disabled by default on Solaris; we believe
12974 that the versions of Solaris with broken threading support are all
12975 obsolete by now. Resolves ticket 9495.
12977 o Minor features (relay):
12978 - Re-check our address after we detect a changed IP address from
12979 getsockname(). This ensures that the controller command "GETINFO
12980 address" will report the correct value. Resolves ticket 11582.
12982 - A new AccountingRule option lets Relays set whether they'd like
12983 AccountingMax to be applied separately to inbound and outbound
12984 traffic, or applied to the sum of inbound and outbound traffic.
12985 Resolves ticket 961. Patch by "chobe".
12987 o Minor features (testing networks):
12988 - Add the TestingDirAuthVoteExit option, which lists nodes to assign
12989 the "Exit" flag regardless of their uptime, bandwidth, or exit
12990 policy. TestingTorNetwork must be set for this option to have any
12991 effect. Previously, authorities would take up to 35 minutes to
12992 give nodes the Exit flag in a test network. Partially implements
12995 o Minor features (validation):
12996 - Check all date/time values passed to tor_timegm and
12997 parse_rfc1123_time for validity, taking leap years into account.
12998 Improves HTTP header validation. Implemented with bug 13476.
12999 - In correct_tm(), limit the range of values returned by system
13000 localtime(_r) and gmtime(_r) to be between the years 1 and 8099.
13001 This means we don't have to deal with negative or too large dates,
13002 even if a clock is wrong. Otherwise we might fail to read a file
13003 written by us which includes such a date. Fixes bug 13476.
13005 o Minor bugfixes (bridge clients):
13006 - When configured to use a bridge without an identity digest (not
13007 recommended), avoid launching an extra channel to it when
13008 bootstrapping. Fixes bug 7733; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
13010 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
13011 - When DisableNetwork is set, do not launch pluggable transport
13012 plugins, and if any are running, terminate them. Fixes bug 13213;
13013 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
13015 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
13016 - Fix several instances of possible integer overflow/underflow/NaN.
13017 Fixes bug 13104; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha and later. Patches
13019 - In circuit_build_times_calculate_timeout() in circuitstats.c,
13020 avoid dividing by zero in the pareto calculations. This traps
13021 under clang's "undefined-trap" sanitizer. Fixes bug 13290; bugfix
13023 - Fix an integer overflow in format_time_interval(). Fixes bug
13024 13393; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
13025 - Set the correct day of year value when the system's localtime(_r)
13026 or gmtime(_r) functions fail to set struct tm. Not externally
13027 visible. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
13028 - Avoid unlikely signed integer overflow in tor_timegm on systems
13029 with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
13031 o Minor bugfixes (client):
13032 - Fix smartlist_choose_node_by_bandwidth() so that relays with the
13033 BadExit flag are not considered worthy candidates. Fixes bug
13034 13066; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
13035 - Use the consensus schedule for downloading consensuses, and not
13036 the generic schedule. Fixes bug 11679; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
13037 - Handle unsupported or malformed SOCKS5 requests properly by
13038 responding with the appropriate error message before closing the
13039 connection. Fixes bugs 12971 and 13314; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13.
13041 o Minor bugfixes (client, torrc):
13042 - Stop modifying the value of our DirReqStatistics torrc option just
13043 because we're not a bridge or relay. This bug was causing Tor
13044 Browser users to write "DirReqStatistics 0" in their torrc files
13045 as if they had chosen to change the config. Fixes bug 4244; bugfix
13047 - When GeoIPExcludeUnknown is enabled, do not incorrectly decide
13048 that our options have changed every time we SIGHUP. Fixes bug
13049 9801; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch from "qwerty1".
13051 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
13052 - Return an error when the second or later arguments of the
13053 "setevents" controller command are invalid events. Previously we
13054 would return success while silently skipping invalid events. Fixes
13055 bug 13205; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Reported by "fpxnns".
13057 o Minor bugfixes (directory system):
13058 - Always believe that v3 directory authorities serve extra-info
13059 documents, whether they advertise "caches-extra-info" or not.
13060 Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
13061 - When running as a v3 directory authority, advertise that you serve
13062 extra-info documents so that clients who want them can find them
13063 from you too. Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
13064 - Check the BRIDGE_DIRINFO flag bitwise rather than using equality.
13065 Previously, directories offering BRIDGE_DIRINFO and some other
13066 flag (i.e. microdescriptors or extrainfo) would be ignored when
13067 looking for bridges. Partially fixes bug 13163; bugfix
13070 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
13071 - Check for orconns and use connection_or_close_for_error() rather
13072 than connection_mark_for_close() directly in the getsockopt()
13073 failure case of connection_handle_write_impl(). Fixes bug 11302;
13074 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
13076 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
13077 - When generating our family list, remove spaces from around the
13078 entries. Fixes bug 12728; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
13079 - If our previous bandwidth estimate was 0 bytes, allow publishing a
13080 new relay descriptor immediately. Fixes bug 13000; bugfix
13083 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks):
13084 - Fix TestingDirAuthVoteGuard to properly give out Guard flags in a
13085 testing network. Fixes bug 13064; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
13086 - Stop using the default authorities in networks which provide both
13087 AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority. Partially
13088 fixes bug 13163; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
13090 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
13091 - Stop spawn test failures due to a race condition between the
13092 SIGCHLD handler updating the process status, and the test reading
13093 it. Fixes bug 13291; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
13095 o Minor bugfixes (testing, Windows):
13096 - Avoid passing an extra backslash when creating a temporary
13097 directory for running the unit tests on Windows. Fixes bug 12392;
13098 bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
13100 o Minor bugfixes (windows):
13101 - Remove code to special-case handling of NTE_BAD_KEYSET when
13102 acquiring windows CryptoAPI context. This error can't actually
13103 occur for the parameters we're providing. Fixes bug 10816; bugfix
13106 o Minor bugfixes (zlib):
13107 - Avoid truncating a zlib stream when trying to finalize it with an
13108 empty output buffer. Fixes bug 11824; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
13111 - Allow our configure script to build correctly with autoconf 2.62
13112 again. Fixes bug 12693; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
13113 - Improve the error message from ./configure to make it clear that
13114 when asciidoc has not been found, the user will have to either add
13115 --disable-asciidoc argument or install asciidoc. Resolves
13118 o Code simplification and refactoring:
13119 - Change the entry_is_live() function to take named bitfield
13120 elements instead of an unnamed list of booleans. Closes
13122 - Refactor and unit-test entry_is_time_to_retry() in entrynodes.c.
13123 Resolves ticket 12205.
13124 - Use calloc and reallocarray functions instead of multiply-
13125 then-malloc. This makes it less likely for us to fall victim to an
13126 integer overflow attack when allocating. Resolves ticket 12855.
13127 - Use the standard macro name SIZE_MAX, instead of our
13129 - Document usage of the NO_DIRINFO and ALL_DIRINFO flags clearly in
13130 functions which take them as arguments. Replace 0 with NO_DIRINFO
13131 in a function call for clarity. Seeks to prevent future issues
13133 - Avoid 4 null pointer errors under clang static analysis by using
13134 tor_assert() to prove that the pointers aren't null. Fixes
13136 - Rework the API of policies_parse_exit_policy() to use a bitmask to
13137 represent parsing options, instead of a confusing mess of
13138 booleans. Resolves ticket 8197.
13139 - Introduce a helper function to parse ExitPolicy in
13140 or_options_t structure.
13143 - Add a doc/TUNING document with tips for handling large numbers of
13144 TCP connections when running busy Tor relay. Update the warning
13145 message to point to this file when running out of sockets
13146 operating system is allowing to use simultaneously. Resolves
13149 o Removed features:
13150 - We no longer remind the user about configuration options that have
13151 been obsolete since 0.2.3.x or earlier. Patch by Adrien Bak.
13152 - Remove our old, non-weighted bandwidth-based node selection code.
13153 Previously, we used it as a fallback when we couldn't perform
13154 weighted bandwidth-based node selection. But that would only
13155 happen in the cases where we had no consensus, or when we had a
13156 consensus generated by buggy or ancient directory authorities. In
13157 either case, it's better to use the more modern, better maintained
13158 algorithm, with reasonable defaults for the weights. Closes
13160 - Remove the --disable-curve25519 configure option. Relays and
13161 clients now are required to support curve25519 and the
13163 - The old "StrictEntryNodes" and "StrictExitNodes" options, which
13164 used to be deprecated synonyms for "StrictNodes", are now marked
13165 obsolete. Resolves ticket 12226.
13166 - Clients don't understand the BadDirectory flag in the consensus
13167 anymore, and ignore it.
13170 - Refactor the function that chooses guard nodes so that it can more
13171 easily be tested; write some tests for it.
13172 - Fix and re-enable the fgets_eagain unit test. Fixes bug 12503;
13173 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks."
13174 - Create unit tests for format_time_interval(). With bug 13393.
13175 - Add unit tests for tor_timegm signed overflow, tor_timegm and
13176 parse_rfc1123_time validity checks, correct_tm year clamping. Unit
13177 tests (visible) fixes in bug 13476.
13178 - Add a "coverage-html" make target to generate HTML-visualized
13179 coverage results when building with --enable-coverage. (Requires
13180 lcov.) Patch from Kevin Murray.
13181 - Enable the backtrace handler (where supported) when running the
13183 - Revise all unit tests that used the legacy test_* macros to
13184 instead use the recommended tt_* macros. This patch was generated
13185 with coccinelle, to avoid manual errors. Closes ticket 13119.
13187 o Distribution (systemd):
13188 - systemd unit file: only allow tor to write to /var/lib/tor and
13189 /var/log/tor. The rest of the filesystem is accessible for reading
13190 only. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 12751.
13191 - systemd unit file: ensure that the process and all its children
13192 can never gain new privileges. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
13194 - systemd unit file: set up /var/run/tor as writable for the Tor
13195 service. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 13196.
13197 o Removed features (directory authorities):
13198 - Remove code that prevented authorities from listing Tor relays
13199 affected by CVE-2011-2769 as guards. These relays are already
13200 rejected altogether due to the minimum version requirement of
13201 0.2.3.16-alpha. Closes ticket 13152.
13202 - The "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" option no longer has any effect, as
13203 the fingerprints file (approved-routers) has been deprecated.
13204 - Directory authorities do not support being Naming dirauths anymore.
13205 The "NamingAuthoritativeDir" config option is now obsolete.
13206 - Directory authorities do not support giving out the BadDirectory
13208 - Directory authorities no longer advertise or support consensus
13209 methods 1 through 12 inclusive. These consensus methods were
13210 obsolete and/or insecure: maintaining the ability to support them
13211 served no good purpose. Implements part of proposal 215; closes
13214 o Testing (test-network.sh):
13215 - Stop using "echo -n", as some shells' built-in echo doesn't
13216 support "-n". Instead, use "/bin/echo -n". Partially fixes
13218 - Stop an apparent test-network hang when used with make -j2. Fixes
13220 - Add a --delay option to test-network.sh, which configures the
13221 delay before the chutney network tests for data transmission.
13222 Partially implements ticket 13161.
13225 Changes in version 0.2.5.10 - 2014-10-24
13226 Tor 0.2.5.10 is the first stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
13228 It adds several new security features, including improved
13229 denial-of-service resistance for relays, new compiler hardening
13230 options, and a system-call sandbox for hardened installations on Linux
13231 (requires seccomp2). The controller protocol has several new features,
13232 resolving IPv6 addresses should work better than before, and relays
13233 should be a little more CPU-efficient. We've added support for more
13234 OpenBSD and FreeBSD transparent proxy types. We've improved the build
13235 system and testing infrastructure to allow unit testing of more parts
13236 of the Tor codebase. Finally, we've addressed several nagging pluggable
13237 transport usability issues, and included numerous other small bugfixes
13238 and features mentioned below.
13240 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.2.3.x; those Tor versions
13241 have accumulated many known flaws; everyone should upgrade.
13243 o Deprecated versions:
13244 - Tor 0.2.3.x has reached end-of-life; it has received no patches or
13245 attention for some while.
13248 Changes in version 0.2.5.9-rc - 2014-10-20
13249 Tor 0.2.5.9-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.5.x
13250 series. It disables SSL3 in response to the recent "POODLE" attack
13251 (even though POODLE does not affect Tor). It also works around a crash
13252 bug caused by some operating systems' response to the "POODLE" attack
13253 (which does affect Tor). It also contains a few miscellaneous fixes.
13255 o Major security fixes:
13256 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
13257 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
13258 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
13260 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround):
13261 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
13262 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes bug
13263 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
13266 - Disable the sandbox name resolver cache when running tor-resolve:
13267 tor-resolve doesn't use the sandbox code, and turning it on was
13268 breaking attempts to do tor-resolve on a non-default server on
13269 Linux. Fixes bug 13295; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
13271 o Compilation fixes:
13272 - Build and run correctly on systems like OpenBSD-current that have
13273 patched OpenSSL to remove get_cipher_by_char and/or its
13274 implementations. Fixes issue 13325.
13276 o Downgraded warnings:
13277 - Downgrade the severity of the 'unexpected sendme cell from client'
13278 from 'warn' to 'protocol warning'. Closes ticket 8093.
13281 Changes in version 0.2.4.25 - 2014-10-20
13282 Tor 0.2.4.25 disables SSL3 in response to the recent "POODLE" attack
13283 (even though POODLE does not affect Tor). It also works around a crash
13284 bug caused by some operating systems' response to the "POODLE" attack
13285 (which does affect Tor).
13287 o Major security fixes (also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
13288 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
13289 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
13290 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
13292 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround, also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
13293 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
13294 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes bug
13295 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
13298 Changes in version 0.2.5.8-rc - 2014-09-22
13299 Tor 0.2.5.8-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.5.x
13300 series. It fixes a bug that affects consistency and speed when
13301 connecting to hidden services, and it updates the location of one of
13302 the directory authorities.
13305 - Clients now send the correct address for their chosen rendezvous
13306 point when trying to access a hidden service. They used to send
13307 the wrong address, which would still work some of the time because
13308 they also sent the identity digest of the rendezvous point, and if
13309 the hidden service happened to try connecting to the rendezvous
13310 point from a relay that already had a connection open to it,
13311 the relay would reuse that connection. Now connections to hidden
13312 services should be more robust and faster. Also, this bug meant
13313 that clients were leaking to the hidden service whether they were
13314 on a little-endian (common) or big-endian (rare) system, which for
13315 some users might have reduced their anonymity. Fixes bug 13151;
13316 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
13318 o Directory authority changes:
13319 - Change IP address for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
13322 Changes in version 0.2.4.24 - 2014-09-22
13323 Tor 0.2.4.24 fixes a bug that affects consistency and speed when
13324 connecting to hidden services, and it updates the location of one of
13325 the directory authorities.
13328 - Clients now send the correct address for their chosen rendezvous
13329 point when trying to access a hidden service. They used to send
13330 the wrong address, which would still work some of the time because
13331 they also sent the identity digest of the rendezvous point, and if
13332 the hidden service happened to try connecting to the rendezvous
13333 point from a relay that already had a connection open to it,
13334 the relay would reuse that connection. Now connections to hidden
13335 services should be more robust and faster. Also, this bug meant
13336 that clients were leaking to the hidden service whether they were
13337 on a little-endian (common) or big-endian (rare) system, which for
13338 some users might have reduced their anonymity. Fixes bug 13151;
13339 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
13341 o Directory authority changes:
13342 - Change IP address for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
13344 o Minor features (geoip):
13345 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
13349 Changes in version 0.2.5.7-rc - 2014-09-11
13350 Tor 0.2.5.7-rc fixes several regressions from earlier in the 0.2.5.x
13351 release series, and some long-standing bugs related to ORPort reachability
13352 testing and failure to send CREATE cells. It is the first release
13353 candidate for the Tor 0.2.5.x series.
13355 o Major bugfixes (client, startup):
13356 - Start making circuits as soon as DisabledNetwork is turned off.
13357 When Tor started with DisabledNetwork set, it would correctly
13358 conclude that it shouldn't build circuits, but it would mistakenly
13359 cache this conclusion, and continue believing it even when
13360 DisableNetwork is set to 0. Fixes the bug introduced by the fix
13361 for bug 11200; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
13362 - Resume expanding abbreviations for command-line options. The fix
13363 for bug 4647 accidentally removed our hack from bug 586 that
13364 rewrote HashedControlPassword to __HashedControlSessionPassword
13365 when it appears on the commandline (which allowed the user to set
13366 her own HashedControlPassword in the torrc file while the
13367 controller generates a fresh session password for each run). Fixes
13368 bug 12948; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
13369 - Warn about attempts to run hidden services and relays in the same
13370 process: that's probably not a good idea. Closes ticket 12908.
13372 o Major bugfixes (relay):
13373 - Avoid queuing or sending destroy cells for circuit ID zero when we
13374 fail to send a CREATE cell. Fixes bug 12848; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
13375 Found and fixed by "cypherpunks".
13376 - Fix ORPort reachability detection on relays running behind a
13377 proxy, by correctly updating the "local" mark on the controlling
13378 channel when changing the address of an or_connection_t after the
13379 handshake. Fixes bug 12160; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
13381 o Minor features (bridge):
13382 - Add an ExtORPortCookieAuthFileGroupReadable option to make the
13383 cookie file for the ExtORPort g+r by default.
13385 o Minor features (geoip):
13386 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
13389 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
13390 - Reduce the log severity of the "Pluggable transport proxy does not
13391 provide any needed transports and will not be launched." message,
13392 since Tor Browser includes several ClientTransportPlugin lines in
13393 its torrc-defaults file, leading every Tor Browser user who looks
13394 at her logs to see these notices and wonder if they're dangerous.
13395 Resolves bug 13124; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
13396 - Downgrade "Unexpected onionskin length after decryption" warning
13397 to a protocol-warn, since there's nothing relay operators can do
13398 about a client that sends them a malformed create cell. Resolves
13399 bug 12996; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
13400 - Log more specific warnings when we get an ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS
13401 cell on a cannibalized or non-OR circuit. Resolves ticket 12997.
13402 - When logging information about an EXTEND2 or EXTENDED2 cell, log
13403 their names correctly. Fixes part of bug 12700; bugfix
13405 - When logging information about a relay cell whose command we don't
13406 recognize, log its command as an integer. Fixes part of bug 12700;
13407 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
13408 - Escape all strings from the directory connection before logging
13409 them. Fixes bug 13071; bugfix on 0.1.1.15. Patch from "teor".
13411 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
13412 - Restore the functionality of CookieAuthFileGroupReadable. Fixes
13413 bug 12864; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
13414 - Actually send TRANSPORT_LAUNCHED and HS_DESC events to
13415 controllers. Fixes bug 13085; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch
13418 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
13419 - Fix compilation of test.h with MSVC. Patch from Gisle Vanem;
13420 bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
13421 - Make the nmake make files work again. Fixes bug 13081. Bugfix on
13422 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
13423 - In routerlist_assert_ok(), don't take the address of a
13424 routerinfo's cache_info member unless that routerinfo is non-NULL.
13425 Fixes bug 13096; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha. Patch by "teor".
13426 - Fix a large number of false positive warnings from the clang
13427 analyzer static analysis tool. This should make real warnings
13428 easier for clang analyzer to find. Patch from "teor". Closes
13431 o Distribution (systemd):
13432 - Verify configuration file via ExecStartPre in the systemd unit
13433 file. Patch from intrigeri; resolves ticket 12730.
13434 - Explicitly disable RunAsDaemon in the systemd unit file. Our
13435 current systemd unit uses "Type = simple", so systemd does not
13436 expect tor to fork. If the user has "RunAsDaemon 1" in their
13437 torrc, then things won't work as expected. This is e.g. the case
13438 on Debian (and derivatives), since there we pass "--defaults-torrc
13439 /usr/share/tor/tor-service-defaults-torrc" (that contains
13440 "RunAsDaemon 1") by default. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
13444 - Adjust the URLs in the README to refer to the new locations of
13445 several documents on the website. Fixes bug 12830. Patch from
13447 - Document 'reject6' and 'accept6' ExitPolicy entries. Resolves
13451 Changes in version 0.2.5.6-alpha - 2014-07-28
13452 Tor 0.2.5.6-alpha brings us a big step closer to slowing down the
13453 risk from guard rotation, and fixes a variety of other issues to get
13454 us closer to a release candidate.
13456 o Major features (also in 0.2.4.23):
13457 - Make the number of entry guards configurable via a new
13458 NumEntryGuards consensus parameter, and the number of directory
13459 guards configurable via a new NumDirectoryGuards consensus
13460 parameter. Implements ticket 12688.
13462 o Major bugfixes (also in 0.2.4.23):
13463 - Fix a bug in the bounds-checking in the 32-bit curve25519-donna
13464 implementation that caused incorrect results on 32-bit
13465 implementations when certain malformed inputs were used along with
13466 a small class of private ntor keys. This bug does not currently
13467 appear to allow an attacker to learn private keys or impersonate a
13468 Tor server, but it could provide a means to distinguish 32-bit Tor
13469 implementations from 64-bit Tor implementations. Fixes bug 12694;
13470 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Bug found by Robert Ransom; fix from
13474 - Perform circuit cleanup operations even when circuit
13475 construction operations are disabled (because the network is
13476 disabled, or because there isn't enough directory information).
13477 Previously, when we were not building predictive circuits, we
13478 were not closing expired circuits either. Fixes bug 8387; bugfix on
13479 0.1.1.11-alpha. This bug became visible in 0.2.4.10-alpha when we
13480 became more strict about when we have "enough directory information
13481 to build circuits".
13484 - Authorities now assign the Guard flag to the fastest 25% of the
13485 network (it used to be the fastest 50%). Also raise the consensus
13486 weight that guarantees the Guard flag from 250 to 2000. For the
13487 current network, this results in about 1100 guards, down from 2500.
13488 This step paves the way for moving the number of entry guards
13489 down to 1 (proposal 236) while still providing reasonable expected
13490 performance for most users. Implements ticket 12690.
13491 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 10 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
13493 - Slightly enhance the diagnostic message for bug 12184.
13495 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.4.23):
13496 - Warn and drop the circuit if we receive an inbound 'relay early'
13497 cell. Those used to be normal to receive on hidden service circuits
13498 due to bug 1038, but the buggy Tor versions are long gone from
13499 the network so we can afford to resume watching for them. Resolves
13500 the rest of bug 1038; bugfix on 0.2.1.19.
13501 - Correct a confusing error message when trying to extend a circuit
13502 via the control protocol but we don't know a descriptor or
13503 microdescriptor for one of the specified relays. Fixes bug 12718;
13504 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
13507 - Fix compilation when building with bufferevents enabled. (This
13508 configuration is still not expected to work, however.)
13509 Fixes bugs 12438, 12474, 11578; bugfixes on 0.2.5.1-alpha and
13510 0.2.5.3-alpha. Patches from Anthony G. Basile and Sathyanarayanan
13512 - Compile correctly with builds and forks of OpenSSL (such as
13513 LibreSSL) that disable compression. Fixes bug 12602; bugfix on
13514 0.2.1.1-alpha. Patch from "dhill".
13517 Changes in version 0.2.4.23 - 2014-07-28
13518 Tor 0.2.4.23 brings us a big step closer to slowing down the risk from
13519 guard rotation, and also backports several important fixes from the
13520 Tor 0.2.5 alpha release series.
13523 - Clients now look at the "usecreatefast" consensus parameter to
13524 decide whether to use CREATE_FAST or CREATE cells for the first hop
13525 of their circuit. This approach can improve security on connections
13526 where Tor's circuit handshake is stronger than the available TLS
13527 connection security levels, but the tradeoff is more computational
13528 load on guard relays. Implements proposal 221. Resolves ticket 9386.
13529 - Make the number of entry guards configurable via a new
13530 NumEntryGuards consensus parameter, and the number of directory
13531 guards configurable via a new NumDirectoryGuards consensus
13532 parameter. Implements ticket 12688.
13535 - Fix a bug in the bounds-checking in the 32-bit curve25519-donna
13536 implementation that caused incorrect results on 32-bit
13537 implementations when certain malformed inputs were used along with
13538 a small class of private ntor keys. This bug does not currently
13539 appear to allow an attacker to learn private keys or impersonate a
13540 Tor server, but it could provide a means to distinguish 32-bit Tor
13541 implementations from 64-bit Tor implementations. Fixes bug 12694;
13542 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Bug found by Robert Ransom; fix from
13546 - Warn and drop the circuit if we receive an inbound 'relay early'
13547 cell. Those used to be normal to receive on hidden service circuits
13548 due to bug 1038, but the buggy Tor versions are long gone from
13549 the network so we can afford to resume watching for them. Resolves
13550 the rest of bug 1038; bugfix on 0.2.1.19.
13551 - Correct a confusing error message when trying to extend a circuit
13552 via the control protocol but we don't know a descriptor or
13553 microdescriptor for one of the specified relays. Fixes bug 12718;
13554 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
13555 - Avoid an illegal read from stack when initializing the TLS
13556 module using a version of OpenSSL without all of the ciphers
13557 used by the v2 link handshake. Fixes bug 12227; bugfix on
13558 0.2.4.8-alpha. Found by "starlight".
13561 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 10 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
13565 Changes in version 0.2.5.5-alpha - 2014-06-18
13566 Tor 0.2.5.5-alpha fixes a wide variety of remaining issues in the Tor
13567 0.2.5.x release series, including a couple of DoS issues, some
13568 performance regressions, a large number of bugs affecting the Linux
13569 seccomp2 sandbox code, and various other bugfixes. It also adds
13570 diagnostic bugfixes for a few tricky issues that we're trying to
13573 o Major features (security, traffic analysis resistance):
13574 - Several major improvements to the algorithm used to decide when to
13575 close TLS connections. Previous versions of Tor closed connections
13576 at a fixed interval after the last time a non-padding cell was
13577 sent over the connection, regardless of the target of the
13578 connection. Now, we randomize the intervals by adding up to 50% of
13579 their base value, we measure the length of time since connection
13580 last had at least one circuit, and we allow connections to known
13581 ORs to remain open a little longer (15 minutes instead of 3
13582 minutes minimum). These changes should improve Tor's resistance
13583 against some kinds of traffic analysis, and lower some overhead
13584 from needlessly closed connections. Fixes ticket 6799.
13585 Incidentally fixes ticket 12023; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
13587 o Major bugfixes (security, OOM, new since 0.2.5.4-alpha, also in 0.2.4.22):
13588 - Fix a memory leak that could occur if a microdescriptor parse
13589 fails during the tokenizing step. This bug could enable a memory
13590 exhaustion attack by directory servers. Fixes bug 11649; bugfix
13593 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authorities):
13594 - Directory authorities now include a digest of each relay's
13595 identity key as a part of its microdescriptor.
13597 This is a workaround for bug 11743 (reported by "cypherpunks"),
13598 where Tor clients do not support receiving multiple
13599 microdescriptors with the same SHA256 digest in the same
13600 consensus. When clients receive a consensus like this, they only
13601 use one of the relays. Without this fix, a hostile relay could
13602 selectively disable some client use of target relays by
13603 constructing a router descriptor with a different identity and the
13604 same microdescriptor parameters and getting the authorities to
13605 list it in a microdescriptor consensus. This fix prevents an
13606 attacker from causing a microdescriptor collision, because the
13607 router's identity is not forgeable.
13609 o Major bugfixes (relay):
13610 - Use a direct dirport connection when uploading non-anonymous
13611 descriptors to the directory authorities. Previously, relays would
13612 incorrectly use tunnel connections under a fairly wide variety of
13613 circumstances. Fixes bug 11469; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
13614 - When a circuit accidentally has the same circuit ID for its
13615 forward and reverse direction, correctly detect the direction of
13616 cells using that circuit. Previously, this bug made roughly one
13617 circuit in a million non-functional. Fixes bug 12195; this is a
13618 bugfix on every version of Tor.
13620 o Major bugfixes (client, pluggable transports):
13621 - When managing pluggable transports, use OS notification facilities
13622 to learn if they have crashed, and don't attempt to kill any
13623 process that has already exited. Fixes bug 8746; bugfix
13626 o Minor features (diagnostic):
13627 - When logging a warning because of bug 7164, additionally check the
13628 hash table for consistency (as proposed on ticket 11737). This may
13629 help diagnose bug 7164.
13630 - When we log a heartbeat, log how many one-hop circuits we have
13631 that are at least 30 minutes old, and log status information about
13632 a few of them. This is an attempt to track down bug 8387.
13633 - When encountering an unexpected CR while writing text to a file on
13634 Windows, log the name of the file. Should help diagnosing
13636 - Give more specific warnings when a client notices that an onion
13637 handshake has failed. Fixes ticket 9635.
13638 - Add significant new logging code to attempt to diagnose bug 12184,
13639 where relays seem to run out of available circuit IDs.
13640 - Improve the diagnostic log message for bug 8387 even further to
13641 try to improve our odds of figuring out why one-hop directory
13642 circuits sometimes do not get closed.
13644 o Minor features (security, memory management):
13645 - Memory allocation tricks (mempools and buffer freelists) are now
13646 disabled by default. You can turn them back on with
13647 --enable-mempools and --enable-buf-freelists respectively. We're
13648 disabling these features because malloc performance is good enough
13649 on most platforms, and a similar feature in OpenSSL exacerbated
13650 exploitation of the Heartbleed attack. Resolves ticket 11476.
13652 o Minor features (security):
13653 - Apply the secure SipHash-2-4 function to the hash table mapping
13654 circuit IDs and channels to circuits. We missed this one when we
13655 were converting all the other hash functions to use SipHash back
13656 in 0.2.5.3-alpha. Resolves ticket 11750.
13658 o Minor features (build):
13659 - The configure script has a --disable-seccomp option to turn off
13660 support for libseccomp on systems that have it, in case it (or
13661 Tor's use of it) is broken. Resolves ticket 11628.
13663 o Minor features (other):
13664 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 4 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
13667 o Minor bugfixes (security, new since 0.2.5.4-alpha, also in 0.2.4.22):
13668 - When running a hidden service, do not allow TunneledDirConns 0;
13669 this will keep the hidden service from running, and also
13670 make it publish its descriptors directly over HTTP. Fixes bug 10849;
13671 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
13673 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
13674 - Avoid a bug where every successful connection made us recompute
13675 the flag telling us whether we have sufficient information to
13676 build circuits. Previously, we would forget our cached value
13677 whenever we successfully opened a channel (or marked a router as
13678 running or not running for any other reason), regardless of
13679 whether we had previously believed the router to be running. This
13680 forced us to run an expensive update operation far too often.
13681 Fixes bug 12170; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
13682 - Avoid using tor_memeq() for checking relay cell integrity. This
13683 removes a possible performance bottleneck. Fixes part of bug
13684 12169; bugfix on 0.2.1.31.
13686 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
13687 - Fix compilation of test_status.c when building with MVSC. Bugfix
13688 on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
13689 - Resolve GCC complaints on OpenBSD about discarding constness in
13690 TO_{ORIGIN,OR}_CIRCUIT functions. Fixes part of bug 11633; bugfix
13691 on 0.1.1.23. Patch from Dana Koch.
13692 - Resolve clang complaints on OpenBSD with -Wshorten-64-to-32 due to
13693 treatment of long and time_t as comparable types. Fixes part of
13694 bug 11633. Patch from Dana Koch.
13695 - Make Tor compile correctly with --disable-buf-freelists. Fixes bug
13696 11623; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
13697 - When deciding whether to build the 64-bit curve25519
13698 implementation, detect platforms where we can compile 128-bit
13699 arithmetic but cannot link it. Fixes bug 11729; bugfix on
13700 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch from "conradev".
13701 - Fix compilation when DNS_CACHE_DEBUG is enabled. Fixes bug 11761;
13702 bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha. Found by "cypherpunks".
13703 - Fix compilation with dmalloc. Fixes bug 11605; bugfix
13706 o Minor bugfixes (Directory server):
13707 - When sending a compressed set of descriptors or microdescriptors,
13708 make sure to finalize the zlib stream. Previously, we would write
13709 all the compressed data, but if the last descriptor we wanted to
13710 send was missing or too old, we would not mark the stream as
13711 finished. This caused problems for decompression tools. Fixes bug
13712 11648; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
13714 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp sandbox):
13715 - Make the seccomp sandbox code compile under ARM Linux. Fixes bug
13716 11622; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
13717 - Avoid crashing when re-opening listener ports with the seccomp
13718 sandbox active. Fixes bug 12115; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
13719 - Avoid crashing with the seccomp sandbox enabled along with
13720 ConstrainedSockets. Fixes bug 12139; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
13721 - When we receive a SIGHUP with the sandbox enabled, correctly
13722 support rotating our log files. Fixes bug 12032; bugfix
13724 - Avoid crash when running with sandboxing enabled and
13725 DirReqStatistics not disabled. Fixes bug 12035; bugfix
13727 - Fix a "BUG" warning when trying to write bridge-stats files with
13728 the Linux syscall sandbox filter enabled. Fixes bug 12041; bugfix
13730 - Prevent the sandbox from crashing on startup when run with the
13731 --enable-expensive-hardening configuration option. Fixes bug
13732 11477; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
13733 - When running with DirPortFrontPage and sandboxing both enabled,
13734 reload the DirPortFrontPage correctly when restarting. Fixes bug
13735 12028; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
13736 - Don't try to enable the sandbox when using the Tor binary to check
13737 its configuration, hash a passphrase, or so on. Doing so was
13738 crashing on startup for some users. Fixes bug 11609; bugfix
13740 - Avoid warnings when running with sandboxing and node statistics
13741 enabled at the same time. Fixes part of 12064; bugfix on
13742 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Michael Wolf.
13743 - Avoid warnings when running with sandboxing enabled at the same
13744 time as cookie authentication, hidden services, or directory
13745 authority voting. Fixes part of 12064; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
13746 - Do not allow options that require calls to exec to be enabled
13747 alongside the seccomp2 sandbox: they will inevitably crash. Fixes
13748 bug 12043; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
13749 - Handle failures in getpwnam()/getpwuid() when running with the
13750 User option set and the Linux syscall sandbox enabled. Fixes bug
13751 11946; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
13752 - Refactor the getaddrinfo workaround that the seccomp sandbox uses
13753 to avoid calling getaddrinfo() after installing the sandbox
13754 filters. Previously, it preloaded a cache with the IPv4 address
13755 for our hostname, and nothing else. Now, it loads the cache with
13756 every address that it used to initialize the Tor process. Fixes
13757 bug 11970; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
13759 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
13760 - Enable the ExtORPortCookieAuthFile option, to allow changing the
13761 default location of the authentication token for the extended OR
13762 Port as used by sever-side pluggable transports. We had
13763 implemented this option before, but the code to make it settable
13764 had been omitted. Fixes bug 11635; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
13765 - Avoid another 60-second delay when starting Tor in a pluggable-
13766 transport-using configuration when we already have cached
13767 descriptors for our bridges. Fixes bug 11965; bugfix
13770 o Minor bugfixes (client):
13771 - Avoid "Tried to open a socket with DisableNetwork set" warnings
13772 when starting a client with bridges configured and DisableNetwork
13773 set. (Tor launcher starts Tor with DisableNetwork set the first
13774 time it runs.) Fixes bug 10405; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
13776 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
13777 - The Python parts of the test scripts now work on Python 3 as well
13778 as Python 2, so systems where '/usr/bin/python' is Python 3 will
13779 no longer have the tests break. Fixes bug 11608; bugfix
13781 - When looking for versions of python that we could run the tests
13782 with, check for "python2.7" and "python3.3"; previously we were
13783 only looking for "python", "python2", and "python3". Patch from
13784 Dana Koch. Fixes bug 11632; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
13785 - Fix all valgrind warnings produced by the unit tests. There were
13786 over a thousand memory leak warnings previously, mostly produced
13787 by forgetting to free things in the unit test code. Fixes bug
13788 11618, bugfixes on many versions of Tor.
13790 o Minor bugfixes (tor-fw-helper):
13791 - Give a correct log message when tor-fw-helper fails to launch.
13792 (Previously, we would say something like "tor-fw-helper sent us a
13793 string we could not parse".) Fixes bug 9781; bugfix
13796 o Minor bugfixes (relay, threading):
13797 - Check return code on spawn_func() in cpuworker code, so that we
13798 don't think we've spawned a nonworking cpuworker and write junk to
13799 it forever. Fix related to bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor
13800 versions. Found by "skruffy".
13801 - Use a pthread_attr to make sure that spawn_func() cannot return an
13802 error while at the same time launching a thread. Fix related to
13803 bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor versions. Reported
13806 o Minor bugfixes (relay, oom prevention):
13807 - Correctly detect the total available system memory. We tried to do
13808 this in 0.2.5.4-alpha, but the code was set up to always return an
13809 error value, even on success. Fixes bug 11805; bugfix
13812 o Minor bugfixes (relay, other):
13813 - We now drop CREATE cells for already-existent circuit IDs and for
13814 zero-valued circuit IDs, regardless of other factors that might
13815 otherwise have called for DESTROY cells. Fixes bug 12191; bugfix
13817 - Avoid an illegal read from stack when initializing the TLS module
13818 using a version of OpenSSL without all of the ciphers used by the
13819 v2 link handshake. Fixes bug 12227; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Found
13821 - When rejecting DATA cells for stream_id zero, still count them
13822 against the circuit's deliver window so that we don't fail to send
13823 a SENDME. Fixes bug 11246; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
13825 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
13826 - Fix a misformatted log message about delayed directory fetches.
13827 Fixes bug 11654; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
13828 - Squelch a spurious LD_BUG message "No origin circuit for
13829 successful SOCKS stream" in certain hidden service failure cases;
13833 - Include a tor.service file in contrib/dist for use with systemd.
13834 Some distributions will be able to use this file unmodified;
13835 others will need to tweak it, or write their own. Patch from Jamie
13836 Nguyen; resolves ticket 8368.
13839 - Clean up several option names in the manpage to match their real
13840 names, add the missing documentation for a couple of testing and
13841 directory authority options, remove the documentation for a
13842 V2-directory fetching option that no longer exists. Resolves
13844 - Correct the documentation so that it lists the correct directory
13845 for the stats files. (They are in a subdirectory called "stats",
13847 - In the manpage, move more authority-only options into the
13848 directory authority section so that operators of regular directory
13849 caches don't get confused.
13852 - The contrib directory has been sorted and tidied. Before, it was
13853 an unsorted dumping ground for useful and not-so-useful things.
13854 Now, it is divided based on functionality, and the items which
13855 seemed to be nonfunctional or useless have been removed. Resolves
13856 ticket 8966; based on patches from "rl1987".
13859 - Remove /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL that was meant to help debug WFU
13860 and MTBF calculations, but that nobody was using. Fixes ticket 11742.
13861 - The TunnelDirConns and PreferTunnelledDirConns options no longer
13862 exist; tunneled directory connections have been available since
13863 0.1.2.5-alpha, and turning them off is not a good idea. This is a
13864 brute-force fix for 10849, where "TunnelDirConns 0" would break
13868 Changes in version 0.2.4.22 - 2014-05-16
13869 Tor 0.2.4.22 backports numerous high-priority fixes from the Tor 0.2.5
13870 alpha release series. These include blocking all authority signing
13871 keys that may have been affected by the OpenSSL "heartbleed" bug,
13872 choosing a far more secure set of TLS ciphersuites by default, closing
13873 a couple of memory leaks that could be used to run a target relay out
13874 of RAM, and several others.
13876 o Major features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
13877 - Block authority signing keys that were used on authorities
13878 vulnerable to the "heartbleed" bug in OpenSSL (CVE-2014-0160). (We
13879 don't have any evidence that these keys _were_ compromised; we're
13880 doing this to be prudent.) Resolves ticket 11464.
13882 o Major bugfixes (security, OOM):
13883 - Fix a memory leak that could occur if a microdescriptor parse
13884 fails during the tokenizing step. This bug could enable a memory
13885 exhaustion attack by directory servers. Fixes bug 11649; bugfix
13888 o Major bugfixes (TLS cipher selection, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
13889 - The relay ciphersuite list is now generated automatically based on
13890 uniform criteria, and includes all OpenSSL ciphersuites with
13891 acceptable strength and forward secrecy. Previously, we had left
13892 some perfectly fine ciphersuites unsupported due to omission or
13893 typo. Resolves bugs 11513, 11492, 11498, 11499. Bugs reported by
13894 'cypherpunks'. Bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
13895 - Relays now trust themselves to have a better view than clients of
13896 which TLS ciphersuites are better than others. (Thanks to bug
13897 11513, the relay list is now well-considered, whereas the client
13898 list has been chosen mainly for anti-fingerprinting purposes.)
13899 Relays prefer: AES over 3DES; then ECDHE over DHE; then GCM over
13900 CBC; then SHA384 over SHA256 over SHA1; and last, AES256 over
13901 AES128. Resolves ticket 11528.
13902 - Clients now try to advertise the same list of ciphersuites as
13903 Firefox 28. This change enables selection of (fast) GCM
13904 ciphersuites, disables some strange old ciphers, and stops
13905 advertising the ECDH (not to be confused with ECDHE) ciphersuites.
13906 Resolves ticket 11438.
13908 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, security):
13909 - When running a hidden service, do not allow TunneledDirConns 0:
13910 trying to set that option together with a hidden service would
13911 otherwise prevent the hidden service from running, and also make
13912 it publish its descriptors directly over HTTP. Fixes bug 10849;
13913 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
13915 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
13916 - Avoid sending a garbage value to the controller when a circuit is
13917 cannibalized. Fixes bug 11519; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
13919 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
13920 - Stop leaking memory when we successfully resolve a PTR record.
13921 Fixes bug 11437; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
13923 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
13924 - Avoid 60-second delays in the bootstrapping process when Tor is
13925 launching for a second time while using bridges. Fixes bug 9229;
13926 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
13928 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
13929 - Give the correct URL in the warning message when trying to run a
13930 relay on an ancient version of Windows. Fixes bug 9393.
13932 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
13933 - Fix a compilation error when compiling with --disable-curve25519.
13934 Fixes bug 9700; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
13937 - Downgrade the warning severity for the the "md was still
13938 referenced 1 node(s)" warning. Tor 0.2.5.4-alpha has better code
13939 for trying to diagnose this bug, and the current warning in
13940 earlier versions of tor achieves nothing useful. Addresses warning
13943 o Minor features (log verbosity, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
13944 - When we run out of usable circuit IDs on a channel, log only one
13945 warning for the whole channel, and describe how many circuits
13946 there were on the channel. Fixes part of ticket 11553.
13948 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
13949 - Decrease the lower limit of MaxMemInCellQueues to 256 MBytes (but
13950 leave the default at 8GBytes), to better support Raspberry Pi
13951 users. Fixes bug 9686; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
13953 o Documentation (backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
13954 - Correctly document that we search for a system torrc file before
13955 looking in ~/.torrc. Fixes documentation side of 9213; bugfix on
13959 Changes in version 0.2.5.4-alpha - 2014-04-25
13960 Tor 0.2.5.4-alpha includes several security and performance
13961 improvements for clients and relays, including blacklisting authority
13962 signing keys that were used while susceptible to the OpenSSL
13963 "heartbleed" bug, fixing two expensive functions on busy relays,
13964 improved TLS ciphersuite preference lists, support for run-time
13965 hardening on compilers that support AddressSanitizer, and more work on
13966 the Linux sandbox code.
13968 There are also several usability fixes for clients (especially clients
13969 that use bridges), two new TransPort protocols supported (one on
13970 OpenBSD, one on FreeBSD), and various other bugfixes.
13972 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.2.2.x; those Tor versions
13973 have accumulated many known flaws; everyone should upgrade.
13975 o Major features (security):
13976 - If you don't specify MaxMemInQueues yourself, Tor now tries to
13977 pick a good value based on your total system memory. Previously,
13978 the default was always 8 GB. You can still override the default by
13979 setting MaxMemInQueues yourself. Resolves ticket 11396.
13980 - Block authority signing keys that were used on authorities
13981 vulnerable to the "heartbleed" bug in OpenSSL (CVE-2014-0160). (We
13982 don't have any evidence that these keys _were_ compromised; we're
13983 doing this to be prudent.) Resolves ticket 11464.
13985 o Major features (relay performance):
13986 - Speed up server-side lookups of rendezvous and introduction point
13987 circuits by using hashtables instead of linear searches. These
13988 functions previously accounted between 3 and 7% of CPU usage on
13989 some busy relays. Resolves ticket 9841.
13990 - Avoid wasting CPU when extending a circuit over a channel that is
13991 nearly out of circuit IDs. Previously, we would do a linear scan
13992 over possible circuit IDs before finding one or deciding that we
13993 had exhausted our possibilities. Now, we try at most 64 random
13994 circuit IDs before deciding that we probably won't succeed. Fixes
13995 a possible root cause of ticket 11553.
13997 o Major features (seccomp2 sandbox, Linux only):
13998 - The seccomp2 sandbox can now run a test network for multiple hours
13999 without crashing. The sandbox is still experimental, and more bugs
14000 will probably turn up. To try it, enable "Sandbox 1" on a Linux
14001 host. Resolves ticket 11351.
14002 - Strengthen sandbox code: the sandbox can now test the arguments
14003 for rename(), and blocks _sysctl() entirely. Resolves another part
14005 - When the sandbox blocks a system call, it now tries to log a stack
14006 trace before exiting. Resolves ticket 11465.
14008 o Major bugfixes (TLS cipher selection):
14009 - The relay ciphersuite list is now generated automatically based on
14010 uniform criteria, and includes all OpenSSL ciphersuites with
14011 acceptable strength and forward secrecy. Previously, we had left
14012 some perfectly fine ciphersuites unsupported due to omission or
14013 typo. Resolves bugs 11513, 11492, 11498, 11499. Bugs reported by
14014 'cypherpunks'. Bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
14015 - Relays now trust themselves to have a better view than clients of
14016 which TLS ciphersuites are better than others. (Thanks to bug
14017 11513, the relay list is now well-considered, whereas the client
14018 list has been chosen mainly for anti-fingerprinting purposes.)
14019 Relays prefer: AES over 3DES; then ECDHE over DHE; then GCM over
14020 CBC; then SHA384 over SHA256 over SHA1; and last, AES256 over
14021 AES128. Resolves ticket 11528.
14022 - Clients now try to advertise the same list of ciphersuites as
14023 Firefox 28. This change enables selection of (fast) GCM
14024 ciphersuites, disables some strange old ciphers, and stops
14025 advertising the ECDH (not to be confused with ECDHE) ciphersuites.
14026 Resolves ticket 11438.
14028 o Major bugfixes (bridge client):
14029 - Avoid 60-second delays in the bootstrapping process when Tor is
14030 launching for a second time while using bridges. Fixes bug 9229;
14031 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
14033 o Minor features (transparent proxy, *BSD):
14034 - Support FreeBSD's ipfw firewall interface for TransPort ports on
14035 FreeBSD. To enable it, set "TransProxyType ipfw". Resolves ticket
14036 10267; patch from "yurivict".
14037 - Support OpenBSD's divert-to rules with the pf firewall for
14038 transparent proxy ports. To enable it, set "TransProxyType
14039 pf-divert". This allows Tor to run a TransPort transparent proxy
14040 port on OpenBSD 4.4 or later without root privileges. See the
14041 pf.conf(5) manual page for information on configuring pf to use
14042 divert-to rules. Closes ticket 10896; patch from Dana Koch.
14044 o Minor features (security):
14045 - New --enable-expensive-hardening option to enable security
14046 hardening options that consume nontrivial amounts of CPU and
14047 memory. Right now, this includes AddressSanitizer and UbSan, which
14048 are supported in newer versions of GCC and Clang. Closes ticket
14051 o Minor features (log verbosity):
14052 - Demote the message that we give when a flushing connection times
14053 out for too long from NOTICE to INFO. It was usually meaningless.
14054 Resolves ticket 5286.
14055 - Don't log so many notice-level bootstrapping messages at startup
14056 about downloading descriptors. Previously, we'd log a notice
14057 whenever we learned about more routers. Now, we only log a notice
14058 at every 5% of progress. Fixes bug 9963.
14059 - Warn less verbosely when receiving a malformed
14060 ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cell. Fixes ticket 11279.
14061 - When we run out of usable circuit IDs on a channel, log only one
14062 warning for the whole channel, and describe how many circuits
14063 there were on the channel. Fixes part of ticket 11553.
14065 o Minor features (relay):
14066 - If a circuit timed out for at least 3 minutes, check if we have a
14067 new external IP address, and publish a new descriptor with the new
14068 IP address if it changed. Resolves ticket 2454.
14070 o Minor features (controller):
14071 - Make the entire exit policy available from the control port via
14072 GETINFO exit-policy/*. Implements enhancement 7952. Patch from
14074 - Because of the fix for ticket 11396, the real limit for memory
14075 usage may no longer match the configured MaxMemInQueues value. The
14076 real limit is now exposed via GETINFO limits/max-mem-in-queues.
14078 o Minor features (bridge client):
14079 - Report a more useful failure message when we can't connect to a
14080 bridge because we don't have the right pluggable transport
14081 configured. Resolves ticket 9665. Patch from Fábio J. Bertinatto.
14083 o Minor features (diagnostic):
14084 - Add more log messages to diagnose bug 7164, which causes
14085 intermittent "microdesc_free() called but md was still referenced"
14086 warnings. We now include more information, to figure out why we
14087 might be cleaning a microdescriptor for being too old if it's
14088 still referenced by a live node_t object.
14090 o Minor bugfixes (client, DNSPort):
14091 - When using DNSPort, try to respond to AAAA requests with AAAA
14092 answers. Previously, we hadn't looked at the request type when
14093 deciding which answer type to prefer. Fixes bug 10468; bugfix on
14095 - When receiving a DNS query for an unsupported record type, reply
14096 with no answer rather than with a NOTIMPL error. This behavior
14097 isn't correct either, but it will break fewer client programs, we
14098 hope. Fixes bug 10268; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Original patch
14101 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay):
14102 - Stop leaking memory when we successfully resolve a PTR record.
14103 Fixes bug 11437; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
14105 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client):
14106 - Stop accepting bridge lines containing hostnames. Doing so would
14107 cause clients to perform DNS requests on the hostnames, which was
14108 not sensible behavior. Fixes bug 10801; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
14109 - Avoid a 60-second delay in the bootstrapping process when a Tor
14110 client with pluggable transports re-reads its configuration at
14111 just the wrong time. Re-fixes bug 11156; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
14113 o Minor bugfixes (client, logging during bootstrap):
14114 - Warn only once if we start logging in an unsafe way. Previously,
14115 we complain as many times as we had problems. Fixes bug 9870;
14116 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
14117 - Only report the first fatal bootstrap error on a given OR
14118 connection. This stops us from telling the controller bogus error
14119 messages like "DONE". Fixes bug 10431; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
14120 - Be more helpful when trying to run sandboxed on Linux without
14121 libseccomp. Instead of saying "Sandbox is not implemented on this
14122 platform", we now explain that we need to be built with
14123 libseccomp. Fixes bug 11543; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
14124 - Avoid generating spurious warnings when starting with
14125 DisableNetwork enabled. Fixes bug 11200 and bug 10405; bugfix on
14128 o Minor bugfixes (closing OR connections):
14129 - If write_to_buf() in connection_write_to_buf_impl_() ever fails,
14130 check if it's an or_connection_t and correctly call
14131 connection_or_close_for_error() rather than
14132 connection_mark_for_close() directly. Fixes bug 11304; bugfix on
14134 - When closing all connections on setting DisableNetwork to 1, use
14135 connection_or_close_normally() rather than closing OR connections
14136 out from under the channel layer. Fixes bug 11306; bugfix on
14139 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
14140 - Avoid sending a garbage value to the controller when a circuit is
14141 cannibalized. Fixes bug 11519; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
14143 o Minor bugfixes (tor-fw-helper):
14144 - Allow tor-fw-helper to build again by adding src/ext to its
14145 CPPFLAGS. Fixes bug 11296; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
14147 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
14148 - Avoid potential crashes or bad behavior when launching a
14149 server-side managed proxy with ORPort or ExtORPort temporarily
14150 disabled. Fixes bug 9650; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
14152 o Minor bugfixes (platform-specific):
14153 - Fix compilation on Solaris, which does not have <endian.h>. Fixes
14154 bug 11426; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
14155 - When dumping a malformed directory object to disk, save it in
14156 binary mode on Windows, not text mode. Fixes bug 11342; bugfix on
14158 - Don't report failures from make_socket_reuseable() on incoming
14159 sockets on OSX: this can happen when incoming connections close
14160 early. Fixes bug 10081.
14162 o Minor bugfixes (trivial memory leaks):
14163 - Fix a small memory leak when signing a directory object. Fixes bug
14164 11275; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
14165 - Free placeholder entries in our circuit table at exit; fixes a
14166 harmless memory leak. Fixes bug 11278; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
14167 - Don't re-initialize a second set of OpenSSL mutexes when starting
14168 up. Previously, we'd make one set of mutexes, and then immediately
14169 replace them with another. Fixes bug 11726; bugfix on
14171 - Resolve some memory leaks found by coverity in the unit tests, on
14172 exit in tor-gencert, and on a failure to compute digests for our
14173 own keys when generating a v3 networkstatus vote. These leaks
14174 should never have affected anyone in practice.
14176 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
14177 - Only retry attempts to connect to a chosen rendezvous point 8
14178 times, not 30. Fixes bug 4241; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
14180 o Minor bugfixes (misc code correctness):
14181 - Fix various instances of undefined behavior in channeltls.c,
14182 tor_memmem(), and eventdns.c that would cause us to construct
14183 pointers to memory outside an allocated object. (These invalid
14184 pointers were not accessed, but C does not even allow them to
14185 exist.) Fixes bug 10363; bugfixes on 0.1.1.1-alpha, 0.1.2.1-alpha,
14186 0.2.0.10-alpha, and 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "bobnomnom".
14187 - Use the AddressSanitizer and Ubsan sanitizers (in clang-3.4) to
14188 fix some miscellaneous errors in our tests and codebase. Fixes bug
14189 11232. Bugfixes on versions back as far as 0.2.1.11-alpha.
14190 - Always check return values for unlink, munmap, UnmapViewOfFile;
14191 check strftime return values more often. In some cases all we can
14192 do is report a warning, but this may help prevent deeper bugs from
14193 going unnoticed. Closes ticket 8787; bugfixes on many, many tor
14195 - Fix numerous warnings from the clang "scan-build" static analyzer.
14196 Some of these are programming style issues; some of them are false
14197 positives that indicated awkward code; some are undefined behavior
14198 cases related to constructing (but not using) invalid pointers;
14199 some are assumptions about API behavior; some are (harmlessly)
14200 logging sizeof(ptr) bytes from a token when sizeof(*ptr) would be
14201 correct; and one or two are genuine bugs that weren't reachable
14202 from the rest of the program. Fixes bug 8793; bugfixes on many,
14206 - Build the torify.1 manpage again. Previously, we were only trying
14207 to build it when also building tor-fw-helper. That's why we didn't
14208 notice that we'd broken the ability to build it. Fixes bug 11321;
14209 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
14210 - Fix the layout of the SOCKSPort flags in the manpage. Fixes bug
14211 11061; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
14212 - Correctly document that we search for a system torrc file before
14213 looking in ~/.torrc. Fixes documentation side of 9213; bugfix on
14215 - Resolve warnings from Doxygen.
14217 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
14218 - Remove is_internal_IP() function. Resolves ticket 4645.
14219 - Remove unused function circuit_dump_by_chan from circuitlist.c.
14220 Closes issue 9107; patch from "marek".
14221 - Change our use of the ENUM_BF macro to avoid declarations that
14224 o Deprecated versions:
14225 - Tor 0.2.2.x has reached end-of-life; it has received no patches or
14226 attention for some while. Directory authorities no longer accept
14227 descriptors from relays running any version of Tor prior to Tor
14228 0.2.3.16-alpha. Resolves ticket 11149.
14231 - New macros in test.h to simplify writing mock-functions for unit
14232 tests. Part of ticket 11507. Patch from Dana Koch.
14233 - Complete tests for the status.c module. Resolves ticket 11507.
14234 Patch from Dana Koch.
14237 - Remove all code for the long unused v1 directory protocol.
14238 Resolves ticket 11070.
14241 Changes in version 0.2.5.3-alpha - 2014-03-22
14242 Tor 0.2.5.3-alpha includes all the fixes from 0.2.4.21. It contains
14243 two new anti-DoS features for Tor relays, resolves a bug that kept
14244 SOCKS5 support for IPv6 from working, fixes several annoying usability
14245 issues for bridge users, and removes more old code for unused
14248 The Tor 0.2.5.x release series is now in patch-freeze: no feature
14249 patches not already written will be considered for inclusion in 0.2.5.x.
14251 o Major features (relay security, DoS-resistance):
14252 - When deciding whether we have run out of memory and we need to
14253 close circuits, also consider memory allocated in buffers for
14254 streams attached to each circuit.
14256 This change, which extends an anti-DoS feature introduced in
14257 0.2.4.13-alpha and improved in 0.2.4.14-alpha, lets Tor exit relays
14258 better resist more memory-based DoS attacks than before. Since the
14259 MaxMemInCellQueues option now applies to all queues, it is renamed
14260 to MaxMemInQueues. This feature fixes bug 10169.
14261 - Avoid hash-flooding denial-of-service attacks by using the secure
14262 SipHash-2-4 hash function for our hashtables. Without this
14263 feature, an attacker could degrade performance of a targeted
14264 client or server by flooding their data structures with a large
14265 number of entries to be stored at the same hash table position,
14266 thereby slowing down the Tor instance. With this feature, hash
14267 table positions are derived from a randomized cryptographic key,
14268 and an attacker cannot predict which entries will collide. Closes
14270 - Decrease the lower limit of MaxMemInQueues to 256 MBytes (but leave
14271 the default at 8GBytes), to better support Raspberry Pi users. Fixes
14272 bug 9686; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
14274 o Minor features (bridges, pluggable transports):
14275 - Bridges now write the SHA1 digest of their identity key
14276 fingerprint (that is, a hash of a hash of their public key) to
14277 notice-level logs, and to a new hashed-fingerprint file. This
14278 information will help bridge operators look up their bridge in
14279 Globe and similar tools. Resolves ticket 10884.
14280 - Improve the message that Tor displays when running as a bridge
14281 using pluggable transports without an Extended ORPort listener.
14282 Also, log the message in the log file too. Resolves ticket 11043.
14284 o Minor features (other):
14285 - Add a new option, PredictedPortsRelevanceTime, to control how long
14286 after having received a request to connect to a given port Tor
14287 will try to keep circuits ready in anticipation of future requests
14288 for that port. Patch from "unixninja92"; implements ticket 9176.
14289 - Generate a warning if any ports are listed in the SocksPolicy,
14290 DirPolicy, AuthDirReject, AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, or
14291 AuthDirBadExit options. (These options only support address
14292 ranges.) Fixes part of ticket 11108.
14293 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
14296 o Minor bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.2-alpha, also in 0.2.4.21):
14297 - Build without warnings under clang 3.4. (We have some macros that
14298 define static functions only some of which will get used later in
14299 the module. Starting with clang 3.4, these give a warning unless the
14300 unused attribute is set on them.) Resolves ticket 10904.
14301 - Fix build warnings about missing "a2x" comment when building the
14302 manpages from scratch on OpenBSD; OpenBSD calls it "a2x.py".
14303 Fixes bug 10929; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
14305 o Minor bugfixes (client):
14306 - Improve the log message when we can't connect to a hidden service
14307 because all of the hidden service directory nodes hosting its
14308 descriptor are excluded. Improves on our fix for bug 10722, which
14309 was a bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
14310 - Raise a control port warning when we fail to connect to all of
14311 our bridges. Previously, we didn't inform the controller, and
14312 the bootstrap process would stall. Fixes bug 11069; bugfix on
14314 - Exit immediately when a process-owning controller exits.
14315 Previously, tor relays would wait for a little while after their
14316 controller exited, as if they had gotten an INT signal -- but this
14317 was problematic, since there was no feedback for the user. To do a
14318 clean shutdown, controllers should send an INT signal and give Tor
14319 a chance to clean up. Fixes bug 10449; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
14320 - Stop attempting to connect to bridges before our pluggable
14321 transports are configured (harmless but resulted in some erroneous
14322 log messages). Fixes bug 11156; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
14323 - Fix connections to IPv6 addresses over SOCKS5. Previously, we were
14324 generating incorrect SOCKS5 responses, and confusing client
14325 applications. Fixes bug 10987; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
14327 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges):
14328 - Avoid crashing on a malformed resolv.conf file when running a
14329 relay using Libevent 1. Fixes bug 8788; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
14330 - Non-exit relays no longer launch mock DNS requests to check for
14331 DNS hijacking. This has been unnecessary since 0.2.1.7-alpha, when
14332 non-exit relays stopped servicing DNS requests. Fixes bug 965;
14333 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Patch from Matt Pagan.
14334 - Bridges now report complete directory request statistics. Related
14335 to bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
14336 - Bridges now never collect statistics that were designed for
14337 relays. Fixes bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
14338 - Stop giving annoying warning messages when we decide not to launch
14339 a pluggable transport proxy that we don't need (because there are
14340 no bridges configured to use it). Resolves ticket 5018; bugfix
14342 - Give the correct URL in the warning message when trying to run a
14343 relay on an ancient version of Windows. Fixes bug 9393.
14345 o Minor bugfixes (backtrace support):
14346 - Support automatic backtraces on more platforms by using the
14347 "-fasynchronous-unwind-tables" compiler option. This option is
14348 needed for platforms like 32-bit Intel where "-fomit-frame-pointer"
14349 is on by default and table generation is not. This doesn't yet
14350 add Windows support; only Linux, OSX, and some BSDs are affected.
14351 Reported by 'cypherpunks'; fixes bug 11047; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
14352 - Avoid strange behavior if two threads hit failed assertions at the
14353 same time and both try to log backtraces at once. (Previously, if
14354 this had happened, both threads would have stored their intermediate
14355 results in the same buffer, and generated junk outputs.) Reported by
14356 "cypherpunks". Fixes bug 11048; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
14357 - Fix a compiler warning in format_number_sigsafe(). Bugfix on
14358 0.2.5.2-alpha; patch from Nick Hopper.
14360 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
14361 - Fix a small bug in the unit tests that might have made the tests
14362 call 'chmod' with an uninitialized bitmask. Fixes bug 10928;
14363 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
14366 - Remove all remaining code related to version-0 hidden service
14367 descriptors: they have not been in use since 0.2.2.1-alpha. Fixes
14368 the rest of bug 10841.
14371 - Document in the manpage that "KBytes" may also be written as
14372 "kilobytes" or "KB", that "Kbits" may also be written as
14373 "kilobits", and so forth. Closes ticket 9222.
14374 - Document that the ClientOnly config option overrides ORPort.
14375 Our old explanation made ClientOnly sound as though it did
14376 nothing at all. Resolves bug 9059.
14377 - Explain that SocksPolicy, DirPolicy, and similar options don't
14378 take port arguments. Fixes the other part of ticket 11108.
14379 - Fix a comment about the rend_server_descriptor_t.protocols field
14380 to more accurately describe its range. Also, make that field
14381 unsigned, to more accurately reflect its usage. Fixes bug 9099;
14382 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
14383 - Fix the manpage's description of HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient:
14384 the maximum client name length is 16, not 19. Fixes bug 11118;
14385 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
14387 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
14388 - Get rid of router->address, since in all cases it was just the
14389 string representation of router->addr. Resolves ticket 5528.
14391 o Test infrastructure:
14392 - Update to the latest version of tinytest.
14393 - Improve the tinytest implementation of string operation tests so
14394 that comparisons with NULL strings no longer crash the tests; they
14395 now just fail, normally. Fixes bug 9004; bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
14398 Changes in version 0.2.4.21 - 2014-02-28
14399 Tor 0.2.4.21 further improves security against potential adversaries who
14400 find breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and backports several stability
14401 and robustness patches from the 0.2.5 branch.
14403 o Major features (client security):
14404 - When we choose a path for a 3-hop circuit, make sure it contains
14405 at least one relay that supports the NTor circuit extension
14406 handshake. Otherwise, there is a chance that we're building
14407 a circuit that's worth attacking by an adversary who finds
14408 breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and that chance changes the game
14409 theory. Implements ticket 9777.
14412 - Do not treat streams that fail with reason
14413 END_STREAM_REASON_INTERNAL as indicating a definite circuit failure,
14414 since it could also indicate an ENETUNREACH connection error. Fixes
14415 part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
14417 o Code simplification and refactoring:
14418 - Remove data structures which were introduced to implement the
14419 CellStatistics option: they are now redundant with the new timestamp
14420 field in the regular packed_cell_t data structure, which we did
14421 in 0.2.4.18-rc in order to resolve bug 9093. Resolves ticket 10870.
14424 - Always clear OpenSSL bignums before freeing them -- even bignums
14425 that don't contain secrets. Resolves ticket 10793. Patch by
14427 - Build without warnings under clang 3.4. (We have some macros that
14428 define static functions only some of which will get used later in
14429 the module. Starting with clang 3.4, these give a warning unless the
14430 unused attribute is set on them.) Resolves ticket 10904.
14431 - Update geoip and geoip6 files to the February 7 2014 Maxmind
14432 GeoLite2 Country database.
14435 - Set the listen() backlog limit to the largest actually supported
14436 on the system, not to the value in a header file. Fixes bug 9716;
14437 bugfix on every released Tor.
14438 - Treat ENETUNREACH, EACCES, and EPERM connection failures at an
14439 exit node as a NOROUTE error, not an INTERNAL error, since they
14440 can apparently happen when trying to connect to the wrong sort
14441 of netblocks. Fixes part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
14442 - Fix build warnings about missing "a2x" comment when building the
14443 manpages from scratch on OpenBSD; OpenBSD calls it "a2x.py".
14444 Fixes bug 10929; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
14445 - Avoid a segfault on SIGUSR1, where we had freed a connection but did
14446 not entirely remove it from the connection lists. Fixes bug 9602;
14447 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
14448 - Fix a segmentation fault in our benchmark code when running with
14449 Fedora's OpenSSL package, or any other OpenSSL that provides
14450 ECDH but not P224. Fixes bug 10835; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
14451 - Turn "circuit handshake stats since last time" log messages into a
14452 heartbeat message. Fixes bug 10485; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
14454 o Documentation fixes:
14455 - Document that all but one DirPort entry must have the NoAdvertise
14456 flag set. Fixes bug 10470; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha / 0.2.3.16-alpha.
14459 Changes in version 0.2.5.2-alpha - 2014-02-13
14460 Tor 0.2.5.2-alpha includes all the fixes from 0.2.4.18-rc and 0.2.4.20,
14461 like the "poor random number generation" fix and the "building too many
14462 circuits" fix. It also further improves security against potential
14463 adversaries who find breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and launches
14464 pluggable transports on demand (which gets us closer to integrating
14465 pluggable transport support by default -- not to be confused with Tor
14466 bundles enabling pluggable transports and bridges by default).
14468 o Major features (client security):
14469 - When we choose a path for a 3-hop circuit, make sure it contains
14470 at least one relay that supports the NTor circuit extension
14471 handshake. Otherwise, there is a chance that we're building
14472 a circuit that's worth attacking by an adversary who finds
14473 breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and that chance changes the game
14474 theory. Implements ticket 9777.
14475 - Clients now look at the "usecreatefast" consensus parameter to
14476 decide whether to use CREATE_FAST or CREATE cells for the first hop
14477 of their circuit. This approach can improve security on connections
14478 where Tor's circuit handshake is stronger than the available TLS
14479 connection security levels, but the tradeoff is more computational
14480 load on guard relays. Implements proposal 221. Resolves ticket 9386.
14482 o Major features (bridges):
14483 - Don't launch pluggable transport proxies if we don't have any
14484 bridges configured that would use them. Now we can list many
14485 pluggable transports, and Tor will dynamically start one when it
14486 hears a bridge address that needs it. Resolves ticket 5018.
14487 - The bridge directory authority now assigns status flags (Stable,
14488 Guard, etc) to bridges based on thresholds calculated over all
14489 Running bridges. Now bridgedb can finally make use of its features
14490 to e.g. include at least one Stable bridge in its answers. Fixes
14493 o Major features (other):
14494 - Extend ORCONN controller event to include an "ID" parameter,
14495 and add four new controller event types CONN_BW, CIRC_BW,
14496 CELL_STATS, and TB_EMPTY that show connection and circuit usage.
14497 The new events are emitted in private Tor networks only, with the
14498 goal of being able to better track performance and load during
14499 full-network simulations. Implements proposal 218 and ticket 7359.
14500 - On some platforms (currently: recent OSX versions, glibc-based
14501 platforms that support the ELF format, and a few other
14502 Unix-like operating systems), Tor can now dump stack traces
14503 when a crash occurs or an assertion fails. By default, traces
14504 are dumped to stderr (if possible) and to any logs that are
14505 reporting errors. Implements ticket 9299.
14508 - Avoid a segfault on SIGUSR1, where we had freed a connection but did
14509 not entirely remove it from the connection lists. Fixes bug 9602;
14510 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
14511 - Do not treat streams that fail with reason
14512 END_STREAM_REASON_INTERNAL as indicating a definite circuit failure,
14513 since it could also indicate an ENETUNREACH connection error. Fixes
14514 part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
14516 o Major bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.20):
14517 - Do not allow OpenSSL engines to replace the PRNG, even when
14518 HardwareAccel is set. The only default builtin PRNG engine uses
14519 the Intel RDRAND instruction to replace the entire PRNG, and
14520 ignores all attempts to seed it with more entropy. That's
14521 cryptographically stupid: the right response to a new alleged
14522 entropy source is never to discard all previously used entropy
14523 sources. Fixes bug 10402; works around behavior introduced in
14524 OpenSSL 1.0.0. Diagnosis and investigation thanks to "coderman"
14526 - Fix assertion failure when AutomapHostsOnResolve yields an IPv6
14527 address. Fixes bug 10465; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
14528 - Avoid launching spurious extra circuits when a stream is pending.
14529 This fixes a bug where any circuit that _wasn't_ unusable for new
14530 streams would be treated as if it were, causing extra circuits to
14531 be launched. Fixes bug 10456; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
14533 o Major bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
14534 - No longer stop reading or writing on cpuworker connections when
14535 our rate limiting buckets go empty. Now we should handle circuit
14536 handshake requests more promptly. Resolves bug 9731.
14537 - Stop trying to bootstrap all our directory information from
14538 only our first guard. Discovered while fixing bug 9946; bugfix
14541 o Minor features (bridges, pluggable transports):
14542 - Add threshold cutoffs to the networkstatus document created by
14543 the Bridge Authority. Fixes bug 1117.
14544 - On Windows, spawn background processes using the CREATE_NO_WINDOW
14545 flag. Now Tor Browser Bundle 3.5 with pluggable transports enabled
14546 doesn't pop up a blank console window. (In Tor Browser Bundle 2.x,
14547 Vidalia set this option for us.) Implements ticket 10297.
14549 o Minor features (security):
14550 - Always clear OpenSSL bignums before freeing them -- even bignums
14551 that don't contain secrets. Resolves ticket 10793. Patch by
14554 o Minor features (config options and command line):
14555 - Add an --allow-missing-torrc commandline option that tells Tor to
14556 run even if the configuration file specified by -f is not available.
14557 Implements ticket 10060.
14558 - Add support for the TPROXY transparent proxying facility on Linux.
14559 See documentation for the new TransProxyType option for more
14560 details. Implementation by "thomo". Closes ticket 10582.
14562 o Minor features (controller):
14563 - Add a new "HS_DESC" controller event that reports activities
14564 related to hidden service descriptors. Resolves ticket 8510.
14565 - New "DROPGUARDS" controller command to forget all current entry
14566 guards. Not recommended for ordinary use, since replacing guards
14567 too frequently makes several attacks easier. Resolves ticket 9934;
14570 o Minor features (build):
14571 - Assume that a user using ./configure --host wants to cross-compile,
14572 and give an error if we cannot find a properly named
14573 tool-chain. Add a --disable-tool-name-check option to proceed
14574 nevertheless. Addresses ticket 9869. Patch by Benedikt Gollatz.
14575 - If we run ./configure and the compiler recognizes -fstack-protector
14576 but the linker rejects it, warn the user about a potentially missing
14577 libssp package. Addresses ticket 9948. Patch from Benedikt Gollatz.
14579 o Minor features (testing):
14580 - If Python is installed, "make check" now runs extra tests beyond
14581 the unit test scripts.
14582 - When bootstrapping a test network, sometimes very few relays get
14583 the Guard flag. Now a new option "TestingDirAuthVoteGuard" can
14584 specify a set of relays which should be voted Guard regardless of
14585 their uptime or bandwidth. Addresses ticket 9206.
14587 o Minor features (log messages):
14588 - When ServerTransportPlugin is set on a bridge, Tor can write more
14589 useful statistics about bridge use in its extrainfo descriptors,
14590 but only if the Extended ORPort ("ExtORPort") is set too. Add a
14591 log message to inform the user in this case. Resolves ticket 9651.
14592 - When receiving a new controller connection, log the origin address.
14593 Resolves ticket 9698; patch from "sigpipe".
14594 - When logging OpenSSL engine status at startup, log the status of
14595 more engines. Fixes ticket 10043; patch from Joshua Datko.
14596 - Turn "circuit handshake stats since last time" log messages into a
14597 heartbeat message. Fixes bug 10485; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
14599 o Minor features (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
14600 - Improve the circuit queue out-of-memory handler. Previously, when
14601 we ran low on memory, we'd close whichever circuits had the most
14602 queued cells. Now, we close those that have the *oldest* queued
14603 cells, on the theory that those are most responsible for us
14604 running low on memory. Based on analysis from a forthcoming paper
14605 by Jansen, Tschorsch, Johnson, and Scheuermann. Fixes bug 9093.
14606 - Generate bootstrapping status update events correctly when fetching
14607 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 9927.
14608 - Update to the October 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
14610 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
14611 - When closing a channel that has already been open, do not close
14612 pending circuits that were waiting to connect to the same relay.
14613 Fixes bug 9880; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Thanks to skruffy for
14616 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
14617 - Treat ENETUNREACH, EACCES, and EPERM connection failures at an
14618 exit node as a NOROUTE error, not an INTERNAL error, since they
14619 can apparently happen when trying to connect to the wrong sort
14620 of netblocks. Fixes part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
14622 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
14623 - Fix a bug where the first connection works to a bridge that uses a
14624 pluggable transport with client-side parameters, but we don't send
14625 the client-side parameters on subsequent connections. (We don't
14626 use any pluggable transports with client-side parameters yet,
14627 but ScrambleSuit will soon become the first one.) Fixes bug 9162;
14628 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Based on a patch from "rl1987".
14630 o Minor bugfixes (node selection):
14631 - If ExcludeNodes is set, consider non-excluded hidden service
14632 directory servers before excluded ones. Do not consider excluded
14633 hidden service directory servers at all if StrictNodes is
14634 set. (Previously, we would sometimes decide to connect to those
14635 servers, and then realize before we initiated a connection that
14636 we had excluded them.) Fixes bug 10722; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
14637 Reported by "mr-4".
14638 - If we set the ExitNodes option but it doesn't include any nodes
14639 that have the Exit flag, we would choose not to bootstrap. Now we
14640 bootstrap so long as ExitNodes includes nodes which can exit to
14641 some port. Fixes bug 10543; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
14643 o Minor bugfixes (controller and command-line):
14644 - If changing a config option via "setconf" fails in a recoverable
14645 way, we used to nonetheless write our new control ports to the
14646 file described by the "ControlPortWriteToFile" option. Now we only
14647 write out that file if we successfully switch to the new config
14648 option. Fixes bug 5605; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch from "Ryman".
14649 - When a command-line option such as --version or --help that
14650 ordinarily implies --hush appears on the command line along with
14651 --quiet, then actually obey --quiet. Previously, we obeyed --quiet
14652 only if it appeared later on the command line. Fixes bug 9578;
14653 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
14655 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
14656 - Previously we used two temporary files when writing descriptors to
14657 disk; now we only use one. Fixes bug 1376.
14658 - Remove an erroneous (but impossible and thus harmless) pointer
14659 comparison that would have allowed compilers to skip a bounds
14660 check in channeltls.c. Fixes bugs 10313 and 9980; bugfix on
14661 0.2.0.10-alpha. Noticed by Jared L Wong and David Fifield.
14662 - Fix an always-true assertion in pluggable transports code so it
14663 actually checks what it was trying to check. Fixes bug 10046;
14664 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Found by "dcb".
14666 o Minor bugfixes (protocol correctness):
14667 - When receiving a VERSIONS cell with an odd number of bytes, close
14668 the connection immediately since the cell is malformed. Fixes bug
14669 10365; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom"; fix by
14672 o Minor bugfixes (build):
14673 - Restore the ability to compile Tor with V2_HANDSHAKE_SERVER
14674 turned off (that is, without support for v2 link handshakes). Fixes
14675 bug 4677; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Patch from "piet".
14676 - Fix compilation warnings and startup issues when running with
14677 "Sandbox 1" and libseccomp-2.1.0. Fixes bug 10563; bugfix on
14679 - Fix compilation on Solaris 9, which didn't like us having an
14680 identifier named "sun". Fixes bug 10565; bugfix in 0.2.5.1-alpha.
14682 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
14683 - Fix a segmentation fault in our benchmark code when running with
14684 Fedora's OpenSSL package, or any other OpenSSL that provides
14685 ECDH but not P224. Fixes bug 10835; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
14687 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
14688 - Fix a bug where clients using bridges would report themselves
14689 as 50% bootstrapped even without a live consensus document.
14690 Fixes bug 9922; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
14691 - Suppress a warning where, if there's only one directory authority
14692 in the network, we would complain that votes and signatures cannot
14693 be uploaded to other directory authorities. Fixes bug 10842;
14694 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
14695 - Report bootstrapping progress correctly when we're downloading
14696 microdescriptors. We had updated our "do we have enough microdescs
14697 to begin building circuits?" logic most recently in 0.2.4.10-alpha
14698 (see bug 5956), but we left the bootstrap status event logic at
14699 "how far through getting 1/4 of them are we?" Fixes bug 9958;
14700 bugfix on 0.2.2.36, which is where they diverged (see bug 5343).
14702 o Minor bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.20):
14703 - Avoid a crash bug when starting with a corrupted microdescriptor
14704 cache file. Fixes bug 10406; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
14705 - If we fail to dump a previously cached microdescriptor to disk, avoid
14706 freeing duplicate data later on. Fixes bug 10423; bugfix on
14707 0.2.4.13-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom".
14709 o Minor bugfixes on 0.2.4.x (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
14710 - Correctly log long IPv6 exit policies, instead of truncating them
14711 or reporting an error. Fixes bug 9596; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
14712 - Our default TLS ecdhe groups were backwards: we meant to be using
14713 P224 for relays (for performance win) and P256 for bridges (since
14714 it is more common in the wild). Instead we had it backwards. After
14715 reconsideration, we decided that the default should be P256 on all
14716 hosts, since its security is probably better, and since P224 is
14717 reportedly used quite little in the wild. Found by "skruffy" on
14718 IRC. Fix for bug 9780; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
14719 - Free directory authority certificate download statuses on exit
14720 rather than leaking them. Fixes bug 9644; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
14722 o Minor bugfixes on 0.2.3.x (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
14723 - If the guard we choose first doesn't answer, we would try the
14724 second guard, but once we connected to the second guard we would
14725 abandon it and retry the first one, slowing down bootstrapping.
14726 The fix is to treat all our initially chosen guards as acceptable
14727 to use. Fixes bug 9946; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
14728 - Fix an assertion failure that would occur when disabling the
14729 ORPort setting on a running Tor process while accounting was
14730 enabled. Fixes bug 6979; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
14731 - When examining the list of network interfaces to find our address,
14732 do not consider non-running or disabled network interfaces. Fixes
14733 bug 9904; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. Patch from "hantwister".
14734 - Avoid an off-by-one error when checking buffer boundaries when
14735 formatting the exit status of a pluggable transport helper.
14736 This is probably not an exploitable bug, but better safe than
14737 sorry. Fixes bug 9928; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc. Bug found by
14740 o Removed code and features:
14741 - Clients now reject any directory authority certificates lacking
14742 a dir-key-crosscert element. These have been included since
14743 0.2.1.9-alpha, so there's no real reason for them to be optional
14744 any longer. Completes proposal 157. Resolves ticket 10162.
14745 - Remove all code that existed to support the v2 directory system,
14746 since there are no longer any v2 directory authorities. Resolves
14748 - Remove the HSAuthoritativeDir and AlternateHSAuthority torrc
14749 options, which were used for designating authorities as "Hidden
14750 service authorities". There has been no use of hidden service
14751 authorities since 0.2.2.1-alpha, when we stopped uploading or
14752 downloading v0 hidden service descriptors. Fixes bug 10881; also
14753 part of a fix for bug 10841.
14755 o Code simplification and refactoring:
14756 - Remove some old fallback code designed to keep Tor clients working
14757 in a network with only two working relays. Elsewhere in the code we
14758 have long since stopped supporting such networks, so there wasn't
14759 much point in keeping it around. Addresses ticket 9926.
14760 - Reject 0-length EXTEND2 cells more explicitly. Fixes bug 10536;
14761 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported by "cypherpunks".
14762 - Remove data structures which were introduced to implement the
14763 CellStatistics option: they are now redundant with the addition
14764 of a timestamp to the regular packed_cell_t data structure, which
14765 we did in 0.2.4.18-rc in order to resolve ticket 9093. Implements
14768 o Documentation (man page) fixes:
14769 - Update manpage to describe some of the files you can expect to
14770 find in Tor's DataDirectory. Addresses ticket 9839.
14771 - Document that all but one DirPort entry must have the NoAdvertise
14772 flag set. Fixes bug 10470; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha / 0.2.3.16-alpha.
14774 o Documentation fixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
14775 - Clarify the usage and risks of setting the ContactInfo torrc line
14776 for your relay or bridge. Resolves ticket 9854.
14777 - Add anchors to the manpage so we can link to the html version of
14778 the documentation for specific options. Resolves ticket 9866.
14779 - Replace remaining references to DirServer in man page and
14780 log entries. Resolves ticket 10124.
14783 - Make the "tor-gencert" tool used by directory authority operators
14784 create 2048-bit signing keys by default (rather than 1024-bit, since
14785 1024-bit is uncomfortably small these days). Addresses ticket 10324.
14788 Changes in version 0.2.4.20 - 2013-12-22
14789 Tor 0.2.4.20 fixes potentially poor random number generation for users
14790 who 1) use OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, 2) set "HardwareAccel 1" in their
14791 torrc file, 3) have "Sandy Bridge" or "Ivy Bridge" Intel processors,
14792 and 4) have no state file in their DataDirectory (as would happen on
14793 first start). Users who generated relay or hidden service identity
14794 keys in such a situation should discard them and generate new ones.
14796 This release also fixes a logic error that caused Tor clients to build
14797 many more preemptive circuits than they actually need.
14800 - Do not allow OpenSSL engines to replace the PRNG, even when
14801 HardwareAccel is set. The only default builtin PRNG engine uses
14802 the Intel RDRAND instruction to replace the entire PRNG, and
14803 ignores all attempts to seed it with more entropy. That's
14804 cryptographically stupid: the right response to a new alleged
14805 entropy source is never to discard all previously used entropy
14806 sources. Fixes bug 10402; works around behavior introduced in
14807 OpenSSL 1.0.0. Diagnosis and investigation thanks to "coderman"
14809 - Fix assertion failure when AutomapHostsOnResolve yields an IPv6
14810 address. Fixes bug 10465; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
14811 - Avoid launching spurious extra circuits when a stream is pending.
14812 This fixes a bug where any circuit that _wasn't_ unusable for new
14813 streams would be treated as if it were, causing extra circuits to
14814 be launched. Fixes bug 10456; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
14817 - Avoid a crash bug when starting with a corrupted microdescriptor
14818 cache file. Fixes bug 10406; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
14819 - If we fail to dump a previously cached microdescriptor to disk, avoid
14820 freeing duplicate data later on. Fixes bug 10423; bugfix on
14821 0.2.4.13-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom".
14824 Changes in version 0.2.4.19 - 2013-12-11
14825 The Tor 0.2.4 release series is dedicated to the memory of Aaron Swartz
14826 (1986-2013). Aaron worked on diverse projects including helping to guide
14827 Creative Commons, playing a key role in stopping SOPA/PIPA, bringing
14828 transparency to the U.S government's PACER documents, and contributing
14829 design and development for Tor and Tor2Web. Aaron was one of the latest
14830 martyrs in our collective fight for civil liberties and human rights,
14831 and his death is all the more painful because he was one of us.
14833 Tor 0.2.4.19, the first stable release in the 0.2.4 branch, features
14834 a new circuit handshake and link encryption that use ECC to provide
14835 better security and efficiency; makes relays better manage circuit
14836 creation requests; uses "directory guards" to reduce client enumeration
14837 risks; makes bridges collect and report statistics about the pluggable
14838 transports they support; cleans up and improves our geoip database;
14839 gets much closer to IPv6 support for clients, bridges, and relays; makes
14840 directory authorities use measured bandwidths rather than advertised
14841 ones when computing flags and thresholds; disables client-side DNS
14842 caching to reduce tracking risks; and fixes a big bug in bridge
14843 reachability testing. This release introduces two new design
14844 abstractions in the code: a new "channel" abstraction between circuits
14845 and or_connections to allow for implementing alternate relay-to-relay
14846 transports, and a new "circuitmux" abstraction storing the queue of
14847 circuits for a channel. The release also includes many stability,
14848 security, and privacy fixes.
14851 Changes in version 0.2.4.18-rc - 2013-11-16
14852 Tor 0.2.4.18-rc is the fourth release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
14853 series. It takes a variety of fixes from the 0.2.5.x branch to improve
14854 stability, performance, and better handling of edge cases.
14857 - Re-enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 when built with OpenSSL 1.0.1e or later.
14858 Resolves ticket 6055. (OpenSSL before 1.0.1 didn't have TLS 1.1 or
14859 1.2, and OpenSSL from 1.0.1 through 1.0.1d had bugs that prevented
14860 renegotiation from working with TLS 1.1 or 1.2, so we had disabled
14861 them to solve bug 6033.)
14864 - No longer stop reading or writing on cpuworker connections when
14865 our rate limiting buckets go empty. Now we should handle circuit
14866 handshake requests more promptly. Resolves bug 9731.
14867 - If we are unable to save a microdescriptor to the journal, do not
14868 drop it from memory and then reattempt downloading it. Fixes bug
14869 9645; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
14870 - Stop trying to bootstrap all our directory information from
14871 only our first guard. Discovered while fixing bug 9946; bugfix
14873 - The new channel code sometimes lost track of in-progress circuits,
14874 causing long-running clients to stop building new circuits. The
14875 fix is to always call circuit_n_chan_done(chan, 0) from
14876 channel_closed(). Fixes bug 9776; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
14878 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.4.x):
14879 - Correctly log long IPv6 exit policies, instead of truncating them
14880 or reporting an error. Fixes bug 9596; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
14881 - Our default TLS ecdhe groups were backwards: we meant to be using
14882 P224 for relays (for performance win) and P256 for bridges (since
14883 it is more common in the wild). Instead we had it backwards. After
14884 reconsideration, we decided that the default should be P256 on all
14885 hosts, since its security is probably better, and since P224 is
14886 reportedly used quite little in the wild. Found by "skruffy" on
14887 IRC. Fix for bug 9780; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
14888 - Free directory authority certificate download statuses on exit
14889 rather than leaking them. Fixes bug 9644; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
14891 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x and earlier):
14892 - If the guard we choose first doesn't answer, we would try the
14893 second guard, but once we connected to the second guard we would
14894 abandon it and retry the first one, slowing down bootstrapping.
14895 The fix is to treat all our initially chosen guards as acceptable
14896 to use. Fixes bug 9946; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
14897 - Fix an assertion failure that would occur when disabling the
14898 ORPort setting on a running Tor process while accounting was
14899 enabled. Fixes bug 6979; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
14900 - When examining the list of network interfaces to find our address,
14901 do not consider non-running or disabled network interfaces. Fixes
14902 bug 9904; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. Patch from "hantwister".
14903 - Avoid an off-by-one error when checking buffer boundaries when
14904 formatting the exit status of a pluggable transport helper.
14905 This is probably not an exploitable bug, but better safe than
14906 sorry. Fixes bug 9928; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc. Bug found by
14909 o Minor features (protecting client timestamps):
14910 - Clients no longer send timestamps in their NETINFO cells. These were
14911 not used for anything, and they provided one small way for clients
14912 to be distinguished from each other as they moved from network to
14913 network or behind NAT. Implements part of proposal 222.
14914 - Clients now round timestamps in INTRODUCE cells down to the nearest
14915 10 minutes. If a new Support022HiddenServices option is set to 0, or
14916 if it's set to "auto" and the feature is disabled in the consensus,
14917 the timestamp is sent as 0 instead. Implements part of proposal 222.
14918 - Stop sending timestamps in AUTHENTICATE cells. This is not such
14919 a big deal from a security point of view, but it achieves no actual
14920 good purpose, and isn't needed. Implements part of proposal 222.
14921 - Reduce down accuracy of timestamps in hidden service descriptors.
14922 Implements part of proposal 222.
14924 o Minor features (other):
14925 - Improve the circuit queue out-of-memory handler. Previously, when
14926 we ran low on memory, we'd close whichever circuits had the most
14927 queued cells. Now, we close those that have the *oldest* queued
14928 cells, on the theory that those are most responsible for us
14929 running low on memory. Based on analysis from a forthcoming paper
14930 by Jansen, Tschorsch, Johnson, and Scheuermann. Fixes bug 9093.
14931 - Generate bootstrapping status update events correctly when fetching
14932 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 9927.
14933 - Update to the October 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
14935 o Documentation fixes:
14936 - Clarify the usage and risks of setting the ContactInfo torrc line
14937 for your relay or bridge. Resolves ticket 9854.
14938 - Add anchors to the manpage so we can link to the html version of
14939 the documentation for specific options. Resolves ticket 9866.
14940 - Replace remaining references to DirServer in man page and
14941 log entries. Resolves ticket 10124.
14944 Changes in version 0.2.5.1-alpha - 2013-10-02
14945 Tor 0.2.5.1-alpha introduces experimental support for syscall sandboxing
14946 on Linux, allows bridges that offer pluggable transports to report usage
14947 statistics, fixes many issues to make testing easier, and provides
14948 a pile of minor features and bugfixes that have been waiting for a
14949 release of the new branch.
14951 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to
14952 be bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
14953 stay with 0.2.4.x for now.
14955 o Major features (security):
14956 - Use the seccomp2 syscall filtering facility on Linux to limit
14957 which system calls Tor can invoke. This is an experimental,
14958 Linux-only feature to provide defense-in-depth against unknown
14959 attacks. To try turning it on, set "Sandbox 1" in your torrc
14960 file. Please be ready to report bugs. We hope to add support
14961 for better sandboxing in the future, including more fine-grained
14962 filters, better division of responsibility, and support for more
14963 platforms. This work has been done by Cristian-Matei Toader for
14964 Google Summer of Code.
14965 - Re-enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 when built with OpenSSL 1.0.1e or later.
14966 Resolves ticket 6055. (OpenSSL before 1.0.1 didn't have TLS 1.1 or
14967 1.2, and OpenSSL from 1.0.1 through 1.0.1d had bugs that prevented
14968 renegotiation from working with TLS 1.1 or 1.2, so we had disabled
14969 them to solve bug 6033.)
14971 o Major features (other):
14972 - Add support for passing arguments to managed pluggable transport
14973 proxies. Implements ticket 3594.
14974 - Bridges now track GeoIP information and the number of their users
14975 even when pluggable transports are in use, and report usage
14976 statistics in their extra-info descriptors. Resolves tickets 4773
14978 - Make testing Tor networks bootstrap better: lower directory fetch
14979 retry schedules and maximum interval without directory requests,
14980 and raise maximum download tries. Implements ticket 6752.
14981 - Add make target 'test-network' to run tests on a Chutney network.
14982 Implements ticket 8530.
14983 - The ntor handshake is now on-by-default, no matter what the
14984 directory authorities recommend. Implements ticket 8561.
14987 - Instead of writing destroy cells directly to outgoing connection
14988 buffers, queue them and intersperse them with other outgoing cells.
14989 This can prevent a set of resource starvation conditions where too
14990 many pending destroy cells prevent data cells from actually getting
14991 delivered. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed". Fixes bug 7912;
14992 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
14993 - If we are unable to save a microdescriptor to the journal, do not
14994 drop it from memory and then reattempt downloading it. Fixes bug
14995 9645; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
14996 - The new channel code sometimes lost track of in-progress circuits,
14997 causing long-running clients to stop building new circuits. The
14998 fix is to always call circuit_n_chan_done(chan, 0) from
14999 channel_closed(). Fixes bug 9776; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
15002 - Tor now builds each source file in two modes: a mode that avoids
15003 exposing identifiers needlessly, and another mode that exposes
15004 more identifiers for testing. This lets the compiler do better at
15005 optimizing the production code, while enabling us to take more
15006 radical measures to let the unit tests test things.
15007 - The production builds no longer include functions used only in
15008 the unit tests; all functions exposed from a module only for
15009 unit-testing are now static in production builds.
15010 - Add an --enable-coverage configuration option to make the unit
15011 tests (and a new src/or/tor-cov target) to build with gcov test
15015 - We now have rudimentary function mocking support that our unit
15016 tests can use to test functions in isolation. Function mocking
15017 lets the tests temporarily replace a function's dependencies with
15018 stub functions, so that the tests can check the function without
15019 invoking the other functions it calls.
15020 - Add more unit tests for the <circid,channel>->circuit map, and
15021 the destroy-cell-tracking code to fix bug 7912.
15022 - Unit tests for failing cases of the TAP onion handshake.
15023 - More unit tests for address-manipulation functions.
15025 o Minor features (protecting client timestamps):
15026 - Clients no longer send timestamps in their NETINFO cells. These were
15027 not used for anything, and they provided one small way for clients
15028 to be distinguished from each other as they moved from network to
15029 network or behind NAT. Implements part of proposal 222.
15030 - Clients now round timestamps in INTRODUCE cells down to the nearest
15031 10 minutes. If a new Support022HiddenServices option is set to 0, or
15032 if it's set to "auto" and the feature is disabled in the consensus,
15033 the timestamp is sent as 0 instead. Implements part of proposal 222.
15034 - Stop sending timestamps in AUTHENTICATE cells. This is not such
15035 a big deal from a security point of view, but it achieves no actual
15036 good purpose, and isn't needed. Implements part of proposal 222.
15037 - Reduce down accuracy of timestamps in hidden service descriptors.
15038 Implements part of proposal 222.
15040 o Minor features (config options):
15041 - Config (torrc) lines now handle fingerprints which are missing
15042 their initial '$'. Resolves ticket 4341; improvement over 0.0.9pre5.
15043 - Support a --dump-config option to print some or all of the
15044 configured options. Mainly useful for debugging the command-line
15045 option parsing code. Helps resolve ticket 4647.
15046 - Raise awareness of safer logging: notify user of potentially
15047 unsafe config options, like logging more verbosely than severity
15048 "notice" or setting SafeLogging to 0. Resolves ticket 5584.
15049 - Add a new configuration option TestingV3AuthVotingStartOffset
15050 that bootstraps a network faster by changing the timing for
15051 consensus votes. Addresses ticket 8532.
15052 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportOptions" that allows
15053 bridge operators to pass configuration parameters to their
15054 pluggable transports. Resolves ticket 8929.
15055 - The config (torrc) file now accepts bandwidth and space limits in
15056 bits as well as bytes. (Anywhere that you can say "2 Kilobytes",
15057 you can now say "16 kilobits", and so on.) Resolves ticket 9214.
15060 o Minor features (build):
15061 - Add support for `--library-versions` flag. Implements ticket 6384.
15062 - Return the "unexpected sendme" warnings to a warn severity, but make
15063 them rate limited, to help diagnose ticket 8093.
15064 - Detect a missing asciidoc, and warn the user about it, during
15065 configure rather than at build time. Fixes issue 6506. Patch from
15068 o Minor features (other):
15069 - Use the SOCK_NONBLOCK socket type, if supported, to open nonblocking
15070 sockets in a single system call. Implements ticket 5129.
15071 - Log current accounting state (bytes sent and received + remaining
15072 time for the current accounting period) in the relay's heartbeat
15073 message. Implements ticket 5526; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
15074 - Implement the TRANSPORT_LAUNCHED control port event that
15075 notifies controllers about new launched pluggable
15076 transports. Resolves ticket 5609.
15077 - If we're using the pure-C 32-bit curve25519_donna implementation
15078 of curve25519, build it with the -fomit-frame-pointer option to
15079 make it go faster on register-starved hosts. This improves our
15080 handshake performance by about 6% on i386 hosts without nacl.
15081 Closes ticket 8109.
15082 - Update to the September 4 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
15085 - Set the listen() backlog limit to the largest actually supported
15086 on the system, not to the value in a header file. Fixes bug 9716;
15087 bugfix on every released Tor.
15088 - No longer accept malformed http headers when parsing urls from
15089 headers. Now we reply with Bad Request ("400"). Fixes bug 2767;
15090 bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
15091 - In munge_extrainfo_into_routerinfo(), check the return value of
15092 memchr(). This would have been a serious issue if we ever passed
15093 it a non-extrainfo. Fixes bug 8791; bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Patch
15095 - On the chance that somebody manages to build Tor on a
15096 platform where time_t is unsigned, correct the way that
15097 microdesc_add_to_cache() handles negative time arguments.
15098 Fixes bug 8042; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
15099 - Reject relative control socket paths and emit a warning. Previously,
15100 single-component control socket paths would be rejected, but Tor
15101 would not log why it could not validate the config. Fixes bug 9258;
15102 bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
15104 o Minor bugfixes (command line):
15105 - Use a single command-line parser for parsing torrc options on the
15106 command line and for finding special command-line options to avoid
15107 inconsistent behavior for torrc option arguments that have the same
15108 names as command-line options. Fixes bugs 4647 and 9578; bugfix on
15110 - No longer allow 'tor --hash-password' with no arguments. Fixes bug
15111 9573; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
15113 o Minor fixes (build, auxiliary programs):
15114 - Stop preprocessing the "torify" script with autoconf, since
15115 it no longer refers to LOCALSTATEDIR. Fixes bug 5505; patch
15117 - The tor-fw-helper program now follows the standard convention and
15118 exits with status code "0" on success. Fixes bug 9030; bugfix on
15119 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Arlo Breault.
15120 - Corrected ./configure advice for what openssl dev package you should
15121 install on Debian. Fixes bug 9207; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
15123 o Minor code improvements:
15124 - Remove constants and tests for PKCS1 padding; it's insecure and
15125 shouldn't be used for anything new. Fixes bug 8792; patch
15127 - Remove instances of strcpy() from the unit tests. They weren't
15128 hurting anything, since they were only in the unit tests, but it's
15129 embarrassing to have strcpy() in the code at all, and some analysis
15130 tools don't like it. Fixes bug 8790; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha and
15131 0.2.3.8-alpha. Patch from Arlo Breault.
15133 o Removed features:
15134 - Remove migration code from when we renamed the "cached-routers"
15135 file to "cached-descriptors" back in 0.2.0.8-alpha. This
15136 incidentally resolves ticket 6502 by cleaning up the related code
15137 a bit. Patch from Akshay Hebbar.
15139 o Code simplification and refactoring:
15140 - Extract the common duplicated code for creating a subdirectory
15141 of the data directory and writing to a file in it. Fixes ticket
15142 4282; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
15143 - Since OpenSSL 0.9.7, the i2d_*() functions support allocating output
15144 buffer. Avoid calling twice: i2d_RSAPublicKey(), i2d_DHparams(),
15145 i2d_X509(), and i2d_PublicKey(). Resolves ticket 5170.
15146 - Add a set of accessor functions for the circuit timeout data
15147 structure. Fixes ticket 6153; patch from "piet".
15148 - Clean up exit paths from connection_listener_new(). Closes ticket
15149 8789. Patch from Arlo Breault.
15150 - Since we rely on OpenSSL 0.9.8 now, we can use EVP_PKEY_cmp()
15151 and drop our own custom pkey_eq() implementation. Fixes bug 9043.
15152 - Use a doubly-linked list to implement the global circuit list.
15153 Resolves ticket 9108. Patch from Marek Majkowski.
15154 - Remove contrib/id_to_fp.c since it wasn't used anywhere.
15157 Changes in version 0.2.4.17-rc - 2013-09-05
15158 Tor 0.2.4.17-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
15159 series. It adds an emergency step to help us tolerate the massive
15160 influx of users: 0.2.4 clients using the new (faster and safer) "NTor"
15161 circuit-level handshakes now effectively jump the queue compared to
15162 the 0.2.3 clients using "TAP" handshakes. This release also fixes a
15163 big bug hindering bridge reachability tests.
15166 - Relays now process the new "NTor" circuit-level handshake requests
15167 with higher priority than the old "TAP" circuit-level handshake
15168 requests. We still process some TAP requests to not totally starve
15169 0.2.3 clients when NTor becomes popular. A new consensus parameter
15170 "NumNTorsPerTAP" lets us tune the balance later if we need to.
15171 Implements ticket 9574.
15174 - If the circuit build timeout logic is disabled (via the consensus,
15175 or because we are an authority), then don't build testing circuits.
15176 Fixes bug 9657; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
15177 - Bridges now send AUTH_CHALLENGE cells during their v3 handshakes;
15178 previously they did not, which prevented them from receiving
15179 successful connections from relays for self-test or bandwidth
15180 testing. Also, when a relay is extending a circuit to a bridge,
15181 it needs to send a NETINFO cell, even when the bridge hasn't sent
15182 an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell. Fixes bug 9546; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
15183 - If the time to download the next old-style networkstatus is in
15184 the future, do not decline to consider whether to download the
15185 next microdescriptor networkstatus. Fixes bug 9564; bugfix on
15189 - Avoid double-closing the listener socket in our socketpair()
15190 replacement (used on Windows) in the case where the addresses on
15191 our opened sockets don't match what we expected. Fixes bug 9400;
15192 bugfix on 0.0.2pre7. Found by Coverity.
15194 o Minor fixes (config options):
15195 - Avoid overflows when the user sets MaxCircuitDirtiness to a
15196 ridiculously high value, by imposing a (ridiculously high) 30-day
15197 maximum on MaxCircuitDirtiness.
15198 - Fix the documentation of HeartbeatPeriod to say that the heartbeat
15199 message is logged at notice, not at info.
15200 - Warn and fail if a server is configured not to advertise any
15201 ORPorts at all. (We need *something* to put in our descriptor,
15202 or we just won't work.)
15205 - Track how many "TAP" and "NTor" circuit handshake requests we get,
15206 and how many we complete, and log it every hour to help relay
15207 operators follow trends in network load. Addresses ticket 9658.
15208 - Update to the August 7 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
15211 Changes in version 0.2.4.16-rc - 2013-08-10
15212 Tor 0.2.4.16-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
15213 series. It fixes several crash bugs in the 0.2.4 branch.
15216 - Fix a bug in the voting algorithm that could yield incorrect results
15217 when a non-naming authority declared too many flags. Fixes bug 9200;
15218 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
15219 - Fix an uninitialized read that could in some cases lead to a remote
15220 crash while parsing INTRODUCE2 cells. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
15221 Anybody running a hidden service on the experimental 0.2.4.x
15222 branch should upgrade. (This is, so far as we know, unrelated to
15224 - Avoid an assertion failure when processing DNS replies without the
15225 answer types we expected. Fixes bug 9337; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
15226 - Avoid a crash when using --hash-password. Fixes bug 9295; bugfix on
15227 0.2.4.15-rc. Found by stem integration tests.
15230 - Fix an invalid memory read that occurred when a pluggable
15231 transport proxy failed its configuration protocol.
15232 Fixes bug 9288; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
15233 - When evaluating whether to use a connection that we haven't
15234 decided is canonical using a recent link protocol version,
15235 decide that it's canonical only if it used address _does_
15236 match the desired address. Fixes bug 9309; bugfix on
15237 0.2.4.4-alpha. Reported by skruffy.
15238 - Make the default behavior of NumDirectoryGuards be to track
15239 NumEntryGuards. Now a user who changes only NumEntryGuards will get
15240 the behavior she expects. Fixes bug 9354; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
15241 - Fix a spurious compilation warning with some older versions of
15242 GCC on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 9254; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
15245 - Update to the July 3 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
15248 Changes in version 0.2.4.15-rc - 2013-07-01
15249 Tor 0.2.4.15-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
15250 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
15251 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
15254 - When receiving a new configuration file via the control port's
15255 LOADCONF command, do not treat the defaults file as absent.
15256 Fixes bug 9122; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
15259 - Issue a warning when running with the bufferevents backend enabled.
15260 It's still not stable, and people should know that they're likely
15261 to hit unexpected problems. Closes ticket 9147.
15264 Changes in version 0.2.4.14-alpha - 2013-06-18
15265 Tor 0.2.4.14-alpha fixes a pair of client guard enumeration problems
15266 present in 0.2.4.13-alpha.
15269 - When we have too much memory queued in circuits (according to a new
15270 MaxMemInCellQueues option), close the circuits consuming the most
15271 memory. This prevents us from running out of memory as a relay if
15272 circuits fill up faster than they can be drained. Fixes bug 9063;
15273 bugfix on the 54th commit of Tor. This bug is a further fix beyond
15274 bug 6252, whose fix was merged into 0.2.3.21-rc.
15276 This change also fixes an earlier approach taken in 0.2.4.13-alpha,
15277 where we tried to solve this issue simply by imposing an upper limit
15278 on the number of queued cells for a single circuit. That approach
15279 proved to be problematic, since there are ways to provoke clients to
15280 send a number of cells in excess of any such reasonable limit. Fixes
15281 bug 9072; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
15283 - Limit hidden service descriptors to at most ten introduction
15284 points, to slow one kind of guard enumeration. Fixes bug 9002;
15285 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
15288 Changes in version 0.2.4.13-alpha - 2013-06-14
15289 Tor 0.2.4.13-alpha fixes a variety of potential remote crash
15290 vulnerabilities, makes socks5 username/password circuit isolation
15291 actually actually work (this time for sure!), and cleans up a bunch
15292 of other issues in preparation for a release candidate.
15294 o Major bugfixes (robustness):
15295 - Close any circuit that has too many cells queued on it. Fixes
15296 bug 9063; bugfix on the 54th commit of Tor. This bug is a further
15297 fix beyond bug 6252, whose fix was merged into 0.2.3.21-rc.
15298 - Prevent the get_freelists() function from running off the end of
15299 the list of freelists if it somehow gets an unrecognized
15300 allocation. Fixes bug 8844; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by
15302 - Avoid an assertion failure on OpenBSD (and perhaps other BSDs)
15303 when an exit connection with optimistic data succeeds immediately
15304 rather than returning EINPROGRESS. Fixes bug 9017; bugfix on
15306 - Fix a directory authority crash bug when building a consensus
15307 using an older consensus as its basis. Fixes bug 8833. Bugfix
15311 - Avoid a memory leak where we would leak a consensus body when we
15312 find that a consensus which we couldn't previously verify due to
15313 missing certificates is now verifiable. Fixes bug 8719; bugfix
15315 - We used to always request authority certificates by identity digest,
15316 meaning we'd get the newest one even when we wanted one with a
15317 different signing key. Then we would complain about being given
15318 a certificate we already had, and never get the one we really
15319 wanted. Now we use the "fp-sk/" resource as well as the "fp/"
15320 resource to request the one we want. Fixes bug 5595; bugfix on
15322 - Follow the socks5 protocol when offering username/password
15323 authentication. The fix for bug 8117 exposed this bug, and it
15324 turns out real-world applications like Pidgin do care. Bugfix on
15325 0.2.3.2-alpha; fixes bug 8879.
15326 - Prevent failures on Windows Vista and later when rebuilding the
15327 microdescriptor cache. Diagnosed by Robert Ransom. Fixes bug 8822;
15328 bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
15331 - Fix an impossible buffer overrun in the AES unit tests. Fixes
15332 bug 8845; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Found by eugenis.
15333 - If for some reason we fail to write a microdescriptor while
15334 rebuilding the cache, do not let the annotations from that
15335 microdescriptor linger in the cache file, and do not let the
15336 microdescriptor stay recorded as present in its old location.
15337 Fixes bug 9047; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
15338 - Fix a memory leak that would occur whenever a configuration
15339 option changed. Fixes bug 8718; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
15340 - Paste the description for PathBias parameters from the man
15341 page into or.h, so the code documents them too. Fixes bug 7982;
15342 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta and 0.2.4.8-alpha.
15343 - Relays now treat a changed IPv6 ORPort as sufficient reason to
15344 publish an updated descriptor. Fixes bug 6026; bugfix on
15346 - When launching a resolve request on behalf of an AF_UNIX control
15347 socket, omit the address field of the new entry connection, used in
15348 subsequent controller events, rather than letting tor_dup_addr()
15349 set it to "<unknown address type>". Fixes bug 8639; bugfix on
15352 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
15353 - Fix a scaling issue in the path bias accounting code that
15354 resulted in "Bug:" log messages from either
15355 pathbias_scale_close_rates() or pathbias_count_build_success().
15356 This represents a bugfix on a previous bugfix: the original fix
15357 attempted in 0.2.4.10-alpha was incomplete. Fixes bug 8235; bugfix
15359 - Give a less useless error message when the user asks for an IPv4
15360 address on an IPv6-only port, or vice versa. Fixes bug 8846; bugfix
15364 - Downgrade "unexpected SENDME" warnings to protocol-warn for 0.2.4.x,
15365 to tolerate bug 8093 for now.
15366 - Add an "ignoring-advertised-bws" boolean to the flag-threshold lines
15367 in directory authority votes to describe whether they have enough
15368 measured bandwidths to ignore advertised (relay descriptor)
15369 bandwidth claims. Resolves ticket 8711.
15370 - Update to the June 5 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
15372 o Removed documentation:
15373 - Remove some of the older contents of doc/ as obsolete; move others
15374 to torspec.git. Fixes bug 8965.
15376 o Code simplification and refactoring:
15377 - Avoid using character buffers when constructing most directory
15378 objects: this approach was unwieldy and error-prone. Instead,
15379 build smartlists of strings, and concatenate them when done.
15382 Changes in version 0.2.4.12-alpha - 2013-04-18
15383 Tor 0.2.4.12-alpha moves Tor forward on several fronts: it starts the
15384 process for lengthening the guard rotation period, makes directory
15385 authority opinions in the consensus a bit less gameable, makes socks5
15386 username/password circuit isolation actually work, and fixes a wide
15387 variety of other issues.
15390 - Raise the default time that a client keeps an entry guard from
15391 "1-2 months" to "2-3 months", as suggested by Tariq Elahi's WPES
15392 2012 paper. (We would make it even longer, but we need better client
15393 load balancing first.) Also, make the guard lifetime controllable
15394 via a new GuardLifetime torrc option and a GuardLifetime consensus
15395 parameter. Start of a fix for bug 8240; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
15396 - Directory authorities now prefer using measured bandwidths to
15397 advertised ones when computing flags and thresholds. Resolves
15399 - Directory authorities that have more than a threshold number
15400 of relays with measured bandwidths now treat relays with unmeasured
15401 bandwidths as having bandwidth 0. Resolves ticket 8435.
15403 o Major bugfixes (assert / resource use):
15404 - Avoid a bug where our response to TLS renegotiation under certain
15405 network conditions could lead to a busy-loop, with 100% CPU
15406 consumption. Fixes bug 5650; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
15407 - Avoid an assertion when we discover that we'd like to write a cell
15408 onto a closing connection: just discard the cell. Fixes another
15409 case of bug 7350; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
15411 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
15412 - When we mark a circuit as unusable for new circuits, have it
15413 continue to be unusable for new circuits even if MaxCircuitDirtiness
15414 is increased too much at the wrong time, or the system clock jumps
15415 backwards. Fixes bug 6174; bugfix on 0.0.2pre26.
15416 - If ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses ("do not believe DNS queries
15417 which have resolved to internal addresses") is set, apply that
15418 rule to IPv6 as well. Fixes bug 8475; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
15419 - When an exit relay rejects a stream with reason "exit policy", but
15420 we only know an exit policy summary (e.g. from the microdesc
15421 consensus) for it, do not mark the relay as useless for all exiting.
15422 Instead, mark just the circuit as unsuitable for that particular
15423 address. Fixes part of bug 7582; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
15424 - Allow applications to get proper stream isolation with
15425 IsolateSOCKSAuth. Many SOCKS5 clients that want to offer
15426 username/password authentication also offer "no authentication". Tor
15427 had previously preferred "no authentication", so the applications
15428 never actually sent Tor their auth details. Now Tor selects
15429 username/password authentication if it's offered. You can disable
15430 this behavior on a per-SOCKSPort basis via PreferSOCKSNoAuth. Fixes
15431 bug 8117; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
15433 o Major bugfixes (other):
15434 - When unable to find any working directory nodes to use as a
15435 directory guard, give up rather than adding the same non-working
15436 nodes to the directory guard list over and over. Fixes bug 8231;
15437 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
15440 - Reject as invalid most directory objects containing a NUL.
15441 Belt-and-suspender fix for bug 8037.
15442 - In our testsuite, create temporary directories with a bit more
15443 entropy in their name to make name collisions less likely. Fixes
15445 - Add CACHED keyword to ADDRMAP events in the control protocol
15446 to indicate whether a DNS result will be cached or not. Resolves
15448 - Update to the April 3 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
15450 o Minor features (build):
15451 - Detect and reject attempts to build Tor with threading support
15452 when OpenSSL has been compiled without threading support.
15454 - Clarify that when autoconf is checking for nacl, it is checking
15455 specifically for nacl with a fast curve25519 implementation.
15457 - Warn if building on a platform with an unsigned time_t: there
15458 are too many places where Tor currently assumes that time_t can
15459 hold negative values. We'd like to fix them all, but probably
15462 o Minor bugfixes (build):
15463 - Fix some bugs in tor-fw-helper-natpmp when trying to build and
15464 run it on Windows. More bugs likely remain. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
15465 Fixes bug 7280; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
15466 - Add the old src/or/micro-revision.i filename to CLEANFILES.
15467 On the off chance that somebody has one, it will go away as soon
15468 as they run "make clean". Fix for bug 7143; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
15469 - Build Tor correctly on 32-bit platforms where the compiler can build
15470 but not run code using the "uint128_t" construction. Fixes bug 8587;
15471 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
15472 - Fix compilation warning with some versions of clang that would
15473 prefer the -Wswitch-enum compiler flag to warn about switch
15474 statements with missing enum values, even if those switch
15475 statements have a "default:" statement. Fixes bug 8598; bugfix
15478 o Minor bugfixes (protocol):
15479 - Fix the handling of a TRUNCATE cell when it arrives while the
15480 circuit extension is in progress. Fixes bug 7947; bugfix on 0.0.7.1.
15481 - Fix a misframing issue when reading the version numbers in a
15482 VERSIONS cell. Previously we would recognize [00 01 00 02] as
15483 'version 1, version 2, and version 0x100', when it should have
15484 only included versions 1 and 2. Fixes bug 8059; bugfix on
15485 0.2.0.10-alpha. Reported pseudonymously.
15486 - Make the format and order of STREAM events for DNS lookups
15487 consistent among the various ways to launch DNS lookups. Fixes
15488 bug 8203; bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc. Patch by "Desoxy".
15489 - Correct our check for which versions of Tor support the EXTEND2
15490 cell. We had been willing to send it to Tor 0.2.4.7-alpha and
15491 later, when support was really added in version 0.2.4.8-alpha.
15492 Fixes bug 8464; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
15494 o Minor bugfixes (other):
15495 - Correctly store microdescriptors and extrainfo descriptors with
15496 an internal NUL byte. Fixes bug 8037; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
15497 Bug reported by "cypherpunks".
15498 - Increase the width of the field used to remember a connection's
15499 link protocol version to two bytes. Harmless for now, since the
15500 only currently recognized versions are one byte long. Reported
15501 pseudonymously. Fixes bug 8062; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
15502 - If the state file's path bias counts are invalid (presumably from a
15503 buggy Tor prior to 0.2.4.10-alpha), make them correct. Also add
15504 additional checks and log messages to the scaling of Path Bias
15505 counts, in case there still are remaining issues with scaling.
15506 Should help resolve bug 8235.
15507 - Eliminate several instances where we use "Nickname=ID" to refer to
15508 nodes in logs. Use "Nickname (ID)" instead. (Elsewhere, we still use
15509 "$ID=Nickname", which is also acceptable.) Fixes bug 7065. Bugfix
15510 on 0.2.3.21-rc, 0.2.4.5-alpha, 0.2.4.8-alpha, and 0.2.4.10-alpha.
15512 o Minor bugfixes (syscalls):
15513 - Always check the return values of functions fcntl() and
15514 setsockopt(). We don't believe these are ever actually failing in
15515 practice, but better safe than sorry. Also, checking these return
15516 values should please analysis tools like Coverity. Patch from
15517 'flupzor'. Fixes bug 8206; bugfix on all versions of Tor.
15518 - Use direct writes rather than stdio when building microdescriptor
15519 caches, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031, or at least make it
15522 o Minor bugfixes (config):
15523 - When rejecting a configuration because we were unable to parse a
15524 quoted string, log an actual error message. Fixes bug 7950; bugfix
15526 - Behave correctly when the user disables LearnCircuitBuildTimeout
15527 but doesn't tell us what they would like the timeout to be. Fixes
15528 bug 6304; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
15529 - When autodetecting the number of CPUs, use the number of available
15530 CPUs in preference to the number of configured CPUs. Inform the
15531 user if this reduces the number of available CPUs. Fixes bug 8002;
15532 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
15533 - Make it an error when you set EntryNodes but disable UseGuardNodes,
15534 since it will (surprisingly to some users) ignore EntryNodes. Fixes
15535 bug 8180; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
15536 - Allow TestingTorNetworks to override the 4096-byte minimum for
15537 the Fast threshold. Otherwise they can't bootstrap until they've
15538 observed more traffic. Fixes bug 8508; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
15539 - Fix some logic errors when the user manually overrides the
15540 PathsNeededToBuildCircuits option in torrc. Fixes bug 8599; bugfix
15543 o Minor bugfixes (log messages to help diagnose bugs):
15544 - If we fail to free a microdescriptor because of bug 7164, log
15545 the filename and line number from which we tried to free it.
15546 - Add another diagnostic to the heartbeat message: track and log
15547 overhead that TLS is adding to the data we write. If this is
15548 high, we are sending too little data to SSL_write at a time.
15549 Diagnostic for bug 7707.
15550 - Add more detail to a log message about relaxed timeouts, to help
15552 - Warn more aggressively when flushing microdescriptors to a
15553 microdescriptor cache fails, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031,
15554 or at least make it more diagnosable.
15555 - Improve debugging output to help track down bug 8185 ("Bug:
15556 outgoing relay cell has n_chan==NULL. Dropping.")
15557 - Log the purpose of a path-bias testing circuit correctly.
15558 Improves a log message from bug 8477; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
15560 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.4.x log messages that were too noisy):
15561 - Don't attempt to relax the timeout of already opened 1-hop circuits.
15562 They might never timeout. This should eliminate some/all cases of
15563 the relaxed timeout log message.
15564 - Use circuit creation time for network liveness evaluation. This
15565 should eliminate warning log messages about liveness caused
15566 by changes in timeout evaluation. Fixes bug 6572; bugfix on
15568 - Reduce a path bias length check from notice to info. The message
15569 is triggered when creating controller circuits. Fixes bug 8196;
15570 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
15571 - Fix a path state issue that triggered a notice during relay startup.
15572 Fixes bug 8320; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
15573 - Reduce occurrences of warns about circuit purpose in
15574 connection_ap_expire_building(). Fixes bug 8477; bugfix on
15577 o Minor bugfixes (pre-0.2.4.x log messages that were too noisy):
15578 - If we encounter a write failure on a SOCKS connection before we
15579 finish our SOCKS handshake, don't warn that we closed the
15580 connection before we could send a SOCKS reply. Fixes bug 8427;
15581 bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
15582 - Correctly recognize that [::1] is a loopback address. Fixes
15583 bug 8377; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
15584 - Fix a directory authority warn caused when we have a large amount
15585 of badexit bandwidth. Fixes bug 8419; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
15586 - Don't log inappropriate heartbeat messages when hibernating: a
15587 hibernating node is _expected_ to drop out of the consensus,
15588 decide it isn't bootstrapped, and so forth. Fixes bug 7302;
15589 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
15590 - Don't complain about bootstrapping problems while hibernating.
15591 These complaints reflect a general code problem, but not one
15592 with any problematic effects (no connections are actually
15593 opened). Fixes part of bug 7302; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
15595 o Documentation fixes:
15596 - Update tor-fw-helper.1.txt and tor-fw-helper.c to make option
15597 names match. Fixes bug 7768.
15598 - Make the torify manpage no longer refer to tsocks; torify hasn't
15599 supported tsocks since 0.2.3.14-alpha.
15600 - Make the tor manpage no longer reference tsocks.
15601 - Fix the GeoIPExcludeUnknown documentation to refer to
15602 ExcludeExitNodes rather than the currently nonexistent
15603 ExcludeEntryNodes. Spotted by "hamahangi" on tor-talk.
15606 - The tor-tsocks.conf is no longer distributed or installed. We
15607 recommend that tsocks users use torsocks instead. Resolves
15611 Changes in version 0.2.4.11-alpha - 2013-03-11
15612 Tor 0.2.4.11-alpha makes relay measurement by directory authorities
15613 more robust, makes hidden service authentication work again, and
15614 resolves a DPI fingerprint for Tor's SSL transport.
15616 o Major features (directory authorities):
15617 - Directory authorities now support a new consensus method (17)
15618 where they cap the published bandwidth of servers for which
15619 insufficient bandwidth measurements exist. Fixes part of bug 2286.
15620 - Directory authorities that set "DisableV2DirectoryInfo_ 1" no longer
15621 serve any v2 directory information. Now we can test disabling the
15622 old deprecated v2 directory format, and see whether doing so has
15623 any effect on network load. Begins to fix bug 6783.
15624 - Directory authorities now include inside each vote a statement of
15625 the performance thresholds they used when assigning flags.
15626 Implements ticket 8151.
15628 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
15629 - Stop marking every relay as having been down for one hour every
15630 time we restart a directory authority. These artificial downtimes
15631 were messing with our Stable and Guard flag calculations. Fixes
15632 bug 8218 (introduced by the fix for 1035). Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
15634 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
15635 - Allow hidden service authentication to succeed again. When we
15636 refactored the hidden service introduction code back
15637 in 0.2.4.1-alpha, we didn't update the code that checks
15638 whether authentication information is present, causing all
15639 authentication checks to return "false". Fix for bug 8207; bugfix
15640 on 0.2.4.1-alpha. Found by Coverity; this is CID 718615.
15642 o Minor features (relays, bridges):
15643 - Make bridge relays check once a minute for whether their IP
15644 address has changed, rather than only every 15 minutes. Resolves
15645 bugs 1913 and 1992.
15646 - Refactor resolve_my_address() so it returns the method by which we
15647 decided our public IP address (explicitly configured, resolved from
15648 explicit hostname, guessed from interfaces, learned by gethostname).
15649 Now we can provide more helpful log messages when a relay guesses
15650 its IP address incorrectly (e.g. due to unexpected lines in
15651 /etc/hosts). Resolves ticket 2267.
15652 - Teach bridge-using clients to avoid 0.2.2 bridges when making
15653 microdescriptor-related dir requests, and only fall back to normal
15654 descriptors if none of their bridges can handle microdescriptors
15655 (as opposed to the fix in ticket 4013, which caused them to fall
15656 back to normal descriptors if *any* of their bridges preferred
15657 them). Resolves ticket 4994.
15658 - Randomize the lifetime of our SSL link certificate, so censors can't
15659 use the static value for filtering Tor flows. Resolves ticket 8443;
15660 related to ticket 4014 which was included in 0.2.2.33.
15661 - Support a new version of the link protocol that allows 4-byte circuit
15662 IDs. Previously, circuit IDs were limited to 2 bytes, which presented
15663 a possible resource exhaustion issue. Closes ticket 7351; implements
15666 o Minor features (portability):
15667 - Tweak the curve25519-donna*.c implementations to tolerate systems
15668 that lack stdint.h. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
15669 - Use Ville Laurikari's implementation of AX_CHECK_SIGN() to determine
15670 the signs of types during autoconf. This is better than our old
15671 approach, which didn't work when cross-compiling.
15672 - Detect the sign of enum values, rather than assuming that MSC is the
15673 only compiler where enum types are all signed. Fixes bug 7727;
15674 bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
15676 o Minor features (other):
15677 - Say "KBytes" rather than "KB" in the man page (for various values
15678 of K), to further reduce confusion about whether Tor counts in
15679 units of memory or fractions of units of memory. Resolves ticket 7054.
15680 - Clear the high bit on curve25519 public keys before passing them to
15681 our backend, in case we ever wind up using a backend that doesn't do
15682 so itself. If we used such a backend, and *didn't* clear the high bit,
15683 we could wind up in a situation where users with such backends would
15684 be distinguishable from users without. Fixes bug 8121; bugfix on
15686 - Update to the March 6 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
15688 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
15689 - When we receive a RELAY_END cell with the reason DONE, or with no
15690 reason, before receiving a RELAY_CONNECTED cell, report the SOCKS
15691 status as "connection refused". Previously we reported these cases
15692 as success but then immediately closed the connection. Fixes bug
15693 7902; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
15694 - Downgrade an assertion in connection_ap_expire_beginning to an
15695 LD_BUG message. The fix for bug 8024 should prevent this message
15696 from displaying, but just in case, a warn that we can diagnose
15697 is better than more assert crashes. Fixes bug 8065; bugfix on
15699 - Lower path use bias thresholds to .80 for notice and .60 for warn.
15700 Also make the rate limiting flags for the path use bias log messages
15701 independent from the original path bias flags. Fixes bug 8161;
15702 bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
15704 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
15705 - Stop trying to resolve our hostname so often (e.g. every time we
15706 think about doing a directory fetch). Now we reuse the cached
15707 answer in some cases. Fixes bugs 1992 (bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc)
15708 and 2410 (bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha).
15709 - Stop sending a stray "(null)" in some cases for the server status
15710 "EXTERNAL_ADDRESS" controller event. Resolves bug 8200; bugfix
15712 - When choosing which stream on a formerly stalled circuit to wake
15713 first, make better use of the platform's weak RNG. Previously,
15714 we had been using the % ("modulo") operator to try to generate a
15715 1/N chance of picking each stream, but this behaves badly with
15716 many platforms' choice of weak RNG. Fixes bug 7801; bugfix on
15718 - Use our own weak RNG when we need a weak RNG. Windows's rand() and
15719 Irix's random() only return 15 bits; Solaris's random() returns more
15720 bits but its RAND_MAX says it only returns 15, and so on. Motivated
15721 by the fix for bug 7801; bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha.
15723 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
15724 - Directory authorities now use less space when formatting identical
15725 microdescriptor lines in directory votes. Fixes bug 8158; bugfix
15728 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks spotted by Coverity -- bug 7816):
15729 - Avoid leaking memory if we fail to compute a consensus signature
15730 or we generate a consensus we can't parse. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
15731 - Fix a memory leak when receiving headers from an HTTPS proxy. Bugfix
15733 - Fix a memory leak during safe-cookie controller authentication.
15734 Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
15735 - Avoid memory leak of IPv6 policy content if we fail to format it into
15736 a router descriptor. Bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
15738 o Minor bugfixes (other code correctness issues):
15739 - Avoid a crash if we fail to generate an extrainfo descriptor.
15740 Fixes bug 8208; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Found by Coverity;
15741 this is CID 718634.
15742 - When detecting the largest possible file descriptor (in order to
15743 close all file descriptors when launching a new program), actually
15744 use _SC_OPEN_MAX. The old code for doing this was very, very broken.
15745 Fixes bug 8209; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Found by Coverity; this
15747 - Fix a copy-and-paste error when adding a missing A1 to a routerset
15748 because of GeoIPExcludeUnknown. Fix for Coverity CID 980650.
15749 Bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
15750 - Fix an impossible-to-trigger integer overflow when estimating how
15751 long our onionskin queue would take. (This overflow would require us
15752 to accept 4 million onionskins before processing 100 of them.) Fixes
15753 bug 8210; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
15755 o Code simplification and refactoring:
15756 - Add a wrapper function for the common "log a message with a
15760 Changes in version 0.2.4.10-alpha - 2013-02-04
15761 Tor 0.2.4.10-alpha adds defenses at the directory authority level from
15762 certain attacks that flood the network with relays; changes the queue
15763 for circuit create requests from a sized-based limit to a time-based
15764 limit; resumes building with MSVC on Windows; and fixes a wide variety
15767 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
15768 - When computing directory thresholds, ignore any rejected-as-sybil
15769 nodes during the computation so that they can't influence Fast,
15770 Guard, etc. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
15772 - When marking a node as a likely sybil, reset its uptime metrics
15773 to zero, so that it cannot time towards getting marked as Guard,
15774 Stable, or HSDir. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
15778 - When a TLS write is partially successful but incomplete, remember
15779 that the flushed part has been flushed, and notice that bytes were
15780 actually written. Reported and fixed pseudonymously. Fixes bug
15781 7708; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.5-rc.
15782 - Reject bogus create and relay cells with 0 circuit ID or 0 stream
15783 ID: these could be used to create unexpected streams and circuits
15784 which would count as "present" to some parts of Tor but "absent"
15785 to others, leading to zombie circuits and streams or to a bandwidth
15786 denial-of-service. Fixes bug 7889; bugfix on every released version
15787 of Tor. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
15788 - Rename all macros in our local copy of queue.h to begin with "TOR_".
15789 This change seems the only good way to permanently prevent conflicts
15790 with queue.h on various operating systems. Fixes bug 8107; bugfix
15793 o Major features (relay):
15794 - Instead of limiting the number of queued onionskins (aka circuit
15795 create requests) to a fixed, hard-to-configure number, we limit
15796 the size of the queue based on how many we expect to be able to
15797 process in a given amount of time. We estimate the time it will
15798 take to process an onionskin based on average processing time
15799 of previous onionskins. Closes ticket 7291. You'll never have to
15800 configure MaxOnionsPending again.
15802 o Major features (portability):
15803 - Resume building correctly with MSVC and Makefile.nmake. This patch
15804 resolves numerous bugs and fixes reported by ultramage, including
15805 7305, 7308, 7309, 7310, 7312, 7313, 7315, 7316, and 7669.
15806 - Make the ntor and curve25519 code build correctly with MSVC.
15807 Fix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
15810 - When directory authorities are computing thresholds for flags,
15811 never let the threshold for the Fast flag fall below 4096
15812 bytes. Also, do not consider nodes with extremely low bandwidths
15813 when deciding thresholds for various directory flags. This change
15814 should raise our threshold for Fast relays, possibly in turn
15815 improving overall network performance; see ticket 1854. Resolves
15817 - The Tor client now ignores sub-domain components of a .onion
15818 address. This change makes HTTP "virtual" hosting
15819 possible: http://foo.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ and
15820 http://bar.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ can be two different websites
15821 hosted on the same hidden service. Implements proposal 204.
15822 - We compute the overhead from passing onionskins back and forth to
15823 cpuworkers, and report it when dumping statistics in response to
15824 SIGUSR1. Supports ticket 7291.
15826 o Minor features (path selection):
15827 - When deciding whether we have enough descriptors to build circuits,
15828 instead of looking at raw relay counts, look at which fraction
15829 of (bandwidth-weighted) paths we're able to build. This approach
15830 keeps clients from building circuits if their paths are likely to
15831 stand out statistically. The default fraction of paths needed is
15832 taken from the consensus directory; you can override it with the
15833 new PathsNeededToBuildCircuits option. Fixes ticket 5956.
15834 - When any country code is listed in ExcludeNodes or ExcludeExitNodes,
15835 and we have GeoIP information, also exclude all nodes with unknown
15836 countries "??" and "A1". This behavior is controlled by the
15837 new GeoIPExcludeUnknown option: you can make such nodes always
15838 excluded with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 1", and disable the feature
15839 with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 0". Setting "GeoIPExcludeUnknown auto"
15840 gets you the default behavior. Implements feature 7706.
15841 - Path Use Bias: Perform separate accounting for successful circuit
15842 use. Keep separate statistics on stream attempt rates versus stream
15843 success rates for each guard. Provide configurable thresholds to
15844 determine when to emit log messages or disable use of guards that
15845 fail too many stream attempts. Resolves ticket 7802.
15847 o Minor features (log messages):
15848 - When learning a fingerprint for a bridge, log its corresponding
15849 transport type. Implements ticket 7896.
15850 - Improve the log message when "Bug/attack: unexpected sendme cell
15851 from client" occurs, to help us track bug 8093.
15854 - Remove a couple of extraneous semicolons that were upsetting the
15855 cparser library. Patch by Christian Grothoff. Fixes bug 7115;
15856 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
15857 - Remove a source of rounding error during path bias count scaling;
15858 don't count cannibalized circuits as used for path bias until we
15859 actually try to use them; and fix a circuit_package_relay_cell()
15860 warning message about n_chan==NULL. Fixes bug 7802.
15861 - Detect nacl when its headers are in a nacl/ subdirectory. Also,
15862 actually link against nacl when we're configured to use it. Fixes
15863 bug 7972; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
15864 - Compile correctly with the --disable-curve25519 option. Fixes
15865 bug 8153; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
15867 o Build improvements:
15868 - Do not report status verbosely from autogen.sh unless the -v flag
15869 is specified. Fixes issue 4664. Patch from Onizuka.
15870 - Replace all calls to snprintf() outside of src/ext with
15871 tor_snprintf(). Also remove the #define to replace snprintf with
15872 _snprintf on Windows; they have different semantics, and all of
15873 our callers should be using tor_snprintf() anyway. Fixes bug 7304.
15874 - Try to detect if we are ever building on a platform where
15875 memset(...,0,...) does not set the value of a double to 0.0. Such
15876 platforms are permitted by the C standard, though in practice
15877 they're pretty rare (since IEEE 754 is nigh-ubiquitous). We don't
15878 currently support them, but it's better to detect them and fail
15879 than to perform erroneously.
15881 o Removed features:
15882 - Stop exporting estimates of v2 and v3 directory traffic shares
15883 in extrainfo documents. They were unneeded and sometimes inaccurate.
15884 Also stop exporting any v2 directory request statistics. Resolves
15886 - Drop support for detecting and warning about versions of Libevent
15887 before 1.3e. Nothing reasonable ships with them any longer;
15888 warning the user about them shouldn't be needed. Resolves ticket
15891 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
15892 - Rename "isin" functions to "contains", for grammar. Resolves
15894 - Rename Tor's logging function log() to tor_log(), to avoid conflicts
15895 with the natural logarithm function from the system libm. Resolves
15899 Changes in version 0.2.4.9-alpha - 2013-01-15
15900 Tor 0.2.4.9-alpha provides a quick fix to make the new ntor handshake
15901 work more robustly.
15904 - Fix backward compatibility logic when receiving an embedded ntor
15905 handshake tunneled in a CREATE cell. This clears up the "Bug:
15906 couldn't format CREATED cell" warning. Fixes bug 7959; bugfix
15910 Changes in version 0.2.4.8-alpha - 2013-01-14
15911 Tor 0.2.4.8-alpha introduces directory guards to reduce user enumeration
15912 risks, adds a new stronger and faster circuit handshake, and offers
15913 stronger and faster link encryption when both sides support it.
15916 - Preliminary support for directory guards (proposal 207): when
15917 possible, clients now use their entry guards for non-anonymous
15918 directory requests. This can help prevent client enumeration. Note
15919 that this behavior only works when we have a usable consensus
15920 directory, and when options about what to download are more or less
15921 standard. In the future we should re-bootstrap from our guards,
15922 rather than re-bootstrapping from the preconfigured list of
15923 directory sources that ships with Tor. Resolves ticket 6526.
15924 - Tor relays and clients now support a better CREATE/EXTEND cell
15925 format, allowing the sender to specify multiple address, identity,
15926 and handshake types. Implements Robert Ransom's proposal 200;
15927 closes ticket 7199.
15929 o Major features (new circuit handshake):
15930 - Tor now supports a new circuit extension handshake designed by Ian
15931 Goldberg, Douglas Stebila, and Berkant Ustaoglu. Our original
15932 circuit extension handshake, later called "TAP", was a bit slow
15933 (especially on the relay side), had a fragile security proof, and
15934 used weaker keys than we'd now prefer. The new circuit handshake
15935 uses Dan Bernstein's "curve25519" elliptic-curve Diffie-Hellman
15936 function, making it significantly more secure than the older
15937 handshake, and significantly faster. Tor can use one of two built-in
15938 pure-C curve25519-donna implementations by Adam Langley, or it
15939 can link against the "nacl" library for a tuned version if present.
15941 The built-in version is very fast for 64-bit systems when building
15942 with GCC. The built-in 32-bit version is still faster than the
15943 old TAP protocol, but using libnacl is better on most such hosts.
15945 Clients don't currently use this protocol by default, since
15946 comparatively few clients support it so far. To try it, set
15947 UseNTorHandshake to 1.
15949 Implements proposal 216; closes ticket 7202.
15951 o Major features (better link encryption):
15952 - Relays can now enable the ECDHE TLS ciphersuites when available
15953 and appropriate. These ciphersuites let us negotiate forward-secure
15954 TLS secret keys more safely and more efficiently than with our
15955 previous use of Diffie-Hellman modulo a 1024-bit prime. By default,
15956 public relays prefer the (faster) P224 group, and bridges prefer
15957 the (more common) P256 group; you can override this with the
15960 Enabling these ciphers was a little tricky, since for a long time,
15961 clients had been claiming to support them without actually doing
15962 so, in order to foil fingerprinting. But with the client-side
15963 implementation of proposal 198 in 0.2.3.17-beta, clients can now
15964 match the ciphers from recent Firefox versions *and* list the
15965 ciphers they actually mean, so relays can believe such clients
15966 when they advertise ECDHE support in their TLS ClientHello messages.
15968 This feature requires clients running 0.2.3.17-beta or later,
15969 and requires both sides to be running OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later
15970 with ECC support. OpenSSL 1.0.1, with the compile-time option
15971 "enable-ec_nistp_64_gcc_128", is highly recommended.
15973 Implements the relay side of proposal 198; closes ticket 7200.
15976 - Avoid crashing when, as a relay without IPv6-exit support, a
15977 client insists on getting an IPv6 address or nothing. Fixes bug
15978 7814; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
15981 - Improve circuit build timeout handling for hidden services.
15982 In particular: adjust build timeouts more accurately depending
15983 upon the number of hop-RTTs that a particular circuit type
15984 undergoes. Additionally, launch intro circuits in parallel
15985 if they timeout, and take the first one to reply as valid.
15986 - Work correctly on Unix systems where EAGAIN and EWOULDBLOCK are
15987 separate error codes; or at least, don't break for that reason.
15988 Fixes bug 7935. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
15989 - Update to the January 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
15991 o Minor features (testing):
15992 - Add benchmarks for DH (1024-bit multiplicative group) and ECDH
15993 (P-256) Diffie-Hellman handshakes to src/or/bench.
15994 - Add benchmark functions to test onion handshake performance.
15996 o Minor features (path bias detection):
15997 - Alter the Path Bias log messages to be more descriptive in terms
15998 of reporting timeouts and other statistics.
15999 - Create three levels of Path Bias log messages, as opposed to just
16000 two. These are configurable via consensus as well as via the torrc
16001 options PathBiasNoticeRate, PathBiasWarnRate, PathBiasExtremeRate.
16002 The default values are 0.70, 0.50, and 0.30 respectively.
16003 - Separate the log message levels from the decision to drop guards,
16004 which also is available via torrc option PathBiasDropGuards.
16005 PathBiasDropGuards still defaults to 0 (off).
16006 - Deprecate PathBiasDisableRate in favor of PathBiasDropGuards
16007 in combination with PathBiasExtremeRate.
16008 - Increase the default values for PathBiasScaleThreshold and
16009 PathBiasCircThreshold from (200, 20) to (300, 150).
16010 - Add in circuit usage accounting to path bias. If we try to use a
16011 built circuit but fail for any reason, it counts as path bias.
16012 Certain classes of circuits where the adversary gets to pick your
16013 destination node are exempt from this accounting. Usage accounting
16014 can be specifically disabled via consensus parameter or torrc.
16015 - Convert all internal path bias state to double-precision floating
16016 point, to avoid roundoff error and other issues.
16017 - Only record path bias information for circuits that have completed
16018 *two* hops. Assuming end-to-end tagging is the attack vector, this
16019 makes us more resilient to ambient circuit failure without any
16020 detection capability loss.
16022 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
16023 - Rate-limit the "No circuits are opened. Relaxed timeout for a
16024 circuit with channel state open..." message to once per hour to
16025 keep it from filling the notice logs. Mitigates bug 7799 but does
16026 not fix the underlying cause. Bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
16027 - Avoid spurious warnings when configuring multiple client ports of
16028 which only some are nonlocal. Previously, we had claimed that some
16029 were nonlocal when in fact they weren't. Fixes bug 7836; bugfix on
16032 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
16033 - Get rid of a couple of harmless clang warnings, where we compared
16034 enums to ints. These warnings are newly introduced in clang 3.2.
16035 - Split the onion.c file into separate modules for the onion queue
16036 and the different handshakes it supports.
16037 - Remove the marshalling/unmarshalling code for sending requests to
16038 cpuworkers over a socket, and instead just send structs. The
16039 recipient will always be the same Tor binary as the sender, so
16040 any encoding is overkill.
16043 Changes in version 0.2.4.7-alpha - 2012-12-24
16044 Tor 0.2.4.7-alpha introduces a new approach to providing fallback
16045 directory mirrors for more robust bootstrapping; fixes more issues where
16046 clients with changing network conditions refuse to make any circuits;
16047 adds initial support for exiting to IPv6 addresses; resumes being able
16048 to update our GeoIP database, and includes the geoip6 file this time;
16049 turns off the client-side DNS cache by default due to privacy risks;
16050 and fixes a variety of other issues.
16052 o Major features (client resilience):
16053 - Add a new "FallbackDir" torrc option to use when we can't use
16054 a directory mirror from the consensus (either because we lack a
16055 consensus, or because they're all down). Currently, all authorities
16056 are fallbacks by default, and there are no other default fallbacks,
16057 but that will change. This option will allow us to give clients a
16058 longer list of servers to try to get a consensus from when first
16059 connecting to the Tor network, and thereby reduce load on the
16060 directory authorities. Implements proposal 206, "Preconfigured
16061 directory sources for bootstrapping". We also removed the old
16062 "FallbackNetworkstatus" option, since we never got it working well
16063 enough to use it. Closes bug 572.
16064 - If we have no circuits open, use a relaxed timeout (the
16065 95-percentile cutoff) until a circuit succeeds. This heuristic
16066 should allow Tor to succeed at building circuits even when the
16067 network connection drastically changes. Should help with bug 3443.
16069 o Major features (IPv6):
16070 - Relays can now exit to IPv6 addresses: make sure that you have IPv6
16071 connectivity, then set the IPv6Exit flag to 1. Also make sure your
16072 exit policy reads as you would like: the address * applies to all
16073 address families, whereas *4 is IPv4 address only, and *6 is IPv6
16074 addresses only. On the client side, you'll need to wait until the
16075 authorities have upgraded, wait for enough exits to support IPv6,
16076 apply the "IPv6Traffic" flag to a SocksPort, and use Socks5. Closes
16077 ticket 5547, implements proposal 117 as revised in proposal 208.
16079 We DO NOT recommend that clients with actual anonymity needs start
16080 using IPv6 over Tor yet, since not enough exits support it yet.
16082 o Major features (geoip database):
16083 - Maxmind began labelling Tor relays as being in country "A1",
16084 which breaks by-country node selection inside Tor. Now we use a
16085 script to replace "A1" ("Anonymous Proxy") entries in our geoip
16086 file with real country codes. This script fixes about 90% of "A1"
16087 entries automatically and uses manual country code assignments to
16088 fix the remaining 10%. See src/config/README.geoip for details.
16089 Fixes bug 6266. Also update to the December 5 2012 Maxmind GeoLite
16090 Country database, as modified above.
16092 o Major bugfixes (client-side DNS):
16093 - Turn off the client-side DNS cache by default. Updating and using
16094 the DNS cache is now configurable on a per-client-port
16095 level. SOCKSPort, DNSPort, etc lines may now contain
16096 {No,}Cache{IPv4,IPv6,}DNS lines to indicate that we shouldn't
16097 cache these types of DNS answers when we receive them from an
16098 exit node in response to an application request on this port, and
16099 {No,}UseCached{IPv4,IPv6,DNS} lines to indicate that if we have
16100 cached DNS answers of these types, we shouldn't use them. It's
16101 potentially risky to use cached DNS answers at the client, since
16102 doing so can indicate to one exit what answers we've gotten
16103 for DNS lookups in the past. With IPv6, this becomes especially
16104 problematic. Using cached DNS answers for requests on the same
16105 circuit would present less linkability risk, since all traffic
16106 on a circuit is already linkable, but it would also provide
16107 little performance benefit: the exit node caches DNS replies
16108 too. Implements a simplified version of Proposal 205. Implements
16111 o Major bugfixes (other):
16112 - Alter circuit build timeout measurement to start at the point
16113 where we begin the CREATE/CREATE_FAST step (as opposed to circuit
16114 initialization). This should make our timeout measurements more
16115 uniform. Previously, we were sometimes including ORconn setup time
16116 in our circuit build time measurements. Should resolve bug 3443.
16117 - Fix an assertion that could trigger in hibernate_go_dormant() when
16118 closing an or_connection_t: call channel_mark_for_close() rather
16119 than connection_mark_for_close(). Fixes bug 7267. Bugfix on
16121 - Include the geoip6 IPv6 GeoIP database in the tarball. Fixes bug
16122 7655; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
16125 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportListenAddr" to let bridge
16126 operators select the address where their pluggable transports will
16127 listen for connections. Resolves ticket 7013.
16128 - Allow an optional $ before the node identity digest in the
16129 controller command GETINFO ns/id/<identity>, for consistency with
16130 md/id/<identity> and desc/id/<identity>. Resolves ticket 7059.
16131 - Log packaged cell fullness as part of the heartbeat message.
16132 Diagnosis to try to determine the extent of bug 7743.
16134 o Minor features (IPv6):
16135 - AutomapHostsOnResolve now supports IPv6 addresses. By default, we
16136 prefer to hand out virtual IPv6 addresses, since there are more of
16137 them and we can't run out. To override this behavior and make IPv4
16138 addresses preferred, set NoPreferIPv6Automap on whatever SOCKSPort
16139 or DNSPort you're using for resolving. Implements ticket 7571.
16140 - AutomapHostsOnResolve responses are now randomized, to avoid
16141 annoying situations where Tor is restarted and applications
16142 connect to the wrong addresses.
16143 - Never try more than 1000 times to pick a new virtual address when
16144 AutomapHostsOnResolve is set. That's good enough so long as we
16145 aren't close to handing out our entire virtual address space;
16146 if you're getting there, it's best to switch to IPv6 virtual
16150 - The ADDRMAP command can no longer generate an ill-formed error
16151 code on a failed MAPADDRESS. It now says "internal" rather than
16152 an English sentence fragment with spaces in the middle. Bugfix on
16153 Tor 0.2.0.19-alpha.
16154 - Fix log messages and comments to avoid saying "GMT" when we mean
16155 "UTC". Fixes bug 6113.
16156 - Compile on win64 using mingw64. Fixes bug 7260; patches from
16158 - Fix a crash when debugging unit tests on Windows: deallocate a
16159 shared library with FreeLibrary, not CloseHandle. Fixes bug 7306;
16160 bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Reported by "ultramage".
16163 - The DirServer option is now DirAuthority, for consistency with
16164 current naming patterns. You can still use the old DirServer form.
16166 o Code simplification and refactoring:
16167 - Move the client-side address-map/virtual-address/DNS-cache code
16168 out of connection_edge.c into a new addressmap.c module.
16169 - Remove unused code for parsing v1 directories and "running routers"
16170 documents. Fixes bug 6887.
16173 Changes in version 0.2.3.25 - 2012-11-19
16174 The Tor 0.2.3 release series is dedicated to the memory of Len "rabbi"
16175 Sassaman (1980-2011), a long-time cypherpunk, anonymity researcher,
16176 Mixmaster maintainer, Pynchon Gate co-designer, CodeCon organizer,
16177 programmer, and friend. Unstinting in his dedication to the cause of
16178 freedom, he inspired and helped many of us as we began our work on
16179 anonymity, and inspires us still. Please honor his memory by writing
16180 software to protect people's freedoms, and by helping others to do so.
16182 Tor 0.2.3.25, the first stable release in the 0.2.3 branch, features
16183 significantly reduced directory overhead (via microdescriptors),
16184 enormous crypto performance improvements for fast relays on new
16185 enough hardware, a new v3 TLS handshake protocol that can better
16186 resist fingerprinting, support for protocol obfuscation plugins (aka
16187 pluggable transports), better scalability for hidden services, IPv6
16188 support for bridges, performance improvements like allowing clients
16189 to skip the first round-trip on the circuit ("optimistic data") and
16190 refilling token buckets more often, a new "stream isolation" design
16191 to isolate different applications on different circuits, and many
16192 stability, security, and privacy fixes.
16195 - Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so
16196 that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory,
16197 the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler
16198 was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the
16199 memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program,
16200 hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that
16201 by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler
16202 is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use
16203 a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352.
16204 Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov.
16207 - Fix a harmless bug when opting against publishing a relay descriptor
16208 because DisableNetwork is set. Fixes bug 7464; bugfix on
16212 Changes in version 0.2.4.6-alpha - 2012-11-13
16213 Tor 0.2.4.6-alpha fixes an assert bug that has been plaguing relays,
16214 makes our defense-in-depth memory wiping more reliable, and begins to
16215 count IPv6 addresses in bridge statistics,
16218 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur when closing a connection
16219 with a spliced rendezvous circuit. Fix for bug 7212; bugfix on
16221 - Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so
16222 that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory,
16223 the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler
16224 was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the
16225 memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program,
16226 hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that
16227 by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler
16228 is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use
16229 a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352.
16230 Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov.
16233 - Add GeoIP database for IPv6 addresses. The new config option
16235 - Bridge statistics now count bridge clients connecting over IPv6:
16236 bridge statistics files now list "bridge-ip-versions" and
16237 extra-info documents list "geoip6-db-digest". The control protocol
16238 "CLIENTS_SEEN" and "ip-to-country" queries now support IPv6. Initial
16239 implementation by "shkoo", addressing ticket 5055.
16242 - Warn when we are binding low ports when hibernation is enabled;
16243 previously we had warned when we were _advertising_ low ports with
16244 hibernation enabled. Fixes bug 7285; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
16245 - Fix a harmless bug when opting against publishing a relay descriptor
16246 because DisableNetwork is set. Fixes bug 7464; bugfix on
16248 - Add warning message when a managed proxy dies during configuration.
16249 Fixes bug 7195; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
16250 - Fix a linking error when building tor-fw-helper without miniupnp.
16251 Fixes bug 7235; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha. Fix by Anthony G. Basile.
16252 - Check for closing an or_connection_t without going through correct
16253 channel functions; emit a warning and then call
16254 connection_or_close_for_error() so we don't assert as in bugs 7212
16256 - Compile correctly on compilers without C99 designated initializer
16257 support. Fixes bug 7286; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
16258 - Avoid a possible assert that can occur when channel_send_destroy() is
16259 called on a channel in CHANNEL_STATE_CLOSING, CHANNEL_STATE_CLOSED,
16260 or CHANNEL_STATE_ERROR when the Tor process is resumed after being
16261 blocked for a long interval. Fixes bug 7350; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
16262 - Fix a memory leak on failing cases of channel_tls_process_certs_cell.
16263 Fixes bug 7422; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
16265 o Code simplification and refactoring:
16266 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h, so that we don't
16267 need to hand-roll our own pointer and list structures whenever we
16268 need them. (We can't rely on a sys/queue.h, since some operating
16269 systems don't have them, and the ones that do have them don't all
16270 present the same extensions.)
16273 Changes in version 0.2.4.5-alpha - 2012-10-25
16274 Tor 0.2.4.5-alpha comes hard at the heels of 0.2.4.4-alpha, to fix
16275 two important security vulnerabilities that could lead to remotely
16276 triggerable relay crashes, fix a major bug that was preventing clients
16277 from choosing suitable exit nodes, and refactor some of our code.
16279 o Major bugfixes (security, also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
16280 - Fix a group of remotely triggerable assertion failures related to
16281 incorrect link protocol negotiation. Found, diagnosed, and fixed
16282 by "some guy from France". Fix for CVE-2012-2250; bugfix on
16284 - Fix a denial of service attack by which any directory authority
16285 could crash all the others, or by which a single v2 directory
16286 authority could crash everybody downloading v2 directory
16287 information. Fixes bug 7191; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
16289 o Major bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
16290 - When parsing exit policy summaries from microdescriptors, we had
16291 previously been ignoring the last character in each one, so that
16292 "accept 80,443,8080" would be treated by clients as indicating
16293 a node that allows access to ports 80, 443, and 808. That would
16294 lead to clients attempting connections that could never work,
16295 and ignoring exit nodes that would support their connections. Now
16296 clients parse these exit policy summaries correctly. Fixes bug 7192;
16297 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
16299 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
16300 - Clients now consider the ClientRejectInternalAddresses config option
16301 when using a microdescriptor consensus stanza to decide whether
16302 an exit relay would allow exiting to an internal address. Fixes
16303 bug 7190; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
16306 - Only disable TLS session ticket support when running as a TLS
16307 server. Now clients will blend better with regular Firefox
16308 connections. Fixes bug 7189; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.23-rc.
16310 o Code simplification and refactoring:
16311 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h (originally by
16313 - Move the entry node code from circuitbuild.c to its own file.
16314 - Move the circuit build timeout tracking code from circuitbuild.c
16318 Changes in version 0.2.3.24-rc - 2012-10-25
16319 Tor 0.2.3.24-rc fixes two important security vulnerabilities that
16320 could lead to remotely triggerable relay crashes, and fixes
16321 a major bug that was preventing clients from choosing suitable exit
16324 o Major bugfixes (security):
16325 - Fix a group of remotely triggerable assertion failures related to
16326 incorrect link protocol negotiation. Found, diagnosed, and fixed
16327 by "some guy from France". Fix for CVE-2012-2250; bugfix on
16329 - Fix a denial of service attack by which any directory authority
16330 could crash all the others, or by which a single v2 directory
16331 authority could crash everybody downloading v2 directory
16332 information. Fixes bug 7191; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
16335 - When parsing exit policy summaries from microdescriptors, we had
16336 previously been ignoring the last character in each one, so that
16337 "accept 80,443,8080" would be treated by clients as indicating
16338 a node that allows access to ports 80, 443, and 808. That would
16339 lead to clients attempting connections that could never work,
16340 and ignoring exit nodes that would support their connections. Now
16341 clients parse these exit policy summaries correctly. Fixes bug 7192;
16342 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
16345 - Clients now consider the ClientRejectInternalAddresses config option
16346 when using a microdescriptor consensus stanza to decide whether
16347 an exit relay would allow exiting to an internal address. Fixes
16348 bug 7190; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
16351 Changes in version 0.2.4.4-alpha - 2012-10-20
16352 Tor 0.2.4.4-alpha adds a new v3 directory authority, fixes a privacy
16353 vulnerability introduced by a change in OpenSSL, fixes a remotely
16354 triggerable assert, and adds new channel_t and circuitmux_t abstractions
16355 that will make it easier to test new connection transport and cell
16356 scheduling algorithms.
16358 o New directory authorities (also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
16359 - Add Faravahar (run by Sina Rabbani) as the ninth v3 directory
16360 authority. Closes ticket 5749.
16362 o Major bugfixes (security/privacy, also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
16363 - Disable TLS session tickets. OpenSSL's implementation was giving
16364 our TLS session keys the lifetime of our TLS context objects, when
16365 perfect forward secrecy would want us to discard anything that
16366 could decrypt a link connection as soon as the link connection
16367 was closed. Fixes bug 7139; bugfix on all versions of Tor linked
16368 against OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later. Found by Florent Daignière.
16369 - Discard extraneous renegotiation attempts once the V3 link
16370 protocol has been initiated. Failure to do so left us open to
16371 a remotely triggerable assertion failure. Fixes CVE-2012-2249;
16372 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "some guy from France".
16374 o Internal abstraction features:
16375 - Introduce new channel_t abstraction between circuits and
16376 or_connection_t to allow for implementing alternate OR-to-OR
16377 transports. A channel_t is an abstract object which can either be a
16378 cell-bearing channel, which is responsible for authenticating and
16379 handshaking with the remote OR and transmitting cells to and from
16380 it, or a listening channel, which spawns new cell-bearing channels
16381 at the request of remote ORs. Implements part of ticket 6465.
16382 - Also new is the channel_tls_t subclass of channel_t, adapting it
16383 to the existing or_connection_t code. The V2/V3 protocol handshaking
16384 code which formerly resided in command.c has been moved below the
16385 channel_t abstraction layer and may be found in channeltls.c now.
16386 Implements the rest of ticket 6465.
16387 - Introduce new circuitmux_t storing the queue of circuits for
16388 a channel; this encapsulates and abstracts the queue logic and
16389 circuit selection policy, and allows the latter to be overridden
16390 easily by switching out a policy object. The existing EWMA behavior
16391 is now implemented as a circuitmux_policy_t. Resolves ticket 6816.
16393 o Required libraries:
16394 - Tor now requires OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later is
16395 strongly recommended.
16398 - Warn users who run hidden services on a Tor client with
16399 UseEntryGuards disabled that their hidden services will be
16400 vulnerable to http://freehaven.net/anonbib/#hs-attack06 (the
16401 attack which motivated Tor to support entry guards in the first
16402 place). Resolves ticket 6889.
16403 - Tor now builds correctly on Bitrig, an OpenBSD fork. Patch from
16404 dhill. Resolves ticket 6982.
16405 - Option OutboundBindAddress can be specified multiple times and
16406 accepts IPv6 addresses. Resolves ticket 6876.
16408 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
16409 - Don't serve or accept v2 hidden service descriptors over a
16410 relay's DirPort. It's never correct to do so, and disabling it
16411 might make it more annoying to exploit any bugs that turn up in the
16412 descriptor-parsing code. Fixes bug 7149.
16413 - Fix two cases in src/or/transports.c where we were calling
16414 fmt_addr() twice in a parameter list. Bug found by David
16415 Fifield. Fixes bug 7014; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
16416 - Fix memory leaks whenever we logged any message about the "path
16417 bias" detection. Fixes bug 7022; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc.
16418 - When relays refuse a "create" cell because their queue of pending
16419 create cells is too big (typically because their cpu can't keep up
16420 with the arrival rate), send back reason "resource limit" rather
16421 than reason "internal", so network measurement scripts can get a
16422 more accurate picture. Fixes bug 7037; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
16425 - Command-line option "--version" implies "--quiet". Fixes bug 6997.
16426 - Free some more still-in-use memory at exit, to make hunting for
16427 memory leaks easier. Resolves bug 7029.
16428 - When a Tor client gets a "truncated" relay cell, the first byte of
16429 its payload specifies why the circuit was truncated. We were
16430 ignoring this 'reason' byte when tearing down the circuit, resulting
16431 in the controller not being told why the circuit closed. Now we
16432 pass the reason from the truncated cell to the controller. Bugfix
16433 on 0.1.2.3-alpha; fixes bug 7039.
16434 - Downgrade "Failed to hand off onionskin" messages to "debug"
16435 severity, since they're typically redundant with the "Your computer
16436 is too slow" messages. Fixes bug 7038; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
16437 - Make clients running with IPv6 bridges connect over IPv6 again,
16438 even without setting new config options ClientUseIPv6 and
16439 ClientPreferIPv6ORPort. Fixes bug 6757; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
16440 - Use square brackets around IPv6 addresses in numerous places
16441 that needed them, including log messages, HTTPS CONNECT proxy
16442 requests, TransportProxy statefile entries, and pluggable transport
16443 extra-info lines. Fixes bug 7011; patch by David Fifield.
16445 o Code refactoring and cleanup:
16446 - Source files taken from other packages now reside in src/ext;
16447 previously they were scattered around the rest of Tor.
16448 - Avoid use of reserved identifiers in our C code. The C standard
16449 doesn't like us declaring anything that starts with an
16450 underscore, so let's knock it off before we get in trouble. Fix
16451 for bug 1031; bugfix on the first Tor commit.
16454 Changes in version 0.2.3.23-rc - 2012-10-20
16455 Tor 0.2.3.23-rc adds a new v3 directory authority, fixes a privacy
16456 vulnerability introduced by a change in OpenSSL, and fixes a variety
16457 of smaller bugs in preparation for the release.
16459 o New directory authorities:
16460 - Add Faravahar (run by Sina Rabbani) as the ninth v3 directory
16461 authority. Closes ticket 5749.
16463 o Major bugfixes (security/privacy):
16464 - Disable TLS session tickets. OpenSSL's implementation was giving
16465 our TLS session keys the lifetime of our TLS context objects, when
16466 perfect forward secrecy would want us to discard anything that
16467 could decrypt a link connection as soon as the link connection
16468 was closed. Fixes bug 7139; bugfix on all versions of Tor linked
16469 against OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later. Found by Florent Daignière.
16470 - Discard extraneous renegotiation attempts once the V3 link
16471 protocol has been initiated. Failure to do so left us open to
16472 a remotely triggerable assertion failure. Fixes CVE-2012-2249;
16473 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "some guy from France".
16476 - Fix a possible crash bug when checking for deactivated circuits
16477 in connection_or_flush_from_first_active_circuit(). Fixes bug 6341;
16478 bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Bug report and fix received pseudonymously.
16480 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
16481 - Fix two cases in src/or/transports.c where we were calling
16482 fmt_addr() twice in a parameter list. Bug found by David
16483 Fifield. Fixes bug 7014; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
16484 - Convert an assert in the pathbias code to a log message. The assert
16485 appears to only be triggerable by Tor2Web mode. Fixes bug 6866;
16486 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
16487 - Fix memory leaks whenever we logged any message about the "path
16488 bias" detection. Fixes bug 7022; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc.
16490 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
16491 - Don't serve or accept v2 hidden service descriptors over a relay's
16492 DirPort. It's never correct to do so, and disabling it might
16493 make it more annoying to exploit any bugs that turn up in the
16494 descriptor-parsing code. Fixes bug 7149.
16495 - When relays refuse a "create" cell because their queue of pending
16496 create cells is too big (typically because their cpu can't keep up
16497 with the arrival rate), send back reason "resource limit" rather
16498 than reason "internal", so network measurement scripts can get a
16499 more accurate picture. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha; fixes bug 7037.
16500 - Correct file sizes when reading binary files on Cygwin, to avoid
16501 a bug where Tor would fail to read its state file. Fixes bug 6844;
16502 bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
16503 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing the list of supported
16504 rendezvous/introduction protocols in a hidden service descriptor.
16505 Previously, Tor would have confused (as-yet-unused) protocol version
16506 numbers greater than 32 with lower ones on many platforms. Fixes
16507 bug 6827; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Found by George Kadianakis.
16509 o Documentation fixes:
16510 - Clarify that hidden services are TCP only. Fixes bug 6024.
16513 Changes in version 0.2.4.3-alpha - 2012-09-22
16514 Tor 0.2.4.3-alpha fixes another opportunity for a remotely triggerable
16515 assertion, resumes letting relays test reachability of their DirPort,
16516 and cleans up a bunch of smaller bugs.
16519 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
16520 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
16521 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
16524 - Fix a possible crash bug when checking for deactivated circuits
16525 in connection_or_flush_from_first_active_circuit(). Fixes bug 6341;
16526 bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Bug report and fix received pseudonymously.
16527 - Allow routers to detect that their own DirPorts are running. When
16528 we removed support for versions_supports_begindir, we also
16529 accidentally removed the mechanism we used to self-test our
16530 DirPort. Diagnosed with help from kargig. Fixes bugs 6814 and 6815;
16531 bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
16533 o Security features:
16534 - Switch to a completely time-invariant approach for picking nodes
16535 weighted by bandwidth. Our old approach would run through the
16536 part of the loop after it had made its choice slightly slower
16537 than it ran through the part of the loop before it had made its
16538 choice. Addresses ticket 6538.
16539 - Disable the use of Guard nodes when in Tor2WebMode. Guard usage
16540 by tor2web clients allows hidden services to identify tor2web
16541 clients through their repeated selection of the same rendezvous
16542 and introduction point circuit endpoints (their guards). Resolves
16546 - Enable Tor to read configuration, state, and key information from
16547 a FIFO. Previously Tor would only read from files with a positive
16548 stat.st_size. Code from meejah; fixes bug 6044.
16551 - Correct file sizes when reading binary files on Cygwin, to avoid
16552 a bug where Tor would fail to read its state file. Fixes bug 6844;
16553 bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
16554 - Correctly handle votes with more than 31 flags. Fixes bug 6853;
16555 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
16556 - When complaining about a client port on a public address, log
16557 which address we're complaining about. Fixes bug 4020; bugfix on
16558 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Tom Fitzhenry.
16559 - Convert an assert in the pathbias code to a log message. The assert
16560 appears to only be triggerable by Tor2Web mode. Fixes bug 6866;
16561 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
16562 - Our new buildsystem was overzealous about rebuilding manpages: it
16563 would rebuild them all whenever any one of them changed. Now our
16564 dependency checking should be correct. Fixes bug 6843; bugfix on
16566 - Don't do reachability testing over IPv6 unless AuthDirPublishIPv6
16567 is set. Fixes bug 6880. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
16568 - Correct log printout about which address family is preferred
16569 when connecting to a bridge with both an IPv4 and IPv6 OR port.
16570 Fixes bug 6884; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
16572 o Minor bugfixes (code cleanliness):
16573 - Fix round_to_power_of_2() so it doesn't invoke undefined behavior
16574 with large values. This situation was untriggered, but nevertheless
16575 incorrect. Fixes bug 6831; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
16576 - Reject consensus votes with more than 64 known-flags. We aren't even
16577 close to that limit yet, and our code doesn't handle it correctly.
16578 Fixes bug 6833; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
16579 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing the list of supported
16580 rendezvous/introduction protocols in a hidden service descriptor.
16581 Previously, Tor would have confused (as-yet-unused) protocol version
16582 numbers greater than 32 with lower ones on many platforms. Fixes
16583 bug 6827; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Found by George Kadianakis.
16584 - Fix handling of rendezvous client authorization types over 8.
16585 Fixes bug 6861; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
16586 - Fix building with older versions of GCC (2.95, for one) that don't
16587 like preprocessor directives inside macro arguments. Found by
16588 grarpamp. Fixes bug 6842; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
16589 - Switch weighted node selection rule from using a list of doubles
16590 to using a list of int64_t. This change should make the process
16591 slightly easier to debug and maintain. Needed to finish ticket 6538.
16593 o Code simplification and refactoring:
16594 - Move the generic "config" code into a new file, and have "config.c"
16595 hold only torrc- and state-related code. Resolves ticket 6823.
16596 - Move the core of our "choose a weighted element at random" logic
16597 into its own function, and give it unit tests. Now the logic is
16598 testable, and a little less fragile too.
16599 - Removed the testing_since field of node_t, which hasn't been used
16600 for anything since 0.2.0.9-alpha.
16602 o Documentation fixes:
16603 - Clarify that hidden services are TCP only. Fixes bug 6024.
16604 - Resolve a typo in torrc.sample.in. Fixes bug 6819; bugfix on
16608 Changes in version 0.2.3.22-rc - 2012-09-11
16609 Tor 0.2.3.22-rc fixes another opportunity for a remotely triggerable
16613 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
16614 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
16615 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
16618 - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
16619 version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
16623 Changes in version 0.2.2.39 - 2012-09-11
16624 Tor 0.2.2.39 fixes two more opportunities for remotely triggerable
16628 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
16629 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
16630 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
16631 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
16632 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
16633 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
16634 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
16638 Changes in version 0.2.4.2-alpha - 2012-09-10
16639 Tor 0.2.4.2-alpha enables port forwarding for pluggable transports,
16640 raises the default rate limiting even more, and makes the bootstrapping
16641 log messages less noisy.
16644 - Automatically forward the TCP ports of pluggable transport
16645 proxies using tor-fw-helper if PortForwarding is enabled. Implements
16649 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst values from 5MB/10MB
16650 to 1GB/1GB. The previous defaults were intended to be "basically
16651 infinite", but it turns out they're now limiting our 100mbit+
16652 relays and bridges. Fixes bug 6605; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha (the
16653 last time we raised it).
16656 - Detect when we're running with a version of OpenSSL other than the
16657 one we compiled with. This has occasionally given people hard-to-
16659 - Log fewer lines at level "notice" about our OpenSSL and Libevent
16660 versions and capabilities when everything is going right. Resolves
16661 part of ticket 6736.
16662 - Directory authorities no long accept descriptors for any version of
16663 Tor before 0.2.2.35, or for any 0.2.3 release before 0.2.3.10-alpha.
16664 These versions are insecure, unsupported, or both. Implements
16668 - Rename the (internal-use-only) UsingTestingNetworkDefaults option
16669 to start with a triple-underscore so the controller won't touch it.
16670 Patch by Meejah. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
16671 - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
16672 version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
16674 - Rename the (testing-use-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option
16675 so it doesn't start with _. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
16676 - Don't follow the NULL pointer if microdescriptor generation fails.
16677 (This does not appear to be triggerable, but it's best to be safe.)
16678 Found by "f. tp.". Fixes bug 6797; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
16679 - Fix mis-declared dependencies on src/common/crypto.c and
16680 src/or/tor_main.c that could break out-of-tree builds under some
16681 circumstances. Fixes bug 6778; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
16682 - Avoid a warning when building common_sha1.i out of tree. Fixes bug
16683 6778; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
16684 - Fix a harmless (in this case) build warning for implicitly
16685 converting a strlen() to an int. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
16687 o Removed features:
16688 - Now that all versions before 0.2.2.x are disallowed, we no longer
16689 need to work around their missing features. Thus we can remove a
16690 bunch of compatibility code.
16692 o Code refactoring:
16693 - Tweak tor-fw-helper to accept an arbitrary amount of arbitrary
16694 TCP ports to forward. In the past it only accepted two ports:
16695 the ORPort and the DirPort.
16698 Changes in version 0.2.4.1-alpha - 2012-09-05
16699 Tor 0.2.4.1-alpha lets bridges publish their pluggable transports to
16700 bridgedb; lets relays use IPv6 addresses and directory authorities
16701 advertise them; and switches to a cleaner build interface.
16703 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to
16704 be bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
16705 stay with 0.2.3.x for now.
16707 o Major features (bridges):
16708 - Bridges now report the pluggable transports they support to the
16709 bridge authority, so it can pass the supported transports on to
16710 bridgedb and/or eventually do reachability testing. Implements
16713 o Major features (IPv6):
16714 - Bridge authorities now accept IPv6 bridge addresses and include
16715 them in network status documents. Implements ticket 5534.
16716 - Clients who set "ClientUseIPv6 1" may connect to entry nodes over
16717 IPv6. Set "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort 1" to make this even more likely
16718 to happen. Implements ticket 5535.
16719 - All kind of relays, not just bridges, can now advertise an IPv6
16720 OR port. Implements ticket 6362.
16721 - Directory authorities vote on IPv6 OR ports using the new consensus
16722 method 14. Implements ticket 6363.
16724 o Major features (build):
16725 - Switch to a nonrecursive Makefile structure. Now instead of each
16726 Makefile.am invoking other Makefile.am's, there is a master
16727 Makefile.am that includes the others. This change makes our build
16728 process slightly more maintainable, and improves parallelism for
16729 building with make -j. Original patch by Stewart Smith; various
16730 fixes by Jim Meyering.
16731 - Where available, we now use automake's "silent" make rules by
16732 default, so that warnings are easier to spot. You can get the old
16733 behavior with "make V=1". Patch by Stewart Smith for ticket 6522.
16735 o Minor features (code security and spec conformance):
16736 - Clear keys and key-derived material left on the stack in
16737 rendservice.c and rendclient.c. Check return value of
16738 crypto_pk_write_private_key_to_string() in rend_service_load_keys().
16739 These fixes should make us more forward-secure against cold-boot
16740 attacks and the like. Fixes bug 2385.
16741 - Reject EXTEND cells sent to nonexistent streams. According to the
16742 spec, an EXTEND cell sent to _any_ nonzero stream ID is invalid, but
16743 we were only checking for stream IDs that were currently in use.
16744 Found while hunting for more instances of bug 6271. Bugfix on
16745 0.0.2pre8, which introduced incremental circuit construction.
16747 o Minor features (streamlining);
16748 - No longer include the "opt" prefix when generating routerinfos
16749 or v2 directories: it has been needless since Tor 0.1.2. Closes
16751 - Remove some now-needless code that tried to aggressively flush
16752 OR connections as data was added to them. Since 0.2.0.1-alpha, our
16753 cell queue logic has saved us from the failure mode that this code
16754 was supposed to prevent. Removing this code will limit the number
16755 of baroque control flow paths through Tor's network logic. Reported
16756 pseudonymously on IRC. Fixes bug 6468; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
16758 o Minor features (controller):
16759 - Add a "GETINFO signal/names" control port command. Implements
16761 - Provide default values for all options via "GETINFO config/defaults".
16762 Implements ticket 4971.
16764 o Minor features (IPv6):
16765 - New config option "AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity 1" that directory
16766 authorities should set if they have IPv6 connectivity and want to
16767 do reachability tests for IPv6 relays. Implements feature 5974.
16768 - A relay with an IPv6 OR port now sends that address in NETINFO
16769 cells (in addition to its other address). Implements ticket 6364.
16771 o Minor features (log messages):
16772 - Omit the first heartbeat log message, because it never has anything
16773 useful to say, and it clutters up the bootstrapping messages.
16774 Resolves ticket 6758.
16775 - Don't log about reloading the microdescriptor cache at startup. Our
16776 bootstrap warnings are supposed to tell the user when there's a
16777 problem, and our bootstrap notices say when there isn't. Resolves
16778 ticket 6759; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
16779 - Don't log "I learned some more directory information" when we're
16780 reading cached directory information. Reserve it for when new
16781 directory information arrives in response to a fetch. Resolves
16783 - Prevent rounding error in path bias counts when scaling
16784 them down, and use the correct scale factor default. Also demote
16785 some path bias related log messages down a level and make others
16786 less scary sounding. Fixes bug 6647. Bugfix against 0.2.3.17-beta.
16787 - We no longer warn so much when generating manpages from their
16790 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
16791 - Enhance our internal sscanf replacement so that we can eliminate
16792 the last remaining uses of the system sscanf. (Though those uses
16793 of sscanf were safe, sscanf itself is generally error prone, so
16794 we want to eliminate when we can.) Fixes ticket 4195 and Coverity
16796 - Move ipv6_preferred from routerinfo_t to node_t. Addresses bug 4620.
16797 - Move last_reachable and testing_since from routerinfo_t to node_t.
16798 Implements ticket 5529.
16799 - Add replaycache_t structure, functions and unit tests, then refactor
16800 rend_service_introduce() to be more clear to read, improve, debug,
16801 and test. Resolves bug 6177.
16802 - Finally remove support for malloc_good_size and malloc_usable_size.
16803 We had hoped that these functions would let us eke a little more
16804 memory out of our malloc implementation. Unfortunately, the only
16805 implementations that provided these functions are also ones that
16806 are already efficient about not overallocation: they never got us
16807 more than 7 or so bytes per allocation. Removing them saves us a
16808 little code complexity and a nontrivial amount of build complexity.
16810 o New requirements:
16811 - Tor maintainers now require Automake version 1.9 or later to build
16812 Tor from the Git repository. (Automake is not required when building
16813 from a source distribution.)
16816 Changes in version 0.2.3.21-rc - 2012-09-05
16817 Tor 0.2.3.21-rc is the fourth release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
16818 series. It fixes a trio of potential security bugs, fixes a bug where
16819 we were leaving some of the fast relays out of the microdescriptor
16820 consensus, resumes interpreting "ORPort 0" and "DirPort 0" correctly,
16821 and cleans up other smaller issues.
16823 o Major bugfixes (security):
16824 - Tear down the circuit if we get an unexpected SENDME cell. Clients
16825 could use this trick to make their circuits receive cells faster
16826 than our flow control would have allowed, or to gum up the network,
16827 or possibly to do targeted memory denial-of-service attacks on
16828 entry nodes. Fixes bug 6252. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor --
16829 from July 2002, before the release of Tor 0.0.0. We had committed
16830 this patch previously, but we had to revert it because of bug 6271.
16831 Now that 6271 is fixed, this patch appears to work.
16832 - Reject any attempt to extend to an internal address. Without
16833 this fix, a router could be used to probe addresses on an internal
16834 network to see whether they were accepting connections. Fixes bug
16835 6710; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
16836 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
16837 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
16838 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
16839 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
16843 - Remove the upper bound on microdescriptor length. We were hitting
16844 the limit for routers with complex exit policies or family
16845 declarations, causing clients to not use them. Fixes the first
16846 piece of bug 6404; fix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
16847 - Detect "ORPort 0" as meaning, uniformly, that we're not running
16848 as a relay. Previously, some of our code would treat the presence
16849 of any ORPort line as meaning that we should act like a relay,
16850 even though our new listener code would correctly not open any
16851 ORPorts for ORPort 0. Similar bugs in other Port options are also
16852 fixed. Fixes the first half of bug 6507; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
16855 - Avoid a pair of double-free and use-after-mark bugs that can
16856 occur with certain timings in canceled and re-received DNS
16857 requests. Fixes bug 6472; bugfix on 0.0.7rc1.
16858 - Fix build and 64-bit compile warnings from --enable-openbsd-malloc.
16859 Fixes bug 6379. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
16860 - Allow one-hop directory fetching circuits the full "circuit build
16861 timeout" period, rather than just half of it, before failing them
16862 and marking the relay down. This fix should help reduce cases where
16863 clients declare relays (or worse, bridges) unreachable because
16864 the TLS handshake takes a few seconds to complete. Fixes bug 6743;
16865 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha, where we changed the timeout from a static
16867 - Authorities no longer include any router in their microdescriptor
16868 consensuses for which they couldn't generate or agree on a
16869 microdescriptor. Fixes the second piece of bug 6404; fix on
16871 - Detect and reject attempts to specify both "FooPort" and
16872 "FooPort 0" in the same configuration domain. (It's still okay
16873 to have a FooPort in your configuration file, and use "FooPort 0"
16874 on the command line to disable it.) Fixes the second half of bug
16875 6507; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
16876 - Make wildcarded addresses (that is, ones beginning with "*.") work
16877 when provided via the controller's MapAddress command. Previously,
16878 they were accepted, but we never actually noticed that they were
16879 wildcards. Fixes bug 6244; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
16880 - Avoid crashing on a malformed state file where EntryGuardPathBias
16881 precedes EntryGuard. Fix for bug 6774; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
16882 - Add a (probably redundant) memory clear between iterations of
16883 the router status voting loop, to prevent future coding errors
16884 where data might leak between iterations of the loop. Resolves
16887 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
16888 - Downgrade "set buildtimeout to low value" messages to "info"
16889 severity; they were never an actual problem, there was never
16890 anything reasonable to do about them, and they tended to spam logs
16891 from time to time. Fixes bug 6251; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
16892 - Downgrade path-bias warning messages to "info". We'll try to get
16893 them working better in 0.2.4. Add internal circuit construction
16894 state to protect against the noisy warn message "Unexpectedly high
16895 circuit_successes". Also add some additional rate-limited notice
16896 messages to help determine the root cause of the warn. Fixes bug
16897 6475. Bugfix against 0.2.3.17-beta.
16898 - Move log message when unable to find a microdesc in a routerstatus
16899 entry to parse time. Previously we'd spam this warning every time
16900 we tried to figure out which microdescriptors to download. Fixes
16901 the third piece of bug 6404; fix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
16904 - Consider new, removed or changed IPv6 OR ports a non-cosmetic
16905 change when the authority is deciding whether to accept a newly
16906 uploaded descriptor. Implements ticket 6423.
16907 - Add missing documentation for consensus and microdesc files.
16908 Resolves ticket 6732.
16911 Changes in version 0.2.2.38 - 2012-08-12
16912 Tor 0.2.2.38 fixes a remotely triggerable crash bug, and fixes a timing
16913 attack that could in theory leak path information.
16916 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
16917 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
16918 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
16919 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
16920 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
16921 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
16922 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
16923 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
16924 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
16925 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
16926 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
16927 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
16928 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
16929 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
16932 Changes in version 0.2.3.20-rc - 2012-08-05
16933 Tor 0.2.3.20-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
16934 series. It fixes a pair of code security bugs and a potential anonymity
16935 issue, updates our RPM spec files, and cleans up other smaller issues.
16938 - Avoid read-from-freed-memory and double-free bugs that could occur
16939 when a DNS request fails while launching it. Fixes bug 6480;
16940 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
16941 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
16942 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
16943 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
16944 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
16945 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
16946 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
16947 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
16948 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
16949 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
16950 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
16951 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
16952 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
16953 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
16954 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
16957 - Try to make the warning when giving an obsolete SOCKSListenAddress
16958 a little more useful.
16959 - Terminate active server managed proxies if Tor stops being a
16960 relay. Addresses parts of bug 6274; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
16961 - Provide a better error message about possible OSX Asciidoc failure
16962 reasons. Fixes bug 6436.
16963 - Warn when Tor is configured to use accounting in a way that can
16964 link a hidden service to some other hidden service or public
16965 address. Resolves ticket 6490.
16968 - Check return value of fputs() when writing authority certificate
16969 file. Fixes Coverity issue 709056; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
16970 - Ignore ServerTransportPlugin lines when Tor is not configured as
16971 a relay. Fixes bug 6274; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
16972 - When disabling guards for having too high a proportion of failed
16973 circuits, make sure to look at each guard. Fixes bug 6397; bugfix
16977 - Update our default RPM spec files to work with mock and rpmbuild
16978 on RHEL/Fedora. They have an updated set of dependencies and
16979 conflicts, a fix for an ancient typo when creating the "_tor"
16980 user, and better instructions. Thanks to Ondrej Mikle for the
16981 patch series. Fixes bug 6043.
16984 - Make it possible to set the TestingTorNetwork configuration
16985 option using AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority
16986 as an alternative to setting DirServer. Addresses ticket 6377.
16989 - Clarify the documentation for the Alternate*Authority options.
16991 - Fix some typos in the manpages. Patch from A. Costa. Fixes bug 6500.
16993 o Code simplification and refactoring:
16994 - Do not use SMARTLIST_FOREACH for any loop whose body exceeds
16995 10 lines. Also, don't nest them. Doing so in the past has
16996 led to hard-to-debug code. The new style is to use the
16997 SMARTLIST_FOREACH_{BEGIN,END} pair. Addresses issue 6400.
17000 Changes in version 0.2.3.19-rc - 2012-07-06
17001 Tor 0.2.3.19-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
17002 series. It fixes the compile on Windows, reverts to a GeoIP database
17003 that isn't as broken, and fixes a flow control bug that has been around
17004 since the beginning of Tor.
17007 - Fix a bug handling SENDME cells on nonexistent streams that could
17008 result in bizarre window values. Report and patch contributed
17009 pseudonymously. Fixes part of bug 6271. This bug was introduced
17010 before the first Tor release, in svn commit r152.
17011 - Revert to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database. In the
17012 June 2012 database, Maxmind marked many Tor relays as country "A1",
17013 which will cause risky behavior for clients that set EntryNodes
17014 or ExitNodes. Addresses bug 6334; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
17015 - Instead of ENOBUFS on Windows, say WSAENOBUFS. Fixes compilation
17016 on Windows. Fixes bug 6296; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
17019 - Fix wrong TCP port range in parse_port_range(). Fixes bug 6218;
17020 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
17023 Changes in version 0.2.3.18-rc - 2012-06-28
17024 Tor 0.2.3.18-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
17025 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
17026 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
17029 - Allow wildcarded mapaddress targets to be specified on the
17030 controlport. Partially fixes bug 6244; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
17031 - Make our linker option detection code more robust against linkers
17032 such as on FreeBSD 8, where a bad combination of options completes
17033 successfully but makes an unrunnable binary. Fixes bug 6173;
17034 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
17036 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
17037 - Avoid a false positive in the util/threads unit test by increasing
17038 the maximum timeout time. Fixes bug 6227; bugfix on 0.2.0.4-alpha.
17039 - Replace "Sending publish request" log messages with "Launching
17040 upload", so that they no longer confusingly imply that we're
17041 sending something to a directory we might not even be connected
17042 to yet. Fixes bug 3311; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
17043 - Make sure to set *socket_error in all error cases in
17044 connection_connect(), so it can't produce a warning about
17045 errno being zero from errno_to_orconn_end_reason(). Bugfix on
17046 0.2.1.1-alpha; resolves ticket 6028.
17047 - Downgrade "Got a certificate, but we already have it" log messages
17048 from warning to info, except when we're a dirauth. Fixes bug 5238;
17049 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
17050 - When checking for requested signatures on the latest consensus
17051 before serving it to a client, make sure to check the right
17052 consensus flavor. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
17053 - Downgrade "eventdns rejected address" message to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN.
17054 Fixes bug 5932; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
17056 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
17057 - Make format_helper_exit_status() avoid unnecessary space padding
17058 and stop confusing log_from_pipe(). Fixes ticket 5557; bugfix
17060 - Downgrade a message about cleaning the microdescriptor cache to
17061 "info" from "notice". Fixes bug 6238; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
17062 - Log a BUG message at severity INFO if we have a networkstatus with
17063 a missing entry for some microdescriptor. Continues on a patch
17065 - Improve the log message when a managed proxy fails to launch. Fixes
17066 bug 5099; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
17067 - Don't do DNS lookups when parsing corrupted managed proxy protocol
17068 messages. Fixes bug 6226; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
17069 - When formatting wildcarded address mappings for the controller,
17070 be sure to include "*." as appropriate. Partially fixes bug 6244;
17071 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
17072 - Avoid a warning caused by using strcspn() from glibc with clang 3.0.
17073 Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
17074 - Stop logging messages about running with circuit timeout learning
17075 enabled at severity LD_BUG. Fixes bug 6169; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
17076 - Disable a spurious warning about reading on a marked and flushing
17077 connection. We shouldn't be doing that, but apparently we
17078 sometimes do. Fixes bug 6203; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
17079 - Fix a bug that stopped AllowDotExit from working on addresses
17080 that had an entry in the DNS cache. Fixes bug 6211; bugfix on
17083 o Code simplification, refactoring, unit tests:
17084 - Move tor_gettimeofday_cached() into compat_libevent.c, and use
17085 Libevent's notion of cached time when possible.
17086 - Remove duplicate code for invoking getrlimit() from control.c.
17087 - Add a unit test for the environment_variable_names_equal function.
17090 - Document the --defaults-torrc option, and the new (in 0.2.3)
17091 semantics for overriding, extending, and clearing lists of
17092 options. Closes bug 4748.
17095 Changes in version 0.2.3.17-beta - 2012-06-15
17096 Tor 0.2.3.17-beta enables compiler and linker hardening by default,
17097 gets our TLS handshake back on track for being able to blend in with
17098 Firefox, fixes a big bug in 0.2.3.16-alpha that broke Tor's interaction
17099 with Vidalia, and otherwise continues to get us closer to a release
17103 - Enable gcc and ld hardening by default. Resolves ticket 5210.
17104 - Update TLS cipher list to match Firefox 8 and later. Resolves
17106 - Implement the client side of proposal 198: remove support for
17107 clients falsely claiming to support standard ciphersuites that
17108 they can actually provide. As of modern OpenSSL versions, it's not
17109 necessary to fake any standard ciphersuite, and doing so prevents
17110 us from using better ciphersuites in the future, since servers
17111 can't know whether an advertised ciphersuite is really supported or
17112 not. Some hosts -- notably, ones with very old versions of OpenSSL
17113 or where OpenSSL has been built with ECC disabled -- will stand
17114 out because of this change; TBB users should not be affected.
17117 - Change the default value for DynamicDHGroups (introduced in
17118 0.2.3.9-alpha) to 0. This feature can make Tor relays less
17119 identifiable by their use of the mod_ssl DH group, but at
17120 the cost of some usability (#4721) and bridge tracing (#6087)
17121 regressions. Resolves ticket 5598.
17122 - Send a CRLF at the end of each STATUS_* control protocol event. This
17123 bug tickled a bug in Vidalia which would make it freeze. Fixes
17124 bug 6094; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
17127 - Disable writing on marked-for-close connections when they are
17128 blocked on bandwidth, to prevent busy-looping in Libevent. Fixes
17129 bug 5263; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13, where we first added a special
17130 case for flushing marked connections.
17131 - Detect SSL handshake even when the initial attempt to write the
17132 server hello fails. Fixes bug 4592; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
17133 - Change the AllowDotExit rules so they should actually work.
17134 We now enforce AllowDotExit only immediately after receiving an
17135 address via SOCKS or DNSPort: other sources are free to provide
17136 .exit addresses after the resolution occurs. Fixes bug 3940;
17137 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
17138 - Fix a (harmless) integer overflow in cell statistics reported by
17139 some fast relays. Fixes bug 5849; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
17140 - Make sure circuitbuild.c checks LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in all the
17141 right places and never depends on the consensus parameters or
17142 computes adaptive timeouts when it is disabled. Fixes bug 5049;
17143 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
17144 - When building Tor on Windows with -DUNICODE (not default), ensure
17145 that error messages, filenames, and DNS server names are always
17146 NUL-terminated when we convert them to a single-byte encoding.
17147 Fixes bug 5909; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
17148 - Make Tor build correctly again with -DUNICODE -D_UNICODE defined.
17149 Fixes bug 6097; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
17150 - Fix an edge case where TestingTorNetwork is set but the authorities
17151 and relays all have an uptime of zero, where the private Tor network
17152 could briefly lack support for hidden services. Fixes bug 3886;
17153 bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
17154 - Correct the manpage's descriptions for the default values of
17155 DirReqStatistics and ExtraInfoStatistics. Fixes bug 2865; bugfix
17157 - Fix the documentation for the --hush and --quiet command line
17158 options, which changed their behavior back in 0.2.3.3-alpha.
17159 - Fix compilation warning with clang 3.1. Fixes bug 6141; bugfix on
17163 - Rate-limit the "Weighted bandwidth is 0.000000" message, and add
17164 more information to it, so that we can track it down in case it
17165 returns again. Mitigates bug 5235.
17166 - Check CircuitBuildTimeout and LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in
17167 options_validate(); warn if LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled and
17168 CircuitBuildTimeout is set unreasonably low. Resolves ticket 5452.
17169 - Warn the user when HTTPProxy, but no other proxy type, is
17170 configured. This can cause surprising behavior: it doesn't send
17171 all of Tor's traffic over the HTTPProxy -- it sends unencrypted
17172 directory traffic only. Resolves ticket 4663.
17173 - Issue a notice if a guard completes less than 40% of your circuits.
17174 Threshold is configurable by torrc option PathBiasNoticeRate and
17175 consensus parameter pb_noticepct. There is additional, off-by-
17176 default code to disable guards which fail too many circuits.
17177 Addresses ticket 5458.
17178 - Update to the June 6 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
17180 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
17181 - Remove validate_pluggable_transports_config(): its warning
17182 message is now handled by connection_or_connect().
17185 Changes in version 0.2.2.37 - 2012-06-06
17186 Tor 0.2.2.37 introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
17187 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
17191 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
17192 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
17193 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
17194 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
17195 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
17196 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
17197 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
17198 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
17199 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
17200 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
17201 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
17204 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
17205 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
17208 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
17209 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
17212 Changes in version 0.2.3.16-alpha - 2012-06-05
17213 Tor 0.2.3.16-alpha introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
17214 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
17215 currently). It also fixes a variety of smaller bugs and other cleanups
17216 that get us closer to a release candidate.
17218 o Major bugfixes (general):
17219 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
17220 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
17221 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
17222 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
17223 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
17224 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
17225 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
17226 - Pass correct OR address to managed proxies (like obfsproxy),
17227 even when ORListenAddress is used. Fixes bug 4865; bugfix on
17229 - The advertised platform of a router now includes only its operating
17230 system's name (e.g., "Linux", "Darwin", "Windows 7"), and not its
17231 service pack level (for Windows) or its CPU architecture (for Unix).
17232 We also no longer include the "git-XYZ" tag in the version. Resolves
17235 o Major bugfixes (clients):
17236 - If we are unable to find any exit that supports our predicted ports,
17237 stop calling them predicted, so that we don't loop and build
17238 hopeless circuits indefinitely. Fixes bug 3296; bugfix on 0.0.9pre6,
17239 which introduced predicted ports.
17240 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
17241 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
17242 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
17243 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
17244 - Check at each new consensus whether our entry guards were picked
17245 long enough ago that we should rotate them. Previously, we only
17246 did this check at startup, which could lead to us holding a guard
17247 indefinitely. Fixes bug 5380; bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc.
17248 - When fetching a bridge descriptor from a bridge authority,
17249 always do so anonymously, whether we have been able to open
17250 circuits or not. Partial fix for bug 1938; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
17251 This behavior makes it *safer* to use UpdateBridgesFromAuthority,
17252 but we'll need to wait for bug 6010 before it's actually usable.
17254 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
17255 - When computing weight parameters, behave more robustly in the
17256 presence of a bad bwweightscale value. Previously, the authorities
17257 would crash if they agreed on a sufficiently broken weight_scale
17258 value: now, they use a reasonable default and carry on. Partial
17259 fix for 5786; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
17260 - Check more thoroughly to prevent a rogue authority from
17261 double-voting on any consensus directory parameter. Previously,
17262 authorities would crash in this case if the total number of
17263 votes for any parameter exceeded the number of active voters,
17264 but would let it pass otherwise. Partial fix for bug 5786; bugfix
17268 - Rate-limit log messages when asked to connect anonymously to
17269 a private address. When these hit, they tended to hit fast and
17270 often. Also, don't bother trying to connect to addresses that we
17271 are sure will resolve to 127.0.0.1: getting 127.0.0.1 in a directory
17272 reply makes us think we have been lied to, even when the address the
17273 client tried to connect to was "localhost." Resolves ticket 2822.
17274 - Allow packagers to insert an extra string in server descriptor
17275 platform lines by setting the preprocessor variable TOR_BUILD_TAG.
17276 Resolves the rest of ticket 2988.
17277 - Raise the threshold of server descriptors needed (75%) and exit
17278 server descriptors needed (50%) before we will declare ourselves
17279 bootstrapped. This will make clients start building circuits a
17280 little later, but makes the initially constructed circuits less
17281 skewed and less in conflict with further directory fetches. Fixes
17283 - Close any connection that sends unrecognized junk before the
17284 handshake. Solves an issue noted in bug 4369.
17285 - Improve log messages about managed transports. Resolves ticket 5070.
17286 - Tag a bridge's descriptor as "never to be sent unencrypted".
17287 This shouldn't matter, since bridges don't open non-anonymous
17288 connections to the bridge authority and don't allow unencrypted
17289 directory connections from clients, but we might as well make
17290 sure. Closes bug 5139.
17291 - Expose our view of whether we have gone dormant to the controller,
17292 via a new "GETINFO dormant" value. Torbutton and other controllers
17293 can use this to avoid doing periodic requests through Tor while
17294 it's dormant (bug 4718). Fixes bug 5954.
17295 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
17296 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
17297 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
17299 o Minor bugfixes (already included in 0.2.2.36):
17300 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
17301 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
17302 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
17303 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
17304 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
17305 Esteban Manchado Velázques.
17306 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
17307 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
17308 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
17309 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
17310 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
17311 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
17312 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
17313 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
17314 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
17315 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
17316 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
17317 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
17318 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
17320 o Minor bugfixes (coding cleanup, on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
17321 - Prevent a null-pointer dereference when receiving a data cell
17322 for a nonexistent stream when the circuit in question has an
17323 empty deliver window. We don't believe this is triggerable,
17324 since we don't currently allow deliver windows to become empty,
17325 but the logic is tricky enough that it's better to make the code
17326 robust. Fixes bug 5541; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
17327 - Fix a memory leak when trying to launch a DNS request when the
17328 network is disabled or the nameservers are unconfigurable. Fixes
17329 bug 5916; bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha (for the unconfigurable
17330 nameserver case) and on 0.2.3.9-alpha (for the DisableNetwork case).
17331 - Don't hold a Windows file handle open for every file mapping;
17332 the file mapping handle is sufficient. Fixes bug 5951; bugfix on
17334 - Avoid O(n^2) performance characteristics when parsing a large
17335 extrainfo cache. Fixes bug 5828; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
17336 - Format more doubles with %f, not %lf. Patch from grarpamp to make
17337 Tor build correctly on older BSDs again. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on
17339 - Make our replacement implementation of strtok_r() compatible with
17340 the standard behavior of strtok_r(). Patch by nils. Fixes bug 5091;
17341 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
17342 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed
17343 SETCIRCUITPURPOSE command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796;
17344 bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
17345 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
17346 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
17347 - Defensively refactor rend_mid_rendezvous() so that protocol
17348 violations and length checks happen in the beginning. Fixes
17350 - Set _WIN32_WINNT to 0x0501 consistently throughout the code, so
17351 that IPv6 stuff will compile on MSVC, and compilation issues
17352 will be easier to track down. Fixes bug 5861.
17354 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
17355 - Exit nodes now correctly report EADDRINUSE and EADDRNOTAVAIL as
17356 resource exhaustion, so that clients can adjust their load to
17357 try other exits. Fixes bug 4710; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc, which
17358 started using END_STREAM_REASON_RESOURCELIMIT.
17359 - Don't check for whether the address we're using for outbound
17360 connections has changed until after the outbound connection has
17361 completed. On Windows, getsockname() doesn't succeed until the
17362 connection is finished. Fixes bug 5374; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
17363 - If the configuration tries to set MyFamily on a bridge, refuse to
17364 do so, and warn about the security implications. Fixes bug 4657;
17365 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
17366 - If the client fails to set a reasonable set of ciphersuites
17367 during its v2 handshake renegotiation, allow the renegotiation to
17368 continue nevertheless (i.e. send all the required certificates).
17369 Fixes bug 4591; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
17370 - When we receive a SIGHUP and the controller __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP
17371 option is set to 0 (which Vidalia version 0.2.16 now does when
17372 a SAVECONF attempt fails), perform other actions that SIGHUP
17373 usually causes (like reopening the logs). Fixes bug 5095; bugfix
17375 - If we fail to write a microdescriptor to the disk cache, do not
17376 continue replacing the old microdescriptor file. Fixes bug 2954;
17377 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
17378 - Exit nodes don't need to fetch certificates for authorities that
17379 they don't recognize; only directory authorities, bridges,
17380 and caches need to do that. Fixes part of bug 2297; bugfix on
17382 - Correctly handle checking the permissions on the parent
17383 directory of a control socket in the root directory. Bug found
17384 by Esteban Manchado Velázquez. Fixes bug 5089; bugfix on Tor
17386 - When told to add a bridge with the same digest as a preexisting
17387 bridge but a different addr:port, change the addr:port as
17388 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
17389 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
17390 - End AUTHCHALLENGE error messages (in the control protocol) with
17391 a CRLF. Fixes bug 5760; bugfix on 0.2.2.36 and 0.2.3.13-alpha.
17393 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
17394 - Turn an assertion (that the number of handshakes received as a
17395 server is not < 1) into a warning. Fixes bug 4873; bugfix on
17397 - Format IPv4 addresses correctly in ADDRMAP events. (Previously,
17398 we had reversed them when the answer was cached.) Fixes bug
17399 5723; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
17400 - Work correctly on Linux systems with accept4 support advertised in
17401 their headers, but without accept4 support in the kernel. Fix
17402 by murb. Fixes bug 5762; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
17403 - When told to add a bridge with the same addr:port as a preexisting
17404 bridge but a different transport, change the transport as
17405 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
17406 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
17407 - Avoid a "double-reply" warning when replying to a SOCKS request
17408 with a parse error. Patch from Fabian Keil. Fixes bug 4108;
17409 bugfix on 0.2.3.4-alpha.
17410 - Fix a bug where a bridge authority crashes if it has seen no
17411 directory requests when it's time to write statistics to disk.
17412 Fixes bug 5891; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Also fixes bug 5508 in
17414 - Don't try to open non-control listeners when DisableNetwork is set.
17415 Previously, we'd open all listeners, then immediately close them.
17416 Fixes bug 5604; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
17417 - Don't abort the managed proxy protocol if the managed proxy
17418 sends us an unrecognized line; ignore it instead. Fixes bug
17419 5910; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
17420 - Fix a compile warning in crypto.c when compiling with clang 3.1.
17421 Fixes bug 5969, bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
17422 - Fix a compilation issue on GNU Hurd, which doesn't have PATH_MAX.
17423 Fixes bug 5355; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
17424 - Remove bogus definition of "_WIN32" from src/win32/orconfig.h, to
17425 unbreak the MSVC build. Fixes bug 5858; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
17426 - Resolve numerous small warnings and build issues with MSVC. Resolves
17429 o Documentation fixes:
17430 - Improve the manual's documentation for the NT Service command-line
17431 options. Addresses ticket 3964.
17432 - Clarify SessionGroup documentation slightly; resolves ticket 5437.
17433 - Document the changes to the ORPort and DirPort options, and the
17434 fact that {OR/Dir}ListenAddress is now unnecessary (and
17435 therefore deprecated). Resolves ticket 5597.
17438 - Remove the torrc.bridge file: we don't use it for anything, and
17439 it had become badly desynchronized from torrc.sample. Resolves
17443 Changes in version 0.2.2.36 - 2012-05-24
17444 Tor 0.2.2.36 updates the addresses for two of the eight directory
17445 authorities, fixes some potential anonymity and security issues,
17446 and fixes several crash bugs.
17448 Tor 0.2.1.x has reached its end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many
17449 known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should upgrade. If
17450 you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete, stop using
17451 those packages and upgrade anyway.
17453 o Directory authority changes:
17454 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
17455 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
17459 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
17460 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
17461 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
17462 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
17463 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
17464 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
17465 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
17466 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
17467 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
17468 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
17469 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
17470 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
17471 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
17472 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
17473 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
17474 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
17475 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
17476 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
17477 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
17478 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
17479 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
17480 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
17481 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
17482 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
17483 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
17484 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
17485 this attack. Fixes bug 5185; implements proposal 193.
17488 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
17489 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
17490 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
17491 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
17493 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
17494 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
17496 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
17497 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
17498 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
17499 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
17500 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
17501 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
17502 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
17503 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
17506 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
17507 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
17508 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
17509 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
17510 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
17511 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
17512 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
17513 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
17514 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
17515 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
17516 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
17517 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
17518 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
17519 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
17520 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
17521 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
17522 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
17523 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
17524 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
17525 Esteban Manchado Velázques.
17526 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
17527 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
17528 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
17529 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
17530 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
17531 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
17532 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
17533 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
17534 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
17535 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
17536 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
17537 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
17538 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
17539 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
17540 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
17541 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
17542 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
17543 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
17544 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
17545 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
17546 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed SETCIRCUITPURPOSE
17547 command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
17548 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
17549 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
17550 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
17551 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
17553 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
17554 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
17555 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
17556 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
17557 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
17558 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
17559 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
17560 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
17561 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
17562 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
17563 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
17564 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
17565 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
17566 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
17567 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
17570 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
17571 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
17572 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
17573 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
17575 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
17578 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
17579 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
17580 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
17581 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
17582 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
17583 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
17584 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
17587 Changes in version 0.2.3.15-alpha - 2012-04-30
17588 Tor 0.2.3.15-alpha fixes a variety of smaller bugs, including making
17589 the development branch build on Windows again.
17591 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
17592 - Make sure that there are no unhandled pending TLS errors before
17593 reading from a TLS stream. We had checks in 0.1.0.3-rc, but
17594 lost them in 0.1.0.5-rc when we refactored read_to_buf_tls().
17595 Bugfix on 0.1.0.5-rc; fixes bug 4528.
17596 - Fix an assert that directory authorities could trigger on sighup
17597 during some configuration state transitions. We now don't treat
17598 it as a fatal error when the new descriptor we just generated in
17599 init_keys() isn't accepted. Fixes bug 4438; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
17600 - After we pick a directory mirror, we would refuse to use it if
17601 it's in our ExcludeExitNodes list, resulting in mysterious failures
17602 to bootstrap for people who just wanted to avoid exiting from
17603 certain locations. Fixes bug 5623; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
17604 - When building with --enable-static-tor on OpenBSD, do not
17605 erroneously attempt to link -lrt. Fixes bug 5103.
17607 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
17608 - When Tor is built with kernel headers from a recent (last few
17609 years) Linux kernel, do not fail to run on older (pre-2.6.28
17610 Linux kernels). Fixes bug 5112; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
17611 - Fix cross-compilation issues with mingw. Bugfixes on 0.2.3.6-alpha
17612 and 0.2.3.12-alpha.
17613 - Fix compilation with miniupnpc version 1.6; patch from
17614 Anthony G. Basile. Fixes bug 5434; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
17615 - Fix compilation with MSVC, which had defined MS_WINDOWS. Bugfix
17616 on 0.2.3.13-alpha; found and fixed by Gisle Vanem.
17617 - Fix compilation on platforms without unistd.h, or where environ
17618 is defined in stdlib.h. Fixes bug 5704; bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
17621 - Directory authorities are now a little more lenient at accepting
17622 older router descriptors, or newer router descriptors that don't
17623 make big changes. This should help ameliorate past and future
17624 issues where routers think they have uploaded valid descriptors,
17625 but the authorities don't think so. Fix for ticket 2479.
17626 - Make the code that clients use to detect an address change be
17627 IPv6-aware, so that it won't fill clients' logs with error
17628 messages when trying to get the IPv4 address of an IPv6
17629 connection. Implements ticket 5537.
17631 o Removed features:
17632 - Remove the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays option;
17633 authorities needed to use it for a while to keep the network working
17634 as people upgraded to 0.2.1.31, 0.2.2.34, or 0.2.3.6-alpha, but
17635 that was six months ago. As of now, it should no longer be needed
17639 Changes in version 0.2.3.14-alpha - 2012-04-23
17640 Tor 0.2.3.14-alpha fixes yet more bugs to get us closer to a release
17641 candidate. It also dramatically speeds up AES: fast relays should
17642 consider switching to the newer OpenSSL library.
17644 o Directory authority changes:
17645 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
17649 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
17650 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
17651 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
17652 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
17654 - If authorities are unable to get a v2 consensus document from other
17655 directory authorities, they no longer fall back to fetching
17656 them from regular directory caches. Fixes bug 5635; bugfix on
17657 0.2.2.26-beta, where routers stopped downloading v2 consensus
17658 documents entirely.
17659 - When we start a Tor client with a normal consensus already cached,
17660 be willing to download a microdescriptor consensus. Fixes bug 4011;
17661 fix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
17663 o Major features (performance):
17664 - When built to use OpenSSL 1.0.1, and built for an x86 or x86_64
17665 instruction set, take advantage of OpenSSL's AESNI, bitsliced, or
17666 vectorized AES implementations as appropriate. These can be much,
17667 much faster than other AES implementations.
17669 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.2.x and earlier):
17670 - Don't launch more than 10 service-side introduction-point circuits
17671 for a hidden service in five minutes. Previously, we would consider
17672 launching more introduction-point circuits if at least one second
17673 had passed without any introduction-point circuits failing. Fixes
17674 bug 4607; bugfix on 0.0.7pre1.
17675 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
17676 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
17677 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
17678 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
17679 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
17680 - Enforce correct return behavior of tor_vsscanf() when the '%%'
17681 pattern is used. Fixes bug 5558. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13.
17682 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
17683 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
17684 - Don't log that we have "decided to publish new relay descriptor"
17685 unless we are actually publishing a descriptor. Fixes bug 3942;
17686 bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
17688 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.3.x):
17689 - Fix a bug where a bridge authority crashes (on a failed assert)
17690 if it has seen no directory requests when it's time to write
17691 statistics to disk. Fixes bug 5508. Bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
17692 - Fix bug stomping on ORPort option NoListen and ignoring option
17693 NoAdvertise. Fixes bug 5151; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
17694 - In the testsuite, provide a large enough buffer in the tor_sscanf
17695 unit test. Otherwise we'd overrun that buffer and crash during
17696 the unit tests. Found by weasel. Fixes bug 5449; bugfix on
17698 - Make sure we create the keys directory if it doesn't exist and we're
17699 about to store the dynamic Diffie-Hellman parameters. Fixes bug
17700 5572; bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
17701 - Fix a small memory leak when trying to decode incorrect base16
17702 authenticator during SAFECOOKIE authentication. Found by
17703 Coverity Scan. Fixes CID 507. Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
17706 - Add more information to a log statement that might help track down
17707 bug 4091. If you're seeing "Bug: tor_addr_is_internal() called with a
17708 non-IP address" messages (or any Bug messages, for that matter!),
17709 please let us know about it.
17710 - Relays now understand an IPv6 address when they get one from a
17711 directory server. Resolves ticket 4875.
17712 - Resolve IPv6 addresses in bridge and entry statistics to country
17713 code "??" which means we at least count them. Resolves ticket 5053;
17714 improves on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
17715 - Update to the April 3 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
17716 - Begin a doc/state-contents.txt file to explain the contents of
17717 the Tor state file. Fixes bug 2987.
17719 o Default torrc changes:
17720 - Stop listing "socksport 9050" in torrc.sample. We open a socks
17721 port on 9050 by default anyway, so this should not change anything
17723 - Stop mentioning the deprecated *ListenAddress options in
17724 torrc.sample. Fixes bug 5438.
17725 - Document unit of bandwidth related options in sample torrc.
17728 o Removed features:
17729 - The "torify" script no longer supports the "tsocks" socksifier
17730 tool, since tsocks doesn't support DNS and UDP right for Tor.
17731 Everyone should be using torsocks instead. Fixes bugs 3530 and
17732 5180. Based on a patch by "ugh".
17734 o Code refactoring:
17735 - Change the symmetric cipher interface so that creating and
17736 initializing a stream cipher are no longer separate functions.
17737 - Remove all internal support for unpadded RSA. We never used it, and
17738 it would be a bad idea to start.
17741 Changes in version 0.2.3.13-alpha - 2012-03-26
17742 Tor 0.2.3.13-alpha fixes a variety of stability and correctness bugs
17743 in managed pluggable transports, as well as providing other cleanups
17744 that get us closer to a release candidate.
17746 o Directory authority changes:
17747 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
17750 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
17751 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
17752 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
17753 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
17754 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
17755 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
17756 this attack. Fixes bug 5185, implements proposal 193.
17757 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
17758 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
17759 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
17760 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
17761 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
17762 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
17763 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
17764 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
17765 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
17767 o Major bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.3.x):
17768 - Avoid an assert when managed proxies like obfsproxy are configured,
17769 and we receive HUP signals or setconf attempts too rapidly. This
17770 situation happens most commonly when Vidalia tries to attach to
17771 Tor or tries to configure the Tor it's attached to. Fixes bug 5084;
17772 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
17773 - Fix a relay-side pluggable transports bug where managed proxies were
17774 unreachable from the Internet, because Tor asked them to bind on
17775 localhost. Fixes bug 4725; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
17776 - Stop discarding command-line arguments when TestingTorNetwork
17777 is set. Discovered by Kevin Bauer. Fixes bug 5373; bugfix on
17778 0.2.3.9-alpha, where task 4552 added support for two layers of
17780 - Resume allowing the unit tests to run in gdb. This was accidentally
17781 made impossible when the DisableDebuggerAttachment option was
17782 introduced. Fixes bug 5448; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
17783 - Resume building with nat-pmp support. Fixes bug 4955; bugfix on
17784 0.2.3.11-alpha. Reported by Anthony G. Basile.
17786 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
17787 - Ensure we don't cannibalize circuits that are longer than three hops
17788 already, so we don't end up making circuits with 5 or more
17789 hops. Patch contributed by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 5231; bugfix on
17790 0.1.0.1-rc which introduced cannibalization.
17791 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
17792 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
17793 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
17794 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
17795 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
17796 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
17797 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
17798 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
17799 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
17800 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
17801 - Directory caches no longer refuse to clean out descriptors because
17802 of missing v2 networkstatus documents, unless they're configured
17803 to retrieve v2 networkstatus documents. Fixes bug 4838; bugfix on
17804 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch by Daniel Bryg.
17805 - Update to the latest version of the tinytest unit testing framework.
17806 This includes a couple of bugfixes that can be relevant for
17807 running forked unit tests on Windows, and removes all reserved
17810 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
17811 - On a failed pipe() call, don't leak file descriptors. Fixes bug
17812 4296; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
17813 - Spec conformance: on a v3 handshake, do not send a NETINFO cell
17814 until after we have received a CERTS cell. Fixes bug 4361; bugfix
17815 on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by "frosty".
17816 - When binding to an IPv6 address, set the IPV6_V6ONLY socket
17817 option, so that the IP stack doesn't decide to use it for IPv4
17818 too. Fixes bug 4760; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
17819 - Ensure that variables set in Tor's environment cannot override
17820 environment variables that Tor passes to a managed
17821 pluggable-transport proxy. Previously, Tor would pass every
17822 variable in its environment to managed proxies along with the new
17823 ones, in such a way that on many operating systems, the inherited
17824 environment variables would override those which Tor tried to
17825 explicitly set. Bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha for most Unixoid systems;
17826 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha for Windows.
17829 - A wide variety of new unit tests by Esteban Manchado Velázquez.
17830 - Shorten links in the tor-exit-notice file. Patch by Christian Kujau.
17831 - Update to the March 6 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
17834 Changes in version 0.2.3.12-alpha - 2012-02-13
17835 Tor 0.2.3.12-alpha lets fast exit relays scale better, allows clients
17836 to use bridges that run Tor 0.2.2.x, and resolves several big bugs
17837 when Tor is configured to use a pluggable transport like obfsproxy.
17840 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
17841 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
17843 - Set the SO_REUSEADDR socket option before we call bind() on outgoing
17844 connections. This change should allow busy exit relays to stop
17845 running out of available sockets as quickly. Fixes bug 4950;
17846 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
17847 - Allow 0.2.3.x clients to use 0.2.2.x bridges. Previously the client
17848 would ask the bridge for microdescriptors, which are only supported
17849 in 0.2.3.x, and then fail to bootstrap when it didn't get the
17850 answers it wanted. Fixes bug 4013; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
17851 - Properly set up obfsproxy's environment when in managed mode. The
17852 Tor Browser Bundle needs LD_LIBRARY_PATH to be passed to obfsproxy,
17853 and when you run your Tor as a daemon, there's no HOME. Fixes bugs
17854 5076 and 5082; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
17857 - Use the dead_strip option when building Tor on OS X. This reduces
17858 binary size by almost 19% when linking openssl and libevent
17859 statically, which we do for Tor Browser Bundle.
17860 - Fix broken URLs in the sample torrc file, and tell readers about
17861 the OutboundBindAddress, ExitPolicyRejectPrivate, and
17862 PublishServerDescriptor options. Addresses bug 4652.
17863 - Update to the February 7 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
17866 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
17867 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
17868 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
17869 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
17870 - Don't put "TOR_PT_EXTENDED_SERVER_PORT=127.0.0.1:4200" in a
17871 managed pluggable transport server proxy's environment.
17872 Previously, we would put it there, even though Tor doesn't
17873 implement an 'extended server port' yet, and even though Tor
17874 almost certainly isn't listening at that address. For now, we set
17875 it to an empty string to avoid crashing older obfsproxies. Bugfix
17877 - Log the heartbeat message every HeartbeatPeriod seconds, not every
17878 HeartbeatPeriod + 1 seconds. Fixes bug 4942; bugfix on
17879 0.2.3.1-alpha. Bug reported by Scott Bennett.
17880 - Calculate absolute paths correctly on Windows. Fixes bug 4973;
17881 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
17882 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
17883 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
17884 - Use the correct CVE number for CVE-2011-4576 in our comments and
17885 log messages. Found by "fermenthor". Resolves bug 5066; bugfix on
17888 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
17889 - Use the _WIN32 macro throughout our code to detect Windows.
17890 (Previously we had used the obsolete 'WIN32' and the idiosyncratic
17894 Changes in version 0.2.3.11-alpha - 2012-01-22
17895 Tor 0.2.3.11-alpha marks feature-freeze for the 0.2.3 tree. It deploys
17896 the last step of the plan to limit maximum circuit length, includes
17897 a wide variety of hidden service performance and correctness fixes,
17898 works around an OpenSSL security flaw if your distro is too stubborn
17899 to upgrade, and fixes a bunch of smaller issues.
17902 - Now that Tor 0.2.0.x is completely deprecated, enable the final
17903 part of "Proposal 110: Avoiding infinite length circuits" by
17904 refusing all circuit-extend requests that do not use a relay_early
17905 cell. This change helps Tor resist a class of denial-of-service
17906 attacks by limiting the maximum circuit length.
17907 - Adjust the number of introduction points that a hidden service
17908 will try to maintain based on how long its introduction points
17909 remain in use and how many introductions they handle. Fixes
17911 - Try to use system facilities for enumerating local interface
17912 addresses, before falling back to our old approach (which was
17913 binding a UDP socket, and calling getsockname() on it). That
17914 approach was scaring OS X users whose draconian firewall
17915 software warned about binding to UDP sockets, regardless of
17916 whether packets were sent. Now we try to use getifaddrs(),
17917 SIOCGIFCONF, or GetAdaptersAddresses(), depending on what the
17918 system supports. Resolves ticket 1827.
17920 o Major security workaround:
17921 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
17922 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
17923 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
17924 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
17925 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
17926 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
17927 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
17928 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
17929 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
17930 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
17931 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
17934 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
17935 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
17936 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
17937 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
17938 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
17939 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
17940 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
17941 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha and 0.2.3.1-alpha.
17942 - Do not use OpenSSL 1.0.0's counter mode: it has a critical bug
17943 that was fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.0a. We test for the counter mode
17944 bug at runtime, not compile time, because some distributions hack
17945 their OpenSSL to mis-report its version. Fixes bug 4779; bugfix
17946 on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Found by Pascal.
17948 o Minor features (controller):
17949 - Use absolute path names when reporting the torrc filename in the
17950 control protocol, so a controller can more easily find the torrc
17951 file. Resolves bug 1101.
17952 - Extend the control protocol to report flags that control a circuit's
17953 path selection in CIRC events and in replies to 'GETINFO
17954 circuit-status'. Implements part of ticket 2411.
17955 - Extend the control protocol to report the hidden service address
17956 and current state of a hidden-service-related circuit in CIRC
17957 events and in replies to 'GETINFO circuit-status'. Implements part
17959 - When reporting the path to the cookie file to the controller,
17960 give an absolute path. Resolves ticket 4881.
17961 - Allow controllers to request an event notification whenever a
17962 circuit is cannibalized or its purpose is changed. Implements
17963 part of ticket 3457.
17964 - Include the creation time of a circuit in CIRC and CIRC2
17965 control-port events and the list produced by the 'GETINFO
17966 circuit-status' control-port command.
17968 o Minor features (directory authorities):
17969 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
17970 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
17971 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
17972 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
17974 - Authority operators can now vote for all relays in a given
17975 set of countries to be BadDir/BadExit/Invalid/Rejected.
17976 - Provide two consensus parameters (FastFlagMinThreshold and
17977 FastFlagMaxThreshold) to control the range of allowable bandwidths
17978 for the Fast directory flag. These allow authorities to run
17979 experiments on appropriate requirements for being a "Fast" node.
17980 The AuthDirFastGuarantee config value still applies. Implements
17982 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
17983 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
17985 o Minor features (other):
17986 - Don't disable the DirPort when we cannot exceed our AccountingMax
17987 limit during this interval because the effective bandwidthrate is
17988 low enough. This is useful in a situation where AccountMax is only
17989 used as an additional safeguard or to provide statistics.
17990 - Prepend an informative header to generated dynamic_dh_params files.
17991 - If EntryNodes are given, but UseEntryGuards is set to 0, warn that
17992 EntryNodes will have no effect. Resolves issue 2571.
17993 - Log more useful messages when we fail to disable debugger
17995 - Log which authority we're missing votes from when we go to fetch
17996 them from the other auths.
17997 - Log (at debug level) whenever a circuit's purpose is changed.
17998 - Add missing documentation for the MaxClientCircuitsPending,
17999 UseMicrodescriptors, UserspaceIOCPBuffers, and
18000 _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents options, all introduced during
18001 the 0.2.3.x series.
18002 - Update to the January 3 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
18004 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
18005 - Don't close hidden service client circuits which have almost
18006 finished connecting to their destination when they reach
18007 the normal circuit-build timeout. Previously, we would close
18008 introduction circuits which are waiting for an acknowledgement
18009 from the introduction point, and rendezvous circuits which have
18010 been specified in an INTRODUCE1 cell sent to a hidden service,
18011 after the normal CBT. Now, we mark them as 'timed out', and launch
18012 another rendezvous attempt in parallel. This behavior change can
18013 be disabled using the new CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout
18014 option. Fixes part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
18015 - Don't close hidden-service-side rendezvous circuits when they
18016 reach the normal circuit-build timeout. This behavior change can
18017 be disabled using the new
18018 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout option. Fixes the
18019 remaining part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
18020 - Make sure we never mark the wrong rendezvous circuit as having
18021 had its introduction cell acknowledged by the introduction-point
18022 relay. Previously, when we received an INTRODUCE_ACK cell on a
18023 client-side hidden-service introduction circuit, we might have
18024 marked a rendezvous circuit other than the one we specified in
18025 the INTRODUCE1 cell as INTRO_ACKED, which would have produced
18026 a warning message and interfered with the hidden service
18027 connection-establishment process. Fixes bug 4759; bugfix on
18028 0.2.3.3-alpha, when we added the stream-isolation feature which
18029 might cause Tor to open multiple rendezvous circuits for the same
18031 - Don't trigger an assertion failure when we mark a new client-side
18032 hidden-service introduction circuit for close during the process
18033 of creating it. Fixes bug 4796; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported
18036 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
18037 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
18038 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta and
18040 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
18041 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
18042 - Fix the log message describing how we work around discovering
18043 that our version is the ill-fated OpenSSL 0.9.8l. Fixes bug
18044 4837; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
18045 - When logging about a disallowed .exit name, do not also call it
18046 an "invalid onion address". Fixes bug 3325; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
18048 o Minor bugfixes (build fixes):
18049 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
18050 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
18051 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
18052 - During configure, search for library containing cos function as
18053 libm lives in libcore on some platforms (BeOS/Haiku). Linking
18054 against libm was hard-coded before. Fixes the first part of bug
18055 4727; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin Hebnes
18057 - Detect attempts to build Tor on (as yet hypothetical) versions
18058 of Windows where sizeof(intptr_t) != sizeof(SOCKET). Partial
18059 fix for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
18060 - Preprocessor directives should not be put inside the arguments
18061 of a macro. This would break compilation with GCC releases prior
18062 to version 3.3. We would never recommend such an old GCC version,
18063 but it is apparently required for binary compatibility on some
18064 platforms (namely, certain builds of Haiku). Fixes the other part
18065 of bug 4727; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin
18068 o Minor bugfixes (other):
18069 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
18070 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
18071 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
18072 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
18073 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
18074 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
18075 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
18076 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
18077 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un". This was
18078 erroneously listed as fixed in 0.2.3.9-alpha, but the fix had
18079 accidentally been reverted.
18080 - Fix our implementation of crypto_random_hostname() so it can't
18081 overflow on ridiculously large inputs. (No Tor version has ever
18082 provided this kind of bad inputs, but let's be correct in depth.)
18083 Fixes bug 4413; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Fix by Stephen Palmateer.
18084 - Find more places in the code that should have been testing for
18085 invalid sockets using the SOCKET_OK macro. Required for a fix
18086 for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
18087 - Fix an assertion failure when, while running with bufferevents, a
18088 connection finishes connecting after it is marked for close, but
18089 before it is closed. Fixes bug 4697; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
18090 - test_util_spawn_background_ok() hardcoded the expected value
18091 for ENOENT to 2. This isn't portable as error numbers are
18092 platform specific, and particularly the hurd has ENOENT at
18093 0x40000002. Construct expected string at runtime, using the correct
18094 value for ENOENT. Fixes bug 4733; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
18095 - Reject attempts to disable DisableDebuggerAttachment while Tor is
18096 running. Fixes bug 4650; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
18097 - Use an appropriate-width type for sockets in tor-fw-helper on
18098 win64. Fixes bug 1983 at last. Bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
18101 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
18102 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
18103 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
18104 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
18105 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
18106 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
18107 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
18109 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
18110 - Use OpenSSL's built-in SSL_state_string_long() instead of our
18111 own homebrewed ssl_state_to_string() replacement. Patch from
18112 Emile Snyder. Fixes bug 4653.
18113 - Use macros to indicate OpenSSL versions, so we don't need to worry
18114 about accidental hexadecimal bit shifts.
18115 - Remove some workaround code for OpenSSL 0.9.6 (which is no longer
18117 - Convert more instances of tor_snprintf+tor_strdup into tor_asprintf.
18118 - Use the smartlist_add_asprintf() alias more consistently.
18119 - Use a TOR_INVALID_SOCKET macro when initializing a socket to an
18120 invalid value, rather than just -1.
18121 - Rename a handful of old identifiers, mostly related to crypto
18122 structures and crypto functions. By convention, our "create an
18123 object" functions are called "type_new()", our "free an object"
18124 functions are called "type_free()", and our types indicate that
18125 they are types only with a final "_t". But a handful of older
18126 types and functions broke these rules, with function names like
18127 "type_create" or "subsystem_op_type", or with type names like
18131 Changes in version 0.2.3.10-alpha - 2011-12-16
18132 Tor 0.2.3.10-alpha fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in
18133 Tor's buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
18135 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
18136 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
18137 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
18138 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
18139 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
18140 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
18141 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
18142 (which Tor does not do by default).
18144 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
18145 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
18146 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
18147 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
18148 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
18150 This release also contains a few minor bugfixes for issues discovered
18154 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
18155 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
18156 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
18157 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
18160 - If we can't attach streams to a rendezvous circuit when we
18161 finish connecting to a hidden service, clear the rendezvous
18162 circuit's stream-isolation state and try to attach streams
18163 again. Previously, we cleared rendezvous circuits' isolation
18164 state either too early (if they were freshly built) or not at all
18165 (if they had been built earlier and were cannibalized). Bugfix on
18166 0.2.3.3-alpha; fixes bug 4655.
18167 - Fix compilation of the libnatpmp helper on non-Windows. Bugfix on
18168 0.2.3.9-alpha; fixes bug 4691. Reported by Anthony G. Basile.
18169 - Fix an assertion failure when a relay with accounting enabled
18170 starts up while dormant. Fixes bug 4702; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
18173 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
18176 Changes in version 0.2.2.35 - 2011-12-16
18177 Tor 0.2.2.35 fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in Tor's
18178 buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
18180 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
18181 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
18182 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
18183 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
18184 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
18185 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
18186 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
18187 (which Tor does not do by default).
18189 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
18190 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
18191 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
18192 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
18193 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
18195 Tor 0.2.2.35 also fixes several bugs in previous versions, including
18196 crash bugs for unusual configurations, and a long-term bug that
18197 would prevent Tor from starting on Windows machines with draconian
18200 With this release, we remind everyone that 0.2.0.x has reached its
18201 formal end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many known flaws, and
18202 nobody should be using them. You should upgrade -- ideally to the
18203 0.2.2.x series. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are
18204 obsolete, stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
18206 The Tor 0.2.1.x series is also approaching its end-of-life: it will no
18207 longer receive support after some time in early 2012.
18210 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
18211 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
18212 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
18213 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
18214 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
18215 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
18216 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
18217 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
18219 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
18220 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
18221 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
18222 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
18223 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
18224 close based on processing a cell on it.
18225 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
18226 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
18227 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
18228 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
18229 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
18230 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
18231 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
18232 - Don't crash when we're running as a relay and don't have a GeoIP
18233 file. Bugfix on 0.2.2.34; fixes bug 4340. This backports a fix
18234 we've had in the 0.2.3.x branch already.
18235 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
18236 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
18237 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
18238 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
18239 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34.
18242 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
18243 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
18244 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
18245 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
18246 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
18247 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
18248 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
18250 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
18251 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
18252 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
18253 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
18254 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
18255 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
18256 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
18257 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
18258 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
18259 - Fix a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
18260 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
18261 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
18262 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
18263 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
18264 - Backport fixes for a pair of compilation warnings on Windows.
18265 Fixes bug 4521; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta and on 0.2.2.29-beta.
18266 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str on an address of
18267 unknown type, we would have done a strdup on an uninitialized
18268 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
18269 Reported by "troll_un".
18270 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
18271 tor_addr_lookup. Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
18272 Reported by "troll_un".
18273 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
18274 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
18275 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
18276 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
18279 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
18280 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
18281 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
18282 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
18283 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
18284 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
18285 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
18286 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
18287 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
18288 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
18289 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
18291 o Packaging changes:
18292 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
18293 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
18296 Changes in version 0.2.1.32 - 2011-12-16
18297 Tor 0.2.1.32 backports important security and privacy fixes for
18298 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
18299 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
18300 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
18302 The Tor 0.2.1.x series will reach formal end-of-life some time in
18303 early 2012; we will stop releasing patches for it then.
18305 o Major bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
18306 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
18307 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
18308 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
18309 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
18310 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
18311 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
18312 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
18313 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
18316 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
18319 Changes in version 0.2.3.9-alpha - 2011-12-08
18320 Tor 0.2.3.9-alpha introduces initial IPv6 support for bridges, adds
18321 a "DisableNetwork" security feature that bundles can use to avoid
18322 touching the network until bridges are configured, moves forward on
18323 the pluggable transport design, fixes a flaw in the hidden service
18324 design that unnecessarily prevented clients with wrong clocks from
18325 reaching hidden services, and fixes a wide variety of other issues.
18328 - Clients can now connect to private bridges over IPv6. Bridges
18329 still need at least one IPv4 address in order to connect to
18330 other relays. Note that we don't yet handle the case where the
18331 user has two bridge lines for the same bridge (one IPv4, one
18332 IPv6). Implements parts of proposal 186.
18333 - New "DisableNetwork" config option to prevent Tor from launching any
18334 connections or accepting any connections except on a control port.
18335 Bundles and controllers can set this option before letting Tor talk
18336 to the rest of the network, for example to prevent any connections
18337 to a non-bridge address. Packages like Orbot can also use this
18338 option to instruct Tor to save power when the network is off.
18339 - Clients and bridges can now be configured to use a separate
18340 "transport" proxy. This approach makes the censorship arms race
18341 easier by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation plugins. It
18342 implements the "managed proxy" part of proposal 180 (ticket 3472).
18343 - When using OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, use OpenSSL's counter mode
18344 implementation. It makes AES_CTR about 7% faster than our old one
18345 (which was about 10% faster than the one OpenSSL used to provide).
18346 Resolves ticket 4526.
18347 - Add a "tor2web mode" for clients that want to connect to hidden
18348 services non-anonymously (and possibly more quickly). As a safety
18349 measure to try to keep users from turning this on without knowing
18350 what they are doing, tor2web mode must be explicitly enabled at
18351 compile time, and a copy of Tor compiled to run in tor2web mode
18352 cannot be used as a normal Tor client. Implements feature 2553.
18353 - Add experimental support for running on Windows with IOCP and no
18354 kernel-space socket buffers. This feature is controlled by a new
18355 "UserspaceIOCPBuffers" config option (off by default), which has
18356 no effect unless Tor has been built with support for bufferevents,
18357 is running on Windows, and has enabled IOCP. This may, in the long
18358 run, help solve or mitigate bug 98.
18359 - Use a more secure consensus parameter voting algorithm. Now at
18360 least three directory authorities or a majority of them must
18361 vote on a given parameter before it will be included in the
18362 consensus. Implements proposal 178.
18365 - Hidden services now ignore the timestamps on INTRODUCE2 cells.
18366 They used to check that the timestamp was within 30 minutes
18367 of their system clock, so they could cap the size of their
18368 replay-detection cache, but that approach unnecessarily refused
18369 service to clients with wrong clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha, when
18370 the v3 intro-point protocol (the first one which sent a timestamp
18371 field in the INTRODUCE2 cell) was introduced; fixes bug 3460.
18372 - Only use the EVP interface when AES acceleration is enabled,
18373 to avoid a 5-7% performance regression. Resolves issue 4525;
18374 bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
18376 o Privacy/anonymity features (bridge detection):
18377 - Make bridge SSL certificates a bit more stealthy by using random
18378 serial numbers, in the same fashion as OpenSSL when generating
18379 self-signed certificates. Implements ticket 4584.
18380 - Introduce a new config option "DynamicDHGroups", enabled by
18381 default, which provides each bridge with a unique prime DH modulus
18382 to be used during SSL handshakes. This option attempts to help
18383 against censors who might use the Apache DH modulus as a static
18384 identifier for bridges. Addresses ticket 4548.
18386 o Minor features (new/different config options):
18387 - New configuration option "DisableDebuggerAttachment" (on by default)
18388 to prevent basic debugging attachment attempts by other processes.
18389 Supports Mac OS X and Gnu/Linux. Resolves ticket 3313.
18390 - Allow MapAddress directives to specify matches against super-domains,
18391 as in "MapAddress *.torproject.org *.torproject.org.torserver.exit".
18392 Implements issue 933.
18393 - Slightly change behavior of "list" options (that is, config
18394 options that can appear more than once) when they appear both in
18395 torrc and on the command line. Previously, the command-line options
18396 would be appended to the ones from torrc. Now, the command-line
18397 options override the torrc options entirely. This new behavior
18398 allows the user to override list options (like exit policies and
18399 ports to listen on) from the command line, rather than simply
18400 appending to the list.
18401 - You can get the old (appending) command-line behavior for "list"
18402 options by prefixing the option name with a "+".
18403 - You can remove all the values for a "list" option from the command
18404 line without adding any new ones by prefixing the option name
18406 - Add experimental support for a "defaults" torrc file to be parsed
18407 before the regular torrc. Torrc options override the defaults file's
18408 options in the same way that the command line overrides the torrc.
18409 The SAVECONF controller command saves only those options which
18410 differ between the current configuration and the defaults file. HUP
18411 reloads both files. (Note: This is an experimental feature; its
18412 behavior will probably be refined in future 0.2.3.x-alpha versions
18413 to better meet packagers' needs.) Implements task 4552.
18416 - Try to make the introductory warning message that Tor prints on
18417 startup more useful for actually finding help and information.
18418 Resolves ticket 2474.
18419 - Running "make version" now displays the version of Tor that
18420 we're about to build. Idea from katmagic; resolves issue 4400.
18421 - Expire old or over-used hidden service introduction points.
18422 Required by fix for bug 3460.
18423 - Move the replay-detection cache for the RSA-encrypted parts of
18424 INTRODUCE2 cells to the introduction point data structures.
18425 Previously, we would use one replay-detection cache per hidden
18426 service. Required by fix for bug 3460.
18427 - Reduce the lifetime of elements of hidden services' Diffie-Hellman
18428 public key replay-detection cache from 60 minutes to 5 minutes. This
18429 replay-detection cache is now used only to detect multiple
18430 INTRODUCE2 cells specifying the same rendezvous point, so we can
18431 avoid launching multiple simultaneous attempts to connect to it.
18433 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.2.x and earlier):
18434 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
18435 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
18437 - Fix a minor formatting issue in one of tor-gencert's error messages.
18439 - Prevent a false positive from the check-spaces script, by disabling
18440 the "whitespace between function name and (" check for functions
18442 - Fix a log message suggesting that people contact a non-existent
18443 email address. Fixes bug 3448.
18444 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
18445 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
18446 - Report a real bootstrap problem to the controller on router
18447 identity mismatch. Previously we just said "foo", which probably
18448 made a lot of sense at the time. Fixes bug 4169; bugfix on
18450 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str() on an address of
18451 unknown type, we would have done a strdup() on an uninitialized
18452 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
18453 Reported by "troll_un".
18454 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
18455 tor_addr_lookup(). Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
18456 Reported by "troll_un".
18457 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
18458 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
18459 - Initialize conn->addr to a valid state in spawn_cpuworker(). Fixes
18460 bug 4532; found by "troll_un".
18462 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.3.x):
18463 - Fix a compile warning in tor_inet_pton(). Bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha;
18465 - Don't send two ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cells when opening a new
18466 circuit for use as a hidden service client's rendezvous point.
18467 Fixes bugs 4641 and 4171; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Diagnosed
18468 with help from wanoskarnet.
18469 - Restore behavior of overriding SocksPort, ORPort, and similar
18470 options from the command line. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
18473 - Properly handle the case where the build-tree is not the same
18474 as the source tree when generating src/common/common_sha1.i,
18475 src/or/micro-revision.i, and src/or/or_sha1.i. Fixes bug 3953;
18476 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18478 o Code simplifications, cleanups, and refactorings:
18479 - Remove the pure attribute from all functions that used it
18480 previously. In many cases we assigned it incorrectly, because the
18481 functions might assert or call impure functions, and we don't have
18482 evidence that keeping the pure attribute is worthwhile. Implements
18483 changes suggested in ticket 4421.
18484 - Remove some dead code spotted by coverity. Fixes cid 432.
18485 Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha, closes bug 4637.
18488 Changes in version 0.2.3.8-alpha - 2011-11-22
18489 Tor 0.2.3.8-alpha fixes some crash and assert bugs, including a
18490 socketpair-related bug that has been bothering Windows users. It adds
18491 support to serve microdescriptors to controllers, so Vidalia's network
18492 map can resume listing relays (once Vidalia implements its side),
18493 and adds better support for hardware AES acceleration. Finally, it
18494 starts the process of adjusting the bandwidth cutoff for getting the
18495 "Fast" flag from 20KB to (currently) 32KB -- preliminary results show
18496 that tiny relays harm performance more than they help network capacity.
18499 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
18500 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
18501 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
18502 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
18504 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
18505 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
18506 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
18507 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
18508 - Remove the artificially low cutoff of 20KB to guarantee the Fast
18509 flag. In the past few years the average relay speed has picked
18510 up, and while the "top 7/8 of the network get the Fast flag" and
18511 "all relays with 20KB or more of capacity get the Fast flag" rules
18512 used to have the same result, now the top 7/8 of the network has
18513 a capacity more like 32KB. Bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc. Fixes bug 4489.
18514 - Fix a rare assertion failure when checking whether a v0 hidden
18515 service descriptor has any usable introduction points left, and
18516 we don't have enough information to build a circuit to the first
18517 intro point named in the descriptor. The HS client code in
18518 0.2.3.x no longer uses v0 HS descriptors, but this assertion can
18519 trigger on (and crash) v0 HS authorities. Fixes bug 4411.
18520 Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha; diagnosed by frosty_un.
18521 - Make bridge authorities not crash when they are asked for their own
18522 descriptor. Bugfix on 0.2.3.7-alpha, reported by Lucky Green.
18523 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
18524 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
18525 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
18526 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
18527 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34 and 0.2.3.7-alpha.
18530 - Allow Tor controllers like Vidalia to obtain the microdescriptor
18531 for a relay by identity digest or nickname. Previously,
18532 microdescriptors were only available by their own digests, so a
18533 controller would have to ask for and parse the whole microdescriptor
18534 consensus in order to look up a single relay's microdesc. Fixes
18535 bug 3832; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
18536 - Use OpenSSL's EVP interface for AES encryption, so that all AES
18537 operations can use hardware acceleration (if present). Resolves
18540 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
18541 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
18542 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
18543 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
18544 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
18545 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
18546 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
18547 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
18548 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
18549 - Allow manual 'authenticate' commands to the controller interface
18550 from netcat (nc) as well as telnet. We were rejecting them because
18551 they didn't come with the expected whitespace at the end of the
18552 command. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 2893.
18553 - Fix some (not actually triggerable) buffer size checks in usage of
18554 tor_inet_ntop. Fixes bug 4434; bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch
18556 - Fix parsing of some corner-cases with tor_inet_pton(). Fixes
18557 bug 4515; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fix by Anders Sundman.
18558 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
18559 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
18560 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
18561 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
18562 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
18563 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
18564 - Rename the bench_{aes,dmap} functions to test_*, so that tinytest
18565 can pick them up when the tests aren't disabled. Bugfix on
18566 0.2.2.4-alpha which introduced tinytest.
18567 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
18568 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
18569 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
18570 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
18571 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
18572 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
18574 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
18575 - Make util unit tests build correctly with MSVC. Bugfix on
18576 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Gisle Vanem.
18577 - Successfully detect AUTH_CHALLENGE cells with no recognized
18578 authentication type listed. Fixes bug 4367; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
18579 Found by frosty_un.
18580 - If a relay receives an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell it can't answer,
18581 it should still send a NETINFO cell to allow the connection to
18582 become open. Fixes bug 4368; fix on 0.2.3.6-alpha; bug found by
18584 - Log less loudly when we get an invalid authentication certificate
18585 from a source other than a directory authority: it's not unusual
18586 to see invalid certs because of clock skew. Fixes bug 4370; bugfix
18588 - Tolerate servers with more clock skew in their authentication
18589 certificates than previously. Fixes bug 4371; bugfix on
18591 - Fix a couple of compile warnings on Windows. Fixes bug 4469; bugfix
18592 on 0.2.3.4-alpha and 0.2.3.6-alpha.
18595 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
18596 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
18597 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
18598 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
18599 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
18600 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
18601 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
18602 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
18603 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
18604 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
18605 - When we fail to initialize Libevent, retry with IOCP disabled so we
18606 don't need to turn on multi-threading support in Libevent, which in
18607 turn requires a working socketpair(). This is a workaround for bug
18608 4457, which affects Libevent versions from 2.0.1-alpha through
18610 - Detect when we try to build on a platform that doesn't define
18611 AF_UNSPEC to 0. We don't work there, so refuse to compile.
18612 - Update to the November 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
18614 o Packaging changes:
18615 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
18616 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
18618 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
18619 - Remove some redundant #include directives throughout the code.
18620 Patch from Andrea Gelmini.
18621 - Unconditionally use OpenSSL's AES implementation instead of our
18622 old built-in one. OpenSSL's AES has been better for a while, and
18623 relatively few servers should still be on any version of OpenSSL
18624 that doesn't have good optimized assembly AES.
18625 - Use the name "CERTS" consistently to refer to the new cell type;
18626 we were calling it CERT in some places and CERTS in others.
18629 - Numerous new unit tests for functions in util.c and address.c by
18631 - The long-disabled benchmark tests are now split into their own
18632 ./src/test/bench binary.
18633 - The benchmark tests can now use more accurate timers than
18634 gettimeofday() when such timers are available.
18637 Changes in version 0.2.3.7-alpha - 2011-10-30
18638 Tor 0.2.3.7-alpha fixes a crash bug in 0.2.3.6-alpha introduced by
18639 the new v3 handshake. It also resolves yet another bridge address
18643 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
18644 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
18645 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
18646 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
18647 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
18648 close based on processing a cell on it.
18649 - Fix a double-free bug that would occur when we received an invalid
18650 certificate in a CERT cell in the new v3 handshake. Fixes bug 4343;
18651 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
18652 - Bridges no longer include their address in NETINFO cells on outgoing
18653 OR connections, to allow them to blend in better with clients.
18654 Removes another avenue for enumerating bridges. Reported by
18655 "troll_un". Fixes bug 4348; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha, when NETINFO
18656 cells were introduced.
18659 - Fixed a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
18660 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
18663 Changes in version 0.2.3.6-alpha - 2011-10-26
18664 Tor 0.2.3.6-alpha includes the fix from 0.2.2.34 for a critical
18665 anonymity vulnerability where an attacker can deanonymize Tor
18666 users. Everybody should upgrade.
18668 This release also features support for a new v3 connection handshake
18669 protocol, and fixes to make hidden service connections more robust.
18672 - Implement a new handshake protocol (v3) for authenticating Tors to
18673 each other over TLS. It should be more resistant to fingerprinting
18674 than previous protocols, and should require less TLS hacking for
18675 future Tor implementations. Implements proposal 176.
18676 - Allow variable-length padding cells to disguise the length of
18677 Tor's TLS records. Implements part of proposal 184.
18679 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
18680 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
18681 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
18682 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
18683 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
18684 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
18685 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
18686 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
18687 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
18688 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
18689 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
18690 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
18691 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
18692 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
18693 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
18694 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
18695 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
18696 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
18699 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
18700 - Improve hidden service robustness: when an attempt to connect to
18701 a hidden service ends, be willing to refetch its hidden service
18702 descriptors from each of the HSDir relays responsible for them
18703 immediately. Previously, we would not consider refetching the
18704 service's descriptors from each HSDir for 15 minutes after the last
18705 fetch, which was inconvenient if the hidden service was not running
18706 during the first attempt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 3335.
18707 - When one of a hidden service's introduction points appears to be
18708 unreachable, stop trying it. Previously, we would keep trying
18709 to build circuits to the introduction point until we lost the
18710 descriptor, usually because the user gave up and restarted Tor.
18711 Partly fixes bug 3825.
18712 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
18713 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
18714 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
18715 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
18716 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
18717 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
18718 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
18720 o Major bugfixes (other):
18721 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
18722 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
18723 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
18724 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
18725 Found by "frosty_un".
18726 - Don't update the AccountingSoftLimitHitAt state file entry whenever
18727 tor gets started. This prevents a wrong average bandwidth
18728 estimate, which would cause relays to always start a new accounting
18729 interval at the earliest possible moment. Fixes bug 2003; bugfix
18730 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Reported by BryonEldridge, who also helped
18731 immensely in tracking this bug down.
18732 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
18733 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
18736 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
18737 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
18738 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
18739 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
18740 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
18741 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
18742 - Rephrase the log message emitted if the TestSocks check is
18743 successful. Patch from Fabian Keil; fixes bug 4094.
18744 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
18745 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
18746 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
18747 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
18748 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
18749 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
18750 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
18751 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
18752 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
18753 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
18754 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
18755 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
18756 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
18758 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
18759 - Fix a bug in configure.in that kept it from building a configure
18760 script with autoconf versions earlier than 2.61. Fixes bug 2430;
18761 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
18762 - Don't warn users that they are exposing a client port to the
18763 Internet if they have specified an RFC1918 address. Previously,
18764 we would warn if the user had specified any non-loopback
18765 address. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Fixes bug 4018; reported by Tas.
18766 - Fix memory leaks in the failing cases of the new SocksPort and
18767 ControlPort code. Found by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha;
18768 fixes coverity CIDs 485, 486, and 487.
18771 - When a hidden service's introduction point times out, consider
18772 trying it again during the next attempt to connect to the
18773 HS. Previously, we would not try it again unless a newly fetched
18774 descriptor contained it. Required by fixes for bugs 1297 and 3825.
18775 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
18776 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
18777 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
18778 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
18779 - The Bridge Authority now writes statistics on how many bridge
18780 descriptors it gave out in total, and how many unique descriptors
18781 it gave out. It also lists how often the most and least commonly
18782 fetched descriptors were given out, as well as the median and
18783 25th/75th percentile. Implements tickets 4200 and 4294.
18784 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
18786 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
18787 - Remove some old code to remember statistics about which descriptors
18788 we've served as a directory mirror. The feature wasn't used and
18789 is outdated now that microdescriptors are around.
18790 - Rename Tor functions that turn strings into addresses, so that
18791 "parse" indicates that no hostname resolution occurs, and
18792 "lookup" indicates that hostname resolution may occur. This
18793 should help prevent mistakes in the future. Fixes bug 3512.
18796 Changes in version 0.2.2.34 - 2011-10-26
18797 Tor 0.2.2.34 fixes a critical anonymity vulnerability where an attacker
18798 can deanonymize Tor users. Everybody should upgrade.
18800 The attack relies on four components: 1) Clients reuse their TLS cert
18801 when talking to different relays, so relays can recognize a user by
18802 the identity key in her cert. 2) An attacker who knows the client's
18803 identity key can probe each guard relay to see if that identity key
18804 is connected to that guard relay right now. 3) A variety of active
18805 attacks in the literature (starting from "Low-Cost Traffic Analysis
18806 of Tor" by Murdoch and Danezis in 2005) allow a malicious website to
18807 discover the guard relays that a Tor user visiting the website is using.
18808 4) Clients typically pick three guards at random, so the set of guards
18809 for a given user could well be a unique fingerprint for her. This
18810 release fixes components #1 and #2, which is enough to block the attack;
18811 the other two remain as open research problems. Special thanks to
18812 "frosty_un" for reporting the issue to us!
18814 Clients should upgrade so they are no longer recognizable by the TLS
18815 certs they present. Relays should upgrade so they no longer allow a
18816 remote attacker to probe them to test whether unpatched clients are
18817 currently connected to them.
18819 This release also fixes several vulnerabilities that allow an attacker
18820 to enumerate bridge relays. Some bridge enumeration attacks still
18821 remain; see for example proposal 188.
18823 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
18824 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
18825 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
18826 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
18827 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
18828 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
18829 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
18830 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
18831 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
18832 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
18833 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
18834 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
18835 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
18836 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
18837 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
18838 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
18839 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
18840 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
18843 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (bridge enumeration):
18844 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
18845 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
18846 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
18847 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
18848 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
18849 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
18850 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
18851 when bridges were introduced.
18852 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
18853 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
18854 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
18855 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
18856 Found by "frosty_un".
18859 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
18860 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
18862 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
18863 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
18864 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
18865 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
18866 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
18867 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
18868 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
18871 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
18872 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
18873 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
18874 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
18875 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
18876 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
18877 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
18878 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
18879 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
18880 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
18881 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
18882 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
18883 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
18884 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
18885 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
18886 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
18887 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
18888 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
18890 o Minor bugfixes (log messages and documentation):
18891 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
18892 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
18893 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
18894 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
18895 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
18896 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
18897 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
18898 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
18899 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
18900 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
18901 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
18904 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
18905 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
18906 Backported from 0.2.3.1-alpha; implements ticket 3951.
18907 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
18910 Changes in version 0.2.1.31 - 2011-10-26
18911 Tor 0.2.1.31 backports important security and privacy fixes for
18912 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
18913 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
18914 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
18916 o Security fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
18917 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
18918 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
18919 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
18920 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
18921 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
18922 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
18923 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
18924 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
18925 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
18927 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
18928 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
18929 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
18930 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
18931 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
18932 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
18933 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
18934 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
18935 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
18936 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
18937 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
18938 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
18939 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
18940 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
18941 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
18942 Found by "frosty_un".
18943 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
18944 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
18945 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
18946 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
18947 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
18948 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
18949 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
18950 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
18951 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
18952 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
18953 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
18954 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
18955 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
18956 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
18957 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
18958 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
18959 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
18960 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
18961 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
18963 o Minor bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
18964 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
18965 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
18966 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
18967 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
18968 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
18969 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
18970 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
18972 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
18973 enabled. Fixes bug 1526.
18974 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
18975 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
18976 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
18977 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
18978 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
18979 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
18980 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
18981 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
18982 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
18983 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
18985 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
18986 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18987 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
18988 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18989 - Require that introduction point keys and onion keys have public
18990 exponent 65537. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
18991 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
18992 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
18993 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
18995 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
18997 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
18998 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
18999 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
19000 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
19001 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
19002 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
19003 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
19004 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
19006 o Minor bugfixes (only in 0.2.1.x):
19007 - Resume using micro-version numbers in 0.2.1.x: our Debian packages
19008 rely on them. Bugfix on 0.2.1.30.
19009 - Use git revisions instead of svn revisions when generating our
19010 micro-version numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
19012 o Minor features (also included in 0.2.2.x):
19013 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
19014 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
19015 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
19016 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
19019 Changes in version 0.2.3.5-alpha - 2011-09-28
19020 Tor 0.2.3.5-alpha fixes two bugs that make it possible to enumerate
19021 bridge relays; fixes an assertion error that many users started hitting
19022 today; and adds the ability to refill token buckets more often than
19023 once per second, allowing significant performance improvements.
19026 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
19027 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
19028 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
19029 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
19030 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
19031 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
19032 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
19033 when bridges were introduced.
19036 - Fix an "Assertion md->held_by_node == 1 failed" error that could
19037 occur when the same microdescriptor was referenced by two node_t
19038 objects at once. Fix for bug 4118; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.1-alpha.
19040 o Major features (networking):
19041 - Add a new TokenBucketRefillInterval option to refill token buckets
19042 more frequently than once per second. This should improve network
19043 performance, alleviate queueing problems, and make traffic less
19044 bursty. Implements proposal 183; closes ticket 3630. Design by
19045 Florian Tschorsch and Björn Scheuermann; implementation by
19049 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
19050 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
19051 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
19053 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
19054 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
19055 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
19056 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
19057 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
19059 o Minor features (diagnostics):
19060 - When the system call to create a listener socket fails, log the
19061 error message explaining why. This may help diagnose bug 4027.
19064 Changes in version 0.2.3.4-alpha - 2011-09-13
19065 Tor 0.2.3.4-alpha includes the fixes from 0.2.2.33, including a slight
19066 tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run
19067 this new version reachable from Iran again. It also fixes a few new
19068 bugs in 0.2.3.x, and teaches relays to recognize when they're not
19069 listed in the network consensus and republish.
19071 o Major bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
19072 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
19073 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
19074 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
19076 o Minor features (security, also part of 0.2.2.33):
19077 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
19078 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
19079 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
19080 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
19081 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
19082 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
19083 that these attacks are infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
19084 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
19085 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
19086 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
19088 o Minor features (also part of 0.2.2.33):
19089 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
19090 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
19091 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
19092 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
19093 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
19094 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
19095 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
19096 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
19097 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
19099 o Minor bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
19100 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
19101 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
19102 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
19103 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
19104 fixes part of bug 2442.
19105 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
19106 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
19107 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
19109 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
19110 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
19111 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
19112 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
19113 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
19115 o Build fixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
19116 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
19117 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
19118 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
19119 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
19122 - Fix a bug where the SocksPort option (for example) would get
19123 ignored and replaced by the default if a SocksListenAddress
19124 option was set. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha; fixes bug 3936. Fix by
19128 - Relays now try regenerating and uploading their descriptor more
19129 frequently if they are not listed in the consensus, or if the
19130 version of their descriptor listed in the consensus is too
19131 old. This fix should prevent situations where a server declines
19132 to re-publish itself because it has done so too recently, even
19133 though the authorities decided not to list its recent-enough
19134 descriptor. Fix for bug 3327.
19137 - Relays now include a reason for regenerating their descriptors
19138 in an HTTP header when uploading to the authorities. This will
19139 make it easier to debug descriptor-upload issues in the future.
19140 - When starting as root and then changing our UID via the User
19141 control option, and we have a ControlSocket configured, make sure
19142 that the ControlSocket is owned by the same account that Tor will
19143 run under. Implements ticket 3421; fix by Jérémy Bobbio.
19146 - Abort if tor_vasprintf fails in connection_printf_to_buf (a
19147 utility function used in the control-port code). This shouldn't
19148 ever happen unless Tor is completely out of memory, but if it did
19149 happen and Tor somehow recovered from it, Tor could have sent a log
19150 message to a control port in the middle of a reply to a controller
19151 command. Fixes part of bug 3428; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
19152 - Make 'FetchUselessDescriptors' cause all descriptor types and
19153 all consensus types (including microdescriptors) to get fetched.
19154 Fixes bug 3851; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
19156 o Code refactoring:
19157 - Make a new "entry connection" struct as an internal subtype of "edge
19158 connection", to simplify the code and make exit connections smaller.
19161 Changes in version 0.2.2.33 - 2011-09-13
19162 Tor 0.2.2.33 fixes several bugs, and includes a slight tweak to Tor's
19163 TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run this new version
19164 reachable from Iran again.
19167 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
19168 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
19169 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
19171 o Minor features (security):
19172 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
19173 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
19174 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
19175 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
19176 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
19177 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
19178 that these attacks are infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
19179 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
19180 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
19181 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
19184 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
19185 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
19186 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
19187 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
19188 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
19189 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
19190 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
19191 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
19192 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
19194 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
19195 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
19196 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
19197 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
19198 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
19199 raised by bug 3898.
19200 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
19201 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
19202 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
19203 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
19204 fixes part of bug 2442.
19205 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
19206 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
19207 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
19209 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
19210 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
19211 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
19212 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
19213 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
19216 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
19217 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
19218 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
19219 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
19220 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
19221 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
19224 Changes in version 0.2.3.3-alpha - 2011-09-01
19225 Tor 0.2.3.3-alpha adds a new "stream isolation" feature to improve Tor's
19226 security, and provides client-side support for the microdescriptor
19227 and optimistic data features introduced earlier in the 0.2.3.x
19228 series. It also includes numerous critical bugfixes in the (optional)
19229 bufferevent-based networking backend.
19231 o Major features (stream isolation):
19232 - You can now configure Tor so that streams from different
19233 applications are isolated on different circuits, to prevent an
19234 attacker who sees your streams as they leave an exit node from
19235 linking your sessions to one another. To do this, choose some way
19236 to distinguish the applications: have them connect to different
19237 SocksPorts, or have one of them use SOCKS4 while the other uses
19238 SOCKS5, or have them pass different authentication strings to the
19239 SOCKS proxy. Then, use the new SocksPort syntax to configure the
19240 degree of isolation you need. This implements Proposal 171.
19241 - There's a new syntax for specifying multiple client ports (such as
19242 SOCKSPort, TransPort, DNSPort, NATDPort): you can now just declare
19243 multiple *Port entries with full addr:port syntax on each.
19244 The old *ListenAddress format is still supported, but you can't
19245 mix it with the new *Port syntax.
19247 o Major features (other):
19248 - Enable microdescriptor fetching by default for clients. This allows
19249 clients to download a much smaller amount of directory information.
19250 To disable it (and go back to the old-style consensus and
19251 descriptors), set "UseMicrodescriptors 0" in your torrc file.
19252 - Tor's firewall-helper feature, introduced in 0.2.3.1-alpha (see the
19253 "PortForwarding" config option), now supports Windows.
19254 - When using an exit relay running 0.2.3.x, clients can now
19255 "optimistically" send data before the exit relay reports that
19256 the stream has opened. This saves a round trip when starting
19257 connections where the client speaks first (such as web browsing).
19258 This behavior is controlled by a consensus parameter (currently
19259 disabled). To turn it on or off manually, use the "OptimisticData"
19260 torrc option. Implements proposal 181; code by Ian Goldberg.
19262 o Major bugfixes (bufferevents, fixes on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
19263 - When using IOCP on Windows, we need to enable Libevent windows
19265 - The IOCP backend now works even when the user has not specified
19266 the (internal, debugging-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option.
19267 Fixes part of bug 3752.
19268 - Correctly record the bytes we've read and written when using
19269 bufferevents, so that we can include them in our bandwidth history
19270 and advertised bandwidth. Fixes bug 3803.
19271 - Apply rate-limiting only at the bottom of a chain of filtering
19272 bufferevents. This prevents us from filling up internal read
19273 buffers and violating rate-limits when filtering bufferevents
19274 are enabled. Fixes part of bug 3804.
19275 - Add high-watermarks to the output buffers for filtered
19276 bufferevents. This prevents us from filling up internal write
19277 buffers and wasting CPU cycles when filtering bufferevents are
19278 enabled. Fixes part of bug 3804.
19279 - Correctly notice when data has been written from a bufferevent
19280 without flushing it completely. Fixes bug 3805.
19281 - Fix a bug where server-side tunneled bufferevent-based directory
19282 streams would get closed prematurely. Fixes bug 3814.
19283 - Fix a use-after-free error with per-connection rate-limiting
19284 buckets. Fixes bug 3888.
19286 o Major bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
19287 - If we're configured to write our ControlPorts to disk, only write
19288 them after switching UID and creating the data directory. This way,
19289 we don't fail when starting up with a nonexistent DataDirectory
19290 and a ControlPortWriteToFile setting based on that directory. Fixes
19291 bug 3747; bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.26-beta.
19294 - Added a new CONF_CHANGED event so that controllers can be notified
19295 of any configuration changes made by other controllers, or by the
19296 user. Implements ticket 1692.
19297 - Use evbuffer_copyout() in inspect_evbuffer(). This fixes a memory
19298 leak when using bufferevents, and lets Libevent worry about how to
19299 best copy data out of a buffer.
19300 - Replace files in stats/ rather than appending to them. Now that we
19301 include statistics in extra-info descriptors, it makes no sense to
19302 keep old statistics forever. Implements ticket 2930.
19304 o Minor features (build compatibility):
19305 - Limited, experimental support for building with nmake and MSVC.
19306 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
19307 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
19309 o Minor features (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
19310 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
19312 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x-alpha):
19313 - Fix a spurious warning when parsing SOCKS requests with
19314 bufferevents enabled. Fixes bug 3615; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
19315 - Get rid of a harmless warning that could happen on relays running
19316 with bufferevents. The warning was caused by someone doing an http
19317 request to a relay's orport. Also don't warn for a few related
19318 non-errors. Fixes bug 3700; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
19320 o Minor bugfixes (on 2.2.x and earlier):
19321 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
19322 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
19323 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
19324 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
19325 raised by bug 3898.
19326 - The "--quiet" and "--hush" options now apply not only to Tor's
19327 behavior before logs are configured, but also to Tor's behavior in
19328 the absence of configured logs. Fixes bug 3550; bugfix on
19331 o Minor bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
19332 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
19333 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
19334 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
19335 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
19336 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
19337 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
19338 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
19339 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
19340 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
19341 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
19342 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19343 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
19344 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
19345 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
19346 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
19347 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
19348 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
19349 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
19352 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
19353 - Rewrite the listener-selection logic so that parsing which ports
19354 we want to listen on is now separate from binding to the ports
19358 - Building Tor with bufferevent support now requires Libevent
19359 2.0.13-stable or later. Previous versions of Libevent had bugs in
19360 SSL-related bufferevents and related issues that would make Tor
19361 work badly with bufferevents. Requiring 2.0.13-stable also allows
19362 Tor with bufferevents to take advantage of Libevent APIs
19363 introduced after 2.0.8-rc.
19366 Changes in version 0.2.2.32 - 2011-08-27
19367 The Tor 0.2.2 release series is dedicated to the memory of Andreas
19368 Pfitzmann (1958-2010), a pioneer in anonymity and privacy research,
19369 a founder of the PETS community, a leader in our field, a mentor,
19370 and a friend. He left us with these words: "I had the possibility
19371 to contribute to this world that is not as it should be. I hope I
19372 could help in some areas to make the world a better place, and that
19373 I could also encourage other people to be engaged in improving the
19374 world. Please, stay engaged. This world needs you, your love, your
19375 initiative -- now I cannot be part of that anymore."
19377 Tor 0.2.2.32, the first stable release in the 0.2.2 branch, is finally
19378 ready. More than two years in the making, this release features improved
19379 client performance and hidden service reliability, better compatibility
19380 for Android, correct behavior for bridges that listen on more than
19381 one address, more extensible and flexible directory object handling,
19382 better reporting of network statistics, improved code security, and
19383 many many other features and bugfixes.
19386 Changes in version 0.2.2.31-rc - 2011-08-17
19387 Tor 0.2.2.31-rc is the second and hopefully final release candidate
19388 for the Tor 0.2.2.x series.
19391 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
19392 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
19393 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
19394 - If we're configured to write our ControlPorts to disk, only write
19395 them after switching UID and creating the data directory. This way,
19396 we don't fail when starting up with a nonexistent DataDirectory
19397 and a ControlPortWriteToFile setting based on that directory. Fixes
19398 bug 3747; bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.26-beta.
19401 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
19404 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
19405 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
19406 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19407 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
19408 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
19409 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
19410 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
19411 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
19412 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
19413 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
19414 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
19415 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
19416 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
19417 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19418 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
19419 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
19420 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
19421 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
19425 Changes in version 0.2.3.2-alpha - 2011-07-18
19426 Tor 0.2.3.2-alpha introduces two new experimental features:
19427 microdescriptors and pluggable transports. It also continues cleaning
19428 up a variety of recently introduced features.
19431 - Clients can now use microdescriptors instead of regular descriptors
19432 to build circuits. Microdescriptors are authority-generated
19433 summaries of regular descriptors' contents, designed to change
19434 very rarely (see proposal 158 for details). This feature is
19435 designed to save bandwidth, especially for clients on slow internet
19436 connections. It's off by default for now, since nearly no caches
19437 support it, but it will be on-by-default for clients in a future
19438 version. You can use the UseMicrodescriptors option to turn it on.
19439 - Tor clients using bridges can now be configured to use a separate
19440 'transport' proxy for each bridge. This approach helps to resist
19441 censorship by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation
19442 plugins. It implements part of proposal 180. Implements ticket 2841.
19443 - While we're trying to bootstrap, record how many TLS connections
19444 fail in each state, and report which states saw the most failures
19445 in response to any bootstrap failures. This feature may speed up
19446 diagnosis of censorship events. Implements ticket 3116.
19448 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
19449 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes (as with
19450 'EntryNodes {cc}' or 'EntryNodes 1.1.1.1/16'), choose only a
19451 random subset to be guards, and choose them in random
19452 order. Fixes bug 2798.
19453 - Tor could crash when remembering a consensus in a non-used consensus
19454 flavor without having a current consensus set. Fixes bug 3361.
19455 - Comparing an unknown address to a microdescriptor's shortened exit
19456 policy would always give a "rejected" result. Fixes bug 3599.
19457 - Using microdescriptors as a client no longer prevents Tor from
19458 uploading and downloading hidden service descriptors. Fixes
19462 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
19463 - Accept attempts to include a password authenticator in the
19464 handshake, as supported by SOCKS5. This handles SOCKS clients that
19465 don't know how to omit a password when authenticating. Resolves
19467 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes, and there are
19468 enough of them listed as Guard so that we don't need to consider
19469 the non-guard entries, prefer the ones listed with the Guard flag.
19470 - Check for and recover from inconsistency in the microdescriptor
19471 cache. This will make it harder for us to accidentally free a
19472 microdescriptor without removing it from the appropriate data
19473 structures. Fixes issue 3135; issue noted by "wanoskarnet".
19474 - Log SSL state transitions at log level DEBUG, log domain
19475 HANDSHAKE. This can be useful for debugging censorship events.
19476 Implements ticket 3264.
19477 - Add port 6523 (Gobby) to LongLivedPorts. Patch by intrigeri;
19478 implements ticket 3439.
19480 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
19481 - Do not free all general-purpose regular descriptors just
19482 because microdescriptor use is enabled. Fixes bug 3113.
19483 - Correctly link libevent_openssl when --enable-static-libevent
19484 is passed to configure. Fixes bug 3118.
19485 - Bridges should not complain during their heartbeat log messages that
19486 they are unlisted in the consensus: that's more or less the point
19487 of being a bridge. Fixes bug 3183.
19488 - Report a SIGNAL event to controllers when acting on a delayed
19489 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Previously, we would report a SIGNAL
19490 event to the controller if we acted on a SIGNAL NEWNYM command
19491 immediately, and otherwise not report a SIGNAL event for the
19492 command at all. Fixes bug 3349.
19493 - Fix a crash when handling the SIGNAL controller command or
19494 reporting ERR-level status events with bufferevents enabled. Found
19495 by Robert Ransom. Fixes bug 3367.
19496 - Always ship the tor-fw-helper manpage in our release tarballs.
19497 Fixes bug 3389. Reported by Stephen Walker.
19498 - Fix a class of double-mark-for-close bugs when bufferevents
19499 are enabled. Fixes bug 3403.
19500 - Update tor-fw-helper to support libnatpmp-20110618. Fixes bug 3434.
19501 - Add SIGNAL to the list returned by the 'GETINFO events/names'
19502 control-port command. Fixes part of bug 3465.
19503 - Prevent using negative indices during unit test runs when read_all()
19504 fails. Spotted by coverity.
19505 - Fix a rare memory leak when checking the nodelist without it being
19506 present. Found by coverity.
19507 - Only try to download a microdescriptor-flavored consensus from
19508 a directory cache that provides them.
19510 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
19511 - Assert that hidden-service-related operations are not performed
19512 using single-hop circuits. Previously, Tor would assert that
19513 client-side streams are not attached to single-hop circuits,
19514 but not that other sensitive operations on the client and service
19515 side are not performed using single-hop circuits. Fixes bug 3332;
19517 - Don't publish a new relay descriptor when we reload our onion key,
19518 unless the onion key has actually changed. Fixes bug 3263 and
19519 resolves another cause of bug 1810. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
19520 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
19521 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
19522 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19523 - Make 'tor --digests' list hashes of all Tor source files. Bugfix
19524 on 0.2.2.4-alpha; fixes bug 3427.
19526 o Code simplification and refactoring:
19527 - Use tor_sscanf() in place of scanf() in more places through the
19528 code. This makes us a little more locale-independent, and
19529 should help shut up code-analysis tools that can't tell
19530 a safe sscanf string from a dangerous one.
19531 - Use tt_assert(), not tor_assert(), for checking for test failures.
19532 This makes the unit tests more able to go on in the event that
19534 - Split connection_about_to_close() into separate functions for each
19538 - On Windows, we now define the _WIN32_WINNT macros only if they
19539 are not already defined. This lets the person building Tor decide,
19540 if they want, to require a later version of Windows.
19543 Changes in version 0.2.2.30-rc - 2011-07-07
19544 Tor 0.2.2.30-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.2.x
19545 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
19546 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
19549 - Send a SUCCEEDED stream event to the controller when a reverse
19550 resolve succeeded. Fixes bug 3536; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1. Issue
19551 discovered by katmagic.
19552 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
19553 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
19554 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
19555 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
19556 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
19557 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
19558 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
19559 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
19560 - Add BUILDTIMEOUT_SET to the list returned by the 'GETINFO
19561 events/names' control-port command. Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha;
19562 fixes part of bug 3465.
19563 - Fix a memory leak when receiving a descriptor for a hidden
19564 service we didn't ask for. Found by Coverity; CID #30. Bugfix
19568 - Update to the July 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
19571 Changes in version 0.2.2.29-beta - 2011-06-20
19572 Tor 0.2.2.29-beta reverts an accidental behavior change for users who
19573 have bridge lines in their torrc but don't want to use them; gets
19574 us closer to having the control socket feature working on Debian;
19575 and fixes a variety of smaller bugs.
19578 - Revert the UseBridges option to its behavior before 0.2.2.28-beta.
19579 When we changed the default behavior to "use bridges if any
19580 are listed in the torrc", we surprised users who had bridges
19581 in their torrc files but who didn't actually want to use them.
19582 Partial resolution for bug 3354.
19585 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
19586 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
19587 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
19588 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
19589 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
19590 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
19593 - Fix a bug when using ControlSocketsGroupWritable with User. The
19594 directory's group would be checked against the current group, not
19595 the configured group. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio. Fixes bug 3393;
19596 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
19597 - Make connection_printf_to_buf()'s behavior sane. Its callers
19598 expect it to emit a CRLF iff the format string ends with CRLF;
19599 it actually emitted a CRLF iff (a) the format string ended with
19600 CRLF or (b) the resulting string was over 1023 characters long or
19601 (c) the format string did not end with CRLF *and* the resulting
19602 string was 1021 characters long or longer. Bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha;
19603 fixes part of bug 3407.
19604 - Make send_control_event_impl()'s behavior sane. Its callers
19605 expect it to always emit a CRLF at the end of the string; it
19606 might have emitted extra control characters as well. Bugfix on
19607 0.1.1.9-alpha; fixes another part of bug 3407.
19608 - Make crypto_rand_int() check the value of its input correctly.
19609 Previously, it accepted values up to UINT_MAX, but could return a
19610 negative number if given a value above INT_MAX+1. Found by George
19611 Kadianakis. Fixes bug 3306; bugfix on 0.2.2pre14.
19612 - Avoid a segfault when reading a malformed circuit build state
19613 with more than INT_MAX entries. Found by wanoskarnet. Bugfix on
19615 - When asked about a DNS record type we don't support via a
19616 client DNSPort, reply with NOTIMPL rather than an empty
19617 reply. Patch by intrigeri. Fixes bug 3369; bugfix on 2.0.1-alpha.
19618 - Fix a rare memory leak during stats writing. Found by coverity.
19621 - Update to the June 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
19623 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
19624 - Remove some dead code as indicated by coverity.
19625 - Remove a few dead assignments during router parsing. Found by
19627 - Add some forgotten return value checks during unit tests. Found
19629 - Don't use 1-bit wide signed bit fields. Found by coverity.
19632 Changes in version 0.2.2.28-beta - 2011-06-04
19633 Tor 0.2.2.28-beta makes great progress towards a new stable release: we
19634 fixed a big bug in whether relays stay in the consensus consistently,
19635 we moved closer to handling bridges and hidden services correctly,
19636 and we started the process of better handling the dreaded "my Vidalia
19637 died, and now my Tor demands a password when I try to reconnect to it"
19641 - Don't decide to make a new descriptor when receiving a HUP signal.
19642 This bug has caused a lot of 0.2.2.x relays to disappear from the
19643 consensus periodically. Fixes the most common case of triggering
19644 bug 1810; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
19645 - Actually allow nameservers with IPv6 addresses. Fixes bug 2574.
19646 - Don't try to build descriptors if "ORPort auto" is set and we
19647 don't know our actual ORPort yet. Fix for bug 3216; bugfix on
19649 - Resolve a crash that occurred when setting BridgeRelay to 1 with
19650 accounting enabled. Fixes bug 3228; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
19651 - Apply circuit timeouts to opened hidden-service-related circuits
19652 based on the correct start time. Previously, we would apply the
19653 circuit build timeout based on time since the circuit's creation;
19654 it was supposed to be applied based on time since the circuit
19655 entered its current state. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes part of bug 1297.
19656 - Use the same circuit timeout for client-side introduction
19657 circuits as for other four-hop circuits, rather than the timeout
19658 for single-hop directory-fetch circuits; the shorter timeout may
19659 have been appropriate with the static circuit build timeout in
19660 0.2.1.x and earlier, but caused many hidden service access attempts
19661 to fail with the adaptive CBT introduced in 0.2.2.2-alpha. Bugfix
19662 on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes another part of bug 1297.
19663 - In ticket 2511 we fixed a case where you could use an unconfigured
19664 bridge if you had configured it as a bridge the last time you ran
19665 Tor. Now fix another edge case: if you had configured it as a bridge
19666 but then switched to a different bridge via the controller, you
19667 would still be willing to use the old one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha;
19671 - Add an __OwningControllerProcess configuration option and a
19672 TAKEOWNERSHIP control-port command. Now a Tor controller can ensure
19673 that when it exits, Tor will shut down. Implements feature 3049.
19674 - If "UseBridges 1" is set and no bridges are configured, Tor will
19675 now refuse to build any circuits until some bridges are set.
19676 If "UseBridges auto" is set, Tor will use bridges if they are
19677 configured and we are not running as a server, but otherwise will
19678 make circuits as usual. The new default is "auto". Patch by anonym,
19679 so the Tails LiveCD can stop automatically revealing you as a Tor
19683 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
19684 - Remove a trailing asterisk from "exit-policy/default" in the
19685 output of the control port command "GETINFO info/names". Bugfix
19687 - Use a wide type to hold sockets when built for 64-bit Windows builds.
19689 - Warn when the user configures two HiddenServiceDir lines that point
19690 to the same directory. Bugfix on 0.0.6 (the version introducing
19691 HiddenServiceDir); fixes bug 3289.
19692 - Remove dead code from rend_cache_lookup_v2_desc_as_dir. Fixes
19693 part of bug 2748; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
19694 - Log malformed requests for rendezvous descriptors as protocol
19695 warnings, not warnings. Also, use a more informative log message
19696 in case someone sees it at log level warning without prior
19697 info-level messages. Fixes the other part of bug 2748; bugfix
19699 - Clear the table recording the time of the last request for each
19700 hidden service descriptor from each HS directory on SIGNAL NEWNYM.
19701 Previously, we would clear our HS descriptor cache on SIGNAL
19702 NEWNYM, but if we had previously retrieved a descriptor (or tried
19703 to) from every directory responsible for it, we would refuse to
19704 fetch it again for up to 15 minutes. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha;
19706 - Fix a log message that said "bits" while displaying a value in
19707 bytes. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 3318; bugfix on
19709 - When checking for 1024-bit keys, check for 1024 bits, not 128
19710 bytes. This allows Tor to correctly discard keys of length 1017
19711 through 1023. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
19714 - Relays now log the reason for publishing a new relay descriptor,
19715 so we have a better chance of hunting down instances of bug 1810.
19716 Resolves ticket 3252.
19717 - Revise most log messages that refer to nodes by nickname to
19718 instead use the "$key=nickname at address" format. This should be
19719 more useful, especially since nicknames are less and less likely
19720 to be unique. Resolves ticket 3045.
19721 - Log (at info level) when purging pieces of hidden-service-client
19722 state because of SIGNAL NEWNYM.
19725 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
19726 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
19729 Changes in version 0.2.2.27-beta - 2011-05-18
19730 Tor 0.2.2.27-beta fixes a bridge-related stability bug in the previous
19731 release, and also adds a few more general bugfixes.
19734 - Fix a crash bug when changing bridges in a running Tor process.
19735 Fixes bug 3213; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
19736 - When the controller configures a new bridge, don't wait 10 to 60
19737 seconds before trying to fetch its descriptor. Bugfix on
19738 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 3198 (suggested by 2355).
19741 - Require that onion keys have exponent 65537 in microdescriptors too.
19742 Fixes more of bug 3207; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
19743 - Tor used to limit HttpProxyAuthenticator values to 48 characters.
19744 Changed the limit to 512 characters by removing base64 newlines.
19745 Fixes bug 2752. Fix by Michael Yakubovich.
19746 - When a client starts or stops using bridges, never use a circuit
19747 that was built before the configuration change. This behavior could
19748 put at risk a user who uses bridges to ensure that her traffic
19749 only goes to the chosen addresses. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes
19753 Changes in version 0.2.2.26-beta - 2011-05-17
19754 Tor 0.2.2.26-beta fixes a variety of potential privacy problems. It
19755 also introduces a new "socksport auto" approach that should make it
19756 easier to run multiple Tors on the same system, and does a lot of
19757 cleanup to get us closer to a release candidate.
19759 o Security/privacy fixes:
19760 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
19761 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
19762 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
19763 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
19764 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
19765 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
19766 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
19767 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
19768 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
19769 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
19770 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
19771 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
19772 - On SIGHUP, do not clear out all TrackHostExits mappings, client
19773 DNS cache entries, and virtual address mappings: that's what
19774 NEWNYM is for. Fixes bug 1345; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
19777 - The options SocksPort, ControlPort, and so on now all accept a
19778 value "auto" that opens a socket on an OS-selected port. A
19779 new ControlPortWriteToFile option tells Tor to write its
19780 actual control port or ports to a chosen file. If the option
19781 ControlPortFileGroupReadable is set, the file is created as
19782 group-readable. Now users can run two Tor clients on the same
19783 system without needing to manually mess with parameters. Resolves
19784 part of ticket 3076.
19785 - Set SO_REUSEADDR on all sockets, not just listeners. This should
19786 help busy exit nodes avoid running out of useable ports just
19787 because all the ports have been used in the near past. Resolves
19791 - New "GETINFO net/listeners/(type)" controller command to return
19792 a list of addresses and ports that are bound for listeners for a
19793 given connection type. This is useful when the user has configured
19794 "SocksPort auto" and the controller needs to know which port got
19795 chosen. Resolves another part of ticket 3076.
19796 - Add a new ControlSocketsGroupWritable configuration option: when
19797 it is turned on, ControlSockets are group-writeable by the default
19798 group of the current user. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio; implements
19800 - Tor now refuses to create a ControlSocket in a directory that is
19801 world-readable (or group-readable if ControlSocketsGroupWritable
19802 is 0). This is necessary because some operating systems do not
19803 enforce permissions on an AF_UNIX sockets. Permissions on the
19804 directory holding the socket, however, seems to work everywhere.
19805 - Rate-limit a warning about failures to download v2 networkstatus
19806 documents. Resolves part of bug 1352.
19807 - Backport code from 0.2.3.x that allows directory authorities to
19808 clean their microdescriptor caches. Needed to resolve bug 2230.
19809 - When an HTTPS proxy reports "403 Forbidden", we now explain
19810 what it means rather than calling it an unexpected status code.
19811 Closes bug 2503. Patch from Michael Yakubovich.
19812 - Update to the May 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
19815 - Authorities now clean their microdesc cache periodically and when
19816 reading from disk initially, not only when adding new descriptors.
19817 This prevents a bug where we could lose microdescriptors. Bugfix
19818 on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 2230.
19819 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
19820 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
19821 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
19823 - Avoid a bug that would keep us from replacing a microdescriptor
19824 cache on Windows. (We would try to replace the file while still
19825 holding it open. That's fine on Unix, but Windows doesn't let us
19826 do that.) Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; bug found by wanoskarnet.
19827 - Add missing explanations for the authority-related torrc options
19828 RephistTrackTime, BridgePassword, and V3AuthUseLegacyKey in the
19829 man page. Resolves issue 2379.
19830 - As an authority, do not upload our own vote or signature set to
19831 ourself. It would tell us nothing new, and as of 0.2.2.24-alpha,
19832 it would get flagged as a duplicate. Resolves bug 3026.
19833 - Accept hidden service descriptors if we think we might be a hidden
19834 service directory, regardless of what our consensus says. This
19835 helps robustness, since clients and hidden services can sometimes
19836 have a more up-to-date view of the network consensus than we do,
19837 and if they think that the directory authorities list us a HSDir,
19838 we might actually be one. Related to bug 2732; bugfix on
19840 - When a controller changes TrackHostExits, remove mappings for
19841 hosts that should no longer have their exits tracked. Bugfix on
19843 - When a controller changes VirtualAddrNetwork, remove any mappings
19844 for hosts that were automapped to the old network. Bugfix on
19846 - When a controller changes one of the AutomapHosts* options, remove
19847 any mappings for hosts that should no longer be automapped. Bugfix
19849 - Do not reset the bridge descriptor download status every time we
19850 re-parse our configuration or get a configuration change. Fixes
19851 bug 3019; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
19853 o Minor bugfixes (code cleanup):
19854 - When loading the microdesc journal, remember its current size.
19855 In 0.2.2, this helps prevent the microdesc journal from growing
19856 without limit on authorities (who are the only ones to use it in
19857 0.2.2). Fixes a part of bug 2230; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
19858 Fix posted by "cypherpunks."
19859 - The microdesc journal is supposed to get rebuilt only if it is
19860 at least _half_ the length of the store, not _twice_ the length
19861 of the store. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes part of bug 2230.
19862 - Fix a potential null-pointer dereference while computing a
19863 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, found with the help of
19865 - Avoid a possible null-pointer dereference when rebuilding the mdesc
19866 cache without actually having any descriptors to cache. Bugfix on
19867 0.2.2.6-alpha. Issue discovered using clang's static analyzer.
19868 - If we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3 legacy keypair,
19869 warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead. Bugfix on
19870 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
19871 - Resolve an untriggerable issue in smartlist_string_num_isin(),
19872 where if the function had ever in the future been used to check
19873 for the presence of a too-large number, it would have given an
19874 incorrect result. (Fortunately, we only used it for 16-bit
19875 values.) Fixes bug 3175; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
19876 - Require that introduction point keys and onion handshake keys
19877 have a public exponent of 65537. Starts to fix bug 3207; bugfix
19880 o Removed features:
19881 - Caches no longer download and serve v2 networkstatus documents
19882 unless FetchV2Networkstatus flag is set: these documents haven't
19883 haven't been used by clients or relays since 0.2.0.x. Resolves
19887 Changes in version 0.2.3.1-alpha - 2011-05-05
19888 Tor 0.2.3.1-alpha adds some new experimental features, including support
19889 for an improved network IO backend, IOCP networking on Windows,
19890 microdescriptor caching, "fast-start" support for streams, and automatic
19891 home router configuration. There are also numerous internal improvements
19892 to try to make the code easier for developers to work with.
19894 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to be
19895 bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
19896 stay with 0.2.2.x for now.
19899 - Tor can now optionally build with the "bufferevents" buffered IO
19900 backend provided by Libevent 2. To use this feature, make sure you
19901 have the latest possible version of Libevent, and pass the
19902 --enable-bufferevents flag to configure when building Tor from
19903 source. This feature will make our networking code more flexible,
19904 let us stack layers on each other, and let us use more efficient
19905 zero-copy transports where available.
19906 - As an experimental feature, Tor can use IOCP for networking on Windows.
19907 Once this code is tuned and optimized, it promises much better
19908 performance than the select-based backend we've used in the past. To
19909 try this feature, you must build Tor with Libevent 2, configure Tor
19910 with the "bufferevents" buffered IO backend, and add "DisableIOCP 0" to
19911 your torrc. There are known bugs here: only try this if you can help
19912 debug it as it breaks.
19913 - The EntryNodes option can now include country codes like {de} or IP
19914 addresses or network masks. Previously we had disallowed these options
19915 because we didn't have an efficient way to keep the list up to
19916 date. Fixes bug 1982, but see bug 2798 for an unresolved issue here.
19917 - Exit nodes now accept and queue data on not-yet-connected streams.
19918 Previously, the client wasn't allowed to send data until the stream was
19919 connected, which slowed down all connections. This change will enable
19920 clients to perform a "fast-start" on streams and send data without
19921 having to wait for a confirmation that the stream has opened. (Patch
19922 from Ian Goldberg; implements the server side of Proposal 174.)
19923 - Tor now has initial support for automatic port mapping on the many
19924 home routers that support NAT-PMP or UPnP. (Not yet supported on
19925 Windows). To build the support code, you'll need to have libnatpnp
19926 library and/or the libminiupnpc library, and you'll need to enable the
19927 feature specifically by passing "--enable-upnp" and/or
19928 "--enable-natpnp" to configure. To turn it on, use the new
19929 PortForwarding option.
19930 - Caches now download, cache, and serve multiple "flavors" of the
19931 consensus, including a flavor that describes microdescriptors.
19932 - Caches now download, cache, and serve microdescriptors -- small
19933 summaries of router descriptors that are authenticated by all of the
19934 directory authorities. Once enough caches are running this code,
19935 clients will be able to save significant amounts of directory bandwidth
19936 by downloading microdescriptors instead of router descriptors.
19939 - Make logging resolution configurable with a new LogTimeGranularity
19940 option, and change the default from 1 millisecond to 1 second.
19941 Implements enhancement 1668.
19942 - We log which torrc file we're using on startup. Implements ticket
19944 - Ordinarily, Tor does not count traffic from private addresses (like
19945 127.0.0.1 or 10.0.0.1) when calculating rate limits or accounting.
19946 There is now a new option, CountPrivateBandwidth, to disable this
19947 behavior. Patch from Daniel Cagara.
19948 - New --enable-static-tor configure option for building Tor as
19949 statically as possible. Idea, general hackery and thoughts from
19950 Alexei Czeskis, John Gilmore, Jacob Appelbaum. Implements ticket
19952 - If you set the NumCPUs option to 0, Tor will now try to detect how
19953 many CPUs you have. This is the new default behavior.
19954 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
19955 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
19956 - Relays that set "ConnDirectionStatistics 1" write statistics on the
19957 bidirectional use of connections to disk every 24 hours.
19958 - Add a GeoIP file digest to the extra-info descriptor. Implements
19960 - The NodeFamily option -- which let you declare that you want to
19961 consider nodes to be part of a family whether they list themselves
19962 that way or not -- now allows IP address ranges and country codes.
19963 - Add a new 'Heartbeat' log message type to periodically log a message
19964 describing Tor's status at level Notice. This feature is meant for
19965 operators who log at notice, and want to make sure that their Tor
19966 server is still working. Implementation by George Kadianakis.
19968 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.25-alpha):
19969 - When loading the microdesc journal, remember its current size.
19970 In 0.2.2, this helps prevent the microdesc journal from growing
19971 without limit on authorities (who are the only ones to use it in
19972 0.2.2). Fixes a part of bug 2230; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
19973 Fix posted by "cypherpunks."
19974 - The microdesc journal is supposed to get rebuilt only if it is
19975 at least _half_ the length of the store, not _twice_ the length
19976 of the store. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes part of bug 2230.
19977 - If as an authority we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3
19978 legacy keypair, warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead.
19979 Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
19980 - Authorities now clean their microdesc cache periodically and when
19981 reading from disk initially, not only when adding new descriptors.
19982 This prevents a bug where we could lose microdescriptors. Bugfix
19985 o Minor features (controller):
19986 - Add a new SIGNAL event to the controller interface so that
19987 controllers can be notified when Tor handles a signal. Resolves
19988 issue 1955. Patch by John Brooks.
19989 - Add a new GETINFO option to get total bytes read and written. Patch
19990 from pipe, revised by atagar. Resolves ticket 2345.
19991 - Implement some GETINFO controller fields to provide information about
19992 the Tor process's pid, euid, username, and resource limits.
19995 - Our build system requires automake 1.6 or later to create the
19996 Makefile.in files. Previously, you could have used 1.4.
19997 This only affects developers and people building Tor from git;
19998 people who build Tor from the source distribution without changing
19999 the Makefile.am files should be fine.
20000 - Our autogen.sh script uses autoreconf to launch autoconf, automake, and
20001 so on. This is more robust against some of the failure modes
20002 associated with running the autotools pieces on their own.
20004 o Minor packaging issues:
20005 - On OpenSUSE, create the /var/run/tor directory on startup if it is not
20006 already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
20008 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
20009 - A major revision to our internal node-selecting and listing logic.
20010 Tor already had at least two major ways to look at the question of
20011 "which Tor servers do we know about": a list of router descriptors,
20012 and a list of entries in the current consensus. With
20013 microdescriptors, we're adding a third. Having so many systems
20014 without an abstraction layer over them was hurting the codebase.
20015 Now, we have a new "node_t" abstraction that presents a consistent
20016 interface to a client's view of a Tor node, and holds (nearly) all
20017 of the mutable state formerly in routerinfo_t and routerstatus_t.
20018 - The helper programs tor-gencert, tor-resolve, and tor-checkkey
20019 no longer link against Libevent: they never used it, but
20020 our library structure used to force them to link it.
20022 o Removed features:
20023 - Remove some old code to work around even older versions of Tor that
20024 used forked processes to handle DNS requests. Such versions of Tor
20025 are no longer in use as servers.
20027 o Documentation fixes:
20028 - Correct a broken faq link in the INSTALL file. Fixes bug 2307.
20029 - Add missing documentation for the authority-related torrc options
20030 RephistTrackTime, BridgePassword, and V3AuthUseLegacyKey. Resolves
20034 Changes in version 0.2.2.25-alpha - 2011-04-29
20035 Tor 0.2.2.25-alpha fixes many bugs: hidden service clients are more
20036 robust, routers no longer overreport their bandwidth, Win7 should crash
20037 a little less, and NEWNYM (as used by Vidalia's "new identity" button)
20038 now prevents hidden service-related activity from being linkable. It
20039 provides more information to Vidalia so you can see if your bridge is
20040 working. Also, 0.2.2.25-alpha revamps the Entry/Exit/ExcludeNodes and
20041 StrictNodes configuration options to make them more reliable, more
20042 understandable, and more regularly applied. If you use those options,
20043 please see the revised documentation for them in the manual page.
20046 - Relays were publishing grossly inflated bandwidth values because
20047 they were writing their state files wrong--now they write the
20048 correct value. Also, resume reading bandwidth history from the
20049 state file correctly. Fixes bug 2704; bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
20050 - Improve hidden service robustness: When we find that we have
20051 extended a hidden service's introduction circuit to a relay not
20052 listed as an introduction point in the HS descriptor we currently
20053 have, retry with an introduction point from the current
20054 descriptor. Previously we would just give up. Fixes bugs 1024 and
20055 1930; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
20056 - Clients now stop trying to use an exit node associated with a given
20057 destination by TrackHostExits if they fail to reach that exit node.
20058 Fixes bug 2999. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
20059 - Fix crash bug on platforms where gmtime and localtime can return
20060 NULL. Windows 7 users were running into this one. Fixes part of bug
20061 2077. Bugfix on all versions of Tor. Found by boboper.
20063 o Security and stability fixes:
20064 - Don't double-free a parsable, but invalid, microdescriptor, even if
20065 it is followed in the blob we're parsing by an unparsable
20066 microdescriptor. Fixes an issue reported in a comment on bug 2954.
20067 Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fix by "cypherpunks".
20068 - If the Nickname configuration option isn't given, Tor would pick a
20069 nickname based on the local hostname as the nickname for a relay.
20070 Because nicknames are not very important in today's Tor and the
20071 "Unnamed" nickname has been implemented, this is now problematic
20072 behavior: It leaks information about the hostname without being
20073 useful at all. Fixes bug 2979; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, which
20074 introduced the Unnamed nickname. Reported by tagnaq.
20075 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
20076 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
20077 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
20078 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
20079 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
20082 - Export GeoIP information on bridge usage to controllers even if we
20083 have not yet been running for 24 hours. Now Vidalia bridge operators
20084 can get more accurate and immediate feedback about their
20085 contributions to the network.
20087 o Major features and bugfixes (node selection):
20088 - Revise and reconcile the meaning of the ExitNodes, EntryNodes,
20089 ExcludeEntryNodes, ExcludeExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, and StrictNodes
20090 options. Previously, we had been ambiguous in describing what
20091 counted as an "exit" node, and what operations exactly "StrictNodes
20092 0" would permit. This created confusion when people saw nodes built
20093 through unexpected circuits, and made it hard to tell real bugs from
20094 surprises. Now the intended behavior is:
20095 . "Exit", in the context of ExitNodes and ExcludeExitNodes, means
20096 a node that delivers user traffic outside the Tor network.
20097 . "Entry", in the context of EntryNodes, means a node used as the
20098 first hop of a multihop circuit. It doesn't include direct
20099 connections to directory servers.
20100 . "ExcludeNodes" applies to all nodes.
20101 . "StrictNodes" changes the behavior of ExcludeNodes only. When
20102 StrictNodes is set, Tor should avoid all nodes listed in
20103 ExcludeNodes, even when it will make user requests fail. When
20104 StrictNodes is *not* set, then Tor should follow ExcludeNodes
20105 whenever it can, except when it must use an excluded node to
20106 perform self-tests, connect to a hidden service, provide a
20107 hidden service, fulfill a .exit request, upload directory
20108 information, or fetch directory information.
20109 Collectively, the changes to implement the behavior fix bug 1090.
20110 - ExcludeNodes now takes precedence over EntryNodes and ExitNodes: if
20111 a node is listed in both, it's treated as excluded.
20112 - ExcludeNodes now applies to directory nodes -- as a preference if
20113 StrictNodes is 0, or an absolute requirement if StrictNodes is 1.
20114 Don't exclude all the directory authorities and set StrictNodes to 1
20115 unless you really want your Tor to break.
20116 - ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes now override exit enclaving.
20117 - ExcludeExitNodes now overrides .exit requests.
20118 - We don't use bridges listed in ExcludeNodes.
20119 - When StrictNodes is 1:
20120 . We now apply ExcludeNodes to hidden service introduction points
20121 and to rendezvous points selected by hidden service users. This
20122 can make your hidden service less reliable: use it with caution!
20123 . If we have used ExcludeNodes on ourself, do not try relay
20124 reachability self-tests.
20125 . If we have excluded all the directory authorities, we will not
20126 even try to upload our descriptor if we're a relay.
20127 . Do not honor .exit requests to an excluded node.
20128 - Remove a misfeature that caused us to ignore the Fast/Stable flags
20129 when ExitNodes is set. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
20130 - When the set of permitted nodes changes, we now remove any mappings
20131 introduced via TrackExitHosts to now-excluded nodes. Bugfix on
20133 - We never cannibalize a circuit that had excluded nodes on it, even
20134 if StrictNodes is 0. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
20135 - Revert a change where we would be laxer about attaching streams to
20136 circuits than when building the circuits. This was meant to prevent
20137 a set of bugs where streams were never attachable, but our improved
20138 code here should make this unnecessary. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
20139 - Keep track of how many times we launch a new circuit to handle a
20140 given stream. Too many launches could indicate an inconsistency
20141 between our "launch a circuit to handle this stream" logic and our
20142 "attach this stream to one of the available circuits" logic.
20143 - Improve log messages related to excluded nodes.
20146 - Fix a spurious warning when moving from a short month to a long
20147 month on relays with month-based BandwidthAccounting. Bugfix on
20148 0.2.2.17-alpha; fixes bug 3020.
20149 - When a client finds that an origin circuit has run out of 16-bit
20150 stream IDs, we now mark it as unusable for new streams. Previously,
20151 we would try to close the entire circuit. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
20152 - Add a forgotten cast that caused a compile warning on OS X 10.6.
20153 Bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
20154 - Be more careful about reporting the correct error from a failed
20155 connect() system call. Under some circumstances, it was possible to
20156 look at an incorrect value for errno when sending the end reason.
20157 Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
20158 - Correctly handle an "impossible" overflow cases in connection byte
20159 counting, where we write or read more than 4GB on an edge connection
20160 in a single second. Bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
20161 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
20162 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
20164 - Clients and hidden services now use HSDir-flagged relays for hidden
20165 service descriptor downloads and uploads even if the relays have no
20166 DirPort set and the client has disabled TunnelDirConns. This will
20167 eventually allow us to give the HSDir flag to relays with no
20168 DirPort. Fixes bug 2722; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
20169 - Downgrade "no current certificates known for authority" message from
20170 Notice to Info. Fixes bug 2899; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
20171 - Make the SIGNAL DUMP control-port command work on FreeBSD. Fixes bug
20172 2917. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
20173 - Only limit the lengths of single HS descriptors, even when multiple
20174 HS descriptors are published to an HSDir relay in a single POST
20175 operation. Fixes bug 2948; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by hsdir.
20176 - Write the current time into the LastWritten line in our state file,
20177 rather than the time from the previous write attempt. Also, stop
20178 trying to use a time of -1 in our log statements. Fixes bug 3039;
20179 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
20180 - Be more consistent in our treatment of file system paths. "~" should
20181 get expanded to the user's home directory in the Log config option.
20182 Fixes bug 2971; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha, which introduced the
20183 feature for the -f and --DataDirectory options.
20186 - Make sure every relay writes a state file at least every 12 hours.
20187 Previously, a relay could go for weeks without writing its state
20188 file, and on a crash could lose its bandwidth history, capacity
20189 estimates, client country statistics, and so on. Addresses bug 3012.
20190 - Send END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE in response to EHOSTUNREACH errors.
20191 Clients before 0.2.1.27 didn't handle NOROUTE correctly, but such
20192 clients are already deprecated because of security bugs.
20193 - Don't allow v0 hidden service authorities to act as clients.
20194 Required by fix for bug 3000.
20195 - Ignore SIGNAL NEWNYM commands on relay-only Tor instances. Required
20196 by fix for bug 3000.
20197 - Ensure that no empty [dirreq-](read|write)-history lines are added
20198 to an extrainfo document. Implements ticket 2497.
20200 o Code simplification and refactoring:
20201 - Remove workaround code to handle directory responses from servers
20202 that had bug 539 (they would send HTTP status 503 responses _and_
20203 send a body too). Since only server versions before
20204 0.2.0.16-alpha/0.1.2.19 were affected, there is no longer reason to
20205 keep the workaround in place.
20206 - Remove the old 'fuzzy time' logic. It was supposed to be used for
20207 handling calculations where we have a known amount of clock skew and
20208 an allowed amount of unknown skew. But we only used it in three
20209 places, and we never adjusted the known/unknown skew values. This is
20210 still something we might want to do someday, but if we do, we'll
20211 want to do it differently.
20212 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
20213 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
20214 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
20215 - Use GetTempDir to find the proper temporary directory location on
20216 Windows when generating temporary files for the unit tests. Patch by
20220 Changes in version 0.2.2.24-alpha - 2011-04-08
20221 Tor 0.2.2.24-alpha fixes a variety of bugs, including a big bug that
20222 prevented Tor clients from effectively using "multihomed" bridges,
20223 that is, bridges that listen on multiple ports or IP addresses so users
20224 can continue to use some of their addresses even if others get blocked.
20227 - Fix a bug where bridge users who configure the non-canonical
20228 address of a bridge automatically switch to its canonical
20229 address. If a bridge listens at more than one address, it should be
20230 able to advertise those addresses independently and any non-blocked
20231 addresses should continue to work. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.x. Fixes
20233 - If you configured Tor to use bridge A, and then quit and
20234 configured Tor to use bridge B instead, it would happily continue
20235 to use bridge A if it's still reachable. While this behavior is
20236 a feature if your goal is connectivity, in some scenarios it's a
20237 dangerous bug. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 2511.
20238 - Directory authorities now use data collected from their own
20239 uptime observations when choosing whether to assign the HSDir flag
20240 to relays, instead of trusting the uptime value the relay reports in
20241 its descriptor. This change helps prevent an attack where a small
20242 set of nodes with frequently-changing identity keys can blackhole
20243 a hidden service. (Only authorities need upgrade; others will be
20244 fine once they do.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 2709.
20247 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
20248 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
20249 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
20250 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
20251 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
20252 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
20253 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
20255 - Make directory authorities more accurate at recording when
20256 relays that have failed several reachability tests became
20257 unreachable, so we can provide more accuracy at assigning Stable,
20258 Guard, HSDir, etc flags. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Resolves bug 2716.
20259 - Fix an issue that prevented static linking of libevent on
20260 some platforms (notably Linux). Fixes bug 2698; bugfix on
20261 versions 0.2.1.23/0.2.2.8-alpha (the versions introducing
20262 the --with-static-libevent configure option).
20263 - We now ask the other side of a stream (the client or the exit)
20264 for more data on that stream when the amount of queued data on
20265 that stream dips low enough. Previously, we wouldn't ask the
20266 other side for more data until either it sent us more data (which
20267 it wasn't supposed to do if it had exhausted its window!) or we
20268 had completely flushed all our queued data. This flow control fix
20269 should improve throughput. Fixes bug 2756; bugfix on the earliest
20270 released versions of Tor (svn commit r152).
20271 - Avoid a double-mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
20272 transparent proxy connection. (We thought we had fixed this in
20273 0.2.2.23-alpha, but it turns out our fix was checking the wrong
20274 connection.) Fixes bug 2757; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha (the original
20275 bug) and 0.2.2.23-alpha (the incorrect fix).
20276 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
20277 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
20280 - Directory authorities now log the source of a rejected POSTed v3
20281 networkstatus vote.
20282 - Make compilation with clang possible when using
20283 --enable-gcc-warnings by removing two warning options that clang
20284 hasn't implemented yet and by fixing a few warnings. Implements
20286 - When expiring circuits, use microsecond timers rather than
20287 one-second timers. This can avoid an unpleasant situation where a
20288 circuit is launched near the end of one second and expired right
20289 near the beginning of the next, and prevent fluctuations in circuit
20291 - Use computed circuit-build timeouts to decide when to launch
20292 parallel introduction circuits for hidden services. (Previously,
20293 we would retry after 15 seconds.)
20294 - Update to the April 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
20297 - Create the /var/run/tor directory on startup on OpenSUSE if it is
20298 not already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
20300 o Documentation changes:
20301 - Modernize the doxygen configuration file slightly. Fixes bug 2707.
20302 - Resolve all doxygen warnings except those for missing documentation.
20304 - Add doxygen documentation for more functions, fields, and types.
20307 Changes in version 0.2.2.23-alpha - 2011-03-08
20308 Tor 0.2.2.23-alpha lets relays record their bandwidth history so when
20309 they restart they don't lose their bandwidth capacity estimate. This
20310 release also fixes a diverse set of user-facing bugs, ranging from
20311 relays overrunning their rate limiting to clients falsely warning about
20312 clock skew to bridge descriptor leaks by our bridge directory authority.
20315 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
20316 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
20317 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
20318 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
20319 the rest of bug 1074.
20320 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
20321 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
20322 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
20323 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
20324 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
20325 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
20326 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
20327 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
20328 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
20329 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
20330 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
20331 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
20332 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
20333 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
20336 - Relays now save observed peak bandwidth throughput rates to their
20337 state file (along with total usage, which was already saved)
20338 so that they can determine their correct estimated bandwidth on
20339 restart. Resolves bug 1863, where Tor relays would reset their
20340 estimated bandwidth to 0 after restarting.
20341 - Directory authorities now take changes in router IP address and
20342 ORPort into account when determining router stability. Previously,
20343 if a router changed its IP or ORPort, the authorities would not
20344 treat it as having any downtime for the purposes of stability
20345 calculation, whereas clients would experience downtime since the
20346 change could take a while to propagate to them. Resolves issue 1035.
20347 - Enable Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) and Data Execution
20348 Prevention (DEP) by default on Windows to make it harder for
20349 attackers to exploit vulnerabilities. Patch from John Brooks.
20351 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
20352 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
20353 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
20354 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
20355 - Avoid a double mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
20356 transparent proxy connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Fixes
20358 - Correctly detect failure to allocate an OpenSSL BIO. Fixes bug 2378;
20359 found by "cypherpunks". This bug was introduced before the first
20360 Tor release, in svn commit r110.
20361 - Country codes aren't supported in EntryNodes until 0.2.3.x, so
20362 don't mention them in the manpage. Fixes bug 2450; issue
20363 spotted by keb and G-Lo.
20364 - Fix a bug in bandwidth history state parsing that could have been
20365 triggered if a future version of Tor ever changed the timing
20366 granularity at which bandwidth history is measured. Bugfix on
20367 Tor 0.1.1.11-alpha.
20368 - When a relay decides that its DNS is too broken for it to serve
20369 as an exit server, it advertised itself as a non-exit, but
20370 continued to act as an exit. This could create accidental
20371 partitioning opportunities for users. Instead, if a relay is
20372 going to advertise reject *:* as its exit policy, it should
20373 really act with exit policy "reject *:*". Fixes bug 2366.
20374 Bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha. Bugfix by user "postman" on trac.
20375 - In the special case where you configure a public exit relay as your
20376 bridge, Tor would be willing to use that exit relay as the last
20377 hop in your circuit as well. Now we fail that circuit instead.
20378 Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 2403. Reported by "piebeer".
20379 - Fix a bug with our locking implementation on Windows that couldn't
20380 correctly detect when a file was already locked. Fixes bug 2504,
20381 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
20382 - Fix IPv6-related connect() failures on some platforms (BSD, OS X).
20383 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes first part of bug 2660. Patch by
20385 - Set target port in get_interface_address6() correctly. Bugfix
20386 on 0.1.1.4-alpha and 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes second part of bug 2660.
20387 - Directory authorities are now more robust to hops back in time
20388 when calculating router stability. Previously, if a run of uptime
20389 or downtime appeared to be negative, the calculation could give
20390 incorrect results. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha; noticed when fixing
20392 - Fix an assert that got triggered when using the TestingTorNetwork
20393 configuration option and then issuing a GETINFO config-text control
20394 command. Fixes bug 2250; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
20396 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
20397 - Clients should not weight BadExit nodes as Exits in their node
20398 selection. Similarly, directory authorities should not count BadExit
20399 bandwidth as Exit bandwidth when computing bandwidth-weights.
20400 Bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 2203.
20401 - Correctly clear our dir_read/dir_write history when there is an
20402 error parsing any bw history value from the state file. Bugfix on
20403 Tor 0.2.2.15-alpha.
20404 - Resolve a bug in verifying signatures of directory objects
20405 with digests longer than SHA1. Bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha.
20406 Fixes bug 2409. Found by "piebeer".
20407 - Bridge authorities no longer crash on SIGHUP when they try to
20408 publish their relay descriptor to themselves. Fixes bug 2572. Bugfix
20412 - Log less aggressively about circuit timeout changes, and improve
20413 some other circuit timeout messages. Resolves bug 2004.
20414 - Log a little more clearly about the times at which we're no longer
20415 accepting new connections. Resolves bug 2181.
20416 - Reject attempts at the client side to open connections to private
20417 IP addresses (like 127.0.0.1, 10.0.0.1, and so on) with
20418 a randomly chosen exit node. Attempts to do so are always
20419 ill-defined, generally prevented by exit policies, and usually
20420 in error. This will also help to detect loops in transparent
20421 proxy configurations. You can disable this feature by setting
20422 "ClientRejectInternalAddresses 0" in your torrc.
20423 - Always treat failure to allocate an RSA key as an unrecoverable
20425 - Update to the March 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
20427 o Minor features (log subsystem):
20428 - Add documentation for configuring logging at different severities in
20429 different log domains. We've had this feature since 0.2.1.1-alpha,
20430 but for some reason it never made it into the manpage. Fixes
20432 - Make it simpler to specify "All log domains except for A and B".
20433 Previously you needed to say "[*,~A,~B]". Now you can just say
20435 - Add a "LogMessageDomains 1" option to include the domains of log
20436 messages along with the messages. Without this, there's no way
20437 to use log domains without reading the source or doing a lot
20440 o Packaging changes:
20441 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
20442 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
20443 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
20446 Changes in version 0.2.1.30 - 2011-02-23
20447 Tor 0.2.1.30 fixes a variety of less critical bugs. The main other
20448 change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays
20449 and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
20450 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
20451 buys us time until we roll out a better solution.
20454 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
20455 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
20456 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
20457 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
20458 the rest of bug 1074.
20459 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
20460 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
20461 Found by "piebeer".
20462 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
20463 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
20464 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
20465 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
20466 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
20467 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
20468 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
20471 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
20473 - Update to the February 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
20476 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
20477 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
20478 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28. Found by "doorss".
20479 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
20480 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
20481 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
20482 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
20483 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
20484 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
20485 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
20486 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
20488 o Packaging changes:
20489 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
20490 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
20491 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
20492 - Do not include Git version tags as though they are SVN tags when
20493 generating a tarball from inside a repository that has switched
20494 between branches. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
20497 Changes in version 0.2.2.22-alpha - 2011-01-25
20498 Tor 0.2.2.22-alpha fixes a few more less-critical security issues. The
20499 main other change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes
20500 relays and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
20501 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
20502 will buy us a bit more time until we roll out a better solution.
20505 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
20506 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
20507 Found by "piebeer".
20508 - Don't assert when changing from bridge to relay or vice versa
20509 via the controller. The assert happened because we didn't properly
20510 initialize our keys in this case. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha; fixes
20511 bug 2433. Reported by bastik.
20514 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
20516 - Provide a log message stating which geoip file we're parsing
20517 instead of just stating that we're parsing the geoip file.
20518 Implements ticket 2432.
20521 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
20522 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
20523 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28 / 0.2.2.20-alpha. Found by "doorss".
20526 Changes in version 0.2.2.21-alpha - 2011-01-15
20527 Tor 0.2.2.21-alpha includes all the patches from Tor 0.2.1.29, which
20528 continues our recent code security audit work. The main fix resolves
20529 a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote code
20530 execution (CVE-2011-0427). Other fixes address a variety of assert
20531 and crash bugs, most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
20533 o Major bugfixes (security), also included in 0.2.1.29:
20534 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
20535 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
20536 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
20538 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
20539 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
20540 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
20541 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
20542 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
20543 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
20544 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
20545 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
20547 o Major bugfixes (crashes), also included in 0.2.1.29:
20548 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
20549 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
20550 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
20551 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
20552 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
20553 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
20554 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
20555 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
20556 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
20557 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
20558 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
20559 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
20560 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
20563 o Minor bugfixes (other), also included in 0.2.1.29:
20564 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
20565 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
20566 bug reported by doorss.
20567 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
20568 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
20569 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
20570 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
20571 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
20573 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
20574 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
20575 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
20576 - Correctly handle wrapping around when we run out of virtual
20577 address space. Found by cypherpunks; bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
20579 o Minor features, also included in 0.2.1.29:
20580 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
20581 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
20583 o Build changes, also included in 0.2.1.29:
20584 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
20585 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
20586 Automake 1.7 or later.
20587 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
20588 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
20589 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
20590 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
20592 o Major bugfixes, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
20593 - Prevent crash/heap corruption when the cbtnummodes consensus
20594 parameter is set to 0 or large values. Fixes bug 2317; bugfix
20597 o Major features, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
20598 - Introduce minimum/maximum values that clients will believe
20599 from the consensus. Now we'll have a better chance to avoid crashes
20600 or worse when a consensus param has a weird value.
20602 o Minor features, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
20603 - Make sure to disable DirPort if running as a bridge. DirPorts aren't
20604 used on bridges, and it makes bridge scanning somewhat easier.
20605 - If writing the state file to disk fails, wait up to an hour before
20606 retrying again, rather than trying again each second. Fixes bug
20607 2346; bugfix on Tor 0.1.1.3-alpha.
20608 - Make Libevent log messages get delivered to controllers later,
20609 and not from inside the Libevent log handler. This prevents unsafe
20610 reentrant Libevent calls while still letting the log messages
20612 - Detect platforms that brokenly use a signed size_t, and refuse to
20613 build there. Found and analyzed by doorss and rransom.
20614 - Fix a bunch of compile warnings revealed by mingw with gcc 4.5.
20617 o Minor bugfixes, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
20618 - Handle SOCKS messages longer than 128 bytes long correctly, rather
20619 than waiting forever for them to finish. Fixes bug 2330; bugfix
20620 on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Found by doorss.
20621 - Add assertions to check for overflow in arguments to
20622 base32_encode() and base32_decode(); fix a signed-unsigned
20623 comparison there too. These bugs are not actually reachable in Tor,
20624 but it's good to prevent future errors too. Found by doorss.
20625 - Correctly detect failures to create DNS requests when using Libevent
20626 versions before v2. (Before Libevent 2, we used our own evdns
20627 implementation. Its return values for Libevent's evdns_resolve_*()
20628 functions are not consistent with those from Libevent.) Fixes bug
20629 2363; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Found by "lodger".
20631 o Documentation, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
20632 - Document the default socks host and port (127.0.0.1:9050) for
20636 Changes in version 0.2.1.29 - 2011-01-15
20637 Tor 0.2.1.29 continues our recent code security audit work. The main
20638 fix resolves a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote
20639 code execution. Other fixes address a variety of assert and crash bugs,
20640 most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
20642 o Major bugfixes (security):
20643 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
20644 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
20645 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
20647 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
20648 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
20649 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
20650 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
20651 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
20652 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
20653 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
20654 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
20656 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
20657 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
20658 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
20659 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
20660 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
20661 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
20662 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
20663 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
20664 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
20665 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
20666 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
20667 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
20668 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
20669 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
20672 o Minor bugfixes (other):
20673 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
20674 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
20675 bug reported by doorss.
20676 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
20677 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
20678 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
20679 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
20680 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
20682 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
20683 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
20684 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
20685 - Correctly handle wrapping around to when we run out of virtual
20686 address space. Found by cypherpunks, bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
20687 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
20688 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
20689 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
20690 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
20693 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
20694 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
20697 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
20698 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
20699 Automake 1.7 or later.
20702 Changes in version 0.2.2.20-alpha - 2010-12-17
20703 Tor 0.2.2.20-alpha does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
20704 exploitable bugs. We also fix a variety of other significant bugs,
20705 change the IP address for one of our directory authorities, and update
20706 the minimum version that Tor relays must run to join the network.
20709 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
20710 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
20711 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
20712 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
20713 - Fix a bug that could break accounting on 64-bit systems with large
20714 time_t values, making them hibernate for impossibly long intervals.
20715 Fixes bug 2146. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre6; fix by boboper.
20716 - Fix a logic error in directory_fetches_from_authorities() that
20717 would cause all _non_-exits refusing single-hop-like circuits
20718 to fetch from authorities, when we wanted to have _exits_ fetch
20719 from authorities. Fixes more of 2097. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha;
20721 - Fix a stream fairness bug that would cause newer streams on a given
20722 circuit to get preference when reading bytes from the origin or
20723 destination. Fixes bug 2210. Fix by Mashael AlSabah. This bug was
20724 introduced before the first Tor release, in svn revision r152.
20726 o Directory authority changes:
20727 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
20730 - Avoid crashes when AccountingMax is set on clients. Fixes bug 2235.
20731 Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha. Diagnosed by boboper.
20732 - Fix an off-by-one error in calculating some controller command
20733 argument lengths. Fortunately, this mistake is harmless since
20734 the controller code does redundant NUL termination too. Found by
20735 boboper. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
20736 - Do not dereference NULL if a bridge fails to build its
20737 extra-info descriptor. Found by an anonymous commenter on
20738 Trac. Bugfix on 0.2.2.19-alpha.
20741 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
20742 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any versions of
20743 Tor between 0.2.1.3-alpha and 0.2.1.18 inclusive; they have
20744 known bugs that keep RELAY_EARLY cells from working on rendezvous
20745 circuits. Followup to fix for bug 2081.
20746 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any version of Tor
20747 older than 0.2.0.26-rc. That version is the earliest that fetches
20748 current directory information correctly. Fixes bug 2156.
20749 - Report only the top 10 ports in exit-port stats in order not to
20750 exceed the maximum extra-info descriptor length of 50 KB. Implements
20754 Changes in version 0.2.1.28 - 2010-12-17
20755 Tor 0.2.1.28 does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
20756 exploitable bugs. We also took this opportunity to change the IP address
20757 for one of our directory authorities, and to update the geoip database
20761 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
20762 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
20763 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
20764 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
20766 o Directory authority changes:
20767 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
20770 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
20773 Changes in version 0.2.1.27 - 2010-11-23
20774 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
20775 Tor 0.2.1.27 makes relays work with openssl 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b. We
20776 also took this opportunity to fix several crash bugs, integrate a new
20777 directory authority, and update the bundled GeoIP database.
20780 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
20781 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
20782 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
20783 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
20784 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
20785 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
20786 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
20787 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
20788 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
20789 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
20790 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
20791 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
20792 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
20793 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
20794 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
20795 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
20796 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
20797 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
20798 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
20799 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
20800 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
20801 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
20802 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
20805 - Move to the November 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather
20806 than the June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that
20807 count how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we'll
20808 have more accurate data, especially for many African countries.
20810 o New directory authorities:
20811 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
20815 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in directory caches or
20816 bridge users when using a very short voting interval on a testing
20817 network. Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on
20819 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
20820 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
20821 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
20822 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
20823 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
20824 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
20826 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
20827 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
20828 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
20831 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
20832 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
20833 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
20834 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
20835 it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
20836 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
20837 Patch from mingw-san.
20840 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
20841 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
20842 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
20843 - Stop shipping the old doc/website/ directory in the tarball. We
20844 changed the website format in late 2010, and what we shipped in
20845 0.2.1.26 really wasn't that useful anyway.
20848 Changes in version 0.2.2.19-alpha - 2010-11-22
20849 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
20850 Tor 0.2.2.19-alpha makes relays work with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b.
20853 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
20854 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
20855 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
20856 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
20857 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
20860 - Try harder not to exceed the maximum length of 50 KB when writing
20861 statistics to extra-info descriptors. This bug was triggered by very
20862 fast relays reporting exit-port, entry, and dirreq statistics.
20863 Reported by Olaf Selke. Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. Fixes bug 2183.
20864 - Publish a router descriptor even if generating an extra-info
20865 descriptor fails. Previously we would not publish a router
20866 descriptor without an extra-info descriptor; this can cause fast
20867 exit relays collecting exit-port statistics to drop from the
20868 consensus. Bugfix on 0.1.2.9-rc; fixes bug 2195.
20871 Changes in version 0.2.2.18-alpha - 2010-11-16
20872 Tor 0.2.2.18-alpha fixes several crash bugs that have been nagging
20873 us lately, makes unpublished bridge relays able to detect their IP
20874 address, and fixes a wide variety of other bugs to get us much closer
20875 to a stable release.
20878 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
20879 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
20880 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
20881 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
20882 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
20883 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
20884 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
20885 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
20886 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
20887 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
20888 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
20889 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
20890 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
20891 - Maintain separate TLS contexts and certificates for incoming and
20892 outgoing connections in bridge relays. Previously we would use the
20893 same TLS contexts and certs for incoming and outgoing connections.
20894 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses bug 988.
20895 - Maintain separate identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS
20896 contexts in bridge relays. Previously we would use the same
20897 identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS contexts. Bugfix on
20898 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses the other half of bug 988.
20899 - Avoid an assertion failure when we as an authority receive a
20900 duplicate upload of a router descriptor that we already have,
20901 but which we previously considered an obsolete descriptor.
20902 Fixes another case of bug 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
20903 - Avoid a crash bug triggered by looking at a dangling pointer while
20904 setting the network status consensus. Found by Robert Ransom.
20905 Bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Fixes bug 2097.
20906 - Fix a logic error where servers that _didn't_ act as exits would
20907 try to keep their server lists more aggressively up to date than
20908 exits, when it was supposed to be the other way around. Bugfix
20911 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.1.x and earlier):
20912 - When we're trying to guess whether we know our IP address as
20913 a relay, we would log various ways that we failed to guess
20914 our address, but never log that we ended up guessing it
20915 successfully. Now add a log line to help confused and anxious
20916 relay operators. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1534.
20917 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
20918 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
20919 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
20920 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
20921 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
20922 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
20923 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
20924 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
20925 - Correctly describe errors that occur when generating a TLS object.
20926 Previously we would attribute them to a failure while generating a
20927 TLS context. Patch by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc; fixes
20929 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
20930 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
20931 - Fix warnings that newer versions of autoconf produced during
20932 ./autogen.sh. These warnings appear to be harmless in our case,
20933 but they were extremely verbose. Fixes bug 2020.
20935 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.2.x):
20936 - Enable protection of small arrays whenever we build with gcc
20937 hardening features, not only when also building with warnings
20938 enabled. Fixes bug 2031; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha. Reported by keb.
20941 - Make hidden services work better in private Tor networks by not
20942 requiring any uptime to join the hidden service descriptor
20943 DHT. Implements ticket 2088.
20944 - Rate-limit the "your application is giving Tor only an IP address"
20945 warning. Addresses bug 2000; bugfix on 0.0.8pre2.
20946 - When AllowSingleHopExits is set, print a warning to explain to the
20947 relay operator why most clients are avoiding her relay.
20948 - Update to the November 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
20950 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
20951 - When we fixed bug 1038 we had to put in a restriction not to send
20952 RELAY_EARLY cells on rend circuits. This was necessary as long
20953 as relays using Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18-alpha were
20954 active. Now remove this obsolete check. Resolves bug 2081.
20955 - Some options used different conventions for uppercasing of acronyms
20956 when comparing manpage and source. Fix those in favor of the
20957 manpage, as it makes sense to capitalize acronyms.
20958 - Remove the torrc.complete file. It hasn't been kept up to date
20959 and users will have better luck checking out the manpage.
20960 - Remove the obsolete "NoPublish" option; it has been flagged
20961 as obsolete and has produced a warning since 0.1.1.18-rc.
20962 - Remove everything related to building the expert bundle for OS X.
20963 It has confused many users, doesn't work right on OS X 10.6,
20964 and is hard to get rid of once installed. Resolves bug 1274.
20967 Changes in version 0.2.2.17-alpha - 2010-09-30
20968 Tor 0.2.2.17-alpha introduces a feature to make it harder for clients
20969 to use one-hop circuits (which can put the exit relays at higher risk,
20970 plus unbalance the network); fixes a big bug in bandwidth accounting
20971 for relays that want to limit their monthly bandwidth use; fixes a
20972 big pile of bugs in how clients tolerate temporary network failure;
20973 and makes our adaptive circuit build timeout feature (which improves
20974 client performance if your network is fast while not breaking things
20975 if your network is slow) better handle bad networks.
20978 - Exit relays now try harder to block exit attempts from unknown
20979 relays, to make it harder for people to use them as one-hop proxies
20980 a la tortunnel. Controlled by the refuseunknownexits consensus
20981 parameter (currently enabled), or you can override it on your
20982 relay with the RefuseUnknownExits torrc option. Resolves bug 1751.
20984 o Major bugfixes (0.2.1.x and earlier):
20985 - Fix a bug in bandwidth accounting that could make us use twice
20986 the intended bandwidth when our interval start changes due to
20987 daylight saving time. Now we tolerate skew in stored vs computed
20988 interval starts: if the start of the period changes by no more than
20989 50% of the period's duration, we remember bytes that we transferred
20990 in the old period. Fixes bug 1511; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
20991 - Always search the Windows system directory for system DLLs, and
20992 nowhere else. Bugfix on 0.1.1.23; fixes bug 1954.
20993 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
20994 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
20995 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
20996 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
20997 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
20999 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
21000 - Fix compilation on Windows. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha; related to
21002 - Fix a segfault that could happen when operating a bridge relay with
21003 no GeoIP database set. Fixes bug 1964; bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha.
21004 - The consensus bandwidth-weights (used by clients to choose fast
21005 relays) entered an unexpected edge case in September where
21006 Exits were much scarcer than Guards, resulting in bad weight
21007 recommendations. Now we compute them using new constraints that
21008 should succeed in all cases. Also alter directory authorities to
21009 not include the bandwidth-weights line if they fail to produce
21010 valid values. Fixes bug 1952; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
21011 - When weighting bridges during path selection, we used to trust
21012 the bandwidths they provided in their descriptor, only capping them
21013 at 10MB/s. This turned out to be problematic for two reasons:
21014 Bridges could claim to handle a lot more traffic then they
21015 actually would, thus making more clients pick them and have a
21016 pretty effective DoS attack. The other issue is that new bridges
21017 that might not have a good estimate for their bw capacity yet
21018 would not get used at all unless no other bridges are available
21019 to a client. Fixes bug 1912; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
21021 o Major bugfixes (on the circuit build timeout feature, 0.2.2.x):
21022 - Ignore cannibalized circuits when recording circuit build times.
21023 This should provide for a minor performance improvement for hidden
21024 service users using 0.2.2.14-alpha, and should remove two spurious
21025 notice log messages. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1740.
21026 - Simplify the logic that causes us to decide if the network is
21027 unavailable for purposes of recording circuit build times. If we
21028 receive no cells whatsoever for the entire duration of a circuit's
21029 full measured lifetime, the network is probably down. Also ignore
21030 one-hop directory fetching circuit timeouts when calculating our
21031 circuit build times. These changes should hopefully reduce the
21032 cases where we see ridiculous circuit build timeouts for people
21033 with spotty wireless connections. Fixes part of bug 1772; bugfix
21035 - Prevent the circuit build timeout from becoming larger than
21036 the maximum build time we have ever seen. Also, prevent the time
21037 period for measurement circuits from becoming larger than twice that
21038 value. Fixes the other part of bug 1772; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
21041 - When we run out of directory information such that we can't build
21042 circuits, but then get enough that we can build circuits, log when
21043 we actually construct a circuit, so the user has a better chance of
21044 knowing what's going on. Fixes bug 1362.
21045 - Be more generous with how much bandwidth we'd use up (with
21046 accounting enabled) before entering "soft hibernation". Previously,
21047 we'd refuse new connections and circuits once we'd used up 95% of
21048 our allotment. Now, we use up 95% of our allotment, AND make sure
21049 that we have no more than 500MB (or 3 hours of expected traffic,
21050 whichever is lower) remaining before we enter soft hibernation.
21051 - If we've configured EntryNodes and our network goes away and/or all
21052 our entrynodes get marked down, optimistically retry them all when
21053 a new socks application request appears. Fixes bug 1882.
21054 - Add some more defensive programming for architectures that can't
21055 handle unaligned integer accesses. We don't know of any actual bugs
21056 right now, but that's the best time to fix them. Fixes bug 1943.
21057 - Support line continuations in the torrc config file. If a line
21058 ends with a single backslash character, the newline is ignored, and
21059 the configuration value is treated as continuing on the next line.
21062 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
21063 - For bandwidth accounting, calculate our expected bandwidth rate
21064 based on the time during which we were active and not in
21065 soft-hibernation during the last interval. Previously, we were
21066 also considering the time spent in soft-hibernation. If this
21067 was a long time, we would wind up underestimating our bandwidth
21068 by a lot, and skewing our wakeup time towards the start of the
21069 accounting interval. Fixes bug 1789. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
21071 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
21072 - Resume generating CIRC FAILED REASON=TIMEOUT control port messages,
21073 which were disabled by the circuit build timeout changes in
21074 0.2.2.14-alpha. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1739.
21075 - Make sure we don't warn about missing bandwidth weights when
21076 choosing bridges or other relays not in the consensus. Bugfix on
21077 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 1805.
21078 - In our logs, do not double-report signatures from unrecognized
21079 authorities both as "from unknown authority" and "not
21080 present". Fixes bug 1956, bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
21083 Changes in version 0.2.2.16-alpha - 2010-09-17
21084 Tor 0.2.2.16-alpha fixes a variety of old stream fairness bugs (most
21085 evident at exit relays), and also continues to resolve all the little
21086 bugs that have been filling up trac lately.
21088 o Major bugfixes (stream-level fairness):
21089 - When receiving a circuit-level SENDME for a blocked circuit, try
21090 to package cells fairly from all the streams that had previously
21091 been blocked on that circuit. Previously, we had started with the
21092 oldest stream, and allowed each stream to potentially exhaust
21093 the circuit's package window. This gave older streams on any
21094 given circuit priority over newer ones. Fixes bug 1937. Detected
21095 originally by Camilo Viecco. This bug was introduced before the
21096 first Tor release, in svn commit r152: it is the new winner of
21097 the longest-lived bug prize.
21098 - When the exit relay got a circuit-level sendme cell, it started
21099 reading on the exit streams, even if had 500 cells queued in the
21100 circuit queue already, so the circuit queue just grew and grew in
21101 some cases. We fix this by not re-enabling reading on receipt of a
21102 sendme cell when the cell queue is blocked. Fixes bug 1653. Bugfix
21103 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Detected by Mashael AlSabah. Original patch by
21105 - Newly created streams were allowed to read cells onto circuits,
21106 even if the circuit's cell queue was blocked and waiting to drain.
21107 This created potential unfairness, as older streams would be
21108 blocked, but newer streams would gladly fill the queue completely.
21109 We add code to detect this situation and prevent any stream from
21110 getting more than one free cell. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Partially
21114 - Update to the September 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
21115 - Warn when CookieAuthFileGroupReadable is set but CookieAuthFile is
21116 not. This would lead to a cookie that is still not group readable.
21117 Closes bug 1843. Suggested by katmagic.
21118 - When logging a rate-limited warning, we now mention how many messages
21119 got suppressed since the last warning.
21120 - Add new "perconnbwrate" and "perconnbwburst" consensus params to
21121 do individual connection-level rate limiting of clients. The torrc
21122 config options with the same names trump the consensus params, if
21123 both are present. Replaces the old "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst"
21124 consensus params which were broken from 0.2.2.7-alpha through
21125 0.2.2.14-alpha. Closes bug 1947.
21126 - When a router changes IP address or port, authorities now launch
21127 a new reachability test for it. Implements ticket 1899.
21128 - Make the formerly ugly "2 unknown, 7 missing key, 0 good, 0 bad,
21129 2 no signature, 4 required" messages about consensus signatures
21130 easier to read, and make sure they get logged at the same severity
21131 as the messages explaining which keys are which. Fixes bug 1290.
21132 - Don't warn when we have a consensus that we can't verify because
21133 of missing certificates, unless those certificates are ones
21134 that we have been trying and failing to download. Fixes bug 1145.
21135 - If you configure your bridge with a known identity fingerprint,
21136 and the bridge authority is unreachable (as it is in at least
21137 one country now), fall back to directly requesting the descriptor
21138 from the bridge. Finishes the feature started in 0.2.0.10-alpha;
21140 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
21141 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
21142 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
21144 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
21145 - Authorities will now attempt to download consensuses if their
21146 own efforts to make a live consensus have failed. This change
21147 means authorities that restart will fetch a valid consensus, and
21148 it means authorities that didn't agree with the current consensus
21149 will still fetch and serve it if it has enough signatures. Bugfix
21150 on 0.2.0.9-alpha; fixes bug 1300.
21151 - Ensure DNS requests launched by "RESOLVE" commands from the
21152 controller respect the __LeaveStreamsUnattached setconf options. The
21153 same goes for requests launched via DNSPort or transparent
21154 proxying. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1525.
21155 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
21156 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
21157 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
21158 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
21160 - Rate-limit "Failed to hand off onionskin" warnings.
21161 - Never relay a cell for a circuit we have already destroyed.
21162 Between marking a circuit as closeable and finally closing it,
21163 it may have been possible for a few queued cells to get relayed,
21164 even though they would have been immediately dropped by the next
21165 OR in the circuit. Fixes bug 1184; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21166 - Never queue a cell for a circuit that's already been marked
21168 - Never vote for a server as "Running" if we have a descriptor for
21169 it claiming to be hibernating, and that descriptor was published
21170 more recently than our last contact with the server. Bugfix on
21171 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 911.
21172 - Squash a compile warning on OpenBSD. Reported by Tas; fixes
21175 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
21176 - Fix a regression introduced in 0.2.2.7-alpha that marked relays
21177 down if a directory fetch fails and you've configured either
21178 bridges or EntryNodes. The intent was to mark the relay as down
21179 _unless_ you're using bridges or EntryNodes, since if you are
21180 then you could quickly run out of entry points.
21181 - Fix the Windows directory-listing code. A bug introduced in
21182 0.2.2.14-alpha could make Windows directory servers forget to load
21183 some of their cached v2 networkstatus files.
21184 - Really allow clients to use relays as bridges. Fixes bug 1776;
21185 bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha.
21186 - Demote a warn to info that happens when the CellStatistics option
21187 was just enabled. Bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha; fixes bug 1921.
21188 Reported by Moritz Bartl.
21189 - On Windows, build correctly either with or without Unicode support.
21190 This is necessary so that Tor can support fringe platforms like
21191 Windows 98 (which has no Unicode), or Windows CE (which has no
21192 non-Unicode). Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1797.
21195 - Add a unit test for cross-platform directory-listing code.
21198 Changes in version 0.2.2.15-alpha - 2010-08-18
21199 Tor 0.2.2.15-alpha fixes a big bug in hidden service availability,
21200 fixes a variety of other bugs that were preventing performance
21201 experiments from moving forward, fixes several bothersome memory leaks,
21202 and generally closes a lot of smaller bugs that have been filling up
21206 - Stop assigning the HSDir flag to relays that disable their
21207 DirPort (and thus will refuse to answer directory requests). This
21208 fix should dramatically improve the reachability of hidden services:
21209 hidden services and hidden service clients pick six HSDir relays
21210 to store and retrieve the hidden service descriptor, and currently
21211 about half of the HSDir relays will refuse to work. Bugfix on
21212 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes part of bug 1693.
21213 - The PerConnBWRate and Burst config options, along with the
21214 bwconnrate and bwconnburst consensus params, initialized each conn's
21215 token bucket values only when the connection is established. Now we
21216 update them if the config options change, and update them every time
21217 we get a new consensus. Otherwise we can encounter an ugly edge
21218 case where we initialize an OR conn to client-level bandwidth,
21219 but then later the relay joins the consensus and we leave it
21220 throttled. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha; fixes bug 1830.
21221 - Fix a regression that caused Tor to rebind its ports if it receives
21222 SIGHUP while hibernating. Bugfix in 0.1.1.6-alpha; closes bug 919.
21225 - Lower the maximum weighted-fractional-uptime cutoff to 98%. This
21226 should give us approximately 40-50% more Guard-flagged nodes,
21227 improving the anonymity the Tor network can provide and also
21228 decreasing the dropoff in throughput that relays experience when
21229 they first get the Guard flag.
21230 - Allow enabling or disabling the *Statistics config options while
21234 - Update to the August 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
21235 - Have the controller interface give a more useful message than
21236 "Internal Error" in response to failed GETINFO requests.
21237 - Warn when the same option is provided more than once in a torrc
21238 file, on the command line, or in a single SETCONF statement, and
21239 the option is one that only accepts a single line. Closes bug 1384.
21240 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
21241 Patch from mingw-san.
21242 - Add support for the country code "{??}" in torrc options like
21243 ExcludeNodes, to indicate all routers of unknown country. Closes
21245 - Relays report the number of bytes spent on answering directory
21246 requests in extra-info descriptors similar to {read,write}-history.
21247 Implements enhancement 1790.
21249 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
21250 - Complain if PublishServerDescriptor is given multiple arguments that
21251 include 0 or 1. This configuration will be rejected in the future.
21252 Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; closes bug 1107.
21253 - Disallow BridgeRelay 1 and ORPort 0 at once in the configuration.
21254 Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha; closes bug 928.
21255 - Change "Application request when we're believed to be offline."
21256 notice to "Application request when we haven't used client
21257 functionality lately.", to clarify that it's not an error. Bugfix
21258 on 0.0.9.3; fixes bug 1222.
21259 - Fix a bug in the controller interface where "GETINFO ns/asdaskljkl"
21260 would return "551 Internal error" rather than "552 Unrecognized key
21261 ns/asdaskljkl". Bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
21262 - Users can't configure a regular relay to be their bridge. It didn't
21263 work because when Tor fetched the bridge descriptor, it found
21264 that it already had it, and didn't realize that the purpose of the
21265 descriptor had changed. Now we replace routers with a purpose other
21266 than bridge with bridge descriptors when fetching them. Bugfix on
21267 0.1.1.9-alpha. Bug 1776 not yet fixed because now we immediately
21268 refetch the descriptor with router purpose 'general', disabling
21270 - Fix a rare bug in rend_fn unit tests: we would fail a test when
21271 a randomly generated port is 0. Diagnosed by Matt Edman. Bugfix
21272 on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1808.
21273 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
21274 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
21275 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
21276 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
21277 it. Also update the spec to reflect this new reason. Bugfix on
21278 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
21279 - Delay geoip stats collection by bridges for 6 hours, not 2 hours,
21280 when we switch from being a public relay to a bridge. Otherwise
21281 there will still be clients that see the relay in their consensus,
21282 and the stats will end up wrong. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug
21284 - Instead of giving an assertion failure on an internal mismatch
21285 on estimated freelist size, just log a BUG warning and try later.
21286 Mitigates but does not fix bug 1125.
21287 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in caches or bridge users
21288 when using a very short voting interval on a testing network.
21289 Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
21291 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
21292 - Alter directory authorities to always consider Exit-flagged nodes
21293 as potential Guard nodes in their votes. The actual decision to
21294 use Exits as Guards is done in the consensus bandwidth weights.
21295 Fixes bug 1294; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
21296 - When the controller is reporting the purpose of circuits that
21297 didn't finish building before the circuit build timeout, it was
21298 printing UNKNOWN_13. Now print EXPIRED. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
21299 - Our libevent version parsing code couldn't handle versions like
21300 1.4.14b-stable and incorrectly warned the user about using an
21301 old and broken version of libevent. Treat 1.4.14b-stable like
21302 1.4.14-stable when parsing the version. Fixes bug 1731; bugfix
21304 - Don't use substitution references like $(VAR:MOD) when
21305 $(asciidoc_files) is empty -- make(1) on NetBSD transforms
21306 '$(:x)' to 'x' rather than the empty string. This bites us in
21307 doc/ when configured with --disable-asciidoc. Bugfix on
21308 0.2.2.9-alpha; fixes bug 1773.
21309 - Remove a spurious hidden service server-side log notice about
21310 "Ancient non-dirty circuits". Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes
21312 - Fix compilation with --with-dmalloc set. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha;
21314 - Correctly report written bytes on linked connections. Found while
21315 implementing 1790. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
21316 - Fix three memory leaks: one in circuit_build_times_parse_state(),
21317 one in dirvote_add_signatures_to_pending_consensus(), and one every
21318 time we parse a v3 network consensus. Bugfixes on 0.2.2.14-alpha,
21319 0.2.2.6-alpha, and 0.2.2.10-alpha respectively; fixes bug 1831.
21321 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
21322 - Take a first step towards making or.h smaller by splitting out
21323 function definitions for all source files in src/or/. Leave
21324 structures and defines in or.h for now.
21325 - Remove a bunch of unused function declarations as well as a block of
21326 #if 0'd code from the unit tests. Closes bug 1824.
21327 - New unit tests for exit-port history statistics; refactored exit
21328 statistics code to be more easily tested.
21329 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
21330 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
21331 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
21334 Changes in version 0.2.2.14-alpha - 2010-07-12
21335 Tor 0.2.2.14-alpha greatly improves client-side handling of
21336 circuit build timeouts, which are used to estimate speed and improve
21337 performance. We also move to a much better GeoIP database, port Tor to
21338 Windows CE, introduce new compile flags that improve code security,
21339 add an eighth v3 directory authority, and address a lot of more
21343 - Tor directory authorities no longer crash when started with a
21344 cached-microdesc-consensus file in their data directory. Bugfix
21345 on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 1532.
21346 - Treat an unset $HOME like an empty $HOME rather than triggering an
21347 assert. Bugfix on 0.0.8pre1; fixes bug 1522.
21348 - Ignore negative and large circuit build timeout values that can
21349 happen during a suspend or hibernate. These values caused various
21350 asserts to fire. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1245.
21351 - Alter calculation of Pareto distribution parameter 'Xm' for
21352 Circuit Build Timeout learning to use the weighted average of the
21353 top N=3 modes (because we have three entry guards). Considering
21354 multiple modes should improve the timeout calculation in some cases,
21355 and prevent extremely high timeout values. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha;
21357 - Alter calculation of Pareto distribution parameter 'Alpha' to use a
21358 right censored distribution model. This approach improves over the
21359 synthetic timeout generation approach that was producing insanely
21360 high timeout values. Now we calculate build timeouts using truncated
21361 times. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bugs 1245 and 1335.
21362 - Do not close circuits that are under construction when they reach
21363 the circuit build timeout. Instead, leave them building (but do not
21364 use them) for up until the time corresponding to the 95th percentile
21365 on the Pareto CDF or 60 seconds, whichever is greater. This is done
21366 to provide better data for the new Pareto model. This percentile
21367 can be controlled by the consensus.
21370 - Move to the June 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather than the
21371 June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that count
21372 how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we have
21373 more accurate data for many African countries.
21374 - Port Tor to build and run correctly on Windows CE systems, using
21375 the wcecompat library. Contributed by Valerio Lupi.
21376 - New "--enable-gcc-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
21377 to turn on gcc compile time hardening options. It ensures
21378 that signed ints have defined behavior (-fwrapv), enables
21379 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 (requiring -O2), adds stack smashing protection
21380 with canaries (-fstack-protector-all), turns on ASLR protection if
21381 supported by the kernel (-fPIE, -pie), and adds additional security
21382 related warnings. Verified to work on Mac OS X and Debian Lenny.
21383 - New "--enable-linker-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
21384 to turn on ELF specific hardening features (relro, now). This does
21385 not work with Mac OS X or any other non-ELF binary format.
21387 o New directory authorities:
21388 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
21392 - New config option "WarnUnsafeSocks 0" disables the warning that
21393 occurs whenever Tor receives a socks handshake using a version of
21394 the socks protocol that can only provide an IP address (rather
21395 than a hostname). Setups that do DNS locally over Tor are fine,
21396 and we shouldn't spam the logs in that case.
21397 - Convert the HACKING file to asciidoc, and add a few new sections
21398 to it, explaining how we use Git, how we make changelogs, and
21399 what should go in a patch.
21400 - Add a TIMEOUT_RATE keyword to the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port
21401 event, to give information on the current rate of circuit timeouts
21402 over our stored history.
21403 - Add ability to disable circuit build time learning via consensus
21404 parameter and via a LearnCircuitBuildTimeout config option. Also
21405 automatically disable circuit build time calculation if we are
21406 either a AuthoritativeDirectory, or if we fail to write our state
21407 file. Fixes bug 1296.
21408 - More gracefully handle corrupt state files, removing asserts
21409 in favor of saving a backup and resetting state.
21410 - Rename the "log.h" header to "torlog.h" so as to conflict with fewer
21414 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
21416 - When a2x fails, mention that the user could disable manpages instead
21417 of trying to fix their asciidoc installation.
21418 - Where available, use Libevent 2.0's periodic timers so that our
21419 once-per-second cleanup code gets called even more closely to
21420 once per second than it would otherwise. Fixes bug 943.
21421 - If you run a bridge that listens on multiple IP addresses, and
21422 some user configures a bridge address that uses a different IP
21423 address than your bridge writes in its router descriptor, and the
21424 user doesn't specify an identity key, their Tor would discard the
21425 descriptor because "it isn't one of our configured bridges", and
21426 fail to bootstrap. Now believe the descriptor and bootstrap anyway.
21427 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
21428 - If OpenSSL fails to make a duplicate of a private or public key, log
21429 an error message and try to exit cleanly. May help with debugging
21430 if bug 1209 ever remanifests.
21431 - Save a couple bytes in memory allocation every time we escape
21432 certain characters in a string. Patch from Florian Zumbiehl.
21433 - Make it explicit that we don't cannibalize one-hop circuits. This
21434 happens in the wild, but doesn't turn out to be a problem because
21435 we fortunately don't use those circuits. Many thanks to outofwords
21436 for the initial analysis and to swissknife who confirmed that
21437 two-hop circuits are actually created.
21438 - Make directory mirrors report non-zero dirreq-v[23]-shares again.
21439 Fixes bug 1564; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
21440 - Eliminate a case where a circuit build time warning was displayed
21441 after network connectivity resumed. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
21444 Changes in version 0.2.1.26 - 2010-05-02
21445 Tor 0.2.1.26 addresses the recent connection and memory overload
21446 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
21447 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
21448 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
21450 This release also fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL libraries
21451 that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
21454 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
21455 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
21456 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
21457 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
21458 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
21459 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
21460 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
21461 their directory fetches over TLS).
21462 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
21463 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
21464 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
21465 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
21466 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
21467 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
21468 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
21469 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
21472 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
21473 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
21477 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
21478 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
21479 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
21480 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
21481 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
21482 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
21483 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21486 Changes in version 0.2.2.13-alpha - 2010-04-24
21487 Tor 0.2.2.13-alpha addresses the recent connection and memory overload
21488 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
21489 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
21490 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
21493 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
21494 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
21495 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
21496 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
21497 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
21498 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
21499 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
21500 their directory fetches over TLS).
21503 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
21504 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
21506 - Directory authorities now do an immediate reachability check as soon
21507 as they hear about a new relay. This change should slightly reduce
21508 the time between setting up a relay and getting listed as running
21509 in the consensus. It should also improve the time between setting
21510 up a bridge and seeing use by bridge users.
21511 - Directory authorities no longer launch a TLS connection to every
21512 relay as they startup. Now that we have 2k+ descriptors cached,
21513 the resulting network hiccup is becoming a burden. Besides,
21514 authorities already avoid voting about Running for the first half
21515 hour of their uptime.
21518 Changes in version 0.2.2.12-alpha - 2010-04-20
21519 Tor 0.2.2.12-alpha fixes a critical bug in how directory authorities
21520 handle and vote on descriptors. It was causing relays to drop out of
21524 - Many relays have been falling out of the consensus lately because
21525 not enough authorities know about their descriptor for them to get
21526 a majority of votes. When we deprecated the v2 directory protocol,
21527 we got rid of the only way that v3 authorities can hear from each
21528 other about other descriptors. Now authorities examine every v3
21529 vote for new descriptors, and fetch them from that authority. Bugfix
21531 - Fix two typos in tor_vasprintf() that broke the compile on Windows,
21532 and a warning in or.h related to bandwidth_weight_rule_t that
21533 prevented clean compile on OS X. Fixes bug 1363; bugfix on
21535 - Fix a segfault on relays when DirReqStatistics is enabled
21536 and 24 hours pass. Bug found by keb. Fixes bug 1365; bugfix on
21540 - Demote a confusing TLS warning that relay operators might get when
21541 someone tries to talk to their OrPort. It is neither the operator's
21542 fault nor can they do anything about it. Fixes bug 1364; bugfix
21546 Changes in version 0.2.2.11-alpha - 2010-04-15
21547 Tor 0.2.2.11-alpha fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL
21548 libraries that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
21551 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
21552 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
21553 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
21554 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
21555 - Fix a parsing error that made every possible value of
21556 CircPriorityHalflifeMsec get treated as "1 msec". Bugfix
21557 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Rename CircPriorityHalflifeMsec to
21558 CircuitPriorityHalflifeMsec, so authorities can tell newer relays
21559 about the option without breaking older ones.
21560 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
21561 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
21562 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
21563 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
21566 - Experiment with a more aggressive approach to preventing clients
21567 from making one-hop exit streams. Exit relays who want to try it
21568 out can set "RefuseUnknownExits 1" in their torrc, and then look
21569 for "Attempt by %s to open a stream" log messages. Let us know
21571 - Add support for statically linking zlib by specifying
21572 --enable-static-zlib, to go with our support for statically linking
21573 openssl and libevent. Resolves bug 1358.
21576 - Fix a segfault that happens whenever a Tor client that is using
21577 libevent2's bufferevents gets a hup signal. Bugfix on 0.2.2.5-alpha;
21579 - When we cleaned up the contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file, we left
21580 out the first line. Fixes bug 1295.
21581 - When building the manpage from a tarball, we required asciidoc, but
21582 the asciidoc -> roff/html conversion was already done for the
21583 tarball. Make 'make' complain only when we need asciidoc (either
21584 because we're compiling directly from git, or because we altered
21585 the asciidoc manpage in the tarball). Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
21586 - When none of the directory authorities vote on any params, Tor
21587 segfaulted when trying to make the consensus from the votes. We
21588 didn't trigger the bug in practice, because authorities do include
21589 params in their votes. Bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 1322.
21592 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
21593 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
21594 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
21595 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
21596 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
21597 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
21598 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21601 Changes in version 0.2.2.10-alpha - 2010-03-07
21602 Tor 0.2.2.10-alpha fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.2.9-alpha that
21603 could prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also
21604 starts the groundwork for another client-side performance boost, since
21605 currently we're not making efficient use of relays that have both the
21606 Guard flag and the Exit flag.
21609 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
21610 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
21611 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
21612 0.2.2.9-alpha; fixes bug 1269.
21614 o Major features (performance):
21615 - Directory authorities now compute consensus weightings that instruct
21616 clients how to weight relays flagged as Guard, Exit, Guard+Exit,
21617 and no flag. Clients that use these weightings will distribute
21618 network load more evenly across these different relay types. The
21619 weightings are in the consensus so we can change them globally in
21620 the future. Extra thanks to "outofwords" for finding some nasty
21621 security bugs in the first implementation of this feature.
21623 o Minor features (performance):
21624 - Always perform router selections using weighted relay bandwidth,
21625 even if we don't need a high capacity circuit at the time. Non-fast
21626 circuits now only differ from fast ones in that they can use relays
21627 not marked with the Fast flag. This "feature" could turn out to
21628 be a horrible bug; we should investigate more before it goes into
21632 - Allow disabling building of the manpages. Skipping the manpage
21633 speeds up the build considerably.
21635 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
21636 - Fix a memleak in the EXTENDCIRCUIT logic. Spotted by coverity.
21637 Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
21638 - Disallow values larger than INT32_MAX for PerConnBWRate|Burst
21639 config option. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
21640 - Ship the asciidoc-helper file in the tarball, so that people can
21641 build from source if they want to, and touching the .1.txt files
21642 doesn't break the build. Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
21644 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x or earlier):
21645 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
21646 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
21648 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
21649 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
21650 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
21651 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
21653 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
21654 - Fix some urls in the exit notice file and make it XHTML1.1 strict
21655 compliant. Based on a patch from Christian Kujau.
21656 - Don't use sed in asciidoc-helper anymore.
21657 - Make the build process fail if asciidoc cannot be found and
21658 building with asciidoc isn't disabled.
21661 Changes in version 0.2.2.9-alpha - 2010-02-22
21662 Tor 0.2.2.9-alpha makes Tor work again on the latest OS X, updates the
21663 location of a directory authority, and cleans up a bunch of small bugs.
21665 o Directory authority changes:
21666 - Change IP address for dannenberg (v3 directory authority), and
21667 remove moria2 (obsolete v1, v2 directory authority and v0 hidden
21668 service directory authority) from the list.
21671 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
21672 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
21673 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
21674 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
21675 libraries in a security patch.
21676 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
21677 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
21678 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
21679 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
21681 - Authorities could be tricked into giving out the Exit flag to relays
21682 that didn't allow exiting to any ports. This bug could screw
21683 with load balancing and stats. Bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha; fixes bug
21684 1238. Bug discovered by Martin Kowalczyk.
21685 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
21686 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
21687 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
21690 - Fix static compilation by listing the openssl libraries in the right
21691 order. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.8-alpha; fixes bug 1237.
21692 - Resume handling .exit hostnames in a special way: originally we
21693 stripped the .exit part and used the requested exit relay. In
21694 0.2.2.1-alpha we stopped treating them in any special way, meaning
21695 if you use a .exit address then Tor will pass it on to the exit
21696 relay. Now we reject the .exit stream outright, since that behavior
21697 might be more expected by the user. Found and diagnosed by Scott
21698 Bennett and Downie on or-talk.
21699 - Don't spam the controller with events when we have no file
21700 descriptors available. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. (Rate-limiting
21701 for log messages was already solved from bug 748.)
21702 - Avoid a bogus overlapped memcpy in tor_addr_copy(). Reported by
21704 - Make the DNSPort option work with libevent 2.x. Don't alter the
21705 behavior for libevent 1.x. Fixes bug 1143. Found by SwissTorExit.
21706 - Emit a GUARD DROPPED controller event for a case we missed.
21707 - Make more fields in the controller protocol case-insensitive, since
21708 control-spec.txt said they were.
21709 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
21710 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
21711 - Fix a spec conformance issue: the network-status-version token
21712 must be the first token in a v3 consensus or vote. Discovered by
21713 parakeep. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
21715 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
21716 - Generate our manpage and HTML documentation using Asciidoc. This
21717 change should make it easier to maintain the documentation, and
21718 produce nicer HTML.
21719 - Remove the --enable-iphone option. According to reports from Marco
21720 Bonetti, Tor builds fine without any special tweaking on recent
21721 iPhone SDK versions.
21722 - Removed some unnecessary files from the source distribution. The
21723 AUTHORS file has now been merged into the people page on the
21724 website. The roadmaps and design doc can now be found in the
21725 projects directory in svn.
21726 - Enabled various circuit build timeout constants to be controlled
21727 by consensus parameters. Also set better defaults for these
21728 parameters based on experimentation on broadband and simulated
21729 high latency links.
21732 - The 'EXTENDCIRCUIT' control port command can now be used with
21733 a circ id of 0 and no path. This feature will cause Tor to build
21734 a new 'fast' general purpose circuit using its own path selection
21736 - Added a BUILDTIMEOUT_SET controller event to describe changes
21737 to the circuit build timeout.
21738 - Future-proof the controller protocol a bit by ignoring keyword
21739 arguments we do not recognize.
21740 - Expand homedirs passed to tor-checkkey. This should silence a
21741 coverity complaint about passing a user-supplied string into
21742 open() without checking it.
21745 Changes in version 0.2.1.25 - 2010-03-16
21746 Tor 0.2.1.25 fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.1.23 that could
21747 prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also fixes
21748 several minor potential security bugs.
21751 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
21752 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
21753 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
21754 0.2.1.23; fixes bug 1269.
21755 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
21756 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
21757 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
21760 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
21761 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
21763 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
21764 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
21765 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
21766 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
21770 Changes in version 0.2.1.24 - 2010-02-21
21771 Tor 0.2.1.24 makes Tor work again on the latest OS X -- this time
21775 - Work correctly out-of-the-box with even more vendor-patched versions
21776 of OpenSSL. In particular, make it so Debian and OS X don't need
21777 customized patches to run/build.
21780 Changes in version 0.2.1.23 - 2010-02-13
21781 Tor 0.2.1.23 fixes a huge client-side performance bug, makes Tor work
21782 again on the latest OS X, and updates the location of a directory
21785 o Major bugfixes (performance):
21786 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
21787 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
21788 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
21789 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
21790 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
21791 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
21792 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
21795 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
21796 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
21797 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
21798 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
21799 libraries in a security patch.
21800 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
21801 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
21802 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
21803 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
21806 o Directory authority changes:
21807 - Change IP address for dannenberg (v3 directory authority), and
21808 remove moria2 (obsolete v1, v2 directory authority and v0 hidden
21809 service directory authority) from the list.
21812 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
21813 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
21816 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
21817 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
21818 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
21819 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
21820 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
21823 Changes in version 0.2.2.8-alpha - 2010-01-26
21824 Tor 0.2.2.8-alpha fixes a crash bug in 0.2.2.7-alpha that has been
21825 causing bridge relays to disappear. If you're running a bridge,
21829 - Fix a memory corruption bug on bridges that occurred during the
21830 inclusion of stats data in extra-info descriptors. Also fix the
21831 interface for geoip_get_bridge_stats* to prevent similar bugs in
21832 the future. Diagnosis by Tas, patch by Karsten and Sebastian.
21833 Fixes bug 1208; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
21836 - Ignore OutboundBindAddress when connecting to localhost.
21837 Connections to localhost need to come _from_ localhost, or else
21838 local servers (like DNS and outgoing HTTP/SOCKS proxies) will often
21842 Changes in version 0.2.2.7-alpha - 2010-01-19
21843 Tor 0.2.2.7-alpha fixes a huge client-side performance bug, as well
21844 as laying the groundwork for further relay-side performance fixes. It
21845 also starts cleaning up client behavior with respect to the EntryNodes,
21846 ExitNodes, and StrictNodes config options.
21848 This release also rotates two directory authority keys, due to a
21849 security breach of some of the Torproject servers.
21851 o Directory authority changes:
21852 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
21855 o Major features (performance):
21856 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
21857 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
21858 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
21859 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
21860 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
21861 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
21862 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
21863 - When choosing which cells to relay first, relays can now favor
21864 circuits that have been quiet recently, to provide lower latency
21865 for low-volume circuits. By default, relays enable or disable this
21866 feature based on a setting in the consensus. You can override
21867 this default by using the new "CircuitPriorityHalflife" config
21868 option. Design and code by Ian Goldberg, Can Tang, and Chris
21870 - Add separate per-conn write limiting to go with the per-conn read
21871 limiting. We added a global write limit in Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha,
21872 but never per-conn write limits.
21873 - New consensus params "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst" to let us
21874 rate-limit client connections as they enter the network. It's
21875 controlled in the consensus so we can turn it on and off for
21876 experiments. It's starting out off. Based on proposal 163.
21878 o Major features (relay selection options):
21879 - Switch to a StrictNodes config option, rather than the previous
21880 "StrictEntryNodes" / "StrictExitNodes" separation that was missing a
21881 "StrictExcludeNodes" option.
21882 - If EntryNodes, ExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, or ExcludeExitNodes
21883 change during a config reload, mark and discard all our origin
21884 circuits. This fix should address edge cases where we change the
21885 config options and but then choose a circuit that we created before
21887 - If EntryNodes or ExitNodes are set, be more willing to use an
21888 unsuitable (e.g. slow or unstable) circuit. The user asked for it,
21890 - Make EntryNodes config option much more aggressive even when
21891 StrictNodes is not set. Before it would prepend your requested
21892 entrynodes to your list of guard nodes, but feel free to use others
21893 after that. Now it chooses only from your EntryNodes if any of
21894 those are available, and only falls back to others if a) they're
21895 all down and b) StrictNodes is not set.
21896 - Now we refresh your entry guards from EntryNodes at each consensus
21897 fetch -- rather than just at startup and then they slowly rot as
21898 the network changes.
21901 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
21902 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
21903 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
21906 - Log a notice when we get a new control connection. Now it's easier
21907 for security-conscious users to recognize when a local application
21908 is knocking on their controller door. Suggested by bug 1196.
21909 - New config option "CircuitStreamTimeout" to override our internal
21910 timeout schedule for how many seconds until we detach a stream from
21911 a circuit and try a new circuit. If your network is particularly
21912 slow, you might want to set this to a number like 60.
21913 - New controller command "getinfo config-text". It returns the
21914 contents that Tor would write if you send it a SAVECONF command,
21915 so the controller can write the file to disk itself.
21916 - New options for SafeLogging to allow scrubbing only log messages
21917 generated while acting as a relay.
21918 - Ship the bridges spec file in the tarball too.
21919 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
21920 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
21921 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
21922 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
21923 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
21925 o Minor bugfixes (compiling):
21926 - Fix compilation on OS X 10.3, which has a stub mlockall() but
21927 hides it. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
21928 - Fix compilation on Solaris by removing support for the
21929 DisableAllSwap config option. Solaris doesn't have an rlimit for
21930 mlockall, so we cannot use it safely. Fixes bug 1198; bugfix on
21933 o Minor bugfixes (crashes):
21934 - Do not segfault when writing buffer stats when we haven't observed
21935 a single circuit to report about. Found by Fabian Lanze. Bugfix on
21937 - If we're in the pathological case where there's no exit bandwidth
21938 but there is non-exit bandwidth, or no guard bandwidth but there
21939 is non-guard bandwidth, don't crash during path selection. Bugfix
21941 - Fix an impossible-to-actually-trigger buffer overflow in relay
21942 descriptor generation. Bugfix on 0.1.0.15.
21944 o Minor bugfixes (privacy):
21945 - Fix an instance where a Tor directory mirror might accidentally
21946 log the IP address of a misbehaving Tor client. Bugfix on
21948 - Don't list Windows capabilities in relay descriptors. We never made
21949 use of them, and maybe it's a bad idea to publish them. Bugfix
21952 o Minor bugfixes (other):
21953 - Resolve an edge case in path weighting that could make us misweight
21954 our relay selection. Fixes bug 1203; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
21955 - Fix statistics on client numbers by country as seen by bridges that
21956 were broken in 0.2.2.1-alpha. Also switch to reporting full 24-hour
21957 intervals instead of variable 12-to-48-hour intervals.
21958 - After we free an internal connection structure, overwrite it
21959 with a different memory value than we use for overwriting a freed
21960 internal circuit structure. Should help with debugging. Suggested
21962 - Update our OpenSSL 0.9.8l fix so that it works with OpenSSL 0.9.8m
21965 o Removed features:
21966 - Remove the HSAuthorityRecordStats option that version 0 hidden
21967 service authorities could have used to track statistics of overall
21968 hidden service usage.
21971 Changes in version 0.2.1.22 - 2010-01-19
21972 Tor 0.2.1.22 fixes a critical privacy problem in bridge directory
21973 authorities -- it would tell you its whole history of bridge descriptors
21974 if you make the right directory request. This stable update also
21975 rotates two of the seven v3 directory authority keys and locations.
21977 o Directory authority changes:
21978 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
21982 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
21983 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
21984 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
21987 Changes in version 0.2.1.21 - 2009-12-21
21988 Tor 0.2.1.21 fixes an incompatibility with the most recent OpenSSL
21989 library. If you use Tor on Linux / Unix and you're getting SSL
21990 renegotiation errors, upgrading should help. We also recommend an
21991 upgrade if you're an exit relay.
21994 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
21995 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
21996 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, of course, but OpenSSL
21997 0.9.8l won't work unless we say we are.
21998 - Avoid crashing if the client is trying to upload many bytes and the
21999 circuit gets torn down at the same time, or if the flip side
22000 happens on the exit relay. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1150.
22003 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
22004 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
22005 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
22006 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
22007 - Fix a couple of very-hard-to-trigger memory leaks, and one hard-to-
22008 trigger platform-specific option misparsing case found by Coverity
22010 - Fix a compilation warning on Fedora 12 by removing an impossible-to-
22011 trigger assert. Fixes bug 1173.
22014 Changes in version 0.2.2.6-alpha - 2009-11-19
22015 Tor 0.2.2.6-alpha lays the groundwork for many upcoming features:
22016 support for the new lower-footprint "microdescriptor" directory design,
22017 future-proofing our consensus format against new hash functions or
22018 other changes, and an Android port. It also makes Tor compatible with
22019 the upcoming OpenSSL 0.9.8l release, and fixes a variety of bugs.
22022 - Directory authorities can now create, vote on, and serve multiple
22023 parallel formats of directory data as part of their voting process.
22024 Partially implements Proposal 162: "Publish the consensus in
22026 - Directory authorities can now agree on and publish small summaries
22027 of router information that clients can use in place of regular
22028 server descriptors. This transition will eventually allow clients
22029 to use far less bandwidth for downloading information about the
22030 network. Begins the implementation of Proposal 158: "Clients
22031 download consensus + microdescriptors".
22032 - The directory voting system is now extensible to use multiple hash
22033 algorithms for signatures and resource selection. Newer formats
22034 are signed with SHA256, with a possibility for moving to a better
22035 hash algorithm in the future.
22036 - New DisableAllSwap option. If set to 1, Tor will attempt to lock all
22037 current and future memory pages via mlockall(). On supported
22038 platforms (modern Linux and probably BSD but not Windows or OS X),
22039 this should effectively disable any and all attempts to page out
22040 memory. This option requires that you start your Tor as root --
22041 if you use DisableAllSwap, please consider using the User option
22042 to properly reduce the privileges of your Tor.
22043 - Numerous changes, bugfixes, and workarounds from Nathan Freitas
22044 to help Tor build correctly for Android phones.
22047 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
22048 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
22049 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, but OpenSSL 0.9.8l
22050 won't work unless we say we are.
22053 - Fix a crash bug when trying to initialize the evdns module in
22054 Libevent 2. Bugfix on 0.2.1.16-rc.
22055 - Stop logging at severity 'warn' when some other Tor client tries
22056 to establish a circuit with us using weak DH keys. It's a protocol
22057 violation, but that doesn't mean ordinary users need to hear about
22058 it. Fixes the bug part of bug 1114. Bugfix on 0.1.0.13.
22059 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
22060 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
22061 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
22062 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
22063 - Fix numerous small code-flaws found by Coverity Scan Rung 3.
22064 - If all authorities restart at once right before a consensus vote,
22065 nobody will vote about "Running", and clients will get a consensus
22066 with no usable relays. Instead, authorities refuse to build a
22067 consensus if this happens. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1066.
22068 - If your relay can't keep up with the number of incoming create
22069 cells, it would log one warning per failure into your logs. Limit
22070 warnings to 1 per minute. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre10; fixes bug 1042.
22071 - Bridges now use "reject *:*" as their default exit policy. Bugfix
22072 on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1113.
22073 - Fix a memory leak on directory authorities during voting that was
22074 introduced in 0.2.2.1-alpha. Found via valgrind.
22077 Changes in version 0.2.1.20 - 2009-10-15
22078 Tor 0.2.1.20 fixes a crash bug when you're accessing many hidden
22079 services at once, prepares for more performance improvements, and
22080 fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
22082 The Windows and OS X bundles also include a more recent Vidalia,
22083 and switch from Privoxy to Polipo.
22085 The OS X installers are now drag and drop. It's best to un-install
22086 Tor/Vidalia and then install this new bundle, rather than upgrade. If
22087 you want to upgrade, you'll need to update the paths for Tor and Polipo
22088 in the Vidalia Settings window.
22091 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
22092 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
22093 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
22094 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
22095 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
22097 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
22098 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
22100 - Avoid segfault in rare cases when finishing an introduction circuit
22101 as a client and finding out that we don't have an introduction key
22102 for it. Fixes bug 1073. Reported by Aaron Swartz.
22105 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
22106 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
22107 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
22109 o New directory authorities:
22110 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
22112 - Move moria1 and tonga to alternate IP addresses.
22115 - Fix a signed/unsigned compile warning in 0.2.1.19.
22116 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
22118 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
22119 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
22120 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
22121 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
22122 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
22123 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
22124 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
22125 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
22126 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
22127 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
22128 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
22129 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
22130 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
22131 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
22132 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
22133 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
22134 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
22136 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
22137 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
22138 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090. Bugfix on
22140 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
22141 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
22145 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
22146 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
22147 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
22148 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
22149 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
22152 Changes in version 0.2.2.5-alpha - 2009-10-11
22153 Tor 0.2.2.5-alpha fixes a few compile problems in 0.2.2.4-alpha.
22156 - Make the tarball compile again. Oops. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
22158 o Directory authorities:
22159 - Temporarily (just for this release) move dizum to an alternate
22163 Changes in version 0.2.2.4-alpha - 2009-10-10
22164 Tor 0.2.2.4-alpha fixes more crash bugs in 0.2.2.2-alpha. It also
22165 introduces a new unit test framework, shifts directry authority
22166 addresses around to reduce the impact from recent blocking events,
22167 and fixes a few smaller bugs.
22170 - Fix several more asserts in the circuit_build_times code, for
22171 example one that causes Tor to fail to start once we have
22172 accumulated 5000 build times in the state file. Bugfixes on
22173 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1108.
22175 o New directory authorities:
22176 - Move moria1 and Tonga to alternate IP addresses.
22179 - Log SSL state transitions at debug level during handshake, and
22180 include SSL states in error messages. This may help debug future
22181 SSL handshake issues.
22182 - Add a new "Handshake" log domain for activities that happen
22183 during the TLS handshake.
22184 - Revert to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file. The September one
22185 seems to have removed most US IP addresses.
22186 - Directory authorities now reject Tor relays with versions less than
22187 0.1.2.14. This step cuts out four relays from the current network,
22188 none of which are very big.
22191 - Fix a couple of smaller issues with gathering statistics. Bugfixes
22193 - Fix two memory leaks in the error case of
22194 circuit_build_times_parse_state(). Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
22195 - Don't count one-hop circuits when we're estimating how long it
22196 takes circuits to build on average. Otherwise we'll set our circuit
22197 build timeout lower than we should. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
22198 - Directory authorities no longer change their opinion of, or vote on,
22199 whether a router is Running, unless they have themselves been
22200 online long enough to have some idea. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
22203 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
22204 - Revise our unit tests to use the "tinytest" framework, so we
22205 can run tests in their own processes, have smarter setup/teardown
22206 code, and so on. The unit test code has moved to its own
22207 subdirectory, and has been split into multiple modules.
22210 Changes in version 0.2.2.3-alpha - 2009-09-23
22211 Tor 0.2.2.3-alpha fixes a few crash bugs in 0.2.2.2-alpha.
22214 - Fix an overzealous assert in our new circuit build timeout code.
22215 Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1103.
22218 - If the networkstatus consensus tells us that we should use a
22219 negative circuit package window, ignore it. Otherwise we'll
22220 believe it and then trigger an assert. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
22223 Changes in version 0.2.2.2-alpha - 2009-09-21
22224 Tor 0.2.2.2-alpha introduces our latest performance improvement for
22225 clients: Tor tracks the average time it takes to build a circuit, and
22226 avoids using circuits that take too long to build. For fast connections,
22227 this feature can cut your expected latency in half. For slow or flaky
22228 connections, it could ruin your Tor experience. Let us know if it does!
22231 - Tor now tracks how long it takes to build client-side circuits
22232 over time, and adapts its timeout to local network performance.
22233 Since a circuit that takes a long time to build will also provide
22234 bad performance, we get significant latency improvements by
22235 discarding the slowest 20% of circuits. Specifically, Tor creates
22236 circuits more aggressively than usual until it has enough data
22237 points for a good timeout estimate. Implements proposal 151.
22238 We are especially looking for reports (good and bad) from users with
22239 both EDGE and broadband connections that can move from broadband
22240 to EDGE and find out if the build-time data in the .tor/state gets
22241 reset without loss of Tor usability. You should also see a notice
22242 log message telling you that Tor has reset its timeout.
22243 - Directory authorities can now vote on arbitrary integer values as
22244 part of the consensus process. This is designed to help set
22245 network-wide parameters. Implements proposal 167.
22246 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
22247 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
22248 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
22251 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
22252 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
22256 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
22257 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
22258 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
22259 - Fix parsing for memory or time units given without a space between
22260 the number and the unit. Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1076.
22261 - A networkstatus vote must contain exactly one signature. Spec
22262 conformance issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
22263 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
22264 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
22265 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
22266 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
22267 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
22268 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
22269 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
22270 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
22271 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
22272 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
22273 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
22274 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
22275 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
22276 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
22278 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
22279 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
22280 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090, but more problems
22281 remain. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
22282 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
22283 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
22285 - Make our 'torify' script more portable; if we have only one of
22286 'torsocks' or 'tsocks' installed, don't complain to the user;
22287 and explain our warning about tsocks better.
22290 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
22291 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
22292 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
22293 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
22294 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
22295 - Update to the "September 4 2009" ip-to-country file.
22298 Changes in version 0.2.2.1-alpha - 2009-08-26
22299 Tor 0.2.2.1-alpha disables ".exit" address notation by default, allows
22300 Tor clients to bootstrap on networks where only port 80 is reachable,
22301 makes it more straightforward to support hardware crypto accelerators,
22302 and starts the groundwork for gathering stats safely at relays.
22305 - Start the process of disabling ".exit" address notation, since it
22306 can be used for a variety of esoteric application-level attacks
22307 on users. To reenable it, set "AllowDotExit 1" in your torrc. Fix
22310 o New directory authorities:
22311 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
22315 - New AccelName and AccelDir options add support for dynamic OpenSSL
22316 hardware crypto acceleration engines.
22317 - Tor now supports tunneling all of its outgoing connections over
22318 a SOCKS proxy, using the SOCKS4Proxy and/or SOCKS5Proxy
22319 configuration options. Code by Christopher Davis.
22322 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
22323 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
22324 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
22325 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
22326 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
22329 o New options for gathering stats safely:
22330 - Directory mirrors that set "DirReqStatistics 1" write statistics
22331 about directory requests to disk every 24 hours. As compared to the
22332 --enable-geoip-stats flag in 0.2.1.x, there are a few improvements:
22333 1) stats are written to disk exactly every 24 hours; 2) estimated
22334 shares of v2 and v3 requests are determined as mean values, not at
22335 the end of a measurement period; 3) unresolved requests are listed
22336 with country code '??'; 4) directories also measure download times.
22337 - Exit nodes that set "ExitPortStatistics 1" write statistics on the
22338 number of exit streams and transferred bytes per port to disk every
22340 - Relays that set "CellStatistics 1" write statistics on how long
22341 cells spend in their circuit queues to disk every 24 hours.
22342 - Entry nodes that set "EntryStatistics 1" write statistics on the
22343 rough number and origins of connecting clients to disk every 24
22345 - Relays that write any of the above statistics to disk and set
22346 "ExtraInfoStatistics 1" include the past 24 hours of statistics in
22347 their extra-info documents.
22350 - New --digests command-line switch to output the digests of the
22351 source files Tor was built with.
22352 - The "torify" script now uses torsocks where available.
22353 - The memarea code now uses a sentinel value at the end of each area
22354 to make sure nothing writes beyond the end of an area. This might
22355 help debug some conceivable causes of bug 930.
22356 - Time and memory units in the configuration file can now be set to
22357 fractional units. For example, "2.5 GB" is now a valid value for
22359 - Certain Tor clients (such as those behind check.torproject.org) may
22360 want to fetch the consensus in an extra early manner. To enable this
22361 a user may now set FetchDirInfoExtraEarly to 1. This also depends on
22362 setting FetchDirInfoEarly to 1. Previous behavior will stay the same
22363 as only certain clients who must have this information sooner should
22365 - Instead of adding the svn revision to the Tor version string, report
22366 the git commit (when we're building from a git checkout).
22369 - If any of the v3 certs we download are unparseable, we should
22370 actually notice the failure so we don't retry indefinitely. Bugfix
22371 on 0.2.0.x; reported by "rotator".
22372 - If the cached cert file is unparseable, warn but don't exit.
22373 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
22375 - When Tor fails to parse a descriptor of any kind, dump it to disk.
22376 Might help diagnosing bug 1051.
22378 o Deprecated and removed features:
22379 - The controller no longer accepts the old obsolete "addr-mappings/"
22380 or "unregistered-servers-" GETINFO values.
22381 - Hidden services no longer publish version 0 descriptors, and clients
22382 do not request or use version 0 descriptors. However, the old hidden
22383 service authorities still accept and serve version 0 descriptors
22384 when contacted by older hidden services/clients.
22385 - The EXTENDED_EVENTS and VERBOSE_NAMES controller features are now
22386 always on; using them is necessary for correct forward-compatible
22388 - Remove support for .noconnect style addresses. Nobody was using
22389 them, and they provided another avenue for detecting Tor users
22390 via application-level web tricks.
22392 o Packaging changes:
22393 - Upgrade Vidalia from 0.1.15 to 0.2.3 in the Windows and OS X
22394 installer bundles. See
22395 https://trac.vidalia-project.net/browser/vidalia/tags/vidalia-0.2.3/CHANGELOG
22396 for details of what's new in Vidalia 0.2.3.
22397 - Windows Vidalia Bundle: update Privoxy from 3.0.6 to 3.0.14-beta.
22398 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: move to Polipo 1.0.4 with Tor specific
22399 configuration file, rather than the old Privoxy.
22400 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: Vidalia, Tor, and Polipo are compiled as
22401 x86-only for better compatibility with OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard.
22402 - OS X Tor Expert Bundle: Tor is compiled as x86-only for
22403 better compatibility with OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard.
22404 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: The multi-package installer is now replaced
22405 by a simple drag and drop to the /Applications folder. This change
22406 occurred with the upgrade to Vidalia 0.2.3.
22409 Changes in version 0.2.1.19 - 2009-07-28
22410 Tor 0.2.1.19 fixes a major bug with accessing and providing hidden
22411 services on Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18.
22414 - Make accessing hidden services on 0.2.1.x work right again.
22415 Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha; workaround for bug 1038. Diagnosis and
22416 part of patch provided by "optimist".
22419 - When a relay/bridge is writing out its identity key fingerprint to
22420 the "fingerprint" file and to its logs, write it without spaces. Now
22421 it will look like the fingerprints in our bridges documentation,
22422 and confuse fewer users.
22425 - Relays no longer publish a new server descriptor if they change
22426 their MaxAdvertisedBandwidth config option but it doesn't end up
22427 changing their advertised bandwidth numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.28-rc;
22428 fixes bug 1026. Patch from Sebastian.
22429 - Avoid leaking memory every time we get a create cell but we have
22430 so many already queued that we refuse it. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha;
22431 fixes bug 1034. Reported by BarkerJr.
22434 Changes in version 0.2.1.18 - 2009-07-24
22435 Tor 0.2.1.18 lays the foundations for performance improvements,
22436 adds status events to help users diagnose bootstrap problems, adds
22437 optional authentication/authorization for hidden services, fixes a
22438 variety of potential anonymity problems, and includes a huge pile of
22439 other features and bug fixes.
22442 - Add LIBS=-lrt to Makefile.am so the Tor RPMs use a static libevent.
22445 Changes in version 0.2.1.17-rc - 2009-07-07
22446 Tor 0.2.1.17-rc marks the fourth -- and hopefully last -- release
22447 candidate for the 0.2.1.x series. It lays the groundwork for further
22448 client performance improvements, and also fixes a big bug with directory
22449 authorities that were causing them to assign Guard and Stable flags
22452 The Windows bundles also finally include the geoip database that we
22453 thought we'd been shipping since 0.2.0.x (oops), and the OS X bundles
22454 should actually install Torbutton rather than giving you a cryptic
22455 failure message (oops).
22458 - Clients now use the bandwidth values in the consensus, rather than
22459 the bandwidth values in each relay descriptor. This approach opens
22460 the door to more accurate bandwidth estimates once the directory
22461 authorities start doing active measurements. Implements more of
22465 - When Tor clients restart after 1-5 days, they discard all their
22466 cached descriptors as too old, but they still use the cached
22467 consensus document. This approach is good for robustness, but
22468 bad for performance: since they don't know any bandwidths, they
22469 end up choosing at random rather than weighting their choice by
22470 speed. Fixed by the above feature of putting bandwidths in the
22471 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
22472 - Directory authorities were neglecting to mark relays down in their
22473 internal histories if the relays fall off the routerlist without
22474 ever being found unreachable. So there were relays in the histories
22475 that haven't been seen for eight months, and are listed as being
22476 up for eight months. This wreaked havoc on the "median wfu"
22477 and "median mtbf" calculations, in turn making Guard and Stable
22478 flags very wrong, hurting network performance. Fixes bugs 696 and
22479 969. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
22482 - Serve the DirPortFrontPage page even when we have been approaching
22483 our quotas recently. Fixes bug 1013; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
22484 - The control port would close the connection before flushing long
22485 replies, such as the network consensus, if a QUIT command was issued
22486 before the reply had completed. Now, the control port flushes all
22487 pending replies before closing the connection. Also fixed a spurious
22488 warning when a QUIT command is issued after a malformed or rejected
22489 AUTHENTICATE command, but before the connection was closed. Patch
22490 by Marcus Griep. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; fixes bugs 1015 and 1016.
22491 - When we can't find an intro key for a v2 hidden service descriptor,
22492 fall back to the v0 hidden service descriptor and log a bug message.
22493 Workaround for bug 1024.
22494 - Fix a log message that did not respect the SafeLogging option.
22498 - If we're a relay and we change our IP address, be more verbose
22499 about the reason that made us change. Should help track down
22500 further bugs for relays on dynamic IP addresses.
22503 Changes in version 0.2.0.35 - 2009-06-24
22505 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
22506 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
22507 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
22508 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
22509 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
22512 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
22513 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
22514 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
22515 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
22516 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
22517 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
22518 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
22519 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
22520 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
22521 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
22524 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
22525 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
22526 0.2.0.33; fixes bug 672.
22527 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
22528 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
22529 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
22530 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
22531 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
22534 Changes in version 0.2.1.16-rc - 2009-06-20
22535 Tor 0.2.1.16-rc speeds up performance for fast exit relays, and fixes
22536 a bunch of minor bugs.
22539 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
22540 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
22541 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
22543 o Major performance improvements (on 0.2.0.x):
22544 - Disable and refactor some debugging checks that forced a linear scan
22545 over the whole server-side DNS cache. These accounted for over 50%
22546 of CPU time on a relatively busy exit node's gprof profile. Found
22548 - Disable some debugging checks that appeared in exit node profile
22552 - Update to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
22553 - Do not have tor-resolve automatically refuse all .onion addresses;
22554 if AutomapHostsOnResolve is set in your torrc, this will work fine.
22556 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
22557 - Log correct error messages for DNS-related network errors on
22559 - Fix a race condition that could cause crashes or memory corruption
22560 when running as a server with a controller listening for log
22562 - Avoid crashing when we have a policy specified in a DirPolicy or
22563 SocksPolicy or ReachableAddresses option with ports set on it,
22564 and we re-load the policy. May fix bug 996.
22565 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
22566 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
22567 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
22568 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
22569 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
22571 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
22572 - Don't warn users about low port and hibernation mix when they
22573 provide a *ListenAddress directive to fix that. Bugfix on
22575 - When switching back and forth between bridge mode, do not start
22576 gathering GeoIP data until two hours have passed.
22577 - Do not complain that the user has requested an excluded node as
22578 an exit when the node is not really an exit. This could happen
22579 because the circuit was for testing, or an introduction point.
22583 Changes in version 0.2.1.15-rc - 2009-05-25
22584 Tor 0.2.1.15-rc marks the second release candidate for the 0.2.1.x
22585 series. It fixes a major bug on fast exit relays, as well as a variety
22586 of more minor bugs.
22588 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
22589 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
22590 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
22591 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
22593 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
22594 - Actually return -1 in the error case for read_bandwidth_usage().
22595 Harmless bug, since we currently don't care about the return value
22596 anywhere. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
22597 - Provide a more useful log message if bug 977 (related to buffer
22598 freelists) ever reappears, and do not crash right away.
22599 - Fix an assertion failure on 64-bit platforms when we allocated
22600 memory right up to the end of a memarea, then realigned the memory
22601 one step beyond the end. Fixes a possible cause of bug 930.
22602 - Protect the count of open sockets with a mutex, so we can't
22603 corrupt it when two threads are closing or opening sockets at once.
22604 Fix for bug 939. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22605 - Don't allow a bridge to publish its router descriptor to a
22606 non-bridge directory authority. Fixes part of bug 932.
22607 - When we change to or from being a bridge, reset our counts of
22608 client usage by country. Fixes bug 932.
22609 - Fix a bug that made stream bandwidth get misreported to the
22611 - Stop using malloc_usable_size() to use more area than we had
22612 actually allocated: it was safe, but made valgrind really unhappy.
22613 - Fix a memory leak when v3 directory authorities load their keys
22614 and cert from disk. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22616 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
22617 - Fix use of freed memory when deciding to mark a non-addable
22618 descriptor as never-downloadable. Bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
22621 Changes in version 0.2.1.14-rc - 2009-04-12
22622 Tor 0.2.1.14-rc marks the first release candidate for the 0.2.1.x
22623 series. It begins fixing some major performance problems, and also
22624 finally addresses the bug that was causing relays on dynamic IP
22625 addresses to fall out of the directory.
22628 - Clients replace entry guards that were chosen more than a few months
22629 ago. This change should significantly improve client performance,
22630 especially once more people upgrade, since relays that have been
22631 a guard for a long time are currently overloaded.
22633 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0):
22634 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
22635 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
22636 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
22637 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
22638 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
22639 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
22640 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
22641 - Relays were falling out of the networkstatus consensus for
22642 part of a day if they changed their local config but the
22643 authorities discarded their new descriptor as "not sufficiently
22644 different". Now directory authorities accept a descriptor as changed
22645 if bandwidthrate or bandwidthburst changed. Partial fix for bug 962;
22646 patch by Sebastian.
22647 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
22648 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
22651 - When generating circuit events with verbose nicknames for
22652 controllers, try harder to look up nicknames for routers on a
22653 circuit. (Previously, we would look in the router descriptors we had
22654 for nicknames, but not in the consensus.) Partial fix for bug 941.
22655 - If the bridge config line doesn't specify a port, assume 443.
22656 This makes bridge lines a bit smaller and easier for users to
22658 - Raise the minimum bandwidth to be a relay from 20000 bytes to 20480
22659 bytes (aka 20KB/s), to match our documentation. Also update
22660 directory authorities so they always assign the Fast flag to relays
22661 with 20KB/s of capacity. Now people running relays won't suddenly
22662 find themselves not seeing any use, if the network gets faster
22664 - Update to the "April 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
22667 - Avoid trying to print raw memory to the logs when we decide to
22668 give up on downloading a given relay descriptor. Bugfix on
22670 - In tor-resolve, when the Tor client to use is specified by
22671 <hostname>:<port>, actually use the specified port rather than
22672 defaulting to 9050. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
22673 - Make directory usage recording work again. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
22674 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
22675 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
22677 - Avoid double-free on list of successfully uploaded hidden
22678 service discriptors. Fix for bug 948. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
22679 - Change memarea_strndup() implementation to work even when
22680 duplicating a string at the end of a page. This bug was
22681 harmless for now, but could have meant crashes later. Fix by
22682 lark. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
22683 - Limit uploaded directory documents to be 16M rather than 500K.
22684 The directory authorities were refusing v3 consensus votes from
22685 other authorities, since the votes are now 504K. Fixes bug 959;
22686 bugfix on 0.0.2pre17 (where we raised it from 50K to 500K ;).
22687 - Directory authorities should never send a 503 "busy" response to
22688 requests for votes or keys. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha; exposed by
22692 Changes in version 0.2.1.13-alpha - 2009-03-09
22693 Tor 0.2.1.13-alpha includes another big pile of minor bugfixes and
22694 cleanups. We're finally getting close to a release candidate.
22697 - Correctly update the list of which countries we exclude as
22698 exits, when the GeoIP file is loaded or reloaded. Diagnosed by
22699 lark. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
22701 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x and earlier):
22702 - Automatically detect MacOSX versions earlier than 10.4.0, and
22703 disable kqueue from inside Tor when running with these versions.
22704 We previously did this from the startup script, but that was no
22705 help to people who didn't use the startup script. Resolves bug 863.
22706 - When we had picked an exit node for a connection, but marked it as
22707 "optional", and it turned out we had no onion key for the exit,
22708 stop wanting that exit and try again. This situation may not
22709 be possible now, but will probably become feasible with proposal
22710 158. Spotted by rovv. Fixes another case of bug 752.
22711 - Clients no longer cache certificates for authorities they do not
22712 recognize. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
22713 - When we can't transmit a DNS request due to a network error, retry
22714 it after a while, and eventually transmit a failing response to
22715 the RESOLVED cell. Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
22716 - If the controller claimed responsibility for a stream, but that
22717 stream never finished making its connection, it would live
22718 forever in circuit_wait state. Now we close it after SocksTimeout
22719 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; reported by Mike Perry.
22720 - Drop begin cells to a hidden service if they come from the middle
22721 of a circuit. Patch from lark.
22722 - When we erroneously receive two EXTEND cells for the same circuit
22723 ID on the same connection, drop the second. Patch from lark.
22724 - Fix a crash that occurs on exit nodes when a nameserver request
22725 timed out. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; our CLEAR debugging code had
22726 been suppressing the bug since 0.1.2.10-alpha. Partial fix for
22728 - Do not assume that a stack-allocated character array will be
22729 64-bit aligned on platforms that demand that uint64_t access is
22730 aligned. Possible fix for bug 604.
22731 - Parse dates and IPv4 addresses in a locale- and libc-independent
22732 manner, to avoid platform-dependent behavior on malformed input.
22733 - Build correctly when configured to build outside the main source
22734 path. Patch from Michael Gold.
22735 - We were already rejecting relay begin cells with destination port
22736 of 0. Now also reject extend cells with destination port or address
22737 of 0. Suggested by lark.
22739 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
22740 - Don't re-extend introduction circuits if we ran out of RELAY_EARLY
22741 cells. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Fixes more of bug 878.
22742 - If we're an exit node, scrub the IP address to which we are exiting
22743 in the logs. Bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
22746 - On Linux, use the prctl call to re-enable core dumps when the user
22748 - New controller event NEWCONSENSUS that lists the networkstatus
22749 lines for every recommended relay. Now controllers like Torflow
22750 can keep up-to-date on which relays they should be using.
22751 - Update to the "February 26 2009" ip-to-country file.
22754 Changes in version 0.2.0.34 - 2009-02-08
22755 Tor 0.2.0.34 features several more security-related fixes. You should
22756 upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or a
22757 directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
22758 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit).
22760 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.1.2.x. Those Tor versions
22761 have many known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should
22762 upgrade. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete,
22763 stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
22766 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
22767 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
22768 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
22769 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
22770 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
22771 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.0.33.
22772 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
22773 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
22776 - Fix compilation on systems where time_t is a 64-bit integer.
22777 Patch from Matthias Drochner.
22778 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
22779 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
22782 Changes in version 0.2.1.12-alpha - 2009-02-08
22783 Tor 0.2.1.12-alpha features several more security-related fixes. You
22784 should upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or
22785 a directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
22786 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit). It also
22787 includes a big pile of minor bugfixes and cleanups.
22790 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
22791 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
22792 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
22793 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
22794 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
22795 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
22798 - Let controllers actually ask for the "clients_seen" event for
22799 getting usage summaries on bridge relays. Bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha;
22800 reported by Matt Edman.
22801 - Fix a compile warning on OSX Panther. Fixes bug 913; bugfix against
22803 - Fix a bug in address parsing that was preventing bridges or hidden
22804 service targets from being at IPv6 addresses.
22805 - Solve a bug that kept hardware crypto acceleration from getting
22806 enabled when accounting was turned on. Fixes bug 907. Bugfix on
22808 - Remove a bash-ism from configure.in to build properly on non-Linux
22809 platforms. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
22810 - Fix code so authorities _actually_ send back X-Descriptor-Not-New
22811 headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
22812 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
22813 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
22814 - Fix another interesting corner-case of bug 891 spotted by rovv:
22815 Previously, if two hosts had different amounts of clock drift, and
22816 one of them created a new connection with just the wrong timing,
22817 the other might decide to deprecate the new connection erroneously.
22818 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha.
22819 - Resolve a very rare crash bug that could occur when the user forced
22820 a nameserver reconfiguration during the middle of a nameserver
22821 probe. Fixes bug 526. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
22822 - Support changing value of ServerDNSRandomizeCase during SIGHUP.
22823 Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
22824 - If we're using bridges and our network goes away, be more willing
22825 to forgive our bridges and try again when we get an application
22826 request. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
22829 - Support platforms where time_t is 64 bits long. (Congratulations,
22830 NetBSD!) Patch from Matthias Drochner.
22831 - Add a 'getinfo status/clients-seen' controller command, in case
22832 controllers want to hear clients_seen events but connect late.
22835 - Disable GCC's strict alias optimization by default, to avoid the
22836 likelihood of its introducing subtle bugs whenever our code violates
22837 the letter of C99's alias rules.
22840 Changes in version 0.2.0.33 - 2009-01-21
22841 Tor 0.2.0.33 fixes a variety of bugs that were making relays less
22842 useful to users. It also finally fixes a bug where a relay or client
22843 that's been off for many days would take a long time to bootstrap.
22845 This update also fixes an important security-related bug reported by
22846 Ilja van Sprundel. You should upgrade. (We'll send out more details
22847 about the bug once people have had some time to upgrade.)
22850 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
22851 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
22854 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
22855 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
22856 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
22857 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
22858 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha;
22859 reported by "wood".
22860 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
22861 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
22862 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
22863 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
22864 identify a connection.
22865 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
22866 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
22867 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
22868 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
22869 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
22870 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
22871 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
22872 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
22873 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
22874 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
22876 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
22877 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could be
22878 useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in practice
22879 it just means we spend many minutes trying directory mirrors that
22880 are long gone from the network. Also discard router descriptors as
22881 we load them if they are more than five days old, since the onion
22882 key is probably wrong by now. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
22885 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
22886 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
22888 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
22889 - Compile without warnings on solaris.
22890 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
22891 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
22892 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
22893 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880.
22894 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
22895 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
22897 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
22898 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, we retry failed
22899 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
22900 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
22901 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
22902 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
22903 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
22904 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
22905 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
22906 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
22907 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
22908 Fixes one case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
22909 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
22910 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
22911 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
22912 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
22913 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
22914 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
22915 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous descriptor to
22916 the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor with the same ID.
22917 Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
22918 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
22919 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
22920 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
22921 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
22922 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
22923 840. Patch from rovv.
22924 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
22925 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
22926 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
22928 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
22929 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
22930 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
22931 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
22932 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
22933 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
22934 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
22936 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
22937 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP. Bugfix on
22938 0.0.6pre1. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
22941 - Report the case where all signatures in a detached set are rejected
22942 differently than the case where there is an error handling the
22944 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
22945 descriptors, print out a more useful error message rather than
22946 triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
22947 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
22948 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
22949 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
22950 ServerDNSRamdomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
22951 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
22952 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
22954 - Check DNS replies for more matching fields to better resist DNS
22956 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
22957 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed, or
22961 Changes in version 0.2.1.11-alpha - 2009-01-20
22962 Tor 0.2.1.11-alpha finishes fixing the "if your Tor is off for a
22963 week it will take a long time to bootstrap again" bug. It also fixes
22964 an important security-related bug reported by Ilja van Sprundel. You
22965 should upgrade. (We'll send out more details about the bug once people
22966 have had some time to upgrade.)
22969 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
22970 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
22973 - Discard router descriptors as we load them if they are more than
22974 five days old. Otherwise if Tor is off for a long time and then
22975 starts with cached descriptors, it will try to use the onion
22976 keys in those obsolete descriptors when building circuits. Bugfix
22977 on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
22980 - Try to make sure that the version of Libevent we're running with
22981 is binary-compatible with the one we built with. May address bug
22983 - Make setting ServerDNSRandomizeCase to 0 actually work. Bugfix
22984 for bug 905. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
22985 - Add a new --enable-local-appdata configuration switch to change
22986 the default location of the datadir on win32 from APPDATA to
22987 LOCAL_APPDATA. In the future, we should migrate to LOCAL_APPDATA
22988 entirely. Patch from coderman.
22991 - Make outbound DNS packets respect the OutboundBindAddress setting.
22992 Fixes the bug part of bug 798. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
22993 - When our circuit fails at the first hop (e.g. we get a destroy
22994 cell back), avoid using that OR connection anymore, and also
22995 tell all the one-hop directory requests waiting for it that they
22996 should fail. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
22997 - In the torify(1) manpage, mention that tsocks will leak your
23001 Changes in version 0.2.1.10-alpha - 2009-01-06
23002 Tor 0.2.1.10-alpha fixes two major bugs in bridge relays (one that
23003 would make the bridge relay not so useful if it had DirPort set to 0,
23004 and one that could let an attacker learn a little bit of information
23005 about the bridge's users), and a bug that would cause your Tor relay
23006 to ignore a circuit create request it can't decrypt (rather than reply
23007 with an error). It also fixes a wide variety of other bugs.
23010 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
23011 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could
23012 be useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in
23013 practice it just means we spend many minutes trying directory
23014 mirrors that are long gone from the network. Helps bug 887 a bit;
23016 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
23017 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
23018 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
23019 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
23020 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
23021 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
23022 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
23023 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
23024 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
23025 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
23029 - New controller event "clients_seen" to report a geoip-based summary
23030 of which countries we've seen clients from recently. Now controllers
23031 like Vidalia can show bridge operators that they're actually making
23033 - Build correctly against versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later built
23034 without support for deprecated functions.
23035 - Update to the "December 19 2008" ip-to-country file.
23037 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
23038 - Authorities now vote for the Stable flag for any router whose
23039 weighted MTBF is at least 5 days, regardless of the mean MTBF.
23040 - Do not remove routers as too old if we do not have any consensus
23041 document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
23042 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
23043 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
23044 - When an exit relay resolves a stream address to a local IP address,
23045 do not just keep retrying that same exit relay over and
23046 over. Instead, just close the stream. Addresses bug 872. Bugfix
23047 on 0.2.0.32. Patch from rovv.
23048 - If a hidden service sends us an END cell, do not consider
23049 retrying the connection; just close it. Patch from rovv.
23050 - When we made bridge authorities stop serving bridge descriptors over
23051 unencrypted links, we also broke DirPort reachability testing for
23052 bridges. So bridges with a non-zero DirPort were printing spurious
23053 warns to their logs. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Fixes bug 709.
23054 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
23055 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
23056 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
23057 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
23058 - Squeeze 2-5% out of client performance (according to oprofile) by
23059 improving the implementation of some policy-manipulation functions.
23061 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
23062 - Make get_interface_address() function work properly again; stop
23063 guessing the wrong parts of our address as our address.
23064 - Do not cannibalize a circuit if we're out of RELAY_EARLY cells to
23065 send on that circuit. Otherwise we might violate the proposal-110
23066 limit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Partial fix for bug 878. Diagnosis
23068 - When we're sending non-EXTEND cells to the first hop in a circuit,
23069 for example to use an encrypted directory connection, we don't need
23070 to use RELAY_EARLY cells: the first hop knows what kind of cell
23071 it is, and nobody else can even see the cell type. Conserving
23072 RELAY_EARLY cells makes it easier to cannibalize circuits like
23074 - Stop logging nameserver addresses in reverse order.
23075 - If we are retrying a directory download slowly over and over, do
23076 not automatically give up after the 254th failure. Bugfix on
23078 - Resume reporting accurate "stream end" reasons to the local control
23079 port. They were lost in the changes for Proposal 148. Bugfix on
23082 o Deprecated and removed features:
23083 - The old "tor --version --version" command, which would print out
23084 the subversion "Id" of most of the source files, is now removed. It
23085 turned out to be less useful than we'd expected, and harder to
23088 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
23089 - Change our header file guard macros to be less likely to conflict
23090 with system headers. Adam Langley noticed that we were conflicting
23091 with log.h on Android.
23092 - Tool-assisted documentation cleanup. Nearly every function or
23093 static variable in Tor should have its own documentation now.
23096 Changes in version 0.2.1.9-alpha - 2008-12-25
23097 Tor 0.2.1.9-alpha fixes many more bugs, some of them security-related.
23099 o New directory authorities:
23100 - gabelmoo (the authority run by Karsten Loesing) now has a new
23104 - Never use a connection with a mismatched address to extend a
23105 circuit, unless that connection is canonical. A canonical
23106 connection is one whose address is authenticated by the router's
23107 identity key, either in a NETINFO cell or in a router descriptor.
23108 - Avoid a possible memory corruption bug when receiving hidden service
23109 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
23112 - Fix a logic error that would automatically reject all but the first
23113 configured DNS server. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Possible fix for
23114 part of bug 813/868. Bug spotted by coderman.
23115 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
23116 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
23117 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
23118 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
23119 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in 0.1.2.1-alpha;
23120 reported by "wood".
23121 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
23122 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, retry failed
23123 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
23124 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
23127 - Give a better error message when an overzealous init script says
23128 "sudo -u username tor --user username". Makes Bug 882 easier for
23130 - When a directory authority gives us a new guess for our IP address,
23131 log which authority we used. Hopefully this will help us debug
23132 the recent complaints about bad IP address guesses.
23133 - Detect svn revision properly when we're using git-svn.
23134 - Try not to open more than one descriptor-downloading connection
23135 to an authority at once. This should reduce load on directory
23136 authorities. Fixes bug 366.
23137 - Add cross-certification to newly generated certificates, so that
23138 a signing key is enough information to look up a certificate.
23139 Partial implementation of proposal 157.
23140 - Start serving certificates by <identity digest, signing key digest>
23141 pairs. Partial implementation of proposal 157.
23142 - Clients now never report any stream end reason except 'MISC'.
23143 Implements proposal 148.
23144 - On platforms with a maximum syslog string length, truncate syslog
23145 messages to that length ourselves, rather than relying on the
23146 system to do it for us.
23147 - Optimize out calls to time(NULL) that occur for every IO operation,
23148 or for every cell. On systems where time() is a slow syscall,
23149 this fix will be slightly helpful.
23150 - Exit servers can now answer resolve requests for ip6.arpa addresses.
23151 - When we download a descriptor that we then immediately (as
23152 a directory authority) reject, do not retry downloading it right
23153 away. Should save some bandwidth on authorities. Fix for bug
23154 888. Patch by Sebastian Hahn.
23155 - When a download gets us zero good descriptors, do not notify
23156 Tor that new directory information has arrived.
23157 - Avoid some nasty corner cases in the logic for marking connections
23158 as too old or obsolete or noncanonical for circuits. Partial
23161 o Minor features (controller):
23162 - New CONSENSUS_ARRIVED event to note when a new consensus has
23163 been fetched and validated.
23164 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
23165 descriptors file, print out a more useful error message rather
23166 than triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
23167 - Add an internal-use-only __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP option for
23168 controllers to prevent SIGHUP from reloading the
23169 configuration. Fixes bug 856.
23172 - Resume using the correct "REASON=" stream when telling the
23173 controller why we closed a stream. Bugfix in 0.2.1.1-alpha.
23174 - When a canonical connection appears later in our internal list
23175 than a noncanonical one for a given OR ID, always use the
23176 canonical one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 805.
23178 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
23179 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
23180 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
23181 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
23182 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
23183 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
23184 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
23185 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
23186 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
23188 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
23189 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP (bugfix on
23190 0.0.6pre1); also, do not stall hidden services because we're
23191 throwing away introduction points; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Spotted
23192 by John Brooks. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
23193 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous
23194 descriptor to the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor
23195 with the same ID. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
23197 o Deprecated and removed features:
23198 - RedirectExits has been removed. It was deprecated since
23200 - Finally remove deprecated "EXTENDED_FORMAT" controller feature. It
23201 has been called EXTENDED_EVENTS since 0.1.2.4-alpha.
23202 - Cell pools are now always enabled; --disable-cell-pools is ignored.
23204 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
23205 - Rename the confusing or_is_obsolete field to the more appropriate
23206 is_bad_for_new_circs, and move it to or_connection_t where it
23208 - Move edge-only flags from connection_t to edge_connection_t: not
23209 only is this better coding, but on machines of plausible alignment,
23210 it should save 4-8 bytes per connection_t. "Every little bit helps."
23211 - Rename ServerDNSAllowBrokenResolvConf to ServerDNSAllowBrokenConfig
23212 for consistency; keep old option working for backward compatibility.
23213 - Simplify the code for finding connections to use for a circuit.
23216 Changes in version 0.2.1.8-alpha - 2008-12-08
23217 Tor 0.2.1.8-alpha fixes some crash bugs in earlier alpha releases,
23218 builds better on unusual platforms like Solaris and old OS X, and
23219 fixes a variety of other issues.
23222 - New DirPortFrontPage option that takes an html file and publishes
23223 it as "/" on the DirPort. Now relay operators can provide a
23224 disclaimer without needing to set up a separate webserver. There's
23225 a sample disclaimer in contrib/tor-exit-notice.html.
23228 - When the client is choosing entry guards, now it selects at most
23229 one guard from a given relay family. Otherwise we could end up with
23230 all of our entry points into the network run by the same operator.
23231 Suggested by Camilo Viecco. Fix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
23234 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
23235 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
23236 - Fix a possible segfault when establishing an exit connection. Bugfix
23240 - Get file locking working on win32. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Fixes
23242 - Made Tor a little less aggressive about deleting expired
23243 certificates. Partial fix for bug 854.
23244 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
23245 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fix for bug 862.
23246 - Fix a crash bug when changing EntryNodes from the controller. Bugfix
23247 on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Fix for bug 867. Patched by Sebastian.
23248 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
23250 - If one win32 nameserver fails to get added, continue adding the
23251 rest, and don't automatically fail.
23252 - Use fcntl() for locking when flock() is not available. Should fix
23253 compilation on Solaris. Should fix Bug 873. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
23254 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
23255 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
23257 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
23258 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
23259 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
23260 - Do not use C's stdio library for writing to log files. This will
23261 improve logging performance by a minute amount, and will stop
23262 leaking fds when our disk is full. Fixes bug 861.
23263 - Stop erroneous use of O_APPEND in cases where we did not in fact
23264 want to re-seek to the end of a file before every last write().
23265 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
23266 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880. Bugfix
23268 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
23272 - Directory mirrors no longer fetch the v1 directory or
23273 running-routers files. They are obsolete, and nobody asks for them
23274 anymore. This is the first step to making v1 authorities obsolete.
23276 o Minor features (controller):
23277 - Return circuit purposes in response to GETINFO circuit-status. Fixes
23281 Changes in version 0.2.0.32 - 2008-11-20
23282 Tor 0.2.0.32 fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
23283 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
23284 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
23285 services, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
23286 variety of other issues.
23289 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
23290 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
23291 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
23292 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
23293 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
23294 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
23295 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848 and 857.
23296 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
23297 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
23298 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
23299 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
23300 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
23303 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
23304 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
23306 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
23307 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
23308 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
23309 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
23310 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
23311 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
23312 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
23313 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
23314 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
23315 requests failed, because the router descriptor has not been
23316 downloaded yet. In these cases, do not attempt to upload the
23317 rendezvous descriptor, but wait until the router descriptor is
23318 downloaded and retry. Likewise, do not attempt to fetch a rendezvous
23319 descriptor from a hidden service directory for which the router
23320 descriptor has not yet been downloaded. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
23324 - Fix several infrequent memory leaks spotted by Coverity.
23325 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
23326 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
23327 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
23328 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
23329 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
23330 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
23331 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
23332 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
23333 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
23334 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
23335 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
23336 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
23337 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
23338 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch from by rovv.
23339 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
23340 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
23341 list. It has been gone for many months.
23342 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
23343 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fixes bug 862.
23344 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
23347 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
23348 - Make DNS resolved events into "CLOSED", not "FAILED". Bugfix on
23349 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves bug 807.
23352 Changes in version 0.2.1.7-alpha - 2008-11-08
23353 Tor 0.2.1.7-alpha fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
23354 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
23355 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
23356 services, adds better defense against DNS poisoning attacks on exit
23357 relays, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
23358 variety of other issues.
23361 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
23362 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
23363 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
23364 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
23365 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
23366 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
23367 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
23368 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
23369 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
23370 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
23371 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
23372 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848.
23373 - Do not use or believe expired v3 authority certificates. Patch
23374 from Karsten. Bugfix in 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 851.
23377 - Now NodeFamily and MyFamily config options allow spaces in
23378 identity fingerprints, so it's easier to paste them in.
23379 Suggested by Lucky Green.
23380 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
23381 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
23382 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
23383 ServerDNSRandomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
23384 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
23385 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
23387 - Preserve case in replies to DNSPort requests in order to support
23388 the 0x20 hack for resisting DNS poisoning attacks.
23390 o Hidden service performance improvements:
23391 - When the client launches an introduction circuit, retry with a
23392 new circuit after 30 seconds rather than 60 seconds.
23393 - Launch a second client-side introduction circuit in parallel
23394 after a delay of 15 seconds (based on work by Christian Wilms).
23395 - Hidden services start out building five intro circuits rather
23396 than three, and when the first three finish they publish a service
23397 descriptor using those. Now we publish our service descriptor much
23398 faster after restart.
23401 - Minor fix in the warning messages when you're having problems
23402 bootstrapping; also, be more forgiving of bootstrap problems when
23403 we're still making incremental progress on a given bootstrap phase.
23404 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
23405 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
23406 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
23407 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
23408 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
23409 840. Patch from rovv.
23410 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
23411 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
23412 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
23413 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
23414 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
23415 Fixes another case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
23416 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
23417 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
23418 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
23420 - Avoid using a negative right-shift when comparing 32-bit
23421 addresses. Possible fix for bug 845 and bug 811.
23422 - Make the assert_circuit_ok() function work correctly on circuits that
23423 have already been marked for close.
23424 - Fix read-off-the-end-of-string error in unit tests when decoding
23425 introduction points.
23426 - Fix uninitialized size field for memory area allocation: may improve
23427 memory performance during directory parsing.
23428 - Treat duplicate certificate fetches as failures, so that we do
23429 not try to re-fetch an expired certificate over and over and over.
23430 - Do not say we're fetching a certificate when we'll in fact skip it
23431 because of a pending download.
23434 Changes in version 0.2.1.6-alpha - 2008-09-30
23435 Tor 0.2.1.6-alpha further improves performance and robustness of
23436 hidden services, starts work on supporting per-country relay selection,
23437 and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
23440 - Implement proposal 121: make it possible to build hidden services
23441 that only certain clients are allowed to connect to. This is
23442 enforced at several points, so that unauthorized clients are unable
23443 to send INTRODUCE cells to the service, or even (depending on the
23444 type of authentication) to learn introduction points. This feature
23445 raises the bar for certain kinds of active attacks against hidden
23446 services. Code by Karsten Loesing.
23447 - Relays now store and serve v2 hidden service descriptors by default,
23448 i.e., the new default value for HidServDirectoryV2 is 1. This is
23449 the last step in proposal 114, which aims to make hidden service
23450 lookups more reliable.
23451 - Start work to allow node restrictions to include country codes. The
23452 syntax to exclude nodes in a country with country code XX is
23453 "ExcludeNodes {XX}". Patch from Robert Hogan. It still needs some
23454 refinement to decide what config options should take priority if
23455 you ask to both use a particular node and exclude it.
23456 - Allow ExitNodes list to include IP ranges and country codes, just
23457 like the Exclude*Nodes lists. Patch from Robert Hogan.
23460 - Fix a bug when parsing ports in tor_addr_port_parse() that caused
23461 Tor to fail to start if you had it configured to use a bridge
23462 relay. Fixes bug 809. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
23463 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
23464 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
23465 requests failed, because the router descriptor had not been
23466 downloaded yet. In these cases, we now wait until the router
23467 descriptor is downloaded, and then retry. Likewise, clients
23468 now skip over a hidden service directory if they don't yet have
23469 its router descriptor, rather than futilely requesting it and
23470 putting mysterious complaints in the logs. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
23472 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
23473 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
23474 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
23475 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
23476 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
23477 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
23478 - DNS replies need to have names matching their requests, but
23479 these names should be in the questions section, not necessarily
23480 in the answers section. Fixes bug 823. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
23483 - Update to the "September 1 2008" ip-to-country file.
23484 - Allow ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy again. We had
23485 rejected them in 0.1.0.15, because back in 2005 they were commonly
23486 misconfigured and ended up as spam targets. We hear they are better
23487 locked down these days.
23488 - Use a lockfile to make sure that two Tor processes are not
23489 simultaneously running with the same datadir.
23490 - Serve the latest v3 networkstatus consensus via the control
23491 port. Use "getinfo dir/status-vote/current/consensus" to fetch it.
23492 - Better logging about stability/reliability calculations on directory
23494 - Drop the requirement to have an open dir port for storing and
23495 serving v2 hidden service descriptors.
23496 - Directory authorities now serve a /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL to
23497 help debug WFU and MTBF calculations.
23498 - Implement most of Proposal 152: allow specialized servers to permit
23499 single-hop circuits, and clients to use those servers to build
23500 single-hop circuits when using a specialized controller. Patch
23501 from Josh Albrecht. Resolves feature request 768.
23502 - Add a -p option to tor-resolve for specifying the SOCKS port: some
23503 people find host:port too confusing.
23504 - Make TrackHostExit mappings expire a while after their last use, not
23505 after their creation. Patch from Robert Hogan.
23506 - Provide circuit purposes along with circuit events to the controller.
23509 - Fix compile on OpenBSD 4.4-current. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
23511 - Fixed some memory leaks -- some quite frequent, some almost
23512 impossible to trigger -- based on results from Coverity.
23513 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
23514 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
23515 - Fix an assertion bug in parsing policy-related options; possible fix
23517 - Catch and report a few more bootstrapping failure cases when Tor
23518 fails to establish a TCP connection. Cleanup on 0.2.1.x.
23519 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
23520 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
23521 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
23522 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
23523 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
23524 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
23525 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
23526 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
23527 - If we are not using BEGIN_DIR cells, don't attempt to contact hidden
23528 service directories if they have no advertised dir port. Bugfix
23530 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
23531 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
23532 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
23533 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch by rovv.
23534 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
23535 - Avoid a "0 divided by 0" calculation when calculating router uptime
23536 at directory authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
23537 - Make DNS resolved controller events into "CLOSED", not
23538 "FAILED". Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves
23540 - Fix a bug where an unreachable relay would establish enough
23541 reachability testing circuits to do a bandwidth test -- if
23542 we already have a connection to the middle hop of the testing
23543 circuit, then it could establish the last hop by using the existing
23544 connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, exposed when we made testing
23545 circuits no longer use entry guards in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
23546 - If we have correct permissions on $datadir, we complain to stdout
23547 and fail to start. But dangerous permissions on
23548 $datadir/cached-status/ would cause us to open a log and complain
23549 there. Now complain to stdout and fail to start in both cases. Fixes
23550 bug 820, reported by seeess.
23551 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
23552 list. It has been gone for many months.
23554 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
23555 - Revise the connection_new functions so that a more typesafe variant
23556 exists. This will work better with Coverity, and let us find any
23557 actual mistakes we're making here.
23558 - Refactor unit testing logic so that dmalloc can be used sensibly
23559 with unit tests to check for memory leaks.
23560 - Move all hidden-service related fields from connection and circuit
23561 structure to substructures: this way they won't eat so much memory.
23564 Changes in version 0.2.0.31 - 2008-09-03
23565 Tor 0.2.0.31 addresses two potential anonymity issues, starts to fix
23566 a big bug we're seeing where in rare cases traffic from one Tor stream
23567 gets mixed into another stream, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
23570 - Make sure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
23571 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
23572 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc.
23573 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
23574 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
23575 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
23577 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
23578 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
23579 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
23580 pointed out by rovv.
23583 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
23584 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23585 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
23586 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
23587 - Pick size of default geoip filename string correctly on windows.
23588 Fixes bug 806. Bugfix on 0.2.0.30.
23589 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
23590 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
23591 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
23592 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23593 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
23594 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open
23595 /dev/pf before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from
23596 Christopher Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
23597 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
23598 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
23599 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
23600 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
23601 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit is
23602 getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly. Bugfix on
23603 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
23606 Changes in version 0.2.1.5-alpha - 2008-08-31
23607 Tor 0.2.1.5-alpha moves us closer to handling IPv6 destinations, puts
23608 in a lot of the infrastructure for adding authorization to hidden
23609 services, lays the groundwork for having clients read their load
23610 balancing information out of the networkstatus consensus rather than
23611 the individual router descriptors, addresses two potential anonymity
23612 issues, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
23615 - Convert many internal address representations to optionally hold
23617 - Generate and accept IPv6 addresses in many protocol elements.
23618 - Make resolver code handle nameservers located at ipv6 addresses.
23619 - Begin implementation of proposal 121 ("Client authorization for
23620 hidden services"): configure hidden services with client
23621 authorization, publish descriptors for them, and configure
23622 authorization data for hidden services at clients. The next
23623 step is to actually access hidden services that perform client
23625 - More progress toward proposal 141: Network status consensus
23626 documents and votes now contain bandwidth information for each
23627 router and a summary of that router's exit policy. Eventually this
23628 will be used by clients so that they do not have to download every
23629 known descriptor before building circuits.
23631 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x and before):
23632 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
23633 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
23634 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
23635 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
23636 identify a connection.
23637 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
23638 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
23639 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
23641 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
23642 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
23643 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
23644 pointed out by rovv.
23647 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
23648 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23649 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
23650 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open /dev/pf
23651 before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from Christopher
23652 Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
23653 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
23654 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
23655 - Add a missing safe_str() call for a debug log message.
23656 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
23657 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
23658 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
23659 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
23660 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
23661 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23664 - Rate-limit too-many-sockets messages: when they happen, they happen
23665 a lot. Resolves bug 748.
23666 - Resist DNS poisoning a little better by making sure that names in
23667 answer sections match.
23668 - Print the SOCKS5 error message string as well as the error code
23669 when a tor-resolve request fails. Patch from Jacob.
23672 Changes in version 0.2.1.4-alpha - 2008-08-04
23673 Tor 0.2.1.4-alpha fixes a pair of crash bugs in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
23676 - The address part of exit policies was not correctly written
23677 to router descriptors. This generated router descriptors that failed
23678 their self-checks. Noticed by phobos, fixed by Karsten. Bugfix
23680 - Tor triggered a false assert when extending a circuit to a relay
23681 but we already have a connection open to that relay. Noticed by
23682 phobos, fixed by Karsten. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
23685 - Fix a hidden service logging bug: in some edge cases, the router
23686 descriptor of a previously picked introduction point becomes
23687 obsolete and we need to give up on it rather than continually
23688 complaining that it has become obsolete. Observed by xiando. Bugfix
23691 o Removed features:
23692 - Take out the TestVia config option, since it was a workaround for
23693 a bug that was fixed in Tor 0.1.1.21.
23696 Changes in version 0.2.1.3-alpha - 2008-08-03
23697 Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha implements most of the pieces to prevent
23698 infinite-length circuit attacks (see proposal 110); fixes a bug that
23699 might cause exit relays to corrupt streams they send back; allows
23700 address patterns (e.g. 255.128.0.0/16) to appear in ExcludeNodes and
23701 ExcludeExitNodes config options; and fixes a big pile of bugs.
23703 o Bootstrapping bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x-alpha):
23704 - Send a bootstrap problem "warn" event on the first problem if the
23705 reason is NO_ROUTE (that is, our network is down).
23708 - Implement most of proposal 110: The first K cells to be sent
23709 along a circuit are marked as special "early" cells; only K "early"
23710 cells will be allowed. Once this code is universal, we can block
23711 certain kinds of DOS attack by requiring that EXTEND commands must
23712 be sent using an "early" cell.
23715 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
23716 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
23717 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
23718 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
23719 - Ensure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
23720 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
23721 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779; fixes a bug on 0.1.0.4-rc.
23724 - When relays do their initial bandwidth measurement, don't limit
23725 to just our entry guards for the test circuits. Otherwise we tend
23726 to have multiple test circuits going through a single entry guard,
23727 which makes our bandwidth test less accurate. Fixes part of bug 654;
23728 patch contributed by Josh Albrecht.
23729 - Add an ExcludeExitNodes option so users can list a set of nodes
23730 that should be be excluded from the exit node position, but
23731 allowed elsewhere. Implements proposal 151.
23732 - Allow address patterns (e.g., 255.128.0.0/16) to appear in
23733 ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes lists.
23734 - Change the implementation of ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes to
23735 be more efficient. Formerly it was quadratic in the number of
23736 servers; now it should be linear. Fixes bug 509.
23737 - Save 16-22 bytes per open circuit by moving the n_addr, n_port,
23738 and n_conn_id_digest fields into a separate structure that's
23739 only needed when the circuit has not yet attached to an n_conn.
23742 - Change the contrib/tor.logrotate script so it makes the new
23743 logs as "_tor:_tor" rather than the default, which is generally
23744 "root:wheel". Fixes bug 676, reported by Serge Koksharov.
23745 - Stop using __attribute__((nonnull)) with GCC: it can give us useful
23746 warnings (occasionally), but it can also cause the compiler to
23747 eliminate error-checking code. Suggested by Peter Gutmann.
23748 - When a hidden service is giving up on an introduction point candidate
23749 that was not included in the last published rendezvous descriptor,
23750 don't reschedule publication of the next descriptor. Fixes bug 763.
23752 - Mark RendNodes, RendExcludeNodes, HiddenServiceNodes, and
23753 HiddenServiceExcludeNodes as obsolete: they never worked properly,
23754 and nobody claims to be using them. Fixes bug 754. Bugfix on
23755 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch from Christian Wilms.
23756 - Fix a small alignment and memory-wasting bug on buffer chunks.
23759 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
23760 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit
23761 is getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly.
23762 Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
23764 o Removed features:
23765 - Remove all backward-compatibility code to support relays running
23766 versions of Tor so old that they no longer work at all on the
23770 Changes in version 0.2.0.30 - 2008-07-15
23772 - Stop using __attribute__((nonnull)) with GCC: it can give us useful
23773 warnings (occasionally), but it can also cause the compiler to
23774 eliminate error-checking code. Suggested by Peter Gutmann.
23777 Changes in version 0.2.0.29-rc - 2008-07-08
23778 Tor 0.2.0.29-rc fixes two big bugs with using bridges, fixes more
23779 hidden-service performance bugs, and fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
23782 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their keys,
23783 you would only launch a request for the descriptor of the first one
23784 on your list. (Tor considered launching requests for the others, but
23785 found that it already had a connection on the way for $0000...0000
23786 so it didn't open another.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
23787 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their keys, and the
23788 connection to one of the bridges failed, you would cancel all
23789 pending bridge connections. (After all, they all have the same
23790 digest.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
23791 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
23792 and Tor had built circuits preemptively for such purposes, we
23793 were ignoring all the preemptive circuits and launching a new one
23794 instead. Bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
23795 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
23796 and Tor *did* manage to reuse one of the preemptively built
23797 circuits, it didn't correctly remember which one it used,
23798 so it asked for another one soon after, until there were no
23799 more preemptive circuits, at which point it launched one from
23800 scratch. Bugfix on 0.0.9.x.
23801 - Make directory servers include the X-Your-Address-Is: http header in
23802 their responses even for begin_dir conns. Now clients who only
23803 ever use begin_dir connections still have a way to learn their IP
23804 address. Fixes bug 737; bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc. Reported by goldy.
23807 - Fix a macro/CPP interaction that was confusing some compilers:
23808 some GCCs don't like #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments.
23810 - Fix macro collision between OpenSSL 0.9.8h and Windows headers.
23811 Fixes bug 704; fix from Steven Murdoch.
23812 - When opening /dev/null in finish_daemonize(), do not pass the
23813 O_CREAT flag. Fortify was complaining, and correctly so. Fixes
23814 bug 742; fix from Michael Scherer. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre19.
23815 - Correctly detect transparent proxy support on Linux hosts that
23816 require in.h to be included before netfilter_ipv4.h. Patch
23818 - Disallow session resumption attempts during the renegotiation
23819 stage of the v2 handshake protocol. Clients should never be trying
23820 session resumption at this point, but apparently some did, in
23821 ways that caused the handshake to fail. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Bug
23822 found by Geoff Goodell.
23825 Changes in version 0.2.1.2-alpha - 2008-06-20
23826 Tor 0.2.1.2-alpha includes a new "TestingTorNetwork" config option to
23827 make it easier to set up your own private Tor network; fixes several
23828 big bugs with using more than one bridge relay; fixes a big bug with
23829 offering hidden services quickly after Tor starts; and uses a better
23830 API for reporting potential bootstrapping problems to the controller.
23833 - New TestingTorNetwork config option to allow adjustment of
23834 previously constant values that, while reasonable, could slow
23835 bootstrapping. Implements proposal 135. Patch from Karsten.
23838 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their digests,
23839 you would only learn a request for the descriptor of the first one
23840 on your list. (Tor considered launching requests for the others, but
23841 found that it already had a connection on the way for $0000...0000
23842 so it didn't open another.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
23843 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their digests,
23844 and the connection to one of the bridges failed, you would cancel
23845 all pending bridge connections. (After all, they all have the
23846 same digest.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
23847 - When establishing a hidden service, introduction points that
23848 originate from cannibalized circuits are completely ignored and not
23849 included in rendezvous service descriptors. This might be another
23850 reason for delay in making a hidden service available. Bugfix
23851 from long ago (0.0.9.x?)
23854 - Allow OpenSSL to use dynamic locks if it wants.
23855 - When building a consensus, do not include routers that are down.
23856 This will cut down 30% to 40% on consensus size. Implements
23858 - In directory authorities' approved-routers files, allow
23859 fingerprints with or without space.
23860 - Add a "GETINFO /status/bootstrap-phase" controller option, so the
23861 controller can query our current bootstrap state in case it attaches
23862 partway through and wants to catch up.
23863 - Send an initial "Starting" bootstrap status event, so we have a
23864 state to start out in.
23867 - Asking for a conditional consensus at .../consensus/<fingerprints>
23868 would crash a dirserver if it did not already have a
23869 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
23870 - Clean up some macro/CPP interactions: some GCC versions don't like
23871 #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments. Fixes bug 707. Bugfix on
23874 o Bootstrapping bugfixes (on 0.2.1.1-alpha):
23875 - Directory authorities shouldn't complain about bootstrapping
23876 problems just because they do a lot of reachability testing and
23877 some of the connection attempts fail.
23878 - Start sending "count" and "recommendation" key/value pairs in
23879 bootstrap problem status events, so the controller can hear about
23880 problems even before Tor decides they're worth reporting for sure.
23881 - If you're using bridges, generate "bootstrap problem" warnings
23882 as soon as you run out of working bridges, rather than waiting
23883 for ten failures -- which will never happen if you have less than
23885 - If we close our OR connection because there's been a circuit
23886 pending on it for too long, we were telling our bootstrap status
23887 events "REASON=NONE". Now tell them "REASON=TIMEOUT".
23890 Changes in version 0.2.1.1-alpha - 2008-06-13
23891 Tor 0.2.1.1-alpha fixes a lot of memory fragmentation problems that
23892 were making the Tor process bloat especially on Linux; makes our TLS
23893 handshake blend in better; sends "bootstrap phase" status events to
23894 the controller, so it can keep the user informed of progress (and
23895 problems) fetching directory information and establishing circuits;
23896 and adds a variety of smaller features.
23899 - More work on making our TLS handshake blend in: modify the list
23900 of ciphers advertised by OpenSSL in client mode to even more
23901 closely resemble a common web browser. We cheat a little so that
23902 we can advertise ciphers that the locally installed OpenSSL doesn't
23904 - Start sending "bootstrap phase" status events to the controller,
23905 so it can keep the user informed of progress fetching directory
23906 information and establishing circuits. Also inform the controller
23907 if we think we're stuck at a particular bootstrap phase. Implements
23909 - Resume using OpenSSL's RAND_poll() for better (and more portable)
23910 cross-platform entropy collection again. We used to use it, then
23911 stopped using it because of a bug that could crash systems that
23912 called RAND_poll when they had a lot of fds open. It looks like the
23913 bug got fixed in late 2006. Our new behavior is to call RAND_poll()
23914 at startup, and to call RAND_poll() when we reseed later only if
23915 we have a non-buggy OpenSSL version.
23918 - When we choose to abandon a new entry guard because we think our
23919 older ones might be better, close any circuits pending on that
23920 new entry guard connection. This fix should make us recover much
23921 faster when our network is down and then comes back. Bugfix on
23922 0.1.2.8-beta; found by lodger.
23924 o Memory fixes and improvements:
23925 - Add a malloc_good_size implementation to OpenBSD_malloc_linux.c,
23926 to avoid unused RAM in buffer chunks and memory pools.
23927 - Speed up parsing and cut down on memory fragmentation by using
23928 stack-style allocations for parsing directory objects. Previously,
23929 this accounted for over 40% of allocations from within Tor's code
23930 on a typical directory cache.
23931 - Use a Bloom filter rather than a digest-based set to track which
23932 descriptors we need to keep around when we're cleaning out old
23933 router descriptors. This speeds up the computation significantly,
23934 and may reduce fragmentation.
23935 - Reduce the default smartlist size from 32 to 16; it turns out that
23936 most smartlists hold around 8-12 elements tops.
23937 - Make dumpstats() log the fullness and size of openssl-internal
23939 - If the user has applied the experimental SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS
23940 patch to their OpenSSL, turn it on to save memory on servers. This
23941 patch will (with any luck) get included in a mainline distribution
23943 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
23944 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed,
23948 - Stop reloading the router list from disk for no reason when we
23949 run out of reachable directory mirrors. Once upon a time reloading
23950 it would set the 'is_running' flag back to 1 for them. It hasn't
23951 done that for a long time.
23952 - In very rare situations new hidden service descriptors were
23953 published earlier than 30 seconds after the last change to the
23954 service. (We currently think that a hidden service descriptor
23955 that's been stable for 30 seconds is worth publishing.)
23958 - Allow separate log levels to be configured for different logging
23959 domains. For example, this allows one to log all notices, warnings,
23960 or errors, plus all memory management messages of level debug or
23961 higher, with: Log [MM] debug-err [*] notice-err file /var/log/tor.
23962 - Add a couple of extra warnings to --enable-gcc-warnings for GCC 4.3,
23963 and stop using a warning that had become unfixably verbose under
23965 - New --hush command-line option similar to --quiet. While --quiet
23966 disables all logging to the console on startup, --hush limits the
23967 output to messages of warning and error severity.
23968 - Servers support a new URL scheme for consensus downloads that
23969 allows the client to specify which authorities are trusted.
23970 The server then only sends the consensus if the client will trust
23971 it. Otherwise a 404 error is sent back. Clients use this
23972 new scheme when the server supports it (meaning it's running
23973 0.2.1.1-alpha or later). Implements proposal 134.
23974 - New configure/torrc options (--enable-geoip-stats,
23975 DirRecordUsageByCountry) to record how many IPs we've served
23976 directory info to in each country code, how many status documents
23977 total we've sent to each country code, and what share of the total
23978 directory requests we should expect to see.
23979 - Use the TLS1 hostname extension to more closely resemble browser
23981 - Lots of new unit tests.
23982 - Add a macro to implement the common pattern of iterating through
23983 two parallel lists in lockstep.
23986 Changes in version 0.2.0.28-rc - 2008-06-13
23987 Tor 0.2.0.28-rc fixes an anonymity-related bug, fixes a hidden-service
23988 performance bug, and fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
23991 - Fix a bug where, when we were choosing the 'end stream reason' to
23992 put in our relay end cell that we send to the exit relay, Tor
23993 clients on Windows were sometimes sending the wrong 'reason'. The
23994 anonymity problem is that exit relays may be able to guess whether
23995 the client is running Windows, thus helping partition the anonymity
23996 set. Down the road we should stop sending reasons to exit relays,
23997 or otherwise prevent future versions of this bug.
24000 - While setting up a hidden service, some valid introduction circuits
24001 were overlooked and abandoned. This might be the reason for
24002 the long delay in making a hidden service available. Bugfix on
24006 - Update to the "June 9 2008" ip-to-country file.
24007 - Run 'make test' as part of 'make dist', so we stop releasing so
24008 many development snapshots that fail their unit tests.
24011 - When we're checking if we have enough dir info for each relay
24012 to begin establishing circuits, make sure that we actually have
24013 the descriptor listed in the consensus, not just any descriptor.
24015 - Bridge relays no longer print "xx=0" in their extrainfo document
24016 for every single country code in the geoip db. Bugfix on
24018 - Only warn when we fail to load the geoip file if we were planning to
24019 include geoip stats in our extrainfo document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.27-rc.
24020 - If we change our MaxAdvertisedBandwidth and then reload torrc,
24021 Tor won't realize it should publish a new relay descriptor. Fixes
24022 bug 688, reported by mfr. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
24023 - When we haven't had any application requests lately, don't bother
24024 logging that we have expired a bunch of descriptors. Bugfix
24026 - Make relay cells written on a connection count as non-padding when
24027 tracking how long a connection has been in use. Bugfix on
24028 0.2.0.1-alpha. Spotted by lodger.
24029 - Fix unit tests in 0.2.0.27-rc.
24030 - Fix compile on Windows.
24033 Changes in version 0.2.0.27-rc - 2008-06-03
24034 Tor 0.2.0.27-rc adds a few features we left out of the earlier
24035 release candidates. In particular, we now include an IP-to-country
24036 GeoIP database, so controllers can easily look up what country a
24037 given relay is in, and so bridge relays can give us some sanitized
24038 summaries about which countries are making use of bridges. (See proposal
24039 126-geoip-fetching.txt for details.)
24042 - Include an IP-to-country GeoIP file in the tarball, so bridge
24043 relays can report sanitized summaries of the usage they're seeing.
24046 - Add a "PURPOSE=" argument to "STREAM NEW" events, as suggested by
24047 Robert Hogan. Fixes the first part of bug 681.
24048 - Make bridge authorities never serve extrainfo docs.
24049 - Add support to detect Libevent versions in the 1.4.x series
24051 - Fix build on gcc 4.3 with --enable-gcc-warnings set.
24052 - Include a new contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file that exit relay
24053 operators can put on their website to help reduce abuse queries.
24056 - When tunneling an encrypted directory connection, and its first
24057 circuit fails, do not leave it unattached and ask the controller
24058 to deal. Fixes the second part of bug 681.
24059 - Make bridge authorities correctly expire old extrainfo documents
24063 Changes in version 0.2.0.26-rc - 2008-05-13
24064 Tor 0.2.0.26-rc fixes a major security vulnerability caused by a bug
24065 in Debian's OpenSSL packages. All users running any 0.2.0.x version
24066 should upgrade, whether they're running Debian or not.
24068 o Major security fixes:
24069 - Use new V3 directory authority keys on the tor26, gabelmoo, and
24070 moria1 V3 directory authorities. The old keys were generated with
24071 a vulnerable version of Debian's OpenSSL package, and must be
24072 considered compromised. Other authorities' keys were not generated
24073 with an affected version of OpenSSL.
24076 - List authority signatures as "unrecognized" based on DirServer
24077 lines, not on cert cache. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
24080 - Add a new V3AuthUseLegacyKey option to make it easier for
24081 authorities to change their identity keys if they have to.
24084 Changes in version 0.2.0.25-rc - 2008-04-23
24085 Tor 0.2.0.25-rc makes Tor work again on OS X and certain BSDs.
24088 - Remember to initialize threading before initializing logging.
24089 Otherwise, many BSD-family implementations will crash hard on
24090 startup. Fixes bug 671. Bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc.
24093 - Authorities correctly free policies on bad servers on
24094 exit. Fixes bug 672. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
24097 Changes in version 0.2.0.24-rc - 2008-04-22
24098 Tor 0.2.0.24-rc adds dizum (run by Alex de Joode) as the new sixth
24099 v3 directory authority, makes relays with dynamic IP addresses and no
24100 DirPort notice more quickly when their IP address changes, fixes a few
24101 rare crashes and memory leaks, and fixes a few other miscellaneous bugs.
24103 o New directory authorities:
24104 - Take lefkada out of the list of v3 directory authorities, since
24105 it has been down for months.
24106 - Set up dizum (run by Alex de Joode) as the new sixth v3 directory
24110 - Detect address changes more quickly on non-directory mirror
24111 relays. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 652.
24113 o Minor features (security):
24114 - Reject requests for reverse-dns lookup of names that are in
24115 a private address space. Patch from lodger.
24116 - Non-exit relays no longer allow DNS requests. Fixes bug 619. Patch
24119 o Minor bugfixes (crashes):
24120 - Avoid a rare assert that can trigger when Tor doesn't have much
24121 directory information yet and it tries to fetch a v2 hidden
24122 service descriptor. Fixes bug 651, reported by nwf.
24123 - Initialize log mutex before initializing dmalloc. Otherwise,
24124 running with dmalloc would crash. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha.
24125 - Use recursive pthread mutexes in order to avoid deadlock when
24126 logging debug-level messages to a controller. Bug spotted by nwf,
24127 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
24129 o Minor bugfixes (resource management):
24130 - Keep address policies from leaking memory: start their refcount
24131 at 1, not 2. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
24132 - Free authority certificates on exit, so they don't look like memory
24133 leaks. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha.
24134 - Free static hashtables for policy maps and for TLS connections on
24135 shutdown, so they don't look like memory leaks. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
24136 - Avoid allocating extra space when computing consensuses on 64-bit
24137 platforms. Bug spotted by aakova.
24139 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
24140 - Do not read the configuration file when we've only been told to
24141 generate a password hash. Fixes bug 643. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5. Fix
24142 based on patch from Sebastian Hahn.
24143 - Exit relays that are used as a client can now reach themselves
24144 using the .exit notation, rather than just launching an infinite
24145 pile of circuits. Fixes bug 641. Reported by Sebastian Hahn.
24146 - When attempting to open a logfile fails, tell us why.
24147 - Fix a dumb bug that was preventing us from knowing that we should
24148 preemptively build circuits to handle expected directory requests.
24149 Fixes bug 660. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
24150 - Warn less verbosely about clock skew from netinfo cells from
24151 untrusted sources. Fixes bug 663.
24152 - Make controller stream events for DNS requests more consistent,
24153 by adding "new stream" events for DNS requests, and removing
24154 spurious "stream closed" events" for cached reverse resolves.
24155 Patch from mwenge. Fixes bug 646.
24156 - Correctly notify one-hop connections when a circuit build has
24157 failed. Possible fix for bug 669. Found by lodger.
24160 Changes in version 0.2.0.23-rc - 2008-03-24
24161 Tor 0.2.0.23-rc is the fourth release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
24162 makes bootstrapping faster if the first directory mirror you contact
24163 is down. The bundles also include the new Vidalia 0.1.2 release.
24166 - When a tunneled directory request is made to a directory server
24167 that's down, notice after 30 seconds rather than 120 seconds. Also,
24168 fail any begindir streams that are pending on it, so they can
24169 retry elsewhere. This was causing multi-minute delays on bootstrap.
24172 Changes in version 0.2.0.22-rc - 2008-03-18
24173 Tor 0.2.0.22-rc is the third release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
24174 enables encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays, fixes
24175 some broken TLS behavior we added in 0.2.0.20-rc, and resolves many
24176 other bugs. The bundles also include Vidalia 0.1.1 and Torbutton 1.1.17.
24179 - Enable encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays,
24180 so censor tools that block Tor directory connections based on their
24181 plaintext patterns will no longer work. This means Tor works in
24182 certain censored countries by default again.
24185 - Make sure servers always request certificates from clients during
24186 TLS renegotiation. Reported by lodger; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
24187 - Do not enter a CPU-eating loop when a connection is closed in
24188 the middle of client-side TLS renegotiation. Fixes bug 622. Bug
24189 diagnosed by lodger; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
24190 - Fix assertion failure that could occur when a blocked circuit
24191 became unblocked, and it had pending client DNS requests. Bugfix
24192 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 632.
24194 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
24195 - Generate "STATUS_SERVER" events rather than misspelled
24196 "STATUS_SEVER" events. Caught by mwenge.
24197 - When counting the number of bytes written on a TLS connection,
24198 look at the BIO actually used for writing to the network, not
24199 at the BIO used (sometimes) to buffer data for the network.
24200 Looking at different BIOs could result in write counts on the
24201 order of ULONG_MAX. Fixes bug 614.
24202 - On Windows, correctly detect errors when listing the contents of
24203 a directory. Fix from lodger.
24205 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
24206 - Downgrade "sslv3 alert handshake failure" message to INFO.
24207 - If we set RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst very high but
24208 left BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst at the default, we would be
24209 silently limited by those defaults. Now raise them to match the
24210 RelayBandwidth* values.
24211 - Fix the SVK version detection logic to work correctly on a branch.
24212 - Make --enable-openbsd-malloc work correctly on Linux with alpha
24213 CPUs. Fixes bug 625.
24214 - Logging functions now check that the passed severity is sane.
24215 - Use proper log levels in the testsuite call of
24216 get_interface_address6().
24217 - When using a nonstandard malloc, do not use the platform values for
24218 HAVE_MALLOC_GOOD_SIZE or HAVE_MALLOC_USABLE_SIZE.
24219 - Make the openbsd malloc code use 8k pages on alpha CPUs and
24221 - Detect mismatched page sizes when using --enable-openbsd-malloc.
24222 - Avoid double-marked-for-close warning when certain kinds of invalid
24223 .in-addr.arpa addresses are passed to the DNSPort. Part of a fix
24224 for bug 617. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24225 - Make sure that the "NULL-means-reject *:*" convention is followed by
24226 all the policy manipulation functions, avoiding some possible crash
24227 bugs. Bug found by lodger. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
24228 - Fix the implementation of ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses so that it
24229 actually works, and doesn't warn about every single reverse lookup.
24230 Fixes the other part of bug 617. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24233 - Only log guard node status when guard node status has changed.
24234 - Downgrade the 3 most common "INFO" messages to "DEBUG". This will
24235 make "INFO" 75% less verbose.
24238 Changes in version 0.2.0.21-rc - 2008-03-02
24239 Tor 0.2.0.21-rc is the second release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
24240 makes Tor work well with Vidalia again, fixes a rare assert bug,
24241 and fixes a pair of more minor bugs. The bundles also include Vidalia
24242 0.1.0 and Torbutton 1.1.16.
24245 - The control port should declare that it requires password auth
24246 when HashedControlSessionPassword is set too. Patch from Matt Edman;
24247 bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Fixes bug 615.
24248 - Downgrade assert in connection_buckets_decrement() to a log message.
24249 This may help us solve bug 614, and in any case will make its
24250 symptoms less severe. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Reported by fredzupy.
24251 - We were sometimes miscounting the number of bytes read from the
24252 network, causing our rate limiting to not be followed exactly.
24253 Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by lodger.
24256 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 0.9.8 and 0.9.8a. All other supported
24257 OpenSSL versions should have been working fine. Diagnosis and patch
24258 from lodger, Karsten Loesing, and Sebastian Hahn. Fixes bug 616.
24259 Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
24262 Changes in version 0.2.0.20-rc - 2008-02-24
24263 Tor 0.2.0.20-rc is the first release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
24264 makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS handshake, makes
24265 hidden services work better again, helps relays bootstrap if they don't
24266 know their IP address, adds optional support for linking in openbsd's
24267 allocator or tcmalloc, allows really fast relays to scale past 15000
24268 sockets, and fixes a bunch of minor bugs reported by Veracode.
24271 - Enable the revised TLS handshake based on the one designed by
24272 Steven Murdoch in proposal 124, as revised in proposal 130. It
24273 includes version negotiation for OR connections as described in
24274 proposal 105. The new handshake is meant to be harder for censors
24275 to fingerprint, and it adds the ability to detect certain kinds of
24276 man-in-the-middle traffic analysis attacks. The version negotiation
24277 feature will allow us to improve Tor's link protocol more safely
24279 - Choose which bridge to use proportional to its advertised bandwidth,
24280 rather than uniformly at random. This should speed up Tor for
24281 bridge users. Also do this for people who set StrictEntryNodes.
24282 - When a TrackHostExits-chosen exit fails too many times in a row,
24283 stop using it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 437.
24286 - Resolved problems with (re-)fetching hidden service descriptors.
24287 Patch from Karsten Loesing; fixes problems with 0.2.0.18-alpha
24288 and 0.2.0.19-alpha.
24289 - If we only ever used Tor for hidden service lookups or posts, we
24290 would stop building circuits and start refusing connections after
24291 24 hours, since we falsely believed that Tor was dormant. Reported
24292 by nwf; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
24293 - Servers that don't know their own IP address should go to the
24294 authorities for their first directory fetch, even if their DirPort
24295 is off or if they don't know they're reachable yet. This will help
24296 them bootstrap better. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 609.
24297 - When counting the number of open sockets, count not only the number
24298 of sockets we have received from the socket() call, but also
24299 the number we've gotten from accept() and socketpair(). This bug
24300 made us fail to count all sockets that we were using for incoming
24301 connections. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
24302 - Fix code used to find strings within buffers, when those strings
24303 are not in the first chunk of the buffer. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
24304 - Fix potential segfault when parsing HTTP headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
24305 - Add a new __HashedControlSessionPassword option for controllers
24306 to use for one-off session password hashes that shouldn't get
24307 saved to disk by SAVECONF --- Vidalia users were accumulating a
24308 pile of HashedControlPassword lines in their torrc files, one for
24309 each time they had restarted Tor and then clicked Save. Make Tor
24310 automatically convert "HashedControlPassword" to this new option but
24311 only when it's given on the command line. Partial fix for bug 586.
24313 o Minor features (performance):
24314 - Tune parameters for cell pool allocation to minimize amount of
24316 - Add OpenBSD malloc code from phk as an optional malloc
24317 replacement on Linux: some glibc libraries do very poorly
24318 with Tor's memory allocation patterns. Pass
24319 --enable-openbsd-malloc to get the replacement malloc code.
24320 - Add a --with-tcmalloc option to the configure script to link
24321 against tcmalloc (if present). Does not yet search for
24322 non-system include paths.
24323 - Stop imposing an arbitrary maximum on the number of file descriptors
24324 used for busy servers. Bug reported by Olaf Selke; patch from
24327 o Minor features (other):
24328 - When SafeLogging is disabled, log addresses along with all TLS
24330 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings, check for whether Apple's
24331 warning "-Wshorten-64-to-32" is available.
24332 - Add a --passphrase-fd argument to the tor-gencert command for
24335 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks and code problems):
24336 - We were leaking a file descriptor if Tor started with a zero-length
24337 cached-descriptors file. Patch by freddy77; bugfix on 0.1.2.
24338 - Detect size overflow in zlib code. Reported by Justin Ferguson and
24340 - We were comparing the raw BridgePassword entry with a base64'ed
24341 version of it, when handling a "/tor/networkstatus-bridges"
24342 directory request. Now compare correctly. Noticed by Veracode.
24343 - Recover from bad tracked-since value in MTBF-history file.
24344 Should fix bug 537.
24345 - Alter the code that tries to recover from unhandled write
24346 errors, to not try to flush onto a socket that's given us
24347 unhandled errors. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
24348 - Make Unix controlsockets work correctly on OpenBSD. Patch from
24349 tup. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
24351 o Minor bugfixes (other):
24352 - If we have an extra-info document for our server, always make
24353 it available on the control port, even if we haven't gotten
24354 a copy of it from an authority yet. Patch from mwenge.
24355 - Log the correct memory chunk sizes for empty RAM chunks in mempool.c.
24356 - Directory mirrors no longer include a guess at the client's IP
24357 address if the connection appears to be coming from the same /24
24358 network; it was producing too many wrong guesses.
24359 - Make the new hidden service code respect the SafeLogging setting.
24360 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Patch from Karsten.
24361 - When starting as an authority, do not overwrite all certificates
24362 cached from other authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 606.
24363 - If we're trying to flush the last bytes on a connection (for
24364 example, when answering a directory request), reset the
24365 time-to-give-up timeout every time we manage to write something
24366 on the socket. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
24367 - Change the behavior of "getinfo status/good-server-descriptor"
24368 so it doesn't return failure when any authority disappears.
24369 - Even though the man page said that "TrackHostExits ." should
24370 work, nobody had ever implemented it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x.
24371 - Report TLS "zero return" case as a "clean close" and "IO error"
24372 as a "close". Stop calling closes "unexpected closes": existing
24373 Tors don't use SSL_close(), so having a connection close without
24374 the TLS shutdown handshake is hardly unexpected.
24375 - Send NAMESERVER_STATUS messages for a single failed nameserver
24378 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
24379 - Remove the tor_strpartition function: its logic was confused,
24380 and it was only used for one thing that could be implemented far
24384 Changes in version 0.2.0.19-alpha - 2008-02-09
24385 Tor 0.2.0.19-alpha makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS
24386 handshake, makes path selection for relays more secure and IP address
24387 guessing more robust, and generally fixes a lot of bugs in preparation
24388 for calling the 0.2.0 branch stable.
24391 - Do not include recognizeable strings in the commonname part of
24392 Tor's x509 certificates.
24395 - If we're a relay, avoid picking ourselves as an introduction point,
24396 a rendezvous point, or as the final hop for internal circuits. Bug
24397 reported by taranis and lodger. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
24398 - Patch from "Andrew S. Lists" to catch when we contact a directory
24399 mirror at IP address X and he says we look like we're coming from
24400 IP address X. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
24402 o Minor features (security):
24403 - Be more paranoid about overwriting sensitive memory on free(),
24404 as a defensive programming tactic to ensure forward secrecy.
24406 o Minor features (directory authority):
24407 - Actually validate the options passed to AuthDirReject,
24408 AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, and AuthDirBadExit.
24409 - Reject router descriptors with out-of-range bandwidthcapacity or
24410 bandwidthburst values.
24412 o Minor features (controller):
24413 - Reject controller commands over 1MB in length. This keeps rogue
24414 processes from running us out of memory.
24416 o Minor features (misc):
24417 - Give more descriptive well-formedness errors for out-of-range
24418 hidden service descriptor/protocol versions.
24419 - Make memory debugging information describe more about history
24420 of cell allocation, so we can help reduce our memory use.
24422 o Deprecated features (controller):
24423 - The status/version/num-versioning and status/version/num-concurring
24424 GETINFO options are no longer useful in the v3 directory protocol:
24425 treat them as deprecated, and warn when they're used.
24428 - When our consensus networkstatus has been expired for a while, stop
24429 being willing to build circuits using it. Fixes bug 401. Bugfix
24431 - Directory caches now fetch certificates from all authorities
24432 listed in a networkstatus consensus, even when they do not
24433 recognize them. Fixes bug 571. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
24434 - When connecting to a bridge without specifying its key, insert
24435 the connection into the identity-to-connection map as soon as
24436 a key is learned. Fixes bug 574. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
24437 - Detect versions of OS X where malloc_good_size() is present in the
24438 library but never actually declared. Resolves bug 587. Bugfix
24440 - Stop incorrectly truncating zlib responses to directory authority
24441 signature download requests. Fixes bug 593. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
24442 - Stop recommending that every server operator send mail to tor-ops.
24443 Resolves bug 597. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
24444 - Don't trigger an assert if we start a directory authority with a
24445 private IP address (like 127.0.0.1).
24446 - Avoid possible failures when generating a directory with routers
24447 with over-long versions strings, or too many flags set. Bugfix
24449 - If an attempt to launch a DNS resolve request over the control
24450 port fails because we have overrun the limit on the number of
24451 connections, tell the controller that the request has failed.
24452 - Avoid using too little bandwidth when our clock skips a few
24453 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
24454 - Fix shell error when warning about missing packages in configure
24455 script, on Fedora or Red Hat machines. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
24456 - Do not become confused when receiving a spurious VERSIONS-like
24457 cell from a confused v1 client. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
24458 - Re-fetch v2 (as well as v0) rendezvous descriptors when all
24459 introduction points for a hidden service have failed. Patch from
24460 Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
24462 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
24463 - Remove some needless generality from cpuworker code, for improved
24465 - Stop overloading the circuit_t.onionskin field for both "onionskin
24466 from a CREATE cell that we are waiting for a cpuworker to be
24467 assigned" and "onionskin from an EXTEND cell that we are going to
24468 send to an OR as soon as we are connected". Might help with bug 600.
24469 - Add an in-place version of aes_crypt() so that we can avoid doing a
24470 needless memcpy() call on each cell payload.
24473 Changes in version 0.2.0.18-alpha - 2008-01-25
24474 Tor 0.2.0.18-alpha adds a sixth v3 directory authority run by CCC,
24475 fixes a big memory leak in 0.2.0.17-alpha, and adds new config options
24476 that can warn or reject connections to ports generally associated with
24477 vulnerable-plaintext protocols.
24479 o New directory authorities:
24480 - Set up dannenberg (run by CCC) as the sixth v3 directory
24484 - Fix a major memory leak when attempting to use the v2 TLS
24485 handshake code. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; fixes bug 589.
24486 - We accidentally enabled the under-development v2 TLS handshake
24487 code, which was causing log entries like "TLS error while
24488 renegotiating handshake". Disable it again. Resolves bug 590.
24489 - We were computing the wrong Content-Length: header for directory
24490 responses that need to be compressed on the fly, causing clients
24491 asking for those items to always fail. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; partially
24495 - Avoid going directly to the directory authorities even if you're a
24496 relay, if you haven't found yourself reachable yet or if you've
24497 decided not to advertise your dirport yet. Addresses bug 556.
24498 - If we've gone 12 hours since our last bandwidth check, and we
24499 estimate we have less than 50KB bandwidth capacity but we could
24500 handle more, do another bandwidth test.
24501 - New config options WarnPlaintextPorts and RejectPlaintextPorts so
24502 Tor can warn and/or refuse connections to ports commonly used with
24503 vulnerable-plaintext protocols. Currently we warn on ports 23,
24504 109, 110, and 143, but we don't reject any.
24507 - When we setconf ClientOnly to 1, close any current OR and Dir
24508 listeners. Reported by mwenge.
24509 - When we get a consensus that's been signed by more people than
24510 we expect, don't log about it; it's not a big deal. Reported
24514 - Don't answer "/tor/networkstatus-bridges" directory requests if
24515 the request isn't encrypted.
24516 - Make "ClientOnly 1" config option disable directory ports too.
24517 - Patches from Karsten Loesing to make v2 hidden services more
24518 robust: work even when there aren't enough HSDir relays available;
24519 retry when a v2 rend desc fetch fails; but don't retry if we
24520 already have a usable v0 rend desc.
24523 Changes in version 0.2.0.17-alpha - 2008-01-17
24524 Tor 0.2.0.17-alpha makes the tarball build cleanly again (whoops).
24527 - Make the tor-gencert man page get included correctly in the tarball.
24530 Changes in version 0.2.0.16-alpha - 2008-01-17
24531 Tor 0.2.0.16-alpha adds a fifth v3 directory authority run by Karsten
24532 Loesing, and generally cleans up a lot of features and minor bugs.
24534 o New directory authorities:
24535 - Set up gabelmoo (run by Karsten Loesing) as the fifth v3 directory
24538 o Major performance improvements:
24539 - Switch our old ring buffer implementation for one more like that
24540 used by free Unix kernels. The wasted space in a buffer with 1mb
24541 of data will now be more like 8k than 1mb. The new implementation
24542 also avoids realloc();realloc(); patterns that can contribute to
24543 memory fragmentation.
24546 - Configuration files now accept C-style strings as values. This
24547 helps encode characters not allowed in the current configuration
24548 file format, such as newline or #. Addresses bug 557.
24549 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
24550 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out
24551 there that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such
24552 bodies when they receive them.
24553 - When we're not serving v2 directory information, there is no reason
24554 to actually keep any around. Remove the obsolete files and directory
24555 on startup if they are very old and we aren't going to serve them.
24557 o Minor performance improvements:
24558 - Reference-count and share copies of address policy entries; only 5%
24559 of them were actually distinct.
24560 - Never walk through the list of logs if we know that no log is
24561 interested in a given message.
24564 - When an authority has not signed a consensus, do not try to
24565 download a nonexistent "certificate with key 00000000". Bugfix
24566 on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 569.
24567 - Fix a rare assert error when we're closing one of our threads:
24568 use a mutex to protect the list of logs, so we never write to the
24569 list as it's being freed. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Fixes the very rare
24570 bug 575, which is kind of the revenge of bug 222.
24571 - Patch from Karsten Loesing to complain less at both the client
24572 and the relay when a relay used to have the HSDir flag but doesn't
24573 anymore, and we try to upload a hidden service descriptor.
24574 - Stop leaking one cert per TLS context. Fixes bug 582. Bugfix on
24576 - Do not try to download missing certificates until we have tried
24577 to check our fallback consensus. Fixes bug 583.
24578 - Make bridges round reported GeoIP stats info up to the nearest
24579 estimate, not down. Now we can distinguish between "0 people from
24580 this country" and "1 person from this country".
24581 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.
24582 - Avoid possible segfault if key generation fails in
24583 crypto_pk_hybrid_encrypt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.
24584 - Avoid segfault in the case where a badly behaved v2 versioning
24585 directory sends a signed networkstatus with missing client-versions.
24587 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
24588 router_get_by_hexdigest(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.
24589 - Correct bad index on array access in parse_http_time(). Bugfix
24591 - Fix possible bug in vote generation when server versions are present
24592 but client versions are not.
24593 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
24594 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
24596 - Avoid bogus crash-prone, leak-prone tor_realloc when we're
24597 compressing large objects and find ourselves with more than 4k
24598 left over. Bugfix on 0.2.0.
24599 - Fix a small memory leak when setting up a hidden service.
24600 - Fix a few memory leaks that could in theory happen under bizarre
24602 - Fix an assert if we post a general-purpose descriptor via the
24603 control port but that descriptor isn't mentioned in our current
24604 network consensus. Bug reported by Jon McLachlan; bugfix on
24607 o Minor features (controller):
24608 - Get NS events working again. Patch from tup.
24609 - The GETCONF command now escapes and quotes configuration values
24610 that don't otherwise fit into the torrc file.
24611 - The SETCONF command now handles quoted values correctly.
24613 o Minor features (directory authorities):
24614 - New configuration options to override default maximum number of
24615 servers allowed on a single IP address. This is important for
24616 running a test network on a single host.
24617 - Actually implement the -s option to tor-gencert.
24618 - Add a manual page for tor-gencert.
24620 o Minor features (bridges):
24621 - Bridge authorities no longer serve bridge descriptors over
24622 unencrypted connections.
24624 o Minor features (other):
24625 - Add hidden services and DNSPorts to the list of things that make
24626 Tor accept that it has running ports. Change starting Tor with no
24627 ports from a fatal error to a warning; we might change it back if
24628 this turns out to confuse anybody. Fixes bug 579.
24631 Changes in version 0.1.2.19 - 2008-01-17
24632 Tor 0.1.2.19 fixes a huge memory leak on exit relays, makes the default
24633 exit policy a little bit more conservative so it's safer to run an
24634 exit relay on a home system, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
24637 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
24638 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
24639 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
24640 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
24641 on network address.
24644 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
24645 buckets to become negative. Fixes bug 544.
24646 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
24647 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry.
24648 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
24649 service descriptor database even when DirPort is zero.
24650 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
24651 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
24652 crashing or mis-answering these requests.
24653 - When we decide to send a 503 response to a request for servers, do
24654 not then also send the server descriptors: this defeats the whole
24655 purpose. Fixes bug 539.
24658 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
24659 rebuild our server descriptor.
24660 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
24661 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about
24662 unknown routers in a config option. (Patch from mwenge.)
24663 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
24664 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
24665 nonstandard integer types.
24666 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
24667 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
24668 - If we were having problems getting a particular descriptor from the
24669 directory caches, and then we learned about a new descriptor for
24670 that router, we weren't resetting our failure count. Reported
24672 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
24673 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out there
24674 that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such bodies
24675 when they receive them.
24676 - Run correctly on systems where rlim_t is larger than unsigned long.
24677 This includes some 64-bit systems.
24678 - Run correctly on platforms (like some versions of OS X 10.5) where
24679 the real limit for number of open files is OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max
24680 from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES).
24681 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure.
24682 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
24683 router_get_by_hexdigest().
24684 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
24685 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
24689 Changes in version 0.2.0.15-alpha - 2007-12-25
24690 Tor 0.2.0.14-alpha and 0.2.0.15-alpha fix a bunch of bugs with the
24691 features added in 0.2.0.13-alpha.
24694 - Fix several remotely triggerable asserts based on DirPort requests
24695 for a v2 or v3 networkstatus object before we were prepared. This
24696 was particularly bad for 0.2.0.13 and later bridge relays, who
24697 would never have a v2 networkstatus and would thus always crash
24698 when used. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.x.
24699 - Estimate the v3 networkstatus size more accurately, rather than
24700 estimating it at zero bytes and giving it artificially high priority
24701 compared to other directory requests. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
24704 - Fix configure.in logic for cross-compilation.
24705 - When we load a bridge descriptor from the cache, and it was
24706 previously unreachable, mark it as retriable so we won't just
24707 ignore it. Also, try fetching a new copy immediately. Bugfixes
24709 - The bridge GeoIP stats were counting other relays, for example
24710 self-reachability and authority-reachability tests.
24713 - Support compilation to target iPhone; patch from cjacker huang.
24714 To build for iPhone, pass the --enable-iphone option to configure.
24717 Changes in version 0.2.0.14-alpha - 2007-12-23
24719 - Fix a crash on startup if you install Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha fresh
24720 without a datadirectory from a previous Tor install. Reported
24722 - Fix a crash when we fetch a descriptor that turns out to be
24723 unexpected (it used to be in our networkstatus when we started
24724 fetching it, but it isn't in our current networkstatus), and we
24725 aren't using bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
24726 - Fix a crash when accessing hidden services: it would work the first
24727 time you use a given introduction point for your service, but
24728 on subsequent requests we'd be using garbage memory. Fixed by
24729 Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
24730 - Fix a crash when we load a bridge descriptor from disk but we don't
24731 currently have a Bridge line for it in our torrc. Bugfix on
24735 - If bridge authorities set BridgePassword, they will serve a
24736 snapshot of known bridge routerstatuses from their DirPort to
24737 anybody who knows that password. Unset by default.
24740 - Make the unit tests build again.
24741 - Make "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" actually work.
24742 - Make PublishServerDescriptor default to 1, so the default doesn't
24743 have to change as we invent new directory protocol versions.
24744 - Fix test for rlim_t on OSX 10.3: sys/resource.h doesn't want to
24745 be included unless sys/time.h is already included. Fixes
24746 bug 553. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
24747 - If we receive a general-purpose descriptor and then receive an
24748 identical bridge-purpose descriptor soon after, don't discard
24749 the next one as a duplicate.
24752 - If BridgeRelay is set to 1, then the default for
24753 PublishServerDescriptor is now "bridge" rather than "v2,v3".
24754 - If the user sets RelayBandwidthRate but doesn't set
24755 RelayBandwidthBurst, then make them equal rather than erroring out.
24758 Changes in version 0.2.0.13-alpha - 2007-12-21
24759 Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha adds a fourth v3 directory authority run by Geoff
24760 Goodell, fixes many more bugs, and adds a lot of infrastructure for
24763 o New directory authorities:
24764 - Set up lefkada (run by Geoff Goodell) as the fourth v3 directory
24768 - Only update guard status (usable / not usable) once we have
24769 enough directory information. This was causing us to always pick
24770 two new guards on startup (bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha), and it was
24771 causing us to discard all our guards on startup if we hadn't been
24772 running for a few weeks (bugfix on 0.1.2.x). Fixes bug 448.
24773 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
24774 service descriptor databases even when DirPort is zero. Bugfix
24776 - We were ignoring our RelayBandwidthRate for the first 30 seconds
24777 after opening a circuit -- even a relayed circuit. Bugfix on
24779 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
24780 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
24781 crashing or mis-answering these types of requests.
24782 - Relays were publishing their server descriptor to v1 and v2
24783 directory authorities, but they didn't try publishing to v3-only
24784 authorities. Fix this; and also stop publishing to v1 authorities.
24786 - When we were reading router descriptors from cache, we were ignoring
24787 the annotations -- so for example we were reading in bridge-purpose
24788 descriptors as general-purpose descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
24789 - When we decided to send a 503 response to a request for servers, we
24790 were then also sending the server descriptors: this defeats the
24791 whole purpose. Fixes bug 539; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
24794 - Bridge relays now behave like clients with respect to time
24795 intervals for downloading new consensus documents -- otherwise they
24796 stand out. Bridge users now wait until the end of the interval,
24797 so their bridge relay will be sure to have a new consensus document.
24798 - Three new config options (AlternateDirAuthority,
24799 AlternateBridgeAuthority, and AlternateHSAuthority) that let the
24800 user selectively replace the default directory authorities by type,
24801 rather than the all-or-nothing replacement that DirServer offers.
24802 - Tor can now be configured to read a GeoIP file from disk in one
24803 of two formats. This can be used by controllers to map IP addresses
24804 to countries. Eventually, it may support exit-by-country.
24805 - When possible, bridge relays remember which countries users
24806 are coming from, and report aggregate information in their
24807 extra-info documents, so that the bridge authorities can learn
24808 where Tor is blocked.
24809 - Bridge directory authorities now do reachability testing on the
24810 bridges they know. They provide router status summaries to the
24811 controller via "getinfo ns/purpose/bridge", and also dump summaries
24812 to a file periodically.
24813 - Stop fetching directory info so aggressively if your DirPort is
24814 on but your ORPort is off; stop fetching v2 dir info entirely.
24815 You can override these choices with the new FetchDirInfoEarly
24819 - The fix in 0.2.0.12-alpha cleared the "hsdir" flag in v3 network
24820 consensus documents when there are too many relays at a single
24821 IP address. Now clear it in v2 network status documents too, and
24822 also clear it in routerinfo_t when the relay is no longer listed
24823 in the relevant networkstatus document.
24824 - Don't crash if we get an unexpected value for the
24825 PublishServerDescriptor config option. Reported by Matt Edman;
24826 bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
24827 - Our new v2 hidden service descriptor format allows descriptors
24828 that have no introduction points. But Tor crashed when we tried
24829 to build a descriptor with no intro points (and it would have
24830 crashed if we had tried to parse one). Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; patch
24831 by Karsten Loesing.
24832 - Fix building with dmalloc 5.5.2 with glibc.
24833 - Reject uploaded descriptors and extrainfo documents if they're
24834 huge. Otherwise we'll cache them all over the network and it'll
24835 clog everything up. Reported by Aljosha Judmayer.
24836 - Check for presence of s6_addr16 and s6_addr32 fields in in6_addr
24837 via autoconf. Should fix compile on solaris. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
24838 - When the DANGEROUS_VERSION controller status event told us we're
24839 running an obsolete version, it used the string "OLD" to describe
24840 it. Yet the "getinfo" interface used the string "OBSOLETE". Now use
24841 "OBSOLETE" in both cases. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
24842 - If we can't expand our list of entry guards (e.g. because we're
24843 using bridges or we have StrictEntryNodes set), don't mark relays
24844 down when they fail a directory request. Otherwise we're too quick
24845 to mark all our entry points down. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
24846 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
24847 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about unknown
24848 routers in a config option. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. (Patch from mwenge.)
24849 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
24850 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
24851 nonstandard integer types. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
24852 - Fix compilation with --disable-threads set. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
24853 - Don't crash on name lookup when we have no current consensus. Fixes
24854 bug 538; bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
24855 - Only Tors that want to mirror the v2 directory info should
24856 create the "cached-status" directory in their datadir. (All Tors
24857 used to create it.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
24858 - Directory authorities should only automatically download Extra Info
24859 documents if they're v1, v2, or v3 authorities. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
24862 - On the USR1 signal, when dmalloc is in use, log the top 10 memory
24863 consumers. (We already do this on HUP.)
24864 - Authorities and caches fetch the v2 networkstatus documents
24865 less often, now that v3 is encouraged.
24866 - Add a new config option BridgeRelay that specifies you want to
24867 be a bridge relay. Right now the only difference is that it makes
24868 you answer begin_dir requests, and it makes you cache dir info,
24869 even if your DirPort isn't on.
24870 - Add "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" so controllers can
24871 ask about source, timestamp of arrival, purpose, etc. We need
24872 something like this to help Vidalia not do GeoIP lookups on bridge
24874 - Allow multiple HashedControlPassword config lines, to support
24875 multiple controller passwords.
24876 - Authorities now decide whether they're authoritative for a given
24877 router based on the router's purpose.
24878 - New config options AuthDirBadDir and AuthDirListBadDirs for
24879 authorities to mark certain relays as "bad directories" in the
24880 networkstatus documents. Also supports the "!baddir" directive in
24881 the approved-routers file.
24884 Changes in version 0.2.0.12-alpha - 2007-11-16
24885 This twelfth development snapshot fixes some more build problems as
24886 well as a few minor bugs.
24889 - Make it build on OpenBSD again. Patch from tup.
24890 - Substitute BINDIR and LOCALSTATEDIR in scripts. Fixes
24891 package-building for Red Hat, OS X, etc.
24893 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
24894 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
24895 rebuild our server descriptor.
24897 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
24898 - When we're lacking a consensus, don't try to perform rendezvous
24899 operations. Reported by Karsten Loesing.
24900 - Fix a small memory leak whenever we decide against using a
24901 newly picked entry guard. Reported by Mike Perry.
24902 - When authorities detected more than two relays running on the same
24903 IP address, they were clearing all the status flags but forgetting
24904 to clear the "hsdir" flag. So clients were being told that a
24905 given relay was the right choice for a v2 hsdir lookup, yet they
24906 never had its descriptor because it was marked as 'not running'
24908 - If we're trying to fetch a bridge descriptor and there's no way
24909 the bridge authority could help us (for example, we don't know
24910 a digest, or there is no bridge authority), don't be so eager to
24911 fall back to asking the bridge authority.
24912 - If we're using bridges or have strictentrynodes set, and our
24913 chosen exit is in the same family as all our bridges/entry guards,
24914 then be flexible about families.
24917 - When we negotiate a v2 link-layer connection (not yet implemented),
24918 accept RELAY_EARLY cells and turn them into RELAY cells if we've
24919 negotiated a v1 connection for their next step. Initial code for
24923 Changes in version 0.2.0.11-alpha - 2007-11-12
24924 This eleventh development snapshot fixes some build problems with
24925 the previous snapshot. It also includes a more secure-by-default exit
24926 policy for relays, fixes an enormous memory leak for exit relays, and
24927 fixes another bug where servers were falling out of the directory list.
24930 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
24931 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
24932 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
24933 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
24934 on network address. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
24937 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
24938 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry; bugfix
24940 - On authorities, never downgrade to old router descriptors simply
24941 because they're listed in the consensus. This created a catch-22
24942 where we wouldn't list a new descriptor because there was an
24943 old one in the consensus, and we couldn't get the new one in the
24944 consensus because we wouldn't list it. Possible fix for bug 548.
24945 Also, this might cause bug 543 to appear on authorities; if so,
24946 we'll need a band-aid for that. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
24948 o Packaging fixes on 0.2.0.10-alpha:
24949 - We were including instructions about what to do with the
24950 src/config/fallback-consensus file, but we weren't actually
24951 including it in the tarball. Disable all of that for now.
24954 - Allow people to say PreferTunnelledDirConns rather than
24955 PreferTunneledDirConns, for those alternate-spellers out there.
24958 - Don't reevaluate all the information from our consensus document
24959 just because we've downloaded a v2 networkstatus that we intend
24960 to cache. Fixes bug 545; bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
24963 Changes in version 0.2.0.10-alpha - 2007-11-10
24964 This tenth development snapshot adds a third v3 directory authority
24965 run by Mike Perry, adds most of Karsten Loesing's new hidden service
24966 descriptor format, fixes a bad crash bug and new bridge bugs introduced
24967 in 0.2.0.9-alpha, fixes many bugs with the v3 directory implementation,
24968 fixes some minor memory leaks in previous 0.2.0.x snapshots, and
24969 addresses many more minor issues.
24971 o New directory authorities:
24972 - Set up ides (run by Mike Perry) as the third v3 directory authority.
24975 - Allow tunnelled directory connections to ask for an encrypted
24976 "begin_dir" connection or an anonymized "uses a full Tor circuit"
24977 connection independently. Now we can make anonymized begin_dir
24978 connections for (e.g.) more secure hidden service posting and
24980 - More progress on proposal 114: code from Karsten Loesing to
24981 implement new hidden service descriptor format.
24982 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst to 5MB/10MB, to
24983 accommodate the growing number of servers that use the default
24984 and are reaching it.
24985 - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which nodes
24986 to advertise as Guards: they must be in the top 7/8 in terms of
24987 how long we have known about them, and above the median of those
24988 nodes in terms of weighted fractional uptime.
24989 - Make "not enough dir info yet" warnings describe *why* Tor feels
24990 it doesn't have enough directory info yet.
24993 - Stop servers from crashing if they set a Family option (or
24994 maybe in other situations too). Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported
24996 - Make bridge users work again -- the move to v3 directories in
24997 0.2.0.9-alpha had introduced a number of bugs that made bridges
24998 no longer work for clients.
24999 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
25000 buckets to become negative. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 544.
25002 o Major bugfixes (v3 dir, bugfixes on 0.2.0.9-alpha):
25003 - When the consensus lists a router descriptor that we previously were
25004 mirroring, but that we considered non-canonical, reload the
25005 descriptor as canonical. This fixes bug 543 where Tor servers
25006 would start complaining after a few days that they don't have
25007 enough directory information to build a circuit.
25008 - Consider replacing the current consensus when certificates arrive
25009 that make the pending consensus valid. Previously, we were only
25010 considering replacement when the new certs _didn't_ help.
25011 - Fix an assert error on startup if we didn't already have the
25012 consensus and certs cached in our datadirectory: we were caching
25013 the consensus in consensus_waiting_for_certs but then free'ing it
25015 - Avoid sending a request for "keys/fp" (for which we'll get a 400 Bad
25016 Request) if we need more v3 certs but we've already got pending
25017 requests for all of them.
25018 - Correctly back off from failing certificate downloads. Fixes
25020 - Authorities don't vote on the Running flag if they have been running
25021 for less than 30 minutes themselves. Fixes bug 547, where a newly
25022 started authority would vote that everyone was down.
25024 o New requirements:
25025 - Drop support for OpenSSL version 0.9.6. Just about nobody was using
25026 it, it had no AES, and it hasn't seen any security patches since
25030 - Clients now hold circuitless TLS connections open for 1.5 times
25031 MaxCircuitDirtiness (15 minutes), since it is likely that they'll
25032 rebuild a new circuit over them within that timeframe. Previously,
25033 they held them open only for KeepalivePeriod (5 minutes).
25034 - Use "If-Modified-Since" to avoid retrieving consensus
25035 networkstatuses that we already have.
25036 - When we have no consensus, check FallbackNetworkstatusFile (defaults
25037 to $PREFIX/share/tor/fallback-consensus) for a consensus. This way
25038 we start knowing some directory caches.
25039 - When we receive a consensus from the future, warn about skew.
25040 - Improve skew reporting: try to give the user a better log message
25041 about how skewed they are, and how much this matters.
25042 - When we have a certificate for an authority, believe that
25043 certificate's claims about the authority's IP address.
25044 - New --quiet command-line option to suppress the default console log.
25045 Good in combination with --hash-password.
25046 - Authorities send back an X-Descriptor-Not-New header in response to
25047 an accepted-but-discarded descriptor upload. Partially implements
25049 - Make the log message for "tls error. breaking." more useful.
25050 - Better log messages about certificate downloads, to attempt to
25051 track down the second incarnation of bug 546.
25053 o Minor features (bridges):
25054 - If bridge users set UpdateBridgesFromAuthority, but the digest
25055 they ask for is a 404 from the bridge authority, they now fall
25056 back to trying the bridge directly.
25057 - Bridges now use begin_dir to publish their server descriptor to
25058 the bridge authority, even when they haven't set TunnelDirConns.
25060 o Minor features (controller):
25061 - When reporting clock skew, and we know that the clock is _at least
25062 as skewed_ as some value, but we don't know the actual value,
25063 report the value as a "minimum skew."
25066 - Update linux-tor-prio.sh script to allow QoS based on the uid of
25067 the Tor process. Patch from Marco Bonetti with tweaks from Mike
25071 - Refuse to start if both ORPort and UseBridges are set. Bugfix
25072 on 0.2.0.x, suggested by Matt Edman.
25073 - Don't stop fetching descriptors when FetchUselessDescriptors is
25074 set, even if we stop asking for circuits. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x;
25075 reported by tup and ioerror.
25076 - Better log message on vote from unknown authority.
25077 - Don't log "Launching 0 request for 0 router" message.
25079 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
25080 - Stop leaking memory every time we parse a v3 certificate. Bugfix
25082 - Stop leaking memory every time we load a v3 certificate. Bugfix
25083 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 536.
25084 - Stop leaking a cached networkstatus on exit. Bugfix on
25086 - Stop leaking voter information every time we free a consensus.
25087 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
25088 - Stop leaking signed data every time we check a voter signature.
25089 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
25090 - Stop leaking a signature every time we fail to parse a consensus or
25091 a vote. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
25092 - Stop leaking v2_download_status_map on shutdown. Bugfix on
25094 - Stop leaking conn->nickname every time we make a connection to a
25095 Tor relay without knowing its expected identity digest (e.g. when
25096 using bridges). Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
25098 - Minor bugfixes (portability):
25099 - Run correctly on platforms where rlim_t is larger than unsigned
25100 long, and/or where the real limit for number of open files is
25101 OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES). In
25102 particular, these may be needed for OS X 10.5.
25105 Changes in version 0.1.2.18 - 2007-10-28
25106 Tor 0.1.2.18 fixes many problems including crash bugs, problems with
25107 hidden service introduction that were causing huge delays, and a big
25108 bug that was causing some servers to disappear from the network status
25109 lists for a few hours each day.
25111 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
25112 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
25113 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
25114 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451:
25115 "connection_stop_writing: Assertion conn->write_event failed"
25116 Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
25117 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
25118 rend_process_relay_cell().
25120 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
25121 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
25122 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
25123 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
25124 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
25125 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
25126 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. These
25127 changes could speed up hidden service connections dramatically.
25129 o Major bugfixes (other):
25130 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we get a
25131 HUP signal. This led (in a roundabout way) to some servers getting
25132 dropped from the networkstatus lists for a few hours each day.
25133 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
25134 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
25135 circuit cannibalization).
25136 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
25137 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
25138 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
25139 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
25140 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
25141 consensus. Fixes bug 529.
25144 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
25145 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. Resolves
25147 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
25148 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is
25149 absent. Resolves bug 467.
25150 - Fix a user-triggerable segfault in expand_filename(). (There isn't
25151 a way to trigger this remotely.)
25152 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
25153 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
25154 were reporting the dir port.)
25155 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
25156 command. Bugfix on 0.1.2.17.
25157 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
25158 the future. Fixes bug 434.
25159 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
25161 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
25162 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
25163 the onion key from getting rotated.
25164 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
25165 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
25166 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
25167 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff
25168 is fishy. Resolves bug 463.
25169 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
25170 option. Patch from Robert Hogan.
25171 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
25172 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
25175 Changes in version 0.2.0.9-alpha - 2007-10-24
25176 This ninth development snapshot switches clients to the new v3 directory
25177 system; allows servers to be listed in the network status even when they
25178 have the same nickname as a registered server; and fixes many other
25179 bugs including a big one that was causing some servers to disappear
25180 from the network status lists for a few hours each day.
25182 o Major features (directory system):
25183 - Clients now download v3 consensus networkstatus documents instead
25184 of v2 networkstatus documents. Clients and caches now base their
25185 opinions about routers on these consensus documents. Clients only
25186 download router descriptors listed in the consensus.
25187 - Authorities now list servers who have the same nickname as
25188 a different named server, but list them with a new flag,
25189 "Unnamed". Now we can list servers that happen to pick the same
25190 nickname as a server that registered two years ago and then
25191 disappeared. Partially implements proposal 122.
25192 - If the consensus lists a router as "Unnamed", the name is assigned
25193 to a different router: do not identify the router by that name.
25194 Partially implements proposal 122.
25195 - Authorities can now come to a consensus on which method to use to
25196 compute the consensus. This gives us forward compatibility.
25199 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we HUP or
25200 when we find our DirPort to be reachable but won't actually publish
25201 it. New descriptors without any real changes are dropped by the
25202 authorities, and can screw up our "publish every 18 hours" schedule.
25204 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
25205 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
25206 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
25207 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
25208 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
25209 consensus. Fixes bug 529; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
25210 - Fix awful behavior in DownloadExtraInfo option where we'd fetch
25211 extrainfo documents and then discard them immediately for not
25212 matching the latest router. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
25214 o Minor features (v3 directory protocol):
25215 - Allow tor-gencert to generate a new certificate without replacing
25217 - Allow certificates to include an address.
25218 - When we change our directory-cache settings, reschedule all voting
25219 and download operations.
25220 - Reattempt certificate downloads immediately on failure, as long as
25221 we haven't failed a threshold number of times yet.
25222 - Delay retrying consensus downloads while we're downloading
25223 certificates to verify the one we just got. Also, count getting a
25224 consensus that we already have (or one that isn't valid) as a failure,
25225 and count failing to get the certificates after 20 minutes as a
25227 - Build circuits and download descriptors even if our consensus is a
25228 little expired. (This feature will go away once authorities are
25231 o Minor features (router descriptor cache):
25232 - If we find a cached-routers file that's been sitting around for more
25233 than 28 days unmodified, then most likely it's a leftover from
25234 when we upgraded to 0.2.0.8-alpha. Remove it. It has no good
25236 - When we (as a cache) download a descriptor because it was listed
25237 in a consensus, remember when the consensus was supposed to expire,
25238 and don't expire the descriptor until then.
25240 o Minor features (performance):
25241 - Call routerlist_remove_old_routers() much less often. This should
25242 speed startup, especially on directory caches.
25243 - Don't try to launch new descriptor downloads quite so often when we
25244 already have enough directory information to build circuits.
25245 - Base64 decoding was actually showing up on our profile when parsing
25246 the initial descriptor file; switch to an in-process all-at-once
25247 implementation that's about 3.5x times faster than calling out to
25250 o Minor features (compilation):
25251 - Detect non-ASCII platforms (if any still exist) and refuse to
25252 build there: some of our code assumes that 'A' is 65 and so on.
25254 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory authorities, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x):
25255 - Make the "next period" votes into "current period" votes immediately
25256 after publishing the consensus; avoid a heisenbug that made them
25257 stick around indefinitely.
25258 - When we discard a vote as a duplicate, do not report this as
25260 - Treat missing v3 keys or certificates as an error when running as a
25261 v3 directory authority.
25262 - When we're configured to be a v3 authority, but we're only listed
25263 as a non-v3 authority in our DirServer line for ourself, correct
25265 - If an authority doesn't have a qualified hostname, just put
25266 its address in the vote. This fixes the problem where we referred to
25267 "moria on moria:9031."
25268 - Distinguish between detached signatures for the wrong period, and
25269 detached signatures for a divergent vote.
25270 - Fix a small memory leak when computing a consensus.
25271 - When there's no consensus, we were forming a vote every 30
25272 minutes, but writing the "valid-after" line in our vote based
25273 on our configured V3AuthVotingInterval: so unless the intervals
25274 matched up, we immediately rejected our own vote because it didn't
25275 start at the voting interval that caused us to construct a vote.
25277 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory protocol, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x):
25278 - Delete unverified-consensus when the real consensus is set.
25279 - Consider retrying a consensus networkstatus fetch immediately
25280 after one fails: don't wait 60 seconds to notice.
25281 - When fetching a consensus as a cache, wait until a newer consensus
25282 should exist before trying to replace the current one.
25283 - Use a more forgiving schedule for retrying failed consensus
25284 downloads than for other types.
25286 o Minor bugfixes (other directory issues):
25287 - Correct the implementation of "download votes by digest." Bugfix on
25289 - Authorities no longer send back "400 you're unreachable please fix
25290 it" errors to Tor servers that aren't online all the time. We're
25291 supposed to tolerate these servers now. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
25293 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
25294 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
25295 option. Patch from Robert Hogan; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
25296 - Respond to INT and TERM SIGNAL commands before we execute the
25297 signal, in case the signal shuts us down. We had a patch in
25298 0.1.2.1-alpha that tried to do this by queueing the response on
25299 the connection's buffer before shutting down, but that really
25300 isn't the same thing at all. Bug located by Matt Edman.
25302 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
25303 - Correctly check for bad options to the "PublishServerDescriptor"
25304 config option. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; reported by Matt Edman.
25305 - Stop leaking memory on failing case of base32_decode, and make
25306 it accept upper-case letters. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
25307 - Don't try to download extrainfo documents when we're trying to
25308 fetch enough directory info to build a circuit: having enough
25309 info should get priority. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
25310 - Don't complain that "your server has not managed to confirm that its
25311 ports are reachable" if we haven't been able to build any circuits
25312 yet. Bug found by spending four hours without a v3 consensus. Bugfix
25314 - Detect the reason for failing to mmap a descriptor file we just
25315 wrote, and give a more useful log message. Fixes bug 533. Bugfix
25318 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
25319 - Remove support for the old bw_accounting file: we've been storing
25320 bandwidth accounting information in the state file since
25321 0.1.2.5-alpha. This may result in bandwidth accounting errors
25322 if you try to upgrade from 0.1.1.x or earlier, or if you try to
25323 downgrade to 0.1.1.x or earlier.
25324 - New convenience code to locate a file within the DataDirectory.
25325 - Move non-authority functionality out of dirvote.c.
25326 - Refactor the arguments for router_pick_{directory_|trusteddir}server
25327 so that they all take the same named flags.
25330 - Include the "tor-ctrl.sh" bash script by Stefan Behte to provide
25331 Unix users an easy way to script their Tor process (e.g. by
25332 adjusting bandwidth based on the time of the day).
25335 Changes in version 0.2.0.8-alpha - 2007-10-12
25336 This eighth development snapshot fixes a crash bug that's been bothering
25337 us since February 2007, lets bridge authorities store a list of bridge
25338 descriptors they've seen, gets v3 directory voting closer to working,
25339 starts caching v3 directory consensus documents on directory mirrors,
25340 and fixes a variety of smaller issues including some minor memory leaks.
25342 o Major features (router descriptor cache):
25343 - Store routers in a file called cached-descriptors instead of in
25344 cached-routers. Initialize cached-descriptors from cached-routers
25345 if the old format is around. The new format allows us to store
25346 annotations along with descriptors.
25347 - Use annotations to record the time we received each descriptor, its
25348 source, and its purpose.
25349 - Disable the SETROUTERPURPOSE controller command: it is now
25351 - Controllers should now specify cache=no or cache=yes when using
25352 the +POSTDESCRIPTOR command.
25353 - Bridge authorities now write bridge descriptors to disk, meaning
25354 we can export them to other programs and begin distributing them
25357 o Major features (directory authorities):
25358 - When a v3 authority is missing votes or signatures, it now tries
25360 - Directory authorities track weighted fractional uptime as well as
25361 weighted mean-time-between failures. WFU is suitable for deciding
25362 whether a node is "usually up", while MTBF is suitable for deciding
25363 whether a node is "likely to stay up." We need both, because
25364 "usually up" is a good requirement for guards, while "likely to
25365 stay up" is a good requirement for long-lived connections.
25367 o Major features (v3 directory system):
25368 - Caches now download v3 network status documents as needed,
25369 and download the descriptors listed in them.
25370 - All hosts now attempt to download and keep fresh v3 authority
25371 certificates, and re-attempt after failures.
25372 - More internal-consistency checks for vote parsing.
25374 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
25375 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
25376 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
25377 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451. Bugfix on
25380 o Major bugfixes (performance):
25381 - Fix really bad O(n^2) performance when parsing a long list of
25382 routers: Instead of searching the entire list for an "extra-info "
25383 string which usually wasn't there, once for every routerinfo
25384 we read, just scan lines forward until we find one we like.
25386 - When we add data to a write buffer in response to the data on that
25387 write buffer getting low because of a flush, do not consider the
25388 newly added data as a candidate for immediate flushing, but rather
25389 make it wait until the next round of writing. Otherwise, we flush
25390 and refill recursively, and a single greedy TLS connection can
25391 eat all of our bandwidth. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
25393 o Minor features (v3 authority system):
25394 - Add more ways for tools to download the votes that lead to the
25396 - Send a 503 when low on bandwidth and a vote, consensus, or
25397 certificate is requested.
25398 - If-modified-since is now implemented properly for all kinds of
25399 certificate requests.
25401 o Minor bugfixes (network statuses):
25402 - Tweak the implementation of proposal 109 slightly: allow at most
25403 two Tor servers on the same IP address, except if it's the location
25404 of a directory authority, in which case allow five. Bugfix on
25407 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
25408 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
25409 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
25410 were reporting the dir port.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
25412 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory system):
25413 - Fix logic to look up a cert by its signing key digest. Bugfix on
25415 - Only change the reply to a vote to "OK" if it's not already
25416 set. This gets rid of annoying "400 OK" log messages, which may
25417 have been masking some deeper issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
25418 - When we get a valid consensus, recompute the voting schedule.
25419 - Base the valid-after time of a vote on the consensus voting
25420 schedule, not on our preferred schedule.
25421 - Make the return values and messages from signature uploads and
25422 downloads more sensible.
25423 - Fix a memory leak when serving votes and consensus documents, and
25424 another when serving certificates.
25426 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
25427 - Use a slightly simpler string hashing algorithm (copying Python's
25428 instead of Java's) and optimize our digest hashing algorithm to take
25429 advantage of 64-bit platforms and to remove some possibly-costly
25431 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we parse guards from our state
25432 file. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
25433 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we write out a file. Bugfix on
25435 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
25436 command. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
25438 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
25439 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
25440 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
25441 - Stop calling tor_strlower() on uninitialized memory in some cases.
25442 Bugfix in 0.2.0.7-alpha.
25444 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
25445 - Treat some 403 responses from directory servers as INFO rather than
25446 WARN-severity events.
25447 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
25448 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff is
25449 fishy. Resolves bug 463.
25451 o Minor bugfixes (anonymity):
25452 - Never report that we've used more bandwidth than we're willing to
25453 relay: it leaks how much non-relay traffic we're using. Resolves
25455 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
25456 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
25457 circuit cannibalization).
25459 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
25460 - Make a bunch of functions static. Remove some dead code.
25461 - Pull out about a third of the really big routerlist.c; put it in a
25462 new module, networkstatus.c.
25463 - Merge the extra fields in local_routerstatus_t back into
25464 routerstatus_t: we used to need one routerstatus_t for each
25465 authority's opinion, plus a local_routerstatus_t for the locally
25466 computed consensus opinion. To save space, we put the locally
25467 modified fields into local_routerstatus_t, and only the common
25468 stuff into routerstatus_t. But once v3 directories are in use,
25469 clients and caches will no longer need to hold authority opinions;
25470 thus, the rationale for keeping the types separate is now gone.
25471 - Make the code used to reschedule and reattempt downloads more
25473 - Turn all 'Are we a directory server/mirror?' logic into a call to
25475 - Remove the code to generate the oldest (v1) directory format.
25476 The code has been disabled since 0.2.0.5-alpha.
25479 Changes in version 0.2.0.7-alpha - 2007-09-21
25480 This seventh development snapshot makes bridges work again, makes bridge
25481 authorities work for the first time, fixes two huge performance flaws
25482 in hidden services, and fixes a variety of minor issues.
25484 o New directory authorities:
25485 - Set up moria1 and tor26 as the first v3 directory authorities. See
25486 doc/spec/dir-spec.txt for details on the new directory design.
25488 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
25489 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
25490 rend_process_relay_cell(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
25492 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
25493 - Fix a bug that made servers send a "404 Not found" in response to
25494 attempts to fetch their server descriptor. This caused Tor servers
25495 to take many minutes to establish reachability for their DirPort,
25496 and it totally crippled bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
25497 - Make "UpdateBridgesFromAuthority" torrc option work: when bridge
25498 users configure that and specify a bridge with an identity
25499 fingerprint, now they will lookup the bridge descriptor at the
25500 default bridge authority via a one-hop tunnel, but once circuits
25501 are established they will switch to a three-hop tunnel for later
25502 connections to the bridge authority. Bugfix in 0.2.0.3-alpha.
25504 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
25505 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
25506 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
25507 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
25508 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
25509 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
25510 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. Both
25511 are bugfixes on 0.1.2.x, and they could speed up hidden service
25512 connections dramatically. Thanks to Karsten Loesing.
25514 o Minor features (security):
25515 - As a client, do not believe any server that tells us that an
25516 address maps to an internal address space.
25517 - Make it possible to enable HashedControlPassword and
25518 CookieAuthentication at the same time.
25520 o Minor features (guard nodes):
25521 - Tag every guard node in our state file with the version that
25522 we believe added it, or with our own version if we add it. This way,
25523 if a user temporarily runs an old version of Tor and then switches
25524 back to a new one, she doesn't automatically lose her guards.
25526 o Minor features (speed):
25527 - When implementing AES counter mode, update only the portions of the
25528 counter buffer that need to change, and don't keep separate
25529 network-order and host-order counters when they are the same (i.e.,
25530 on big-endian hosts.)
25532 o Minor features (controller):
25533 - Accept LF instead of CRLF on controller, since some software has a
25534 hard time generating real Internet newlines.
25535 - Add GETINFO values for the server status events
25536 "REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED" and "GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR". Patch from
25539 o Removed features:
25540 - Routers no longer include bandwidth-history lines in their
25541 descriptors; this information is already available in extra-info
25542 documents, and including it in router descriptors took up 60%
25543 (!) of compressed router descriptor downloads. Completes
25544 implementation of proposal 104.
25545 - Remove the contrib scripts ExerciseServer.py, PathDemo.py,
25546 and TorControl.py, as they use the old v0 controller protocol,
25547 and are obsoleted by TorFlow anyway.
25548 - Drop support for v1 rendezvous descriptors, since we never used
25549 them anyway, and the code has probably rotted by now. Based on
25550 patch from Karsten Loesing.
25551 - On OSX, stop warning the user that kqueue support in libevent is
25552 "experimental", since it seems to have worked fine for ages.
25555 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
25556 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is absent. Fixes
25557 bug 467. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
25558 - Fix a user-triggerable (but not remotely-triggerable) segfault
25559 in expand_filename(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
25560 - Fix a memory leak when freeing incomplete requests from DNSPort.
25561 Found by Niels Provos with valgrind. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
25562 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
25563 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. (Resolves
25564 bug 499.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
25565 - Servers used to decline to publish their DirPort if their
25566 BandwidthRate, RelayBandwidthRate, or MaxAdvertisedBandwidth
25567 were below a threshold. Now they only look at BandwidthRate and
25568 RelayBandwidthRate. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
25569 - Remove an optimization in the AES counter-mode code that assumed
25570 that the counter never exceeded 2^68. When the counter can be set
25571 arbitrarily as an IV (as it is by Karsten's new hidden services
25572 code), this assumption no longer holds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
25573 - Resume listing "AUTHORITY" flag for authorities in network status.
25574 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; reported by Alex de Joode.
25576 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
25577 - Revamp file-writing logic so we don't need to have the entire
25578 contents of a file in memory at once before we write to disk. Tor,
25580 - Turn "descriptor store" into a full-fledged type.
25581 - Move all NT services code into a separate source file.
25582 - Unify all code that computes medians, percentile elements, etc.
25583 - Get rid of a needless malloc when parsing address policies.
25586 Changes in version 0.1.2.17 - 2007-08-30
25587 Tor 0.1.2.17 features a new Vidalia version in the Windows and OS
25588 X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for the
25589 ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
25590 security risks. Everybody who uses Vidalia (or another controller)
25593 In addition, this Tor update fixes major load balancing problems with
25594 path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many people
25597 o Major bugfixes (security):
25598 - We removed support for the old (v0) control protocol. It has been
25599 deprecated since Tor 0.1.1.1-alpha, and keeping it secure has
25600 become more of a headache than it's worth.
25602 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
25603 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
25604 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
25606 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
25607 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
25608 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
25609 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
25610 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
25611 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
25613 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
25614 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
25615 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
25616 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
25617 circuit every 15 seconds. Fixes bug 454; reported by lodger.
25619 o Minor features (controller):
25620 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
25621 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
25622 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
25623 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
25625 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
25626 - Save on most routerlist_assert_ok() calls in routerlist.c, thus
25627 greatly speeding up loading cached-routers from disk on startup.
25628 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
25629 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and now
25630 its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice powers of
25631 two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values slightly over
25632 powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
25634 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
25635 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
25636 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
25637 Based on patch from Mike Perry.
25638 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
25639 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
25640 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
25641 if we ran off the end of the list.
25642 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
25643 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
25644 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
25645 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
25646 every time we change any piece of our config.
25647 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
25648 encourage people using them to stop.
25649 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. Original patch
25651 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
25652 servers to choose a circuit.
25653 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
25654 unparseable piece of it.
25657 Changes in version 0.2.0.6-alpha - 2007-08-26
25658 This sixth development snapshot features a new Vidalia version in the
25659 Windows and OS X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for
25660 the ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
25663 In addition, this snapshot fixes major load balancing problems
25664 with path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many
25665 people have upgraded. The directory authorities also use a new
25666 mean-time-between-failure approach to tracking which servers are stable,
25667 rather than just looking at the most recent uptime.
25669 o New directory authorities:
25670 - Set up Tonga as the default bridge directory authority.
25673 - Directory authorities now track servers by weighted
25674 mean-times-between-failures. When we have 4 or more days of data,
25675 use measured MTBF rather than declared uptime to decide whether
25676 to call a router Stable. Implements proposal 108.
25678 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
25679 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
25680 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
25682 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
25683 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
25684 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
25685 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
25686 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
25687 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
25689 o Major bugfixes (descriptor parsing):
25690 - Handle unexpected whitespace better in malformed descriptors. Bug
25691 found using Benedikt Boss's new Tor fuzzer! Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
25694 - There is now an ugly, temporary "desc/all-recent-extrainfo-hack"
25695 GETINFO for Torstat to use until it can switch to using extrainfos.
25696 - Optionally (if built with -DEXPORTMALLINFO) export the output
25697 of mallinfo via http, as tor/mallinfo.txt. Only accessible
25701 - Do not intermix bridge routers with controller-added
25702 routers. (Bugfix on 0.2.0.x)
25703 - Do not fail with an assert when accept() returns an unexpected
25704 address family. Addresses but does not wholly fix bug 483. (Bugfix
25706 - Let directory authorities startup even when they can't generate
25707 a descriptor immediately, e.g. because they don't know their
25709 - Stop putting the authentication cookie in a file called "0"
25710 in your working directory if you don't specify anything for the
25711 new CookieAuthFile option. Reported by Matt Edman.
25712 - Make it possible to read the PROTOCOLINFO response in a way that
25713 conforms to our control-spec. Reported by Matt Edman.
25714 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
25715 servers to choose a circuit. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
25716 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
25717 unparseable piece of it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
25718 - Unmap the extrainfo cache file on exit.
25721 Changes in version 0.2.0.5-alpha - 2007-08-19
25722 This fifth development snapshot fixes compilation on Windows again;
25723 fixes an obnoxious client-side bug that slowed things down and put
25724 extra load on the network; gets us closer to using the v3 directory
25725 voting scheme; makes it easier for Tor controllers to use cookie-based
25726 authentication; and fixes a variety of other bugs.
25728 o Removed features:
25729 - Version 1 directories are no longer generated in full. Instead,
25730 authorities generate and serve "stub" v1 directories that list
25731 no servers. This will stop Tor versions 0.1.0.x and earlier from
25732 working, but (for security reasons) nobody should be running those
25735 o Major bugfixes (compilation, 0.2.0.x):
25736 - Try to fix Win32 compilation again: improve checking for IPv6 types.
25737 - Try to fix MSVC compilation: build correctly on platforms that do
25738 not define s6_addr16 or s6_addr32.
25739 - Fix compile on platforms without getaddrinfo: bug found by Li-Hui
25742 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
25743 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
25744 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
25745 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
25746 circuit every 15 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; fixes bug 454;
25747 reported by lodger.
25749 o Minor features (directory servers):
25750 - When somebody requests a list of statuses or servers, and we have
25751 none of those, return a 404 rather than an empty 200.
25753 o Minor features (directory voting):
25754 - Store v3 consensus status consensuses on disk, and reload them
25757 o Minor features (security):
25758 - Warn about unsafe ControlPort configurations.
25759 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
25760 encourage people using them to stop.
25762 o Minor features (controller):
25763 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
25764 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
25765 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
25766 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
25767 - New config option CookieAuthFile to choose a new location for the
25768 cookie authentication file, and config option
25769 CookieAuthFileGroupReadable to make it group-readable.
25771 o Minor features (unit testing):
25772 - Add command-line arguments to unit-test executable so that we can
25773 invoke any chosen test from the command line rather than having
25774 to run the whole test suite at once; and so that we can turn on
25775 logging for the unit tests.
25777 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
25778 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
25779 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
25780 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
25781 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
25782 every time we change any piece of our config.
25783 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
25784 the future. Fixes bug 434.
25785 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
25787 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
25788 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
25789 the onion key from getting rotated.
25790 - Clean up torrc sample config file.
25791 - Do not automatically run configure from autogen.sh. This
25792 non-standard behavior tended to annoy people who have built other
25795 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
25796 - Fix a bug with AutomapHostsOnResolve that would always cause
25797 the second request to fail. Bug reported by Kate. Bugfix on
25799 - Fix a bug in ADDRMAP controller replies that would sometimes
25800 try to print a NULL. Patch from tup.
25801 - Read v3 directory authority keys from the right location.
25802 - Numerous bugfixes to directory voting code.
25805 Changes in version 0.1.2.16 - 2007-08-01
25806 Tor 0.1.2.16 fixes a critical security vulnerability that allows a
25807 remote attacker in certain situations to rewrite the user's torrc
25808 configuration file. This can completely compromise anonymity of users
25809 in most configurations, including those running the Vidalia bundles,
25810 TorK, etc. Or worse.
25812 o Major security fixes:
25813 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
25814 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
25817 Changes in version 0.2.0.4-alpha - 2007-08-01
25818 This fourth development snapshot fixes a critical security vulnerability
25819 for most users, specifically those running Vidalia, TorK, etc. Everybody
25820 should upgrade to either 0.1.2.16 or 0.2.0.4-alpha.
25822 o Major security fixes:
25823 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
25824 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
25826 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
25827 - Fix win32 compilation: apparently IN_ADDR and IN6_ADDR are already
25830 o Minor features (performance):
25831 - Be even more aggressive about releasing RAM from small
25832 empty buffers. Thanks to our free-list code, this shouldn't be too
25833 performance-intensive.
25834 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
25835 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and
25836 now its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice
25837 powers of two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values
25838 slightly over powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
25839 - Log malloc statistics from mallinfo() on platforms where it
25843 Changes in version 0.2.0.3-alpha - 2007-07-29
25844 This third development snapshot introduces new experimental
25845 blocking-resistance features and a preliminary version of the v3
25846 directory voting design, and includes many other smaller features
25850 - The first pieces of our "bridge" design for blocking-resistance
25851 are implemented. People can run bridge directory authorities;
25852 people can run bridges; and people can configure their Tor clients
25853 with a set of bridges to use as the first hop into the Tor network.
25854 See http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/Jul-2007/msg00249.html for
25856 - Create listener connections before we setuid to the configured
25857 User and Group. Now non-Windows users can choose port values
25858 under 1024, start Tor as root, and have Tor bind those ports
25859 before it changes to another UID. (Windows users could already
25861 - Added a new ConstrainedSockets config option to set SO_SNDBUF and
25862 SO_RCVBUF on TCP sockets. Hopefully useful for Tor servers running
25863 on "vserver" accounts. (Patch from coderman.)
25864 - Be even more aggressive about separating local traffic from relayed
25865 traffic when RelayBandwidthRate is set. (Refines proposal 111.)
25867 o Major features (experimental):
25868 - First cut of code for "v3 dir voting": directory authorities will
25869 vote on a common network status document rather than each publishing
25870 their own opinion. This code needs more testing and more corner-case
25871 handling before it's ready for use.
25874 - Directory authorities now call routers Fast if their bandwidth is
25875 at least 100KB/s, and consider their bandwidth adequate to be a
25876 Guard if it is at least 250KB/s, no matter the medians. This fix
25877 complements proposal 107. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
25878 - Directory authorities now never mark more than 3 servers per IP as
25879 Valid and Running. (Implements proposal 109, by Kevin Bauer and
25881 - Minor change to organizationName and commonName generation
25882 procedures in TLS certificates during Tor handshakes, to invalidate
25883 some earlier censorware approaches. This is not a long-term
25884 solution, but applying it will give us a bit of time to look into
25885 the epidemiology of countermeasures as they spread.
25887 o Major bugfixes (directory):
25888 - Rewrite directory tokenization code to never run off the end of
25889 a string. Fixes bug 455. Patch from croup. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
25891 o Minor features (controller):
25892 - Add a SOURCE_ADDR field to STREAM NEW events so that controllers can
25893 match requests to applications. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
25894 - Report address and port correctly on connections to DNSPort. (Patch
25895 from Robert Hogan.)
25896 - Add a RESOLVE command to launch hostname lookups. (Original patch
25897 from Robert Hogan.)
25898 - Add GETINFO status/enough-dir-info to let controllers tell whether
25899 Tor has downloaded sufficient directory information. (Patch
25901 - You can now use the ControlSocket option to tell Tor to listen for
25902 controller connections on Unix domain sockets on systems that
25903 support them. (Patch from Peter Palfrader.)
25904 - STREAM NEW events are generated for DNSPort requests and for
25905 tunneled directory connections. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
25906 - New "GETINFO address-mappings/*" command to get address mappings
25907 with expiry information. "addr-mappings/*" is now deprecated.
25910 o Minor features (misc):
25911 - Merge in some (as-yet-unused) IPv6 address manipulation code. (Patch
25913 - The tor-gencert tool for v3 directory authorities now creates all
25914 files as readable to the file creator only, and write-protects
25915 the authority identity key.
25916 - When dumping memory usage, list bytes used in buffer memory
25918 - When running with dmalloc, dump more stats on hup and on exit.
25919 - Directory authorities now fail quickly and (relatively) harmlessly
25920 if they generate a network status document that is somehow
25923 o Traffic load balancing improvements:
25924 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
25925 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
25926 (Based on patch from Mike Perry.)
25927 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
25928 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
25929 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
25930 if we ran off the end of the list. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
25932 o Performance improvements:
25933 - Be more aggressive with freeing buffer RAM or putting it on the
25935 - Use Critical Sections rather than Mutexes for synchronizing threads
25936 on win32; Mutexes are heavier-weight, and designed for synchronizing
25939 o Deprecated and removed features:
25940 - RedirectExits is now deprecated.
25941 - Stop allowing address masks that do not correspond to bit prefixes.
25942 We have warned about these for a really long time; now it's time
25943 to reject them. (Patch from croup.)
25945 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
25946 - Fix another crash bug related to extra-info caching. (Bug found by
25947 Peter Palfrader.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
25948 - Directories no longer return a "304 not modified" when they don't
25949 have the networkstatus the client asked for. Also fix a memory
25950 leak when returning 304 not modified. [Bugfixes on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
25951 - We had accidentally labelled 0.1.2.x directory servers as not
25952 suitable for begin_dir requests, and had labelled no directory
25953 servers as suitable for uploading extra-info documents. [Bugfix
25956 o Minor bugfixes (dns):
25957 - Fix a crash when DNSPort is set more than once. (Patch from Robert
25958 Hogan.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
25959 - Add DNSPort connections to the global connection list, so that we
25960 can time them out correctly. (Bug found by Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix
25962 - Fix a dangling reference that could lead to a crash when DNSPort is
25963 changed or closed (Patch from Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix on
25966 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
25967 - Provide DNS expiry times in GMT, not in local time. For backward
25968 compatibility, ADDRMAP events only provide GMT expiry in an extended
25969 field. "GETINFO address-mappings" always does the right thing.
25970 - Use CRLF line endings properly in NS events.
25971 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. (Original patch
25972 from tup.) [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x-alpha]
25973 - Do not include spaces in SOURCE_ADDR fields in STREAM
25974 events. Resolves bug 472. [Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha]
25977 Changes in version 0.1.2.15 - 2007-07-17
25978 Tor 0.1.2.15 fixes several crash bugs, fixes some anonymity-related
25979 problems, fixes compilation on BSD, and fixes a variety of other
25980 bugs. Everybody should upgrade.
25982 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
25983 - Fix compile on FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD. Oops.
25985 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
25986 - Try even harder not to dereference the first character after
25987 an mmap(). Reported by lodger.
25988 - Fix a crash bug in directory authorities when we re-number the
25989 routerlist while inserting a new router.
25990 - When the cached-routers file is an even multiple of the page size,
25991 don't run off the end and crash. (Fixes bug 455; based on idea
25993 - Fix eventdns.c behavior on Solaris: It is critical to include
25994 orconfig.h _before_ sys/types.h, so that we can get the expected
25995 definition of _FILE_OFFSET_BITS.
25997 o Major bugfixes (security):
25998 - Fix a possible buffer overrun when using BSD natd support. Bug
26000 - When sending destroy cells from a circuit's origin, don't include
26001 the reason for tearing down the circuit. The spec says we didn't,
26002 and now we actually don't. Reported by lodger.
26003 - Keep streamids from different exits on a circuit separate. This
26004 bug may have allowed other routers on a given circuit to inject
26005 cells into streams. Reported by lodger; fixes bug 446.
26006 - If there's a never-before-connected-to guard node in our list,
26007 never choose any guards past it. This way we don't expand our
26008 guard list unless we need to.
26010 o Minor bugfixes (guard nodes):
26011 - Weight guard selection by bandwidth, so that low-bandwidth nodes
26012 don't get overused as guards.
26014 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
26015 - Correctly count the number of authorities that recommend each
26016 version. Previously, we were under-counting by 1.
26017 - Fix a potential crash bug when we load many server descriptors at
26018 once and some of them make others of them obsolete. Fixes bug 458.
26020 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
26021 - Stop tearing down the whole circuit when the user asks for a
26022 connection to a port that the hidden service didn't configure.
26025 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
26026 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
26027 cached-routers while Tor was running. Reported by janbar.
26028 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by
26029 bandwidth. Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact
26030 unlikely. Patch from lodger.
26031 - Backport a couple of memory leak fixes.
26032 - Backport miscellaneous cosmetic bugfixes.
26035 Changes in version 0.2.0.2-alpha - 2007-06-02
26036 o Major bugfixes on 0.2.0.1-alpha:
26037 - Fix an assertion failure related to servers without extra-info digests.
26038 Resolves bugs 441 and 442.
26040 o Minor features (directory):
26041 - Support "If-Modified-Since" when answering HTTP requests for
26042 directories, running-routers documents, and network-status documents.
26043 (There's no need to support it for router descriptors, since those
26044 are downloaded by descriptor digest.)
26046 o Minor build issues:
26047 - Clear up some MIPSPro compiler warnings.
26048 - When building from a tarball on a machine that happens to have SVK
26049 installed, report the micro-revision as whatever version existed
26050 in the tarball, not as "x".
26053 Changes in version 0.2.0.1-alpha - 2007-06-01
26054 This early development snapshot provides new features for people running
26055 Tor as both a client and a server (check out the new RelayBandwidth
26056 config options); lets Tor run as a DNS proxy; and generally moves us
26057 forward on a lot of fronts.
26059 o Major features, server usability:
26060 - New config options RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst:
26061 a separate set of token buckets for relayed traffic. Right now
26062 relayed traffic is defined as answers to directory requests, and
26063 OR connections that don't have any local circuits on them.
26065 o Major features, client usability:
26066 - A client-side DNS proxy feature to replace the need for
26067 dns-proxy-tor: Just set "DNSPort 9999", and Tor will now listen
26068 for DNS requests on port 9999, use the Tor network to resolve them
26069 anonymously, and send the reply back like a regular DNS server.
26070 The code still only implements a subset of DNS.
26071 - Make PreferTunneledDirConns and TunnelDirConns work even when
26072 we have no cached directory info. This means Tor clients can now
26073 do all of their connections protected by TLS.
26075 o Major features, performance and efficiency:
26076 - Directory authorities accept and serve "extra info" documents for
26077 routers. These documents contain fields from router descriptors
26078 that aren't usually needed, and that use a lot of excess
26079 bandwidth. Once these fields are removed from router descriptors,
26080 the bandwidth savings should be about 60%. [Partially implements
26082 - Servers upload extra-info documents to any authority that accepts
26083 them. Authorities (and caches that have been configured to download
26084 extra-info documents) download them as needed. [Partially implements
26086 - Change the way that Tor buffers data that it is waiting to write.
26087 Instead of queueing data cells in an enormous ring buffer for each
26088 client->OR or OR->OR connection, we now queue cells on a separate
26089 queue for each circuit. This lets us use less slack memory, and
26090 will eventually let us be smarter about prioritizing different kinds
26092 - Use memory pools to allocate cells with better speed and memory
26093 efficiency, especially on platforms where malloc() is inefficient.
26094 - Stop reading on edge connections when their corresponding circuit
26095 buffers are full; start again as the circuits empty out.
26097 o Major features, other:
26098 - Add an HSAuthorityRecordStats option that hidden service authorities
26099 can use to track statistics of overall hidden service usage without
26100 logging information that would be very useful to an attacker.
26101 - Start work implementing multi-level keys for directory authorities:
26102 Add a standalone tool to generate key certificates. (Proposal 103.)
26105 - Directory authorities now call routers Stable if they have an
26106 uptime of at least 30 days, even if that's not the median uptime
26107 in the network. Implements proposal 107, suggested by Kevin Bauer
26110 o Minor fixes (resource management):
26111 - Count the number of open sockets separately from the number
26112 of active connection_t objects. This will let us avoid underusing
26113 our allocated connection limit.
26114 - We no longer use socket pairs to link an edge connection to an
26115 anonymous directory connection or a DirPort test connection.
26116 Instead, we track the link internally and transfer the data
26117 in-process. This saves two sockets per "linked" connection (at the
26118 client and at the server), and avoids the nasty Windows socketpair()
26120 - Keep unused 4k and 16k buffers on free lists, rather than wasting 8k
26121 for every single inactive connection_t. Free items from the
26122 4k/16k-buffer free lists when they haven't been used for a while.
26124 o Minor features (build):
26125 - Make autoconf search for libevent, openssl, and zlib consistently.
26126 - Update deprecated macros in configure.in.
26127 - When warning about missing headers, tell the user to let us
26128 know if the compile succeeds anyway, so we can downgrade the
26130 - Include the current subversion revision as part of the version
26131 string: either fetch it directly if we're in an SVN checkout, do
26132 some magic to guess it if we're in an SVK checkout, or use
26133 the last-detected version if we're building from a .tar.gz.
26134 Use this version consistently in log messages.
26136 o Minor features (logging):
26137 - Always prepend "Bug: " to any log message about a bug.
26138 - Put a platform string (e.g. "Linux i686") in the startup log
26139 message, so when people paste just their logs, we know if it's
26140 OpenBSD or Windows or what.
26141 - When logging memory usage, break down memory used in buffers by
26144 o Minor features (directory system):
26145 - New config option V2AuthoritativeDirectory that all directory
26146 authorities should set. This will let future authorities choose
26147 not to serve V2 directory information.
26148 - Directory authorities allow multiple router descriptors and/or extra
26149 info documents to be uploaded in a single go. This will make
26150 implementing proposal 104 simpler.
26152 o Minor features (controller):
26153 - Add a new config option __DisablePredictedCircuits designed for
26154 use by the controller, when we don't want Tor to build any circuits
26156 - Let the controller specify HOP=%d as an argument to ATTACHSTREAM,
26157 so we can exit from the middle of the circuit.
26158 - Implement "getinfo status/circuit-established".
26159 - Implement "getinfo status/version/..." so a controller can tell
26160 whether the current version is recommended, and whether any versions
26161 are good, and how many authorities agree. (Patch from shibz.)
26163 o Minor features (hidden services):
26164 - Allow multiple HiddenServicePort directives with the same virtual
26165 port; when they occur, the user is sent round-robin to one
26166 of the target ports chosen at random. Partially fixes bug 393 by
26167 adding limited ad-hoc round-robining.
26169 o Minor features (other):
26171 - Add a new AutomapHostsOnResolve option: when it is enabled, any
26172 resolve request for hosts matching a given pattern causes Tor to
26173 generate an internal virtual address mapping for that host. This
26174 allows DNSPort to work sensibly with hidden service users. By
26175 default, .exit and .onion addresses are remapped; the list of
26176 patterns can be reconfigured with AutomapHostsSuffixes.
26177 - Add an "-F" option to tor-resolve to force a resolve for a .onion
26178 address. Thanks to the AutomapHostsOnResolve option, this is no
26179 longer a completely silly thing to do.
26180 - If Tor is invoked from something that isn't a shell (e.g. Vidalia),
26181 now we expand "-f ~/.tor/torrc" correctly. Suggested by Matt Edman.
26182 - Treat "2gb" when given in torrc for a bandwidth as meaning 2gb,
26183 minus 1 byte: the actual maximum declared bandwidth.
26185 o Removed features:
26186 - Removed support for the old binary "version 0" controller protocol.
26187 This has been deprecated since 0.1.1, and warnings have been issued
26188 since 0.1.2. When we encounter a v0 control message, we now send
26189 back an error and close the connection.
26190 - Remove the old "dns worker" server DNS code: it hasn't been default
26191 since 0.1.2.2-alpha, and all the servers seem to be using the new
26194 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
26195 - Even though Windows is equally happy with / and \ as path separators,
26196 try to use \ consistently on Windows and / consistently on Unix: it
26197 makes the log messages nicer.
26198 - Correctly report platform name on Windows 95 OSR2 and Windows 98 SE.
26199 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
26200 partial results on small file reads.
26202 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
26203 - Correctly enforce that elements of directory objects do not appear
26204 more often than they are allowed to appear.
26205 - When we are reporting the DirServer line we just parsed, we were
26206 logging the second stanza of the key fingerprint, not the first.
26208 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
26209 - When we hit an EOF on a log (probably because we're shutting down),
26210 don't try to remove the log from the list: just mark it as
26211 unusable. (Bulletproofs against bug 222.)
26213 o Minor bugfixes (other):
26214 - In the exitlist script, only consider the most recently published
26215 server descriptor for each server. Also, when the user requests
26216 a list of servers that _reject_ connections to a given address,
26217 explicitly exclude the IPs that also have servers that accept
26218 connections to that address. (Resolves bug 405.)
26219 - Stop allowing hibernating servers to be "stable" or "fast".
26220 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
26221 cached-routers while Tor was running. (Reported by janbar)
26222 - Make the NodeFamilies config option work. (Reported by
26223 lodger -- it has never actually worked, even though we added it
26225 - Check return values from pthread_mutex functions.
26226 - Don't save non-general-purpose router descriptors to the disk cache,
26227 because we have no way of remembering what their purpose was when
26229 - Add even more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
26230 - Build without verbose warnings even on (not-yet-released) gcc 4.2.
26231 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by bandwidth.
26232 Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact unlikely.
26234 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
26235 - Make 'getinfo fingerprint' return a 551 error if we're not a
26236 server, so we match what the control spec claims we do. Reported
26238 - Fix a typo in an error message when extendcircuit fails that
26239 caused us to not follow the \r\n-based delimiter protocol. Reported
26242 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
26243 - Stop passing around circuit_t and crypt_path_t pointers that are
26244 implicit in other procedure arguments.
26245 - Drop the old code to choke directory connections when the
26246 corresponding OR connections got full: thanks to the cell queue
26247 feature, OR conns don't get full any more.
26248 - Make dns_resolve() handle attaching connections to circuits
26249 properly, so the caller doesn't have to.
26250 - Rename wants_to_read and wants_to_write to read/write_blocked_on_bw.
26251 - Keep the connection array as a dynamic smartlist_t, rather than as
26252 a fixed-sized array. This is important, as the number of connections
26253 is becoming increasingly decoupled from the number of sockets.
26256 Changes in version 0.1.2.14 - 2007-05-25
26257 Tor 0.1.2.14 changes the addresses of two directory authorities (this
26258 change especially affects those who serve or use hidden services),
26259 and fixes several other crash- and security-related bugs.
26261 o Directory authority changes:
26262 - Two directory authorities (moria1 and moria2) just moved to new
26263 IP addresses. This change will particularly affect those who serve
26264 or use hidden services.
26266 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
26267 - If a directory server runs out of space in the connection table
26268 as it's processing a begin_dir request, it will free the exit stream
26269 but leave it attached to the circuit, leading to unpredictable
26270 behavior. (Reported by seeess, fixes bug 425.)
26271 - Fix a bug in dirserv_remove_invalid() that would cause authorities
26272 to corrupt memory under some really unlikely scenarios.
26273 - Tighten router parsing rules. (Bugs reported by Benedikt Boss.)
26274 - Avoid segfaults when reading from mmaped descriptor file. (Reported
26277 o Major bugfixes (security):
26278 - When choosing an entry guard for a circuit, avoid using guards
26279 that are in the same family as the chosen exit -- not just guards
26280 that are exactly the chosen exit. (Reported by lodger.)
26282 o Major bugfixes (resource management):
26283 - If a directory authority is down, skip it when deciding where to get
26284 networkstatus objects or descriptors. Otherwise we keep asking
26285 every 10 seconds forever. Fixes bug 384.
26286 - Count it as a failure if we fetch a valid network-status but we
26287 don't want to keep it. Otherwise we'll keep fetching it and keep
26288 not wanting to keep it. Fixes part of bug 422.
26289 - If all of our dirservers have given us bad or no networkstatuses
26290 lately, then stop hammering them once per minute even when we
26291 think they're failed. Fixes another part of bug 422.
26294 - Actually set the purpose correctly for descriptors inserted with
26295 purpose=controller.
26296 - When we have k non-v2 authorities in our DirServer config,
26297 we ignored the last k authorities in the list when updating our
26299 - Correctly back-off from requesting router descriptors that we are
26300 having a hard time downloading.
26301 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
26302 partial results on small file reads.
26303 - Don't rebuild the entire router store every time we get 32K of
26304 routers: rebuild it when the journal gets very large, or when
26305 the gaps in the store get very large.
26308 - When routers publish SVN revisions in their router descriptors,
26309 authorities now include those versions correctly in networkstatus
26311 - Warn when using a version of libevent before 1.3b to run a server on
26312 OSX or BSD: these versions interact badly with userspace threads.
26315 Changes in version 0.1.2.13 - 2007-04-24
26316 This release features some major anonymity fixes, such as safer path
26317 selection; better client performance; faster bootstrapping, better
26318 address detection, and better DNS support for servers; write limiting as
26319 well as read limiting to make servers easier to run; and a huge pile of
26320 other features and bug fixes. The bundles also ship with Vidalia 0.0.11.
26322 Tor 0.1.2.13 is released in memory of Rob Levin (1955-2006), aka lilo
26323 of the Freenode IRC network, remembering his patience and vision for
26324 free speech on the Internet.
26327 - Fix a memory leak when we ask for "all" networkstatuses and we
26328 get one we don't recognize.
26329 - Add more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
26330 - Disable kqueue on OS X 10.3 and earlier, to fix bug 371.
26333 Changes in version 0.1.2.12-rc - 2007-03-16
26335 - Fix an infinite loop introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha when we serve
26336 directory information requested inside Tor connections (i.e. via
26337 begin_dir cells). It only triggered when the same connection was
26338 serving other data at the same time. Reported by seeess.
26341 - When creating a circuit via the controller, send a 'launched'
26342 event when we're done, so we follow the spec better.
26345 Changes in version 0.1.2.11-rc - 2007-03-15
26346 o Minor bugfixes (controller), reported by daejees:
26347 - Correct the control spec to match how the code actually responds
26348 to 'getinfo addr-mappings/*'.
26349 - The control spec described a GUARDS event, but the code
26350 implemented a GUARD event. Standardize on GUARD, but let people
26351 ask for GUARDS too.
26354 Changes in version 0.1.2.10-rc - 2007-03-07
26355 o Major bugfixes (Windows):
26356 - Do not load the NT services library functions (which may not exist)
26357 just to detect if we're a service trying to shut down. Now we run
26358 on Win98 and friends again.
26360 o Minor bugfixes (other):
26361 - Clarify a couple of log messages.
26362 - Fix a misleading socks5 error number.
26365 Changes in version 0.1.2.9-rc - 2007-03-02
26366 o Major bugfixes (Windows):
26367 - On MinGW, use "%I64u" to printf/scanf 64-bit integers, instead
26368 of the usual GCC "%llu". This prevents a bug when saving 64-bit
26369 int configuration values: the high-order 32 bits would get
26370 truncated. In particular, we were being bitten by the default
26371 MaxAdvertisedBandwidth of 128 TB turning into 0. (Fixes bug 400
26372 and maybe also bug 397.)
26374 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
26375 - Use OpenSSL's AES implementation on platforms where it's faster.
26376 This could save us as much as 10% CPU usage.
26378 o Minor bugfixes (server):
26379 - Do not rotate onion key immediately after setting it for the first
26382 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
26383 - Stop calling servers that have been hibernating for a long time
26384 "stable". Also, stop letting hibernating or obsolete servers affect
26385 uptime and bandwidth cutoffs.
26386 - Stop listing hibernating servers in the v1 directory.
26388 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
26389 - Upload hidden service descriptors slightly less often, to reduce
26390 load on authorities.
26392 o Minor bugfixes (other):
26393 - Fix an assert that could trigger if a controller quickly set then
26394 cleared EntryNodes. Bug found by Udo van den Heuvel.
26395 - On architectures where sizeof(int)>4, still clamp declarable bandwidth
26397 - Fix a potential race condition in the rpm installer. Found by
26399 - Try to fix eventdns warnings once and for all: do not treat a dns rcode
26400 of 2 as indicating that the server is completely bad; it sometimes
26401 means that the server is just bad for the request in question. (may fix
26402 the last of bug 326.)
26403 - Disable encrypted directory connections when we don't have a server
26404 descriptor for the destination. We'll get this working again in
26408 Changes in version 0.1.2.8-beta - 2007-02-26
26409 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
26410 - Stop crashing when the controller asks us to resetconf more than
26411 one config option at once. (Vidalia 0.0.11 does this.)
26412 - Fix a crash that happened on Win98 when we're given command-line
26413 arguments: don't try to load NT service functions from advapi32.dll
26414 except when we need them. (Bug introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha;
26416 - Fix a longstanding obscure crash bug that could occur when
26417 we run out of DNS worker processes. (Resolves bug 390.)
26419 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
26420 - Correctly detect whether hidden service descriptor downloads are
26421 in-progress. (Suggested by Karsten Loesing; fixes bug 399.)
26423 o Major bugfixes (accounting):
26424 - When we start during an accounting interval before it's time to wake
26425 up, remember to wake up at the correct time. (May fix bug 342.)
26427 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
26428 - Give the controller END_STREAM_REASON_DESTROY events _before_ we
26429 clear the corresponding on_circuit variable, and remember later
26430 that we don't need to send a redundant CLOSED event. Resolves part
26432 - Report events where a resolve succeeded or where we got a socks
26433 protocol error correctly, rather than calling both of them
26435 - Change reported stream target addresses to IP consistently when
26436 we finally get the IP from an exit node.
26437 - Send log messages to the controller even if they happen to be very
26440 o Minor bugfixes (other):
26441 - Display correct results when reporting which versions are
26442 recommended, and how recommended they are. (Resolves bug 383.)
26443 - Improve our estimates for directory bandwidth to be less random:
26444 guess that an unrecognized directory will have the average bandwidth
26445 from all known directories, not that it will have the average
26446 bandwidth from those directories earlier than it on the list.
26447 - If we start a server with ClientOnly 1, then set ClientOnly to 0
26448 and hup, stop triggering an assert based on an empty onion_key.
26449 - On platforms with no working mmap() equivalent, don't warn the
26450 user when cached-routers doesn't exist.
26451 - Warn the user when mmap() [or its equivalent] fails for some reason
26452 other than file-not-found.
26453 - Don't warn the user when cached-routers.new doesn't exist: that's
26454 perfectly fine when starting up for the first time.
26455 - When EntryNodes are configured, rebuild the guard list to contain,
26456 in order: the EntryNodes that were guards before; the rest of the
26457 EntryNodes; the nodes that were guards before.
26458 - Mask out all signals in sub-threads; only the libevent signal
26459 handler should be processing them. This should prevent some crashes
26460 on some machines using pthreads. (Patch from coderman.)
26461 - Fix switched arguments on memset in the implementation of
26462 tor_munmap() for systems with no mmap() call.
26463 - When Tor receives a router descriptor that it asked for, but
26464 no longer wants (because it has received fresh networkstatuses
26465 in the meantime), do not warn the user. Cache the descriptor if
26466 we're a cache; drop it if we aren't.
26467 - Make earlier entry guards _really_ get retried when the network
26469 - On a malformed DNS reply, always give an error to the corresponding
26471 - Build with recent libevents on platforms that do not define the
26472 nonstandard types "u_int8_t" and friends.
26474 o Minor features (controller):
26475 - Warn the user when an application uses the obsolete binary v0
26476 control protocol. We're planning to remove support for it during
26477 the next development series, so it's good to give people some
26479 - Add STREAM_BW events to report per-entry-stream bandwidth
26480 use. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
26481 - Rate-limit SIGNEWNYM signals in response to controllers that
26482 impolitely generate them for every single stream. (Patch from
26483 mwenge; closes bug 394.)
26484 - Make REMAP stream events have a SOURCE (cache or exit), and
26485 make them generated in every case where we get a successful
26486 connected or resolved cell.
26488 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
26489 - Call router_have_min_dir_info half as often. (This is showing up in
26490 some profiles, but not others.)
26491 - When using GCC, make log_debug never get called at all, and its
26492 arguments never get evaluated, when no debug logs are configured.
26493 (This is showing up in some profiles, but not others.)
26496 - Remove some never-implemented options. Mark PathlenCoinWeight as
26498 - Implement proposal 106: Stop requiring clients to have well-formed
26499 certificates; stop checking nicknames in certificates. (Clients
26500 have certificates so that they can look like Tor servers, but in
26501 the future we might want to allow them to look like regular TLS
26502 clients instead. Nicknames in certificates serve no purpose other
26503 than making our protocol easier to recognize on the wire.)
26504 - Revise messages on handshake failure again to be even more clear about
26505 which are incoming connections and which are outgoing.
26506 - Discard any v1 directory info that's over 1 month old (for
26507 directories) or over 1 week old (for running-routers lists).
26508 - Do not warn when individual nodes in the configuration's EntryNodes,
26509 ExitNodes, etc are down: warn only when all possible nodes
26510 are down. (Fixes bug 348.)
26511 - Always remove expired routers and networkstatus docs before checking
26512 whether we have enough information to build circuits. (Fixes
26514 - Put a lower-bound on MaxAdvertisedBandwidth.
26517 Changes in version 0.1.2.7-alpha - 2007-02-06
26518 o Major bugfixes (rate limiting):
26519 - Servers decline directory requests much more aggressively when
26520 they're low on bandwidth. Otherwise they end up queueing more and
26521 more directory responses, which can't be good for latency.
26522 - But never refuse directory requests from local addresses.
26523 - Fix a memory leak when sending a 503 response for a networkstatus
26525 - Be willing to read or write on local connections (e.g. controller
26526 connections) even when the global rate limiting buckets are empty.
26527 - If our system clock jumps back in time, don't publish a negative
26528 uptime in the descriptor. Also, don't let the global rate limiting
26529 buckets go absurdly negative.
26530 - Flush local controller connection buffers periodically as we're
26531 writing to them, so we avoid queueing 4+ megabytes of data before
26534 o Major bugfixes (NT services):
26535 - Install as NT_AUTHORITY\LocalService rather than as SYSTEM; add a
26536 command-line flag so that admins can override the default by saying
26537 "tor --service install --user "SomeUser"". This will not affect
26538 existing installed services. Also, warn the user that the service
26539 will look for its configuration file in the service user's
26540 %appdata% directory. (We can't do the 'hardwire the user's appdata
26541 directory' trick any more, since we may not have read access to that
26544 o Major bugfixes (other):
26545 - Previously, we would cache up to 16 old networkstatus documents
26546 indefinitely, if they came from nontrusted authorities. Now we
26547 discard them if they are more than 10 days old.
26548 - Fix a crash bug in the presence of DNS hijacking (reported by Andrew
26550 - Detect and reject malformed DNS responses containing circular
26552 - If exits are rare enough that we're not marking exits as guards,
26553 ignore exit bandwidth when we're deciding the required bandwidth
26555 - When we're handling a directory connection tunneled over Tor,
26556 don't fill up internal memory buffers with all the data we want
26557 to tunnel; instead, only add it if the OR connection that will
26558 eventually receive it has some room for it. (This can lead to
26559 slowdowns in tunneled dir connections; a better solution will have
26560 to wait for 0.2.0.)
26562 o Minor bugfixes (dns):
26563 - Add some defensive programming to eventdns.c in an attempt to catch
26564 possible memory-stomping bugs.
26565 - Detect and reject DNS replies containing IPv4 or IPv6 records with
26566 an incorrect number of bytes. (Previously, we would ignore the
26568 - Fix as-yet-unused reverse IPv6 lookup code so it sends nybbles
26569 in the correct order, and doesn't crash.
26570 - Free memory held in recently-completed DNS lookup attempts on exit.
26571 This was not a memory leak, but may have been hiding memory leaks.
26572 - Handle TTL values correctly on reverse DNS lookups.
26573 - Treat failure to parse resolv.conf as an error.
26575 o Minor bugfixes (other):
26576 - Fix crash with "tor --list-fingerprint" (reported by seeess).
26577 - When computing clock skew from directory HTTP headers, consider what
26578 time it was when we finished asking for the directory, not what
26580 - Expire socks connections if they spend too long waiting for the
26581 handshake to finish. Previously we would let them sit around for
26582 days, if the connecting application didn't close them either.
26583 - And if the socks handshake hasn't started, don't send a
26584 "DNS resolve socks failed" handshake reply; just close it.
26585 - Stop using C functions that OpenBSD's linker doesn't like.
26586 - Don't launch requests for descriptors unless we have networkstatuses
26587 from at least half of the authorities. This delays the first
26588 download slightly under pathological circumstances, but can prevent
26589 us from downloading a bunch of descriptors we don't need.
26590 - Do not log IPs with TLS failures for incoming TLS
26591 connections. (Fixes bug 382.)
26592 - If the user asks to use invalid exit nodes, be willing to use
26594 - Stop using the reserved ac_cv namespace in our configure script.
26595 - Call stat() slightly less often; use fstat() when possible.
26596 - Refactor the way we handle pending circuits when an OR connection
26597 completes or fails, in an attempt to fix a rare crash bug.
26598 - Only rewrite a conn's address based on X-Forwarded-For: headers
26599 if it's a parseable public IP address; and stop adding extra quotes
26600 to the resulting address.
26603 - Weight directory requests by advertised bandwidth. Now we can
26604 let servers enable write limiting but still allow most clients to
26605 succeed at their directory requests. (We still ignore weights when
26606 choosing a directory authority; I hope this is a feature.)
26609 - Create a new file ReleaseNotes which was the old ChangeLog. The
26610 new ChangeLog file now includes the summaries for all development
26612 - Check for addresses with invalid characters at the exit as well
26613 as at the client, and warn less verbosely when they fail. You can
26614 override this by setting ServerDNSAllowNonRFC953Addresses to 1.
26615 - Adapt a patch from goodell to let the contrib/exitlist script
26616 take arguments rather than require direct editing.
26617 - Inform the server operator when we decide not to advertise a
26618 DirPort due to AccountingMax enabled or a low BandwidthRate. It
26619 was confusing Zax, so now we're hopefully more helpful.
26620 - Bring us one step closer to being able to establish an encrypted
26621 directory tunnel without knowing a descriptor first. Still not
26622 ready yet. As part of the change, now assume we can use a
26623 create_fast cell if we don't know anything about a router.
26624 - Allow exit nodes to use nameservers running on ports other than 53.
26625 - Servers now cache reverse DNS replies.
26626 - Add an --ignore-missing-torrc command-line option so that we can
26627 get the "use sensible defaults if the configuration file doesn't
26628 exist" behavior even when specifying a torrc location on the command
26631 o Minor features (controller):
26632 - Track reasons for OR connection failure; make these reasons
26633 available via the controller interface. (Patch from Mike Perry.)
26634 - Add a SOCKS_BAD_HOSTNAME client status event so controllers
26635 can learn when clients are sending malformed hostnames to Tor.
26636 - Clean up documentation for controller status events.
26637 - Add a REMAP status to stream events to note that a stream's
26638 address has changed because of a cached address or a MapAddress
26642 Changes in version 0.1.2.6-alpha - 2007-01-09
26644 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if a single TLS
26645 connection handles more than 4 gigs in either direction, we crash.
26646 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if we're an
26647 advertised exit node, somebody might try to exit from us when
26648 we're bootstrapping and before we've built our descriptor yet.
26649 Refuse the connection rather than crashing.
26652 - Warn if we (as a server) find that we've resolved an address that we
26653 weren't planning to resolve.
26654 - Warn that using select() on any libevent version before 1.1 will be
26655 unnecessarily slow (even for select()).
26656 - Flush ERR-level controller status events just like we currently
26657 flush ERR-level log events, so that a Tor shutdown doesn't prevent
26658 the controller from learning about current events.
26660 o Minor features (more controller status events):
26661 - Implement EXTERNAL_ADDRESS server status event so controllers can
26662 learn when our address changes.
26663 - Implement BAD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR server status event so controllers
26664 can learn when directories reject our descriptor.
26665 - Implement SOCKS_UNKNOWN_PROTOCOL client status event so controllers
26666 can learn when a client application is speaking a non-socks protocol
26668 - Implement DANGEROUS_SOCKS client status event so controllers
26669 can learn when a client application is leaking DNS addresses.
26670 - Implement BUG general status event so controllers can learn when
26671 Tor is unhappy about its internal invariants.
26672 - Implement CLOCK_SKEW general status event so controllers can learn
26673 when Tor thinks the system clock is set incorrectly.
26674 - Implement GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR and ACCEPTED_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR
26675 server status events so controllers can learn when their descriptors
26676 are accepted by a directory.
26677 - Implement CHECKING_REACHABILITY and REACHABILITY_{SUCCEEDED|FAILED}
26678 server status events so controllers can learn about Tor's progress in
26679 deciding whether it's reachable from the outside.
26680 - Implement BAD_LIBEVENT general status event so controllers can learn
26681 when we have a version/method combination in libevent that needs to
26683 - Implement NAMESERVER_STATUS, NAMESERVER_ALL_DOWN, DNS_HIJACKED,
26684 and DNS_USELESS server status events so controllers can learn
26685 about changes to DNS server status.
26687 o Minor features (directory):
26688 - Authorities no longer recommend exits as guards if this would shift
26689 too much load to the exit nodes.
26692 Changes in version 0.1.2.5-alpha - 2007-01-06
26694 - Enable write limiting as well as read limiting. Now we sacrifice
26695 capacity if we're pushing out lots of directory traffic, rather
26696 than overrunning the user's intended bandwidth limits.
26697 - Include TLS overhead when counting bandwidth usage; previously, we
26698 would count only the bytes sent over TLS, but not the bytes used
26700 - Support running the Tor service with a torrc not in the same
26701 directory as tor.exe and default to using the torrc located in
26702 the %appdata%\Tor\ of the user who installed the service. Patch
26704 - Servers now check for the case when common DNS requests are going to
26705 wildcarded addresses (i.e. all getting the same answer), and change
26706 their exit policy to reject *:* if it's happening.
26707 - Implement BEGIN_DIR cells, so we can connect to the directory
26708 server via TLS to do encrypted directory requests rather than
26709 plaintext. Enable via the TunnelDirConns and PreferTunneledDirConns
26710 config options if you like.
26712 o Minor features (config and docs):
26713 - Start using the state file to store bandwidth accounting data:
26714 the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. We'll keep generating it
26715 for a while for people who are still using 0.1.2.4-alpha.
26716 - Try to batch changes to the state file so that we do as few
26717 disk writes as possible while still storing important things in
26719 - The state file and the bw_accounting file get saved less often when
26720 the AvoidDiskWrites config option is set.
26721 - Make PIDFile work on Windows (untested).
26722 - Add internal descriptions for a bunch of configuration options:
26723 accessible via controller interface and in comments in saved
26725 - Reject *:563 (NNTPS) in the default exit policy. We already reject
26726 NNTP by default, so this seems like a sensible addition.
26727 - Clients now reject hostnames with invalid characters. This should
26728 avoid some inadvertent info leaks. Add an option
26729 AllowNonRFC953Hostnames to disable this behavior, in case somebody
26730 is running a private network with hosts called @, !, and #.
26731 - Add a maintainer script to tell us which options are missing
26732 documentation: "make check-docs".
26733 - Add a new address-spec.txt document to describe our special-case
26734 addresses: .exit, .onion, and .noconnnect.
26736 o Minor features (DNS):
26737 - Ongoing work on eventdns infrastructure: now it has dns server
26738 and ipv6 support. One day Tor will make use of it.
26739 - Add client-side caching for reverse DNS lookups.
26740 - Add support to tor-resolve tool for reverse lookups and SOCKS5.
26741 - When we change nameservers or IP addresses, reset and re-launch
26742 our tests for DNS hijacking.
26744 o Minor features (directory):
26745 - Authorities now specify server versions in networkstatus. This adds
26746 about 2% to the size of compressed networkstatus docs, and allows
26747 clients to tell which servers support BEGIN_DIR and which don't.
26748 The implementation is forward-compatible with a proposed future
26749 protocol version scheme not tied to Tor versions.
26750 - DirServer configuration lines now have an orport= option so
26751 clients can open encrypted tunnels to the authorities without
26752 having downloaded their descriptors yet. Enabled for moria1,
26753 moria2, tor26, and lefkada now in the default configuration.
26754 - Directory servers are more willing to send a 503 "busy" if they
26755 are near their write limit, especially for v1 directory requests.
26756 Now they can use their limited bandwidth for actual Tor traffic.
26757 - Clients track responses with status 503 from dirservers. After a
26758 dirserver has given us a 503, we try not to use it until an hour has
26759 gone by, or until we have no dirservers that haven't given us a 503.
26760 - When we get a 503 from a directory, and we're not a server, we don't
26761 count the failure against the total number of failures allowed
26762 for the thing we're trying to download.
26763 - Report X-Your-Address-Is correctly from tunneled directory
26764 connections; don't report X-Your-Address-Is when it's an internal
26765 address; and never believe reported remote addresses when they're
26767 - Protect against an unlikely DoS attack on directory servers.
26768 - Add a BadDirectory flag to network status docs so that authorities
26769 can (eventually) tell clients about caches they believe to be
26772 o Minor features (controller):
26773 - Have GETINFO dir/status/* work on hosts with DirPort disabled.
26774 - Reimplement GETINFO so that info/names stays in sync with the
26776 - Implement "GETINFO fingerprint".
26777 - Implement "SETEVENTS GUARD" so controllers can get updates on
26778 entry guard status as it changes.
26780 o Minor features (clean up obsolete pieces):
26781 - Remove some options that have been deprecated since at least
26782 0.1.0.x: AccountingMaxKB, LogFile, DebugLogFile, LogLevel, and
26783 SysLog. Use AccountingMax instead of AccountingMaxKB, and use Log
26784 to set log options.
26785 - We no longer look for identity and onion keys in "identity.key" and
26786 "onion.key" -- these were replaced by secret_id_key and
26787 secret_onion_key in 0.0.8pre1.
26788 - We no longer require unrecognized directory entries to be
26791 o Major bugfixes (security):
26792 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
26793 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
26794 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
26795 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
26797 - When generating bandwidth history, round down to the nearest
26798 1k. When storing accounting data, round up to the nearest 1k.
26799 - When we're running as a server, remember when we last rotated onion
26800 keys, so that we will rotate keys once they're a week old even if
26801 we never stay up for a week ourselves.
26803 o Major bugfixes (other):
26804 - Fix a longstanding bug in eventdns that prevented the count of
26805 timed-out resolves from ever being reset. This bug caused us to
26806 give up on a nameserver the third time it timed out, and try it
26807 10 seconds later... and to give up on it every time it timed out
26809 - Take out the '5 second' timeout from the connection retry
26810 schedule. Now the first connect attempt will wait a full 10
26811 seconds before switching to a new circuit. Perhaps this will help
26812 a lot. Based on observations from Mike Perry.
26813 - Fix a bug on the Windows implementation of tor_mmap_file() that
26814 would prevent the cached-routers file from ever loading. Reported
26818 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
26819 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
26820 unlisted router. Reported by seeess.
26821 - Avoid a double-free when parsing malformed DirServer lines.
26822 - Fix a bug when a BSD-style PF socket is first used. Patch from
26824 - Fix a bug in 0.1.2.2-alpha that prevented clients from asking
26825 to resolve an address at a given exit node even when they ask for
26827 - Servers no longer ever list themselves in their "family" line,
26828 even if configured to do so. This makes it easier to configure
26829 family lists conveniently.
26830 - When running as a server, don't fall back to 127.0.0.1 when no
26831 nameservers are configured in /etc/resolv.conf; instead, make the
26832 user fix resolv.conf or specify nameservers explicitly. (Resolves
26834 - Stop accepting certain malformed ports in configured exit policies.
26835 - Don't re-write the fingerprint file every restart, unless it has
26837 - Stop warning when a single nameserver fails: only warn when _all_ of
26838 our nameservers have failed. Also, when we only have one nameserver,
26839 raise the threshold for deciding that the nameserver is dead.
26840 - Directory authorities now only decide that routers are reachable
26841 if their identity keys are as expected.
26842 - When the user uses bad syntax in the Log config line, stop
26843 suggesting other bad syntax as a replacement.
26844 - Correctly detect ipv6 DNS capability on OpenBSD.
26846 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
26847 - Report the circuit number correctly in STREAM CLOSED events. Bug
26848 reported by Mike Perry.
26849 - Do not report bizarre values for results of accounting GETINFOs
26850 when the last second's write or read exceeds the allotted bandwidth.
26851 - Report "unrecognized key" rather than an empty string when the
26852 controller tries to fetch a networkstatus that doesn't exist.
26855 Changes in version 0.1.1.26 - 2006-12-14
26856 o Security bugfixes:
26857 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
26858 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
26859 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
26860 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
26864 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
26865 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
26866 unlisted router (reported by seeess).
26869 Changes in version 0.1.2.4-alpha - 2006-12-03
26871 - Add support for using natd; this allows FreeBSDs earlier than
26872 5.1.2 to have ipfw send connections through Tor without using
26873 SOCKS. (Patch from Zajcev Evgeny with tweaks from tup.)
26876 - Make all connections to addresses of the form ".noconnect"
26877 immediately get closed. This lets application/controller combos
26878 successfully test whether they're talking to the same Tor by
26879 watching for STREAM events.
26880 - Make cross.sh cross-compilation script work even when autogen.sh
26881 hasn't been run. (Patch from Michael Mohr.)
26882 - Statistics dumped by -USR2 now include a breakdown of public key
26883 operations, for profiling.
26886 - Fix a major leak when directory authorities parse their
26887 approved-routers list, a minor memory leak when we fail to pick
26888 an exit node, and a few rare leaks on errors.
26889 - Handle TransPort connections even when the server sends data before
26890 the client sends data. Previously, the connection would just hang
26891 until the client sent data. (Patch from tup based on patch from
26893 - Avoid assert failure when our cached-routers file is empty on
26897 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
26898 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
26899 - Have directory authorities allow larger amounts of drift in uptime
26900 without replacing the server descriptor: previously, a server that
26901 restarted every 30 minutes could have 48 "interesting" descriptors
26903 - Start linking to the Tor specification and Tor reference manual
26904 correctly in the Windows installer.
26905 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
26906 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
26907 - Resume building on Irix64, and fix a lot of warnings from its
26908 MIPSpro C compiler.
26909 - Don't corrupt last_guessed_ip in router_new_address_suggestion()
26910 when we're running as a client.
26913 Changes in version 0.1.1.25 - 2006-11-04
26915 - When a client asks us to resolve (rather than connect to)
26916 an address, and we have a cached answer, give them the cached
26917 answer. Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
26918 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we predict
26919 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
26920 its circuits on demand.
26921 - If none of our live entry guards have a high uptime, but we
26922 require a guard with a high uptime, try adding a new guard before
26923 we give up on the requirement. This patch should make long-lived
26924 connections more stable on average.
26925 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
26926 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
26927 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
26929 o Security bugfixes:
26930 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
26931 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
26934 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
26936 - Avoid possibility of controller-triggered crash when misusing
26937 certain commands from a v0 controller on platforms that do not
26938 handle printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
26939 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
26940 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
26941 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
26942 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
26943 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
26946 Changes in version 0.1.2.3-alpha - 2006-10-29
26948 - Prepare for servers to publish descriptors less often: never
26949 discard a descriptor simply for being too old until either it is
26950 recommended by no authorities, or until we get a better one for
26951 the same router. Make caches consider retaining old recommended
26952 routers for even longer.
26953 - If most authorities set a BadExit flag for a server, clients
26954 don't think of it as a general-purpose exit. Clients only consider
26955 authorities that advertise themselves as listing bad exits.
26956 - Directory servers now provide 'Pragma: no-cache' and 'Expires'
26957 headers for content, so that we can work better in the presence of
26958 caching HTTP proxies.
26959 - Allow authorities to list nodes as bad exits by fingerprint or by
26962 o Minor features, controller:
26963 - Add a REASON field to CIRC events; for backward compatibility, this
26964 field is sent only to controllers that have enabled the extended
26965 event format. Also, add additional reason codes to explain why
26966 a given circuit has been destroyed or truncated. (Patches from
26968 - Add a REMOTE_REASON field to extended CIRC events to tell the
26969 controller about why a remote OR told us to close a circuit.
26970 - Stream events also now have REASON and REMOTE_REASON fields,
26971 working much like those for circuit events.
26972 - There's now a GETINFO ns/... field so that controllers can ask Tor
26973 about the current status of a router.
26974 - A new event type "NS" to inform a controller when our opinion of
26975 a router's status has changed.
26976 - Add a GETINFO events/names and GETINFO features/names so controllers
26977 can tell which events and features are supported.
26978 - A new CLEARDNSCACHE signal to allow controllers to clear the
26979 client-side DNS cache without expiring circuits.
26981 o Security bugfixes:
26982 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
26983 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
26986 - Avoid sending junk to controllers or segfaulting when a controller
26987 uses EVENT_NEW_DESC with verbose nicknames.
26988 - Stop triggering asserts if the controller tries to extend hidden
26989 service circuits (reported by mwenge).
26990 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
26991 - When the controller does a "GETINFO network-status", tell it
26992 about even those routers whose descriptors are very old, and use
26993 long nicknames where appropriate.
26994 - Change NT service functions to be loaded on demand. This lets us
26995 build with MinGW without breaking Tor for Windows 98 users.
26996 - Do DirPort reachability tests less often, since a single test
26997 chews through many circuits before giving up.
26998 - In the hidden service example in torrc.sample, stop recommending
26999 esoteric and discouraged hidden service options.
27000 - When stopping an NT service, wait up to 10 sec for it to actually
27001 stop. Patch from Matt Edman; resolves bug 295.
27002 - Fix handling of verbose nicknames with ORCONN controller events:
27003 make them show up exactly when requested, rather than exactly when
27005 - When reporting verbose nicknames in entry_guards_getinfo(), avoid
27006 printing a duplicate "$" in the keys we send (reported by mwenge).
27007 - Correctly set maximum connection limit on Cygwin. (This time
27009 - Try to detect Windows correctly when cross-compiling.
27010 - Detect the size of the routers file correctly even if it is
27011 corrupted (on systems without mmap) or not page-aligned (on systems
27012 with mmap). This bug was harmless.
27013 - Sometimes we didn't bother sending a RELAY_END cell when an attempt
27014 to open a stream fails; now we do in more cases. This should
27015 make clients able to find a good exit faster in some cases, since
27016 unhandleable requests will now get an error rather than timing out.
27017 - Resolve two memory leaks when rebuilding the on-disk router cache
27018 (reported by fookoowa).
27019 - Clean up minor code warnings suggested by the MIPSpro C compiler,
27020 and reported by some Centos users.
27021 - Controller signals now work on non-Unix platforms that don't define
27022 SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 the way we expect.
27023 - Patch from Michael Mohr to contrib/cross.sh, so it checks more
27024 values before failing, and always enables eventdns.
27025 - Libevent-1.2 exports, but does not define in its headers, strlcpy.
27026 Try to fix this in configure.in by checking for most functions
27027 before we check for libevent.
27030 Changes in version 0.1.2.2-alpha - 2006-10-07
27032 - Make our async eventdns library on-by-default for Tor servers,
27033 and plan to deprecate the separate dnsworker threads.
27034 - Add server-side support for "reverse" DNS lookups (using PTR
27035 records so clients can determine the canonical hostname for a given
27036 IPv4 address). Only supported by servers using eventdns; servers
27037 now announce in their descriptors whether they support eventdns.
27038 - Specify and implement client-side SOCKS5 interface for reverse DNS
27039 lookups (see doc/socks-extensions.txt).
27040 - Add a BEGIN_DIR relay cell type for an easier in-protocol way to
27041 connect to directory servers through Tor. Previously, clients needed
27042 to find Tor exits to make private connections to directory servers.
27043 - Avoid choosing Exit nodes for entry or middle hops when the
27044 total bandwidth available from non-Exit nodes is much higher than
27045 the total bandwidth available from Exit nodes.
27046 - Workaround for name servers (like Earthlink's) that hijack failing
27047 DNS requests and replace the no-such-server answer with a "helpful"
27048 redirect to an advertising-driven search portal. Also work around
27049 DNS hijackers who "helpfully" decline to hijack known-invalid
27050 RFC2606 addresses. Config option "ServerDNSDetectHijacking 0"
27051 lets you turn it off.
27052 - Send out a burst of long-range padding cells once we've established
27053 that we're reachable. Spread them over 4 circuits, so hopefully
27054 a few will be fast. This exercises our bandwidth and bootstraps
27055 us into the directory more quickly.
27057 o New/improved config options:
27058 - Add new config option "ResolvConf" to let the server operator
27059 choose an alternate resolve.conf file when using eventdns.
27060 - Add an "EnforceDistinctSubnets" option to control our "exclude
27061 servers on the same /16" behavior. It's still on by default; this
27062 is mostly for people who want to operate private test networks with
27063 all the machines on the same subnet.
27064 - If one of our entry guards is on the ExcludeNodes list, or the
27065 directory authorities don't think it's a good guard, treat it as
27066 if it were unlisted: stop using it as a guard, and throw it off
27067 the guards list if it stays that way for a long time.
27068 - Allow directory authorities to be marked separately as authorities
27069 for the v1 directory protocol, the v2 directory protocol, and
27070 as hidden service directories, to make it easier to retire old
27071 authorities. V1 authorities should set "HSAuthoritativeDir 1"
27072 to continue being hidden service authorities too.
27073 - Remove 8888 as a LongLivedPort, and add 6697 (IRCS).
27075 o Minor features, controller:
27076 - Fix CIRC controller events so that controllers can learn the
27077 identity digests of non-Named servers used in circuit paths.
27078 - Let controllers ask for more useful identifiers for servers. Instead
27079 of learning identity digests for un-Named servers and nicknames
27080 for Named servers, the new identifiers include digest, nickname,
27081 and indication of Named status. Off by default; see control-spec.txt
27082 for more information.
27083 - Add a "getinfo address" controller command so it can display Tor's
27084 best guess to the user.
27085 - New controller event to alert the controller when our server
27086 descriptor has changed.
27087 - Give more meaningful errors on controller authentication failure.
27089 o Minor features, other:
27090 - When asked to resolve a hostname, don't use non-exit servers unless
27091 requested to do so. This allows servers with broken DNS to be
27092 useful to the network.
27093 - Divide eventdns log messages into warn and info messages.
27094 - Reserve the nickname "Unnamed" for routers that can't pick
27095 a hostname: any router can call itself Unnamed; directory
27096 authorities will never allocate Unnamed to any particular router;
27097 clients won't believe that any router is the canonical Unnamed.
27098 - Only include function names in log messages for info/debug messages.
27099 For notice/warn/err, the content of the message should be clear on
27100 its own, and printing the function name only confuses users.
27101 - Avoid some false positives during reachability testing: don't try
27102 to test via a server that's on the same /24 as us.
27103 - If we fail to build a circuit to an intended enclave, and it's
27104 not mandatory that we use that enclave, stop wanting it.
27105 - When eventdns is enabled, allow multithreaded builds on NetBSD and
27106 OpenBSD. (We had previously disabled threads on these platforms
27107 because they didn't have working thread-safe resolver functions.)
27109 o Major bugfixes, anonymity/security:
27110 - If a client asked for a server by name, and there's a named server
27111 in our network-status but we don't have its descriptor yet, we
27112 could return an unnamed server instead.
27113 - Fix NetBSD bug that could allow someone to force uninitialized RAM
27114 to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This only affects NetBSD
27115 and other platforms that do not bounds-check tolower().
27116 - Reject (most) attempts to use Tor circuits with length one. (If
27117 many people start using Tor as a one-hop proxy, exit nodes become
27118 a more attractive target for compromise.)
27119 - Just because your DirPort is open doesn't mean people should be
27120 able to remotely teach you about hidden service descriptors. Now
27121 only accept rendezvous posts if you've got HSAuthoritativeDir set.
27123 o Major bugfixes, other:
27124 - Don't crash on race condition in dns.c: tor_assert(!resolve->expire)
27125 - When a client asks the server to resolve (not connect to)
27126 an address, and it has a cached answer, give them the cached answer.
27127 Previously, the server would give them no answer at all.
27128 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
27129 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
27130 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we anticipated
27131 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
27132 its circuits on demand.
27133 - Avoid crashing when we mmap a router cache file of size 0.
27134 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
27135 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
27136 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
27138 o Minor bugfixes, correctness:
27139 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
27140 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
27141 we don't recognize.
27142 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
27144 - Avoid controller-triggered crash when misusing certain commands
27145 from a v0 controller on platforms that do not handle
27146 printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
27147 - Don't crash when a controller sends a third argument to an
27148 "extendcircuit" request.
27149 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
27150 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
27151 - Avoid crash when telling controller stream-status and a stream
27153 - Patch from Adam Langley to fix assert() in eventdns.c.
27154 - Fix a debug log message in eventdns to say "X resolved to Y"
27155 instead of "X resolved to X".
27156 - Make eventdns give strings for DNS errors, not just error numbers.
27157 - Track unreachable entry guards correctly: don't conflate
27158 'unreachable by us right now' with 'listed as down by the directory
27159 authorities'. With the old code, if a guard was unreachable by
27160 us but listed as running, it would clog our guard list forever.
27161 - Behave correctly in case we ever have a network with more than
27162 2GB/s total advertised capacity.
27163 - Make TrackExitHosts case-insensitive, and fix the behavior of
27164 ".suffix" TrackExitHosts items to avoid matching in the middle of
27166 - Finally fix the openssl warnings from newer gccs that believe that
27167 ignoring a return value is okay, but casting a return value and
27168 then ignoring it is a sign of madness.
27169 - Prevent the contrib/exitlist script from printing the same
27170 result more than once.
27171 - Patch from Steve Hildrey: Generate network status correctly on
27172 non-versioning dirservers.
27173 - Don't listen to the X-Your-Address-Is hint if you did the lookup
27174 via Tor; otherwise you'll think you're the exit node's IP address.
27176 o Minor bugfixes, performance:
27177 - Two small performance improvements on parsing descriptors.
27178 - Major performance improvement on inserting descriptors: change
27179 algorithm from O(n^2) to O(n).
27180 - Make the common memory allocation path faster on machines where
27181 malloc(0) returns a pointer.
27182 - Start remembering X-Your-Address-Is directory hints even if you're
27183 a client, so you can become a server more smoothly.
27184 - Avoid duplicate entries on MyFamily line in server descriptor.
27186 o Packaging, features:
27187 - Remove architecture from OS X builds. The official builds are
27188 now universal binaries.
27189 - The Debian package now uses --verify-config when (re)starting,
27190 to distinguish configuration errors from other errors.
27191 - Update RPMs to require libevent 1.1b.
27193 o Packaging, bugfixes:
27194 - Patches so Tor builds with MinGW on Windows.
27195 - Patches so Tor might run on Cygwin again.
27196 - Resume building on non-gcc compilers and ancient gcc. Resume
27197 building with the -O0 compile flag. Resume building cleanly on
27199 - Run correctly on OS X platforms with case-sensitive filesystems.
27200 - Correct includes for net/if.h and net/pfvar.h on OpenBSD (from Tup).
27201 - Add autoconf checks so Tor can build on Solaris x86 again.
27204 - Documented (and renamed) ServerDNSSearchDomains and
27205 ServerDNSResolvConfFile options.
27206 - Be clearer that the *ListenAddress directives can be repeated
27210 Changes in version 0.1.1.24 - 2006-09-29
27212 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
27213 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
27214 - Fix major performance regression from 0.1.0.x: instead of checking
27215 whether we have enough directory information every time we want to
27216 do something, only check when the directory information has changed.
27217 This should improve client CPU usage by 25-50%.
27218 - Don't crash if, after a server has been running for a while,
27219 it can't resolve its hostname.
27222 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
27223 - Don't crash when the controller receives a third argument to an
27224 "extendcircuit" request.
27225 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
27226 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
27227 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
27228 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
27230 - Fix security bug on NetBSD that could allow someone to force
27231 uninitialized RAM to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This
27232 only affects NetBSD and other platforms that do not bounds-check
27234 - Warn user when using libevent 1.1a or earlier with win32 or kqueue
27235 methods: these are known to be buggy.
27236 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
27237 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
27238 we don't recognize.
27241 Changes in version 0.1.2.1-alpha - 2006-08-27
27243 - Add "eventdns" async dns library from Adam Langley, tweaked to
27244 build on OSX and Windows. Only enabled if you pass the
27245 --enable-eventdns argument to configure.
27246 - Allow servers with no hostname or IP address to learn their
27247 IP address by asking the directory authorities. This code only
27248 kicks in when you would normally have exited with a "no address"
27249 error. Nothing's authenticated, so use with care.
27250 - Rather than waiting a fixed amount of time between retrying
27251 application connections, we wait only 5 seconds for the first,
27252 10 seconds for the second, and 15 seconds for each retry after
27253 that. Hopefully this will improve the expected user experience.
27254 - Patch from Tup to add support for transparent AP connections:
27255 this basically bundles the functionality of trans-proxy-tor
27256 into the Tor mainline. Now hosts with compliant pf/netfilter
27257 implementations can redirect TCP connections straight to Tor
27258 without diverting through SOCKS. Needs docs.
27259 - Busy directory servers save lots of memory by spooling server
27260 descriptors, v1 directories, and v2 networkstatus docs to buffers
27261 as needed rather than en masse. Also mmap the cached-routers
27262 files, so we don't need to keep the whole thing in memory too.
27263 - Automatically avoid picking more than one node from the same
27264 /16 network when constructing a circuit.
27265 - Revise and clean up the torrc.sample that we ship with; add
27266 a section for BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst.
27269 - Split circuit_t into origin_circuit_t and or_circuit_t, and
27270 split connection_t into edge, or, dir, control, and base structs.
27271 These will save quite a bit of memory on busy servers, and they'll
27272 also help us track down bugs in the code and bugs in the spec.
27273 - Experimentally re-enable kqueue on OSX when using libevent 1.1b
27274 or later. Log when we are doing this, so we can diagnose it when
27275 it fails. (Also, recommend libevent 1.1b for kqueue and
27276 win32 methods; deprecate libevent 1.0b harder; make libevent
27277 recommendation system saner.)
27278 - Start being able to build universal binaries on OS X (thanks
27280 - Export the default exit policy via the control port, so controllers
27281 don't need to guess what it is / will be later.
27282 - Add a man page entry for ProtocolWarnings.
27283 - Add TestVia config option to the man page.
27284 - Remove even more protocol-related warnings from Tor server logs,
27285 such as bad TLS handshakes and malformed begin cells.
27286 - Stop fetching descriptors if you're not a dir mirror and you
27287 haven't tried to establish any circuits lately. [This currently
27288 causes some dangerous behavior, because when you start up again
27289 you'll use your ancient server descriptors.]
27290 - New DirPort behavior: if you have your dirport set, you download
27291 descriptors aggressively like a directory mirror, whether or not
27292 your ORPort is set.
27293 - Get rid of the router_retry_connections notion. Now routers
27294 no longer try to rebuild long-term connections to directory
27295 authorities, and directory authorities no longer try to rebuild
27296 long-term connections to all servers. We still don't hang up
27297 connections in these two cases though -- we need to look at it
27298 more carefully to avoid flapping, and we likely need to wait til
27299 0.1.1.x is obsolete.
27300 - Drop compatibility with obsolete Tors that permit create cells
27301 to have the wrong circ_id_type.
27302 - Re-enable per-connection rate limiting. Get rid of the "OP
27303 bandwidth" concept. Lay groundwork for "bandwidth classes" --
27304 separate global buckets that apply depending on what sort of conn
27306 - Start publishing one minute or so after we find our ORPort
27307 to be reachable. This will help reduce the number of descriptors
27308 we have for ourselves floating around, since it's quite likely
27309 other things (e.g. DirPort) will change during that minute too.
27310 - Fork the v1 directory protocol into its own spec document,
27311 and mark dir-spec.txt as the currently correct (v2) spec.
27314 - When we find our DirPort to be reachable, publish a new descriptor
27315 so we'll tell the world (reported by pnx).
27316 - Publish a new descriptor after we hup/reload. This is important
27317 if our config has changed such that we'll want to start advertising
27318 our DirPort now, etc.
27319 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
27320 - When we have a state file we cannot parse, tell the user and
27321 move it aside. Now we avoid situations where the user starts
27322 Tor in 1904, Tor writes a state file with that timestamp in it,
27323 the user fixes her clock, and Tor refuses to start.
27324 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
27325 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
27327 - "tor --verify-config" now exits with -1(255) or 0 depending on
27328 whether the config options are bad or good.
27329 - Resolve bug 321 when using dnsworkers: append a period to every
27330 address we resolve at the exit node, so that we do not accidentally
27331 pick up local addresses, and so that failing searches are retried
27332 in the resolver search domains. (This is already solved for
27333 eventdns.) (This breaks Blossom servers for now.)
27334 - If we are using an exit enclave and we can't connect, e.g. because
27335 its webserver is misconfigured to not listen on localhost, then
27336 back off and try connecting from somewhere else before we fail.
27339 - Start compiling on MinGW on Windows (patches from Mike Chiussi).
27340 - Start compiling on MSVC6 on Windows (patches from Frediano Ziglio).
27341 - Fix bug 314: Tor clients issued "unsafe socks" warnings even
27342 when the IP address is mapped through MapAddress to a hostname.
27343 - Start passing "ipv4" hints to getaddrinfo(), so servers don't do
27344 useless IPv6 DNS resolves.
27345 - Patch suggested by Karsten Loesing: respond to SIGNAL command
27346 before we execute the signal, in case the signal shuts us down.
27347 - Clean up AllowInvalidNodes man page entry.
27348 - Claim a commonname of Tor, rather than TOR, in TLS handshakes.
27349 - Add more asserts to track down an assert error on a windows Tor
27350 server with connection_add being called with socket == -1.
27351 - Handle reporting OR_CONN_EVENT_NEW events to the controller.
27352 - Fix misleading log messages: an entry guard that is "unlisted",
27353 as well as not known to be "down" (because we've never heard
27354 of it), is not therefore "up".
27355 - Remove code to special-case "-cvs" ending, since it has not
27356 actually mattered since 0.0.9.
27357 - Make our socks5 handling more robust to broken socks clients:
27358 throw out everything waiting on the buffer in between socks
27359 handshake phases, since they can't possibly (so the theory
27360 goes) have predicted what we plan to respond to them.
27363 Changes in version 0.1.1.23 - 2006-07-30
27365 - Fast Tor servers, especially exit nodes, were triggering asserts
27366 due to a bug in handling the list of pending DNS resolves. Some
27367 bugs still remain here; we're hunting them.
27368 - Entry guards could crash clients by sending unexpected input.
27369 - More fixes on reachability testing: if you find yourself reachable,
27370 then don't ever make any client requests (so you stop predicting
27371 circuits), then hup or have your clock jump, then later your IP
27372 changes, you won't think circuits are working, so you won't try to
27373 test reachability, so you won't publish.
27376 - Avoid a crash if the controller does a resetconf firewallports
27377 and then a setconf fascistfirewall=1.
27378 - Avoid an integer underflow when the dir authority decides whether
27379 a router is stable: we might wrongly label it stable, and compute
27380 a slightly wrong median stability, when a descriptor is published
27382 - Fix a place where we might trigger an assert if we can't build our
27383 own server descriptor yet.
27386 Changes in version 0.1.1.22 - 2006-07-05
27388 - Fix a big bug that was causing servers to not find themselves
27389 reachable if they changed IP addresses. Since only 0.1.1.22+
27390 servers can do reachability testing correctly, now we automatically
27391 make sure to test via one of these.
27392 - Fix to allow clients and mirrors to learn directory info from
27393 descriptor downloads that get cut off partway through.
27394 - Directory authorities had a bug in deciding if a newly published
27395 descriptor was novel enough to make everybody want a copy -- a few
27396 servers seem to be publishing new descriptors many times a minute.
27398 - Fix a rare bug that was causing some servers to complain about
27399 "closing wedged cpuworkers" and skip some circuit create requests.
27400 - Make the Exit flag in directory status documents actually work.
27403 Changes in version 0.1.1.21 - 2006-06-10
27404 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.1.20:
27405 - Fix a rare crash on Tor servers that have enabled hibernation.
27406 - Fix a seg fault on startup for Tor networks that use only one
27407 directory authority.
27408 - Fix an assert from a race condition that occurs on Tor servers
27409 while exiting, where various threads are trying to log that they're
27410 exiting, and delete the logs, at the same time.
27411 - Make our unit tests pass again on certain obscure platforms.
27414 - Add support for building SUSE RPM packages.
27415 - Speed up initial bootstrapping for clients: if we are making our
27416 first ever connection to any entry guard, then don't mark it down
27418 - When only one Tor server in the network is labelled as a guard,
27419 and we've already picked him, we would cycle endlessly picking him
27420 again, being unhappy about it, etc. Now we specifically exclude
27421 current guards when picking a new guard.
27422 - Servers send create cells more reliably after the TLS connection
27423 is established: we were sometimes forgetting to send half of them
27424 when we had more than one pending.
27425 - If we get a create cell that asks us to extend somewhere, but the
27426 Tor server there doesn't match the expected digest, we now send
27427 a destroy cell back, rather than silently doing nothing.
27428 - Make options->RedirectExit work again.
27429 - Make cookie authentication for the controller work again.
27430 - Stop being picky about unusual characters in the arguments to
27431 mapaddress. It's none of our business.
27432 - Add a new config option "TestVia" that lets you specify preferred
27433 middle hops to use for test circuits. Perhaps this will let me
27434 debug the reachability problems better.
27436 o Log / documentation fixes:
27437 - If we're a server and some peer has a broken TLS certificate, don't
27438 log about it unless ProtocolWarnings is set, i.e., we want to hear
27439 about protocol violations by others.
27440 - Fix spelling of VirtualAddrNetwork in man page.
27441 - Add a better explanation at the top of the autogenerated torrc file
27442 about what happened to our old torrc.
27445 Changes in version 0.1.1.20 - 2006-05-23
27447 - Downgrade a log severity where servers complain that they're
27449 - Avoid a compile warning on FreeBSD.
27450 - Remove string size limit on NEWDESC messages; solve bug 291.
27451 - Correct the RunAsDaemon entry in the man page; ignore RunAsDaemon
27452 more thoroughly when we're running on windows.
27455 Changes in version 0.1.1.19-rc - 2006-05-03
27457 - Regenerate our local descriptor if it's dirty and we try to use
27458 it locally (e.g. if it changes during reachability detection).
27459 - If we setconf our ORPort to 0, we continued to listen on the
27460 old ORPort and receive connections.
27461 - Avoid a second warning about machine/limits.h on Debian
27463 - Be willing to add our own routerinfo into the routerlist.
27464 Now authorities will include themselves in their directories
27465 and network-statuses.
27466 - Stop trying to upload rendezvous descriptors to every
27467 directory authority: only try the v1 authorities.
27468 - Servers no longer complain when they think they're not
27469 registered with the directory authorities. There were too many
27471 - Backport dist-rpm changes so rpms can be built without errors.
27474 - Implement an option, VirtualAddrMask, to set which addresses
27475 get handed out in response to mapaddress requests. This works
27476 around a bug in tsocks where 127.0.0.0/8 is never socksified.
27479 Changes in version 0.1.1.18-rc - 2006-04-10
27481 - Work harder to download live network-statuses from all the
27482 directory authorities we know about. Improve the threshold
27483 decision logic so we're more robust to edge cases.
27484 - When fetching rendezvous descriptors, we were willing to ask
27485 v2 authorities too, which would always return 404.
27488 - Stop listing down or invalid nodes in the v1 directory. This will
27489 reduce its bulk by about 1/3, and reduce load on directory
27491 - When deciding whether a router is Fast or Guard-worthy, consider
27492 his advertised BandwidthRate and not just the BandwidthCapacity.
27493 - No longer ship INSTALL and README files -- they are useless now.
27494 - Force rpmbuild to behave and honor target_cpu.
27495 - Avoid warnings about machine/limits.h on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.
27496 - Start to include translated versions of the tor-doc-*.html
27497 files, along with the screenshots. Still needs more work.
27498 - Start sending back 512 and 451 errors if mapaddress fails,
27499 rather than not sending anything back at all.
27500 - When we fail to bind or listen on an incoming or outgoing
27501 socket, we should close it before failing. otherwise we just
27502 leak it. (thanks to weasel for finding.)
27503 - Allow "getinfo dir/status/foo" to work, as long as your DirPort
27504 is enabled. (This is a hack, and will be fixed in 0.1.2.x.)
27505 - Make NoPublish (even though deprecated) work again.
27506 - Fix a minor security flaw where a versioning auth dirserver
27507 could list a recommended version many times in a row to make
27508 clients more convinced that it's recommended.
27509 - Fix crash bug if there are two unregistered servers running
27510 with the same nickname, one of them is down, and you ask for
27511 them by nickname in your EntryNodes or ExitNodes. Also, try
27512 to pick the one that's running rather than an arbitrary one.
27513 - Fix an infinite loop we could hit if we go offline for too long.
27514 - Complain when we hit WSAENOBUFS on recv() or write() too.
27515 Perhaps this will help us hunt the bug.
27516 - If you're not a versioning dirserver, don't put the string
27517 "client-versions \nserver-versions \n" in your network-status.
27518 - Lower the minimum required number of file descriptors to 1000,
27519 so we can have some overhead for Valgrind on Linux, where the
27520 default ulimit -n is 1024.
27523 - Add tor.dizum.com as the fifth authoritative directory server.
27524 - Add a new config option FetchUselessDescriptors, off by default,
27525 for when you plan to run "exitlist" on your client and you want
27526 to know about even the non-running descriptors.
27529 Changes in version 0.1.1.17-rc - 2006-03-28
27531 - Clients and servers since 0.1.1.10-alpha have been expiring
27532 connections whenever they are idle for 5 minutes and they *do*
27533 have circuits on them. Oops. With this new version, clients will
27534 discard their previous entry guard choices and avoid choosing
27535 entry guards running these flawed versions.
27536 - Fix memory leak when uncompressing concatenated zlib streams. This
27537 was causing substantial leaks over time on Tor servers.
27538 - The v1 directory was including servers as much as 48 hours old,
27539 because that's how the new routerlist->routers works. Now only
27540 include them if they're 20 hours old or less.
27543 - Resume building on irix64, netbsd 2.0, etc.
27544 - On non-gcc compilers (e.g. solaris), use "-g -O" instead of
27546 - Stop writing the "router.desc" file, ever. Nothing uses it anymore,
27547 and it is confusing some users.
27548 - Mirrors stop caching the v1 directory so often.
27549 - Make the max number of old descriptors that a cache will hold
27550 rise with the number of directory authorities, so we can scale.
27551 - Change our win32 uname() hack to be more forgiving about what
27552 win32 versions it thinks it's found.
27555 - Add lefkada.eecs.harvard.edu as a fourth authoritative directory
27557 - When the controller's *setconf commands fail, collect an error
27558 message in a string and hand it back to the controller.
27559 - Make the v2 dir's "Fast" flag based on relative capacity, just
27560 like "Stable" is based on median uptime. Name everything in the
27561 top 7/8 Fast, and only the top 1/2 gets to be a Guard.
27562 - Log server fingerprint on startup, so new server operators don't
27563 have to go hunting around their filesystem for it.
27564 - Return a robots.txt on our dirport to discourage google indexing.
27565 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/status/foo so it can ask
27566 directly rather than connecting to the dir port. Only works when
27567 dirport is set for now.
27569 o New config options rather than constants in the code:
27570 - SocksTimeout: How long do we let a socks connection wait
27571 unattached before we fail it?
27572 - CircuitBuildTimeout: Cull non-open circuits that were born
27573 at least this many seconds ago.
27574 - CircuitIdleTimeout: Cull open clean circuits that were born
27575 at least this many seconds ago.
27578 Changes in version 0.1.1.16-rc - 2006-03-18
27579 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.15-rc:
27580 - Fix assert when the controller asks to attachstream a connect-wait
27581 or resolve-wait stream.
27582 - Now do address rewriting when the controller asks us to attach
27583 to a particular circuit too. This will let Blossom specify
27584 "moria2.exit" without having to learn what moria2's IP address is.
27585 - Make the "tor --verify-config" command-line work again, so people
27586 can automatically check if their torrc will parse.
27587 - Authoritative dirservers no longer require an open connection from
27588 a server to consider him "reachable". We need this change because
27589 when we add new auth dirservers, old servers won't know not to
27591 - Let Tor build on Sun CC again.
27592 - Fix an off-by-one buffer size in dirserv.c that magically never
27593 hit our three authorities but broke sjmurdoch's own tor network.
27594 - If we as a directory mirror don't know of any v1 directory
27595 authorities, then don't try to cache any v1 directories.
27596 - Stop warning about unknown servers in our family when they are
27597 given as hex digests.
27598 - Stop complaining as quickly to the server operator that he
27599 hasn't registered his nickname/key binding.
27600 - Various cleanups so we can add new V2 Auth Dirservers.
27601 - Change "AllowUnverifiedNodes" to "AllowInvalidNodes", to
27602 reflect the updated flags in our v2 dir protocol.
27603 - Resume allowing non-printable characters for exit streams (both
27604 for connecting and for resolving). Now we tolerate applications
27605 that don't follow the RFCs. But continue to block malformed names
27608 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
27609 - Fix assert bug in close_logs(): when we close and delete logs,
27610 remove them all from the global "logfiles" list.
27611 - Fix minor integer overflow in calculating when we expect to use up
27612 our bandwidth allocation before hibernating.
27613 - Fix a couple of bugs in OpenSSL detection. Also, deal better when
27614 there are multiple SSLs installed with different versions.
27615 - When we try to be a server and Address is not explicitly set and
27616 our hostname resolves to a private IP address, try to use an
27617 interface address if it has a public address. Now Windows machines
27618 that think of themselves as localhost can work by default.
27621 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/server/foo so it can ask
27622 directly rather than connecting to the dir port.
27623 - Let the controller tell us about certain router descriptors
27624 that it doesn't want Tor to use in circuits. Implement
27625 SETROUTERPURPOSE and modify +POSTDESCRIPTOR to do this.
27626 - New config option SafeSocks to reject all application connections
27627 using unsafe socks protocols. Defaults to off.
27630 Changes in version 0.1.1.15-rc - 2006-03-11
27631 o Bugfixes and cleanups:
27632 - When we're printing strings from the network, don't try to print
27633 non-printable characters. This protects us against shell escape
27634 sequence exploits, and also against attacks to fool humans into
27635 misreading their logs.
27636 - Fix a bug where Tor would fail to establish any connections if you
27637 left it off for 24 hours and then started it: we were happy with
27638 the obsolete network statuses, but they all referred to router
27639 descriptors that were too old to fetch, so we ended up with no
27640 valid router descriptors.
27641 - Fix a seg fault in the controller's "getinfo orconn-status"
27642 command while listing status on incoming handshaking connections.
27643 Introduce a status name "NEW" for these connections.
27644 - If we get a linelist or linelist_s config option from the torrc
27645 (e.g. ExitPolicy) and it has no value, warn and skip rather than
27646 silently resetting it to its default.
27647 - Don't abandon entry guards until they've been down or gone for
27649 - Cleaner and quieter log messages.
27652 - New controller signal NEWNYM that makes new application requests
27653 use clean circuits.
27654 - Add a new circuit purpose 'controller' to let the controller ask
27655 for a circuit that Tor won't try to use. Extend the EXTENDCIRCUIT
27656 controller command to let you specify the purpose if you're
27657 starting a new circuit. Add a new SETCIRCUITPURPOSE controller
27658 command to let you change a circuit's purpose after it's been
27660 - Accept "private:*" in routerdesc exit policies; not generated yet
27661 because older Tors do not understand it.
27662 - Add BSD-style contributed startup script "rc.subr" from Peter
27666 Changes in version 0.1.1.14-alpha - 2006-02-20
27667 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
27668 - Don't die if we ask for a stdout or stderr log (even implicitly)
27669 and we're set to RunAsDaemon -- just warn.
27670 - We still had a few bugs in the OR connection rotation code that
27671 caused directory servers to slowly aggregate connections to other
27672 fast Tor servers. This time for sure!
27673 - Make log entries on Win32 include the name of the function again.
27674 - We were treating a pair of exit policies if they were equal even
27675 if one said accept and the other said reject -- causing us to
27676 not always publish a new descriptor since we thought nothing
27678 - Retry pending server downloads as well as pending networkstatus
27679 downloads when we unexpectedly get a socks request.
27680 - We were ignoring the IS_FAST flag in the directory status,
27681 meaning we were willing to pick trivial-bandwidth nodes for "fast"
27683 - If the controller's SAVECONF command fails (e.g. due to file
27684 permissions), let the controller know that it failed.
27687 - If we're trying to be a Tor server and running Windows 95/98/ME
27688 as a server, explain that we'll likely crash.
27689 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
27690 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
27691 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
27692 without getting overloaded.
27693 - Compress exit policies even more -- look for duplicate lines
27695 - Clients now honor the "guard" flag in the router status when
27696 picking entry guards, rather than looking at is_fast or is_stable.
27697 - Retain unrecognized lines in $DATADIR/state file, so that we can
27698 be forward-compatible.
27699 - Generate 18.0.0.0/8 address policy format in descs when we can;
27700 warn when the mask is not reducible to a bit-prefix.
27701 - Let the user set ControlListenAddress in the torrc. This can be
27702 dangerous, but there are some cases (like a secured LAN) where it
27704 - Split ReachableAddresses into ReachableDirAddresses and
27705 ReachableORAddresses, so we can restrict Dir conns to port 80
27706 and OR conns to port 443.
27707 - Now we can target arch and OS in rpm builds (contributed by
27708 Phobos). Also make the resulting dist-rpm filename match the
27710 - New config options to help controllers: FetchServerDescriptors
27711 and FetchHidServDescriptors for whether to fetch server
27712 info and hidserv info or let the controller do it, and
27713 PublishServerDescriptor and PublishHidServDescriptors.
27714 - Also let the controller set the __AllDirActionsPrivate config
27715 option if you want all directory fetches/publishes to happen via
27716 Tor (it assumes your controller bootstraps your circuits).
27719 Changes in version 0.1.0.17 - 2006-02-17
27720 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
27721 - When servers with a non-zero DirPort came out of hibernation,
27722 sometimes they would trigger an assert.
27724 o Other important bugfixes:
27725 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
27726 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
27727 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
27728 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
27730 o Backported features:
27731 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
27732 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
27733 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
27734 without getting overloaded.
27735 - Whenever you get a 503 in response to a directory fetch, try
27736 once more. This will become important once servers start sending
27737 503's whenever they feel busy.
27738 - Fetch a new directory every 120 minutes, not every 40 minutes.
27739 Now that we have hundreds of thousands of users running the old
27740 directory algorithm, it's starting to hurt a lot.
27741 - Bump up the period for forcing a hidden service descriptor upload
27742 from 20 minutes to 1 hour.
27745 Changes in version 0.1.1.13-alpha - 2006-02-09
27746 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
27747 - When you tried to setconf ORPort via the controller, Tor would
27748 crash. So people using TorCP to become a server were sad.
27749 - Solve (I hope) the stack-smashing bug that we were seeing on fast
27750 servers. The problem appears to be something do with OpenSSL's
27751 random number generation, or how we call it, or something. Let me
27752 know if the crashes continue.
27753 - Turn crypto hardware acceleration off by default, until we find
27754 somebody smart who can test it for us. (It appears to produce
27755 seg faults in at least some cases.)
27756 - Fix a rare assert error when we've tried all intro points for
27757 a hidden service and we try fetching the service descriptor again:
27758 "Assertion conn->state != AP_CONN_STATE_RENDDESC_WAIT failed"
27761 - Fix a major load balance bug: we were round-robining in 16 KB
27762 chunks, and servers with bandwidthrate of 20 KB, while downloading
27763 a 600 KB directory, would starve their other connections. Now we
27764 try to be a bit more fair.
27765 - Dir authorities and mirrors were never expiring the newest
27766 descriptor for each server, causing memory and directory bloat.
27767 - Fix memory-bloating and connection-bloating bug on servers: We
27768 were never closing any connection that had ever had a circuit on
27769 it, because we were checking conn->n_circuits == 0, yet we had a
27770 bug that let it go negative.
27771 - Make Tor work using squid as your http proxy again -- squid
27772 returns an error if you ask for a URL that's too long, and it uses
27773 a really generic error message. Plus, many people are behind a
27774 transparent squid so they don't even realize it.
27775 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
27776 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
27777 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
27778 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
27779 - Add a new config option ExitPolicyRejectPrivate which defaults to
27780 1. This means all exit policies will begin with rejecting private
27781 addresses, unless the server operator explicitly turns it off.
27784 - Clients no longer download descriptors for non-running
27786 - Before we add new directory authorities, we should make it
27787 clear that only v1 authorities should receive/publish hidden
27788 service descriptors.
27791 - As soon as we've fetched some more directory info, immediately
27792 try to download more server descriptors. This way we don't have
27793 a 10 second pause during initial bootstrapping.
27794 - Remove even more loud log messages that the server operator can't
27796 - When we're running an obsolete or un-recommended version, make
27797 the log message more clear about what the problem is and what
27798 versions *are* still recommended.
27799 - Provide a more useful warn message when our onion queue gets full:
27800 the CPU is too slow or the exit policy is too liberal.
27801 - Don't warn when we receive a 503 from a dirserver/cache -- this
27802 will pave the way for them being able to refuse if they're busy.
27803 - When we fail to bind a listener, try to provide a more useful
27804 log message: e.g., "Is Tor already running?"
27805 - Adjust tor-spec to parameterize cell and key lengths. Now Ian
27806 Goldberg can prove things about our handshake protocol more
27808 - MaxConn has been obsolete for a while now. Document the ConnLimit
27809 config option, which is a *minimum* number of file descriptors
27810 that must be available else Tor refuses to start.
27811 - Apply Matt Ghali's --with-syslog-facility patch to ./configure
27812 if you log to syslog and want something other than LOG_DAEMON.
27813 - Make dirservers generate a separate "guard" flag to mean,
27814 "would make a good entry guard". Make clients parse it and vote
27815 on it. Not used by clients yet.
27816 - Implement --with-libevent-dir option to ./configure. Also, improve
27817 search techniques to find libevent, and use those for openssl too.
27818 - Bump the default bandwidthrate to 3 MB, and burst to 6 MB
27819 - Only start testing reachability once we've established a
27820 circuit. This will make startup on dirservers less noisy.
27821 - Don't try to upload hidden service descriptors until we have
27822 established a circuit.
27823 - Fix the controller's "attachstream 0" command to treat conn like
27824 it just connected, doing address remapping, handling .exit and
27825 .onion idioms, and so on. Now we're more uniform in making sure
27826 that the controller hears about new and closing connections.
27829 Changes in version 0.1.1.12-alpha - 2006-01-11
27830 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
27831 - The fix to close duplicate server connections was closing all
27832 Tor client connections if they didn't establish a circuit
27833 quickly enough. Oops.
27834 - Fix minor memory issue (double-free) that happened on exit.
27836 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
27837 - Tor didn't warn when it failed to open a log file.
27840 Changes in version 0.1.1.11-alpha - 2006-01-10
27841 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
27842 - Include all the assert/crash fixes from 0.1.0.16.
27843 - If you start Tor and then quit very quickly, there were some
27844 races that tried to free things that weren't allocated yet.
27845 - Fix a rare memory stomp if you're running hidden services.
27846 - Fix segfault when specifying DirServer in config without nickname.
27847 - Fix a seg fault when you finish connecting to a server but at
27848 that moment you dump his server descriptor.
27849 - Extendcircuit and Attachstream controller commands would
27850 assert/crash if you don't give them enough arguments.
27851 - Fix an assert error when we're out of space in the connection_list
27852 and we try to post a hidden service descriptor (reported by weasel).
27853 - If you specify a relative torrc path and you set RunAsDaemon in
27854 your torrc, then it chdir()'s to the new directory. If you HUP,
27855 it tries to load the new torrc location, fails, and exits.
27856 The fix: no longer allow a relative path to torrc using -f.
27859 - Implement "entry guards": automatically choose a handful of entry
27860 nodes and stick with them for all circuits. Only pick new guards
27861 when the ones you have are unsuitable, and if the old guards
27862 become suitable again, switch back. This will increase security
27863 dramatically against certain end-point attacks. The EntryNodes
27864 config option now provides some hints about which entry guards you
27865 want to use most; and StrictEntryNodes means to only use those.
27866 - New directory logic: download by descriptor digest, not by
27867 fingerprint. Caches try to download all listed digests from
27868 authorities; clients try to download "best" digests from caches.
27869 This avoids partitioning and isolating attacks better.
27870 - Make the "stable" router flag in network-status be the median of
27871 the uptimes of running valid servers, and make clients pay
27872 attention to the network-status flags. Thus the cutoff adapts
27873 to the stability of the network as a whole, making IRC, IM, etc
27874 connections more reliable.
27877 - Tor servers with dynamic IP addresses were needing to wait 18
27878 hours before they could start doing reachability testing using
27879 the new IP address and ports. This is because they were using
27880 the internal descriptor to learn what to test, yet they were only
27881 rebuilding the descriptor once they decided they were reachable.
27882 - Tor 0.1.1.9 and 0.1.1.10 had a serious bug that caused clients
27883 to download certain server descriptors, throw them away, and then
27884 fetch them again after 30 minutes. Now mirrors throw away these
27885 server descriptors so clients can't get them.
27886 - We were leaving duplicate connections to other ORs open for a week,
27887 rather than closing them once we detect a duplicate. This only
27888 really affected authdirservers, but it affected them a lot.
27889 - Spread the authdirservers' reachability testing over the entire
27890 testing interval, so we don't try to do 500 TLS's at once every
27894 - If the network is down, and we try to connect to a conn because
27895 we have a circuit in mind, and we timeout (30 seconds) because the
27896 network never answers, we were expiring the circuit, but we weren't
27897 obsoleting the connection or telling the entry_guards functions.
27898 - Some Tor servers process billions of cells per day. These statistics
27899 need to be uint64_t's.
27900 - Check for integer overflows in more places, when adding elements
27901 to smartlists. This could possibly prevent a buffer overflow
27902 on malicious huge inputs. I don't see any, but I haven't looked
27904 - ReachableAddresses kept growing new "reject *:*" lines on every
27906 - When you "setconf log" via the controller, it should remove all
27907 logs. We were automatically adding back in a "log notice stdout".
27908 - Newly bootstrapped Tor networks couldn't establish hidden service
27909 circuits until they had nodes with high uptime. Be more tolerant.
27910 - We were marking servers down when they could not answer every piece
27911 of the directory request we sent them. This was far too harsh.
27912 - Fix the torify (tsocks) config file to not use Tor for localhost
27914 - Directory authorities now go to the proper authority when asking for
27915 a networkstatus, even when they want a compressed one.
27916 - Fix a harmless bug that was causing Tor servers to log
27917 "Got an end because of misc error, but we're not an AP. Closing."
27918 - Authorities were treating their own descriptor changes as cosmetic,
27919 meaning the descriptor available in the network-status and the
27920 descriptor that clients downloaded were different.
27921 - The OS X installer was adding a symlink for tor_resolve but
27922 the binary was called tor-resolve (reported by Thomas Hardly).
27923 - Workaround a problem with some http proxies where they refuse GET
27924 requests that specify "Content-Length: 0" (reported by Adrian).
27925 - Fix wrong log message when you add a "HiddenServiceNodes" config
27926 line without any HiddenServiceDir line (reported by Chris Thomas).
27929 - Write the TorVersion into the state file so we have a prayer of
27930 keeping forward and backward compatibility.
27931 - Revive the FascistFirewall config option rather than eliminating it:
27932 now it's a synonym for ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443.
27933 - Clients choose directory servers from the network status lists,
27934 not from their internal list of router descriptors. Now they can
27935 go to caches directly rather than needing to go to authorities
27937 - Directory authorities ignore router descriptors that have only
27938 cosmetic differences: do this for 0.1.0.x servers now too.
27939 - Add a new flag to network-status indicating whether the server
27940 can answer v2 directory requests too.
27941 - Authdirs now stop whining so loudly about bad descriptors that
27942 they fetch from other dirservers. So when there's a log complaint,
27943 it's for sure from a freshly uploaded descriptor.
27944 - Reduce memory requirements in our structs by changing the order
27946 - There used to be two ways to specify your listening ports in a
27947 server descriptor: on the "router" line and with a separate "ports"
27948 line. Remove support for the "ports" line.
27949 - New config option "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" for auth dirservers as
27950 a panic button: if we get flooded with unusable servers we can
27951 revert to only listing servers in the approved-routers file.
27952 - Auth dir servers can now mark a fingerprint as "!reject" or
27953 "!invalid" in the approved-routers file (as its nickname), to
27954 refuse descriptors outright or include them but marked as invalid.
27955 - Servers store bandwidth history across restarts/crashes.
27956 - Add reasons to DESTROY and RELAY_TRUNCATED cells, so clients can
27957 get a better idea of why their circuits failed. Not used yet.
27958 - Directory mirrors now cache up to 16 unrecognized network-status
27959 docs. Now we can add new authdirservers and they'll be cached too.
27960 - When picking a random directory, prefer non-authorities if any
27962 - New controller option "getinfo desc/all-recent" to fetch the
27963 latest server descriptor for every router that Tor knows about.
27966 Changes in version 0.1.0.16 - 2006-01-02
27967 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
27968 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
27969 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
27970 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
27971 - It turns out sparc64 platforms crash on unaligned memory access
27972 too -- so detect and avoid this.
27973 - Handle truncated compressed data correctly (by detecting it and
27975 - Fix possible-but-unlikely free(NULL) in control.c.
27976 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
27977 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
27978 - Avoid potential infinite recursion when building a descriptor. (We
27979 don't know that it ever happened, but better to fix it anyway.)
27980 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
27981 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
27982 - Fix a memory stomping race bug when closing the joining point of two
27983 rendezvous circuits.
27984 - Fix an assert in time parsing found by Steven Murdoch.
27986 o Other bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
27987 - When we're doing reachability testing, provide more useful log
27988 messages so the operator knows what to expect.
27989 - Do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we are suppressing
27990 advertising it because of hibernation.
27991 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed -ldl.
27992 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
27993 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
27994 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
27995 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
27996 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
27997 - Give a more helpful log message when you try to change ORPort via
27998 the controller: you should upgrade Tor if you want that to work.
27999 - We were failing to parse Tor versions that start with "Tor ".
28000 - Tolerate faulty streams better: when a stream fails for reason
28001 exitpolicy, stop assuming that the router is lying about his exit
28002 policy. When a stream fails for reason misc, allow it to retry just
28003 as if it was resolvefailed. When a stream has failed three times,
28004 reset its failure count so we can try again and get all three tries.
28007 Changes in version 0.1.1.10-alpha - 2005-12-11
28008 o Correctness bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
28009 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
28010 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
28011 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
28012 - Stop doing the complex voodoo overkill checking for insecure
28013 Diffie-Hellman keys. Just check if it's in [2,p-2] and be happy.
28014 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
28015 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
28016 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
28017 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
28018 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
28019 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
28020 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
28021 - Recover better from TCP connections to Tor servers that are
28022 broken but don't tell you (it happens!); and rotate TLS
28023 connections once a week.
28024 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
28025 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
28026 - Fix a scary-looking but apparently harmless bug where circuits
28027 would sometimes start out in state CIRCUIT_STATE_OR_WAIT at
28028 servers, and never switch to state CIRCUIT_STATE_OPEN.
28029 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed to
28031 - Give a useful message when people run Tor as the wrong user,
28032 rather than telling them to start chowning random directories.
28033 - We were failing to inform the controller about new .onion streams.
28035 o Security bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
28036 - Refuse server descriptors if the fingerprint line doesn't match
28037 the included identity key. Tor doesn't care, but other apps (and
28038 humans) might actually be trusting the fingerprint line.
28039 - We used to kill the circuit when we receive a relay command we
28040 don't recognize. Now we just drop it.
28041 - Start obeying our firewall options more rigorously:
28042 . If we can't get to a dirserver directly, try going via Tor.
28043 . Don't ever try to connect (as a client) to a place our
28044 firewall options forbid.
28045 . If we specify a proxy and also firewall options, obey the
28046 firewall options even when we're using the proxy: some proxies
28047 can only proxy to certain destinations.
28048 - Fix a bug found by Lasse Overlier: when we were making internal
28049 circuits (intended to be cannibalized later for rendezvous and
28050 introduction circuits), we were picking them so that they had
28051 useful exit nodes. There was no need for this, and it actually
28052 aids some statistical attacks.
28053 - Start treating internal circuits and exit circuits separately.
28054 It's important to keep them separate because internal circuits
28055 have their last hops picked like middle hops, rather than like
28056 exit hops. So exiting on them will break the user's expectations.
28058 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
28059 - Take out the mis-feature where we tried to detect IP address
28060 flapping for people with DynDNS, and chose not to upload a new
28061 server descriptor sometimes.
28062 - Try to be compatible with OpenSSL 0.9.6 again.
28063 - Log fix: when the controller is logging about .onion addresses,
28064 sometimes it didn't include the ".onion" part of the address.
28065 - Don't try to modify options->DirServers internally -- if the
28066 user didn't specify any, just add the default ones directly to
28067 the trusted dirserver list. This fixes a bug where people running
28068 controllers would use SETCONF on some totally unrelated config
28069 option, and Tor would start yelling at them about changing their
28071 - Let the controller's redirectstream command specify a port, in
28072 case the controller wants to change that too.
28073 - When we requested a pile of server descriptors, we sometimes
28074 accidentally launched a duplicate request for the first one.
28075 - Bugfix for trackhostexits: write down the fingerprint of the
28076 chosen exit, not its nickname, because the chosen exit might not
28078 - When parsing foo.exit, if foo is unknown, and we are leaving
28079 circuits unattached, set the chosen_exit field and leave the
28080 address empty. This matters because controllers got confused
28082 - Directory authorities no longer try to download server
28083 descriptors that they know they will reject.
28085 o Features and updates:
28086 - Replace balanced trees with hash tables: this should make stuff
28087 significantly faster.
28088 - Resume using the AES counter-mode implementation that we ship,
28089 rather than OpenSSL's. Ours is significantly faster.
28090 - Many other CPU and memory improvements.
28091 - Add a new config option FastFirstHopPK (on by default) so clients
28092 do a trivial crypto handshake for their first hop, since TLS has
28093 already taken care of confidentiality and authentication.
28094 - Add a new config option TestSocks so people can see if their
28095 applications are using socks4, socks4a, socks5-with-ip, or
28096 socks5-with-hostname. This way they don't have to keep mucking
28097 with tcpdump and wondering if something got cached somewhere.
28098 - Warn when listening on a public address for socks. I suspect a
28099 lot of people are setting themselves up as open socks proxies,
28100 and they have no idea that jerks on the Internet are using them,
28101 since they simply proxy the traffic into the Tor network.
28102 - Add "private:*" as an alias in configuration for policies. Now
28103 you can simplify your exit policy rather than needing to list
28104 every single internal or nonroutable network space.
28105 - Add a new controller event type that allows controllers to get
28106 all server descriptors that were uploaded to a router in its role
28107 as authoritative dirserver.
28108 - Start shipping socks-extensions.txt, tor-doc-unix.html,
28109 tor-doc-server.html, and stylesheet.css in the tarball.
28110 - Stop shipping tor-doc.html in the tarball.
28113 Changes in version 0.1.1.9-alpha - 2005-11-15
28114 o Usability improvements:
28115 - Start calling it FooListenAddress rather than FooBindAddress,
28116 since few of our users know what it means to bind an address
28118 - Reduce clutter in server logs. We're going to try to make
28119 them actually usable now. New config option ProtocolWarnings that
28120 lets you hear about how _other Tors_ are breaking the protocol. Off
28122 - Divide log messages into logging domains. Once we put some sort
28123 of interface on this, it will let people looking at more verbose
28124 log levels specify the topics they want to hear more about.
28125 - Make directory servers return better http 404 error messages
28126 instead of a generic "Servers unavailable".
28127 - Check for even more Windows version flags when writing the platform
28128 string in server descriptors, and note any we don't recognize.
28129 - Clean up more of the OpenSSL memory when exiting, so we can detect
28130 memory leaks better.
28131 - Make directory authorities be non-versioning, non-naming by
28132 default. Now we can add new directory servers without requiring
28133 their operators to pay close attention.
28134 - When logging via syslog, include the pid whenever we provide
28135 a log entry. Suggested by Todd Fries.
28137 o Performance improvements:
28138 - Directory servers now silently throw away new descriptors that
28139 haven't changed much if the timestamps are similar. We do this to
28140 tolerate older Tor servers that upload a new descriptor every 15
28141 minutes. (It seemed like a good idea at the time.)
28142 - Inline bottleneck smartlist functions; use fast versions by default.
28143 - Add a "Map from digest to void*" abstraction digestmap_t so we
28144 can do less hex encoding/decoding. Use it in router_get_by_digest()
28145 to resolve a performance bottleneck.
28146 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress to extract as much as possible from
28147 truncated compressed data. Try to extract as many
28148 descriptors as possible from truncated http responses (when
28149 DIR_PURPOSE_FETCH_ROUTERDESC).
28150 - Make circ->onionskin a pointer, not a static array. moria2 was using
28151 125000 circuit_t's after it had been up for a few weeks, which
28152 translates to 20+ megs of wasted space.
28153 - The private half of our EDH handshake keys are now chosen out
28154 of 320 bits, not 1024 bits. (Suggested by Ian Goldberg.)
28156 o Security improvements:
28157 - Start making directory caches retain old routerinfos, so soon
28158 clients can start asking by digest of descriptor rather than by
28159 fingerprint of server.
28160 - Add half our entropy from RAND_poll in OpenSSL. This knows how
28161 to use egd (if present), openbsd weirdness (if present), vms/os2
28162 weirdness (if we ever port there), and more in the future.
28164 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
28165 - Do round-robin writes of at most 16 kB per write. This might be
28166 more fair on loaded Tor servers, and it might resolve our Windows
28167 crash bug. It might also slow things down.
28168 - Our TLS handshakes were generating a single public/private
28169 keypair for the TLS context, rather than making a new one for
28170 each new connections. Oops. (But we were still rotating them
28171 periodically, so it's not so bad.)
28172 - When we were cannibalizing a circuit with a particular exit
28173 node in mind, we weren't checking to see if that exit node was
28174 already present earlier in the circuit. Oops.
28175 - When a Tor server's IP changes (e.g. from a dyndns address),
28176 upload a new descriptor so clients will learn too.
28177 - Really busy servers were keeping enough circuits open on stable
28178 connections that they were wrapping around the circuit_id
28179 space. (It's only two bytes.) This exposed a bug where we would
28180 feel free to reuse a circuit_id even if it still exists but has
28181 been marked for close. Try to fix this bug. Some bug remains.
28182 - If we would close a stream early (e.g. it asks for a .exit that
28183 we know would refuse it) but the LeaveStreamsUnattached config
28184 option is set by the controller, then don't close it.
28186 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.8-alpha:
28187 - Fix a big pile of memory leaks, some of them serious.
28188 - Do not try to download a routerdesc if we would immediately reject
28190 - Resume inserting a newline between all router descriptors when
28191 generating (old style) signed directories, since our spec says
28193 - When providing content-type application/octet-stream for
28194 server descriptors using .z, we were leaving out the
28195 content-encoding header. Oops. (Everything tolerated this just
28196 fine, but that doesn't mean we need to be part of the problem.)
28197 - Fix a potential seg fault in getconf and getinfo using version 1
28198 of the controller protocol.
28199 - Avoid crash: do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we
28200 are suppressing it because of hibernation.
28201 - Make --hash-password not crash on exit.
28204 Changes in version 0.1.1.8-alpha - 2005-10-07
28205 o New features (major):
28206 - Clients don't download or use the directory anymore. Now they
28207 download and use network-statuses from the trusted dirservers,
28208 and fetch individual server descriptors as needed from mirrors.
28209 See dir-spec.txt for all the gory details.
28210 - Be more conservative about whether to advertise our DirPort.
28211 The main change is to not advertise if we're running at capacity
28212 and either a) we could hibernate or b) our capacity is low and
28213 we're using a default DirPort.
28214 - Use OpenSSL's AES when OpenSSL has version 0.9.7 or later.
28216 o New features (minor):
28217 - Try to be smart about when to retry network-status and
28218 server-descriptor fetches. Still needs some tuning.
28219 - Stop parsing, storing, or using running-routers output (but
28220 mirrors still cache and serve it).
28221 - Consider a threshold of versioning dirservers (dirservers who have
28222 an opinion about which Tor versions are still recommended) before
28223 deciding whether to warn the user that he's obsolete.
28224 - Dirservers can now reject/invalidate by key and IP, with the
28225 config options "AuthDirInvalid" and "AuthDirReject". This is
28226 useful since currently we automatically list servers as running
28227 and usable even if we know they're jerks.
28228 - Provide dire warnings to any users who set DirServer; move it out
28229 of torrc.sample and into torrc.complete.
28230 - Add MyFamily to torrc.sample in the server section.
28231 - Add nicknames to the DirServer line, so we can refer to them
28232 without requiring all our users to memorize their IP addresses.
28233 - When we get an EOF or a timeout on a directory connection, note
28234 how many bytes of serverdesc we are dropping. This will help
28235 us determine whether it is smart to parse incomplete serverdesc
28237 - Add a new function to "change pseudonyms" -- that is, to stop
28238 using any currently-dirty circuits for new streams, so we don't
28239 link new actions to old actions. Currently it's only called on
28240 HUP (or SIGNAL RELOAD).
28241 - On sighup, if UseHelperNodes changed to 1, use new circuits.
28242 - Start using RAND_bytes rather than RAND_pseudo_bytes from
28243 OpenSSL. Also, reseed our entropy every hour, not just at
28244 startup. And entropy in 512-bit chunks, not 160-bit chunks.
28246 o Fixes on 0.1.1.7-alpha:
28247 - Nobody ever implemented EVENT_ADDRMAP for control protocol
28248 version 0, so don't let version 0 controllers ask for it.
28249 - If you requested something with too many newlines via the
28250 v1 controller protocol, you could crash tor.
28251 - Fix a number of memory leaks, including some pretty serious ones.
28252 - Re-enable DirPort testing again, so Tor servers will be willing
28253 to advertise their DirPort if it's reachable.
28254 - On TLS handshake, only check the other router's nickname against
28255 its expected nickname if is_named is set.
28257 o Fixes forward-ported from 0.1.0.15:
28258 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
28259 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
28260 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
28261 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
28263 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
28264 - For the OS X package's modified privoxy config file, comment
28265 out the "logfile" line so we don't log everything passed
28267 - We were whining about using socks4 or socks5-with-local-lookup
28268 even when it's an IP in the "virtual" range we designed exactly
28270 - We were leaking some memory every time the client changes IPs.
28271 - Never call free() on tor_malloc()d memory. This will help us
28272 use dmalloc to detect memory leaks.
28273 - Check for named servers when looking them up by nickname;
28274 warn when we'recalling a non-named server by its nickname;
28275 don't warn twice about the same name.
28276 - Try to list MyFamily elements by key, not by nickname, and warn
28277 if we've not heard of the server.
28278 - Make windows platform detection (uname equivalent) smarter.
28279 - It turns out sparc64 doesn't like unaligned access either.
28282 Changes in version 0.1.0.15 - 2005-09-23
28283 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
28284 - Reject ports 465 and 587 (spam targets) in default exit policy.
28285 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
28286 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
28287 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
28288 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
28289 - Don't try to print a null string when your server finds itself to
28290 be unreachable and the Address config option is empty.
28291 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
28292 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
28293 - Fix a minor memory leak in smartlist_string_remove().
28294 - We were only allowing ourselves to upload a server descriptor at
28295 most every 20 minutes, even if it changed earlier than that.
28296 - Clean up log entries that pointed to old URLs.
28299 Changes in version 0.1.1.7-alpha - 2005-09-14
28300 o Fixes on 0.1.1.6-alpha:
28301 - Exit servers were crashing when people asked them to make a
28302 connection to an address not in their exit policy.
28303 - Looking up a non-existent stream for a v1 control connection would
28305 - Fix a seg fault if we ask a dirserver for a descriptor by
28306 fingerprint but he doesn't know about him.
28307 - SETCONF was appending items to linelists, not clearing them.
28308 - SETCONF SocksBindAddress killed Tor if it fails to bind. Now back
28309 out and refuse the setconf if it would fail.
28310 - Downgrade the dirserver log messages when whining about
28314 - Add Peter Palfrader's check-tor script to tor/contrib/
28315 It lets you easily check whether a given server (referenced by
28316 nickname) is reachable by you.
28317 - Numerous changes to move towards client-side v2 directories. Not
28320 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
28321 - If the user gave tor an odd number of command-line arguments,
28322 we were silently ignoring the last one. Now we complain and fail.
28323 [This wins the oldest-bug prize -- this bug has been present since
28324 November 2002, as released in Tor 0.0.0.]
28325 - Do not use unaligned memory access on alpha, mips, or mipsel.
28326 It *works*, but is very slow, so we treat them as if it doesn't.
28327 - Retry directory requests if we fail to get an answer we like
28328 from a given dirserver (we were retrying before, but only if
28329 we fail to connect).
28330 - When writing the RecommendedVersions line, sort them first.
28331 - When the client asked for a rendezvous port that the hidden
28332 service didn't want to provide, we were sending an IP address
28333 back along with the end cell. Fortunately, it was zero. But stop
28335 - Correct "your server is reachable" log entries to indicate that
28336 it was self-testing that told us so.
28339 Changes in version 0.1.1.6-alpha - 2005-09-09
28340 o Fixes on 0.1.1.5-alpha:
28341 - We broke fascistfirewall in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
28342 - Fix segfault in unit tests in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
28343 - Fix bug with tor_memmem finding a match at the end of the string.
28344 - Make unit tests run without segfaulting.
28345 - Resolve some solaris x86 compile warnings.
28346 - Handle duplicate lines in approved-routers files without warning.
28347 - Fix bug where as soon as a server refused any requests due to his
28348 exit policy (e.g. when we ask for localhost and he tells us that's
28349 127.0.0.1 and he won't do it), we decided he wasn't obeying his
28350 exit policy using him for any exits.
28351 - Only do openssl hardware accelerator stuff if openssl version is
28354 o New controller features/fixes:
28355 - Add a "RESETCONF" command so you can set config options like
28356 AllowUnverifiedNodes and LongLivedPorts to "". Also, if you give
28357 a config option in the torrc with no value, then it clears it
28358 entirely (rather than setting it to its default).
28359 - Add a "GETINFO config-file" to tell us where torrc is.
28360 - Avoid sending blank lines when GETINFO replies should be empty.
28361 - Add a QUIT command for the controller (for using it manually).
28362 - Fix a bug in SAVECONF that was adding default dirservers and
28363 other redundant entries to the torrc file.
28365 o Start on the new directory design:
28366 - Generate, publish, cache, serve new network-status format.
28367 - Publish individual descriptors (by fingerprint, by "all", and by
28369 - Publish client and server recommended versions separately.
28370 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress() to handle multiple concatenated
28371 compressed strings. Serve compressed groups of router
28372 descriptors. The compression logic here could be more
28374 - Distinguish v1 authorities (all currently trusted directories)
28375 from v2 authorities (all trusted directories).
28376 - Change DirServers config line to note which dirs are v1 authorities.
28377 - Add configuration option "V1AuthoritativeDirectory 1" which
28378 moria1, moria2, and tor26 should set.
28379 - Remove option when getting directory cache to see whether they
28380 support running-routers; they all do now. Replace it with one
28381 to see whether caches support v2 stuff.
28384 - Dirservers now do their own external reachability testing of each
28385 Tor server, and only list them as running if they've been found to
28386 be reachable. We also send back warnings to the server's logs if
28387 it uploads a descriptor that we already believe is unreachable.
28388 - Implement exit enclaves: if we know an IP address for the
28389 destination, and there's a running Tor server at that address
28390 which allows exit to the destination, then extend the circuit to
28391 that exit first. This provides end-to-end encryption and end-to-end
28392 authentication. Also, if the user wants a .exit address or enclave,
28393 use 4 hops rather than 3, and cannibalize a general circ for it
28395 - Permit transitioning from ORPort=0 to ORPort!=0, and back, from the
28396 controller. Also, rotate dns and cpu workers if the controller
28397 changes options that will affect them; and initialize the dns
28398 worker cache tree whether or not we start out as a server.
28399 - Only upload a new server descriptor when options change, 18
28400 hours have passed, uptime is reset, or bandwidth changes a lot.
28401 - Check [X-]Forwarded-For headers in HTTP requests when generating
28402 log messages. This lets people run dirservers (and caches) behind
28403 Apache but still know which IP addresses are causing warnings.
28405 o Config option changes:
28406 - Replace (Fascist)Firewall* config options with a new
28407 ReachableAddresses option that understands address policies.
28408 For example, "ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443"
28409 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
28410 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
28411 - Make MonthlyAccountingStart config option truly obsolete now.
28413 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
28414 - Reject ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy, since
28415 people have started using them for spam too.
28416 - It turns out we couldn't bootstrap a network since we added
28417 reachability detection in 0.1.0.1-rc. Good thing the Tor network
28418 has never gone down. Add an AssumeReachable config option to let
28419 servers and dirservers bootstrap. When we're trying to build a
28420 high-uptime or high-bandwidth circuit but there aren't enough
28421 suitable servers, try being less picky rather than simply failing.
28422 - Our logic to decide if the OR we connected to was the right guy
28423 was brittle and maybe open to a mitm for unverified routers.
28424 - We weren't cannibalizing circuits correctly for
28425 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_C_ESTABLISH_REND and
28426 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_S_ESTABLISH_INTRO, so we were being forced to
28427 build those from scratch. This should make hidden services faster.
28428 - Predict required circuits better, with an eye toward making hidden
28429 services faster on the service end.
28430 - Retry streams if the exit node sends back a 'misc' failure. This
28431 should result in fewer random failures. Also, after failing
28432 from resolve failed or misc, reset the num failures, so we give
28433 it a fair shake next time we try.
28434 - Clean up the rendezvous warn log msgs, and downgrade some to info.
28435 - Reduce severity on logs about dns worker spawning and culling.
28436 - When we're shutting down and we do something like try to post a
28437 server descriptor or rendezvous descriptor, don't complain that
28438 we seem to be unreachable. Of course we are, we're shutting down.
28439 - Add TTLs to RESOLVED, CONNECTED, and END_REASON_EXITPOLICY cells.
28440 We don't use them yet, but maybe one day our DNS resolver will be
28441 able to discover them.
28442 - Make ContactInfo mandatory for authoritative directory servers.
28443 - Require server descriptors to list IPv4 addresses -- hostnames
28444 are no longer allowed. This also fixes some potential security
28445 problems with people providing hostnames as their address and then
28446 preferentially resolving them to partition users.
28447 - Change log line for unreachability to explicitly suggest /etc/hosts
28448 as the culprit. Also make it clearer what IP address and ports we're
28449 testing for reachability.
28450 - Put quotes around user-supplied strings when logging so users are
28451 more likely to realize if they add bad characters (like quotes)
28453 - Let auth dir servers start without specifying an Address config
28455 - Make unit tests (and other invocations that aren't the real Tor)
28456 run without launching listeners, creating subdirectories, and so on.
28459 Changes in version 0.1.1.5-alpha - 2005-08-08
28460 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.14.
28462 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
28463 - If you write "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1 6668" in your
28464 torrc rather than "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1:6668",
28465 it would silently using ignore the 6668.
28468 Changes in version 0.1.0.14 - 2005-08-08
28469 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
28470 - Fix the other half of the bug with crypto handshakes
28472 - Fix an assert trigger if you send a 'signal term' via the
28473 controller when it's listening for 'event info' messages.
28476 Changes in version 0.1.1.4-alpha - 2005-08-04
28477 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.13.
28480 - Improve tor_gettimeofday() granularity on windows.
28481 - Make clients regenerate their keys when their IP address changes.
28482 - Implement some more GETINFO goodness: expose helper nodes, config
28483 options, getinfo keys.
28486 Changes in version 0.1.0.13 - 2005-08-04
28487 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
28488 - Fix a critical bug in the security of our crypto handshakes.
28489 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
28490 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
28491 - Fix Windows installer to ship Tor license (thanks to Aphex for
28492 pointing out this oversight) and put a link to the doc directory
28494 - Explicitly set no-unaligned-access for sparc: it turns out the
28495 new gcc's let you compile broken code, but that doesn't make it
28499 Changes in version 0.1.1.3-alpha - 2005-07-23
28500 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
28501 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "post descriptor"
28503 - Fix several bugs in handling the controller's "extend circuit"
28505 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "stream status" event.
28506 - Fix an assert failure if we have a controller listening for
28507 circuit events and we go offline.
28508 - Re-allow hidden service descriptors to publish 0 intro points.
28509 - Fix a crash when generating your hidden service descriptor if
28510 you don't have enough intro points already.
28512 o New features on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
28513 - New controller function "getinfo accounting", to ask how
28514 many bytes we've used in this time period.
28515 - Experimental support for helper nodes: a lot of the risk from
28516 a small static adversary comes because users pick new random
28517 nodes every time they rebuild a circuit. Now users will try to
28518 stick to the same small set of entry nodes if they can. Not
28519 enabled by default yet.
28521 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.12:
28522 - If you're an auth dir server, always publish your dirport,
28523 even if you haven't yet found yourself to be reachable.
28524 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
28525 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
28528 Changes in version 0.1.0.12 - 2005-07-18
28529 o New directory servers:
28530 - tor26 has changed IP address.
28532 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
28533 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
28534 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
28535 pthreads libraries.
28536 - Don't trigger an assert if an authoritative directory server
28537 claims its dirport is 0.
28538 - Fix bug with removing Tor as an NT service: some people were
28539 getting "The service did not return an error." Thanks to Matt
28543 Changes in version 0.1.1.2-alpha - 2005-07-15
28544 o New directory servers:
28545 - tor26 has changed IP address.
28547 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, crashes/leaks:
28548 - Port the servers-not-obeying-their-exit-policies fix from
28550 - Fix an fd leak in start_daemon().
28551 - On Windows, you can't always reopen a port right after you've
28552 closed it. So change retry_listeners() to only close and re-open
28553 ports that have changed.
28554 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
28556 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, usability:
28557 - When tor_socketpair() fails in Windows, give a reasonable
28558 Windows-style errno back.
28559 - Let people type "tor --install" as well as "tor -install" when
28561 want to make it an NT service.
28562 - NT service patch from Matt Edman to improve error messages.
28563 - When the controller asks for a config option with an abbreviated
28564 name, give the full name in our response.
28565 - Correct the man page entry on TrackHostExitsExpire.
28566 - Looks like we were never delivering deflated (i.e. compressed)
28567 running-routers lists, even when asked. Oops.
28568 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
28569 pthreads libraries.
28571 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
28572 - Fix a seg fault with autodetecting which controller version is
28576 - New hidden service descriptor format: put a version in it, and
28577 let people specify introduction/rendezvous points that aren't
28578 in "the directory" (which is subjective anyway).
28579 - Allow the DEBUG controller event to work again. Mark certain log
28580 entries as "don't tell this to controllers", so we avoid cycles.
28583 Changes in version 0.1.0.11 - 2005-06-30
28584 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
28585 - Fix major security bug: servers were disregarding their
28586 exit policies if clients behaved unexpectedly.
28587 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
28588 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
28589 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
28590 - The MAPADDRESS control command was broken.
28593 Changes in version 0.1.1.1-alpha - 2005-06-29
28595 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
28596 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
28597 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
28598 - Fix a possible way to DoS dirservers.
28599 - When we complain that your exit policy implicitly allows local or
28600 private address spaces, name them explicitly so operators can
28602 - Make the log message less scary when all the dirservers are
28603 temporarily unreachable.
28604 - We were printing the number of idle dns workers incorrectly when
28608 - Revised controller protocol (version 1) that uses ascii rather
28609 than binary. Add supporting libraries in python and java so you
28610 can use the controller from your applications without caring how
28611 our protocol works.
28612 - Spiffy new support for crypto hardware accelerators. Can somebody
28616 Changes in version 0.0.9.10 - 2005-06-16
28617 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (backported from 0.1.0.10):
28618 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
28619 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
28620 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
28624 Changes in version 0.1.0.10 - 2005-06-14
28625 o Allow a few EINVALs from libevent before dying. Warn on kqueue with
28626 libevent before 1.1a.
28629 Changes in version 0.1.0.9-rc - 2005-06-09
28631 - Reset buf->highwater every time buf_shrink() is called, not just on
28632 a successful shrink. This was causing significant memory bloat.
28633 - Fix buffer overflow when checking hashed passwords.
28634 - Security fix: if seeding the RNG on Win32 fails, quit.
28635 - Allow seeding the RNG on Win32 even when you're not running as
28637 - Disable threading on Solaris too. Something is wonky with it,
28638 cpuworkers, and reentrant libs.
28639 - Reenable the part of the code that tries to flush as soon as an
28640 OR outbuf has a full TLS record available. Perhaps this will make
28641 OR outbufs not grow as huge except in rare cases, thus saving lots
28642 of CPU time plus memory.
28643 - Reject malformed .onion addresses rather then passing them on as
28644 normal web requests.
28645 - Adapt patch from Adam Langley: fix possible memory leak in
28646 tor_lookup_hostname().
28647 - Initialize libevent later in the startup process, so the logs are
28648 already established by the time we start logging libevent warns.
28649 - Use correct errno on win32 if libevent fails.
28650 - Check and warn about known-bad/slow libevent versions.
28651 - Pay more attention to the ClientOnly config option.
28652 - Have torctl.in/tor.sh.in check for location of su binary (needed
28654 - Correct/add man page entries for LongLivedPorts, ExitPolicy,
28655 KeepalivePeriod, ClientOnly, NoPublish, HttpProxy, HttpsProxy,
28656 HttpProxyAuthenticator
28657 - Stop warning about sigpipes in the logs. We're going to
28658 pretend that getting these occasionally is normal and fine.
28659 - Resolve OS X installer bugs: stop claiming to be 0.0.9.2 in
28661 installer screens; and don't put stuff into StartupItems unless
28662 the user asks you to.
28663 - Require servers that use the default dirservers to have public IP
28664 addresses. We have too many servers that are configured with private
28665 IPs and their admins never notice the log entries complaining that
28666 their descriptors are being rejected.
28667 - Add OSX uninstall instructions. An actual uninstall script will
28671 Changes in version 0.1.0.8-rc - 2005-05-23
28673 - It turns out that kqueue on OS X 10.3.9 was causing kernel
28674 panics. Disable kqueue on all OS X Tors.
28675 - Fix RPM: remove duplicate line accidentally added to the rpm
28677 - Disable threads on openbsd too, since its gethostaddr is not
28679 - Tolerate libevent 0.8 since it still works, even though it's
28681 - Enable building on Red Hat 9.0 again.
28682 - Allow the middle hop of the testing circuit to be running any
28683 version, now that most of them have the bugfix to let them connect
28684 to unknown servers. This will allow reachability testing to work
28685 even when 0.0.9.7-0.0.9.9 become obsolete.
28686 - Handle relay cells with rh.length too large. This prevents
28687 a potential attack that could read arbitrary memory (maybe even
28688 keys) from the exit server's process.
28689 - We screwed up the dirport reachability testing when we don't yet
28690 have a cached version of the directory. Hopefully now fixed.
28691 - Clean up router_load_single_router() (used by the controller),
28692 so it doesn't seg fault on error.
28693 - Fix a minor memory leak when somebody establishes an introduction
28694 point at your Tor server.
28695 - If a socks connection ends because read fails, don't warn that
28696 you're not sending a socks reply back.
28699 - Add HttpProxyAuthenticator config option too, that works like
28700 the HttpsProxyAuthenticator config option.
28701 - Encode hashed controller passwords in hex instead of base64,
28702 to make it easier to write controllers.
28705 Changes in version 0.1.0.7-rc - 2005-05-17
28707 - Fix a bug in the OS X package installer that prevented it from
28708 installing on Tiger.
28709 - Fix a script bug in the OS X package installer that made it
28710 complain during installation.
28711 - Find libevent even if it's hiding in /usr/local/ and your
28712 CFLAGS and LDFLAGS don't tell you to look there.
28713 - Be able to link with libevent as a shared library (the default
28714 after 1.0d), even if it's hiding in /usr/local/lib and even
28715 if you haven't added /usr/local/lib to your /etc/ld.so.conf,
28716 assuming you're running gcc. Otherwise fail and give a useful
28718 - Fix a bug in the RPM packager: set home directory for _tor to
28719 something more reasonable when first installing.
28720 - Free a minor amount of memory that is still reachable on exit.
28723 Changes in version 0.1.0.6-rc - 2005-05-14
28725 - Implement --disable-threads configure option. Disable threads on
28726 netbsd by default, because it appears to have no reentrant resolver
28728 - Apple's OS X 10.4.0 ships with a broken kqueue. The new libevent
28729 release (1.1) detects and disables kqueue if it's broken.
28730 - Append default exit policy before checking for implicit internal
28731 addresses. Now we don't log a bunch of complaints on startup
28732 when using the default exit policy.
28733 - Some people were putting "Address " in their torrc, and they had
28734 a buggy resolver that resolved " " to 0.0.0.0. Oops.
28735 - If DataDir is ~/.tor, and that expands to /.tor, then default to
28736 LOCALSTATEDIR/tor instead.
28737 - Fix fragmented-message bug in TorControl.py.
28738 - Resolve a minor bug which would prevent unreachable dirports
28739 from getting suppressed in the published descriptor.
28740 - When the controller gave us a new descriptor, we weren't resolving
28741 it immediately, so Tor would think its address was 0.0.0.0 until
28742 we fetched a new directory.
28743 - Fix an uppercase/lowercase case error in suppressing a bogus
28744 libevent warning on some Linuxes.
28747 - Begin scrubbing sensitive strings from logs by default. Turn off
28748 the config option SafeLogging if you need to do debugging.
28749 - Switch to a new buffer management algorithm, which tries to avoid
28750 reallocing and copying quite as much. In first tests it looks like
28751 it uses *more* memory on average, but less cpu.
28752 - First cut at support for "create-fast" cells. Clients can use
28753 these when extending to their first hop, since the TLS already
28754 provides forward secrecy and authentication. Not enabled on
28756 - When dirservers refuse a router descriptor, we now log its
28757 contactinfo, platform, and the poster's IP address.
28758 - Call tor_free_all instead of connections_free_all after forking, to
28759 save memory on systems that need to fork.
28760 - Whine at you if you're a server and you don't set your contactinfo.
28761 - Implement --verify-config command-line option to check if your torrc
28762 is valid without actually launching Tor.
28763 - Rewrite address "serifos.exit" to "localhost.serifos.exit"
28764 rather than just rejecting it.
28767 Changes in version 0.1.0.5-rc - 2005-04-27
28769 - Stop trying to print a null pointer if an OR conn fails because
28770 we didn't like its cert.
28772 - Switch our internal buffers implementation to use a ring buffer,
28773 to hopefully improve performance for fast servers a lot.
28774 - Add HttpsProxyAuthenticator support (basic auth only), based
28775 on patch from Adam Langley.
28776 - Bump the default BandwidthRate from 1 MB to 2 MB, to accommodate
28777 the fast servers that have been joining lately.
28778 - Give hidden service accesses extra time on the first attempt,
28779 since 60 seconds is often only barely enough. This might improve
28781 - Improve performance for dirservers: stop re-parsing the whole
28782 directory every time you regenerate it.
28783 - Add more debugging info to help us find the weird dns freebsd
28784 pthreads bug; cleaner debug messages to help track future issues.
28787 Changes in version 0.0.9.9 - 2005-04-23
28788 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
28789 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
28790 Tor server triggers an assert. This release contains a minimal
28791 backport from the broader fix that we put into 0.1.0.4-rc.
28794 Changes in version 0.1.0.4-rc - 2005-04-23
28796 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
28797 Tor server triggers an assert. Stop asserting, and start handling
28798 TLS errors better in other situations too.
28799 - When the controller asks us to tell it about all the debug-level
28800 logs, it turns out we were generating debug-level logs while
28801 telling it about them, which turns into a bad loop. Now keep
28802 track of whether you're sending a debug log to the controller,
28803 and don't log when you are.
28804 - Fix the "postdescriptor" feature of the controller interface: on
28805 non-complete success, only say "done" once.
28807 - Clients are now willing to load balance over up to 2mB, not 1mB,
28808 of advertised bandwidth capacity.
28809 - Add a NoPublish config option, so you can be a server (e.g. for
28810 testing running Tor servers in other Tor networks) without
28811 publishing your descriptor to the primary dirservers.
28814 Changes in version 0.1.0.3-rc - 2005-04-08
28815 o Improvements on 0.1.0.2-rc:
28816 - Client now retries when streams end early for 'hibernating' or
28817 'resource limit' reasons, rather than failing them.
28818 - More automated handling for dirserver operators:
28819 - Automatically approve nodes running 0.1.0.2-rc or later,
28820 now that the the reachability detection stuff is working.
28821 - Now we allow two unverified servers with the same nickname
28822 but different keys. But if a nickname is verified, only that
28823 nickname+key are allowed.
28824 - If you're an authdirserver connecting to an address:port,
28825 and it's not the OR you were expecting, forget about that
28826 descriptor. If he *was* the one you were expecting, then forget
28827 about all other descriptors for that address:port.
28828 - Allow servers to publish descriptors from 12 hours in the future.
28829 Corollary: only whine about clock skew from the dirserver if
28830 he's a trusted dirserver (since now even verified servers could
28831 have quite wrong clocks).
28832 - Adjust maximum skew and age for rendezvous descriptors: let skew
28833 be 48 hours rather than 90 minutes.
28834 - Efficiency improvements:
28835 - Keep a big splay tree of (circid,orconn)->circuit mappings to make
28836 it much faster to look up a circuit for each relay cell.
28837 - Remove most calls to assert_all_pending_dns_resolves_ok(),
28838 since they're eating our cpu on exit nodes.
28839 - Stop wasting time doing a case insensitive comparison for every
28840 dns name every time we do any lookup. Canonicalize the names to
28841 lowercase and be done with it.
28842 - Start sending 'truncated' cells back rather than destroy cells,
28843 if the circuit closes in front of you. This means we won't have
28844 to abandon partially built circuits.
28845 - Only warn once per nickname from add_nickname_list_to_smartlist
28846 per failure, so an entrynode or exitnode choice that's down won't
28848 - Put a note in the torrc about abuse potential with the default
28850 - Revise control spec and implementation to allow all log messages to
28851 be sent to controller with their severities intact (suggested by
28852 Matt Edman). Update TorControl to handle new log event types.
28853 - Provide better explanation messages when controller's POSTDESCRIPTOR
28855 - Stop putting nodename in the Platform string in server descriptors.
28856 It doesn't actually help, and it is confusing/upsetting some people.
28858 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.2-rc:
28859 - We were printing the host mask wrong in exit policies in server
28860 descriptors. This isn't a critical bug though, since we were still
28861 obeying the exit policy internally.
28862 - Fix Tor when compiled with libevent but without pthreads: move
28863 connection_unregister() from _connection_free() to
28865 - Fix an assert trigger (already fixed in 0.0.9.x): when we have
28866 the rare mysterious case of accepting a conn on 0.0.0.0:0, then
28867 when we look through the connection array, we'll find any of the
28868 cpu/dnsworkers. This is no good.
28870 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.8:
28871 - Fix possible bug on threading platforms (e.g. win32) which was
28872 leaking a file descriptor whenever a cpuworker or dnsworker died.
28873 - When using preferred entry or exit nodes, ignore whether the
28874 circuit wants uptime or capacity. They asked for the nodes, they
28876 - chdir() to your datadirectory at the *end* of the daemonize process,
28877 not the beginning. This was a problem because the first time you
28878 run tor, if your datadir isn't there, and you have runasdaemon set
28879 to 1, it will try to chdir to it before it tries to create it. Oops.
28880 - Handle changed router status correctly when dirserver reloads
28881 fingerprint file. We used to be dropping all unverified descriptors
28882 right then. The bug was hidden because we would immediately
28883 fetch a directory from another dirserver, which would include the
28884 descriptors we just dropped.
28885 - When we're connecting to an OR and he's got a different nickname/key
28886 than we were expecting, only complain loudly if we're an OP or a
28887 dirserver. Complaining loudly to the OR admins just confuses them.
28888 - Tie MAX_DIR_SIZE to MAX_BUF_SIZE, so now directory sizes won't get
28889 artificially capped at 500kB.
28892 Changes in version 0.0.9.8 - 2005-04-07
28893 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
28894 - We have a bug that I haven't found yet. Sometimes, very rarely,
28895 cpuworkers get stuck in the 'busy' state, even though the cpuworker
28896 thinks of itself as idle. This meant that no new circuits ever got
28897 established. Here's a workaround to kill any cpuworker that's been
28898 busy for more than 100 seconds.
28901 Changes in version 0.1.0.2-rc - 2005-04-01
28902 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.1-rc:
28903 - Fixes on reachability detection:
28904 - Don't check for reachability while hibernating.
28905 - If ORPort is reachable but DirPort isn't, still publish the
28906 descriptor, but zero out DirPort until it's found reachable.
28907 - When building testing circs for ORPort testing, use only
28908 high-bandwidth nodes, so fewer circuits fail.
28909 - Complain about unreachable ORPort separately from unreachable
28910 DirPort, so the user knows what's going on.
28911 - Make sure we only conclude ORPort reachability if we didn't
28912 initiate the conn. Otherwise we could falsely conclude that
28913 we're reachable just because we connected to the guy earlier
28914 and he used that same pipe to extend to us.
28915 - Authdirservers shouldn't do ORPort reachability detection,
28916 since they're in clique mode, so it will be rare to find a
28917 server not already connected to them.
28918 - When building testing circuits, always pick middle hops running
28919 Tor 0.0.9.7, so we avoid the "can't extend to unknown routers"
28920 bug. (This is a kludge; it will go away when 0.0.9.x becomes
28922 - When we decide we're reachable, actually publish our descriptor
28924 - Fix bug in redirectstream in the controller.
28925 - Fix the state descriptor strings so logs don't claim edge streams
28926 are in a different state than they actually are.
28927 - Use recent libevent features when possible (this only really affects
28928 win32 and osx right now, because the new libevent with these
28929 features hasn't been released yet). Add code to suppress spurious
28931 - Prevent possible segfault in connection_close_unattached_ap().
28932 - Fix newlines on torrc in win32.
28933 - Improve error msgs when tor-resolve fails.
28935 o Improvements on 0.0.9.x:
28936 - New experimental script tor/contrib/ExerciseServer.py (needs more
28937 work) that uses the controller interface to build circuits and
28938 fetch pages over them. This will help us bootstrap servers that
28939 have lots of capacity but haven't noticed it yet.
28940 - New experimental script tor/contrib/PathDemo.py (needs more work)
28941 that uses the controller interface to let you choose whole paths
28943 "<hostname>.<path,separated by dots>.<length of path>.path"
28944 - When we've connected to an OR and handshaked but didn't like
28945 the result, we were closing the conn without sending destroy
28946 cells back for pending circuits. Now send those destroys.
28949 Changes in version 0.0.9.7 - 2005-04-01
28950 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
28951 - Fix another race crash bug (thanks to Glenn Fink for reporting).
28952 - Compare identity to identity, not to nickname, when extending to
28953 a router not already in the directory. This was preventing us from
28954 extending to unknown routers. Oops.
28955 - Make sure to create OS X Tor user in <500 range, so we aren't
28956 creating actual system users.
28957 - Note where connection-that-hasn't-sent-end was marked, and fix
28958 a few really loud instances of this harmless bug (it's fixed more
28962 Changes in version 0.1.0.1-rc - 2005-03-28
28964 - Add reachability testing. Your Tor server will automatically try
28965 to see if its ORPort and DirPort are reachable from the outside,
28966 and it won't upload its descriptor until it decides they are.
28967 - Handle unavailable hidden services better. Handle slow or busy
28968 hidden services better.
28969 - Add support for CONNECTing through https proxies, with "HttpsProxy"
28971 - New exit policy: accept most low-numbered ports, rather than
28972 rejecting most low-numbered ports.
28973 - More Tor controller support (still experimental). See
28974 http://tor.eff.org/doc/control-spec.txt for all the new features,
28975 including signals to emulate unix signals from any platform;
28976 redirectstream; extendcircuit; mapaddress; getinfo; postdescriptor;
28977 closestream; closecircuit; etc.
28978 - Make nt services work and start on startup on win32 (based on
28979 patch by Matt Edman).
28980 - Add a new AddressMap config directive to rewrite incoming socks
28981 addresses. This lets you, for example, declare an implicit
28982 required exit node for certain sites.
28983 - Add a new TrackHostExits config directive to trigger addressmaps
28984 for certain incoming socks addresses -- for sites that break when
28985 your exit keeps changing (based on patch by Mike Perry).
28986 - Redo the client-side dns cache so it's just an addressmap too.
28987 - Notice when our IP changes, and reset stats/uptime/reachability.
28988 - When an application is using socks5, give him the whole variety of
28989 potential socks5 responses (connect refused, host unreachable, etc),
28990 rather than just "success" or "failure".
28991 - A more sane version numbering system. See
28992 http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/version-spec.txt for details.
28993 - New contributed script "exitlist": a simple python script to
28994 parse directories and find Tor nodes that exit to listed
28996 - New contributed script "privoxy-tor-toggle" to toggle whether
28997 Privoxy uses Tor. Seems to be configured for Debian by default.
28998 - Report HTTP reasons to client when getting a response from directory
28999 servers -- so you can actually know what went wrong.
29000 - New config option MaxAdvertisedBandwidth which lets you advertise
29001 a low bandwidthrate (to not attract as many circuits) while still
29002 allowing a higher bandwidthrate in reality.
29004 o Robustness/stability fixes:
29005 - Make Tor use Niels Provos's libevent instead of its current
29006 poll-but-sometimes-select mess. This will let us use faster async
29007 cores (like epoll, kpoll, and /dev/poll), and hopefully work better
29009 - pthread support now too. This was forced because when we forked,
29010 we ended up wasting a lot of duplicate ram over time. Also switch
29011 to foo_r versions of some library calls to allow reentry and
29013 - Better handling for heterogeneous / unreliable nodes:
29014 - Annotate circuits w/ whether they aim to contain high uptime nodes
29015 and/or high capacity nodes. When building circuits, choose
29017 - This means that every single node in an intro rend circuit,
29018 not just the last one, will have a minimum uptime.
29019 - New config option LongLivedPorts to indicate application streams
29020 that will want high uptime circuits.
29021 - Servers reset uptime when a dir fetch entirely fails. This
29022 hopefully reflects stability of the server's network connectivity.
29023 - If somebody starts his tor server in Jan 2004 and then fixes his
29024 clock, don't make his published uptime be a year.
29025 - Reset published uptime when you wake up from hibernation.
29026 - Introduce a notion of 'internal' circs, which are chosen without
29027 regard to the exit policy of the last hop. Intro and rendezvous
29028 circs must be internal circs, to avoid leaking information. Resolve
29029 and connect streams can use internal circs if they want.
29030 - New circuit pooling algorithm: make sure to have enough circs around
29031 to satisfy any predicted ports, and also make sure to have 2 internal
29032 circs around if we've required internal circs lately (and with high
29033 uptime if we've seen that lately too).
29034 - Split NewCircuitPeriod option into NewCircuitPeriod (30 secs),
29035 which describes how often we retry making new circuits if current
29036 ones are dirty, and MaxCircuitDirtiness (10 mins), which describes
29037 how long we're willing to make use of an already-dirty circuit.
29038 - Cannibalize GENERAL circs to be C_REND, C_INTRO, S_INTRO, and S_REND
29039 circ as necessary, if there are any completed ones lying around
29040 when we try to launch one.
29041 - Make hidden services try to establish a rendezvous for 30 seconds,
29042 rather than for n (where n=3) attempts to build a circuit.
29043 - Change SHUTDOWN_WAIT_LENGTH from a fixed 30 secs to a config option
29044 "ShutdownWaitLength".
29045 - Try to be more zealous about calling connection_edge_end when
29046 things go bad with edge conns in connection.c.
29047 - Revise tor-spec to add more/better stream end reasons.
29048 - Revise all calls to connection_edge_end to avoid sending "misc",
29049 and to take errno into account where possible.
29052 - Fix a race condition that can trigger an assert, when we have a
29053 pending create cell and an OR connection fails right then.
29054 - Fix several double-mark-for-close bugs, e.g. where we were finding
29055 a conn for a cell even if that conn is already marked for close.
29056 - Make sequence of log messages when starting on win32 with no config
29057 file more reasonable.
29058 - When choosing an exit node for a new non-internal circ, don't take
29059 into account whether it'll be useful for any pending x.onion
29060 addresses -- it won't.
29061 - Turn addr_policy_compare from a tristate to a quadstate; this should
29062 help address our "Ah, you allow 1.2.3.4:80. You are a good choice
29063 for google.com" problem.
29064 - Make "platform" string in descriptor more accurate for Win32 servers,
29065 so it's not just "unknown platform".
29066 - Fix an edge case in parsing config options (thanks weasel).
29067 If they say "--" on the commandline, it's not an option.
29068 - Reject odd-looking addresses at the client (e.g. addresses that
29069 contain a colon), rather than having the server drop them because
29071 - tor-resolve requests were ignoring .exit if there was a working circuit
29072 they could use instead.
29073 - REUSEADDR on normal platforms means you can rebind to the port
29074 right after somebody else has let it go. But REUSEADDR on win32
29075 means to let you bind to the port _even when somebody else
29076 already has it bound_! So, don't do that on Win32.
29077 - Change version parsing logic: a version is "obsolete" if it is not
29078 recommended and (1) there is a newer recommended version in the
29079 same series, or (2) there are no recommended versions in the same
29080 series, but there are some recommended versions in a newer series.
29081 A version is "new" if it is newer than any recommended version in
29083 - Stop most cases of hanging up on a socks connection without sending
29087 - Require BandwidthRate to be at least 20kB/s for servers.
29088 - When a dirserver causes you to give a warn, mention which dirserver
29090 - New config option DirAllowPrivateAddresses for authdirservers.
29091 Now by default they refuse router descriptors that have non-IP or
29092 private-IP addresses.
29093 - Stop publishing socksport in the directory, since it's not
29094 actually meant to be public. For compatibility, publish a 0 there
29096 - Change DirFetchPeriod/StatusFetchPeriod to have a special "Be
29097 smart" value, that is low for servers and high for clients.
29098 - If our clock jumps forward by 100 seconds or more, assume something
29099 has gone wrong with our network and abandon all not-yet-used circs.
29100 - Warn when exit policy implicitly allows local addresses.
29101 - If we get an incredibly skewed timestamp from a dirserver mirror
29102 that isn't a verified OR, don't warn -- it's probably him that's
29104 - Since we ship our own Privoxy on OS X, tweak it so it doesn't write
29105 cookies to disk and doesn't log each web request to disk. (Thanks
29106 to Brett Carrington for pointing this out.)
29107 - When a client asks us for a dir mirror and we don't have one,
29108 launch an attempt to get a fresh one.
29109 - If we're hibernating and we get a SIGINT, exit immediately.
29110 - Add --with-dmalloc ./configure option, to track memory leaks.
29111 - And try to free all memory on closing, so we can detect what
29113 - Cache local dns resolves correctly even when they're .exit
29115 - Give a better warning when some other server advertises an
29116 ORPort that is actually an apache running ssl.
29117 - Add "opt hibernating 1" to server descriptor to make it clearer
29118 whether the server is hibernating.
29121 Changes in version 0.0.9.6 - 2005-03-24
29122 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (crashes and asserts):
29123 - Add new end stream reasons to maintenance branch. Fix bug where
29124 reason (8) could trigger an assert. Prevent bug from recurring.
29125 - Apparently win32 stat wants paths to not end with a slash.
29126 - Fix assert triggers in assert_cpath_layer_ok(), where we were
29127 blowing away the circuit that conn->cpath_layer points to, then
29128 checking to see if the circ is well-formed. Backport check to make
29129 sure we dont use the cpath on a closed connection.
29130 - Prevent circuit_resume_edge_reading_helper() from trying to package
29131 inbufs for marked-for-close streams.
29132 - Don't crash on hup if your options->address has become unresolvable.
29133 - Some systems (like OS X) sometimes accept() a connection and tell
29134 you the remote host is 0.0.0.0:0. If this happens, due to some
29135 other mis-features, we get confused; so refuse the conn for now.
29137 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (other):
29138 - Fix harmless but scary "Unrecognized content encoding" warn message.
29139 - Add new stream error reason: TORPROTOCOL reason means "you are not
29140 speaking a version of Tor I understand; say bye-bye to your stream."
29141 - Be willing to cache directories from up to ROUTER_MAX_AGE seconds
29142 into the future, now that we are more tolerant of skew. This
29143 resolves a bug where a Tor server would refuse to cache a directory
29144 because all the directories it gets are too far in the future;
29145 yet the Tor server never logs any complaints about clock skew.
29146 - Mac packaging magic: make man pages useable, and do not overwrite
29147 existing torrc files.
29148 - Make OS X log happily to /var/log/tor/tor.log
29151 Changes in version 0.0.9.5 - 2005-02-22
29152 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
29153 - Fix an assert race at exit nodes when resolve requests fail.
29154 - Stop picking unverified dir mirrors--it only leads to misery.
29155 - Patch from Matt Edman to make NT services work better. Service
29156 support is still not compiled into the executable by default.
29157 - Patch from Dmitri Bely so the Tor service runs better under
29158 the win32 SYSTEM account.
29159 - Make tor-resolve actually work (?) on Win32.
29160 - Fix a sign bug when getrlimit claims to have 4+ billion
29161 file descriptors available.
29162 - Stop refusing to start when bandwidthburst == bandwidthrate.
29163 - When create cells have been on the onion queue more than five
29164 seconds, just send back a destroy and take them off the list.
29167 Changes in version 0.0.9.4 - 2005-02-03
29168 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
29169 - Fix an assert bug that took down most of our servers: when
29170 a server claims to have 1 GB of bandwidthburst, don't
29172 - Don't crash as badly if we have spawned the max allowed number
29173 of dnsworkers, or we're out of file descriptors.
29174 - Block more file-sharing ports in the default exit policy.
29175 - MaxConn is now automatically set to the hard limit of max
29176 file descriptors we're allowed (ulimit -n), minus a few for
29178 - Give a clearer message when servers need to raise their
29179 ulimit -n when they start running out of file descriptors.
29180 - SGI Compatibility patches from Jan Schaumann.
29181 - Tolerate a corrupt cached directory better.
29182 - When a dirserver hasn't approved your server, list which one.
29183 - Go into soft hibernation after 95% of the bandwidth is used,
29184 not 99%. This is especially important for daily hibernators who
29185 have a small accounting max. Hopefully it will result in fewer
29186 cut connections when the hard hibernation starts.
29187 - Load-balance better when using servers that claim more than
29188 800kB/s of capacity.
29189 - Make NT services work (experimental, only used if compiled in).
29192 Changes in version 0.0.9.3 - 2005-01-21
29193 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
29194 - Backport the cpu use fixes from main branch, so busy servers won't
29195 need as much processor time.
29196 - Work better when we go offline and then come back, or when we
29197 run Tor at boot before the network is up. We do this by
29198 optimistically trying to fetch a new directory whenever an
29199 application request comes in and we think we're offline -- the
29200 human is hopefully a good measure of when the network is back.
29201 - Backport some minimal hidserv bugfixes: keep rend circuits open as
29202 long as you keep using them; actually publish hidserv descriptors
29203 shortly after they change, rather than waiting 20-40 minutes.
29204 - Enable Mac startup script by default.
29205 - Fix duplicate dns_cancel_pending_resolve reported by Giorgos Pallas.
29206 - When you update AllowUnverifiedNodes or FirewallPorts via the
29207 controller's setconf feature, we were always appending, never
29209 - When you update HiddenServiceDir via setconf, it was screwing up
29210 the order of reading the lines, making it fail.
29211 - Do not rewrite a cached directory back to the cache; otherwise we
29212 will think it is recent and not fetch a newer one on startup.
29213 - Workaround for webservers that lie about Content-Encoding: Tor
29214 now tries to autodetect compressed directories and compression
29215 itself. This lets us Proxypass dir fetches through apache.
29218 Changes in version 0.0.9.2 - 2005-01-04
29219 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (crashes and asserts):
29220 - Fix an assert on startup when the disk is full and you're logging
29222 - If you do socks4 with an IP of 0.0.0.x but *don't* provide a socks4a
29223 style address, then we'd crash.
29224 - Fix an assert trigger when the running-routers string we get from
29225 a dirserver is broken.
29226 - Make worker threads start and run on win32. Now win32 servers
29228 - Bandaid (not actually fix, but now it doesn't crash) an assert
29229 where the dns worker dies mysteriously and the main Tor process
29230 doesn't remember anything about the address it was resolving.
29232 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (Win32):
29233 - Workaround for brain-damaged __FILE__ handling on MSVC: keep Nick's
29234 name out of the warning/assert messages.
29235 - Fix a superficial "unhandled error on read" bug on win32.
29236 - The win32 installer no longer requires a click-through for our
29237 license, since our Free Software license grants rights but does not
29239 - Win32: When connecting to a dirserver fails, try another one
29240 immediately. (This was already working for non-win32 Tors.)
29241 - Stop trying to parse $HOME on win32 when hunting for default
29243 - Make tor-resolve.c work on win32 by calling network_init().
29245 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (other):
29246 - Make 0.0.9.x build on Solaris again.
29247 - Due to a fencepost error, we were blowing away the \n when reporting
29248 confvalue items in the controller. So asking for multiple config
29249 values at once couldn't work.
29250 - When listing circuits that are pending on an opening OR connection,
29251 if we're an OR we were listing circuits that *end* at us as
29252 being pending on every listener, dns/cpu worker, etc. Stop that.
29253 - Dirservers were failing to create 'running-routers' or 'directory'
29254 strings if we had more than some threshold of routers. Fix them so
29255 they can handle any number of routers.
29256 - Fix a superficial "Duplicate mark for close" bug.
29257 - Stop checking for clock skew for OR connections, even for servers.
29258 - Fix a fencepost error that was chopping off the last letter of any
29259 nickname that is the maximum allowed nickname length.
29260 - Update URLs in log messages so they point to the new website.
29261 - Fix a potential problem in mangling server private keys while
29262 writing to disk (not triggered yet, as far as we know).
29263 - Include the licenses for other free software we include in Tor,
29264 now that we're shipping binary distributions more regularly.
29267 Changes in version 0.0.9.1 - 2004-12-15
29268 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
29269 - Make hibernation actually work.
29270 - Make HashedControlPassword config option work.
29271 - When we're reporting event circuit status to a controller,
29272 don't use the stream status code.
29275 Changes in version 0.0.9 - 2004-12-12
29277 - Clean up manpage and torrc.sample file.
29278 - Clean up severities and text of log warnings.
29280 - Make servers trigger an assert when they enter hibernation.
29283 Changes in version 0.0.9rc7 - 2004-12-08
29284 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc:
29285 - Fix a stack-trashing crash when an exit node begins hibernating.
29286 - Avoid looking at unallocated memory while considering which
29287 ports we need to build circuits to cover.
29288 - Stop a sigpipe: when an 'end' cell races with eof from the app,
29289 we shouldn't hold-open-until-flush if the eof arrived first.
29290 - Fix a bug with init_cookie_authentication() in the controller.
29291 - When recommending new-format log lines, if the upper bound is
29292 LOG_ERR, leave it implicit.
29294 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
29295 - Fix a whole slew of memory leaks.
29296 - Fix isspace() and friends so they still make Solaris happy
29297 but also so they don't trigger asserts on win32.
29298 - Fix parse_iso_time on platforms without strptime (eg win32).
29299 - win32: tolerate extra "readable" events better.
29300 - win32: when being multithreaded, leave parent fdarray open.
29301 - Make unit tests work on win32.
29304 Changes in version 0.0.9rc6 - 2004-12-06
29305 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
29306 - Clean up some more integer underflow opportunities (not exploitable
29308 - While hibernating, hup should not regrow our listeners.
29309 - Send an end to the streams we close when we hibernate, rather
29310 than just chopping them off.
29311 - React to eof immediately on non-open edge connections.
29313 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
29314 - Calculate timeout for waiting for a connected cell from the time
29315 we sent the begin cell, not from the time the stream started. If
29316 it took a long time to establish the circuit, we would time out
29317 right after sending the begin cell.
29318 - Fix router_compare_addr_to_addr_policy: it was not treating a port
29319 of * as always matching, so we were picking reject *:* nodes as
29320 exit nodes too. Oops.
29323 - New circuit building strategy: keep a list of ports that we've
29324 used in the past 6 hours, and always try to have 2 circuits open
29325 or on the way that will handle each such port. Seed us with port
29326 80 so web users won't complain that Tor is "slow to start up".
29327 - Make kill -USR1 dump more useful stats about circuits.
29328 - When warning about retrying or giving up, print the address, so
29329 the user knows which one it's talking about.
29330 - If you haven't used a clean circuit in an hour, throw it away,
29331 just to be on the safe side. (This means after 6 hours a totally
29332 unused Tor client will have no circuits open.)
29335 Changes in version 0.0.9rc5 - 2004-12-01
29336 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
29337 - Disallow NDEBUG. We don't ever want anybody to turn off debug.
29338 - Let resolve conns retry/expire also, rather than sticking around
29340 - If we are using select, make sure we stay within FD_SETSIZE.
29342 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
29343 - Fix integer underflow in tor_vsnprintf() that may be exploitable,
29344 but doesn't seem to be currently; thanks to Ilja van Sprundel for
29346 - If anybody set DirFetchPostPeriod, give them StatusFetchPeriod
29347 instead. Impose minima and maxima for all *Period options; impose
29348 even tighter maxima for fetching if we are a caching dirserver.
29349 Clip rather than rejecting.
29350 - Fetch cached running-routers from servers that serve it (that is,
29351 authdirservers and servers running 0.0.9rc5-cvs or later.)
29354 - Accept *:706 (silc) in default exit policy.
29355 - Implement new versioning format for post 0.1.
29356 - Support "foo.nickname.exit" addresses, to let Alice request the
29357 address "foo" as viewed by exit node "nickname". Based on a patch
29359 - Make tor --version --version dump the cvs Id of every file.
29362 Changes in version 0.0.9rc4 - 2004-11-28
29363 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
29364 - Make windows sockets actually non-blocking (oops), and handle
29365 win32 socket errors better.
29367 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
29368 - Actually catch the -USR2 signal.
29371 Changes in version 0.0.9rc3 - 2004-11-25
29372 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
29373 - Flush the log file descriptor after we print "Tor opening log file",
29374 so we don't see those messages days later.
29376 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
29377 - Make tor-resolve work again.
29378 - Avoid infinite loop in tor-resolve if tor hangs up on it.
29379 - Fix an assert trigger for clients/servers handling resolves.
29382 Changes in version 0.0.9rc2 - 2004-11-24
29383 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
29384 - I broke socks5 support while fixing the eof bug.
29385 - Allow unitless bandwidths and intervals; they default to bytes
29387 - New servers don't start out hibernating; they are active until
29388 they run out of bytes, so they have a better estimate of how
29389 long it takes, and so their operators can know they're working.
29392 Changes in version 0.0.9rc1 - 2004-11-23
29393 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
29394 - Finally fix a bug that's been plaguing us for a year:
29395 With high load, circuit package window was reaching 0. Whenever
29396 we got a circuit-level sendme, we were reading a lot on each
29397 socket, but only writing out a bit. So we would eventually reach
29398 eof. This would be noticed and acted on even when there were still
29399 bytes sitting in the inbuf.
29400 - When poll() is interrupted, we shouldn't believe the revents values.
29402 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre6:
29403 - Fix hibernate bug that caused pre6 to be broken.
29404 - Don't keep rephist info for routers that haven't had activity for
29405 24 hours. (This matters now that clients have keys, since we track
29407 - Never call close_temp_logs while validating log options.
29408 - Fix backslash-escaping on tor.sh.in and torctl.in.
29411 - Implement weekly/monthly/daily accounting: now you specify your
29412 hibernation properties by
29413 AccountingMax N bytes|KB|MB|GB|TB
29414 AccountingStart day|week|month [day] HH:MM
29415 Defaults to "month 1 0:00".
29416 - Let bandwidth and interval config options be specified as 5 bytes,
29417 kb, kilobytes, etc; and as seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks.
29418 - kill -USR2 now moves all logs to loglevel debug (kill -HUP to
29419 get back to normal.)
29420 - If your requested entry or exit node has advertised bandwidth 0,
29422 - Be more greedy about filling up relay cells -- we try reading again
29423 once we've processed the stuff we read, in case enough has arrived
29424 to fill the last cell completely.
29425 - Apply NT service patch from Osamu Fujino. Still needs more work.
29428 Changes in version 0.0.9pre6 - 2004-11-15
29429 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
29430 - Fix assert failure on malformed socks4a requests.
29431 - Use identity comparison, not nickname comparison, to choose which
29432 half of circuit-ID-space each side gets to use. This is needed
29433 because sometimes we think of a router as a nickname, and sometimes
29434 as a hex ID, and we can't predict what the other side will do.
29435 - Catch and ignore SIGXFSZ signals when log files exceed 2GB; our
29436 write() call will fail and we handle it there.
29437 - Add a FAST_SMARTLIST define to optionally inline smartlist_get
29438 and smartlist_len, which are two major profiling offenders.
29440 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre5:
29441 - Fix a bug in read_all that was corrupting config files on windows.
29442 - When we're raising the max number of open file descriptors to
29443 'unlimited', don't log that we just raised it to '-1'.
29444 - Include event code with events, as required by control-spec.txt.
29445 - Don't give a fingerprint when clients do --list-fingerprint:
29446 it's misleading, because it will never be the same again.
29447 - Stop using strlcpy in tor_strndup, since it was slowing us
29449 - Remove warn on startup about missing cached-directory file.
29450 - Make kill -USR1 work again.
29451 - Hibernate if we start tor during the "wait for wakeup-time" phase
29452 of an accounting interval. Log our hibernation plans better.
29453 - Authoritative dirservers now also cache their directory, so they
29454 have it on start-up.
29457 - Fetch running-routers; cache running-routers; compress
29458 running-routers; serve compressed running-routers.z
29459 - Add NSI installer script contributed by J Doe.
29460 - Commit VC6 and VC7 workspace/project files.
29461 - Commit a tor.spec for making RPM files, with help from jbash.
29462 - Add contrib/torctl.in contributed by Glenn Fink.
29463 - Implement the control-spec's SAVECONF command, to write your
29464 configuration to torrc.
29465 - Get cookie authentication for the controller closer to working.
29466 - Include control-spec.txt in the tarball.
29467 - When set_conf changes our server descriptor, upload a new copy.
29468 But don't upload it too often if there are frequent changes.
29469 - Document authentication config in man page, and document signals
29471 - Clean up confusing parts of man page and torrc.sample.
29472 - Make expand_filename handle ~ and ~username.
29473 - Use autoconf to enable largefile support where necessary. Use
29474 ftello where available, since ftell can fail at 2GB.
29475 - Distinguish between TOR_TLS_CLOSE and TOR_TLS_ERROR, so we can
29476 log more informatively.
29477 - Give a slightly more useful output for "tor -h".
29478 - Refuse application socks connections to port 0.
29479 - Check clock skew for verified servers, but allow unverified
29480 servers and clients to have any clock skew.
29481 - Break DirFetchPostPeriod into:
29482 - DirFetchPeriod for fetching full directory,
29483 - StatusFetchPeriod for fetching running-routers,
29484 - DirPostPeriod for posting server descriptor,
29485 - RendPostPeriod for posting hidden service descriptors.
29486 - Make sure the hidden service descriptors are at a random offset
29487 from each other, to hinder linkability.
29490 Changes in version 0.0.9pre5 - 2004-11-09
29491 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre4:
29492 - Fix a seg fault in unit tests (doesn't affect main program).
29493 - Fix an assert bug where a hidden service provider would fail if
29494 the first hop of his rendezvous circuit was down.
29495 - Hidden service operators now correctly handle version 1 style
29496 INTRODUCE1 cells (nobody generates them still, so not a critical
29498 - If do_hup fails, actually notice.
29499 - Handle more errnos from accept() without closing the listener.
29500 Some OpenBSD machines were closing their listeners because
29501 they ran out of file descriptors.
29502 - Send resolve cells to exit routers that are running a new
29503 enough version of the resolve code to work right.
29504 - Better handling of winsock includes on non-MSV win32 compilers.
29505 - Some people had wrapped their tor client/server in a script
29506 that would restart it whenever it died. This did not play well
29507 with our "shut down if your version is obsolete" code. Now people
29508 don't fetch a new directory if their local cached version is
29510 - Make our autogen.sh work on ksh as well as bash.
29513 - Hibernation: New config option "AccountingMaxKB" lets you
29514 set how many KBytes per month you want to allow your server to
29515 consume. Rather than spreading those bytes out evenly over the
29516 month, we instead hibernate for some of the month and pop up
29517 at a deterministic time, work until the bytes are consumed, then
29518 hibernate again. Config option "MonthlyAccountingStart" lets you
29519 specify which day of the month your billing cycle starts on.
29520 - Control interface: a separate program can now talk to your
29521 client/server over a socket, and get/set config options, receive
29522 notifications of circuits and streams starting/finishing/dying,
29523 bandwidth used, etc. The next step is to get some GUIs working.
29524 Let us know if you want to help out. See doc/control-spec.txt .
29525 - Ship a contrib/tor-control.py as an example script to interact
29526 with the control port.
29527 - "tor --hash-password zzyxz" will output a salted password for
29528 use in authenticating to the control interface.
29529 - New log format in config:
29530 "Log minsev[-maxsev] stdout|stderr|syslog" or
29531 "Log minsev[-maxsev] file /var/foo"
29534 - DirPolicy config option, to let people reject incoming addresses
29535 from their dirserver.
29536 - "tor --list-fingerprint" will list your identity key fingerprint
29538 - Add "pass" target for RedirectExit, to make it easier to break
29539 out of a sequence of RedirectExit rules.
29540 - Clients now generate a TLS cert too, in preparation for having
29541 them act more like real nodes.
29542 - Ship src/win32/ in the tarball, so people can use it to build.
29543 - Make old win32 fall back to CWD if SHGetSpecialFolderLocation
29545 - New "router-status" line in directory, to better bind each verified
29546 nickname to its identity key.
29547 - Deprecate unofficial config option abbreviations, and abbreviations
29548 not on the command line.
29549 - Add a pure-C tor-resolve implementation.
29550 - Use getrlimit and friends to ensure we can reach MaxConn (currently
29551 1024) file descriptors.
29553 o Code security improvements, inspired by Ilja:
29554 - Replace sprintf with snprintf. (I think they were all safe, but
29556 - Replace strcpy/strncpy with strlcpy in more places.
29557 - Avoid strcat; use snprintf or strlcat instead.
29558 - snprintf wrapper with consistent (though not C99) overflow behavior.
29561 Changes in version 0.0.9pre4 - 2004-10-17
29562 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre3:
29563 - If the server doesn't specify an exit policy, use the real default
29564 exit policy, not reject *:*.
29565 - Ignore fascistfirewall when uploading/downloading hidden service
29566 descriptors, since we go through Tor for those; and when using
29567 an HttpProxy, since we assume it can reach them all.
29568 - When looking for an authoritative dirserver, use only the ones
29569 configured at boot. Don't bother looking in the directory.
29570 - The rest of the fix for get_default_conf_file() on older win32.
29571 - Make 'Routerfile' config option obsolete.
29574 - New 'MyFamily nick1,...' config option for a server to
29575 specify other servers that shouldn't be used in the same circuit
29576 with it. Only believed if nick1 also specifies us.
29577 - New 'NodeFamily nick1,nick2,...' config option for a client to
29578 specify nodes that it doesn't want to use in the same circuit.
29579 - New 'Redirectexit pattern address:port' config option for a
29580 server to redirect exit connections, e.g. to a local squid.
29583 Changes in version 0.0.9pre3 - 2004-10-13
29584 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
29585 - Better torrc example lines for dirbindaddress and orbindaddress.
29586 - Improved bounds checking on parsed ints (e.g. config options and
29587 the ones we find in directories.)
29588 - Better handling of size_t vs int, so we're more robust on 64
29590 - Fix the rest of the bug where a newly started OR would appear
29591 as unverified even after we've added his fingerprint and hupped
29593 - Fix a bug from 0.0.7: when read() failed on a stream, we would
29594 close it without sending back an end. So 'connection refused'
29595 would simply be ignored and the user would get no response.
29597 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre2:
29598 - Serving the cached-on-disk directory to people is bad. We now
29599 provide no directory until we've fetched a fresh one.
29600 - Workaround for bug on windows where cached-directories get crlf
29602 - Make get_default_conf_file() work on older windows too.
29603 - If we write a *:* exit policy line in the descriptor, don't write
29604 any more exit policy lines.
29607 - Use only 0.0.9pre1 and later servers for resolve cells.
29608 - Make the dirservers file obsolete.
29609 - Include a dir-signing-key token in directories to tell the
29610 parsing entity which key is being used to sign.
29611 - Remove the built-in bulky default dirservers string.
29612 - New config option "Dirserver %s:%d [fingerprint]", which can be
29613 repeated as many times as needed. If no dirservers specified,
29614 default to moria1,moria2,tor26.
29615 - Make moria2 advertise a dirport of 80, so people behind firewalls
29616 will be able to get a directory.
29617 - Http proxy support
29618 - Dirservers translate requests for http://%s:%d/x to /x
29619 - You can specify "HttpProxy %s[:%d]" and all dir fetches will
29620 be routed through this host.
29621 - Clients ask for /tor/x rather than /x for new enough dirservers.
29622 This way we can one day coexist peacefully with apache.
29623 - Clients specify a "Host: %s%d" http header, to be compatible
29624 with more proxies, and so running squid on an exit node can work.
29627 Changes in version 0.0.8.1 - 2004-10-13
29629 - Fix a seg fault that can be triggered remotely for Tor
29630 clients/servers with an open dirport.
29631 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
29632 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
29633 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
29634 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
29635 intermittent connections.
29636 - Fix a bug in parsing opt keywords with objects.
29637 - Fix a stale pointer assert bug when a stream detaches and
29639 - Fix a string format vulnerability (probably not exploitable)
29640 in reporting stats locally.
29641 - Fix an assert trigger: sometimes launching circuits can fail
29642 immediately, e.g. because too many circuits have failed recently.
29643 - Fix a compile warning on 64 bit platforms.
29646 Changes in version 0.0.9pre2 - 2004-10-03
29648 - Make fetching a cached directory work for 64-bit platforms too.
29649 - Make zlib.h a required header, not an optional header.
29652 Changes in version 0.0.9pre1 - 2004-10-01
29654 - Stop using separate defaults for no-config-file and
29655 empty-config-file. Now you have to explicitly turn off SocksPort,
29656 if you don't want it open.
29657 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
29658 - Improve man page to mention more of the 0.0.8 features.
29659 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
29660 intermittent connections.
29661 - Change our file IO stuff (especially wrt OpenSSL) so win32 is
29663 - Fix more dns related bugs: send back resolve_failed and end cells
29664 more reliably when the resolve fails, rather than closing the
29665 circuit and then trying to send the cell. Also attach dummy resolve
29666 connections to a circuit *before* calling dns_resolve(), to fix
29667 a bug where cached answers would never be sent in RESOLVED cells.
29668 - When we run out of disk space, or other log writing error, don't
29669 crash. Just stop logging to that log and continue.
29670 - We were starting to daemonize before we opened our logs, so if
29671 there were any problems opening logs, we would complain to stderr,
29672 which wouldn't work, and then mysteriously exit.
29673 - Fix a rare bug where sometimes a verified OR would connect to us
29674 before he'd uploaded his descriptor, which would cause us to
29675 assign conn->nickname as though he's unverified. Now we look through
29676 the fingerprint list to see if he's there.
29677 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
29678 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
29681 - Clients can ask dirservers for /dir.z to get a compressed version
29682 of the directory. Only works for servers running 0.0.9, of course.
29683 - Make clients cache directories and use them to seed their router
29684 lists at startup. This means clients have a datadir again.
29685 - Configuration infrastructure support for warning on obsolete
29687 - Respond to content-encoding headers by trying to uncompress as
29689 - Reply with a deflated directory when a client asks for "dir.z".
29690 We could use allow-encodings instead, but allow-encodings isn't
29691 specified in HTTP 1.0.
29692 - Raise the max dns workers from 50 to 100.
29693 - Discourage people from setting their dirfetchpostperiod more often
29694 than once per minute.
29695 - Protect dirservers from overzealous descriptor uploading -- wait
29696 10 seconds after directory gets dirty, before regenerating.
29699 Changes in version 0.0.8 - 2004-08-25
29700 o Port it to SunOS 5.9 / Athena
29703 Changes in version 0.0.8rc2 - 2004-08-20
29704 o Make it compile on cygwin again.
29705 o When picking unverified routers, skip those with low uptime and/or
29706 low bandwidth, depending on what properties you care about.
29709 Changes in version 0.0.8rc1 - 2004-08-18
29710 o Changes from 0.0.7.3:
29712 - Fix assert triggers: if the other side returns an address 0.0.0.0,
29713 don't put it into the client dns cache.
29714 - If a begin failed due to exit policy, but we believe the IP address
29715 should have been allowed, switch that router to exitpolicy reject *:*
29716 until we get our next directory.
29718 - Clients choose nodes proportional to advertised bandwidth.
29719 - Avoid using nodes with low uptime as introduction points.
29720 - Handle servers with dynamic IP addresses: don't replace
29721 options->Address with the resolved one at startup, and
29722 detect our address right before we make a routerinfo each time.
29723 - 'FascistFirewall' option to pick dirservers and ORs on specific
29724 ports; plus 'FirewallPorts' config option to tell FascistFirewall
29725 which ports are open. (Defaults to 80,443)
29726 - Be more aggressive about trying to make circuits when the network
29727 has changed (e.g. when you unsuspend your laptop).
29728 - Check for time skew on http headers; report date in response to
29730 - If the entrynode config line has only one node, don't pick it as
29732 - Add strict{entry|exit}nodes config options. If set to 1, then
29733 we refuse to build circuits that don't include the specified entry
29735 - OutboundBindAddress config option, to bind to a specific
29736 IP address for outgoing connect()s.
29737 - End truncated log entries (e.g. directories) with "[truncated]".
29739 o Patches to 0.0.8preX:
29741 - Patches to compile and run on win32 again (maybe)?
29742 - Fix crash when looking for ~/.torrc with no $HOME set.
29743 - Fix a race bug in the unit tests.
29744 - Handle verified/unverified name collisions better when new
29745 routerinfo's arrive in a directory.
29746 - Sometimes routers were getting entered into the stats before
29747 we'd assigned their identity_digest. Oops.
29748 - Only pick and establish intro points after we've gotten a
29751 - AllowUnverifiedNodes config option to let circuits choose no-name
29752 routers in entry,middle,exit,introduction,rendezvous positions.
29753 Allow middle and rendezvous positions by default.
29754 - Add a man page for tor-resolve.
29757 Changes in version 0.0.7.3 - 2004-08-12
29758 o Stop dnsworkers from triggering an assert failure when you
29759 ask them to resolve the host "".
29762 Changes in version 0.0.8pre3 - 2004-08-09
29763 o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
29764 - Allow multiple ORs with same nickname in routerlist -- now when
29765 people give us one identity key for a nickname, then later
29766 another, we don't constantly complain until the first expires.
29767 - Remember used bandwidth (both in and out), and publish 15-minute
29768 snapshots for the past day into our descriptor.
29769 - You can now fetch $DIRURL/running-routers to get just the
29770 running-routers line, not the whole descriptor list. (But
29771 clients don't use this yet.)
29772 - When people mistakenly use Tor as an http proxy, point them
29773 at the tor-doc.html rather than the INSTALL.
29774 - Remove our mostly unused -- and broken -- hex_encode()
29775 function. Use base16_encode() instead. (Thanks to Timo Lindfors
29776 for pointing out this bug.)
29777 - Rotate onion keys every 12 hours, not every 2 hours, so we have
29778 fewer problems with people using the wrong key.
29779 - Change the default exit policy to reject the default edonkey,
29780 kazaa, gnutella ports.
29781 - Add replace_file() to util.[ch] to handle win32's rename().
29783 o Changes from 0.0.8preX:
29784 - Fix two bugs in saving onion keys to disk when rotating, so
29785 hopefully we'll get fewer people using old onion keys.
29786 - Fix an assert error that was making SocksPolicy not work.
29787 - Be willing to expire routers that have an open dirport -- it's
29788 just the authoritative dirservers we want to not forget.
29789 - Reject tor-resolve requests for .onion addresses early, so we
29790 don't build a whole rendezvous circuit and then fail.
29791 - When you're warning a server that he's unverified, don't cry
29792 wolf unpredictably.
29793 - Fix a race condition: don't try to extend onto a connection
29794 that's still handshaking.
29795 - For servers in clique mode, require the conn to be open before
29796 you'll choose it for your path.
29797 - Fix some cosmetic bugs about duplicate mark-for-close, lack of
29798 end relay cell, etc.
29799 - Measure bandwidth capacity over the last 24 hours, not just 12
29800 - Bugfix: authoritative dirservers were making and signing a new
29801 directory for each client, rather than reusing the cached one.
29804 Changes in version 0.0.8pre2 - 2004-08-04
29805 o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
29807 - Check directory signature _before_ you decide whether you're
29808 you're running an obsolete version and should exit.
29809 - Check directory signature _before_ you parse the running-routers
29810 list to decide who's running or verified.
29811 - Bugfixes and features:
29812 - Check return value of fclose while writing to disk, so we don't
29813 end up with broken files when servers run out of disk space.
29814 - Log a warning if the user uses an unsafe socks variant, so people
29815 are more likely to learn about privoxy or socat.
29816 - Dirservers now include RFC1123-style dates in the HTTP headers,
29817 which one day we will use to better detect clock skew.
29819 o Changes from 0.0.8pre1:
29820 - Make it compile without warnings again on win32.
29821 - Log a warning if you're running an unverified server, to let you
29822 know you might want to get it verified.
29823 - Only pick a default nickname if you plan to be a server.
29826 Changes in version 0.0.8pre1 - 2004-07-23
29828 - Made our unit tests compile again on OpenBSD 3.5, and tor
29829 itself compile again on OpenBSD on a sparc64.
29830 - We were neglecting milliseconds when logging on win32, so
29831 everything appeared to happen at the beginning of each second.
29833 o Protocol changes:
29834 - 'Extend' relay cell payloads now include the digest of the
29835 intended next hop's identity key. Now we can verify that we're
29836 extending to the right router, and also extend to routers we
29837 hadn't heard of before.
29840 - Tor nodes can now act as relays (with an advertised ORPort)
29841 without being manually verified by the dirserver operators.
29842 - Uploaded descriptors of unverified routers are now accepted
29843 by the dirservers, and included in the directory.
29844 - Verified routers are listed by nickname in the running-routers
29845 list; unverified routers are listed as "$<fingerprint>".
29846 - We now use hash-of-identity-key in most places rather than
29847 nickname or addr:port, for improved security/flexibility.
29848 - To avoid Sybil attacks, paths still use only verified servers.
29849 But now we have a chance to play around with hybrid approaches.
29850 - Nodes track bandwidth usage to estimate capacity (not used yet).
29851 - ClientOnly option for nodes that never want to become servers.
29852 - Directory caching.
29853 - "AuthoritativeDir 1" option for the official dirservers.
29854 - Now other nodes (clients and servers) will cache the latest
29855 directory they've pulled down.
29856 - They can enable their DirPort to serve it to others.
29857 - Clients will pull down a directory from any node with an open
29858 DirPort, and check the signature/timestamp correctly.
29859 - Authoritative dirservers now fetch directories from other
29860 authdirservers, to stay better synced.
29861 - Running-routers list tells who's down also, along with noting
29862 if they're verified (listed by nickname) or unverified (listed
29864 - Allow dirservers to serve running-router list separately.
29865 This isn't used yet.
29866 - ORs connect-on-demand to other ORs
29867 - If you get an extend cell to an OR you're not connected to,
29868 connect, handshake, and forward the create cell.
29869 - The authoritative dirservers stay connected to everybody,
29870 and everybody stays connected to 0.0.7 servers, but otherwise
29871 clients/servers expire unused connections after 5 minutes.
29872 - When servers get a sigint, they delay 30 seconds (refusing new
29873 connections) then exit. A second sigint causes immediate exit.
29874 - File and name management:
29875 - Look for .torrc if no CONFDIR "torrc" is found.
29876 - If no datadir is defined, then choose, make, and secure ~/.tor
29878 - If torrc not found, exitpolicy reject *:*.
29879 - Expands ~/ in filenames to $HOME/ (but doesn't yet expand ~arma).
29880 - If no nickname is defined, derive default from hostname.
29881 - Rename secret key files, e.g. identity.key -> secret_id_key,
29882 to discourage people from mailing their identity key to tor-ops.
29883 - Refuse to build a circuit before the directory has arrived --
29884 it won't work anyway, since you won't know the right onion keys
29886 - Try other dirservers immediately if the one you try is down. This
29887 should tolerate down dirservers better now.
29888 - Parse tor version numbers so we can do an is-newer-than check
29889 rather than an is-in-the-list check.
29890 - New socks command 'resolve', to let us shim gethostbyname()
29892 - A 'tor_resolve' script to access the socks resolve functionality.
29893 - A new socks-extensions.txt doc file to describe our
29894 interpretation and extensions to the socks protocols.
29895 - Add a ContactInfo option, which gets published in descriptor.
29896 - Publish OR uptime in descriptor (and thus in directory) too.
29897 - Write tor version at the top of each log file
29898 - New docs in the tarball:
29900 - Document that you should proxy your SSL traffic too.
29903 Changes in version 0.0.7.2 - 2004-07-07
29904 o A better fix for the 0.0.0.0 problem, that will hopefully
29905 eliminate the remaining related assertion failures.
29908 Changes in version 0.0.7.1 - 2004-07-04
29909 o When an address resolves to 0.0.0.0, treat it as a failed resolve,
29910 since internally we use 0.0.0.0 to signify "not yet resolved".
29913 Changes in version 0.0.7 - 2004-06-07
29914 o Updated the man page to reflect the new features.
29917 Changes in version 0.0.7rc2 - 2004-06-06
29918 o Changes from 0.0.7rc1:
29919 - Make it build on Win32 again.
29920 o Changes from 0.0.6.2:
29921 - Rotate dnsworkers and cpuworkers on SIGHUP, so they get new config
29925 Changes in version 0.0.7rc1 - 2004-06-02
29927 - On sighup, we were adding another log without removing the first
29928 one. So log messages would get duplicated n times for n sighups.
29929 - Several cases of using a connection after we'd freed it. The
29930 problem was that connections that are pending resolve are in both
29931 the pending_resolve tree, and also the circuit's resolving_streams
29932 list. When you want to remove one, you must remove it from both.
29933 - Fix a double-mark-for-close where an end cell arrived for a
29934 resolving stream, and then the resolve failed.
29935 - Check directory signatures based on name of signer, not on whom
29936 we got the directory from. This will let us cache directories more
29939 - Crank up some of our constants to handle more users.
29942 Changes in version 0.0.7pre1 - 2004-06-02
29943 o Fixes for crashes and other obnoxious bugs:
29944 - Fix an epipe bug: sometimes when directory connections failed
29945 to connect, we would give them a chance to flush before closing
29947 - When we detached from a circuit because of resolvefailed, we
29948 would immediately try the same circuit twice more, and then
29949 give up on the resolve thinking we'd tried three different
29951 - Limit the number of intro circuits we'll attempt to build for a
29952 hidden service per 15-minute period.
29953 - Check recommended-software string *early*, before actually parsing
29954 the directory. Thus we can detect an obsolete version and exit,
29955 even if the new directory format doesn't parse.
29956 o Fixes for security bugs:
29957 - Remember which nodes are dirservers when you startup, and if a
29958 random OR enables his dirport, don't automatically assume he's
29959 a trusted dirserver.
29961 - Directory connections were asking the wrong poll socket to
29962 start writing, and not asking themselves to start writing.
29963 - When we detached from a circuit because we sent a begin but
29964 didn't get a connected, we would use it again the first time;
29965 but after that we would correctly switch to a different one.
29966 - Stop warning when the first onion decrypt attempt fails; they
29967 will sometimes legitimately fail now that we rotate keys.
29968 - Override unaligned-access-ok check when $host_cpu is ia64 or
29969 arm. Apparently they allow it but the kernel whines.
29970 - Dirservers try to reconnect periodically too, in case connections
29972 - Fix some memory leaks in directory servers.
29973 - Allow backslash in Win32 filenames.
29974 - Made Tor build complain-free on FreeBSD, hopefully without
29975 breaking other BSD builds. We'll see.
29977 - Doxygen markup on all functions and global variables.
29978 - Make directory functions update routerlist, not replace it. So
29979 now directory disagreements are not so critical a problem.
29980 - Remove the upper limit on number of descriptors in a dirserver's
29981 directory (not that we were anywhere close).
29982 - Allow multiple logfiles at different severity ranges.
29983 - Allow *BindAddress to specify ":port" rather than setting *Port
29984 separately. Allow multiple instances of each BindAddress config
29985 option, so you can bind to multiple interfaces if you want.
29986 - Allow multiple exit policy lines, which are processed in order.
29987 Now we don't need that huge line with all the commas in it.
29988 - Enable accept/reject policies on SOCKS connections, so you can bind
29989 to 0.0.0.0 but still control who can use your OP.
29992 Changes in version 0.0.6.2 - 2004-05-16
29993 o Our integrity-checking digest was checking only the most recent cell,
29994 not the previous cells like we'd thought.
29995 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
29998 Changes in version 0.0.6.1 - 2004-05-06
29999 o Fix two bugs in our AES counter-mode implementation (this affected
30000 onion-level stream encryption, but not TLS-level). It turns
30001 out we were doing something much more akin to a 16-character
30002 polyalphabetic cipher. Oops.
30003 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
30004 o Retire moria3 as a directory server, and add tor26 as a directory
30008 Changes in version 0.0.6 - 2004-05-02
30009 [version bump only]
30012 Changes in version 0.0.6rc4 - 2004-05-01
30013 o Update the built-in dirservers list to use the new directory format
30014 o Fix a rare seg fault: if a node offering a hidden service attempts
30015 to build a circuit to Alice's rendezvous point and fails before it
30016 reaches the last hop, it retries with a different circuit, but
30018 o Handle windows socket errors correctly.
30021 Changes in version 0.0.6rc3 - 2004-04-28
30022 o Don't expire non-general excess circuits (if we had enough
30023 circuits open, we were expiring rendezvous circuits -- even
30024 when they had a stream attached. oops.)
30025 o Fetch randomness from /dev/urandom better (not via fopen/fread)
30026 o Better debugging for tls errors
30027 o Some versions of openssl have an SSL_pending function that erroneously
30028 returns bytes when there is a non-application record pending.
30029 o Set Content-Type on the directory and hidserv descriptor.
30030 o Remove IVs from cipher code, since AES-ctr has none.
30031 o Win32 fixes. Tor now compiles on win32 with no warnings/errors.
30032 o We were using an array of length zero in a few places.
30033 o win32's gethostbyname can't resolve an IP to an IP.
30034 o win32's close can't close a socket.
30037 Changes in version 0.0.6rc2 - 2004-04-26
30038 o Fix a bug where we were closing tls connections intermittently.
30039 It turns out openssl keeps its errors around -- so if an error
30040 happens, and you don't ask about it, and then another openssl
30041 operation happens and succeeds, and you ask if there was an error,
30042 it tells you about the first error. Fun fun.
30043 o Fix a bug that's been lurking since 27 may 03 (!)
30044 When passing back a destroy cell, we would use the wrong circ id.
30045 'Mostly harmless', but still worth fixing.
30046 o Since we don't support truncateds much, don't bother sending them;
30047 just close the circ.
30048 o check for <machine/limits.h> so we build on NetBSD again (I hope).
30049 o don't crash if a conn that sent a begin has suddenly lost its circuit
30050 (this was quite rare).
30053 Changes in version 0.0.6rc1 - 2004-04-25
30054 o We now rotate link (tls context) keys and onion keys.
30055 o CREATE cells now include oaep padding, so you can tell
30056 if you decrypted them correctly.
30057 o Add bandwidthburst to server descriptor.
30058 o Directories now say which dirserver signed them.
30059 o Use a tor_assert macro that logs failed assertions too.
30062 Changes in version 0.0.6pre5 - 2004-04-18
30063 o changes from 0.0.6pre4:
30064 - make tor build on broken freebsd 5.2 installs
30065 - fix a failed assert when you try an intro point, get a nack, and try
30066 a second one and it works.
30067 - when alice uses a port that the hidden service doesn't accept,
30068 it now sends back an end cell (denied by exit policy). otherwise
30069 alice would just have to wait to time out.
30070 - fix another rare bug: when we had tried all the intro
30071 points for a hidden service, we fetched the descriptor
30072 again, but we left our introcirc thinking it had already
30073 sent an intro, so it kept waiting for a response...
30074 - bugfix: when you sleep your hidden-service laptop, as soon
30075 as it wakes up it tries to upload a service descriptor, but
30076 socketpair fails for some reason (localhost not up yet?).
30077 now we simply give up on that upload, and we'll try again later.
30078 i'd still like to find the bug though.
30079 - if an intro circ waiting for an ack dies before getting one, then
30081 - we were reusing stale service descriptors and refetching usable
30085 Changes in version 0.0.6pre4 - 2004-04-14
30086 o changes from 0.0.6pre3:
30087 - when bob fails to connect to the rendezvous point, and his
30088 circ didn't fail because of the rendezvous point itself, then
30089 he retries a couple of times
30090 - we expire introduction and rendezvous circs more thoroughly
30091 (sometimes they were hanging around forever)
30092 - we expire unattached rendezvous streams that have been around
30093 too long (they were sticking around forever).
30094 - fix a measly fencepost error that was crashing everybody with
30098 Changes in version 0.0.6pre3 - 2004-04-14
30099 o changes from 0.0.6pre2:
30100 - make hup work again
30101 - fix some memory leaks for dirservers
30102 - allow more skew in rendezvous descriptor timestamps, to help
30103 handle people like blanu who don't know what time it is
30104 - normal circs are 3 hops, but some rend/intro circs are 4, if
30105 the initiator doesn't get to choose the last hop
30106 - send acks for introductions, so alice can know whether to try
30108 - bob publishes intro points more correctly
30109 o changes from 0.0.5:
30110 - fix an assert trigger that's been plaguing us since the days
30111 of 0.0.2prexx (thanks weasel!)
30112 - retry stream correctly when we fail to connect because of
30113 exit-policy-reject (should try another) or can't-resolve-address
30114 (also should try another, because dns on random internet servers
30116 - when we hup a dirserver and we've *removed* a server from the
30117 approved-routers list, now we remove that server from the
30118 in-memory directories too
30121 Changes in version 0.0.6pre2 - 2004-04-08
30122 o We fixed our base32 implementation. Now it works on all architectures.
30125 Changes in version 0.0.6pre1 - 2004-04-08
30127 - Hidden services and rendezvous points are implemented. Go to
30128 http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/ for an index of currently available
30129 hidden services. (This only works via a socks4a proxy such as
30130 Privoxy, and currently it's quite slow.)
30133 Changes in version 0.0.5 - 2004-03-30
30134 [version bump only]
30137 Changes in version 0.0.5rc3 - 2004-03-29
30138 o Install torrc as torrc.sample -- we no longer clobber your
30140 o Re-enable recommendedversion checking (we broke it in rc2, oops)
30141 o Add in a 'notice' log level for things the operator should hear
30142 but that aren't warnings
30145 Changes in version 0.0.5rc2 - 2004-03-29
30146 o Hold socks connection open until reply is flushed (if possible)
30147 o Make exit nodes resolve IPs to IPs immediately, rather than asking
30148 the dns farm to do it.
30149 o Fix c99 aliasing warnings in rephist.c
30150 o Don't include server descriptors that are older than 24 hours in the
30152 o Give socks 'reject' replies their whole 15s to attempt to flush,
30153 rather than seeing the 60s timeout and assuming the flush had failed.
30154 o Clean automake droppings from the cvs repository
30157 Changes in version 0.0.5rc1 - 2004-03-28
30158 o Fix mangled-state bug in directory fetching (was causing sigpipes).
30159 o Only build circuits after we've fetched the directory: clients were
30160 using only the directory servers before they'd fetched a directory.
30161 This also means longer startup time; so it goes.
30162 o Fix an assert trigger where an OP would fail to handshake, and we'd
30163 expect it to have a nickname.
30164 o Work around a tsocks bug: do a socks reject when AP connection dies
30165 early, else tsocks goes into an infinite loop.
30168 Changes in version 0.0.4 - 2004-03-26
30169 o When connecting to a dirserver or OR and the network is down,
30173 Changes in version 0.0.3 - 2004-03-26
30174 o Warn and fail if server chose a nickname with illegal characters
30175 o Port to Solaris and Sparc:
30176 - include missing header fcntl.h
30177 - have autoconf find -lsocket -lnsl automatically
30178 - deal with hardware word alignment
30179 - make uname() work (solaris has a different return convention)
30180 - switch from using signal() to sigaction()
30181 o Preliminary work on reputation system:
30182 - Keep statistics on success/fail of connect attempts; they're published
30183 by kill -USR1 currently.
30184 - Add a RunTesting option to try to learn link state by creating test
30185 circuits, even when SocksPort is off.
30186 - Remove unused open circuits when there are too many.
30189 Changes in version 0.0.2 - 2004-03-19
30190 - Include strlcpy and strlcat for safer string ops
30191 - define INADDR_NONE so we compile (but still not run) on solaris
30194 Changes in version 0.0.2pre27 - 2004-03-14
30196 - Allow internal tor networks (we were rejecting internal IPs,
30197 now we allow them if they're set explicitly).
30198 - And fix a few endian issues.
30201 Changes in version 0.0.2pre26 - 2004-03-14
30203 - If a stream times out after 15s without a connected cell, don't
30204 try that circuit again: try a new one.
30205 - Retry streams at most 4 times. Then give up.
30206 - When a dirserver gets a descriptor from an unknown router, it
30207 logs its fingerprint (so the dirserver operator can choose to
30208 accept it even without mail from the server operator).
30209 - Inform unapproved servers when we reject their descriptors.
30210 - Make tor build on Windows again. It works as a client, who knows
30212 - Clearer instructions in the torrc for how to set up a server.
30213 - Be more efficient about reading fd's when our global token bucket
30214 (used for rate limiting) becomes empty.
30216 - Stop asserting that computers always go forward in time. It's
30218 - When we sent a cell (e.g. destroy) and then marked an OR connection
30219 expired, we might close it before finishing a flush if the other
30220 side isn't reading right then.
30221 - Don't allow dirservers to start if they haven't defined
30222 RecommendedVersions
30223 - We were caching transient dns failures. Oops.
30224 - Prevent servers from publishing an internal IP as their address.
30225 - Address a strcat vulnerability in circuit.c
30228 Changes in version 0.0.2pre25 - 2004-03-04
30230 - Put the OR's IP in its router descriptor, not its fqdn. That way
30231 we'll stop being stalled by gethostbyname for nodes with flaky dns,
30234 - If the user typed in an address that didn't resolve, the server
30238 Changes in version 0.0.2pre24 - 2004-03-03
30240 - Fix an assertion failure in dns.c, where we were trying to dequeue
30241 a pending dns resolve even if it wasn't pending
30242 - Fix a spurious socks5 warning about still trying to write after the
30243 connection is finished.
30244 - Hold certain marked_for_close connections open until they're finished
30245 flushing, rather than losing bytes by closing them too early.
30246 - Correctly report the reason for ending a stream
30247 - Remove some duplicate calls to connection_mark_for_close
30248 - Put switch_id and start_daemon earlier in the boot sequence, so it
30249 will actually try to chdir() to options.DataDirectory
30250 - Make 'make test' exit(1) if a test fails; fix some unit tests
30251 - Make tor fail when you use a config option it doesn't know about,
30252 rather than warn and continue.
30253 - Make --version work
30254 - Bugfixes on the rpm spec file and tor.sh, so it's more up to date
30257 Changes in version 0.0.2pre23 - 2004-02-29
30259 - Print a statement when the first circ is finished, so the user
30260 knows it's working.
30261 - If a relay cell is unrecognized at the end of the circuit,
30262 send back a destroy. (So attacks to mutate cells are more
30264 - New config option 'excludenodes' to avoid certain nodes for circuits.
30265 - When it daemonizes, it chdir's to the DataDirectory rather than "/",
30266 so you can collect coredumps there.
30268 - Fix a bug in tls flushing where sometimes data got wedged and
30269 didn't flush until more data got sent. Hopefully this bug was
30270 a big factor in the random delays we were seeing.
30271 - Make 'connected' cells include the resolved IP, so the client
30272 dns cache actually gets populated.
30273 - Disallow changing from ORPort=0 to ORPort>0 on hup.
30274 - When we time-out on a stream and detach from the circuit, send an
30275 end cell down it first.
30276 - Only warn about an unknown router (in exitnodes, entrynodes,
30277 excludenodes) after we've fetched a directory.
30280 Changes in version 0.0.2pre22 - 2004-02-26
30282 - Servers publish less revealing uname information in descriptors.
30283 - More memory tracking and assertions, to crash more usefully when
30285 - If the default torrc isn't there, just use some default defaults.
30286 Plus provide an internal dirservers file if they don't have one.
30287 - When the user tries to use Tor as an http proxy, give them an http
30288 501 failure explaining that we're a socks proxy.
30289 - Dump a new router.desc on hup, to help confused people who change
30290 their exit policies and then wonder why router.desc doesn't reflect
30292 - Clean up the generic tor.sh init script that we ship with.
30294 - If the exit stream is pending on the resolve, and a destroy arrives,
30295 then the stream wasn't getting removed from the pending list. I
30296 think this was the one causing recent server crashes.
30297 - Use a more robust poll on OSX 10.3, since their poll is flaky.
30298 - When it couldn't resolve any dirservers, it was useless from then on.
30299 Now it reloads the RouterFile (or default dirservers) if it has no
30301 - Move the 'tor' binary back to /usr/local/bin/ -- it turns out
30302 many users don't even *have* a /usr/local/sbin/.
30305 Changes in version 0.0.2pre21 - 2004-02-18
30307 - There's a ChangeLog file that actually reflects the changelog.
30308 - There's a 'torify' wrapper script, with an accompanying
30309 tor-tsocks.conf, that simplifies the process of using tsocks for
30310 tor. It even has a man page.
30311 - The tor binary gets installed to sbin rather than bin now.
30312 - Retry streams where the connected cell hasn't arrived in 15 seconds
30313 - Clean up exit policy handling -- get the default out of the torrc,
30314 so we can update it without forcing each server operator to fix
30316 - Allow imaps and pop3s in default exit policy
30318 - Prevent picking middleman nodes as the last node in the circuit
30321 Changes in version 0.0.2pre20 - 2004-01-30
30323 - We now have a deb package, and it's in debian unstable. Go to
30324 it, apt-getters. :)
30325 - I've split the TotalBandwidth option into BandwidthRate (how many
30326 bytes per second you want to allow, long-term) and
30327 BandwidthBurst (how many bytes you will allow at once before the cap
30328 kicks in). This better token bucket approach lets you, say, set
30329 BandwidthRate to 10KB/s and BandwidthBurst to 10MB, allowing good
30330 performance while not exceeding your monthly bandwidth quota.
30331 - Push out a tls record's worth of data once you've got it, rather
30332 than waiting until you've read everything waiting to be read. This
30333 may improve performance by pipelining better. We'll see.
30334 - Add an AP_CONN_STATE_CONNECTING state, to allow streams to detach
30335 from failed circuits (if they haven't been connected yet) and attach
30337 - Expire old streams that haven't managed to connect. Some day we'll
30338 have them reattach to new circuits instead.
30341 - Fix several memory leaks that were causing servers to become bloated
30343 - Fix a few very rare assert triggers. A few more remain.
30344 - Setuid to User _before_ complaining about running as root.
30347 Changes in version 0.0.2pre19 - 2004-01-07
30349 - Fix deadlock condition in dns farm. We were telling a child to die by
30350 closing the parent's file descriptor to him. But newer children were
30351 inheriting the open file descriptor from the parent, and since they
30352 weren't closing it, the socket never closed, so the child never read
30353 eof, so he never knew to exit. Similarly, dns workers were holding
30354 open other sockets, leading to all sorts of chaos.
30355 - New cleaner daemon() code for forking and backgrounding.
30356 - If you log to a file, it now prints an entry at the top of the
30357 logfile so you know it's working.
30358 - The onionskin challenge length was 30 bytes longer than necessary.
30359 - Started to patch up the spec so it's not quite so out of date.
30362 Changes in version 0.0.2pre18 - 2004-01-02
30364 - Fix endian issues with the 'integrity' field in the relay header.
30365 - Fix a potential bug where connections in state
30366 AP_CONN_STATE_CIRCUIT_WAIT might unexpectedly ask to write.
30369 Changes in version 0.0.2pre17 - 2003-12-30
30371 - Made --debuglogfile (or any second log file, actually) work.
30372 - Resolved an edge case in get_unique_circ_id_by_conn where a smart
30373 adversary could force us into an infinite loop.
30376 - Each onionskin handshake now includes a hash of the computed key,
30377 to prove the server's identity and help perfect forward secrecy.
30378 - Changed cell size from 256 to 512 bytes (working toward compatibility
30380 - Changed cell length to 2 bytes, and moved it to the relay header.
30381 - Implemented end-to-end integrity checking for the payloads of
30383 - Separated streamid from 'recognized' (otherwise circuits will get
30384 messed up when we try to have streams exit from the middle). We
30385 use the integrity-checking to confirm that a cell is addressed to
30387 - Randomize the initial circid and streamid values, so an adversary who
30388 breaks into a node can't learn how many circuits or streams have
30392 Changes in version 0.0.2pre16 - 2003-12-14
30394 - Fixed a bug that made HUP trigger an assert
30395 - Fixed a bug where a circuit that immediately failed wasn't being
30396 counted as a failed circuit in counting retries.
30399 - Now we close the circuit when we get a truncated cell: otherwise we're
30400 open to an anonymity attack where a bad node in the path truncates
30401 the circuit and then we open streams at him.
30402 - Add port ranges to exit policies
30403 - Add a conservative default exit policy
30404 - Warn if you're running tor as root
30405 - on HUP, retry OR connections and close/rebind listeners
30406 - options.EntryNodes: try these nodes first when picking the first node
30407 - options.ExitNodes: if your best choices happen to include any of
30408 your preferred exit nodes, you choose among just those preferred
30410 - options.ExcludedNodes: nodes that are never picked in path building
30413 Changes in version 0.0.2pre15 - 2003-12-03
30414 o Robustness and bugfixes:
30415 - Sometimes clients would cache incorrect DNS resolves, which would
30416 really screw things up.
30417 - An OP that goes offline would slowly leak all its sockets and stop
30419 - A wide variety of bugfixes in exit node selection, exit policy
30420 handling, and processing pending streams when a new circuit is
30422 - Pick nodes for a path only from those the directory says are up
30423 - Choose randomly from all running dirservers, not always the first one
30424 - Increase allowed http header size for directory fetch.
30425 - Stop writing to stderr (if we're daemonized it will be closed).
30426 - Enable -g always, so cores will be more useful to me.
30427 - Switch "-lcrypto -lssl" to "-lssl -lcrypto" for broken distributions.
30430 - Wrote a man page. It lists commonly used options.
30433 - Change default loglevel to warn.
30434 - Make PidFile default to null rather than littering in your CWD.
30435 - OnionRouter config option is now obsolete. Instead it just checks
30437 - Moved to a single unified torrc file for both clients and servers.
30440 Changes in version 0.0.2pre14 - 2003-11-29
30441 o Robustness and bugfixes:
30442 - Force the admin to make the DataDirectory himself
30443 - to get ownership/permissions right
30444 - so clients no longer make a DataDirectory and then never use it
30445 - fix bug where a client who was offline for 45 minutes would never
30446 pull down a directory again
30447 - fix (or at least hide really well) the dns assert bug that was
30448 causing server crashes
30449 - warnings and improved robustness wrt clockskew for certs
30450 - use the native daemon(3) to daemonize, when available
30451 - exit if bind() fails
30452 - exit if neither socksport nor orport is defined
30453 - include our own tor_timegm (Win32 doesn't have its own)
30454 - bugfix for win32 with lots of connections
30455 - fix minor bias in PRNG
30456 - make dirserver more robust to corrupt cached directory
30459 - Wrote the design document (woo)
30461 o Circuit building and exit policies:
30462 - Circuits no longer try to use nodes that the directory has told them
30464 - Exit policies now support bitmasks (18.0.0.0/255.0.0.0) and
30465 bitcounts (18.0.0.0/8).
30466 - Make AP connections standby for a circuit if no suitable circuit
30467 exists, rather than failing
30468 - Circuits choose exit node based on addr/port, exit policies, and
30469 which AP connections are standing by
30470 - Bump min pathlen from 2 to 3
30471 - Relay end cells have a payload to describe why the stream ended.
30472 - If the stream failed because of exit policy, try again with a new
30474 - Clients have a dns cache to remember resolved addresses.
30475 - Notice more quickly when we have no working circuits
30478 - APPort is now called SocksPort
30479 - SocksBindAddress, ORBindAddress, DirBindAddress let you configure
30481 - RecommendedVersions is now a config variable rather than
30482 hardcoded (for dirservers)
30483 - Reloads config on HUP
30484 - Usage info on -h or --help
30485 - If you set User and Group config vars, it'll setu/gid to them.
30488 Changes in version 0.0.2pre13 - 2003-10-19
30489 o General stability:
30490 - SSL_write no longer fails when it returns WANTWRITE and the number
30491 of bytes in the buf has changed by the next SSL_write call.
30492 - Fix segfault fetching directory when network is down
30493 - Fix a variety of minor memory leaks
30494 - Dirservers reload the fingerprints file on HUP, so I don't have
30495 to take down the network when I approve a new router
30496 - Default server config file has explicit Address line to specify fqdn
30499 - Buffers grow and shrink as needed (Cut process size from 20M to 2M)
30500 - Make listener connections not ever alloc bufs
30502 o Autoconf improvements:
30503 - don't clobber an external CFLAGS in ./configure
30504 - Make install now works
30505 - create var/lib/tor on make install
30506 - autocreate a tor.sh initscript to help distribs
30507 - autocreate the torrc and sample-server-torrc with correct paths
30509 o Log files and Daemonizing now work:
30510 - If --DebugLogFile is specified, log to it at -l debug
30511 - If --LogFile is specified, use it instead of commandline
30512 - If --RunAsDaemon is set, tor forks and backgrounds on startup