1 This document summarizes new features and bugfixes in each stable
2 release of Tor. If you want to see more detailed descriptions of the
3 changes in each development snapshot, see the ChangeLog file.
5 Changes in version 0.4.5.14 - 2022-08-12
6 This version updates the geoip cache that we generate from IPFire location
7 database to use the August 9th, 2022 one. Everyone MUST update to this
8 latest release else circuit path selection and relay metrics are badly
11 o Major bugfixes (geoip data):
12 - IPFire informed us on August 12th that databases generated after
13 (including) August 10th did not have proper ARIN network allocations. We
14 are updating the database to use the one generated on August 9th, 2022.
15 Fixes bug 40658; bugfix on 0.4.5.13.
18 Changes in version 0.4.5.13 - 2022-08-11
19 This version contains two major fixes aimed at reducing memory pressure on
20 relays and possible side-channel. The rest of the fixes were backported for
21 stability or safety purposes. We strongly recommend to upgrade your relay to
22 this version or, ideally, to the latest stable of the 0.4.7.x series.
24 o Major bugfixes (relay):
25 - Remove OR connections btrack subsystem entries when the connections
26 close normally. Before this, we would only remove the entry on error and
27 thus leaking memory for each normal OR connections. Fixes bug 40604;
28 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
29 - Stop sending TRUNCATED cell and instead close the circuit from which we
30 received a DESTROY cell. This makes every relay in the circuit path to
31 stop queuing cells. Fixes bug 40623; bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc.
33 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
34 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on August 11, 2022.
36 o Minor features (geoip data):
37 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
38 retrieved on 2022/08/11.
40 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
41 - Permit the clone3 syscall, which is apparently used in glibc-2.34
42 and later. Closes ticket 40590.
44 o Minor bugfixes (controller, path bias):
45 - When a circuit's path is specified, in full or in part, from the
46 controller API, do not count that circuit towards our path-bias
47 calculations. (Doing so was incorrect, since we cannot tell
48 whether the controller is selecting relays randomly.) Resolves a
49 "Bug" warning. Fixes bug 40515; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
51 o Minor bugfixes (defense in depth):
52 - Change a test in the netflow padding code to make it more
53 _obviously_ safe against remotely triggered crashes. (It was safe
54 against these before, but not obviously so.) Fixes bug 40645;
55 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
57 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
58 - Allow the rseq system call in the sandbox. This solves a crash
59 issue with glibc 2.35 on Linux. Patch from pmu-ipf. Fixes bug
60 40601; bugfix on 0.3.5.11.
62 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port, onion service):
63 - The MetricsPort line for an onion service with multiple ports are now
64 unique that is one line per port. Before this, all ports of an onion
65 service would be on the same line which violates the Prometheus rules of
66 unique labels. Fixes bug 40581; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
68 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, client):
69 - Fix a fatal assert due to a guard subsystem recursion triggered by
70 the onion service client. Fixes bug 40579; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
72 o Minor bugfixes (performance, DoS):
73 - Fix one case of a not-especially viable denial-of-service attack
74 found by OSS-Fuzz in our consensus-diff parsing code. This attack
75 causes a lot small of memory allocations and then immediately
76 frees them: this is only slow when running with all the sanitizers
77 enabled. Fixes one case of bug 40472; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
79 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
80 - Do not propagate either forward or backward a DESTROY remote reason when
81 closing a circuit in order to avoid a possible side channel. Fixes bug
82 40649; bugfix on 0.1.2.4-alpha.
85 Changes in version 0.4.5.12 - 2022-02-04
86 This version contains mostly minor bugfixes for which you can find the
87 details below. The previous release (0.4.5.11) was suppose to update the
88 GeoIP and fallbackdir lists but a problem in our release pipeline prevented
89 those files to be updated correctly. Thus, this release regenerates up to
90 date lists. Furthermore, another fix to highlight is that relays don't
91 advertise onion service v2 support at the protocol version level.
93 o Minor feature (reproducible build):
94 - The repository can now build reproducible tarballs which adds the
95 build command "make dist-reprod" for that purpose. Closes
98 o Minor features (compilation):
99 - Give an error message if trying to build with a version of
100 LibreSSL known not to work with Tor. (There's an incompatibility
101 with LibreSSL versions 3.2.1 through 3.4.0 inclusive because of
102 their incompatibility with OpenSSL 1.1.1's TLSv1.3 APIs.) Closes
105 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
106 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on December 15, 2021.
107 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on February 04, 2022.
109 o Minor features (geoip data):
110 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
111 retrieved on 2021/12/15.
112 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
113 retrieved on 2022/02/04.
115 o Minor bugfix (logging):
116 - Update a log notice dead URL to a working one. Fixes bug 40544;
117 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
119 o Minor bugfix (relay):
120 - Remove the HSDir and HSIntro onion service v2 protocol versions so
121 relay stop advertising that they support them. Fixes bug 40509;
124 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
125 - Fix a compilation error when trying to build Tor with a compiler
126 that does not support expanding statitically initialized const
127 values in macro's. Fixes bug 40410; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha
128 - Fix our configuration logic to detect whether we had OpenSSL 3:
129 previously, our logic was reversed. This has no other effect than
130 to change whether we suppress deprecated API warnings. Fixes bug
131 40429; bugfix on 0.3.5.13.
133 o Minor bugfixes (MetricsPort, Prometheus):
134 - Add double quotes to the label values of the onion service
135 metrics. Fixes bug 40552; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
137 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
138 - Reject IPv6-only DirPorts. Our reachability self-test forces
139 DirPorts to be IPv4, but our configuration parser allowed them to
140 be IPv6-only, which led to an assertion failure. Fixes bug 40494;
141 bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
144 Changes in version 0.4.5.11 - 2021-10-26
145 The major change in this version is that v2 onion services are now
146 disabled at the client, service, and relay: any Tor nodes running this
147 version and onward will stop supporting v2 onion services. This is the
148 last step in the long deprecation process of v2 onion services.
149 Everyone running an earlier version, whether as a client, a relay, or
150 an onion service, should upgrade to Tor 0.3.5.17, 0.4.5.11,
153 o Major feature (onion service v2):
154 - See https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline for
155 details on how to transition from v2 to v3.
156 - The control port commands HSFETCH and HSPOST no longer allow
157 version 2, and it is no longer possible to create a v2 service
159 - Tor no longer allows creating v2 services, or connecting as a
160 client to a v2 service. Relays will decline to be a v2 HSDir or
161 introduction point. This effectively disables onion service
162 version 2 Tor-wide. Closes ticket 40476.
164 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.4.6.8):
165 - We now announce the URL to Tor's new bridge status at
166 https://bridges.torproject.org/ when Tor is configured to run as a
167 bridge relay. Closes ticket 30477.
169 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
170 - Regenerate fallback directories for October 2021. Closes
173 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic, backport from 0.4.6.5):
174 - Log decompression failures at a higher severity level, since they
175 can help provide missing context for other warning messages. We
176 rate-limit these messages, to avoid flooding the logs if they
177 begin to occur frequently. Closes ticket 40175.
179 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.6.8):
180 - On a testing network, relays can now use the
181 TestingMinTimeToReportBandwidth option to change the smallest
182 amount of time over which they're willing to report their observed
183 maximum bandwidth. Previously, this was fixed at 1 day. For
184 safety, values under 2 hours are only supported on testing
185 networks. Part of a fix for ticket 40337.
186 - Relays on testing networks no longer rate-limit how frequently
187 they are willing to report new bandwidth measurements. Part of a
188 fix for ticket 40337.
189 - Relays on testing networks now report their observed bandwidths
190 immediately from startup. Previously, they waited until they had
191 been running for a full day. Closes ticket 40337.
193 o Minor bugfix (CI, onion service):
194 - Exclude onion service version 2 Stem tests in our CI. Fixes bug 40500;
195 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
197 o Minor bugfix (onion service, backport from 0.4.6.8):
198 - Do not flag an HSDir as non-running in case the descriptor upload
199 or fetch fails. An onion service closes pending directory
200 connections before uploading a new descriptor which can thus lead
201 to wrongly flagging many relays and thus affecting circuit building
202 path selection. Fixes bug 40434; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
204 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.8):
205 - Fix compatibility with the most recent Libevent versions, which no
206 longer have an evdns_set_random_bytes() function. Because this
207 function has been a no-op since Libevent 2.0.4-alpha, it is safe
208 for us to just stop calling it. Fixes bug 40371; bugfix
211 o Minor bugfixes (consensus handling, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
212 - Avoid a set of bugs that could be caused by inconsistently
213 preferring an out-of-date consensus stored in a stale directory
214 cache over a more recent one stored on disk as the latest
215 consensus. Fixes bug 40375; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
217 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, TROVE-2021-008, backport from 0.4.6.8):
218 - Only log v2 access attempts once total, in order to not pollute
219 the logs with warnings and to avoid recording the times on disk
220 when v2 access was attempted. Note that the onion address was
221 _never_ logged. This counts as a Low-severity security issue.
222 Fixes bug 40474; bugfix on 0.4.5.8.
225 Changes in version 0.4.5.10 - 2021-08-16
226 This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor, including one
227 that could lead to a denial-of-service attack. Everyone running an earlier
228 version, whether as a client, a relay, or an onion service, should upgrade
229 to Tor 0.3.5.16, 0.4.5.10, or 0.4.6.7.
231 o Major bugfixes (cryptography, security):
232 - Resolve an assertion failure caused by a behavior mismatch between our
233 batch-signature verification code and our single-signature verification
234 code. This assertion failure could be triggered remotely, leading to a
235 denial of service attack. We fix this issue by disabling batch
236 verification. Fixes bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. This issue is
237 also tracked as TROVE-2021-007 and CVE-2021-38385. Found by Henry de
240 o Minor feature (fallbackdir):
241 - Regenerate fallback directories list. Closes ticket 40447.
243 o Minor features (geoip data):
244 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database,
245 as retrieved on 2021/08/12.
247 o Minor features (testing):
248 - Enable the deterministic RNG for unit tests that covers the address set
249 bloomfilter-based API's. Fixes bug 40419; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
251 o Minor bugfix (crypto):
252 - Disable the unused batch verification feature of ed25519-donna. Fixes
253 bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by Henry de Valence.
255 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.6.x):
256 - Reduce the compression level for data streaming from HIGH to LOW. Fixes
257 bug 40301; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
259 o Minor bugfixes (timekeeping, backport from 0.4.6.x):
260 - Calculate the time of day correctly on systems where the time_t
261 type includes leap seconds. (This is not the case on most
262 operating systems, but on those where it occurs, our tor_timegm
263 function did not correctly invert the system's gmtime function,
264 which could result in assertion failures when calculating
265 voting schedules.) Fixes bug 40383; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
267 o Minor bugfixes (warnings, portability, backport from 0.4.6.x):
268 - Suppress a strict-prototype warning when building with some versions
269 of NSS. Fixes bug 40409; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
272 Changes in version 0.4.5.9 - 2021-06-14
273 Tor 0.4.5.9 fixes several security issues, including a
274 denial-of-service attack against onion service clients, and another
275 denial-of-service attack against relays. Everybody should upgrade to
276 one of 0.3.5.15, 0.4.4.9, 0.4.5.9, or 0.4.6.5.
278 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.6.5):
279 - Don't allow relays to spoof RELAY_END or RELAY_RESOLVED cell on
280 half-closed streams. Previously, clients failed to validate which
281 hop sent these cells: this would allow a relay on a circuit to end
282 a stream that wasn't actually built with it. Fixes bug 40389;
283 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
284 003 and CVE-2021-34548.
286 o Major bugfixes (security, defense-in-depth, backport from 0.4.6.5):
287 - Detect more failure conditions from the OpenSSL RNG code.
288 Previously, we would detect errors from a missing RNG
289 implementation, but not failures from the RNG code itself.
290 Fortunately, it appears those failures do not happen in practice
291 when Tor is using OpenSSL's default RNG implementation. Fixes bug
292 40390; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as
293 TROVE-2021-004. Reported by Jann Horn at Google's Project Zero.
295 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.6.5):
296 - Resist a hashtable-based CPU denial-of-service attack against
297 relays. Previously we used a naive unkeyed hash function to look
298 up circuits in a circuitmux object. An attacker could exploit this
299 to construct circuits with chosen circuit IDs, to create
300 collisions and make the hash table inefficient. Now we use a
301 SipHash construction here instead. Fixes bug 40391; bugfix on
302 0.2.4.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-005 and
303 CVE-2021-34549. Reported by Jann Horn from Google's Project Zero.
304 - Fix an out-of-bounds memory access in v3 onion service descriptor
305 parsing. An attacker could exploit this bug by crafting an onion
306 service descriptor that would crash any client that tried to visit
307 it. Fixes bug 40392; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This issue is also
308 tracked as TROVE-2021-006 and CVE-2021-34550. Reported by Sergei
309 Glazunov from Google's Project Zero.
311 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
312 - Remove an assertion function related to TLS renegotiation. It was
313 used nowhere outside the unit tests, and it was breaking
314 compilation with recent alpha releases of OpenSSL 3.0.0. Closes
317 o Minor features (geoip data):
318 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
319 retrieved on 2021/06/10.
321 o Minor bugfixes (control, sandbox, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
322 - Allow the control command SAVECONF to succeed when the seccomp
323 sandbox is enabled, and make SAVECONF keep only one backup file to
324 simplify implementation. Previously SAVECONF allowed a large
325 number of backup files, which made it incompatible with the
326 sandbox. Fixes bug 40317; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch by
329 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
330 - Fix a bug that made tor try to re-bind() on an already open
331 MetricsPort every 60 seconds. Fixes bug 40370; bugfix
335 Changes in version 0.4.5.8 - 2021-05-10
336 Tor 0.4.5.8 fixes several bugs in earlier version, backporting fixes
337 from the 0.4.6.x series.
339 o Minor features (compatibility, Linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
340 - Add a workaround to enable the Linux sandbox to work correctly
341 with Glibc 2.33. This version of Glibc has started using the
342 fstatat() system call, which previously our sandbox did not allow.
343 Closes ticket 40382; see the ticket for a discussion of trade-offs.
345 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
346 - Make the autoconf script build correctly with autoconf versions
347 2.70 and later. Closes part of ticket 40335.
349 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
350 - Regenerate the list of fallback directories to contain a new set
351 of 200 relays. Closes ticket 40265.
353 o Minor features (geoip data):
354 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
355 retrieved on 2021/05/07.
357 o Minor features (onion services):
358 - Add warning message when connecting to now deprecated v2 onion
359 services. As announced, Tor 0.4.5.x is the last series that will
360 support v2 onions. Closes ticket 40373.
362 o Minor bugfixes (bridge, pluggable transport, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
363 - Fix a regression that made it impossible start Tor using a bridge
364 line with a transport name and no fingerprint. Fixes bug 40360;
365 bugfix on 0.4.5.4-rc.
367 o Minor bugfixes (build, cross-compilation, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
368 - Allow a custom "ar" for cross-compilation. Our previous build
369 script had used the $AR environment variable in most places, but
370 it missed one. Fixes bug 40369; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
372 o Minor bugfixes (channel, DoS, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
373 - Fix a non-fatal BUG() message due to a too-early free of a string,
374 when listing a client connection from the DoS defenses subsystem.
375 Fixes bug 40345; bugfix on 0.4.3.4-rc.
377 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
378 - Fix an indentation problem that led to a warning from GCC 11.1.1.
379 Fixes bug 40380; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
381 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.4.6.1-alpha):
382 - Fix a "BUG" warning that would appear when a controller chooses
383 the first hop for a circuit, and that circuit completes. Fixes bug
384 40285; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
386 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, client, memory leak, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
387 - Fix a bug where an expired cached descriptor could get overwritten
388 with a new one without freeing it, leading to a memory leak. Fixes
389 bug 40356; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
391 o Minor bugfixes (testing, BSD, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
392 - Fix pattern-matching errors when patterns expand to invalid paths
393 on BSD systems. Fixes bug 40318; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. Patch by
397 Changes in version 0.4.5.7 - 2021-03-16
398 Tor 0.4.5.7 fixes two important denial-of-service bugs in earlier
401 One of these vulnerabilities (TROVE-2021-001) would allow an attacker
402 who can send directory data to a Tor instance to force that Tor
403 instance to consume huge amounts of CPU. This is easiest to exploit
404 against authorities, since anybody can upload to them, but directory
405 caches could also exploit this vulnerability against relays or clients
406 when they download. The other vulnerability (TROVE-2021-002) only
407 affects directory authorities, and would allow an attacker to remotely
408 crash the authority with an assertion failure. Patches have already
409 been provided to the authority operators, to help ensure
412 We recommend that everybody upgrade to one of the releases that fixes
413 these issues (0.3.5.14, 0.4.4.8, or 0.4.5.7) as they become available
416 This release also updates our GeoIP data source, and fixes a few
417 smaller bugs in earlier releases.
419 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service):
420 - Disable the dump_desc() function that we used to dump unparseable
421 information to disk. It was called incorrectly in several places,
422 in a way that could lead to excessive CPU usage. Fixes bug 40286;
423 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. This bug is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
424 001 and CVE-2021-28089.
425 - Fix a bug in appending detached signatures to a pending consensus
426 document that could be used to crash a directory authority. Fixes
427 bug 40316; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2021-002
430 o Minor features (geoip data):
431 - We have switched geoip data sources. Previously we shipped IP-to-
432 country mappings from Maxmind's GeoLite2, but in 2019 they changed
433 their licensing terms, so we were unable to update them after that
434 point. We now ship geoip files based on the IPFire Location
435 Database instead. (See https://location.ipfire.org/ for more
436 information). This release updates our geoip files to match the
437 IPFire Location Database as retrieved on 2021/03/12. Closes
440 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
441 - Now that exit relays don't allow exit connections to directory
442 authority DirPorts (to prevent network reentry), disable
443 authorities' reachability self test on the DirPort. Fixes bug
444 40287; bugfix on 0.4.5.5-rc.
446 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
447 - Fix a formatting error in the documentation for
448 VirtualAddrNetworkIPv6. Fixes bug 40256; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
450 o Minor bugfixes (Linux, relay):
451 - Fix a bug in determining total available system memory that would
452 have been triggered if the format of Linux's /proc/meminfo file
453 had ever changed to include "MemTotal:" in the middle of a line.
454 Fixes bug 40315; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
456 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port):
457 - Fix a BUG() warning on the MetricsPort for an internal missing
458 handler. Fixes bug 40295; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
460 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
461 - Remove a harmless BUG() warning when reloading tor configured with
462 onion services. Fixes bug 40334; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
464 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
465 - Fix a non-portable usage of "==" with "test" in the configure
466 script. Fixes bug 40298; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
468 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
469 - Remove a spammy log notice falsely claiming that the IPv4/v6
470 address was missing. Fixes bug 40300; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
471 - Do not query the address cache early in the boot process when
472 deciding if a relay needs to fetch early directory information
473 from an authority. This bug resulted in a relay falsely believing
474 it didn't have an address and thus triggering an authority fetch
475 at each boot. Related to our fix for 40300.
477 o Removed features (mallinfo deprecated):
478 - Remove mallinfo() usage entirely. Libc 2.33+ now deprecates it.
482 Changes in version 0.4.5.6 - 2021-02-15
483 The Tor 0.4.5.x release series is dedicated to the memory of Karsten
484 Loesing (1979-2020), Tor developer, cypherpunk, husband, and father.
485 Karsten is best known for creating the Tor metrics portal and leading
486 the metrics team, but he was involved in Tor from the early days. For
487 example, while he was still a student he invented and implemented the
488 v2 onion service directory design, and he also served as an ambassador
489 to the many German researchers working in the anonymity field. We
490 loved him and respected him for his patience, his consistency, and his
491 welcoming approach to growing our community.
493 This release series introduces significant improvements in relay IPv6
494 address discovery, a new "MetricsPort" mechanism for relay operators
495 to measure performance, LTTng support, build system improvements to
496 help when using Tor as a static library, and significant bugfixes
497 related to Windows relay performance. It also includes numerous
498 smaller features and bugfixes.
500 Below are the changes since 0.4.4.7. For a list of changes since
501 0.4.5.5-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
503 o Major features (build):
504 - When building Tor, first link all object files into a single
505 static library. This may help with embedding Tor in other
506 programs. Note that most Tor functions do not constitute a part of
507 a stable or supported API: only those functions in tor_api.h
508 should be used if embedding Tor. Closes ticket 40127.
510 o Major features (metrics):
511 - Introduce a new MetricsPort which exposes, through an HTTP
512 interface, a series of metrics that tor collects at runtime. At
513 the moment, the only supported output format is Prometheus data
514 model. Closes ticket 40063. See the manual page for more
515 information and security considerations.
517 o Major features (relay, IPv6):
518 - The torrc option Address now supports IPv6. This unifies our
519 address discovery interface to support IPv4, IPv6, and hostnames.
521 - Launch IPv4 and IPv6 ORPort self-test circuits on relays and
522 bridges. Closes ticket 33222.
523 - Relays now automatically bind on IPv6 for their ORPort, unless
524 specified otherwise with the IPv4Only flag. Closes ticket 33246.
525 - When a relay with IPv6 support is told to open a connection to
526 another relay, and the extend cell lists both IPv4 and IPv6
527 addresses, the first relay now picks randomly which address to
528 use. Closes ticket 33220.
529 - Relays now track their IPv6 ORPort reachability separately from
530 the reachability of their IPv4 ORPort. They will not publish a
531 descriptor unless _both_ ports appear to be externally reachable.
534 o Major features (tracing):
535 - Add event-tracing library support for USDT and LTTng-UST, and a
536 few tracepoints in the circuit subsystem. More will come
537 incrementally. This feature is compiled out by default: it needs
538 to be enabled at configure time. See documentation in
539 doc/HACKING/Tracing.md. Closes ticket 32910.
541 o Major bugfixes (directory cache, performance, windows):
542 - Limit the number of items in the consensus diff cache to 64 on
543 Windows. We hope this will mitigate an issue where Windows relay
544 operators reported Tor using 100% CPU, while we investigate better
545 solutions. Fixes bug 24857; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
547 o Major bugfixes (relay, windows):
548 - Fix a bug in our implementation of condition variables on Windows.
549 Previously, a relay on Windows would use 100% CPU after running
550 for some time. Because of this change, Tor now require Windows
551 Vista or later to build and run. Fixes bug 30187; bugfix on
552 0.2.6.3-alpha. (This bug became more serious in 0.3.1.1-alpha with
553 the introduction of consensus diffs.) Patch by Daniel Pinto.
555 o Major bugfixes (TLS, buffer):
556 - When attempting to read N bytes on a TLS connection, really try to
557 read all N bytes. Previously, Tor would stop reading after the
558 first TLS record, which can be smaller than the N bytes requested,
559 and not check for more data until the next mainloop event. Fixes
560 bug 40006; bugfix on 0.1.0.5-rc.
562 o Minor features (address discovery):
563 - If no Address statements are found, relays now prioritize guessing
564 their address by looking at the local interface instead of the
565 local hostname. If the interface address can't be found, the local
566 hostname is used. Closes ticket 33238.
568 o Minor features (admin tools):
569 - Add a new --format argument to -key-expiration option to allow
570 specifying the time format of the expiration date. Adds Unix
571 timestamp format support. Patch by Daniel Pinto. Closes
574 o Minor features (authority, logging):
575 - Log more information for directory authority operators during the
576 consensus voting process, and while processing relay descriptors.
579 o Minor features (bootstrap reporting):
580 - When reporting bootstrapping status on a relay, do not consider
581 connections that have never been the target of an origin circuit.
582 Previously, all connection failures were treated as potential
583 bootstrapping failures, including connections that had been opened
584 because of client requests. Closes ticket 25061.
586 o Minor features (build):
587 - When running the configure script, try to detect version
588 mismatches between the OpenSSL headers and libraries, and suggest
589 that the user should try "--with-openssl-dir". Closes 40138.
590 - If the configure script has given any warnings, remind the user
591 about them at the end of the script. Related to 40138.
593 o Minor features (configuration):
594 - Allow using wildcards (* and ?) with the %include option on
595 configuration files. Closes ticket 25140. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
596 - Allow the configuration options EntryNodes, ExcludeNodes,
597 ExcludeExitNodes, ExitNodes, MiddleNodes, HSLayer2Nodes and
598 HSLayer3Nodes to be specified multiple times. Closes ticket 28361.
599 Patch by Daniel Pinto.
601 o Minor features (control port):
602 - Add a DROPTIMEOUTS command to drop circuit build timeout history
603 and reset the current timeout. Closes ticket 40002.
604 - When a stream enters the AP_CONN_STATE_CONTROLLER_WAIT status,
605 send a control port event. Closes ticket 32190. Patch by
607 - Introduce GETINFO "stats/ntor/{assigned/requested}" and
608 "stats/tap/{assigned/requested}" to get the NTor and TAP circuit
609 onion handshake counts respectively. Closes ticket 28279. Patch by
612 o Minor features (control port, IPv6):
613 - Tor relays now try to report to the controller when they are
614 launching an IPv6 self-test. Closes ticket 34068.
615 - Introduce "GETINFO address/v4" and "GETINFO address/v6" in the
616 control port to fetch the Tor host's respective IPv4 or IPv6
617 address. We keep "GETINFO address" for backwards-compatibility.
618 Closes ticket 40039. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
620 o Minor features (directory authorities):
621 - Add a new consensus method 30 that removes the unnecessary "="
622 padding from ntor-onion-key. Closes ticket 7869. Patch by
624 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors from relays running
625 Tor versions from the obsolete 0.4.1 series. Resolves ticket
626 34357. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
627 - The AssumeReachable option no longer stops directory authorities
628 from checking whether other relays are running. A new
629 AuthDirTestReachability option can be used to disable these
630 checks. Closes ticket 34445.
631 - When looking for possible Sybil attacks, also consider IPv6
632 addresses. Two routers are considered to have "the same" address
633 by this metric if they are in the same /64 network. Patch from
634 Maurice Pibouin. Closes ticket 7193.
636 o Minor features (directory authorities, IPv6):
637 - Make authorities add their IPv6 ORPort (if any) to the trusted
638 servers list. Authorities previously added only their IPv4
639 addresses. Closes ticket 32822.
641 o Minor features (documentation):
642 - Mention the "!badexit" directive that can appear in an authority's
643 approved-routers file, and update the description of the
644 "!invalid" directive. Closes ticket 40188.
646 o Minor features (ed25519, relay):
647 - Save a relay's base64-encoded ed25519 identity key to the data
648 directory in a file named fingerprint-ed25519. Closes ticket
649 30642. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
651 o Minor features (heartbeat):
652 - Include the total number of inbound and outbound IPv4 and IPv6
653 connections in the heartbeat message. Closes ticket 29113.
655 o Minor features (IPv6, ExcludeNodes):
656 - Handle IPv6 addresses in ExcludeNodes; previously they were
657 ignored. Closes ticket 34065. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
659 o Minor features (logging):
660 - Add the running glibc version to the log, and the compiled glibc
661 version to the library list returned when using --library-versions.
662 Patch from Daniel Pinto. Closes ticket 40047.
663 - Consider an HTTP 301 response to be an error (like a 404) when
664 processing a directory response. Closes ticket 40053.
665 - Log directory fetch statistics as a single line. Closes
667 - Provide more complete descriptions of our connections when logging
668 about them. Closes ticket 40041.
669 - When describing a relay in the logs, we now include its ed25519
670 identity. Closes ticket 22668.
672 o Minor features (onion services):
673 - Only overwrite an onion service's existing hostname file if its
674 contents are wrong. This enables read-only onion-service
675 directories. Resolves ticket 40062. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
677 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
678 - Add an OutboundBindAddressPT option to allow users to specify
679 which IPv4 and IPv6 address pluggable transports should use for
680 outgoing IP packets. Tor does not have a way to enforce that the
681 pluggable transport honors this option, so each pluggable transport
682 needs to implement support on its own. Closes ticket 5304.
684 o Minor features (protocol, proxy support, defense in depth):
685 - Respond more deliberately to misbehaving proxies that leave
686 leftover data on their connections, so as to make Tor even less
687 likely to allow the proxies to pass their data off as having come
688 from a relay. Closes ticket 40017.
690 o Minor features (relay address tracking):
691 - We now store relay addresses for OR connections in a more logical
692 way. Previously we would sometimes overwrite the actual address of
693 a connection with a "canonical address", and then store the "real
694 address" elsewhere to remember it. We now track the "canonical
695 address" elsewhere for the cases where we need it, and leave the
696 connection's address alone. Closes ticket 33898.
698 o Minor features (relay):
699 - If a relay is unable to discover its address, attempt to learn it
700 from the NETINFO cell. Closes ticket 40022.
701 - Log immediately when launching a relay self-check. Previously we
702 would try to log before launching checks, or approximately when we
703 intended to launch checks, but this tended to be error-prone.
706 o Minor features (relay, address discovery):
707 - If Address option is not found in torrc, attempt to learn our
708 address with the configured ORPort address if any. Closes
711 o Minor features (relay, IPv6):
712 - Add an AssumeReachableIPv6 option to disable self-checking IPv6
713 reachability. Closes part of ticket 33224.
714 - Add new "assume-reachable" and "assume-reachable-ipv6" consensus
715 parameters to be used in an emergency to tell relays that they
716 should publish even if they cannot complete their ORPort self-
717 checks. Closes ticket 34064 and part of 33224.
718 - Allow relays to send IPv6-only extend cells. Closes ticket 33222.
719 - Declare support for the Relay=3 subprotocol version. Closes
721 - When launching IPv6 ORPort self-test circuits, make sure that the
722 second-last hop can initiate an IPv6 extend. Closes ticket 33222.
724 o Minor features (safety):
725 - Log a warning at startup if Tor is built with compile-time options
726 that are likely to make it less stable or reliable. Closes
729 o Minor features (specification update):
730 - Several fields in microdescriptors, router descriptors, and
731 consensus documents that were formerly optional are now required.
732 Implements proposal 315; closes ticket 40132.
734 o Minor features (state management):
735 - When loading the state file, remove entries from the statefile
736 that have been obsolete for a long time. Ordinarily Tor preserves
737 unrecognized entries in order to keep forward-compatibility, but
738 these entries have not actually been used in any release since
739 before 0.3.5.x. Closes ticket 40137.
741 o Minor features (statistics, ipv6):
742 - Relays now publish IPv6-specific counts of single-direction versus
743 bidirectional relay connections. Closes ticket 33264.
744 - Relays now publish their IPv6 read and write statistics over time,
745 if statistics are enabled. Closes ticket 33263.
747 o Minor features (subprotocol versions):
748 - Use the new limitations on subprotocol versions due to proposal
749 318 to simplify our implementation. Part of ticket 40133.
751 o Minor features (testing configuration):
752 - The TestingTorNetwork option no longer implicitly sets
753 AssumeReachable to 1. This change allows us to test relays' self-
754 testing mechanisms, and to test authorities' relay-testing
755 functionality. Closes ticket 34446.
757 o Minor features (testing):
758 - Added unit tests for channel_matches_target_addr_for_extend().
759 Closes Ticket 33919. Patch by MrSquanchee.
761 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
762 - When circpad_send_padding_cell_for_callback is called,
763 `is_padding_timer_scheduled` flag was not reset. Now it is set to
764 0 at the top of that function. Fixes bug 32671; bugfix
766 - Add a per-circuit padding machine instance counter, so we can
767 differentiate between shutdown requests for old machines on a
768 circuit. Fixes bug 30992; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
769 - Add the ability to keep circuit padding machines if they match a
770 set of circuit states or purposes. This allows us to have machines
771 that start up under some conditions but don't shut down under
772 others. We now use this mask to avoid starting up introduction
773 circuit padding again after the machines have already completed.
774 Fixes bug 32040; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
776 o Minor bugfixes (circuit, handshake):
777 - In the v3 handshaking code, use connection_or_change_state() to
778 change the state. Previously, we changed the state directly, but
779 this did not pass the state change to the pubsub or channel
780 objects, potentially leading to bugs. Fixes bug 32880; bugfix on
781 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
783 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
784 - Change the linker flag ordering in our library search code so that
785 it works for compilers that need the libraries to be listed in the
786 right order. Fixes bug 33624; bugfix on 0.1.1.0-alpha.
787 - Fix the "--enable-static-tor" switch to properly set the "-static"
788 compile option onto the tor binary only. Fixes bug 40111; bugfix
791 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
792 - Exit Tor on a misconfiguration when the Bridge line is configured
793 to use a transport but no corresponding ClientTransportPlugin can
794 be found. Prior to this fix, Tor would attempt to connect to the
795 bridge directly without using the transport, making it easier for
796 adversaries to notice the bridge. Fixes bug 25528; bugfix
799 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
800 - Make sure we send the SOCKS request address in relay begin cells
801 when a stream is attached with the purpose
802 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_CONTROLLER. Fixes bug 33124; bugfix on 0.0.5.
803 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
805 o Minor bugfixes (crash, relay, signing key):
806 - Avoid assertion failures when we run Tor from the command line
807 with `--key-expiration sign`, but an ORPort is not set. Fixes bug
808 40015; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
810 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
811 - Avoid a spurious log message about missing subprotocol versions,
812 when the consensus that we're reading from is older than the
813 current release. Previously we had made this message nonfatal, but
814 in practice, it is never relevant when the consensus is older than
815 the current release. Fixes bug 40281; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
816 - Remove trailing whitespace from control event log messages. Fixes
817 bug 32178; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha. Based on a patch by
819 - Turn warning-level log message about SENDME failure into a debug-
820 level message. (This event can happen naturally, and is no reason
821 for concern). Fixes bug 40142; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
822 - When logging a rate-limited message about how many messages have
823 been suppressed in the last N seconds, give an accurate value for
824 N, rounded up to the nearest minute. Previously we would report
825 the size of the rate-limiting interval, regardless of when the
826 messages started to occur. Fixes bug 19431; bugfix
829 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
830 - Avoid a non-fatal assertion in certain edge-cases when
831 establishing a circuit to an onion service. Fixes bug 32666;
832 bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
834 o Minor bugfixes (rust, protocol versions):
835 - Declare support for the onion service introduction point denial of
836 service extensions when building with Rust. Fixes bug 34248;
837 bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
838 - Make Rust protocol version support checks consistent with the
839 undocumented error behavior of the corresponding C code. Fixes bug
840 34251; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
842 o Minor bugfixes (self-testing):
843 - When receiving an incoming circuit, only accept it as evidence
844 that we are reachable if the declared address of its channel is
845 the same address we think that we have. Otherwise, it could be
846 evidence that we're reachable on some other address. Fixes bug
847 20165; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
849 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance):
850 - Use the correct key type when generating signing->link
851 certificates. Fixes bug 40124; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
853 o Minor bugfixes (subprotocol versions):
854 - Consistently reject extra commas, instead of only rejecting
855 leading commas. Fixes bug 27194; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
856 - In summarize_protover_flags(), treat empty strings the same as
857 NULL. This prevents protocols_known from being set. Previously, we
858 treated empty strings as normal strings, which led to
859 protocols_known being set. Fixes bug 34232; bugfix on
860 0.3.3.2-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
862 o Code simplification and refactoring:
863 - Add and use a set of functions to perform down-casts on constant
864 connection and channel pointers. Closes ticket 40046.
865 - Refactor our code that logs descriptions of connections, channels,
866 and the peers on them, to use a single call path. This change
867 enables us to refactor the data types that they use, and eliminates
868 many confusing usages of those types. Closes ticket 40041.
869 - Refactor some common node selection code into a single function.
871 - Remove the now-redundant 'outbuf_flushlen' field from our
872 connection type. It was previously used for an older version of
873 our rate-limiting logic. Closes ticket 33097.
874 - Rename "fascist_firewall_*" identifiers to "reachable_addr_*"
875 instead, for consistency with other code. Closes ticket 18106.
876 - Rename functions about "advertised" ports which are not in fact
877 guaranteed to return the ports that have been advertised. Closes
879 - Split implementation of several command line options from
880 options_init_from_torrc into smaller isolated functions. Patch by
881 Daniel Pinto. Closes ticket 40102.
882 - When an extend cell is missing an IPv4 or IPv6 address, fill in
883 the address from the extend info. This is similar to what was done
884 in ticket 33633 for ed25519 keys. Closes ticket 33816. Patch by
887 o Deprecated features:
888 - The "non-builtin" argument to the "--dump-config" command is now
889 deprecated. When it works, it behaves the same as "short", which
890 you should use instead. Closes ticket 33398.
893 - Replace URLs from our old bugtracker so that they refer to the new
894 bugtracker and wiki. Closes ticket 40101.
897 - We no longer ship or build a "tor.service" file for use with
898 systemd. No distribution included this script unmodified, and we
899 don't have the expertise ourselves to maintain this in a way that
900 all the various systemd-based distributions can use. Closes
902 - We no longer ship support for the Android logging API. Modern
903 versions of Android can use the syslog API instead. Closes
905 - The "optimistic data" feature is now always on; there is no longer
906 an option to disable it from the torrc file or from the consensus
907 directory. Closes part of 40139.
908 - The "usecreatefast" network parameter is now removed; there is no
909 longer an option for authorities to turn it off. Closes part
913 - Add unit tests for bandwidth statistics manipulation functions.
914 Closes ticket 33812. Patch by MrSquanchee.
916 o Code simplification and refactoring (autoconf):
917 - Remove autoconf checks for unused funcs and headers. Closes ticket
918 31699; Patch by @bduszel
920 o Code simplification and refactoring (maintainer scripts):
921 - Disable by default the pre-commit hook. Use the environment
922 variable TOR_EXTRA_PRE_COMMIT_CHECKS in order to run it.
923 Furthermore, stop running practracker in the pre-commit hook and
924 make check-local. Closes ticket 40019.
926 o Code simplification and refactoring (relay address):
927 - Most of IPv4 representation was using "uint32_t". It has now been
928 moved to use the internal "tor_addr_t" interface instead. This is
929 so we can properly integrate IPv6 along IPv4 with common
930 interfaces. Closes ticket 40043.
932 o Documentation (manual page):
933 - Move them from doc/ to doc/man/. Closes ticket 40044.
934 - Describe the status of the "Sandbox" option more accurately. It is
935 no longer "experimental", but it _is_ dependent on kernel and libc
936 versions. Closes ticket 23378.
938 o Documentation (tracing):
939 - Document in depth the circuit subsystem trace events in the new
940 doc/tracing/EventsCircuit.md. Closes ticket 40036.
942 o Removed features (controller):
943 - Remove the "GETINFO network-status" controller command. It has
944 been deprecated since 0.3.1.1-alpha. Closes ticket 22473.
947 Changes in version 0.4.4.6 - 2020-11-12
948 Tor 0.4.4.6 is the second stable release in the 0.4.4.x series. It
949 backports fixes from later releases, including a fix for TROVE-2020-
950 005, a security issue that could be used, under certain cases, by an
951 adversary to observe traffic patterns on a limited number of circuits
952 intended for a different relay.
954 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
955 - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to
956 make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching
957 those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519
958 identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending
959 circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on
960 0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005.
962 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
963 - Authorities now list a different set of protocols as required and
964 recommended. These lists have been chosen so that only truly
965 recommended and/or required protocols are included, and so that
966 clients using 0.2.9 or later will continue to work (even though
967 they are not supported), whereas only relays running 0.3.5 or
968 later will meet the requirements. Closes ticket 40162.
969 - Make it possible to specify multiple ConsensusParams torrc lines.
970 Now directory authority operators can for example put the main
971 ConsensusParams config in one torrc file and then add to it from a
972 different torrc file. Closes ticket 40164.
974 o Minor features (subprotocol versions, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
975 - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63.
976 Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which
977 significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318;
980 o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
981 - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow
982 on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix
984 - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an
985 underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126;
986 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
988 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
989 - Fix compiler warnings that would occur when building with
990 "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" and "--disable-module-relay" at the
991 same time. Fixes bug 40129; bugfix on 0.4.4.1-alpha.
992 - Resolve a compilation warning that could occur in
993 test_connection.c. Fixes bug 40113; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
995 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
996 - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs.
997 Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha.
999 o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
1000 - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener
1001 connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix
1004 o Minor bugfixes (v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
1005 - For HSFETCH commands on v2 onion services addresses, check the
1006 length of bytes decoded, not the base32 length. Fixes bug 34400;
1007 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1010 Changes in version 0.4.3.7 - 2020-11-12
1011 Tor 0.4.3.7 backports several bugfixes from later releases. It
1012 includes a fix for TROVE-2020-005, a security issue that could be
1013 used, under certain cases, by an adversary to observe traffic patterns
1014 on a limited number of circuits intended for a different relay.
1016 Please be aware that support for the 0.4.3.x series will end on 15
1017 February 2021. Please upgrade to 0.4.4.x or 0.4.5.x before then, or
1018 downgrade to 0.3.5.x, which will be supported until at least 1
1021 o Major features (fallback directory list, backport form 0.4.4.3-alpha):
1022 - Replace the 148 fallback directories originally included in Tor
1023 0.4.1.4-rc (of which around 105 are still functional) with a list
1024 of 144 fallbacks generated in July 2020. Closes ticket 40061.
1026 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
1027 - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to
1028 make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching
1029 those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519
1030 identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending
1031 circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on
1032 0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005.
1034 o Major bugfixes (NSS, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
1035 - When running with NSS enabled, make sure that NSS knows to expect
1036 nonblocking sockets. Previously, we set our TCP sockets as
1037 nonblocking, but did not tell NSS, which in turn could lead to
1038 unexpected blocking behavior. Fixes bug 40035; bugfix
1041 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
1042 - Channels using obsolete versions of the Tor link protocol are no
1043 longer allowed to circumvent address-canonicity checks. (This is
1044 only a minor issue, since such channels have no way to set ed25519
1045 keys, and therefore should always be rejected for circuits that
1046 specify ed25519 identities.) Closes ticket 40081.
1048 o Minor features (subprotocol versions, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
1049 - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63.
1050 Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which
1051 significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318;
1052 closes ticket 40133.
1054 o Minor features (tests, backport from 0.4.4.5):
1055 - Our "make check" target now runs the unit tests in 8 parallel
1056 chunks. Doing this speeds up hardened CI builds by more than a
1057 factor of two. Closes ticket 40098.
1059 o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
1060 - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow
1061 on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix
1063 - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an
1064 underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126;
1065 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
1067 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, buffers, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
1068 - Fix a correctness bug that could cause an assertion failure if we
1069 ever tried using the buf_move_all() function with an empty input
1070 buffer. As far as we know, no released versions of Tor do this.
1071 Fixes bug 40076; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
1073 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
1074 - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs.
1075 Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha.
1077 o Minor bugfixes (rate limiting, bridges, pluggable transports, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
1078 - On a bridge, treat all connections from an ExtORPort as remote by
1079 default for the purposes of rate-limiting. Previously, bridges
1080 would treat the connection as local unless they explicitly
1081 received a "USERADDR" command. ExtORPort connections still count
1082 as local if there is a USERADDR command with an explicit local
1083 address. Fixes bug 33747; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
1085 o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
1086 - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener
1087 connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix
1090 o Minor bugfixes (relay, usability, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
1091 - Adjust the rules for when to warn about having too many
1092 connections to other relays. Previously we'd tolerate up to 1.5
1093 connections per relay on average. Now we tolerate more connections
1094 for directory authorities, and raise the number of total
1095 connections we need to see before we warn. Fixes bug 33880; bugfix
1098 o Minor bugfixes (tests, 0.4.4.5):
1099 - Fix the behavior of the rend_cache/clean_v2_descs_as_dir when run
1100 on its own. Previously, it would exit with an error. Fixes bug
1101 40099; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
1103 o Minor bugfixes (v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
1104 - For HSFETCH commands on v2 onion services addresses, check the
1105 length of bytes decoded, not the base32 length. Fixes bug 34400;
1106 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1108 o Minor bugfixes (windows, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
1109 - Fix a bug that prevented Tor from starting if its log file grew
1110 above 2GB. Fixes bug 31036; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
1112 o Deprecated features (onion service v2, backport form 0.4.4.2-alpha):
1113 - Add a deprecation warning for version 2 onion services. Closes
1116 o Removed features (backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
1117 - Our "check-local" test target no longer tries to use the
1118 Coccinelle semantic patching tool parse all the C files. While it
1119 is a good idea to try to make sure Coccinelle works on our C
1120 before we run a Coccinelle patch, doing so on every test run has
1121 proven to be disruptive. You can still run this tool manually with
1122 "make check-cocci". Closes ticket 40030. ticket 40030.
1125 Changes in version 0.3.5.12 - 2020-11-12
1126 Tor 0.4.3.7 backports several bugfixes from later releases. It
1127 includes a fix for TROVE-2020-005, a security issue that could be
1128 used, under certain cases, by an adversary to observe traffic patterns
1129 on a limited number of circuits intended for a different relay.
1131 o Major features (fallback directory list, backport form 0.4.4.3-alpha):
1132 - Replace the 148 fallback directories originally included in Tor
1133 0.4.1.4-rc (of which around 105 are still functional) with a list
1134 of 144 fallbacks generated in July 2020. Closes ticket 40061.
1136 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
1137 - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to
1138 make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching
1139 those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519
1140 identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending
1141 circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on
1142 0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005.
1144 o Major bugfixes (NSS, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
1145 - When running with NSS enabled, make sure that NSS knows to expect
1146 nonblocking sockets. Previously, we set our TCP sockets as
1147 nonblocking, but did not tell NSS, which in turn could lead to
1148 unexpected blocking behavior. Fixes bug 40035; bugfix
1151 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
1152 - Channels using obsolete versions of the Tor link protocol are no
1153 longer allowed to circumvent address-canonicity checks. (This is
1154 only a minor issue, since such channels have no way to set ed25519
1155 keys, and therefore should always be rejected for circuits that
1156 specify ed25519 identities.) Closes ticket 40081.
1158 o Minor features (debugging, directory system):
1159 - Don't crash when we find a non-guard with a guard-fraction value
1160 set. Instead, log a bug warning, in an attempt to figure out how
1161 this happened. Diagnostic for ticket 32868.
1163 o Minor features (subprotocol versions, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
1164 - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63.
1165 Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which
1166 significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318;
1167 closes ticket 40133.
1169 o Minor features (tests, backport from 0.4.4.5):
1170 - Our "make check" target now runs the unit tests in 8 parallel
1171 chunks. Doing this speeds up hardened CI builds by more than a
1172 factor of two. Closes ticket 40098.
1174 o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
1175 - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow
1176 on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix
1178 - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an
1179 underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126;
1180 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
1182 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, buffers, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
1183 - Fix a correctness bug that could cause an assertion failure if we
1184 ever tried using the buf_move_all() function with an empty input
1185 buffer. As far as we know, no released versions of Tor do this.
1186 Fixes bug 40076; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
1188 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
1189 - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs.
1190 Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha.
1192 o Minor bugfixes (rate limiting, bridges, pluggable transports, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
1193 - On a bridge, treat all connections from an ExtORPort as remote by
1194 default for the purposes of rate-limiting. Previously, bridges
1195 would treat the connection as local unless they explicitly
1196 received a "USERADDR" command. ExtORPort connections still count
1197 as local if there is a USERADDR command with an explicit local
1198 address. Fixes bug 33747; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
1200 o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
1201 - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener
1202 connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix
1205 o Minor bugfixes (relay, usability, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
1206 - Adjust the rules for when to warn about having too many
1207 connections to other relays. Previously we'd tolerate up to 1.5
1208 connections per relay on average. Now we tolerate more connections
1209 for directory authorities, and raise the number of total
1210 connections we need to see before we warn. Fixes bug 33880; bugfix
1213 o Minor bugfixes (relays, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
1214 - Stop advertising incorrect IPv6 ORPorts in relay and bridge
1215 descriptors, when the IPv6 port was configured as "auto". Fixes
1216 bug 32588; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
1218 o Minor bugfixes (tests, 0.4.4.5):
1219 - Fix the behavior of the rend_cache/clean_v2_descs_as_dir when run
1220 on its own. Previously, it would exit with an error. Fixes bug
1221 40099; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
1223 o Minor bugfixes (windows, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
1224 - Fix a bug that prevented Tor from starting if its log file grew
1225 above 2GB. Fixes bug 31036; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
1227 o Deprecated features (onion service v2, backport form 0.4.4.2-alpha):
1228 - Add a deprecation warning for version 2 onion services. Closes
1231 Changes in version 0.4.4.5 - 2020-09-15
1232 Tor 0.4.4.5 is the first stable release in the 0.4.4.x series. This
1233 series improves our guard selection algorithms, adds v3 onion balance
1234 support, improves the amount of code that can be disabled when running
1235 without relay support, and includes numerous small bugfixes and
1236 enhancements. It also lays the ground for some IPv6 features that
1237 we'll be developing more in the next (0.4.5) series.
1239 Per our support policy, we support each stable release series for nine
1240 months after its first stable release, or three months after the first
1241 stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. This means
1242 that 0.4.4.x will be supported until around June 2021--or later, if
1243 0.4.5.x is later than anticipated.
1245 Note also that support for 0.4.2.x has just ended; support for 0.4.3
1246 will continue until Feb 15, 2021. We still plan to continue supporting
1247 0.3.5.x, our long-term stable series, until Feb 2022.
1249 Below are the changes since 0.4.3.6-rc. For a complete list of changes
1250 since 0.4.4.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
1252 o Major features (Proposal 310, performance + security):
1253 - Implements Proposal 310, "Bandaid on guard selection". Proposal
1254 310 solves load-balancing issues with older versions of the guard
1255 selection algorithm, and improves its security. Under this new
1256 algorithm, a newly selected guard never becomes Primary unless all
1257 previously sampled guards are unreachable. Implements
1258 recommendation from 32088. (Proposal 310 is linked to the CLAPS
1259 project researching optimal client location-aware path selections.
1260 This project is a collaboration between the UCLouvain Crypto Group,
1261 the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, and Princeton University.)
1263 o Major features (fallback directory list):
1264 - Replace the 148 fallback directories originally included in Tor
1265 0.4.1.4-rc (of which around 105 are still functional) with a list
1266 of 144 fallbacks generated in July 2020. Closes ticket 40061.
1268 o Major features (IPv6, relay):
1269 - Consider IPv6-only EXTEND2 cells valid on relays. Log a protocol
1270 warning if the IPv4 or IPv6 address is an internal address, and
1271 internal addresses are not allowed. But continue to use the other
1272 address, if it is valid. Closes ticket 33817.
1273 - If a relay can extend over IPv4 and IPv6, and both addresses are
1274 provided, it chooses between them uniformly at random. Closes
1276 - Re-use existing IPv6 connections for circuit extends. Closes
1278 - Relays may extend circuits over IPv6, if the relay has an IPv6
1279 ORPort, and the client supplies the other relay's IPv6 ORPort in
1280 the EXTEND2 cell. IPv6 extends will be used by the relay IPv6
1281 ORPort self-tests in 33222. Closes ticket 33817.
1283 o Major features (v3 onion services):
1284 - Allow v3 onion services to act as OnionBalance backend instances,
1285 by using the HiddenServiceOnionBalanceInstance torrc option.
1286 Closes ticket 32709.
1288 o Major bugfixes (NSS):
1289 - When running with NSS enabled, make sure that NSS knows to expect
1290 nonblocking sockets. Previously, we set our TCP sockets as
1291 nonblocking, but did not tell NSS, which in turn could lead to
1292 unexpected blocking behavior. Fixes bug 40035; bugfix
1295 o Major bugfixes (onion services, DoS):
1296 - Correct handling of parameters for the onion service DoS defense.
1297 Previously, the consensus parameters for the onion service DoS
1298 defenses were overwriting the parameters set by the service
1299 operator using HiddenServiceEnableIntroDoSDefense. Fixes bug
1300 40109; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
1302 o Major bugfixes (stats, onion services):
1303 - Fix a bug where we were undercounting the Tor network's total
1304 onion service traffic, by ignoring any traffic originating from
1305 clients. Now we count traffic from both clients and services.
1306 Fixes bug 40117; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
1308 o Minor features (security):
1309 - Channels using obsolete versions of the Tor link protocol are no
1310 longer allowed to circumvent address-canonicity checks. (This is
1311 only a minor issue, since such channels have no way to set ed25519
1312 keys, and therefore should always be rejected for circuits that
1313 specify ed25519 identities.) Closes ticket 40081.
1315 o Minor features (bootstrap reporting):
1316 - Report more detailed reasons for bootstrap failure when the
1317 failure happens due to a TLS error. Previously we would just call
1318 these errors "MISC" when they happened during read, and "DONE"
1319 when they happened during any other TLS operation. Closes
1322 o Minor features (client-only compilation):
1323 - Disable more code related to the ext_orport protocol when
1324 compiling without support for relay mode. Closes ticket 33368.
1325 - Disable more of our self-testing code when support for relay mode
1326 is disabled. Closes ticket 33370.
1327 - Most server-side DNS code is now disabled when building without
1328 support for relay mode. Closes ticket 33366.
1330 o Minor features (code safety):
1331 - Check for failures of tor_inet_ntop() and tor_inet_ntoa()
1332 functions in DNS and IP address processing code, and adjust
1333 codepaths to make them less likely to crash entire Tor instances.
1334 Resolves issue 33788.
1336 o Minor features (continuous integration):
1337 - Run unit-test and integration test (Stem, Chutney) jobs with
1338 ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL macro being enabled on Travis and Appveyor.
1339 Resolves ticket 32143.
1341 o Minor features (control port):
1342 - If a ClientName was specified in ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_ADD for an
1343 onion service, display it when we use ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_VIEW.
1344 Closes ticket 40089. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1345 - Return a descriptive error message from the 'GETINFO status/fresh-
1346 relay-descs' command on the control port. Previously, we returned
1347 a generic error of "Error generating descriptor". Closes ticket
1348 32873. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1350 o Minor features (defense in depth):
1351 - Wipe more data from connection address fields before returning
1352 them to the memory heap. Closes ticket 6198.
1354 o Minor features (denial-of-service memory limiter):
1355 - Allow the user to configure even lower values for the
1356 MaxMemInQueues parameter. Relays now enforce a minimum of 64 MB,
1357 when previously the minimum was 256 MB. On clients, there is no
1358 minimum. Relays and clients will both warn if the value is set so
1359 low that Tor is likely to stop working. Closes ticket 24308.
1361 o Minor features (developer tooling):
1362 - Add a script to help check the alphabetical ordering of option
1363 names in the manual page. Closes ticket 33339.
1364 - Refrain from listing all .a files that are generated by the Tor
1365 build in .gitignore. Add a single wildcard *.a entry that covers
1366 all of them for present and future. Closes ticket 33642.
1367 - Add a script ("git-install-tools.sh") to install git hooks and
1368 helper scripts. Closes ticket 33451.
1370 o Minor features (directory authority):
1371 - Authorities now recommend the protocol versions that are supported
1372 by Tor 0.3.5 and later. (Earlier versions of Tor have been
1373 deprecated since January of this year.) This recommendation will
1374 cause older clients and relays to give a warning on startup, or
1375 when they download a consensus directory. Closes ticket 32696.
1377 o Minor features (directory authority, shared random):
1378 - Refactor more authority-only parts of the shared-random scheduling
1379 code to reside in the dirauth module, and to be disabled when
1380 compiling with --disable-module-dirauth. Closes ticket 33436.
1382 o Minor features (directory):
1383 - Remember the number of bytes we have downloaded for each directory
1384 purpose while bootstrapping, and while fully bootstrapped. Log
1385 this information as part of the heartbeat message. Closes
1388 o Minor features (entry guards):
1389 - Reinstate support for GUARD NEW/UP/DOWN control port events.
1390 Closes ticket 40001.
1392 o Minor features (IPv6 support):
1393 - Adds IPv6 support to tor_addr_is_valid(). Adds tests for the above
1394 changes and tor_addr_is_null(). Closes ticket 33679. Patch
1396 - Allow clients and relays to send dual-stack and IPv6-only EXTEND2
1397 cells. Parse dual-stack and IPv6-only EXTEND2 cells on relays.
1398 Closes ticket 33901.
1400 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox, portability):
1401 - Allow Tor to build on platforms where it doesn't know how to
1402 report which syscall caused the linux seccomp2 sandbox to fail.
1403 This change should make the sandbox code more portable to less
1404 common Linux architectures. Closes ticket 34382.
1405 - Permit the unlinkat() syscall, which some Libc implementations use
1406 to implement unlink(). Closes ticket 33346.
1408 o Minor features (logging):
1409 - When trying to find our own address, add debug-level logging to
1410 report the sources of candidate addresses. Closes ticket 32888.
1412 o Minor features (onion service client, SOCKS5):
1413 - Add 3 new SocksPort ExtendedErrors (F2, F3, F7) that reports back
1414 new type of onion service connection failures. The semantics of
1415 these error codes are documented in proposal 309. Closes
1418 o Minor features (onion service v3):
1419 - If a service cannot upload its descriptor(s), log why at INFO
1420 level. Closes ticket 33400; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1422 o Minor features (python scripts):
1423 - Stop assuming that /usr/bin/python exists. Instead of using a
1424 hardcoded path in scripts that still use Python 2, use
1425 /usr/bin/env, similarly to the scripts that use Python 3. Fixes
1426 bug 33192; bugfix on 0.4.2.
1428 o Minor features (testing, architecture):
1429 - Our test scripts now double-check that subsystem initialization
1430 order is consistent with the inter-module dependencies established
1431 by our .may_include files. Implements ticket 31634.
1432 - Initialize all subsystems at the beginning of our unit test
1433 harness, to avoid crashes due to uninitialized subsystems. Follow-
1434 up from ticket 33316.
1435 - Our "make check" target now runs the unit tests in 8 parallel
1436 chunks. Doing this speeds up hardened CI builds by more than a
1437 factor of two. Closes ticket 40098.
1439 o Minor features (v3 onion services):
1440 - Add v3 onion service status to the dumpstats() call which is
1441 triggered by a SIGUSR1 signal. Previously, we only did v2 onion
1442 services. Closes ticket 24844. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1444 o Minor features (windows):
1445 - Add support for console control signals like Ctrl+C in Windows.
1446 Closes ticket 34211. Patch from Damon Harris (TheDcoder).
1448 o Minor bugfixes (control port, onion service):
1449 - Consistently use 'address' in "Invalid v3 address" response to
1450 ONION_CLIENT_AUTH commands. Previously, we would sometimes say
1451 'addr'. Fixes bug 40005; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
1453 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, buffers):
1454 - Fix a correctness bug that could cause an assertion failure if we
1455 ever tried using the buf_move_all() function with an empty input
1456 buffer. As far as we know, no released versions of Tor do this.
1457 Fixes bug 40076; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
1459 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
1460 - Directory authorities now reject votes that arrive too late. In
1461 particular, once an authority has started fetching missing votes,
1462 it no longer accepts new votes posted by other authorities. This
1463 change helps prevent a consensus split, where only some authorities
1464 have the late vote. Fixes bug 4631; bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
1466 o Minor bugfixes (git scripts):
1467 - Stop executing the checked-out pre-commit hook from the pre-push
1468 hook. Instead, execute the copy in the user's git directory. Fixes
1469 bug 33284; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
1471 o Minor bugfixes (initialization):
1472 - Initialize the subsystems in our code in an order more closely
1473 corresponding to their dependencies, so that every system is
1474 initialized before the ones that (theoretically) depend on it.
1475 Fixes bug 33316; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
1477 o Minor bugfixes (IPv4, relay):
1478 - Check for invalid zero IPv4 addresses and ports when sending and
1479 receiving extend cells. Fixes bug 33900; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
1481 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, relay):
1482 - Consider IPv6 addresses when checking if a connection is
1483 canonical. In 17604, relays assumed that a remote relay could
1484 consider an IPv6 connection canonical, but did not set the
1485 canonical flag on their side of the connection. Fixes bug 33899;
1486 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1487 - Log IPv6 addresses on connections where this relay is the
1488 responder. Previously, responding relays would replace the remote
1489 IPv6 address with the IPv4 address from the consensus. Fixes bug
1490 33899; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1492 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
1493 - Fix a regression on sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall. The
1494 fix for bug 25440 fixed the problem on systems with glibc >= 2.27
1495 but broke with versions of glibc. We now choose a rule based on
1496 the glibc version. Patch from Daniel Pinto. Fixes bug 27315;
1498 - Makes the seccomp sandbox allow the correct syscall for opendir
1499 according to the running glibc version. This fixes crashes when
1500 reloading torrc with sandbox enabled when running on glibc 2.15 to
1501 2.21 and 2.26. Patch from Daniel Pinto. Fixes bug 40020; bugfix
1504 o Minor bugfixes (logging, testing):
1505 - Make all of tor's assertion macros support the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL
1506 and DISABLE_ASSERTS_IN_UNIT_TESTS debugging modes. (IF_BUG_ONCE()
1507 used to log a non-fatal warning, regardless of the debugging
1508 mode.) Fixes bug 33917; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
1509 - Remove surprising empty line in the INFO-level log about circuit
1510 build timeout. Fixes bug 33531; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
1512 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop):
1513 - Better guard against growing a buffer past its maximum 2GB in
1514 size. Fixes bug 33131; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc.
1516 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3 client):
1517 - Remove a BUG() warning that could occur naturally. Fixes bug
1518 34087; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1520 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, logging):
1521 - Fix a typo in a log message PublishHidServDescriptors is set to 0.
1522 Fixes bug 33779; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1524 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3):
1525 - Avoid a non-fatal assertion failure in certain edge-cases when
1526 opening an intro circuit as a client. Fixes bug 34084; bugfix
1529 o Minor bugfixes (protocol versions):
1530 - Sort tor's supported protocol version lists, as recommended by the
1531 tor directory specification. Fixes bug 33285; bugfix
1534 o Minor bugfixes (rate limiting, bridges, pluggable transports):
1535 - On a bridge, treat all connections from an ExtORPort as remote by
1536 default for the purposes of rate-limiting. Previously, bridges
1537 would treat the connection as local unless they explicitly
1538 received a "USERADDR" command. ExtORPort connections still count
1539 as local if there is a USERADDR command with an explicit local
1540 address. Fixes bug 33747; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
1542 o Minor bugfixes (refactoring):
1543 - Lift circuit_build_times_disabled() out of the
1544 circuit_expire_building() loop, to save CPU time when there are
1545 many circuits open. Fixes bug 33977; bugfix on 0.3.5.9.
1547 o Minor bugfixes (relay, self-testing):
1548 - When starting up as a relay, if we haven't been able to verify
1549 that we're reachable, only launch reachability tests at most once
1550 a minute. Previously, we had been launching tests up to once a
1551 second, which was needlessly noisy. Fixes bug 40083; bugfix
1554 o Minor bugfixes (relay, usability):
1555 - Adjust the rules for when to warn about having too many
1556 connections to other relays. Previously we'd tolerate up to 1.5
1557 connections per relay on average. Now we tolerate more connections
1558 for directory authorities, and raise the number of total
1559 connections we need to see before we warn. Fixes bug 33880; bugfix
1562 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS, onion service client):
1563 - Detect v3 onion service addresses of the wrong length when
1564 returning the F6 ExtendedErrors code. Fixes bug 33873; bugfix
1567 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
1568 - Fix the behavior of the rend_cache/clean_v2_descs_as_dir when run
1569 on its own. Previously, it would exit with an error. Fixes bug
1570 40099; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
1572 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
1573 - Remove a BUG() warning that could trigger in certain unlikely
1574 edge-cases. Fixes bug 34086; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1575 - Remove a BUG() that was causing a stacktrace when a descriptor
1576 changed at an unexpected time. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
1579 o Minor bugfixes (windows):
1580 - Fix a bug that prevented Tor from starting if its log file grew
1581 above 2GB. Fixes bug 31036; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
1583 o Code simplification and refactoring:
1584 - Define and use a new constant TOR_ADDRPORT_BUF_LEN which is like
1585 TOR_ADDR_BUF_LEN but includes enough space for an IP address,
1586 brackets, separating colon, and port number. Closes ticket 33956.
1587 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1588 - Merge the orconn and ocirc events into the "core" subsystem, which
1589 manages or connections and origin circuits. Previously they were
1590 isolated in subsystems of their own.
1591 - Move LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN to app/config. Resolves a dependency
1592 inversion. Closes ticket 33633.
1593 - Move the circuit extend code to the relay module. Split the
1594 circuit extend function into smaller functions. Closes
1596 - Rewrite port_parse_config() to use the default port flags from
1597 port_cfg_new(). Closes ticket 32994. Patch by MrSquanchee.
1598 - Updated comments in 'scheduler.c' to reflect old code changes, and
1599 simplified the scheduler channel state change code. Closes
1601 - Refactor configuration parsing to use the new config subsystem
1602 code. Closes ticket 33014.
1603 - Move a series of functions related to address resolving into their
1604 own files. Closes ticket 33789.
1607 - Replace most http:// URLs in our code and documentation with
1608 https:// URLs. (We have left unchanged the code in src/ext/, and
1609 the text in LICENSE.) Closes ticket 31812. Patch from Jeremy Rand.
1610 - Document the limitations of using %include on config files with
1611 seccomp sandbox enabled. Fixes documentation bug 34133; bugfix on
1612 0.3.1.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
1615 - Our "check-local" test target no longer tries to use the
1616 Coccinelle semantic patching tool parse all the C files. While it
1617 is a good idea to try to make sure Coccinelle works on our C
1618 before we run a Coccinelle patch, doing so on every test run has
1619 proven to be disruptive. You can still run this tool manually with
1620 "make check-cocci". Closes ticket 40030.
1621 - Remove the ClientAutoIPv6ORPort option. This option attempted to
1622 randomly choose between IPv4 and IPv6 for client connections, and
1623 wasn't a true implementation of Happy Eyeballs. Often, this option
1624 failed on IPv4-only or IPv6-only connections. Closes ticket 32905.
1625 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1626 - Stop shipping contrib/dist/rc.subr file, as it is not being used
1627 on FreeBSD anymore. Closes issue 31576.
1630 - Add a basic IPv6 test to "make test-network". This test only runs
1631 when the local machine has an IPv6 stack. Closes ticket 33300.
1632 - Add test-network-ipv4 and test-network-ipv6 jobs to the Makefile.
1633 These jobs run the IPv4-only and dual-stack chutney flavours from
1634 test-network-all. Closes ticket 33280.
1635 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
1636 - Run the test-network-ipv6 Makefile target in the Travis CI IPv6
1637 chutney job. This job runs on macOS, so it's a bit slow. Closes
1639 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed. Putting the slowest jobs
1640 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
1642 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
1643 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
1644 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
1645 - Test v3 onion services to tor's mixed IPv4 chutney network. And
1646 add a mixed IPv6 chutney network. These networks are used in the
1647 test-network-all, test-network-ipv4, and test-network-ipv6 make
1648 targets. Closes ticket 33334.
1649 - Use the "bridges+hs-v23" chutney network flavour in "make test-
1650 network". This test requires a recent version of chutney (mid-
1651 February 2020). Closes ticket 28208.
1652 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
1653 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
1655 o Deprecated features (onion service v2):
1656 - Add a deprecation warning for version 2 onion services. Closes
1659 o Documentation (manual page):
1660 - Add cross reference links and a table of contents to the HTML tor
1661 manual page. Closes ticket 33369. Work by Swati Thacker as part of
1662 Google Season of Docs.
1663 - Alphabetize the Denial of Service Mitigation Options, Directory
1664 Authority Server Options, Hidden Service Options, and Testing
1665 Network Options sections of the tor(1) manual page. Closes ticket
1666 33275. Work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs.
1667 - Refrain from mentioning nicknames in manpage section for MyFamily
1668 torrc option. Resolves issue 33417.
1669 - Updated the options set by TestingTorNetwork in the manual page.
1670 Closes ticket 33778.
1673 Changes in version 0.3.5.11 - 2020-07-09
1674 Tor 0.3.5.11 backports fixes from later tor releases, including several
1675 usability, portability, and reliability fixes.
1677 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
1678 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
1679 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
1680 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
1681 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
1682 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
1683 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
1686 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
1687 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
1688 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
1689 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
1692 o Major bugfixes (DoS defenses, bridges, pluggable transport, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
1693 - Fix a bug that was preventing DoS defenses from running on bridges
1694 with a pluggable transport. Previously, the DoS subsystem was not
1695 given the transport name of the client connection, thus failed to
1696 find the GeoIP cache entry for that client address. Fixes bug
1697 33491; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
1699 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
1700 - The unit tests now support a "TOR_SKIP_TESTCASES" environment
1701 variable to specify a list of space-separated test cases that
1702 should not be executed. We will use this to disable certain tests
1703 that are failing on Appveyor because of mismatched OpenSSL
1704 libraries. Part of ticket 33643.
1706 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
1707 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
1708 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
1710 o Minor bugfix (relay, configuration, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
1711 - Warn if the ContactInfo field is not set, and tell the relay
1712 operator that not having a ContactInfo field set might cause their
1713 relay to get rejected in the future. Fixes bug 33361; bugfix
1716 o Minor bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
1717 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
1718 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
1719 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
1722 o Minor bugfixes (compiler compatibility, backport from 0.4.3.5):
1723 - Avoid compiler warnings from Clang 10 related to the use of GCC-
1724 style "/* falls through */" comments. Both Clang and GCC allow
1725 __attribute__((fallthrough)) instead, so that's what we're using
1726 now. Fixes bug 34078; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
1728 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
1729 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
1730 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
1732 o Minor bugfixes (embedded Tor, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
1733 - When starting Tor any time after the first time in a process,
1734 register the thread in which it is running as the main thread.
1735 Previously, we only did this on Windows, which could lead to bugs
1736 like 23081 on non-Windows platforms. Fixes bug 32884; bugfix
1739 o Minor bugfixes (key portability, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
1740 - When reading PEM-encoded key data, tolerate CRLF line-endings even
1741 if we are not running on Windows. Previously, non-Windows hosts
1742 would reject these line-endings in certain positions, making
1743 certain key files hard to move from one host to another. Fixes bug
1744 33032; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1746 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
1747 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
1748 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
1749 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
1751 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
1752 - Remove a BUG() warning that would cause a stack trace if an onion
1753 service descriptor was freed while we were waiting for a
1754 rendezvous circuit to complete. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
1757 o Testing (CI, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
1758 - In our Appveyor Windows CI, copy required DLLs to test and app
1759 directories, before running tor's tests. This ensures that tor.exe
1760 and test*.exe use the correct version of each DLL. This fix is not
1761 required, but we hope it will avoid DLL search issues in future.
1762 Fixes bug 33673; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
1763 - On Appveyor, skip the crypto/openssl_version test, which is
1764 failing because of a mismatched library installation. Fix
1768 Changes in version 0.4.2.8 - 2020-07-09
1769 Tor 0.4.2.8 backports various fixes from later releases, including
1770 several that affect usability and portability.
1772 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
1773 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
1774 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
1775 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
1776 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
1777 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
1778 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
1781 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
1782 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
1783 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
1784 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
1787 o Major bugfixes (DoS defenses, bridges, pluggable transport, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
1788 - Fix a bug that was preventing DoS defenses from running on bridges
1789 with a pluggable transport. Previously, the DoS subsystem was not
1790 given the transport name of the client connection, thus failed to
1791 find the GeoIP cache entry for that client address. Fixes bug
1792 33491; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
1794 o Minor feature (sendme, flow control, backport form 0.4.3.4-rc):
1795 - Default to sending SENDME version 1 cells. (Clients are already
1796 sending these, because of a consensus parameter telling them to do
1797 so: this change only affects what clients would do if the
1798 consensus didn't contain a recommendation.) Closes ticket 33623.
1800 o Minor features (diagnostic, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
1801 - Improve assertions and add some memory-poisoning code to try to
1802 track down possible causes of a rare crash (32564) in the EWMA
1803 code. Closes ticket 33290.
1805 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
1806 - The unit tests now support a "TOR_SKIP_TESTCASES" environment
1807 variable to specify a list of space-separated test cases that
1808 should not be executed. We will use this to disable certain tests
1809 that are failing on Appveyor because of mismatched OpenSSL
1810 libraries. Part of ticket 33643.
1812 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
1813 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
1814 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
1816 o Minor bugfix (relay, configuration, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
1817 - Warn if the ContactInfo field is not set, and tell the relay
1818 operator that not having a ContactInfo field set might cause their
1819 relay to get rejected in the future. Fixes bug 33361; bugfix
1822 o Minor bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
1823 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
1824 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
1825 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
1828 o Minor bugfixes (compiler compatibility, backport from 0.4.3.5):
1829 - Avoid compiler warnings from Clang 10 related to the use of GCC-
1830 style "/* falls through */" comments. Both Clang and GCC allow
1831 __attribute__((fallthrough)) instead, so that's what we're using
1832 now. Fixes bug 34078; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
1833 - Fix compilation warnings with GCC 10.0.1. Fixes bug 34077; bugfix
1836 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
1837 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
1838 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
1840 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
1841 - When receiving "ACTIVE" or "DORMANT" signals on the control port,
1842 report them as SIGNAL events. Previously we would log a bug
1843 warning. Fixes bug 33104; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
1845 o Minor bugfixes (embedded Tor, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
1846 - When starting Tor any time after the first time in a process,
1847 register the thread in which it is running as the main thread.
1848 Previously, we only did this on Windows, which could lead to bugs
1849 like 23081 on non-Windows platforms. Fixes bug 32884; bugfix
1852 o Minor bugfixes (key portability, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
1853 - When reading PEM-encoded key data, tolerate CRLF line-endings even
1854 if we are not running on Windows. Previously, non-Windows hosts
1855 would reject these line-endings in certain positions, making
1856 certain key files hard to move from one host to another. Fixes bug
1857 33032; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1859 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-rc):
1860 - When logging a bug, do not say "Future instances of this warning
1861 will be silenced" unless we are actually going to silence them.
1862 Previously we would say this whenever a BUG() check failed in the
1863 code. Fixes bug 33095; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
1865 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
1866 - Flush stderr, stdout, and file logs during shutdown, if supported
1867 by the OS. This change helps make sure that any final logs are
1868 recorded. Fixes bug 33087; bugfix on 0.4.1.6.
1870 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
1871 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
1872 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
1873 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
1875 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
1876 - Remove a BUG() warning that would cause a stack trace if an onion
1877 service descriptor was freed while we were waiting for a
1878 rendezvous circuit to complete. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
1881 o Testing (CI, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
1882 - In our Appveyor Windows CI, copy required DLLs to test and app
1883 directories, before running tor's tests. This ensures that tor.exe
1884 and test*.exe use the correct version of each DLL. This fix is not
1885 required, but we hope it will avoid DLL search issues in future.
1886 Fixes bug 33673; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
1887 - On Appveyor, skip the crypto/openssl_version test, which is
1888 failing because of a mismatched library installation. Fix
1892 Changes in version 0.4.3.6 - 2020-07-09
1893 Tor 0.4.3.6 backports several bugfixes from later releases, including
1894 some affecting usability.
1896 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
1897 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
1898 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
1899 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
1900 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
1901 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
1902 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
1905 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
1906 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
1907 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
1908 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
1911 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
1912 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
1913 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
1915 o Minor bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
1916 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
1917 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
1918 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
1921 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
1922 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
1923 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
1925 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, nss, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
1926 - Fix a startup crash when tor is compiled with --enable-nss and
1927 sandbox support is enabled. Fixes bug 34130; bugfix on
1928 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
1930 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
1931 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
1932 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
1933 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
1935 o Minor bugfixes (manual page, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
1936 - Update the man page to reflect that MinUptimeHidServDirectoryV2
1937 defaults to 96 hours. Fixes bug 34299; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
1939 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
1940 - Prevent an assert() that would occur when cleaning the client
1941 descriptor cache, and attempting to close circuits for a non-
1942 decrypted descriptor (lacking client authorization). Fixes bug
1943 33458; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
1945 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
1946 - Fix a portability error in the configure script, where we were
1947 using "==" instead of "=". Fixes bug 34233; bugfix on 0.4.3.5.
1949 o Minor bugfixes (relays, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
1950 - Stop advertising incorrect IPv6 ORPorts in relay and bridge
1951 descriptors, when the IPv6 port was configured as "auto". Fixes
1952 bug 32588; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
1954 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
1955 - Fix several doxygen warnings related to imbalanced groups. Closes
1959 Changes in version 0.4.3.5 - 2020-05-15
1960 Tor 0.4.3.5 is the first stable release in the 0.4.3.x series. This
1961 series adds support for building without relay code enabled, and
1962 implements functionality needed for OnionBalance with v3 onion
1963 services. It includes significant refactoring of our configuration and
1964 controller functionality, and fixes numerous smaller bugs and
1967 Per our support policy, we support each stable release series for nine
1968 months after its first stable release, or three months after the first
1969 stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. This means
1970 that 0.4.3.x will be supported until around February 2021--later, if
1971 0.4.4.x is later than anticipated.
1973 Note also that support for 0.4.1.x is about to end on May 20 of this
1974 year; 0.4.2.x will be supported until September 15. We still plan to
1975 continue supporting 0.3.5.x, our long-term stable series, until
1978 Below are the changes since 0.4.2.6. For a list of only the changes
1979 since 0.4.3.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
1981 o New system requirements:
1982 - When building Tor, you now need to have Python 3 in order to run
1983 the integration tests. (Python 2 is officially unsupported
1984 upstream, as of 1 Jan 2020.) Closes ticket 32608.
1986 o Major features (build system):
1987 - The relay code can now be disabled using the --disable-module-relay
1988 configure option. When this option is set, we also disable the
1989 dirauth module. Closes ticket 32123.
1990 - When Tor is compiled --disable-module-relay, we also omit the code
1991 used to act as a directory cache. Closes ticket 32487.
1993 o Major features (directory authority, ed25519):
1994 - Add support for banning a relay's ed25519 keys in the approved-
1995 routers file. This will help us migrate away from RSA keys in the
1996 future. Previously, only RSA keys could be banned in approved-
1997 routers. Resolves ticket 22029. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1999 o Major features (onion services):
2000 - New control port commands to manage client-side onion service
2001 authorization credentials. The ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_ADD command adds
2002 a credential, ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_REMOVE deletes a credential, and
2003 ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_VIEW lists the credentials. Closes ticket 30381.
2004 - Introduce a new SocksPort flag, ExtendedErrors, to support more
2005 detailed error codes in information for applications that support
2006 them. Closes ticket 30382; implements proposal 304.
2008 o Major features (proxy):
2009 - In addition to its current supported proxy types (HTTP CONNECT,
2010 SOCKS4, and SOCKS5), Tor can now make its OR connections through a
2011 HAProxy server. A new torrc option was added to specify the
2012 address/port of the server: TCPProxy <protocol> <host>:<port>.
2013 Currently the only supported protocol for the option is haproxy.
2014 Closes ticket 31518. Patch done by Suphanat Chunhapanya (haxxpop).
2016 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service):
2017 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
2018 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
2019 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
2020 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
2021 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
2022 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
2023 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
2024 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
2026 o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak):
2027 - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit
2028 padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit.
2029 Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls.
2030 This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593.
2032 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
2033 - Directory authorities will now send a 503 (not enough bandwidth)
2034 code to clients when under bandwidth pressure. Known relays and
2035 other authorities will always be answered regardless of the
2036 bandwidth situation. Fixes bug 33029; bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
2038 o Major bugfixes (DoS defenses, bridges, pluggable transport):
2039 - Fix a bug that was preventing DoS defenses from running on bridges
2040 with a pluggable transport. Previously, the DoS subsystem was not
2041 given the transport name of the client connection, thus failed to
2042 find the GeoIP cache entry for that client address. Fixes bug
2043 33491; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
2045 o Major bugfixes (networking):
2046 - Correctly handle IPv6 addresses in SOCKS5 RESOLVE_PTR requests,
2047 and accept strings as well as binary addresses. Fixes bug 32315;
2048 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2050 o Major bugfixes (onion service):
2051 - Report HS circuit failure back into the HS subsystem so we take
2052 appropriate action with regards to the client introduction point
2053 failure cache. This improves reachability of onion services, since
2054 now clients notice failing introduction circuits properly. Fixes
2055 bug 32020; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2057 o Minor feature (heartbeat, onion service):
2058 - Add the DoS INTRODUCE2 defenses counter to the heartbeat DoS
2059 message. Closes ticket 31371.
2061 o Minor feature (sendme, flow control):
2062 - Default to sending SENDME version 1 cells. (Clients are already
2063 sending these, because of a consensus parameter telling them to do
2064 so: this change only affects what clients would do if the
2065 consensus didn't contain a recommendation.) Closes ticket 33623.
2067 o Minor features (best practices tracker):
2068 - Practracker now supports a --regen-overbroad option to regenerate
2069 the exceptions file, but only to revise exceptions to be _less_
2070 tolerant of best-practices violations. Closes ticket 32372.
2072 o Minor features (configuration validation):
2073 - Configuration validation can now be done by per-module callbacks,
2074 rather than a global validation function. This will let us reduce
2075 the size of config.c and some of its more cumbersome functions.
2076 Closes ticket 31241.
2078 o Minor features (configuration):
2079 - If a configured hardware crypto accelerator in AccelName is
2080 prefixed with "!", Tor now exits when it cannot be found. Closes
2082 - We now use flag-driven logic to warn about obsolete configuration
2083 fields, so that we can include their names. In 0.4.2, we used a
2084 special type, which prevented us from generating good warnings.
2085 Implements ticket 32404.
2087 o Minor features (configure, build system):
2088 - Output a list of enabled/disabled features at the end of the
2089 configure process in a pleasing way. Closes ticket 31373.
2091 o Minor features (continuous integration):
2092 - Run Doxygen Makefile target on Travis, so we can learn about
2093 regressions in our internal documentation. Closes ticket 32455.
2094 - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks
2095 like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed.
2096 Closes ticket 33075.
2098 o Minor features (controller):
2099 - Add stream isolation data to STREAM event. Closes ticket 19859.
2100 - Implement a new GETINFO command to fetch microdescriptor
2101 consensus. Closes ticket 31684.
2103 o Minor features (debugging, directory system):
2104 - Don't crash when we find a non-guard with a guard-fraction value
2105 set. Instead, log a bug warning, in an attempt to figure out how
2106 this happened. Diagnostic for ticket 32868.
2108 o Minor features (defense in depth):
2109 - Add additional checks around tor_vasprintf() usage, in case the
2110 function returns an error. Patch by Tobias Stoeckmann. Fixes
2113 o Minor features (developer tools):
2114 - Remove the 0.2.9.x series branches from git scripts (git-merge-
2115 forward.sh, git-pull-all.sh, git-push-all.sh, git-setup-dirs.sh).
2116 Closes ticket 32772.
2117 - Add a check_cocci_parse.sh script that checks that new code is
2118 parseable by Coccinelle. Add an exceptions file for unparseable
2119 files, and run the script from travis CI. Closes ticket 31919.
2120 - Call the check_cocci_parse.sh script from a 'check-cocci' Makefile
2121 target. Closes ticket 31919.
2122 - Add a rename_c_identifiers.py tool to rename a bunch of C
2123 identifiers at once, and generate a well-formed commit message
2124 describing the change. This should help with refactoring. Closes
2126 - Add some scripts in "scripts/coccinelle" to invoke the Coccinelle
2127 semantic patching tool with the correct flags. These flags are
2128 fairly easy to forget, and these scripts should help us use
2129 Coccinelle more effectively in the future. Closes ticket 31705.
2131 o Minor features (diagnostic):
2132 - Improve assertions and add some memory-poisoning code to try to
2133 track down possible causes of a rare crash (32564) in the EWMA
2134 code. Closes ticket 33290.
2136 o Minor features (directory authorities):
2137 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors from relays running
2138 Tor versions from the 0.2.9 and 0.4.0 series. The 0.3.5 series is
2139 still allowed. Resolves ticket 32672. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2141 o Minor features (Doxygen):
2142 - Update Doxygen configuration file to a more recent template (from
2143 1.8.15). Closes ticket 32110.
2144 - "make doxygen" now works with out-of-tree builds. Closes
2146 - Make sure that doxygen outputs documentation for all of our C
2147 files. Previously, some were missing @file declarations, causing
2148 them to be ignored. Closes ticket 32307.
2149 - Our "make doxygen" target now respects --enable-fatal-warnings by
2150 default, and does not warn about items that are missing
2151 documentation. To warn about missing documentation, run configure
2152 with the "--enable-missing-doc-warnings" flag: doing so suspends
2153 fatal warnings for doxygen. Closes ticket 32385.
2155 o Minor features (git scripts):
2156 - Add TOR_EXTRA_CLONE_ARGS to git-setup-dirs.sh for git clone
2157 customisation. Closes ticket 32347.
2158 - Add git-setup-dirs.sh, which sets up an upstream git repository
2159 and worktrees for tor maintainers. Closes ticket 29603.
2160 - Add TOR_EXTRA_REMOTE_* to git-setup-dirs.sh for a custom extra
2161 remote. Closes ticket 32347.
2162 - Call the check_cocci_parse.sh script from the git commit and push
2163 hooks. Closes ticket 31919.
2164 - Make git-push-all.sh skip unchanged branches when pushing to
2165 upstream. The script already skipped unchanged test branches.
2166 Closes ticket 32216.
2167 - Make git-setup-dirs.sh create a master symlink in the worktree
2168 directory. Closes ticket 32347.
2169 - Skip unmodified source files when doing some existing git hook
2170 checks. Related to ticket 31919.
2172 o Minor features (IPv6, client):
2173 - Make Tor clients tell dual-stack exits that they prefer IPv6
2174 connections. This change is equivalent to setting the PreferIPv6
2175 flag on SOCKSPorts (and most other listener ports). Tor Browser
2176 has been setting this flag for some time, and we want to remove a
2177 client distinguisher at exits. Closes ticket 32637.
2179 o Minor features (portability, android):
2180 - When building for Android, disable some tests that depend on $HOME
2181 and/or pwdb, which Android doesn't have. Closes ticket 32825.
2182 Patch from Hans-Christoph Steiner.
2184 o Minor features (relay modularity):
2185 - Split the relay and server pluggable transport config code into
2186 separate files in the relay module. Disable this code when the
2187 relay module is disabled. Closes part of ticket 32213.
2188 - When the relay module is disabled, reject attempts to set the
2189 ORPort, DirPort, DirCache, BridgeRelay, ExtORPort, or
2190 ServerTransport* options, rather than ignoring the values of these
2191 options. Closes part of ticket 32213.
2192 - When the relay module is disabled, change the default config so
2193 that DirCache is 0, and ClientOnly is 1. Closes ticket 32410.
2195 o Minor features (release tools):
2196 - Port our ChangeLog formatting and sorting tools to Python 3.
2197 Closes ticket 32704.
2199 o Minor features (testing):
2200 - The unit tests now support a "TOR_SKIP_TESTCASES" environment
2201 variable to specify a list of space-separated test cases that
2202 should not be executed. We will use this to disable certain tests
2203 that are failing on Appveyor because of mismatched OpenSSL
2204 libraries. Part of ticket 33643.
2205 - Detect some common failure cases for test_parseconf.sh in
2206 src/test/conf_failures. Closes ticket 32451.
2207 - Allow test_parseconf.sh to test expected log outputs for successful
2208 configs, as well as failed configs. Closes ticket 32451.
2209 - The test_parseconf.sh script now supports result variants for any
2210 combination of the optional libraries lzma, nss, and zstd. Closes
2212 - When running the unit tests on Android, create temporary files in
2213 a subdirectory of /data/local/tmp. Closes ticket 32172. Based on a
2214 patch from Hans-Christoph Steiner.
2216 o Minor features (usability):
2217 - Include more information when failing to parse a configuration
2218 value. This should make it easier to tell what's going wrong when
2219 a configuration file doesn't parse. Closes ticket 33460.
2221 o Minor bugfix (relay, configuration):
2222 - Warn if the ContactInfo field is not set, and tell the relay
2223 operator that not having a ContactInfo field set might cause their
2224 relay to get rejected in the future. Fixes bug 33361; bugfix
2227 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
2228 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
2229 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
2231 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
2232 - Fix "make autostyle" for out-of-tree builds. Fixes bug 32370;
2233 bugfix on 0.4.1.2-alpha.
2235 o Minor bugfixes (compiler compatibility):
2236 - Avoid compiler warnings from Clang 10 related to the use of GCC-
2237 style "/* falls through */" comments. Both Clang and GCC allow
2238 __attribute__((fallthrough)) instead, so that's what we're using
2239 now. Fixes bug 34078; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
2240 - Fix compilation warnings with GCC 10.0.1. Fixes bug 34077; bugfix
2243 o Minor bugfixes (configuration handling):
2244 - Make control_event_conf_changed() take in a config_line_t instead
2245 of a smartlist of alternating key/value entries. Fixes bug 31531;
2246 bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2247 - Check for multiplication overflow when parsing memory units inside
2248 configuration. Fixes bug 30920; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
2249 - When dumping the configuration, stop adding a trailing space after
2250 the option name when there is no option value. This issue only
2251 affects options that accept an empty value or list. (Most options
2252 reject empty values, or delete the entire line from the dumped
2253 options.) Fixes bug 32352; bugfix on 0.0.9pre6.
2254 - Avoid changing the user's value of HardwareAccel as stored by
2255 SAVECONF, when AccelName is set but HardwareAccel is not. Fixes
2256 bug 32382; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
2257 - When creating a KeyDirectory with the same location as the
2258 DataDirectory (not recommended), respect the DataDirectory's
2259 group-readable setting if one has not been set for the
2260 KeyDirectory. Fixes bug 27992; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2262 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
2263 - Remove the buggy and unused mirroring job. Fixes bug 33213; bugfix
2266 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
2267 - When receiving "ACTIVE" or "DORMANT" signals on the control port,
2268 report them as SIGNAL events. Previously we would log a bug
2269 warning. Fixes bug 33104; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
2271 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
2272 - In routerstatus_has_changed(), check all the fields that are
2273 output over the control port. Fixes bug 20218; bugfix
2276 o Minor bugfixes (developer tools):
2277 - Allow paths starting with ./ in scripts/add_c_file.py. Fixes bug
2278 31336; bugfix on 0.4.1.2-alpha.
2280 o Minor bugfixes (dirauth module):
2281 - Split the dirauth config code into a separate file in the dirauth
2282 module. Disable this code when the dirauth module is disabled.
2283 Closes ticket 32213.
2284 - When the dirauth module is disabled, reject attempts to set the
2285 AuthoritativeDir option, rather than ignoring the value of the
2286 option. Fixes bug 32213; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
2288 o Minor bugfixes (embedded Tor):
2289 - When starting Tor any time after the first time in a process,
2290 register the thread in which it is running as the main thread.
2291 Previously, we only did this on Windows, which could lead to bugs
2292 like 23081 on non-Windows platforms. Fixes bug 32884; bugfix
2295 o Minor bugfixes (git scripts):
2296 - Avoid sleeping before the last push in git-push-all.sh. Closes
2298 - Forward all unrecognised arguments in git-push-all.sh to git push.
2299 Closes ticket 32216.
2301 o Minor bugfixes (key portability):
2302 - When reading PEM-encoded key data, tolerate CRLF line-endings even
2303 if we are not running on Windows. Previously, non-Windows hosts
2304 would reject these line-endings in certain positions, making
2305 certain key files hard to move from one host to another. Fixes bug
2306 33032; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2308 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
2309 - Stop truncating IPv6 addresses and ports in channel and connection
2310 logs. Fixes bug 33918; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
2311 - Flush stderr, stdout, and file logs during shutdown, if supported
2312 by the OS. This change helps make sure that any final logs are
2313 recorded. Fixes bug 33087; bugfix on 0.4.1.6.
2314 - Stop closing stderr and stdout during shutdown. Closing these file
2315 descriptors can hide sanitiser logs. Fixes bug 33087; bugfix
2317 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
2318 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
2319 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
2320 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
2322 - When logging a bug, do not say "Future instances of this warning
2323 will be silenced" unless we are actually going to silence them.
2324 Previously we would say this whenever a BUG() check failed in the
2325 code. Fixes bug 33095; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2327 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v2):
2328 - Move a series of v2 onion service warnings to protocol-warning
2329 level because they can all be triggered remotely by a malformed
2330 request. Fixes bug 32706; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
2331 - When sending the INTRO cell for a v2 Onion Service, look at the
2332 failure cache alongside timeout values to check if the intro point
2333 is marked as failed. Previously, we only looked at the relay
2334 timeout values. Fixes bug 25568; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by
2337 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3):
2338 - Remove a BUG() warning that would cause a stack trace if an onion
2339 service descriptor was freed while we were waiting for a
2340 rendezvous circuit to complete. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
2342 - Relax severity of a log message that can appear naturally when
2343 decoding onion service descriptors as a relay. Also add some
2344 diagnostics to debug any future bugs in that area. Fixes bug
2345 31669; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
2346 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
2347 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
2348 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
2350 - Properly handle the client rendezvous circuit timeout. Previously
2351 Tor would sometimes timeout a rendezvous circuit awaiting the
2352 introduction ACK, and find itself unable to re-establish all
2353 circuits because the rendezvous circuit timed out too early. Fixes
2354 bug 32021; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2356 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
2357 - Do not rely on a "circuit established" flag for intro circuits but
2358 instead always query the HS circuit map. This is to avoid sync
2359 issue with that flag and the map. Fixes bug 32094; bugfix
2362 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, all):
2363 - In cancel_descriptor_fetches(), use
2364 connection_list_by_type_purpose() instead of
2365 connection_list_by_type_state(). Fixes bug 32639; bugfix on
2366 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2368 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
2369 - When receiving a message on standard error from a pluggable
2370 transport, log it at info level, rather than as a warning. Fixes
2371 bug 33005; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
2373 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build):
2374 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
2375 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
2376 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2378 o Minor bugfixes (scripts):
2379 - Fix update_versions.py for out-of-tree builds. Fixes bug 32371;
2380 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
2382 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
2383 - Use the same code to find the tor binary in all of our test
2384 scripts. This change makes sure we are always using the coverage
2385 binary when coverage is enabled. Fixes bug 32368; bugfix
2387 - Stop ignoring "tor --dump-config" errors in test_parseconf.sh.
2388 Fixes bug 32468; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
2389 - Our option-validation tests no longer depend on specially
2390 configured non-default, non-passing sets of options. Previously,
2391 the tests had been written to assume that options would _not_ be
2392 set to their defaults, which led to needless complexity and
2393 verbosity. Fixes bug 32175; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
2395 o Minor bugfixes (TLS bug handling):
2396 - When encountering a bug in buf_read_from_tls(), return a "MISC"
2397 error code rather than "WANTWRITE". This change might help avoid
2398 some CPU-wasting loops if the bug is ever triggered. Bug reported
2399 by opara. Fixes bug 32673; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-alpha.
2401 o Deprecated features:
2402 - Deprecate the ClientAutoIPv6ORPort option. This option was not
2403 true "Happy Eyeballs", and often failed on connections that
2404 weren't reliably dual-stack. Closes ticket 32942. Patch by
2408 - Provide a quickstart guide for a Circuit Padding Framework, and
2409 documentation for researchers to implement and study circuit
2410 padding machines. Closes ticket 28804.
2411 - Add documentation in 'HelpfulTools.md' to describe how to build a
2412 tag file. Closes ticket 32779.
2413 - Create a high-level description of the long-term software
2414 architecture goals. Closes ticket 32206.
2415 - Describe the --dump-config command in the manual page. Closes
2417 - Unite coding advice from this_not_that.md in torguts repo into our
2418 coding standards document. Resolves ticket 31853.
2421 - Our Doxygen configuration no longer generates LaTeX output. The
2422 reference manual produced by doing this was over 4000 pages long,
2423 and generally unusable. Closes ticket 32099.
2424 - The option "TestingEstimatedDescriptorPropagationTime" is now
2425 marked as obsolete. It has had no effect since 0.3.0.7, when
2426 clients stopped rejecting consensuses "from the future". Closes
2428 - We no longer support consensus methods before method 28; these
2429 methods were only used by authorities running versions of Tor that
2430 are now at end-of-life. In effect, this means that clients,
2431 relays, and authorities now assume that authorities will be
2432 running version 0.3.5.x or later. Closes ticket 32695.
2435 - Avoid conflicts between the fake sockets in tor's unit tests, and
2436 real file descriptors. Resolves issues running unit tests with
2437 GitHub Actions, where the process that embeds or launches the
2438 tests has already opened a large number of file descriptors. Fixes
2439 bug 33782; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Found and fixed by
2441 - Add more test cases for tor's UTF-8 validation function. Also,
2442 check the arguments passed to the function for consistency. Closes
2444 - Improve test coverage for relay and dirauth config code, focusing
2445 on option validation and normalization. Closes ticket 32213.
2446 - Improve the consistency of test_parseconf.sh output, and run all
2447 the tests, even if one fails. Closes ticket 32213.
2448 - Run the practracker unit tests in the pre-commit git hook. Closes
2451 o Code simplification and refactoring (channel):
2452 - Channel layer had a variable length cell handler that was not used
2453 and thus removed. Closes ticket 32892.
2455 o Code simplification and refactoring (configuration):
2456 - Immutability is now implemented as a flag on individual
2457 configuration options rather than as part of the option-transition
2458 checking code. Closes ticket 32344.
2459 - Instead of keeping a list of configuration options to check for
2460 relative paths, check all the options whose type is "FILENAME".
2461 Solves part of ticket 32339.
2462 - Our default log (which ordinarily sends NOTICE-level messages to
2463 standard output) is now handled in a more logical manner.
2464 Previously, we replaced the configured log options if they were
2465 empty. Now, we interpret an empty set of log options as meaning
2466 "use the default log". Closes ticket 31999.
2467 - Remove some unused arguments from the options_validate() function,
2468 to simplify our code and tests. Closes ticket 32187.
2469 - Simplify the options_validate() code so that it looks at the
2470 default options directly, rather than taking default options as an
2471 argument. This change lets us simplify its interface. Closes
2473 - Use our new configuration architecture to move most authority-
2474 related options to the directory authority module. Closes
2476 - When parsing the command line, handle options that determine our
2477 "quiet level" and our mode of operation (e.g., --dump-config and
2478 so on) all in one table. Closes ticket 32003.
2480 o Code simplification and refactoring (controller):
2481 - Create a new abstraction for formatting control protocol reply
2482 lines based on key-value pairs. Refactor some existing control
2483 protocol code to take advantage of this. Closes ticket 30984.
2484 - Create a helper function that can fetch network status or
2485 microdesc consensuses. Closes ticket 31684.
2487 o Code simplification and refactoring (dirauth modularization):
2488 - Remove the last remaining HAVE_MODULE_DIRAUTH inside a function.
2489 Closes ticket 32163.
2490 - Replace some confusing identifiers in process_descs.c. Closes
2492 - Simplify some relay and dirauth config code. Closes ticket 32213.
2494 o Code simplification and refactoring (mainloop):
2495 - Simplify the ip_address_changed() function by removing redundant
2496 checks. Closes ticket 33091.
2498 o Code simplification and refactoring (misc):
2499 - Make all the structs we declare follow the same naming convention
2500 of ending with "_t". Closes ticket 32415.
2501 - Move and rename some configuration-related code for clarity.
2502 Closes ticket 32304.
2503 - Our include.am files are now broken up by subdirectory.
2504 Previously, src/core/include.am covered all of the subdirectories
2505 in "core", "feature", and "app". Closes ticket 32137.
2506 - Remove underused NS*() macros from test code: they make our tests
2507 more confusing, especially for code-formatting tools. Closes
2510 o Code simplification and refactoring (relay modularization):
2511 - Disable relay_periodic when the relay module is disabled. Closes
2513 - Disable relay_sys when the relay module is disabled. Closes
2516 o Code simplification and refactoring (tool support):
2517 - Add numerous missing dependencies to our include files, so that
2518 they can be included in different reasonable orders and still
2519 compile. Addresses part of ticket 32764.
2520 - Fix some parts of our code that were difficult for Coccinelle to
2521 parse. Related to ticket 31705.
2522 - Fix some small issues in our code that prevented automatic
2523 formatting tools from working. Addresses part of ticket 32764.
2525 o Documentation (manpage):
2526 - Alphabetize the Server and Directory server sections of the tor
2527 manpage. Also split Statistics options into their own section of
2528 the manpage. Closes ticket 33188. Work by Swati Thacker as part of
2529 Google Season of Docs.
2530 - Document the __OwningControllerProcess torrc option and specify
2531 its polling interval. Resolves issue 32971.
2532 - Split "Circuit Timeout" options and "Node Selection" options into
2533 their own sections of the tor manpage. Closes tickets 32928 and
2534 32929. Work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs.
2535 - Alphabetize the Client Options section of the tor manpage. Closes
2537 - Alphabetize the General Options section of the tor manpage. Closes
2539 - In the tor(1) manpage, reword and improve formatting of the
2540 COMMAND-LINE OPTIONS and DESCRIPTION sections. Closes ticket
2541 32277. Based on work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season
2543 - In the tor(1) manpage, reword and improve formatting of the FILES,
2544 SEE ALSO, and BUGS sections. Closes ticket 32176. Based on work by
2545 Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs.
2547 o Testing (Appveyor CI):
2548 - In our Appveyor Windows CI, copy required DLLs to test and app
2549 directories, before running tor's tests. This ensures that tor.exe
2550 and test*.exe use the correct version of each DLL. This fix is not
2551 required, but we hope it will avoid DLL search issues in future.
2552 Fixes bug 33673; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
2553 - On Appveyor, skip the crypto/openssl_version test, which is
2554 failing because of a mismatched library installation. Fix
2557 o Testing (circuit, EWMA):
2558 - Add unit tests for circuitmux and EWMA subsystems. Closes
2561 o Testing (Travis CI):
2562 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
2563 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
2564 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
2566 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
2567 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
2568 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
2569 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
2570 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
2573 Changes in version 0.4.2.7 - 2020-03-18
2574 This is the third stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. It backports
2575 numerous fixes from later releases, including a fix for TROVE-2020-
2576 002, a major denial-of-service vulnerability that affected all
2577 released Tor instances since 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this vulnerability,
2578 an attacker could cause Tor instances to consume a huge amount of CPU,
2579 disrupting their operations for several seconds or minutes. This
2580 attack could be launched by anybody against a relay, or by a directory
2581 cache against any client that had connected to it. The attacker could
2582 launch this attack as much as they wanted, thereby disrupting service
2583 or creating patterns that could aid in traffic analysis. This issue
2584 was found by OSS-Fuzz, and is also tracked as CVE-2020-10592.
2586 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
2587 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
2588 as soon as packages are available.
2590 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
2591 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
2592 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
2593 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
2594 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
2595 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
2596 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
2597 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
2598 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
2600 o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
2601 - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit
2602 padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit.
2603 Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls.
2604 This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593.
2606 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
2607 - Directory authorities will now send a 503 (not enough bandwidth)
2608 code to clients when under bandwidth pressure. Known relays and
2609 other authorities will always be answered regardless of the
2610 bandwidth situation. Fixes bug 33029; bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
2612 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
2613 - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks
2614 like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed.
2615 Closes ticket 33075.
2617 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2618 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
2619 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
2621 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
2622 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
2623 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
2624 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
2625 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
2628 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
2629 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
2630 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
2631 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
2634 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
2635 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
2636 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
2637 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2639 o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
2640 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
2641 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
2642 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
2644 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
2645 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
2646 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
2647 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
2648 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
2651 Changes in version 0.4.1.9 - 2020-03-18
2652 Tor 0.4.1.9 backports important fixes from later Tor releases,
2653 including a fix for TROVE-2020-002, a major denial-of-service
2654 vulnerability that affected all released Tor instances since
2655 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause Tor
2656 instances to consume a huge amount of CPU, disrupting their operations
2657 for several seconds or minutes. This attack could be launched by
2658 anybody against a relay, or by a directory cache against any client
2659 that had connected to it. The attacker could launch this attack as
2660 much as they wanted, thereby disrupting service or creating patterns
2661 that could aid in traffic analysis. This issue was found by OSS-Fuzz,
2662 and is also tracked as CVE-2020-10592.
2664 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
2665 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
2666 as soon as packages are available.
2668 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
2669 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
2670 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
2671 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
2672 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
2673 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
2674 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
2675 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
2676 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
2678 o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
2679 - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit
2680 padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit.
2681 Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls.
2682 This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593.
2684 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2685 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
2686 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
2688 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
2689 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
2690 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
2691 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
2692 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
2695 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
2696 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
2697 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
2698 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
2701 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
2702 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
2703 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
2704 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2706 o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
2707 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
2708 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
2709 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
2711 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
2712 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
2713 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
2714 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
2715 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
2718 Changes in version 0.3.5.10 - 2020-03-18
2719 Tor 0.3.5.10 backports many fixes from later Tor releases, including a
2720 fix for TROVE-2020-002, a major denial-of-service vulnerability that
2721 affected all released Tor instances since 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this
2722 vulnerability, an attacker could cause Tor instances to consume a huge
2723 amount of CPU, disrupting their operations for several seconds or
2724 minutes. This attack could be launched by anybody against a relay, or
2725 by a directory cache against any client that had connected to it. The
2726 attacker could launch this attack as much as they wanted, thereby
2727 disrupting service or creating patterns that could aid in traffic
2728 analysis. This issue was found by OSS-Fuzz, and is also tracked
2731 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
2732 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
2733 as soon as packages are available.
2735 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
2736 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
2737 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
2738 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
2739 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
2740 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
2741 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
2742 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
2743 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
2745 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2746 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
2747 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
2748 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
2749 libseccomp <2.4.0 this lead to some rules having no effect.
2750 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
2751 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
2752 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
2755 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
2756 - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks
2757 like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed.
2758 Closes ticket 33075.
2760 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2761 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
2762 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
2764 o Minor bugfixes (crash, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
2765 - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or
2766 --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing
2767 if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407;
2768 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2770 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
2771 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
2772 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
2773 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
2774 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
2777 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
2778 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
2779 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
2780 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
2783 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
2784 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
2785 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
2786 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2788 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2789 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
2790 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
2791 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
2792 Closes ticket 32629.
2793 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
2794 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
2795 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
2797 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2798 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
2800 o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
2801 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
2802 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
2803 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
2805 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
2806 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
2807 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
2808 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
2811 Changes in version 0.4.2.6 - 2020-01-30
2812 This is the second stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. It backports
2813 several bugfixes from 0.4.3.1-alpha, including some that had affected
2814 the Linux seccomp2 sandbox or Windows services. If you're running with
2815 one of those configurations, you'll probably want to upgrade;
2816 otherwise, you should be fine with 0.4.2.5.
2818 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2819 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
2820 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
2821 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
2822 libseccomp <2.4.0 this led to some rules having no effect.
2823 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
2824 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
2825 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
2827 - Fix crash when reloading logging configuration while the
2828 experimental sandbox is enabled. Fixes bug 32841; bugfix on
2829 0.4.1.7. Patch by Peter Gerber.
2831 o Minor bugfixes (correctness checks, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2832 - Use GCC/Clang's printf-checking feature to make sure that
2833 tor_assertf() arguments are correctly typed. Fixes bug 32765;
2834 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2836 o Minor bugfixes (logging, crash, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2837 - Avoid a possible crash when trying to log a (fatal) assertion
2838 failure about mismatched magic numbers in configuration objects.
2839 Fixes bug 32771; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
2841 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2842 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, do not apply it to the
2843 test_practracker.sh script. Doing so caused a test failure. Fixes
2844 bug 32705; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
2845 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, log a notice to stderr when
2846 skipping practracker checks. Fixes bug 32705; bugfix
2849 o Minor bugfixes (windows service, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2850 - Initialize the publish/subscribe system when running as a windows
2851 service. Fixes bug 32778; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2853 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2854 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
2855 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
2856 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
2857 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
2858 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
2859 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
2860 Closes ticket 32629.
2862 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2863 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
2866 Changes in version 0.4.1.8 - 2020-01-30
2867 This release backports several bugfixes from later release series,
2868 including some that had affected the Linux seccomp2 sandbox or Windows
2869 services. If you're running with one of those configurations, you'll
2870 probably want to upgrade; otherwise, you should be fine with your
2871 current version of 0.4.1.x.
2873 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2874 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
2875 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
2876 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
2877 libseccomp <2.4.0 this led to some rules having no effect.
2878 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
2879 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
2880 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
2882 - Fix crash when reloading logging configuration while the
2883 experimental sandbox is enabled. Fixes bug 32841; bugfix on
2884 0.4.1.7. Patch by Peter Gerber.
2886 o Minor bugfixes (crash, backport form 0.4.2.4-rc):
2887 - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or
2888 --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing
2889 if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407;
2890 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2892 o Minor bugfixes (windows service, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2893 - Initialize the publish/subscribe system when running as a windows
2894 service. Fixes bug 32778; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2896 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2897 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
2898 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
2899 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
2900 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
2901 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
2902 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
2903 Closes ticket 32629.
2905 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2906 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
2909 Changes in version 0.4.2.5 - 2019-12-09
2910 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. This series
2911 improves reliability and stability, and includes several stability and
2912 correctness improvements for onion services. It also fixes many smaller
2913 bugs present in previous series.
2915 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.2.x series for nine
2916 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.3.x:
2917 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
2918 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
2920 Below are the changes since 0.4.1.4-rc. For a complete list of only
2921 the changes since 0.4.2.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
2923 o Major features (directory authorities):
2924 - Directory authorities now reject relays running all currently
2925 deprecated release series. The currently supported release series
2926 are: 0.2.9, 0.3.5, 0.4.0, 0.4.1, and 0.4.2. Closes ticket 31549.
2928 o Major features (onion service v3, denial of service):
2929 - Add onion service introduction denial of service defenses. Intro
2930 points can now rate-limit client introduction requests, using
2931 parameters that can be sent by the service within the
2932 ESTABLISH_INTRO cell. If the cell extension for this is not used,
2933 the intro point will honor the consensus parameters. Closes
2936 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard):
2937 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
2938 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close.
2939 Previously we could end up in the situation where a subsystem is
2940 notified of a circuit opening, but the circuit is still marked for
2941 close, leading to undesirable behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix
2944 o Major bugfixes (crash, Linux, Android):
2945 - Tolerate systems (including some Android installations) where
2946 madvise and MADV_DONTDUMP are available at build-time, but not at
2947 run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed syscall
2948 and abort. Fixes bug 31570; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2949 - Tolerate systems (including some Linux installations) where
2950 madvise and/or MADV_DONTFORK are available at build-time, but not
2951 at run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed
2952 syscall and abort. Fixes bug 31696; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2954 o Major bugfixes (embedded Tor):
2955 - Avoid a possible crash when restarting Tor in embedded mode and
2956 enabling a different set of publish/subscribe messages. Fixes bug
2957 31898; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2959 o Major bugfixes (relay):
2960 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
2961 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
2962 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
2963 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
2964 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
2965 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
2966 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
2968 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing):
2969 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
2970 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
2971 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
2972 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2974 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services):
2975 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
2976 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
2977 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
2978 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
2981 o Minor feature (onion services, control port):
2982 - The ADD_ONION command's keyword "BEST" now defaults to ED25519-V3
2983 (v3) onion services. Previously it defaulted to RSA1024 (v2).
2984 Closes ticket 29669.
2986 o Minor features (auto-formatting scripts):
2987 - When annotating C macros, never generate a line that our check-
2988 spaces script would reject. Closes ticket 31759.
2989 - When annotating C macros, try to remove cases of double-negation.
2990 Closes ticket 31779.
2992 o Minor features (best practices tracker):
2993 - Our best-practices tracker now integrates with our include-checker
2994 tool to keep track of how many layering violations we have not yet
2995 fixed. We hope to reduce this number over time to improve Tor's
2996 modularity. Closes ticket 31176.
2997 - Add a TOR_PRACTRACKER_OPTIONS variable for passing arguments to
2998 practracker from the environment. We may want this for continuous
2999 integration. Closes ticket 31309.
3000 - Give a warning rather than an error when a practracker exception
3001 is violated by a small amount, add a --list-overbroad option to
3002 practracker that lists exceptions that are stricter than they need
3003 to be, and provide an environment variable for disabling
3004 practracker. Closes ticket 30752.
3005 - Our best-practices tracker now looks at headers as well as C
3006 files. Closes ticket 31175.
3008 o Minor features (build system):
3009 - Make pkg-config use --prefix when cross-compiling, if
3010 PKG_CONFIG_PATH is not set. Closes ticket 32191.
3011 - Add --disable-manpage and --disable-html-manual options to
3012 configure script. This will enable shortening build times by not
3013 building documentation. Resolves issue 19381.
3015 o Minor features (compilation):
3016 - Log a more useful error message when we are compiling and one of
3017 the compile-time hardening options we have selected can be linked
3018 but not executed. Closes ticket 27530.
3020 o Minor features (configuration):
3021 - The configuration code has been extended to allow splitting
3022 configuration data across multiple objects. Previously, all
3023 configuration data needed to be kept in a single object, which
3024 tended to become bloated. Closes ticket 31240.
3026 o Minor features (continuous integration):
3027 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
3028 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
3029 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
3030 - When running CI builds on Travis, put some random data in
3031 ~/.torrc, to make sure no tests are reading the Tor configuration
3032 file from its default location. Resolves issue 30102.
3034 o Minor features (debugging):
3035 - Log a nonfatal assertion failure if we encounter a configuration
3036 line whose command is "CLEAR" but which has a nonempty value. This
3037 should be impossible, according to the rules of our configuration
3038 line parsing. Closes ticket 31529.
3040 o Minor features (geoip):
3041 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
3042 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
3044 o Minor features (git hooks):
3045 - Our pre-commit git hook now checks for a special file before
3046 running practracker, so that practracker only runs on branches
3047 that are based on master. Since the pre-push hook calls the pre-
3048 commit hook, practracker will also only run before pushes of
3049 branches based on master. Closes ticket 30979.
3051 o Minor features (git scripts):
3052 - Add a "--" command-line argument, to separate git-push-all.sh
3053 script arguments from arguments that are passed through to git
3054 push. Closes ticket 31314.
3055 - Add a -r <remote-name> argument to git-push-all.sh, so the script
3056 can push test branches to a personal remote. Closes ticket 31314.
3057 - Add a -t <test-branch-prefix> argument to git-merge-forward.sh and
3058 git-push-all.sh, which makes these scripts create, merge forward,
3059 and push test branches. Closes ticket 31314.
3060 - Add a -u argument to git-merge-forward.sh, so that the script can
3061 re-use existing test branches after a merge failure and fix.
3062 Closes ticket 31314.
3063 - Add a TOR_GIT_PUSH env var, which sets the default git push
3064 command and arguments for git-push-all.sh. Closes ticket 31314.
3065 - Add a TOR_PUSH_DELAY variable to git-push-all.sh, which makes the
3066 script push master and maint branches with a delay between each
3067 branch. These delays trigger the CI jobs in a set order, which
3068 should show the most likely failures first. Also make pushes
3069 atomic by default, and make the script pass any command-line
3070 arguments to git push. Closes ticket 29879.
3071 - Call the shellcheck script from the pre-commit hook. Closes
3073 - Skip pushing test branches that are the same as a remote
3074 maint/release/master branch in git-push-all.sh by default. Add a
3075 -s argument, so git-push-all.sh can push all test branches. Closes
3078 o Minor features (IPv6, logging):
3079 - Log IPv6 addresses as well as IPv4 addresses when describing
3080 routerinfos, routerstatuses, and nodes. Closes ticket 21003.
3082 o Minor features (maintenance scripts):
3083 - Add a Coccinelle script to detect bugs caused by incrementing or
3084 decrementing a variable inside a call to log_debug(). Since
3085 log_debug() is a macro whose arguments are conditionally
3086 evaluated, it is usually an error to do this. One such bug was
3087 30628, in which SENDME cells were miscounted by a decrement
3088 operator inside a log_debug() call. Closes ticket 30743.
3090 o Minor features (onion service v3):
3091 - Do not allow single hop clients to fetch or post an HS descriptor
3092 from an HSDir. Closes ticket 24964.
3094 o Minor features (onion service):
3095 - Disallow single-hop clients at the introduction point. We've
3096 removed Tor2web support a while back and single-hop rendezvous
3097 attempts are blocked at the relays. This change should remove load
3098 off the network from spammy clients. Close ticket 24963.
3100 o Minor features (onion services v3):
3101 - Assist users who try to setup v2 client authorization in v3 onion
3102 services by pointing them to the right documentation. Closes
3105 o Minor features (stem tests):
3106 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
3107 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
3110 o Minor features (testing):
3111 - When running tests that attempt to look up hostnames, replace the
3112 libc name lookup functions with ones that do not actually touch
3113 the network. This way, the tests complete more quickly in the
3114 presence of a slow or missing DNS resolver. Closes ticket 31841.
3115 - Add a script to invoke "tor --dump-config" and "tor
3116 --verify-config" with various configuration options, and see
3117 whether tor's resulting configuration or error messages are what
3118 we expect. Use it for integration testing of our +Option and
3119 /Option flags. Closes ticket 31637.
3120 - Improve test coverage for our existing configuration parsing and
3121 management API. Closes ticket 30893.
3122 - Add integration tests to make sure that practracker gives the
3123 outputs we expect. Closes ticket 31477.
3124 - The practracker self-tests are now run as part of the Tor test
3125 suite. Closes ticket 31304.
3127 o Minor features (testing, continuous integration):
3128 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
3129 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
3130 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
3132 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
3133 Closes ticket 31859.
3134 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
3135 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
3137 o Minor features (token bucket):
3138 - Implement a generic token bucket that uses a single counter, for
3139 use in anti-DoS onion service work. Closes ticket 30687.
3141 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor continuous integration):
3142 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install
3143 step. Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
3145 o Minor bugfixes (best practices tracker):
3146 - Fix a few issues in the best-practices script, including tests,
3147 tab tolerance, error reporting, and directory-exclusion logic.
3148 Fixes bug 29746; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3149 - When running check-best-practices, only consider files in the src
3150 subdirectory. Previously we had recursively considered all
3151 subdirectories, which made us get confused by the temporary
3152 directories made by "make distcheck". Fixes bug 31578; bugfix
3155 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
3156 - Interpret "--disable-module-dirauth=no" correctly. Fixes bug
3157 32124; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
3158 - Interpret "--with-tcmalloc=no" correctly. Fixes bug 32124; bugfix
3160 - Stop failing when jemalloc is requested, but tcmalloc is not
3161 found. Fixes bug 32124; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3162 - When pkg-config is not installed, or a library that depends on
3163 pkg-config is not found, tell the user what to do to fix the
3164 problem. Fixes bug 31922; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3165 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
3166 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
3168 o Minor bugfixes (chutney, makefiles, documentation):
3169 - "make test-network-all" now shows the warnings from each test-
3170 network.sh run on the console, so developers see new warnings
3171 early. We've also improved the documentation for this feature, and
3172 renamed a Makefile variable so the code is self-documenting. Fixes
3173 bug 30455; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc.
3175 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3):
3176 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
3177 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
3178 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
3179 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
3180 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3182 o Minor bugfixes (code quality):
3183 - Fix "make check-includes" so it runs correctly on out-of-tree
3184 builds. Fixes bug 31335; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3186 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
3187 - Add more stub functions to fix compilation on Android with link-
3188 time optimization when --disable-module-dirauth is used.
3189 Previously, these compilation settings would make the compiler
3190 look for functions that didn't exist. Fixes bug 31552; bugfix
3192 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
3193 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
3194 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
3196 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
3197 - Invalid floating-point values in the configuration file are now
3198 treated as errors in the configuration. Previously, they were
3199 ignored and treated as zero. Fixes bug 31475; bugfix on 0.0.1.
3201 o Minor bugfixes (connections):
3202 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
3203 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
3204 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
3206 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
3207 - Fix the MAPADDRESS controller command to accept one or more
3208 arguments. Previously, it required two or more arguments, and
3209 ignored the first. Fixes bug 31772; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3211 o Minor bugfixes (coverity):
3212 - Add an assertion when parsing a BEGIN cell so that coverity can be
3213 sure that we are not about to dereference a NULL address. Fixes
3214 bug 31026; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. This is CID 1447296.
3215 - In our siphash implementation, when building for coverity, use
3216 memcpy in place of a switch statement, so that coverity can tell
3217 we are not accessing out-of-bounds memory. Fixes bug 31025; bugfix
3218 on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This is tracked as CID 1447293 and 1447295.
3219 - Fix several coverity warnings from our unit tests. Fixes bug
3220 31030; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha, 0.3.2.1-alpha, and 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3222 o Minor bugfixes (crash):
3223 - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or
3224 --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing
3225 if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407;
3226 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3228 o Minor bugfixes (developer tooling):
3229 - Only log git script changes in the post-merge script when the
3230 merge was to the master branch. Fixes bug 31040; bugfix
3233 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
3234 - Return a distinct status when formatting annotations fails. Fixes
3235 bug 30780; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
3237 o Minor bugfixes (error handling):
3238 - Always lock the backtrace buffer before it is used. Fixes bug
3239 31734; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
3240 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
3241 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
3242 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3243 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
3244 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
3245 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3246 - When tor aborts due to an error, close log file descriptors before
3247 aborting. Closing the logs makes some OSes flush log file buffers,
3248 rather than deleting buffered log lines. Fixes bug 31594; bugfix
3251 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6):
3252 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
3253 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
3254 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
3257 o Minor bugfixes (git hooks):
3258 - Remove a duplicate call to practracker from the pre-push hook. The
3259 pre-push hook already calls the pre-commit hook, which calls
3260 practracker. Fixes bug 31462; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3262 o Minor bugfixes (git scripts):
3263 - Stop hard-coding the bash path in the git scripts. Some OSes don't
3264 have bash in /usr/bin, others have an ancient bash at this path.
3265 Fixes bug 30840; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3266 - Stop hard-coding the tor master branch name and worktree path in
3267 the git scripts. Fixes bug 30841; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3268 - Allow git-push-all.sh to be run from any directory. Previously,
3269 the script only worked if run from an upstream worktree directory.
3270 Closes ticket 31678.
3272 o Minor bugfixes (guards):
3273 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
3274 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
3275 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
3276 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3278 o Minor bugfixes (ipv6):
3279 - Check for private IPv6 addresses alongside their IPv4 equivalents
3280 when authorities check descriptors. Previously, we only checked
3281 for private IPv4 addresses. Fixes bug 31088; bugfix on
3282 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3283 - When parsing microdescriptors, we should check the IPv6 exit
3284 policy alongside IPv4. Previously, we checked both exit policies
3285 for only router info structures, while microdescriptors were
3286 IPv4-only. Fixes bug 27284; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by
3289 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
3290 - Add a missing check for HAVE_PTHREAD_H, because the backtrace code
3291 uses mutexes. Fixes bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
3292 - Disable backtrace signal handlers when shutting down tor. Fixes
3293 bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
3294 - Rate-limit our the logging message about the obsolete .exit
3295 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
3296 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
3297 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
3298 - When initialising log domain masks, only set known log domains.
3299 Fixes bug 31854; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
3300 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
3301 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
3303 - Fix a code issue that would have broken our parsing of log domains
3304 as soon as we had 33 of them. Fortunately, we still only have 29.
3305 Fixes bug 31451; bugfix on 0.4.1.4-rc.
3307 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations):
3308 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
3309 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
3310 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
3312 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API):
3313 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
3314 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
3315 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
3316 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
3319 o Minor bugfixes (memory management):
3320 - Stop leaking a small amount of memory in nt_service_install(), in
3321 unreachable code. Fixes bug 30799; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Patch
3324 o Minor bugfixes (modules):
3325 - Explain what the optional Directory Authority module is, and what
3326 happens when it is disabled. Fixes bug 31825; bugfix
3329 o Minor bugfixes (multithreading):
3330 - Avoid some undefined behaviour when freeing mutexes. Fixes bug
3331 31736; bugfix on 0.0.7.
3333 o Minor bugfixes (networking, IP addresses):
3334 - When parsing addresses via Tor's internal DNS lookup API, reject
3335 IPv4 addresses in square brackets, and accept IPv6 addresses in
3336 square brackets. This change completes the work started in 23082,
3337 making address parsing consistent between tor's internal DNS
3338 lookup and address parsing APIs. Fixes bug 30721; bugfix
3340 - When parsing addresses via Tor's internal address:port parsing and
3341 DNS lookup APIs, require IPv6 addresses with ports to have square
3342 brackets. But allow IPv6 addresses without ports, whether or not
3343 they have square brackets. Fixes bug 30721; bugfix
3346 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
3347 - When purging the client descriptor cache, close any introduction
3348 point circuits associated with purged cache entries. This avoids
3349 picking those circuits later when connecting to the same
3350 introduction points. Fixes bug 30921; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3352 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
3353 - In the hs_ident_circuit_t data structure, remove the unused field
3354 circuit_type and the respective argument in hs_ident_circuit_new().
3355 This field was set by clients (for introduction) and services (for
3356 introduction and rendezvous) but was never used afterwards. Fixes
3357 bug 31490; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3359 o Minor bugfixes (operator tools):
3360 - Make tor-print-ed-signing-cert(1) print certificate expiration
3361 date in RFC 1123 and UNIX timestamp formats, to make output
3362 machine readable. Fixes bug 31012; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3364 o Minor bugfixes (process management):
3365 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
3366 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
3368 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
3369 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
3370 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3372 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
3373 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
3374 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
3375 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
3377 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
3378 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
3379 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
3380 - Raise the minimum rustc version to 1.31.0, as checked by configure
3381 and CI. Fixes bug 31442; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
3383 o Minor bugfixes (sendme, code structure):
3384 - Rename the trunnel SENDME file definition from sendme.trunnel to
3385 sendme_cell.trunnel to avoid having twice sendme.{c|h} in the
3386 repository. Fixes bug 30769; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3388 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
3389 - Stop removing the ed25519 signature if the extra info file is too
3390 big. If the signature data was removed, but the keyword was kept,
3391 this could result in an unparseable extra info file. Fixes bug
3392 30958; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
3394 o Minor bugfixes (subsystems):
3395 - Make the subsystem init order match the subsystem module
3396 dependencies. Call windows process security APIs as early as
3397 possible. Initialize logging before network and time, so that
3398 network and time can use logging. Fixes bug 31615; bugfix
3401 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
3402 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
3403 inconsistent timing sources. Fixes bug 31995; bugfix
3405 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
3406 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
3407 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
3408 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3409 - Teach the util/socketpair_ersatz test to work correctly when we
3410 have no network stack configured. Fixes bug 30804; bugfix
3413 o Minor bugfixes (tests, SunOS):
3414 - Avoid a map_anon_nofork test failure due to a signed/unsigned
3415 integer comparison. Fixes bug 31897; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3417 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging):
3418 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
3419 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
3422 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services):
3423 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
3424 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
3425 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
3426 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
3427 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
3429 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
3430 - When cleaning up intro circuits for a v3 onion service, don't
3431 remove circuits that have an established or pending circuit, even
3432 if they ran out of retries. This way, we don't remove a circuit on
3433 its last retry. Fixes bug 31652; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3435 o Minor bugfixes (v3 single onion services):
3436 - Always retry v3 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
3437 a 3-hop path. Previously, v3 single onion services used a 3-hop
3438 path when rend circuits were retried after a remote or delayed
3439 failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug 23818;
3440 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3441 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
3442 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
3443 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
3444 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3446 o Code simplification and refactoring:
3447 - Refactor connection_control_process_inbuf() to reduce the size of
3448 a practracker exception. Closes ticket 31840.
3449 - Refactor the microdescs_parse_from_string() function into smaller
3450 pieces, for better comprehensibility. Closes ticket 31675.
3451 - Use SEVERITY_MASK_IDX() to find the LOG_* mask indexes in the unit
3452 tests and fuzzers, rather than using hard-coded values. Closes
3454 - Interface for function `decrypt_desc_layer` cleaned up. Closes
3458 - Correct the description of "GuardLifetime". Fixes bug 31189;
3459 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
3460 - Make clear in the man page, in both the bandwidth section and the
3461 AccountingMax section, that Tor counts in powers of two, not
3462 powers of ten: 1 GByte is 1024*1024*1024 bytes, not one billion
3463 bytes. Resolves ticket 32106.
3464 - Document the signal-safe logging behaviour in the tor man page.
3465 Also add some comments to the relevant functions. Closes
3467 - Explain why we can't destroy the backtrace buffer mutex. Explain
3468 why we don't need to destroy the log mutex. Closes ticket 31736.
3469 - The Tor source code repository now includes a (somewhat dated)
3470 description of Tor's modular architecture, in doc/HACKING/design.
3471 This is based on the old "tor-guts.git" repository, which we are
3472 adopting and superseding. Closes ticket 31849.
3473 - Improve documentation in circuit padding subsystem. Patch by
3474 Tobias Pulls. Closes ticket 31113.
3475 - Include an example usage for IPv6 ORPort in our sample torrc.
3476 Closes ticket 31320; patch from Ali Raheem.
3477 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
3478 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
3479 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
3482 - No longer include recommended package digests in votes as detailed
3483 in proposal 301. The RecommendedPackages torrc option is
3484 deprecated and will no longer have any effect. "package" lines
3485 will still be considered when computing consensuses for consensus
3486 methods that include them. (This change has no effect on the list
3487 of recommended Tor versions, which is still in use.) Closes
3489 - Remove torctl.in from contrib/dist directory. Resolves
3493 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU
3494 gcc extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition
3495 warnings. Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
3496 Closes ticket 32500.
3497 - Run shellcheck for all non-third-party shell scripts that are
3498 shipped with Tor. Closes ticket 29533.
3499 - When checking shell scripts, ignore any user-created directories.
3500 Closes ticket 30967.
3502 o Code simplification and refactoring (config handling):
3503 - Extract our variable manipulation code from confparse.c to a new
3504 lower-level typedvar.h module. Closes ticket 30864.
3505 - Lower another layer of object management from confparse.c to a
3506 more general tool. Now typed structure members are accessible via
3507 an abstract type. Implements ticket 30914.
3508 - Move our backend logic for working with configuration and state
3509 files into a lower-level library, since it no longer depends on
3510 any tor-specific functionality. Closes ticket 31626.
3511 - Numerous simplifications in configuration-handling logic: remove
3512 duplicated macro definitions, replace magical names with flags,
3513 and refactor "TestingTorNetwork" to use the same default-option
3514 logic as the rest of Tor. Closes ticket 30935.
3515 - Replace our ad-hoc set of flags for configuration variables and
3516 configuration variable types with fine-grained orthogonal flags
3517 corresponding to the actual behavior we want. Closes ticket 31625.
3519 o Code simplification and refactoring (misc):
3520 - Eliminate some uses of lower-level control reply abstractions,
3521 primarily in the onion_helper functions. Closes ticket 30889.
3522 - Rework bootstrap tracking to use the new publish-subscribe
3523 subsystem. Closes ticket 29976.
3524 - Rewrite format_node_description() and router_get_verbose_nickname()
3525 to use strlcpy() and strlcat(). The previous implementation used
3526 memcpy() and pointer arithmetic, which was error-prone. Closes
3527 ticket 31545. This is CID 1452819.
3528 - Split extrainfo_dump_to_string() into smaller functions. Closes
3530 - Use the ptrdiff_t type consistently for expressing variable
3531 offsets and pointer differences. Previously we incorrectly (but
3532 harmlessly) used int and sometimes off_t for these cases. Closes
3534 - Use the subsystems mechanism to manage the main event loop code.
3535 Closes ticket 30806.
3536 - Various simplifications and minor improvements to the circuit
3537 padding machines. Patch by Tobias Pulls. Closes tickets 31112
3540 o Documentation (hard-coded directories):
3541 - Improve the documentation for the DirAuthority and FallbackDir
3542 torrc options. Closes ticket 30955.
3544 o Documentation (tor.1 man page):
3545 - Fix typo in tor.1 man page: the option is "--help", not "-help".
3546 Fixes bug 31008; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
3548 o Testing (continuous integration):
3549 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
3550 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
3551 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
3552 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
3553 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
3554 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
3555 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
3556 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
3557 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
3560 Changes in version 0.4.1.7 - 2019-12-09
3561 This release backports several bugfixes to improve stability and
3562 correctness. Anyone experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.1.6,
3563 including all relays relying on AccountingMax, should upgrade.
3565 o Major features (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3566 - Directory authorities now reject relays running all currently
3567 deprecated release series. The currently supported release series
3568 are: 0.2.9, 0.3.5, 0.4.0, 0.4.1, and 0.4.2. Closes ticket 31549.
3570 o Major bugfixes (embedded Tor, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3571 - Avoid a possible crash when restarting Tor in embedded mode and
3572 enabling a different set of publish/subscribe messages. Fixes bug
3573 31898; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3575 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3576 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
3577 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
3578 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
3579 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
3580 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
3581 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
3582 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3584 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3585 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
3586 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
3587 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
3588 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3590 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3591 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
3592 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
3593 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
3594 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
3597 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3598 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
3599 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
3600 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
3602 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
3603 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
3604 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
3606 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3607 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
3608 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
3610 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
3611 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
3612 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
3613 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
3614 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
3615 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3617 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
3618 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
3619 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
3620 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
3622 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3623 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
3624 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
3625 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3626 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
3627 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
3628 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3629 - When tor aborts due to an error, close log file descriptors before
3630 aborting. Closing the logs makes some OSes flush log file buffers,
3631 rather than deleting buffered log lines. Fixes bug 31594; bugfix
3634 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3635 - Add a missing check for HAVE_PTHREAD_H, because the backtrace code
3636 uses mutexes. Fixes bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
3637 - Disable backtrace signal handlers when shutting down tor. Fixes
3638 bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
3639 - Rate-limit our the logging message about the obsolete .exit
3640 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
3641 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
3642 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
3644 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3645 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
3646 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
3647 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
3649 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3650 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
3651 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
3652 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
3653 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
3656 o Minor bugfixes (multithreading, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3657 - Avoid some undefined behaviour when freeing mutexes. Fixes bug
3658 31736; bugfix on 0.0.7.
3660 o Minor bugfixes (process management, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3661 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
3662 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
3664 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
3665 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
3666 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3668 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3669 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
3670 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
3671 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
3673 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3674 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
3675 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
3676 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
3677 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3679 o Minor bugfixes (tests, SunOS, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3680 - Avoid a map_anon_nofork test failure due to a signed/unsigned
3681 integer comparison. Fixes bug 31897; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3683 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3684 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
3685 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
3688 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3689 - Explain why we can't destroy the backtrace buffer mutex. Explain
3690 why we don't need to destroy the log mutex. Closes ticket 31736.
3692 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3693 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
3694 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
3695 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
3697 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
3698 Closes ticket 31859.
3699 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
3700 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
3702 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
3703 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
3704 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
3705 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
3706 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
3707 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
3708 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
3709 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
3710 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
3711 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
3713 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
3714 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
3715 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
3716 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
3717 Closes ticket 32500.
3720 Changes in version 0.4.0.6 - 2019-12-09
3721 This is the second stable release in the 0.4.0.x series. This release
3722 backports several bugfixes to improve stability and correctness. Anyone
3723 experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.0.5, including all relays
3724 relying on AccountingMax, should upgrade.
3726 Note that, per our support policy, support for the 0.4.0.x series will end
3727 on 2 Feb 2020. Anyone still running 0.4.0.x should plan to upgrade to the
3728 latest stable release, or downgrade to 0.3.5.x, which will get long-term
3729 support until 1 Feb 2022.
3731 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.4.1.5):
3732 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
3735 o Major bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
3736 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
3737 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
3738 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
3739 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
3740 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
3741 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
3742 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
3743 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
3744 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
3745 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
3747 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
3748 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
3749 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
3750 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
3751 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
3752 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
3754 o Major bugfixes (Onion service reachability, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
3755 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
3756 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
3757 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
3758 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
3761 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
3762 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
3763 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
3764 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
3765 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
3767 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
3768 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
3769 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
3770 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
3773 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3774 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
3775 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
3776 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
3777 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
3778 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
3779 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
3780 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3782 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3783 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
3784 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
3785 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
3786 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3788 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3789 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
3790 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
3791 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
3792 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
3795 o Minor features (compile-time modules, backport from version 0.4.1.1-alpha):
3796 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
3797 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
3799 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
3800 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
3801 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
3804 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
3805 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
3806 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
3808 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3809 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
3810 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
3811 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
3813 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
3814 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
3815 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
3816 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
3817 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
3819 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
3820 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
3821 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
3823 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3824 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
3825 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
3828 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3829 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
3830 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
3832 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3833 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
3834 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
3836 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
3837 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
3838 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
3840 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
3841 - On relays, properly check that a padding machine is absent before
3842 logging a warning about it being absent. Fixes bug 30649; bugfix
3845 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
3846 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
3847 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
3848 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
3849 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
3850 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3852 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection, backport from 0.4.1.5):
3853 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
3854 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
3855 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
3856 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
3858 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning, backport from 0.4.1.5):
3859 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
3860 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix
3863 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.1.5):
3864 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
3865 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
3867 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3868 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
3869 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
3870 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
3872 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
3873 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
3874 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
3875 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
3877 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
3878 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
3879 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
3880 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
3882 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
3883 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
3884 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
3885 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
3887 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
3888 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
3889 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
3890 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
3891 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3892 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
3893 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3895 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
3896 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
3897 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
3898 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
3900 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
3901 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
3902 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
3903 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
3905 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
3906 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
3907 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
3910 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3911 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
3912 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
3913 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3914 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
3915 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
3916 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3918 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3919 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
3920 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
3921 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
3924 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3925 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
3926 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
3927 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
3928 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3930 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
3931 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
3932 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
3933 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
3934 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
3936 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3937 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
3938 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
3941 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3942 - Rate-limit our the logging message about the obsolete .exit
3943 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
3944 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
3945 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
3947 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3948 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
3949 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
3950 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
3952 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3953 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
3954 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
3955 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
3956 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
3959 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
3960 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
3961 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
3964 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
3965 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value
3966 from a download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug
3967 30894; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
3969 o Minor bugfixes (NetBSD, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
3970 - Fix usage of minherit() on NetBSD and other platforms that define
3971 MAP_INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE} instead of INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE}. Fixes bug
3972 30614; bugfix on 0.4.0.2-alpha. Patch from Taylor Campbell.
3974 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
3975 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
3976 implemenation) when failing to load an onion service client
3977 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3979 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
3980 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
3981 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
3982 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
3985 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
3986 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
3987 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
3988 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
3989 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
3990 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
3993 o Minor bugfixes (process management, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3994 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
3995 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
3997 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
3998 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
3999 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4001 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
4002 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
4003 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
4004 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
4006 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4007 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
4008 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
4010 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
4011 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
4012 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
4013 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
4014 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4016 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
4017 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
4018 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
4021 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4022 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
4023 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
4024 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
4025 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
4026 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
4027 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
4028 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
4029 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
4030 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4032 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4033 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
4034 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
4035 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
4037 o Testing (backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
4038 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
4039 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
4040 Resolves issue 29702.
4042 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
4043 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
4045 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.5):
4046 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and
4047 tail stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
4048 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary. Closes
4051 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
4052 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
4053 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
4054 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
4056 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
4057 Closes ticket 31859.
4058 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
4059 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
4061 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
4062 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
4063 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
4064 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
4065 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
4066 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
4067 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
4068 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
4069 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
4070 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
4072 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
4073 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
4074 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
4075 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
4076 Closes ticket 32500.
4079 Changes in version 0.3.5.9 - 2019-12-09
4080 Tor 0.3.5.9 backports serveral fixes from later releases, including
4081 several that affect bridge users, relay stability, onion services,
4084 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.4.1.5):
4085 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
4088 o Major bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
4089 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
4090 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
4091 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
4092 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
4093 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
4094 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
4095 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
4096 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
4097 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
4098 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
4100 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
4101 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
4102 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
4103 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
4104 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
4105 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
4107 o Major bugfixes (NSS, relay, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
4108 - When running with NSS, disable TLS 1.2 ciphersuites that use
4109 SHA384 for their PRF. Due to an NSS bug, the TLS key exporters for
4110 these ciphersuites don't work -- which caused relays to fail to
4111 handshake with one another when these ciphersuites were enabled.
4112 Fixes bug 29241; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4114 o Major bugfixes (Onion service reachability, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
4115 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
4116 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
4117 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
4118 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
4121 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
4122 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
4123 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
4124 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
4125 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
4127 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
4128 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
4129 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
4130 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
4133 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
4134 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
4135 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
4136 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
4137 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4139 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
4140 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
4141 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
4142 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
4143 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
4146 o Minor features (address selection, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
4147 - Treat the subnet 100.64.0.0/10 as public for some purposes;
4148 private for others. This subnet is the RFC 6598 (Carrier Grade
4149 NAT) IP range, and is deployed by many ISPs as an alternative to
4150 RFC 1918 that does not break existing internal networks. Tor now
4151 blocks SOCKS and control ports on these addresses and warns users
4152 if client ports or ExtORPorts are listening on a RFC 6598 address.
4153 Closes ticket 28525. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4155 o Minor features (bandwidth authority, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
4156 - Make bandwidth authorities ignore relays that are reported in the
4157 bandwidth file with the flag "vote=0". This change allows us to
4158 report unmeasured relays for diagnostic reasons without including
4159 their bandwidth in the bandwidth authorities' vote. Closes
4162 o Minor features (compile-time modules, backport from version 0.4.1.1-alpha):
4163 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
4164 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
4166 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
4167 - On Travis Rust builds, cleanup Rust registry and refrain from
4168 caching the "target/" directory to speed up builds. Resolves
4171 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.5):
4172 - In Travis, tell timelimit to use stem's backtrace signals, and
4173 launch python directly from timelimit, so python receives the
4174 signals from timelimit, rather than make. Closes ticket 30117.
4176 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
4177 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
4178 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
4181 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
4182 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
4183 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
4185 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
4186 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
4187 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
4188 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
4190 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
4191 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
4192 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
4193 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
4194 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
4196 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
4197 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
4198 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
4200 o Minor features (NSS, diagnostic, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
4201 - Try to log an error from NSS (if there is any) and a more useful
4202 description of our situation if we are using NSS and a call to
4203 SSL_ExportKeyingMaterial() fails. Diagnostic for ticket 29241.
4205 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4206 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
4207 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
4210 o Minor bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
4211 - Verify in more places that we are not about to create a buffer
4212 with more than INT_MAX bytes, to avoid possible OOB access in the
4213 event of bugs. Fixes bug 30041; bugfix on 0.2.0.16. Found and
4214 fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
4215 - Fix a potential double free bug when reading huge bandwidth files.
4216 The issue is not exploitable in the current Tor network because
4217 the vulnerable code is only reached when directory authorities
4218 read bandwidth files, but bandwidth files come from a trusted
4219 source (usually the authorities themselves). Furthermore, the
4220 issue is only exploitable in rare (non-POSIX) 32-bit architectures,
4221 which are not used by any of the current authorities. Fixes bug
4222 30040; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Bug found and fixed by
4225 o Minor bugfix (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
4226 - Reset coverage state on disk after Travis CI has finished. This
4227 should prevent future coverage merge errors from causing the test
4228 suite for the "process" subsystem to fail. The process subsystem
4229 was introduced in 0.4.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 29036; bugfix
4231 - Terminate test-stem if it takes more than 9.5 minutes to run.
4232 (Travis terminates the job after 10 minutes of no output.)
4233 Diagnostic for 29437. Fixes bug 30011; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
4235 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
4236 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
4237 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
4239 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4240 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
4241 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
4243 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
4244 - Fix an unlikely memory leak in consensus_diff_apply(). Fixes bug
4245 29824; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. This is Coverity warning
4248 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
4249 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
4250 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
4252 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
4253 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
4254 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
4255 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
4256 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
4257 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4259 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection, backport from 0.4.1.5):
4260 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
4261 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
4262 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
4263 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
4265 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning, backport from 0.4.1.5):
4266 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
4267 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix
4270 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
4271 - Silence a compiler warning in test-memwipe.c on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
4272 29145; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
4274 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.1.5):
4275 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
4276 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
4278 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4279 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
4280 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
4281 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
4283 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
4284 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
4285 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
4286 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
4288 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
4289 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
4290 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
4291 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
4293 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
4294 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
4295 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
4296 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
4298 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
4299 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
4300 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
4301 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
4302 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4303 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
4304 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4306 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
4307 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
4308 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
4309 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
4311 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
4312 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
4313 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
4314 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
4316 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
4317 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
4318 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
4321 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4322 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
4323 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
4324 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4325 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
4326 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
4327 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4329 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4330 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
4331 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
4332 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
4335 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4336 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
4337 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
4338 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
4339 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4341 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
4342 - Avoid logging that we are relaxing a circuit timeout when that
4343 timeout is fixed. Fixes bug 28698; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
4345 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
4346 - Correct a misleading error message when IPv4Only or IPv6Only is
4347 used but the resolved address can not be interpreted as an address
4348 of the specified IP version. Fixes bug 13221; bugfix on
4349 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
4350 - Log the correct port number for listening sockets when "auto" is
4351 used to let Tor pick the port number. Previously, port 0 was
4352 logged instead of the actual port number. Fixes bug 29144; bugfix
4353 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
4354 - Stop logging a BUG() warning when Tor is waiting for exit
4355 descriptors. Fixes bug 28656; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4357 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
4358 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
4359 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
4360 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
4361 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
4363 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4364 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
4365 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
4368 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
4369 - Rate-limit our the logging message about the obsolete .exit
4370 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
4371 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
4372 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
4374 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
4375 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
4376 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
4377 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
4379 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
4380 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
4381 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
4382 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
4383 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
4386 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
4387 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
4388 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
4391 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
4392 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value
4393 from a download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug
4394 30894; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
4396 o Minor bugfixes (memory management, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
4397 - Refactor the shared random state's memory management so that it
4398 actually takes ownership of the shared random value pointers.
4399 Fixes bug 29706; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
4401 o Minor bugfixes (memory management, testing, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
4402 - Stop leaking parts of the shared random state in the shared-random
4403 unit tests. Fixes bug 29599; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
4405 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
4406 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
4407 implemenation) when failing to load an onion service client
4408 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4410 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
4411 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
4412 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
4413 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
4416 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
4417 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
4418 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
4419 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
4420 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
4421 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
4424 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
4425 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
4426 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
4427 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
4429 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.0.5):
4430 - Abort on panic in all build profiles, instead of potentially
4431 unwinding into C code. Fixes bug 27199; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4433 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4434 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
4435 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
4437 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
4438 - Allow connections to single onion services to remain idle without
4439 being disconnected. Previously, relays acting as rendezvous points
4440 for single onion services were mistakenly closing idle rendezvous
4441 circuits after 60 seconds, thinking that they were unused
4442 directory-fetching circuits that had served their purpose. Fixes
4443 bug 29665; bugfix on 0.2.1.26.
4445 o Minor bugfixes (stats, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
4446 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including PaddingStatistics in
4447 relay and bridge extra-info documents. Fixes bug 29017; bugfix
4450 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
4451 - Downgrade some LOG_ERR messages in the address/* tests to
4452 warnings. The LOG_ERR messages were occurring when we had no
4453 configured network. We were failing the unit tests, because we
4454 backported 28668 to 0.3.5.8, but did not backport 29530. Fixes bug
4455 29530; bugfix on 0.3.5.8.
4456 - Fix our gcov wrapper script to look for object files at the
4457 correct locations. Fixes bug 29435; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4459 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
4460 - Backport the 0.3.4 src/test/test-network.sh to 0.2.9. We need a
4461 recent test-network.sh to use new chutney features in CI. Fixes
4462 bug 29703; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
4463 - Fix a test failure on Windows caused by an unexpected "BUG"
4464 warning in our tests for tor_gmtime_r(-1). Fixes bug 29922; bugfix
4467 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
4468 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
4469 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
4470 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
4471 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4473 o Minor bugfixes (TLS protocol, backport form 0.4.0.4-rc):
4474 - When classifying a client's selection of TLS ciphers, if the
4475 client ciphers are not yet available, do not cache the result.
4476 Previously, we had cached the unavailability of the cipher list
4477 and never looked again, which in turn led us to assume that the
4478 client only supported the ancient V1 link protocol. This, in turn,
4479 was causing Stem integration tests to stall in some cases. Fixes
4480 bug 30021; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
4482 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
4483 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
4484 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
4487 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4488 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
4489 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
4490 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
4491 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
4492 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
4493 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
4494 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
4495 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
4496 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4498 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, CI, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
4499 - Skip the Appveyor 32-bit Windows Server 2016 job, and 64-bit
4500 Windows Server 2012 R2 job. The remaining 2 jobs still provide
4501 coverage of 64/32-bit, and Windows Server 2016/2012 R2. Also set
4502 fast_finish, so failed jobs terminate the build immediately. Fixes
4503 bug 29601; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
4505 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4506 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
4507 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
4508 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
4510 o Testing (backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
4511 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
4512 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
4513 Resolves issue 29702.
4515 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
4516 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
4518 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.5):
4519 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and
4520 tail stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
4521 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary. Closes
4524 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
4525 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
4526 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
4527 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
4529 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
4530 Closes ticket 31859.
4531 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
4532 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
4534 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
4535 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
4536 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
4537 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
4538 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
4539 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
4540 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
4541 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
4542 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
4543 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
4545 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
4546 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
4547 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
4548 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
4549 Closes ticket 32500.
4552 Changes in version 0.4.1.6 - 2019-09-19
4553 This release backports several bugfixes to improve stability and
4554 correctness. Anyone experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.1.5,
4555 or experiencing reliability issues with single onion services, should
4558 o Major bugfixes (crash, Linux, Android, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4559 - Tolerate systems (including some Android installations) where
4560 madvise and MADV_DONTDUMP are available at build-time, but not at
4561 run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed syscall
4562 and abort. Fixes bug 31570; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4563 - Tolerate systems (including some Linux installations) where
4564 madvise and/or MADV_DONTFORK are available at build-time, but not
4565 at run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed
4566 syscall and abort. Fixes bug 31696; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4568 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4569 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
4570 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
4573 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4574 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
4575 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
4577 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4578 - Add more stub functions to fix compilation on Android with link-
4579 time optimization when --disable-module-dirauth is used.
4580 Previously, these compilation settings would make the compiler
4581 look for functions that didn't exist. Fixes bug 31552; bugfix
4583 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
4584 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
4585 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
4587 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
4588 - Fix the MAPADDRESS controller command to accept one or more
4589 arguments. Previously, it required two or more arguments, and ignored
4590 the first. Fixes bug 31772; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4592 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4593 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
4594 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
4595 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
4598 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4599 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
4600 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
4601 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
4602 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4604 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4605 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
4606 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
4609 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4610 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
4611 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
4613 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4614 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
4615 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
4616 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
4617 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
4618 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
4620 o Minor bugfixes (v3 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4621 - Always retry v3 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
4622 a 3-hop path. Previously, v3 single onion services used a 3-hop
4623 path when rend circuits were retried after a remote or delayed
4624 failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug 23818;
4625 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4626 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
4627 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
4628 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
4629 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4631 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4632 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
4633 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
4634 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
4637 Changes in version 0.4.1.5 - 2019-08-20
4638 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.1.x series. This series
4639 adds experimental circuit-level padding, authenticated SENDME cells to
4640 defend against certain attacks, and several performance improvements
4641 to save on CPU consumption. It fixes bugs in bootstrapping and v3
4642 onion services. It also includes numerous smaller features and
4643 bugfixes on earlier versions.
4645 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.1.x series for nine
4646 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.2.x:
4647 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
4648 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
4650 Below are the changes since 0.4.0.5. For a list of only the changes
4651 since 0.4.1.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
4653 o Directory authority changes:
4654 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
4657 o Major features (circuit padding):
4658 - Onion service clients now add padding cells at the start of their
4659 INTRODUCE and RENDEZVOUS circuits, to make those circuits' traffic
4660 look more like general purpose Exit traffic. The overhead for this
4661 is 2 extra cells in each direction for RENDEZVOUS circuits, and 1
4662 extra upstream cell and 10 downstream cells for INTRODUCE
4663 circuits. This feature is only enabled when also supported by the
4664 circuit's middle node. (Clients may specify fixed middle nodes
4665 with the MiddleNodes option, and may force-disable this feature
4666 with the CircuitPadding option.) Closes ticket 28634.
4668 o Major features (code organization):
4669 - Tor now includes a generic publish-subscribe message-passing
4670 subsystem that we can use to organize intermodule dependencies. We
4671 hope to use this to reduce dependencies between modules that don't
4672 need to be related, and to generally simplify our codebase. Closes
4675 o Major features (controller protocol):
4676 - Controller commands are now parsed using a generalized parsing
4677 subsystem. Previously, each controller command was responsible for
4678 parsing its own input, which led to strange inconsistencies.
4679 Closes ticket 30091.
4681 o Major features (flow control):
4682 - Implement authenticated SENDMEs as detailed in proposal 289. A
4683 SENDME cell now includes the digest of the traffic that it
4684 acknowledges, so that once an end point receives the SENDME, it
4685 can confirm the other side's knowledge of the previous cells that
4686 were sent, and prevent certain types of denial-of-service attacks.
4687 This behavior is controlled by two new consensus parameters: see
4688 the proposal for more details. Fixes ticket 26288.
4690 o Major features (performance):
4691 - Our node selection algorithm now excludes nodes in linear time.
4692 Previously, the algorithm was quadratic, which could slow down
4693 heavily used onion services. Closes ticket 30307.
4695 o Major features (performance, RNG):
4696 - Tor now constructs a fast secure pseudorandom number generator for
4697 each thread, to use when performance is critical. This PRNG is
4698 based on AES-CTR, using a buffering construction similar to
4699 libottery and the (newer) OpenBSD arc4random() code. It
4700 outperforms OpenSSL 1.1.1a's CSPRNG by roughly a factor of 100 for
4701 small outputs. Although we believe it to be cryptographically
4702 strong, we are only using it when necessary for performance.
4703 Implements tickets 29023 and 29536.
4705 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
4706 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
4707 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
4708 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
4709 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
4710 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
4711 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
4712 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
4713 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
4714 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
4715 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
4717 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard):
4718 - On relays, properly check that a padding machine is absent before
4719 logging a warning about it being absent. Fixes bug 30649; bugfix
4721 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
4722 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
4723 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
4724 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
4725 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
4727 o Major bugfixes (onion service reachability):
4728 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
4729 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
4730 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
4731 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
4734 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3):
4735 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
4736 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
4737 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
4738 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
4740 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
4741 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
4742 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
4743 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
4746 o Minor features (authenticated SENDME):
4747 - Ensure that there is enough randomness on every circuit to prevent
4748 an attacker from successfully predicting the hashes they will need
4749 to include in authenticated SENDME cells. At a random interval, if
4750 we have not sent randomness already, we now leave some extra space
4751 at the end of a cell that we can fill with random bytes. Closes
4754 o Minor features (circuit padding logging):
4755 - Demote noisy client-side warn logs about circuit padding to protocol
4756 warnings. Add additional log messages and circuit ID fields to help
4757 with bug 30992 and any other future issues.
4759 o Minor features (circuit padding):
4760 - We now use a fast PRNG when scheduling circuit padding. Part of
4762 - Allow the padding machine designer to pick the edges of their
4763 histogram instead of trying to compute them automatically using an
4764 exponential formula. Resolves some undefined behavior in the case
4765 of small histograms and allows greater flexibility on machine
4766 design. Closes ticket 29298; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4767 - Allow circuit padding machines to hold a circuit open until they
4768 are done padding it. Closes ticket 28780.
4770 o Minor features (compile-time modules):
4771 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
4772 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
4774 o Minor features (continuous integration):
4775 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
4776 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
4777 - When running coverage builds on Travis, we now set
4778 TOR_TEST_RNG_SEED, to avoid RNG-based coverage differences. Part
4780 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
4781 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
4783 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
4785 o Minor features (controller):
4786 - Add onion service version 3 support to the HSFETCH command.
4787 Previously, only version 2 onion services were supported. Closes
4788 ticket 25417. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4790 o Minor features (debugging):
4791 - Introduce tor_assertf() and tor_assertf_nonfatal() to enable
4792 logging of additional information during assert failure. Now we
4793 can use format strings to include information for trouble
4794 shooting. Resolves ticket 29662.
4796 o Minor features (defense in depth):
4797 - In smartlist_remove_keeporder(), set unused pointers to NULL, in
4798 case a bug causes them to be used later. Closes ticket 30176.
4799 Patch from Tobias Stoeckmann.
4800 - Tor now uses a cryptographically strong PRNG even for decisions
4801 that we do not believe are security-sensitive. Previously, for
4802 performance reasons, we had used a trivially predictable linear
4803 congruential generator algorithm for certain load-balancing and
4804 statistical sampling decisions. Now we use our fast RNG in those
4805 cases. Closes ticket 29542.
4807 o Minor features (developer tools):
4808 - Tor's "practracker" test script now checks for files and functions
4809 that seem too long and complicated. Existing overlong functions
4810 and files are accepted for now, but should eventually be
4811 refactored. Closes ticket 29221.
4812 - Add some scripts used for git maintenance to scripts/git. Closes
4814 - Call practracker from pre-push and pre-commit git hooks to let
4815 developers know if they made any code style violations. Closes
4817 - Add a script to check that each header has a well-formed and
4818 unique guard macro. Closes ticket 29756.
4820 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
4821 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
4822 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
4823 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
4824 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
4826 o Minor features (geoip):
4827 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 10 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
4828 Country database. Closes ticket 30852.
4829 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 13 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
4830 Country database. Closes ticket 30522.
4832 o Minor features (HTTP tunnel):
4833 - Return an informative web page when the HTTPTunnelPort is used as
4834 an HTTP proxy. Closes ticket 27821, patch by "eighthave".
4836 o Minor features (IPv6, v3 onion services):
4837 - Make v3 onion services put IPv6 addresses in service descriptors.
4838 Before this change, service descriptors only contained IPv4
4839 addresses. Implements 26992.
4841 o Minor features (logging):
4842 - Give a more useful assertion failure message if we think we have
4843 minherit() but we fail to make a region non-inheritable. Give a
4844 compile-time warning if our support for minherit() is incomplete.
4845 Closes ticket 30686.
4847 o Minor features (maintenance):
4848 - Add a new "make autostyle" target that developers can use to apply
4849 all automatic Tor style and consistency conversions to the
4850 codebase. Closes ticket 30539.
4852 o Minor features (modularity):
4853 - The "--disable-module-dirauth" compile-time option now disables
4854 even more dirauth-only code. Closes ticket 30345.
4856 o Minor features (performance):
4857 - Use OpenSSL's implementations of SHA3 when available (in OpenSSL
4858 1.1.1 and later), since they tend to be faster than tiny-keccak.
4859 Closes ticket 28837.
4861 o Minor features (testing):
4862 - The circuitpadding tests now use a reproducible RNG implementation,
4863 so that if a test fails, we can learn why. Part of ticket 28878.
4864 - Tor's tests now support an environment variable, TOR_TEST_RNG_SEED,
4865 to set the RNG seed for tests that use a reproducible RNG. Part of
4867 - When running tests in coverage mode, take additional care to make
4868 our coverage deterministic, so that we can accurately track
4869 changes in code coverage. Closes ticket 30519.
4870 - Tor's unit test code now contains helper functions to replace the
4871 PRNG with a deterministic or reproducible version for testing.
4872 Previously, various tests implemented this in various ways.
4873 Implements ticket 29732.
4874 - We now have a script, cov-test-determinism.sh, to identify places
4875 where our unit test coverage has become nondeterministic. Closes
4877 - Check that representative subsets of values of `int` and `unsigned
4878 int` can be represented by `void *`. Resolves issue 29537.
4880 o Minor bugfixes (bridge authority):
4881 - Bridge authorities now set bridges as running or non-running when
4882 about to dump their status to a file. Previously, they set bridges
4883 as running in response to a GETINFO command, but those shouldn't
4884 modify data structures. Fixes bug 24490; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
4885 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4887 o Minor bugfixes (channel padding statistics):
4888 - Channel padding write totals and padding-enabled totals are now
4889 counted properly in relay extrainfo descriptors. Fixes bug 29231;
4890 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4892 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation):
4893 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
4894 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
4896 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
4897 - Add a "CircuitPadding" torrc option to disable circuit padding.
4898 Fixes bug 28693; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4899 - Allow circuit padding machines to specify that they do not
4900 contribute much overhead, and provide consensus flags and torrc
4901 options to force clients to only use these low overhead machines.
4902 Fixes bug 29203; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4903 - Provide a consensus parameter to fully disable circuit padding, to
4904 be used in emergency network overload situations. Fixes bug 30173;
4905 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4906 - The circuit padding subsystem will no longer schedule padding if
4907 dormant mode is enabled. Fixes bug 28636; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4908 - Inspect a circuit-level cell queue before sending padding, to
4909 avoid sending padding while too much data is already queued. Fixes
4910 bug 29204; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4911 - Avoid calling monotime_absolute_usec() in circuit padding machines
4912 that do not use token removal or circuit RTT estimation. Fixes bug
4913 29085; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4915 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection):
4916 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
4917 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
4918 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
4919 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
4921 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, standards compliance):
4922 - Fix a bug that would invoke undefined behavior on certain
4923 operating systems when trying to asprintf() a string exactly
4924 INT_MAX bytes long. We don't believe this is exploitable, but it's
4925 better to fix it anyway. Fixes bug 31001; bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
4926 Found and fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
4928 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning):
4929 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
4930 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix on
4933 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
4934 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
4935 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
4937 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations):
4938 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
4939 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
4940 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
4942 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies):
4943 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
4944 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
4945 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
4947 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
4948 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
4949 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
4950 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
4951 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4952 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
4953 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4955 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
4956 - Teach the controller parser to distinguish an object preceded by
4957 an argument list from one without. Previously, it couldn't
4958 distinguish an argument list from the first line of a multiline
4959 object. Fixes bug 29984; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
4961 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit):
4962 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
4963 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
4964 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
4966 o Minor bugfixes (developer tooling):
4967 - Fix pre-push hook to allow fixup and squash commits when pushing
4968 to non-upstream git remote. Fixes bug 30286; bugfix
4971 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
4972 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
4973 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
4974 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
4975 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
4976 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
4978 - Directory authorities with IPv6 support now always mark themselves
4979 as reachable via IPv6. Fixes bug 24338; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
4980 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4982 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
4983 - Improve the documentation for using MapAddress with ".exit". Fixes
4984 bug 30109; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
4985 - Improve the monotonic time module and function documentation to
4986 explain what "monotonic" actually means, and document some results
4987 that have surprised people. Fixes bug 29640; bugfix
4989 - Use proper formatting when providing an example on quoting options
4990 that contain whitespace. Fixes bug 29635; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
4992 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
4993 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
4994 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
4995 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
4996 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
4997 - Warn operators when the MyFamily option is set but ContactInfo is
4998 missing, as the latter should be set too. Fixes bug 25110; bugfix
5001 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
5002 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
5003 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
5005 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value from a
5006 download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug 30894; bugfix
5009 o Minor bugfixes (NetBSD):
5010 - Fix usage of minherit() on NetBSD and other platforms that define
5011 MAP_INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE} instead of INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE}. Fixes bug
5012 30614; bugfix on 0.4.0.2-alpha. Patch from Taylor Campbell.
5014 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
5015 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
5016 implemenation) when failing to load an onion service client
5017 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5018 - When refusing to launch a controller's HSFETCH request because of
5019 rate-limiting, respond to the controller with a new response,
5020 "QUERY_RATE_LIMITED". Previously, we would log QUERY_NO_HSDIR for
5021 this case. Fixes bug 28269; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Patch by
5023 - When relaunching a circuit to a rendezvous service, mark the
5024 circuit as needing high-uptime routers as appropriate. Fixes bug
5025 17357; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5026 - Stop ignoring IPv6 link specifiers sent to v3 onion services.
5027 (IPv6 support for v3 onion services is still incomplete: see
5028 ticket 23493 for details.) Fixes bug 23588; bugfix on
5029 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5031 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, performance):
5032 - When building circuits to onion services, call tor_addr_parse()
5033 less often. Previously, we called tor_addr_parse() in
5034 circuit_is_acceptable() even if its output wasn't used. This
5035 change should improve performance when building circuits. Fixes
5036 bug 22210; bugfix on 0.2.8.12. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5038 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler):
5039 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
5040 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
5041 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
5044 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
5045 - When checking whether a node is a bridge, use a fast check to make
5046 sure that its identity is set. Previously, we used a constant-time
5047 check, which is not necessary in this case. Fixes bug 30308;
5048 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5050 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
5051 - Tor now sets TOR_PT_EXIT_ON_STDIN_CLOSE=1 for client transports as
5052 well as servers. Fixes bug 25614; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
5054 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
5055 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
5056 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
5057 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
5058 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
5059 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
5062 o Minor bugfixes (probability distributions):
5063 - Refactor and improve parts of the probability distribution code
5064 that made Coverity complain. Fixes bug 29805; bugfix
5067 o Minor bugfixes (python):
5068 - Stop assuming that /usr/bin/python3 exists. For scripts that work
5069 with python2, use /usr/bin/python. Otherwise, use /usr/bin/env
5070 python3. Fixes bug 29913; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
5072 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
5073 - When running as a relay, if IPv6Exit is set to 1 while ExitRelay
5074 is auto, act as if ExitRelay is 1. Previously, we would ignore
5075 IPv6Exit if ExitRelay was 0 or auto. Fixes bug 29613; bugfix on
5076 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5078 o Minor bugfixes (static analysis):
5079 - Fix several spurious Coverity warnings about the unit tests, to
5080 lower our chances of missing real warnings in the future. Fixes
5081 bug 30150; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha and various other Tor versions.
5083 o Minor bugfixes (stats):
5084 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including bandwidth usage
5085 statistics, GeoIPFile hashes, ServerTransportPlugin lines, and
5086 bridge statistics by country in extra-info documents. Fixes bug
5087 29018; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
5089 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
5090 - Call setrlimit() to disable core dumps in test_bt_cl.c. Previously
5091 we used `ulimit -c` in test_bt.sh, which violates POSIX shell
5092 compatibility. Fixes bug 29061; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5093 - Fix some incorrect code in the v3 onion service unit tests. Fixes
5094 bug 29243; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5095 - In the "routerkeys/*" tests, check the return values of mkdir()
5096 for possible failures. Fixes bug 29939; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
5097 Found by Coverity as CID 1444254.
5098 - Split test_utils_general() into several smaller test functions.
5099 This makes it easier to perform resource deallocation on assert
5100 failure, and fixes Coverity warnings CID 1444117 and CID 1444118.
5101 Fixes bug 29823; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
5103 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve):
5104 - Fix a memory leak in tor-resolve that could happen if Tor gave it
5105 a malformed SOCKS response. (Memory leaks in tor-resolve don't
5106 actually matter, but it's good to fix them anyway.) Fixes bug
5107 30151; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5109 o Code simplification and refactoring:
5110 - Abstract out the low-level formatting of replies on the control
5111 port. Implements ticket 30007.
5112 - Add several assertions in an attempt to fix some Coverity
5113 warnings. Closes ticket 30149.
5114 - Introduce a connection_dir_buf_add() helper function that checks
5115 for compress_state of dir_connection_t and automatically writes a
5116 string to directory connection with or without compression.
5117 Resolves issue 28816.
5118 - Make the base32_decode() API return the number of bytes written,
5119 for consistency with base64_decode(). Closes ticket 28913.
5120 - Move most relay-only periodic events out of mainloop.c into the
5121 relay subsystem. Closes ticket 30414.
5122 - Refactor and encapsulate parts of the codebase that manipulate
5123 crypt_path_t objects. Resolves issue 30236.
5124 - Refactor several places in our code that Coverity incorrectly
5125 believed might have memory leaks. Closes ticket 30147.
5126 - Remove redundant return values in crypto_format, and the
5127 associated return value checks elsewhere in the code. Make the
5128 implementations in crypto_format consistent, and remove redundant
5129 code. Resolves ticket 29660.
5130 - Rename tor_mem_is_zero() to fast_mem_is_zero(), to emphasize that
5131 it is not a constant-time function. Closes ticket 30309.
5132 - Replace hs_desc_link_specifier_t with link_specifier_t, and remove
5133 all hs_desc_link_specifier_t-specific code. Fixes bug 22781;
5134 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5135 - Simplify v3 onion service link specifier handling code. Fixes bug
5136 23576; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5137 - Split crypto_digest.c into NSS code, OpenSSL code, and shared
5138 code. Resolves ticket 29108.
5139 - Split control.c into several submodules, in preparation for
5140 distributing its current responsibilities throughout the codebase.
5141 Closes ticket 29894.
5142 - Start to move responsibility for knowing about periodic events to
5143 the appropriate subsystems, so that the mainloop doesn't need to
5144 know all the periodic events in the rest of the codebase.
5145 Implements tickets 30293 and 30294.
5148 - Mention URLs for Travis/Appveyor/Jenkins in ReleasingTor.md.
5149 Closes ticket 30630.
5150 - Document how to find git commits and tags for bug fixes in
5151 CodingStandards.md. Update some file documentation. Closes
5155 - Remove the linux-tor-prio.sh script from contrib/operator-tools
5156 directory. Resolves issue 29434.
5157 - Remove the obsolete OpenSUSE initscript. Resolves issue 30076.
5158 - Remove the obsolete script at contrib/dist/tor.sh.in. Resolves
5162 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
5163 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
5164 Resolves issue 29702.
5166 o Code simplification and refactoring (shell scripts):
5167 - Clean up many of our shell scripts to fix shellcheck warnings.
5168 These include autogen.sh (ticket 26069), test_keygen.sh (ticket
5169 29062), test_switch_id.sh (ticket 29065), test_rebind.sh (ticket
5170 29063), src/test/fuzz/minimize.sh (ticket 30079), test_rust.sh
5171 (ticket 29064), torify (ticket 29070), asciidoc-helper.sh (29926),
5172 fuzz_multi.sh (30077), fuzz_static_testcases.sh (ticket 29059),
5173 nagios-check-tor-authority-cert (ticket 29071),
5174 src/test/fuzz/fixup_filenames.sh (ticket 30078), test-network.sh
5175 (ticket 29060), test_key_expiration.sh (ticket 30002),
5176 zero_length_keys.sh (ticket 29068), and test_workqueue_*.sh
5179 o Testing (chutney):
5180 - In "make test-network-all", test IPv6-only v3 single onion
5181 services, using the chutney network single-onion-v23-ipv6-md.
5182 Closes ticket 27251.
5184 o Testing (continuous integration):
5185 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and tail
5186 stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
5187 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary.
5188 Closes ticket 30694.
5191 Changes in version 0.4.0.5 - 2019-05-02
5192 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.0.x series. It contains
5193 improvements for power management and bootstrap reporting, as well as
5194 preliminary backend support for circuit padding to prevent some kinds
5195 of traffic analysis. It also continues our work in refactoring Tor for
5196 long-term maintainability.
5198 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.0.x series for nine
5199 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.1.x:
5200 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
5201 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
5203 Below are the changes since 0.3.5.7. For a complete list of changes
5204 since 0.4.0.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
5206 o Major features (battery management, client, dormant mode):
5207 - When Tor is running as a client, and it is unused for a long time,
5208 it can now enter a "dormant" state. When Tor is dormant, it avoids
5209 network and CPU activity until it is reawoken either by a user
5210 request or by a controller command. For more information, see the
5211 configuration options starting with "Dormant". Implements tickets
5213 - The client's memory of whether it is "dormant", and how long it
5214 has spent idle, persists across invocations. Implements
5216 - There is a DormantOnFirstStartup option that integrators can use
5217 if they expect that in many cases, Tor will be installed but
5220 o Major features (bootstrap reporting):
5221 - When reporting bootstrap progress, report the first connection
5222 uniformly, regardless of whether it's a connection for building
5223 application circuits. This allows finer-grained reporting of early
5224 progress than previously possible, with the improvements of ticket
5225 27169. Closes tickets 27167 and 27103. Addresses ticket 27308.
5226 - When reporting bootstrap progress, treat connecting to a proxy or
5227 pluggable transport as separate from having successfully used that
5228 proxy or pluggable transport to connect to a relay. Closes tickets
5231 o Major features (circuit padding):
5232 - Implement preliminary support for the circuit padding portion of
5233 Proposal 254. The implementation supports Adaptive Padding (aka
5234 WTF-PAD) state machines for use between experimental clients and
5235 relays. Support is also provided for APE-style state machines that
5236 use probability distributions instead of histograms to specify
5237 inter-packet delay. At the moment, Tor does not provide any
5238 padding state machines that are used in normal operation: for now,
5239 this feature exists solely for experimentation. Closes
5242 o Major features (refactoring):
5243 - Tor now uses an explicit list of its own subsystems when
5244 initializing and shutting down. Previously, these systems were
5245 managed implicitly in various places throughout the codebase.
5246 (There may still be some subsystems using the old system.) Closes
5249 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
5250 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
5251 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
5252 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
5253 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
5254 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
5255 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
5256 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
5258 o Major bugfixes (networking):
5259 - Gracefully handle empty username/password fields in SOCKS5
5260 username/password auth message and allow SOCKS5 handshake to
5261 continue. Previously, we had rejected these handshakes, breaking
5262 certain applications. Fixes bug 29175; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5264 o Major bugfixes (NSS, relay):
5265 - When running with NSS, disable TLS 1.2 ciphersuites that use
5266 SHA384 for their PRF. Due to an NSS bug, the TLS key exporters for
5267 these ciphersuites don't work -- which caused relays to fail to
5268 handshake with one another when these ciphersuites were enabled.
5269 Fixes bug 29241; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5271 o Major bugfixes (windows, startup):
5272 - When reading a consensus file from disk, detect whether it was
5273 written in text mode, and re-read it in text mode if so. Always
5274 write consensus files in binary mode so that we can map them into
5275 memory later. Previously, we had written in text mode, which
5276 confused us when we tried to map the file on windows. Fixes bug
5277 28614; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5279 o Minor features (address selection):
5280 - Treat the subnet 100.64.0.0/10 as public for some purposes;
5281 private for others. This subnet is the RFC 6598 (Carrier Grade
5282 NAT) IP range, and is deployed by many ISPs as an alternative to
5283 RFC 1918 that does not break existing internal networks. Tor now
5284 blocks SOCKS and control ports on these addresses and warns users
5285 if client ports or ExtORPorts are listening on a RFC 6598 address.
5286 Closes ticket 28525. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5288 o Minor features (bandwidth authority):
5289 - Make bandwidth authorities ignore relays that are reported in the
5290 bandwidth file with the flag "vote=0". This change allows us to
5291 report unmeasured relays for diagnostic reasons without including
5292 their bandwidth in the bandwidth authorities' vote. Closes
5294 - When a directory authority is using a bandwidth file to obtain the
5295 bandwidth values that will be included in the next vote, serve
5296 this bandwidth file at /tor/status-vote/next/bandwidth. Closes
5299 o Minor features (bootstrap reporting):
5300 - When reporting bootstrap progress, stop distinguishing between
5301 situations where only internal paths are available and situations
5302 where external paths are available. Previously, Tor would often
5303 erroneously report that it had only internal paths. Closes
5306 o Minor features (compilation):
5307 - Compile correctly when OpenSSL is built with engine support
5308 disabled, or with deprecated APIs disabled. Closes ticket 29026.
5309 Patches from "Mangix".
5311 o Minor features (continuous integration):
5312 - On Travis Rust builds, cleanup Rust registry and refrain from
5313 caching the "target/" directory to speed up builds. Resolves
5315 - Log Python version during each Travis CI job. Resolves
5317 - In Travis, tell timelimit to use stem's backtrace signals, and
5318 launch python directly from timelimit, so python receives the
5319 signals from timelimit, rather than make. Closes ticket 30117.
5321 o Minor features (controller):
5322 - Add a DROPOWNERSHIP command to undo the effects of TAKEOWNERSHIP.
5323 Implements ticket 28843.
5325 o Minor features (developer tooling):
5326 - Check that bugfix versions in changes files look like Tor versions
5327 from the versions spec. Warn when bugfixes claim to be on a future
5328 release. Closes ticket 27761.
5329 - Provide a git pre-commit hook that disallows committing if we have
5330 any failures in our code and changelog formatting checks. It is
5331 now available in scripts/maint/pre-commit.git-hook. Implements
5333 - Provide a git hook script to prevent "fixup!" and "squash!"
5334 commits from ending up in the master branch, as scripts/main/pre-
5335 push.git-hook. Closes ticket 27993.
5337 o Minor features (diagnostic):
5338 - Add more diagnostic log messages in an attempt to solve the issue
5339 of NUL bytes appearing in a microdescriptor cache. Related to
5342 o Minor features (directory authority):
5343 - When a directory authority is using a bandwidth file to obtain
5344 bandwidth values, include the digest of that file in the vote.
5345 Closes ticket 26698.
5346 - Directory authorities support a new consensus algorithm, under
5347 which the family lines in microdescriptors are encoded in a
5348 canonical form. This change makes family lines more compressible
5349 in transit, and on the client. Closes ticket 28266; implements
5352 o Minor features (directory authority, relay):
5353 - Authorities now vote on a "StaleDesc" flag to indicate that a
5354 relay's descriptor is so old that the relay should upload again
5355 soon. Relays treat this flag as a signal to upload a new
5356 descriptor. This flag will eventually let us remove the
5357 'published' date from routerstatus entries, and make our consensus
5358 diffs much smaller. Closes ticket 26770; implements proposal 293.
5360 o Minor features (dormant mode):
5361 - Add a DormantCanceledByStartup option to tell Tor that it should
5362 treat a startup event as cancelling any previous dormant state.
5363 Integrators should use this option with caution: it should only be
5364 used if Tor is being started because of something that the user
5365 did, and not if Tor is being automatically started in the
5366 background. Closes ticket 29357.
5368 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
5369 - Update the fallback whitelist based on operator opt-ins and opt-
5370 outs. Closes ticket 24805, patch by Phoul.
5372 o Minor features (FreeBSD):
5373 - On FreeBSD-based systems, warn relay operators if the
5374 "net.inet.ip.random_id" sysctl (IP ID randomization) is disabled.
5375 Closes ticket 28518.
5377 o Minor features (geoip):
5378 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 2 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
5379 Country database. Closes ticket 29992.
5381 o Minor features (HTTP standards compliance):
5382 - Stop sending the header "Content-type: application/octet-stream"
5383 along with transparently compressed documents: this confused
5384 browsers. Closes ticket 28100.
5386 o Minor features (IPv6):
5387 - We add an option ClientAutoIPv6ORPort, to make clients randomly
5388 prefer a node's IPv4 or IPv6 ORPort. The random preference is set
5389 every time a node is loaded from a new consensus or bridge config.
5390 We expect that this option will enable clients to bootstrap more
5391 quickly without having to determine whether they support IPv4,
5392 IPv6, or both. Closes ticket 27490. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5393 - When using addrs_in_same_network_family(), avoid choosing circuit
5394 paths that pass through the same IPv6 subnet more than once.
5395 Previously, we only checked IPv4 subnets. Closes ticket 24393.
5396 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5398 o Minor features (log messages):
5399 - Improve log message in v3 onion services that could print out
5400 negative revision counters. Closes ticket 27707. Patch
5403 o Minor features (memory usage):
5404 - Save memory by storing microdescriptor family lists with a more
5405 compact representation. Closes ticket 27359.
5406 - Tor clients now use mmap() to read consensus files from disk, so
5407 that they no longer need keep the full text of a consensus in
5408 memory when parsing it or applying a diff. Closes ticket 27244.
5410 o Minor features (NSS, diagnostic):
5411 - Try to log an error from NSS (if there is any) and a more useful
5412 description of our situation if we are using NSS and a call to
5413 SSL_ExportKeyingMaterial() fails. Diagnostic for ticket 29241.
5415 o Minor features (parsing):
5416 - Directory authorities now validate that router descriptors and
5417 ExtraInfo documents are in a valid subset of UTF-8, and reject
5418 them if they are not. Closes ticket 27367.
5420 o Minor features (performance):
5421 - Cache the results of summarize_protocol_flags(), so that we don't
5422 have to parse the same protocol-versions string over and over.
5423 This should save us a huge number of malloc calls on startup, and
5424 may reduce memory fragmentation with some allocators. Closes
5426 - Remove a needless memset() call from get_token_arguments, thereby
5427 speeding up the tokenization of directory objects by about 20%.
5428 Closes ticket 28852.
5429 - Replace parse_short_policy() with a faster implementation, to
5430 improve microdescriptor parsing time. Closes ticket 28853.
5431 - Speed up directory parsing a little by avoiding use of the non-
5432 inlined strcmp_len() function. Closes ticket 28856.
5433 - Speed up microdescriptor parsing by about 30%, to help improve
5434 startup time. Closes ticket 28839.
5436 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
5437 - Add support for emitting STATUS updates to Tor's control port from
5438 a pluggable transport process. Closes ticket 28846.
5439 - Add support for logging to Tor's logging subsystem from a
5440 pluggable transport process. Closes ticket 28180.
5442 o Minor features (process management):
5443 - Add a new process API for handling child processes. This new API
5444 allows Tor to have bi-directional communication with child
5445 processes on both Unix and Windows. Closes ticket 28179.
5446 - Use the subsystem manager to initialize and shut down the process
5447 module. Closes ticket 28847.
5449 o Minor features (relay):
5450 - When listing relay families, list them in canonical form including
5451 the relay's own identity, and try to give a more useful set of
5452 warnings. Part of ticket 28266 and proposal 298.
5454 o Minor features (required protocols):
5455 - Before exiting because of a missing required protocol, Tor will
5456 now check the publication time of the consensus, and not exit
5457 unless the consensus is newer than the Tor program's own release
5458 date. Previously, Tor would not check the consensus publication
5459 time, and so might exit because of a missing protocol that might
5460 no longer be required in a current consensus. Implements proposal
5461 297; closes ticket 27735.
5463 o Minor features (testing):
5464 - Treat all unexpected ERR and BUG messages as test failures. Closes
5466 - Allow a HeartbeatPeriod of less than 30 minutes in testing Tor
5467 networks. Closes ticket 28840. Patch by Rob Jansen.
5468 - Use the approx_time() function when setting the "Expires" header
5469 in directory replies, to make them more testable. Needed for
5472 o Minor bugfixes (security):
5473 - Fix a potential double free bug when reading huge bandwidth files.
5474 The issue is not exploitable in the current Tor network because
5475 the vulnerable code is only reached when directory authorities
5476 read bandwidth files, but bandwidth files come from a trusted
5477 source (usually the authorities themselves). Furthermore, the
5478 issue is only exploitable in rare (non-POSIX) 32-bit architectures,
5479 which are not used by any of the current authorities. Fixes bug
5480 30040; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Bug found and fixed by
5482 - Verify in more places that we are not about to create a buffer
5483 with more than INT_MAX bytes, to avoid possible OOB access in the
5484 event of bugs. Fixes bug 30041; bugfix on 0.2.0.16. Found and
5485 fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
5487 o Minor bugfix (continuous integration):
5488 - Reset coverage state on disk after Travis CI has finished. This
5489 should prevent future coverage merge errors from causing the test
5490 suite for the "process" subsystem to fail. The process subsystem
5491 was introduced in 0.4.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 29036; bugfix
5493 - Terminate test-stem if it takes more than 9.5 minutes to run.
5494 (Travis terminates the job after 10 minutes of no output.)
5495 Diagnostic for 29437. Fixes bug 30011; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
5497 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust):
5498 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
5499 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
5500 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
5502 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
5503 - Fix an unlikely memory leak in consensus_diff_apply(). Fixes bug
5504 29824; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. This is Coverity warning
5507 o Minor bugfixes (client, clock skew):
5508 - Bootstrap successfully even when Tor's clock is behind the clocks
5509 on the authorities. Fixes bug 28591; bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
5510 - Select guards even if the consensus has expired, as long as the
5511 consensus is still reasonably live. Fixes bug 24661; bugfix
5514 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
5515 - Fix compilation warnings in test_circuitpadding.c. Fixes bug
5516 29169; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5517 - Silence a compiler warning in test-memwipe.c on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
5518 29145; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
5519 - Compile correctly on OpenBSD; previously, we were missing some
5520 headers required in order to detect it properly. Fixes bug 28938;
5521 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
5523 o Minor bugfixes (directory clients):
5524 - Mark outdated dirservers when Tor only has a reasonably live
5525 consensus. Fixes bug 28569; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
5527 o Minor bugfixes (directory mirrors):
5528 - Even when a directory mirror's clock is behind the clocks on the
5529 authorities, we now allow the mirror to serve "future"
5530 consensuses. Fixes bug 28654; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5532 o Minor bugfixes (DNS):
5533 - Gracefully handle an empty or absent resolve.conf file by falling
5534 back to using "localhost" as a DNS server (and hoping it works).
5535 Previously, we would just stop running as an exit. Fixes bug
5536 21900; bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
5538 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
5539 - Describe the contents of the v3 onion service client authorization
5540 files correctly: They hold public keys, not private keys. Fixes
5541 bug 28979; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Spotted by "Felixix".
5543 o Minor bugfixes (guards):
5544 - In count_acceptable_nodes(), the minimum number is now one bridge
5545 or guard node, and two non-guard nodes for a circuit. Previously,
5546 we had added up the sum of all nodes with a descriptor, but that
5547 could cause us to build failing circuits when we had either too
5548 many bridges or not enough guard nodes. Fixes bug 25885; bugfix on
5549 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5551 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
5552 - Fix tor_ersatz_socketpair on IPv6-only systems. Previously, the
5553 IPv6 socket was bound using an address family of AF_INET instead
5554 of AF_INET6. Fixes bug 28995; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from
5557 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox):
5558 - Fix startup crash when experimental sandbox support is enabled.
5559 Fixes bug 29150; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Patch by Peter Gerber.
5561 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
5562 - Correct a misleading error message when IPv4Only or IPv6Only is
5563 used but the resolved address can not be interpreted as an address
5564 of the specified IP version. Fixes bug 13221; bugfix on
5565 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
5566 - Log the correct port number for listening sockets when "auto" is
5567 used to let Tor pick the port number. Previously, port 0 was
5568 logged instead of the actual port number. Fixes bug 29144; bugfix
5569 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
5570 - Stop logging a BUG() warning when Tor is waiting for exit
5571 descriptors. Fixes bug 28656; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5572 - Avoid logging that we are relaxing a circuit timeout when that
5573 timeout is fixed. Fixes bug 28698; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
5574 - Log more information at "warning" level when unable to read a
5575 private key; log more information at "info" level when unable to
5576 read a public key. We had warnings here before, but they were lost
5577 during our NSS work. Fixes bug 29042; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5578 - Rework rep_hist_log_link_protocol_counts() to iterate through all
5579 link protocol versions when logging incoming/outgoing connection
5580 counts. Tor no longer skips version 5, and we won't have to
5581 remember to update this function when new link protocol version is
5582 developed. Fixes bug 28920; bugfix on 0.2.6.10.
5584 o Minor bugfixes (memory management):
5585 - Refactor the shared random state's memory management so that it
5586 actually takes ownership of the shared random value pointers.
5587 Fixes bug 29706; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
5588 - Stop leaking parts of the shared random state in the shared-random
5589 unit tests. Fixes bug 29599; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
5591 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
5592 - The amount of total available physical memory is now determined
5593 using the sysctl identifier HW_PHYSMEM (rather than HW_USERMEM)
5594 when it is defined and a 64-bit variant is not available. Fixes
5595 bug 28981; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
5597 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
5598 - Introduce additional checks into tor_addr_parse() to reject
5599 certain incorrect inputs that previously were not detected. Fixes
5600 bug 23082; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
5602 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client):
5603 - Stop logging a "BUG()" warning and stacktrace when we find a SOCKS
5604 connection waiting for a descriptor that we actually have in the
5605 cache. It turns out that this can actually happen, though it is
5606 rare. Now, tor will recover and retry the descriptor. Fixes bug
5607 28669; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
5609 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
5610 - Avoid crashing if ClientOnionAuthDir (incorrectly) contains more
5611 than one private key for a hidden service. Fixes bug 29040; bugfix
5613 - In hs_cache_store_as_client() log an HSDesc we failed to parse at
5614 "debug" level. Tor used to log it as a warning, which caused very
5615 long log lines to appear for some users. Fixes bug 29135; bugfix
5617 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
5618 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
5619 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
5620 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
5622 o Minor bugfixes (periodic events):
5623 - Refrain from calling routerlist_remove_old_routers() from
5624 check_descriptor_callback(). Instead, create a new hourly periodic
5625 event. Fixes bug 27929; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
5627 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
5628 - Make sure that data is continously read from standard output and
5629 standard error pipes of a pluggable transport child-process, to
5630 avoid deadlocking when a pipe's buffer is full. Fixes bug 26360;
5631 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
5633 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
5634 - Abort on panic in all build profiles, instead of potentially
5635 unwinding into C code. Fixes bug 27199; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5637 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler):
5638 - When re-adding channels to the pending list, check the correct
5639 channel's sched_heap_idx. This issue has had no effect in mainline
5640 Tor, but could have led to bugs down the road in improved versions
5641 of our circuit scheduling code. Fixes bug 29508; bugfix
5644 o Minor bugfixes (shellcheck):
5645 - Look for scripts in their correct locations during "make
5646 shellcheck". Previously we had looked in the wrong place during
5647 out-of-tree builds. Fixes bug 30263; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5649 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services):
5650 - Allow connections to single onion services to remain idle without
5651 being disconnected. Previously, relays acting as rendezvous points
5652 for single onion services were mistakenly closing idle rendezvous
5653 circuits after 60 seconds, thinking that they were unused
5654 directory-fetching circuits that had served their purpose. Fixes
5655 bug 29665; bugfix on 0.2.1.26.
5657 o Minor bugfixes (stats):
5658 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including PaddingStatistics in
5659 relay and bridge extra-info documents. Fixes bug 29017; bugfix
5662 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
5663 - Backport the 0.3.4 src/test/test-network.sh to 0.2.9. We need a
5664 recent test-network.sh to use new chutney features in CI. Fixes
5665 bug 29703; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
5666 - Fix a test failure on Windows caused by an unexpected "BUG"
5667 warning in our tests for tor_gmtime_r(-1). Fixes bug 29922; bugfix
5669 - Downgrade some LOG_ERR messages in the address/* tests to
5670 warnings. The LOG_ERR messages were occurring when we had no
5671 configured network. We were failing the unit tests, because we
5672 backported 28668 to 0.3.5.8, but did not backport 29530. Fixes bug
5673 29530; bugfix on 0.3.5.8.
5674 - Fix our gcov wrapper script to look for object files at the
5675 correct locations. Fixes bug 29435; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5676 - Decrease the false positive rate of stochastic probability
5677 distribution tests. Fixes bug 29693; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5678 - Fix intermittent failures on an adaptive padding test. Fixes one
5679 case of bug 29122; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5680 - Disable an unstable circuit-padding test that was failing
5681 intermittently because of an ill-defined small histogram. Such
5682 histograms will be allowed again after 29298 is implemented. Fixes
5683 a second case of bug 29122; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5684 - Detect and suppress "bug" warnings from the util/time test on
5685 Windows. Fixes bug 29161; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
5686 - Do not log an error-level message if we fail to find an IPv6
5687 network interface from the unit tests. Fixes bug 29160; bugfix
5689 - Instead of relying on hs_free_all() to clean up all onion service
5690 objects in test_build_descriptors(), we now deallocate them one by
5691 one. This lets Coverity know that we are not leaking memory there
5692 and fixes CID 1442277. Fixes bug 28989; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5693 - Check the time in the "Expires" header using approx_time(). Fixes
5694 bug 30001; bugfix on 0.4.0.4-rc.
5696 o Minor bugfixes (TLS protocol):
5697 - When classifying a client's selection of TLS ciphers, if the
5698 client ciphers are not yet available, do not cache the result.
5699 Previously, we had cached the unavailability of the cipher list
5700 and never looked again, which in turn led us to assume that the
5701 client only supported the ancient V1 link protocol. This, in turn,
5702 was causing Stem integration tests to stall in some cases. Fixes
5703 bug 30021; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
5705 o Minor bugfixes (UI):
5706 - Lower log level of unlink() errors during bootstrap. Fixes bug
5707 29930; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5709 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
5710 - Stop saying "Your Guard ..." in pathbias_measure_{use,close}_rate().
5711 Some users took this phrasing to mean that the mentioned guard was
5712 under their control or responsibility, which it is not. Fixes bug
5713 28895; bugfix on Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5715 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, CI):
5716 - Skip the Appveyor 32-bit Windows Server 2016 job, and 64-bit
5717 Windows Server 2012 R2 job. The remaining 2 jobs still provide
5718 coverage of 64/32-bit, and Windows Server 2016/2012 R2. Also set
5719 fast_finish, so failed jobs terminate the build immediately. Fixes
5720 bug 29601; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
5722 o Code simplification and refactoring:
5723 - Introduce a connection_dir_buf_add() helper function that detects
5724 whether compression is in use, and adds a string accordingly.
5725 Resolves issue 28816.
5726 - Refactor handle_get_next_bandwidth() to use
5727 connection_dir_buf_add(). Implements ticket 29897.
5728 - Reimplement NETINFO cell parsing and generation to rely on
5729 trunnel-generated wire format handling code. Closes ticket 27325.
5730 - Remove unnecessary unsafe code from the Rust macro "cstr!". Closes
5732 - Rework SOCKS wire format handling to rely on trunnel-generated
5733 parsing/generation code. Resolves ticket 27620.
5734 - Split out bootstrap progress reporting from control.c into a
5735 separate file. Part of ticket 27402.
5736 - The .may_include files that we use to describe our directory-by-
5737 directory dependency structure now describe a noncircular
5738 dependency graph over the directories that they cover. Our
5739 checkIncludes.py tool now enforces this noncircularity. Closes
5743 - Clarify that Tor performs stream isolation among *Port listeners
5744 by default. Resolves issue 29121.
5745 - In the manpage entry describing MapAddress torrc setting, use
5746 example IP addresses from ranges specified for use in documentation
5747 by RFC 5737. Resolves issue 28623.
5748 - Mention that you cannot add a new onion service if Tor is already
5749 running with Sandbox enabled. Closes ticket 28560.
5750 - Improve ControlPort documentation. Mention that it accepts
5751 address:port pairs, and can be used multiple times. Closes
5753 - Document the exact output of "tor --version". Closes ticket 28889.
5756 - Remove the old check-tor script. Resolves issue 29072.
5757 - Stop responding to the 'GETINFO status/version/num-concurring' and
5758 'GETINFO status/version/num-versioning' control port commands, as
5759 those were deprecated back in 0.2.0.30. Also stop listing them in
5760 output of 'GETINFO info/names'. Resolves ticket 28757.
5761 - The scripts used to generate and maintain the list of fallback
5762 directories have been extracted into a new "fallback-scripts"
5763 repository. Closes ticket 27914.
5766 - Run shellcheck for scripts in the in scripts/ directory. Closes
5768 - Add unit tests for tokenize_string() and get_next_token()
5769 functions. Resolves ticket 27625.
5771 o Code simplification and refactoring (onion service v3):
5772 - Consolidate the authorized client descriptor cookie computation
5773 code from client and service into one function. Closes
5776 o Code simplification and refactoring (shell scripts):
5777 - Cleanup scan-build.sh to silence shellcheck warnings. Closes
5779 - Fix issues that shellcheck found in chutney-git-bisect.sh.
5780 Resolves ticket 28006.
5781 - Fix issues that shellcheck found in updateRustDependencies.sh.
5782 Resolves ticket 28012.
5783 - Fix shellcheck warnings in cov-diff script. Resolves issue 28009.
5784 - Fix shellcheck warnings in run_calltool.sh. Resolves ticket 28011.
5785 - Fix shellcheck warnings in run_trunnel.sh. Resolves issue 28010.
5786 - Fix shellcheck warnings in scripts/test/coverage. Resolves
5790 Changes in version 0.3.5.8 - 2019-02-21
5791 Tor 0.3.5.8 backports several fixes from later releases, including fixes
5792 for an annoying SOCKS-parsing bug that affected users in earlier 0.3.5.x
5795 It also includes a fix for a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor
5796 0.3.2.1-alpha and later. All Tor instances running an affected release
5797 should upgrade to 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
5799 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
5800 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
5801 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
5802 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
5803 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
5804 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
5805 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
5806 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
5808 o Major bugfixes (networking, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
5809 - Gracefully handle empty username/password fields in SOCKS5
5810 username/password auth messsage and allow SOCKS5 handshake to
5811 continue. Previously, we had rejected these handshakes, breaking
5812 certain applications. Fixes bug 29175; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5814 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
5815 - Compile correctly when OpenSSL is built with engine support
5816 disabled, or with deprecated APIs disabled. Closes ticket 29026.
5817 Patches from "Mangix".
5819 o Minor features (geoip):
5820 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
5821 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
5823 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
5824 - Treat all unexpected ERR and BUG messages as test failures. Closes
5827 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
5828 - Stop logging a "BUG()" warning and stacktrace when we find a SOCKS
5829 connection waiting for a descriptor that we actually have in the
5830 cache. It turns out that this can actually happen, though it is
5831 rare. Now, tor will recover and retry the descriptor. Fixes bug
5832 28669; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
5834 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
5835 - Fix tor_ersatz_socketpair on IPv6-only systems. Previously, the
5836 IPv6 socket was bound using an address family of AF_INET instead
5837 of AF_INET6. Fixes bug 28995; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from
5840 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
5841 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
5842 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
5843 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
5845 o Minor bugfixes (client, clock skew, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
5846 - Select guards even if the consensus has expired, as long as the
5847 consensus is still reasonably live. Fixes bug 24661; bugfix
5850 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
5851 - Compile correctly on OpenBSD; previously, we were missing some
5852 headers required in order to detect it properly. Fixes bug 28938;
5853 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
5855 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
5856 - Describe the contents of the v3 onion service client authorization
5857 files correctly: They hold public keys, not private keys. Fixes
5858 bug 28979; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Spotted by "Felixix".
5860 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
5861 - Rework rep_hist_log_link_protocol_counts() to iterate through all
5862 link protocol versions when logging incoming/outgoing connection
5863 counts. Tor no longer skips version 5, and we won't have to
5864 remember to update this function when new link protocol version is
5865 developed. Fixes bug 28920; bugfix on 0.2.6.10.
5867 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
5868 - Log more information at "warning" level when unable to read a
5869 private key; log more information at "info" level when unable to
5870 read a public key. We had warnings here before, but they were lost
5871 during our NSS work. Fixes bug 29042; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5873 o Minor bugfixes (misc, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
5874 - The amount of total available physical memory is now determined
5875 using the sysctl identifier HW_PHYSMEM (rather than HW_USERMEM)
5876 when it is defined and a 64-bit variant is not available. Fixes
5877 bug 28981; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
5879 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
5880 - Avoid crashing if ClientOnionAuthDir (incorrectly) contains more
5881 than one private key for a hidden service. Fixes bug 29040; bugfix
5883 - In hs_cache_store_as_client() log an HSDesc we failed to parse at
5884 "debug" level. Tor used to log it as a warning, which caused very
5885 long log lines to appear for some users. Fixes bug 29135; bugfix
5887 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
5888 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
5889 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
5890 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
5892 o Minor bugfixes (tests, directory clients, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
5893 - Mark outdated dirservers when Tor only has a reasonably live
5894 consensus. Fixes bug 28569; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
5896 o Minor bugfixes (tests, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
5897 - Detect and suppress "bug" warnings from the util/time test on
5898 Windows. Fixes bug 29161; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
5899 - Do not log an error-level message if we fail to find an IPv6
5900 network interface from the unit tests. Fixes bug 29160; bugfix
5903 o Minor bugfixes (usability, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
5904 - Stop saying "Your Guard ..." in pathbias_measure_{use,close}_rate().
5905 Some users took this phrasing to mean that the mentioned guard was
5906 under their control or responsibility, which it is not. Fixes bug
5907 28895; bugfix on Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5910 Changes in version 0.3.4.11 - 2019-02-21
5911 Tor 0.3.4.11 is the third stable release in its series. It includes
5912 a fix for a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor 0.3.2.1-alpha and
5913 later. All Tor instances running an affected release should upgrade to
5914 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
5916 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
5917 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
5918 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
5919 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
5920 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
5921 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
5922 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
5923 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
5925 o Minor features (geoip):
5926 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
5927 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
5929 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
5930 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
5931 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
5932 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
5934 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
5935 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
5936 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
5937 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
5938 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
5941 Changes in version 0.3.3.12 - 2019-02-21
5942 Tor 0.3.3.12 fixes a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor
5943 0.3.2.1-alpha and later. All Tor instances running an affected release
5944 should upgrade to 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
5946 This release marks the end of support for the Tor 0.3.3.x series. We
5947 recommend that users switch to either the Tor 0.3.4 series (supported
5948 until at least 10 June 2019), or the Tor 0.3.5 series, which will
5949 receive long-term support until at least 1 Feb 2022.
5951 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
5952 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
5953 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
5954 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
5955 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
5956 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
5957 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
5958 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
5960 o Minor features (geoip):
5961 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
5962 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
5964 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
5965 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
5966 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
5967 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
5969 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
5970 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
5971 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
5972 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
5973 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
5976 Changes in version 0.3.3.11 - 2019-01-07
5977 Tor 0.3.3.11 backports numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
5978 numerous fixes, including an important fix for anyone using OpenSSL
5979 1.1.1. Anyone running an earlier version of Tor 0.3.3 should upgrade
5980 to this version, or to a later series.
5982 As a reminder, support the Tor 0.3.3 series will end on 22 Feb 2019.
5983 We anticipate that this will be the last release of Tor 0.3.3, unless
5984 some major bug is before then. Some time between now and then, users
5985 should switch to either the Tor 0.3.4 series (supported until at least
5986 10 June 2019), or the Tor 0.3.5 series, which will receive long-term
5987 support until at least 1 Feb 2022.
5989 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
5990 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
5991 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
5992 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
5993 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
5996 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
5997 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
5998 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
5999 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6001 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
6002 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
6003 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
6004 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
6005 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
6006 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
6007 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
6008 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
6010 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
6011 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
6012 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
6013 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
6015 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
6016 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
6017 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
6018 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
6019 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
6021 o Minor features (geoip):
6022 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
6023 Country database. Closes ticket 29012.
6025 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround, backport from 0.3.5.7):
6026 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
6027 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
6028 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
6029 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
6030 Closes ticket 28973.
6032 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.5.7):
6033 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
6034 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
6035 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
6037 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
6038 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
6039 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
6042 o Minor bugfixes (code safety, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
6043 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
6044 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
6046 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
6047 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
6048 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
6049 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
6051 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
6052 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
6053 with a different relay, instead making a BUG() warning. Fixes bug
6054 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6056 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions, backport form 0.3.5.3-alpha):
6057 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
6058 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
6059 were the same, the default setting (0) for
6060 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
6061 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
6064 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
6065 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
6066 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
6069 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
6070 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
6071 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
6072 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
6073 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6075 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
6076 - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
6077 descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
6078 gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
6079 authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6081 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
6082 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
6083 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
6084 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
6085 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
6086 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6088 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel):
6089 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to
6090 an HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix on
6093 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
6094 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
6095 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
6097 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
6098 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
6099 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6101 o Minor bugfixes (protover, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
6102 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
6103 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
6106 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
6107 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
6108 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
6109 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
6110 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
6111 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
6112 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
6113 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6115 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
6116 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
6117 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
6118 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
6120 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
6121 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
6122 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6123 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
6124 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
6125 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6126 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
6127 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
6128 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
6129 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
6131 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
6132 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
6133 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
6134 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
6135 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
6136 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
6138 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
6139 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
6140 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
6141 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
6142 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
6144 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, guard selection, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
6145 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
6146 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6149 Changes in version 0.3.4.10 - 2019-01-07
6150 Tor 0.3.4.9 is the second stable release in its series; it backports
6151 numerous fixes, including an important fix for relays, and for anyone
6152 using OpenSSL 1.1.1. Anyone running an earlier version of Tor 0.3.4
6155 As a reminder, the Tor 0.3.4 series will be supported until 10 June
6156 2019. Some time between now and then, users should switch to the Tor
6157 0.3.5 series, which will receive long-term support until at least 1
6160 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
6161 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
6162 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
6163 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
6164 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
6167 o Major bugfixes (relay, directory, backport from 0.3.5.7):
6168 - Always reactivate linked connections in the main loop so long as
6169 any linked connection has been active. Previously, connections
6170 serving directory information wouldn't get reactivated after the
6171 first chunk of data was sent (usually 32KB), which would prevent
6172 clients from bootstrapping. Fixes bug 28912; bugfix on
6173 0.3.4.1-alpha. Patch by "cypherpunks3".
6175 o Minor features (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
6176 - Always show the configure and test logs, and upload them as build
6177 artifacts, when building for Windows using Appveyor CI.
6180 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
6181 - For purposes of CIRC_BW-based dropped cell detection, track half-
6182 closed stream ids, and allow their ENDs, SENDMEs, DATA and path
6183 bias check cells to arrive without counting it as dropped until
6184 either the END arrives, or the windows are empty. Closes
6187 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
6188 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
6189 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
6190 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
6191 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
6193 o Minor features (geoip):
6194 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
6195 Country database. Closes ticket 28395.
6197 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround, backport from 0.3.5.7):
6198 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
6199 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
6200 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
6201 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
6202 Closes ticket 28973.
6204 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
6205 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
6206 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
6207 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
6209 o Minor bugfixes (connection, relay, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
6210 - Avoid a logging a BUG() stacktrace when closing connection held
6211 open because the write side is rate limited but not the read side.
6212 Now, the connection read side is simply shut down until Tor is
6213 able to flush the connection and close it. Fixes bug 27750; bugfix
6216 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
6217 - Manually configure the zstd compiler options, when building using
6218 mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. The MSYS2 mingw zstd package does
6219 not come with a pkg-config file. Fixes bug 28454; bugfix
6221 - Stop using an external OpenSSL install, and stop installing MSYS2
6222 packages, when building using mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. Fixes
6223 bug 28399; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6225 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
6226 - Explicitly specify the path to the OpenSSL library and do not
6227 download OpenSSL from Pacman, but instead use the library that is
6228 already provided by AppVeyor. Fixes bug 28574; bugfix on master.
6230 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions, backport form 0.3.5.3-alpha):
6231 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
6232 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
6233 were the same, the default setting (0) for
6234 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
6235 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
6238 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
6239 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
6240 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
6242 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
6243 - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
6244 descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
6245 gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
6246 authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6248 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
6249 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
6250 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
6251 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
6252 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
6253 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6255 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.5.7):
6256 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
6257 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
6258 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
6260 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, guard selection, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
6261 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
6262 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6265 Changes in version 0.3.5.7 - 2019-01-07
6266 Tor 0.3.5.7 is the first stable release in its series; it includes
6267 compilation and portability fixes, and a fix for a severe problem
6268 affecting directory caches.
6270 The Tor 0.3.5 series includes several new features and performance
6271 improvements, including client authorization for v3 onion services,
6272 cleanups to bootstrap reporting, support for improved bandwidth-
6273 measurement tools, experimental support for NSS in place of OpenSSL,
6274 and much more. It also begins a full reorganization of Tor's code
6275 layout, for improved modularity and maintainability in the future.
6276 Finally, there is the usual set of performance improvements and
6277 bugfixes that we try to do in every release series.
6279 There are a couple of changes in the 0.3.5 that may affect
6280 compatibility. First, the default version for newly created onion
6281 services is now v3. Use the HiddenServiceVersion option if you want to
6282 override this. Second, some log messages related to bootstrapping have
6283 changed; if you use stem, you may need to update to the latest version
6284 so it will recognize them.
6286 We have designated 0.3.5 as a "long-term support" (LTS) series: we
6287 will continue to patch major bugs in typical configurations of 0.3.5
6288 until at least 1 Feb 2022. (We do not plan to provide long-term
6289 support for embedding, Rust support, NSS support, running a directory
6290 authority, or unsupported platforms. For these, you will need to stick
6291 with the latest stable release.)
6293 Below are the changes since 0.3.4.9. For a complete list of changes
6294 since 0.3.5.6-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
6296 o Major features (bootstrap):
6297 - Don't report directory progress until after a connection to a
6298 relay or bridge has succeeded. Previously, we'd report 80%
6299 progress based on cached directory information when we couldn't
6300 even connect to the network. Closes ticket 27169.
6302 o Major features (new code layout):
6303 - Nearly all of Tor's source code has been moved around into more
6304 logical places. The "common" directory is now divided into a set
6305 of libraries in "lib", and files in the "or" directory have been
6306 split into "core" (logic absolutely needed for onion routing),
6307 "feature" (independent modules in Tor), and "app" (to configure
6308 and invoke the rest of Tor). See doc/HACKING/CodeStructure.md for
6309 more information. Closes ticket 26481.
6311 This refactoring is not complete: although the libraries have been
6312 refactored to be acyclic, the main body of Tor is still too
6313 interconnected. We will attempt to improve this in the future.
6315 o Major features (onion services v3):
6316 - Implement onion service client authorization at the descriptor
6317 level: only authorized clients can decrypt a service's descriptor
6318 to find out how to contact it. A new torrc option was added to
6319 control this client side: ClientOnionAuthDir <path>. On the
6320 service side, if the "authorized_clients/" directory exists in the
6321 onion service directory path, client configurations are read from
6322 the files within. See the manpage for more details. Closes ticket
6323 27547. Patch done by Suphanat Chunhapanya (haxxpop).
6324 - Improve revision counter generation in next-gen onion services.
6325 Onion services can now scale by hosting multiple instances on
6326 different hosts without synchronization between them, which was
6327 previously impossible because descriptors would get rejected by
6328 HSDirs. Addresses ticket 25552.
6329 - Version 3 onion services can now use the per-service
6330 HiddenServiceExportCircuitID option to differentiate client
6331 circuits. It communicates with the service by using the HAProxy
6332 protocol to assign virtual IP addresses to inbound client
6333 circuits. Closes ticket 4700. Patch by Mahrud Sayrafi.
6335 o Major features (onion services, UI change):
6336 - For a newly created onion service, the default version is now 3.
6337 Tor still supports existing version 2 services, but the operator
6338 now needs to set "HiddenServiceVersion 2" in order to create a new
6339 version 2 service. For existing services, Tor now learns the
6340 version by reading the key file. Closes ticket 27215.
6342 o Major features (portability, cryptography, experimental, TLS):
6343 - Tor now has the option to compile with the NSS library instead of
6344 OpenSSL. This feature is experimental, and we expect that bugs may
6345 remain. It is mainly intended for environments where Tor's
6346 performance is not CPU-bound, and where NSS is already known to be
6347 installed. To try it out, configure Tor with the --enable-nss
6348 flag. Closes tickets 26631, 26815, and 26816.
6350 If you are experimenting with this option and using an old cached
6351 consensus, Tor may fail to start. To solve this, delete your
6352 "cached-consensus" and "cached-microdesc-consensus" files,
6353 (if present), and restart Tor.
6355 o Major features (relay, UI change):
6356 - Relays no longer run as exits by default. If the "ExitRelay"
6357 option is auto (or unset), and no exit policy is specified with
6358 ExitPolicy or ReducedExitPolicy, we now treat ExitRelay as 0.
6359 Previously in this case, we allowed exit traffic and logged a
6360 warning message. Closes ticket 21530. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6361 - Tor now validates that the ContactInfo config option is valid UTF-
6362 8 when parsing torrc. Closes ticket 27428.
6364 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
6365 - Fix compilation on ARM (and other less-used CPUs) when compiling
6366 with OpenSSL before 1.1. Fixes bug 27781; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6368 o Major bugfixes (compilation, rust):
6369 - Rust tests can now build and run successfully with the
6370 --enable-fragile-hardening option enabled. Doing this currently
6371 requires the rust beta channel; it will be possible with stable
6372 rust once Rust version 1.31 is released. Patch from Alex Crichton.
6373 Fixes bugs 27272, 27273, and 27274. Bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6375 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
6376 - Actually check that the address we get from DirAuthority
6377 configuration line is valid IPv4. Explicitly disallow DirAuthority
6378 address to be a DNS hostname. Fixes bug 26488; bugfix
6381 o Major bugfixes (embedding, main loop):
6382 - When DisableNetwork becomes set, actually disable periodic events
6383 that are already enabled. (Previously, we would refrain from
6384 enabling new ones, but we would leave the old ones turned on.)
6385 Fixes bug 28348; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6387 o Major bugfixes (main loop, bootstrap):
6388 - Make sure Tor bootstraps and works properly if only the
6389 ControlPort is set. Prior to this fix, Tor would only bootstrap
6390 when a client port was set (Socks, Trans, NATD, DNS or HTTPTunnel
6391 port). Fixes bug 27849; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6393 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3):
6394 - On an intro point for a version 3 onion service, stop closing
6395 introduction circuits on a NACK. This lets the client decide
6396 whether to reuse the circuit or discard it. Previously, we closed
6397 intro circuits when sending NACKs. Fixes bug 27841; bugfix on
6398 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chaunan.
6400 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability):
6401 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
6402 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
6403 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
6404 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
6407 o Major bugfixes (relay bandwidth statistics):
6408 - When we close relayed circuits, report the data in the circuit
6409 queues as being written in our relay bandwidth stats. This
6410 mitigates guard discovery and other attacks that close circuits
6411 for the explicit purpose of noticing this discrepancy in
6412 statistics. Fixes bug 23512; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
6414 o Major bugfixes (relay):
6415 - When our write bandwidth limit is exhausted, stop writing on the
6416 connection. Previously, we had a typo in the code that would make
6417 us stop reading instead, leading to relay connections being stuck
6418 indefinitely and consuming kernel RAM. Fixes bug 28089; bugfix
6420 - Always reactivate linked connections in the main loop so long as
6421 any linked connection has been active. Previously, connections
6422 serving directory information wouldn't get reactivated after the
6423 first chunk of data was sent (usually 32KB), which would prevent
6424 clients from bootstrapping. Fixes bug 28912; bugfix on
6425 0.3.4.1-alpha. Patch by "cypherpunks3".
6427 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process):
6428 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
6429 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
6430 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6432 o Minor features (admin tools):
6433 - Add a new --key-expiration option to print the expiration date of
6434 the signing cert in an ed25519_signing_cert file. Resolves
6437 o Minor features (build):
6438 - If you pass the "--enable-pic" option to configure, Tor will try
6439 to tell the compiler to build position-independent code suitable
6440 to link into a dynamic library. (The default remains -fPIE, for
6441 code suitable for a relocatable executable.) Closes ticket 23846.
6443 o Minor features (code correctness, testing):
6444 - Tor's build process now includes a "check-includes" make target to
6445 verify that no module of Tor relies on any headers from a higher-
6446 level module. We hope to use this feature over time to help
6447 refactor our codebase. Closes ticket 26447.
6449 o Minor features (code layout):
6450 - We have a new "lowest-level" error-handling API for use by code
6451 invoked from within the logging module. With this interface, the
6452 logging code is no longer at risk of calling into itself if a
6453 failure occurs while it is trying to log something. Closes
6456 o Minor features (compilation):
6457 - When possible, place our warning flags in a separate file, to
6458 avoid flooding verbose build logs. Closes ticket 28924.
6459 - Tor's configure script now supports a --with-malloc= option to
6460 select your malloc implementation. Supported options are
6461 "tcmalloc", "jemalloc", "openbsd" (deprecated), and "system" (the
6462 default). Addresses part of ticket 20424. Based on a patch from
6465 o Minor features (config):
6466 - The "auto" keyword in torrc is now case-insensitive. Closes
6469 o Minor features (continuous integration):
6470 - Add a Travis CI build for --enable-nss on Linux gcc. Closes
6472 - Add new CI job to Travis configuration to run stem-based
6473 integration tests. Closes ticket 27913.
6474 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
6475 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
6476 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
6477 - Report what program produced the mysterious core file that we
6478 occasionally see on Travis CI during make distcheck. Closes
6480 - Don't do a distcheck with --disable-module-dirauth in Travis.
6481 Implements ticket 27252.
6482 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
6483 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
6484 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
6485 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
6486 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
6487 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
6488 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
6489 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
6490 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
6492 o Minor features (continuous integration, Windows):
6493 - Always show the configure and test logs, and upload them as build
6494 artifacts, when building for Windows using Appveyor CI.
6496 - Build tor on Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2016 using
6497 Appveyor's CI. Closes ticket 28318.
6499 o Minor features (controller):
6500 - Emit CIRC_BW events as soon as we detect that we processed an
6501 invalid or otherwise dropped cell on a circuit. This allows
6502 vanguards and other controllers to react more quickly to dropped
6503 cells. Closes ticket 27678.
6504 - For purposes of CIRC_BW-based dropped cell detection, track half-
6505 closed stream ids, and allow their ENDs, SENDMEs, DATA and path
6506 bias check cells to arrive without counting it as dropped until
6507 either the END arrives, or the windows are empty. Closes
6509 - Implement a 'GETINFO md/all' controller command to enable getting
6510 all known microdescriptors. Closes ticket 8323.
6511 - The GETINFO command now support an "uptime" argument, to return
6512 Tor's uptime in seconds. Closes ticket 25132.
6514 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
6515 - Make our OOM handler aware of the DNS cache so that it doesn't
6516 fill up the memory. This check is important for our DoS mitigation
6517 subsystem. Closes ticket 18642. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6519 o Minor features (development):
6520 - Tor's makefile now supports running the "clippy" Rust style tool
6521 on our Rust code. Closes ticket 22156.
6523 o Minor features (directory authority):
6524 - There is no longer an artificial upper limit on the length of
6525 bandwidth lines. Closes ticket 26223.
6526 - When a bandwidth file is used to obtain the bandwidth measurements,
6527 include this bandwidth file headers in the votes. Closes
6529 - Improved support for networks with only a single authority or a
6530 single fallback directory. Patch from Gabriel Somlo. Closes
6533 o Minor features (embedding API):
6534 - The Tor controller API now supports a function to launch Tor with
6535 a preconstructed owning controller FD, so that embedding
6536 applications don't need to manage controller ports and
6537 authentication. Closes ticket 24204.
6538 - The Tor controller API now has a function that returns the name
6539 and version of the backend implementing the API. Closes
6542 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
6543 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
6544 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
6545 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
6546 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
6548 o Minor features (geoip):
6549 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
6550 Country database. Closes ticket 29012.
6552 o Minor features (memory management):
6553 - Get Libevent to use the same memory allocator as Tor, by calling
6554 event_set_mem_functions() during initialization. Resolves
6557 o Minor features (memory usage):
6558 - When not using them, store legacy TAP public onion keys in DER-
6559 encoded format, rather than as expanded public keys. This should
6560 save several megabytes on typical clients. Closes ticket 27246.
6562 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround):
6563 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
6564 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
6565 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
6566 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
6567 Closes ticket 28973.
6569 o Minor features (OpenSSL):
6570 - When possible, use RFC5869 HKDF implementation from OpenSSL rather
6571 than our own. Resolves ticket 19979.
6573 o Minor features (performance):
6574 - Remove about 96% of the work from the function that we run at
6575 startup to test our curve25519_basepoint implementation. Since
6576 this function has yet to find an actual failure, we now only run
6577 it for 8 iterations instead of 200. Based on our profile
6578 information, this change should save around 8% of our startup time
6579 on typical desktops, and may have a similar effect on other
6580 platforms. Closes ticket 28838.
6581 - Stop re-validating our hardcoded Diffie-Hellman parameters on
6582 every startup. Doing this wasted time and cycles, especially on
6583 low-powered devices. Closes ticket 28851.
6585 o Minor features (Rust, code quality):
6586 - Improve rust code quality in the rust protover implementation by
6587 making it more idiomatic. Includes changing an internal API to
6588 take &str instead of &String. Closes ticket 26492.
6590 o Minor features (testing):
6591 - Add scripts/test/chutney-git-bisect.sh, for bisecting using
6592 chutney. Implements ticket 27211.
6594 o Minor features (tor-resolve):
6595 - The tor-resolve utility can now be used with IPv6 SOCKS proxies.
6596 Side-effect of the refactoring for ticket 26526.
6598 o Minor features (UI):
6599 - Log each included configuration file or directory as we read it,
6600 to provide more visibility about where Tor is reading from. Patch
6601 from Unto Sten; closes ticket 27186.
6602 - Lower log level of "Scheduler type KIST has been enabled" to INFO.
6603 Closes ticket 26703.
6605 o Minor bugfixes (32-bit OSX and iOS, timing):
6606 - Fix an integer overflow bug in our optimized 32-bit millisecond-
6607 difference algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Previously, it
6608 would overflow when calculating the difference between two times
6609 more than 47 days apart. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
6611 - Improve the precision of our 32-bit millisecond difference
6612 algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139;
6613 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6614 - Relax the tolerance on the mainloop/update_time_jumps test when
6615 running on 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
6618 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
6619 - Try harder to get descriptors in non-exit test networks, by using
6620 the mid weight for the third hop when there are no exits. Fixes
6621 bug 27237; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
6623 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
6624 - Avoid casting smartlist index to int implicitly, as it may trigger
6625 a warning (-Wshorten-64-to-32). Fixes bug 26282; bugfix on
6626 0.2.3.13-alpha, 0.2.7.1-alpha and 0.2.1.1-alpha.
6627 - Use time_t for all values in
6628 predicted_ports_prediction_time_remaining(). Rework the code that
6629 computes difference between durations/timestamps. Fixes bug 27165;
6630 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6632 o Minor bugfixes (client, memory usage):
6633 - When not running as a directory cache, there is no need to store
6634 the text of the current consensus networkstatus in RAM.
6635 Previously, however, clients would store it anyway, at a cost of
6636 over 5 MB. Now, they do not. Fixes bug 27247; bugfix
6639 o Minor bugfixes (client, ReachableAddresses):
6640 - Instead of adding a "reject *:*" line to ReachableAddresses when
6641 loading the configuration, add one to the policy after parsing it
6642 in parse_reachable_addresses(). This prevents extra "reject *.*"
6643 lines from accumulating on reloads. Fixes bug 20874; bugfix on
6644 0.1.1.5-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6646 o Minor bugfixes (code quality):
6647 - Rename sandbox_getaddrinfo() and other functions to no longer
6648 misleadingly suggest that they are sandbox-only. Fixes bug 26525;
6649 bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
6651 o Minor bugfixes (code safety):
6652 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
6653 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
6656 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
6657 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
6658 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
6659 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
6661 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
6662 - Refuse to start with relative file paths and RunAsDaemon set
6663 (regression from the fix for bug 22731). Fixes bug 28298; bugfix
6666 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, Onion Services):
6667 - In rend_service_parse_port_config(), disallow any input to remain
6668 after address-port pair was parsed. This will catch address and
6669 port being whitespace-separated by mistake of the user. Fixes bug
6670 27044; bugfix on 0.2.9.10.
6672 o Minor bugfixes (connection, relay):
6673 - Avoid a logging a BUG() stacktrace when closing connection held
6674 open because the write side is rate limited but not the read side.
6675 Now, the connection read side is simply shut down until Tor is
6676 able to flush the connection and close it. Fixes bug 27750; bugfix
6679 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows):
6680 - Stop reinstalling identical packages in our Windows CI. Fixes bug
6681 27464; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6682 - Install only the necessary mingw packages during our appveyor
6683 builds. This change makes the build a little faster, and prevents
6684 a conflict with a preinstalled mingw openssl that appveyor now
6685 ships. Fixes bugs 27765 and 27943; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
6686 - Explicitly specify the path to the OpenSSL library and do not
6687 download OpenSSL from Pacman, but instead use the library that is
6688 already provided by AppVeyor. Fixes bug 28574; bugfix on master.
6689 - Manually configure the zstd compiler options, when building using
6690 mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. The MSYS2 mingw zstd package does
6691 not come with a pkg-config file. Fixes bug 28454; bugfix
6693 - Stop using an external OpenSSL install, and stop installing MSYS2
6694 packages, when building using mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. Fixes
6695 bug 28399; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6697 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
6698 - Consider all routerinfo errors other than "not a server" to be
6699 transient for the purpose of "GETINFO exit-policy/*" controller
6700 request. Print stacktrace in the unlikely case of failing to
6701 recompute routerinfo digest. Fixes bug 27034; bugfix
6704 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
6705 - Fix an unreached code path where we checked the value of
6706 "hostname" inside send_resolved_hostname_cell(). Previously, we
6707 used it before checking it; now we check it first. Fixes bug
6708 28879; bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
6710 o Minor bugfixes (directory connection shutdown):
6711 - Avoid a double-close when shutting down a stalled directory
6712 connection. Fixes bug 26896; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6714 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions):
6715 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
6716 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
6717 were the same, the default setting (0) for
6718 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
6719 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
6722 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel):
6723 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to an
6724 HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix
6727 o Minor bugfixes (ipv6):
6728 - In addrs_in_same_network_family(), we choose the subnet size based
6729 on the IP version (IPv4 or IPv6). Previously, we chose a fixed
6730 subnet size of /16 for both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. Fixes bug
6731 15518; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6733 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
6734 - Permit the "shutdown()" system call, which is apparently used by
6735 OpenSSL under some circumstances. Fixes bug 28183; bugfix
6738 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
6739 - Stop talking about the Named flag in log messages. Clients have
6740 ignored the Named flag since 0.3.2. Fixes bug 28441; bugfix
6742 - As a precaution, do an early return from log_addr_has_changed() if
6743 Tor is running as client. Also, log a stack trace for debugging as
6744 this function should only be called when Tor runs as server. Fixes
6745 bug 26892; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
6746 - Refrain from mentioning bug 21018 in the logs, as it is already
6747 fixed. Fixes bug 25477; bugfix on 0.2.9.8.
6749 o Minor bugfixes (logging, documentation):
6750 - When SafeLogging is enabled, scrub IP address in
6751 channel_tls_process_netinfo_cell(). Also, add a note to manpage
6752 that scrubbing is not guaranteed on loglevels below Notice. Fixes
6753 bug 26882; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
6755 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
6756 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
6757 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
6758 - Fix a small memory leak when calling Tor with --dump-config. Fixes
6759 bug 27893; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6761 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding):
6762 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
6763 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6765 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v2):
6766 - Log at level "info", not "warning", in the case that we do not
6767 have a consensus when a .onion request comes in. This can happen
6768 normally while bootstrapping. Fixes bug 27040; bugfix
6771 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
6772 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
6773 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
6774 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
6775 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
6776 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6777 - Build the service descriptor's signing key certificate before
6778 uploading, so we always have a fresh one: leaving no chances for
6779 it to expire service side. Fixes bug 27838; bugfix
6781 - Stop dumping a stack trace when trying to connect to an intro
6782 point without having a descriptor for it. Fixes bug 27774; bugfix
6784 - When selecting a v3 rendezvous point, don't only look at the
6785 protover, but also check whether the curve25519 onion key is
6786 present. This way we avoid picking a relay that supports the v3
6787 rendezvous but for which we don't have the microdescriptor. Fixes
6788 bug 27797; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6789 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
6790 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
6791 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
6792 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6793 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
6794 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
6796 - When replacing a descriptor in the client cache, make sure to
6797 close all client introduction circuits for the old descriptor, so
6798 we don't end up with unusable leftover circuits. Fixes bug 27471;
6799 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6801 o Minor bugfixes (OS compatibility):
6802 - Properly handle configuration changes that move a listener to/from
6803 wildcard IP address. If the first attempt to bind a socket fails,
6804 close the old listener and try binding the socket again. Fixes bug
6805 17873; bugfix on 0.0.8pre-1.
6807 o Minor bugfixes (performance)::
6808 - Rework node_is_a_configured_bridge() to no longer call
6809 node_get_all_orports(), which was performing too many memory
6810 allocations. Fixes bug 27224; bugfix on 0.2.3.9.
6812 o Minor bugfixes (protover):
6813 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
6814 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
6817 o Minor bugfixes (protover, rust):
6818 - Reject extra commas in version strings. Fixes bug 27197; bugfix
6820 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
6821 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
6822 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
6823 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
6824 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
6825 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
6826 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
6827 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
6828 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
6829 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6831 o Minor bugfixes (relay shutdown, systemd):
6832 - Notify systemd of ShutdownWaitLength so it can be set to longer
6833 than systemd's TimeoutStopSec. In Tor's systemd service file, set
6834 TimeoutSec to 60 seconds to allow Tor some time to shut down.
6835 Fixes bug 28113; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
6837 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics):
6838 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
6839 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
6840 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
6842 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
6843 - Consider the fact that we'll be making direct connections to our
6844 entry and guard nodes when computing the fraction of nodes that
6845 have their descriptors. Also, if we are using bridges and there is
6846 at least one bridge with a full descriptor, treat the fraction of
6847 guards available as 100%. Fixes bug 25886; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
6848 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6849 - Update the message logged on relays when DirCache is disabled.
6850 Since 0.3.3.5-rc, authorities require DirCache (V2Dir) for the
6851 Guard flag. Fixes bug 24312; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
6853 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
6854 - Stop running stem's unit tests as part of "make test-stem", but
6855 continue to run stem's unit and online tests during "make test-
6856 stem-full". Fixes bug 28568; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
6857 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
6858 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6859 - Make the hs_service tests use the same time source when creating
6860 the introduction point and when testing it. Now tests work better
6861 on very slow systems like ARM or Travis. Fixes bug 27810; bugfix
6863 - Revise the "conditionvar_timeout" test so that it succeeds even on
6864 heavily loaded systems where the test threads are not scheduled
6865 within 200 msec. Fixes bug 27073; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
6866 - Fix two unit tests to work when HOME environment variable is not
6867 set. Fixes bug 27096; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
6868 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
6869 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
6870 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
6871 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
6872 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
6873 - When logging a version mismatch in our openssl_version tests,
6874 report the actual offending version strings. Fixes bug 26152;
6875 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6876 - Fix forking tests on Windows when there is a space somewhere in
6877 the path. Fixes bug 26437; bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
6879 o Minor bugfixes (Windows):
6880 - Correctly identify Windows 8.1, Windows 10, and Windows Server
6881 2008 and later from their NT versions. Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on
6882 0.2.2.34; reported by Keifer Bly.
6883 - On recent Windows versions, the GetVersionEx() function may report
6884 an earlier Windows version than the running OS. To avoid user
6885 confusion, add "[or later]" to Tor's version string on affected
6886 versions of Windows. Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on 0.2.2.34; reported
6888 - Remove Windows versions that were never supported by the
6889 GetVersionEx() function. Stop duplicating the latest Windows
6890 version in get_uname(). Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on 0.2.2.34;
6891 reported by Keifer Bly.
6893 o Code simplification and refactoring:
6894 - When parsing a port configuration, make it more obvious to static
6895 analyzer tools that we always initialize the address. Closes
6897 - Divide more large Tor source files -- especially ones that span
6898 multiple areas of functionality -- into smaller parts, including
6899 onion.c and main.c. Closes ticket 26747.
6900 - Divide the "routerparse.c" module into separate modules for each
6901 group of parsed objects. Closes ticket 27924.
6902 - Move protover_rust.c to the same place protover.c was moved to.
6903 Closes ticket 27814.
6904 - Split directory.c into separate pieces for client, server, and
6905 common functionality. Closes ticket 26744.
6906 - Split the non-statistics-related parts from the rephist.c and
6907 geoip.c modules. Closes ticket 27892.
6908 - Split the router.c file into relay-only and shared components, to
6909 help with future modularization. Closes ticket 27864.
6910 - Divide the routerlist.c and dirserv.c modules into smaller parts.
6911 Closes ticket 27799.
6912 - 'updateFallbackDirs.py' now ignores the blacklist file, as it's not
6913 longer needed. Closes ticket 26502.
6914 - Include paths to header files within Tor are now qualified by
6915 directory within the top-level src directory.
6916 - Many structures have been removed from the centralized "or.h"
6917 header, and moved into their own headers. This will allow us to
6918 reduce the number of places in the code that rely on each
6919 structure's contents and layout. Closes ticket 26383.
6920 - Remove ATTR_NONNULL macro from codebase. Resolves ticket 26527.
6921 - Remove GetAdaptersAddresses_fn_t. The code that used it was
6922 removed as part of the 26481 refactor. Closes ticket 27467.
6923 - Rework Tor SOCKS server code to use Trunnel and benefit from
6924 autogenerated functions for parsing and generating SOCKS wire
6925 format. New implementation is cleaner, more maintainable and
6926 should be less prone to heartbleed-style vulnerabilities.
6927 Implements a significant fraction of ticket 3569.
6928 - Split sampled_guards_update_from_consensus() and
6929 select_entry_guard_for_circuit() into subfunctions. In
6930 entry_guards_update_primary() unite three smartlist enumerations
6931 into one and move smartlist comparison code out of the function.
6932 Closes ticket 21349.
6933 - Tor now assumes that you have standards-conformant stdint.h and
6934 inttypes.h headers when compiling. Closes ticket 26626.
6935 - Unify our bloom filter logic. Previously we had two copies of this
6936 code: one for routerlist filtering, and one for address set
6937 calculations. Closes ticket 26510.
6938 - Use the simpler strcmpstart() helper in
6939 rend_parse_v2_service_descriptor instead of strncmp(). Closes
6941 - Utility functions that can perform a DNS lookup are now wholly
6942 separated from those that can't, in separate headers and C
6943 modules. Closes ticket 26526.
6946 - In the tor-resolve(1) manpage, fix the reference to socks-
6947 extensions.txt by adding a web URL. Resolves ticket 27853.
6948 - Mention that we require Python to be 2.7 or newer for some
6949 integration tests that we ship with Tor. Resolves ticket 27677.
6950 - Copy paragraph and URL to Tor's code of conduct document from
6951 CONTRIBUTING to new CODE_OF_CONDUCT file. Resolves ticket 26638.
6952 - Remove old instructions from INSTALL document. Closes ticket 26588.
6953 - Warn users that they should not include MyFamily line(s) in their
6954 torrc when running Tor bridge. Closes ticket 26908.
6957 - Tor no longer supports building with the dmalloc library. For
6958 debugging memory issues, we suggest using gperftools or msan
6959 instead. Closes ticket 26426.
6960 - Tor no longer attempts to run on Windows environments without the
6961 GetAdaptersAddresses() function. This function has existed since
6962 Windows XP, which is itself already older than we support.
6963 - Remove Tor2web functionality for version 2 onion services. The
6964 Tor2webMode and Tor2webRendezvousPoints options are now obsolete.
6965 (This feature was never shipped in vanilla Tor and it was only
6966 possible to use this feature by building the support at compile
6967 time. Tor2webMode is not implemented for version 3 onion services.)
6968 Closes ticket 26367.
6971 - Increase logging and tag all log entries with timestamps in
6972 test_rebind.py. Provides diagnostics for issue 28229.
6974 o Code simplification and refactoring (shared random, dirauth):
6975 - Change many tor_assert() to use BUG() instead. The idea is to not
6976 crash a dirauth but rather scream loudly with a stacktrace and let
6977 it continue run. The shared random subsystem is very resilient and
6978 if anything wrong happens with it, at worst a non coherent value
6979 will be put in the vote and discarded by the other authorities.
6980 Closes ticket 19566.
6982 o Documentation (onion services):
6983 - Improve HSv3 client authorization by making some options more
6984 explicit and detailed. Closes ticket 28026. Patch by Mike Tigas.
6985 - Document in the man page that changing ClientOnionAuthDir value or
6986 adding a new file in the directory will not work at runtime upon
6987 sending a HUP if Sandbox 1. Closes ticket 28128.
6988 - Note in the man page that the only real way to fully revoke an
6989 onion service v3 client authorization is by restarting the tor
6990 process. Closes ticket 28275.
6993 Changes in version 0.3.4.9 - 2018-11-02
6994 Tor 0.3.4.9 is the second stable release in its series; it backports
6995 numerous fixes, including a fix for a bandwidth management bug that
6996 was causing memory exhaustion on relays. Anyone running an earlier
6997 version of Tor 0.3.4.9 should upgrade.
6999 o Major bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
7000 - Fix compilation on ARM (and other less-used CPUs) when compiling
7001 with OpenSSL before 1.1. Fixes bug 27781; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7003 o Major bugfixes (mainloop, bootstrap, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
7004 - Make sure Tor bootstraps and works properly if only the
7005 ControlPort is set. Prior to this fix, Tor would only bootstrap
7006 when a client port was set (Socks, Trans, NATD, DNS or HTTPTunnel
7007 port). Fixes bug 27849; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7009 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
7010 - When our write bandwidth limit is exhausted, stop writing on the
7011 connection. Previously, we had a typo in the code that would make
7012 us stop reading instead, leading to relay connections being stuck
7013 indefinitely and consuming kernel RAM. Fixes bug 28089; bugfix
7016 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
7017 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
7018 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
7019 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7021 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
7022 - Don't do a distcheck with --disable-module-dirauth in Travis.
7023 Implements ticket 27252.
7024 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
7025 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
7026 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
7027 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
7028 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
7029 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
7030 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
7032 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
7033 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
7034 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
7035 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
7037 o Minor features (geoip):
7038 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
7039 Country database. Closes ticket 27991.
7041 o Minor bugfixes (32-bit OSX and iOS, timing, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
7042 - Fix an integer overflow bug in our optimized 32-bit millisecond-
7043 difference algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Previously, it
7044 would overflow when calculating the difference between two times
7045 more than 47 days apart. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
7047 - Improve the precision of our 32-bit millisecond difference
7048 algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139;
7049 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7050 - Relax the tolerance on the mainloop/update_time_jumps test when
7051 running on 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
7054 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
7055 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
7056 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
7059 o Minor bugfixes (CI, appveyor, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
7060 - Only install the necessary mingw packages during our appveyor
7061 builds. This change makes the build a little faster, and prevents
7062 a conflict with a preinstalled mingw openssl that appveyor now
7063 ships. Fixes bugs 27943 and 27765; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
7065 o Minor bugfixes (code safety, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
7066 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
7067 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
7069 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
7070 - Stop reinstalling identical packages in our Windows CI. Fixes bug
7071 27464; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7073 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
7074 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
7075 with a different relay, instead making a BUG() warning. Fixes bug
7076 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7078 o Minor bugfixes (directory connection shutdown, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
7079 - Avoid a double-close when shutting down a stalled directory
7080 connection. Fixes bug 26896; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7082 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
7083 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to an
7084 HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix
7087 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
7088 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
7089 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7091 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
7092 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
7093 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
7096 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
7097 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
7098 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
7099 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
7100 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7102 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
7103 - When selecting a v3 rendezvous point, don't only look at the
7104 protover, but also check whether the curve25519 onion key is
7105 present. This way we avoid picking a relay that supports the v3
7106 rendezvous but for which we don't have the microdescriptor. Fixes
7107 bug 27797; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7109 o Minor bugfixes (protover, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
7110 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
7111 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
7114 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
7115 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
7116 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
7117 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
7118 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
7119 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
7120 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
7121 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7123 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
7124 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
7125 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
7126 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
7128 o Minor bugfixes (rust, directory authority, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
7129 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
7130 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
7131 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
7132 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
7134 o Minor bugfixes (rust, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
7135 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
7136 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7137 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
7138 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
7139 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7141 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
7142 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
7143 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
7144 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
7145 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
7146 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
7148 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
7149 - Make the hs_service tests use the same time source when creating
7150 the introduction point and when testing it. Now tests work better
7151 on very slow systems like ARM or Travis. Fixes bug 27810; bugfix
7154 o Minor bugfixes (testing, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
7155 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
7156 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
7157 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
7158 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
7161 Changes in version 0.2.9.17 - 2018-09-10
7162 Tor 0.2.9.17 backports numerous bugfixes from later versions of Tor.
7164 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
7165 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
7166 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
7167 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
7169 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7170 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
7172 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
7173 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
7174 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
7175 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
7177 o Minor features (geoip):
7178 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
7179 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
7181 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
7182 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
7183 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
7184 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
7186 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7187 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
7188 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
7189 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
7190 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
7191 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
7192 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
7193 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
7196 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7197 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
7198 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
7199 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
7201 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
7202 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
7203 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
7204 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
7206 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7207 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
7208 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
7209 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7211 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
7212 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
7213 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
7214 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
7215 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
7217 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
7218 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
7219 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
7222 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7223 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
7224 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
7225 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
7226 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
7228 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
7229 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
7230 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
7233 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
7234 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
7235 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
7236 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
7238 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
7239 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
7240 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
7242 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
7243 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
7244 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
7247 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7248 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
7249 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
7250 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
7251 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
7253 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7254 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
7255 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
7258 Changes in version 0.3.2.12 - 2018-09-10
7259 Tor 0.3.2.12 backport numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
7261 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
7262 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
7263 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
7264 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
7266 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7267 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
7269 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
7270 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
7271 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
7272 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
7274 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7275 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
7278 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
7279 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
7280 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
7281 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
7283 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7284 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
7285 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
7286 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
7288 o Minor features (geoip):
7289 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
7290 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
7292 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
7293 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
7294 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
7295 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
7296 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
7297 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
7298 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
7300 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7301 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
7302 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
7303 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
7304 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
7305 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
7306 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
7307 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
7310 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7311 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
7312 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
7313 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
7315 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
7316 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
7317 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
7318 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
7320 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7321 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
7322 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
7323 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
7324 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7326 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
7327 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
7328 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
7329 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
7330 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
7332 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
7333 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
7334 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
7337 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7338 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
7339 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
7340 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
7341 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
7343 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
7344 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
7345 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
7348 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7349 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
7350 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
7353 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
7354 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
7355 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
7358 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7359 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
7361 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
7362 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
7363 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
7364 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
7366 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
7367 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
7368 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
7369 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
7371 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
7372 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
7373 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
7375 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
7376 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
7377 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
7378 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
7379 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7380 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
7381 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
7384 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility):
7385 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on OpenSSL
7386 internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL behavior in
7387 a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p. Fixes bug 27226;
7388 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
7390 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7391 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
7392 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
7393 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
7394 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
7396 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7397 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
7398 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
7401 Changes in version 0.3.3.10 - 2018-09-10
7402 Tor 0.3.3.10 backports numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
7404 o Minor features (bug workaround, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7405 - Compile correctly on systems that provide the C11 stdatomic.h
7406 header, but where C11 atomic functions don't actually compile.
7407 Closes ticket 26779; workaround for Debian issue 903709.
7409 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
7410 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
7411 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
7412 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
7414 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7415 - Backport Travis rust distcheck to 0.3.3. Closes ticket 24629.
7416 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
7418 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
7419 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
7420 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
7421 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
7423 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7424 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
7427 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
7428 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
7429 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
7430 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
7432 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7433 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
7434 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
7435 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
7437 o Minor features (geoip):
7438 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
7439 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
7441 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
7442 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
7443 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
7444 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
7445 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
7446 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
7447 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
7449 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7450 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
7451 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
7452 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
7453 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
7454 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
7455 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
7456 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
7459 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7460 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
7461 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
7462 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
7464 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
7465 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
7466 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
7467 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
7469 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7470 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
7471 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
7472 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
7473 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7475 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
7476 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
7477 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
7478 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
7479 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
7481 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
7482 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
7483 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
7486 o Minor bugfixes (in-process restart, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7487 - Always call tor_free_all() when leaving tor_run_main(). When we
7488 did not, restarting tor in-process would cause an assertion
7489 failure. Fixes bug 26948; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7491 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7492 - Fix a bug in our sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
7493 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
7494 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
7495 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
7497 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
7498 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
7499 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
7502 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7503 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
7504 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
7507 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
7508 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
7509 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
7512 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
7513 - Work around two different bugs in the OS X 10.10 and later SDKs
7514 that would prevent us from successfully targeting earlier versions
7515 of OS X. Fixes bug 26876; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7517 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7518 - Fix compilation of the unit tests on GNU/Hurd, which does not
7519 define PATH_MAX. Fixes bug 26873; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch
7522 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7523 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
7525 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
7526 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
7527 - Protover parsing was accepting the presence of whitespace in
7528 version strings, which the C implementation would choke on, e.g.
7529 "Desc=1\t,2". Fixes bug 27177; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
7530 - Protover parsing was ignoring a 2nd hyphen and everything after
7531 it, accepting entries like "Link=1-5-foo". Fixes bug 27164; bugfix
7533 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
7534 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
7535 - cd to ${abs_top_builddir}/src/rust before running cargo in
7536 src/test/test_rust.sh. This makes the working directory consistent
7537 between builds and tests. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
7539 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
7540 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
7541 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
7542 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
7544 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
7545 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
7546 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
7548 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
7549 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
7550 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
7551 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
7552 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7553 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
7554 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
7557 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7558 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
7559 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
7560 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
7561 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
7563 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
7564 - Stop sending ed25519 link specifiers in v3 onion service introduce
7565 cells and descriptors, when the rendezvous or introduction point
7566 doesn't support ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 26627;
7567 bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
7569 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7570 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
7571 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
7574 Changes in version 0.3.4.8 - 2018-09-10
7575 Tor 0.3.4.8 is the first stable release in its series; it includes
7576 compilation and portability fixes.
7578 The Tor 0.3.4 series includes improvements for running Tor in
7579 low-power and embedded environments, which should help performance in
7580 general. We've begun work on better modularity, and included preliminary
7581 changes on the directory authority side to accommodate a new bandwidth
7582 measurement system. We've also integrated more continuous-integration
7583 systems into our development process, and made corresponding changes to
7584 Tor's testing infrastructure. Finally, we've continued to refine
7585 our anti-denial-of-service code.
7587 Below are the changes since 0.3.3.9. For a list of only the changes
7588 since 0.3.4.7-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
7590 o New system requirements:
7591 - Tor no longer tries to support old operating systems without
7592 mmap() or some local equivalent. Apparently, compilation on such
7593 systems has been broken for some time, without anybody noticing or
7594 complaining. Closes ticket 25398.
7596 o Major features (directory authority, modularization):
7597 - The directory authority subsystem has been modularized. The code
7598 is now located in src/or/dirauth/, and is compiled in by default.
7599 To disable the module, the configure option
7600 --disable-module-dirauth has been added. This module may be
7601 disabled by default in some future release. Closes ticket 25610.
7603 o Major features (main loop, CPU usage):
7604 - When Tor is disabled (via DisableNetwork or via hibernation), it
7605 no longer needs to run any per-second events. This change should
7606 make it easier for mobile applications to disable Tor while the
7607 device is sleeping, or Tor is not running. Closes ticket 26063.
7608 - Tor no longer enables all of its periodic events by default.
7609 Previously, Tor would enable all possible main loop events,
7610 regardless of whether it needed them. Furthermore, many of these
7611 events are now disabled when Tor is hibernating or DisableNetwork
7612 is set. This is a big step towards reducing client CPU usage by
7613 reducing the amount of wake-ups the daemon does. Closes tickets
7615 - The bandwidth-limitation logic has been refactored so that
7616 bandwidth calculations are performed on-demand, rather than every
7617 TokenBucketRefillInterval milliseconds. This change should improve
7618 the granularity of our bandwidth calculations, and limit the
7619 number of times that the Tor process needs to wake up when it is
7620 idle. Closes ticket 25373.
7621 - Move responsibility for many operations from a once-per-second
7622 callback to a callback that is only scheduled as needed. Moving
7623 this functionality has allowed us to disable the callback when
7624 Tor's network is disabled. Once enough items are removed from our
7625 once-per-second callback, we can eliminate it entirely to conserve
7626 CPU when idle. The functionality removed includes: closing
7627 connections, circuits, and channels (ticket 25932); consensus
7628 voting (25937); flushing log callbacks (25951); honoring delayed
7629 SIGNEWNYM requests (25949); rescanning the consensus cache
7630 (25931); saving the state file to disk (25948); warning relay
7631 operators about unreachable ports (25952); and keeping track of
7632 Tor's uptime (26009).
7634 o Minor features (accounting):
7635 - When Tor becomes dormant, it now uses a scheduled event to wake up
7636 at the right time. Previously, we would use the per-second timer
7637 to check whether to wake up, but we no longer have any per-second
7638 timers enabled when the network is disabled. Closes ticket 26064.
7640 o Minor features (bug workaround):
7641 - Compile correctly on systems that provide the C11 stdatomic.h
7642 header, but where C11 atomic functions don't actually compile.
7643 Closes ticket 26779; workaround for Debian issue 903709.
7645 o Minor features (code quality):
7646 - Add optional spell-checking for the Tor codebase, using the
7647 "misspell" program. To use this feature, run "make check-typos".
7648 Closes ticket 25024.
7650 o Minor features (compatibility):
7651 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
7652 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
7653 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
7654 - Tor now detects versions of OpenSSL 1.1.0 and later compiled with
7655 the no-deprecated option, and builds correctly with them. Closes
7656 tickets 19429, 19981, and 25353.
7658 o Minor features (compilation):
7659 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
7660 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
7661 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
7662 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
7663 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
7664 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
7665 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
7666 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
7669 o Minor features (compression, zstd):
7670 - When running with zstd, Tor now considers using advanced functions
7671 that the zstd maintainers have labeled as potentially unstable. To
7672 prevent breakage, Tor will only use this functionality when the
7673 runtime version of the zstd library matches the version with which
7674 Tor was compiled. Closes ticket 25162.
7676 o Minor features (configuration):
7677 - The "DownloadSchedule" options have been renamed to end with
7678 "DownloadInitialDelay". The old names are still allowed, but will
7679 produce a warning. Comma-separated lists are still permitted for
7680 these options, but all values after the first are ignored (as they
7681 have been since 0.2.9). Closes ticket 23354.
7683 o Minor features (continuous integration):
7684 - Log the compiler path and version during Appveyor builds.
7685 Implements ticket 27449.
7686 - Show config.log and test-suite.log after failed Appveyor builds.
7687 Also upload the zipped full logs as a build artifact. Implements
7689 - Backport Travis rust distcheck to 0.3.3. Closes ticket 24629.
7690 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
7692 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
7693 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
7694 - Only post Appveyor IRC notifications when the build fails.
7695 Implements ticket 27275.
7696 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
7697 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
7698 - Add the necessary configuration files for continuous integration
7699 testing on Windows, via the Appveyor platform. Closes ticket
7700 25549. Patches from Marcin Cieślak and Isis Lovecruft.
7702 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust):
7703 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
7706 o Minor features (control port):
7707 - Introduce GETINFO "current-time/{local,utc}" to return the local
7708 and UTC times respectively in ISO format. This helps a controller
7709 like Tor Browser detect a time-related error. Closes ticket 25511.
7710 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7711 - Introduce new fields to the CIRC_BW event. There are two new
7712 fields in each of the read and written directions. The DELIVERED
7713 fields report the total valid data on the circuit, as measured by
7714 the payload sizes of verified and error-checked relay command
7715 cells. The OVERHEAD fields report the total unused bytes in each
7716 of these cells. Closes ticket 25903.
7718 o Minor features (controller):
7719 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
7720 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
7721 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
7723 o Minor features (directory authorities):
7724 - Stop warning about incomplete bw lines before the first complete
7725 bw line has been found, so that additional header lines can be
7726 ignored. Fixes bug 25960; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha
7727 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
7728 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
7729 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
7731 o Minor features (directory authority):
7732 - Directory authorities now open their key-pinning files as O_SYNC,
7733 to limit their chances of accidentally writing partial lines.
7734 Closes ticket 23909.
7736 o Minor features (directory authority, forward compatibility):
7737 - Make the lines of the measured bandwidth file able to contain
7738 their entries in any order. Previously, the node_id entry needed
7739 to come first. Closes ticket 26004.
7741 o Minor features (entry guards):
7742 - Introduce a new torrc option NumPrimaryGuards for controlling the
7743 number of primary guards. Closes ticket 25843.
7745 o Minor features (geoip):
7746 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
7747 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
7749 o Minor features (performance):
7750 - Avoid a needless call to malloc() when processing an incoming
7751 relay cell. Closes ticket 24914.
7752 - Make our timing-wheel code run a tiny bit faster on 32-bit
7753 platforms, by preferring 32-bit math to 64-bit. Closes
7755 - Avoid a needless malloc()/free() pair every time we handle an ntor
7756 handshake. Closes ticket 25150.
7758 o Minor features (Rust, portability):
7759 - Rust cross-compilation is now supported. Closes ticket 25895.
7761 o Minor features (testing):
7762 - Add a unit test for voting_schedule_get_start_of_next_interval().
7763 Closes ticket 26014, and helps make unit test coverage
7765 - A new unittests module specifically for testing the functions in
7766 the (new-ish) bridges.c module has been created with new
7767 unittests, raising the code coverage percentages. Closes 25425.
7768 - We now have improved testing for addressmap_get_virtual_address()
7769 function. This should improve our test coverage, and make our test
7770 coverage more deterministic. Closes ticket 25993.
7772 o Minor features (timekeeping, circuit scheduling):
7773 - When keeping track of how busy each circuit have been recently on
7774 a given connection, use coarse-grained monotonic timers rather
7775 than gettimeofday(). This change should marginally increase
7776 accuracy and performance. Implements part of ticket 25927.
7778 o Minor features (unit tests):
7779 - Test complete bandwidth measurements files, and test that
7780 incomplete bandwidth lines only give warnings when the end of the
7781 header has not been detected. Fixes bug 25947; bugfix
7784 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth management):
7785 - Consider ourselves "low on write bandwidth" if we have exhausted
7786 our write bandwidth some time in the last second. This was the
7787 documented behavior before, but the actual behavior was to change
7788 this value every TokenBucketRefillInterval. Fixes bug 25828;
7789 bugfix on 0.2.3.5-alpha.
7791 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
7792 - Add a missing lock acquisition in the shutdown code of the control
7793 subsystem. Fixes bug 25675; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Found by
7794 Coverity; this is CID 1433643.
7796 o Minor bugfixes (code style):
7797 - Fixed multiple includes of transports.h in src/or/connection.c
7798 Fixes bug 25261; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
7799 - Remove the unused variable n_possible from the function
7800 channel_get_for_extend(). Fixes bug 25645; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha
7802 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
7803 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
7804 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
7805 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
7806 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
7807 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
7808 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
7809 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
7811 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
7812 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
7813 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
7814 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
7815 - Refrain from compiling unit testing related object files when
7816 --disable-unittests is set to configure script. Fixes bug 24891;
7817 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
7818 - The --enable-fatal-warnings flag now affects Rust code as well.
7819 Closes ticket 26245.
7820 - Avoid a compiler warning when casting the return value of
7821 smartlist_len() to double with DEBUG_SMARTLIST enabled. Fixes bug
7822 26283; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
7824 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows):
7825 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
7826 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
7827 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
7829 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
7830 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
7831 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
7832 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
7833 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
7835 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
7836 - Respond with more human-readable error messages to GETINFO exit-
7837 policy/* requests. Also, let controller know if an error is
7838 transient (response code 551) or not (response code 552). Fixes
7839 bug 25852; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
7840 - Parse the "HSADDRESS=" parameter in HSPOST commands properly.
7841 Previously, it was misparsed and ignored. Fixes bug 26523; bugfix
7842 on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
7843 - Make CIRC_BW event reflect the total of all data sent on a
7844 circuit, including padding and dropped cells. Also fix a mis-
7845 counting bug when STREAM_BW events were enabled. Fixes bug 25400;
7846 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
7848 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, flow control):
7849 - Upon receiving a stream-level SENDME cell, verify that our window
7850 has not grown too large. Fixes bug 26214; bugfix on svn
7853 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
7854 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
7855 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
7858 o Minor bugfixes (directory client):
7859 - When unverified-consensus is verified, rename it to cached-
7860 consenus. Fixes bug 4187; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
7861 - Fixed launching a certificate fetch always during the scheduled
7862 periodic consensus fetch by fetching only in those cases when
7863 consensus are waiting for certs. Fixes bug 24740; bugfix
7866 o Minor bugfixes (error reporting):
7867 - Improve tolerance for directory authorities with skewed clocks.
7868 Previously, an authority with a clock more than 60 seconds ahead
7869 could cause a client with a correct clock to warn that the
7870 client's clock was behind. Now the clocks of a majority of
7871 directory authorities have to be ahead of the client before this
7872 warning will occur. Fixes bug 25756; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
7874 o Minor bugfixes (in-process restart):
7875 - Always call tor_free_all() when leaving tor_run_main(). When we
7876 did not, restarting tor in-process would cause an assertion
7877 failure. Fixes bug 26948; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7879 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
7880 - Fix a bug in our sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
7881 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
7882 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
7883 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
7885 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
7886 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
7887 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
7890 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
7891 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
7892 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
7894 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
7895 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
7897 - Recompute some consensus information after detecting a clock jump,
7898 or after transitioning from a non-live consensus to a live
7899 consensus. We do this to avoid having an outdated state, and
7900 miscalculating the index for next-generation onion services. Fixes
7901 bug 24977; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7903 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
7904 - Fix compilation of the unit tests on GNU/Hurd, which does not
7905 define PATH_MAX. Fixes bug 26873; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch
7907 - Work around two different bugs in the OS X 10.10 and later SDKs
7908 that would prevent us from successfully targeting earlier versions
7909 of OS X. Fixes bug 26876; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7910 - Do not align mmap length, as it is not required by POSIX, and the
7911 getpagesize function is deprecated. Fixes bug 25399; bugfix
7914 o Minor bugfixes (portability, FreeBSD):
7915 - In have_enough_mem_for_dircache(), the variable DIRCACHE_MIN_MEM_MB
7916 does not stringify on FreeBSD, so we switch to tor_asprintf().
7917 Fixes bug 20887; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7919 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics):
7920 - When a relay is collecting internal statistics about how many
7921 create cell requests it has seen of each type, accurately count
7922 the requests from relays that temporarily fall out of the
7923 consensus. (To be extra conservative, we were already ignoring
7924 requests from clients in our counts, and we continue ignoring them
7925 here.) Fixes bug 24910; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
7927 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
7928 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
7930 - Protover parsing was accepting the presence of whitespace in
7931 version strings, which the C implementation would choke on, e.g.
7932 "Desc=1\t,2". Fixes bug 27177; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
7933 - Protover parsing was ignoring a 2nd hyphen and everything after
7934 it, accepting entries like "Link=1-5-foo". Fixes bug 27164; bugfix
7936 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
7937 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
7938 - cd to ${abs_top_builddir}/src/rust before running cargo in
7939 src/test/test_rust.sh. This makes the working directory consistent
7940 between builds and tests. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
7942 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web):
7943 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web
7944 clients fail to authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes
7945 bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
7947 o Minor bugfixes (test coverage tools):
7948 - Update our "cov-diff" script to handle output from the latest
7949 version of gcov, and to remove extraneous timestamp information
7950 from its output. Fixes bugs 26101 and 26102; bugfix
7953 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
7954 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
7955 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
7956 - When testing workqueue event-cancellation, make sure that we
7957 actually cancel an event, and that cancel each event with equal
7958 probability. (It was previously possible, though extremely
7959 unlikely, for our event-canceling test not to cancel any events.)
7960 Fixes bug 26008; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
7961 - Repeat part of the test in test_client_pick_intro() a number of
7962 times, to give it consistent coverage. Fixes bug 25996; bugfix
7964 - Remove randomness from the hs_common/responsible_hsdirs test, so
7965 that it always takes the same path through the function it tests.
7966 Fixes bug 25997; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7967 - Change the behavior of the "channel/outbound" test so that it
7968 never causes a 10-second rollover for the EWMA circuitmux code.
7969 Previously, this behavior would happen randomly, and result in
7970 fluctuating test coverage. Fixes bug 25994; bugfix
7972 - Use X509_new() to allocate certificates that will be freed later
7973 with X509_free(). Previously, some parts of the unit tests had
7974 used tor_malloc_zero(), which is incorrect, and which caused test
7975 failures on Windows when they were built with extra hardening.
7976 Fixes bugs 25943 and 25944; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by
7978 - While running the circuit_timeout test, fix the PRNG to a
7979 deterministic AES stream, so that the test coverage from this test
7980 will itself be deterministic. Fixes bug 25995; bugfix
7983 o Minor bugfixes (testing, bootstrap):
7984 - When calculating bootstrap progress, check exit policies and the
7985 exit flag. Previously, Tor would only check the exit flag, which
7986 caused race conditions in small and fast networks like chutney.
7987 Fixes bug 27236; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
7989 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney):
7990 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
7991 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
7992 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
7993 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7994 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
7995 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
7998 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility):
7999 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
8000 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
8001 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
8002 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
8004 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
8005 - Stop sending ed25519 link specifiers in v3 onion service introduce
8006 cells and descriptors, when the rendezvous or introduction point
8007 doesn't support ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 26627;
8008 bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
8010 o Minor bugfixes (vanguards):
8011 - Allow the last hop in a vanguard circuit to be the same as our
8012 first, to prevent the adversary from influencing guard node choice
8013 by choice of last hop. Also prevent the creation of A - B - A
8014 paths, or A - A paths, which are forbidden by relays. Fixes bug
8015 25870; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8017 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation):
8018 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
8019 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
8021 o Code simplification and refactoring:
8022 - Remove duplicate code in parse_{c,s}method_line and bootstrap
8023 their functionalities into a single function. Fixes bug 6236;
8024 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
8025 - We remove the PortForwarding and PortForwardingHelper options,
8026 related functions, and the port_forwarding tests. These options
8027 were used by the now-deprecated Vidalia to help ordinary users
8028 become Tor relays or bridges. Closes ticket 25409. Patch by
8030 - In order to make the OR and dir checking function in router.c less
8031 confusing we renamed some functions and
8032 consider_testing_reachability() has been split into
8033 router_should_check_reachability() and
8034 router_do_reachability_checks(). Also we improved the documentation
8035 in some functions. Closes ticket 18918.
8036 - Initial work to isolate Libevent usage to a handful of modules in
8037 our codebase, to simplify our call structure, and so that we can
8038 more easily change event loops in the future if needed. Closes
8040 - Introduce a function to call getsockname() and return tor_addr_t,
8041 to save a little complexity throughout the codebase. Closes
8043 - Make hsdir_index in node_t a hsdir_index_t rather than a pointer
8044 as hsdir_index is always present. Also, we move hsdir_index_t into
8045 or.h. Closes ticket 23094. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8046 - Merge functions used for describing nodes and suppress the
8047 functions that do not allocate memory for the output buffer
8048 string. NODE_DESC_BUF_LEN constant and format_node_description()
8049 function cannot be used externally from router.c module anymore.
8050 Closes ticket 25432. Patch by valentecaio.
8051 - Our main loop has been simplified so that all important operations
8052 happen inside events. Previously, some operations had to happen
8053 outside the event loop, to prevent infinite sequences of event
8054 activations. Closes ticket 25374.
8055 - Put a SHA1 public key digest in hs_service_intro_point_t, and use
8056 it in register_intro_circ() and service_intro_point_new(). This
8057 prevents the digest from being re-calculated each time. Closes
8058 ticket 23107. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8059 - Refactor token-bucket implementations to use a common backend.
8060 Closes ticket 25766.
8061 - Remove extern declaration of stats_n_seconds_working variable from
8062 main, protecting its accesses with get_uptime() and reset_uptime()
8063 functions. Closes ticket 25081, patch by “valentecaio”.
8064 - Remove our previous logic for "cached gettimeofday()" -- our
8065 coarse monotonic timers are fast enough for this purpose, and far
8066 less error-prone. Implements part of ticket 25927.
8067 - Remove the return value for fascist_firewall_choose_address_base(),
8068 and sister functions such as fascist_firewall_choose_address_node()
8069 and fascist_firewall_choose_address_rs(). Also, while we're here,
8070 initialize the ap argument as leaving it uninitialized can pose a
8071 security hazard. Closes ticket 24734. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8072 - Rename two fields of connection_t struct. timestamp_lastwritten is
8073 renamed to timestamp_last_write_allowed and timestamp_lastread is
8074 renamed to timestamp_last_read_allowed. Closes ticket 24714, patch
8076 - Since Tor requires C99, remove our old workaround code for libc
8077 implementations where free(NULL) doesn't work. Closes ticket 24484.
8078 - Use our standard rate-limiting code to deal with excessive
8079 libevent failures, rather than the hand-rolled logic we had
8080 before. Closes ticket 26016.
8081 - We remove the return value of node_get_prim_orport() and
8082 node_get_prim_dirport(), and introduce node_get_prim_orport() in
8083 node_ipv6_or_preferred() and node_ipv6_dir_preferred() in order to
8084 check for a null address. Closes ticket 23873. Patch by
8086 - We switch to should_record_bridge_info() in
8087 geoip_note_client_seen() and options_need_geoip_info() instead of
8088 accessing the configuration values directly. Fixes bug 25290;
8089 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8091 o Deprecated features:
8092 - As we are not recommending 0.2.5 anymore, we require relays that
8093 once had an ed25519 key associated with their RSA key to always
8094 have that key, instead of allowing them to drop back to a version
8095 that didn't support ed25519. This means they need to use a new RSA
8096 key if they want to downgrade to an older version of tor without
8097 ed25519. Closes ticket 20522.
8100 - Directory authorities will no longer support voting according to
8101 any consensus method before consensus method 25. This keeps
8102 authorities compatible with all authorities running 0.2.9.8 and
8103 later, and does not break any clients or relays. Implements ticket
8104 24378 and proposal 290.
8105 - The PortForwarding and PortForwardingHelper features have been
8106 removed. The reasoning is, given that implementations of NAT
8107 traversal protocols within common consumer grade routers are
8108 frequently buggy, and that the target audience for a NAT punching
8109 feature is a perhaps less-technically-inclined relay operator,
8110 when the helper fails to setup traversal the problems are usually
8111 deep, ugly, and very router specific, making them horrendously
8112 impossible for technical support to reliable assist with, and thus
8113 resulting in frustration all around. Unfortunately, relay
8114 operators who would like to run relays behind NATs will need to
8115 become more familiar with the port forwarding configurations on
8116 their local router. Closes 25409.
8117 - The TestingEnableTbEmptyEvent option has been removed. It was used
8118 in testing simulations to measure how often connection buckets
8119 were emptied, in order to improve our scheduling, but it has not
8120 been actively used in years. Closes ticket 25760.
8121 - The old "round-robin" circuit multiplexer (circuitmux)
8122 implementation has been removed, along with a fairly large set of
8123 code that existed to support it. It has not been the default
8124 circuitmux since we introduced the "EWMA" circuitmux in 0.2.4.x,
8125 but it still required an unreasonable amount of memory and CPU.
8126 Closes ticket 25268.
8129 Changes in version 0.3.3.9 - 2018-07-13
8130 Tor 0.3.3.9 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
8131 bridge relays should upgrade.
8133 o Directory authority changes:
8134 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
8135 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
8136 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
8139 Changes in version 0.3.2.11 - 2018-07-13
8140 Tor 0.3.2.11 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
8141 bridge relays should upgrade. We also take this opportunity to backport
8144 o Directory authority changes:
8145 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
8146 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
8147 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
8149 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.3.3.7):
8150 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
8151 Closes ticket 26343.
8153 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8154 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
8155 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
8156 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
8157 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
8159 o Major bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8160 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
8161 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
8163 o Minor features (sandbox, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
8164 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
8165 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
8166 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
8168 o Minor feature (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
8169 - Update the Travis CI configuration to use the stable Rust channel,
8170 now that we have decided to require that. Closes ticket 25714.
8172 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8173 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
8174 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
8175 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
8176 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
8177 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
8179 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
8180 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
8181 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
8182 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
8184 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
8185 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
8186 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
8189 o Minor features (geoip):
8190 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
8191 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
8193 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8194 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
8195 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
8196 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
8197 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
8199 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8200 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
8201 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
8203 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
8204 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
8205 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
8206 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
8207 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8208 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
8209 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
8210 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
8213 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
8214 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
8215 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
8216 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
8217 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
8218 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
8220 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
8221 - Document that the PerConnBW{Rate,Burst} options will fall back to
8222 their corresponding consensus parameters only if those parameters
8223 are set. Previously we had claimed that these values would always
8224 be set in the consensus. Fixes bug 25296; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
8226 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
8227 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
8228 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
8229 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
8230 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
8232 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8233 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
8234 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
8237 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
8238 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
8239 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
8241 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
8242 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
8243 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
8244 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
8246 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8247 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
8248 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8249 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
8250 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
8251 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
8252 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8254 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
8255 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
8256 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
8257 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
8260 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8261 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
8262 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8264 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
8265 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
8266 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8268 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
8269 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
8270 onion service introduction point creation finishing within 5
8271 seconds of real clock time. Fixes bug 25450; bugfix
8274 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
8275 - Fix a C99 compliance issue in our configuration script that caused
8276 compilation issues when compiling Tor with certain versions of
8277 xtools. Fixes bug 25474; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
8279 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
8280 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
8281 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
8283 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
8284 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
8285 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
8288 Changes in version 0.2.9.16 - 2018-07-13
8289 Tor 0.2.9.16 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
8290 bridge relays should upgrade. We also take this opportunity to backport
8293 o Directory authority changes:
8294 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
8295 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
8296 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
8298 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.3.3.7):
8299 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
8300 Closes ticket 26343.
8302 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8303 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
8304 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
8305 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
8306 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
8308 o Minor features (sandbox, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
8309 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
8310 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
8311 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
8313 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8314 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
8315 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
8316 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
8317 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
8318 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
8320 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
8321 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
8322 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
8325 o Minor features (geoip):
8326 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
8327 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
8329 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8330 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
8331 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
8332 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
8333 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
8335 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8336 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
8337 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
8339 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
8340 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
8341 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
8342 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
8345 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
8346 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
8347 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
8348 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
8349 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
8350 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
8352 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
8353 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
8354 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
8355 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
8356 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
8358 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8359 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
8360 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
8363 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
8364 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
8365 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
8367 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
8368 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
8369 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
8370 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
8372 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
8373 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
8374 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
8376 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
8377 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
8378 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
8381 Changes in version 0.3.3.8 - 2018-07-09
8382 Tor 0.3.3.8 backports several changes from the 0.3.4.x series, including
8383 fixes for a memory leak affecting directory authorities.
8385 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
8386 - Stop leaking memory on directory authorities when planning to
8387 vote. This bug was crashing authorities by exhausting their
8388 memory. Fixes bug 26435; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
8390 o Major bugfixes (rust, testing, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
8391 - Make sure that failing tests in Rust will actually cause the build
8392 to fail: previously, they were ignored. Fixes bug 26258; bugfix
8395 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
8396 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
8397 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
8400 o Minor features (geoip):
8401 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
8402 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
8404 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
8405 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
8406 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
8407 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
8409 o Minor bugfixes (circuit path selection, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8410 - Don't count path selection failures as circuit build failures.
8411 This change should eliminate cases where Tor blames its guard or
8412 the network for situations like insufficient microdescriptors
8413 and/or overly restrictive torrc settings. Fixes bug 25705; bugfix
8416 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
8417 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
8418 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
8419 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
8420 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
8422 o Minor bugfixes (control port, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
8423 - Handle the HSADDRESS= argument to the HSPOST command properly.
8424 (Previously, this argument was misparsed and thus ignored.) Fixes
8425 bug 26523; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
8427 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
8428 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
8429 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
8431 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
8432 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
8433 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
8434 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
8437 o Minor bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8438 - When shutting down, Tor now clears all the flags in the control.c
8439 module. This should prevent a bug where authentication cookies are
8440 not generated on restart. Fixes bug 25512; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8442 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
8443 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
8444 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
8445 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
8446 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8447 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
8448 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
8449 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
8453 Changes in version 0.3.3.7 - 2018-06-12
8454 Tor 0.3.3.7 backports several changes from the 0.3.4.x series, including
8455 fixes for bugs affecting compatibility and stability.
8457 o Directory authority changes:
8458 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
8459 Closes ticket 26343.
8461 o Minor features (geoip):
8462 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
8463 Country database. Closes ticket 26351.
8465 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
8466 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
8467 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
8468 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
8469 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
8470 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
8472 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
8473 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
8474 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8476 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
8477 - Improve accuracy of the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port event's
8478 TIMEOUT_RATE and CLOSE_RATE fields. (We were previously
8479 miscounting the total number of circuits for these field values.)
8480 Fixes bug 26121; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8482 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
8483 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
8484 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
8486 o Minor bugfixes (path selection, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8487 - Only select relays when they have the descriptors we prefer to use
8488 for them. This change fixes a bug where we could select a relay
8489 because it had _some_ descriptor, but reject it later with a
8490 nonfatal assertion error because it didn't have the exact one we
8491 wanted. Fixes bugs 25691 and 25692; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
8494 Changes in version 0.3.3.6 - 2018-05-22
8495 Tor 0.3.3.6 is the first stable release in the 0.3.3 series. It
8496 backports several important fixes from the 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8498 The Tor 0.3.3 series includes controller support and other
8499 improvements for v3 onion services, official support for embedding Tor
8500 within other applications, and our first non-trivial module written in
8501 the Rust programming language. (Rust is still not enabled by default
8502 when building Tor.) And as usual, there are numerous other smaller
8503 bugfixes, features, and improvements.
8505 Below are the changes since 0.3.2.10. For a list of only the changes
8506 since 0.3.3.5-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
8508 o New system requirements:
8509 - When built with Rust, Tor now depends on version 0.2.39 of the
8510 libc crate. Closes tickets 25310 and 25664.
8512 o Major features (embedding):
8513 - There is now a documented stable API for programs that need to
8514 embed Tor. See tor_api.h for full documentation and known bugs.
8515 Closes ticket 23684.
8516 - Tor now has support for restarting in the same process.
8517 Controllers that run Tor using the "tor_api.h" interface can now
8518 restart Tor after Tor has exited. This support is incomplete,
8519 however: we fixed crash bugs that prevented it from working at
8520 all, but many bugs probably remain, including a possibility of
8521 security issues. Implements ticket 24581.
8523 o Major features (IPv6, directory documents):
8524 - Add consensus method 27, which adds IPv6 ORPorts to the microdesc
8525 consensus. This information makes it easier for IPv6 clients to
8526 bootstrap and choose reachable entry guards. Implements
8528 - Add consensus method 28, which removes IPv6 ORPorts from
8529 microdescriptors. Now that the consensus contains IPv6 ORPorts,
8530 they are redundant in microdescs. This change will be used by Tor
8531 clients on 0.2.8.x and later. (That is to say, with all Tor
8532 clients that have IPv6 bootstrap and guard support.) Implements
8534 - Expand the documentation for AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity when it is
8535 set by different numbers of authorities. Fixes 23870
8538 o Major features (onion service v3, control port):
8539 - The control port now supports commands and events for v3 onion
8540 services. It is now possible to create ephemeral v3 services using
8541 ADD_ONION. Additionally, several events (HS_DESC, HS_DESC_CONTENT,
8542 CIRC and CIRC_MINOR) and commands (GETINFO, HSPOST, ADD_ONION and
8543 DEL_ONION) have been extended to support v3 onion services. Closes
8544 ticket 20699; implements proposal 284.
8546 o Major features (onion services):
8547 - Provide torrc options to pin the second and third hops of onion
8548 service circuits to a list of nodes. The option HSLayer2Guards
8549 pins the second hop, and the option HSLayer3Guards pins the third
8550 hop. These options are for use in conjunction with experiments
8551 with "vanguards" for preventing guard enumeration attacks. Closes
8553 - When v3 onion service clients send introduce cells, they now
8554 include the IPv6 address of the rendezvous point, if it has one.
8555 Current v3 onion services running 0.3.2 ignore IPv6 addresses, but
8556 in future Tor versions, IPv6-only v3 single onion services will be
8557 able to use IPv6 addresses to connect directly to the rendezvous
8558 point. Closes ticket 23577. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8560 o Major features (relay):
8561 - Implement an option, ReducedExitPolicy, to allow an Tor exit relay
8562 operator to use a more reasonable ("reduced") exit policy, rather
8563 than the default one. If you want to run an exit node without
8564 thinking too hard about which ports to allow, this one is for you.
8565 Closes ticket 13605. Patch from Neel Chauhan.
8567 o Major features (rust, portability, experimental):
8568 - Tor now ships with an optional implementation of one of its
8569 smaller modules (protover.c) in the Rust programming language. To
8570 try it out, install a Rust build environment, and configure Tor
8571 with "--enable-rust --enable-cargo-online-mode". This should not
8572 cause any user-visible changes, but should help us gain more
8573 experience with Rust, and plan future Rust integration work.
8574 Implementation by Chelsea Komlo. Closes ticket 22840.
8576 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, security, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8577 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
8578 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
8579 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
8580 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
8582 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authority, denial-of-service):
8583 - Fix a bug that could have allowed an attacker to force a directory
8584 authority to use up all its RAM by passing it a maliciously
8585 crafted protocol versions string. Fixes bug 25517; bugfix on
8586 0.2.9.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2018-005.
8588 o Major bugfixes (crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8589 - Avoid a rare assertion failure in the circuit build timeout code
8590 if we fail to allow any circuits to actually complete. Fixes bug
8591 25733; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
8593 o Major bugfixes (netflow padding):
8594 - Stop adding unneeded channel padding right after we finish
8595 flushing to a connection that has been trying to flush for many
8596 seconds. Instead, treat all partial or complete flushes as
8597 activity on the channel, which will defer the time until we need
8598 to add padding. This fix should resolve confusing and scary log
8599 messages like "Channel padding timeout scheduled 221453ms in the
8600 past." Fixes bug 22212; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8602 o Major bugfixes (networking):
8603 - Tor will no longer reject IPv6 address strings from Tor Browser
8604 when they are passed as hostnames in SOCKS5 requests. Fixes bug
8605 25036, bugfix on Tor 0.3.1.2.
8607 o Major bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8608 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
8609 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
8611 o Major bugfixes (performance, load balancing):
8612 - Directory authorities no longer vote in favor of the Guard flag
8613 for relays without directory support. Starting in Tor
8614 0.3.0.1-alpha, clients have been avoiding using such relays in the
8615 Guard position, leading to increasingly broken load balancing for
8616 the 5%-or-so of Guards that don't advertise directory support.
8617 Fixes bug 22310; bugfix on 0.3.0.6.
8619 o Major bugfixes (relay):
8620 - If we have failed to connect to a relay and received a connection
8621 refused, timeout, or similar error (at the TCP level), do not try
8622 that same address/port again for 60 seconds after the failure has
8623 occurred. Fixes bug 24767; bugfix on 0.0.6.
8625 o Major bugfixes (relay, denial of service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8626 - Impose a limit on circuit cell queue size. The limit can be
8627 controlled by a consensus parameter. Fixes bug 25226; bugfix
8630 o Minor features (cleanup):
8631 - Tor now deletes the CookieAuthFile and ExtORPortCookieAuthFile
8632 when it stops. Closes ticket 23271.
8634 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8635 - Avoid some compilation warnings with recent versions of LibreSSL.
8636 Closes ticket 26006.
8638 o Minor features (config options):
8639 - Change the way the default value for MaxMemInQueues is calculated.
8640 We now use 40% of the hardware RAM if the system has 8 GB RAM or
8641 more. Otherwise we use the former value of 75%. Closes
8644 o Minor features (continuous integration):
8645 - Update the Travis CI configuration to use the stable Rust channel,
8646 now that we have decided to require that. Closes ticket 25714.
8648 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8649 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
8650 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
8651 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
8652 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
8653 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
8655 o Minor features (defensive programming):
8656 - Most of the functions in Tor that free objects have been replaced
8657 with macros that free the objects and set the corresponding
8658 pointers to NULL. This change should help prevent a large class of
8659 dangling pointer bugs. Closes ticket 24337.
8660 - Where possible, the tor_free() macro now only evaluates its input
8661 once. Part of ticket 24337.
8662 - Check that microdesc ed25519 ids are non-zero in
8663 node_get_ed25519_id() before returning them. Implements ticket
8664 24001, patch by "aruna1234".
8666 o Minor features (directory authority):
8667 - When directory authorities are unable to add signatures to a
8668 pending consensus, log the reason why. Closes ticket 24849.
8670 o Minor features (embedding):
8671 - Tor can now start with a preauthenticated control connection
8672 created by the process that launched it. This feature is meant for
8673 use by programs that want to launch and manage a Tor process
8674 without allowing other programs to manage it as well. For more
8675 information, see the __OwningControllerFD option documented in
8676 control-spec.txt. Closes ticket 23900.
8677 - On most errors that would cause Tor to exit, it now tries to
8678 return from the tor_main() function, rather than calling the
8679 system exit() function. Most users won't notice a difference here,
8680 but it should be significant for programs that run Tor inside a
8681 separate thread: they should now be able to survive Tor's exit
8682 conditions rather than having Tor shut down the entire process.
8683 Closes ticket 23848.
8684 - Applications that want to embed Tor can now tell Tor not to
8685 register any of its own POSIX signal handlers, using the
8686 __DisableSignalHandlers option. Closes ticket 24588.
8688 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
8689 - Avoid selecting fallbacks that change their IP addresses too
8690 often. Select more fallbacks by ignoring the Guard flag, and
8691 allowing lower cutoffs for the Running and V2Dir flags. Also allow
8692 a lower bandwidth, and a higher number of fallbacks per operator
8693 (5% of the list). Implements ticket 24785.
8694 - Update the fallback whitelist and blacklist based on opt-ins and
8695 relay changes. Closes tickets 22321, 24678, 22527, 24135,
8698 o Minor features (fallback directory mirror configuration):
8699 - Add a nickname to each fallback in a C comment. This makes it
8700 easier for operators to find their relays, and allows stem to use
8701 nicknames to identify fallbacks. Implements ticket 24600.
8702 - Add a type and version header to the fallback directory mirror
8703 file. Also add a delimiter to the end of each fallback entry. This
8704 helps external parsers like stem and Relay Search. Implements
8706 - Add an extrainfo cache flag for each fallback in a C comment. This
8707 allows stem to use fallbacks to fetch extra-info documents, rather
8708 than using authorities. Implements ticket 22759.
8709 - Add the generateFallbackDirLine.py script for automatically
8710 generating fallback directory mirror lines from relay fingerprints.
8711 No more typos! Add the lookupFallbackDirContact.py script for
8712 automatically looking up operator contact info from relay
8713 fingerprints. Implements ticket 24706, patch by teor and atagar.
8714 - Reject any fallback directory mirror that serves an expired
8715 consensus. Implements ticket 20942, patch by "minik".
8716 - Remove commas and equals signs from external string inputs to the
8717 fallback list. This avoids format confusion attacks. Implements
8719 - Remove the "weight=10" line from fallback directory mirror
8720 entries. Ticket 24681 will maintain the current fallback weights
8721 by changing Tor's default fallback weight to 10. Implements
8723 - Stop logging excessive information about fallback netblocks.
8724 Implements ticket 24791.
8726 o Minor features (forward-compatibility):
8727 - If a relay supports some link authentication protocol that we do
8728 not recognize, then include that relay's ed25519 key when telling
8729 other relays to extend to it. Previously, we treated future
8730 versions as if they were too old to support ed25519 link
8731 authentication. Closes ticket 20895.
8733 o Minor features (geoip):
8734 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 1 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country
8735 database. Closes ticket 26104.
8737 o Minor features (heartbeat):
8738 - Add onion service information to our heartbeat logs, displaying
8739 stats about the activity of configured onion services. Closes
8742 o Minor features (instrumentation, development):
8743 - Add the MainloopStats option to allow developers to get
8744 instrumentation information from the main event loop via the
8745 heartbeat messages. We hope to use this to improve Tor's behavior
8746 when it's trying to sleep. Closes ticket 24605.
8748 o Minor features (IPv6):
8749 - Make IPv6-only clients wait for microdescs for relays, even if we
8750 were previously using descriptors (or were using them as a bridge)
8751 and have a cached descriptor for them. Implements ticket 23827.
8752 - When a consensus has IPv6 ORPorts, make IPv6-only clients use
8753 them, rather than waiting to download microdescriptors. Implements
8756 o Minor features (log messages):
8757 - Improve log message in the out-of-memory handler to include
8758 information about memory usage from the different compression
8759 backends. Closes ticket 25372.
8760 - Improve a warning message that happens when we fail to re-parse an
8761 old router because of an expired certificate. Closes ticket 20020.
8762 - Make the log more quantitative when we hit MaxMemInQueues
8763 threshold exposing some values. Closes ticket 24501.
8765 o Minor features (logging):
8766 - Clarify the log messages produced when getrandom() or a related
8767 entropy-generation mechanism gives an error. Closes ticket 25120.
8768 - Added support for the Android logging subsystem. Closes
8771 o Minor features (performance):
8772 - Support predictive circuit building for onion service circuits
8773 with multiple layers of guards. Closes ticket 23101.
8774 - Use stdatomic.h where available, rather than mutexes, to implement
8775 atomic_counter_t. Closes ticket 23953.
8777 o Minor features (performance, 32-bit):
8778 - Improve performance on 32-bit systems by avoiding 64-bit division
8779 when calculating the timestamp in milliseconds for channel padding
8780 computations. Implements ticket 24613.
8781 - Improve performance on 32-bit systems by avoiding 64-bit division
8782 when timestamping cells and buffer chunks for OOM calculations.
8783 Implements ticket 24374.
8785 o Minor features (performance, OSX, iOS):
8786 - Use the mach_approximate_time() function (when available) to
8787 implement coarse monotonic time. Having a coarse time function
8788 should avoid a large number of system calls, and improve
8789 performance slightly, especially under load. Closes ticket 24427.
8791 o Minor features (performance, windows):
8792 - Improve performance on Windows Vista and Windows 7 by adjusting
8793 TCP send window size according to the recommendation from
8794 SIO_IDEAL_SEND_BACKLOG_QUERY. Closes ticket 22798. Patch
8797 o Minor features (sandbox):
8798 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
8799 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
8800 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
8802 o Minor features (storage, configuration):
8803 - Users can store cached directory documents somewhere other than
8804 the DataDirectory by using the CacheDirectory option. Similarly,
8805 the storage location for relay's keys can be overridden with the
8806 KeyDirectory option. Closes ticket 22703.
8808 o Minor features (testing):
8809 - Add a "make test-rust" target to run the rust tests only. Closes
8812 o Minor features (testing, debugging, embedding):
8813 - For development purposes, Tor now has a mode in which it runs for
8814 a few seconds, then stops, and starts again without exiting the
8815 process. This mode is meant to help us debug various issues with
8816 ticket 23847. To use this feature, compile with
8817 --enable-restart-debugging, and set the TOR_DEBUG_RESTART
8818 environment variable. This is expected to crash a lot, and is
8819 really meant for developers only. It will likely be removed in a
8820 future release. Implements ticket 24583.
8822 o Minor bugfixes (build, rust):
8823 - Fix output of autoconf checks to display success messages for Rust
8824 dependencies and a suitable rustc compiler version. Fixes bug
8825 24612; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
8826 - Don't pass the --quiet option to cargo: it seems to suppress some
8827 errors, which is not what we want to do when building. Fixes bug
8828 24518; bugfix on 0.3.1.7.
8829 - Build correctly when building from outside Tor's source tree with
8830 the TOR_RUST_DEPENDENCIES option set. Fixes bug 22768; bugfix
8833 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
8834 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
8835 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
8836 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
8838 o Minor bugfixes (channel, client):
8839 - Better identify client connection when reporting to the geoip
8840 client cache. Fixes bug 24904; bugfix on 0.3.1.7.
8842 o Minor bugfixes (circuit, cannibalization):
8843 - Don't cannibalize preemptively-built circuits if we no longer
8844 recognize their first hop. This situation can happen if our Guard
8845 relay went off the consensus after the circuit was created. Fixes
8846 bug 24469; bugfix on 0.0.6.
8848 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8849 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
8850 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
8853 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
8854 - Fix a C99 compliance issue in our configuration script that caused
8855 compilation issues when compiling Tor with certain versions of
8856 xtools. Fixes bug 25474; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
8858 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
8859 - Restore the correct operation of the RESOLVE command, which had
8860 been broken since we added the ability to enable/disable DNS on
8861 specific listener ports. Fixes bug 25617; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
8862 - Avoid a (nonfatal) assertion failure when extending a one-hop
8863 circuit from the controller to become a multihop circuit. Fixes
8864 bug 24903; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
8866 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
8867 - Remove a nonworking, unnecessary check to see whether a circuit
8868 hop's identity digest was set when the circuit failed. Fixes bug
8869 24927; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
8871 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8872 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
8873 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
8874 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
8875 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
8877 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, IPv6):
8878 - When creating a routerstatus (vote) from a routerinfo (descriptor),
8879 set the IPv6 address to the unspecified IPv6 address, and
8880 explicitly initialize the port to zero. Fixes bug 24488; bugfix
8883 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
8884 - Document that the PerConnBW{Rate,Burst} options will fall back to
8885 their corresponding consensus parameters only if those parameters
8886 are set. Previously we had claimed that these values would always
8887 be set in the consensus. Fixes bug 25296; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
8889 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8890 - Stop saying in the manual that clients cache ipv4 dns answers from
8891 exit relays. We haven't used them since 0.2.6.3-alpha, and in
8892 ticket 24050 we stopped even caching them as of 0.3.2.6-alpha, but
8893 we forgot to say so in the man page. Fixes bug 26052; bugfix
8896 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay DNS retries):
8897 - Re-attempt timed-out DNS queries 3 times before failure, since our
8898 timeout is 5 seconds for them, but clients wait 10-15. Also allow
8899 slightly more timeouts per resolver when an exit has multiple
8900 resolvers configured. Fixes bug 21394; bugfix on 0.3.1.9.
8902 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directory mirrors):
8903 - Make updateFallbackDirs.py search harder for python. (Some OSs
8904 don't put it in /usr/bin.) Fixes bug 24708; bugfix
8907 o Minor bugfixes (hibernation, bandwidth accounting, shutdown):
8908 - When hibernating, close connections normally and allow them to
8909 flush. Fixes bug 23571; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Also fixes
8911 - Do not attempt to launch self-reachability tests when entering
8912 hibernation. Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
8913 - Resolve several bugs related to descriptor fetching on bridge
8914 clients with bandwidth accounting enabled. (This combination is
8915 not recommended!) Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix
8917 - When hibernating, do not attempt to launch DNS checks. Fixes a
8918 case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
8919 - When hibernating, do not try to upload or download descriptors.
8920 Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
8922 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, bridges):
8923 - Tor now always sets IPv6 preferences for bridges. Fixes bug 24573;
8924 bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
8925 - Tor now sets IPv6 address in the routerstatus as well as in the
8926 router descriptors when updating addresses for a bridge. Closes
8927 ticket 24572; bugfix on 0.2.4.5-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
8929 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
8930 - When running with the sandbox enabled, reload configuration files
8931 correctly even when %include was used. Previously we would crash.
8932 Fixes bug 22605; bugfix on 0.3.1. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
8934 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8935 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
8936 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
8938 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
8939 - Fix a (mostly harmless) race condition when invoking
8940 LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN message from a subthread while the torrc options
8941 are changing. Fixes bug 23954; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
8943 o Minor bugfixes (man page, SocksPort):
8944 - Remove dead code from the old "SocksSocket" option, and rename
8945 SocksSocketsGroupWritable to UnixSocksGroupWritable. The old
8946 option still works, but is deprecated. Fixes bug 24343; bugfix
8949 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
8950 - Avoid possible at-exit memory leaks related to use of Libevent's
8951 event_base_once() function. (This function tends to leak memory if
8952 the event_base is closed before the event fires.) Fixes bug 24584;
8953 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
8954 - Fix a harmless memory leak in tor-resolve. Fixes bug 24582; bugfix
8957 o Minor bugfixes (network IPv6 test):
8958 - Tor's test scripts now check if "ping -6 ::1" works when the user
8959 runs "make test-network-all". Fixes bug 24677; bugfix on
8960 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
8962 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
8963 - string_is_valid_hostname() will not consider IP strings to be
8964 valid hostnames. Fixes bug 25055; bugfix on Tor 0.2.5.5.
8966 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
8967 - Avoid an assertion failure when the next onion service descriptor
8968 rotation type is out of sync with the consensus's valid-after
8969 time. Instead, log a warning message with extra information, so we
8970 can better hunt down the cause of this assertion. Fixes bug 25306;
8971 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8973 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8974 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
8975 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8976 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
8977 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
8978 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
8979 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8981 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
8982 - If we are configured to offer a single onion service, don't log
8983 long-term established one hop rendezvous points in the heartbeat.
8984 Fixes bug 25116; bugfix on 0.2.9.6-rc.
8986 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
8987 - Reduce the number of circuits that will be opened at once during
8988 the circuit build timeout phase. This is done by increasing the
8989 idle timeout to 3 minutes, and lowering the maximum number of
8990 concurrent learning circuits to 10. Fixes bug 24769; bugfix
8992 - Avoid calling protocol_list_supports_protocol() from inside tight
8993 loops when running with cached routerinfo_t objects. Instead,
8994 summarize the relevant protocols as flags in the routerinfo_t, as
8995 we do for routerstatus_t objects. This change simplifies our code
8996 a little, and saves a large amount of short-term memory allocation
8997 operations. Fixes bug 25008; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
8999 o Minor bugfixes (performance, timeouts):
9000 - Consider circuits for timeout as soon as they complete a hop. This
9001 is more accurate than applying the timeout in
9002 circuit_expire_building() because that function is only called
9003 once per second, which is now too slow for typical timeouts on the
9004 current network. Fixes bug 23114; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
9005 - Use onion service circuits (and other circuits longer than 3 hops)
9006 to calculate a circuit build timeout. Previously, Tor only
9007 calculated its build timeout based on circuits that planned to be
9008 exactly 3 hops long. With this change, we include measurements
9009 from all circuits at the point where they complete their third
9010 hop. Fixes bug 23100; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
9012 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9013 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
9014 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9016 o Minor bugfixes (Rust FFI):
9017 - Fix a minor memory leak which would happen whenever the C code
9018 would call the Rust implementation of
9019 protover_get_supported_protocols(). This was due to the C version
9020 returning a static string, whereas the Rust version newly allocated
9021 a CString to pass across the FFI boundary. Consequently, the C
9022 code was not expecting to need to free() what it was given. Fixes
9023 bug 25127; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9025 o Minor bugfixes (spelling):
9026 - Use the "misspell" tool to detect and fix typos throughout the
9027 source code. Fixes bug 23650; bugfix on various versions of Tor.
9028 Patch from Deepesh Pathak.
9030 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
9031 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
9032 onion service introduction point creation finishing within 5
9033 seconds of real clock time. Fixes bug 25450; bugfix
9035 - Give out Exit flags in bootstrapping networks. Fixes bug 24137;
9036 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
9038 o Minor bugfixes (unit test, monotonic time):
9039 - Increase a constant (1msec to 10msec) in the monotonic time test
9040 that makes sure the nsec/usec/msec times read are synchronized.
9041 This change was needed to accommodate slow systems like armel or
9042 when the clock_gettime() is not a VDSO on the running kernel.
9043 Fixes bug 25113; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
9045 o Code simplification and refactoring:
9046 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
9047 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
9048 - Remove the old (deterministic) directory retry logic entirely:
9049 We've used exponential backoff exclusively for some time. Closes
9051 - Remove the unused nodelist_recompute_all_hsdir_indices(). Closes
9053 - Remove a series of counters used to track circuit extend attempts
9054 and connection status but that in reality we aren't using for
9055 anything other than stats logged by a SIGUSR1 signal. Closes
9057 - Remove /usr/athena from search path in configure.ac. Closes
9059 - Remove duplicate code in node_has_curve25519_onion_key() and
9060 node_get_curve25519_onion_key(), and add a check for a zero
9061 microdesc curve25519 onion key. Closes ticket 23966, patch by
9062 "aruna1234" and teor.
9063 - Rewrite channel_rsa_id_group_set_badness to reduce temporary
9064 memory allocations with large numbers of OR connections (e.g.
9065 relays). Closes ticket 24119.
9066 - Separate the function that deletes ephemeral files when Tor
9068 - Small changes to Tor's buf_t API to make it suitable for use as a
9069 general-purpose safe string constructor. Closes ticket 22342.
9070 - Switch -Wnormalized=id to -Wnormalized=nfkc in configure.ac to
9071 avoid source code identifier confusion. Closes ticket 24467.
9072 - The tor_git_revision[] constant no longer needs to be redeclared
9073 by everything that links against the rest of Tor. Done as part of
9074 ticket 23845, to simplify our external API.
9075 - We make extend_info_from_node() use node_get_curve25519_onion_key()
9076 introduced in ticket 23577 to access the curve25519 public keys
9077 rather than accessing it directly. Closes ticket 23760. Patch by
9079 - Add a function to log channels' scheduler state changes to aid
9080 debugging efforts. Closes ticket 24531.
9083 - Improved the documentation of AccountingStart parameter. Closes
9085 - Update the documentation for "Log" to include the current list of
9086 logging domains. Closes ticket 25378.
9087 - Add documentation on how to build tor with Rust dependencies
9088 without having to be online. Closes ticket 22907; bugfix
9090 - Clarify the behavior of RelayBandwidth{Rate,Burst} with client
9091 traffic. Closes ticket 24318.
9092 - Document that OutboundBindAddress doesn't apply to DNS requests.
9093 Closes ticket 22145. Patch from Aruna Maurya.
9095 o Code simplification and refactoring (channels):
9096 - Remove the incoming and outgoing channel queues. These were never
9097 used, but still took up a step in our fast path.
9098 - The majority of the channel unit tests have been rewritten and the
9099 code coverage has now been raised to 83.6% for channel.c. Closes
9101 - Remove other dead code from the channel subsystem: All together,
9102 this cleanup has removed more than 1500 lines of code overall and
9103 adding very little except for unit test.
9105 o Code simplification and refactoring (circuit rendezvous):
9106 - Split the client-side rendezvous circuit lookup into two
9107 functions: one that returns only established circuits and another
9108 that returns all kinds of circuits. Closes ticket 23459.
9110 o Code simplification and refactoring (controller):
9111 - Make most of the variables in networkstatus_getinfo_by_purpose()
9112 const. Implements ticket 24489.
9114 o Documentation (backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9115 - Correct an IPv6 error in the documentation for ExitPolicy. Closes
9116 ticket 25857. Patch from "CTassisF".
9118 o Documentation (man page):
9119 - The HiddenServiceVersion torrc option accepts only one number:
9120 either version 2 or 3. Closes ticket 25026; bugfix
9123 o Documentation (manpage, denial of service):
9124 - Provide more detail about the denial-of-service options, by
9125 listing each mitigation and explaining how they relate. Closes
9129 Changes in version 0.3.1.10 - 2018-03-03
9130 Tor 0.3.1.10 backports a number of bugfixes, including important fixes for
9133 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
9134 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
9136 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
9137 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
9139 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
9142 All directory authorities should upgrade to one of the versions
9143 released today. Relays running 0.3.1.x may wish to update to one of
9144 the versions released today, for the DoS mitigations.
9146 Please note: according to our release calendar, Tor 0.3.1 will no
9147 longer be supported after 1 July 2018. If you will be running Tor
9148 after that date, you should make sure to plan to upgrade to the latest
9149 stable version, or downgrade to 0.2.9 (which will receive long-term
9152 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
9153 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
9154 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
9155 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
9158 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
9159 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
9160 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
9161 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
9162 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
9163 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
9164 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
9165 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
9166 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
9167 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
9168 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
9169 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
9170 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
9172 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
9173 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
9174 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
9176 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
9177 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
9178 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
9179 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
9180 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
9181 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
9182 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
9184 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
9185 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
9186 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9188 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
9189 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
9190 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
9191 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
9192 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
9193 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
9194 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9196 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
9197 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
9198 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
9199 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
9201 o Minor feature (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
9202 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
9203 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
9204 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
9206 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
9207 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
9208 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
9209 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
9210 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
9211 Closes ticket 24978.
9213 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors, backport from 0.3.2.9):
9214 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
9215 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
9216 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
9217 information. Closes ticket 24801.
9218 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
9219 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
9220 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
9221 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
9223 o Minor features (geoip):
9224 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9227 o Minor bugfix (channel connection, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
9228 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
9229 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
9230 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
9231 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
9233 o Minor bugfix (directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
9234 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
9235 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
9236 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
9237 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
9239 o Minor bugfixes (address selection, backport from 0.3.2.9):
9240 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
9241 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
9242 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
9243 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
9246 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
9247 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
9248 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
9249 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
9250 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
9251 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
9252 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
9253 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
9254 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
9255 - Don't try fetching microdescriptors from relays that have failed
9256 to deliver them in the past. Fixes bug 23817; bugfix
9259 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.7-rc):
9260 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
9261 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
9263 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
9264 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
9265 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
9268 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
9269 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
9270 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
9271 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
9272 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
9273 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
9274 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
9276 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
9277 - Recover better from empty or corrupt files in the consensus cache
9278 directory. Fixes bug 24099; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9279 - When a consensus diff calculation is only partially successful,
9280 only record the successful parts as having succeeded. Partial
9281 success can happen if (for example) one compression method fails
9282 but the others succeed. Previously we misrecorded all the
9283 calculations as having succeeded, which would later cause a
9284 nonfatal assertion failure. Fixes bug 24086; bugfix
9287 o Minor bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
9288 - Tor now updates its guard state when it reads a consensus
9289 regardless of whether it's missing descriptors. That makes tor use
9290 its primary guards to fetch descriptors in some edge cases where
9291 it would previously have used fallback directories. Fixes bug
9292 23862; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9294 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
9295 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
9296 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
9297 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9299 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage, backport from 0.3.2.8-rc):
9300 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
9301 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
9302 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
9303 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
9306 o Minor bugfixes (network layer, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
9307 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
9308 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
9309 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
9310 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
9311 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
9313 o Minor bugfixes (path selection, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
9314 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
9315 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
9316 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
9317 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
9318 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
9319 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
9320 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
9321 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
9322 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
9323 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
9324 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
9326 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
9327 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
9328 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
9329 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9331 o Minor bugfixes (OSX, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
9332 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
9333 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
9334 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
9336 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc, backport from 0.3.2.9):
9337 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
9338 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
9339 to cyptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
9342 o Minor bugfixes (relay, partial backport):
9343 - Make the internal channel_is_client() function look at what sort
9344 of connection handshake the other side used, rather than whether
9345 the other side ever sent a create_fast cell to us. Backports part
9346 of the fixes from bugs 22805 and 24898.
9348 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
9349 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
9351 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
9352 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
9354 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
9355 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
9356 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
9359 Changes in version 0.2.9.15 - 2018-03-03
9360 Tor 0.2.9.15 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
9363 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
9364 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
9366 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
9367 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
9369 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
9372 All directory authorities should upgrade to one of the versions
9373 released today. Relays running 0.2.9.x may wish to update to one of
9374 the versions released today, for the DoS mitigations.
9376 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
9377 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
9378 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
9379 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
9382 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation):
9383 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
9384 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
9385 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
9386 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
9387 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
9388 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
9389 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
9390 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
9391 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
9392 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
9393 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
9394 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
9396 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping):
9397 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
9398 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
9399 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
9400 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
9401 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
9402 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
9403 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
9404 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
9406 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior):
9407 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
9408 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
9409 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
9410 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
9411 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
9412 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
9414 o Minor feature (relay statistics):
9415 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
9416 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
9417 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
9419 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL):
9420 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
9421 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
9422 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
9423 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
9424 Closes ticket 24978.
9426 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
9427 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
9428 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
9429 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
9431 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
9432 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
9433 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
9434 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
9435 information. Closes ticket 24801.
9436 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
9437 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
9438 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
9439 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
9441 o Minor features (geoip):
9442 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9445 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
9446 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
9447 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
9449 o Minor bugfix (channel connection):
9450 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
9451 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
9452 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
9453 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
9455 o Minor bugfix (directory authority):
9456 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
9457 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
9458 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
9459 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
9461 o Minor bugfixes (address selection):
9462 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
9463 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
9464 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
9465 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
9468 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
9469 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
9470 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
9472 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
9473 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
9474 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
9477 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
9478 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
9479 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
9480 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
9481 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
9482 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
9483 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
9485 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage):
9486 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
9487 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
9488 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
9489 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
9492 o Minor bugfixes (network layer):
9493 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
9494 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
9495 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
9496 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
9497 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
9499 o Minor bugfixes (OSX):
9500 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
9501 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
9502 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
9504 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
9505 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
9506 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
9507 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
9508 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
9509 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
9510 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
9511 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
9512 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
9513 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
9514 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
9515 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
9517 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc):
9518 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
9519 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
9520 to cryptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
9523 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
9524 - Make the internal channel_is_client() function look at what sort
9525 of connection handshake the other side used, rather than whether
9526 the other side ever sent a create_fast cell to us. Backports part
9527 of the fixes from bugs 22805 and 24898.
9529 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
9530 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
9532 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
9533 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
9536 Changes in version 0.3.2.10 - 2018-03-03
9537 Tor 0.3.2.10 is the second stable release in the 0.3.2 series. It
9538 backports a number of bugfixes, including important fixes for security
9541 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
9542 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
9544 Additionally, it backports a fix for a bug whose severity we have
9545 upgraded: Bug 24700, which was fixed in 0.3.3.2-alpha, can be remotely
9546 triggered in order to crash relays with a use-after-free pattern. As
9547 such, we are now tracking that bug as TROVE-2018-002 and
9548 CVE-2018-0491, and backporting it to earlier releases. This bug
9549 affected versions 0.3.2.1-alpha through 0.3.2.9, as well as version
9552 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
9553 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
9555 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
9558 Relays running 0.3.2.x SHOULD upgrade to one of the versions released
9559 today, for the fix to TROVE-2018-002. Directory authorities should
9560 also upgrade. (Relays on earlier versions might want to update too for
9561 the DoS mitigations.)
9563 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
9564 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
9565 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
9566 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
9569 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, KIST, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
9570 - Avoid adding the same channel twice in the KIST scheduler pending
9571 list, which could lead to remote denial-of-service use-after-free
9572 attacks against relays. Fixes bug 24700; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9574 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
9575 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
9576 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
9577 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
9578 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
9579 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
9580 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
9581 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
9582 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
9583 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
9584 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
9585 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
9586 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
9588 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
9589 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
9590 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
9591 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
9592 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
9593 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
9594 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
9595 - New-style (v3) onion services now obey the "max rendezvous circuit
9596 attempts" logic. Previously they would make as many rendezvous
9597 circuit attempts as they could fit in the MAX_REND_TIMEOUT second
9598 window before giving up. Fixes bug 24894; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9600 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
9601 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
9602 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9604 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
9605 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
9606 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
9607 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
9608 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
9609 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
9610 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9612 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, consensus, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
9613 - The scheduler subsystem was failing to promptly notice changes in
9614 consensus parameters, making it harder to switch schedulers
9615 network-wide. Fixes bug 24975; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9617 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
9618 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
9619 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
9620 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
9622 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
9623 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
9624 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
9625 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
9626 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
9627 Closes ticket 24978.
9629 o Minor features (geoip):
9630 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9633 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
9634 - When logging a failure to create an onion service's descriptor,
9635 also log what the problem with the descriptor was. Diagnostic
9638 o Minor bugfix (channel connection, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
9639 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
9640 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
9641 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
9642 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
9644 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
9645 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
9646 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
9647 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
9648 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
9649 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
9650 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
9652 o Minor bugfix (directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
9653 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
9654 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
9655 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
9656 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
9658 o Minor bugfixes (build, rust, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
9659 - When building with Rust on OSX, link against libresolv, to work
9660 around the issue at https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/46797.
9661 Fixes bug 24652; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9663 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
9664 - Remove a BUG() statement when a client fetches an onion descriptor
9665 that has a lower revision counter than the one in its cache. This
9666 can happen in normal circumstances due to HSDir desync. Fixes bug
9667 24976; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9669 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
9670 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
9671 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
9672 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9674 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
9675 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
9676 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
9677 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9679 o Minor bugfixes (OSX, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
9680 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
9681 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
9682 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
9684 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
9685 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
9687 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
9688 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
9690 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
9691 - Fix a memory leak in the scheduler/loop_kist unit test. Fixes bug
9692 25005; bugfix on 0.3.2.7-rc.
9694 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
9695 - Look at the "HSRend" protocol version, not the "HSDir" protocol
9696 version, when deciding whether a consensus entry can support the
9697 v3 onion service protocol as a rendezvous point. Fixes bug 25105;
9698 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9700 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
9701 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
9702 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
9704 o Documentation (backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha)
9705 - Document that operators who run more than one relay or bridge are
9706 expected to set MyFamily and ContactInfo correctly. Closes
9710 Changes in version 0.3.2.9 - 2018-01-09
9711 Tor 0.3.2.9 is the first stable release in the 0.3.2 series.
9713 The 0.3.2 series includes our long-anticipated new onion service
9714 design, with numerous security features. (For more information, see
9715 our blog post at https://blog.torproject.org/fall-harvest.) We also
9716 have a new circuit scheduler algorithm for improved performance on
9717 relays everywhere (see https://blog.torproject.org/kist-and-tell),
9718 along with many smaller features and bugfixes.
9720 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support each stable release
9721 series for at least the next nine months, or for three months after
9722 the first stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. If
9723 you need a release with long-term support, we recommend that you stay
9724 with the 0.2.9 series.
9726 Below is a list of the changes since 0.3.1.7. For a list of all
9727 changes since 0.3.2.8-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
9729 o Directory authority changes:
9730 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
9731 Closes ticket 23910.
9732 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
9733 Closes ticket 23592.
9734 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
9735 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
9736 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
9737 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
9738 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
9741 o Major features (next-generation onion services):
9742 - Tor now supports the next-generation onion services protocol for
9743 clients and services! As part of this release, the core of
9744 proposal 224 has been implemented and is available for
9745 experimentation and testing by our users. This newer version of
9746 onion services ("v3") features many improvements over the legacy
9749 a) Better crypto (replaced SHA1/DH/RSA1024
9750 with SHA3/ed25519/curve25519)
9752 b) Improved directory protocol, leaking much less information to
9755 c) Improved directory protocol, with smaller surface for
9758 d) Better onion address security against impersonation.
9760 e) More extensible introduction/rendezvous protocol.
9762 f) A cleaner and more modular codebase.
9764 You can identify a next-generation onion address by its length:
9765 they are 56 characters long, as in
9766 "4acth47i6kxnvkewtm6q7ib2s3ufpo5sqbsnzjpbi7utijcltosqemad.onion".
9768 In the future, we will release more options and features for v3
9769 onion services, but we first need a testing period, so that the
9770 current codebase matures and becomes more robust. Planned features
9771 include: offline keys, advanced client authorization, improved
9772 guard algorithms, and statistics. For full details, see
9775 Legacy ("v2") onion services will still work for the foreseeable
9776 future, and will remain the default until this new codebase gets
9777 tested and hardened. Service operators who want to experiment with
9778 the new system can use the 'HiddenServiceVersion 3' torrc
9779 directive along with the regular onion service configuration
9780 options. For more information, see our blog post at
9781 "https://blog.torproject.org/fall-harvest". Enjoy!
9783 o Major feature (scheduler, channel):
9784 - Tor now uses new schedulers to decide which circuits should
9785 deliver cells first, in order to improve congestion at relays. The
9786 first type is called "KIST" ("Kernel Informed Socket Transport"),
9787 and is only available on Linux-like systems: it uses feedback from
9788 the kernel to prevent the kernel's TCP buffers from growing too
9789 full. The second new scheduler type is called "KISTLite": it
9790 behaves the same as KIST, but runs on systems without kernel
9791 support for inspecting TCP implementation details. The old
9792 scheduler is still available, under the name "Vanilla". To change
9793 the default scheduler preference order, use the new "Schedulers"
9794 option. (The default preference order is "KIST,KISTLite,Vanilla".)
9796 Matt Traudt implemented KIST, based on research by Rob Jansen,
9797 John Geddes, Christ Wacek, Micah Sherr, and Paul Syverson. For
9798 more information, see the design paper at
9799 http://www.robgjansen.com/publications/kist-sec2014.pdf and the
9800 followup implementation paper at https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.01044.
9801 Closes ticket 12541. For more information, see our blog post at
9802 "https://blog.torproject.org/kist-and-tell".
9804 o Major bugfixes (security, general):
9805 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
9806 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
9807 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
9808 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
9809 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
9810 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
9811 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
9813 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authority):
9814 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
9815 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
9816 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
9819 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2):
9820 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
9821 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
9822 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
9823 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
9824 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
9825 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
9826 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
9827 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
9828 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
9829 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
9830 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
9833 o Major bugfixes (security, relay):
9834 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
9835 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
9836 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
9837 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
9838 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
9839 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
9840 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
9841 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
9843 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping):
9844 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
9845 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
9846 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
9847 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
9848 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
9849 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
9850 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
9851 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
9852 - Don't try fetching microdescriptors from relays that have failed
9853 to deliver them in the past. Fixes bug 23817; bugfix
9856 o Major bugfixes (circuit prediction):
9857 - Fix circuit prediction logic so that a client doesn't treat a port
9858 as being "handled" by a circuit if that circuit already has
9859 isolation settings on it. This change should make Tor clients more
9860 responsive by improving their chances of having a pre-created
9861 circuit ready for use when a request arrives. Fixes bug 18859;
9862 bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
9864 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS):
9865 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
9866 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
9867 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
9868 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
9869 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
9872 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure):
9873 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
9874 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
9875 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
9877 o Major bugfixes (usability, control port):
9878 - Report trusted clock skew indications as bootstrap errors, so
9879 controllers can more easily alert users when their clocks are
9880 wrong. Fixes bug 23506; bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha.
9882 o Minor features (bridge):
9883 - Bridge relays can now set the BridgeDistribution config option to
9884 add a "bridge-distribution-request" line to their bridge
9885 descriptor, which tells BridgeDB how they'd like their bridge
9886 address to be given out. (Note that as of Oct 2017, BridgeDB does
9887 not yet implement this feature.) As a side benefit, this feature
9888 provides a way to distinguish bridge descriptors from non-bridge
9889 descriptors. Implements tickets 18329.
9890 - When handling the USERADDR command on an ExtOrPort, warn when the
9891 transports provides a USERADDR with no port. In a future version,
9892 USERADDR commands of this format may be rejected. Detects problems
9893 related to ticket 23080.
9895 o Minor features (bug detection):
9896 - Log a warning message with a stack trace for any attempt to call
9897 get_options() during option validation. This pattern has caused
9898 subtle bugs in the past. Closes ticket 22281.
9900 o Minor features (build, compilation):
9901 - The "check-changes" feature is now part of the "make check" tests;
9902 we'll use it to try to prevent misformed changes files from
9903 accumulating. Closes ticket 23564.
9904 - Tor builds should now fail if there are any mismatches between the
9905 C type representing a configuration variable and the C type the
9906 data-driven parser uses to store a value there. Previously, we
9907 needed to check these by hand, which sometimes led to mistakes.
9908 Closes ticket 23643.
9910 o Minor features (client):
9911 - You can now use Tor as a tunneled HTTP proxy: use the new
9912 HTTPTunnelPort option to open a port that accepts HTTP CONNECT
9913 requests. Closes ticket 22407.
9914 - Add an extra check to make sure that we always use the newer guard
9915 selection code for picking our guards. Closes ticket 22779.
9916 - When downloading (micro)descriptors, don't split the list into
9917 multiple requests unless we want at least 32 descriptors.
9918 Previously, we split at 4, not 32, which led to significant
9919 overhead in HTTP request size and degradation in compression
9920 performance. Closes ticket 23220.
9921 - Improve log messages when missing descriptors for primary guards.
9922 Resolves ticket 23670.
9924 o Minor features (command line):
9925 - Add a new commandline option, --key-expiration, which prints when
9926 the current signing key is going to expire. Implements ticket
9927 17639; patch by Isis Lovecruft.
9929 o Minor features (control port):
9930 - If an application tries to use the control port as an HTTP proxy,
9931 respond with a meaningful "This is the Tor control port" message,
9932 and log the event. Closes ticket 1667. Patch from Ravi
9934 - Provide better error message for GETINFO desc/(id|name) when not
9935 fetching router descriptors. Closes ticket 5847. Patch by
9937 - Add GETINFO "{desc,md}/download-enabled", to inform the controller
9938 whether Tor will try to download router descriptors and
9939 microdescriptors respectively. Closes ticket 22684.
9940 - Added new GETINFO targets "ip-to-country/{ipv4,ipv6}-available",
9941 so controllers can tell whether the geoip databases are loaded.
9942 Closes ticket 23237.
9943 - Adds a timestamp field to the CIRC_BW and STREAM_BW bandwidth
9944 events. Closes ticket 19254. Patch by "DonnchaC".
9946 o Minor features (development support):
9947 - Developers can now generate a call-graph for Tor using the
9948 "calltool" python program, which post-processes object dumps. It
9949 should work okay on many Linux and OSX platforms, and might work
9950 elsewhere too. To run it, install calltool from
9951 https://gitweb.torproject.org/user/nickm/calltool.git and run
9952 "make callgraph". Closes ticket 19307.
9954 o Minor features (directory authority):
9955 - Make the "Exit" flag assignment only depend on whether the exit
9956 policy allows connections to ports 80 and 443. Previously relays
9957 would get the Exit flag if they allowed connections to one of
9958 these ports and also port 6667. Resolves ticket 23637.
9960 o Minor features (ed25519):
9961 - Add validation function to checks for torsion components in
9962 ed25519 public keys, used by prop224 client-side code. Closes
9963 ticket 22006. Math help by Ian Goldberg.
9965 o Minor features (exit relay, DNS):
9966 - Improve the clarity and safety of the log message from evdns when
9967 receiving an apparently spoofed DNS reply. Closes ticket 3056.
9969 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
9970 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
9971 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
9972 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
9973 information. Closes ticket 24801.
9974 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
9975 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
9976 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
9977 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
9979 o Minor features (geoip):
9980 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 5 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9983 o Minor features (integration, hardening):
9984 - Add a new NoExec option to prevent Tor from running other
9985 programs. When this option is set to 1, Tor will never try to run
9986 another program, regardless of the settings of
9987 PortForwardingHelper, ClientTransportPlugin, or
9988 ServerTransportPlugin. Once NoExec is set, it cannot be disabled
9989 without restarting Tor. Closes ticket 22976.
9991 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
9992 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
9993 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
9995 o Minor features (logging):
9996 - Provide better warnings when the getrandom() syscall fails. Closes
9998 - Downgrade a pair of log messages that could occur when an exit's
9999 resolver gave us an unusual (but not forbidden) response. Closes
10001 - Improve the message we log when re-enabling circuit build timeouts
10002 after having received a consensus. Closes ticket 20963.
10003 - Log more circuit information whenever we are about to try to
10004 package a relay cell on a circuit with a nonexistent n_chan.
10005 Attempt to diagnose ticket 8185.
10006 - Improve info-level log identification of particular circuits, to
10007 help with debugging. Closes ticket 23645.
10008 - Improve the warning message for specifying a relay by nickname.
10009 The previous message implied that nickname registration was still
10010 part of the Tor network design, which it isn't. Closes
10012 - If the sandbox filter fails to load, suggest to the user that
10013 their kernel might not support seccomp2. Closes ticket 23090.
10015 o Minor features (onion service, circuit, logging):
10016 - Improve logging of many callsite in the circuit subsystem to print
10017 the circuit identifier(s).
10018 - Log when we cleanup an intro point from a service so we know when
10019 and for what reason it happened. Closes ticket 23604.
10021 o Minor features (portability):
10022 - Tor now compiles correctly on arm64 with libseccomp-dev installed.
10023 (It doesn't yet work with the sandbox enabled.) Closes
10025 - Check at configure time whether uint8_t is the same type as
10026 unsigned char. Lots of existing code already makes this
10027 assumption, and there could be strict aliasing issues if the
10028 assumption is violated. Closes ticket 22410.
10030 o Minor features (relay):
10031 - When choosing which circuits can be expired as unused, consider
10032 circuits from clients even if those clients used regular CREATE
10033 cells to make them; and do not consider circuits from relays even
10034 if they were made with CREATE_FAST. Part of ticket 22805.
10035 - Reject attempts to use relative file paths when RunAsDaemon is
10036 set. Previously, Tor would accept these, but the directory-
10037 changing step of RunAsDaemon would give strange and/or confusing
10038 results. Closes ticket 22731.
10040 o Minor features (relay statistics):
10041 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
10042 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
10043 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
10045 o Minor features (reverted deprecations):
10046 - The ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses flag can once again be set in
10047 non-testing Tor networks, so long as they do not use the default
10048 directory authorities. This change also removes the deprecation of
10049 this flag from 0.2.9.2-alpha. Closes ticket 21031.
10051 o Minor features (robustness):
10052 - Change several fatal assertions when flushing buffers into non-
10053 fatal assertions, to prevent any recurrence of 23690.
10055 o Minor features (startup, safety):
10056 - When configured to write a PID file, Tor now exits if it is unable
10057 to do so. Previously, it would warn and continue. Closes
10060 o Minor features (static analysis):
10061 - The BUG() macro has been changed slightly so that Coverity no
10062 longer complains about dead code if the bug is impossible. Closes
10065 o Minor features (testing):
10066 - Our fuzzing tests now test the encrypted portions of v3 onion
10067 service descriptors. Implements more of 21509.
10068 - Add a unit test to make sure that our own generated platform
10069 string will be accepted by directory authorities. Closes
10071 - The default chutney network tests now include tests for the v3
10072 onion service design. Make sure you have the latest version of
10073 chutney if you want to run these. Closes ticket 22437.
10074 - Add a unit test to verify that we can parse a hardcoded v2 onion
10075 service descriptor. Closes ticket 15554.
10077 o Minor bugfixes (address selection):
10078 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
10079 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
10080 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
10081 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
10084 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrapping):
10085 - When warning about state file clock skew, report the correct
10086 direction for the detected skew. Fixes bug 23606; bugfix
10089 o Minor bugfixes (bridge clients, bootstrap):
10090 - Retry directory downloads when we get our first bridge descriptor
10091 during bootstrap or while reconnecting to the network. Keep
10092 retrying every time we get a bridge descriptor, until we have a
10093 reachable bridge. Fixes part of bug 24367; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
10094 - Stop delaying bridge descriptor fetches when we have cached bridge
10095 descriptors. Instead, only delay bridge descriptor fetches when we
10096 have at least one reachable bridge. Fixes part of bug 24367;
10097 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
10098 - Stop delaying directory fetches when we have cached bridge
10099 descriptors. Instead, only delay bridge descriptor fetches when
10100 all our bridges are definitely unreachable. Fixes part of bug
10101 24367; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
10103 o Minor bugfixes (bridge):
10104 - Overwrite the bridge address earlier in the process of retrieving
10105 its descriptor, to make sure we reach it on the configured
10106 address. Fixes bug 20532; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
10108 o Minor bugfixes (build, compilation):
10109 - Fix a compilation warning when building with zstd support on
10110 32-bit platforms. Fixes bug 23568; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
10111 and fixed by Andreas Stieger.
10112 - When searching for OpenSSL, don't accept any OpenSSL library that
10113 lacks TLSv1_1_method(): Tor doesn't build with those versions.
10114 Additionally, look in /usr/local/opt/openssl, if it's present.
10115 These changes together repair the default build on OSX systems
10116 with Homebrew installed. Fixes bug 23602; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
10117 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
10118 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
10119 - Fix a memory leak warning in one of the libevent-related
10120 configuration tests that could occur when manually specifying
10121 -fsanitize=address. Fixes bug 24279; bugfix on 0.3.0.2-alpha.
10122 Found and patched by Alex Xu.
10123 - Fix unused-variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
10124 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
10126 o Minor bugfixes (certificate handling):
10127 - Fix a time handling bug in Tor certificates set to expire after
10128 the year 2106. Fixes bug 23055; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Found by
10129 Coverity as CID 1415728.
10131 o Minor bugfixes (client):
10132 - By default, do not enable storage of client-side DNS values. These
10133 values were unused by default previously, but they should not have
10134 been cached at all. Fixes bug 24050; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
10136 o Minor bugfixes (client, usability):
10137 - Refrain from needlessly rejecting SOCKS5-with-hostnames and
10138 SOCKS4a requests that contain IP address strings, even when
10139 SafeSocks in enabled, as this prevents user from connecting to
10140 known IP addresses without relying on DNS for resolving. SafeSocks
10141 still rejects SOCKS connections that connect to IP addresses when
10142 those addresses are _not_ encoded as hostnames. Fixes bug 22461;
10143 bugfix on Tor 0.2.6.2-alpha.
10145 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
10146 - Call htons() in extend_cell_format() for encoding a 16-bit value.
10147 Previously we used ntohs(), which happens to behave the same on
10148 all the platforms we support, but which isn't really correct.
10149 Fixes bug 23106; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
10150 - For defense-in-depth, make the controller's write_escaped_data()
10151 function robust to extremely long inputs. Fixes bug 19281; bugfix
10152 on 0.1.1.1-alpha. Reported by Guido Vranken.
10153 - Fix several places in our codebase where a C compiler would be
10154 likely to eliminate a check, based on assuming that undefined
10155 behavior had not happened elsewhere in the code. These cases are
10156 usually a sign of redundant checking or dubious arithmetic. Found
10157 by Georg Koppen using the "STACK" tool from Wang, Zeldovich,
10158 Kaashoek, and Solar-Lezama. Fixes bug 24423; bugfix on various
10161 o Minor bugfixes (compression):
10162 - Handle a pathological case when decompressing Zstandard data when
10163 the output buffer size is zero. Fixes bug 23551; bugfix
10166 o Minor bugfixes (consensus expiry):
10167 - Check for adequate directory information correctly. Previously, Tor
10168 would reconsider whether it had sufficient directory information
10169 every 2 minutes. Fixes bug 23091; bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha.
10171 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
10172 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
10173 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
10176 o Minor bugfixes (control port, onion services):
10177 - Report "FAILED" instead of "UPLOAD_FAILED" "FAILED" for the
10178 HS_DESC event when a service is not able to upload a descriptor.
10179 Fixes bug 24230; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
10181 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache):
10182 - Recover better from empty or corrupt files in the consensus cache
10183 directory. Fixes bug 24099; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10184 - When a consensus diff calculation is only partially successful,
10185 only record the successful parts as having succeeded. Partial
10186 success can happen if (for example) one compression method fails
10187 but the others succeed. Previously we misrecorded all the
10188 calculations as having succeeded, which would later cause a
10189 nonfatal assertion failure. Fixes bug 24086; bugfix
10192 o Minor bugfixes (directory client):
10193 - On failure to download directory information, delay retry attempts
10194 by a random amount based on the "decorrelated jitter" algorithm.
10195 Our previous delay algorithm tended to produce extra-long delays
10196 too easily. Fixes bug 23816; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
10198 o Minor bugfixes (directory protocol):
10199 - Directory servers now include a "Date:" http header for response
10200 codes other than 200. Clients starting with a skewed clock and a
10201 recent consensus were getting "304 Not modified" responses from
10202 directory authorities, so without the Date header, the client
10203 would never hear about a wrong clock. Fixes bug 23499; bugfix
10205 - Make clients wait for 6 seconds before trying to download a
10206 consensus from an authority. Fixes bug 17750; bugfix
10209 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
10210 - Document better how to read gcov, and what our gcov postprocessing
10211 scripts do. Fixes bug 23739; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
10212 - Fix manpage to not refer to the obsolete (and misspelled)
10213 UseEntryGuardsAsDirectoryGuards parameter in the description of
10214 NumDirectoryGuards. Fixes bug 23611; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
10216 o Minor bugfixes (DoS-resistance):
10217 - If future code asks if there are any running bridges, without
10218 checking if bridges are enabled, log a BUG warning rather than
10219 crashing. Fixes bug 23524; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
10221 o Minor bugfixes (entry guards):
10222 - Tor now updates its guard state when it reads a consensus
10223 regardless of whether it's missing descriptors. That makes tor use
10224 its primary guards to fetch descriptors in some edge cases where
10225 it would previously have used fallback directories. Fixes bug
10226 23862; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
10228 o Minor bugfixes (format strictness):
10229 - Restrict several data formats to decimal. Previously, the
10230 BuildTimeHistogram entries in the state file, the "bw=" entries in
10231 the bandwidth authority file, and the process IDs passed to the
10232 __OwningControllerProcess option could all be specified in hex or
10233 octal as well as in decimal. This was not an intentional feature.
10234 Fixes bug 22802; bugfixes on 0.2.2.1-alpha, 0.2.2.2-alpha,
10237 o Minor bugfixes (heartbeat):
10238 - If we fail to write a heartbeat message, schedule a retry for the
10239 minimum heartbeat interval number of seconds in the future. Fixes
10240 bug 19476; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
10242 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
10243 - Suppress a log notice when relay descriptors arrive. We already
10244 have a bootstrap progress for this so no need to log notice
10245 everytime tor receives relay descriptors. Microdescriptors behave
10246 the same. Fixes bug 23861; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
10247 - Remove duplicate log messages regarding opening non-local
10248 SocksPorts upon parsing config and opening listeners at startup.
10249 Fixes bug 4019; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
10250 - Use a more comprehensible log message when telling the user
10251 they've excluded every running exit node. Fixes bug 7890; bugfix
10253 - When logging the number of descriptors we intend to download per
10254 directory request, do not log a number higher than then the number
10255 of descriptors we're fetching in total. Fixes bug 19648; bugfix
10257 - When warning about a directory owned by the wrong user, log the
10258 actual name of the user owning the directory. Previously, we'd log
10259 the name of the process owner twice. Fixes bug 23487; bugfix
10261 - Fix some messages on unexpected errors from the seccomp2 library.
10262 Fixes bug 22750; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
10263 - The tor specification says hop counts are 1-based, so fix two log
10264 messages that mistakenly logged 0-based hop counts. Fixes bug
10265 18982; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha and 0.2.4.5-alpha. Patch by teor.
10266 Credit to Xiaofan Li for reporting this issue.
10268 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance):
10269 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
10270 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
10271 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
10272 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
10273 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
10275 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, defensive programming):
10276 - Clear the target address when node_get_prim_orport() returns
10277 early. Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
10279 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage):
10280 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
10281 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
10282 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
10283 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
10286 o Minor bugfixes (network layer):
10287 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
10288 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
10289 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
10290 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
10291 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
10293 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
10294 - The introduction circuit was being timed out too quickly while
10295 waiting for the rendezvous circuit to complete. Keep the intro
10296 circuit around longer instead of timing out and reopening new ones
10297 constantly. Fixes bug 23681; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
10298 - Rename the consensus parameter "hsdir-interval" to "hsdir_interval"
10299 so it matches dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 24262; bugfix
10301 - When handling multiple SOCKS request for the same .onion address,
10302 only fetch the service descriptor once.
10303 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
10304 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
10305 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
10306 - When reloading configured onion services, copy all information
10307 from the old service object. Previously, some data was omitted,
10308 causing delays in descriptor upload, and other bugs. Fixes bug
10309 23790; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
10311 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
10312 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
10313 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
10314 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
10315 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
10316 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
10317 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
10318 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
10319 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
10320 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
10321 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
10322 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
10324 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
10325 - Stop using the PATH_MAX variable, which is not defined on GNU
10326 Hurd. Fixes bug 23098; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10327 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
10328 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
10329 to cryptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
10332 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
10333 - When uploading our descriptor for the first time after startup,
10334 report the reason for uploading as "Tor just started" rather than
10335 leaving it blank. Fixes bug 22885; bugfix on 0.2.3.4-alpha.
10336 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
10337 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
10338 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
10339 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
10340 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
10341 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
10342 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
10343 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
10345 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
10346 - Fix a spurious fuzzing-only use of an uninitialized value. Found
10347 by Brian Carpenter. Fixes bug 24082; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
10348 - Test that IPv6-only clients can use microdescriptors when running
10349 "make test-network-all". Requires chutney master 61c28b9 or later.
10350 Closes ticket 24109.
10351 - Prevent scripts/test/coverage from attempting to move gcov output
10352 to the root directory. Fixes bug 23741; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10353 - Capture and detect several "Result does not fit" warnings in unit
10354 tests on platforms with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 21800; bugfix
10356 - Fix additional channelpadding unit test failures by using mocked
10357 time instead of actual time for all tests. Fixes bug 23608; bugfix
10359 - Fix a bug in our fuzzing mock replacement for crypto_pk_checksig(),
10360 to correctly handle cases where a caller gives it an RSA key of
10361 under 160 bits. (This is not actually a bug in Tor itself, but
10362 rather in our fuzzing code.) Fixes bug 24247; bugfix on
10363 0.3.0.3-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz as issue 4177.
10364 - Fix a broken unit test for the OutboundAddress option: the parsing
10365 function was never returning an error on failure. Fixes bug 23366;
10366 bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
10367 - Fix a signed-integer overflow in the unit tests for
10368 dir/download_status_random_backoff, which was untriggered until we
10369 fixed bug 17750. Fixes bug 22924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
10371 o Minor bugfixes (usability, control port):
10372 - Stop making an unnecessary routerlist check in NETINFO clock skew
10373 detection; this was preventing clients from reporting NETINFO clock
10374 skew to controllers. Fixes bug 23532; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
10376 o Code simplification and refactoring:
10377 - Remove various ways of testing circuits and connections for
10378 "clientness"; instead, favor channel_is_client(). Part of
10380 - Extract the code for handling newly-open channels into a separate
10381 function from the general code to handle channel state
10382 transitions. This change simplifies our callgraph, reducing the
10383 size of the largest strongly connected component by roughly a
10384 factor of two. Closes ticket 22608.
10385 - Remove dead code for largely unused statistics on the number of
10386 times we've attempted various public key operations. Fixes bug
10387 19871; bugfix on 0.1.2.4-alpha. Fix by Isis Lovecruft.
10388 - Remove several now-obsolete functions for asking about old
10389 variants directory authority status. Closes ticket 22311; patch
10391 - Remove some of the code that once supported "Named" and "Unnamed"
10392 routers. Authorities no longer vote for these flags. Closes
10394 - Rename the obsolete malleable hybrid_encrypt functions used in TAP
10395 and old hidden services, to indicate that they aren't suitable for
10396 new protocols or formats. Closes ticket 23026.
10397 - Replace our STRUCT_OFFSET() macro with offsetof(). Closes ticket
10398 22521. Patch from Neel Chauhan.
10399 - Split the enormous circuit_send_next_onion_skin() function into
10400 multiple subfunctions. Closes ticket 22804.
10401 - Split the portions of the buffer.c module that handle particular
10402 protocols into separate modules. Part of ticket 23149.
10403 - Use our test macros more consistently, to produce more useful
10404 error messages when our unit tests fail. Add coccinelle patches to
10405 allow us to re-check for test macro uses. Closes ticket 22497.
10407 o Deprecated features:
10408 - The ReachableDirAddresses and ClientPreferIPv6DirPort options are
10409 now deprecated; they do not apply to relays, and they have had no
10410 effect on clients since 0.2.8.x. Closes ticket 19704.
10411 - Deprecate HTTPProxy/HTTPProxyAuthenticator config options. They
10412 only applies to direct unencrypted HTTP connections to your
10413 directory server, which your Tor probably isn't using. Closes
10417 - Add notes in man page regarding OS support for the various
10418 scheduler types. Attempt to use less jargon in the scheduler
10419 section. Closes ticket 24254.
10420 - Clarify that the Address option is entirely about setting an
10421 advertised IPv4 address. Closes ticket 18891.
10422 - Clarify the manpage's use of the term "address" to clarify what
10423 kind of address is intended. Closes ticket 21405.
10424 - Document that onion service subdomains are allowed, and ignored.
10425 Closes ticket 18736.
10426 - Clarify in the manual that "Sandbox 1" is only supported on Linux
10427 kernels. Closes ticket 22677.
10428 - Document all values of PublishServerDescriptor in the manpage.
10429 Closes ticket 15645.
10430 - Improve the documentation for the directory port part of the
10431 DirAuthority line. Closes ticket 20152.
10432 - Restore documentation for the authorities' "approved-routers"
10433 file. Closes ticket 21148.
10435 o Removed features:
10436 - The AllowDotExit option has been removed as unsafe. It has been
10437 deprecated since 0.2.9.2-alpha. Closes ticket 23426.
10438 - The ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses flag can no longer be set on
10439 non-testing networks. It has been deprecated since 0.2.9.2-alpha.
10440 Closes ticket 21031.
10441 - The controller API no longer includes an AUTHDIR_NEWDESCS event:
10442 nobody was using it any longer. Closes ticket 22377.
10445 Changes in version 0.3.1.9 - 2017-12-01:
10446 Tor 0.3.1.9 backports important security and stability fixes from the
10447 0.3.2 development series. All Tor users should upgrade to this
10448 release, or to another of the releases coming out today.
10450 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
10451 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
10452 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
10453 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
10454 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
10455 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
10456 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
10457 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
10458 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
10459 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
10460 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
10462 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
10463 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
10464 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
10465 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
10466 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
10467 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
10468 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
10471 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
10472 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
10473 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
10474 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
10475 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
10477 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
10478 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
10479 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
10480 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
10481 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
10482 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
10483 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
10484 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
10485 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
10487 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
10488 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
10489 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
10490 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
10491 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
10492 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
10495 o Minor features (bridge):
10496 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
10497 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
10498 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
10499 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
10502 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
10503 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
10506 o Minor features (geoip):
10507 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
10510 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
10511 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
10512 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
10513 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
10514 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
10516 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
10517 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
10518 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
10520 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
10521 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
10522 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
10523 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
10524 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
10525 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
10527 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
10528 - Rename the consensus parameter "hsdir-interval" to "hsdir_interval"
10529 so it matches dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 24262; bugfix
10532 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
10533 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
10534 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
10535 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
10536 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
10539 Changes in version 0.3.0.13 - 2017-12-01
10540 Tor 0.3.0.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
10541 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
10542 to another of the releases coming out today.
10544 Note: the Tor 0.3.0 series will no longer be supported after 26 Jan
10545 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
10546 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
10548 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
10549 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
10550 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
10551 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
10552 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
10553 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
10554 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
10555 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
10556 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
10557 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
10558 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
10560 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
10561 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
10562 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
10563 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
10564 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
10565 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
10566 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
10569 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
10570 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
10571 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
10572 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
10573 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
10575 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
10576 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
10577 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
10578 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
10579 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
10580 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
10581 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
10582 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
10583 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
10585 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
10586 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
10587 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
10588 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
10589 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
10590 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
10593 o Minor features (security, windows, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
10594 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
10595 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
10596 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
10597 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
10598 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
10600 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
10601 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
10602 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
10603 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
10604 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
10607 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
10608 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
10611 o Minor features (geoip):
10612 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
10615 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
10616 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
10617 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
10618 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
10619 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
10621 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
10622 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
10623 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
10625 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
10626 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
10627 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
10628 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
10629 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
10630 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
10632 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
10633 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
10634 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
10635 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
10636 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
10638 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
10639 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
10640 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
10643 Changes in version 0.2.9.14 - 2017-12-01
10644 Tor 0.3.0.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
10645 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
10646 to another of the releases coming out today.
10648 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
10649 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
10650 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
10651 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
10652 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
10653 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
10656 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
10657 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
10658 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
10659 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
10660 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
10661 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
10662 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
10663 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
10664 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
10665 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
10666 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
10668 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
10669 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
10670 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
10671 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
10672 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
10673 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
10674 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
10677 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
10678 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
10679 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
10680 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
10681 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
10683 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
10684 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
10685 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
10686 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
10687 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
10688 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
10690 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
10691 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
10692 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
10693 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
10694 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
10697 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
10698 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
10701 o Minor features (geoip):
10702 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
10705 o Minor features (security, windows, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
10706 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
10707 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
10708 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
10709 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
10710 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
10712 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
10713 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
10714 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
10715 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
10716 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
10718 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
10719 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
10720 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
10722 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
10723 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
10724 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
10725 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
10726 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
10727 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
10729 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
10730 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
10731 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
10732 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
10733 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
10735 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
10736 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
10737 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
10740 Changes in version 0.2.8.17 - 2017-12-01
10741 Tor 0.2.8.17 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
10742 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
10743 to another of the releases coming out today.
10745 Note: the Tor 0.2.8 series will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
10746 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade with
10747 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
10749 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
10750 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
10751 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
10752 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
10753 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
10754 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
10755 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
10756 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
10757 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
10758 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
10759 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
10760 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
10761 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
10762 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
10763 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
10766 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
10767 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
10768 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
10769 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
10770 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
10772 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
10773 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path through
10774 ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the version of
10775 our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part of bug 21534;
10776 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012
10779 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
10780 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
10781 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
10782 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
10783 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
10786 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
10787 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
10790 o Minor features (geoip):
10791 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
10794 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
10795 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
10796 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
10799 Changes in version 0.2.5.16 - 2017-12-01
10800 Tor 0.2.5.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
10801 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
10802 to another of the releases coming out today.
10804 Note: the Tor 0.2.5 series will no longer be supported after 1 May
10805 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade to
10806 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
10808 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
10809 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
10810 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
10811 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
10812 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
10813 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
10814 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
10815 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
10816 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
10817 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
10818 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
10819 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
10820 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
10821 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
10822 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
10825 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
10826 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
10827 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
10828 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
10829 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
10830 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
10832 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
10833 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
10834 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
10835 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
10836 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
10839 o Minor features (geoip):
10840 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
10844 Changes in version 0.2.5.15 - 2017-10-25
10845 Tor 0.2.5.15 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
10846 series. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
10848 Note: the Tor 0.2.5 series will no longer be supported after 1 May
10849 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade to
10850 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
10852 o Directory authority changes:
10853 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
10854 Closes ticket 23910.
10855 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
10856 Closes ticket 23592.
10858 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
10859 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
10860 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
10861 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
10862 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
10864 o Minor features (geoip):
10865 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
10868 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
10869 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
10870 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
10871 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
10872 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
10873 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
10874 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
10875 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
10876 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
10878 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
10879 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
10880 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
10881 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
10882 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
10883 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
10884 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
10885 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
10886 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
10889 Changes in version 0.2.8.16 - 2017-10-25
10890 Tor 0.2.8.16 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
10891 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
10892 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
10894 Note: the Tor 0.2.8 series will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
10895 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
10896 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
10898 o Directory authority changes:
10899 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
10900 Closes ticket 23910.
10901 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
10902 Closes ticket 23592.
10904 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
10905 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
10906 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
10907 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
10909 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
10910 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
10911 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
10912 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
10913 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
10915 o Minor features (geoip):
10916 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
10920 Changes in version 0.2.9.13 - 2017-10-25
10921 Tor 0.2.9.13 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
10922 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
10923 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
10925 o Directory authority changes:
10926 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
10927 Closes ticket 23910.
10928 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
10929 Closes ticket 23592.
10931 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
10932 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
10933 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
10934 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
10936 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
10937 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
10938 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
10939 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
10940 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
10942 o Minor features (geoip):
10943 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
10946 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
10947 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
10948 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
10949 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
10950 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
10951 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
10952 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
10953 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
10956 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
10957 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
10958 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
10960 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
10961 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
10962 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
10963 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
10964 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
10965 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
10966 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
10969 Changes in version 0.3.0.12 - 2017-10-25
10970 Tor 0.3.0.12 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
10971 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
10972 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
10974 Note: the Tor 0.3.0 series will no longer be supported after 26 Jan
10975 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
10976 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
10978 o Directory authority changes:
10979 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
10980 Closes ticket 23910.
10981 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
10982 Closes ticket 23592.
10984 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
10985 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
10986 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
10987 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
10989 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
10990 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
10991 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
10992 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
10993 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
10995 o Minor features (geoip):
10996 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
10999 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
11000 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
11001 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
11002 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
11003 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
11004 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
11005 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
11006 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
11009 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
11010 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
11011 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
11012 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11014 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
11015 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
11016 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
11018 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
11019 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
11020 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
11021 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
11022 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
11023 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
11024 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
11027 Changes in version 0.3.1.8 - 2017-10-25
11028 Tor 0.3.1.8 is the second stable release in the 0.3.1 series.
11029 It includes several bugfixes, including a bugfix for a crash issue
11030 that had affected relays under memory pressure. It also adds
11031 a new directory authority, Bastet.
11033 o Directory authority changes:
11034 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
11035 Closes ticket 23910.
11036 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
11037 Closes ticket 23592.
11039 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
11040 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
11041 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
11042 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
11044 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
11045 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
11046 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
11047 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
11048 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
11050 o Minor features (geoip):
11051 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11054 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
11055 - Fix a compilation warning when building with zstd support on
11056 32-bit platforms. Fixes bug 23568; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
11057 and fixed by Andreas Stieger.
11059 o Minor bugfixes (compression, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
11060 - Handle a pathological case when decompressing Zstandard data when
11061 the output buffer size is zero. Fixes bug 23551; bugfix
11064 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
11065 - Remove the length limit on HTTP status lines that authorities can
11066 send in their replies. Fixes bug 23499; bugfix on 0.3.1.6-rc.
11068 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
11069 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
11070 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
11071 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11073 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
11074 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
11075 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
11077 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
11078 - Fix additional channelpadding unit test failures by using mocked
11079 time instead of actual time for all tests. Fixes bug 23608; bugfix
11083 Changes in version 0.2.8.15 - 2017-09-18
11084 Tor 0.2.8.15 backports a collection of bugfixes from later
11087 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
11088 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
11089 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
11090 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
11092 Note that Tor 0.2.8.x will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
11093 2018. We suggest that you upgrade to the latest stable release if
11094 possible. If you can't, we recommend that you upgrade at least to
11095 0.2.9, which will be supported until 2020.
11097 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
11098 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
11099 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
11100 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
11101 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
11104 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11107 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
11108 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
11109 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
11112 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
11113 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
11114 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
11115 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
11116 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
11117 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
11118 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
11119 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
11120 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
11122 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
11123 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
11124 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
11125 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
11126 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
11127 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
11128 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
11129 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
11130 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
11133 Changes in version 0.2.9.12 - 2017-09-18
11134 Tor 0.2.9.12 backports a collection of bugfixes from later
11137 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
11138 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
11139 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
11140 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
11142 o Major features (security, backport from 0.3.0.2-alpha):
11143 - Change the algorithm used to decide DNS TTLs on client and server
11144 side, to better resist DNS-based correlation attacks like the
11145 DefecTor attack of Greschbach, Pulls, Roberts, Winter, and
11146 Feamster. Now relays only return one of two possible DNS TTL
11147 values, and clients are willing to believe DNS TTL values up to 3
11148 hours long. Closes ticket 19769.
11150 o Major bugfixes (crash, directory connections, backport from 0.3.0.5-rc):
11151 - Fix a rare crash when sending a begin cell on a circuit whose
11152 linked directory connection had already been closed. Fixes bug
11153 21576; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
11155 o Major bugfixes (DNS, backport from 0.3.0.2-alpha):
11156 - Fix a bug that prevented exit nodes from caching DNS records for
11157 more than 60 seconds. Fixes bug 19025; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
11159 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
11160 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
11161 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
11162 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
11164 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
11165 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
11166 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
11167 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
11168 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
11170 o Minor features (code style, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
11171 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
11172 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
11173 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
11175 o Minor features (geoip):
11176 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11179 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
11180 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
11181 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
11182 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
11184 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
11185 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug 22915;
11186 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
11187 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt support
11188 on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
11189 - When building with certain versions the mingw C header files, avoid
11190 float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions isfinite(),
11191 isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
11193 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.7):
11194 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for running tor_sscanf()
11195 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
11197 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
11198 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
11199 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
11202 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.1.7):
11203 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
11204 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
11205 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an
11206 empty body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
11208 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
11209 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
11210 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
11211 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
11212 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
11213 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
11215 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
11216 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
11217 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
11218 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
11219 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
11220 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
11221 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
11222 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
11223 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
11225 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
11226 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
11227 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
11228 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
11230 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
11231 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
11232 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
11234 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
11235 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
11236 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
11237 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
11238 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
11240 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.0.5-rc):
11241 - Avoid a double-marked-circuit warning that could happen when we
11242 receive DESTROY cells under heavy load. Fixes bug 20059; bugfix
11245 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
11246 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
11247 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
11248 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
11249 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
11251 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
11252 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
11253 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
11254 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
11255 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
11256 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
11257 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
11258 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
11259 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
11262 Changes in version 0.3.0.11 - 2017-09-18
11263 Tor 0.3.0.11 backports a collection of bugfixes from Tor the 0.3.1
11266 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
11267 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
11268 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
11269 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
11271 o Minor features (code style, backport from 0.3.1.7):
11272 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
11273 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
11274 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
11277 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11280 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.7):
11281 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for calling tor_sscanf()
11282 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
11284 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.1.7):
11285 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
11286 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
11287 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an empty
11288 body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
11290 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
11291 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
11292 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
11293 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
11295 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
11296 - Remove a forgotten debugging message when an introduction point
11297 successfully establishes a hidden service prop224 circuit with
11299 - Change three other log_warn() for an introduction point to
11300 protocol warnings, because they can be failure from the network
11301 and are not relevant to the operator. Fixes bug 23078; bugfix on
11302 0.3.0.1-alpha and 0.3.0.2-alpha.
11305 Changes in version 0.3.1.7 - 2017-09-18
11306 Tor 0.3.1.7 is the first stable release in the 0.3.1 series.
11308 With the 0.3.1 series, Tor now serves and downloads directory
11309 information in more compact formats, to save on bandwidth overhead. It
11310 also contains a new padding system to resist netflow-based traffic
11311 analysis, and experimental support for building parts of Tor in Rust
11312 (though no parts of Tor are in Rust yet). There are also numerous
11313 small features, bugfixes on earlier release series, and groundwork for
11314 the hidden services revamp of 0.3.2.
11316 This release also includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a security bug
11317 that affects hidden services running with the SafeLogging option
11318 disabled. For more information, see
11319 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
11321 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support each stable release
11322 series for at least the next nine months, or for three months after
11323 the first stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. If
11324 you need a release with long-term support, we recommend that you stay
11325 with the 0.2.9 series.
11327 Below is a list of the changes since 0.3.0. For a list of all
11328 changes since 0.3.1.6-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
11330 o New dependencies:
11331 - To build with zstd and lzma support, Tor now requires the
11332 pkg-config tool at build time.
11334 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden services, loggging):
11335 - Fix a bug where we could log uninitialized stack when a certain
11336 hidden service error occurred while SafeLogging was disabled.
11337 Fixes bug #23490; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
11338 This is also tracked as TROVE-2017-008 and CVE-2017-0380.
11340 o Major features (build system, continuous integration):
11341 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
11342 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
11343 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
11344 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
11345 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
11346 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
11347 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
11348 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
11350 o Major features (directory protocol):
11351 - Tor relays and authorities can now serve clients an abbreviated
11352 version of the consensus document, containing only the changes
11353 since an older consensus document that the client holds. Clients
11354 now request these documents when available. When both client and
11355 server use this new protocol, they will use far less bandwidth (up
11356 to 94% less) to keep the client's consensus up-to-date. Implements
11357 proposal 140; closes ticket 13339. Based on work by Daniel Martí.
11358 - Tor can now compress directory traffic with lzma or with zstd
11359 compression algorithms, which can deliver better bandwidth
11360 performance. Because lzma is computationally expensive, it's only
11361 used for documents that can be compressed once and served many
11362 times. Support for these algorithms requires that tor is built
11363 with the libzstd and/or liblzma libraries available. Implements
11364 proposal 278; closes ticket 21662.
11365 - Relays now perform the more expensive compression operations, and
11366 consensus diff generation, in worker threads. This separation
11367 avoids delaying the main thread when a new consensus arrives.
11369 o Major features (experimental):
11370 - Tor can now build modules written in Rust. To turn this on, pass
11371 the "--enable-rust" flag to the configure script. It's not time to
11372 get excited yet: currently, there is no actual Rust functionality
11373 beyond some simple glue code, and a notice at startup to tell you
11374 that Rust is running. Still, we hope that programmers and
11375 packagers will try building Tor with Rust support, so that we can
11376 find issues and solve portability problems. Closes ticket 22106.
11378 o Major features (traffic analysis resistance):
11379 - Connections between clients and relays now send a padding cell in
11380 each direction every 1.5 to 9.5 seconds (tunable via consensus
11381 parameters). This padding will not resist specialized
11382 eavesdroppers, but it should be enough to make many ISPs' routine
11383 network flow logging less useful in traffic analysis against
11386 Padding is negotiated using Tor's link protocol, so both relays
11387 and clients must upgrade for this to take effect. Clients may
11388 still send padding despite the relay's version by setting
11389 ConnectionPadding 1 in torrc, and may disable padding by setting
11390 ConnectionPadding 0 in torrc. Padding may be minimized for mobile
11391 users with the torrc option ReducedConnectionPadding. Implements
11392 Proposal 251 and Section 2 of Proposal 254; closes ticket 16861.
11393 - Relays will publish 24 hour totals of padding and non-padding cell
11394 counts to their extra-info descriptors, unless PaddingStatistics 0
11395 is set in torrc. These 24 hour totals are also rounded to
11396 multiples of 10000.
11398 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
11399 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure when a hidden service
11400 handles a malformed BEGIN cell. Fixes bug 22493, tracked as
11401 TROVE-2017-004 and as CVE-2017-0375; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11402 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
11403 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
11404 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
11407 o Major bugfixes (path selection, security):
11408 - When choosing which guard to use for a circuit, avoid the exit's
11409 family along with the exit itself. Previously, the new guard
11410 selection logic avoided the exit, but did not consider its family.
11411 Fixes bug 22753; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2017-
11412 006 and CVE-2017-0377.
11414 o Major bugfixes (connection usage):
11415 - We use NETINFO cells to try to determine if both relays involved
11416 in a connection will agree on the canonical status of that
11417 connection. We prefer the connections where this is the case for
11418 extend cells, and try to close connections where relays disagree
11419 on their canonical status early. Also, we now prefer the oldest
11420 valid connection for extend cells. These two changes should reduce
11421 the number of long-term connections that are kept open between
11422 relays. Fixes bug 17604; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
11423 - Relays now log hourly statistics (look for
11424 "channel_check_for_duplicates" lines) on the total number of
11425 connections to other relays. If the number of connections per
11426 relay is unexpectedly large, this log message is at notice level.
11427 Otherwise it is at info.
11429 o Major bugfixes (entry guards):
11430 - When starting with an old consensus, do not add new entry guards
11431 unless the consensus is "reasonably live" (under 1 day old). Fixes
11432 one root cause of bug 22400; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11433 - Don't block bootstrapping when a primary bridge is offline and we
11434 can't get its descriptor. Fixes bug 22325; fixes one case of bug
11435 21969; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
11437 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support):
11438 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
11439 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
11440 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
11442 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service):
11443 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
11444 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
11445 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
11446 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
11448 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake):
11449 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
11450 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
11451 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
11452 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
11453 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
11454 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
11457 o Major bugfixes (relays, key management):
11458 - Regenerate link and authentication certificates whenever the key
11459 that signs them changes; also, regenerate link certificates
11460 whenever the signed key changes. Previously, these processes were
11461 only weakly coupled, and we relays could (for minutes to hours)
11462 wind up with an inconsistent set of keys and certificates, which
11463 other relays would not accept. Fixes two cases of bug 22460;
11464 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11465 - When sending an Ed25519 signing->link certificate in a CERTS cell,
11466 send the certificate that matches the x509 certificate that we
11467 used on the TLS connection. Previously, there was a race condition
11468 if the TLS context rotated after we began the TLS handshake but
11469 before we sent the CERTS cell. Fixes a case of bug 22460; bugfix
11472 o Minor features (security, windows):
11473 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
11474 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
11475 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
11476 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
11477 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
11479 o Minor features (bridge authority):
11480 - Add "fingerprint" lines to the networkstatus-bridges file produced
11481 by bridge authorities. Closes ticket 22207.
11483 o Minor features (code style):
11484 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
11485 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
11486 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
11488 o Minor features (config options):
11489 - Allow "%include" directives in torrc configuration files. These
11490 directives import the settings from other files, or from all the
11491 files in a directory. Closes ticket 1922. Code by Daniel Pinto.
11492 - Make SAVECONF return an error when overwriting a torrc that has
11493 includes. Using SAVECONF with the FORCE option will allow it to
11494 overwrite torrc even if includes are used. Related to ticket 1922.
11495 - Add "GETINFO config-can-saveconf" to tell controllers if SAVECONF
11496 will work without the FORCE option. Related to ticket 1922.
11498 o Minor features (controller):
11499 - Warn the first time that a controller requests data in the long-
11500 deprecated 'GETINFO network-status' format. Closes ticket 21703.
11502 o Minor features (defaults):
11503 - The default value for UseCreateFast is now 0: clients which
11504 haven't yet received a consensus document will now use a proper
11505 ntor handshake to talk to their directory servers whenever they
11506 can. Closes ticket 21407.
11507 - Onion key rotation and expiry intervals are now defined as a
11508 network consensus parameter, per proposal 274. The default
11509 lifetime of an onion key is increased from 7 to 28 days. Old onion
11510 keys will expire after 7 days by default. This change will make
11511 consensus diffs much smaller, and save significant bandwidth.
11512 Closes ticket 21641.
11514 o Minor features (defensive programming):
11515 - Create a pair of consensus parameters, nf_pad_tor2web and
11516 nf_pad_single_onion, to disable netflow padding in the consensus
11517 for non-anonymous connections in case the overhead is high. Closes
11520 o Minor features (diagnostic):
11521 - Add a stack trace to the bug warnings that can be logged when
11522 trying to send an outgoing relay cell with n_chan == 0. Diagnostic
11523 attempt for bug 23105.
11524 - Add logging messages to try to diagnose a rare bug that seems to
11525 generate RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificates dated in the 1970s. We
11526 think this is happening because of incorrect system clocks, but
11527 we'd like to know for certain. Diagnostic for bug 22466.
11528 - Avoid an assertion failure, and log a better error message, when
11529 unable to remove a file from the consensus cache on Windows.
11530 Attempts to mitigate and diagnose bug 22752.
11532 o Minor features (directory authority):
11533 - Improve the message that authorities report to relays that present
11534 RSA/Ed25519 keypairs that conflict with previously pinned keys.
11535 Closes ticket 22348.
11537 o Minor features (directory cache, consensus diff):
11538 - Add a new MaxConsensusAgeForDiffs option to allow directory cache
11539 operators with low-resource environments to adjust the number of
11540 consensuses they'll store and generate diffs from. Most cache
11541 operators should leave it unchanged. Helps to work around
11544 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
11545 - Update the fallback directory mirror whitelist and blacklist based
11546 on operator emails. Closes task 21121.
11547 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
11548 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
11549 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
11550 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
11552 o Minor features (geoip):
11553 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11556 o Minor features (hidden services, logging):
11557 - Log a message when a hidden service descriptor has fewer
11558 introduction points than specified in
11559 HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints. Closes tickets 21598.
11560 - Log a message when a hidden service reaches its introduction point
11561 circuit limit, and when that limit is reset. Follow up to ticket
11562 21594; closes ticket 21622.
11563 - Warn user if multiple entries in EntryNodes and at least one
11564 HiddenService are used together. Pinning EntryNodes along with a
11565 hidden service can be possibly harmful; for instance see ticket
11566 14917 or 21155. Closes ticket 21155.
11568 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
11569 - We now have a document storage backend compatible with the Linux
11570 seccomp2 sandbox. This backend is used for consensus documents and
11571 diffs between them; in the long term, we'd like to use it for
11572 unparseable directory material too. Closes ticket 21645
11573 - Increase the maximum allowed size passed to mprotect(PROT_WRITE)
11574 from 1MB to 16MB. This was necessary with the glibc allocator in
11575 order to allow worker threads to allocate more memory -- which in
11576 turn is necessary because of our new use of worker threads for
11577 compression. Closes ticket 22096.
11579 o Minor features (logging):
11580 - Log files are no longer created world-readable by default.
11581 (Previously, most distributors would store the logs in a non-
11582 world-readable location to prevent inappropriate access. This
11583 change is an extra precaution.) Closes ticket 21729; patch
11586 o Minor features (performance):
11587 - Our Keccak (SHA-3) implementation now accesses memory more
11588 efficiently, especially on little-endian systems. Closes
11590 - Add an O(1) implementation of channel_find_by_global_id(), to
11591 speed some controller functions.
11593 o Minor features (relay, configuration):
11594 - The MyFamily option may now be repeated as many times as desired,
11595 for relays that want to configure large families. Closes ticket
11596 4998; patch by Daniel Pinto.
11598 o Minor features (relay, performance):
11599 - Always start relays with at least two worker threads, to prevent
11600 priority inversion on slow tasks. Part of the fix for bug 22883.
11601 - Allow background work to be queued with different priorities, so
11602 that a big pile of slow low-priority jobs will not starve out
11603 higher priority jobs. This lays the groundwork for a fix for
11606 o Minor features (safety):
11607 - Add an explicit check to extrainfo_parse_entry_from_string() for
11608 NULL inputs. We don't believe this can actually happen, but it may
11609 help silence a warning from the Clang analyzer. Closes
11612 o Minor features (testing):
11613 - Add more tests for compression backend initialization. Closes
11615 - Add a "--disable-memory-sentinels" feature to help with fuzzing.
11616 When Tor is compiled with this option, we disable a number of
11617 redundant memory-safety failsafes that are intended to stop bugs
11618 from becoming security issues. This makes it easier to hunt for
11619 bugs that would be security issues without the failsafes turned
11620 on. Closes ticket 21439.
11621 - Add a general event-tracing instrumentation support to Tor. This
11622 subsystem will enable developers and researchers to add fine-
11623 grained instrumentation to their Tor instances, for use when
11624 examining Tor network performance issues. There are no trace
11625 events yet, and event-tracing is off by default unless enabled at
11626 compile time. Implements ticket 13802.
11627 - Improve our version parsing tests: add tests for typical version
11628 components, add tests for invalid versions, including numeric
11629 range and non-numeric prefixes. Unit tests 21278, 21450, and
11630 21507. Partially implements 21470.
11632 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting):
11633 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
11634 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
11635 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
11637 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
11638 - Accurately identify client connections by their lack of peer
11639 authentication. This means that we bail out earlier if asked to
11640 extend to a client. Follow-up to 21407. Fixes bug 21406; bugfix
11643 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warnings):
11644 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug
11645 22915; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
11646 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt
11647 support on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
11648 - When building with certain versions of the mingw C header files,
11649 avoid float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions
11650 isfinite(), isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix
11653 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
11654 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for calling tor_sscanf()
11655 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
11657 o Minor bugfixes (compression):
11658 - When spooling compressed data to an output buffer, don't try to
11659 spool more data when there is no more data to spool and we are not
11660 trying to flush the input. Previously, we would sometimes launch
11661 compression requests with nothing to do, which interferes with our
11662 22672 checks. Fixes bug 22719; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
11664 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
11665 - Do not crash when starting with LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0. Fixes
11666 bug 22252; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
11668 o Minor bugfixes (connection lifespan):
11669 - Allow more control over how long TLS connections are kept open:
11670 unify CircuitIdleTimeout and PredictedPortsRelevanceTime into a
11671 single option called CircuitsAvailableTimeout. Also, allow the
11672 consensus to control the default values for both this preference
11673 and the lifespan of relay-to-relay connections. Fixes bug 17592;
11674 bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
11675 - Increase the initial circuit build timeout testing frequency, to
11676 help ensure that ReducedConnectionPadding clients finish learning
11677 a timeout before their orconn would expire. The initial testing
11678 rate was set back in the days of TAP and before the Tor Browser
11679 updater, when we had to be much more careful about new clients
11680 making lots of circuits. With this change, a circuit build timeout
11681 is learned in about 15-20 minutes, instead of 100-120 minutes.
11683 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
11684 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
11685 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
11686 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an empty
11687 body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
11688 - GETINFO onions/current and onions/detached no longer respond with
11689 551 on empty lists. Fixes bug 21329; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
11690 - Trigger HS descriptor events on the control port when the client
11691 fails to pick a hidden service directory for a hidden service.
11692 This can happen if all the hidden service directories are in
11693 ExcludeNodes, or they have all been queried within the last 15
11694 minutes. Fixes bug 22042; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
11696 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
11697 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
11698 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
11700 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support):
11701 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
11702 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
11703 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
11704 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
11705 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
11707 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming):
11708 - Detect and break out of infinite loops in our compression code. We
11709 don't think that any such loops exist now, but it's best to be
11710 safe. Closes ticket 22672.
11711 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
11712 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
11713 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
11714 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
11715 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
11716 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
11717 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
11718 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
11720 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
11721 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
11722 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
11723 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
11724 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
11725 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
11726 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
11727 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
11729 - When rejecting a router descriptor for running an obsolete version
11730 of Tor without ntor support, warn about the obsolete tor version,
11731 not the missing ntor key. Fixes bug 20270; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
11732 - Prevent the shared randomness subsystem from asserting when
11733 initialized by a bridge authority with an incomplete configuration
11734 file. Fixes bug 21586; bugfix on 0.2.9.8.
11736 o Minor bugfixes (error reporting, windows):
11737 - When formatting Windows error messages, use the English format to
11738 avoid codepage issues. Fixes bug 22520; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-alpha.
11741 o Minor bugfixes (exit-side DNS):
11742 - Fix an untriggerable assertion that checked the output of a
11743 libevent DNS error, so that the assertion actually behaves as
11744 expected. Fixes bug 22244; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by Andrey
11745 Karpov using PVS-Studio.
11747 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
11748 - Make the usage example in updateFallbackDirs.py actually work, and
11749 explain what it does. Fixes bug 22270; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
11750 - Decrease the guard flag average required to be a fallback. This
11751 allows us to keep relays that have their guard flag removed when
11752 they restart. Fixes bug 20913; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
11753 - Decrease the minimum number of fallbacks to 100. Fixes bug 20913;
11754 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
11755 - Make sure fallback directory mirrors have the same address, port,
11756 and relay identity key for at least 30 days before they are
11757 selected. Fixes bug 20913; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
11759 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx):
11760 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
11761 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
11762 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
11764 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
11765 - Increase the number of circuits that a service is allowed to
11766 open over a specific period of time. The value was lower than it
11767 should be (8 vs 12) in the normal case of 3 introduction points.
11768 Fixes bug 22159; bugfix on 0.3.0.5-rc.
11769 - Fix a BUG warning during HSv3 descriptor decoding that could be
11770 cause by a specially crafted descriptor. Fixes bug 23233; bugfix
11771 on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Bug found by "haxxpop".
11772 - Stop printing a cryptic warning when a hidden service gets a
11773 request to connect to a virtual port that it hasn't configured.
11774 Fixes bug 16706; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
11775 - Simplify hidden service descriptor creation by using an existing
11776 flag to check if an introduction point is established. Fixes bug
11777 21599; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
11779 o Minor bugfixes (link handshake):
11780 - Lower the lifetime of the RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificate to six
11781 months, and regenerate it when it is within one month of expiring.
11782 Previously, we had generated this certificate at startup with a
11783 ten-year lifetime, but that could lead to weird behavior when Tor
11784 was started with a grossly inaccurate clock. Mitigates bug 22466;
11785 mitigation on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11787 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
11788 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
11789 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
11790 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
11791 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
11792 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
11793 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
11795 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
11796 - When decompressing, do not warn if we fail to decompress using a
11797 compression method that we merely guessed. Fixes part of bug
11798 22670; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
11799 - When decompressing, treat mismatch between content-encoding and
11800 actual compression type as a protocol warning. Fixes part of bug
11801 22670; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
11802 - Downgrade "assigned_to_cpuworker failed" message to info-level
11803 severity. In every case that can reach it, either a better warning
11804 has already been logged, or no warning is warranted. Fixes bug
11805 22356; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
11806 - Log a better message when a directory authority replies to an
11807 upload with an unexpected status code. Fixes bug 11121; bugfix
11809 - Downgrade a log statement about unexpected relay cells from "bug"
11810 to "protocol warning", because there is at least one use case
11811 where it can be triggered by a buggy tor implementation. Fixes bug
11812 21293; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
11814 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
11815 - Remove a forgotten debugging message when an introduction point
11816 successfully establishes a hidden service prop224 circuit with
11818 - Change three other log_warn() for an introduction point to
11819 protocol warnings, because they can be failure from the network
11820 and are not relevant to the operator. Fixes bug 23078; bugfix on
11821 0.3.0.1-alpha and 0.3.0.2-alpha.
11823 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
11824 - Inform the geoip and rephist modules about all requests, even on
11825 relays that are only fetching microdescriptors. Fixes a bug
11826 related to 21585; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11828 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
11829 - Fix a small memory leak at exit from the backtrace handler code.
11830 Fixes bug 21788; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
11831 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
11832 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
11833 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
11834 - Fix a small memory leak when validating a configuration that uses
11835 two or more AF_UNIX sockets for the same port type. Fixes bug
11836 23053; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. This is CID 1415725.
11838 o Minor bugfixes (process behavior):
11839 - When exiting because of an error, always exit with a nonzero exit
11840 status. Previously, we would fail to report an error in our exit
11841 status in cases related to __OwningControllerProcess failure,
11842 lockfile contention, and Ed25519 key initialization. Fixes bug
11843 22720; bugfix on versions 0.2.1.6-alpha, 0.2.2.28-beta, and
11844 0.2.7.2-alpha respectively. Reported by "f55jwk4f"; patch
11847 o Minor bugfixes (robustness, error handling):
11848 - Improve our handling of the cases where OpenSSL encounters a
11849 memory error while encoding keys and certificates. We haven't
11850 observed these errors in the wild, but if they do happen, we now
11851 detect and respond better. Fixes bug 19418; bugfix on all versions
11852 of Tor. Reported by Guido Vranken.
11854 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
11855 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
11856 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
11857 - Use unbuffered I/O for utility functions around the
11858 process_handle_t type. This fixes unit test failures reported on
11859 OpenBSD and FreeBSD. Fixes bug 21654; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
11860 - Make display of captured unit test log messages consistent. Fixes
11861 bug 21510; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
11862 - Make test-network.sh always call chutney's test-network.sh.
11863 Previously, this only worked on systems which had bash installed,
11864 due to some bash-specific code in the script. Fixes bug 19699;
11865 bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc. Follow-up to ticket 21581.
11866 - Fix a memory leak in the link-handshake/certs_ok_ed25519 test.
11867 Fixes bug 22803; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11868 - The unit tests now pass on systems where localhost is misconfigured
11869 to some IPv4 address other than 127.0.0.1. Fixes bug 6298; bugfix
11872 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency):
11873 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
11874 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
11875 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
11876 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
11878 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service):
11879 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
11880 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
11881 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
11882 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
11883 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
11884 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
11886 o Minor bugfixes (windows, relay):
11887 - Resolve "Failure from drain_fd: No error" warnings on Windows
11888 relays. Fixes bug 21540; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
11890 o Code simplification and refactoring:
11891 - Break up the 630-line function connection_dir_client_reached_eof()
11892 into a dozen smaller functions. This change should help
11893 maintainability and readability of the client directory code.
11894 - Isolate our use of the openssl headers so that they are only
11895 included from our crypto wrapper modules, and from tests that
11896 examine those modules' internals. Closes ticket 21841.
11897 - Simplify our API to launch directory requests, making it more
11898 extensible and less error-prone. Now it's easier to add extra
11899 headers to directory requests. Closes ticket 21646.
11900 - Our base64 decoding functions no longer overestimate the output
11901 space that they need when parsing unpadded inputs. Closes
11903 - Remove unused "ROUTER_ADDED_NOTIFY_GENERATOR" internal value.
11904 Resolves ticket 22213.
11905 - The logic that directory caches use to spool request to clients,
11906 serving them one part at a time so as not to allocate too much
11907 memory, has been refactored for consistency. Previously there was
11908 a separate spooling implementation per type of spoolable data. Now
11909 there is one common spooling implementation, with extensible data
11910 types. Closes ticket 21651.
11911 - Tor's compression module now supports multiple backends. Part of
11912 the implementation for proposal 278; closes ticket 21663.
11915 - Add a manpage description for the key-pinning-journal file. Closes
11917 - Correctly note that bandwidth accounting values are stored in the
11918 state file, and the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. Closes
11920 - Document more of the files in the Tor data directory, including
11921 cached-extrainfo, secret_onion_key{,_ntor}.old, hidserv-stats,
11922 approved-routers, sr-random, and diff-cache. Found while fixing
11924 - Clarify the manpage for the (deprecated) torify script. Closes
11926 - Clarify the behavior of the KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth sub-option.
11927 Closes ticket 21873.
11928 - Correct documentation about the default DataDirectory value.
11929 Closes ticket 21151.
11930 - Document the default behavior of NumEntryGuards and
11931 NumDirectoryGuards correctly. Fixes bug 21715; bugfix
11933 - Document key=value pluggable transport arguments for Bridge lines
11934 in torrc. Fixes bug 20341; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
11935 - Note that bandwidth-limiting options don't affect TCP headers or
11936 DNS. Closes ticket 17170.
11938 o Removed features (configuration options, all in ticket 22060):
11939 - These configuration options are now marked Obsolete, and no longer
11940 have any effect: AllowInvalidNodes, AllowSingleHopCircuits,
11941 AllowSingleHopExits, ExcludeSingleHopRelays, FastFirstHopPK,
11942 TLSECGroup, WarnUnsafeSocks. They were first marked as deprecated
11943 in 0.2.9.2-alpha and have now been removed. The previous default
11944 behavior is now always chosen; the previous (less secure) non-
11945 default behavior is now unavailable.
11946 - CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout and
11947 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout were deprecated in
11948 0.2.9.2-alpha and now have been removed. HS circuits never close
11949 on circuit build timeout; they have a longer timeout period.
11950 - {Control,DNS,Dir,Socks,Trans,NATD,OR}ListenAddress were deprecated
11951 in 0.2.9.2-alpha and now have been removed. Use the ORPort option
11952 (and others) to configure listen-only and advertise-only addresses.
11954 o Removed features (tools):
11955 - We've removed the tor-checkkey tool from src/tools. Long ago, we
11956 used it to help people detect RSA keys that were generated by
11957 versions of Debian affected by CVE-2008-0166. But those keys have
11958 been out of circulation for ages, and this tool is no longer
11959 required. Closes ticket 21842.
11962 Changes in version 0.3.0.10 - 2017-08-02
11963 Tor 0.3.0.10 backports a collection of small-to-medium bugfixes
11964 from the current Tor alpha series. OpenBSD users and TPROXY users
11965 should upgrade; others are probably okay sticking with 0.3.0.9.
11967 o Major features (build system, continuous integration, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
11968 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
11969 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
11970 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
11971 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
11972 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
11973 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
11974 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
11975 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
11977 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
11978 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
11979 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
11980 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
11982 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
11983 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
11984 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
11985 handling of "0xbar" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
11986 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
11988 o Minor features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
11989 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11992 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting, backport from 0.3.1.2-alpha):
11993 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
11994 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
11995 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
11997 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warnings, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
11998 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug 22915;
11999 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12000 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt
12001 support on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12002 - When building with certain versions of the mingw C header files,
12003 avoid float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions
12004 isfinite(), isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix
12007 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
12008 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
12009 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
12012 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12013 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
12014 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
12015 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
12016 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
12017 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
12019 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
12020 - When rejecting a router descriptor for running an obsolete version
12021 of Tor without ntor support, warn about the obsolete tor version,
12022 not the missing ntor key. Fixes bug 20270; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
12024 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12025 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
12026 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
12028 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha)
12029 - Fix a memory leak in the link-handshake/certs_ok_ed25519 test.
12030 Fixes bug 22803; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12033 Changes in version 0.3.0.9 - 2017-06-29
12034 Tor 0.3.0.9 fixes a path selection bug that would allow a client
12035 to use a guard that was in the same network family as a chosen exit
12036 relay. This is a security regression; all clients running earlier
12037 versions of 0.3.0.x or 0.3.1.x should upgrade to 0.3.0.9 or
12040 This release also backports several other bugfixes from the 0.3.1.x
12043 o Major bugfixes (path selection, security, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
12044 - When choosing which guard to use for a circuit, avoid the exit's
12045 family along with the exit itself. Previously, the new guard
12046 selection logic avoided the exit, but did not consider its family.
12047 Fixes bug 22753; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2017-
12048 006 and CVE-2017-0377.
12050 o Major bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
12051 - Don't block bootstrapping when a primary bridge is offline and we
12052 can't get its descriptor. Fixes bug 22325; fixes one case of bug
12053 21969; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
12055 o Major bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
12056 - When starting with an old consensus, do not add new entry guards
12057 unless the consensus is "reasonably live" (under 1 day old). Fixes
12058 one root cause of bug 22400; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12060 o Minor features (geoip):
12061 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12064 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
12065 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
12066 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
12067 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
12068 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
12070 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
12071 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
12072 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
12073 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
12074 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
12076 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
12077 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
12078 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
12079 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
12080 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
12081 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
12082 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
12083 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
12084 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
12087 Changes in version 0.3.0.8 - 2017-06-08
12088 Tor 0.3.0.8 fixes a pair of bugs that would allow an attacker to
12089 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
12090 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
12091 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-004 and TROVE-2017-005.
12093 Tor 0.3.0.8 also includes fixes for several key management bugs
12094 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
12095 bugfixes described below.
12097 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security, backport
12098 from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
12099 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure when a hidden service
12100 handles a malformed BEGIN cell. Fixes bug 22493, tracked as
12101 TROVE-2017-004 and as CVE-2017-0375; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12102 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
12103 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
12104 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
12107 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
12108 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
12109 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
12110 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
12111 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
12112 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
12113 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
12116 o Major bugfixes (relays, key management, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
12117 - Regenerate link and authentication certificates whenever the key
12118 that signs them changes; also, regenerate link certificates
12119 whenever the signed key changes. Previously, these processes were
12120 only weakly coupled, and we relays could (for minutes to hours)
12121 wind up with an inconsistent set of keys and certificates, which
12122 other relays would not accept. Fixes two cases of bug 22460;
12123 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12124 - When sending an Ed25519 signing->link certificate in a CERTS cell,
12125 send the certificate that matches the x509 certificate that we
12126 used on the TLS connection. Previously, there was a race condition
12127 if the TLS context rotated after we began the TLS handshake but
12128 before we sent the CERTS cell. Fixes a case of bug 22460; bugfix
12131 o Major bugfixes (hidden service v3, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
12132 - Stop rejecting v3 hidden service descriptors because their size
12133 did not match an old padding rule. Fixes bug 22447; bugfix on
12136 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
12137 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
12138 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
12139 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
12140 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
12142 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
12143 - Do not crash when starting with LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0. Fixes
12144 bug 22252; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
12146 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
12147 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
12148 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
12150 o Minor bugfixes (link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
12151 - Lower the lifetime of the RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificate to six
12152 months, and regenerate it when it is within one month of expiring.
12153 Previously, we had generated this certificate at startup with a
12154 ten-year lifetime, but that could lead to weird behavior when Tor
12155 was started with a grossly inaccurate clock. Mitigates bug 22466;
12156 mitigation on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12158 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority, backport from
12160 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
12161 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
12162 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12165 Changes in version 0.2.9.11 - 2017-06-08
12166 Tor 0.2.9.11 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
12167 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
12168 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
12169 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
12170 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
12172 Tor 0.2.9.11 also backports fixes for several key management bugs
12173 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
12174 bugfixes described below.
12176 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security, backport
12177 from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
12178 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
12179 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
12180 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
12183 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
12184 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
12185 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
12186 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
12187 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
12188 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
12189 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
12192 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
12193 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
12194 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
12195 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
12196 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
12198 o Minor features (future-proofing, backport from 0.3.0.7):
12199 - Tor no longer refuses to download microdescriptors or descriptors if
12200 they are listed as "published in the future". This change will
12201 eventually allow us to stop listing meaningful "published" dates
12202 in microdescriptor consensuses, and thereby allow us to reduce the
12203 resources required to download consensus diffs by over 50%.
12204 Implements part of ticket 21642; implements part of proposal 275.
12206 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.0.4-rc)
12207 - Directory authorities now reject relays running versions
12208 0.2.9.1-alpha through 0.2.9.4-alpha, because those relays
12209 suffer from bug 20499 and don't keep their consensus cache
12210 up-to-date. Resolves ticket 20509.
12212 o Minor features (geoip):
12213 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12216 o Minor bugfixes (control port, backport from 0.3.0.6):
12217 - The GETINFO extra-info/digest/<digest> command was broken because
12218 of a wrong base16 decode return value check, introduced when
12219 refactoring that API. Fixes bug 22034; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
12221 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
12222 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
12223 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
12225 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.0.7):
12226 - The getpid() system call is now permitted under the Linux seccomp2
12227 sandbox, to avoid crashing with versions of OpenSSL (and other
12228 libraries) that attempt to learn the process's PID by using the
12229 syscall rather than the VDSO code. Fixes bug 21943; bugfix
12232 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority, backport
12233 from 0.3.1.2-alpha):
12234 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
12235 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
12236 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12238 Changes in version 0.2.8.14 - 2017-06-08
12239 Tor 0.2.7.8 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
12240 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
12241 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
12242 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
12243 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
12245 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
12246 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
12247 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
12248 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
12251 o Minor features (geoip):
12252 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12255 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
12256 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
12257 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
12258 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
12259 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
12261 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
12262 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
12263 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
12265 Changes in version 0.2.7.8 - 2017-06-08
12266 Tor 0.2.7.8 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
12267 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
12268 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
12269 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
12270 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
12272 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
12273 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
12274 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
12275 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
12278 o Minor features (geoip):
12279 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12282 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
12283 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
12284 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
12287 Changes in version 0.2.6.12 - 2017-06-08
12288 Tor 0.2.6.12 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
12289 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
12290 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
12291 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
12292 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
12294 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
12295 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
12296 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
12297 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
12300 o Minor features (geoip):
12301 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12304 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
12305 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
12306 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
12308 Changes in version 0.2.5.14 - 2017-06-08
12309 Tor 0.2.5.14 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
12310 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
12311 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
12312 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
12313 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
12315 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
12316 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
12317 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
12318 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
12321 o Minor features (geoip):
12322 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12325 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
12326 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
12327 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
12329 Changes in version 0.2.4.29 - 2017-06-08
12330 Tor 0.2.4.29 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
12331 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
12332 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
12333 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
12334 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
12336 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
12337 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
12338 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
12339 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
12342 o Minor features (geoip):
12343 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12346 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
12347 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
12348 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
12351 Changes in version 0.3.0.7 - 2017-05-15
12352 Tor 0.3.0.7 fixes a medium-severity security bug in earlier versions
12353 of Tor 0.3.0.x, where an attacker could cause a Tor relay process
12354 to exit. Relays running earlier versions of Tor 0.3.0.x should upgrade;
12355 clients are not affected.
12357 o Major bugfixes (hidden service directory, security):
12358 - Fix an assertion failure in the hidden service directory code, which
12359 could be used by an attacker to remotely cause a Tor relay process to
12360 exit. Relays running earlier versions of Tor 0.3.0.x should upgrade.
12361 should upgrade. This security issue is tracked as TROVE-2017-002.
12362 Fixes bug 22246; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12365 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12368 o Minor features (future-proofing):
12369 - Tor no longer refuses to download microdescriptors or descriptors
12370 if they are listed as "published in the future". This change will
12371 eventually allow us to stop listing meaningful "published" dates
12372 in microdescriptor consensuses, and thereby allow us to reduce the
12373 resources required to download consensus diffs by over 50%.
12374 Implements part of ticket 21642; implements part of proposal 275.
12376 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
12377 - The getpid() system call is now permitted under the Linux seccomp2
12378 sandbox, to avoid crashing with versions of OpenSSL (and other
12379 libraries) that attempt to learn the process's PID by using the
12380 syscall rather than the VDSO code. Fixes bug 21943; bugfix
12384 Changes in version 0.3.0.6 - 2017-04-26
12385 Tor 0.3.0.6 is the first stable release of the Tor 0.3.0 series.
12387 With the 0.3.0 series, clients and relays now use Ed25519 keys to
12388 authenticate their link connections to relays, rather than the old
12389 RSA1024 keys that they used before. (Circuit crypto has been
12390 Curve25519-authenticated since 0.2.4.8-alpha.) We have also replaced
12391 the guard selection and replacement algorithm to behave more robustly
12392 in the presence of unreliable networks, and to resist guard-
12395 This series also includes numerous other small features and bugfixes,
12396 along with more groundwork for the upcoming hidden-services revamp.
12398 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support the Tor 0.3.0
12399 release series for at least the next nine months, or for three months
12400 after the first stable release of the 0.3.1 series: whichever is
12401 longer. If you need a release with long-term support, we recommend
12402 that you stay with the 0.2.9 series.
12404 Below are the changes since 0.2.9.10. For a list of only the changes
12405 since 0.3.0.5-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
12407 o Major features (directory authority, security):
12408 - The default for AuthDirPinKeys is now 1: directory authorities
12409 will reject relays where the RSA identity key matches a previously
12410 seen value, but the Ed25519 key has changed. Closes ticket 18319.
12412 o Major features (guard selection algorithm):
12413 - Tor's guard selection algorithm has been redesigned from the
12414 ground up, to better support unreliable networks and restrictive
12415 sets of entry nodes, and to better resist guard-capture attacks by
12416 hostile local networks. Implements proposal 271; closes
12419 o Major features (next-generation hidden services):
12420 - Relays can now handle v3 ESTABLISH_INTRO cells as specified by
12421 prop224 aka "Next Generation Hidden Services". Service and clients
12422 don't use this functionality yet. Closes ticket 19043. Based on
12423 initial code by Alec Heifetz.
12424 - Relays now support the HSDir version 3 protocol, so that they can
12425 can store and serve v3 descriptors. This is part of the next-
12426 generation onion service work detailed in proposal 224. Closes
12429 o Major features (protocol, ed25519 identity keys):
12430 - Clients now support including Ed25519 identity keys in the EXTEND2
12431 cells they generate. By default, this is controlled by a consensus
12432 parameter, currently disabled. You can turn this feature on for
12433 testing by setting ExtendByEd25519ID in your configuration. This
12434 might make your traffic appear different than the traffic
12435 generated by other users, however. Implements part of ticket
12436 15056; part of proposal 220.
12437 - Relays now understand requests to extend to other relays by their
12438 Ed25519 identity keys. When an Ed25519 identity key is included in
12439 an EXTEND2 cell, the relay will only extend the circuit if the
12440 other relay can prove ownership of that identity. Implements part
12441 of ticket 15056; part of proposal 220.
12442 - Relays now use Ed25519 to prove their Ed25519 identities and to
12443 one another, and to clients. This algorithm is faster and more
12444 secure than the RSA-based handshake we've been doing until now.
12445 Implements the second big part of proposal 220; Closes
12448 o Major features (security):
12449 - Change the algorithm used to decide DNS TTLs on client and server
12450 side, to better resist DNS-based correlation attacks like the
12451 DefecTor attack of Greschbach, Pulls, Roberts, Winter, and
12452 Feamster. Now relays only return one of two possible DNS TTL
12453 values, and clients are willing to believe DNS TTL values up to 3
12454 hours long. Closes ticket 19769.
12456 o Major bugfixes (client, onion service, also in 0.2.9.9):
12457 - Fix a client-side onion service reachability bug, where multiple
12458 socks requests to an onion service (or a single slow request)
12459 could cause us to mistakenly mark some of the service's
12460 introduction points as failed, and we cache that failure so
12461 eventually we run out and can't reach the service. Also resolves a
12462 mysterious "Remote server sent bogus reason code 65021" log
12463 warning. The bug was introduced in ticket 17218, where we tried to
12464 remember the circuit end reason as a uint16_t, which mangled
12465 negative values. Partially fixes bug 21056 and fixes bug 20307;
12466 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12468 o Major bugfixes (crash, directory connections):
12469 - Fix a rare crash when sending a begin cell on a circuit whose
12470 linked directory connection had already been closed. Fixes bug
12471 21576; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
12473 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
12474 - During voting, when marking a relay as a probable sybil, do not
12475 clear its BadExit flag: sybils can still be bad in other ways
12476 too. (We still clear the other flags.) Fixes bug 21108; bugfix
12479 o Major bugfixes (DNS):
12480 - Fix a bug that prevented exit nodes from caching DNS records for
12481 more than 60 seconds. Fixes bug 19025; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
12483 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 Exits):
12484 - Stop rejecting all IPv6 traffic on Exits whose exit policy rejects
12485 any IPv6 addresses. Instead, only reject a port over IPv6 if the
12486 exit policy rejects that port on more than an IPv6 /16 of
12487 addresses. This bug was made worse by 17027 in 0.2.8.1-alpha,
12488 which rejected a relay's own IPv6 address by default. Fixes bug
12489 21357; bugfix on commit 004f3f4e53 in 0.2.4.7-alpha.
12491 o Major bugfixes (parsing):
12492 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
12493 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
12494 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
12495 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
12496 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
12497 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
12498 - When parsing a malformed content-length field from an HTTP
12499 message, do not read off the end of the buffer. This bug was a
12500 potential remote denial-of-service attack against Tor clients and
12501 relays. A workaround was released in October 2016, to prevent this
12502 bug from crashing Tor. This is a fix for the underlying issue,
12503 which should no longer matter (if you applied the earlier patch).
12504 Fixes bug 20894; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Bug found by fuzzing
12505 using AFL (http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/).
12507 o Major bugfixes (scheduler):
12508 - Actually compare circuit policies in ewma_cmp_cmux(). This bug
12509 caused the channel scheduler to behave more or less randomly,
12510 rather than preferring channels with higher-priority circuits.
12511 Fixes bug 20459; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
12513 o Major bugfixes (security, also in 0.2.9.9):
12514 - Downgrade the "-ftrapv" option from "always on" to "only on when
12515 --enable-expensive-hardening is provided." This hardening option,
12516 like others, can turn survivable bugs into crashes--and having it
12517 on by default made a (relatively harmless) integer overflow bug
12518 into a denial-of-service bug. Fixes bug 21278 (TROVE-2017-001);
12519 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
12521 o Minor feature (client):
12522 - Enable IPv6 traffic on the SocksPort by default. To disable this,
12523 a user will have to specify "NoIPv6Traffic". Closes ticket 21269.
12525 o Minor feature (fallback scripts):
12526 - Add a check_existing mode to updateFallbackDirs.py, which checks
12527 if fallbacks in the hard-coded list are working. Closes ticket
12528 20174. Patch by haxxpop.
12530 o Minor feature (protocol versioning):
12531 - Add new protocol version for proposal 224. HSIntro now advertises
12532 version "3-4" and HSDir version "1-2". Fixes ticket 20656.
12534 o Minor features (ciphersuite selection):
12535 - Allow relays to accept a wider range of ciphersuites, including
12536 chacha20-poly1305 and AES-CCM. Closes the other part of 15426.
12537 - Clients now advertise a list of ciphersuites closer to the ones
12538 preferred by Firefox. Closes part of ticket 15426.
12540 o Minor features (controller):
12541 - Add "GETINFO sr/current" and "GETINFO sr/previous" keys, to expose
12542 shared-random values to the controller. Closes ticket 19925.
12543 - When HSFETCH arguments cannot be parsed, say "Invalid argument"
12544 rather than "unrecognized." Closes ticket 20389; patch from
12547 o Minor features (controller, configuration):
12548 - Each of the *Port options, such as SocksPort, ORPort, ControlPort,
12549 and so on, now comes with a __*Port variant that will not be saved
12550 to the torrc file by the controller's SAVECONF command. This
12551 change allows TorBrowser to set up a single-use domain socket for
12552 each time it launches Tor. Closes ticket 20956.
12553 - The GETCONF command can now query options that may only be
12554 meaningful in context-sensitive lists. This allows the controller
12555 to query the mixed SocksPort/__SocksPort style options introduced
12556 in feature 20956. Implements ticket 21300.
12558 o Minor features (diagnostic, directory client):
12559 - Warn when we find an unexpected inconsistency in directory
12560 download status objects. Prevents some negative consequences of
12563 o Minor features (directory authorities):
12564 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors that claim to be
12565 malformed versions of Tor. Helps prevent exploitation of
12567 - Reject version numbers with components that exceed INT32_MAX.
12568 Otherwise 32-bit and 64-bit platforms would behave inconsistently.
12569 Fixes bug 21450; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
12571 o Minor features (directory authority):
12572 - Add a new authority-only AuthDirTestEd25519LinkKeys option (on by
12573 default) to control whether authorities should try to probe relays
12574 by their Ed25519 link keys. This option will go away in a few
12575 releases--unless we encounter major trouble in our ed25519 link
12576 protocol rollout, in which case it will serve as a safety option.
12578 o Minor features (directory cache):
12579 - Relays and bridges will now refuse to serve the consensus they
12580 have if they know it is too old for a client to use. Closes
12583 o Minor features (ed25519 link handshake):
12584 - Advertise support for the ed25519 link handshake using the
12585 subprotocol-versions mechanism, so that clients can tell which
12586 relays can identity themselves by Ed25519 ID. Closes ticket 20552.
12588 o Minor features (entry guards):
12589 - Add UseEntryGuards to TEST_OPTIONS_DEFAULT_VALUES in order to not
12590 break regression tests.
12591 - Require UseEntryGuards when UseBridges is set, in order to make
12592 sure bridges aren't bypassed. Resolves ticket 20502.
12594 o Minor features (fallback directories):
12595 - Allow 3 fallback relays per operator, which is safe now that we
12596 are choosing 200 fallback relays. Closes ticket 20912.
12597 - Annotate updateFallbackDirs.py with the bandwidth and consensus
12598 weight for each candidate fallback. Closes ticket 20878.
12599 - Display the relay fingerprint when downloading consensuses from
12600 fallbacks. Closes ticket 20908.
12601 - Exclude relays affected by bug 20499 from the fallback list.
12602 Exclude relays from the fallback list if they are running versions
12603 known to be affected by bug 20499, or if in our tests they deliver
12604 a stale consensus (i.e. one that expired more than 24 hours ago).
12605 Closes ticket 20539.
12606 - Make it easier to change the output sort order of fallbacks.
12607 Closes ticket 20822.
12608 - Reduce the minimum fallback bandwidth to 1 MByte/s. Part of
12610 - Require fallback directories to have the same address and port for
12611 7 days (now that we have enough relays with this stability).
12612 Relays whose OnionOO stability timer is reset on restart by bug
12613 18050 should upgrade to Tor 0.2.8.7 or later, which has a fix for
12614 this issue. Closes ticket 20880; maintains short-term fix
12616 - Require fallbacks to have flags for 90% of the time (weighted
12617 decaying average), rather than 95%. This allows at least 73% of
12618 clients to bootstrap in the first 5 seconds without contacting an
12619 authority. Part of ticket 18828.
12620 - Select 200 fallback directories for each release. Closes
12623 o Minor features (fingerprinting resistance, authentication):
12624 - Extend the length of RSA keys used for TLS link authentication to
12625 2048 bits. (These weren't used for forward secrecy; for forward
12626 secrecy, we used P256.) Closes ticket 13752.
12628 o Minor features (geoip):
12629 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12632 o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.9.9):
12633 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12636 o Minor features (infrastructure):
12637 - Implement smartlist_add_strdup() function. Replaces the use of
12638 smartlist_add(sl, tor_strdup(str)). Closes ticket 20048.
12640 o Minor features (linting):
12641 - Enhance the changes file linter to warn on Tor versions that are
12642 prefixed with "tor-". Closes ticket 21096.
12644 o Minor features (logging):
12645 - In several places, describe unset ed25519 keys as "<unset>",
12646 rather than the scary "AAAAAAAA...AAA". Closes ticket 21037.
12648 o Minor features (portability, compilation):
12649 - Autoconf now checks to determine if OpenSSL structures are opaque,
12650 instead of explicitly checking for OpenSSL version numbers. Part
12652 - Support building with recent LibreSSL code that uses opaque
12653 structures. Closes ticket 21359.
12655 o Minor features (relay):
12656 - We now allow separation of exit and relay traffic to different
12657 source IP addresses, using the OutboundBindAddressExit and
12658 OutboundBindAddressOR options respectively. Closes ticket 17975.
12659 Written by Michael Sonntag.
12661 o Minor features (reliability, crash):
12662 - Try better to detect problems in buffers where they might grow (or
12663 think they have grown) over 2 GB in size. Diagnostic for
12666 o Minor features (testing):
12667 - During 'make test-network-all', if tor logs any warnings, ask
12668 chutney to output them. Requires a recent version of chutney with
12669 the 21572 patch. Implements 21570.
12671 o Minor bugfix (control protocol):
12672 - The reply to a "GETINFO config/names" request via the control
12673 protocol now spells the type "Dependent" correctly. This is a
12674 breaking change in the control protocol. (The field seems to be
12675 ignored by the most common known controllers.) Fixes bug 18146;
12676 bugfix on 0.1.1.4-alpha.
12677 - The GETINFO extra-info/digest/<digest> command was broken because
12678 of a wrong base16 decode return value check, introduced when
12679 refactoring that API. Fixes bug 22034; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
12681 o Minor bugfix (logging):
12682 - Don't recommend the use of Tor2web in non-anonymous mode.
12683 Recommending Tor2web is a bad idea because the client loses all
12684 anonymity. Tor2web should only be used in specific cases by users
12685 who *know* and understand the issues. Fixes bug 21294; bugfix
12688 o Minor bugfixes (bug resilience):
12689 - Fix an unreachable size_t overflow in base64_decode(). Fixes bug
12690 19222; bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Found by Guido Vranken; fixed by
12691 Hans Jerry Illikainen.
12693 o Minor bugfixes (build):
12694 - Replace obsolete Autoconf macros with their modern equivalent and
12695 prevent similar issues in the future. Fixes bug 20990; bugfix
12698 o Minor bugfixes (certificate expiration time):
12699 - Avoid using link certificates that don't become valid till some
12700 time in the future. Fixes bug 21420; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha
12702 o Minor bugfixes (client):
12703 - Always recover from failures in extend_info_from_node(), in an
12704 attempt to prevent any recurrence of bug 21242. Fixes bug 21372;
12705 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
12706 - When clients that use bridges start up with a cached consensus on
12707 disk, they were ignoring it and downloading a new one. Now they
12708 use the cached one. Fixes bug 20269; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
12710 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
12711 - Repair a couple of (unreachable or harmless) cases of the risky
12712 comparison-by-subtraction pattern that caused bug 21278.
12714 o Minor bugfixes (config):
12715 - Don't assert on startup when trying to get the options list and
12716 LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is set to 0: we are currently parsing the
12717 options so of course they aren't ready yet. Fixes bug 21062;
12718 bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
12720 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
12721 - Accept non-space whitespace characters after the severity level in
12722 the `Log` option. Fixes bug 19965; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
12723 - Support "TByte" and "TBytes" units in options given in bytes.
12724 "TB", "terabyte(s)", "TBit(s)" and "terabit(s)" were already
12725 supported. Fixes bug 20622; bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
12727 o Minor bugfixes (configure, autoconf):
12728 - Rename the configure option --enable-expensive-hardening to
12729 --enable-fragile-hardening. Expensive hardening makes the tor
12730 daemon abort when some kinds of issues are detected. Thus, it
12731 makes tor more at risk of remote crashes but safer against RCE or
12732 heartbleed bug category. We now try to explain this issue in a
12733 message from the configure script. Fixes bug 21290; bugfix
12736 o Minor bugfixes (consensus weight):
12737 - Add new consensus method that initializes bw weights to 1 instead
12738 of 0. This prevents a zero weight from making it all the way to
12739 the end (happens in small testing networks) and causing an error.
12740 Fixes bug 14881; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
12742 o Minor bugfixes (crash prevention):
12743 - Fix an (currently untriggerable, but potentially dangerous) crash
12744 bug when base32-encoding inputs whose sizes are not a multiple of
12745 5. Fixes bug 21894; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
12747 o Minor bugfixes (dead code):
12748 - Remove a redundant check for PidFile changes at runtime in
12749 options_transition_allowed(): this check is already performed
12750 regardless of whether the sandbox is active. Fixes bug 21123;
12751 bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
12753 o Minor bugfixes (descriptors):
12754 - Correctly recognise downloaded full descriptors as valid, even
12755 when using microdescriptors as circuits. This affects clients with
12756 FetchUselessDescriptors set, and may affect directory authorities.
12757 Fixes bug 20839; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
12759 o Minor bugfixes (directory mirrors):
12760 - Allow relays to use directory mirrors without a DirPort: these
12761 relays need to be contacted over their ORPorts using a begindir
12762 connection. Fixes one case of bug 20711; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
12763 - Clarify the message logged when a remote relay is unexpectedly
12764 missing an ORPort or DirPort: users were confusing this with a
12765 local port. Fixes another case of bug 20711; bugfix
12768 o Minor bugfixes (directory system):
12769 - Bridges and relays now use microdescriptors (like clients do)
12770 rather than old-style router descriptors. Now bridges will blend
12771 in with clients in terms of the circuits they build. Fixes bug
12772 6769; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
12773 - Download all consensus flavors, descriptors, and authority
12774 certificates when FetchUselessDescriptors is set, regardless of
12775 whether tor is a directory cache or not. Fixes bug 20667; bugfix
12776 on all recent tor versions.
12778 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
12779 - Update the tor manual page to document every option that can not
12780 be changed while tor is running. Fixes bug 21122.
12782 o Minor bugfixes (ed25519 certificates):
12783 - Correctly interpret ed25519 certificates that would expire some
12784 time after 19 Jan 2038. Fixes bug 20027; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12786 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
12787 - Avoid checking fallback candidates' DirPorts if they are down in
12788 OnionOO. When a relay operator has multiple relays, this
12789 prioritizes relays that are up over relays that are down. Fixes
12790 bug 20926; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
12791 - Stop failing when OUTPUT_COMMENTS is True in updateFallbackDirs.py.
12792 Fixes bug 20877; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
12793 - Stop failing when a relay has no uptime data in
12794 updateFallbackDirs.py. Fixes bug 20945; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12796 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
12797 - Clean up the code for expiring intro points with no associated
12798 circuits. It was causing, rarely, a service with some expiring
12799 introduction points to not open enough additional introduction
12800 points. Fixes part of bug 21302; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12801 - Resolve two possible underflows which could lead to creating and
12802 closing a lot of introduction point circuits in a non-stop loop.
12803 Fixes bug 21302; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12804 - Stop setting the torrc option HiddenServiceStatistics to "0" just
12805 because we're not a bridge or relay. Instead, we preserve whatever
12806 value the user set (or didn't set). Fixes bug 21150; bugfix
12809 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
12810 - Make hidden services check for failed intro point connections,
12811 even when they have exceeded their intro point creation limit.
12812 Fixes bug 21596; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
12813 - Make hidden services with 8 to 10 introduction points check for
12814 failed circuits immediately after startup. Previously, they would
12815 wait for 5 minutes before performing their first checks. Fixes bug
12816 21594; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
12817 - Stop ignoring misconfigured hidden services. Instead, refuse to
12818 start tor until the misconfigurations have been corrected. Fixes
12819 bug 20559; bugfix on multiple commits in 0.2.7.1-alpha
12822 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
12823 - Make IPv6-using clients try harder to find an IPv6 directory
12824 server. Fixes bug 20999; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
12825 - When IPv6 addresses have not been downloaded yet (microdesc
12826 consensus documents don't list relay IPv6 addresses), use hard-
12827 coded addresses for authorities, fallbacks, and configured
12828 bridges. Now IPv6-only clients can use microdescriptors. Fixes bug
12829 20996; bugfix on b167e82 from 19608 in 0.2.8.5-alpha.
12831 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak at exit):
12832 - Fix a small harmless memory leak at exit of the previously unused
12833 RSA->Ed identity cross-certificate. Fixes bug 17779; bugfix
12836 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
12837 - Allow the number of introduction points to be as low as 0, rather
12838 than as low as 3. Fixes bug 21033; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12840 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
12841 - Use "OpenBSD" compiler macro instead of "OPENBSD" or "__OpenBSD__".
12842 It is supported by OpenBSD itself, and also by most OpenBSD
12843 variants (such as Bitrig). Fixes bug 20980; bugfix
12846 o Minor bugfixes (portability, also in 0.2.9.9):
12847 - Avoid crashing when Tor is built using headers that contain
12848 CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, but then tries to run on an older kernel
12849 without CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE. Fixes bug 21035; bugfix
12851 - Fix Libevent detection on platforms without Libevent 1 headers
12852 installed. Fixes bug 21051; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
12854 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
12855 - Avoid a double-marked-circuit warning that could happen when we
12856 receive DESTROY cells under heavy load. Fixes bug 20059; bugfix
12858 - Honor DataDirectoryGroupReadable when tor is a relay. Previously,
12859 initializing the keys would reset the DataDirectory to 0700
12860 instead of 0750 even if DataDirectoryGroupReadable was set to 1.
12861 Fixes bug 19953; bugfix on 0.0.2pre16. Patch by "redfish".
12863 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
12864 - Fix Raspbian build issues related to missing socket errno in
12865 test_util.c. Fixes bug 21116; bugfix on 0.2.8.2. Patch by "hein".
12866 - Remove undefined behavior from the backtrace generator by removing
12867 its signal handler. Fixes bug 21026; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
12868 - Use bash in src/test/test-network.sh. This ensures we reliably
12869 call chutney's newer tools/test-network.sh when available. Fixes
12870 bug 21562; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
12872 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve):
12873 - The tor-resolve command line tool now rejects hostnames over 255
12874 characters in length. Previously, it would silently truncate them,
12875 which could lead to bugs. Fixes bug 21280; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
12876 Patch by "junglefowl".
12878 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
12879 - Allow the unit tests to pass even when DNS lookups of bogus
12880 addresses do not fail as expected. Fixes bug 20862 and 20863;
12881 bugfix on unit tests introduced in 0.2.8.1-alpha
12882 through 0.2.9.4-alpha.
12884 o Minor bugfixes (util):
12885 - When finishing writing a file to disk, if we were about to replace
12886 the file with the temporary file created before and we fail to
12887 replace it, remove the temporary file so it doesn't stay on disk.
12888 Fixes bug 20646; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Patch by fk.
12890 o Minor bugfixes (Windows services):
12891 - Be sure to initialize the monotonic time subsystem before using
12892 it, even when running as an NT service. Fixes bug 21356; bugfix
12895 o Minor bugfixes (Windows):
12896 - Check for getpagesize before using it to mmap files. This fixes
12897 compilation in some MinGW environments. Fixes bug 20530; bugfix on
12898 0.1.2.1-alpha. Reported by "ice".
12900 o Code simplification and refactoring:
12901 - Abolish all global guard context in entrynodes.c; replace with new
12902 guard_selection_t structure as preparation for proposal 271.
12903 Closes ticket 19858.
12904 - Extract magic numbers in circuituse.c into defined variables.
12905 - Introduce rend_service_is_ephemeral() that tells if given onion
12906 service is ephemeral. Replace unclear NULL-checkings for service
12907 directory with this function. Closes ticket 20526.
12908 - Refactor circuit_is_available_for_use to remove unnecessary check.
12909 - Refactor circuit_predict_and_launch_new for readability and
12910 testability. Closes ticket 18873.
12911 - Refactor code to manipulate global_origin_circuit_list into
12912 separate functions. Closes ticket 20921.
12913 - Refactor large if statement in purpose_needs_anonymity to use
12914 switch statement instead. Closes part of ticket 20077.
12915 - Refactor the hashing API to return negative values for errors, as
12916 is done as throughout the codebase. Closes ticket 20717.
12917 - Remove data structures that were used to index or_connection
12918 objects by their RSA identity digests. These structures are fully
12919 redundant with the similar structures used in the
12920 channel abstraction.
12921 - Remove duplicate code in the channel_write_*cell() functions.
12922 Closes ticket 13827; patch from Pingl.
12923 - Remove redundant behavior of is_sensitive_dir_purpose, refactor to
12924 use only purpose_needs_anonymity. Closes part of ticket 20077.
12925 - The code to generate and parse EXTEND and EXTEND2 cells has been
12926 replaced with code automatically generated by the
12929 o Documentation (formatting):
12930 - Clean up formatting of tor.1 man page and HTML doc, where <pre>
12931 blocks were incorrectly appearing. Closes ticket 20885.
12933 o Documentation (man page):
12934 - Clarify many options in tor.1 and add some min/max values for
12935 HiddenService options. Closes ticket 21058.
12938 - Change '1' to 'weight_scale' in consensus bw weights calculation
12939 comments, as that is reality. Closes ticket 20273. Patch
12941 - Clarify that when ClientRejectInternalAddresses is enabled (which
12942 is the default), multicast DNS hostnames for machines on the local
12943 network (of the form *.local) are also rejected. Closes
12945 - Correct the value for AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee in the manpage, from
12946 250 KBytes to 2 MBytes. Fixes bug 20435; bugfix on 0.2.5.6-alpha.
12947 - Include the "TBits" unit in Tor's man page. Fixes part of bug
12948 20622; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
12949 - Small fixes to the fuzzing documentation. Closes ticket 21472.
12950 - Stop the man page from incorrectly stating that HiddenServiceDir
12951 must already exist. Fixes 20486.
12952 - Update the description of the directory server options in the
12953 manual page, to clarify that a relay no longer needs to set
12954 DirPort in order to be a directory cache. Closes ticket 21720.
12956 o Removed features:
12957 - The AuthDirMaxServersPerAuthAddr option no longer exists: The same
12958 limit for relays running on a single IP applies to authority IP
12959 addresses as well as to non-authority IP addresses. Closes
12961 - The UseDirectoryGuards torrc option no longer exists: all users
12962 that use entry guards will also use directory guards. Related to
12963 proposal 271; implements part of ticket 20831.
12966 - Add tests for networkstatus_compute_bw_weights_v10.
12967 - Add unit tests circuit_predict_and_launch_new.
12968 - Extract dummy_origin_circuit_new so it can be used by other
12970 - New unit tests for tor_htonll(). Closes ticket 19563. Patch
12971 from "overcaffeinated".
12972 - Perform the coding style checks when running the tests and fail
12973 when coding style violations are found. Closes ticket 5500.
12976 Changes in version 0.2.8.13 - 2017-03-03
12977 Tor 0.2.8.13 backports a security fix from later Tor
12978 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.8.12 or earlier should upgrade to this
12979 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
12980 release series, and if they build Tor with the --enable-expensive-hardening
12983 Note that support for Tor 0.2.8.x is ending next year: we will not issue
12984 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.8.x series after 1 Jan 2018. If you need
12985 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
12987 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
12988 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
12989 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
12990 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
12991 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
12992 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
12993 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
12995 o Minor features (geoip):
12996 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13000 Changes in version 0.2.7.7 - 2017-03-03
13001 Tor 0.2.7.7 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
13002 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.7.6 or earlier should upgrade to
13003 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
13006 Note that support for Tor 0.2.7.x is ending this year: we will not issue
13007 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.7.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
13008 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
13010 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
13011 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
13013 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
13014 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
13015 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
13017 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
13018 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
13019 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
13022 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
13023 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
13024 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
13025 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
13026 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
13027 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
13028 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
13029 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
13030 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
13032 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
13033 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
13034 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
13035 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
13036 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
13037 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
13038 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
13039 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
13040 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
13041 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
13042 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
13043 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
13044 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
13046 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
13047 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
13048 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
13049 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
13050 Reported by Guido Vranken.
13052 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
13053 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
13054 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
13056 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
13057 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
13058 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
13059 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
13060 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
13061 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
13062 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
13065 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
13066 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
13067 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
13068 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
13069 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
13070 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
13071 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
13073 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
13074 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
13075 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
13076 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
13079 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
13080 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
13081 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
13082 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
13084 o Minor features (geoip):
13085 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13089 Changes in version 0.2.6.11 - 2017-03-03
13090 Tor 0.2.6.11 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
13091 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.6.10 or earlier should upgrade to
13092 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
13095 Note that support for Tor 0.2.6.x is ending this year: we will not issue
13096 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.6.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
13097 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
13099 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
13100 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
13102 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
13103 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
13104 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
13106 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
13107 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
13108 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
13111 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
13112 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
13113 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
13114 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
13115 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
13116 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
13117 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
13118 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
13119 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
13121 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
13122 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
13123 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
13124 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
13125 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
13126 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
13127 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
13128 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
13129 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
13131 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
13132 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
13133 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
13134 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
13135 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
13137 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
13138 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
13139 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
13140 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
13141 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
13144 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
13145 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
13146 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
13147 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
13148 Reported by Guido Vranken.
13150 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
13151 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
13152 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
13154 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
13155 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
13156 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
13157 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
13158 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
13159 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
13162 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
13163 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
13164 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
13165 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
13166 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
13167 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
13168 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
13171 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
13172 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
13173 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
13174 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
13175 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
13176 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
13177 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
13179 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
13180 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
13181 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
13182 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
13185 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
13186 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
13187 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
13188 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
13190 o Minor features (geoip):
13191 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13194 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
13195 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
13196 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
13199 Changes in version 0.2.5.13 - 2017-03-03
13200 Tor 0.2.5.13 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
13201 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.5.13 or earlier should upgrade to
13202 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
13205 Note that support for Tor 0.2.5.x is ending next year: we will not issue
13206 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.5.x series after 1 May 2018. If you need
13207 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
13209 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
13210 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
13212 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
13213 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
13214 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
13216 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
13217 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
13218 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
13221 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
13222 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
13223 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
13224 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
13225 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
13226 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
13227 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
13228 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
13229 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
13231 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
13232 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
13233 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
13234 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
13235 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
13236 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
13237 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
13238 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
13239 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
13241 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
13242 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
13243 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
13244 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
13245 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
13247 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
13248 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
13249 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
13250 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
13251 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
13254 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
13255 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
13256 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
13257 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
13258 Reported by Guido Vranken.
13260 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
13261 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
13262 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
13264 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
13265 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
13266 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
13267 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
13268 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
13269 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
13272 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
13273 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
13274 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
13275 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
13276 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
13277 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
13278 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
13281 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
13282 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
13283 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
13284 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
13285 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
13286 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
13287 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
13289 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
13290 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
13291 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
13292 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
13295 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
13296 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
13297 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
13298 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
13300 o Minor features (geoip):
13301 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13304 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
13305 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
13306 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
13308 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling, backport from 0.2.7.2-alpha):
13309 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
13310 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
13311 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
13312 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
13313 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
13315 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
13316 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
13317 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
13321 Changes in version 0.2.4.28 - 2017-03-03
13322 Tor 0.2.4.28 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
13323 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.4.27 or earlier should upgrade to
13324 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
13327 Note that support for Tor 0.2.4.x is ending soon: we will not issue
13328 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.4.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
13329 a Tor release series with long-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
13331 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
13332 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
13334 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
13335 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
13336 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
13338 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
13339 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
13340 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
13343 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
13344 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
13345 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
13346 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
13347 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
13348 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
13349 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
13350 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
13351 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
13353 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
13354 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
13355 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
13356 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
13357 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
13358 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
13359 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
13360 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
13361 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
13363 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
13364 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
13365 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
13366 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
13367 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
13370 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
13371 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
13372 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
13373 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
13374 Reported by Guido Vranken.
13376 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
13377 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
13378 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
13380 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
13381 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
13382 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
13383 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
13384 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
13385 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
13388 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
13389 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
13390 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
13391 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
13392 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
13393 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
13394 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
13397 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
13398 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
13399 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
13400 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
13401 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
13402 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
13403 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
13405 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
13406 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
13407 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
13408 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
13411 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
13412 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
13413 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
13414 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
13416 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
13417 - Make it harder for attackers to overload hidden services with
13418 introductions, by blocking multiple introduction requests on the
13419 same circuit. Resolves ticket 15515.
13421 o Minor features (geoip):
13422 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13425 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
13426 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
13427 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
13429 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
13430 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
13431 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
13435 Changes in version 0.2.9.10 - 2017-03-01
13436 Tor 0.2.9.10 backports a security fix from later Tor release. It also
13437 includes fixes for some major issues affecting directory authorities,
13438 LibreSSL compatibility, and IPv6 correctness.
13440 The Tor 0.2.9.x release series is now marked as a long-term-support
13441 series. We intend to backport security fixes to 0.2.9.x until at
13442 least January of 2020.
13444 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, 0.3.0.3-alpha):
13445 - During voting, when marking a relay as a probable sybil, do not
13446 clear its BadExit flag: sybils can still be bad in other ways
13447 too. (We still clear the other flags.) Fixes bug 21108; bugfix
13450 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 Exits, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
13451 - Stop rejecting all IPv6 traffic on Exits whose exit policy rejects
13452 any IPv6 addresses. Instead, only reject a port over IPv6 if the
13453 exit policy rejects that port on more than an IPv6 /16 of
13454 addresses. This bug was made worse by 17027 in 0.2.8.1-alpha,
13455 which rejected a relay's own IPv6 address by default. Fixes bug
13456 21357; bugfix on commit 004f3f4e53 in 0.2.4.7-alpha.
13458 o Major bugfixes (parsing, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
13459 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
13460 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
13461 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
13462 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
13463 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
13464 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
13466 o Minor features (directory authorities, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
13467 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors that claim to be
13468 malformed versions of Tor. Helps prevent exploitation of
13470 - Reject version numbers with components that exceed INT32_MAX.
13471 Otherwise 32-bit and 64-bit platforms would behave inconsistently.
13472 Fixes bug 21450; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
13474 o Minor features (geoip):
13475 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13478 o Minor features (portability, compilation, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
13479 - Autoconf now checks to determine if OpenSSL structures are opaque,
13480 instead of explicitly checking for OpenSSL version numbers. Part
13482 - Support building with recent LibreSSL code that uses opaque
13483 structures. Closes ticket 21359.
13485 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
13486 - Repair a couple of (unreachable or harmless) cases of the risky
13487 comparison-by-subtraction pattern that caused bug 21278.
13489 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
13490 - The tor-resolve command line tool now rejects hostnames over 255
13491 characters in length. Previously, it would silently truncate them,
13492 which could lead to bugs. Fixes bug 21280; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
13493 Patch by "junglefowl".
13496 Changes in version 0.2.9.9 - 2017-01-23
13497 Tor 0.2.9.9 fixes a denial-of-service bug where an attacker could
13498 cause relays and clients to crash, even if they were not built with
13499 the --enable-expensive-hardening option. This bug affects all 0.2.9.x
13500 versions, and also affects 0.3.0.1-alpha: all relays running an affected
13501 version should upgrade.
13503 This release also resolves a client-side onion service reachability
13504 bug, and resolves a pair of small portability issues.
13506 o Major bugfixes (security):
13507 - Downgrade the "-ftrapv" option from "always on" to "only on when
13508 --enable-expensive-hardening is provided." This hardening option,
13509 like others, can turn survivable bugs into crashes -- and having
13510 it on by default made a (relatively harmless) integer overflow bug
13511 into a denial-of-service bug. Fixes bug 21278 (TROVE-2017-001);
13512 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
13514 o Major bugfixes (client, onion service):
13515 - Fix a client-side onion service reachability bug, where multiple
13516 socks requests to an onion service (or a single slow request)
13517 could cause us to mistakenly mark some of the service's
13518 introduction points as failed, and we cache that failure so
13519 eventually we run out and can't reach the service. Also resolves a
13520 mysterious "Remote server sent bogus reason code 65021" log
13521 warning. The bug was introduced in ticket 17218, where we tried to
13522 remember the circuit end reason as a uint16_t, which mangled
13523 negative values. Partially fixes bug 21056 and fixes bug 20307;
13524 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13526 o Minor features (geoip):
13527 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13530 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
13531 - Avoid crashing when Tor is built using headers that contain
13532 CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, but then tries to run on an older kernel
13533 without CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE. Fixes bug 21035; bugfix
13535 - Fix Libevent detection on platforms without Libevent 1 headers
13536 installed. Fixes bug 21051; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
13539 Changes in version 0.2.8.12 - 2016-12-19
13540 Tor 0.2.8.12 backports a fix for a medium-severity issue (bug 21018
13541 below) where Tor clients could crash when attempting to visit a
13542 hostile hidden service. Clients are recommended to upgrade as packages
13543 become available for their systems.
13545 It also includes an updated list of fallback directories, backported
13548 Now that the Tor 0.2.9 series is stable, only major bugfixes will be
13549 backported to 0.2.8 in the future.
13551 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backported from 0.2.9.8):
13552 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
13553 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
13554 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
13555 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
13556 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
13557 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
13558 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
13559 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
13561 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backported from 0.2.9.8):
13562 - Replace the 81 remaining fallbacks of the 100 originally
13563 introduced in Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha in March 2016, with a list of 177
13564 fallbacks (123 new, 54 existing, 27 removed) generated in December
13565 2016. Resolves ticket 20170.
13567 o Minor features (geoip, backported from 0.2.9.7-rc):
13568 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
13572 Changes in version 0.2.9.8 - 2016-12-19
13573 Tor 0.2.9.8 is the first stable release of the Tor 0.2.9 series.
13575 The Tor 0.2.9 series makes mandatory a number of security features
13576 that were formerly optional. It includes support for a new shared-
13577 randomness protocol that will form the basis for next generation
13578 hidden services, includes a single-hop hidden service mode for
13579 optimizing .onion services that don't actually want to be hidden,
13580 tries harder not to overload the directory authorities with excessive
13581 downloads, and supports a better protocol versioning scheme for
13582 improved compatibility with other implementations of the Tor protocol.
13584 And of course, there are numerous other bugfixes and improvements.
13586 This release also includes a fix for a medium-severity issue (bug
13587 21018 below) where Tor clients could crash when attempting to visit a
13588 hostile hidden service. Clients are recommended to upgrade as packages
13589 become available for their systems.
13591 Below are listed the changes since Tor 0.2.8.11. For a list of
13592 changes since 0.2.9.7-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
13594 o New system requirements:
13595 - When building with OpenSSL, Tor now requires version 1.0.1 or
13596 later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 and earlier are no longer supported by the
13597 OpenSSL team, and should not be used. Closes ticket 20303.
13598 - Tor now requires Libevent version 2.0.10-stable or later. Older
13599 versions of Libevent have less efficient backends for several
13600 platforms, and lack the DNS code that we use for our server-side
13601 DNS support. This implements ticket 19554.
13602 - Tor now requires zlib version 1.2 or later, for security,
13603 efficiency, and (eventually) gzip support. (Back when we started,
13604 zlib 1.1 and zlib 1.0 were still found in the wild. 1.2 was
13605 released in 2003. We recommend the latest version.)
13607 o Deprecated features:
13608 - A number of DNS-cache-related sub-options for client ports are now
13609 deprecated for security reasons, and may be removed in a future
13610 version of Tor. (We believe that client-side DNS caching is a bad
13611 idea for anonymity, and you should not turn it on.) The options
13612 are: CacheDNS, CacheIPv4DNS, CacheIPv6DNS, UseDNSCache,
13613 UseIPv4Cache, and UseIPv6Cache.
13614 - A number of options are deprecated for security reasons, and may
13615 be removed in a future version of Tor. The options are:
13616 AllowDotExit, AllowInvalidNodes, AllowSingleHopCircuits,
13617 AllowSingleHopExits, ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses,
13618 CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout,
13619 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout,
13620 ExcludeSingleHopRelays, FastFirstHopPK, TLSECGroup,
13621 UseNTorHandshake, and WarnUnsafeSocks.
13622 - The *ListenAddress options are now deprecated as unnecessary: the
13623 corresponding *Port options should be used instead. These options
13624 may someday be removed. The affected options are:
13625 ControlListenAddress, DNSListenAddress, DirListenAddress,
13626 NATDListenAddress, ORListenAddress, SocksListenAddress,
13627 and TransListenAddress.
13629 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, new since 0.2.9.7-rc):
13630 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
13631 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
13632 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
13633 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
13634 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
13635 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
13636 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
13637 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
13639 o Major features (build, hardening):
13640 - Tor now builds with -ftrapv by default on compilers that support
13641 it. This option detects signed integer overflow (which C forbids),
13642 and turns it into a hard-failure. We do not apply this option to
13643 code that needs to run in constant time to avoid side-channels;
13644 instead, we use -fwrapv in that code. Closes ticket 17983.
13645 - When --enable-expensive-hardening is selected, stop applying the
13646 clang/gcc sanitizers to code that needs to run in constant time.
13647 Although we are aware of no introduced side-channels, we are not
13648 able to prove that there are none. Related to ticket 17983.
13650 o Major features (circuit building, security):
13651 - Authorities, relays, and clients now require ntor keys in all
13652 descriptors, for all hops (except for rare hidden service protocol
13653 cases), for all circuits, and for all other roles. Part of
13655 - Authorities, relays, and clients only use ntor, except for
13656 rare cases in the hidden service protocol. Part of ticket 19163.
13658 o Major features (compilation):
13659 - Our big list of extra GCC warnings is now enabled by default when
13660 building with GCC (or with anything like Clang that claims to be
13661 GCC-compatible). To make all warnings into fatal compilation
13662 errors, pass --enable-fatal-warnings to configure. Closes
13664 - Use the Autoconf macro AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS to automatically
13665 turn on C and POSIX extensions. (Previously, we attempted to do
13666 this on an ad hoc basis.) Closes ticket 19139.
13668 o Major features (directory authorities, hidden services):
13669 - Directory authorities can now perform the shared randomness
13670 protocol specified by proposal 250. Using this protocol, directory
13671 authorities generate a global fresh random value every day. In the
13672 future, this value will be used by hidden services to select
13673 HSDirs. This release implements the directory authority feature;
13674 the hidden service side will be implemented in the future as part
13675 of proposal 224. Resolves ticket 16943; implements proposal 250.
13677 o Major features (downloading, random exponential backoff):
13678 - When we fail to download an object from a directory service, wait
13679 for an (exponentially increasing) randomized amount of time before
13680 retrying, rather than a fixed interval as we did before. This
13681 prevents a group of Tor instances from becoming too synchronized,
13682 or a single Tor instance from becoming too predictable, in its
13683 download schedule. Closes ticket 15942.
13685 o Major features (resource management):
13686 - Tor can now notice it is about to run out of sockets, and
13687 preemptively close connections of lower priority. (This feature is
13688 off by default for now, since the current prioritizing method is
13689 yet not mature enough. You can enable it by setting
13690 "DisableOOSCheck 0", but watch out: it might close some sockets
13691 you would rather have it keep.) Closes ticket 18640.
13693 o Major features (single-hop "hidden" services):
13694 - Add experimental HiddenServiceSingleHopMode and
13695 HiddenServiceNonAnonymousMode options. When both are set to 1,
13696 every hidden service on that Tor instance becomes a non-anonymous
13697 Single Onion Service. Single Onions make one-hop (direct)
13698 connections to their introduction and rendezvous points. One-hop
13699 circuits make Single Onion servers easily locatable, but clients
13700 remain location-anonymous. This is compatible with the existing
13701 hidden service implementation, and works on the current Tor
13702 network without any changes to older relays or clients. Implements
13703 proposal 260, completes ticket 17178. Patch by teor and asn.
13705 o Major features (subprotocol versions):
13706 - Tor directory authorities now vote on a set of recommended
13707 "subprotocol versions", and on a set of required subprotocol
13708 versions. Clients and relays that lack support for a _required_
13709 subprotocol version will not start; those that lack support for a
13710 _recommended_ subprotocol version will warn the user to upgrade.
13711 This change allows compatible implementations of the Tor protocol(s)
13712 to exist without pretending to be 100% bug-compatible with
13713 particular releases of Tor itself. Closes ticket 19958; implements
13714 part of proposal 264.
13716 o Major bugfixes (circuit building):
13717 - Hidden service client-to-intro-point and service-to-rendezvous-
13718 point circuits use the TAP key supplied by the protocol, to avoid
13719 epistemic attacks. Fixes bug 19163; bugfix on 0.2.4.18-rc.
13721 o Major bugfixes (download scheduling):
13722 - Avoid resetting download status for consensuses hourly, since we
13723 already have another, smarter retry mechanism. Fixes bug 8625;
13724 bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
13725 - If a consensus expires while we are waiting for certificates to
13726 download, stop waiting for certificates.
13727 - If we stop waiting for certificates less than a minute after we
13728 started downloading them, do not consider the certificate download
13729 failure a separate failure. Fixes bug 20533; bugfix
13731 - When using exponential backoff in test networks, use a lower
13732 exponent, so the delays do not vary as much. This helps test
13733 networks bootstrap consistently. Fixes bug 20597; bugfix on 20499.
13735 o Major bugfixes (exit policies):
13736 - Avoid disclosing exit outbound bind addresses, configured port
13737 bind addresses, and local interface addresses in relay descriptors
13738 by default under ExitPolicyRejectPrivate. Instead, only reject
13739 these (otherwise unlisted) addresses if
13740 ExitPolicyRejectLocalInterfaces is set. Fixes bug 18456; bugfix on
13741 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by teor.
13743 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
13744 - Allow Tor clients with appropriate controllers to work with
13745 FetchHidServDescriptors set to 0. Previously, this option also
13746 disabled descriptor cache lookup, thus breaking hidden services
13747 entirely. Fixes bug 18704; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Patch by "twim".
13748 - Clients now require hidden services to include the TAP keys for
13749 their intro points in the hidden service descriptor. This prevents
13750 an inadvertent upgrade to ntor, which a malicious hidden service
13751 could use to distinguish clients by consensus version. Fixes bug
13752 20012; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch by teor.
13754 o Major bugfixes (relay, resolver, logging):
13755 - For relays that don't know their own address, avoid attempting a
13756 local hostname resolve for each descriptor we download. This
13757 will cut down on the number of "Success: chose address 'x.x.x.x'"
13758 log lines, and also avoid confusing clock jumps if the resolver
13759 is slow. Fixes bugs 20423 and 20610; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13761 o Minor features (port flags):
13762 - Add new flags to the *Port options to give finer control over which
13763 requests are allowed. The flags are NoDNSRequest, NoOnionTraffic,
13764 and the synthetic flag OnionTrafficOnly, which is equivalent to
13765 NoDNSRequest, NoIPv4Traffic, and NoIPv6Traffic. Closes enhancement
13766 18693; patch by "teor".
13768 o Minor features (build, hardening):
13769 - Detect and work around a libclang_rt problem that would prevent
13770 clang from finding __mulodi4() on some 32-bit platforms, and thus
13771 keep -ftrapv from linking on those systems. Closes ticket 19079.
13772 - When building on a system without runtime support for the runtime
13773 hardening options, try to log a useful warning at configuration
13774 time, rather than an incomprehensible warning at link time. If
13775 expensive hardening was requested, this warning becomes an error.
13776 Closes ticket 18895.
13778 o Minor features (client, directory):
13779 - Since authorities now omit all routers that lack the Running and
13780 Valid flags, we assume that any relay listed in the consensus must
13781 have those flags. Closes ticket 20001; implements part of
13784 o Minor features (code safety):
13785 - In our integer-parsing functions, ensure that the maximum value we
13786 allow is no smaller than the minimum value. Closes ticket 19063;
13787 patch from "U+039b".
13789 o Minor features (compilation, portability):
13790 - Compile correctly on MacOS 10.12 (aka "Sierra"). Closes
13793 o Minor features (config):
13794 - Warn users when descriptor and port addresses are inconsistent.
13795 Mitigates bug 13953; patch by teor.
13797 o Minor features (controller):
13798 - Allow controllers to configure basic client authorization on
13799 hidden services when they create them with the ADD_ONION controller
13800 command. Implements ticket 15588. Patch by "special".
13801 - Fire a STATUS_SERVER controller event whenever the hibernation
13802 status changes between "awake"/"soft"/"hard". Closes ticket 18685.
13803 - Implement new GETINFO queries for all downloads that use
13804 download_status_t to schedule retries. This allows controllers to
13805 examine the schedule for pending downloads. Closes ticket 19323.
13807 o Minor features (development tools, etags):
13808 - Teach the "make tags" Makefile target how to correctly find
13809 "MOCK_IMPL" function definitions. Patch from nherring; closes
13812 o Minor features (directory authority):
13813 - After voting, if the authorities decide that a relay is not
13814 "Valid", they no longer include it in the consensus at all. Closes
13815 ticket 20002; implements part of proposal 272.
13816 - Directory authorities now only give the Guard flag to a relay if
13817 they are also giving it the Stable flag. This change allows us to
13818 simplify path selection for clients. It should have minimal effect
13819 in practice, since >99% of Guards already have the Stable flag.
13820 Implements ticket 18624.
13821 - Directory authorities now write their v3-status-votes file out to
13822 disk earlier in the consensus process, so we have a record of the
13823 votes even if we abort the consensus process. Resolves
13826 o Minor features (fallback directory list, new since 0.2.9.7-rc):
13827 - Replace the 81 remaining fallbacks of the 100 originally
13828 introduced in Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha in March 2016, with a list of 177
13829 fallbacks (123 new, 54 existing, 27 removed) generated in December
13830 2016. Resolves ticket 20170.
13832 o Minor features (hidden service):
13833 - Stop being so strict about the payload length of "rendezvous1"
13834 cells. We used to be locked in to the "TAP" handshake length, and
13835 now we can handle better handshakes like "ntor". Resolves
13838 o Minor features (infrastructure, time):
13839 - Tor now includes an improved timer backend, so that we can
13840 efficiently support tens or hundreds of thousands of concurrent
13841 timers, as will be needed for some of our planned anti-traffic-
13842 analysis work. This code is based on William Ahern's "timeout.c"
13843 project, which implements a "tickless hierarchical timing wheel".
13844 Closes ticket 18365.
13845 - Tor now uses the operating system's monotonic timers (where
13846 available) for internal fine-grained timing. Previously we would
13847 look at the system clock, and then attempt to compensate for the
13848 clock running backwards. Closes ticket 18908.
13850 o Minor features (logging):
13851 - Add a set of macros to check nonfatal assertions, for internal
13852 use. Migrating more of our checks to these should help us avoid
13853 needless crash bugs. Closes ticket 18613.
13854 - Provide a more useful warning message when configured with an
13855 invalid Nickname. Closes ticket 18300; patch from "icanhasaccount".
13856 - When dumping unparseable router descriptors, optionally store them
13857 in separate files, named by digest, up to a configurable size
13858 limit. You can change the size limit by setting the
13859 MaxUnparseableDescSizeToLog option, and disable this feature by
13860 setting that option to 0. Closes ticket 18322.
13862 o Minor features (performance):
13863 - Change the "optimistic data" extension from "off by default" to
13864 "on by default". The default was ordinarily overridden by a
13865 consensus option, but when clients were bootstrapping for the
13866 first time, they would not have a consensus to get the option
13867 from. Changing this default saves a round-trip during startup.
13868 Closes ticket 18815.
13870 o Minor features (relay, usability):
13871 - When the directory authorities refuse a bad relay's descriptor,
13872 encourage the relay operator to contact us. Many relay operators
13873 won't notice this line in their logs, but it's a win if even a few
13874 learn why we don't like what their relay was doing. Resolves
13877 o Minor features (security, TLS):
13878 - Servers no longer support clients that lack AES ciphersuites.
13879 (3DES is no longer considered an acceptable cipher.) We believe
13880 that no such Tor clients currently exist, since Tor has required
13881 OpenSSL 0.9.7 or later since 2009. Closes ticket 19998.
13883 o Minor features (testing):
13884 - Disable memory protections on OpenBSD when performing our unit
13885 tests for memwipe(). The test deliberately invokes undefined
13886 behavior, and the OpenBSD protections interfere with this. Patch
13887 from "rubiate". Closes ticket 20066.
13888 - Move the test-network.sh script to chutney, and modify tor's test-
13889 network.sh to call the (newer) chutney version when available.
13890 Resolves ticket 19116. Patch by teor.
13891 - Use the lcov convention for marking lines as unreachable, so that
13892 we don't count them when we're generating test coverage data.
13893 Update our coverage tools to understand this convention. Closes
13895 - Our link-handshake unit tests now check that when invalid
13896 handshakes fail, they fail with the error messages we expected.
13897 - Our unit testing code that captures log messages no longer
13898 prevents them from being written out if the user asked for them
13899 (by passing --debug or --info or --notice or --warn to the "test"
13900 binary). This change prevents us from missing unexpected log
13901 messages simply because we were looking for others. Related to
13903 - The unit tests now log all warning messages with the "BUG" flag.
13904 Previously, they only logged errors by default. This change will
13905 help us make our testing code more correct, and make sure that we
13906 only hit this code when we mean to. In the meantime, however,
13907 there will be more warnings in the unit test logs than before.
13908 This is preparatory work for ticket 19999.
13909 - The unit tests now treat any failure of a "tor_assert_nonfatal()"
13910 assertion as a test failure.
13911 - We've done significant work to make the unit tests run faster.
13913 o Minor features (testing, ipv6):
13914 - Add the hs-ipv6 chutney target to make test-network-all's IPv6
13915 tests. Remove bridges+hs, as it's somewhat redundant. This
13916 requires a recent chutney version that supports IPv6 clients,
13917 relays, and authorities. Closes ticket 20069; patch by teor.
13918 - Add the single-onion and single-onion-ipv6 chutney targets to
13919 "make test-network-all". This requires a recent chutney version
13920 with the single onion network flavors (git c72a652 or later).
13921 Closes ticket 20072; patch by teor.
13923 o Minor features (Tor2web):
13924 - Make Tor2web clients respect ReachableAddresses. This feature was
13925 inadvertently enabled in 0.2.8.6, then removed by bugfix 19973 on
13926 0.2.8.7. Implements feature 20034. Patch by teor.
13928 o Minor features (unix domain sockets):
13929 - When configuring a unix domain socket for a SocksPort,
13930 ControlPort, or Hidden service, you can now wrap the address in
13931 quotes, using C-style escapes inside the quotes. This allows unix
13932 domain socket paths to contain spaces. Resolves ticket 18753.
13934 o Minor features (user interface):
13935 - Tor now supports the ability to declare options deprecated, so
13936 that we can recommend that people stop using them. Previously, this
13937 was done in an ad-hoc way. There is a new --list-deprecated-options
13938 command-line option to list all of the deprecated options. Closes
13941 o Minor features (virtual addresses):
13942 - Increase the maximum number of bits for the IPv6 virtual network
13943 prefix from 16 to 104. In this way, the condition for address
13944 allocation is less restrictive. Closes ticket 20151; feature
13947 o Minor bug fixes (circuits):
13948 - Use the CircuitBuildTimeout option whenever
13949 LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled. Previously, we would respect
13950 the option when a user disabled it, but not when it was disabled
13951 because some other option was set. Fixes bug 20073; bugfix on
13952 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch by teor.
13954 o Minor bugfixes (build):
13955 - The current Git revision when building from a local repository is
13956 now detected correctly when using git worktrees. Fixes bug 20492;
13957 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
13959 o Minor bugfixes (relay address discovery):
13960 - Stop reordering IP addresses returned by the OS. This makes it
13961 more likely that Tor will guess the same relay IP address every
13962 time. Fixes issue 20163; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha, ticket 17027.
13963 Reported by René Mayrhofer, patch by "cypherpunks".
13965 o Minor bugfixes (memory allocation):
13966 - Change how we allocate memory for large chunks on buffers, to
13967 avoid a (currently impossible) integer overflow, and to waste less
13968 space when allocating unusually large chunks. Fixes bug 20081;
13969 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Issue identified by Guido Vranken.
13971 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
13972 - Remember the directory server we fetched the consensus or previous
13973 certificates from, and use it to fetch future authority
13974 certificates. This change improves bootstrapping performance.
13975 Fixes bug 18963; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13977 o Minor bugfixes (circuits):
13978 - Make sure extend_info_from_router() is only called on servers.
13979 Fixes bug 19639; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13981 o Minor bugfixes (client, fascistfirewall):
13982 - Avoid spurious warnings when ReachableAddresses or FascistFirewall
13983 is set. Fixes bug 20306; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
13985 o Minor bugfixes (client, unix domain sockets):
13986 - Disable IsolateClientAddr when using AF_UNIX backed SocksPorts as
13987 the client address is meaningless. Fixes bug 20261; bugfix
13990 o Minor bugfixes (code style):
13991 - Fix an integer signedness conversion issue in the case conversion
13992 tables. Fixes bug 19168; bugfix on 0.2.1.11-alpha.
13994 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
13995 - Build correctly on versions of libevent2 without support for
13996 evutil_secure_rng_add_bytes(). Fixes bug 19904; bugfix
13998 - When building with Clang, use a full set of GCC warnings.
13999 (Previously, we included only a subset, because of the way we
14000 detected them.) Fixes bug 19216; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
14001 - Detect Libevent2 functions correctly on systems that provide
14002 libevent2, but where libevent1 is linked with -levent. Fixes bug
14003 19904; bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha. Patch from Rubiate.
14004 - Run correctly when built on Windows build environments that
14005 require _vcsprintf(). Fixes bug 20560; bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
14007 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
14008 - When parsing quoted configuration values from the torrc file,
14009 handle Windows line endings correctly. Fixes bug 19167; bugfix on
14010 0.2.0.16-alpha. Patch from "Pingl".
14012 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
14013 - Authorities now sort the "package" lines in their votes, for ease
14014 of debugging. (They are already sorted in consensus documents.)
14015 Fixes bug 18840; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
14016 - Die with a more useful error when the operator forgets to place
14017 the authority_signing_key file into the keys directory. This
14018 avoids an uninformative assert & traceback about having an invalid
14019 key. Fixes bug 20065; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
14020 - When allowing private addresses, mark Exits that only exit to
14021 private locations as such. Fixes bug 20064; bugfix
14023 - When parsing a detached signature, make sure we use the length of
14024 the digest algorithm instead of a hardcoded DIGEST256_LEN in
14025 order to avoid comparing bytes out-of-bounds with a smaller digest
14026 length such as SHA1. Fixes bug 19066; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
14028 o Minor bugfixes (getpass):
14029 - Defensively fix a non-triggerable heap corruption at do_getpass()
14030 to protect ourselves from mistakes in the future. Fixes bug
14031 19223; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Bug found by Guido Vranken, patch
14034 o Minor bugfixes (guard selection):
14035 - Don't mark guards as unreachable if connection_connect() fails.
14036 That function fails for local reasons, so it shouldn't reveal
14037 anything about the status of the guard. Fixes bug 14334; bugfix
14039 - Use a single entry guard even if the NumEntryGuards consensus
14040 parameter is not provided. Fixes bug 17688; bugfix
14043 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
14044 - Increase the minimum number of internal circuits we preemptively
14045 build from 2 to 3, so a circuit is available when a client
14046 connects to another onion service. Fixes bug 13239; bugfix
14048 - Allow hidden services to run on IPv6 addresses even when the
14049 IPv6Exit option is not set. Fixes bug 18357; bugfix
14051 - Stop logging intro point details to the client log on certain
14052 error conditions. Fixed as part of bug 20012; bugfix on
14053 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch by teor.
14054 - When deleting an ephemeral hidden service, close its intro points
14055 even if they are not completely open. Fixes bug 18604; bugfix
14057 - When configuring hidden services, check every hidden service
14058 directory's permissions. Previously, we only checked the last
14059 hidden service. Fixes bug 20529; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
14061 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, testing):
14062 - Check for IPv6 correctly on Linux when running test networks.
14063 Fixes bug 19905; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc; patch by teor.
14065 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
14066 - Add permission to run the sched_yield() and sigaltstack() system
14067 calls, in order to support versions of Tor compiled with asan or
14068 ubsan code that use these calls. Now "sandbox 1" and
14069 "--enable-expensive-hardening" should be compatible on more
14070 systems. Fixes bug 20063; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
14072 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
14073 - Downgrade a harmless log message about the
14074 pending_entry_connections list from "warn" to "info". Mitigates
14076 - Log a more accurate message when we fail to dump a microdescriptor.
14077 Fixes bug 17758; bugfix on 0.2.2.8-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
14078 - When logging a directory ownership mismatch, log the owning
14079 username correctly. Fixes bug 19578; bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta.
14080 - When we are unable to remove the bw_accounting file, do not warn
14081 if the reason we couldn't remove it was that it didn't exist.
14082 Fixes bug 19964; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from pastly.
14084 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
14085 - Fix a series of slow memory leaks related to parsing torrc files
14086 and options. Fixes bug 19466; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
14087 - Avoid a small memory leak when informing worker threads about
14088 rotated onion keys. Fixes bug 20401; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
14089 - Fix a small memory leak when receiving AF_UNIX connections on a
14090 SocksPort. Fixes bug 20716; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
14091 - When moving a signed descriptor object from a source to an
14092 existing destination, free the allocated memory inside that
14093 destination object. Fixes bug 20715; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
14094 - Fix a memory leak and use-after-free error when removing entries
14095 from the sandbox's getaddrinfo() cache. Fixes bug 20710; bugfix on
14096 0.2.5.5-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
14097 - Fix a small, uncommon memory leak that could occur when reading a
14098 truncated ed25519 key file. Fixes bug 18956; bugfix
14101 o Minor bugfixes (option parsing):
14102 - Count unix sockets when counting client listeners (SOCKS, Trans,
14103 NATD, and DNS). This has no user-visible behavior changes: these
14104 options are set once, and never read. Required for correct
14105 behavior in ticket 17178. Fixes bug 19677; bugfix on
14106 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by teor.
14108 o Minor bugfixes (options):
14109 - Check the consistency of UseEntryGuards and EntryNodes more
14110 reliably. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch
14112 - Stop changing the configured value of UseEntryGuards on
14113 authorities and Tor2web clients. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on
14114 commits 51fc6799 in 0.1.1.16-rc and acda1735 in 0.2.4.3-alpha.
14117 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
14118 - Ensure relays don't make multiple connections during bootstrap.
14119 Fixes bug 20591; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14120 - Do not try to parallelize workers more than 16x without the user
14121 explicitly configuring us to do so, even if we do detect more than
14122 16 CPU cores. Fixes bug 19968; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
14124 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
14125 - The test-stem and test-network makefile targets now depend only on
14126 the tor binary that they are testing. Previously, they depended on
14127 "make all". Fixes bug 18240; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Based on a
14128 patch from "cypherpunks".
14129 - Allow clients to retry HSDirs much faster in test networks. Fixes
14130 bug 19702; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
14131 - Avoid a unit test failure on systems with over 16 detectable CPU
14132 cores. Fixes bug 19968; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
14133 - Let backtrace tests work correctly under AddressSanitizer:
14134 disable ASAN's detection of segmentation faults while running
14135 test_bt.sh, so that we can make sure that our own backtrace
14136 generation code works. Fixes bug 18934; bugfix
14137 on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
14138 - Fix the test-network-all target on out-of-tree builds by using the
14139 correct path to the test driver script. Fixes bug 19421; bugfix
14141 - Stop spurious failures in the local interface address discovery
14142 unit tests. Fixes bug 20634; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha; patch by
14144 - Use ECDHE ciphers instead of ECDH in tortls tests. LibreSSL has
14145 removed the ECDH ciphers which caused the tests to fail on
14146 platforms which use it. Fixes bug 20460; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14147 - The tor_tls_server_info_callback unit test no longer crashes when
14148 debug-level logging is turned on. Fixes bug 20041; bugfix
14151 o Minor bugfixes (time):
14152 - Improve overflow checks in tv_udiff and tv_mdiff. Fixes bug 19483;
14153 bugfix on all released tor versions.
14154 - When computing the difference between two times in milliseconds,
14155 we now round to the nearest millisecond correctly. Previously, we
14156 could sometimes round in the wrong direction. Fixes bug 19428;
14157 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
14159 o Minor bugfixes (Tor2web):
14160 - Prevent Tor2web clients from running hidden services: these services
14161 are not anonymous due to the one-hop client paths. Fixes bug
14162 19678. Patch by teor.
14164 o Minor bugfixes (user interface):
14165 - Display a more accurate number of suppressed messages in the log
14166 rate-limiter. Previously, there was a potential integer overflow
14167 in the counter. Now, if the number of messages hits a maximum, the
14168 rate-limiter doesn't count any further. Fixes bug 19435; bugfix
14170 - Fix a typo in the passphrase prompt for the ed25519 identity key.
14171 Fixes bug 19503; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14173 o Code simplification and refactoring:
14174 - Remove redundant declarations of the MIN macro. Closes
14176 - Rename tor_dup_addr() to tor_addr_to_str_dup() to avoid confusion.
14177 Closes ticket 18462; patch from "icanhasaccount".
14178 - Split the 600-line directory_handle_command_get function into
14179 separate functions for different URL types. Closes ticket 16698.
14182 - Add module-level internal documentation for 36 C files that
14183 previously didn't have a high-level overview. Closes ticket 20385.
14184 - Correct the IPv6 syntax in our documentation for the
14185 VirtualAddrNetworkIPv6 torrc option. Closes ticket 19743.
14186 - Correct the minimum bandwidth value in torrc.sample, and queue a
14187 corresponding change for torrc.minimal. Closes ticket 20085.
14188 - Fix spelling of "--enable-tor2web-mode" in the manpage. Closes
14189 ticket 19153. Patch from "U+039b".
14190 - Module-level documentation for several more modules. Closes
14191 tickets 19287 and 19290.
14192 - Document the --passphrase-fd option in the tor manpage. Fixes bug
14193 19504; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
14194 - Document the default PathsNeededToBuildCircuits value that's used
14195 by clients when the directory authorities don't set
14196 min_paths_for_circs_pct. Fixes bug 20117; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
14197 Patch by teor, reported by Jesse V.
14198 - Fix manual for the User option: it takes a username, not a UID.
14199 Fixes bug 19122; bugfix on 0.0.2pre16 (the first version to have
14201 - Fix the description of the --passphrase-fd option in the
14202 tor-gencert manpage. The option is used to pass the number of a
14203 file descriptor to read the passphrase from, not to read the file
14204 descriptor from. Fixes bug 19505; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-alpha.
14207 - We no longer include the (dead, deprecated) bufferevent code in
14208 Tor. Closes ticket 19450. Based on a patch from "U+039b".
14210 o Removed features:
14211 - Remove support for "GET /tor/bytes.txt" DirPort request, and
14212 "GETINFO dir-usage" controller request, which were only available
14213 via a compile-time option in Tor anyway. Feature was added in
14214 0.2.2.1-alpha. Resolves ticket 19035.
14215 - There is no longer a compile-time option to disable support for
14216 TransPort. (If you don't want TransPort, just don't use it.) Patch
14217 from "U+039b". Closes ticket 19449.
14220 - Run more workqueue tests as part of "make check". These had
14221 previously been implemented, but you needed to know special
14222 command-line options to enable them.
14223 - We now have unit tests for our code to reject zlib "compression
14224 bombs". (Fortunately, the code works fine.)
14227 Changes in version 0.2.8.11 - 2016-12-08
14228 Tor 0.2.8.11 backports fixes for additional portability issues that
14229 could prevent Tor from building correctly on OSX Sierra, or with
14230 OpenSSL 1.1. Affected users should upgrade; others can safely stay
14233 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
14234 - Avoid compilation errors when building on OSX Sierra. Sierra began
14235 to support the getentropy() and clock_gettime() APIs, but created
14236 a few problems in doing so. Tor 0.2.9 has a more thorough set of
14237 workarounds; in 0.2.8, we are just using the /dev/urandom and mach
14238 monotonic time interfaces. Fixes bug 20865. Bugfix
14241 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
14242 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 1.1 and less commonly-used CPU
14243 architectures. Closes ticket 20588.
14246 Changes in version 0.2.8.10 - 2016-12-02
14247 Tor 0.2.8.10 backports a fix for a bug that would sometimes make clients
14248 unusable after they left standby mode. It also backports fixes for
14249 a few portability issues and a small but problematic memory leak.
14251 o Major bugfixes (client reliability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
14252 - When Tor leaves standby because of a new application request, open
14253 circuits as needed to serve that request. Previously, we would
14254 potentially wait a very long time. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
14257 o Major bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
14258 - Clients now respond to new application stream requests immediately
14259 when they arrive, rather than waiting up to one second before
14260 starting to handle them. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
14263 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.6-rc):
14264 - Work around a bug in the OSX 10.12 SDK that would prevent us from
14265 successfully targeting earlier versions of OSX. Resolves
14268 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
14269 - Fix implicit conversion warnings under OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug
14270 20551; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
14272 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
14273 - Work around a memory leak in OpenSSL 1.1 when encoding public
14274 keys. Fixes bug 20553; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
14276 o Minor features (geoip):
14277 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
14281 Changes in version 0.2.8.9 - 2016-10-17
14282 Tor 0.2.8.9 backports a fix for a security hole in previous versions
14283 of Tor that would allow a remote attacker to crash a Tor client,
14284 hidden service, relay, or authority. All Tor users should upgrade to
14285 this version, or to 0.2.9.4-alpha. Patches will be released for older
14288 o Major features (security fixes, also in 0.2.9.4-alpha):
14289 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
14290 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
14291 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
14292 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
14293 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
14294 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
14295 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
14296 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
14298 o Minor features (geoip):
14299 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
14303 Changes in version 0.2.8.8 - 2016-09-23
14304 Tor 0.2.8.8 fixes two crash bugs present in previous versions of the
14305 0.2.8.x series. Relays running 0.2.8.x should upgrade, as should users
14306 who select public relays as their bridges.
14308 o Major bugfixes (crash):
14309 - Fix a complicated crash bug that could affect Tor clients
14310 configured to use bridges when replacing a networkstatus consensus
14311 in which one of their bridges was mentioned. OpenBSD users saw
14312 more crashes here, but all platforms were potentially affected.
14313 Fixes bug 20103; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
14315 o Major bugfixes (relay, OOM handler):
14316 - Fix a timing-dependent assertion failure that could occur when we
14317 tried to flush from a circuit after having freed its cells because
14318 of an out-of-memory condition. Fixes bug 20203; bugfix on
14319 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to "cypherpunks" for help diagnosing
14322 o Minor feature (fallback directories):
14323 - Remove broken fallbacks from the hard-coded fallback directory
14324 list. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor.
14326 o Minor features (geoip):
14327 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
14331 Changes in version 0.2.8.7 - 2016-08-24
14332 Tor 0.2.8.7 fixes an important bug related to the ReachableAddresses
14333 option in 0.2.8.6, and replaces a retiring bridge authority. Everyone
14334 who sets the ReachableAddresses option, and all bridges, are strongly
14335 encouraged to upgrade.
14337 o Directory authority changes:
14338 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
14339 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
14341 o Major bugfixes (client, security):
14342 - Only use the ReachableAddresses option to restrict the first hop
14343 in a path. In earlier versions of 0.2.8.x, it would apply to
14344 every hop in the path, with a possible degradation in anonymity
14345 for anyone using an uncommon ReachableAddress setting. Fixes bug
14346 19973; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
14348 o Minor features (geoip):
14349 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 2 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
14352 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
14353 - Remove an inappropriate "inline" in tortls.c that was causing
14354 warnings on older versions of GCC. Fixes bug 19903; bugfix
14357 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
14358 - Avoid logging a NULL string pointer when loading fallback
14359 directory information. Fixes bug 19947; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha
14360 and 0.2.8.1-alpha. Report and patch by "rubiate".
14363 Changes in version 0.2.8.6 - 2016-08-02
14365 Tor 0.2.8.6 is the first stable version of the Tor 0.2.8 series.
14367 The Tor 0.2.8 series improves client bootstrapping performance,
14368 completes the authority-side implementation of improved identity
14369 keys for relays, and includes numerous bugfixes and performance
14370 improvements throughout the program. This release continues to
14371 improve the coverage of Tor's test suite. For a full list of
14372 changes since Tor 0.2.7, see the ReleaseNotes file.
14374 Below is a list of the changes since Tor 0.2.7.
14376 o New system requirements:
14377 - Tor no longer attempts to support platforms where the "time_t"
14378 type is unsigned. (To the best of our knowledge, only OpenVMS does
14379 this, and Tor has never actually built on OpenVMS.) Closes
14381 - Tor no longer supports versions of OpenSSL with a broken
14382 implementation of counter mode. (This bug was present in OpenSSL
14383 1.0.0, and was fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.0a.) Tor still detects, but no
14384 longer runs with, these versions.
14385 - Tor now uses Autoconf version 2.63 or later, and Automake 1.11 or
14386 later (released in 2008 and 2009 respectively). If you are
14387 building Tor from the git repository instead of from the source
14388 distribution, and your tools are older than this, you will need to
14389 upgrade. Closes ticket 17732.
14391 o Directory authority changes:
14392 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
14393 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
14395 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
14397 o Major features (directory system):
14398 - Include a trial list of default fallback directories, based on an
14399 opt-in survey of suitable relays. Doing this should make clients
14400 bootstrap more quickly and reliably, and reduce the load on the
14401 directory authorities. Closes ticket 15775. Patch by teor.
14402 Candidates identified using an OnionOO script by weasel, teor,
14403 gsathya, and karsten.
14404 - Previously only relays that explicitly opened a directory port
14405 (DirPort) accepted directory requests from clients. Now all
14406 relays, with and without a DirPort, accept and serve tunneled
14407 directory requests that they receive through their ORPort. You can
14408 disable this behavior using the new DirCache option. Closes
14410 - When bootstrapping multiple consensus downloads at a time, use the
14411 first one that starts downloading, and close the rest. This
14412 reduces failures when authorities or fallback directories are slow
14413 or down. Together with the code for feature 15775, this feature
14414 should reduces failures due to fallback churn. Implements ticket
14415 4483. Patch by teor. Implements IPv4 portions of proposal 210 by
14416 mikeperry and teor.
14418 o Major features (security, Linux):
14419 - When Tor starts as root on Linux and is told to switch user ID, it
14420 can now retain the capability to bind to low ports. By default,
14421 Tor will do this only when it's switching user ID and some low
14422 ports have been configured. You can change this behavior with the
14423 new option KeepBindCapabilities. Closes ticket 8195.
14425 o Major bugfixes (client, bootstrapping):
14426 - Check if bootstrap consensus downloads are still needed when the
14427 linked connection attaches. This prevents tor making unnecessary
14428 begindir-style connections, which are the only directory
14429 connections tor clients make since the fix for 18483 was merged.
14430 - Fix some edge cases where consensus download connections may not
14431 have been closed, even though they were not needed. Related to fix
14433 - Make relays retry consensus downloads the correct number of times,
14434 rather than the more aggressive client retry count. Fixes part of
14437 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash):
14438 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
14439 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
14441 o Major bugfixes (ed25519, voting):
14442 - Actually enable support for authorities to match routers by their
14443 Ed25519 identities. Previously, the code had been written, but
14444 some debugging code that had accidentally been left in the
14445 codebase made it stay turned off. Fixes bug 17702; bugfix
14447 - When collating votes by Ed25519 identities, authorities now
14448 include a "NoEdConsensus" flag if the ed25519 value (or lack
14449 thereof) for a server does not reflect the majority consensus.
14450 Related to bug 17668; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14451 - When generating a vote with keypinning disabled, never include two
14452 entries for the same ed25519 identity. This bug was causing
14453 authorities to generate votes that they could not parse when a
14454 router violated key pinning by changing its RSA identity but
14455 keeping its Ed25519 identity. Fixes bug 17668; fixes part of bug
14456 18318. Bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14458 o Major bugfixes (key management):
14459 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
14460 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
14461 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
14462 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
14463 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
14464 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
14467 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy):
14468 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
14469 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
14470 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
14471 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
14473 o Major bugfixes (security, compilation):
14474 - Correctly detect compiler flags on systems where _FORTIFY_SOURCE
14475 is predefined. Previously, our use of -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE would
14476 cause a compiler warning, thereby making other checks fail, and
14477 needlessly disabling compiler-hardening support. Fixes one case of
14478 bug 18841; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta. Patch from "trudokal".
14479 - Repair hardened builds under the clang compiler. Previously, our
14480 use of _FORTIFY_SOURCE would conflict with clang's address
14481 sanitizer. Fixes bug 14821; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
14483 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers):
14484 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
14485 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
14486 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
14487 Reported by Guido Vranken.
14489 o Major bugfixes (testing):
14490 - Fix a bug that would block 'make test-network-all' on systems where
14491 IPv6 packets were lost. Fixes bug 19008; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
14493 o Major bugfixes (user interface):
14494 - Correctly give a warning in the cases where a relay is specified
14495 by nickname, and one such relay is found, but it is not officially
14496 Named. Fixes bug 19203; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
14498 o Minor features (accounting):
14499 - Added two modes to the AccountingRule option: One for limiting
14500 only the number of bytes sent ("AccountingRule out"), and one for
14501 limiting only the number of bytes received ("AccountingRule in").
14502 Closes ticket 15989; patch from "unixninja92".
14504 o Minor features (bug-resistance):
14505 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
14506 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
14507 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
14508 - Use tor_snprintf() and tor_vsnprintf() even in external and low-
14509 level code, to harden against accidental failures to NUL-
14510 terminate. Part of ticket 17852. Patch from jsturgix. Found
14513 o Minor features (build):
14514 - Detect systems with FreeBSD-derived kernels (such as GNU/kFreeBSD)
14515 as having possible IPFW support. Closes ticket 18448. Patch from
14516 Steven Chamberlain.
14517 - Since our build process now uses "make distcheck", we no longer
14518 force "make dist" to depend on "make check". Closes ticket 17893;
14519 patch from "cypherpunks".
14520 - Tor now builds once again with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development
14521 branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre5 and 1.1.0-pre6-dev). We have been
14522 tracking OpenSSL 1.1 development as it has progressed, and fixing
14523 numerous compatibility issues as they arose. See tickets
14524 17549, 17921, 17984, 19499, and 18286.
14525 - When building manual pages, set the timezone to "UTC", so that the
14526 output is reproducible. Fixes bug 19558; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
14527 Patch from intrigeri.
14529 o Minor features (clients):
14530 - Make clients, onion services, and bridge relays always use an
14531 encrypted begindir connection for directory requests. Resolves
14532 ticket 18483. Patch by teor.
14534 o Minor features (controller):
14535 - Add 'GETINFO exit-policy/reject-private/[default,relay]', so
14536 controllers can examine the the reject rules added by
14537 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate. This makes it easier for stem to display
14539 - Adds the FallbackDir entries to 'GETINFO config/defaults'. Closes
14540 tickets 16774 and 17817. Patch by George Tankersley.
14541 - New 'GETINFO hs/service/desc/id/' command to retrieve a hidden
14542 service descriptor from a service's local hidden service
14543 descriptor cache. Closes ticket 14846.
14545 o Minor features (crypto):
14546 - Add SHA3 and SHAKE support to crypto.c. Closes ticket 17783.
14547 - Add SHA512 support to crypto.c. Closes ticket 17663; patch from
14549 - Improve performance when hashing non-multiple of 8 sized buffers,
14550 based on Andrew Moon's public domain SipHash-2-4 implementation.
14551 Fixes bug 17544; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
14552 - Validate the hard-coded Diffie-Hellman parameters and ensure that
14553 p is a safe prime, and g is a suitable generator. Closes
14555 - When allocating a digest state object, allocate no more space than
14556 we actually need. Previously, we would allocate as much space as
14557 the state for the largest algorithm would need. This change saves
14558 up to 672 bytes per circuit. Closes ticket 17796.
14560 o Minor features (directory downloads):
14561 - Add UseDefaultFallbackDirs, which enables any hard-coded fallback
14562 directory mirrors. The default is 1; set it to 0 to disable
14563 fallbacks. Implements ticket 17576. Patch by teor.
14564 - Wait for busy authorities and fallback directories to become non-
14565 busy when bootstrapping. (A similar change was made in 6c443e987d
14566 for directory caches chosen from the consensus.) Closes ticket
14567 17864; patch by teor.
14569 o Minor features (geoip):
14570 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
14573 o Minor features (hidden service directory):
14574 - Streamline relay-side hsdir handling: when relays consider whether
14575 to accept an uploaded hidden service descriptor, they no longer
14576 check whether they are one of the relays in the network that is
14577 "supposed" to handle that descriptor. Implements ticket 18332.
14579 o Minor features (IPv6):
14580 - Add ClientPreferIPv6DirPort, which is set to 0 by default. If set
14581 to 1, tor prefers IPv6 directory addresses.
14582 - Add ClientUseIPv4, which is set to 1 by default. If set to 0, tor
14583 avoids using IPv4 for client OR and directory connections.
14584 - Add address policy assume_action support for IPv6 addresses.
14585 - Add an argument 'ipv6=address:orport' to the DirAuthority and
14586 FallbackDir torrc options, to specify an IPv6 address for an
14587 authority or fallback directory. Add hard-coded ipv6 addresses for
14588 directory authorities that have them. Closes ticket 17327; patch
14589 from Nick Mathewson and teor.
14590 - Allow users to configure directory authorities and fallback
14591 directory servers with IPv6 addresses and ORPorts. Resolves
14593 - Limit IPv6 mask bits to 128.
14594 - Make tor_ersatz_socketpair work on IPv6-only systems. Fixes bug
14595 17638; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Patch by teor.
14596 - Try harder to obey the IP version restrictions "ClientUseIPv4 0",
14597 "ClientUseIPv6 0", "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort", and
14598 "ClientPreferIPv6DirPort". Closes ticket 17840; patch by teor.
14599 - Warn when comparing against an AF_UNSPEC address in a policy, it's
14600 almost always a bug. Closes ticket 17863; patch by teor.
14601 - routerset_parse now accepts IPv6 literal addresses. Fixes bug
14602 17060; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Patch by teor.
14604 o Minor features (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
14605 - Reject attempts to change our Address with "Sandbox 1" enabled.
14606 Changing Address with Sandbox turned on would never actually work,
14607 but previously it would fail in strange and confusing ways. Found
14608 while fixing 18548.
14610 o Minor features (logging):
14611 - When logging to syslog, allow a tag to be added to the syslog
14612 identity (the string prepended to every log message). The tag can
14613 be configured with SyslogIdentityTag and defaults to none. Setting
14614 it to "foo" will cause logs to be tagged as "Tor-foo". Closes
14617 o Minor features (portability):
14618 - Use timingsafe_memcmp() where available. Closes ticket 17944;
14619 patch from <logan@hackers.mu>.
14621 o Minor features (relay, address discovery):
14622 - Add a family argument to get_interface_addresses_raw() and
14623 subfunctions to make network interface address interogation more
14624 efficient. Now Tor can specifically ask for IPv4, IPv6 or both
14625 types of interfaces from the operating system. Resolves
14627 - When get_interface_address6_list(.,AF_UNSPEC,.) is called and
14628 fails to enumerate interface addresses using the platform-specific
14629 API, have it rely on the UDP socket fallback technique to try and
14630 find out what IP addresses (both IPv4 and IPv6) our machine has.
14631 Resolves ticket 17951.
14633 o Minor features (replay cache):
14634 - The replay cache now uses SHA256 instead of SHA1. Implements
14635 feature 8961. Patch by teor, issue reported by rransom.
14637 o Minor features (robustness):
14638 - Exit immediately with an error message if the code attempts to use
14639 Libevent without having initialized it. This should resolve some
14640 frequently-made mistakes in our unit tests. Closes ticket 18241.
14642 o Minor features (security, clock):
14643 - Warn when the system clock appears to move back in time (when the
14644 state file was last written in the future). Tor doesn't know that
14645 consensuses have expired if the clock is in the past. Patch by
14646 teor. Implements ticket 17188.
14648 o Minor features (security, exit policies):
14649 - ExitPolicyRejectPrivate now rejects more private addresses by
14650 default. Specifically, it now rejects the relay's outbound bind
14651 addresses (if configured), and the relay's configured port
14652 addresses (such as ORPort and DirPort). Fixes bug 17027; bugfix on
14653 0.2.0.11-alpha. Patch by teor.
14655 o Minor features (security, memory erasure):
14656 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
14657 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
14658 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
14660 - Set the unused entries in a smartlist to NULL. This helped catch
14661 a (harmless) bug, and shouldn't affect performance too much.
14662 Implements ticket 17026.
14663 - Use SecureMemoryWipe() function to securely clean memory on
14664 Windows. Previously we'd use OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() function.
14665 Implements feature 17986.
14666 - Use explicit_bzero or memset_s when present. Previously, we'd use
14667 OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() function. Closes ticket 7419; patches
14668 from <logan@hackers.mu> and <selven@hackers.mu>.
14670 o Minor features (security, RNG):
14671 - Adjust Tor's use of OpenSSL's RNG APIs so that they absolutely,
14672 positively are not allowed to fail. Previously we depended on
14673 internal details of OpenSSL's behavior. Closes ticket 17686.
14674 - Never use the system entropy output directly for anything besides
14675 seeding the PRNG. When we want to generate important keys, instead
14676 of using system entropy directly, we now hash it with the PRNG
14677 stream. This may help resist certain attacks based on broken OS
14678 entropy implementations. Closes part of ticket 17694.
14679 - Use modern system calls (like getentropy() or getrandom()) to
14680 generate strong entropy on platforms that have them. Closes
14683 o Minor features (security, win32):
14684 - Set SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE on Win32 to avoid a local port-stealing
14685 attack. Fixes bug 18123; bugfix on all tor versions. Patch
14688 o Minor features (unix domain sockets):
14689 - Add a new per-socket option, RelaxDirModeCheck, to allow creating
14690 Unix domain sockets without checking the permissions on the parent
14691 directory. (Tor checks permissions by default because some
14692 operating systems only check permissions on the parent directory.
14693 However, some operating systems do look at permissions on the
14694 socket, and tor's default check is unneeded.) Closes ticket 18458.
14697 o Minor features (unix file permissions):
14698 - Defer creation of Unix sockets until after setuid. This avoids
14699 needing CAP_CHOWN and CAP_FOWNER when using systemd's
14700 CapabilityBoundingSet, or chown and fowner when using SELinux.
14701 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
14702 - If any directory created by Tor is marked as group readable, the
14703 filesystem group is allowed to be either the default GID or the
14704 root user. Allowing root to read the DataDirectory prevents the
14705 need for CAP_READ_SEARCH when using systemd's
14706 CapabilityBoundingSet, or dac_read_search when using SELinux.
14707 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
14708 - Introduce a new DataDirectoryGroupReadable option. If it is set to
14709 1, the DataDirectory will be made readable by the default GID.
14710 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
14712 o Minor bugfixes (accounting):
14713 - The max bandwidth when using 'AccountRule sum' is now correctly
14714 logged. Fixes bug 18024; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch
14715 from "unixninja92".
14717 o Minor bugfixes (assert, portability):
14718 - Fix an assertion failure in memarea.c on systems where "long" is
14719 shorter than the size of a pointer. Fixes bug 18716; bugfix
14722 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
14723 - Consistently use the consensus download schedule for authority
14724 certificates. Fixes bug 18816; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
14726 o Minor bugfixes (build):
14727 - Avoid spurious failures from configure files related to calling
14728 exit(0) in TOR_SEARCH_LIBRARY. Fixes bug 18626; bugfix on
14729 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
14730 - Do not link the unit tests against both the testing and non-
14731 testing versions of the static libraries. Fixes bug 18490; bugfix
14733 - Resolve warnings when building on systems that are concerned with
14734 signed char. Fixes bug 18728; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha
14736 - Silence spurious clang-scan warnings in the ed25519_donna code by
14737 explicitly initializing some objects. Fixes bug 18384; bugfix on
14738 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by teor.
14739 - When libscrypt.h is found, but no libscrypt library can be linked,
14740 treat libscrypt as absent. Fixes bug 19161; bugfix
14742 - Cause the unit tests to compile correctly on mingw64 versions that
14743 lack sscanf. Fixes bug 19213; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
14744 - Don't try to use the pthread_condattr_setclock() function unless
14745 it actually exists. Fixes compilation on NetBSD-6.x. Fixes bug
14746 17819; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
14747 - Fix backtrace compilation on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 17827; bugfix
14749 - Fix search for libevent libraries on OpenBSD (and other systems
14750 that install libevent 1 and libevent 2 in parallel). Fixes bug
14751 16651; bugfix on 0.1.0.7-rc. Patch from "rubiate".
14752 - Isolate environment variables meant for tests from the rest of the
14753 build system. Fixes bug 17818; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
14754 - Mark all object files that include micro-revision.i as depending
14755 on it, so as to make parallel builds more reliable. Fixes bug
14756 17826; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
14757 - Remove config.log only from make distclean, not from make clean.
14758 Fixes bug 17924; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
14759 - Replace usage of 'INLINE' with 'inline'. Fixes bug 17804; bugfix
14761 - Remove an #endif from configure.ac so that we correctly detect the
14762 presence of in6_addr.s6_addr32. Fixes bug 17923; bugfix
14765 o Minor bugfixes (client, bootstrap):
14766 - Count receipt of new microdescriptors as progress towards
14767 bootstrapping. Previously, with EntryNodes set, Tor might not
14768 successfully repopulate the guard set on bootstrapping. Fixes bug
14769 16825; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
14771 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
14772 - Fix a bad memory handling bug that would occur if we had queued a
14773 cell on a channel's incoming queue. Fortunately, we can't actually
14774 queue a cell like that as our code is constructed today, but it's
14775 best to avoid this kind of error, even if there isn't any code
14776 that triggers it today. Fixes bug 18570; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
14777 - Assert that allocated memory held by the reputation code is freed
14778 according to its internal counters. Fixes bug 17753; bugfix
14780 - Assert when the TLS contexts fail to initialize. Fixes bug 17683;
14782 - Update to the latest version of Trunnel, which tries harder to
14783 avoid generating code that can invoke memcpy(p,NULL,0). Bug found
14784 by clang address sanitizer. Fixes bug 18373; bugfix
14786 - When closing an entry connection, generate a warning if we should
14787 have sent an end cell for it but we haven't. Fixes bug 17876;
14788 bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
14790 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
14791 - Fix a tiny memory leak when parsing a port configuration ending in
14792 ":auto". Fixes bug 18374; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
14794 o Minor bugfixes (containers):
14795 - If we somehow attempt to construct a heap with more than
14796 1073741822 elements, avoid an integer overflow when maintaining
14797 the heap property. Fixes bug 18296; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
14799 o Minor bugfixes (controller, microdescriptors):
14800 - Make GETINFO dir/status-vote/current/consensus conform to the
14801 control specification by returning "551 Could not open cached
14802 consensus..." when not caching consensuses. Fixes bug 18920;
14803 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
14805 o Minor bugfixes (crypto):
14806 - Check the return value of HMAC() and assert on failure. Fixes bug
14807 17658; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by teor.
14809 o Minor bugfixes (directories):
14810 - When fetching extrainfo documents, compare their SHA256 digests
14811 and Ed25519 signing key certificates with the routerinfo that led
14812 us to fetch them, rather than with the most recent routerinfo.
14813 Otherwise we generate many spurious warnings about mismatches.
14814 Fixes bug 17150; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14815 - When generating a URL for a directory server on an IPv6 address,
14816 wrap the IPv6 address in square brackets. Fixes bug 18051; bugfix
14817 on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Malek.
14819 o Minor bugfixes (downloading):
14820 - Predict more correctly whether we'll be downloading over HTTP when
14821 we determine the maximum length of a URL. This should avoid a
14822 "BUG" warning about the Squid HTTP proxy and its URL limits. Fixes
14825 o Minor bugfixes (exit policies, security):
14826 - Refresh an exit relay's exit policy when interface addresses
14827 change. Previously, tor only refreshed the exit policy when the
14828 configured external address changed. Fixes bug 18208; bugfix on
14829 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by teor.
14831 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
14832 - Mark fallbacks as "too busy" when they return a 503 response,
14833 rather than just marking authorities. Fixes bug 17572; bugfix on
14834 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by teor.
14835 - When requesting extrainfo descriptors from a trusted directory
14836 server, check whether it is an authority or a fallback directory
14837 which supports extrainfo descriptors. Fixes bug 18489; bugfix on
14838 0.2.4.7-alpha. Reported by atagar, patch by teor.
14840 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, client):
14841 - Handle the case where the user makes several fast consecutive
14842 requests to the same .onion address. Previously, the first six
14843 requests would each trigger a descriptor fetch, each picking a
14844 directory (there are 6 overall) and the seventh one would fail
14845 because no directories were left, thereby triggering a close on
14846 all current directory connections asking for the hidden service.
14847 The solution here is to not close the connections if we have
14848 pending directory fetches. Fixes bug 15937; bugfix
14851 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, control port):
14852 - Add the onion address to the HS_DESC event for the UPLOADED action
14853 both on success or failure. It was previously hardcoded with
14854 UNKNOWN. Fixes bug 16023; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14856 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, directory):
14857 - Bridges now refuse "rendezvous2" (hidden service descriptor)
14858 publish attempts. Suggested by ticket 18332.
14860 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
14861 - Update the limits in max_dl_per_request for IPv6 address length.
14862 Fixes bug 17573; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
14864 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
14865 - Allow more syscalls when running with "Sandbox 1" enabled:
14866 sysinfo, getsockopt(SO_SNDBUF), and setsockopt(SO_SNDBUFFORCE). On
14867 some systems, these are required for Tor to start. Fixes bug
14868 18397; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
14869 - Allow IPPROTO_UDP datagram sockets when running with "Sandbox 1",
14870 so that get_interface_address6_via_udp_socket_hack() can work.
14871 Fixes bug 19660; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
14872 - Allow the setrlimit syscall, and the prlimit and prlimit64
14873 syscalls, which some libc implementations use under the hood.
14874 Fixes bug 15221; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
14875 - Avoid a 10-second delay when starting as a client with "Sandbox 1"
14876 enabled and no DNS resolvers configured. This should help TAILS
14877 start up faster. Fixes bug 18548; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
14878 - Fix a crash when using offline master ed25519 keys with the Linux
14879 seccomp2 sandbox enabled. Fixes bug 17675; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
14880 - Allow statistics to be written to disk when "Sandbox 1" is
14881 enabled. Fixes bugs 19556 and 19957; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha and
14882 0.2.6.1-alpha respectively.
14884 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
14885 - In log messages that include a function name, use __FUNCTION__
14886 instead of __PRETTY_FUNCTION__. In GCC, these are synonymous, but
14887 with clang __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ has extra information we don't
14888 need. Fixes bug 16563; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Fix by Tom van
14890 - Remove needless quotes from a log message about unparseable
14891 addresses. Fixes bug 17843; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
14892 - Scrub service name in "unrecognized service ID" log messages.
14893 Fixes bug 18600; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha.
14894 - When logging information about an unparsable networkstatus vote or
14895 consensus, do not say "vote" when we mean consensus. Fixes bug
14896 18368; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
14897 - When we can't generate a signing key because OfflineMasterKey is
14898 set, do not imply that we should have been able to load it. Fixes
14899 bug 18133; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14900 - When logging a malformed hostname received through socks4, scrub
14901 it if SafeLogging says we should. Fixes bug 17419; bugfix
14904 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety):
14905 - Avoid freeing an uninitialized pointer when opening a socket fails
14906 in get_interface_addresses_ioctl(). Fixes bug 18454; bugfix on
14907 0.2.3.11-alpha. Reported by toralf and "cypherpunks", patch
14909 - Fix a memory leak in "tor --list-fingerprint". Fixes part of bug
14910 18672; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
14911 - Fix a memory leak in tor-gencert. Fixes part of bug 18672; bugfix
14914 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
14915 - Avoid reporting a spurious error when we decide that we don't need
14916 to terminate a pluggable transport because it has already exited.
14917 Fixes bug 18686; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
14919 o Minor bugfixes (pointer arithmetic):
14920 - Fix a bug in memarea_alloc() that could have resulted in remote
14921 heap write access, if Tor had ever passed an unchecked size to
14922 memarea_alloc(). Fortunately, all the sizes we pass to
14923 memarea_alloc() are pre-checked to be less than 128 kilobytes.
14924 Fixes bug 19150; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha. Bug found by
14927 o Minor bugfixes (private directory):
14928 - Prevent a race condition when creating private directories. Fixes
14929 part of bug 17852; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13. Part of ticket 17852.
14930 Patch from jsturgix. Found with Flawfinder.
14932 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
14933 - Check that both the ORPort and DirPort (if present) are reachable
14934 before publishing a relay descriptor. Otherwise, relays publish a
14935 descriptor with DirPort 0 when the DirPort reachability test takes
14936 longer than the ORPort reachability test. Fixes bug 18050; bugfix
14937 on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "starlight", patch by teor.
14938 - Resolve some edge cases where we might launch an ORPort
14939 reachability check even when DisableNetwork is set. Noticed while
14940 fixing bug 18616; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
14942 o Minor bugfixes (relays, hidden services):
14943 - Refuse connection requests to private OR addresses unless
14944 ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set. Previously, tor would connect,
14945 then refuse to send any cells to a private address. Fixes bugs
14946 17674 and 8976; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by teor.
14948 o Minor bugfixes (security, hidden services):
14949 - Prevent hidden services connecting to client-supplied rendezvous
14950 addresses that are reserved as internal or multicast. Fixes bug
14951 8976; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by dgoulet and teor.
14953 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
14954 - Consistently check for overflow in round_*_to_next_multiple_of
14955 functions, and add unit tests with additional and maximal values.
14956 Fixes part of bug 13192; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
14957 - Handle edge cases in the laplace functions: avoid division by
14958 zero, avoid taking the log of zero, and silence clang type
14959 conversion warnings using round and trunc. Add unit tests for edge
14960 cases with maximal values. Fixes part of bug 13192; bugfix
14962 - We now include consensus downloads via IPv6 in our directory-
14963 request statistics. Fixes bug 18460; bugfix on 0.2.3.14-alpha.
14965 o Minor bugfixes (test networks, IPv6):
14966 - Allow internal IPv6 addresses in descriptors in test networks.
14967 Fixes bug 17153; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Patch by teor, reported
14970 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
14971 - Check the full results of SHA256 and SHA512 digests in the unit
14972 tests. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha. Patch by teor.
14973 - Fix a memory leak in the ntor test. Fixes bug 17778; bugfix
14975 - Fix a small memory leak that would occur when the
14976 TestingEnableCellStatsEvent option was turned on. Fixes bug 18673;
14977 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
14978 - Make unit tests pass on IPv6-only systems, and systems without
14979 localhost addresses (like some FreeBSD jails). Fixes bug 17632;
14980 bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by teor.
14981 - The test for log_heartbeat was incorrectly failing in timezones
14982 with non-integer offsets. Instead of comparing the end of the time
14983 string against a constant, compare it to the output of
14984 format_local_iso_time when given the correct input. Fixes bug
14985 18039; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
14986 - We no longer disable assertions in the unit tests when coverage is
14987 enabled. Instead, we require you to say --disable-asserts-in-tests
14988 to the configure script if you need assertions disabled in the
14989 unit tests (for example, if you want to perform branch coverage).
14990 Fixes bug 18242; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
14992 o Minor bugfixes (time handling):
14993 - When correcting a corrupt 'struct tm' value, fill in the tm_wday
14994 field. Otherwise, our unit tests crash on Windows. Fixes bug
14995 18977; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
14996 - Avoid overflow in tor_timegm when parsing dates in and after 2038
14997 on platforms with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 18479; bugfix on
14998 0.0.2pre14. Patch by teor.
15000 o Minor bugfixes (tor-gencert):
15001 - Correctly handle the case where an authority operator enters a
15002 passphrase but sends an EOF before sending a newline. Fixes bug
15003 17443; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by junglefowl.
15005 o Code simplification and refactoring:
15006 - Clean up a little duplicated code in
15007 crypto_expand_key_material_TAP(). Closes ticket 17587; patch
15009 - Decouple the list of streams waiting to be attached to circuits
15010 from the overall connection list. This change makes it possible to
15011 attach streams quickly while simplifying Tor's callgraph and
15012 avoiding O(N) scans of the entire connection list. Closes
15014 - Extract the more complicated parts of circuit_mark_for_close()
15015 into a new function that we run periodically before circuits are
15016 freed. This change removes more than half of the functions
15017 currently in the "blob". Closes ticket 17218.
15018 - Move logging of redundant policy entries in
15019 policies_parse_exit_policy_internal into its own function. Closes
15020 ticket 17608; patch from "juce".
15021 - Quote all the string interpolations in configure.ac -- even those
15022 which we are pretty sure can't contain spaces. Closes ticket
15023 17744. Patch from zerosion.
15024 - Remove code for configuring OpenSSL dynamic locks; OpenSSL doesn't
15025 use them. Closes ticket 17926.
15026 - Remove specialized code for non-inplace AES_CTR. 99% of our AES is
15027 inplace, so there's no need to have a separate implementation for
15028 the non-inplace code. Closes ticket 18258. Patch from Malek.
15029 - Simplify return types for some crypto functions that can't
15030 actually fail. Patch from Hassan Alsibyani. Closes ticket 18259.
15031 - When a direct directory request fails immediately on launch,
15032 instead of relaunching that request from inside the code that
15033 launches it, instead mark the connection for teardown. This change
15034 simplifies Tor's callback and prevents the directory-request
15035 launching code from invoking itself recursively. Closes
15039 - Add a description of the correct use of the '--keygen' command-
15040 line option. Closes ticket 17583; based on text by 's7r'.
15041 - Change build messages to refer to "Fedora" instead of "Fedora
15042 Core", and "dnf" instead of "yum". Closes tickets 18459 and 18426.
15043 Patches from "icanhasaccount" and "cypherpunks".
15044 - Document the contents of the 'datadir/keys' subdirectory in the
15045 manual page. Closes ticket 17621.
15046 - Document the minimum HeartbeatPeriod value. Closes ticket 15638.
15047 - Explain actual minima for BandwidthRate. Closes ticket 16382.
15048 - Fix a minor formatting typo in the manpage. Closes ticket 17791.
15049 - Mention torspec URL in the manpage and point the reader to it
15050 whenever we mention a document that belongs in torspce. Fixes
15052 - Stop recommending use of nicknames to identify relays in our
15053 MapAddress documentation. Closes ticket 18312.
15055 o Removed features:
15056 - Remove client-side support for connecting to Tor relays running
15057 versions of Tor before 0.2.3.6-alpha. These relays didn't support
15058 the v3 TLS handshake protocol, and are no longer allowed on the
15059 Tor network. Implements the client side of ticket 11150. Based on
15060 patches by Tom van der Woerdt.
15061 - We no longer maintain an internal freelist in memarea.c.
15062 Allocators should be good enough to make this code unnecessary,
15063 and it's doubtful that it ever had any performance benefit.
15066 - Add unit tests to check for common RNG failure modes, such as
15067 returning all zeroes, identical values, or incrementing values
15068 (OpenSSL's rand_predictable feature). Patch by teor.
15069 - Always test both ed25519 backends, so that we can be sure that our
15070 batch-open replacement code works. Part of ticket 16794.
15071 - Cover dns_resolve_impl() in dns.c with unit tests. Implements a
15072 portion of ticket 16831.
15073 - Fix several warnings from clang's address sanitizer produced in
15075 - Log more information when the backtrace tests fail. Closes ticket
15076 17892. Patch from "cypherpunks."
15077 - More unit tests for compat_libevent.c, procmon.c, tortls.c,
15078 util_format.c, directory.c, and options_validate.c. Closes tickets
15079 17075, 17082, 17084, 17003, and 17076 respectively. Patches from
15081 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on FreeBSD until we
15082 solve bug 17808. Closes ticket 18204.
15083 - Unit tests for directory_handle_command_get. Closes ticket 17004.
15084 Patch from Reinaldo de Souza Jr.
15087 Changes in version 0.2.7.6 - 2015-12-10
15088 Tor version 0.2.7.6 fixes a major bug in entry guard selection, as
15089 well as a minor bug in hidden service reliability.
15091 o Major bugfixes (guard selection):
15092 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
15093 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
15094 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
15095 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
15096 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
15099 o Minor features (geoip):
15100 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 1 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
15103 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
15104 - When checking for net/pfvar.h, include netinet/in.h if possible.
15105 This fixes transparent proxy detection on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
15106 17551; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Patch from "rubiate".
15107 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
15108 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
15110 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
15111 - When displaying an IPv6 exit policy, include the mask bits
15112 correctly even when the number is greater than 31. Fixes bug
15113 16056; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch from "gturner".
15114 - The wrong list was used when looking up expired intro points in a
15115 rend service object, causing what we think could be reachability
15116 issues for hidden services, and triggering a BUG log. Fixes bug
15117 16702; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15118 - Fix undefined behavior in the tor_cert_checksig function. Fixes
15119 bug 17722; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15122 Changes in version 0.2.7.5 - 2015-11-20
15123 The Tor 0.2.7 release series is dedicated to the memory of Tor user
15124 and privacy advocate Caspar Bowden (1961-2015). Caspar worked
15125 tirelessly to advocate human rights regardless of national borders,
15126 and oppose the encroachments of mass surveillance. He opposed national
15127 exceptionalism, he brought clarity to legal and policy debates, he
15128 understood and predicted the impact of mass surveillance on the world,
15129 and he laid the groundwork for resisting it. While serving on the Tor
15130 Project's board of directors, he brought us his uncompromising focus
15131 on technical excellence in the service of humankind. Caspar was an
15132 inimitable force for good and a wonderful friend. He was kind,
15133 humorous, generous, gallant, and believed we should protect one
15134 another without exception. We honor him here for his ideals, his
15135 efforts, and his accomplishments. Please honor his memory with works
15136 that would make him proud.
15138 Tor 0.2.7.5 is the first stable release in the Tor 0.2.7 series.
15140 The 0.2.7 series adds a more secure identity key type for relays,
15141 improves cryptography performance, resolves several longstanding
15142 hidden-service performance issues, improves controller support for
15143 hidden services, and includes small bugfixes and performance
15144 improvements throughout the program. This release series also includes
15145 more tests than before, and significant simplifications to which parts
15146 of Tor invoke which others. For a full list of changes, see below.
15148 o New system requirements:
15149 - Tor no longer includes workarounds to support Libevent versions
15150 before 1.3e. Libevent 2.0 or later is recommended. Closes
15152 - Tor no longer supports copies of OpenSSL that are missing support
15153 for Elliptic Curve Cryptography. (We began using ECC when
15154 available in 0.2.4.8-alpha, for more safe and efficient key
15155 negotiation.) In particular, support for at least one of P256 or
15156 P224 is now required, with manual configuration needed if only
15157 P224 is available. Resolves ticket 16140.
15158 - Tor no longer supports versions of OpenSSL before 1.0. (If you are
15159 on an operating system that has not upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0 or
15160 later, and you compile Tor from source, you will need to install a
15161 more recent OpenSSL to link Tor against.) These versions of
15162 OpenSSL are still supported by the OpenSSL, but the numerous
15163 cryptographic improvements in later OpenSSL releases makes them a
15164 clear choice. Resolves ticket 16034.
15166 o Major features (controller):
15167 - Add the ADD_ONION and DEL_ONION commands that allow the creation
15168 and management of hidden services via the controller. Closes
15170 - New "GETINFO onions/current" and "GETINFO onions/detached"
15171 commands to get information about hidden services created via the
15172 controller. Part of ticket 6411.
15173 - New HSFETCH command to launch a request for a hidden service
15174 descriptor. Closes ticket 14847.
15175 - New HSPOST command to upload a hidden service descriptor. Closes
15176 ticket 3523. Patch by "DonnchaC".
15178 o Major features (Ed25519 identity keys, Proposal 220):
15179 - Add support for offline encrypted Ed25519 master keys. To use this
15180 feature on your tor relay, run "tor --keygen" to make a new master
15181 key (or to make a new signing key if you already have a master
15182 key). Closes ticket 13642.
15183 - All relays now maintain a stronger identity key, using the Ed25519
15184 elliptic curve signature format. This master key is designed so
15185 that it can be kept offline. Relays also generate an online
15186 signing key, and a set of other Ed25519 keys and certificates.
15187 These are all automatically regenerated and rotated as needed.
15188 Implements part of ticket 12498.
15189 - Directory authorities now vote on Ed25519 identity keys along with
15190 RSA1024 keys. Implements part of ticket 12498.
15191 - Directory authorities track which Ed25519 identity keys have been
15192 used with which RSA1024 identity keys, and do not allow them to
15193 vary freely. Implements part of ticket 12498.
15194 - Microdescriptors now include Ed25519 identity keys. Implements
15195 part of ticket 12498.
15196 - Add a --newpass option to allow changing or removing the
15197 passphrase of an encrypted key with tor --keygen. Implements part
15199 - Add a new OfflineMasterKey option to tell Tor never to try loading
15200 or generating a secret Ed25519 identity key. You can use this in
15201 combination with tor --keygen to manage offline and/or encrypted
15202 Ed25519 keys. Implements ticket 16944.
15203 - On receiving a HUP signal, check to see whether the Ed25519
15204 signing key has changed, and reload it if so. Closes ticket 16790.
15205 - Significant usability improvements for Ed25519 key management. Log
15206 messages are better, and the code can recover from far more
15207 failure conditions. Thanks to "s7r" for reporting and diagnosing
15210 o Major features (ECC performance):
15211 - Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 signature verification by
15212 using Ed25519-donna's batch verification support. Implements
15214 - Improve the speed of Ed25519 operations and Curve25519 keypair
15215 generation when built targeting 32 bit x86 platforms with SSE2
15216 available. Implements ticket 16535.
15217 - Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 operations by using the
15218 public-domain Ed25519-donna by Andrew M. ("floodyberry").
15219 Implements ticket 16467.
15220 - Improve the runtime speed of the ntor handshake by using an
15221 optimized curve25519 basepoint scalarmult implementation from the
15222 public-domain Ed25519-donna by Andrew M. ("floodyberry"), based on
15223 ideas by Adam Langley. Implements ticket 9663.
15225 o Major features (Hidden services):
15226 - Hidden services, if using the EntryNodes option, are required to
15227 use more than one EntryNode, in order to avoid a guard discovery
15228 attack. (This would only affect people who had configured hidden
15229 services and manually specified the EntryNodes option with a
15230 single entry-node. The impact was that it would be easy to
15231 remotely identify the guard node used by such a hidden service.
15232 See ticket for more information.) Fixes ticket 14917.
15233 - Add the torrc option HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints, to
15234 specify a fixed number of introduction points. Its maximum value
15235 is 10 and default is 3. Using this option can increase a hidden
15236 service's reliability under load, at the cost of making it more
15237 visible that the hidden service is facing extra load. Closes
15239 - Remove the adaptive algorithm for choosing the number of
15240 introduction points, which used to change the number of
15241 introduction points (poorly) depending on the number of
15242 connections the HS sees. Closes ticket 4862.
15244 o Major features (onion key cross-certification):
15245 - Relay descriptors now include signatures of their own identity
15246 keys, made using the TAP and ntor onion keys. These signatures
15247 allow relays to prove ownership of their own onion keys. Because
15248 of this change, microdescriptors will no longer need to include
15249 RSA identity keys. Implements proposal 228; closes ticket 12499.
15251 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy, also in 0.2.6.9):
15252 - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream
15253 isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group
15254 was being overwritten by a default value when the listener
15255 connection was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on
15256 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by "jojelino".
15258 o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability, also in 0.2.6.10):
15259 - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a
15260 client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug
15261 14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability
15262 regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since
15263 we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in
15264 some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much
15265 of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix
15268 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
15269 - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
15270 flag to relays without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
15271 can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
15273 - When cannibalizing a circuit for an introduction point, always
15274 extend to the chosen exit node (creating a 4 hop circuit).
15275 Previously Tor would use the current circuit exit node, which
15276 changed the original choice of introduction point, and could cause
15277 the hidden service to skip excluded introduction points or
15278 reconnect to a skipped introduction point. Fixes bug 16260; bugfix
15281 o Major bugfixes (memory leaks):
15282 - Fix a memory leak in ed25519 batch signature checking. Fixes bug
15283 17398; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
15285 o Major bugfixes (open file limit):
15286 - The open file limit wasn't checked before calling
15287 tor_accept_socket_nonblocking(), which would make Tor exceed the
15288 limit. Now, before opening a new socket, Tor validates the open
15289 file limit just before, and if the max has been reached, return an
15290 error. Fixes bug 16288; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
15292 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness):
15293 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
15294 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
15295 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
15296 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
15299 o Major bugfixes (stability, also in 0.2.6.10):
15300 - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds
15301 of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400;
15302 bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch
15303 by "cypherpunks_backup".
15304 - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when
15305 connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden
15306 service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix
15309 o Minor features (client, SOCKS):
15310 - Add GroupWritable and WorldWritable options to unix-socket based
15311 SocksPort and ControlPort options. These options apply to a single
15312 socket, and override {Control,Socks}SocketsGroupWritable. Closes
15314 - Relax the validation done to hostnames in SOCKS5 requests, and
15315 allow a single trailing '.' to cope with clients that pass FQDNs
15316 using that syntax to explicitly indicate that the domain name is
15317 fully-qualified. Fixes bug 16674; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
15318 - Relax the validation of hostnames in SOCKS5 requests, allowing the
15319 character '_' to appear, in order to cope with domains observed in
15320 the wild that are serving non-RFC compliant records. Resolves
15323 o Minor features (client-side privacy):
15324 - New KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth option to indefinitely extend circuit
15325 lifespan when IsolateSOCKSAuth and streams with SOCKS
15326 authentication are attached to the circuit. This allows
15327 applications like TorBrowser to manage circuit lifetime on their
15328 own. Implements feature 15482.
15329 - When logging malformed hostnames from SOCKS5 requests, respect
15330 SafeLogging configuration. Fixes bug 16891; bugfix on 0.1.1.16-rc.
15332 o Minor features (clock-jump tolerance):
15333 - Recover better when our clock jumps back many hours, like might
15334 happen for Tails or Whonix users who start with a very wrong
15335 hardware clock, use Tor to discover a more accurate time, and then
15336 fix their clock. Resolves part of ticket 8766.
15338 o Minor features (command-line interface):
15339 - Make --hash-password imply --hush to prevent unnecessary noise.
15340 Closes ticket 15542. Patch from "cypherpunks".
15341 - Print a warning whenever we find a relative file path being used
15342 as torrc option. Resolves issue 14018.
15344 o Minor features (compilation):
15345 - Give a warning as early as possible when trying to build with an
15346 unsupported OpenSSL version. Closes ticket 16901.
15347 - Use C99 variadic macros when the compiler is not GCC. This avoids
15348 failing compilations on MSVC, and fixes a log-file-based race
15349 condition in our old workarounds. Original patch from Gisle Vanem.
15351 o Minor features (control protocol):
15352 - Support network-liveness GETINFO key and NETWORK_LIVENESS event in
15353 the control protocol. Resolves ticket 15358.
15355 o Minor features (controller):
15356 - Add DirAuthority lines for default directory authorities to the
15357 output of the "GETINFO config/defaults" command if not already
15358 present. Implements ticket 14840.
15359 - Controllers can now use "GETINFO hs/client/desc/id/..." to
15360 retrieve items from the client's hidden service descriptor cache.
15361 Closes ticket 14845.
15362 - Implement a new controller command "GETINFO status/fresh-relay-
15363 descs" to fetch a descriptor/extrainfo pair that was generated on
15364 demand just for the controller's use. Implements ticket 14784.
15366 o Minor features (directory authorities):
15367 - Directory authorities no longer vote against the "Fast", "Stable",
15368 and "HSDir" flags just because they were going to vote against
15369 "Running": if the consensus turns out to be that the router was
15370 running, then the authority's vote should count. Patch from Peter
15371 Retzlaff; closes issue 8712.
15373 o Minor features (directory authorities, security, also in 0.2.6.9):
15374 - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag.
15375 For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806
15376 HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil
15377 attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable to
15378 require at the very least 7 days, while maintaining the 96 hours
15379 uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243.
15381 o Minor features (DoS-resistance):
15382 - Make it harder for attackers to overload hidden services with
15383 introductions, by blocking multiple introduction requests on the
15384 same circuit. Resolves ticket 15515.
15386 o Minor features (geoip):
15387 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
15390 o Minor features (hidden services):
15391 - Add the new options "HiddenServiceMaxStreams" and
15392 "HiddenServiceMaxStreamsCloseCircuit" to allow hidden services to
15393 limit the maximum number of simultaneous streams per circuit, and
15394 optionally tear down the circuit when the limit is exceeded. Part
15396 - Client now uses an introduction point failure cache to know when
15397 to fetch or keep a descriptor in their cache. Previously, failures
15398 were recorded implicitly, but not explicitly remembered. Closes
15400 - Relays need to have the Fast flag to get the HSDir flag. As this
15401 is being written, we'll go from 2745 HSDirs down to 2342, a ~14%
15402 drop. This change should make some attacks against the hidden
15403 service directory system harder. Fixes ticket 15963.
15404 - Turn on hidden service statistics collection by setting the torrc
15405 option HiddenServiceStatistics to "1" by default. (This keeps
15406 track only of the fraction of traffic used by hidden services, and
15407 the total number of hidden services in existence.) Closes
15409 - To avoid leaking HS popularity, don't cycle the introduction point
15410 when we've handled a fixed number of INTRODUCE2 cells but instead
15411 cycle it when a random number of introductions is reached, thus
15412 making it more difficult for an attacker to find out the amount of
15413 clients that have used the introduction point for a specific HS.
15414 Closes ticket 15745.
15416 o Minor features (logging):
15417 - Include the Tor version in all LD_BUG log messages, since people
15418 tend to cut and paste those into the bugtracker. Implements
15421 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
15422 - When launching managed pluggable transports on Linux systems,
15423 attempt to have the kernel deliver a SIGTERM on tor exit if the
15424 pluggable transport process is still running. Resolves
15426 - When launching managed pluggable transports, setup a valid open
15427 stdin in the child process that can be used to detect if tor has
15428 terminated. The "TOR_PT_EXIT_ON_STDIN_CLOSE" environment variable
15429 can be used by implementations to detect this new behavior.
15430 Resolves ticket 15435.
15432 o Minor bugfixes (torrc exit policies):
15433 - In each instance above, usage advice is provided to avoid the
15434 message. Resolves ticket 16069. Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug
15435 16069; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
15436 - In torrc, "accept6 *" and "reject6 *" ExitPolicy lines now only
15437 produce IPv6 wildcard addresses. Previously they would produce
15438 both IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard addresses. Patch by "teor". Fixes part
15439 of bug 16069; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
15440 - When parsing torrc ExitPolicies, we now issue an info-level
15441 message when expanding an "accept/reject *" line to include both
15442 IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard addresses. Related to ticket 16069.
15443 - When parsing torrc ExitPolicies, we now warn for a number of cases
15444 where the user's intent is likely to differ from Tor's actual
15445 behavior. These include: using an IPv4 address with an accept6 or
15446 reject6 line; using "private" on an accept6 or reject6 line; and
15447 including any ExitPolicy lines after accept *:* or reject *:*.
15448 Related to ticket 16069.
15450 o Minor bugfixes (command-line interface):
15451 - When "--quiet" is provided along with "--validate-config", do not
15452 write anything to stdout on success. Fixes bug 14994; bugfix
15454 - When complaining about bad arguments to "--dump-config", use
15455 stderr, not stdout.
15456 - Print usage information for --dump-config when it is used without
15457 an argument. Also, fix the error message to use different wording
15458 and add newline at the end. Fixes bug 15541; bugfix
15461 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
15462 - Fix compilation of sandbox.c with musl-libc. Fixes bug 17347;
15463 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from 'jamestk'.
15464 - Repair compilation with the most recent (unreleased, alpha)
15465 vesions of OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes part of ticket 17237.
15467 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, also in 0.2.6.9):
15468 - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is
15469 installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on
15470 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
15472 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, unit tests):
15473 - Only add the default fallback directories when the DirAuthorities,
15474 AlternateDirAuthority, and FallbackDir directory config options
15475 are set to their defaults. The default fallback directory list is
15476 currently empty, this fix will only change tor's behavior when it
15477 has default fallback directories. Includes unit tests for
15478 consider_adding_dir_servers(). Fixes bug 15642; bugfix on
15479 90f6071d8dc0 in 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
15481 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
15482 - Add the descriptor ID in each HS_DESC control event. It was
15483 missing, but specified in control-spec.txt. Fixes bug 15881;
15484 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
15486 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
15487 - For correctness, avoid modifying a constant string in
15488 handle_control_postdescriptor. Fixes bug 15546; bugfix
15490 - Remove side-effects from tor_assert() calls. This was harmless,
15491 because we never disable assertions, but it is bad style and
15492 unnecessary. Fixes bug 15211; bugfix on 0.2.5.5, 0.2.2.36,
15494 - When calling channel_free_list(), avoid calling smartlist_remove()
15495 while inside a FOREACH loop. This partially reverts commit
15496 17356fe7fd96af where the correct SMARTLIST_DEL_CURRENT was
15497 incorrectly removed. Fixes bug 16924; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
15499 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling, also in 0.2.6.10):
15500 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
15501 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
15502 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
15503 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
15504 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
15506 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
15507 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
15508 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
15510 - Remove an extraneous newline character from the end of hidden
15511 service descriptors. Fixes bug 15296; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
15513 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
15514 - Use the sandbox in tor_open_cloexec whether or not O_CLOEXEC is
15515 defined. Patch by "teor". Fixes bug 16515; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
15516 - Allow bridge authorities to run correctly under the seccomp2
15517 sandbox. Fixes bug 16964; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
15518 - Add the "hidserv-stats" filename to our sandbox filter for the
15519 HiddenServiceStatistics option to work properly. Fixes bug 17354;
15520 bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from David Goulet.
15522 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.10):
15523 - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need
15524 these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix
15525 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor".
15527 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.9):
15528 - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox
15529 code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by
15531 - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relay, by allowing the
15532 renaming of secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex
15533 syscalls. Fixes bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by
15536 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
15537 - When building Tor under Clang, do not include an extra set of
15538 parentheses in log messages that include function names. Fixes bug
15539 15269; bugfix on every released version of Tor when compiled with
15540 recent enough Clang.
15542 o Minor bugfixes (network):
15543 - When attempting to use fallback technique for network interface
15544 lookup, disregard loopback and multicast addresses since they are
15545 unsuitable for public communications.
15547 o Minor bugfixes (open file limit):
15548 - Fix set_max_file_descriptors() to set by default the max open file
15549 limit to the current limit when setrlimit() fails. Fixes bug
15550 16274; bugfix on tor- 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch by dgoulet.
15552 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
15553 - Check correctly for Windows socket errors in the workqueue
15554 backend. Fixes bug 16741; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
15555 - Try harder to normalize the exit status of the Tor process to the
15556 standard-provided range. Fixes bug 16975; bugfix on every version
15558 - Use libexecinfo on FreeBSD to enable backtrace support. Fixes part
15559 of bug 17151; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from Marcin Cieślak.
15561 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
15562 - Ensure that worker threads actually exit when a fatal error or
15563 shutdown is indicated. This fix doesn't currently affect the
15564 behavior of Tor, because Tor workers never indicates fatal error
15565 or shutdown except in the unit tests. Fixes bug 16868; bugfix
15567 - Fix a rarely-encountered memory leak when failing to initialize
15568 the thread pool. Fixes bug 16631; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
15569 from "cypherpunks".
15570 - Unblock threads before releasing the work queue mutex to ensure
15571 predictable scheduling behavior. Fixes bug 16644; bugfix
15574 o Minor bugfixes (security, exit policies):
15575 - ExitPolicyRejectPrivate now also rejects the relay's published
15576 IPv6 address (if any), and any publicly routable IPv4 or IPv6
15577 addresses on any local interfaces. ticket 17027. Patch by "teor".
15578 Fixes bug 17027; bugfix on 0.2.0.11-alpha.
15580 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
15581 - Disregard the ConnDirectionStatistics torrc options when Tor is
15582 not a relay since in that mode of operation no sensible data is
15583 being collected and because Tor might run into measurement hiccups
15584 when running as a client for some time, then becoming a relay.
15585 Fixes bug 15604; bugfix on 0.2.2.35.
15587 o Minor bugfixes (systemd):
15588 - Tor's systemd unit file no longer contains extraneous spaces.
15589 These spaces would sometimes confuse tools like deb-systemd-
15590 helper. Fixes bug 16162; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
15592 o Minor bugfixes (test networks):
15593 - When self-testing reachability, use ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses to
15594 determine if local/private addresses imply reachability. The
15595 previous fix used TestingTorNetwork, which implies
15596 ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses, but this excluded rare configurations
15597 where ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set but TestingTorNetwork is
15598 not. Fixes bug 15771; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by "teor",
15599 issue discovered by CJ Ess.
15601 o Minor bugfixes (tests, also in 0.2.6.9):
15602 - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug
15603 16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
15605 o Code simplification and refactoring:
15606 - Change the function that's called when we need to retry all
15607 downloads so that it only reschedules the downloads to happen
15608 immediately, rather than launching them all at once itself. This
15609 further simplifies Tor's callgraph.
15610 - Define WINVER and _WIN32_WINNT centrally, in orconfig.h, in order
15611 to ensure they remain consistent and visible everywhere.
15612 - Move some format-parsing functions out of crypto.c and
15613 crypto_curve25519.c into crypto_format.c and/or util_format.c.
15614 - Move the client-only parts of init_keys() into a separate
15615 function. Closes ticket 16763.
15616 - Move the hacky fallback code out of get_interface_address6() into
15617 separate function and get it covered with unit-tests. Resolves
15619 - Refactor hidden service client-side cache lookup to intelligently
15620 report its various failure cases, and disentangle failure cases
15621 involving a lack of introduction points. Closes ticket 14391.
15622 - Remove some vestigial workarounds for the MSVC6 compiler. We
15623 haven't supported that in ages.
15624 - Remove the unused "nulterminate" argument from buf_pullup().
15625 - Simplify the microdesc_free() implementation so that it no longer
15626 appears (to code analysis tools) to potentially invoke a huge
15627 suite of other microdesc functions.
15628 - Simply the control graph further by deferring the inner body of
15629 directory_all_unreachable() into a callback. Closes ticket 16762.
15630 - The link authentication code has been refactored for better
15631 testability and reliability. It now uses code generated with the
15632 "trunnel" binary encoding generator, to reduce the risk of bugs
15633 due to programmer error. Done as part of ticket 12498.
15634 - Treat the loss of an owning controller as equivalent to a SIGTERM
15635 signal. This removes a tiny amount of duplicated code, and
15636 simplifies our callgraph. Closes ticket 16788.
15637 - Use our own Base64 encoder instead of OpenSSL's, to allow more
15638 control over the output. Part of ticket 15652.
15639 - When generating an event to send to the controller, we no longer
15640 put the event over the network immediately. Instead, we queue
15641 these events, and use a Libevent callback to deliver them. This
15642 change simplifies Tor's callgraph by reducing the number of
15643 functions from which all other Tor functions are reachable. Closes
15645 - Wrap Windows-only C files inside '#ifdef _WIN32' so that tools
15646 that try to scan or compile every file on Unix won't decide that
15650 - Fix capitalization of SOCKS in sample torrc. Closes ticket 15609.
15651 - Improve the descriptions of statistics-related torrc options in
15652 the manpage to describe rationale and possible uses cases. Fixes
15654 - Improve the layout and formatting of ./configure --help messages.
15655 Closes ticket 15024. Patch from "cypherpunks".
15656 - Include a specific and (hopefully) accurate documentation of the
15657 torrc file's meta-format in doc/torrc_format.txt. This is mainly
15658 of interest to people writing programs to parse or generate torrc
15659 files. This document is not a commitment to long-term
15660 compatibility; some aspects of the current format are a bit
15661 ridiculous. Closes ticket 2325.
15662 - Include the TUNING document in our source tarball. It is referred
15663 to in the ChangeLog and an error message. Fixes bug 16929; bugfix
15665 - Note that HiddenServicePorts can take a unix domain socket. Closes
15667 - Recommend a 40 GB example AccountingMax in torrc.sample rather
15668 than a 4 GB max. Closes ticket 16742.
15669 - Standardize on the term "server descriptor" in the manual page.
15670 Previously, we had used "router descriptor", "server descriptor",
15671 and "relay descriptor" interchangeably. Part of ticket 14987.
15672 - Advise users on how to configure separate IPv4 and IPv6 exit
15673 policies in the manpage and sample torrcs. Related to ticket 16069.
15674 - Fix an error in the manual page and comments for
15675 TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir[IsStrict], which suggested that a HSDir
15676 required "ORPort connectivity". While this is true, it is in no
15677 way unique to the HSDir flag. Of all the flags, only HSDirs need a
15678 DirPort configured in order for the authorities to assign that
15679 particular flag. Patch by "teor". Fixed as part of 14882; bugfix
15681 - Fix the usage message of tor-resolve(1) so that it no longer lists
15682 the removed -F option. Fixes bug 16913; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
15685 - Remove `USE_OPENSSL_BASE64` and the corresponding fallback code
15686 and always use the internal Base64 decoder. The internal decoder
15687 has been part of tor since 0.2.0.10-alpha, and no one should
15688 be using the OpenSSL one. Part of ticket 15652.
15689 - Remove the 'tor_strclear()' function; use memwipe() instead.
15690 Closes ticket 14922.
15691 - Remove the code that would try to aggressively flush controller
15692 connections while writing to them. This code was introduced in
15693 0.1.2.7-alpha, in order to keep output buffers from exceeding
15694 their limits. But there is no longer a maximum output buffer size,
15695 and flushing data in this way caused some undesirable recursions
15696 in our call graph. Closes ticket 16480.
15697 - The internal pure-C tor-fw-helper tool is now removed from the Tor
15698 distribution, in favor of the pure-Go clone available from
15699 https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor-fw-helper.git/ . The libraries
15700 used by the C tor-fw-helper are not, in our opinion, very
15701 confidence- inspiring in their secure-programming techniques.
15702 Closes ticket 13338.
15704 o Removed features:
15705 - Remove the (seldom-used) DynamicDHGroups feature. For anti-
15706 fingerprinting we now recommend pluggable transports; for forward-
15707 secrecy in TLS, we now use the P-256 group. Closes ticket 13736.
15708 - Remove the HidServDirectoryV2 option. Now all relays offer to
15709 store hidden service descriptors. Related to 16543.
15710 - Remove the VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 option, since all
15711 authorities have long set it to 1. Closes ticket 16543.
15712 - Remove the undocumented "--digests" command-line option. It
15713 complicated our build process, caused subtle build issues on
15714 multiple platforms, and is now redundant since we started
15715 including git version identifiers. Closes ticket 14742.
15716 - Tor no longer contains checks for ancient directory cache versions
15717 that didn't know about microdescriptors.
15718 - Tor no longer contains workarounds for stat files generated by
15719 super-old versions of Tor that didn't choose guards sensibly.
15722 - The test-network.sh script now supports performance testing.
15723 Requires corresponding chutney performance testing changes. Patch
15724 by "teor". Closes ticket 14175.
15725 - Add a new set of callgraph analysis scripts that use clang to
15726 produce a list of which Tor functions are reachable from which
15727 other Tor functions. We're planning to use these to help simplify
15728 our code structure by identifying illogical dependencies.
15729 - Add new 'test-full' and 'test-full-online' targets to run all
15730 tests, including integration tests with stem and chutney.
15731 - Autodetect CHUTNEY_PATH if the chutney and Tor sources are side-
15732 by-side in the same parent directory. Closes ticket 16903. Patch
15734 - Document use of coverity, clang static analyzer, and clang dynamic
15735 undefined behavior and address sanitizers in doc/HACKING. Include
15736 detailed usage instructions in the blacklist. Patch by "teor".
15737 Closes ticket 15817.
15738 - Make "bridges+hs" the default test network. This tests almost all
15739 tor functionality during make test-network, while allowing tests
15740 to succeed on non-IPv6 systems. Requires chutney commit 396da92 in
15741 test-network-bridges-hs. Closes tickets 16945 (tor) and 16946
15742 (chutney). Patches by "teor".
15743 - Make the test-workqueue test work on Windows by initializing the
15744 network before we begin.
15745 - New make target (make test-network-all) to run multiple applicable
15746 chutney test cases. Patch from Teor; closes 16953.
15747 - Now that OpenSSL has its own scrypt implementation, add an unit
15748 test that checks for interoperability between libscrypt_scrypt()
15749 and OpenSSL's EVP_PBE_scrypt() so that we could not use libscrypt
15750 and rely on EVP_PBE_scrypt() whenever possible. Resolves
15752 - The link authentication protocol code now has extensive tests.
15753 - The relay descriptor signature testing code now has
15755 - The test_workqueue program now runs faster, and is enabled by
15756 default as a part of "make check".
15757 - Unit test dns_resolve(), dns_clip_ttl() and dns_get_expiry_ttl()
15758 functions in dns.c. Implements a portion of ticket 16831.
15759 - Use environment variables rather than autoconf substitutions to
15760 send variables from the build system to the test scripts. This
15761 change should be easier to maintain, and cause 'make distcheck' to
15762 work better than before. Fixes bug 17148.
15763 - When building Tor with testing coverage enabled, run Chutney tests
15764 (if any) using the 'tor-cov' coverage binary.
15765 - When running test-network or test-stem, check for the absence of
15766 stem/chutney before doing any build operations.
15767 - Add a test to verify that the compiler does not eliminate our
15768 memwipe() implementation. Closes ticket 15377.
15769 - Add make rule `check-changes` to verify the format of changes
15770 files. Closes ticket 15180.
15771 - Add unit tests for control_event_is_interesting(). Add a compile-
15772 time check that the number of events doesn't exceed the capacity
15773 of control_event_t.event_mask. Closes ticket 15431, checks for
15774 bugs similar to 13085. Patch by "teor".
15775 - Command-line argument tests moved to Stem. Resolves ticket 14806.
15776 - Integrate the ntor, backtrace, and zero-length keys tests into the
15777 automake test suite. Closes ticket 15344.
15778 - Remove assertions during builds to determine Tor's test coverage.
15779 We don't want to trigger these even in assertions, so including
15780 them artificially makes our branch coverage look worse than it is.
15781 This patch provides the new test-stem-full and coverage-html-full
15782 configure options. Implements ticket 15400.
15783 - New TestingDirAuthVote{Exit,Guard,HSDir}IsStrict flags to
15784 explicitly manage consensus flags in testing networks. Patch by
15785 "robgjansen", modified by "teor". Implements part of ticket 14882.
15786 - Check for matching value in server response in ntor_ref.py. Fixes
15787 bug 15591; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported and fixed
15789 - Set the severity correctly when testing
15790 get_interface_addresses_ifaddrs() and
15791 get_interface_addresses_win32(), so that the tests fail gracefully
15792 instead of triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 15759; bugfix on
15793 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported by Nicolas Derive.
15795 Changes in version 0.2.6.10 - 2015-07-12
15796 Tor version 0.2.6.10 fixes some significant stability and hidden
15797 service client bugs, bulletproofs the cryptography init process, and
15798 fixes a bug when using the sandbox code with some older versions of
15799 Linux. Everyone running an older version, especially an older version
15800 of 0.2.6, should upgrade.
15802 o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability):
15803 - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a
15804 client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug
15805 14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability
15806 regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since
15807 we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in
15808 some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much
15809 of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix
15812 o Major bugfixes (stability):
15813 - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds
15814 of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400;
15815 bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch
15816 by "cypherpunks_backup".
15817 - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when
15818 connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden
15819 service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix
15822 o Minor features (geoip):
15823 - Update geoip to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
15824 - Update geoip6 to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
15826 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling):
15827 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
15828 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
15829 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
15830 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
15831 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
15833 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
15834 - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need
15835 these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix
15836 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor".
15839 Changes in version 0.2.6.9 - 2015-06-11
15840 Tor 0.2.6.9 fixes a regression in the circuit isolation code, increases the
15841 requirements for receiving an HSDir flag, and addresses some other small
15842 bugs in the systemd and sandbox code. Clients using circuit isolation
15843 should upgrade; all directory authorities should upgrade.
15845 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
15846 - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream
15847 isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group was
15848 being overwritten by a default value when the listener connection
15849 was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
15852 o Minor feature (directory authorities, security):
15853 - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag.
15854 For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806
15855 HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil
15856 attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable which
15857 takes at the very least 7 days to do so and by keeping the 96
15858 hours uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243.
15860 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
15861 - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is
15862 installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on
15863 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
15865 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
15866 - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relaymby renaming of
15867 secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex syscalls. Fixes
15868 bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by Peter Palfrader.
15869 - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox
15870 code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by
15873 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
15874 - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug
15875 16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
15878 Changes in version 0.2.6.8 - 2015-05-21
15879 Tor 0.2.6.8 fixes a bit of dodgy code in parsing INTRODUCE2 cells, and
15880 fixes an authority-side bug in assigning the HSDir flag. All directory
15881 authorities should upgrade.
15883 o Major bugfixes (hidden services, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
15884 - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
15885 flag to relays without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
15886 can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
15889 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
15890 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
15891 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
15894 o Minor features (geoip):
15895 - Update geoip to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
15896 - Update geoip6 to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
15900 Changes in version 0.2.6.7 - 2015-04-06
15901 Tor 0.2.6.7 fixes two security issues that could be used by an
15902 attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients visiting hidden
15903 services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as possible; clients
15904 should upgrade whenever packages become available.
15906 This release also contains two simple improvements to make hidden
15907 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
15909 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
15910 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
15911 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
15912 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
15913 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
15914 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
15915 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
15917 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
15918 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
15919 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
15920 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
15921 Resolves ticket 15515.
15922 - Decrease the amount of reattempts that a hidden service performs
15923 when its rendezvous circuits fail. This reduces the computational
15924 cost for running a hidden service under heavy load. Resolves
15928 Changes in version 0.2.5.12 - 2015-04-06
15929 Tor 0.2.5.12 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that
15930 could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients
15931 visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as
15932 possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available.
15934 This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden
15935 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
15937 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
15938 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
15939 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
15940 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
15941 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
15942 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
15943 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
15945 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
15946 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
15947 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
15948 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
15949 Resolves ticket 15515.
15952 Changes in version 0.2.4.27 - 2015-04-06
15953 Tor 0.2.4.27 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that
15954 could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients
15955 visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as
15956 possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available.
15958 This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden
15959 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
15961 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
15962 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
15963 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
15964 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
15965 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
15966 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
15967 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
15969 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
15970 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
15971 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
15972 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
15973 Resolves ticket 15515.
15976 Changes in version 0.2.6.6 - 2015-03-24
15977 Tor 0.2.6.6 is the first stable release in the 0.2.6 series.
15979 It adds numerous safety, security, correctness, and performance
15980 improvements. Client programs can be configured to use more kinds of
15981 sockets, AutomapHosts works better, the multithreading backend is
15982 improved, cell transmission is refactored, test coverage is much
15983 higher, more denial-of-service attacks are handled, guard selection is
15984 improved to handle long-term guards better, pluggable transports
15985 should work a bit better, and some annoying hidden service performance
15986 bugs should be addressed.
15988 o New compiler and system requirements:
15989 - Tor 0.2.6.x requires that your compiler support more of the C99
15990 language standard than before. The 'configure' script now detects
15991 whether your compiler supports C99 mid-block declarations and
15992 designated initializers. If it does not, Tor will not compile.
15994 We may revisit this requirement if it turns out that a significant
15995 number of people need to build Tor with compilers that don't
15996 bother implementing a 15-year-old standard. Closes ticket 13233.
15997 - Tor no longer supports systems without threading support. When we
15998 began working on Tor, there were several systems that didn't have
15999 threads, or where the thread support wasn't able to run the
16000 threads of a single process on multiple CPUs. That no longer
16001 holds: every system where Tor needs to run well now has threading
16002 support. Resolves ticket 12439.
16004 o Deprecated versions and removed support:
16005 - Tor relays older than 0.2.4.18-rc are no longer allowed to
16006 advertise themselves on the network. Closes ticket 13555.
16007 - Tor clients no longer support connecting to hidden services
16008 running on Tor 0.2.2.x and earlier; the Support022HiddenServices
16009 option has been removed. (There shouldn't be any hidden services
16010 running these versions on the network.) Closes ticket 7803.
16012 o Directory authority changes:
16013 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
16014 closes ticket 14487.
16015 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
16016 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
16017 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
16019 o Major features (bridges):
16020 - Expose the outgoing upstream HTTP/SOCKS proxy to pluggable
16021 transports if they are configured via the "TOR_PT_PROXY"
16022 environment variable. Implements proposal 232. Resolves
16025 o Major features (changed defaults):
16026 - Prevent relay operators from unintentionally running exits: When a
16027 relay is configured as an exit node, we now warn the user unless
16028 the "ExitRelay" option is set to 1. We warn even more loudly if
16029 the relay is configured with the default exit policy, since this
16030 can indicate accidental misconfiguration. Setting "ExitRelay 0"
16031 stops Tor from running as an exit relay. Closes ticket 10067.
16033 o Major features (client performance, hidden services):
16034 - Allow clients to use optimistic data when connecting to a hidden
16035 service, which should remove a round-trip from hidden service
16036 initialization. See proposal 181 for details. Implements
16039 o Major features (directory system):
16040 - Upon receiving an unparseable directory object, if its digest
16041 matches what we expected, then don't try to download it again.
16042 Previously, when we got a descriptor we didn't like, we would keep
16043 trying to download it over and over. Closes ticket 11243.
16044 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors from a directory
16045 server, we no longer launch multiple simultaneous requests to the
16046 same server. This reduces load on the directory servers,
16047 especially when directory guards are in use. Closes ticket 9969.
16048 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors over a tunneled
16049 connection, do not limit the length of our requests to what the
16050 Squid proxy is willing to handle. Part of ticket 9969.
16051 - Authorities can now vote on the correct digests and latest
16052 versions for different software packages. This allows packages
16053 that include Tor to use the Tor authority system as a way to get
16054 notified of updates and their correct digests. Implements proposal
16055 227. Closes ticket 10395.
16057 o Major features (guards):
16058 - Introduce the Guardfraction feature to improves load balancing on
16059 guard nodes. Specifically, it aims to reduce the traffic gap that
16060 guard nodes experience when they first get the Guard flag. This is
16061 a required step if we want to increase the guard lifetime to 9
16062 months or greater. Closes ticket 9321.
16064 o Major features (hidden services):
16065 - Make HS port scanning more difficult by immediately closing the
16066 circuit when a user attempts to connect to a nonexistent port.
16067 Closes ticket 13667.
16068 - Add a HiddenServiceStatistics option that allows Tor relays to
16069 gather and publish statistics about the overall size and volume of
16070 hidden service usage. Specifically, when this option is turned on,
16071 an HSDir will publish an approximate number of hidden services
16072 that have published descriptors to it the past 24 hours. Also, if
16073 a relay has acted as a hidden service rendezvous point, it will
16074 publish the approximate amount of rendezvous cells it has relayed
16075 the past 24 hours. The statistics themselves are obfuscated so
16076 that the exact values cannot be derived. For more details see
16077 proposal 238, "Better hidden service stats from Tor relays". This
16078 feature is currently disabled by default. Implements feature 13192.
16080 o Major features (performance):
16081 - Make the CPU worker implementation more efficient by avoiding the
16082 kernel and lengthening pipelines. The original implementation used
16083 sockets to transfer data from the main thread to the workers, and
16084 didn't allow any thread to be assigned more than a single piece of
16085 work at once. The new implementation avoids communications
16086 overhead by making requests in shared memory, avoiding kernel IO
16087 where possible, and keeping more requests in flight at once.
16088 Implements ticket 9682.
16090 o Major features (relay):
16091 - Raise the minimum acceptable configured bandwidth rate for bridges
16092 to 50 KiB/sec and for relays to 75 KiB/sec. (The old values were
16093 20 KiB/sec.) Closes ticket 13822.
16094 - Complete revision of the code that relays use to decide which cell
16095 to send next. Formerly, we selected the best circuit to write on
16096 each channel, but we didn't select among channels in any
16097 sophisticated way. Now, we choose the best circuits globally from
16098 among those whose channels are ready to deliver traffic.
16100 This patch implements a new inter-cmux comparison API, a global
16101 high/low watermark mechanism and a global scheduler loop for
16102 transmission prioritization across all channels as well as among
16103 circuits on one channel. This schedule is currently tuned to
16104 (tolerantly) avoid making changes in network performance, but it
16105 should form the basis for major circuit performance increases in
16106 the future. Code by Andrea; tuning by Rob Jansen; implements
16109 o Major features (sample torrc):
16110 - Add a new, infrequently-changed "torrc.minimal". This file is
16111 similar to torrc.sample, but it will change as infrequently as
16112 possible, for the benefit of users whose systems prompt them for
16113 intervention whenever a default configuration file is changed.
16114 Making this change allows us to update torrc.sample to be a more
16115 generally useful "sample torrc".
16117 o Major features (security, unix domain sockets):
16118 - Allow SocksPort to be an AF_UNIX Unix Domain Socket. Now high risk
16119 applications can reach Tor without having to create AF_INET or
16120 AF_INET6 sockets, meaning they can completely disable their
16121 ability to make non-Tor network connections. To create a socket of
16122 this type, use "SocksPort unix:/path/to/socket". Implements
16124 - Support mapping hidden service virtual ports to AF_UNIX sockets.
16125 The syntax is "HiddenServicePort 80 unix:/path/to/socket".
16126 Implements ticket 11485.
16128 o Major bugfixes (client, automap):
16129 - Repair automapping with IPv6 addresses. This automapping should
16130 have worked previously, but one piece of debugging code that we
16131 inserted to detect a regression actually caused the regression to
16132 manifest itself again. Fixes bug 13811 and bug 12831; bugfix on
16133 0.2.4.7-alpha. Diagnosed and fixed by Francisco Blas
16136 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
16137 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
16138 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
16141 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
16142 - Do not assign the HSDir flag to relays if they are not Valid, or
16143 currently hibernating. Fixes 12573; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
16145 o Major bugfixes (directory bandwidth performance):
16146 - Don't flush the zlib buffer aggressively when compressing
16147 directory information for clients. This should save about 7% of
16148 the bandwidth currently used for compressed descriptors and
16149 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 11787; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
16151 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
16152 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
16153 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
16154 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
16156 o Major bugfixes (FreeBSD IPFW transparent proxy):
16157 - Fix address detection with FreeBSD transparent proxies, when
16158 "TransProxyType ipfw" is in use. Fixes bug 15064; bugfix
16161 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
16162 - When closing an introduction circuit that was opened in parallel
16163 with others, don't mark the introduction point as unreachable.
16164 Previously, the first successful connection to an introduction
16165 point would make the other introduction points get marked as
16166 having timed out. Fixes bug 13698; bugfix on 0.0.6rc2.
16168 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
16169 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
16170 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
16171 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
16173 o Major bugfixes (mixed relay-client operation):
16174 - When running as a relay and client at the same time (not
16175 recommended), if we decide not to use a new guard because we want
16176 to retry older guards, only close the locally-originating circuits
16177 passing through that guard. Previously we would close all the
16178 circuits through that guard. Fixes bug 9819; bugfix on
16179 0.2.1.1-alpha. Reported by "skruffy".
16181 o Major bugfixes (pluggable transports):
16182 - Initialize the extended OR Port authentication cookie before
16183 launching pluggable transports. This prevents a race condition
16184 that occurred when server-side pluggable transports would cache the
16185 authentication cookie before it has been (re)generated. Fixes bug
16186 15240; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
16188 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
16189 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
16190 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout is passed to
16191 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
16192 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
16193 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
16194 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
16195 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
16197 o Minor features (build):
16198 - New --disable-system-torrc compile-time option to prevent Tor from
16199 looking for the system-wide torrc or torrc-defaults files.
16200 Resolves ticket 13037.
16202 o Minor features (client):
16203 - Clients are now willing to send optimistic data (before they
16204 receive a 'connected' cell) to relays of any version. (Relays
16205 without support for optimistic data are no longer supported on the
16206 Tor network.) Resolves ticket 13153.
16208 o Minor features (client):
16209 - Validate hostnames in SOCKS5 requests more strictly. If SafeSocks
16210 is enabled, reject requests with IP addresses as hostnames.
16211 Resolves ticket 13315.
16213 o Minor features (controller):
16214 - Add a "SIGNAL HEARTBEAT" controller command that tells Tor to
16215 write an unscheduled heartbeat message to the log. Implements
16217 - Include SOCKS_USERNAME and SOCKS_PASSWORD values in controller
16218 events so controllers can observe circuit isolation inputs. Closes
16220 - ControlPort now supports the unix:/path/to/socket syntax as an
16221 alternative to the ControlSocket option, for consistency with
16222 SocksPort and HiddenServicePort. Closes ticket 14451.
16223 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
16224 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
16225 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
16226 - Messages about problems in the bootstrap process now include
16227 information about the server we were trying to connect to when we
16228 noticed the problem. Closes ticket 15006.
16230 o Minor features (Denial of service resistance):
16231 - Count the total number of bytes used storing hidden service
16232 descriptors against the value of MaxMemInQueues. If we're low on
16233 memory, and more than 20% of our memory is used holding hidden
16234 service descriptors, free them until no more than 10% of our
16235 memory holds hidden service descriptors. Free the least recently
16236 fetched descriptors first. Resolves ticket 13806.
16237 - When we have recently been under memory pressure (over 3/4 of
16238 MaxMemInQueues is allocated), then allocate smaller zlib objects
16239 for small requests. Closes ticket 11791.
16241 o Minor features (directory authorities):
16242 - Don't list relays with a bandwidth estimate of 0 in the consensus.
16243 Implements a feature proposed during discussion of bug 13000.
16244 - In tor-gencert, report an error if the user provides the same
16245 argument more than once.
16246 - If a directory authority can't find a best consensus method in the
16247 votes that it holds, it now falls back to its favorite consensus
16248 method. Previously, it fell back to method 1. Neither of these is
16249 likely to get enough signatures, but "fall back to favorite"
16250 doesn't require us to maintain support an obsolete consensus
16251 method. Implements part of proposal 215.
16253 o Minor features (geoip):
16254 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
16255 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
16258 o Minor features (guard nodes):
16259 - Reduce the time delay before saving guard status to disk from 10
16260 minutes to 30 seconds (or from one hour to 10 minutes if
16261 AvoidDiskWrites is set). Closes ticket 12485.
16263 o Minor features (heartbeat):
16264 - On relays, report how many connections we negotiated using each
16265 version of the Tor link protocols. This information will let us
16266 know if removing support for very old versions of the Tor
16267 protocols is harming the network. Closes ticket 15212.
16269 o Minor features (hidden service):
16270 - Make Sybil attacks against hidden services harder by changing the
16271 minimum time required to get the HSDir flag from 25 hours up to 96
16272 hours. Addresses ticket 14149.
16273 - New option "HiddenServiceAllowUnknownPorts" to allow hidden
16274 services to disable the anti-scanning feature introduced in
16275 0.2.6.2-alpha. With this option not set, a connection to an
16276 unlisted port closes the circuit. With this option set, only a
16277 RELAY_DONE cell is sent. Closes ticket 14084.
16278 - When re-enabling the network, don't try to build introduction
16279 circuits until we have successfully built a circuit. This makes
16280 hidden services come up faster when the network is re-enabled.
16281 Patch from "akwizgran". Closes ticket 13447.
16282 - When we fail to retrieve a hidden service descriptor, send the
16283 controller an "HS_DESC FAILED" controller event. Implements
16285 - New HiddenServiceDirGroupReadable option to cause hidden service
16286 directories and hostname files to be created group-readable. Patch
16287 from "anon", David Stainton, and "meejah". Closes ticket 11291.
16289 o Minor features (interface):
16290 - Implement "-f -" command-line option to read torrc configuration
16291 from standard input, if you don't want to store the torrc file in
16292 the file system. Implements feature 13865.
16294 o Minor features (logging):
16295 - Add a count of unique clients to the bridge heartbeat message.
16296 Resolves ticket 6852.
16297 - Suppress "router info incompatible with extra info" message when
16298 reading extrainfo documents from cache. (This message got loud
16299 around when we closed bug 9812 in 0.2.6.2-alpha.) Closes
16301 - Elevate hidden service authorized-client message from DEBUG to
16302 INFO. Closes ticket 14015.
16303 - On Unix-like systems, you can now use named pipes as the target of
16304 the Log option, and other options that try to append to files.
16305 Closes ticket 12061. Patch from "carlo von lynX".
16306 - When opening a log file at startup, send it every log message that
16307 we generated between startup and opening it. Previously, log
16308 messages that were generated before opening the log file were only
16309 logged to stdout. Closes ticket 6938.
16310 - Add a TruncateLogFile option to overwrite logs instead of
16311 appending to them. Closes ticket 5583.
16312 - Quiet some log messages in the heartbeat and at startup. Closes
16315 o Minor features (portability, Solaris):
16316 - Threads are no longer disabled by default on Solaris; we believe
16317 that the versions of Solaris with broken threading support are all
16318 obsolete by now. Resolves ticket 9495.
16320 o Minor features (relay):
16321 - Re-check our address after we detect a changed IP address from
16322 getsockname(). This ensures that the controller command "GETINFO
16323 address" will report the correct value. Resolves ticket 11582.
16325 - A new AccountingRule option lets Relays set whether they'd like
16326 AccountingMax to be applied separately to inbound and outbound
16327 traffic, or applied to the sum of inbound and outbound traffic.
16328 Resolves ticket 961. Patch by "chobe".
16329 - When identity keypair is generated for first time, log a
16330 congratulatory message that links to the new relay lifecycle
16331 document. Implements feature 10427.
16333 o Minor features (security, memory wiping):
16334 - Ensure we securely wipe keys from memory after
16335 crypto_digest_get_digest and init_curve25519_keypair_from_file
16336 have finished using them. Resolves ticket 13477.
16338 o Minor features (security, out-of-memory handling):
16339 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, allocate less memory for
16340 temporary data structures. Fixes issue 10115.
16341 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, consider more types of
16342 buffers, including those on directory connections, and zlib
16343 buffers. Resolves ticket 11792.
16345 o Minor features (stability):
16346 - Add assertions in our hash-table iteration code to check for
16347 corrupted values that could cause infinite loops. Closes
16350 o Minor features (systemd):
16351 - Various improvements and modernizations in systemd hardening
16352 support. Closes ticket 13805. Patch from Craig Andrews.
16353 - Where supported, when running with systemd, report successful
16354 startup to systemd. Part of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
16355 - When running with systemd, support systemd watchdog messages. Part
16356 of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
16358 o Minor features (testing networks):
16359 - Add the TestingDirAuthVoteExit option, which lists nodes to assign
16360 the "Exit" flag regardless of their uptime, bandwidth, or exit
16361 policy. TestingTorNetwork must be set for this option to have any
16362 effect. Previously, authorities would take up to 35 minutes to
16363 give nodes the Exit flag in a test network. Partially implements
16365 - Drop the minimum RendPostPeriod on a testing network to 5 seconds,
16366 and the default on a testing network to 2 minutes. Drop the
16367 MIN_REND_INITIAL_POST_DELAY on a testing network to 5 seconds, but
16368 keep the default on a testing network at 30 seconds. This reduces
16369 HS bootstrap time to around 25 seconds. Also, change the default
16370 time in test-network.sh to match. Closes ticket 13401. Patch
16372 - Create TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir to correspond to
16373 TestingDirAuthVoteExit/Guard. Ensures that authorities vote the
16374 HSDir flag for the listed relays regardless of uptime or ORPort
16375 connectivity. Respects the value of VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2.
16376 Partial implementation for ticket 14067. Patch by "teor".
16378 o Minor features (tor2web mode):
16379 - Introduce the config option Tor2webRendezvousPoints, which allows
16380 clients in Tor2webMode to select a specific Rendezvous Point to be
16381 used in HS circuits. This might allow better performance for
16382 Tor2Web nodes. Implements ticket 12844.
16384 o Minor features (transparent proxy):
16385 - Update the transparent proxy option checks to allow for both ipfw
16386 and pf on OS X. Closes ticket 14002.
16387 - Use the correct option when using IPv6 with transparent proxy
16388 support on Linux. Resolves 13808. Patch by Francisco Blas
16391 o Minor features (validation):
16392 - Check all date/time values passed to tor_timegm and
16393 parse_rfc1123_time for validity, taking leap years into account.
16394 Improves HTTP header validation. Implemented with bug 13476.
16395 - In correct_tm(), limit the range of values returned by system
16396 localtime(_r) and gmtime(_r) to be between the years 1 and 8099.
16397 This means we don't have to deal with negative or too large dates,
16398 even if a clock is wrong. Otherwise we might fail to read a file
16399 written by us which includes such a date. Fixes bug 13476.
16400 - Stop allowing invalid address patterns like "*/24" that contain
16401 both a wildcard address and a bit prefix length. This affects all
16402 our address-range parsing code. Fixes bug 7484; bugfix
16405 o Minor bugfixes (bridge clients):
16406 - When configured to use a bridge without an identity digest (not
16407 recommended), avoid launching an extra channel to it when
16408 bootstrapping. Fixes bug 7733; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
16410 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
16411 - When DisableNetwork is set, do not launch pluggable transport
16412 plugins, and if any are running, terminate them. Fixes bug 13213;
16413 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
16415 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
16416 - Fix several instances of possible integer overflow/underflow/NaN.
16417 Fixes bug 13104; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha and later. Patches
16419 - In circuit_build_times_calculate_timeout() in circuitstats.c,
16420 avoid dividing by zero in the pareto calculations. This traps
16421 under clang's "undefined-trap" sanitizer. Fixes bug 13290; bugfix
16423 - Fix an integer overflow in format_time_interval(). Fixes bug
16424 13393; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
16425 - Set the correct day of year value when the system's localtime(_r)
16426 or gmtime(_r) functions fail to set struct tm. Not externally
16427 visible. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
16428 - Avoid unlikely signed integer overflow in tor_timegm on systems
16429 with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
16431 o Minor bugfixes (certificate handling):
16432 - If an authority operator accidentally makes a signing certificate
16433 with a future publication time, do not discard its real signing
16434 certificates. Fixes bug 11457; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
16435 - Remove any old authority certificates that have been superseded
16436 for at least two days. Previously, we would keep superseded
16437 certificates until they expired, if they were published close in
16438 time to the certificate that superseded them. Fixes bug 11454;
16439 bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
16441 o Minor bugfixes (client):
16442 - Fix smartlist_choose_node_by_bandwidth() so that relays with the
16443 BadExit flag are not considered worthy candidates. Fixes bug
16444 13066; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
16445 - Use the consensus schedule for downloading consensuses, and not
16446 the generic schedule. Fixes bug 11679; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
16447 - Handle unsupported or malformed SOCKS5 requests properly by
16448 responding with the appropriate error message before closing the
16449 connection. Fixes bugs 12971 and 13314; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13.
16451 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
16452 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
16453 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
16454 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
16455 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
16456 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
16457 - Prevent changes to other options from removing the wildcard value
16458 "." from "AutomapHostsSuffixes". Fixes bug 12509; bugfix
16460 - Allow MapAddress and AutomapHostsOnResolve to work together when
16461 an address is mapped into another address type (like .onion) that
16462 must be automapped at resolve time. Fixes bug 7555; bugfix
16465 o Minor bugfixes (client, bridges):
16466 - When we are using bridges and we had a network connectivity
16467 problem, only retry connecting to our currently configured
16468 bridges, not all bridges we know about and remember using. Fixes
16469 bug 14216; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
16471 o Minor bugfixes (client, DNS):
16472 - Report the correct cached DNS expiration times on SOCKS port or in
16473 DNS replies. Previously, we would report everything as "never
16474 expires." Fixes bug 14193; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
16475 - Avoid a small memory leak when we find a cached answer for a
16476 reverse DNS lookup in a client-side DNS cache. (Remember, client-
16477 side DNS caching is off by default, and is not recommended.) Fixes
16478 bug 14259; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
16480 o Minor bugfixes (client, IPv6):
16481 - Reject socks requests to literal IPv6 addresses when IPv6Traffic
16482 flag is not set; and not because the NoIPv4Traffic flag was set.
16483 Previously we'd looked at the NoIPv4Traffic flag for both types of
16484 literal addresses. Fixes bug 14280; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
16486 o Minor bugfixes (client, microdescriptors):
16487 - Use a full 256 bits of the SHA256 digest of a microdescriptor when
16488 computing which microdescriptors to download. This keeps us from
16489 erroneous download behavior if two microdescriptor digests ever
16490 have the same first 160 bits. Fixes part of bug 13399; bugfix
16492 - Reset a router's status if its microdescriptor digest changes,
16493 even if the first 160 bits remain the same. Fixes part of bug
16494 13399; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
16496 o Minor bugfixes (client, torrc):
16497 - Stop modifying the value of our DirReqStatistics torrc option just
16498 because we're not a bridge or relay. This bug was causing Tor
16499 Browser users to write "DirReqStatistics 0" in their torrc files
16500 as if they had chosen to change the config. Fixes bug 4244; bugfix
16502 - When GeoIPExcludeUnknown is enabled, do not incorrectly decide
16503 that our options have changed every time we SIGHUP. Fixes bug
16504 9801; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch from "qwerty1".
16506 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
16507 - Fix a compilation warning on s390. Fixes bug 14988; bugfix
16509 - Silence clang warnings under --enable-expensive-hardening,
16510 including implicit truncation of 64 bit values to 32 bit, const
16511 char assignment to self, tautological compare, and additional
16512 parentheses around equality tests. Fixes bug 13577; bugfix
16514 - Fix a clang warning about checking whether an address in the
16515 middle of a structure is NULL. Fixes bug 14001; bugfix
16517 - The address of an array in the middle of a structure will always
16518 be non-NULL. clang recognises this and complains. Disable the
16519 tautologous and redundant check to silence this warning. Fixes bug
16520 14001; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
16521 - Compile correctly with (unreleased) OpenSSL 1.1.0 headers.
16522 Addresses ticket 14188.
16523 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
16524 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
16525 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
16526 - Do not compile any code related to Tor2Web mode when Tor2Web mode
16527 is not enabled at compile time. Previously, this code was included
16528 in a disabled state. See discussion on ticket 12844.
16529 - Allow our configure script to build correctly with autoconf 2.62
16530 again. Fixes bug 12693; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
16531 - Improve the error message from ./configure to make it clear that
16532 when asciidoc has not been found, the user will have to either add
16533 --disable-asciidoc argument or install asciidoc. Resolves
16536 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
16537 - Report "down" in response to the "GETINFO entry-guards" command
16538 when relays are down with an unreachable_since value. Previously,
16539 we would report "up". Fixes bug 14184; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
16540 - Avoid crashing on a malformed EXTENDCIRCUIT command. Fixes bug
16541 14116; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
16543 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
16544 - Return an error when the second or later arguments of the
16545 "setevents" controller command are invalid events. Previously we
16546 would return success while silently skipping invalid events. Fixes
16547 bug 13205; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Reported by "fpxnns".
16549 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
16550 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
16551 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
16552 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
16553 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
16554 - Do not attempt to download extrainfo documents which we will be
16555 unable to validate with a matching server descriptor. Fixes bug
16556 13762; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
16557 - Fix a bug that was truncating AUTHDIR_NEWDESC events sent to the
16558 control port. Fixes bug 14953; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
16559 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
16560 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
16561 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
16562 - When running as a v3 directory authority, advertise that you serve
16563 extra-info documents so that clients who want them can find them
16564 from you too. Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
16566 o Minor bugfixes (directory system):
16567 - Always believe that v3 directory authorities serve extra-info
16568 documents, whether they advertise "caches-extra-info" or not.
16569 Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
16570 - Check the BRIDGE_DIRINFO flag bitwise rather than using equality.
16571 Previously, directories offering BRIDGE_DIRINFO and some other
16572 flag (i.e. microdescriptors or extrainfo) would be ignored when
16573 looking for bridges. Partially fixes bug 13163; bugfix
16576 o Minor bugfixes (file handling):
16577 - Stop failing when key files are zero-length. Instead, generate new
16578 keys, and overwrite the empty key files. Fixes bug 13111; bugfix
16579 on all versions of Tor. Patch by "teor".
16580 - Stop generating a fresh .old RSA onion key file when the .old file
16581 is missing. Fixes part of 13111; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
16582 - Avoid overwriting .old key files with empty key files.
16583 - Skip loading zero-length extrainfo store, router store, stats,
16584 state, and key files.
16585 - Avoid crashing when trying to reload a torrc specified as a
16586 relative path with RunAsDaemon turned on. Fixes bug 13397; bugfix
16589 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
16590 - Close the introduction circuit when we have no more usable intro
16591 points, instead of waiting for it to time out. This also ensures
16592 that no follow-up HS descriptor fetch is triggered when the
16593 circuit eventually times out. Fixes bug 14224; bugfix on 0.0.6.
16594 - When fetching a hidden service descriptor for a down service that
16595 was recently up, do not keep refetching until we try the same
16596 replica twice in a row. Fixes bug 14219; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
16597 - Correctly send a controller event when we find that a rendezvous
16598 circuit has finished. Fixes bug 13936; bugfix on 0.1.1.5-alpha.
16599 - Pre-check directory permissions for new hidden-services to avoid
16600 at least one case of "Bug: Acting on config options left us in a
16601 broken state. Dying." Fixes bug 13942; bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
16602 - When fetching hidden service descriptors, we now check not only
16603 for whether we got the hidden service we had in mind, but also
16604 whether we got the particular descriptors we wanted. This prevents
16605 a class of inefficient but annoying DoS attacks by hidden service
16606 directories. Fixes bug 13214; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported
16609 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
16610 - Make transparent proxy support work along with the seccomp2
16611 sandbox. Fixes part of bug 13808; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch
16612 by Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera.
16613 - Fix a memory leak in tor-resolve when running with the sandbox
16614 enabled. Fixes bug 14050; bugfix on 0.2.5.9-rc.
16615 - Allow glibc fatal errors to be sent to stderr before Tor exits.
16616 Previously, glibc would try to write them to /dev/tty, and the
16617 sandbox would trap the call and make Tor exit prematurely. Fixes
16618 bug 14759; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
16620 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
16621 - Avoid crashing when there are more log domains than entries in
16622 domain_list. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
16623 - Downgrade warnings about RSA signature failures to info log level.
16624 Emit a warning when an extra info document is found incompatible
16625 with a corresponding router descriptor. Fixes bug 9812; bugfix
16627 - Make connection_ap_handshake_attach_circuit() log the circuit ID
16628 correctly. Fixes bug 13701; bugfix on 0.0.6.
16630 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
16631 - Check for orconns and use connection_or_close_for_error() rather
16632 than connection_mark_for_close() directly in the getsockopt()
16633 failure case of connection_handle_write_impl(). Fixes bug 11302;
16634 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
16636 o Minor bugfixes (parsing):
16637 - Stop accepting milliseconds (or other junk) at the end of
16638 descriptor publication times. Fixes bug 9286; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25.
16639 - Support two-number and three-number version numbers correctly, in
16640 case we change the Tor versioning system in the future. Fixes bug
16641 13661; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
16643 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
16644 - Fix the ioctl()-based network interface lookup code so that it
16645 will work on systems that have variable-length struct ifreq, for
16647 - Use the correct datatype in the SipHash-2-4 function to prevent
16648 compilers from assuming any sort of alignment. Fixes bug 15436;
16649 bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
16651 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
16652 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
16653 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
16654 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
16655 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
16657 - Clear all memory targeted by tor_addr_{to,from}_sockaddr(), not
16658 just the part that's used. This makes it harder for data leak bugs
16659 to occur in the event of other programming failures. Resolves
16662 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
16663 - When generating our family list, remove spaces from around the
16664 entries. Fixes bug 12728; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
16665 - If our previous bandwidth estimate was 0 bytes, allow publishing a
16666 new relay descriptor immediately. Fixes bug 13000; bugfix
16669 o Minor bugfixes (shutdown):
16670 - When shutting down, always call event_del() on lingering read or
16671 write events before freeing them. Otherwise, we risk double-frees
16672 or read-after-frees in event_base_free(). Fixes bug 12985; bugfix
16675 o Minor bugfixes (small memory leaks):
16676 - Avoid leaking memory when using IPv6 virtual address mappings.
16677 Fixes bug 14123; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by Tom van
16680 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
16681 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
16682 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
16684 o Minor bugfixes (systemd support):
16685 - Run correctly under systemd with the RunAsDaemon option set. Fixes
16686 part of bug 14141; bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc. Patch from Tomasz Torcz.
16687 - Inform the systemd supervisor about more changes in the Tor
16688 process status. Implements part of ticket 14141. Patch from
16691 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks):
16692 - Fix TestingDirAuthVoteGuard to properly give out Guard flags in a
16693 testing network. Fixes bug 13064; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
16694 - Stop using the default authorities in networks which provide both
16695 AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority. Partially
16696 fixes bug 13163; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
16698 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks, fast startup):
16699 - Allow Tor to build circuits using a consensus with no exits. If
16700 the consensus has no exits (typical of a bootstrapping test
16701 network), allow Tor to build circuits once enough descriptors have
16702 been downloaded. This assists in bootstrapping a testing Tor
16703 network. Fixes bug 13718; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch
16705 - When V3AuthVotingInterval is low, give a lower If-Modified-Since
16706 header to directory servers. This allows us to obtain consensuses
16707 promptly when the consensus interval is very short. This assists
16708 in bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718
16709 and 13963; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
16710 - Stop assuming that private addresses are local when checking
16711 reachability in a TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when testing, assume
16712 all OR connections are remote. (This is necessary due to many test
16713 scenarios running all relays on localhost.) This assists in
16714 bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes bug 13924; bugfix on
16715 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by "teor".
16716 - Avoid building exit circuits from a consensus with no exits. Now
16717 thanks to our fix for 13718, we accept a no-exit network as not
16718 wholly lost, but we need to remember not to try to build exit
16719 circuits on it. Closes ticket 13814; patch by "teor".
16720 - Stop requiring exits to have non-zero bandwithcapacity in a
16721 TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when TestingMinExitFlagThreshold is 0,
16722 ignore exit bandwidthcapacity. This assists in bootstrapping a
16723 testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718 and 13839; bugfix
16724 on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
16725 - Add "internal" to some bootstrap statuses when no exits are
16726 available. If the consensus does not contain Exits, Tor will only
16727 build internal circuits. In this case, relevant statuses will
16728 contain the word "internal" as indicated in the Tor control-
16729 spec.txt. When bootstrap completes, Tor will be ready to build
16730 internal circuits. If a future consensus contains Exits, exit
16731 circuits may become available. Fixes part of bug 13718; bugfix on
16732 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch by "teor".
16733 - Decrease minimum consensus interval to 10 seconds when
16734 TestingTorNetwork is set, or 5 seconds for the first consensus.
16735 Fix assumptions throughout the code that assume larger intervals.
16736 Fixes bugs 13718 and 13823; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch
16738 - Avoid excluding guards from path building in minimal test
16739 networks, when we're in a test network and excluding guards would
16740 exclude all relays. This typically occurs in incredibly small tor
16741 networks, and those using "TestingAuthVoteGuard *". Fixes part of
16742 bug 13718; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha. Patch by "teor".
16744 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
16745 - Avoid a side-effect in a tor_assert() in the unit tests. Fixes bug
16746 15188; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha. Patch from Tom van der Woerdt.
16747 - Stop spawn test failures due to a race condition between the
16748 SIGCHLD handler updating the process status, and the test reading
16749 it. Fixes bug 13291; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
16750 - Avoid passing an extra backslash when creating a temporary
16751 directory for running the unit tests on Windows. Fixes bug 12392;
16752 bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
16754 o Minor bugfixes (TLS):
16755 - Check more thoroughly throughout the TLS code for possible
16756 unlogged TLS errors. Possible diagnostic or fix for bug 13319.
16758 o Minor bugfixes (transparent proxy):
16759 - Use getsockname, not getsockopt, to retrieve the address for a
16760 TPROXY-redirected connection. Fixes bug 13796; bugfix
16763 o Minor bugfixes (windows):
16764 - Remove code to special-case handling of NTE_BAD_KEYSET when
16765 acquiring windows CryptoAPI context. This error can't actually
16766 occur for the parameters we're providing. Fixes bug 10816; bugfix
16769 o Minor bugfixes (zlib):
16770 - Avoid truncating a zlib stream when trying to finalize it with an
16771 empty output buffer. Fixes bug 11824; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
16773 o Code simplification and refactoring:
16774 - Change the entry_is_live() function to take named bitfield
16775 elements instead of an unnamed list of booleans. Closes
16777 - Refactor and unit-test entry_is_time_to_retry() in entrynodes.c.
16778 Resolves ticket 12205.
16779 - Use calloc and reallocarray functions instead of multiply-
16780 then-malloc. This makes it less likely for us to fall victim to an
16781 integer overflow attack when allocating. Resolves ticket 12855.
16782 - Use the standard macro name SIZE_MAX, instead of our
16784 - Document usage of the NO_DIRINFO and ALL_DIRINFO flags clearly in
16785 functions which take them as arguments. Replace 0 with NO_DIRINFO
16786 in a function call for clarity. Seeks to prevent future issues
16788 - Avoid 4 null pointer errors under clang static analysis by using
16789 tor_assert() to prove that the pointers aren't null. Fixes
16791 - Rework the API of policies_parse_exit_policy() to use a bitmask to
16792 represent parsing options, instead of a confusing mess of
16793 booleans. Resolves ticket 8197.
16794 - Introduce a helper function to parse ExitPolicy in
16795 or_options_t structure.
16796 - Move fields related to isolating and configuring client ports into
16797 a shared structure. Previously, they were duplicated across
16798 port_cfg_t, listener_connection_t, and edge_connection_t. Failure
16799 to copy them correctly had been the cause of at least one bug in
16800 the past. Closes ticket 8546.
16801 - Refactor the get_interface_addresses_raw() doom-function into
16802 multiple smaller and simpler subfunctions. Cover the resulting
16803 subfunctions with unit-tests. Fixes a significant portion of
16805 - Remove workaround in dirserv_thinks_router_is_hs_dir() that was
16806 only for version <= 0.2.2.24 which is now deprecated. Closes
16808 - Remove a test for a long-defunct broken version-one
16810 - Refactor main loop to extract the 'loop' part. This makes it
16811 easier to run Tor under Shadow. Closes ticket 15176.
16812 - Stop using can_complete_circuits as a global variable; access it
16813 with a function instead.
16814 - Avoid using operators directly as macro arguments: this lets us
16815 apply coccinelle transformations to our codebase more directly.
16816 Closes ticket 13172.
16817 - Combine the functions used to parse ClientTransportPlugin and
16818 ServerTransportPlugin into a single function. Closes ticket 6456.
16819 - Add inline functions and convenience macros for inspecting channel
16820 state. Refactor the code to use convenience macros instead of
16821 checking channel state directly. Fixes issue 7356.
16822 - Document all members of was_router_added_t and rename
16823 ROUTER_WAS_NOT_NEW to ROUTER_IS_ALREADY_KNOWN to make it less
16824 confusable with ROUTER_WAS_TOO_OLD. Fixes issue 13644.
16825 - In connection_exit_begin_conn(), use END_CIRC_REASON_TORPROTOCOL
16826 constant instead of hardcoded value. Fixes issue 13840.
16827 - Refactor our generic strmap and digestmap types into a single
16828 implementation, so that we can add a new digest256map
16832 - Add a doc/TUNING document with tips for handling large numbers of
16833 TCP connections when running busy Tor relay. Update the warning
16834 message to point to this file when running out of sockets
16835 operating system is allowing to use simultaneously. Resolves
16837 - Adding section on OpenBSD to our TUNING document. Thanks to mmcc
16838 for writing the OpenBSD-specific tips. Resolves ticket 13702.
16839 - Make the tor-resolve documentation match its help string and its
16840 options. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
16841 - Log a more useful error message from tor-resolve when failing to
16842 look up a hidden service address. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
16843 - Document the bridge-authority-only 'networkstatus-bridges' file.
16844 Closes ticket 13713; patch from "tom".
16845 - Fix typo in PredictedPortsRelevanceTime option description in
16846 manpage. Resolves issue 13707.
16847 - Stop suggesting that users specify relays by nickname: it isn't a
16848 good idea. Also, properly cross-reference how to specify relays in
16849 all parts of manual documenting options that take a list of
16850 relays. Closes ticket 13381.
16851 - Clarify the HiddenServiceDir option description in manpage to make
16852 it clear that relative paths are taken with respect to the current
16853 working directory. Also clarify that this behavior is not
16854 guaranteed to remain indefinitely. Fixes issue 13913.
16856 o Distribution (systemd):
16857 - systemd unit file: only allow tor to write to /var/lib/tor and
16858 /var/log/tor. The rest of the filesystem is accessible for reading
16859 only. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 12751.
16860 - systemd unit file: ensure that the process and all its children
16861 can never gain new privileges. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
16863 - systemd unit file: set up /var/run/tor as writable for the Tor
16864 service. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 13196.
16866 o Downgraded warnings:
16867 - Don't warn when we've attempted to contact a relay using the wrong
16868 ntor onion key. Closes ticket 9635.
16871 - Remove some lingering dead code that once supported mempools.
16872 Mempools were disabled by default in 0.2.5, and removed entirely
16873 in 0.2.6.3-alpha. Closes more of ticket 14848; patch
16876 o Removed features (directory authorities):
16877 - Remove code that prevented authorities from listing Tor relays
16878 affected by CVE-2011-2769 as guards. These relays are already
16879 rejected altogether due to the minimum version requirement of
16880 0.2.3.16-alpha. Closes ticket 13152.
16881 - The "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" option no longer has any effect, as
16882 the fingerprints file (approved-routers) has been deprecated.
16883 - Directory authorities do not support being Naming dirauths anymore.
16884 The "NamingAuthoritativeDir" config option is now obsolete.
16885 - Directory authorities do not support giving out the BadDirectory
16887 - Directory authorities no longer advertise or support consensus
16888 methods 1 through 12 inclusive. These consensus methods were
16889 obsolete and/or insecure: maintaining the ability to support them
16890 served no good purpose. Implements part of proposal 215; closes
16893 o Removed features:
16894 - To avoid confusion with the "ExitRelay" option, "ExitNode" is no
16895 longer silently accepted as an alias for "ExitNodes".
16896 - The --enable-mempool and --enable-buf-freelists options, which
16897 were originally created to work around bad malloc implementations,
16898 no longer exist. They were off-by-default in 0.2.5. Closes
16900 - We no longer remind the user about configuration options that have
16901 been obsolete since 0.2.3.x or earlier. Patch by Adrien Bak.
16902 - Remove our old, non-weighted bandwidth-based node selection code.
16903 Previously, we used it as a fallback when we couldn't perform
16904 weighted bandwidth-based node selection. But that would only
16905 happen in the cases where we had no consensus, or when we had a
16906 consensus generated by buggy or ancient directory authorities. In
16907 either case, it's better to use the more modern, better maintained
16908 algorithm, with reasonable defaults for the weights. Closes
16910 - Remove the --disable-curve25519 configure option. Relays and
16911 clients now are required to support curve25519 and the
16913 - The old "StrictEntryNodes" and "StrictExitNodes" options, which
16914 used to be deprecated synonyms for "StrictNodes", are now marked
16915 obsolete. Resolves ticket 12226.
16916 - Clients don't understand the BadDirectory flag in the consensus
16917 anymore, and ignore it.
16919 o Removed platform support:
16920 - We no longer include special code to build on Windows CE; as far
16921 as we know, nobody has used Tor on Windows CE in a very long time.
16922 Closes ticket 11446.
16924 o Testing (test-network.sh):
16925 - Stop using "echo -n", as some shells' built-in echo doesn't
16926 support "-n". Instead, use "/bin/echo -n". Partially fixes
16928 - Stop an apparent test-network hang when used with make -j2. Fixes
16930 - Add a --delay option to test-network.sh, which configures the
16931 delay before the chutney network tests for data transmission.
16932 Partially implements ticket 13161.
16935 - Test that tor does not fail when key files are zero-length. Check
16936 that tor generates new keys, and overwrites the empty key files.
16937 - Test that tor generates new keys when keys are missing
16938 (existing behavior).
16939 - Test that tor does not overwrite key files that already contain
16940 data (existing behavior). Tests bug 13111. Patch by "teor".
16941 - New "make test-stem" target to run stem integration tests.
16942 Requires that the "STEM_SOURCE_DIR" environment variable be set.
16943 Closes ticket 14107.
16944 - Make the test_cmdline_args.py script work correctly on Windows.
16945 Patch from Gisle Vanem.
16946 - Move the slower unit tests into a new "./src/test/test-slow"
16947 binary that can be run independently of the other tests. Closes
16949 - New tests for many parts of channel, relay, and circuitmux
16950 functionality. Code by Andrea; part of 9262.
16951 - New tests for parse_transport_line(). Part of ticket 6456.
16952 - In the unit tests, use chgrp() to change the group of the unit
16953 test temporary directory to the current user, so that the sticky
16954 bit doesn't interfere with tests that check directory groups.
16956 - Add unit tests for resolve_my_addr(). Part of ticket 12376; patch
16958 - Refactor the function that chooses guard nodes so that it can more
16959 easily be tested; write some tests for it.
16960 - Fix and re-enable the fgets_eagain unit test. Fixes bug 12503;
16961 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks."
16962 - Create unit tests for format_time_interval(). With bug 13393.
16963 - Add unit tests for tor_timegm signed overflow, tor_timegm and
16964 parse_rfc1123_time validity checks, correct_tm year clamping. Unit
16965 tests (visible) fixes in bug 13476.
16966 - Add a "coverage-html" make target to generate HTML-visualized
16967 coverage results when building with --enable-coverage. (Requires
16968 lcov.) Patch from Kevin Murray.
16969 - Enable the backtrace handler (where supported) when running the
16971 - Revise all unit tests that used the legacy test_* macros to
16972 instead use the recommended tt_* macros. This patch was generated
16973 with coccinelle, to avoid manual errors. Closes ticket 13119.
16975 Changes in version 0.2.5.11 - 2015-03-17
16976 Tor 0.2.5.11 is the second stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
16978 It backports several bugfixes from the 0.2.6 branch, including a
16979 couple of medium-level security fixes for relays and exit nodes.
16980 It also updates the list of directory authorities.
16982 o Directory authority changes:
16983 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
16984 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
16985 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
16986 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
16987 closes ticket 14487.
16989 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
16990 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
16991 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
16994 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
16995 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
16996 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
16997 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
16998 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
16999 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
17000 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
17001 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
17003 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
17004 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
17005 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
17006 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
17008 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
17009 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
17010 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
17011 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
17013 o Minor features (controller):
17014 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
17015 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
17016 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
17018 o Minor features (geoip):
17019 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
17020 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
17023 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
17024 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
17025 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
17026 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
17027 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
17028 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
17030 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
17031 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
17032 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
17033 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
17035 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
17036 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
17037 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
17038 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
17039 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
17040 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
17041 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
17042 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
17044 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
17045 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
17046 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
17048 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
17049 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
17050 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
17051 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
17052 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
17056 Changes in version 0.2.4.26 - 2015-03-17
17057 Tor 0.2.4.26 includes an updated list of directory authorities. It
17058 also backports a couple of stability and security bugfixes from 0.2.5
17061 o Directory authority changes:
17062 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
17063 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
17064 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
17065 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
17066 closes ticket 14487.
17068 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability, also in 0.2.6.3-alpha):
17069 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
17070 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
17071 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
17073 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security, also in 0.2.6.4-rc):
17074 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
17075 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
17076 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
17077 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
17078 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
17079 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
17080 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
17082 o Minor features (geoip):
17083 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
17084 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
17087 Changes in version 0.2.5.10 - 2014-10-24
17088 Tor 0.2.5.10 is the first stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
17090 It adds several new security features, including improved
17091 denial-of-service resistance for relays, new compiler hardening
17092 options, and a system-call sandbox for hardened installations on Linux
17093 (requires seccomp2). The controller protocol has several new features,
17094 resolving IPv6 addresses should work better than before, and relays
17095 should be a little more CPU-efficient. We've added support for more
17096 OpenBSD and FreeBSD transparent proxy types. We've improved the build
17097 system and testing infrastructure to allow unit testing of more parts
17098 of the Tor codebase. Finally, we've addressed several nagging pluggable
17099 transport usability issues, and included numerous other small bugfixes
17100 and features mentioned below.
17102 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.2.3.x; those Tor versions
17103 have accumulated many known flaws; everyone should upgrade.
17105 o Major features (security):
17106 - The ntor handshake is now on-by-default, no matter what the
17107 directory authorities recommend. Implements ticket 8561.
17108 - Make the "tor-gencert" tool used by directory authority operators
17109 create 2048-bit signing keys by default (rather than 1024-bit, since
17110 1024-bit is uncomfortably small these days). Addresses ticket 10324.
17111 - Warn about attempts to run hidden services and relays in the same
17112 process: that's probably not a good idea. Closes ticket 12908.
17113 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
17114 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
17115 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
17117 o Major features (relay security, DoS-resistance):
17118 - When deciding whether we have run out of memory and we need to
17119 close circuits, also consider memory allocated in buffers for
17120 streams attached to each circuit.
17122 This change, which extends an anti-DoS feature introduced in
17123 0.2.4.13-alpha and improved in 0.2.4.14-alpha, lets Tor exit relays
17124 better resist more memory-based DoS attacks than before. Since the
17125 MaxMemInCellQueues option now applies to all queues, it is renamed
17126 to MaxMemInQueues. This feature fixes bug 10169.
17127 - Avoid hash-flooding denial-of-service attacks by using the secure
17128 SipHash-2-4 hash function for our hashtables. Without this
17129 feature, an attacker could degrade performance of a targeted
17130 client or server by flooding their data structures with a large
17131 number of entries to be stored at the same hash table position,
17132 thereby slowing down the Tor instance. With this feature, hash
17133 table positions are derived from a randomized cryptographic key,
17134 and an attacker cannot predict which entries will collide. Closes
17136 - If you don't specify MaxMemInQueues yourself, Tor now tries to
17137 pick a good value based on your total system memory. Previously,
17138 the default was always 8 GB. You can still override the default by
17139 setting MaxMemInQueues yourself. Resolves ticket 11396.
17141 o Major features (bridges and pluggable transports):
17142 - Add support for passing arguments to managed pluggable transport
17143 proxies. Implements ticket 3594.
17144 - Bridges now track GeoIP information and the number of their users
17145 even when pluggable transports are in use, and report usage
17146 statistics in their extra-info descriptors. Resolves tickets 4773
17148 - Don't launch pluggable transport proxies if we don't have any
17149 bridges configured that would use them. Now we can list many
17150 pluggable transports, and Tor will dynamically start one when it
17151 hears a bridge address that needs it. Resolves ticket 5018.
17152 - The bridge directory authority now assigns status flags (Stable,
17153 Guard, etc) to bridges based on thresholds calculated over all
17154 Running bridges. Now bridgedb can finally make use of its features
17155 to e.g. include at least one Stable bridge in its answers. Fixes
17158 o Major features (controller):
17159 - Extend ORCONN controller event to include an "ID" parameter,
17160 and add four new controller event types CONN_BW, CIRC_BW,
17161 CELL_STATS, and TB_EMPTY that show connection and circuit usage.
17162 The new events are emitted in private Tor networks only, with the
17163 goal of being able to better track performance and load during
17164 full-network simulations. Implements proposal 218 and ticket 7359.
17166 o Major features (relay performance):
17167 - Speed up server-side lookups of rendezvous and introduction point
17168 circuits by using hashtables instead of linear searches. These
17169 functions previously accounted between 3 and 7% of CPU usage on
17170 some busy relays. Resolves ticket 9841.
17171 - Avoid wasting CPU when extending a circuit over a channel that is
17172 nearly out of circuit IDs. Previously, we would do a linear scan
17173 over possible circuit IDs before finding one or deciding that we
17174 had exhausted our possibilities. Now, we try at most 64 random
17175 circuit IDs before deciding that we probably won't succeed. Fixes
17176 a possible root cause of ticket 11553.
17178 o Major features (seccomp2 sandbox, Linux only):
17179 - Use the seccomp2 syscall filtering facility on Linux to limit
17180 which system calls Tor can invoke. This is an experimental,
17181 Linux-only feature to provide defense-in-depth against unknown
17182 attacks. To try turning it on, set "Sandbox 1" in your torrc
17183 file. Please be ready to report bugs. We hope to add support
17184 for better sandboxing in the future, including more fine-grained
17185 filters, better division of responsibility, and support for more
17186 platforms. This work has been done by Cristian-Matei Toader for
17187 Google Summer of Code. Resolves tickets 11351 and 11465.
17189 o Major features (testing networks):
17190 - Make testing Tor networks bootstrap better: lower directory fetch
17191 retry schedules and maximum interval without directory requests,
17192 and raise maximum download tries. Implements ticket 6752.
17193 - Add make target 'test-network' to run tests on a Chutney network.
17194 Implements ticket 8530.
17196 o Major features (other):
17197 - On some platforms (currently: recent OSX versions, glibc-based
17198 platforms that support the ELF format, and a few other
17199 Unix-like operating systems), Tor can now dump stack traces
17200 when a crash occurs or an assertion fails. By default, traces
17201 are dumped to stderr (if possible) and to any logs that are
17202 reporting errors. Implements ticket 9299.
17204 o Deprecated versions:
17205 - Tor 0.2.3.x has reached end-of-life; it has received no patches or
17206 attention for some while.
17208 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authorities):
17209 - Directory authorities now include a digest of each relay's
17210 identity key as a part of its microdescriptor.
17212 This is a workaround for bug 11743 (reported by "cypherpunks"),
17213 where Tor clients do not support receiving multiple
17214 microdescriptors with the same SHA256 digest in the same
17215 consensus. When clients receive a consensus like this, they only
17216 use one of the relays. Without this fix, a hostile relay could
17217 selectively disable some client use of target relays by
17218 constructing a router descriptor with a different identity and the
17219 same microdescriptor parameters and getting the authorities to
17220 list it in a microdescriptor consensus. This fix prevents an
17221 attacker from causing a microdescriptor collision, because the
17222 router's identity is not forgeable.
17224 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround):
17225 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
17226 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes
17227 bug 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
17229 o Major bugfixes (client):
17230 - Perform circuit cleanup operations even when circuit
17231 construction operations are disabled (because the network is
17232 disabled, or because there isn't enough directory information).
17233 Previously, when we were not building predictive circuits, we
17234 were not closing expired circuits either. Fixes bug 8387; bugfix on
17235 0.1.1.11-alpha. This bug became visible in 0.2.4.10-alpha when we
17236 became more strict about when we have "enough directory information
17237 to build circuits".
17239 o Major bugfixes (client, pluggable transports):
17240 - When managing pluggable transports, use OS notification facilities
17241 to learn if they have crashed, and don't attempt to kill any
17242 process that has already exited. Fixes bug 8746; bugfix
17245 o Major bugfixes (relay denial of service):
17246 - Instead of writing destroy cells directly to outgoing connection
17247 buffers, queue them and intersperse them with other outgoing cells.
17248 This can prevent a set of resource starvation conditions where too
17249 many pending destroy cells prevent data cells from actually getting
17250 delivered. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed". Fixes bug 7912;
17251 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
17253 o Major bugfixes (relay):
17254 - Avoid queuing or sending destroy cells for circuit ID zero when we
17255 fail to send a CREATE cell. Fixes bug 12848; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
17256 Found and fixed by "cypherpunks".
17257 - Fix ORPort reachability detection on relays running behind a
17258 proxy, by correctly updating the "local" mark on the controlling
17259 channel when changing the address of an or_connection_t after the
17260 handshake. Fixes bug 12160; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
17261 - Use a direct dirport connection when uploading non-anonymous
17262 descriptors to the directory authorities. Previously, relays would
17263 incorrectly use tunnel connections under a fairly wide variety of
17264 circumstances. Fixes bug 11469; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
17265 - When a circuit accidentally has the same circuit ID for its
17266 forward and reverse direction, correctly detect the direction of
17267 cells using that circuit. Previously, this bug made roughly one
17268 circuit in a million non-functional. Fixes bug 12195; this is a
17269 bugfix on every version of Tor.
17271 o Minor features (security):
17272 - New --enable-expensive-hardening option to enable security
17273 hardening options that consume nontrivial amounts of CPU and
17274 memory. Right now, this includes AddressSanitizer and UbSan, which
17275 are supported in newer versions of GCC and Clang. Closes ticket
17277 - Authorities now assign the Guard flag to the fastest 25% of the
17278 network (it used to be the fastest 50%). Also raise the consensus
17279 weight that guarantees the Guard flag from 250 to 2000. For the
17280 current network, this results in about 1100 guards, down from 2500.
17281 This step paves the way for moving the number of entry guards
17282 down to 1 (proposal 236) while still providing reasonable expected
17283 performance for most users. Implements ticket 12690.
17285 o Minor features (security, memory management):
17286 - Memory allocation tricks (mempools and buffer freelists) are now
17287 disabled by default. You can turn them back on with
17288 --enable-mempools and --enable-buf-freelists respectively. We're
17289 disabling these features because malloc performance is good enough
17290 on most platforms, and a similar feature in OpenSSL exacerbated
17291 exploitation of the Heartbleed attack. Resolves ticket 11476.
17293 o Minor features (bridge client):
17294 - Report a more useful failure message when we can't connect to a
17295 bridge because we don't have the right pluggable transport
17296 configured. Resolves ticket 9665. Patch from Fábio J. Bertinatto.
17298 o Minor features (bridge):
17299 - Add an ExtORPortCookieAuthFileGroupReadable option to make the
17300 cookie file for the ExtORPort g+r by default.
17302 o Minor features (bridges, pluggable transports):
17303 - Bridges now write the SHA1 digest of their identity key
17304 fingerprint (that is, a hash of a hash of their public key) to
17305 notice-level logs, and to a new hashed-fingerprint file. This
17306 information will help bridge operators look up their bridge in
17307 Globe and similar tools. Resolves ticket 10884.
17308 - Improve the message that Tor displays when running as a bridge
17309 using pluggable transports without an Extended ORPort listener.
17310 Also, log the message in the log file too. Resolves ticket 11043.
17311 - Add threshold cutoffs to the networkstatus document created by
17312 the Bridge Authority. Fixes bug 1117.
17313 - On Windows, spawn background processes using the CREATE_NO_WINDOW
17314 flag. Now Tor Browser Bundle 3.5 with pluggable transports enabled
17315 doesn't pop up a blank console window. (In Tor Browser Bundle 2.x,
17316 Vidalia set this option for us.) Implements ticket 10297.
17318 o Minor features (build):
17319 - The configure script has a --disable-seccomp option to turn off
17320 support for libseccomp on systems that have it, in case it (or
17321 Tor's use of it) is broken. Resolves ticket 11628.
17322 - Assume that a user using ./configure --host wants to cross-compile,
17323 and give an error if we cannot find a properly named
17324 tool-chain. Add a --disable-tool-name-check option to proceed
17325 nevertheless. Addresses ticket 9869. Patch by Benedikt Gollatz.
17326 - If we run ./configure and the compiler recognizes -fstack-protector
17327 but the linker rejects it, warn the user about a potentially missing
17328 libssp package. Addresses ticket 9948. Patch from Benedikt Gollatz.
17329 - Add support for `--library-versions` flag. Implements ticket 6384.
17330 - Return the "unexpected sendme" warnings to a warn severity, but make
17331 them rate limited, to help diagnose ticket 8093.
17332 - Detect a missing asciidoc, and warn the user about it, during
17333 configure rather than at build time. Fixes issue 6506. Patch from
17336 o Minor features (client):
17337 - Add a new option, PredictedPortsRelevanceTime, to control how long
17338 after having received a request to connect to a given port Tor
17339 will try to keep circuits ready in anticipation of future requests
17340 for that port. Patch from "unixninja92"; implements ticket 9176.
17342 o Minor features (config options and command line):
17343 - Add an --allow-missing-torrc commandline option that tells Tor to
17344 run even if the configuration file specified by -f is not available.
17345 Implements ticket 10060.
17346 - Add support for the TPROXY transparent proxying facility on Linux.
17347 See documentation for the new TransProxyType option for more
17348 details. Implementation by "thomo". Closes ticket 10582.
17350 o Minor features (config options):
17351 - Config (torrc) lines now handle fingerprints which are missing
17352 their initial '$'. Resolves ticket 4341; improvement over 0.0.9pre5.
17353 - Support a --dump-config option to print some or all of the
17354 configured options. Mainly useful for debugging the command-line
17355 option parsing code. Helps resolve ticket 4647.
17356 - Raise awareness of safer logging: notify user of potentially
17357 unsafe config options, like logging more verbosely than severity
17358 "notice" or setting SafeLogging to 0. Resolves ticket 5584.
17359 - Add a new configuration option TestingV3AuthVotingStartOffset
17360 that bootstraps a network faster by changing the timing for
17361 consensus votes. Addresses ticket 8532.
17362 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportOptions" that allows
17363 bridge operators to pass configuration parameters to their
17364 pluggable transports. Resolves ticket 8929.
17365 - The config (torrc) file now accepts bandwidth and space limits in
17366 bits as well as bytes. (Anywhere that you can say "2 Kilobytes",
17367 you can now say "16 kilobits", and so on.) Resolves ticket 9214.
17370 o Minor features (controller):
17371 - Make the entire exit policy available from the control port via
17372 GETINFO exit-policy/*. Implements enhancement 7952. Patch from
17374 - Because of the fix for ticket 11396, the real limit for memory
17375 usage may no longer match the configured MaxMemInQueues value. The
17376 real limit is now exposed via GETINFO limits/max-mem-in-queues.
17377 - Add a new "HS_DESC" controller event that reports activities
17378 related to hidden service descriptors. Resolves ticket 8510.
17379 - New "DROPGUARDS" controller command to forget all current entry
17380 guards. Not recommended for ordinary use, since replacing guards
17381 too frequently makes several attacks easier. Resolves ticket 9934;
17383 - Implement the TRANSPORT_LAUNCHED control port event that
17384 notifies controllers about new launched pluggable
17385 transports. Resolves ticket 5609.
17387 o Minor features (diagnostic):
17388 - When logging a warning because of bug 7164, additionally check the
17389 hash table for consistency (as proposed on ticket 11737). This may
17390 help diagnose bug 7164.
17391 - When we log a heartbeat, log how many one-hop circuits we have
17392 that are at least 30 minutes old, and log status information about
17393 a few of them. This is an attempt to track down bug 8387.
17394 - When encountering an unexpected CR while writing text to a file on
17395 Windows, log the name of the file. Should help diagnosing
17397 - Give more specific warnings when a client notices that an onion
17398 handshake has failed. Fixes ticket 9635.
17399 - Add significant new logging code to attempt to diagnose bug 12184,
17400 where relays seem to run out of available circuit IDs.
17401 - Improve the diagnostic log message for bug 8387 even further to
17402 try to improve our odds of figuring out why one-hop directory
17403 circuits sometimes do not get closed.
17404 - Add more log messages to diagnose bug 7164, which causes
17405 intermittent "microdesc_free() called but md was still referenced"
17406 warnings. We now include more information, to figure out why we
17407 might be cleaning a microdescriptor for being too old if it's
17408 still referenced by a live node_t object.
17409 - Log current accounting state (bytes sent and received + remaining
17410 time for the current accounting period) in the relay's heartbeat
17411 message. Implements ticket 5526; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
17413 o Minor features (geoip):
17414 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
17417 o Minor features (interface):
17418 - Generate a warning if any ports are listed in the SocksPolicy,
17419 DirPolicy, AuthDirReject, AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, or
17420 AuthDirBadExit options. (These options only support address
17421 ranges.) Fixes part of ticket 11108.
17423 o Minor features (kernel API usage):
17424 - Use the SOCK_NONBLOCK socket type, if supported, to open nonblocking
17425 sockets in a single system call. Implements ticket 5129.
17427 o Minor features (log messages):
17428 - When ServerTransportPlugin is set on a bridge, Tor can write more
17429 useful statistics about bridge use in its extrainfo descriptors,
17430 but only if the Extended ORPort ("ExtORPort") is set too. Add a
17431 log message to inform the user in this case. Resolves ticket 9651.
17432 - When receiving a new controller connection, log the origin address.
17433 Resolves ticket 9698; patch from "sigpipe".
17434 - When logging OpenSSL engine status at startup, log the status of
17435 more engines. Fixes ticket 10043; patch from Joshua Datko.
17437 o Minor features (log verbosity):
17438 - Demote the message that we give when a flushing connection times
17439 out for too long from NOTICE to INFO. It was usually meaningless.
17440 Resolves ticket 5286.
17441 - Don't log so many notice-level bootstrapping messages at startup
17442 about downloading descriptors. Previously, we'd log a notice
17443 whenever we learned about more routers. Now, we only log a notice
17444 at every 5% of progress. Fixes bug 9963.
17445 - Warn less verbosely when receiving a malformed
17446 ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cell. Fixes ticket 11279.
17448 o Minor features (performance):
17449 - If we're using the pure-C 32-bit curve25519_donna implementation
17450 of curve25519, build it with the -fomit-frame-pointer option to
17451 make it go faster on register-starved hosts. This improves our
17452 handshake performance by about 6% on i386 hosts without nacl.
17453 Closes ticket 8109.
17455 o Minor features (relay):
17456 - If a circuit timed out for at least 3 minutes, check if we have a
17457 new external IP address, and publish a new descriptor with the new
17458 IP address if it changed. Resolves ticket 2454.
17460 o Minor features (testing):
17461 - If Python is installed, "make check" now runs extra tests beyond
17462 the unit test scripts.
17463 - When bootstrapping a test network, sometimes very few relays get
17464 the Guard flag. Now a new option "TestingDirAuthVoteGuard" can
17465 specify a set of relays which should be voted Guard regardless of
17466 their uptime or bandwidth. Addresses ticket 9206.
17468 o Minor features (transparent proxy, *BSD):
17469 - Support FreeBSD's ipfw firewall interface for TransPort ports on
17470 FreeBSD. To enable it, set "TransProxyType ipfw". Resolves ticket
17471 10267; patch from "yurivict".
17472 - Support OpenBSD's divert-to rules with the pf firewall for
17473 transparent proxy ports. To enable it, set "TransProxyType
17474 pf-divert". This allows Tor to run a TransPort transparent proxy
17475 port on OpenBSD 4.4 or later without root privileges. See the
17476 pf.conf(5) manual page for information on configuring pf to use
17477 divert-to rules. Closes ticket 10896; patch from Dana Koch.
17479 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client):
17480 - Stop accepting bridge lines containing hostnames. Doing so would
17481 cause clients to perform DNS requests on the hostnames, which was
17482 not sensible behavior. Fixes bug 10801; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
17484 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
17485 - Avoid potential crashes or bad behavior when launching a
17486 server-side managed proxy with ORPort or ExtORPort temporarily
17487 disabled. Fixes bug 9650; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
17488 - Fix a bug where the first connection works to a bridge that uses a
17489 pluggable transport with client-side parameters, but we don't send
17490 the client-side parameters on subsequent connections. (We don't
17491 use any pluggable transports with client-side parameters yet,
17492 but ScrambleSuit will soon become the first one.) Fixes bug 9162;
17493 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Based on a patch from "rl1987".
17495 o Minor bugfixes (build, auxiliary programs):
17496 - Stop preprocessing the "torify" script with autoconf, since
17497 it no longer refers to LOCALSTATEDIR. Fixes bug 5505; patch
17499 - The tor-fw-helper program now follows the standard convention and
17500 exits with status code "0" on success. Fixes bug 9030; bugfix on
17501 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Arlo Breault.
17502 - Corrected ./configure advice for what openssl dev package you should
17503 install on Debian. Fixes bug 9207; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
17505 o Minor bugfixes (client):
17506 - Avoid "Tried to open a socket with DisableNetwork set" warnings
17507 when starting a client with bridges configured and DisableNetwork
17508 set. (Tor launcher starts Tor with DisableNetwork set the first
17509 time it runs.) Fixes bug 10405; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
17510 - Improve the log message when we can't connect to a hidden service
17511 because all of the hidden service directory nodes hosting its
17512 descriptor are excluded. Improves on our fix for bug 10722, which
17513 was a bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
17514 - Raise a control port warning when we fail to connect to all of
17515 our bridges. Previously, we didn't inform the controller, and
17516 the bootstrap process would stall. Fixes bug 11069; bugfix on
17518 - Exit immediately when a process-owning controller exits.
17519 Previously, tor relays would wait for a little while after their
17520 controller exited, as if they had gotten an INT signal -- but this
17521 was problematic, since there was no feedback for the user. To do a
17522 clean shutdown, controllers should send an INT signal and give Tor
17523 a chance to clean up. Fixes bug 10449; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
17524 - Stop attempting to connect to bridges before our pluggable
17525 transports are configured (harmless but resulted in some erroneous
17526 log messages). Fixes bug 11156; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
17527 - Fix connections to IPv6 addresses over SOCKS5. Previously, we were
17528 generating incorrect SOCKS5 responses, and confusing client
17529 applications. Fixes bug 10987; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
17531 o Minor bugfixes (client, DNSPort):
17532 - When using DNSPort, try to respond to AAAA requests with AAAA
17533 answers. Previously, we hadn't looked at the request type when
17534 deciding which answer type to prefer. Fixes bug 10468; bugfix on
17536 - When receiving a DNS query for an unsupported record type, reply
17537 with no answer rather than with a NOTIMPL error. This behavior
17538 isn't correct either, but it will break fewer client programs, we
17539 hope. Fixes bug 10268; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Original patch
17542 o Minor bugfixes (client, logging during bootstrap):
17543 - Only report the first fatal bootstrap error on a given OR
17544 connection. This stops us from telling the controller bogus error
17545 messages like "DONE". Fixes bug 10431; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
17546 - Avoid generating spurious warnings when starting with
17547 DisableNetwork enabled. Fixes bug 11200 and bug 10405; bugfix on
17550 o Minor bugfixes (closing OR connections):
17551 - If write_to_buf() in connection_write_to_buf_impl_() ever fails,
17552 check if it's an or_connection_t and correctly call
17553 connection_or_close_for_error() rather than
17554 connection_mark_for_close() directly. Fixes bug 11304; bugfix on
17556 - When closing all connections on setting DisableNetwork to 1, use
17557 connection_or_close_normally() rather than closing OR connections
17558 out from under the channel layer. Fixes bug 11306; bugfix on
17561 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
17562 - Previously we used two temporary files when writing descriptors to
17563 disk; now we only use one. Fixes bug 1376.
17564 - Remove an erroneous (but impossible and thus harmless) pointer
17565 comparison that would have allowed compilers to skip a bounds
17566 check in channeltls.c. Fixes bugs 10313 and 9980; bugfix on
17567 0.2.0.10-alpha. Noticed by Jared L Wong and David Fifield.
17568 - Fix an always-true assertion in pluggable transports code so it
17569 actually checks what it was trying to check. Fixes bug 10046;
17570 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Found by "dcb".
17572 o Minor bugfixes (command line):
17573 - Use a single command-line parser for parsing torrc options on the
17574 command line and for finding special command-line options to avoid
17575 inconsistent behavior for torrc option arguments that have the same
17576 names as command-line options. Fixes bugs 4647 and 9578; bugfix on
17578 - No longer allow 'tor --hash-password' with no arguments. Fixes bug
17579 9573; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
17581 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
17582 - Compile correctly with builds and forks of OpenSSL (such as
17583 LibreSSL) that disable compression. Fixes bug 12602; bugfix on
17584 0.2.1.1-alpha. Patch from "dhill".
17585 - Restore the ability to compile Tor with V2_HANDSHAKE_SERVER
17586 turned off (that is, without support for v2 link handshakes). Fixes
17587 bug 4677; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Patch from "piet".
17588 - In routerlist_assert_ok(), don't take the address of a
17589 routerinfo's cache_info member unless that routerinfo is non-NULL.
17590 Fixes bug 13096; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha. Patch by "teor".
17591 - Fix a large number of false positive warnings from the clang
17592 analyzer static analysis tool. This should make real warnings
17593 easier for clang analyzer to find. Patch from "teor". Closes
17595 - Resolve GCC complaints on OpenBSD about discarding constness in
17596 TO_{ORIGIN,OR}_CIRCUIT functions. Fixes part of bug 11633; bugfix
17597 on 0.1.1.23. Patch from Dana Koch.
17598 - Resolve clang complaints on OpenBSD with -Wshorten-64-to-32 due to
17599 treatment of long and time_t as comparable types. Fixes part of
17600 bug 11633. Patch from Dana Koch.
17601 - When deciding whether to build the 64-bit curve25519
17602 implementation, detect platforms where we can compile 128-bit
17603 arithmetic but cannot link it. Fixes bug 11729; bugfix on
17604 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch from "conradev".
17605 - Fix compilation when DNS_CACHE_DEBUG is enabled. Fixes bug 11761;
17606 bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha. Found by "cypherpunks".
17607 - Fix compilation with dmalloc. Fixes bug 11605; bugfix
17609 - Build and run correctly on systems like OpenBSD-current that have
17610 patched OpenSSL to remove get_cipher_by_char and/or its
17611 implementations. Fixes issue 13325.
17613 o Minor bugfixes (controller and command-line):
17614 - If changing a config option via "setconf" fails in a recoverable
17615 way, we used to nonetheless write our new control ports to the
17616 file described by the "ControlPortWriteToFile" option. Now we only
17617 write out that file if we successfully switch to the new config
17618 option. Fixes bug 5605; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch from "Ryman".
17620 o Minor bugfixes (directory server):
17621 - No longer accept malformed http headers when parsing urls from
17622 headers. Now we reply with Bad Request ("400"). Fixes bug 2767;
17623 bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
17624 - When sending a compressed set of descriptors or microdescriptors,
17625 make sure to finalize the zlib stream. Previously, we would write
17626 all the compressed data, but if the last descriptor we wanted to
17627 send was missing or too old, we would not mark the stream as
17628 finished. This caused problems for decompression tools. Fixes bug
17629 11648; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
17631 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
17632 - Only retry attempts to connect to a chosen rendezvous point 8
17633 times, not 30. Fixes bug 4241; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
17635 o Minor bugfixes (interface):
17636 - Reject relative control socket paths and emit a warning. Previously,
17637 single-component control socket paths would be rejected, but Tor
17638 would not log why it could not validate the config. Fixes bug 9258;
17639 bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
17641 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
17642 - Fix a bug where clients using bridges would report themselves
17643 as 50% bootstrapped even without a live consensus document.
17644 Fixes bug 9922; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
17645 - Suppress a warning where, if there's only one directory authority
17646 in the network, we would complain that votes and signatures cannot
17647 be uploaded to other directory authorities. Fixes bug 10842;
17648 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
17649 - Report bootstrapping progress correctly when we're downloading
17650 microdescriptors. We had updated our "do we have enough microdescs
17651 to begin building circuits?" logic most recently in 0.2.4.10-alpha
17652 (see bug 5956), but we left the bootstrap status event logic at
17653 "how far through getting 1/4 of them are we?" Fixes bug 9958;
17654 bugfix on 0.2.2.36, which is where they diverged (see bug 5343).
17656 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
17657 - Downgrade "Unexpected onionskin length after decryption" warning
17658 to a protocol-warn, since there's nothing relay operators can do
17659 about a client that sends them a malformed create cell. Resolves
17660 bug 12996; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
17661 - Log more specific warnings when we get an ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS
17662 cell on a cannibalized or non-OR circuit. Resolves ticket 12997.
17663 - When logging information about an EXTEND2 or EXTENDED2 cell, log
17664 their names correctly. Fixes part of bug 12700; bugfix
17666 - When logging information about a relay cell whose command we don't
17667 recognize, log its command as an integer. Fixes part of bug 12700;
17668 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
17669 - Escape all strings from the directory connection before logging
17670 them. Fixes bug 13071; bugfix on 0.1.1.15. Patch from "teor".
17671 - Squelch a spurious LD_BUG message "No origin circuit for
17672 successful SOCKS stream" in certain hidden service failure cases;
17674 - Downgrade the severity of the 'unexpected sendme cell from client'
17675 from 'warn' to 'protocol warning'. Closes ticket 8093.
17677 o Minor bugfixes (misc code correctness):
17678 - In munge_extrainfo_into_routerinfo(), check the return value of
17679 memchr(). This would have been a serious issue if we ever passed
17680 it a non-extrainfo. Fixes bug 8791; bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Patch
17682 - On the chance that somebody manages to build Tor on a
17683 platform where time_t is unsigned, correct the way that
17684 microdesc_add_to_cache() handles negative time arguments.
17685 Fixes bug 8042; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
17686 - Fix various instances of undefined behavior in channeltls.c,
17687 tor_memmem(), and eventdns.c that would cause us to construct
17688 pointers to memory outside an allocated object. (These invalid
17689 pointers were not accessed, but C does not even allow them to
17690 exist.) Fixes bug 10363; bugfixes on 0.1.1.1-alpha, 0.1.2.1-alpha,
17691 0.2.0.10-alpha, and 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "bobnomnom".
17692 - Use the AddressSanitizer and Ubsan sanitizers (in clang-3.4) to
17693 fix some miscellaneous errors in our tests and codebase. Fixes bug
17694 11232. Bugfixes on versions back as far as 0.2.1.11-alpha.
17695 - Always check return values for unlink, munmap, UnmapViewOfFile;
17696 check strftime return values more often. In some cases all we can
17697 do is report a warning, but this may help prevent deeper bugs from
17698 going unnoticed. Closes ticket 8787; bugfixes on many, many tor
17700 - Fix numerous warnings from the clang "scan-build" static analyzer.
17701 Some of these are programming style issues; some of them are false
17702 positives that indicated awkward code; some are undefined behavior
17703 cases related to constructing (but not using) invalid pointers;
17704 some are assumptions about API behavior; some are (harmlessly)
17705 logging sizeof(ptr) bytes from a token when sizeof(*ptr) would be
17706 correct; and one or two are genuine bugs that weren't reachable
17707 from the rest of the program. Fixes bug 8793; bugfixes on many,
17710 o Minor bugfixes (node selection):
17711 - If ExcludeNodes is set, consider non-excluded hidden service
17712 directory servers before excluded ones. Do not consider excluded
17713 hidden service directory servers at all if StrictNodes is
17714 set. (Previously, we would sometimes decide to connect to those
17715 servers, and then realize before we initiated a connection that
17716 we had excluded them.) Fixes bug 10722; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
17717 Reported by "mr-4".
17718 - If we set the ExitNodes option but it doesn't include any nodes
17719 that have the Exit flag, we would choose not to bootstrap. Now we
17720 bootstrap so long as ExitNodes includes nodes which can exit to
17721 some port. Fixes bug 10543; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
17723 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
17724 - Avoid a bug where every successful connection made us recompute
17725 the flag telling us whether we have sufficient information to
17726 build circuits. Previously, we would forget our cached value
17727 whenever we successfully opened a channel (or marked a router as
17728 running or not running for any other reason), regardless of
17729 whether we had previously believed the router to be running. This
17730 forced us to run an expensive update operation far too often.
17731 Fixes bug 12170; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
17732 - Avoid using tor_memeq() for checking relay cell integrity. This
17733 removes a possible performance bottleneck. Fixes part of bug
17734 12169; bugfix on 0.2.1.31.
17736 o Minor bugfixes (platform-specific):
17737 - When dumping a malformed directory object to disk, save it in
17738 binary mode on Windows, not text mode. Fixes bug 11342; bugfix on
17740 - Don't report failures from make_socket_reuseable() on incoming
17741 sockets on OSX: this can happen when incoming connections close
17742 early. Fixes bug 10081.
17744 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
17745 - Avoid another 60-second delay when starting Tor in a pluggable-
17746 transport-using configuration when we already have cached
17747 descriptors for our bridges. Fixes bug 11965; bugfix
17750 o Minor bugfixes (protocol correctness):
17751 - When receiving a VERSIONS cell with an odd number of bytes, close
17752 the connection immediately since the cell is malformed. Fixes bug
17753 10365; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom"; fix by
17756 o Minor bugfixes (relay, other):
17757 - We now drop CREATE cells for already-existent circuit IDs and for
17758 zero-valued circuit IDs, regardless of other factors that might
17759 otherwise have called for DESTROY cells. Fixes bug 12191; bugfix
17761 - When rejecting DATA cells for stream_id zero, still count them
17762 against the circuit's deliver window so that we don't fail to send
17763 a SENDME. Fixes bug 11246; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
17765 o Minor bugfixes (relay, threading):
17766 - Check return code on spawn_func() in cpuworker code, so that we
17767 don't think we've spawned a nonworking cpuworker and write junk to
17768 it forever. Fix related to bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor
17769 versions. Found by "skruffy".
17770 - Use a pthread_attr to make sure that spawn_func() cannot return an
17771 error while at the same time launching a thread. Fix related to
17772 bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor versions. Reported
17775 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges):
17776 - Avoid crashing on a malformed resolv.conf file when running a
17777 relay using Libevent 1. Fixes bug 8788; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
17778 - Non-exit relays no longer launch mock DNS requests to check for
17779 DNS hijacking. This has been unnecessary since 0.2.1.7-alpha, when
17780 non-exit relays stopped servicing DNS requests. Fixes bug 965;
17781 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Patch from Matt Pagan.
17782 - Bridges now report complete directory request statistics. Related
17783 to bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
17784 - Bridges now never collect statistics that were designed for
17785 relays. Fixes bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
17787 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
17788 - Fix all valgrind warnings produced by the unit tests. There were
17789 over a thousand memory leak warnings previously, mostly produced
17790 by forgetting to free things in the unit test code. Fixes bug
17791 11618, bugfixes on many versions of Tor.
17793 o Minor bugfixes (tor-fw-helper):
17794 - Give a correct log message when tor-fw-helper fails to launch.
17795 (Previously, we would say something like "tor-fw-helper sent us a
17796 string we could not parse".) Fixes bug 9781; bugfix
17799 o Minor bugfixes (trivial memory leaks):
17800 - Fix a small memory leak when signing a directory object. Fixes bug
17801 11275; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
17802 - Resolve some memory leaks found by coverity in the unit tests, on
17803 exit in tor-gencert, and on a failure to compute digests for our
17804 own keys when generating a v3 networkstatus vote. These leaks
17805 should never have affected anyone in practice.
17807 o Code simplification and refactoring:
17808 - Remove some old fallback code designed to keep Tor clients working
17809 in a network with only two working relays. Elsewhere in the code we
17810 have long since stopped supporting such networks, so there wasn't
17811 much point in keeping it around. Addresses ticket 9926.
17812 - Reject 0-length EXTEND2 cells more explicitly. Fixes bug 10536;
17813 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported by "cypherpunks".
17814 - Extract the common duplicated code for creating a subdirectory
17815 of the data directory and writing to a file in it. Fixes ticket
17816 4282; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
17817 - Since OpenSSL 0.9.7, the i2d_*() functions support allocating output
17818 buffer. Avoid calling twice: i2d_RSAPublicKey(), i2d_DHparams(),
17819 i2d_X509(), and i2d_PublicKey(). Resolves ticket 5170.
17820 - Add a set of accessor functions for the circuit timeout data
17821 structure. Fixes ticket 6153; patch from "piet".
17822 - Clean up exit paths from connection_listener_new(). Closes ticket
17823 8789. Patch from Arlo Breault.
17824 - Since we rely on OpenSSL 0.9.8 now, we can use EVP_PKEY_cmp()
17825 and drop our own custom pkey_eq() implementation. Fixes bug 9043.
17826 - Use a doubly-linked list to implement the global circuit list.
17827 Resolves ticket 9108. Patch from Marek Majkowski.
17828 - Remove contrib/id_to_fp.c since it wasn't used anywhere.
17829 - Remove constants and tests for PKCS1 padding; it's insecure and
17830 shouldn't be used for anything new. Fixes bug 8792; patch
17832 - Remove instances of strcpy() from the unit tests. They weren't
17833 hurting anything, since they were only in the unit tests, but it's
17834 embarrassing to have strcpy() in the code at all, and some analysis
17835 tools don't like it. Fixes bug 8790; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha and
17836 0.2.3.8-alpha. Patch from Arlo Breault.
17837 - Remove is_internal_IP() function. Resolves ticket 4645.
17838 - Remove unused function circuit_dump_by_chan from circuitlist.c.
17839 Closes issue 9107; patch from "marek".
17840 - Change our use of the ENUM_BF macro to avoid declarations that
17842 - Get rid of router->address, since in all cases it was just the
17843 string representation of router->addr. Resolves ticket 5528.
17846 - Adjust the URLs in the README to refer to the new locations of
17847 several documents on the website. Fixes bug 12830. Patch from
17849 - Document 'reject6' and 'accept6' ExitPolicy entries. Resolves
17851 - Update manpage to describe some of the files you can expect to
17852 find in Tor's DataDirectory. Addresses ticket 9839.
17853 - Clean up several option names in the manpage to match their real
17854 names, add the missing documentation for a couple of testing and
17855 directory authority options, remove the documentation for a
17856 V2-directory fetching option that no longer exists. Resolves
17858 - Correct the documentation so that it lists the correct directory
17859 for the stats files. (They are in a subdirectory called "stats",
17861 - In the manpage, move more authority-only options into the
17862 directory authority section so that operators of regular directory
17863 caches don't get confused.
17864 - Fix the layout of the SOCKSPort flags in the manpage. Fixes bug
17865 11061; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
17866 - Resolve warnings from Doxygen.
17867 - Document in the manpage that "KBytes" may also be written as
17868 "kilobytes" or "KB", that "Kbits" may also be written as
17869 "kilobits", and so forth. Closes ticket 9222.
17870 - Document that the ClientOnly config option overrides ORPort.
17871 Our old explanation made ClientOnly sound as though it did
17872 nothing at all. Resolves bug 9059.
17873 - Explain that SocksPolicy, DirPolicy, and similar options don't
17874 take port arguments. Fixes the other part of ticket 11108.
17875 - Fix a comment about the rend_server_descriptor_t.protocols field
17876 to more accurately describe its range. Also, make that field
17877 unsigned, to more accurately reflect its usage. Fixes bug 9099;
17878 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
17879 - Fix the manpage's description of HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient:
17880 the maximum client name length is 16, not 19. Fixes bug 11118;
17881 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
17884 - The contrib directory has been sorted and tidied. Before, it was
17885 an unsorted dumping ground for useful and not-so-useful things.
17886 Now, it is divided based on functionality, and the items which
17887 seemed to be nonfunctional or useless have been removed. Resolves
17888 ticket 8966; based on patches from "rl1987".
17890 o Removed code and features:
17891 - Clients now reject any directory authority certificates lacking
17892 a dir-key-crosscert element. These have been included since
17893 0.2.1.9-alpha, so there's no real reason for them to be optional
17894 any longer. Completes proposal 157. Resolves ticket 10162.
17895 - Remove all code that existed to support the v2 directory system,
17896 since there are no longer any v2 directory authorities. Resolves
17898 - Remove the HSAuthoritativeDir and AlternateHSAuthority torrc
17899 options, which were used for designating authorities as "Hidden
17900 service authorities". There has been no use of hidden service
17901 authorities since 0.2.2.1-alpha, when we stopped uploading or
17902 downloading v0 hidden service descriptors. Fixes bug 10881; also
17903 part of a fix for bug 10841.
17904 - Remove /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL that was meant to help debug WFU
17905 and MTBF calculations, but that nobody was using. Fixes bug 11742.
17906 - The TunnelDirConns and PreferTunnelledDirConns options no longer
17907 exist; tunneled directory connections have been available since
17908 0.1.2.5-alpha, and turning them off is not a good idea. This is a
17909 brute-force fix for 10849, where "TunnelDirConns 0" would break
17911 - Remove all code for the long unused v1 directory protocol.
17912 Resolves ticket 11070.
17913 - Remove all remaining code related to version-0 hidden service
17914 descriptors: they have not been in use since 0.2.2.1-alpha. Fixes
17915 the rest of bug 10841.
17916 - Remove migration code from when we renamed the "cached-routers"
17917 file to "cached-descriptors" back in 0.2.0.8-alpha. This
17918 incidentally resolves ticket 6502 by cleaning up the related code
17919 a bit. Patch from Akshay Hebbar.
17921 o Test infrastructure:
17922 - Tor now builds each source file in two modes: a mode that avoids
17923 exposing identifiers needlessly, and another mode that exposes
17924 more identifiers for testing. This lets the compiler do better at
17925 optimizing the production code, while enabling us to take more
17926 radical measures to let the unit tests test things.
17927 - The production builds no longer include functions used only in
17928 the unit tests; all functions exposed from a module only for
17929 unit-testing are now static in production builds.
17930 - Add an --enable-coverage configuration option to make the unit
17931 tests (and a new src/or/tor-cov target) to build with gcov test
17933 - Update to the latest version of tinytest.
17934 - Improve the tinytest implementation of string operation tests so
17935 that comparisons with NULL strings no longer crash the tests; they
17936 now just fail, normally. Fixes bug 9004; bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
17937 - New macros in test.h to simplify writing mock-functions for unit
17938 tests. Part of ticket 11507. Patch from Dana Koch.
17939 - We now have rudimentary function mocking support that our unit
17940 tests can use to test functions in isolation. Function mocking
17941 lets the tests temporarily replace a function's dependencies with
17942 stub functions, so that the tests can check the function without
17943 invoking the other functions it calls.
17946 - Complete tests for the status.c module. Resolves ticket 11507.
17947 Patch from Dana Koch.
17948 - Add more unit tests for the <circid,channel>->circuit map, and
17949 the destroy-cell-tracking code to fix bug 7912.
17950 - Unit tests for failing cases of the TAP onion handshake.
17951 - More unit tests for address-manipulation functions.
17953 o Distribution (systemd):
17954 - Include a tor.service file in contrib/dist for use with systemd.
17955 Some distributions will be able to use this file unmodified;
17956 others will need to tweak it, or write their own. Patch from Jamie
17957 Nguyen; resolves ticket 8368.
17958 - Verify configuration file via ExecStartPre in the systemd unit
17959 file. Patch from intrigeri; resolves ticket 12730.
17960 - Explicitly disable RunAsDaemon in the systemd unit file. Our
17961 current systemd unit uses "Type = simple", so systemd does not
17962 expect tor to fork. If the user has "RunAsDaemon 1" in their
17963 torrc, then things won't work as expected. This is e.g. the case
17964 on Debian (and derivatives), since there we pass "--defaults-torrc
17965 /usr/share/tor/tor-service-defaults-torrc" (that contains
17966 "RunAsDaemon 1") by default. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
17970 Changes in version 0.2.4.25 - 2014-10-20
17971 Tor 0.2.4.25 disables SSL3 in response to the recent "POODLE" attack
17972 (even though POODLE does not affect Tor). It also works around a crash
17973 bug caused by some operating systems' response to the "POODLE" attack
17974 (which does affect Tor).
17976 o Major security fixes (also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
17977 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
17978 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
17979 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
17981 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround, also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
17982 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
17983 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes bug
17984 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
17987 Changes in version 0.2.4.24 - 2014-09-22
17988 Tor 0.2.4.24 fixes a bug that affects consistency and speed when
17989 connecting to hidden services, and it updates the location of one of
17990 the directory authorities.
17993 - Clients now send the correct address for their chosen rendezvous
17994 point when trying to access a hidden service. They used to send
17995 the wrong address, which would still work some of the time because
17996 they also sent the identity digest of the rendezvous point, and if
17997 the hidden service happened to try connecting to the rendezvous
17998 point from a relay that already had a connection open to it,
17999 the relay would reuse that connection. Now connections to hidden
18000 services should be more robust and faster. Also, this bug meant
18001 that clients were leaking to the hidden service whether they were
18002 on a little-endian (common) or big-endian (rare) system, which for
18003 some users might have reduced their anonymity. Fixes bug 13151;
18004 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
18006 o Directory authority changes:
18007 - Change IP address for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
18009 o Minor features (geoip):
18010 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
18014 Changes in version 0.2.4.23 - 2014-07-28
18015 Tor 0.2.4.23 brings us a big step closer to slowing down the risk from
18016 guard rotation, and also backports several important fixes from the
18017 Tor 0.2.5 alpha release series.
18020 - Clients now look at the "usecreatefast" consensus parameter to
18021 decide whether to use CREATE_FAST or CREATE cells for the first hop
18022 of their circuit. This approach can improve security on connections
18023 where Tor's circuit handshake is stronger than the available TLS
18024 connection security levels, but the tradeoff is more computational
18025 load on guard relays. Implements proposal 221. Resolves ticket 9386.
18026 - Make the number of entry guards configurable via a new
18027 NumEntryGuards consensus parameter, and the number of directory
18028 guards configurable via a new NumDirectoryGuards consensus
18029 parameter. Implements ticket 12688.
18032 - Fix a bug in the bounds-checking in the 32-bit curve25519-donna
18033 implementation that caused incorrect results on 32-bit
18034 implementations when certain malformed inputs were used along with
18035 a small class of private ntor keys. This bug does not currently
18036 appear to allow an attacker to learn private keys or impersonate a
18037 Tor server, but it could provide a means to distinguish 32-bit Tor
18038 implementations from 64-bit Tor implementations. Fixes bug 12694;
18039 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Bug found by Robert Ransom; fix from
18043 - Warn and drop the circuit if we receive an inbound 'relay early'
18044 cell. Those used to be normal to receive on hidden service circuits
18045 due to bug 1038, but the buggy Tor versions are long gone from
18046 the network so we can afford to resume watching for them. Resolves
18047 the rest of bug 1038; bugfix on 0.2.1.19.
18048 - Correct a confusing error message when trying to extend a circuit
18049 via the control protocol but we don't know a descriptor or
18050 microdescriptor for one of the specified relays. Fixes bug 12718;
18051 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
18052 - Avoid an illegal read from stack when initializing the TLS
18053 module using a version of OpenSSL without all of the ciphers
18054 used by the v2 link handshake. Fixes bug 12227; bugfix on
18055 0.2.4.8-alpha. Found by "starlight".
18058 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 10 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
18062 Changes in version 0.2.4.22 - 2014-05-16
18063 Tor 0.2.4.22 backports numerous high-priority fixes from the Tor 0.2.5
18064 alpha release series. These include blocking all authority signing
18065 keys that may have been affected by the OpenSSL "heartbleed" bug,
18066 choosing a far more secure set of TLS ciphersuites by default, closing
18067 a couple of memory leaks that could be used to run a target relay out
18068 of RAM, and several others.
18070 o Major features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
18071 - Block authority signing keys that were used on authorities
18072 vulnerable to the "heartbleed" bug in OpenSSL (CVE-2014-0160). (We
18073 don't have any evidence that these keys _were_ compromised; we're
18074 doing this to be prudent.) Resolves ticket 11464.
18076 o Major bugfixes (security, OOM):
18077 - Fix a memory leak that could occur if a microdescriptor parse
18078 fails during the tokenizing step. This bug could enable a memory
18079 exhaustion attack by directory servers. Fixes bug 11649; bugfix
18082 o Major bugfixes (TLS cipher selection, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
18083 - The relay ciphersuite list is now generated automatically based on
18084 uniform criteria, and includes all OpenSSL ciphersuites with
18085 acceptable strength and forward secrecy. Previously, we had left
18086 some perfectly fine ciphersuites unsupported due to omission or
18087 typo. Resolves bugs 11513, 11492, 11498, 11499. Bugs reported by
18088 'cypherpunks'. Bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
18089 - Relays now trust themselves to have a better view than clients of
18090 which TLS ciphersuites are better than others. (Thanks to bug
18091 11513, the relay list is now well-considered, whereas the client
18092 list has been chosen mainly for anti-fingerprinting purposes.)
18093 Relays prefer: AES over 3DES; then ECDHE over DHE; then GCM over
18094 CBC; then SHA384 over SHA256 over SHA1; and last, AES256 over
18095 AES128. Resolves ticket 11528.
18096 - Clients now try to advertise the same list of ciphersuites as
18097 Firefox 28. This change enables selection of (fast) GCM
18098 ciphersuites, disables some strange old ciphers, and stops
18099 advertising the ECDH (not to be confused with ECDHE) ciphersuites.
18100 Resolves ticket 11438.
18102 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, security):
18103 - When running a hidden service, do not allow TunneledDirConns 0:
18104 trying to set that option together with a hidden service would
18105 otherwise prevent the hidden service from running, and also make
18106 it publish its descriptors directly over HTTP. Fixes bug 10849;
18107 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
18109 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
18110 - Avoid sending a garbage value to the controller when a circuit is
18111 cannibalized. Fixes bug 11519; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
18113 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
18114 - Stop leaking memory when we successfully resolve a PTR record.
18115 Fixes bug 11437; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
18117 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
18118 - Avoid 60-second delays in the bootstrapping process when Tor is
18119 launching for a second time while using bridges. Fixes bug 9229;
18120 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
18122 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
18123 - Give the correct URL in the warning message when trying to run a
18124 relay on an ancient version of Windows. Fixes bug 9393.
18126 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
18127 - Fix a compilation error when compiling with --disable-curve25519.
18128 Fixes bug 9700; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
18131 - Downgrade the warning severity for the the "md was still
18132 referenced 1 node(s)" warning. Tor 0.2.5.4-alpha has better code
18133 for trying to diagnose this bug, and the current warning in
18134 earlier versions of tor achieves nothing useful. Addresses warning
18137 o Minor features (log verbosity, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
18138 - When we run out of usable circuit IDs on a channel, log only one
18139 warning for the whole channel, and describe how many circuits
18140 there were on the channel. Fixes part of ticket 11553.
18142 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
18143 - Decrease the lower limit of MaxMemInCellQueues to 256 MBytes (but
18144 leave the default at 8GBytes), to better support Raspberry Pi
18145 users. Fixes bug 9686; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
18147 o Documentation (backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
18148 - Correctly document that we search for a system torrc file before
18149 looking in ~/.torrc. Fixes documentation side of 9213; bugfix on
18153 Changes in version 0.2.4.21 - 2014-02-28
18154 Tor 0.2.4.21 further improves security against potential adversaries who
18155 find breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and backports several stability
18156 and robustness patches from the 0.2.5 branch.
18158 o Major features (client security):
18159 - When we choose a path for a 3-hop circuit, make sure it contains
18160 at least one relay that supports the NTor circuit extension
18161 handshake. Otherwise, there is a chance that we're building
18162 a circuit that's worth attacking by an adversary who finds
18163 breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and that chance changes the game
18164 theory. Implements ticket 9777.
18167 - Do not treat streams that fail with reason
18168 END_STREAM_REASON_INTERNAL as indicating a definite circuit failure,
18169 since it could also indicate an ENETUNREACH connection error. Fixes
18170 part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
18172 o Code simplification and refactoring:
18173 - Remove data structures which were introduced to implement the
18174 CellStatistics option: they are now redundant with the new timestamp
18175 field in the regular packed_cell_t data structure, which we did
18176 in 0.2.4.18-rc in order to resolve bug 9093. Resolves ticket 10870.
18179 - Always clear OpenSSL bignums before freeing them -- even bignums
18180 that don't contain secrets. Resolves ticket 10793. Patch by
18182 - Build without warnings under clang 3.4. (We have some macros that
18183 define static functions only some of which will get used later in
18184 the module. Starting with clang 3.4, these give a warning unless the
18185 unused attribute is set on them.) Resolves ticket 10904.
18186 - Update geoip and geoip6 files to the February 7 2014 Maxmind
18187 GeoLite2 Country database.
18190 - Set the listen() backlog limit to the largest actually supported
18191 on the system, not to the value in a header file. Fixes bug 9716;
18192 bugfix on every released Tor.
18193 - Treat ENETUNREACH, EACCES, and EPERM connection failures at an
18194 exit node as a NOROUTE error, not an INTERNAL error, since they
18195 can apparently happen when trying to connect to the wrong sort
18196 of netblocks. Fixes part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
18197 - Fix build warnings about missing "a2x" comment when building the
18198 manpages from scratch on OpenBSD; OpenBSD calls it "a2x.py".
18199 Fixes bug 10929; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
18200 - Avoid a segfault on SIGUSR1, where we had freed a connection but did
18201 not entirely remove it from the connection lists. Fixes bug 9602;
18202 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
18203 - Fix a segmentation fault in our benchmark code when running with
18204 Fedora's OpenSSL package, or any other OpenSSL that provides
18205 ECDH but not P224. Fixes bug 10835; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
18206 - Turn "circuit handshake stats since last time" log messages into a
18207 heartbeat message. Fixes bug 10485; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
18209 o Documentation fixes:
18210 - Document that all but one DirPort entry must have the NoAdvertise
18211 flag set. Fixes bug 10470; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha / 0.2.3.16-alpha.
18214 Changes in version 0.2.4.20 - 2013-12-22
18215 Tor 0.2.4.20 fixes potentially poor random number generation for users
18216 who 1) use OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, 2) set "HardwareAccel 1" in their
18217 torrc file, 3) have "Sandy Bridge" or "Ivy Bridge" Intel processors,
18218 and 4) have no state file in their DataDirectory (as would happen on
18219 first start). Users who generated relay or hidden service identity
18220 keys in such a situation should discard them and generate new ones.
18222 This release also fixes a logic error that caused Tor clients to build
18223 many more preemptive circuits than they actually need.
18226 - Do not allow OpenSSL engines to replace the PRNG, even when
18227 HardwareAccel is set. The only default builtin PRNG engine uses
18228 the Intel RDRAND instruction to replace the entire PRNG, and
18229 ignores all attempts to seed it with more entropy. That's
18230 cryptographically stupid: the right response to a new alleged
18231 entropy source is never to discard all previously used entropy
18232 sources. Fixes bug 10402; works around behavior introduced in
18233 OpenSSL 1.0.0. Diagnosis and investigation thanks to "coderman"
18235 - Fix assertion failure when AutomapHostsOnResolve yields an IPv6
18236 address. Fixes bug 10465; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
18237 - Avoid launching spurious extra circuits when a stream is pending.
18238 This fixes a bug where any circuit that _wasn't_ unusable for new
18239 streams would be treated as if it were, causing extra circuits to
18240 be launched. Fixes bug 10456; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
18243 - Avoid a crash bug when starting with a corrupted microdescriptor
18244 cache file. Fixes bug 10406; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
18245 - If we fail to dump a previously cached microdescriptor to disk, avoid
18246 freeing duplicate data later on. Fixes bug 10423; bugfix on
18247 0.2.4.13-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom".
18250 Changes in version 0.2.4.19 - 2013-12-11
18251 The Tor 0.2.4 release series is dedicated to the memory of Aaron Swartz
18252 (1986-2013). Aaron worked on diverse projects including helping to guide
18253 Creative Commons, playing a key role in stopping SOPA/PIPA, bringing
18254 transparency to the U.S government's PACER documents, and contributing
18255 design and development for Tor and Tor2Web. Aaron was one of the latest
18256 martyrs in our collective fight for civil liberties and human rights,
18257 and his death is all the more painful because he was one of us.
18259 Tor 0.2.4.19, the first stable release in the 0.2.4 branch, features
18260 a new circuit handshake and link encryption that use ECC to provide
18261 better security and efficiency; makes relays better manage circuit
18262 creation requests; uses "directory guards" to reduce client enumeration
18263 risks; makes bridges collect and report statistics about the pluggable
18264 transports they support; cleans up and improves our geoip database;
18265 gets much closer to IPv6 support for clients, bridges, and relays; makes
18266 directory authorities use measured bandwidths rather than advertised
18267 ones when computing flags and thresholds; disables client-side DNS
18268 caching to reduce tracking risks; and fixes a big bug in bridge
18269 reachability testing. This release introduces two new design
18270 abstractions in the code: a new "channel" abstraction between circuits
18271 and or_connections to allow for implementing alternate relay-to-relay
18272 transports, and a new "circuitmux" abstraction storing the queue of
18273 circuits for a channel. The release also includes many stability,
18274 security, and privacy fixes.
18276 o Major features (new circuit handshake):
18277 - Tor now supports a new circuit extension handshake designed by Ian
18278 Goldberg, Douglas Stebila, and Berkant Ustaoglu. Our original
18279 circuit extension handshake, later called "TAP", was a bit slow
18280 (especially on the relay side), had a fragile security proof, and
18281 used weaker keys than we'd now prefer. The new circuit handshake
18282 uses Dan Bernstein's "curve25519" elliptic-curve Diffie-Hellman
18283 function, making it significantly more secure than the older
18284 handshake, and significantly faster. Tor can use one of two built-in
18285 pure-C curve25519-donna implementations by Adam Langley, or it
18286 can link against the "nacl" library for a tuned version if present.
18288 The built-in version is very fast for 64-bit systems when building
18289 with GCC. The built-in 32-bit version is still faster than the
18290 old TAP protocol, but using libnacl is better on most such hosts.
18292 Implements proposal 216; closes ticket 7202.
18294 o Major features (better link encryption):
18295 - Relays can now enable the ECDHE TLS ciphersuites when available
18296 and appropriate. These ciphersuites let us negotiate forward-secure
18297 TLS secret keys more safely and more efficiently than with our
18298 previous use of Diffie-Hellman modulo a 1024-bit prime. By default,
18299 public relays prefer the (faster) P224 group, and bridges prefer
18300 the (more common) P256 group; you can override this with the
18303 This feature requires clients running 0.2.3.17-beta or later,
18304 and requires both sides to be running OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later
18305 with ECC support. OpenSSL 1.0.1, with the compile-time option
18306 "enable-ec_nistp_64_gcc_128", is highly recommended.
18308 Implements the relay side of proposal 198; closes ticket 7200.
18310 - Re-enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 when built with OpenSSL 1.0.1e or later.
18311 Resolves ticket 6055. (OpenSSL before 1.0.1 didn't have TLS 1.1 or
18312 1.2, and OpenSSL from 1.0.1 through 1.0.1d had bugs that prevented
18313 renegotiation from working with TLS 1.1 or 1.2, so we had disabled
18314 them to solve bug 6033.)
18316 o Major features (relay performance):
18317 - Instead of limiting the number of queued onionskins (aka circuit
18318 create requests) to a fixed, hard-to-configure number, we limit
18319 the size of the queue based on how many we expect to be able to
18320 process in a given amount of time. We estimate the time it will
18321 take to process an onionskin based on average processing time
18322 of previous onionskins. Closes ticket 7291. You'll never have to
18323 configure MaxOnionsPending again.
18324 - Relays process the new "NTor" circuit-level handshake requests
18325 with higher priority than the old "TAP" circuit-level handshake
18326 requests. We still process some TAP requests to not totally starve
18327 0.2.3 clients when NTor becomes popular. A new consensus parameter
18328 "NumNTorsPerTAP" lets us tune the balance later if we need to.
18329 Implements ticket 9574.
18331 o Major features (client bootstrapping resilience):
18332 - Add a new "FallbackDir" torrc option to use when we can't use
18333 a directory mirror from the consensus (either because we lack a
18334 consensus, or because they're all down). Currently, all authorities
18335 are fallbacks by default, and there are no other default fallbacks,
18336 but that will change. This option will allow us to give clients a
18337 longer list of servers to try to get a consensus from when first
18338 connecting to the Tor network, and thereby reduce load on the
18339 directory authorities. Implements proposal 206, "Preconfigured
18340 directory sources for bootstrapping". We also removed the old
18341 "FallbackNetworkstatus" option, since we never got it working well
18342 enough to use it. Closes bug 572.
18343 - If we have no circuits open, use a relaxed timeout (the
18344 95th-percentile cutoff) until a circuit succeeds. This heuristic
18345 should allow Tor to succeed at building circuits even when the
18346 network connection drastically changes. Should help with bug 3443.
18348 o Major features (use of guards):
18349 - Support directory guards (proposal 207): when possible, clients now
18350 use their entry guards for non-anonymous directory requests. This
18351 can help prevent client enumeration. Note that this behavior only
18352 works when we have a usable consensus directory, and when options
18353 about what to download are more or less standard. In the future we
18354 should re-bootstrap from our guards, rather than re-bootstrapping
18355 from the preconfigured list of directory sources that ships with
18356 Tor. Resolves ticket 6526.
18357 - Raise the default time that a client keeps an entry guard from
18358 "1-2 months" to "2-3 months", as suggested by Tariq Elahi's WPES
18359 2012 paper. (We would make it even longer, but we need better client
18360 load balancing first.) Also, make the guard lifetime controllable
18361 via a new GuardLifetime torrc option and a GuardLifetime consensus
18362 parameter. Start of a fix for bug 8240; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
18364 o Major features (bridges with pluggable transports):
18365 - Bridges now report the pluggable transports they support to the
18366 bridge authority, so it can pass the supported transports on to
18367 bridgedb and/or eventually do reachability testing. Implements
18369 - Automatically forward the TCP ports of pluggable transport
18370 proxies using tor-fw-helper if PortForwarding is enabled. Implements
18373 o Major features (geoip database):
18374 - Maxmind began labelling Tor relays as being in country "A1",
18375 which breaks by-country node selection inside Tor. Now we use a
18376 script to replace "A1" ("Anonymous Proxy") entries in our geoip
18377 file with real country codes. This script fixes about 90% of "A1"
18378 entries automatically and uses manual country code assignments to
18379 fix the remaining 10%. See src/config/README.geoip for details.
18381 - Add GeoIP database for IPv6 addresses. The new config option
18383 - Update to the October 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
18385 o Major features (IPv6):
18386 - Clients who set "ClientUseIPv6 1" may connect to entry nodes over
18387 IPv6. Set "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort 1" to make this even more likely
18388 to happen. Implements ticket 5535.
18389 - All kind of relays, not just bridges, can now advertise an IPv6
18390 OR port. Implements ticket 6362.
18391 - Relays can now exit to IPv6 addresses: make sure that you have IPv6
18392 connectivity, then set the IPv6Exit flag to 1. Also make sure your
18393 exit policy reads as you would like: the address * applies to all
18394 address families, whereas *4 is IPv4 address only, and *6 is IPv6
18395 addresses only. On the client side, you'll need to wait for enough
18396 exits to support IPv6, apply the "IPv6Traffic" flag to a SocksPort,
18397 and use Socks5. Closes ticket 5547, implements proposal 117 as
18398 revised in proposal 208.
18399 - Bridge authorities now accept IPv6 bridge addresses and include
18400 them in network status documents. Implements ticket 5534.
18401 - Directory authorities vote on IPv6 OR ports. Implements ticket 6363.
18403 o Major features (directory authorities):
18404 - Directory authorities now prefer using measured bandwidths to
18405 advertised ones when computing flags and thresholds. Resolves
18407 - Directory authorities that vote measured bandwidths about more
18408 than a threshold number of relays now treat relays with
18409 unmeasured bandwidths as having bandwidth 0 when computing their
18410 flags. Resolves ticket 8435.
18411 - Directory authorities now support a new consensus method (17)
18412 where they cap the published bandwidth of relays for which
18413 insufficient bandwidth measurements exist. Fixes part of bug 2286.
18414 - Directory authorities that set "DisableV2DirectoryInfo_ 1" no longer
18415 serve any v2 directory information. Now we can test disabling the
18416 old deprecated v2 directory format, and see whether doing so has
18417 any effect on network load. Begins to fix bug 6783.
18419 o Major features (build and portability):
18420 - Switch to a nonrecursive Makefile structure. Now instead of each
18421 Makefile.am invoking other Makefile.am's, there is a master
18422 Makefile.am that includes the others. This change makes our build
18423 process slightly more maintainable, and improves parallelism for
18424 building with make -j. Original patch by Stewart Smith; various
18425 fixes by Jim Meyering.
18426 - Where available, we now use automake's "silent" make rules by
18427 default, so that warnings are easier to spot. You can get the old
18428 behavior with "make V=1". Patch by Stewart Smith for ticket 6522.
18429 - Resume building correctly with MSVC and Makefile.nmake. This patch
18430 resolves numerous bugs and fixes reported by ultramage, including
18431 7305, 7308, 7309, 7310, 7312, 7313, 7315, 7316, and 7669.
18433 o Security features:
18434 - Switch to a completely time-invariant approach for picking nodes
18435 weighted by bandwidth. Our old approach would run through the
18436 part of the loop after it had made its choice slightly slower
18437 than it ran through the part of the loop before it had made its
18438 choice. Addresses ticket 6538.
18439 - Disable the use of Guard nodes when in Tor2WebMode. Guard usage
18440 by tor2web clients allows hidden services to identify tor2web
18441 clients through their repeated selection of the same rendezvous
18442 and introduction point circuit endpoints (their guards). Resolves
18445 o Major bugfixes (relay denial of service):
18446 - When we have too much memory queued in circuits (according to a new
18447 MaxMemInCellQueues option), close the circuits that have the oldest
18448 queued cells, on the theory that those are most responsible for
18449 us running low on memory. This prevents us from running out of
18450 memory as a relay if circuits fill up faster than they can be
18451 drained. Fixes bugs 9063 and 9093; bugfix on the 54th commit of
18452 Tor. This bug is a further fix beyond bug 6252, whose fix was
18453 merged into 0.2.3.21-rc.
18454 - Reject bogus create and relay cells with 0 circuit ID or 0 stream
18455 ID: these could be used to create unexpected streams and circuits
18456 which would count as "present" to some parts of Tor but "absent"
18457 to others, leading to zombie circuits and streams or to a bandwidth
18458 denial-of-service. Fixes bug 7889; bugfix on every released version
18459 of Tor. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
18460 - Avoid a bug where our response to TLS renegotiation under certain
18461 network conditions could lead to a busy-loop, with 100% CPU
18462 consumption. Fixes bug 5650; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
18464 o Major bugfixes (asserts, crashes, leaks):
18465 - Prevent the get_freelists() function from running off the end of
18466 the list of freelists if it somehow gets an unrecognized
18467 allocation. Fixes bug 8844; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by
18469 - Avoid a memory leak where we would leak a consensus body when we
18470 find that a consensus which we couldn't previously verify due to
18471 missing certificates is now verifiable. Fixes bug 8719; bugfix
18473 - If we are unable to save a microdescriptor to the journal, do not
18474 drop it from memory and then reattempt downloading it. Fixes bug
18475 9645; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
18476 - Fix an assertion failure that would occur when disabling the
18477 ORPort setting on a running Tor process while accounting was
18478 enabled. Fixes bug 6979; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
18479 - Avoid an assertion failure on OpenBSD (and perhaps other BSDs)
18480 when an exit connection with optimistic data succeeds immediately
18481 rather than returning EINPROGRESS. Fixes bug 9017; bugfix on
18483 - Fix a memory leak that would occur whenever a configuration
18484 option changed. Fixes bug 8718; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
18486 o Major bugfixes (relay rate limiting):
18487 - When a TLS write is partially successful but incomplete, remember
18488 that the flushed part has been flushed, and notice that bytes were
18489 actually written. Reported and fixed pseudonymously. Fixes bug 7708;
18490 bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.5-rc.
18491 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst values from 5MB/10MB
18492 to 1GB/1GB. The previous defaults were intended to be "basically
18493 infinite", but it turns out they're now limiting our 100mbit+
18494 relays and bridges. Fixes bug 6605; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha (the
18495 last time we raised it).
18496 - No longer stop reading or writing on cpuworker connections when
18497 our rate limiting buckets go empty. Now we should handle circuit
18498 handshake requests more promptly. Resolves bug 9731.
18500 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
18501 - When we mark a circuit as unusable for new circuits, have it
18502 continue to be unusable for new circuits even if MaxCircuitDirtiness
18503 is increased too much at the wrong time, or the system clock jumps
18504 backwards. Fixes bug 6174; bugfix on 0.0.2pre26.
18505 - If ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses ("do not believe DNS queries
18506 which have resolved to internal addresses") is set, apply that
18507 rule to IPv6 as well. Fixes bug 8475; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
18508 - When an exit relay rejects a stream with reason "exit policy", but
18509 we only know an exit policy summary (e.g. from the microdesc
18510 consensus) for it, do not mark the relay as useless for all exiting.
18511 Instead, mark just the circuit as unsuitable for that particular
18512 address. Fixes part of bug 7582; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
18514 o Major bugfixes (stream isolation):
18515 - Allow applications to get proper stream isolation with
18516 IsolateSOCKSAuth. Many SOCKS5 clients that want to offer
18517 username/password authentication also offer "no authentication". Tor
18518 had previously preferred "no authentication", so the applications
18519 never actually sent Tor their auth details. Now Tor selects
18520 username/password authentication if it's offered. You can disable
18521 this behavior on a per-SOCKSPort basis via PreferSOCKSNoAuth. Fixes
18522 bug 8117; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
18523 - Follow the socks5 protocol when offering username/password
18524 authentication. The fix for bug 8117 exposed this bug, and it
18525 turns out real-world applications like Pidgin do care. Bugfix on
18526 0.2.3.2-alpha; fixes bug 8879.
18528 o Major bugfixes (client circuit building):
18529 - Alter circuit build timeout measurement to start at the point
18530 where we begin the CREATE/CREATE_FAST step (as opposed to circuit
18531 initialization). This should make our timeout measurements more
18532 uniform. Previously, we were sometimes including ORconn setup time
18533 in our circuit build time measurements. Should resolve bug 3443.
18534 - If the circuit build timeout logic is disabled (via the consensus,
18535 or because we are an authority), then don't build testing circuits.
18536 Fixes bug 9657; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
18538 o Major bugfixes (client-side DNS):
18539 - Turn off the client-side DNS cache by default. Updating and using
18540 the DNS cache is now configurable on a per-client-port
18541 level. SOCKSPort, DNSPort, etc lines may now contain
18542 {No,}Cache{IPv4,IPv6,}DNS lines to indicate that we shouldn't
18543 cache these types of DNS answers when we receive them from an
18544 exit node in response to an application request on this port, and
18545 {No,}UseCached{IPv4,IPv6,DNS} lines to indicate that if we have
18546 cached DNS answers of these types, we shouldn't use them. It's
18547 potentially risky to use cached DNS answers at the client, since
18548 doing so can indicate to one exit what answers we've gotten
18549 for DNS lookups in the past. With IPv6, this becomes especially
18550 problematic. Using cached DNS answers for requests on the same
18551 circuit would present less linkability risk, since all traffic
18552 on a circuit is already linkable, but it would also provide
18553 little performance benefit: the exit node caches DNS replies
18554 too. Implements a simplified version of Proposal 205. Implements
18557 o Major bugfixes (hidden service privacy):
18558 - Limit hidden service descriptors to at most ten introduction
18559 points, to slow one kind of guard enumeration. Fixes bug 9002;
18560 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
18562 o Major bugfixes (directory fetching):
18563 - If the time to download the next old-style networkstatus is in
18564 the future, do not decline to consider whether to download the
18565 next microdescriptor networkstatus. Fixes bug 9564; bugfix on
18567 - We used to always request authority certificates by identity digest,
18568 meaning we'd get the newest one even when we wanted one with a
18569 different signing key. Then we would complain about being given
18570 a certificate we already had, and never get the one we really
18571 wanted. Now we use the "fp-sk/" resource as well as the "fp/"
18572 resource to request the one we want. Fixes bug 5595; bugfix on
18575 o Major bugfixes (bridge reachability):
18576 - Bridges now send AUTH_CHALLENGE cells during their v3 handshakes;
18577 previously they did not, which prevented them from receiving
18578 successful connections from relays for self-test or bandwidth
18579 testing. Also, when a relay is extending a circuit to a bridge,
18580 it needs to send a NETINFO cell, even when the bridge hasn't sent
18581 an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell. Fixes bug 9546; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
18583 o Major bugfixes (control interface):
18584 - When receiving a new configuration file via the control port's
18585 LOADCONF command, do not treat the defaults file as absent.
18586 Fixes bug 9122; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
18588 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
18589 - Stop marking every relay as having been down for one hour every
18590 time we restart a directory authority. These artificial downtimes
18591 were messing with our Stable and Guard flag calculations. Fixes
18592 bug 8218 (introduced by the fix for 1035). Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
18593 - When computing directory thresholds, ignore any rejected-as-sybil
18594 nodes during the computation so that they can't influence Fast,
18595 Guard, etc. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
18597 - When marking a node as a likely sybil, reset its uptime metrics
18598 to zero, so that it cannot time towards getting marked as Guard,
18599 Stable, or HSDir. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
18601 - Fix a bug in the voting algorithm that could yield incorrect results
18602 when a non-naming authority declared too many flags. Fixes bug 9200;
18603 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
18605 o Internal abstraction features:
18606 - Introduce new channel_t abstraction between circuits and
18607 or_connection_t to allow for implementing alternate OR-to-OR
18608 transports. A channel_t is an abstract object which can either be a
18609 cell-bearing channel, which is responsible for authenticating and
18610 handshaking with the remote OR and transmitting cells to and from
18611 it, or a listening channel, which spawns new cell-bearing channels
18612 at the request of remote ORs. Implements part of ticket 6465.
18613 - Make a channel_tls_t subclass of channel_t, adapting it to the
18614 existing or_connection_t code. The V2/V3 protocol handshaking
18615 code which formerly resided in command.c has been moved below the
18616 channel_t abstraction layer and may be found in channeltls.c now.
18617 Implements the rest of ticket 6465.
18618 - Introduce new circuitmux_t storing the queue of circuits for
18619 a channel; this encapsulates and abstracts the queue logic and
18620 circuit selection policy, and allows the latter to be overridden
18621 easily by switching out a policy object. The existing EWMA behavior
18622 is now implemented as a circuitmux_policy_t. Resolves ticket 6816.
18624 o New build requirements:
18625 - Tor now requires OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later is
18626 strongly recommended.
18627 - Tor maintainers now require Automake version 1.9 or later to build
18628 Tor from the Git repository. (Automake is not required when building
18629 from a source distribution.)
18631 o Minor features (protocol):
18632 - No longer include the "opt" prefix when generating routerinfos
18633 or v2 directories: it has been needless since Tor 0.1.2. Closes
18635 - Reject EXTEND cells sent to nonexistent streams. According to the
18636 spec, an EXTEND cell sent to _any_ nonzero stream ID is invalid, but
18637 we were only checking for stream IDs that were currently in use.
18638 Found while hunting for more instances of bug 6271. Bugfix on
18639 0.0.2pre8, which introduced incremental circuit construction.
18640 - Tor relays and clients now support a better CREATE/EXTEND cell
18641 format, allowing the sender to specify multiple address, identity,
18642 and handshake types. Implements Robert Ransom's proposal 200;
18643 closes ticket 7199.
18644 - Reject as invalid most directory objects containing a NUL.
18645 Belt-and-suspender fix for bug 8037.
18647 o Minor features (security):
18648 - Clear keys and key-derived material left on the stack in
18649 rendservice.c and rendclient.c. Check return value of
18650 crypto_pk_write_private_key_to_string() in rend_service_load_keys().
18651 These fixes should make us more forward-secure against cold-boot
18652 attacks and the like. Fixes bug 2385.
18653 - Use our own weak RNG when we need a weak RNG. Windows's rand() and
18654 Irix's random() only return 15 bits; Solaris's random() returns more
18655 bits but its RAND_MAX says it only returns 15, and so on. Motivated
18656 by the fix for bug 7801; bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha.
18658 o Minor features (control protocol):
18659 - Add a "GETINFO signal/names" control port command. Implements
18661 - Provide default values for all options via "GETINFO config/defaults".
18662 Implements ticket 4971.
18663 - Allow an optional $ before the node identity digest in the
18664 controller command GETINFO ns/id/<identity>, for consistency with
18665 md/id/<identity> and desc/id/<identity>. Resolves ticket 7059.
18666 - Add CACHED keyword to ADDRMAP events in the control protocol
18667 to indicate whether a DNS result will be cached or not. Resolves
18669 - Generate bootstrapping status update events correctly when fetching
18670 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 9927.
18672 o Minor features (path selection):
18673 - When deciding whether we have enough descriptors to build circuits,
18674 instead of looking at raw relay counts, look at which fraction
18675 of (bandwidth-weighted) paths we're able to build. This approach
18676 keeps clients from building circuits if their paths are likely to
18677 stand out statistically. The default fraction of paths needed is
18678 taken from the consensus directory; you can override it with the
18679 new PathsNeededToBuildCircuits option. Fixes ticket 5956.
18680 - When any country code is listed in ExcludeNodes or ExcludeExitNodes,
18681 and we have GeoIP information, also exclude all nodes with unknown
18682 countries "??" and "A1". This behavior is controlled by the
18683 new GeoIPExcludeUnknown option: you can make such nodes always
18684 excluded with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 1", and disable the feature
18685 with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 0". Setting "GeoIPExcludeUnknown auto"
18686 gets you the default behavior. Implements feature 7706.
18688 o Minor features (hidden services):
18689 - Improve circuit build timeout handling for hidden services.
18690 In particular: adjust build timeouts more accurately depending
18691 upon the number of hop-RTTs that a particular circuit type
18692 undergoes. Additionally, launch intro circuits in parallel
18693 if they timeout, and take the first one to reply as valid.
18694 - The Tor client now ignores sub-domain components of a .onion
18695 address. This change makes HTTP "virtual" hosting
18696 possible: http://foo.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ and
18697 http://bar.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ can be two different websites
18698 hosted on the same hidden service. Implements proposal 204.
18699 - Enable Tor to read configuration, state, and key information from
18700 a FIFO. Previously Tor would only read from files with a positive
18701 stat.st_size. Code from meejah; fixes bug 6044.
18703 o Minor features (clients):
18704 - Teach bridge-using clients to avoid 0.2.2.x bridges when making
18705 microdescriptor-related dir requests, and only fall back to normal
18706 descriptors if none of their bridges can handle microdescriptors
18707 (as opposed to the fix in ticket 4013, which caused them to fall
18708 back to normal descriptors if *any* of their bridges preferred
18709 them). Resolves ticket 4994.
18710 - Tweak tor-fw-helper to accept an arbitrary amount of arbitrary
18711 TCP ports to forward. In the past it only accepted two ports:
18712 the ORPort and the DirPort.
18714 o Minor features (protecting client timestamps):
18715 - Clients no longer send timestamps in their NETINFO cells. These were
18716 not used for anything, and they provided one small way for clients
18717 to be distinguished from each other as they moved from network to
18718 network or behind NAT. Implements part of proposal 222.
18719 - Clients now round timestamps in INTRODUCE cells down to the nearest
18720 10 minutes. If a new Support022HiddenServices option is set to 0, or
18721 if it's set to "auto" and the feature is disabled in the consensus,
18722 the timestamp is sent as 0 instead. Implements part of proposal 222.
18723 - Stop sending timestamps in AUTHENTICATE cells. This is not such
18724 a big deal from a security point of view, but it achieves no actual
18725 good purpose, and isn't needed. Implements part of proposal 222.
18726 - Reduce down accuracy of timestamps in hidden service descriptors.
18727 Implements part of proposal 222.
18729 o Minor features (bridges):
18730 - Make bridge relays check once a minute for whether their IP
18731 address has changed, rather than only every 15 minutes. Resolves
18732 bugs 1913 and 1992.
18733 - Bridge statistics now count bridge clients connecting over IPv6:
18734 bridge statistics files now list "bridge-ip-versions" and
18735 extra-info documents list "geoip6-db-digest". The control protocol
18736 "CLIENTS_SEEN" and "ip-to-country" queries now support IPv6. Initial
18737 implementation by "shkoo", addressing ticket 5055.
18738 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportListenAddr" to let bridge
18739 operators select the address where their pluggable transports will
18740 listen for connections. Resolves ticket 7013.
18741 - Randomize the lifetime of our SSL link certificate, so censors can't
18742 use the static value for filtering Tor flows. Resolves ticket 8443;
18743 related to ticket 4014 which was included in 0.2.2.33.
18745 o Minor features (relays):
18746 - Option OutboundBindAddress can be specified multiple times and
18747 accepts IPv6 addresses. Resolves ticket 6876.
18749 o Minor features (IPv6, client side):
18750 - AutomapHostsOnResolve now supports IPv6 addresses. By default, we
18751 prefer to hand out virtual IPv6 addresses, since there are more of
18752 them and we can't run out. To override this behavior and make IPv4
18753 addresses preferred, set NoPreferIPv6Automap on whatever SOCKSPort
18754 or DNSPort you're using for resolving. Implements ticket 7571.
18755 - AutomapHostsOnResolve responses are now randomized, to avoid
18756 annoying situations where Tor is restarted and applications
18757 connect to the wrong addresses.
18758 - Never try more than 1000 times to pick a new virtual address when
18759 AutomapHostsOnResolve is set. That's good enough so long as we
18760 aren't close to handing out our entire virtual address space;
18761 if you're getting there, it's best to switch to IPv6 virtual
18764 o Minor features (IPv6, relay/authority side):
18765 - New config option "AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity 1" that directory
18766 authorities should set if they have IPv6 connectivity and want to
18767 do reachability tests for IPv6 relays. Implements feature 5974.
18768 - A relay with an IPv6 OR port now sends that address in NETINFO
18769 cells (in addition to its other address). Implements ticket 6364.
18771 o Minor features (directory authorities):
18772 - Directory authorities no long accept descriptors for any version of
18773 Tor before 0.2.2.35, or for any 0.2.3 release before 0.2.3.10-alpha.
18774 These versions are insecure, unsupported, or both. Implements
18776 - When directory authorities are computing thresholds for flags,
18777 never let the threshold for the Fast flag fall below 4096
18778 bytes. Also, do not consider nodes with extremely low bandwidths
18779 when deciding thresholds for various directory flags. This change
18780 should raise our threshold for Fast relays, possibly in turn
18781 improving overall network performance; see ticket 1854. Resolves
18783 - Directory authorities now include inside each vote a statement of
18784 the performance thresholds they used when assigning flags.
18785 Implements ticket 8151.
18786 - Add an "ignoring-advertised-bws" boolean to the flag-threshold lines
18787 in directory authority votes to describe whether they have enough
18788 measured bandwidths to ignore advertised (relay descriptor)
18789 bandwidth claims. Resolves ticket 8711.
18791 o Minor features (path bias detection):
18792 - Path Use Bias: Perform separate accounting for successful circuit
18793 use. Keep separate statistics on stream attempt rates versus stream
18794 success rates for each guard. Provide configurable thresholds to
18795 determine when to emit log messages or disable use of guards that
18796 fail too many stream attempts. Resolves ticket 7802.
18797 - Create three levels of Path Bias log messages, as opposed to just
18798 two. These are configurable via consensus as well as via the torrc
18799 options PathBiasNoticeRate, PathBiasWarnRate, PathBiasExtremeRate.
18800 The default values are 0.70, 0.50, and 0.30 respectively.
18801 - Separate the log message levels from the decision to drop guards,
18802 which also is available via torrc option PathBiasDropGuards.
18803 PathBiasDropGuards still defaults to 0 (off).
18804 - Deprecate PathBiasDisableRate in favor of PathBiasDropGuards
18805 in combination with PathBiasExtremeRate.
18806 - Increase the default values for PathBiasScaleThreshold and
18807 PathBiasCircThreshold from (200, 20) to (300, 150).
18808 - Add in circuit usage accounting to path bias. If we try to use a
18809 built circuit but fail for any reason, it counts as path bias.
18810 Certain classes of circuits where the adversary gets to pick your
18811 destination node are exempt from this accounting. Usage accounting
18812 can be specifically disabled via consensus parameter or torrc.
18813 - Convert all internal path bias state to double-precision floating
18814 point, to avoid roundoff error and other issues.
18815 - Only record path bias information for circuits that have completed
18816 *two* hops. Assuming end-to-end tagging is the attack vector, this
18817 makes us more resilient to ambient circuit failure without any
18818 detection capability loss.
18820 o Minor features (build):
18821 - Tor now builds correctly on Bitrig, an OpenBSD fork. Patch from
18822 dhill. Resolves ticket 6982.
18823 - Compile on win64 using mingw64. Fixes bug 7260; patches from
18825 - Work correctly on Unix systems where EAGAIN and EWOULDBLOCK are
18826 separate error codes; or at least, don't break for that reason.
18827 Fixes bug 7935. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
18829 o Build improvements (autotools):
18830 - Warn if building on a platform with an unsigned time_t: there
18831 are too many places where Tor currently assumes that time_t can
18832 hold negative values. We'd like to fix them all, but probably
18834 - Do not report status verbosely from autogen.sh unless the -v flag
18835 is specified. Fixes issue 4664. Patch from Onizuka.
18836 - Detect and reject attempts to build Tor with threading support
18837 when OpenSSL has been compiled without threading support.
18839 - Try to detect if we are ever building on a platform where
18840 memset(...,0,...) does not set the value of a double to 0.0. Such
18841 platforms are permitted by the C standard, though in practice
18842 they're pretty rare (since IEEE 754 is nigh-ubiquitous). We don't
18843 currently support them, but it's better to detect them and fail
18844 than to perform erroneously.
18845 - We no longer warn so much when generating manpages from their
18847 - Use Ville Laurikari's implementation of AX_CHECK_SIGN() to determine
18848 the signs of types during autoconf. This is better than our old
18849 approach, which didn't work when cross-compiling.
18851 o Minor features (log messages, warnings):
18852 - Detect when we're running with a version of OpenSSL other than the
18853 one we compiled with. This conflict has occasionally given people
18854 hard-to-track-down errors.
18855 - Warn users who run hidden services on a Tor client with
18856 UseEntryGuards disabled that their hidden services will be
18857 vulnerable to http://freehaven.net/anonbib/#hs-attack06 (the
18858 attack which motivated Tor to support entry guards in the first
18859 place). Resolves ticket 6889.
18860 - Warn when we are binding low ports when hibernation is enabled;
18861 previously we had warned when we were _advertising_ low ports with
18862 hibernation enabled. Fixes bug 7285; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
18863 - Issue a warning when running with the bufferevents backend enabled.
18864 It's still not stable, and people should know that they're likely
18865 to hit unexpected problems. Closes ticket 9147.
18867 o Minor features (log messages, notices):
18868 - Refactor resolve_my_address() so it returns the method by which we
18869 decided our public IP address (explicitly configured, resolved from
18870 explicit hostname, guessed from interfaces, learned by gethostname).
18871 Now we can provide more helpful log messages when a relay guesses
18872 its IP address incorrectly (e.g. due to unexpected lines in
18873 /etc/hosts). Resolves ticket 2267.
18874 - Track how many "TAP" and "NTor" circuit handshake requests we get,
18875 and how many we complete, and log it every hour to help relay
18876 operators follow trends in network load. Addresses ticket 9658.
18878 o Minor features (log messages, diagnostics):
18879 - If we fail to free a microdescriptor because of bug 7164, log
18880 the filename and line number from which we tried to free it.
18881 - We compute the overhead from passing onionskins back and forth to
18882 cpuworkers, and report it when dumping statistics in response to
18883 SIGUSR1. Supports ticket 7291.
18884 - Add another diagnostic to the heartbeat message: track and log
18885 overhead that TLS is adding to the data we write. If this is
18886 high, we are sending too little data to SSL_write at a time.
18887 Diagnostic for bug 7707.
18888 - Log packaged cell fullness as part of the heartbeat message.
18889 Diagnosis to try to determine the extent of bug 7743.
18890 - Add more detail to a log message about relaxed timeouts, to help
18892 - When learning a fingerprint for a bridge, log its corresponding
18893 transport type. Implements ticket 7896.
18894 - Warn more aggressively when flushing microdescriptors to a
18895 microdescriptor cache fails, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031,
18896 or at least make it more diagnosable.
18897 - Improve the log message when "Bug/attack: unexpected sendme cell
18898 from client" occurs, to help us track bug 8093.
18899 - Improve debugging output to help track down bug 8185 ("Bug:
18900 outgoing relay cell has n_chan==NULL. Dropping.")
18902 o Minor features (log messages, quieter bootstrapping):
18903 - Log fewer lines at level "notice" about our OpenSSL and Libevent
18904 versions and capabilities when everything is going right. Resolves
18905 part of ticket 6736.
18906 - Omit the first heartbeat log message, because it never has anything
18907 useful to say, and it clutters up the bootstrapping messages.
18908 Resolves ticket 6758.
18909 - Don't log about reloading the microdescriptor cache at startup. Our
18910 bootstrap warnings are supposed to tell the user when there's a
18911 problem, and our bootstrap notices say when there isn't. Resolves
18912 ticket 6759; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
18913 - Don't log "I learned some more directory information" when we're
18914 reading cached directory information. Reserve it for when new
18915 directory information arrives in response to a fetch. Resolves
18917 - Don't complain about bootstrapping problems while hibernating.
18918 These complaints reflect a general code problem, but not one
18919 with any problematic effects (no connections are actually
18920 opened). Fixes part of bug 7302; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
18922 o Minor features (testing):
18923 - In our testsuite, create temporary directories with a bit more
18924 entropy in their name to make name collisions less likely. Fixes
18926 - Add benchmarks for DH (1024-bit multiplicative group) and ECDH
18927 (P-256) Diffie-Hellman handshakes to src/or/bench.
18928 - Add benchmark functions to test onion handshake performance.
18931 - The DirServer option is now DirAuthority, for consistency with
18932 current naming patterns. You can still use the old DirServer form.
18934 o Minor bugfixes (protocol):
18935 - Fix the handling of a TRUNCATE cell when it arrives while the
18936 circuit extension is in progress. Fixes bug 7947; bugfix on 0.0.7.1.
18937 - When a Tor client gets a "truncated" relay cell, the first byte of
18938 its payload specifies why the circuit was truncated. We were
18939 ignoring this 'reason' byte when tearing down the circuit, resulting
18940 in the controller not being told why the circuit closed. Now we
18941 pass the reason from the truncated cell to the controller. Bugfix
18942 on 0.1.2.3-alpha; fixes bug 7039.
18943 - Fix a misframing issue when reading the version numbers in a
18944 VERSIONS cell. Previously we would recognize [00 01 00 02] as
18945 'version 1, version 2, and version 0x100', when it should have
18946 only included versions 1 and 2. Fixes bug 8059; bugfix on
18947 0.2.0.10-alpha. Reported pseudonymously.
18948 - Make the format and order of STREAM events for DNS lookups
18949 consistent among the various ways to launch DNS lookups. Fixes
18950 bug 8203; bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc. Patch by "Desoxy".
18952 o Minor bugfixes (syscalls and disk interaction):
18953 - Always check the return values of functions fcntl() and
18954 setsockopt(). We don't believe these are ever actually failing in
18955 practice, but better safe than sorry. Also, checking these return
18956 values should please analysis tools like Coverity. Patch from
18957 'flupzor'. Fixes bug 8206; bugfix on all versions of Tor.
18958 - Avoid double-closing the listener socket in our socketpair()
18959 replacement (used on Windows) in the case where the addresses on
18960 our opened sockets don't match what we expected. Fixes bug 9400;
18961 bugfix on 0.0.2pre7. Found by Coverity.
18962 - Correctly store microdescriptors and extrainfo descriptors that
18963 include an internal NUL byte. Fixes bug 8037; bugfix on
18964 0.2.0.1-alpha. Bug reported by "cypherpunks".
18965 - If for some reason we fail to write a microdescriptor while
18966 rebuilding the cache, do not let the annotations from that
18967 microdescriptor linger in the cache file, and do not let the
18968 microdescriptor stay recorded as present in its old location.
18969 Fixes bug 9047; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
18970 - Use direct writes rather than stdio when building microdescriptor
18971 caches, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031, or at least make it
18974 o Minor fixes (config options):
18975 - Warn and fail if a server is configured not to advertise any
18976 ORPorts at all. (We need *something* to put in our descriptor,
18977 or we just won't work.)
18978 - Behave correctly when the user disables LearnCircuitBuildTimeout
18979 but doesn't tell us what they would like the timeout to be. Fixes
18980 bug 6304; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
18981 - Rename the (internal-use-only) UsingTestingNetworkDefaults option
18982 to start with a triple-underscore so the controller won't touch it.
18983 Patch by Meejah. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
18984 - Rename the (testing-use-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option
18985 so it doesn't start with _. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
18986 - When autodetecting the number of CPUs, use the number of available
18987 CPUs in preference to the number of configured CPUs. Inform the
18988 user if this reduces the number of available CPUs. Fixes bug 8002;
18989 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
18990 - Command-line option "--version" implies "--quiet". Fixes bug 6997.
18991 - Make it an error when you set EntryNodes but disable UseGuardNodes,
18992 since it will (surprisingly to some users) ignore EntryNodes. Fixes
18993 bug 8180; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
18994 - Avoid overflows when the user sets MaxCircuitDirtiness to a
18995 ridiculously high value, by imposing a (ridiculously high) 30-day
18996 maximum on MaxCircuitDirtiness.
18998 o Minor bugfixes (control protocol):
18999 - Stop sending a stray "(null)" in some cases for the server status
19000 "EXTERNAL_ADDRESS" controller event. Resolves bug 8200; bugfix
19002 - The ADDRMAP command can no longer generate an ill-formed error
19003 code on a failed MAPADDRESS. It now says "internal" rather than
19004 an English sentence fragment with spaces in the middle. Bugfix on
19005 Tor 0.2.0.19-alpha.
19007 o Minor bugfixes (clients / edges):
19008 - When we receive a RELAY_END cell with the reason DONE, or with no
19009 reason, before receiving a RELAY_CONNECTED cell, report the SOCKS
19010 status as "connection refused". Previously we reported these cases
19011 as success but then immediately closed the connection. Fixes bug
19012 7902; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
19013 - If the guard we choose first doesn't answer, we would try the
19014 second guard, but once we connected to the second guard we would
19015 abandon it and retry the first one, slowing down bootstrapping.
19016 The fix is to treat all our initially chosen guards as acceptable
19017 to use. Fixes bug 9946; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
19018 - When choosing which stream on a formerly stalled circuit to wake
19019 first, make better use of the platform's weak RNG. Previously,
19020 we had been using the % ("modulo") operator to try to generate a
19021 1/N chance of picking each stream, but this behaves badly with
19022 many platforms' choice of weak RNG. Fixes bug 7801; bugfix on
19025 o Minor bugfixes (path bias detection):
19026 - If the state file's path bias counts are invalid (presumably from a
19027 buggy Tor prior to 0.2.4.10-alpha), make them correct. Also add
19028 additional checks and log messages to the scaling of Path Bias
19029 counts, in case there still are remaining issues with scaling.
19030 Should help resolve bug 8235.
19031 - Prevent rounding error in path bias counts when scaling
19032 them down, and use the correct scale factor default. Also demote
19033 some path bias related log messages down a level and make others
19034 less scary sounding. Fixes bug 6647. Bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
19035 - Remove a source of rounding error during path bias count scaling;
19036 don't count cannibalized circuits as used for path bias until we
19037 actually try to use them; and fix a circuit_package_relay_cell()
19038 warning message about n_chan==NULL. Fixes bug 7802.
19039 - Paste the description for PathBias parameters from the man
19040 page into or.h, so the code documents them too. Fixes bug 7982;
19041 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
19043 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
19044 - Stop trying to resolve our hostname so often (e.g. every time we
19045 think about doing a directory fetch). Now we reuse the cached
19046 answer in some cases. Fixes bugs 1992 (bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc)
19047 and 2410 (bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha).
19048 - When examining the list of network interfaces to find our address,
19049 do not consider non-running or disabled network interfaces. Fixes
19050 bug 9904; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. Patch from "hantwister".
19052 o Minor bugfixes (blocking resistance):
19053 - Only disable TLS session ticket support when running as a TLS
19054 server. Now clients will blend better with regular Firefox
19055 connections. Fixes bug 7189; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.23-rc.
19057 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
19058 - Use square brackets around IPv6 addresses in numerous places
19059 that needed them, including log messages, HTTPS CONNECT proxy
19060 requests, TransportProxy statefile entries, and pluggable transport
19061 extra-info lines. Fixes bug 7011; patch by David Fifield.
19063 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
19064 - Reject consensus votes with more than 64 known-flags. We aren't even
19065 close to that limit yet, and our code doesn't handle it correctly.
19066 Fixes bug 6833; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19067 - Correctly handle votes with more than 31 flags. Fixes bug 6853;
19068 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
19070 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
19071 - Avoid leaking memory if we fail to compute a consensus signature
19072 or we generate a consensus we can't parse. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
19073 - Fix a memory leak when receiving headers from an HTTPS proxy. Bugfix
19074 on 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 7816.
19075 - Fix a memory leak during safe-cookie controller authentication.
19076 Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha; fixes bug 7816.
19077 - Free some more still-in-use memory at exit, to make hunting for
19078 memory leaks easier. Resolves bug 7029.
19080 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
19081 - Increase the width of the field used to remember a connection's
19082 link protocol version to two bytes. Harmless for now, since the
19083 only currently recognized versions are one byte long. Reported
19084 pseudonymously. Fixes bug 8062; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
19085 - Fix a crash when debugging unit tests on Windows: deallocate a
19086 shared library with FreeLibrary, not CloseHandle. Fixes bug 7306;
19087 bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Reported by "ultramage".
19088 - When detecting the largest possible file descriptor (in order to
19089 close all file descriptors when launching a new program), actually
19090 use _SC_OPEN_MAX. The old code for doing this was very, very broken.
19091 Fixes bug 8209; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Found by Coverity; this
19093 - Avoid a crash if we fail to generate an extrainfo descriptor.
19094 Fixes bug 8208; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Found by Coverity;
19095 this is CID 718634.
19096 - Avoid an off-by-one error when checking buffer boundaries when
19097 formatting the exit status of a pluggable transport helper.
19098 This is probably not an exploitable bug, but better safe than
19099 sorry. Fixes bug 9928; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc. Bug found by
19101 - Get rid of a couple of harmless clang warnings, where we compared
19102 enums to ints. These warnings are newly introduced in clang 3.2.
19104 o Minor bugfixes (code cleanliness):
19105 - Avoid use of reserved identifiers in our C code. The C standard
19106 doesn't like us declaring anything that starts with an
19107 underscore, so let's knock it off before we get in trouble. Fix
19108 for bug 1031; bugfix on the first Tor commit.
19109 - Fix round_to_power_of_2() so it doesn't invoke undefined behavior
19110 with large values. This situation was untriggered, but nevertheless
19111 incorrect. Fixes bug 6831; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19112 - Fix an impossible buffer overrun in the AES unit tests. Fixes
19113 bug 8845; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Found by eugenis.
19114 - Fix handling of rendezvous client authorization types over 8.
19115 Fixes bug 6861; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
19116 - Remove a couple of extraneous semicolons that were upsetting the
19117 cparser library. Patch by Christian Grothoff. Fixes bug 7115;
19118 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
19119 - When complaining about a client port on a public address, log
19120 which address we're complaining about. Fixes bug 4020; bugfix on
19121 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Tom Fitzhenry.
19123 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, warnings):
19124 - If we encounter a write failure on a SOCKS connection before we
19125 finish our SOCKS handshake, don't warn that we closed the
19126 connection before we could send a SOCKS reply. Fixes bug 8427;
19127 bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
19128 - Fix a directory authority warn caused when we have a large amount
19129 of badexit bandwidth. Fixes bug 8419; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
19130 - Downgrade "Failed to hand off onionskin" messages to "debug"
19131 severity, since they're typically redundant with the "Your computer
19132 is too slow" messages. Fixes bug 7038; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
19133 - Avoid spurious warnings when configuring multiple client ports of
19134 which only some are nonlocal. Previously, we had claimed that some
19135 were nonlocal when in fact they weren't. Fixes bug 7836; bugfix on
19138 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, other):
19139 - Fix log messages and comments to avoid saying "GMT" when we mean
19140 "UTC". Fixes bug 6113.
19141 - When rejecting a configuration because we were unable to parse a
19142 quoted string, log an actual error message. Fixes bug 7950; bugfix
19144 - Correctly recognize that [::1] is a loopback address. Fixes
19145 bug 8377; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
19146 - Don't log inappropriate heartbeat messages when hibernating: a
19147 hibernating node is _expected_ to drop out of the consensus,
19148 decide it isn't bootstrapped, and so forth. Fixes bug 7302;
19149 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
19150 - Eliminate several instances where we use "Nickname=ID" to refer to
19151 nodes in logs. Use "Nickname (ID)" instead. (Elsewhere, we still use
19152 "$ID=Nickname", which is also acceptable.) Fixes bug 7065. Bugfix
19155 o Minor bugfixes (build):
19156 - Fix some bugs in tor-fw-helper-natpmp when trying to build and
19157 run it on Windows. More bugs likely remain. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
19158 Fixes bug 7280; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
19160 o Documentation fixes:
19161 - Make the torify manpage no longer refer to tsocks; torify hasn't
19162 supported tsocks since 0.2.3.14-alpha.
19163 - Make the tor manpage no longer reference tsocks.
19164 - Fix the GeoIPExcludeUnknown documentation to refer to
19165 ExcludeExitNodes rather than the currently nonexistent
19166 ExcludeEntryNodes. Spotted by "hamahangi" on tor-talk.
19167 - Resolve a typo in torrc.sample.in. Fixes bug 6819; bugfix on
19169 - Say "KBytes" rather than "KB" in the man page (for various values
19170 of K), to further reduce confusion about whether Tor counts in
19171 units of memory or fractions of units of memory. Resolves ticket 7054.
19172 - Update tor-fw-helper.1.txt and tor-fw-helper.c to make option
19173 names match. Fixes bug 7768.
19174 - Fix the documentation of HeartbeatPeriod to say that the heartbeat
19175 message is logged at notice, not at info.
19176 - Clarify the usage and risks of setting the ContactInfo torrc line
19177 for your relay or bridge. Resolves ticket 9854.
19178 - Add anchors to the manpage so we can link to the html version of
19179 the documentation for specific options. Resolves ticket 9866.
19180 - Replace remaining references to DirServer in man page and
19181 log entries. Resolves ticket 10124.
19183 o Removed features:
19184 - Stop exporting estimates of v2 and v3 directory traffic shares
19185 in extrainfo documents. They were unneeded and sometimes inaccurate.
19186 Also stop exporting any v2 directory request statistics. Resolves
19188 - Drop support for detecting and warning about versions of Libevent
19189 before 1.3e. Nothing reasonable ships with them any longer; warning
19190 the user about them shouldn't be needed. Resolves ticket 6826.
19191 - Now that all versions before 0.2.2.x are disallowed, we no longer
19192 need to work around their missing features. Remove a bunch of
19193 compatibility code.
19196 - The tor-tsocks.conf is no longer distributed or installed. We
19197 recommend that tsocks users use torsocks instead. Resolves
19199 - Remove some of the older contents of doc/ as obsolete; move others
19200 to torspec.git. Fixes bug 8965.
19202 o Code simplification:
19203 - Avoid using character buffers when constructing most directory
19204 objects: this approach was unwieldy and error-prone. Instead,
19205 build smartlists of strings, and concatenate them when done.
19206 - Rename "isin" functions to "contains", for grammar. Resolves
19208 - Rename Tor's logging function log() to tor_log(), to avoid conflicts
19209 with the natural logarithm function from the system libm. Resolves
19211 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h, so that we don't
19212 need to hand-roll our own pointer and list structures whenever we
19213 need them. (We can't rely on a sys/queue.h, since some operating
19214 systems don't have them, and the ones that do have them don't all
19215 present the same extensions.)
19216 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h (originally by
19218 - Enhance our internal sscanf replacement so that we can eliminate
19219 the last remaining uses of the system sscanf. (Though those uses
19220 of sscanf were safe, sscanf itself is generally error prone, so
19221 we want to eliminate when we can.) Fixes ticket 4195 and Coverity
19223 - Replace all calls to snprintf() outside of src/ext with
19224 tor_snprintf(). Also remove the #define to replace snprintf with
19225 _snprintf on Windows; they have different semantics, and all of
19226 our callers should be using tor_snprintf() anyway. Fixes bug 7304.
19229 - Add a wrapper function for the common "log a message with a
19231 - Split the onion.c file into separate modules for the onion queue
19232 and the different handshakes it supports.
19233 - Move the client-side address-map/virtual-address/DNS-cache code
19234 out of connection_edge.c into a new addressmap.c module.
19235 - Move the entry node code from circuitbuild.c to its own file.
19236 - Move the circuit build timeout tracking code from circuitbuild.c
19238 - Source files taken from other packages now reside in src/ext;
19239 previously they were scattered around the rest of Tor.
19240 - Move the generic "config" code into a new file, and have "config.c"
19241 hold only torrc- and state-related code. Resolves ticket 6823.
19242 - Move the core of our "choose a weighted element at random" logic
19243 into its own function, and give it unit tests. Now the logic is
19244 testable, and a little less fragile too.
19245 - Move ipv6_preferred from routerinfo_t to node_t. Addresses bug 4620.
19246 - Move last_reachable and testing_since from routerinfo_t to node_t.
19247 Implements ticket 5529.
19248 - Add replaycache_t structure, functions and unit tests, then refactor
19249 rend_service_introduce() to be more clear to read, improve, debug,
19250 and test. Resolves bug 6177.
19253 - Remove some now-needless code that tried to aggressively flush
19254 OR connections as data was added to them. Since 0.2.0.1-alpha, our
19255 cell queue logic has saved us from the failure mode that this code
19256 was supposed to prevent. Removing this code will limit the number
19257 of baroque control flow paths through Tor's network logic. Reported
19258 pseudonymously on IRC. Fixes bug 6468; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19259 - Remove unused code for parsing v1 directories and "running routers"
19260 documents. Fixes bug 6887.
19261 - Remove the marshalling/unmarshalling code for sending requests to
19262 cpuworkers over a socket, and instead just send structs. The
19263 recipient will always be the same Tor binary as the sender, so
19264 any encoding is overkill.
19265 - Remove the testing_since field of node_t, which hasn't been used
19266 for anything since 0.2.0.9-alpha.
19267 - Finally remove support for malloc_good_size and malloc_usable_size.
19268 We had hoped that these functions would let us eke a little more
19269 memory out of our malloc implementation. Unfortunately, the only
19270 implementations that provided these functions are also ones that
19271 are already efficient about not overallocation: they never got us
19272 more than 7 or so bytes per allocation. Removing them saves us a
19273 little code complexity and a nontrivial amount of build complexity.
19276 Changes in version 0.2.3.25 - 2012-11-19
19277 The Tor 0.2.3 release series is dedicated to the memory of Len "rabbi"
19278 Sassaman (1980-2011), a long-time cypherpunk, anonymity researcher,
19279 Mixmaster maintainer, Pynchon Gate co-designer, CodeCon organizer,
19280 programmer, and friend. Unstinting in his dedication to the cause of
19281 freedom, he inspired and helped many of us as we began our work on
19282 anonymity, and inspires us still. Please honor his memory by writing
19283 software to protect people's freedoms, and by helping others to do so.
19285 Tor 0.2.3.25, the first stable release in the 0.2.3 branch, features
19286 significantly reduced directory overhead (via microdescriptors),
19287 enormous crypto performance improvements for fast relays on new
19288 enough hardware, a new v3 TLS handshake protocol that can better
19289 resist fingerprinting, support for protocol obfuscation plugins (aka
19290 pluggable transports), better scalability for hidden services, IPv6
19291 support for bridges, performance improvements like allowing clients
19292 to skip the first round-trip on the circuit ("optimistic data") and
19293 refilling token buckets more often, a new "stream isolation" design
19294 to isolate different applications on different circuits, and many
19295 stability, security, and privacy fixes.
19297 Major features (v3 directory protocol):
19298 - Clients now use microdescriptors instead of regular descriptors
19299 to build circuits. Microdescriptors are authority-generated
19300 summaries of regular descriptors' contents, designed to change very
19301 rarely (see proposal 158 for details). This feature is designed
19302 to save bandwidth, especially for clients on slow internet
19303 connections. Use "UseMicrodescriptors 0" to disable it.
19304 - Caches now download, cache, and serve microdescriptors, as well
19305 as multiple "flavors" of the consensus, including a flavor that
19306 describes microdescriptors.
19308 o Major features (build hardening):
19309 - Enable gcc and ld hardening by default. Resolves ticket 5210.
19311 o Major features (relay scaling):
19312 - When built to use OpenSSL 1.0.1, and built for an x86 or x86_64
19313 instruction set, take advantage of OpenSSL's AESNI, bitsliced, or
19314 vectorized AES implementations as appropriate. These can be much,
19315 much faster than other AES implementations.
19316 - When using OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, use OpenSSL's counter mode
19317 implementation. It makes AES_CTR about 7% faster than our old one
19318 (which was about 10% faster than the one OpenSSL used to provide).
19319 Resolves ticket 4526.
19320 - Use OpenSSL's EVP interface for AES encryption, so that all AES
19321 operations can use hardware acceleration (if present). Resolves
19323 - Unconditionally use OpenSSL's AES implementation instead of our
19324 old built-in one. OpenSSL's AES has been better for a while, and
19325 relatively few servers should still be on any version of OpenSSL
19326 that doesn't have good optimized assembly AES.
19328 o Major features (blocking resistance):
19329 - Update TLS cipher list to match Firefox 8 and later. Resolves
19331 - Remove support for clients falsely claiming to support standard
19332 ciphersuites that they can actually provide. As of modern OpenSSL
19333 versions, it's not necessary to fake any standard ciphersuite,
19334 and doing so prevents us from using better ciphersuites in the
19335 future, since servers can't know whether an advertised ciphersuite
19336 is really supported or not. Some hosts -- notably, ones with very
19337 old versions of OpenSSL or where OpenSSL has been built with ECC
19338 disabled -- will stand out because of this change; TBB users should
19339 not be affected. Implements the client side of proposal 198.
19340 - Implement a new handshake protocol (v3) for authenticating Tors to
19341 each other over TLS. It should be more resistant to fingerprinting
19342 than previous protocols, and should require less TLS hacking for
19343 future Tor implementations. Implements proposal 176.
19344 - Allow variable-length padding cells, to disguise the length of
19345 Tor's TLS records. Implements part of proposal 184.
19346 - While we're trying to bootstrap, record how many TLS connections
19347 fail in each state, and report which states saw the most failures
19348 in response to any bootstrap failures. This feature may speed up
19349 diagnosis of censorship events. Implements ticket 3116.
19351 o Major features (pluggable transports):
19352 - Clients and bridges can now be configured to use a separate
19353 "transport" proxy. This approach makes the censorship arms race
19354 easier by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation plugins.
19355 Implements proposal 180 (tickets 2841 and 3472).
19357 o Major features (DoS resistance):
19358 - Now that Tor 0.2.0.x is completely deprecated, enable the final
19359 part of "Proposal 110: Avoiding infinite length circuits" by
19360 refusing all circuit-extend requests that do not use a relay_early
19361 cell. This change helps Tor resist a class of denial-of-service
19362 attacks by limiting the maximum circuit length.
19363 - Tear down the circuit if we get an unexpected SENDME cell. Clients
19364 could use this trick to make their circuits receive cells faster
19365 than our flow control would have allowed, or to gum up the network,
19366 or possibly to do targeted memory denial-of-service attacks on
19367 entry nodes. Fixes bug 6252. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor --
19368 from July 2002, before the release of Tor 0.0.0.
19370 o Major features (hidden services):
19371 - Adjust the number of introduction points that a hidden service
19372 will try to maintain based on how long its introduction points
19373 remain in use and how many introductions they handle. Fixes
19375 - Add a "tor2web mode" for clients that want to connect to hidden
19376 services non-anonymously (and possibly more quickly). As a safety
19377 measure to try to keep users from turning this on without knowing
19378 what they are doing, tor2web mode must be explicitly enabled at
19379 compile time, and a copy of Tor compiled to run in tor2web mode
19380 cannot be used as a normal Tor client. Implements feature 2553.
19382 o Major features (IPv6):
19383 - Clients can now connect to private bridges over IPv6. Bridges
19384 still need at least one IPv4 address in order to connect to
19385 other relays. Note that we don't yet handle the case where the
19386 user has two bridge lines for the same bridge (one IPv4, one
19387 IPv6). Implements parts of proposal 186.
19389 o Major features (directory authorities):
19390 - Use a more secure consensus parameter voting algorithm. Now at
19391 least three directory authorities or a majority of them must
19392 vote on a given parameter before it will be included in the
19393 consensus. Implements proposal 178.
19394 - Remove the artificially low cutoff of 20KB to guarantee the Fast
19395 flag. In the past few years the average relay speed has picked
19396 up, and while the "top 7/8 of the network get the Fast flag" and
19397 "all relays with 20KB or more of capacity get the Fast flag" rules
19398 used to have the same result, now the top 7/8 of the network has
19399 a capacity more like 32KB. Bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc. Fixes bug 4489.
19401 o Major features (performance):
19402 - Exit nodes now accept and queue data on not-yet-connected streams.
19403 Previously, the client wasn't allowed to send data until the
19404 stream was connected, which slowed down all connections. This
19405 change will enable clients to perform a "fast-start" on streams
19406 and send data without having to wait for a confirmation that the
19407 stream has opened. Patch from Ian Goldberg; implements the server
19408 side of Proposal 174.
19409 - When using an exit relay running 0.2.3.x, clients can now
19410 "optimistically" send data before the exit relay reports that
19411 the stream has opened. This saves a round trip when starting
19412 connections where the client speaks first (such as web browsing).
19413 This behavior is controlled by a consensus parameter (currently
19414 disabled). To turn it on or off manually, use the "OptimisticData"
19415 torrc option. Implements proposal 181; code by Ian Goldberg.
19416 - Add a new TokenBucketRefillInterval option to refill token buckets
19417 more frequently than once per second. This should improve network
19418 performance, alleviate queueing problems, and make traffic less
19419 bursty. Implements proposal 183; closes ticket 3630. Design by
19420 Florian Tschorsch and Björn Scheuermann; implementation by
19422 - Raise the threshold of server descriptors needed (75%) and exit
19423 server descriptors needed (50%) before we will declare ourselves
19424 bootstrapped. This will make clients start building circuits a
19425 little later, but makes the initially constructed circuits less
19426 skewed and less in conflict with further directory fetches. Fixes
19429 o Major features (relays):
19430 - Relays now try regenerating and uploading their descriptor more
19431 frequently if they are not listed in the consensus, or if the
19432 version of their descriptor listed in the consensus is too
19433 old. This fix should prevent situations where a server declines
19434 to re-publish itself because it has done so too recently, even
19435 though the authorities decided not to list its recent-enough
19436 descriptor. Fix for bug 3327.
19438 o Major features (stream isolation):
19439 - You can now configure Tor so that streams from different
19440 applications are isolated on different circuits, to prevent an
19441 attacker who sees your streams as they leave an exit node from
19442 linking your sessions to one another. To do this, choose some way
19443 to distinguish the applications: have them connect to different
19444 SocksPorts, or have one of them use SOCKS4 while the other uses
19445 SOCKS5, or have them pass different authentication strings to the
19446 SOCKS proxy. Then, use the new SocksPort syntax to configure the
19447 degree of isolation you need. This implements Proposal 171.
19448 - There's a new syntax for specifying multiple client ports (such as
19449 SOCKSPort, TransPort, DNSPort, NATDPort): you can now just declare
19450 multiple *Port entries with full addr:port syntax on each.
19451 The old *ListenAddress format is still supported, but you can't
19452 mix it with the new *Port syntax.
19454 o Major features (bufferevents):
19455 - Tor can now optionally build with the "bufferevents" buffered IO
19456 backend provided by Libevent 2. To use this feature, make sure you
19457 have the latest possible version of Libevent, and pass the
19458 --enable-bufferevents flag to configure when building Tor from
19459 source. This feature will make our networking code more flexible,
19460 let us stack layers on each other, and let us use more efficient
19461 zero-copy transports where available.
19462 - Add experimental support for running on Windows with IOCP and no
19463 kernel-space socket buffers. This feature is controlled by a new
19464 "UserspaceIOCPBuffers" config option (off by default), which has
19465 no effect unless Tor has been built with bufferevents enabled,
19466 you're running on Windows, and you've set "DisableIOCP 0". In the
19467 long run, this may help solve or mitigate bug 98.
19469 o Major features (path selection):
19470 - The EntryNodes option can now include country codes like {de} or IP
19471 addresses or network masks. Previously we had disallowed these
19472 options because we didn't have an efficient way to keep the list up
19473 to date. Addresses ticket 1982, but see bug 2798 for an unresolved
19476 o Major features (port forwarding):
19477 - Add support for automatic port mapping on the many home routers
19478 that support NAT-PMP or UPnP. To build the support code, you'll
19479 need to have the libnatpnp library and/or the libminiupnpc library,
19480 and you'll need to enable the feature specifically by passing
19481 "--enable-upnp" and/or "--enable-natpnp" to ./configure. To turn
19482 it on, use the new PortForwarding option.
19484 o Major features (logging):
19485 - Add a new 'Heartbeat' log message type to periodically log a message
19486 describing Tor's status at level Notice. This feature is meant for
19487 operators who log at notice, and want to make sure that their Tor
19488 server is still working. Implementation by George Kadianakis.
19489 - Make logging resolution configurable with a new LogTimeGranularity
19490 option, and change the default from 1 millisecond to 1 second.
19491 Implements enhancement 1668.
19493 o Major features (other):
19494 - New "DisableNetwork" config option to prevent Tor from launching any
19495 connections or accepting any connections except on a control port.
19496 Bundles and controllers can set this option before letting Tor talk
19497 to the rest of the network, for example to prevent any connections
19498 to a non-bridge address. Packages like Orbot can also use this
19499 option to instruct Tor to save power when the network is off.
19500 - Try to use system facilities for enumerating local interface
19501 addresses, before falling back to our old approach (which was
19502 binding a UDP socket, and calling getsockname() on it). That
19503 approach was scaring OS X users whose draconian firewall
19504 software warned about binding to UDP sockets regardless of
19505 whether packets were sent. Now we try to use getifaddrs(),
19506 SIOCGIFCONF, or GetAdaptersAddresses(), depending on what the
19507 system supports. Resolves ticket 1827.
19508 - Add experimental support for a "defaults" torrc file to be parsed
19509 before the regular torrc. Torrc options override the defaults file's
19510 options in the same way that the command line overrides the torrc.
19511 The SAVECONF controller command saves only those options which
19512 differ between the current configuration and the defaults file. HUP
19513 reloads both files. Implements task 4552.
19515 o New directory authorities:
19516 - Add Faravahar (run by Sina Rabbani) as the ninth v3 directory
19517 authority. Closes ticket 5749.
19519 o Security/privacy fixes:
19520 - Avoid read-from-freed-memory and double-free bugs that could occur
19521 when a DNS request fails while launching it. Fixes bug 6480;
19522 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19523 - Reject any attempt to extend to an internal address. Without
19524 this fix, a router could be used to probe addresses on an internal
19525 network to see whether they were accepting connections. Fixes bug
19526 6710; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
19527 - Close any connection that sends unrecognized junk before the TLS
19528 handshake. Solves an issue noted in bug 4369.
19529 - The advertised platform of a relay now includes only its operating
19530 system's name (e.g., "Linux", "Darwin", "Windows 7"), and not
19531 its service pack level (for Windows) or its CPU architecture
19532 (for Unix). Also drop the "git-XYZ" tag in the version. Packagers
19533 can insert an extra string in the platform line by setting the
19534 preprocessor variable TOR_BUILD_TAG. Resolves bug 2988.
19535 - Disable TLS session tickets. OpenSSL's implementation was giving
19536 our TLS session keys the lifetime of our TLS context objects, when
19537 perfect forward secrecy would want us to discard anything that
19538 could decrypt a link connection as soon as the link connection
19539 was closed. Fixes bug 7139; bugfix on all versions of Tor linked
19540 against OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later. Found by Florent Daignière.
19541 - Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so
19542 that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory,
19543 the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler
19544 was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the
19545 memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program,
19546 hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that
19547 by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler
19548 is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use
19549 a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352.
19550 Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov.
19552 o Major bugfixes (crashes and asserts):
19553 - Avoid a pair of double-free and use-after-mark bugs that can
19554 occur with certain timings in canceled and re-received DNS
19555 requests. Fixes bug 6472; bugfix on 0.0.7rc1.
19556 - Fix a denial of service attack by which any directory authority
19557 could crash all the others, or by which a single v2 directory
19558 authority could crash everybody downloading v2 directory
19559 information. Fixes bug 7191; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
19560 - Fix an assert that directory authorities could trigger on sighup
19561 during some configuration state transitions. We now don't treat
19562 it as a fatal error when the new descriptor we just generated in
19563 init_keys() isn't accepted. Fixes bug 4438; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
19564 - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
19565 version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
19568 o Major bugfixes (clients):
19569 - If we are unable to find any exit that supports our predicted ports,
19570 stop calling them predicted, so that we don't loop and build
19571 hopeless circuits indefinitely. Fixes bug 3296; bugfix on 0.0.9pre6,
19572 which introduced predicted ports.
19573 - Check at each new consensus whether our entry guards were picked
19574 long enough ago that we should rotate them. Previously, we only
19575 did this check at startup, which could lead to us holding a guard
19576 indefinitely. Fixes bug 5380; bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc.
19577 - When fetching a bridge descriptor from a bridge authority,
19578 always do so anonymously, whether we have been able to open
19579 circuits or not. Partial fix for bug 1938; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
19580 This behavior makes it *safer* to use UpdateBridgesFromAuthority,
19581 but we'll need to wait for bug 6010 before it's actually usable.
19583 o Major bugfixes (directory voting):
19584 - Check more thoroughly to prevent a rogue authority from
19585 double-voting on any consensus directory parameter. Previously,
19586 authorities would crash in this case if the total number of
19587 votes for any parameter exceeded the number of active voters,
19588 but would let it pass otherwise. Partially fixes bug 5786; bugfix
19590 - When computing weight parameters, behave more robustly in the
19591 presence of a bad bwweightscale value. Previously, the authorities
19592 would crash if they agreed on a sufficiently broken weight_scale
19593 value; now, they use a reasonable default and carry on. Fixes the
19594 rest of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
19595 - If authorities are unable to get a v2 consensus document from other
19596 directory authorities, they no longer fall back to fetching
19597 them from regular directory caches. Fixes bug 5635; bugfix on
19598 0.2.2.26-beta, where routers stopped downloading v2 consensus
19599 documents entirely.
19601 o Major bugfixes (relays):
19602 - Fix a bug handling SENDME cells on nonexistent streams that could
19603 result in bizarre window values. Report and patch contributed
19604 pseudonymously. Fixes part of bug 6271. This bug was introduced
19605 before the first Tor release, in svn commit r152.
19606 - Don't update the AccountingSoftLimitHitAt state file entry whenever
19607 tor gets started. This prevents a wrong average bandwidth
19608 estimate, which would cause relays to always start a new accounting
19609 interval at the earliest possible moment. Fixes bug 2003; bugfix
19610 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Reported by Bryon Eldridge, who also helped
19611 immensely in tracking this bug down.
19612 - Fix a possible crash bug when checking for deactivated circuits
19613 in connection_or_flush_from_first_active_circuit(). Fixes bug 6341;
19614 bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Bug report and fix received pseudonymously.
19615 - Set the SO_REUSEADDR socket option before we call bind() on outgoing
19616 connections. This change should allow busy exit relays to stop
19617 running out of available sockets as quickly. Fixes bug 4950;
19618 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
19620 o Major bugfixes (blocking resistance):
19621 - Bridges no longer include their address in NETINFO cells on outgoing
19622 OR connections, to allow them to blend in better with clients.
19623 Removes another avenue for enumerating bridges. Reported by
19624 "troll_un". Fixes bug 4348; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha, when NETINFO
19625 cells were introduced.
19626 - Warn the user when HTTPProxy, but no other proxy type, is
19627 configured. This can cause surprising behavior: it doesn't send
19628 all of Tor's traffic over the HTTPProxy -- it sends unencrypted
19629 directory traffic only. Resolves ticket 4663.
19631 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
19632 - Improve hidden service robustness: when an attempt to connect to
19633 a hidden service ends, be willing to refetch its hidden service
19634 descriptors from each of the HSDir relays responsible for them
19635 immediately. Previously, we would not consider refetching the
19636 service's descriptors from each HSDir for 15 minutes after the last
19637 fetch, which was inconvenient if the hidden service was not running
19638 during the first attempt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 3335.
19639 - Hidden services now ignore the timestamps on INTRODUCE2 cells.
19640 They used to check that the timestamp was within 30 minutes
19641 of their system clock, so they could cap the size of their
19642 replay-detection cache, but that approach unnecessarily refused
19643 service to clients with wrong clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha, when
19644 the v3 intro-point protocol (the first one which sent a timestamp
19645 field in the INTRODUCE2 cell) was introduced; fixes bug 3460.
19646 - When one of a hidden service's introduction points appears to be
19647 unreachable, stop trying it. Previously, we would keep trying
19648 to build circuits to the introduction point until we lost the
19649 descriptor, usually because the user gave up and restarted Tor.
19650 Fixes part of bug 3825.
19652 o Changes to default torrc file:
19653 - Stop listing "socksport 9050" in torrc.sample. We open a socks
19654 port on 9050 by default anyway, so this should not change anything
19656 - Stop mentioning the deprecated *ListenAddress options in
19657 torrc.sample. Fixes bug 5438.
19658 - Document unit of bandwidth-related options in sample torrc.
19660 - Fix broken URLs in the sample torrc file, and tell readers about
19661 the OutboundBindAddress, ExitPolicyRejectPrivate, and
19662 PublishServerDescriptor options. Addresses bug 4652.
19664 o Minor features (directory authorities):
19665 - Consider new, removed or changed IPv6 OR ports a non-cosmetic
19666 change when the authority is deciding whether to accept a newly
19667 uploaded descriptor. Implements ticket 6423.
19668 - Directory authorities are now a little more lenient at accepting
19669 older router descriptors, or newer router descriptors that don't
19670 make big changes. This should help ameliorate past and future
19671 issues where routers think they have uploaded valid descriptors,
19672 but the authorities don't think so. Fix for ticket 2479.
19673 - Authority operators can now vote for all relays in a given
19674 set of countries to be BadDir/BadExit/Invalid/Rejected.
19675 - Provide two consensus parameters (FastFlagMinThreshold and
19676 FastFlagMaxThreshold) to control the range of allowable bandwidths
19677 for the Fast directory flag. These allow authorities to run
19678 experiments on appropriate requirements for being a "Fast" node.
19679 The AuthDirFastGuarantee config value still applies. Implements
19682 o Minor features (bridges / bridge authorities):
19683 - Make bridge SSL certificates a bit more stealthy by using random
19684 serial numbers, in the same fashion as OpenSSL when generating
19685 self-signed certificates. Implements ticket 4584.
19686 - Tag a bridge's descriptor as "never to be sent unencrypted".
19687 This shouldn't matter, since bridges don't open non-anonymous
19688 connections to the bridge authority and don't allow unencrypted
19689 directory connections from clients, but we might as well make
19690 sure. Closes bug 5139.
19691 - The Bridge Authority now writes statistics on how many bridge
19692 descriptors it gave out in total, and how many unique descriptors
19693 it gave out. It also lists how often the most and least commonly
19694 fetched descriptors were given out, as well as the median and
19695 25th/75th percentile. Implements tickets 4200 and 4294.
19697 o Minor features (IPv6):
19698 - Make the code that clients use to detect an address change be
19699 IPv6-aware, so that it won't fill clients' logs with error
19700 messages when trying to get the IPv4 address of an IPv6
19701 connection. Implements ticket 5537.
19702 - Relays now understand an IPv6 address when they get one from a
19703 directory server. Resolves ticket 4875.
19705 o Minor features (hidden services):
19706 - Expire old or over-used hidden service introduction points.
19707 Required by fix for bug 3460.
19708 - Reduce the lifetime of elements of hidden services' Diffie-Hellman
19709 public key replay-detection cache from 60 minutes to 5 minutes. This
19710 replay-detection cache is now used only to detect multiple
19711 INTRODUCE2 cells specifying the same rendezvous point, so we can
19712 avoid launching multiple simultaneous attempts to connect to it.
19713 - When a hidden service's introduction point times out, consider
19714 trying it again during the next attempt to connect to the
19715 HS. Previously, we would not try it again unless a newly fetched
19716 descriptor contained it. Required by fixes for bugs 1297 and 3825.
19718 o Minor features (relays):
19719 - Relays now include a reason for regenerating their descriptors
19720 in an HTTP header when uploading to the authorities. This will
19721 make it easier to debug descriptor-upload issues in the future.
19722 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
19723 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
19724 - Replace files in stats/ rather than appending to them. Now that we
19725 include statistics in extra-info descriptors, it makes no sense to
19726 keep old statistics forever. Implements ticket 2930.
19727 - Relays that set "ConnDirectionStatistics 1" write statistics on the
19728 bidirectional use of connections to disk every 24 hours.
19729 - Add a GeoIP file digest to the extra-info descriptor. Implements
19732 o Minor features (new config options):
19733 - New config option "DynamicDHGroups" (disabled by default) provides
19734 each bridge with a unique prime DH modulus to be used during
19735 SSL handshakes. This option attempts to help against censors
19736 who might use the Apache DH modulus as a static identifier for
19737 bridges. Addresses ticket 4548.
19738 - New config option "DisableDebuggerAttachment" (on by default)
19739 to prevent basic debugging attachment attempts by other processes.
19740 Supports Mac OS X and Gnu/Linux. Resolves ticket 3313.
19741 - Ordinarily, Tor does not count traffic from private addresses (like
19742 127.0.0.1 or 10.0.0.1) when calculating rate limits or accounting.
19743 There is now a new option, CountPrivateBandwidth, to disable this
19744 behavior. Patch from Daniel Cagara.
19746 o Minor features (different behavior for old config options):
19747 - Allow MapAddress directives to specify matches against super-domains,
19748 as in "MapAddress *.torproject.org *.torproject.org.torserver.exit".
19749 Implements issue 933.
19750 - Don't disable the DirPort when we cannot exceed our AccountingMax
19751 limit during this interval because the effective bandwidthrate is
19752 low enough. This is useful in a situation where AccountMax is only
19753 used as an additional safeguard or to provide statistics.
19754 - Add port 6523 (Gobby) to LongLivedPorts. Patch by intrigeri;
19755 implements ticket 3439.
19756 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes, and there are
19757 enough of them listed as Guard so that we don't need to consider
19758 the non-guard entries, prefer the ones listed with the Guard flag.
19759 - If you set the NumCPUs option to 0, Tor will now try to detect how
19760 many CPUs you have. This is the new default behavior.
19761 - The NodeFamily option -- which let you declare that you want to
19762 consider nodes to be part of a family whether they list themselves
19763 that way or not -- now allows IP address ranges and country codes.
19765 o Minor features (new command-line config behavior):
19766 - Slightly change behavior of "list" options (that is, config
19767 options that can appear more than once) when they appear both in
19768 torrc and on the command line. Previously, the command-line options
19769 would be appended to the ones from torrc. Now, the command-line
19770 options override the torrc options entirely. This new behavior
19771 allows the user to override list options (like exit policies and
19772 ports to listen on) from the command line, rather than simply
19773 appending to the list.
19774 - You can get the old (appending) command-line behavior for "list"
19775 options by prefixing the option name with a "+".
19776 - You can remove all the values for a "list" option from the command
19777 line without adding any new ones by prefixing the option name
19780 o Minor features (controller, new events):
19781 - Extend the control protocol to report flags that control a circuit's
19782 path selection in CIRC events and in replies to 'GETINFO
19783 circuit-status'. Implements part of ticket 2411.
19784 - Extend the control protocol to report the hidden service address
19785 and current state of a hidden-service-related circuit in CIRC
19786 events and in replies to 'GETINFO circuit-status'. Implements part
19788 - Include the creation time of a circuit in CIRC and CIRC2
19789 control-port events and the list produced by the 'GETINFO
19790 circuit-status' control-port command.
19791 - Add a new CONF_CHANGED event so that controllers can be notified
19792 of any configuration changes made by other controllers, or by the
19793 user. Implements ticket 1692.
19794 - Add a new SIGNAL event to the controller interface so that
19795 controllers can be notified when Tor handles a signal. Resolves
19796 issue 1955. Patch by John Brooks.
19798 o Minor features (controller, new getinfo options):
19799 - Expose our view of whether we have gone dormant to the controller,
19800 via a new "GETINFO dormant" value. Torbutton and other controllers
19801 can use this to avoid doing periodic requests through Tor while
19802 it's dormant (bug 4718). Resolves ticket 5954.
19803 - Add a new GETINFO option to get total bytes read and written. Patch
19804 from pipe, revised by atagar. Resolves ticket 2345.
19805 - Implement new GETINFO controller fields to provide information about
19806 the Tor process's pid, euid, username, and resource limits.
19808 o Minor features (controller, other):
19809 - Allow controllers to request an event notification whenever a
19810 circuit is cannibalized or its purpose is changed. Implements
19811 part of ticket 3457.
19812 - Use absolute path names when reporting the torrc filename in the
19813 control protocol, so a controller can more easily find the torrc
19814 file. Resolves bug 1101.
19815 - When reporting the path to the cookie file to the controller,
19816 give an absolute path. Resolves ticket 4881.
19818 o Minor features (log messages):
19819 - Add more information to a log statement that might help track down
19820 bug 4091. If you're seeing "Bug: tor_addr_is_internal() called with a
19821 non-IP address" messages (or any Bug messages, for that matter!),
19822 please let us know about it.
19823 - If EntryNodes are given, but UseEntryGuards is set to 0, warn that
19824 EntryNodes will have no effect. Resolves issue 2571.
19825 - Try to make the introductory warning message that Tor prints on
19826 startup more useful for actually finding help and information.
19827 Resolves ticket 2474.
19828 - When the system call to create a listener socket fails, log the
19829 error message explaining why. This may help diagnose bug 4027.
19831 o Minor features (other):
19832 - When we fail to initialize Libevent, retry with IOCP disabled so we
19833 don't need to turn on multi-threading support in Libevent, which in
19834 turn requires a working socketpair(). This is a workaround for bug
19835 4457, which affects Libevent versions from 2.0.1-alpha through
19837 - When starting as root and then changing our UID via the User
19838 control option, and we have a ControlSocket configured, make sure
19839 that the ControlSocket is owned by the same account that Tor will
19840 run under. Implements ticket 3421; fix by Jérémy Bobbio.
19841 - Accept attempts to include a password authenticator in the
19842 handshake, as supported by SOCKS5. This handles SOCKS clients that
19843 don't know how to omit a password when authenticating. Resolves
19845 - Check for and recover from inconsistency in the microdescriptor
19846 cache. This will make it harder for us to accidentally free a
19847 microdescriptor without removing it from the appropriate data
19848 structures. Fixes issue 3135; issue noted by "wanoskarnet".
19849 - Shorten links in the tor-exit-notice file. Patch by Christian Kujau.
19851 o Minor bugfixes (code security):
19852 - Prevent a null-pointer dereference when receiving a data cell
19853 for a nonexistent stream when the circuit in question has an
19854 empty deliver window. We don't believe this is triggerable,
19855 since we don't currently allow deliver windows to become empty,
19856 but the logic is tricky enough that it's better to make the code
19857 robust. Fixes bug 5541; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
19858 - Fix a (harmless) integer overflow in cell statistics reported by
19859 some fast relays. Fixes bug 5849; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
19860 - Fix our implementation of crypto_random_hostname() so it can't
19861 overflow on ridiculously large inputs. (No Tor version has ever
19862 provided this kind of bad inputs, but let's be correct in depth.)
19863 Fixes bug 4413; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Fix by Stephen Palmateer.
19864 - Add a (probably redundant) memory clear between iterations of
19865 the router status voting loop, to prevent future coding errors
19866 where data might leak between iterations of the loop. Resolves
19869 o Minor bugfixes (wrapper functions):
19870 - Abort if tor_vasprintf() fails in connection_printf_to_buf() (a
19871 utility function used in the control-port code). This shouldn't
19872 ever happen unless Tor is completely out of memory, but if it did
19873 happen and Tor somehow recovered from it, Tor could have sent a log
19874 message to a control port in the middle of a reply to a controller
19875 command. Fixes part of bug 3428; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
19876 - Fix some (not actually triggerable) buffer size checks in usage of
19877 tor_inet_ntop(). Fixes bug 4434; bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch
19879 - Fix parsing of some corner-cases with tor_inet_pton(). Fixes
19880 bug 4515; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fix by Anders Sundman.
19881 - Enforce correct return behavior of tor_vsscanf() when the '%%'
19882 pattern is used. Fixes bug 5558. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13.
19883 - Make our replacement implementation of strtok_r() compatible with
19884 the standard behavior of strtok_r(). Patch by nils. Fixes bug 5091;
19885 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
19886 - Find more places in the code that should have been testing for
19887 invalid sockets using the SOCKET_OK macro. Required for a fix
19888 for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
19890 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
19891 - Check return value of fputs() when writing authority certificate
19892 file. Fixes Coverity issue 709056; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19893 - When building Tor on Windows with -DUNICODE (not default), ensure
19894 that error messages, filenames, and DNS server names are always
19895 NUL-terminated when we convert them to a single-byte encoding.
19896 Fixes bug 5909; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
19897 - Fix a memory leak when trying to launch a DNS request when the
19898 nameservers are unconfigurable. Fixes bug 5916; bugfix on Tor
19900 - Correct file sizes when reading binary files on Cygwin, to avoid
19901 a bug where Tor would fail to read its state file. Fixes bug 6844;
19902 bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
19903 - Make sure to set *socket_error in all error cases in
19904 connection_connect(), so it can't produce a warning about
19905 errno being zero from errno_to_orconn_end_reason(). Bugfix on
19906 0.2.1.1-alpha; resolves ticket 6028.
19907 - Initialize conn->addr to a valid state in spawn_cpuworker(). Fixes
19908 bug 4532; found by "troll_un".
19910 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
19911 - Allow one-hop directory-fetching circuits the full "circuit build
19912 timeout" period, rather than just half of it, before failing them
19913 and marking the relay down. This fix should help reduce cases where
19914 clients declare relays (or worse, bridges) unreachable because
19915 the TLS handshake takes a few seconds to complete. Fixes bug 6743;
19916 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha, where we changed the timeout from a static
19918 - Ensure we don't cannibalize circuits that are longer than three hops
19919 already, so we don't end up making circuits with 5 or more
19920 hops. Patch contributed by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 5231; bugfix on
19921 0.1.0.1-rc which introduced cannibalization.
19923 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
19924 - Don't publish a new relay descriptor when we reload our onion key,
19925 unless the onion key has actually changed. Fixes bug 3263 and
19926 resolves another cause of bug 1810. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
19927 - When relays refuse a "create" cell because their queue of pending
19928 create cells is too big (typically because their cpu can't keep up
19929 with the arrival rate), send back reason "resource limit" rather
19930 than reason "internal", so network measurement scripts can get a
19931 more accurate picture. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha; fixes bug 7037.
19932 - Exit nodes don't need to fetch certificates for authorities that
19933 they don't recognize; only directory authorities, bridges,
19934 and caches need to do that. Fixes part of bug 2297; bugfix on
19937 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority / mirrors):
19938 - Avoid O(n^2) performance characteristics when parsing a large
19939 extrainfo cache. Fixes bug 5828; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19940 - Authorities no longer include any router in their microdescriptor
19941 consensuses for which they couldn't generate or agree on a
19942 microdescriptor. Fixes the second piece of bug 6404; fix on
19944 - When checking for requested signatures on the latest consensus
19945 before serving it to a client, make sure to check the right
19946 consensus flavor. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
19947 - Fix an edge case where TestingTorNetwork is set but the authorities
19948 and relays all have an uptime of zero, so the private Tor network
19949 could briefly lack support for hidden services. Fixes bug 3886;
19950 bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
19951 - Directory caches no longer refuse to clean out descriptors because
19952 of missing v2 networkstatus documents, unless they're configured
19953 to retrieve v2 networkstatus documents. Fixes bug 4838; bugfix on
19954 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch by Daniel Bryg.
19955 - Don't serve or accept v2 hidden service descriptors over a relay's
19956 DirPort. It's never correct to do so, and disabling it might
19957 make it more annoying to exploit any bugs that turn up in the
19958 descriptor-parsing code. Fixes bug 7149.
19960 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services, client-side):
19961 - Assert that hidden-service-related operations are not performed
19962 using single-hop circuits. Previously, Tor would assert that
19963 client-side streams are not attached to single-hop circuits,
19964 but not that other sensitive operations on the client and service
19965 side are not performed using single-hop circuits. Fixes bug 3332;
19967 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing the list of supported
19968 rendezvous/introduction protocols in a hidden service descriptor.
19969 Previously, Tor would have confused (as-yet-unused) protocol version
19970 numbers greater than 32 with lower ones on many platforms. Fixes
19971 bug 6827; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Found by George Kadianakis.
19972 - Don't close hidden service client circuits which have almost
19973 finished connecting to their destination when they reach
19974 the normal circuit-build timeout. Previously, we would close
19975 introduction circuits which are waiting for an acknowledgement
19976 from the introduction point, and rendezvous circuits which have
19977 been specified in an INTRODUCE1 cell sent to a hidden service,
19978 after the normal CBT. Now, we mark them as 'timed out', and launch
19979 another rendezvous attempt in parallel. This behavior change can
19980 be disabled using the new CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout
19981 option. Fixes part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
19983 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services, service-side):
19984 - Don't close hidden-service-side rendezvous circuits when they
19985 reach the normal circuit-build timeout. This behavior change can
19986 be disabled using the new
19987 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout option. Fixes the
19988 remaining part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
19989 - Don't launch more than 10 service-side introduction-point circuits
19990 for a hidden service in five minutes. Previously, we would consider
19991 launching more introduction-point circuits if at least one second
19992 had passed without any introduction-point circuits failing. Fixes
19993 bug 4607; bugfix on 0.0.7pre1.
19995 o Minor bugfixes (config option behavior):
19996 - If the user tries to set MyFamily on a bridge, refuse to
19997 do so, and warn about the security implications. Fixes bug 4657;
19998 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
19999 - The "--quiet" and "--hush" options now apply not only to Tor's
20000 behavior before logs are configured, but also to Tor's behavior in
20001 the absence of configured logs. Fixes bug 3550; bugfix on
20003 - Change the AllowDotExit rules so they should actually work.
20004 We now enforce AllowDotExit only immediately after receiving an
20005 address via SOCKS or DNSPort: other sources are free to provide
20006 .exit addresses after the resolution occurs. Fixes bug 3940;
20007 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
20008 - Make "LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0" work more reliably. Specifically,
20009 don't depend on the consensus parameters or compute adaptive
20010 timeouts when it is disabled. Fixes bug 5049; bugfix on
20012 - After we pick a directory mirror, we would refuse to use it if
20013 it's in our ExcludeExitNodes list, resulting in mysterious failures
20014 to bootstrap for people who just wanted to avoid exiting from
20015 certain locations. Fixes bug 5623; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
20016 - When told to add a bridge with the same digest as a preexisting
20017 bridge but a different addr:port, change the addr:port as
20018 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
20019 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
20021 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
20022 - Allow manual 'authenticate' commands to the controller interface
20023 from netcat (nc) as well as telnet. We were rejecting them because
20024 they didn't come with the expected whitespace at the end of the
20025 command. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 2893.
20026 - Report a real bootstrap problem to the controller on router
20027 identity mismatch. Previously we just said "foo", which probably
20028 made a lot of sense at the time. Fixes bug 4169; bugfix on
20030 - When we receive a SIGHUP and the controller __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP
20031 option is set to 0 (which Vidalia version 0.2.16 now does when
20032 a SAVECONF attempt fails), perform other actions that SIGHUP
20033 usually causes (like reopening the logs). Fixes bug 5095; bugfix
20035 - Correctly handle checking the permissions on the parent
20036 directory of a control socket in the root directory. Bug found
20037 by Esteban Manchado Velázquez. Fixes bug 5089; bugfix on Tor
20039 - End AUTHCHALLENGE error messages (in the control protocol) with
20040 a CRLF. Fixes bug 5760; bugfix on 0.2.2.36.
20042 o Minor bugfixes (network reading/writing):
20043 - Disable writing on marked-for-close connections when they are
20044 blocked on bandwidth, to prevent busy-looping in Libevent. Fixes
20045 bug 5263; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13, where we first added a special
20046 case for flushing marked connections.
20047 - Make sure that there are no unhandled pending TLS errors before
20048 reading from a TLS stream. We had checks in 0.1.0.3-rc, but
20049 lost them in 0.1.0.5-rc when we refactored read_to_buf_tls().
20050 Bugfix on 0.1.0.5-rc; fixes bug 4528.
20051 - Detect SSL handshake even when the initial attempt to write the
20052 server hello fails. Fixes bug 4592; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
20053 - If the client fails to set a reasonable set of ciphersuites
20054 during its v2 handshake renegotiation, allow the renegotiation to
20055 continue nevertheless (i.e. send all the required certificates).
20056 Fixes bug 4591; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
20058 o Minor bugfixes (other):
20059 - Exit nodes now correctly report EADDRINUSE and EADDRNOTAVAIL as
20060 resource exhaustion, so that clients can adjust their load to
20061 try other exits. Fixes bug 4710; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc, which
20062 started using END_STREAM_REASON_RESOURCELIMIT.
20063 - Don't check for whether the address we're using for outbound
20064 connections has changed until after the outbound connection has
20065 completed. On Windows, getsockname() doesn't succeed until the
20066 connection is finished. Fixes bug 5374; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
20067 - Don't hold a Windows file handle open for every file mapping;
20068 the file mapping handle is sufficient. Fixes bug 5951; bugfix on
20070 - Fix wrong TCP port range in parse_port_range(). Fixes bug 6218;
20071 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
20072 - If we fail to write a microdescriptor to the disk cache, do not
20073 continue replacing the old microdescriptor file. Fixes bug 2954;
20074 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
20076 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, path selection):
20077 - Downgrade "set buildtimeout to low value" messages to "info"
20078 severity; they were never an actual problem, there was never
20079 anything reasonable to do about them, and they tended to spam logs
20080 from time to time. Fixes bug 6251; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
20081 - Rate-limit the "Weighted bandwidth is 0.000000" message, and add
20082 more information to it, so that we can track it down in case it
20083 returns again. Mitigates bug 5235.
20084 - Check CircuitBuildTimeout and LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in
20085 options_validate(); warn if LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled and
20086 CircuitBuildTimeout is set unreasonably low. Resolves ticket 5452.
20087 - Issue a log message if a guard completes less than 40% of your
20088 circuits. Threshold is configurable by torrc option
20089 PathBiasNoticeRate and consensus parameter pb_noticepct. There is
20090 additional, off-by-default code to disable guards which fail too
20091 many circuits. Addresses ticket 5458.
20093 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, client):
20094 - Downgrade "Got a certificate, but we already have it" log messages
20095 from warning to info, except when we're a dirauth. Fixes bug 5238;
20096 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
20097 - Fix the log message describing how we work around discovering
20098 that our version is the ill-fated OpenSSL 0.9.8l. Fixes bug
20099 4837; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
20100 - When logging about a disallowed .exit name, do not also call it
20101 an "invalid onion address". Fixes bug 3325; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
20102 - Fix a log message suggesting that people contact a non-existent
20103 email address. Fixes bug 3448.
20104 - Rephrase the log message emitted if the TestSocks check is
20105 successful. Patch from Fabian Keil; fixes bug 4094.
20106 - Log (at debug level) whenever a circuit's purpose is changed.
20107 - Log SSL state transitions at log level DEBUG, log domain
20108 HANDSHAKE. This can be useful for debugging censorship events.
20109 Implements ticket 3264.
20110 - We now log which torrc file we're using on startup. Implements
20112 - Rate-limit log messages when asked to connect anonymously to
20113 a private address. When these hit, they tended to hit fast and
20114 often. Also, don't bother trying to connect to addresses that we
20115 are sure will resolve to 127.0.0.1: getting 127.0.0.1 in a directory
20116 reply makes us think we have been lied to, even when the address the
20117 client tried to connect to was "localhost." Resolves ticket 2822.
20119 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, non-client):
20120 - Downgrade "eventdns rejected address" message to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN.
20121 Fixes bug 5932; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
20122 - Don't log that we have "decided to publish new relay descriptor"
20123 unless we are actually publishing a descriptor. Fixes bug 3942;
20124 bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
20125 - Log which authority we're missing votes from when we go to fetch
20126 them from the other auths.
20127 - Replace "Sending publish request" log messages with "Launching
20128 upload", so that they no longer confusingly imply that we're
20129 sending something to a directory we might not even be connected
20130 to yet. Fixes bug 3311; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
20131 - Warn when Tor is configured to use accounting in a way that can
20132 link a hidden service to some other hidden service or public
20133 address. Resolves ticket 6490.
20134 - Fix a minor formatting issue in one of tor-gencert's error messages.
20138 - Update to the latest version of the tinytest unit testing framework.
20139 This includes a couple of bugfixes that can be relevant for
20140 running forked unit tests on Windows, and removes all reserved
20142 - Avoid a false positive in the util/threads unit test by increasing
20143 the maximum timeout time. Fixes bug 6227; bugfix on 0.2.0.4-alpha.
20144 - Make it possible to set the TestingTorNetwork configuration
20145 option using AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority
20146 as an alternative to setting DirServer. Addresses ticket 6377.
20147 - Add a unit test for the environment_variable_names_equal() function.
20148 - A wide variety of new unit tests by Esteban Manchado Velázquez.
20149 - Numerous new unit tests for functions in util.c and address.c by
20151 - The long-disabled benchmark tests are now split into their own
20152 ./src/test/bench binary.
20153 - The benchmark tests can now use more accurate timers than
20154 gettimeofday() when such timers are available.
20155 - Use tt_assert(), not tor_assert(), for checking for test failures.
20156 This makes the unit tests more able to go on in the event that
20159 o Build improvements:
20160 - Use the dead_strip option when building Tor on OS X. This reduces
20161 binary size by almost 19% when linking openssl and libevent
20162 statically, which we do for Tor Browser Bundle.
20163 - Provide a better error message about possible OSX Asciidoc failure
20164 reasons. Fixes bug 6436.
20165 - Detect attempts to build Tor on (as yet hypothetical) versions
20166 of Windows where sizeof(intptr_t) != sizeof(SOCKET). Partial
20167 fix for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
20168 - On Windows, we now define the _WIN32_WINNT macros only if they
20169 are not already defined. This lets the person building Tor decide,
20170 if they want, to require a later version of Windows.
20171 - Our autogen.sh script now uses autoreconf to launch autoconf,
20172 automake, and so on. This is more robust against some of the failure
20173 modes associated with running the autotools pieces on their own.
20174 - Running "make version" now displays the version of Tor that
20175 we're about to build. Idea from katmagic; resolves issue 4400.
20176 - Make 'tor --digests' list hashes of all Tor source files. Bugfix
20177 on 0.2.2.4-alpha; fixes bug 3427.
20178 - New --enable-static-tor configure option for building Tor as
20179 statically as possible. Idea, general hackery and thoughts from
20180 Alexei Czeskis, John Gilmore, Jacob Appelbaum. Implements ticket
20182 - Limited, experimental support for building with nmake and MSVC.
20184 o Build requirements:
20185 - Building Tor with bufferevent support now requires Libevent
20186 2.0.13-stable or later. Previous versions of Libevent had bugs in
20187 SSL-related bufferevents and related issues that would make Tor
20188 work badly with bufferevents. Requiring 2.0.13-stable also allows
20189 Tor with bufferevents to take advantage of Libevent APIs
20190 introduced after 2.0.8-rc.
20191 - Our build system requires automake 1.6 or later to create the
20192 Makefile.in files. Previously, you could have used 1.4.
20193 This only affects developers and people building Tor from git;
20194 people who build Tor from the source distribution without changing
20195 the Makefile.am files should be fine.
20196 - Detect when we try to build on a platform that doesn't define
20197 AF_UNSPEC to 0. We don't work there, so refuse to compile.
20199 o Build fixes (compile/link):
20200 - Format more doubles with %f, not %lf. Patch from grarpamp to make
20201 Tor build correctly on older BSDs again. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on
20203 - When building with --enable-static-tor on OpenBSD, do not
20204 erroneously attempt to link -lrt. Fixes bug 5103.
20205 - Set _WIN32_WINNT to 0x0501 consistently throughout the code, so
20206 that IPv6 stuff will compile on MSVC, and compilation issues
20207 will be easier to track down. Fixes bug 5861.
20208 - Fix build and 64-bit compile warnings from --enable-openbsd-malloc.
20209 Fixes bug 6379. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
20210 - Make Tor build correctly again with -DUNICODE -D_UNICODE defined.
20211 Fixes bug 6097; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
20213 o Build fixes (other):
20214 - Use the _WIN32 macro throughout our code to detect Windows.
20215 (Previously we had used the obsolete 'WIN32' and the idiosyncratic
20217 - Properly handle the case where the build-tree is not the same
20218 as the source tree when generating src/common/common_sha1.i,
20219 src/or/micro-revision.i, and src/or/or_sha1.i. Fixes bug 3953;
20220 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
20221 - During configure, search for library containing cos function as
20222 libm lives in libcore on some platforms (BeOS/Haiku). Linking
20223 against libm was hard-coded before. Fixes the first part of bug
20224 4727; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin Hebnes
20226 - Prevent a false positive from the check-spaces script, by disabling
20227 the "whitespace between function name and (" check for functions
20230 o Packaging (RPM) changes:
20231 - Update our default RPM spec files to work with mock and rpmbuild
20232 on RHEL/Fedora. They have an updated set of dependencies and
20233 conflicts, a fix for an ancient typo when creating the "_tor"
20234 user, and better instructions. Thanks to Ondrej Mikle for the
20235 patch series. Fixes bug 6043.
20236 - On OpenSUSE, create the /var/run/tor directory on startup if it
20237 is not already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
20239 o Code refactoring (safety):
20240 - Do not use SMARTLIST_FOREACH for any loop whose body exceeds
20241 10 lines. Also, don't nest them. Doing so in the past has
20242 led to hard-to-debug code. The new style is to use the
20243 SMARTLIST_FOREACH_{BEGIN,END} pair. Addresses issue 6400.
20244 - Use macros to indicate OpenSSL versions, so we don't need to worry
20245 about accidental hexadecimal bit shifts.
20246 - Use tor_sscanf() in place of scanf() in more places through the
20247 code. This makes us a little more locale-independent, and
20248 should help shut up code-analysis tools that can't tell
20249 a safe sscanf string from a dangerous one.
20250 - Convert more instances of tor_snprintf+tor_strdup into tor_asprintf.
20251 - Use the smartlist_add_asprintf() alias more consistently.
20253 o Code refactoring (consolidate):
20254 - A major revision to our internal node-selecting and listing logic.
20255 Tor already had at least two major ways to look at the question of
20256 "which Tor servers do we know about": a list of router descriptors,
20257 and a list of entries in the current consensus. With
20258 microdescriptors, we're adding a third. Having so many systems
20259 without an abstraction layer over them was hurting the codebase.
20260 Now, we have a new "node_t" abstraction that presents a consistent
20261 interface to a client's view of a Tor node, and holds (nearly) all
20262 of the mutable state formerly in routerinfo_t and routerstatus_t.
20263 - Move tor_gettimeofday_cached() into compat_libevent.c, and use
20264 Libevent's notion of cached time when possible.
20265 - Remove duplicate code for invoking getrlimit() from control.c.
20266 - Use OpenSSL's built-in SSL_state_string_long() instead of our
20267 own homebrewed ssl_state_to_string() replacement. Patch from
20268 Emile Snyder. Fixes bug 4653.
20269 - Change the symmetric cipher interface so that creating and
20270 initializing a stream cipher are no longer separate functions.
20272 o Code refactoring (separate):
20273 - Make a new "entry connection" struct as an internal subtype of "edge
20274 connection", to simplify the code and make exit connections smaller.
20275 - Split connection_about_to_close() into separate functions for each
20277 - Rewrite the listener-selection logic so that parsing which ports
20278 we want to listen on is now separate from binding to the ports
20281 o Code refactoring (name changes):
20282 - Rename a handful of old identifiers, mostly related to crypto
20283 structures and crypto functions. By convention, our "create an
20284 object" functions are called "type_new()", our "free an object"
20285 functions are called "type_free()", and our types indicate that
20286 they are types only with a final "_t". But a handful of older
20287 types and functions broke these rules, with function names like
20288 "type_create" or "subsystem_op_type", or with type names like
20290 - Rename Tor functions that turn strings into addresses, so that
20291 "parse" indicates that no hostname resolution occurs, and
20292 "lookup" indicates that hostname resolution may occur. This
20293 should help prevent mistakes in the future. Fixes bug 3512.
20294 - Use the name "CERTS" consistently to refer to the new cell type;
20295 we were calling it CERT in some places and CERTS in others.
20296 - Use a TOR_INVALID_SOCKET macro when initializing a socket to an
20297 invalid value, rather than just -1.
20298 - Rename the bench_{aes,dmap} functions to test_*, so that tinytest
20299 can pick them up when the tests aren't disabled. Bugfix on
20300 0.2.2.4-alpha which introduced tinytest.
20302 o Code refactoring (other):
20303 - Defensively refactor rend_mid_rendezvous() so that protocol
20304 violations and length checks happen in the beginning. Fixes
20306 - Remove the pure attribute from all functions that used it
20307 previously. In many cases we assigned it incorrectly, because the
20308 functions might assert or call impure functions, and we don't have
20309 evidence that keeping the pure attribute is worthwhile. Implements
20310 changes suggested in ticket 4421.
20311 - Move the replay-detection cache for the RSA-encrypted parts of
20312 INTRODUCE2 cells to the introduction point data structures.
20313 Previously, we would use one replay-detection cache per hidden
20314 service. Required by fix for bug 3460.
20315 - The helper programs tor-gencert, tor-resolve, and tor-checkkey
20316 no longer link against Libevent: they never used it, but
20317 our library structure used to force them to link it.
20319 o Removed features and files:
20320 - Remove all internal support for unpadded RSA. We never used it, and
20321 it would be a bad idea to start.
20322 - Remove some workaround code for OpenSSL 0.9.6 (which is no longer
20324 - Remove some redundant #include directives throughout the code.
20325 Patch from Andrea Gelmini.
20326 - Remove some old code to remember statistics about which descriptors
20327 we've served as a directory mirror. The feature wasn't used and
20328 is outdated now that microdescriptors are around.
20329 - Remove some old code to work around even older versions of Tor that
20330 used forked processes to handle DNS requests. Such versions of Tor
20331 are no longer in use as relays.
20332 - The "torify" script no longer supports the "tsocks" socksifier
20333 tool, since tsocks doesn't support DNS and UDP right for Tor.
20334 Everyone should be using torsocks instead. Fixes bugs 3530 and
20335 5180. Based on a patch by "ugh".
20336 - Remove the torrc.bridge file: we don't use it for anything, and
20337 it had become badly desynchronized from torrc.sample. Resolves
20341 - Begin a doc/state-contents.txt file to explain the contents of
20342 the Tor state file. Fixes bug 2987.
20343 - Clarify the documentation for the Alternate*Authority options.
20345 - Document the --defaults-torrc option, and the new semantics for
20346 overriding, extending, and clearing lists of options. Closes
20348 - Add missing man page documentation for consensus and microdesc
20349 files. Resolves ticket 6732.
20350 - Fix some typos in the manpages. Patch from A. Costa. Fixes bug 6500.
20352 o Documentation fixes:
20353 - Improve the manual's documentation for the NT Service command-line
20354 options. Addresses ticket 3964.
20355 - Clarify SessionGroup documentation slightly; resolves ticket 5437.
20356 - Document the changes to the ORPort and DirPort options, and the
20357 fact that {OR/Dir}ListenAddress is now unnecessary (and
20358 therefore deprecated). Resolves ticket 5597.
20359 - Correct a broken faq link in the INSTALL file. Fixes bug 2307.
20360 - Clarify that hidden services are TCP only. Fixes bug 6024.
20363 Changes in version 0.2.2.39 - 2012-09-11
20364 Tor 0.2.2.39 fixes two more opportunities for remotely triggerable
20368 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
20369 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
20370 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
20371 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
20372 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
20373 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
20374 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
20378 Changes in version 0.2.2.38 - 2012-08-12
20379 Tor 0.2.2.38 fixes a remotely triggerable crash bug, and fixes a timing
20380 attack that could in theory leak path information.
20383 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
20384 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
20385 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
20386 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
20387 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
20388 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
20389 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
20390 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
20391 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
20392 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
20393 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
20394 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
20395 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
20396 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
20399 Changes in version 0.2.2.37 - 2012-06-06
20400 Tor 0.2.2.37 introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
20401 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
20405 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
20406 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
20407 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
20408 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
20409 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
20410 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
20411 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
20412 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
20413 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
20414 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
20415 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
20418 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
20419 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
20422 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
20423 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
20426 Changes in version 0.2.2.36 - 2012-05-24
20427 Tor 0.2.2.36 updates the addresses for two of the eight directory
20428 authorities, fixes some potential anonymity and security issues,
20429 and fixes several crash bugs.
20431 Tor 0.2.1.x has reached its end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many
20432 known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should upgrade. If
20433 you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete, stop using
20434 those packages and upgrade anyway.
20436 o Directory authority changes:
20437 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
20438 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
20442 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
20443 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
20444 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
20445 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
20446 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
20447 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
20448 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
20449 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
20450 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
20451 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
20452 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
20453 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
20454 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
20455 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
20456 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
20457 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
20458 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
20459 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
20460 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
20461 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
20462 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
20463 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
20464 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
20465 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
20466 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
20467 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
20468 this attack. Fixes bug 5185; implements proposal 193.
20471 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
20472 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
20473 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
20474 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
20476 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
20477 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
20479 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
20480 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
20481 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
20482 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
20483 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
20484 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
20485 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
20486 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
20489 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
20490 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
20491 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
20492 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
20493 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
20494 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
20495 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
20496 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
20497 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
20498 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
20499 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
20500 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
20501 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
20502 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
20503 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
20504 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
20505 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
20506 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
20507 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
20508 Esteban Manchado Velázques.
20509 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
20510 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
20511 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
20512 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
20513 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
20514 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
20515 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
20516 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
20517 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
20518 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
20519 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
20520 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
20521 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
20522 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
20523 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
20524 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
20525 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
20526 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
20527 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
20528 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
20529 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed SETCIRCUITPURPOSE
20530 command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
20531 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
20532 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
20533 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
20534 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
20536 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
20537 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
20538 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
20539 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
20540 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
20541 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
20542 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
20543 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
20544 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
20545 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
20546 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
20547 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
20548 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
20549 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
20550 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
20553 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
20554 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
20555 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
20556 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
20558 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
20561 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
20562 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
20563 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
20564 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
20565 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
20566 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
20567 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
20570 Changes in version 0.2.2.35 - 2011-12-16
20571 Tor 0.2.2.35 fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in Tor's
20572 buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
20574 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
20575 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
20576 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
20577 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
20578 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
20579 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
20580 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
20581 (which Tor does not do by default).
20583 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
20584 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
20585 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
20586 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
20587 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
20589 Tor 0.2.2.35 also fixes several bugs in previous versions, including
20590 crash bugs for unusual configurations, and a long-term bug that
20591 would prevent Tor from starting on Windows machines with draconian
20594 With this release, we remind everyone that 0.2.0.x has reached its
20595 formal end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many known flaws, and
20596 nobody should be using them. You should upgrade -- ideally to the
20597 0.2.2.x series. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are
20598 obsolete, stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
20600 The Tor 0.2.1.x series is also approaching its end-of-life: it will no
20601 longer receive support after some time in early 2012.
20604 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
20605 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
20606 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
20607 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
20608 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
20609 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
20610 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
20611 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
20613 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
20614 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
20615 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
20616 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
20617 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
20618 close based on processing a cell on it.
20619 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
20620 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
20621 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
20622 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
20623 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
20624 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
20625 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
20626 - Don't crash when we're running as a relay and don't have a GeoIP
20627 file. Bugfix on 0.2.2.34; fixes bug 4340. This backports a fix
20628 we've had in the 0.2.3.x branch already.
20629 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
20630 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
20631 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
20632 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
20633 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34.
20636 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
20637 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
20638 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
20639 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
20640 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
20641 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
20642 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
20644 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
20645 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
20646 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
20647 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
20648 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
20649 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
20650 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
20651 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
20652 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
20653 - Fix a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
20654 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
20655 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
20656 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
20657 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
20658 - Backport fixes for a pair of compilation warnings on Windows.
20659 Fixes bug 4521; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta and on 0.2.2.29-beta.
20660 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str on an address of
20661 unknown type, we would have done a strdup on an uninitialized
20662 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
20663 Reported by "troll_un".
20664 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
20665 tor_addr_lookup. Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
20666 Reported by "troll_un".
20667 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
20668 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
20669 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
20670 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
20673 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
20674 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
20675 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
20676 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
20677 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
20678 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
20679 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
20680 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
20681 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
20682 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
20683 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
20685 o Packaging changes:
20686 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
20687 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
20690 Changes in version 0.2.1.32 - 2011-12-16
20691 Tor 0.2.1.32 backports important security and privacy fixes for
20692 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
20693 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
20694 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
20696 The Tor 0.2.1.x series will reach formal end-of-life some time in
20697 early 2012; we will stop releasing patches for it then.
20699 o Major bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
20700 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
20701 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
20702 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
20703 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
20704 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
20705 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
20706 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
20707 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
20710 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
20713 Changes in version 0.2.2.34 - 2011-10-26
20714 Tor 0.2.2.34 fixes a critical anonymity vulnerability where an attacker
20715 can deanonymize Tor users. Everybody should upgrade.
20717 The attack relies on four components: 1) Clients reuse their TLS cert
20718 when talking to different relays, so relays can recognize a user by
20719 the identity key in her cert. 2) An attacker who knows the client's
20720 identity key can probe each guard relay to see if that identity key
20721 is connected to that guard relay right now. 3) A variety of active
20722 attacks in the literature (starting from "Low-Cost Traffic Analysis
20723 of Tor" by Murdoch and Danezis in 2005) allow a malicious website to
20724 discover the guard relays that a Tor user visiting the website is using.
20725 4) Clients typically pick three guards at random, so the set of guards
20726 for a given user could well be a unique fingerprint for her. This
20727 release fixes components #1 and #2, which is enough to block the attack;
20728 the other two remain as open research problems. Special thanks to
20729 "frosty_un" for reporting the issue to us!
20731 Clients should upgrade so they are no longer recognizable by the TLS
20732 certs they present. Relays should upgrade so they no longer allow a
20733 remote attacker to probe them to test whether unpatched clients are
20734 currently connected to them.
20736 This release also fixes several vulnerabilities that allow an attacker
20737 to enumerate bridge relays. Some bridge enumeration attacks still
20738 remain; see for example proposal 188.
20740 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
20741 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
20742 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
20743 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
20744 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
20745 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
20746 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
20747 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
20748 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
20749 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
20750 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
20751 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
20752 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
20753 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
20754 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
20755 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
20756 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
20757 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
20760 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (bridge enumeration):
20761 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
20762 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
20763 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
20764 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
20765 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
20766 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
20767 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
20768 when bridges were introduced.
20769 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
20770 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
20771 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
20772 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
20773 Found by "frosty_un".
20776 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
20777 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
20779 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
20780 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
20781 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
20782 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
20783 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
20784 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
20785 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
20788 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
20789 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
20790 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
20791 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
20792 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
20793 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
20794 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
20795 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
20796 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
20797 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
20798 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
20799 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
20800 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
20801 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
20802 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
20803 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
20804 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
20805 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
20807 o Minor bugfixes (log messages and documentation):
20808 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
20809 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
20810 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
20811 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
20812 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
20813 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
20814 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
20815 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
20816 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
20817 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
20818 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
20821 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
20822 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
20823 Backported from 0.2.3.1-alpha; implements ticket 3951.
20824 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
20827 Changes in version 0.2.1.31 - 2011-10-26
20828 Tor 0.2.1.31 backports important security and privacy fixes for
20829 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
20830 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
20831 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
20833 o Security fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
20834 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
20835 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
20836 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
20837 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
20838 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
20839 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
20840 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
20841 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
20842 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
20844 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
20845 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
20846 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
20847 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
20848 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
20849 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
20850 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
20851 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
20852 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
20853 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
20854 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
20855 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
20856 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
20857 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
20858 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
20859 Found by "frosty_un".
20860 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
20861 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
20862 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
20863 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
20864 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
20865 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
20866 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
20867 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
20868 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
20869 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
20870 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
20871 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
20872 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
20873 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
20874 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
20875 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
20876 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
20877 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
20878 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
20880 o Minor bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
20881 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
20882 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
20883 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
20884 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
20885 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
20886 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
20887 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
20889 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
20890 enabled. Fixes bug 1526.
20891 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
20892 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
20893 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
20894 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
20895 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
20896 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
20897 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
20898 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
20899 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
20900 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
20902 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
20903 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
20904 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
20905 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
20906 - Require that introduction point keys and onion keys have public
20907 exponent 65537. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
20908 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
20909 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
20910 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
20912 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
20914 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
20915 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
20916 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
20917 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
20918 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
20919 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
20920 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
20921 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
20923 o Minor bugfixes (only in 0.2.1.x):
20924 - Resume using micro-version numbers in 0.2.1.x: our Debian packages
20925 rely on them. Bugfix on 0.2.1.30.
20926 - Use git revisions instead of svn revisions when generating our
20927 micro-version numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
20929 o Minor features (also included in 0.2.2.x):
20930 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
20931 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
20932 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
20933 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
20936 Changes in version 0.2.2.33 - 2011-09-13
20937 Tor 0.2.2.33 fixes several bugs, and includes a slight tweak to Tor's
20938 TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run this new version
20939 reachable from Iran again.
20942 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
20943 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
20944 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
20946 o Minor features (security):
20947 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
20948 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
20949 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
20950 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
20951 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
20952 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
20953 that these attacks are infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
20954 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
20955 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
20956 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
20959 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
20960 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
20961 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
20962 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
20963 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
20964 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
20965 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
20966 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
20967 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
20969 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
20970 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
20971 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
20972 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
20973 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
20974 raised by bug 3898.
20975 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
20976 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
20977 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
20978 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
20979 fixes part of bug 2442.
20980 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
20981 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
20982 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
20984 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
20985 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
20986 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
20987 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
20988 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
20991 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
20992 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
20993 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
20994 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
20995 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
20996 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
20999 Changes in version 0.2.2.32 - 2011-08-27
21000 The Tor 0.2.2 release series is dedicated to the memory of Andreas
21001 Pfitzmann (1958-2010), a pioneer in anonymity and privacy research,
21002 a founder of the PETS community, a leader in our field, a mentor,
21003 and a friend. He left us with these words: "I had the possibility
21004 to contribute to this world that is not as it should be. I hope I
21005 could help in some areas to make the world a better place, and that
21006 I could also encourage other people to be engaged in improving the
21007 world. Please, stay engaged. This world needs you, your love, your
21008 initiative -- now I cannot be part of that anymore."
21010 Tor 0.2.2.32, the first stable release in the 0.2.2 branch, is finally
21011 ready. More than two years in the making, this release features improved
21012 client performance and hidden service reliability, better compatibility
21013 for Android, correct behavior for bridges that listen on more than
21014 one address, more extensible and flexible directory object handling,
21015 better reporting of network statistics, improved code security, and
21016 many many other features and bugfixes.
21018 o Major features (client performance):
21019 - When choosing which cells to relay first, relays now favor circuits
21020 that have been quiet recently, to provide lower latency for
21021 low-volume circuits. By default, relays enable or disable this
21022 feature based on a setting in the consensus. They can override
21023 this default by using the new "CircuitPriorityHalflife" config
21024 option. Design and code by Ian Goldberg, Can Tang, and Chris
21026 - Directory authorities now compute consensus weightings that instruct
21027 clients how to weight relays flagged as Guard, Exit, Guard+Exit,
21028 and no flag. Clients use these weightings to distribute network load
21029 more evenly across these different relay types. The weightings are
21030 in the consensus so we can change them globally in the future. Extra
21031 thanks to "outofwords" for finding some nasty security bugs in
21032 the first implementation of this feature.
21034 o Major features (client performance, circuit build timeout):
21035 - Tor now tracks how long it takes to build client-side circuits
21036 over time, and adapts its timeout to local network performance.
21037 Since a circuit that takes a long time to build will also provide
21038 bad performance, we get significant latency improvements by
21039 discarding the slowest 20% of circuits. Specifically, Tor creates
21040 circuits more aggressively than usual until it has enough data
21041 points for a good timeout estimate. Implements proposal 151.
21042 - Circuit build timeout constants can be controlled by consensus
21043 parameters. We set good defaults for these parameters based on
21044 experimentation on broadband and simulated high-latency links.
21045 - Circuit build time learning can be disabled via consensus parameter
21046 or by the client via a LearnCircuitBuildTimeout config option. We
21047 also automatically disable circuit build time calculation if either
21048 AuthoritativeDirectory is set, or if we fail to write our state
21049 file. Implements ticket 1296.
21051 o Major features (relays use their capacity better):
21052 - Set SO_REUSEADDR socket option on all sockets, not just
21053 listeners. This should help busy exit nodes avoid running out of
21054 useable ports just because all the ports have been used in the
21055 near past. Resolves issue 2850.
21056 - Relays now save observed peak bandwidth throughput rates to their
21057 state file (along with total usage, which was already saved),
21058 so that they can determine their correct estimated bandwidth on
21059 restart. Resolves bug 1863, where Tor relays would reset their
21060 estimated bandwidth to 0 after restarting.
21061 - Lower the maximum weighted-fractional-uptime cutoff to 98%. This
21062 should give us approximately 40-50% more Guard-flagged nodes,
21063 improving the anonymity the Tor network can provide and also
21064 decreasing the dropoff in throughput that relays experience when
21065 they first get the Guard flag.
21066 - Directory authorities now take changes in router IP address and
21067 ORPort into account when determining router stability. Previously,
21068 if a router changed its IP or ORPort, the authorities would not
21069 treat it as having any downtime for the purposes of stability
21070 calculation, whereas clients would experience downtime since the
21071 change would take a while to propagate to them. Resolves issue 1035.
21072 - New AccelName and AccelDir options add support for dynamic OpenSSL
21073 hardware crypto acceleration engines.
21075 o Major features (relays control their load better):
21076 - Exit relays now try harder to block exit attempts from unknown
21077 relays, to make it harder for people to use them as one-hop proxies
21078 a la tortunnel. Controlled by the refuseunknownexits consensus
21079 parameter (currently enabled), or you can override it on your
21080 relay with the RefuseUnknownExits torrc option. Resolves bug 1751;
21081 based on a variant of proposal 163.
21082 - Add separate per-conn write limiting to go with the per-conn read
21083 limiting. We added a global write limit in Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha,
21084 but never per-conn write limits.
21085 - New consensus params "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst" to let us
21086 rate-limit client connections as they enter the network. It's
21087 controlled in the consensus so we can turn it on and off for
21088 experiments. It's starting out off. Based on proposal 163.
21090 o Major features (controllers):
21091 - Export GeoIP information on bridge usage to controllers even if we
21092 have not yet been running for 24 hours. Now Vidalia bridge operators
21093 can get more accurate and immediate feedback about their
21094 contributions to the network.
21095 - Add an __OwningControllerProcess configuration option and a
21096 TAKEOWNERSHIP control-port command. Now a Tor controller can ensure
21097 that when it exits, Tor will shut down. Implements feature 3049.
21099 o Major features (directory authorities):
21100 - Directory authorities now create, vote on, and serve multiple
21101 parallel formats of directory data as part of their voting process.
21102 Partially implements Proposal 162: "Publish the consensus in
21104 - Directory authorities now agree on and publish small summaries
21105 of router information that clients can use in place of regular
21106 server descriptors. This transition will allow Tor 0.2.3 clients
21107 to use far less bandwidth for downloading information about the
21108 network. Begins the implementation of Proposal 158: "Clients
21109 download consensus + microdescriptors".
21110 - The directory voting system is now extensible to use multiple hash
21111 algorithms for signatures and resource selection. Newer formats
21112 are signed with SHA256, with a possibility for moving to a better
21113 hash algorithm in the future.
21114 - Directory authorities can now vote on arbitrary integer values as
21115 part of the consensus process. This is designed to help set
21116 network-wide parameters. Implements proposal 167.
21118 o Major features and bugfixes (node selection):
21119 - Revise and reconcile the meaning of the ExitNodes, EntryNodes,
21120 ExcludeEntryNodes, ExcludeExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, and Strict*Nodes
21121 options. Previously, we had been ambiguous in describing what
21122 counted as an "exit" node, and what operations exactly "StrictNodes
21123 0" would permit. This created confusion when people saw nodes built
21124 through unexpected circuits, and made it hard to tell real bugs from
21125 surprises. Now the intended behavior is:
21126 . "Exit", in the context of ExitNodes and ExcludeExitNodes, means
21127 a node that delivers user traffic outside the Tor network.
21128 . "Entry", in the context of EntryNodes, means a node used as the
21129 first hop of a multihop circuit. It doesn't include direct
21130 connections to directory servers.
21131 . "ExcludeNodes" applies to all nodes.
21132 . "StrictNodes" changes the behavior of ExcludeNodes only. When
21133 StrictNodes is set, Tor should avoid all nodes listed in
21134 ExcludeNodes, even when it will make user requests fail. When
21135 StrictNodes is *not* set, then Tor should follow ExcludeNodes
21136 whenever it can, except when it must use an excluded node to
21137 perform self-tests, connect to a hidden service, provide a
21138 hidden service, fulfill a .exit request, upload directory
21139 information, or fetch directory information.
21140 Collectively, the changes to implement the behavior fix bug 1090.
21141 - If EntryNodes, ExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, or ExcludeExitNodes
21142 change during a config reload, mark and discard all our origin
21143 circuits. This fix should address edge cases where we change the
21144 config options and but then choose a circuit that we created before
21146 - Make EntryNodes config option much more aggressive even when
21147 StrictNodes is not set. Before it would prepend your requested
21148 entrynodes to your list of guard nodes, but feel free to use others
21149 after that. Now it chooses only from your EntryNodes if any of
21150 those are available, and only falls back to others if a) they're
21151 all down and b) StrictNodes is not set.
21152 - Now we refresh your entry guards from EntryNodes at each consensus
21153 fetch -- rather than just at startup and then they slowly rot as
21154 the network changes.
21155 - Add support for the country code "{??}" in torrc options like
21156 ExcludeNodes, to indicate all routers of unknown country. Closes
21158 - ExcludeNodes now takes precedence over EntryNodes and ExitNodes: if
21159 a node is listed in both, it's treated as excluded.
21160 - ExcludeNodes now applies to directory nodes -- as a preference if
21161 StrictNodes is 0, or an absolute requirement if StrictNodes is 1.
21162 Don't exclude all the directory authorities and set StrictNodes to 1
21163 unless you really want your Tor to break.
21164 - ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes now override exit enclaving.
21165 - ExcludeExitNodes now overrides .exit requests.
21166 - We don't use bridges listed in ExcludeNodes.
21167 - When StrictNodes is 1:
21168 . We now apply ExcludeNodes to hidden service introduction points
21169 and to rendezvous points selected by hidden service users. This
21170 can make your hidden service less reliable: use it with caution!
21171 . If we have used ExcludeNodes on ourself, do not try relay
21172 reachability self-tests.
21173 . If we have excluded all the directory authorities, we will not
21174 even try to upload our descriptor if we're a relay.
21175 . Do not honor .exit requests to an excluded node.
21176 - When the set of permitted nodes changes, we now remove any mappings
21177 introduced via TrackExitHosts to now-excluded nodes. Bugfix on
21179 - We never cannibalize a circuit that had excluded nodes on it, even
21180 if StrictNodes is 0. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
21181 - Improve log messages related to excluded nodes.
21183 o Major features (misc):
21184 - Numerous changes, bugfixes, and workarounds from Nathan Freitas
21185 to help Tor build correctly for Android phones.
21186 - The options SocksPort, ControlPort, and so on now all accept a
21187 value "auto" that opens a socket on an OS-selected port. A
21188 new ControlPortWriteToFile option tells Tor to write its
21189 actual control port or ports to a chosen file. If the option
21190 ControlPortFileGroupReadable is set, the file is created as
21191 group-readable. Now users can run two Tor clients on the same
21192 system without needing to manually mess with parameters. Resolves
21193 part of ticket 3076.
21194 - Tor now supports tunneling all of its outgoing connections over
21195 a SOCKS proxy, using the SOCKS4Proxy and/or SOCKS5Proxy
21196 configuration options. Code by Christopher Davis.
21198 o Code security improvements:
21199 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
21200 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
21201 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
21202 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
21203 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
21204 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
21205 - Enable Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) and Data Execution
21206 Prevention (DEP) by default on Windows to make it harder for
21207 attackers to exploit vulnerabilities. Patch from John Brooks.
21208 - New "--enable-gcc-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
21209 to turn on gcc compile time hardening options. It ensures
21210 that signed ints have defined behavior (-fwrapv), enables
21211 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 (requiring -O2), adds stack smashing protection
21212 with canaries (-fstack-protector-all), turns on ASLR protection if
21213 supported by the kernel (-fPIE, -pie), and adds additional security
21214 related warnings. Verified to work on Mac OS X and Debian Lenny.
21215 - New "--enable-linker-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
21216 to turn on ELF specific hardening features (relro, now). This does
21217 not work with Mac OS X or any other non-ELF binary format.
21218 - Always search the Windows system directory for system DLLs, and
21219 nowhere else. Bugfix on 0.1.1.23; fixes bug 1954.
21220 - New DisableAllSwap option. If set to 1, Tor will attempt to lock all
21221 current and future memory pages via mlockall(). On supported
21222 platforms (modern Linux and probably BSD but not Windows or OS X),
21223 this should effectively disable any and all attempts to page out
21224 memory. This option requires that you start your Tor as root --
21225 if you use DisableAllSwap, please consider using the User option
21226 to properly reduce the privileges of your Tor.
21228 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
21229 - Fix crash bug on platforms where gmtime and localtime can return
21230 NULL. Windows 7 users were running into this one. Fixes part of bug
21231 2077. Bugfix on all versions of Tor. Found by boboper.
21232 - Introduce minimum/maximum values that clients will believe
21233 from the consensus. Now we'll have a better chance to avoid crashes
21234 or worse when a consensus param has a weird value.
21235 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
21236 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
21237 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
21238 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
21239 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
21240 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
21242 - If we're in the pathological case where there's no exit bandwidth
21243 but there is non-exit bandwidth, or no guard bandwidth but there
21244 is non-guard bandwidth, don't crash during path selection. Bugfix
21246 - Fix a crash bug when trying to initialize the evdns module in
21247 Libevent 2. Bugfix on 0.2.1.16-rc.
21249 o Major bugfixes (stability):
21250 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
21251 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
21252 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
21253 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
21254 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21255 - Treat an unset $HOME like an empty $HOME rather than triggering an
21256 assert. Bugfix on 0.0.8pre1; fixes bug 1522.
21257 - More gracefully handle corrupt state files, removing asserts
21258 in favor of saving a backup and resetting state.
21259 - Instead of giving an assertion failure on an internal mismatch
21260 on estimated freelist size, just log a BUG warning and try later.
21261 Mitigates but does not fix bug 1125.
21262 - Fix an assert that got triggered when using the TestingTorNetwork
21263 configuration option and then issuing a GETINFO config-text control
21264 command. Fixes bug 2250; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
21265 - If the cached cert file is unparseable, warn but don't exit.
21267 o Privacy fixes (relays/bridges):
21268 - Don't list Windows capabilities in relay descriptors. We never made
21269 use of them, and maybe it's a bad idea to publish them. Bugfix
21271 - If the Nickname configuration option isn't given, Tor would pick a
21272 nickname based on the local hostname as the nickname for a relay.
21273 Because nicknames are not very important in today's Tor and the
21274 "Unnamed" nickname has been implemented, this is now problematic
21275 behavior: It leaks information about the hostname without being
21276 useful at all. Fixes bug 2979; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, which
21277 introduced the Unnamed nickname. Reported by tagnaq.
21278 - Maintain separate TLS contexts and certificates for incoming and
21279 outgoing connections in bridge relays. Previously we would use the
21280 same TLS contexts and certs for incoming and outgoing connections.
21281 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses bug 988.
21282 - Maintain separate identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS
21283 contexts in bridge relays. Previously we would use the same
21284 identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS contexts. Bugfix on
21285 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses the other half of bug 988.
21286 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
21287 requests for "all descriptors". It used to include bridge
21288 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
21289 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
21291 o Privacy fixes (clients):
21292 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
21293 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
21294 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
21295 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
21296 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
21297 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
21298 - Start the process of disabling ".exit" address notation, since it
21299 can be used for a variety of esoteric application-level attacks
21300 on users. To reenable it, set "AllowDotExit 1" in your torrc. Fix
21302 - Reject attempts at the client side to open connections to private
21303 IP addresses (like 127.0.0.1, 10.0.0.1, and so on) with
21304 a randomly chosen exit node. Attempts to do so are always
21305 ill-defined, generally prevented by exit policies, and usually
21306 in error. This will also help to detect loops in transparent
21307 proxy configurations. You can disable this feature by setting
21308 "ClientRejectInternalAddresses 0" in your torrc.
21309 - Log a notice when we get a new control connection. Now it's easier
21310 for security-conscious users to recognize when a local application
21311 is knocking on their controller door. Suggested by bug 1196.
21313 o Privacy fixes (newnym):
21314 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
21315 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
21316 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
21317 - On SIGHUP, do not clear out all TrackHostExits mappings, client
21318 DNS cache entries, and virtual address mappings: that's what
21319 NEWNYM is for. Fixes bug 1345; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
21320 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
21321 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
21322 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
21323 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
21324 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
21325 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
21327 o Major bugfixes (relay bandwidth accounting):
21328 - Fix a bug that could break accounting on 64-bit systems with large
21329 time_t values, making them hibernate for impossibly long intervals.
21330 Fixes bug 2146. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre6; fix by boboper.
21331 - Fix a bug in bandwidth accounting that could make us use twice
21332 the intended bandwidth when our interval start changes due to
21333 daylight saving time. Now we tolerate skew in stored vs computed
21334 interval starts: if the start of the period changes by no more than
21335 50% of the period's duration, we remember bytes that we transferred
21336 in the old period. Fixes bug 1511; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
21338 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
21339 - Bridges now use "reject *:*" as their default exit policy. Bugfix
21340 on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Fixes bug 1113.
21341 - If you configure your bridge with a known identity fingerprint,
21342 and the bridge authority is unreachable (as it is in at least
21343 one country now), fall back to directly requesting the descriptor
21344 from the bridge. Finishes the feature started in 0.2.0.10-alpha;
21346 - Fix a bug where bridge users who configure the non-canonical
21347 address of a bridge automatically switch to its canonical
21348 address. If a bridge listens at more than one address, it
21349 should be able to advertise those addresses independently and
21350 any non-blocked addresses should continue to work. Bugfix on Tor
21351 0.2.0.3-alpha. Fixes bug 2510.
21352 - If you configure Tor to use bridge A, and then quit and
21353 configure Tor to use bridge B instead (or if you change Tor
21354 to use bridge B via the controller), it would happily continue
21355 to use bridge A if it's still reachable. While this behavior is
21356 a feature if your goal is connectivity, in some scenarios it's a
21357 dangerous bug. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 2511.
21358 - When the controller configures a new bridge, don't wait 10 to 60
21359 seconds before trying to fetch its descriptor. Bugfix on
21360 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 3198 (suggested by 2355).
21362 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
21363 - Many relays have been falling out of the consensus lately because
21364 not enough authorities know about their descriptor for them to get
21365 a majority of votes. When we deprecated the v2 directory protocol,
21366 we got rid of the only way that v3 authorities can hear from each
21367 other about other descriptors. Now authorities examine every v3
21368 vote for new descriptors, and fetch them from that authority. Bugfix
21370 - Authorities could be tricked into giving out the Exit flag to relays
21371 that didn't allow exiting to any ports. This bug could screw
21372 with load balancing and stats. Bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha; fixes bug
21373 1238. Bug discovered by Martin Kowalczyk.
21374 - If all authorities restart at once right before a consensus vote,
21375 nobody will vote about "Running", and clients will get a consensus
21376 with no usable relays. Instead, authorities refuse to build a
21377 consensus if this happens. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1066.
21379 o Major bugfixes (stream-level fairness):
21380 - When receiving a circuit-level SENDME for a blocked circuit, try
21381 to package cells fairly from all the streams that had previously
21382 been blocked on that circuit. Previously, we had started with the
21383 oldest stream, and allowed each stream to potentially exhaust
21384 the circuit's package window. This gave older streams on any
21385 given circuit priority over newer ones. Fixes bug 1937. Detected
21386 originally by Camilo Viecco. This bug was introduced before the
21387 first Tor release, in svn commit r152: it is the new winner of
21388 the longest-lived bug prize.
21389 - Fix a stream fairness bug that would cause newer streams on a given
21390 circuit to get preference when reading bytes from the origin or
21391 destination. Fixes bug 2210. Fix by Mashael AlSabah. This bug was
21392 introduced before the first Tor release, in svn revision r152.
21393 - When the exit relay got a circuit-level sendme cell, it started
21394 reading on the exit streams, even if had 500 cells queued in the
21395 circuit queue already, so the circuit queue just grew and grew in
21396 some cases. We fix this by not re-enabling reading on receipt of a
21397 sendme cell when the cell queue is blocked. Fixes bug 1653. Bugfix
21398 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Detected by Mashael AlSabah. Original patch by
21400 - Newly created streams were allowed to read cells onto circuits,
21401 even if the circuit's cell queue was blocked and waiting to drain.
21402 This created potential unfairness, as older streams would be
21403 blocked, but newer streams would gladly fill the queue completely.
21404 We add code to detect this situation and prevent any stream from
21405 getting more than one free cell. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Partially
21408 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
21409 - Apply circuit timeouts to opened hidden-service-related circuits
21410 based on the correct start time. Previously, we would apply the
21411 circuit build timeout based on time since the circuit's creation;
21412 it was supposed to be applied based on time since the circuit
21413 entered its current state. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes part of bug 1297.
21414 - Improve hidden service robustness: When we find that we have
21415 extended a hidden service's introduction circuit to a relay not
21416 listed as an introduction point in the HS descriptor we currently
21417 have, retry with an introduction point from the current
21418 descriptor. Previously we would just give up. Fixes bugs 1024 and
21419 1930; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21420 - Directory authorities now use data collected from their own
21421 uptime observations when choosing whether to assign the HSDir flag
21422 to relays, instead of trusting the uptime value the relay reports in
21423 its descriptor. This change helps prevent an attack where a small
21424 set of nodes with frequently-changing identity keys can blackhole
21425 a hidden service. (Only authorities need upgrade; others will be
21426 fine once they do.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 2709.
21427 - Stop assigning the HSDir flag to relays that disable their
21428 DirPort (and thus will refuse to answer directory requests). This
21429 fix should dramatically improve the reachability of hidden services:
21430 hidden services and hidden service clients pick six HSDir relays
21431 to store and retrieve the hidden service descriptor, and currently
21432 about half of the HSDir relays will refuse to work. Bugfix on
21433 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes part of bug 1693.
21435 o Major bugfixes (misc):
21436 - Clients now stop trying to use an exit node associated with a given
21437 destination by TrackHostExits if they fail to reach that exit node.
21438 Fixes bug 2999. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
21439 - Fix a regression that caused Tor to rebind its ports if it receives
21440 SIGHUP while hibernating. Bugfix in 0.1.1.6-alpha; closes bug 919.
21441 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
21442 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
21443 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
21445 o Minor features (relays):
21446 - Ensure that no empty [dirreq-](read|write)-history lines are added
21447 to an extrainfo document. Implements ticket 2497.
21448 - When bandwidth accounting is enabled, be more generous with how
21449 much bandwidth we'll use up before entering "soft hibernation".
21450 Previously, we'd refuse new connections and circuits once we'd
21451 used up 95% of our allotment. Now, we use up 95% of our allotment,
21452 AND make sure that we have no more than 500MB (or 3 hours of
21453 expected traffic, whichever is lower) remaining before we enter
21455 - Relays now log the reason for publishing a new relay descriptor,
21456 so we have a better chance of hunting down instances of bug 1810.
21457 Resolves ticket 3252.
21458 - Log a little more clearly about the times at which we're no longer
21459 accepting new connections (e.g. due to hibernating). Resolves
21461 - When AllowSingleHopExits is set, print a warning to explain to the
21462 relay operator why most clients are avoiding her relay.
21463 - Send END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE in response to EHOSTUNREACH errors.
21464 Clients before 0.2.1.27 didn't handle NOROUTE correctly, but such
21465 clients are already deprecated because of security bugs.
21467 o Minor features (network statistics):
21468 - Directory mirrors that set "DirReqStatistics 1" write statistics
21469 about directory requests to disk every 24 hours. As compared to the
21470 "--enable-geoip-stats" ./configure flag in 0.2.1.x, there are a few
21471 improvements: 1) stats are written to disk exactly every 24 hours;
21472 2) estimated shares of v2 and v3 requests are determined as mean
21473 values, not at the end of a measurement period; 3) unresolved
21474 requests are listed with country code '??'; 4) directories also
21475 measure download times.
21476 - Exit nodes that set "ExitPortStatistics 1" write statistics on the
21477 number of exit streams and transferred bytes per port to disk every
21479 - Relays that set "CellStatistics 1" write statistics on how long
21480 cells spend in their circuit queues to disk every 24 hours.
21481 - Entry nodes that set "EntryStatistics 1" write statistics on the
21482 rough number and origins of connecting clients to disk every 24
21484 - Relays that write any of the above statistics to disk and set
21485 "ExtraInfoStatistics 1" include the past 24 hours of statistics in
21486 their extra-info documents. Implements proposal 166.
21488 o Minor features (GeoIP and statistics):
21489 - Provide a log message stating which geoip file we're parsing
21490 instead of just stating that we're parsing the geoip file.
21491 Implements ticket 2432.
21492 - Make sure every relay writes a state file at least every 12 hours.
21493 Previously, a relay could go for weeks without writing its state
21494 file, and on a crash could lose its bandwidth history, capacity
21495 estimates, client country statistics, and so on. Addresses bug 3012.
21496 - Relays report the number of bytes spent on answering directory
21497 requests in extra-info descriptors similar to {read,write}-history.
21498 Implements enhancement 1790.
21499 - Report only the top 10 ports in exit-port stats in order not to
21500 exceed the maximum extra-info descriptor length of 50 KB. Implements
21502 - If writing the state file to disk fails, wait up to an hour before
21503 retrying again, rather than trying again each second. Fixes bug
21504 2346; bugfix on Tor 0.1.1.3-alpha.
21505 - Delay geoip stats collection by bridges for 6 hours, not 2 hours,
21506 when we switch from being a public relay to a bridge. Otherwise
21507 there will still be clients that see the relay in their consensus,
21508 and the stats will end up wrong. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes
21510 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
21512 o Minor features (clients):
21513 - When expiring circuits, use microsecond timers rather than
21514 one-second timers. This can avoid an unpleasant situation where a
21515 circuit is launched near the end of one second and expired right
21516 near the beginning of the next, and prevent fluctuations in circuit
21518 - If we've configured EntryNodes and our network goes away and/or all
21519 our entrynodes get marked down, optimistically retry them all when
21520 a new socks application request appears. Fixes bug 1882.
21521 - Always perform router selections using weighted relay bandwidth,
21522 even if we don't need a high capacity circuit at the time. Non-fast
21523 circuits now only differ from fast ones in that they can use relays
21524 not marked with the Fast flag. This "feature" could turn out to
21525 be a horrible bug; we should investigate more before it goes into
21527 - When we run out of directory information such that we can't build
21528 circuits, but then get enough that we can build circuits, log when
21529 we actually construct a circuit, so the user has a better chance of
21530 knowing what's going on. Fixes bug 1362.
21531 - Log SSL state transitions at debug level during handshake, and
21532 include SSL states in error messages. This may help debug future
21533 SSL handshake issues.
21535 o Minor features (directory authorities):
21536 - When a router changes IP address or port, authorities now launch
21537 a new reachability test for it. Implements ticket 1899.
21538 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any versions of
21539 Tor between 0.2.1.3-alpha and 0.2.1.18 inclusive; they have
21540 known bugs that keep RELAY_EARLY cells from working on rendezvous
21541 circuits. Followup to fix for bug 2081.
21542 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any version of Tor
21543 older than 0.2.0.26-rc. That version is the earliest that fetches
21544 current directory information correctly. Fixes bug 2156.
21545 - Directory authorities now do an immediate reachability check as soon
21546 as they hear about a new relay. This change should slightly reduce
21547 the time between setting up a relay and getting listed as running
21548 in the consensus. It should also improve the time between setting
21549 up a bridge and seeing use by bridge users.
21550 - Directory authorities no longer launch a TLS connection to every
21551 relay as they startup. Now that we have 2k+ descriptors cached,
21552 the resulting network hiccup is becoming a burden. Besides,
21553 authorities already avoid voting about Running for the first half
21554 hour of their uptime.
21555 - Directory authorities now log the source of a rejected POSTed v3
21556 networkstatus vote, so we can track failures better.
21557 - Backport code from 0.2.3.x that allows directory authorities to
21558 clean their microdescriptor caches. Needed to resolve bug 2230.
21560 o Minor features (hidden services):
21561 - Use computed circuit-build timeouts to decide when to launch
21562 parallel introduction circuits for hidden services. (Previously,
21563 we would retry after 15 seconds.)
21564 - Don't allow v0 hidden service authorities to act as clients.
21565 Required by fix for bug 3000.
21566 - Ignore SIGNAL NEWNYM commands on relay-only Tor instances. Required
21567 by fix for bug 3000.
21568 - Make hidden services work better in private Tor networks by not
21569 requiring any uptime to join the hidden service descriptor
21570 DHT. Implements ticket 2088.
21571 - Log (at info level) when purging pieces of hidden-service-client
21572 state because of SIGNAL NEWNYM.
21574 o Minor features (controller interface):
21575 - New "GETINFO net/listeners/(type)" controller command to return
21576 a list of addresses and ports that are bound for listeners for a
21577 given connection type. This is useful when the user has configured
21578 "SocksPort auto" and the controller needs to know which port got
21579 chosen. Resolves another part of ticket 3076.
21580 - Have the controller interface give a more useful message than
21581 "Internal Error" in response to failed GETINFO requests.
21582 - Add a TIMEOUT_RATE keyword to the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port
21583 event, to give information on the current rate of circuit timeouts
21584 over our stored history.
21585 - The 'EXTENDCIRCUIT' control port command can now be used with
21586 a circ id of 0 and no path. This feature will cause Tor to build
21587 a new 'fast' general purpose circuit using its own path selection
21589 - Added a BUILDTIMEOUT_SET controller event to describe changes
21590 to the circuit build timeout.
21591 - New controller command "getinfo config-text". It returns the
21592 contents that Tor would write if you send it a SAVECONF command,
21593 so the controller can write the file to disk itself.
21595 o Minor features (controller protocol):
21596 - Add a new ControlSocketsGroupWritable configuration option: when
21597 it is turned on, ControlSockets are group-writeable by the default
21598 group of the current user. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio; implements
21600 - Tor now refuses to create a ControlSocket in a directory that is
21601 world-readable (or group-readable if ControlSocketsGroupWritable
21602 is 0). This is necessary because some operating systems do not
21603 enforce permissions on an AF_UNIX sockets. Permissions on the
21604 directory holding the socket, however, seems to work everywhere.
21605 - Warn when CookieAuthFileGroupReadable is set but CookieAuthFile is
21606 not. This would lead to a cookie that is still not group readable.
21607 Closes bug 1843. Suggested by katmagic.
21608 - Future-proof the controller protocol a bit by ignoring keyword
21609 arguments we do not recognize.
21611 o Minor features (more useful logging):
21612 - Revise most log messages that refer to nodes by nickname to
21613 instead use the "$key=nickname at address" format. This should be
21614 more useful, especially since nicknames are less and less likely
21615 to be unique. Resolves ticket 3045.
21616 - When an HTTPS proxy reports "403 Forbidden", we now explain
21617 what it means rather than calling it an unexpected status code.
21618 Closes bug 2503. Patch from Michael Yakubovich.
21619 - Rate-limit a warning about failures to download v2 networkstatus
21620 documents. Resolves part of bug 1352.
21621 - Rate-limit the "your application is giving Tor only an IP address"
21622 warning. Addresses bug 2000; bugfix on 0.0.8pre2.
21623 - Rate-limit "Failed to hand off onionskin" warnings.
21624 - When logging a rate-limited warning, we now mention how many messages
21625 got suppressed since the last warning.
21626 - Make the formerly ugly "2 unknown, 7 missing key, 0 good, 0 bad,
21627 2 no signature, 4 required" messages about consensus signatures
21628 easier to read, and make sure they get logged at the same severity
21629 as the messages explaining which keys are which. Fixes bug 1290.
21630 - Don't warn when we have a consensus that we can't verify because
21631 of missing certificates, unless those certificates are ones
21632 that we have been trying and failing to download. Fixes bug 1145.
21634 o Minor features (log domains):
21635 - Add documentation for configuring logging at different severities in
21636 different log domains. We've had this feature since 0.2.1.1-alpha,
21637 but for some reason it never made it into the manpage. Fixes
21639 - Make it simpler to specify "All log domains except for A and B".
21640 Previously you needed to say "[*,~A,~B]". Now you can just say
21642 - Add a "LogMessageDomains 1" option to include the domains of log
21643 messages along with the messages. Without this, there's no way
21644 to use log domains without reading the source or doing a lot
21646 - Add a new "Handshake" log domain for activities that happen
21647 during the TLS handshake.
21649 o Minor features (build process):
21650 - Make compilation with clang possible when using
21651 "--enable-gcc-warnings" by removing two warning options that clang
21652 hasn't implemented yet and by fixing a few warnings. Resolves
21654 - Detect platforms that brokenly use a signed size_t, and refuse to
21655 build there. Found and analyzed by doorss and rransom.
21656 - Fix a bunch of compile warnings revealed by mingw with gcc 4.5.
21658 - Add support for statically linking zlib by specifying
21659 "--enable-static-zlib", to go with our support for statically
21660 linking openssl and libevent. Resolves bug 1358.
21661 - Instead of adding the svn revision to the Tor version string, report
21662 the git commit (when we're building from a git checkout).
21663 - Rename the "log.h" header to "torlog.h" so as to conflict with fewer
21665 - New --digests command-line switch to output the digests of the
21666 source files Tor was built with.
21667 - Generate our manpage and HTML documentation using Asciidoc. This
21668 change should make it easier to maintain the documentation, and
21669 produce nicer HTML. The build process fails if asciidoc cannot
21670 be found and building with asciidoc isn't disabled (via the
21671 "--disable-asciidoc" argument to ./configure. Skipping the manpage
21672 speeds up the build considerably.
21674 o Minor features (options / torrc):
21675 - Warn when the same option is provided more than once in a torrc
21676 file, on the command line, or in a single SETCONF statement, and
21677 the option is one that only accepts a single line. Closes bug 1384.
21678 - Warn when the user configures two HiddenServiceDir lines that point
21679 to the same directory. Bugfix on 0.0.6 (the version introducing
21680 HiddenServiceDir); fixes bug 3289.
21681 - Add new "perconnbwrate" and "perconnbwburst" consensus params to
21682 do individual connection-level rate limiting of clients. The torrc
21683 config options with the same names trump the consensus params, if
21684 both are present. Replaces the old "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst"
21685 consensus params which were broken from 0.2.2.7-alpha through
21686 0.2.2.14-alpha. Closes bug 1947.
21687 - New config option "WarnUnsafeSocks 0" disables the warning that
21688 occurs whenever Tor receives a socks handshake using a version of
21689 the socks protocol that can only provide an IP address (rather
21690 than a hostname). Setups that do DNS locally over Tor are fine,
21691 and we shouldn't spam the logs in that case.
21692 - New config option "CircuitStreamTimeout" to override our internal
21693 timeout schedule for how many seconds until we detach a stream from
21694 a circuit and try a new circuit. If your network is particularly
21695 slow, you might want to set this to a number like 60.
21696 - New options for SafeLogging to allow scrubbing only log messages
21697 generated while acting as a relay. Specify "SafeLogging relay" if
21698 you want to ensure that only messages known to originate from
21699 client use of the Tor process will be logged unsafely.
21700 - Time and memory units in the configuration file can now be set to
21701 fractional units. For example, "2.5 GB" is now a valid value for
21703 - Support line continuations in the torrc config file. If a line
21704 ends with a single backslash character, the newline is ignored, and
21705 the configuration value is treated as continuing on the next line.
21708 o Minor features (unit tests):
21709 - Revise our unit tests to use the "tinytest" framework, so we
21710 can run tests in their own processes, have smarter setup/teardown
21711 code, and so on. The unit test code has moved to its own
21712 subdirectory, and has been split into multiple modules.
21713 - Add a unit test for cross-platform directory-listing code.
21714 - Add some forgotten return value checks during unit tests. Found
21716 - Use GetTempDir to find the proper temporary directory location on
21717 Windows when generating temporary files for the unit tests. Patch
21720 o Minor features (misc):
21721 - The "torify" script now uses torsocks where available.
21722 - Make Libevent log messages get delivered to controllers later,
21723 and not from inside the Libevent log handler. This prevents unsafe
21724 reentrant Libevent calls while still letting the log messages
21726 - Certain Tor clients (such as those behind check.torproject.org) may
21727 want to fetch the consensus in an extra early manner. To enable this
21728 a user may now set FetchDirInfoExtraEarly to 1. This also depends on
21729 setting FetchDirInfoEarly to 1. Previous behavior will stay the same
21730 as only certain clients who must have this information sooner should
21732 - Expand homedirs passed to tor-checkkey. This should silence a
21733 coverity complaint about passing a user-supplied string into
21734 open() without checking it.
21735 - Make sure to disable DirPort if running as a bridge. DirPorts aren't
21736 used on bridges, and it makes bridge scanning somewhat easier.
21737 - Create the /var/run/tor directory on startup on OpenSUSE if it is
21738 not already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
21740 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
21741 - When a relay decides that its DNS is too broken for it to serve
21742 as an exit server, it advertised itself as a non-exit, but
21743 continued to act as an exit. This could create accidental
21744 partitioning opportunities for users. Instead, if a relay is
21745 going to advertise reject *:* as its exit policy, it should
21746 really act with exit policy "reject *:*". Fixes bug 2366.
21747 Bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha. Bugfix by user "postman" on trac.
21748 - Publish a router descriptor even if generating an extra-info
21749 descriptor fails. Previously we would not publish a router
21750 descriptor without an extra-info descriptor; this can cause fast
21751 exit relays collecting exit-port statistics to drop from the
21752 consensus. Bugfix on 0.1.2.9-rc; fixes bug 2195.
21753 - When we're trying to guess whether we know our IP address as
21754 a relay, we would log various ways that we failed to guess
21755 our address, but never log that we ended up guessing it
21756 successfully. Now add a log line to help confused and anxious
21757 relay operators. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1534.
21758 - For bandwidth accounting, calculate our expected bandwidth rate
21759 based on the time during which we were active and not in
21760 soft-hibernation during the last interval. Previously, we were
21761 also considering the time spent in soft-hibernation. If this
21762 was a long time, we would wind up underestimating our bandwidth
21763 by a lot, and skewing our wakeup time towards the start of the
21764 accounting interval. Fixes bug 1789. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
21765 - Demote a confusing TLS warning that relay operators might get when
21766 someone tries to talk to their ORPort. It is not the operator's
21767 fault, nor can they do anything about it. Fixes bug 1364; bugfix
21769 - Change "Application request when we're believed to be offline."
21770 notice to "Application request when we haven't used client
21771 functionality lately.", to clarify that it's not an error. Bugfix
21772 on 0.0.9.3; fixes bug 1222.
21774 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
21775 - When a client starts or stops using bridges, never use a circuit
21776 that was built before the configuration change. This behavior could
21777 put at risk a user who uses bridges to ensure that her traffic
21778 only goes to the chosen addresses. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes
21780 - Do not reset the bridge descriptor download status every time we
21781 re-parse our configuration or get a configuration change. Fixes
21782 bug 3019; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
21783 - Users couldn't configure a regular relay to be their bridge. It
21784 didn't work because when Tor fetched the bridge descriptor, it found
21785 that it already had it, and didn't realize that the purpose of the
21786 descriptor had changed. Now we replace routers with a purpose other
21787 than bridge with bridge descriptors when fetching them. Bugfix on
21788 0.1.1.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1776.
21789 - In the special case where you configure a public exit relay as your
21790 bridge, Tor would be willing to use that exit relay as the last
21791 hop in your circuit as well. Now we fail that circuit instead.
21792 Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 2403. Reported by "piebeer".
21794 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
21795 - We now ask the other side of a stream (the client or the exit)
21796 for more data on that stream when the amount of queued data on
21797 that stream dips low enough. Previously, we wouldn't ask the
21798 other side for more data until either it sent us more data (which
21799 it wasn't supposed to do if it had exhausted its window!) or we
21800 had completely flushed all our queued data. This flow control fix
21801 should improve throughput. Fixes bug 2756; bugfix on the earliest
21802 released versions of Tor (svn commit r152).
21803 - When a client finds that an origin circuit has run out of 16-bit
21804 stream IDs, we now mark it as unusable for new streams. Previously,
21805 we would try to close the entire circuit. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
21806 - Make it explicit that we don't cannibalize one-hop circuits. This
21807 happens in the wild, but doesn't turn out to be a problem because
21808 we fortunately don't use those circuits. Many thanks to outofwords
21809 for the initial analysis and to swissknife who confirmed that
21810 two-hop circuits are actually created.
21811 - Resolve an edge case in path weighting that could make us misweight
21812 our relay selection. Fixes bug 1203; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
21813 - Make the DNSPort option work with libevent 2.x. Don't alter the
21814 behavior for libevent 1.x. Fixes bug 1143. Found by SwissTorExit.
21816 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
21817 - Make directory authorities more accurate at recording when
21818 relays that have failed several reachability tests became
21819 unreachable, so we can provide more accuracy at assigning Stable,
21820 Guard, HSDir, etc flags. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Resolves bug 2716.
21821 - Directory authorities are now more robust to hops back in time
21822 when calculating router stability. Previously, if a run of uptime
21823 or downtime appeared to be negative, the calculation could give
21824 incorrect results. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha; noticed when fixing
21826 - Directory authorities will now attempt to download consensuses
21827 if their own efforts to make a live consensus have failed. This
21828 change means authorities that restart will fetch a valid
21829 consensus, and it means authorities that didn't agree with the
21830 current consensus will still fetch and serve it if it has enough
21831 signatures. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; fixes bug 1300.
21832 - Never vote for a server as "Running" if we have a descriptor for
21833 it claiming to be hibernating, and that descriptor was published
21834 more recently than our last contact with the server. Bugfix on
21835 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 911.
21836 - Directory authorities no longer change their opinion of, or vote on,
21837 whether a router is Running, unless they have themselves been
21838 online long enough to have some idea. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
21841 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
21842 - Log malformed requests for rendezvous descriptors as protocol
21843 warnings, not warnings. Also, use a more informative log message
21844 in case someone sees it at log level warning without prior
21845 info-level messages. Fixes bug 2748; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21846 - Accept hidden service descriptors if we think we might be a hidden
21847 service directory, regardless of what our consensus says. This
21848 helps robustness, since clients and hidden services can sometimes
21849 have a more up-to-date view of the network consensus than we do,
21850 and if they think that the directory authorities list us a HSDir,
21851 we might actually be one. Related to bug 2732; bugfix on
21853 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
21854 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
21856 - Clients and hidden services now use HSDir-flagged relays for hidden
21857 service descriptor downloads and uploads even if the relays have no
21858 DirPort set and the client has disabled TunnelDirConns. This will
21859 eventually allow us to give the HSDir flag to relays with no
21860 DirPort. Fixes bug 2722; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
21861 - Only limit the lengths of single HS descriptors, even when multiple
21862 HS descriptors are published to an HSDir relay in a single POST
21863 operation. Fixes bug 2948; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by hsdir.
21865 o Minor bugfixes (controllers):
21866 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
21867 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
21868 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21869 - Send a SUCCEEDED stream event to the controller when a reverse
21870 resolve succeeded. Fixes bug 3536; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1. Issue
21871 discovered by katmagic.
21872 - Remove a trailing asterisk from "exit-policy/default" in the
21873 output of the control port command "GETINFO info/names". Bugfix
21875 - Make the SIGNAL DUMP controller command work on FreeBSD. Fixes bug
21876 2917. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
21877 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
21878 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
21879 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
21880 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
21881 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
21882 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
21883 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
21885 - When a controller changes TrackHostExits, remove mappings for
21886 hosts that should no longer have their exits tracked. Bugfix on
21888 - When a controller changes VirtualAddrNetwork, remove any mappings
21889 for hosts that were automapped to the old network. Bugfix on
21891 - When a controller changes one of the AutomapHosts* options, remove
21892 any mappings for hosts that should no longer be automapped. Bugfix
21894 - Fix an off-by-one error in calculating some controller command
21895 argument lengths. Fortunately, this mistake is harmless since
21896 the controller code does redundant NUL termination too. Found by
21897 boboper. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
21898 - Fix a bug in the controller interface where "GETINFO ns/asdaskljkl"
21899 would return "551 Internal error" rather than "552 Unrecognized key
21900 ns/asdaskljkl". Bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
21901 - Don't spam the controller with events when we have no file
21902 descriptors available. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. (Rate-limiting
21903 for log messages was already solved from bug 748.)
21904 - Emit a GUARD DROPPED controller event for a case we missed.
21905 - Ensure DNS requests launched by "RESOLVE" commands from the
21906 controller respect the __LeaveStreamsUnattached setconf options. The
21907 same goes for requests launched via DNSPort or transparent
21908 proxying. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1525.
21910 o Minor bugfixes (config options):
21911 - Tor used to limit HttpProxyAuthenticator values to 48 characters.
21912 Change the limit to 512 characters by removing base64 newlines.
21913 Fixes bug 2752. Fix by Michael Yakubovich.
21914 - Complain if PublishServerDescriptor is given multiple arguments that
21915 include 0 or 1. This configuration will be rejected in the future.
21916 Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; closes bug 1107.
21917 - Disallow BridgeRelay 1 and ORPort 0 at once in the configuration.
21918 Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha; closes bug 928.
21920 o Minor bugfixes (log subsystem fixes):
21921 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
21922 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
21924 - Be more consistent in our treatment of file system paths. "~" should
21925 get expanded to the user's home directory in the Log config option.
21926 Fixes bug 2971; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha, which introduced the
21927 feature for the -f and --DataDirectory options.
21929 o Minor bugfixes (memory management):
21930 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
21931 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
21932 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
21933 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
21934 - Save a couple bytes in memory allocation every time we escape
21935 certain characters in a string. Patch from Florian Zumbiehl.
21937 o Minor bugfixes (protocol correctness):
21938 - When checking for 1024-bit keys, check for 1024 bits, not 128
21939 bytes. This allows Tor to correctly discard keys of length 1017
21940 through 1023. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
21941 - Require that introduction point keys and onion handshake keys
21942 have a public exponent of 65537. Starts to fix bug 3207; bugfix
21944 - Handle SOCKS messages longer than 128 bytes long correctly, rather
21945 than waiting forever for them to finish. Fixes bug 2330; bugfix
21946 on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Found by doorss.
21947 - Never relay a cell for a circuit we have already destroyed.
21948 Between marking a circuit as closeable and finally closing it,
21949 it may have been possible for a few queued cells to get relayed,
21950 even though they would have been immediately dropped by the next
21951 OR in the circuit. Fixes bug 1184; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21952 - Never queue a cell for a circuit that's already been marked
21954 - Fix a spec conformance issue: the network-status-version token
21955 must be the first token in a v3 consensus or vote. Discovered by
21956 "parakeep". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
21957 - A networkstatus vote must contain exactly one signature. Spec
21958 conformance issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
21959 - When asked about a DNS record type we don't support via a
21960 client DNSPort, reply with NOTIMPL rather than an empty
21961 reply. Patch by intrigeri. Fixes bug 3369; bugfix on 2.0.1-alpha.
21962 - Make more fields in the controller protocol case-insensitive, since
21963 control-spec.txt said they were.
21965 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
21966 - Fix a log message that said "bits" while displaying a value in
21967 bytes. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 3318; bugfix on
21969 - Downgrade "no current certificates known for authority" message from
21970 Notice to Info. Fixes bug 2899; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21971 - Correctly describe errors that occur when generating a TLS object.
21972 Previously we would attribute them to a failure while generating a
21973 TLS context. Patch by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc; fixes
21975 - Fix an instance where a Tor directory mirror might accidentally
21976 log the IP address of a misbehaving Tor client. Bugfix on
21978 - Stop logging at severity 'warn' when some other Tor client tries
21979 to establish a circuit with us using weak DH keys. It's a protocol
21980 violation, but that doesn't mean ordinary users need to hear about
21981 it. Fixes the bug part of bug 1114. Bugfix on 0.1.0.13.
21982 - If your relay can't keep up with the number of incoming create
21983 cells, it would log one warning per failure into your logs. Limit
21984 warnings to 1 per minute. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre10; fixes bug 1042.
21986 o Minor bugfixes (build fixes):
21987 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
21988 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
21989 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21990 - Fix warnings that newer versions of autoconf produce during
21991 ./autogen.sh. These warnings appear to be harmless in our case,
21992 but they were extremely verbose. Fixes bug 2020.
21993 - Squash a compile warning on OpenBSD. Reported by Tas; fixes
21996 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
21997 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
21998 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
21999 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
22000 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
22001 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
22002 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
22003 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
22004 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
22005 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
22006 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
22007 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22008 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
22009 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
22010 - Use a wide type to hold sockets when built for 64-bit Windows.
22012 - Fix an issue that prevented static linking of libevent on
22013 some platforms (notably Linux). Fixes bug 2698; bugfix on 0.2.1.23,
22014 where we introduced the "--with-static-libevent" configure option.
22015 - Fix a bug with our locking implementation on Windows that couldn't
22016 correctly detect when a file was already locked. Fixes bug 2504,
22017 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
22018 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
22020 - Fix IPv6-related connect() failures on some platforms (BSD, OS X).
22021 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes first part of bug 2660. Patch by
22024 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
22025 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
22026 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
22027 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
22028 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
22029 - Make connection_printf_to_buf()'s behavior sane. Its callers
22030 expect it to emit a CRLF iff the format string ends with CRLF;
22031 it actually emitted a CRLF iff (a) the format string ended with
22032 CRLF or (b) the resulting string was over 1023 characters long or
22033 (c) the format string did not end with CRLF *and* the resulting
22034 string was 1021 characters long or longer. Bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha;
22035 fixes part of bug 3407.
22036 - Make send_control_event_impl()'s behavior sane. Its callers
22037 expect it to always emit a CRLF at the end of the string; it
22038 might have emitted extra control characters as well. Bugfix on
22039 0.1.1.9-alpha; fixes another part of bug 3407.
22040 - Make crypto_rand_int() check the value of its input correctly.
22041 Previously, it accepted values up to UINT_MAX, but could return a
22042 negative number if given a value above INT_MAX+1. Found by George
22043 Kadianakis. Fixes bug 3306; bugfix on 0.2.2pre14.
22044 - Fix a potential null-pointer dereference while computing a
22045 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, found with the help of
22047 - If we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3 legacy keypair,
22048 warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead. Bugfix on
22049 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
22050 - Resolve an untriggerable issue in smartlist_string_num_isin(),
22051 where if the function had ever in the future been used to check
22052 for the presence of a too-large number, it would have given an
22053 incorrect result. (Fortunately, we only used it for 16-bit
22054 values.) Fixes bug 3175; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
22055 - Be more careful about reporting the correct error from a failed
22056 connect() system call. Under some circumstances, it was possible to
22057 look at an incorrect value for errno when sending the end reason.
22058 Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
22059 - Correctly handle an "impossible" overflow cases in connection byte
22060 counting, where we write or read more than 4GB on an edge connection
22061 in a single second. Bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
22062 - Avoid a double mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
22063 transparent proxy connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Fixes
22065 - Correctly detect failure to allocate an OpenSSL BIO. Fixes bug 2378;
22066 found by "cypherpunks". This bug was introduced before the first
22067 Tor release, in svn commit r110.
22068 - Fix a bug in bandwidth history state parsing that could have been
22069 triggered if a future version of Tor ever changed the timing
22070 granularity at which bandwidth history is measured. Bugfix on
22071 Tor 0.1.1.11-alpha.
22072 - Add assertions to check for overflow in arguments to
22073 base32_encode() and base32_decode(); fix a signed-unsigned
22074 comparison there too. These bugs are not actually reachable in Tor,
22075 but it's good to prevent future errors too. Found by doorss.
22076 - Avoid a bogus overlapped memcpy in tor_addr_copy(). Reported by
22078 - Set target port in get_interface_address6() correctly. Bugfix
22079 on 0.1.1.4-alpha and 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes second part of bug 2660.
22080 - Fix an impossible-to-actually-trigger buffer overflow in relay
22081 descriptor generation. Bugfix on 0.1.0.15.
22082 - Fix numerous small code-flaws found by Coverity Scan Rung 3.
22084 o Minor bugfixes (code improvements):
22085 - After we free an internal connection structure, overwrite it
22086 with a different memory value than we use for overwriting a freed
22087 internal circuit structure. Should help with debugging. Suggested
22089 - If OpenSSL fails to make a duplicate of a private or public key, log
22090 an error message and try to exit cleanly. May help with debugging
22091 if bug 1209 ever remanifests.
22092 - Some options used different conventions for uppercasing of acronyms
22093 when comparing manpage and source. Fix those in favor of the
22094 manpage, as it makes sense to capitalize acronyms.
22095 - Take a first step towards making or.h smaller by splitting out
22096 function definitions for all source files in src/or/. Leave
22097 structures and defines in or.h for now.
22098 - Remove a few dead assignments during router parsing. Found by
22100 - Don't use 1-bit wide signed bit fields. Found by coverity.
22101 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
22102 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
22103 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
22104 - The memarea code now uses a sentinel value at the end of each area
22105 to make sure nothing writes beyond the end of an area. This might
22106 help debug some conceivable causes of bug 930.
22107 - Always treat failure to allocate an RSA key as an unrecoverable
22109 - Add some more defensive programming for architectures that can't
22110 handle unaligned integer accesses. We don't know of any actual bugs
22111 right now, but that's the best time to fix them. Fixes bug 1943.
22113 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
22114 - Fix a rare bug in rend_fn unit tests: we would fail a test when
22115 a randomly generated port is 0. Diagnosed by Matt Edman. Bugfix
22116 on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1808.
22117 - Where available, use Libevent 2.0's periodic timers so that our
22118 once-per-second cleanup code gets called even more closely to
22119 once per second than it would otherwise. Fixes bug 943.
22120 - Ignore OutboundBindAddress when connecting to localhost.
22121 Connections to localhost need to come _from_ localhost, or else
22122 local servers (like DNS and outgoing HTTP/SOCKS proxies) will often
22124 - Update our OpenSSL 0.9.8l fix so that it works with OpenSSL 0.9.8m
22126 - If any of the v3 certs we download are unparseable, we should
22127 actually notice the failure so we don't retry indefinitely. Bugfix
22128 on 0.2.0.x; reported by "rotator".
22129 - When Tor fails to parse a descriptor of any kind, dump it to disk.
22130 Might help diagnosing bug 1051.
22131 - Make our 'torify' script more portable; if we have only one of
22132 'torsocks' or 'tsocks' installed, don't complain to the user;
22133 and explain our warning about tsocks better.
22134 - Fix some urls in the exit notice file and make it XHTML1.1 strict
22135 compliant. Based on a patch from Christian Kujau.
22137 o Documentation changes:
22138 - Modernize the doxygen configuration file slightly. Fixes bug 2707.
22139 - Resolve all doxygen warnings except those for missing documentation.
22141 - Add doxygen documentation for more functions, fields, and types.
22142 - Convert the HACKING file to asciidoc, and add a few new sections
22143 to it, explaining how we use Git, how we make changelogs, and
22144 what should go in a patch.
22145 - Document the default socks host and port (127.0.0.1:9050) for
22147 - Removed some unnecessary files from the source distribution. The
22148 AUTHORS file has now been merged into the people page on the
22149 website. The roadmaps and design doc can now be found in the
22150 projects directory in svn.
22152 o Deprecated and removed features (config):
22153 - Remove the torrc.complete file. It hasn't been kept up to date
22154 and users will have better luck checking out the manpage.
22155 - Remove the HSAuthorityRecordStats option that version 0 hidden
22156 service authorities could use to track statistics of overall v0
22157 hidden service usage.
22158 - Remove the obsolete "NoPublish" option; it has been flagged
22159 as obsolete and has produced a warning since 0.1.1.18-rc.
22160 - Caches no longer download and serve v2 networkstatus documents
22161 unless FetchV2Networkstatus flag is set: these documents haven't
22162 haven't been used by clients or relays since 0.2.0.x. Resolves
22165 o Deprecated and removed features (controller):
22166 - The controller no longer accepts the old obsolete "addr-mappings/"
22167 or "unregistered-servers-" GETINFO values.
22168 - The EXTENDED_EVENTS and VERBOSE_NAMES controller features are now
22169 always on; using them is necessary for correct forward-compatible
22172 o Deprecated and removed features (misc):
22173 - Hidden services no longer publish version 0 descriptors, and clients
22174 do not request or use version 0 descriptors. However, the old hidden
22175 service authorities still accept and serve version 0 descriptors
22176 when contacted by older hidden services/clients.
22177 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
22178 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
22179 - Remove everything related to building the expert bundle for OS X.
22180 It has confused many users, doesn't work right on OS X 10.6,
22181 and is hard to get rid of once installed. Resolves bug 1274.
22182 - Remove support for .noconnect style addresses. Nobody was using
22183 them, and they provided another avenue for detecting Tor users
22184 via application-level web tricks.
22185 - When we fixed bug 1038 we had to put in a restriction not to send
22186 RELAY_EARLY cells on rend circuits. This was necessary as long
22187 as relays using Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18-alpha were
22188 active. Now remove this obsolete check. Resolves bug 2081.
22189 - Remove workaround code to handle directory responses from servers
22190 that had bug 539 (they would send HTTP status 503 responses _and_
22191 send a body too). Since only server versions before
22192 0.2.0.16-alpha/0.1.2.19 were affected, there is no longer reason to
22193 keep the workaround in place.
22194 - Remove the old 'fuzzy time' logic. It was supposed to be used for
22195 handling calculations where we have a known amount of clock skew and
22196 an allowed amount of unknown skew. But we only used it in three
22197 places, and we never adjusted the known/unknown skew values. This is
22198 still something we might want to do someday, but if we do, we'll
22199 want to do it differently.
22200 - Remove the "--enable-iphone" option to ./configure. According to
22201 reports from Marco Bonetti, Tor builds fine without any special
22202 tweaking on recent iPhone SDK versions.
22205 Changes in version 0.2.1.30 - 2011-02-23
22206 Tor 0.2.1.30 fixes a variety of less critical bugs. The main other
22207 change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays
22208 and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
22209 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
22210 buys us time until we roll out a better solution.
22213 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
22214 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
22215 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
22216 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
22217 the rest of bug 1074.
22218 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
22219 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
22220 Found by "piebeer".
22221 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
22222 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
22223 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
22224 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
22225 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
22226 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
22227 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22230 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
22232 - Update to the February 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22235 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
22236 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
22237 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28. Found by "doorss".
22238 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
22239 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
22240 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
22241 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
22242 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
22243 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
22244 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
22245 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
22247 o Packaging changes:
22248 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
22249 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
22250 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
22251 - Do not include Git version tags as though they are SVN tags when
22252 generating a tarball from inside a repository that has switched
22253 between branches. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
22256 Changes in version 0.2.1.29 - 2011-01-15
22257 Tor 0.2.1.29 continues our recent code security audit work. The main
22258 fix resolves a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote
22259 code execution. Other fixes address a variety of assert and crash bugs,
22260 most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
22262 o Major bugfixes (security):
22263 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
22264 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
22265 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
22267 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
22268 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
22269 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
22270 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
22271 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
22272 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
22273 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
22274 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
22276 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
22277 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
22278 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
22279 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
22280 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
22281 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
22282 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
22283 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
22284 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
22285 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
22286 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
22287 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
22288 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
22289 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
22292 o Minor bugfixes (other):
22293 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
22294 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
22295 bug reported by doorss.
22296 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
22297 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
22298 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
22299 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
22300 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
22302 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
22303 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
22304 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
22305 - Correctly handle wrapping around when we run out of virtual
22306 address space. Found by cypherpunks; bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
22309 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22310 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
22313 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
22314 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
22315 Automake 1.7 or later.
22316 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
22317 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
22318 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
22319 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
22322 Changes in version 0.2.1.28 - 2010-12-17
22323 Tor 0.2.1.28 does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
22324 exploitable bugs. We also took this opportunity to change the IP address
22325 for one of our directory authorities, and to update the geoip database
22329 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
22330 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
22331 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
22332 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
22334 o Directory authority changes:
22335 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
22338 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22341 Changes in version 0.2.1.27 - 2010-11-23
22342 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
22343 Tor 0.2.1.27 makes relays work with openssl 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b. We
22344 also took this opportunity to fix several crash bugs, integrate a new
22345 directory authority, and update the bundled GeoIP database.
22348 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
22349 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
22350 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
22351 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
22352 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
22353 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
22354 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
22355 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
22356 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
22357 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
22358 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
22359 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
22360 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
22361 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
22362 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
22363 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
22364 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
22365 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
22366 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
22367 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
22368 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
22369 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
22370 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
22373 - Move to the November 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather
22374 than the June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that
22375 count how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we'll
22376 have more accurate data, especially for many African countries.
22378 o New directory authorities:
22379 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
22383 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in directory caches or
22384 bridge users when using a very short voting interval on a testing
22385 network. Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on
22387 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
22388 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
22389 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
22390 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
22391 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
22392 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
22394 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
22395 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
22396 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
22399 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
22400 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
22401 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
22402 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
22403 it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
22404 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
22405 Patch from mingw-san.
22408 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
22409 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
22410 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
22411 - Stop shipping the old doc/website/ directory in the tarball. We
22412 changed the website format in late 2010, and what we shipped in
22413 0.2.1.26 really wasn't that useful anyway.
22416 Changes in version 0.2.1.26 - 2010-05-02
22417 Tor 0.2.1.26 addresses the recent connection and memory overload
22418 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
22419 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
22420 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
22422 This release also fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL libraries
22423 that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
22426 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
22427 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
22428 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
22429 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
22430 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
22431 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
22432 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
22433 their directory fetches over TLS).
22434 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
22435 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
22436 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
22437 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
22438 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
22439 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
22440 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
22441 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
22444 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
22445 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
22449 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
22450 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
22451 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
22452 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
22453 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
22454 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
22455 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22458 Changes in version 0.2.1.25 - 2010-03-16
22459 Tor 0.2.1.25 fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.1.23 that could
22460 prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also fixes
22461 several minor potential security bugs.
22464 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
22465 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
22466 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
22467 0.2.1.23; fixes bug 1269.
22468 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
22469 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
22470 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
22473 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
22474 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
22476 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
22477 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
22478 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
22479 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
22482 Changes in version 0.2.1.24 - 2010-02-21
22483 Tor 0.2.1.24 makes Tor work again on the latest OS X -- this time
22487 - Work correctly out-of-the-box with even more vendor-patched versions
22488 of OpenSSL. In particular, make it so Debian and OS X don't need
22489 customized patches to run/build.
22492 Changes in version 0.2.1.23 - 2010-02-13
22493 Tor 0.2.1.23 fixes a huge client-side performance bug, makes Tor work
22494 again on the latest OS X, and updates the location of a directory
22497 o Major bugfixes (performance):
22498 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
22499 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
22500 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
22501 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
22502 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
22503 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
22504 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
22507 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
22508 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
22509 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
22510 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
22511 libraries in a security patch.
22512 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
22513 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
22514 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
22515 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
22519 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
22520 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
22523 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
22524 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
22525 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
22526 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
22527 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
22530 Changes in version 0.2.1.22 - 2010-01-19
22531 Tor 0.2.1.22 fixes a critical privacy problem in bridge directory
22532 authorities -- it would tell you its whole history of bridge descriptors
22533 if you make the right directory request. This stable update also
22534 rotates two of the seven v3 directory authority keys and locations.
22536 o Directory authority changes:
22537 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
22541 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
22542 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
22543 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
22546 Changes in version 0.2.1.21 - 2009-12-21
22547 Tor 0.2.1.21 fixes an incompatibility with the most recent OpenSSL
22548 library. If you use Tor on Linux / Unix and you're getting SSL
22549 renegotiation errors, upgrading should help. We also recommend an
22550 upgrade if you're an exit relay.
22553 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
22554 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
22555 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, of course, but OpenSSL
22556 0.9.8l won't work unless we say we are.
22557 - Avoid crashing if the client is trying to upload many bytes and the
22558 circuit gets torn down at the same time, or if the flip side
22559 happens on the exit relay. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1150.
22562 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
22563 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
22564 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
22565 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
22566 - Fix a couple of very-hard-to-trigger memory leaks, and one hard-to-
22567 trigger platform-specific option misparsing case found by Coverity
22569 - Fix a compilation warning on Fedora 12 by removing an impossible-to-
22570 trigger assert. Fixes bug 1173.
22573 Changes in version 0.2.1.20 - 2009-10-15
22574 Tor 0.2.1.20 fixes a crash bug when you're accessing many hidden
22575 services at once, prepares for more performance improvements, and
22576 fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
22578 The Windows and OS X bundles also include a more recent Vidalia,
22579 and switch from Privoxy to Polipo.
22581 The OS X installers are now drag and drop. It's best to un-install
22582 Tor/Vidalia and then install this new bundle, rather than upgrade. If
22583 you want to upgrade, you'll need to update the paths for Tor and Polipo
22584 in the Vidalia Settings window.
22587 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
22588 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
22589 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
22590 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
22591 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
22593 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
22594 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
22596 - Avoid segfault in rare cases when finishing an introduction circuit
22597 as a client and finding out that we don't have an introduction key
22598 for it. Fixes bug 1073. Reported by Aaron Swartz.
22601 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
22602 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
22603 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
22605 o New directory authorities:
22606 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
22608 - Move moria1 and tonga to alternate IP addresses.
22611 - Fix a signed/unsigned compile warning in 0.2.1.19.
22612 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
22614 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
22615 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
22616 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
22617 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
22618 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
22619 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
22620 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
22621 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
22622 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
22623 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
22624 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
22625 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
22626 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
22627 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
22628 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
22629 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
22630 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
22632 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
22633 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
22634 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090. Bugfix on
22636 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
22637 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
22641 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
22642 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
22643 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
22644 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
22645 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
22648 Changes in version 0.2.1.19 - 2009-07-28
22649 Tor 0.2.1.19 fixes a major bug with accessing and providing hidden
22653 - Make accessing hidden services on 0.2.1.x work right again.
22654 Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha; workaround for bug 1038. Diagnosis and
22655 part of patch provided by "optimist".
22658 - When a relay/bridge is writing out its identity key fingerprint to
22659 the "fingerprint" file and to its logs, write it without spaces. Now
22660 it will look like the fingerprints in our bridges documentation,
22661 and confuse fewer users.
22664 - Relays no longer publish a new server descriptor if they change
22665 their MaxAdvertisedBandwidth config option but it doesn't end up
22666 changing their advertised bandwidth numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.28-rc;
22667 fixes bug 1026. Patch from Sebastian.
22668 - Avoid leaking memory every time we get a create cell but we have
22669 so many already queued that we refuse it. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha;
22670 fixes bug 1034. Reported by BarkerJr.
22673 Changes in version 0.2.1.18 - 2009-07-24
22674 Tor 0.2.1.18 lays the foundations for performance improvements,
22675 adds status events to help users diagnose bootstrap problems, adds
22676 optional authentication/authorization for hidden services, fixes a
22677 variety of potential anonymity problems, and includes a huge pile of
22678 other features and bug fixes.
22680 o Major features (clients):
22681 - Start sending "bootstrap phase" status events to the controller,
22682 so it can keep the user informed of progress fetching directory
22683 information and establishing circuits. Also inform the controller
22684 if we think we're stuck at a particular bootstrap phase. Implements
22686 - Clients replace entry guards that were chosen more than a few months
22687 ago. This change should significantly improve client performance,
22688 especially once more people upgrade, since relays that have been
22689 a guard for a long time are currently overloaded.
22690 - Network status consensus documents and votes now contain bandwidth
22691 information for each relay. Clients use the bandwidth values
22692 in the consensus, rather than the bandwidth values in each
22693 relay descriptor. This approach opens the door to more accurate
22694 bandwidth estimates once the directory authorities start doing
22695 active measurements. Implements part of proposal 141.
22697 o Major features (relays):
22698 - Disable and refactor some debugging checks that forced a linear scan
22699 over the whole server-side DNS cache. These accounted for over 50%
22700 of CPU time on a relatively busy exit node's gprof profile. Also,
22701 disable some debugging checks that appeared in exit node profile
22702 data. Found by Jacob.
22703 - New DirPortFrontPage option that takes an html file and publishes
22704 it as "/" on the DirPort. Now relay operators can provide a
22705 disclaimer without needing to set up a separate webserver. There's
22706 a sample disclaimer in contrib/tor-exit-notice.html.
22708 o Major features (hidden services):
22709 - Make it possible to build hidden services that only certain clients
22710 are allowed to connect to. This is enforced at several points,
22711 so that unauthorized clients are unable to send INTRODUCE cells
22712 to the service, or even (depending on the type of authentication)
22713 to learn introduction points. This feature raises the bar for
22714 certain kinds of active attacks against hidden services. Design
22715 and code by Karsten Loesing. Implements proposal 121.
22716 - Relays now store and serve v2 hidden service descriptors by default,
22717 i.e., the new default value for HidServDirectoryV2 is 1. This is
22718 the last step in proposal 114, which aims to make hidden service
22719 lookups more reliable.
22721 o Major features (path selection):
22722 - ExitNodes and Exclude*Nodes config options now allow you to restrict
22723 by country code ("{US}") or IP address or address pattern
22724 ("255.128.0.0/16"). Patch from Robert Hogan. It still needs some
22725 refinement to decide what config options should take priority if
22726 you ask to both use a particular node and exclude it.
22728 o Major features (misc):
22729 - When building a consensus, do not include routers that are down.
22730 This cuts down 30% to 40% on consensus size. Implements proposal
22732 - New TestingTorNetwork config option to allow adjustment of
22733 previously constant values that could slow bootstrapping. Implements
22734 proposal 135. Patch from Karsten.
22735 - Convert many internal address representations to optionally hold
22736 IPv6 addresses. Generate and accept IPv6 addresses in many protocol
22737 elements. Make resolver code handle nameservers located at IPv6
22739 - More work on making our TLS handshake blend in: modify the list
22740 of ciphers advertised by OpenSSL in client mode to even more
22741 closely resemble a common web browser. We cheat a little so that
22742 we can advertise ciphers that the locally installed OpenSSL doesn't
22744 - Use the TLS1 hostname extension to more closely resemble browser
22747 o Security fixes (anonymity/entropy):
22748 - Never use a connection with a mismatched address to extend a
22749 circuit, unless that connection is canonical. A canonical
22750 connection is one whose address is authenticated by the router's
22751 identity key, either in a NETINFO cell or in a router descriptor.
22752 - Implement most of proposal 110: The first K cells to be sent
22753 along a circuit are marked as special "early" cells; only K "early"
22754 cells will be allowed. Once this code is universal, we can block
22755 certain kinds of denial-of-service attack by requiring that EXTEND
22756 commands must be sent using an "early" cell.
22757 - Resume using OpenSSL's RAND_poll() for better (and more portable)
22758 cross-platform entropy collection again. We used to use it, then
22759 stopped using it because of a bug that could crash systems that
22760 called RAND_poll when they had a lot of fds open. It looks like the
22761 bug got fixed in late 2006. Our new behavior is to call RAND_poll()
22762 at startup, and to call RAND_poll() when we reseed later only if
22763 we have a non-buggy OpenSSL version.
22764 - When the client is choosing entry guards, now it selects at most
22765 one guard from a given relay family. Otherwise we could end up with
22766 all of our entry points into the network run by the same operator.
22767 Suggested by Camilo Viecco. Fix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
22768 - Do not use or believe expired v3 authority certificates. Patch
22769 from Karsten. Bugfix in 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 851.
22770 - Drop begin cells to a hidden service if they come from the middle
22771 of a circuit. Patch from lark.
22772 - When we erroneously receive two EXTEND cells for the same circuit
22773 ID on the same connection, drop the second. Patch from lark.
22774 - Authorities now vote for the Stable flag for any router whose
22775 weighted MTBF is at least 5 days, regardless of the mean MTBF.
22776 - Clients now never report any stream end reason except 'MISC'.
22777 Implements proposal 148.
22779 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
22780 - Parse dates and IPv4 addresses in a locale- and libc-independent
22781 manner, to avoid platform-dependent behavior on malformed input.
22782 - Fix a crash that occurs on exit nodes when a nameserver request
22783 timed out. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; our CLEAR debugging code had
22784 been suppressing the bug since 0.1.2.10-alpha. Partial fix for
22786 - Do not assume that a stack-allocated character array will be
22787 64-bit aligned on platforms that demand that uint64_t access is
22788 aligned. Possible fix for bug 604.
22789 - Resolve a very rare crash bug that could occur when the user forced
22790 a nameserver reconfiguration during the middle of a nameserver
22791 probe. Fixes bug 526. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
22792 - Avoid a "0 divided by 0" calculation when calculating router uptime
22793 at directory authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
22794 - Fix an assertion bug in parsing policy-related options; possible fix
22796 - Rate-limit too-many-sockets messages: when they happen, they happen
22797 a lot and end up filling up the disk. Resolves bug 748.
22798 - Fix a race condition that could cause crashes or memory corruption
22799 when running as a server with a controller listening for log
22801 - Avoid crashing when we have a policy specified in a DirPolicy or
22802 SocksPolicy or ReachableAddresses option with ports set on it,
22803 and we re-load the policy. May fix bug 996.
22804 - Fix an assertion failure on 64-bit platforms when we allocated
22805 memory right up to the end of a memarea, then realigned the memory
22806 one step beyond the end. Fixes a possible cause of bug 930.
22807 - Protect the count of open sockets with a mutex, so we can't
22808 corrupt it when two threads are closing or opening sockets at once.
22809 Fix for bug 939. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22811 o Major bugfixes (clients):
22812 - Discard router descriptors as we load them if they are more than
22813 five days old. Otherwise if Tor is off for a long time and then
22814 starts with cached descriptors, it will try to use the onion keys
22815 in those obsolete descriptors when building circuits. Fixes bug 887.
22816 - When we choose to abandon a new entry guard because we think our
22817 older ones might be better, close any circuits pending on that
22818 new entry guard connection. This fix should make us recover much
22819 faster when our network is down and then comes back. Bugfix on
22820 0.1.2.8-beta; found by lodger.
22821 - When Tor clients restart after 1-5 days, they discard all their
22822 cached descriptors as too old, but they still use the cached
22823 consensus document. This approach is good for robustness, but
22824 bad for performance: since they don't know any bandwidths, they
22825 end up choosing at random rather than weighting their choice by
22826 speed. Fixed by the above feature of putting bandwidths in the
22829 o Major bugfixes (relays):
22830 - Relays were falling out of the networkstatus consensus for
22831 part of a day if they changed their local config but the
22832 authorities discarded their new descriptor as "not sufficiently
22833 different". Now directory authorities accept a descriptor as changed
22834 if BandwidthRate or BandwidthBurst changed. Partial fix for bug 962;
22835 patch by Sebastian.
22836 - Ensure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
22837 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
22838 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779; fixes a bug on 0.1.0.4-rc.
22839 - Directory authorities were neglecting to mark relays down in their
22840 internal histories if the relays fall off the routerlist without
22841 ever being found unreachable. So there were relays in the histories
22842 that haven't been seen for eight months, and are listed as being
22843 up for eight months. This wreaked havoc on the "median wfu" and
22844 "median mtbf" calculations, in turn making Guard and Stable flags
22845 wrong, hurting network performance. Fixes bugs 696 and 969. Bugfix
22848 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
22849 - When establishing a hidden service, introduction points that
22850 originate from cannibalized circuits were completely ignored
22851 and not included in rendezvous service descriptors. This might
22852 have been another reason for delay in making a hidden service
22853 available. Bugfix from long ago (0.0.9.x?)
22855 o Major bugfixes (memory and resource management):
22856 - Fixed some memory leaks -- some quite frequent, some almost
22857 impossible to trigger -- based on results from Coverity.
22858 - Speed up parsing and cut down on memory fragmentation by using
22859 stack-style allocations for parsing directory objects. Previously,
22860 this accounted for over 40% of allocations from within Tor's code
22861 on a typical directory cache.
22862 - Use a Bloom filter rather than a digest-based set to track which
22863 descriptors we need to keep around when we're cleaning out old
22864 router descriptors. This speeds up the computation significantly,
22865 and may reduce fragmentation.
22867 o New/changed config options:
22868 - Now NodeFamily and MyFamily config options allow spaces in
22869 identity fingerprints, so it's easier to paste them in.
22870 Suggested by Lucky Green.
22871 - Allow ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy again. We had
22872 rejected them in 0.1.0.15, because back in 2005 they were commonly
22873 misconfigured and ended up as spam targets. We hear they are better
22874 locked down these days.
22875 - Make TrackHostExit mappings expire a while after their last use, not
22876 after their creation. Patch from Robert Hogan.
22877 - Add an ExcludeExitNodes option so users can list a set of nodes
22878 that should be be excluded from the exit node position, but
22879 allowed elsewhere. Implements proposal 151.
22880 - New --hush command-line option similar to --quiet. While --quiet
22881 disables all logging to the console on startup, --hush limits the
22882 output to messages of warning and error severity.
22883 - New configure/torrc options (--enable-geoip-stats,
22884 DirRecordUsageByCountry) to record how many IPs we've served
22885 directory info to in each country code, how many status documents
22886 total we've sent to each country code, and what share of the total
22887 directory requests we should expect to see.
22888 - Make outbound DNS packets respect the OutboundBindAddress setting.
22889 Fixes the bug part of bug 798. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
22890 - Allow separate log levels to be configured for different logging
22891 domains. For example, this allows one to log all notices, warnings,
22892 or errors, plus all memory management messages of level debug or
22893 higher, with: Log [MM] debug-err [*] notice-err file /var/log/tor.
22894 - Update to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
22896 o Minor features (relays):
22897 - Raise the minimum rate limiting to be a relay from 20000 bytes
22898 to 20480 bytes (aka 20KB/s), to match our documentation. Also
22899 update directory authorities so they always assign the Fast flag
22900 to relays with 20KB/s of capacity. Now people running relays won't
22901 suddenly find themselves not seeing any use, if the network gets
22903 - If we're a relay and we change our IP address, be more verbose
22904 about the reason that made us change. Should help track down
22905 further bugs for relays on dynamic IP addresses.
22906 - Exit servers can now answer resolve requests for ip6.arpa addresses.
22907 - Implement most of Proposal 152: allow specialized servers to permit
22908 single-hop circuits, and clients to use those servers to build
22909 single-hop circuits when using a specialized controller. Patch
22910 from Josh Albrecht. Resolves feature request 768.
22911 - When relays do their initial bandwidth measurement, don't limit
22912 to just our entry guards for the test circuits. Otherwise we tend
22913 to have multiple test circuits going through a single entry guard,
22914 which makes our bandwidth test less accurate. Fixes part of bug 654;
22915 patch contributed by Josh Albrecht.
22917 o Minor features (directory authorities):
22918 - Try not to open more than one descriptor-downloading connection
22919 to an authority at once. This should reduce load on directory
22920 authorities. Fixes bug 366.
22921 - Add cross-certification to newly generated certificates, so that
22922 a signing key is enough information to look up a certificate. Start
22923 serving certificates by <identity digest, signing key digest>
22924 pairs. Implements proposal 157.
22925 - When a directory authority downloads a descriptor that it then
22926 immediately rejects, do not retry downloading it right away. Should
22927 save some bandwidth on authorities. Fix for bug 888. Patch by
22929 - Directory authorities now serve a /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL to
22930 help debug WFU and MTBF calculations.
22931 - In directory authorities' approved-routers files, allow
22932 fingerprints with or without space.
22934 o Minor features (directory mirrors):
22935 - When a download gets us zero good descriptors, do not notify
22936 Tor that new directory information has arrived.
22937 - Servers support a new URL scheme for consensus downloads that
22938 allows the client to specify which authorities are trusted.
22939 The server then only sends the consensus if the client will trust
22940 it. Otherwise a 404 error is sent back. Clients use this
22941 new scheme when the server supports it (meaning it's running
22942 0.2.1.1-alpha or later). Implements proposal 134.
22944 o Minor features (bridges):
22945 - If the bridge config line doesn't specify a port, assume 443.
22946 This makes bridge lines a bit smaller and easier for users to
22948 - If we're using bridges and our network goes away, be more willing
22949 to forgive our bridges and try again when we get an application
22952 o Minor features (hidden services):
22953 - When the client launches an introduction circuit, retry with a
22954 new circuit after 30 seconds rather than 60 seconds.
22955 - Launch a second client-side introduction circuit in parallel
22956 after a delay of 15 seconds (based on work by Christian Wilms).
22957 - Hidden services start out building five intro circuits rather
22958 than three, and when the first three finish they publish a service
22959 descriptor using those. Now we publish our service descriptor much
22960 faster after restart.
22961 - Drop the requirement to have an open dir port for storing and
22962 serving v2 hidden service descriptors.
22964 o Minor features (build and packaging):
22965 - On Linux, use the prctl call to re-enable core dumps when the User
22967 - Try to make sure that the version of Libevent we're running with
22968 is binary-compatible with the one we built with. May address bug
22970 - Add a new --enable-local-appdata configuration switch to change
22971 the default location of the datadir on win32 from APPDATA to
22972 LOCAL_APPDATA. In the future, we should migrate to LOCAL_APPDATA
22973 entirely. Patch from coderman.
22974 - Build correctly against versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later that
22975 are built without support for deprecated functions.
22976 - On platforms with a maximum syslog string length, truncate syslog
22977 messages to that length ourselves, rather than relying on the
22978 system to do it for us.
22979 - Automatically detect MacOSX versions earlier than 10.4.0, and
22980 disable kqueue from inside Tor when running with these versions.
22981 We previously did this from the startup script, but that was no
22982 help to people who didn't use the startup script. Resolves bug 863.
22983 - Build correctly when configured to build outside the main source
22984 path. Patch from Michael Gold.
22985 - Disable GCC's strict alias optimization by default, to avoid the
22986 likelihood of its introducing subtle bugs whenever our code violates
22987 the letter of C99's alias rules.
22988 - Change the contrib/tor.logrotate script so it makes the new
22989 logs as "_tor:_tor" rather than the default, which is generally
22990 "root:wheel". Fixes bug 676, reported by Serge Koksharov.
22991 - Change our header file guard macros to be less likely to conflict
22992 with system headers. Adam Langley noticed that we were conflicting
22993 with log.h on Android.
22994 - Add a couple of extra warnings to --enable-gcc-warnings for GCC 4.3,
22995 and stop using a warning that had become unfixably verbose under
22997 - Use a lockfile to make sure that two Tor processes are not
22998 simultaneously running with the same datadir.
22999 - Allow OpenSSL to use dynamic locks if it wants.
23000 - Add LIBS=-lrt to Makefile.am so the Tor RPMs use a static libevent.
23002 o Minor features (controllers):
23003 - When generating circuit events with verbose nicknames for
23004 controllers, try harder to look up nicknames for routers on a
23005 circuit. (Previously, we would look in the router descriptors we had
23006 for nicknames, but not in the consensus.) Partial fix for bug 941.
23007 - New controller event NEWCONSENSUS that lists the networkstatus
23008 lines for every recommended relay. Now controllers like Torflow
23009 can keep up-to-date on which relays they should be using.
23010 - New controller event "clients_seen" to report a geoip-based summary
23011 of which countries we've seen clients from recently. Now controllers
23012 like Vidalia can show bridge operators that they're actually making
23014 - Add a 'getinfo status/clients-seen' controller command, in case
23015 controllers want to hear clients_seen events but connect late.
23016 - New CONSENSUS_ARRIVED event to note when a new consensus has
23017 been fetched and validated.
23018 - Add an internal-use-only __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP option for
23019 controllers to prevent SIGHUP from reloading the configuration.
23021 - Return circuit purposes in response to GETINFO circuit-status.
23023 - Serve the latest v3 networkstatus consensus via the control
23024 port. Use "getinfo dir/status-vote/current/consensus" to fetch it.
23025 - Add a "GETINFO /status/bootstrap-phase" controller option, so the
23026 controller can query our current bootstrap state in case it attaches
23027 partway through and wants to catch up.
23028 - Provide circuit purposes along with circuit events to the controller.
23030 o Minor features (tools):
23031 - Do not have tor-resolve automatically refuse all .onion addresses;
23032 if AutomapHostsOnResolve is set in your torrc, this will work fine.
23033 - Add a -p option to tor-resolve for specifying the SOCKS port: some
23034 people find host:port too confusing.
23035 - Print the SOCKS5 error message string as well as the error code
23036 when a tor-resolve request fails. Patch from Jacob.
23038 o Minor bugfixes (memory and resource management):
23039 - Clients no longer cache certificates for authorities they do not
23040 recognize. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
23041 - Do not use C's stdio library for writing to log files. This will
23042 improve logging performance by a minute amount, and will stop
23043 leaking fds when our disk is full. Fixes bug 861.
23044 - Stop erroneous use of O_APPEND in cases where we did not in fact
23045 want to re-seek to the end of a file before every last write().
23046 - Fix a small alignment and memory-wasting bug on buffer chunks.
23048 - Add a malloc_good_size implementation to OpenBSD_malloc_linux.c,
23049 to avoid unused RAM in buffer chunks and memory pools.
23050 - Reduce the default smartlist size from 32 to 16; it turns out that
23051 most smartlists hold around 8-12 elements tops.
23052 - Make dumpstats() log the fullness and size of openssl-internal
23054 - If the user has applied the experimental SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS
23055 patch to their OpenSSL, turn it on to save memory on servers. This
23056 patch will (with any luck) get included in a mainline distribution
23058 - Fix a memory leak when v3 directory authorities load their keys
23059 and cert from disk. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23060 - Stop using malloc_usable_size() to use more area than we had
23061 actually allocated: it was safe, but made valgrind really unhappy.
23062 - Make the assert_circuit_ok() function work correctly on circuits that
23063 have already been marked for close.
23064 - Fix uninitialized size field for memory area allocation: may improve
23065 memory performance during directory parsing.
23067 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
23068 - Stop reloading the router list from disk for no reason when we
23069 run out of reachable directory mirrors. Once upon a time reloading
23070 it would set the 'is_running' flag back to 1 for them. It hasn't
23071 done that for a long time.
23072 - When we had picked an exit node for a connection, but marked it as
23073 "optional", and it turned out we had no onion key for the exit,
23074 stop wanting that exit and try again. This situation may not
23075 be possible now, but will probably become feasible with proposal
23076 158. Spotted by rovv. Fixes another case of bug 752.
23077 - Fix a bug in address parsing that was preventing bridges or hidden
23078 service targets from being at IPv6 addresses.
23079 - Do not remove routers as too old if we do not have any consensus
23080 document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
23081 - When an exit relay resolves a stream address to a local IP address,
23082 do not just keep retrying that same exit relay over and
23083 over. Instead, just close the stream. Addresses bug 872. Bugfix
23084 on 0.2.0.32. Patch from rovv.
23085 - Made Tor a little less aggressive about deleting expired
23086 certificates. Partial fix for bug 854.
23087 - Treat duplicate certificate fetches as failures, so that we do
23088 not try to re-fetch an expired certificate over and over and over.
23089 - Do not say we're fetching a certificate when we'll in fact skip it
23090 because of a pending download.
23091 - If we have correct permissions on $datadir, we complain to stdout
23092 and fail to start. But dangerous permissions on
23093 $datadir/cached-status/ would cause us to open a log and complain
23094 there. Now complain to stdout and fail to start in both cases. Fixes
23095 bug 820, reported by seeess.
23097 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
23098 - When we made bridge authorities stop serving bridge descriptors over
23099 unencrypted links, we also broke DirPort reachability testing for
23100 bridges. So bridges with a non-zero DirPort were printing spurious
23101 warns to their logs. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Fixes bug 709.
23102 - Don't allow a bridge to publish its router descriptor to a
23103 non-bridge directory authority. Fixes part of bug 932.
23104 - When we change to or from being a bridge, reset our counts of
23105 client usage by country. Fixes bug 932.
23107 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
23108 - Log correct error messages for DNS-related network errors on
23110 - Actually return -1 in the error case for read_bandwidth_usage().
23111 Harmless bug, since we currently don't care about the return value
23112 anywhere. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
23113 - Provide a more useful log message if bug 977 (related to buffer
23114 freelists) ever reappears, and do not crash right away.
23115 - We were already rejecting relay begin cells with destination port
23116 of 0. Now also reject extend cells with destination port or address
23117 of 0. Suggested by lark.
23118 - When we can't transmit a DNS request due to a network error, retry
23119 it after a while, and eventually transmit a failing response to
23120 the RESOLVED cell. Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
23121 - Solve a bug that kept hardware crypto acceleration from getting
23122 enabled when accounting was turned on. Fixes bug 907. Bugfix on
23124 - When a canonical connection appears later in our internal list
23125 than a noncanonical one for a given OR ID, always use the
23126 canonical one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 805.
23128 - Avoid some nasty corner cases in the logic for marking connections
23129 as too old or obsolete or noncanonical for circuits. Partial
23131 - Fix another interesting corner-case of bug 891 spotted by rovv:
23132 Previously, if two hosts had different amounts of clock drift, and
23133 one of them created a new connection with just the wrong timing,
23134 the other might decide to deprecate the new connection erroneously.
23135 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha.
23136 - If one win32 nameserver fails to get added, continue adding the
23137 rest, and don't automatically fail.
23138 - Fix a bug where an unreachable relay would establish enough
23139 reachability testing circuits to do a bandwidth test -- if
23140 we already have a connection to the middle hop of the testing
23141 circuit, then it could establish the last hop by using the existing
23142 connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, exposed when we made testing
23143 circuits no longer use entry guards in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
23145 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
23146 - Limit uploaded directory documents to be 16M rather than 500K.
23147 The directory authorities were refusing v3 consensus votes from
23148 other authorities, since the votes are now 504K. Fixes bug 959;
23149 bugfix on 0.0.2pre17 (where we raised it from 50K to 500K ;).
23150 - Directory authorities should never send a 503 "busy" response to
23151 requests for votes or keys. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha; exposed by
23153 - Fix code so authorities _actually_ send back X-Descriptor-Not-New
23154 headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
23156 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
23157 - When we can't find an intro key for a v2 hidden service descriptor,
23158 fall back to the v0 hidden service descriptor and log a bug message.
23159 Workaround for bug 1024.
23160 - In very rare situations new hidden service descriptors were
23161 published earlier than 30 seconds after the last change to the
23162 service. (We currently think that a hidden service descriptor
23163 that's been stable for 30 seconds is worth publishing.)
23164 - If a hidden service sends us an END cell, do not consider
23165 retrying the connection; just close it. Patch from rovv.
23166 - If we are not using BEGIN_DIR cells, don't attempt to contact hidden
23167 service directories if they have no advertised dir port. Bugfix
23170 o Minor bugfixes (tools):
23171 - In the torify(1) manpage, mention that tsocks will leak your
23174 o Minor bugfixes (controllers):
23175 - If the controller claimed responsibility for a stream, but that
23176 stream never finished making its connection, it would live
23177 forever in circuit_wait state. Now we close it after SocksTimeout
23178 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; reported by Mike Perry.
23179 - Make DNS resolved controller events into "CLOSED", not
23180 "FAILED". Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves
23182 - The control port would close the connection before flushing long
23183 replies, such as the network consensus, if a QUIT command was issued
23184 before the reply had completed. Now, the control port flushes all
23185 pending replies before closing the connection. Also fix a spurious
23186 warning when a QUIT command is issued after a malformed or rejected
23187 AUTHENTICATE command, but before the connection was closed. Patch
23188 by Marcus Griep. Fixes bugs 1015 and 1016.
23189 - Fix a bug that made stream bandwidth get misreported to the
23192 o Deprecated and removed features:
23193 - The old "tor --version --version" command, which would print out
23194 the subversion "Id" of most of the source files, is now removed. It
23195 turned out to be less useful than we'd expected, and harder to
23197 - RedirectExits has been removed. It was deprecated since
23199 - Finally remove deprecated "EXTENDED_FORMAT" controller feature. It
23200 has been called EXTENDED_EVENTS since 0.1.2.4-alpha.
23201 - Cell pools are now always enabled; --disable-cell-pools is ignored.
23202 - Directory mirrors no longer fetch the v1 directory or
23203 running-routers files. They are obsolete, and nobody asks for them
23204 anymore. This is the first step to making v1 authorities obsolete.
23205 - Take out the TestVia config option, since it was a workaround for
23206 a bug that was fixed in Tor 0.1.1.21.
23207 - Mark RendNodes, RendExcludeNodes, HiddenServiceNodes, and
23208 HiddenServiceExcludeNodes as obsolete: they never worked properly,
23209 and nobody seems to be using them. Fixes bug 754. Bugfix on
23210 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch from Christian Wilms.
23211 - Remove all backward-compatibility code for relays running
23212 versions of Tor so old that they no longer work at all on the
23215 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
23216 - Tool-assisted documentation cleanup. Nearly every function or
23217 static variable in Tor should have its own documentation now.
23218 - Rename the confusing or_is_obsolete field to the more appropriate
23219 is_bad_for_new_circs, and move it to or_connection_t where it
23221 - Move edge-only flags from connection_t to edge_connection_t: not
23222 only is this better coding, but on machines of plausible alignment,
23223 it should save 4-8 bytes per connection_t. "Every little bit helps."
23224 - Rename ServerDNSAllowBrokenResolvConf to ServerDNSAllowBrokenConfig
23225 for consistency; keep old option working for backward compatibility.
23226 - Simplify the code for finding connections to use for a circuit.
23227 - Revise the connection_new functions so that a more typesafe variant
23228 exists. This will work better with Coverity, and let us find any
23229 actual mistakes we're making here.
23230 - Refactor unit testing logic so that dmalloc can be used sensibly
23231 with unit tests to check for memory leaks.
23232 - Move all hidden-service related fields from connection and circuit
23233 structure to substructures: this way they won't eat so much memory.
23234 - Squeeze 2-5% out of client performance (according to oprofile) by
23235 improving the implementation of some policy-manipulation functions.
23236 - Change the implementation of ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes to
23237 be more efficient. Formerly it was quadratic in the number of
23238 servers; now it should be linear. Fixes bug 509.
23239 - Save 16-22 bytes per open circuit by moving the n_addr, n_port,
23240 and n_conn_id_digest fields into a separate structure that's
23241 only needed when the circuit has not yet attached to an n_conn.
23242 - Optimize out calls to time(NULL) that occur for every IO operation,
23243 or for every cell. On systems like Windows where time() is a
23244 slow syscall, this fix will be slightly helpful.
23247 Changes in version 0.2.0.35 - 2009-06-24
23249 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
23250 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
23251 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
23252 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
23253 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
23256 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
23257 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
23258 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
23259 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
23260 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
23261 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
23262 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
23263 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
23264 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
23265 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
23268 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
23269 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
23270 0.2.0.33; fixes bug 672.
23271 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
23272 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
23273 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
23274 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
23275 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
23278 Changes in version 0.2.0.34 - 2009-02-08
23279 Tor 0.2.0.34 features several more security-related fixes. You should
23280 upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or a
23281 directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
23282 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit).
23284 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.1.2.x. Those Tor versions
23285 have many known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should
23286 upgrade. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete,
23287 stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
23290 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
23291 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
23292 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
23293 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
23294 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
23295 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.0.33.
23296 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
23297 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
23300 - Fix compilation on systems where time_t is a 64-bit integer.
23301 Patch from Matthias Drochner.
23302 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
23303 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
23306 Changes in version 0.2.0.33 - 2009-01-21
23307 Tor 0.2.0.33 fixes a variety of bugs that were making relays less
23308 useful to users. It also finally fixes a bug where a relay or client
23309 that's been off for many days would take a long time to bootstrap.
23311 This update also fixes an important security-related bug reported by
23312 Ilja van Sprundel. You should upgrade. (We'll send out more details
23313 about the bug once people have had some time to upgrade.)
23316 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
23317 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
23320 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
23321 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
23322 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
23323 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
23324 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha;
23325 reported by "wood".
23326 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
23327 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
23328 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
23329 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
23330 identify a connection.
23331 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
23332 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
23333 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
23334 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
23335 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
23336 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
23337 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
23338 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
23339 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
23340 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
23342 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
23343 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could be
23344 useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in practice
23345 it just means we spend many minutes trying directory mirrors that
23346 are long gone from the network. Also discard router descriptors as
23347 we load them if they are more than five days old, since the onion
23348 key is probably wrong by now. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
23351 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
23352 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
23354 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
23355 - Compile without warnings on solaris.
23356 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
23357 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
23358 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
23359 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880.
23360 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
23361 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
23363 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
23364 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, we retry failed
23365 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
23366 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
23367 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
23368 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
23369 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
23370 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
23371 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
23372 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
23373 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
23374 Fixes one case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
23375 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
23376 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
23377 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
23378 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
23379 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
23380 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
23381 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous descriptor to
23382 the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor with the same ID.
23383 Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
23384 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
23385 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
23386 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
23387 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
23388 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
23389 840. Patch from rovv.
23390 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
23391 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
23392 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
23394 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
23395 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
23396 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
23397 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
23398 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
23399 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
23400 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
23402 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
23403 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP. Bugfix on
23404 0.0.6pre1. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
23407 - Report the case where all signatures in a detached set are rejected
23408 differently than the case where there is an error handling the
23410 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
23411 descriptors, print out a more useful error message rather than
23412 triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
23413 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
23414 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
23415 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
23416 ServerDNSRandomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
23417 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
23418 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
23420 - Check DNS replies for more matching fields to better resist DNS
23422 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
23423 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed, or
23427 Changes in version 0.2.0.32 - 2008-11-20
23428 Tor 0.2.0.32 fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
23429 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
23430 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
23431 services, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
23432 variety of other issues.
23435 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
23436 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
23437 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
23438 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
23439 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
23440 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
23441 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848 and 857.
23442 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
23443 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
23444 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
23445 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
23446 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
23449 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
23450 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
23452 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
23453 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
23454 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
23455 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
23456 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
23457 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
23458 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
23459 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
23460 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
23461 requests failed, because the router descriptor has not been
23462 downloaded yet. In these cases, do not attempt to upload the
23463 rendezvous descriptor, but wait until the router descriptor is
23464 downloaded and retry. Likewise, do not attempt to fetch a rendezvous
23465 descriptor from a hidden service directory for which the router
23466 descriptor has not yet been downloaded. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
23470 - Fix several infrequent memory leaks spotted by Coverity.
23471 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
23472 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
23473 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
23474 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
23475 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
23476 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
23477 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
23478 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
23479 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
23480 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
23481 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
23482 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
23483 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
23484 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch from by rovv.
23485 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
23486 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
23487 list. It has been gone for many months.
23488 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
23489 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fixes bug 862.
23490 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
23493 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
23494 - Make DNS resolved events into "CLOSED", not "FAILED". Bugfix on
23495 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves bug 807.
23498 Changes in version 0.2.0.31 - 2008-09-03
23499 Tor 0.2.0.31 addresses two potential anonymity issues, starts to fix
23500 a big bug we're seeing where in rare cases traffic from one Tor stream
23501 gets mixed into another stream, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
23504 - Make sure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
23505 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
23506 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc.
23507 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
23508 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
23509 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
23511 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
23512 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
23513 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
23514 pointed out by rovv.
23517 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
23518 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23519 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
23520 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
23521 - Pick size of default geoip filename string correctly on windows.
23522 Fixes bug 806. Bugfix on 0.2.0.30.
23523 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
23524 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
23525 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
23526 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23527 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
23528 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open
23529 /dev/pf before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from
23530 Christopher Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
23531 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
23532 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
23533 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
23534 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
23535 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit is
23536 getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly. Bugfix on
23537 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
23540 Changes in version 0.2.0.30 - 2008-07-15
23541 This new stable release switches to a more efficient directory
23542 distribution design, adds features to make connections to the Tor
23543 network harder to block, allows Tor to act as a DNS proxy, adds separate
23544 rate limiting for relayed traffic to make it easier for clients to
23545 become relays, fixes a variety of potential anonymity problems, and
23546 includes the usual huge pile of other features and bug fixes.
23548 o New v3 directory design:
23549 - Tor now uses a new way to learn about and distribute information
23550 about the network: the directory authorities vote on a common
23551 network status document rather than each publishing their own
23552 opinion. Now clients and caches download only one networkstatus
23553 document to bootstrap, rather than downloading one for each
23554 authority. Clients only download router descriptors listed in
23555 the consensus. Implements proposal 101; see doc/spec/dir-spec.txt
23557 - Set up moria1, tor26, and dizum as v3 directory authorities
23558 in addition to being v2 authorities. Also add three new ones:
23559 ides (run by Mike Perry), gabelmoo (run by Karsten Loesing), and
23560 dannenberg (run by CCC).
23561 - Switch to multi-level keys for directory authorities: now their
23562 long-term identity key can be kept offline, and they periodically
23563 generate a new signing key. Clients fetch the "key certificates"
23564 to keep up to date on the right keys. Add a standalone tool
23565 "tor-gencert" to generate key certificates. Implements proposal 103.
23566 - Add a new V3AuthUseLegacyKey config option to make it easier for
23567 v3 authorities to change their identity keys if another bug like
23568 Debian's OpenSSL RNG flaw appears.
23569 - Authorities and caches fetch the v2 networkstatus documents
23570 less often, now that v3 is recommended.
23572 o Make Tor connections stand out less on the wire:
23573 - Use an improved TLS handshake designed by Steven Murdoch in proposal
23574 124, as revised in proposal 130. The new handshake is meant to
23575 be harder for censors to fingerprint, and it adds the ability
23576 to detect certain kinds of man-in-the-middle traffic analysis
23577 attacks. The new handshake format includes version negotiation for
23578 OR connections as described in proposal 105, which will allow us
23579 to improve Tor's link protocol more safely in the future.
23580 - Enable encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays,
23581 so censor tools that block Tor directory connections based on their
23582 plaintext patterns will no longer work. This means Tor works in
23583 certain censored countries by default again.
23584 - Stop including recognizeable strings in the commonname part of
23585 Tor's x509 certificates.
23587 o Implement bridge relays:
23588 - Bridge relays (or "bridges" for short) are Tor relays that aren't
23589 listed in the main Tor directory. Since there is no complete public
23590 list of them, even an ISP that is filtering connections to all the
23591 known Tor relays probably won't be able to block all the bridges.
23592 See doc/design-paper/blocking.pdf and proposal 125 for details.
23593 - New config option BridgeRelay that specifies you want to be a
23594 bridge relay rather than a normal relay. When BridgeRelay is set
23595 to 1, then a) you cache dir info even if your DirPort ins't on,
23596 and b) the default for PublishServerDescriptor is now "bridge"
23597 rather than "v2,v3".
23598 - New config option "UseBridges 1" for clients that want to use bridge
23599 relays instead of ordinary entry guards. Clients then specify
23600 bridge relays by adding "Bridge" lines to their config file. Users
23601 can learn about a bridge relay either manually through word of
23602 mouth, or by one of our rate-limited mechanisms for giving out
23603 bridge addresses without letting an attacker easily enumerate them
23604 all. See https://www.torproject.org/bridges for details.
23605 - Bridge relays behave like clients with respect to time intervals
23606 for downloading new v3 consensus documents -- otherwise they
23607 stand out. Bridge users now wait until the end of the interval,
23608 so their bridge relay will be sure to have a new consensus document.
23610 o Implement bridge directory authorities:
23611 - Bridge authorities are like normal directory authorities, except
23612 they don't serve a list of known bridges. Therefore users that know
23613 a bridge's fingerprint can fetch a relay descriptor for that bridge,
23614 including fetching updates e.g. if the bridge changes IP address,
23615 yet an attacker can't just fetch a list of all the bridges.
23616 - Set up Tonga as the default bridge directory authority.
23617 - Bridge authorities refuse to serve bridge descriptors or other
23618 bridge information over unencrypted connections (that is, when
23619 responding to direct DirPort requests rather than begin_dir cells.)
23620 - Bridge directory authorities do reachability testing on the
23621 bridges they know. They provide router status summaries to the
23622 controller via "getinfo ns/purpose/bridge", and also dump summaries
23623 to a file periodically, so we can keep internal stats about which
23624 bridges are functioning.
23625 - If bridge users set the UpdateBridgesFromAuthority config option,
23626 but the digest they ask for is a 404 on the bridge authority,
23627 they fall back to contacting the bridge directly.
23628 - Bridges always use begin_dir to publish their server descriptor to
23629 the bridge authority using an anonymous encrypted tunnel.
23630 - Early work on a "bridge community" design: if bridge authorities set
23631 the BridgePassword config option, they will serve a snapshot of
23632 known bridge routerstatuses from their DirPort to anybody who
23633 knows that password. Unset by default.
23634 - Tor now includes an IP-to-country GeoIP file, so bridge relays can
23635 report sanitized aggregated summaries in their extra-info documents
23636 privately to the bridge authority, listing which countries are
23637 able to reach them. We hope this mechanism will let us learn when
23638 certain countries start trying to block bridges.
23639 - Bridge authorities write bridge descriptors to disk, so they can
23640 reload them after a reboot. They can also export the descriptors
23641 to other programs, so we can distribute them to blocked users via
23642 the BridgeDB interface, e.g. via https://bridges.torproject.org/
23643 and bridges@torproject.org.
23645 o Tor can be a DNS proxy:
23646 - The new client-side DNS proxy feature replaces the need for
23647 dns-proxy-tor: Just set "DNSPort 9999", and Tor will now listen
23648 for DNS requests on port 9999, use the Tor network to resolve them
23649 anonymously, and send the reply back like a regular DNS server.
23650 The code still only implements a subset of DNS.
23651 - Add a new AutomapHostsOnResolve option: when it is enabled, any
23652 resolve request for hosts matching a given pattern causes Tor to
23653 generate an internal virtual address mapping for that host. This
23654 allows DNSPort to work sensibly with hidden service users. By
23655 default, .exit and .onion addresses are remapped; the list of
23656 patterns can be reconfigured with AutomapHostsSuffixes.
23657 - Add an "-F" option to tor-resolve to force a resolve for a .onion
23658 address. Thanks to the AutomapHostsOnResolve option, this is no
23659 longer a completely silly thing to do.
23661 o Major features (relay usability):
23662 - New config options RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst:
23663 a separate set of token buckets for relayed traffic. Right now
23664 relayed traffic is defined as answers to directory requests, and
23665 OR connections that don't have any local circuits on them. See
23666 proposal 111 for details.
23667 - Create listener connections before we setuid to the configured
23668 User and Group. Now non-Windows users can choose port values
23669 under 1024, start Tor as root, and have Tor bind those ports
23670 before it changes to another UID. (Windows users could already
23672 - Added a new ConstrainedSockets config option to set SO_SNDBUF and
23673 SO_RCVBUF on TCP sockets. Hopefully useful for Tor servers running
23674 on "vserver" accounts. Patch from coderman.
23676 o Major features (directory authorities):
23677 - Directory authorities track weighted fractional uptime and weighted
23678 mean-time-between failures for relays. WFU is suitable for deciding
23679 whether a node is "usually up", while MTBF is suitable for deciding
23680 whether a node is "likely to stay up." We need both, because
23681 "usually up" is a good requirement for guards, while "likely to
23682 stay up" is a good requirement for long-lived connections.
23683 - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which relays
23684 to advertise as Guards: they must be in the top 7/8 in terms of
23685 how long we have known about them, and above the median of those
23686 nodes in terms of weighted fractional uptime.
23687 - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which relays
23688 to advertise as Stable: when we have 4 or more days of data, use
23689 median measured MTBF rather than median declared uptime. Implements
23691 - Directory authorities accept and serve "extra info" documents for
23692 routers. Routers now publish their bandwidth-history lines in the
23693 extra-info docs rather than the main descriptor. This step saves
23694 60% (!) on compressed router descriptor downloads. Servers upload
23695 extra-info docs to any authority that accepts them; directory
23696 authorities now allow multiple router descriptors and/or extra
23697 info documents to be uploaded in a single go. Authorities, and
23698 caches that have been configured to download extra-info documents,
23699 download them as needed. Implements proposal 104.
23700 - Authorities now list relays who have the same nickname as
23701 a different named relay, but list them with a new flag:
23702 "Unnamed". Now we can make use of relays that happen to pick the
23703 same nickname as a server that registered two years ago and then
23704 disappeared. Implements proposal 122.
23705 - Store routers in a file called cached-descriptors instead of in
23706 cached-routers. Initialize cached-descriptors from cached-routers
23707 if the old format is around. The new format allows us to store
23708 annotations along with descriptors, to record the time we received
23709 each descriptor, its source, and its purpose: currently one of
23710 general, controller, or bridge.
23712 o Major features (other):
23713 - New config options WarnPlaintextPorts and RejectPlaintextPorts so
23714 Tor can warn and/or refuse connections to ports commonly used with
23715 vulnerable-plaintext protocols. Currently we warn on ports 23,
23716 109, 110, and 143, but we don't reject any. Based on proposal 129
23717 by Kevin Bauer and Damon McCoy.
23718 - Integrate Karsten Loesing's Google Summer of Code project to publish
23719 hidden service descriptors on a set of redundant relays that are a
23720 function of the hidden service address. Now we don't have to rely
23721 on three central hidden service authorities for publishing and
23722 fetching every hidden service descriptor. Implements proposal 114.
23723 - Allow tunnelled directory connections to ask for an encrypted
23724 "begin_dir" connection or an anonymized "uses a full Tor circuit"
23725 connection independently. Now we can make anonymized begin_dir
23726 connections for (e.g.) more secure hidden service posting and
23729 o Major bugfixes (crashes and assert failures):
23730 - Stop imposing an arbitrary maximum on the number of file descriptors
23731 used for busy servers. Bug reported by Olaf Selke; patch from
23733 - Avoid possible failures when generating a directory with routers
23734 with over-long versions strings, or too many flags set.
23735 - Fix a rare assert error when we're closing one of our threads:
23736 use a mutex to protect the list of logs, so we never write to the
23737 list as it's being freed. Fixes the very rare bug 575, which is
23738 kind of the revenge of bug 222.
23739 - Avoid segfault in the case where a badly behaved v2 versioning
23740 directory sends a signed networkstatus with missing client-versions.
23741 - When we hit an EOF on a log (probably because we're shutting down),
23742 don't try to remove the log from the list: just mark it as
23743 unusable. (Bulletproofs against bug 222.)
23745 o Major bugfixes (code security fixes):
23746 - Detect size overflow in zlib code. Reported by Justin Ferguson and
23748 - Rewrite directory tokenization code to never run off the end of
23749 a string. Fixes bug 455. Patch from croup.
23750 - Be more paranoid about overwriting sensitive memory on free(),
23751 as a defensive programming tactic to ensure forward secrecy.
23753 o Major bugfixes (anonymity fixes):
23754 - Reject requests for reverse-dns lookup of names that are in
23755 a private address space. Patch from lodger.
23756 - Never report that we've used more bandwidth than we're willing to
23757 relay: it leaks how much non-relay traffic we're using. Resolves
23759 - As a client, do not believe any server that tells us that an
23760 address maps to an internal address space.
23761 - Warn about unsafe ControlPort configurations.
23762 - Directory authorities now call routers Fast if their bandwidth is
23763 at least 100KB/s, and consider their bandwidth adequate to be a
23764 Guard if it is at least 250KB/s, no matter the medians. This fix
23765 complements proposal 107.
23766 - Directory authorities now never mark more than 2 servers per IP as
23767 Valid and Running (or 5 on addresses shared by authorities).
23768 Implements proposal 109, by Kevin Bauer and Damon McCoy.
23769 - If we're a relay, avoid picking ourselves as an introduction point,
23770 a rendezvous point, or as the final hop for internal circuits. Bug
23771 reported by taranis and lodger.
23772 - Exit relays that are used as a client can now reach themselves
23773 using the .exit notation, rather than just launching an infinite
23774 pile of circuits. Fixes bug 641. Reported by Sebastian Hahn.
23775 - Fix a bug where, when we were choosing the 'end stream reason' to
23776 put in our relay end cell that we send to the exit relay, Tor
23777 clients on Windows were sometimes sending the wrong 'reason'. The
23778 anonymity problem is that exit relays may be able to guess whether
23779 the client is running Windows, thus helping partition the anonymity
23780 set. Down the road we should stop sending reasons to exit relays,
23781 or otherwise prevent future versions of this bug.
23782 - Only update guard status (usable / not usable) once we have
23783 enough directory information. This was causing us to discard all our
23784 guards on startup if we hadn't been running for a few weeks. Fixes
23786 - When our directory information has been expired for a while, stop
23787 being willing to build circuits using it. Fixes bug 401.
23789 o Major bugfixes (peace of mind for relay operators)
23790 - Non-exit relays no longer answer "resolve" relay cells, so they
23791 can't be induced to do arbitrary DNS requests. (Tor clients already
23792 avoid using non-exit relays for resolve cells, but now servers
23793 enforce this too.) Fixes bug 619. Patch from lodger.
23794 - When we setconf ClientOnly to 1, close any current OR and Dir
23795 listeners. Reported by mwenge.
23797 o Major bugfixes (other):
23798 - If we only ever used Tor for hidden service lookups or posts, we
23799 would stop building circuits and start refusing connections after
23800 24 hours, since we falsely believed that Tor was dormant. Reported
23802 - Add a new __HashedControlSessionPassword option for controllers
23803 to use for one-off session password hashes that shouldn't get
23804 saved to disk by SAVECONF --- Vidalia users were accumulating a
23805 pile of HashedControlPassword lines in their torrc files, one for
23806 each time they had restarted Tor and then clicked Save. Make Tor
23807 automatically convert "HashedControlPassword" to this new option but
23808 only when it's given on the command line. Partial fix for bug 586.
23809 - Patch from "Andrew S. Lists" to catch when we contact a directory
23810 mirror at IP address X and he says we look like we're coming from
23811 IP address X. Otherwise this would screw up our address detection.
23812 - Reject uploaded descriptors and extrainfo documents if they're
23813 huge. Otherwise we'll cache them all over the network and it'll
23814 clog everything up. Suggested by Aljosha Judmayer.
23815 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
23816 and Tor *did* manage to reuse one of the preemptively built
23817 circuits, it didn't correctly remember which one it used,
23818 so it asked for another one soon after, until there were no
23819 more preemptive circuits, at which point it launched one from
23820 scratch. Bugfix on 0.0.9.x.
23822 o Rate limiting and load balancing improvements:
23823 - When we add data to a write buffer in response to the data on that
23824 write buffer getting low because of a flush, do not consider the
23825 newly added data as a candidate for immediate flushing, but rather
23826 make it wait until the next round of writing. Otherwise, we flush
23827 and refill recursively, and a single greedy TLS connection can
23828 eat all of our bandwidth.
23829 - When counting the number of bytes written on a TLS connection,
23830 look at the BIO actually used for writing to the network, not
23831 at the BIO used (sometimes) to buffer data for the network.
23832 Looking at different BIOs could result in write counts on the
23833 order of ULONG_MAX. Fixes bug 614.
23834 - If we change our MaxAdvertisedBandwidth and then reload torrc,
23835 Tor won't realize it should publish a new relay descriptor. Fixes
23836 bug 688, reported by mfr.
23837 - Avoid using too little bandwidth when our clock skips a few seconds.
23838 - Choose which bridge to use proportional to its advertised bandwidth,
23839 rather than uniformly at random. This should speed up Tor for
23840 bridge users. Also do this for people who set StrictEntryNodes.
23842 o Bootstrapping faster and building circuits more intelligently:
23843 - Fix bug 660 that was preventing us from knowing that we should
23844 preemptively build circuits to handle expected directory requests.
23845 - When we're checking if we have enough dir info for each relay
23846 to begin establishing circuits, make sure that we actually have
23847 the descriptor listed in the consensus, not just any descriptor.
23848 - Correctly notify one-hop connections when a circuit build has
23849 failed. Possible fix for bug 669. Found by lodger.
23850 - Clients now hold circuitless TLS connections open for 1.5 times
23851 MaxCircuitDirtiness (15 minutes), since it is likely that they'll
23852 rebuild a new circuit over them within that timeframe. Previously,
23853 they held them open only for KeepalivePeriod (5 minutes).
23855 o Performance improvements (memory):
23856 - Add OpenBSD malloc code from "phk" as an optional malloc
23857 replacement on Linux: some glibc libraries do very poorly with
23858 Tor's memory allocation patterns. Pass --enable-openbsd-malloc to
23859 ./configure to get the replacement malloc code.
23860 - Switch our old ring buffer implementation for one more like that
23861 used by free Unix kernels. The wasted space in a buffer with 1mb
23862 of data will now be more like 8k than 1mb. The new implementation
23863 also avoids realloc();realloc(); patterns that can contribute to
23864 memory fragmentation.
23865 - Change the way that Tor buffers data that it is waiting to write.
23866 Instead of queueing data cells in an enormous ring buffer for each
23867 client->OR or OR->OR connection, we now queue cells on a separate
23868 queue for each circuit. This lets us use less slack memory, and
23869 will eventually let us be smarter about prioritizing different kinds
23871 - Reference-count and share copies of address policy entries; only 5%
23872 of them were actually distinct.
23873 - Tune parameters for cell pool allocation to minimize amount of
23875 - Keep unused 4k and 16k buffers on free lists, rather than wasting 8k
23876 for every single inactive connection_t. Free items from the
23877 4k/16k-buffer free lists when they haven't been used for a while.
23878 - Make memory debugging information describe more about history
23879 of cell allocation, so we can help reduce our memory use.
23880 - Be even more aggressive about releasing RAM from small
23881 empty buffers. Thanks to our free-list code, this shouldn't be too
23882 performance-intensive.
23883 - Log malloc statistics from mallinfo() on platforms where it exists.
23884 - Use memory pools to allocate cells with better speed and memory
23885 efficiency, especially on platforms where malloc() is inefficient.
23886 - Add a --with-tcmalloc option to the configure script to link
23887 against tcmalloc (if present). Does not yet search for non-system
23890 o Performance improvements (socket management):
23891 - Count the number of open sockets separately from the number of
23892 active connection_t objects. This will let us avoid underusing
23893 our allocated connection limit.
23894 - We no longer use socket pairs to link an edge connection to an
23895 anonymous directory connection or a DirPort test connection.
23896 Instead, we track the link internally and transfer the data
23897 in-process. This saves two sockets per "linked" connection (at the
23898 client and at the server), and avoids the nasty Windows socketpair()
23900 - We were leaking a file descriptor if Tor started with a zero-length
23901 cached-descriptors file. Patch by "freddy77".
23903 o Performance improvements (CPU use):
23904 - Never walk through the list of logs if we know that no log target
23905 is interested in a given message.
23906 - Call routerlist_remove_old_routers() much less often. This should
23907 speed startup, especially on directory caches.
23908 - Base64 decoding was actually showing up on our profile when parsing
23909 the initial descriptor file; switch to an in-process all-at-once
23910 implementation that's about 3.5x times faster than calling out to
23912 - Use a slightly simpler string hashing algorithm (copying Python's
23913 instead of Java's) and optimize our digest hashing algorithm to take
23914 advantage of 64-bit platforms and to remove some possibly-costly
23916 - When implementing AES counter mode, update only the portions of the
23917 counter buffer that need to change, and don't keep separate
23918 network-order and host-order counters on big-endian hosts (where
23919 they are the same).
23920 - Add an in-place version of aes_crypt() so that we can avoid doing a
23921 needless memcpy() call on each cell payload.
23922 - Use Critical Sections rather than Mutexes for synchronizing threads
23923 on win32; Mutexes are heavier-weight, and designed for synchronizing
23926 o Performance improvements (bandwidth use):
23927 - Don't try to launch new descriptor downloads quite so often when we
23928 already have enough directory information to build circuits.
23929 - Version 1 directories are no longer generated in full. Instead,
23930 authorities generate and serve "stub" v1 directories that list
23931 no servers. This will stop Tor versions 0.1.0.x and earlier from
23932 working, but (for security reasons) nobody should be running those
23934 - Avoid going directly to the directory authorities even if you're a
23935 relay, if you haven't found yourself reachable yet or if you've
23936 decided not to advertise your dirport yet. Addresses bug 556.
23937 - If we've gone 12 hours since our last bandwidth check, and we
23938 estimate we have less than 50KB bandwidth capacity but we could
23939 handle more, do another bandwidth test.
23940 - Support "If-Modified-Since" when answering HTTP requests for
23941 directories, running-routers documents, and v2 and v3 networkstatus
23942 documents. (There's no need to support it for router descriptors,
23943 since those are downloaded by descriptor digest.)
23944 - Stop fetching directory info so aggressively if your DirPort is
23945 on but your ORPort is off; stop fetching v2 dir info entirely.
23946 You can override these choices with the new FetchDirInfoEarly
23949 o Changed config option behavior (features):
23950 - Configuration files now accept C-style strings as values. This
23951 helps encode characters not allowed in the current configuration
23952 file format, such as newline or #. Addresses bug 557.
23953 - Add hidden services and DNSPorts to the list of things that make
23954 Tor accept that it has running ports. Change starting Tor with no
23955 ports from a fatal error to a warning; we might change it back if
23956 this turns out to confuse anybody. Fixes bug 579.
23957 - Make PublishServerDescriptor default to 1, so the default doesn't
23958 have to change as we invent new directory protocol versions.
23959 - Allow people to say PreferTunnelledDirConns rather than
23960 PreferTunneledDirConns, for those alternate-spellers out there.
23961 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst to 5MB/10MB, to
23962 accommodate the growing number of servers that use the default
23963 and are reaching it.
23964 - Make it possible to enable HashedControlPassword and
23965 CookieAuthentication at the same time.
23966 - When a TrackHostExits-chosen exit fails too many times in a row,
23967 stop using it. Fixes bug 437.
23969 o Changed config option behavior (bugfixes):
23970 - Do not read the configuration file when we've only been told to
23971 generate a password hash. Fixes bug 643. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5. Fix
23972 based on patch from Sebastian Hahn.
23973 - Actually validate the options passed to AuthDirReject,
23974 AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, and AuthDirBadExit.
23975 - Make "ClientOnly 1" config option disable directory ports too.
23976 - Don't stop fetching descriptors when FetchUselessDescriptors is
23977 set, even if we stop asking for circuits. Bug reported by tup
23979 - Servers used to decline to publish their DirPort if their
23980 BandwidthRate or MaxAdvertisedBandwidth were below a threshold. Now
23981 they look only at BandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthRate.
23982 - Treat "2gb" when given in torrc for a bandwidth as meaning 2gb,
23983 minus 1 byte: the actual maximum declared bandwidth.
23984 - Make "TrackHostExits ." actually work. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x.
23985 - Make the NodeFamilies config option work. (Reported by
23986 lodger -- it has never actually worked, even though we added it
23988 - If Tor is invoked from something that isn't a shell (e.g. Vidalia),
23989 now we expand "-f ~/.tor/torrc" correctly. Suggested by Matt Edman.
23991 o New config options:
23992 - New configuration options AuthDirMaxServersPerAddr and
23993 AuthDirMaxServersperAuthAddr to override default maximum number
23994 of servers allowed on a single IP address. This is important for
23995 running a test network on a single host.
23996 - Three new config options (AlternateDirAuthority,
23997 AlternateBridgeAuthority, and AlternateHSAuthority) that let the
23998 user selectively replace the default directory authorities by type,
23999 rather than the all-or-nothing replacement that DirServer offers.
24000 - New config options AuthDirBadDir and AuthDirListBadDirs for
24001 authorities to mark certain relays as "bad directories" in the
24002 networkstatus documents. Also supports the "!baddir" directive in
24003 the approved-routers file.
24004 - New config option V2AuthoritativeDirectory that all v2 directory
24005 authorities must set. This lets v3 authorities choose not to serve
24006 v2 directory information.
24008 o Minor features (other):
24009 - When we're not serving v2 directory information, there is no reason
24010 to actually keep any around. Remove the obsolete files and directory
24011 on startup if they are very old and we aren't going to serve them.
24012 - When we negotiate a v2 link-layer connection (not yet implemented),
24013 accept RELAY_EARLY cells and turn them into RELAY cells if we've
24014 negotiated a v1 connection for their next step. Initial steps for
24016 - When we have no consensus, check FallbackNetworkstatusFile (defaults
24017 to $PREFIX/share/tor/fallback-consensus) for a consensus. This way
24018 we can start out knowing some directory caches. We don't ship with
24019 a fallback consensus by default though, because it was making
24020 bootstrapping take too long while we tried many down relays.
24021 - Authorities send back an X-Descriptor-Not-New header in response to
24022 an accepted-but-discarded descriptor upload. Partially implements
24024 - If we find a cached-routers file that's been sitting around for more
24025 than 28 days unmodified, then most likely it's a leftover from
24026 when we upgraded to 0.2.0.8-alpha. Remove it. It has no good
24028 - When we (as a cache) download a descriptor because it was listed
24029 in a consensus, remember when the consensus was supposed to expire,
24030 and don't expire the descriptor until then.
24031 - Optionally (if built with -DEXPORTMALLINFO) export the output
24032 of mallinfo via http, as tor/mallinfo.txt. Only accessible
24034 - Tag every guard node in our state file with the version that
24035 we believe added it, or with our own version if we add it. This way,
24036 if a user temporarily runs an old version of Tor and then switches
24037 back to a new one, she doesn't automatically lose her guards.
24038 - When somebody requests a list of statuses or servers, and we have
24039 none of those, return a 404 rather than an empty 200.
24040 - Merge in some (as-yet-unused) IPv6 address manipulation code. (Patch
24042 - Add an HSAuthorityRecordStats option that hidden service authorities
24043 can use to track statistics of overall hidden service usage without
24044 logging information that would be as useful to an attacker.
24045 - Allow multiple HiddenServicePort directives with the same virtual
24046 port; when they occur, the user is sent round-robin to one
24047 of the target ports chosen at random. Partially fixes bug 393 by
24048 adding limited ad-hoc round-robining.
24049 - Revamp file-writing logic so we don't need to have the entire
24050 contents of a file in memory at once before we write to disk. Tor,
24053 o Minor bugfixes (other):
24054 - Alter the code that tries to recover from unhandled write
24055 errors, to not try to flush onto a socket that's given us
24057 - Directory mirrors no longer include a guess at the client's IP
24058 address if the connection appears to be coming from the same /24
24059 network; it was producing too many wrong guesses.
24060 - If we're trying to flush the last bytes on a connection (for
24061 example, when answering a directory request), reset the
24062 time-to-give-up timeout every time we manage to write something
24064 - Reject router descriptors with out-of-range bandwidthcapacity or
24065 bandwidthburst values.
24066 - If we can't expand our list of entry guards (e.g. because we're
24067 using bridges or we have StrictEntryNodes set), don't mark relays
24068 down when they fail a directory request. Otherwise we're too quick
24069 to mark all our entry points down.
24070 - Authorities no longer send back "400 you're unreachable please fix
24071 it" errors to Tor servers that aren't online all the time. We're
24072 supposed to tolerate these servers now.
24073 - Let directory authorities startup even when they can't generate
24074 a descriptor immediately, e.g. because they don't know their
24076 - Correctly enforce that elements of directory objects do not appear
24077 more often than they are allowed to appear.
24078 - Stop allowing hibernating servers to be "stable" or "fast".
24079 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
24080 cached-routers while Tor was running. (Reported by janbar)
24081 - Check return values from pthread_mutex functions.
24082 - When opening /dev/null in finish_daemonize(), do not pass the
24083 O_CREAT flag. Fortify was complaining, and correctly so. Fixes
24084 bug 742; fix from Michael Scherer. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre19.
24086 o Controller features:
24087 - The GETCONF command now escapes and quotes configuration values
24088 that don't otherwise fit into the torrc file.
24089 - The SETCONF command now handles quoted values correctly.
24090 - Add "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" so controllers can
24091 ask about source, timestamp of arrival, purpose, etc. We need
24092 something like this to help Vidalia not do GeoIP lookups on bridge
24094 - Allow multiple HashedControlPassword config lines, to support
24095 multiple controller passwords.
24096 - Accept LF instead of CRLF on controller, since some software has a
24097 hard time generating real Internet newlines.
24098 - Add GETINFO values for the server status events
24099 "REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED" and "GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR". Patch from
24101 - There is now an ugly, temporary "desc/all-recent-extrainfo-hack"
24102 GETINFO for Torstat to use until it can switch to using extrainfos.
24103 - New config option CookieAuthFile to choose a new location for the
24104 cookie authentication file, and config option
24105 CookieAuthFileGroupReadable to make it group-readable.
24106 - Add a SOURCE_ADDR field to STREAM NEW events so that controllers can
24107 match requests to applications. Patch from Robert Hogan.
24108 - Add a RESOLVE command to launch hostname lookups. Original patch
24110 - Add GETINFO status/enough-dir-info to let controllers tell whether
24111 Tor has downloaded sufficient directory information. Patch from Tup.
24112 - You can now use the ControlSocket option to tell Tor to listen for
24113 controller connections on Unix domain sockets on systems that
24114 support them. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
24115 - New "GETINFO address-mappings/*" command to get address mappings
24116 with expiry information. "addr-mappings/*" is now deprecated.
24118 - Add a new config option __DisablePredictedCircuits designed for
24119 use by the controller, when we don't want Tor to build any circuits
24121 - Let the controller specify HOP=%d as an argument to ATTACHSTREAM,
24122 so we can exit from the middle of the circuit.
24123 - Implement "getinfo status/circuit-established".
24124 - Implement "getinfo status/version/..." so a controller can tell
24125 whether the current version is recommended, and whether any versions
24126 are good, and how many authorities agree. Patch from "shibz".
24127 - Controllers should now specify cache=no or cache=yes when using
24128 the +POSTDESCRIPTOR command.
24129 - Add a "PURPOSE=" argument to "STREAM NEW" events, as suggested by
24130 Robert Hogan. Fixes the first part of bug 681.
24131 - When reporting clock skew, and we know that the clock is _at least
24132 as skewed_ as some value, but we don't know the actual value,
24133 report the value as a "minimum skew."
24135 o Controller bugfixes:
24136 - Generate "STATUS_SERVER" events rather than misspelled
24137 "STATUS_SEVER" events. Caught by mwenge.
24138 - Reject controller commands over 1MB in length, so rogue
24139 processes can't run us out of memory.
24140 - Change the behavior of "getinfo status/good-server-descriptor"
24141 so it doesn't return failure when any authority disappears.
24142 - Send NAMESERVER_STATUS messages for a single failed nameserver
24144 - When the DANGEROUS_VERSION controller status event told us we're
24145 running an obsolete version, it used the string "OLD" to describe
24146 it. Yet the "getinfo" interface used the string "OBSOLETE". Now use
24147 "OBSOLETE" in both cases.
24148 - Respond to INT and TERM SIGNAL commands before we execute the
24149 signal, in case the signal shuts us down. We had a patch in
24150 0.1.2.1-alpha that tried to do this by queueing the response on
24151 the connection's buffer before shutting down, but that really
24152 isn't the same thing at all. Bug located by Matt Edman.
24153 - Provide DNS expiry times in GMT, not in local time. For backward
24154 compatibility, ADDRMAP events only provide GMT expiry in an extended
24155 field. "GETINFO address-mappings" always does the right thing.
24156 - Use CRLF line endings properly in NS events.
24157 - Make 'getinfo fingerprint' return a 551 error if we're not a
24158 server, so we match what the control spec claims we do. Reported
24160 - Fix a typo in an error message when extendcircuit fails that
24161 caused us to not follow the \r\n-based delimiter protocol. Reported
24163 - When tunneling an encrypted directory connection, and its first
24164 circuit fails, do not leave it unattached and ask the controller
24165 to deal. Fixes the second part of bug 681.
24166 - Treat some 403 responses from directory servers as INFO rather than
24167 WARN-severity events.
24169 o Portability / building / compiling:
24170 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings, check for whether Apple's
24171 warning "-Wshorten-64-to-32" is available.
24172 - Support compilation to target iPhone; patch from cjacker huang.
24173 To build for iPhone, pass the --enable-iphone option to configure.
24174 - Port Tor to build and run correctly on Windows CE systems, using
24175 the wcecompat library. Contributed by Valerio Lupi.
24176 - Detect non-ASCII platforms (if any still exist) and refuse to
24177 build there: some of our code assumes that 'A' is 65 and so on.
24178 - Clear up some MIPSPro compiler warnings.
24179 - Make autoconf search for libevent, openssl, and zlib consistently.
24180 - Update deprecated macros in configure.in.
24181 - When warning about missing headers, tell the user to let us
24182 know if the compile succeeds anyway, so we can downgrade the
24184 - Include the current subversion revision as part of the version
24185 string: either fetch it directly if we're in an SVN checkout, do
24186 some magic to guess it if we're in an SVK checkout, or use
24187 the last-detected version if we're building from a .tar.gz.
24188 Use this version consistently in log messages.
24189 - Correctly report platform name on Windows 95 OSR2 and Windows 98 SE.
24190 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
24191 partial results on small file reads.
24192 - Build without verbose warnings even on gcc 4.2 and 4.3.
24193 - On Windows, correctly detect errors when listing the contents of
24194 a directory. Fix from lodger.
24195 - Run 'make test' as part of 'make dist', so we stop releasing so
24196 many development snapshots that fail their unit tests.
24197 - Add support to detect Libevent versions in the 1.4.x series
24199 - Add command-line arguments to unit-test executable so that we can
24200 invoke any chosen test from the command line rather than having
24201 to run the whole test suite at once; and so that we can turn on
24202 logging for the unit tests.
24203 - Do not automatically run configure from autogen.sh. This
24204 non-standard behavior tended to annoy people who have built other
24206 - Fix a macro/CPP interaction that was confusing some compilers:
24207 some GCCs don't like #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments.
24209 - Fix macro collision between OpenSSL 0.9.8h and Windows headers.
24210 Fixes bug 704; fix from Steven Murdoch.
24211 - Correctly detect transparent proxy support on Linux hosts that
24212 require in.h to be included before netfilter_ipv4.h. Patch
24215 o Logging improvements:
24216 - When we haven't had any application requests lately, don't bother
24217 logging that we have expired a bunch of descriptors.
24218 - When attempting to open a logfile fails, tell us why.
24219 - Only log guard node status when guard node status has changed.
24220 - Downgrade the 3 most common "INFO" messages to "DEBUG". This will
24221 make "INFO" 75% less verbose.
24222 - When SafeLogging is disabled, log addresses along with all TLS
24224 - Report TLS "zero return" case as a "clean close" and "IO error"
24225 as a "close". Stop calling closes "unexpected closes": existing
24226 Tors don't use SSL_close(), so having a connection close without
24227 the TLS shutdown handshake is hardly unexpected.
24228 - When we receive a consensus from the future, warn about skew.
24229 - Make "not enough dir info yet" warnings describe *why* Tor feels
24230 it doesn't have enough directory info yet.
24231 - On the USR1 signal, when dmalloc is in use, log the top 10 memory
24232 consumers. (We already do this on HUP.)
24233 - Give more descriptive well-formedness errors for out-of-range
24234 hidden service descriptor/protocol versions.
24235 - Stop recommending that every server operator send mail to tor-ops.
24236 Resolves bug 597. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
24237 - Improve skew reporting: try to give the user a better log message
24238 about how skewed they are, and how much this matters.
24239 - New --quiet command-line option to suppress the default console log.
24240 Good in combination with --hash-password.
24241 - Don't complain that "your server has not managed to confirm that its
24242 ports are reachable" if we haven't been able to build any circuits
24244 - Detect the reason for failing to mmap a descriptor file we just
24245 wrote, and give a more useful log message. Fixes bug 533.
24246 - Always prepend "Bug: " to any log message about a bug.
24247 - When dumping memory usage, list bytes used in buffer memory
24249 - When running with dmalloc, dump more stats on hup and on exit.
24250 - Put a platform string (e.g. "Linux i686") in the startup log
24251 message, so when people paste just their logs, we know if it's
24252 OpenBSD or Windows or what.
24253 - When logging memory usage, break down memory used in buffers by
24255 - When we are reporting the DirServer line we just parsed, we were
24256 logging the second stanza of the key fingerprint, not the first.
24257 - Even though Windows is equally happy with / and \ as path separators,
24258 try to use \ consistently on Windows and / consistently on Unix: it
24259 makes the log messages nicer.
24260 - On OSX, stop warning the user that kqueue support in libevent is
24261 "experimental", since it seems to have worked fine for ages.
24263 o Contributed scripts and tools:
24264 - Update linux-tor-prio.sh script to allow QoS based on the uid of
24265 the Tor process. Patch from Marco Bonetti with tweaks from Mike
24267 - Include the "tor-ctrl.sh" bash script by Stefan Behte to provide
24268 Unix users an easy way to script their Tor process (e.g. by
24269 adjusting bandwidth based on the time of the day).
24270 - In the exitlist script, only consider the most recently published
24271 server descriptor for each server. Also, when the user requests
24272 a list of servers that _reject_ connections to a given address,
24273 explicitly exclude the IPs that also have servers that accept
24274 connections to that address. Resolves bug 405.
24275 - Include a new contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file that exit relay
24276 operators can put on their website to help reduce abuse queries.
24278 o Newly deprecated features:
24279 - The status/version/num-versioning and status/version/num-concurring
24280 GETINFO controller options are no longer useful in the v3 directory
24281 protocol: treat them as deprecated, and warn when they're used.
24282 - The RedirectExits config option is now deprecated.
24284 o Removed features:
24285 - Drop the old code to choke directory connections when the
24286 corresponding OR connections got full: thanks to the cell queue
24287 feature, OR conns don't get full any more.
24288 - Remove the old "dns worker" server DNS code: it hasn't been default
24289 since 0.1.2.2-alpha, and all the servers are using the new
24291 - Remove the code to generate the oldest (v1) directory format.
24292 - Remove support for the old bw_accounting file: we've been storing
24293 bandwidth accounting information in the state file since
24294 0.1.2.5-alpha. This may result in bandwidth accounting errors
24295 if you try to upgrade from 0.1.1.x or earlier, or if you try to
24296 downgrade to 0.1.1.x or earlier.
24297 - Drop support for OpenSSL version 0.9.6. Just about nobody was using
24298 it, it had no AES, and it hasn't seen any security patches since
24300 - Stop overloading the circuit_t.onionskin field for both "onionskin
24301 from a CREATE cell that we are waiting for a cpuworker to be
24302 assigned" and "onionskin from an EXTEND cell that we are going to
24303 send to an OR as soon as we are connected". Might help with bug 600.
24304 - Remove the tor_strpartition() function: its logic was confused,
24305 and it was only used for one thing that could be implemented far
24307 - Remove the contrib scripts ExerciseServer.py, PathDemo.py,
24308 and TorControl.py, as they use the old v0 controller protocol,
24309 and are obsoleted by TorFlow anyway.
24310 - Drop support for v1 rendezvous descriptors, since we never used
24311 them anyway, and the code has probably rotted by now. Based on
24312 patch from Karsten Loesing.
24313 - Stop allowing address masks that do not correspond to bit prefixes.
24314 We have warned about these for a really long time; now it's time
24315 to reject them. (Patch from croup.)
24316 - Remove an optimization in the AES counter-mode code that assumed
24317 that the counter never exceeded 2^68. When the counter can be set
24318 arbitrarily as an IV (as it is by Karsten's new hidden services
24319 code), this assumption no longer holds.
24320 - Disable the SETROUTERPURPOSE controller command: it is now
24324 Changes in version 0.1.2.19 - 2008-01-17
24325 Tor 0.1.2.19 fixes a huge memory leak on exit relays, makes the default
24326 exit policy a little bit more conservative so it's safer to run an
24327 exit relay on a home system, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
24330 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
24331 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
24332 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
24333 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
24334 on network address.
24337 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
24338 buckets to become negative. Fixes bug 544.
24339 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
24340 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry.
24341 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
24342 service descriptor database even when DirPort is zero.
24343 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
24344 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
24345 crashing or mis-answering these requests.
24346 - When we decide to send a 503 response to a request for servers, do
24347 not then also send the server descriptors: this defeats the whole
24348 purpose. Fixes bug 539.
24351 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
24352 rebuild our server descriptor.
24353 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
24354 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about
24355 unknown routers in a config option. (Patch from mwenge.)
24356 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
24357 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
24358 nonstandard integer types.
24359 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
24360 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
24361 - If we were having problems getting a particular descriptor from the
24362 directory caches, and then we learned about a new descriptor for
24363 that router, we weren't resetting our failure count. Reported
24365 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
24366 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out there
24367 that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such bodies
24368 when they receive them.
24369 - Run correctly on systems where rlim_t is larger than unsigned long.
24370 This includes some 64-bit systems.
24371 - Run correctly on platforms (like some versions of OS X 10.5) where
24372 the real limit for number of open files is OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max
24373 from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES).
24374 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure.
24375 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
24376 router_get_by_hexdigest().
24377 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
24378 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
24382 Changes in version 0.1.2.18 - 2007-10-28
24383 Tor 0.1.2.18 fixes many problems including crash bugs, problems with
24384 hidden service introduction that were causing huge delays, and a big
24385 bug that was causing some servers to disappear from the network status
24386 lists for a few hours each day.
24388 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
24389 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
24390 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
24391 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451:
24392 "connection_stop_writing: Assertion conn->write_event failed"
24393 Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
24394 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
24395 rend_process_relay_cell().
24397 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
24398 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
24399 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
24400 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
24401 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
24402 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
24403 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. These
24404 changes could speed up hidden service connections dramatically.
24406 o Major bugfixes (other):
24407 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we get a
24408 HUP signal. This led (in a roundabout way) to some servers getting
24409 dropped from the networkstatus lists for a few hours each day.
24410 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
24411 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
24412 circuit cannibalization).
24413 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
24414 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
24415 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
24416 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
24417 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
24418 consensus. Fixes bug 529.
24421 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
24422 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. Resolves
24424 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
24425 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is
24426 absent. Resolves bug 467.
24427 - Fix a user-triggerable segfault in expand_filename(). (There isn't
24428 a way to trigger this remotely.)
24429 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
24430 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
24431 were reporting the dir port.)
24432 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
24433 command. Bugfix on 0.1.2.17.
24434 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
24435 the future. Fixes bug 434.
24436 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
24438 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
24439 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
24440 the onion key from getting rotated.
24441 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
24442 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
24443 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
24444 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff
24445 is fishy. Resolves bug 463.
24446 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
24447 option. Patch from Robert Hogan.
24450 Changes in version 0.1.2.17 - 2007-08-30
24451 Tor 0.1.2.17 features a new Vidalia version in the Windows and OS
24452 X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for the
24453 ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
24454 security risks. Everybody who uses Vidalia (or another controller)
24457 In addition, this Tor update fixes major load balancing problems with
24458 path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many people
24461 o Major bugfixes (security):
24462 - We removed support for the old (v0) control protocol. It has been
24463 deprecated since Tor 0.1.1.1-alpha, and keeping it secure has
24464 become more of a headache than it's worth.
24466 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
24467 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
24468 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
24470 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
24471 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
24472 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
24473 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
24474 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
24475 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
24477 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
24478 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
24479 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
24480 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
24481 circuit every 15 seconds. Fixes bug 454; reported by lodger.
24483 o Minor features (controller):
24484 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
24485 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
24486 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
24487 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
24489 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
24490 - Save on most routerlist_assert_ok() calls in routerlist.c, thus
24491 greatly speeding up loading cached-routers from disk on startup.
24492 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
24493 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and now
24494 its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice powers of
24495 two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values slightly over
24496 powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
24498 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
24499 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
24500 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
24501 Based on patch from Mike Perry.
24502 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
24503 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
24504 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
24505 if we ran off the end of the list.
24506 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
24507 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
24508 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
24509 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
24510 every time we change any piece of our config.
24511 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
24512 encourage people using them to stop.
24513 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. Original patch
24515 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
24516 servers to choose a circuit.
24517 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
24518 unparseable piece of it.
24521 Changes in version 0.1.2.16 - 2007-08-01
24522 Tor 0.1.2.16 fixes a critical security vulnerability that allows a
24523 remote attacker in certain situations to rewrite the user's torrc
24524 configuration file. This can completely compromise anonymity of users
24525 in most configurations, including those running the Vidalia bundles,
24526 TorK, etc. Or worse.
24528 o Major security fixes:
24529 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
24530 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
24533 Changes in version 0.1.2.15 - 2007-07-17
24534 Tor 0.1.2.15 fixes several crash bugs, fixes some anonymity-related
24535 problems, fixes compilation on BSD, and fixes a variety of other
24536 bugs. Everybody should upgrade.
24538 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
24539 - Fix compile on FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD. Oops.
24541 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
24542 - Try even harder not to dereference the first character after
24543 an mmap(). Reported by lodger.
24544 - Fix a crash bug in directory authorities when we re-number the
24545 routerlist while inserting a new router.
24546 - When the cached-routers file is an even multiple of the page size,
24547 don't run off the end and crash. (Fixes bug 455; based on idea
24549 - Fix eventdns.c behavior on Solaris: It is critical to include
24550 orconfig.h _before_ sys/types.h, so that we can get the expected
24551 definition of _FILE_OFFSET_BITS.
24553 o Major bugfixes (security):
24554 - Fix a possible buffer overrun when using BSD natd support. Bug
24556 - When sending destroy cells from a circuit's origin, don't include
24557 the reason for tearing down the circuit. The spec says we didn't,
24558 and now we actually don't. Reported by lodger.
24559 - Keep streamids from different exits on a circuit separate. This
24560 bug may have allowed other routers on a given circuit to inject
24561 cells into streams. Reported by lodger; fixes bug 446.
24562 - If there's a never-before-connected-to guard node in our list,
24563 never choose any guards past it. This way we don't expand our
24564 guard list unless we need to.
24566 o Minor bugfixes (guard nodes):
24567 - Weight guard selection by bandwidth, so that low-bandwidth nodes
24568 don't get overused as guards.
24570 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
24571 - Correctly count the number of authorities that recommend each
24572 version. Previously, we were under-counting by 1.
24573 - Fix a potential crash bug when we load many server descriptors at
24574 once and some of them make others of them obsolete. Fixes bug 458.
24576 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
24577 - Stop tearing down the whole circuit when the user asks for a
24578 connection to a port that the hidden service didn't configure.
24581 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
24582 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
24583 cached-routers while Tor was running. Reported by janbar.
24584 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by
24585 bandwidth. Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact
24586 unlikely. Patch from lodger.
24587 - Backport a couple of memory leak fixes.
24588 - Backport miscellaneous cosmetic bugfixes.
24591 Changes in version 0.1.2.14 - 2007-05-25
24592 Tor 0.1.2.14 changes the addresses of two directory authorities (this
24593 change especially affects those who serve or use hidden services),
24594 and fixes several other crash- and security-related bugs.
24596 o Directory authority changes:
24597 - Two directory authorities (moria1 and moria2) just moved to new
24598 IP addresses. This change will particularly affect those who serve
24599 or use hidden services.
24601 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
24602 - If a directory server runs out of space in the connection table
24603 as it's processing a begin_dir request, it will free the exit stream
24604 but leave it attached to the circuit, leading to unpredictable
24605 behavior. (Reported by seeess, fixes bug 425.)
24606 - Fix a bug in dirserv_remove_invalid() that would cause authorities
24607 to corrupt memory under some really unlikely scenarios.
24608 - Tighten router parsing rules. (Bugs reported by Benedikt Boss.)
24609 - Avoid segfaults when reading from mmaped descriptor file. (Reported
24612 o Major bugfixes (security):
24613 - When choosing an entry guard for a circuit, avoid using guards
24614 that are in the same family as the chosen exit -- not just guards
24615 that are exactly the chosen exit. (Reported by lodger.)
24617 o Major bugfixes (resource management):
24618 - If a directory authority is down, skip it when deciding where to get
24619 networkstatus objects or descriptors. Otherwise we keep asking
24620 every 10 seconds forever. Fixes bug 384.
24621 - Count it as a failure if we fetch a valid network-status but we
24622 don't want to keep it. Otherwise we'll keep fetching it and keep
24623 not wanting to keep it. Fixes part of bug 422.
24624 - If all of our dirservers have given us bad or no networkstatuses
24625 lately, then stop hammering them once per minute even when we
24626 think they're failed. Fixes another part of bug 422.
24629 - Actually set the purpose correctly for descriptors inserted with
24630 purpose=controller.
24631 - When we have k non-v2 authorities in our DirServer config,
24632 we ignored the last k authorities in the list when updating our
24634 - Correctly back-off from requesting router descriptors that we are
24635 having a hard time downloading.
24636 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
24637 partial results on small file reads.
24638 - Don't rebuild the entire router store every time we get 32K of
24639 routers: rebuild it when the journal gets very large, or when
24640 the gaps in the store get very large.
24643 - When routers publish SVN revisions in their router descriptors,
24644 authorities now include those versions correctly in networkstatus
24646 - Warn when using a version of libevent before 1.3b to run a server on
24647 OSX or BSD: these versions interact badly with userspace threads.
24650 Changes in version 0.1.2.13 - 2007-04-24
24651 This release features some major anonymity fixes, such as safer path
24652 selection; better client performance; faster bootstrapping, better
24653 address detection, and better DNS support for servers; write limiting as
24654 well as read limiting to make servers easier to run; and a huge pile of
24655 other features and bug fixes. The bundles also ship with Vidalia 0.0.11.
24657 Tor 0.1.2.13 is released in memory of Rob Levin (1955-2006), aka lilo
24658 of the Freenode IRC network, remembering his patience and vision for
24659 free speech on the Internet.
24661 o Major features, client performance:
24662 - Weight directory requests by advertised bandwidth. Now we can
24663 let servers enable write limiting but still allow most clients to
24664 succeed at their directory requests. (We still ignore weights when
24665 choosing a directory authority; I hope this is a feature.)
24666 - Stop overloading exit nodes -- avoid choosing them for entry or
24667 middle hops when the total bandwidth available from non-exit nodes
24668 is much higher than the total bandwidth available from exit nodes.
24669 - Rather than waiting a fixed amount of time between retrying
24670 application connections, we wait only 10 seconds for the first,
24671 10 seconds for the second, and 15 seconds for each retry after
24672 that. Hopefully this will improve the expected user experience.
24673 - Sometimes we didn't bother sending a RELAY_END cell when an attempt
24674 to open a stream fails; now we do in more cases. This should
24675 make clients able to find a good exit faster in some cases, since
24676 unhandleable requests will now get an error rather than timing out.
24678 o Major features, client functionality:
24679 - Implement BEGIN_DIR cells, so we can connect to a directory
24680 server via TLS to do encrypted directory requests rather than
24681 plaintext. Enable via the TunnelDirConns and PreferTunneledDirConns
24682 config options if you like. For now, this feature only works if
24683 you already have a descriptor for the destination dirserver.
24684 - Add support for transparent application connections: this basically
24685 bundles the functionality of trans-proxy-tor into the Tor
24686 mainline. Now hosts with compliant pf/netfilter implementations
24687 can redirect TCP connections straight to Tor without diverting
24688 through SOCKS. (Based on patch from tup.)
24689 - Add support for using natd; this allows FreeBSDs earlier than
24690 5.1.2 to have ipfw send connections through Tor without using
24691 SOCKS. (Patch from Zajcev Evgeny with tweaks from tup.)
24693 o Major features, servers:
24694 - Setting up a dyndns name for your server is now optional: servers
24695 with no hostname or IP address will learn their IP address by
24696 asking the directory authorities. This code only kicks in when you
24697 would normally have exited with a "no address" error. Nothing's
24698 authenticated, so use with care.
24699 - Directory servers now spool server descriptors, v1 directories,
24700 and v2 networkstatus objects to buffers as needed rather than en
24701 masse. They also mmap the cached-routers files. These steps save
24703 - Stop requiring clients to have well-formed certificates, and stop
24704 checking nicknames in certificates. (Clients have certificates so
24705 that they can look like Tor servers, but in the future we might want
24706 to allow them to look like regular TLS clients instead. Nicknames
24707 in certificates serve no purpose other than making our protocol
24708 easier to recognize on the wire.) Implements proposal 106.
24710 o Improvements on DNS support:
24711 - Add "eventdns" asynchronous dns library originally based on code
24712 from Adam Langley. Now we can discard the old rickety dnsworker
24713 concept, and support a wider variety of DNS functions. Allows
24714 multithreaded builds on NetBSD and OpenBSD again.
24715 - Add server-side support for "reverse" DNS lookups (using PTR
24716 records so clients can determine the canonical hostname for a given
24717 IPv4 address). Only supported by servers using eventdns; servers
24718 now announce in their descriptors if they don't support eventdns.
24719 - Workaround for name servers (like Earthlink's) that hijack failing
24720 DNS requests and replace the no-such-server answer with a "helpful"
24721 redirect to an advertising-driven search portal. Also work around
24722 DNS hijackers who "helpfully" decline to hijack known-invalid
24723 RFC2606 addresses. Config option "ServerDNSDetectHijacking 0"
24724 lets you turn it off.
24725 - Servers now check for the case when common DNS requests are going to
24726 wildcarded addresses (i.e. all getting the same answer), and change
24727 their exit policy to reject *:* if it's happening.
24728 - When asked to resolve a hostname, don't use non-exit servers unless
24729 requested to do so. This allows servers with broken DNS to be
24730 useful to the network.
24731 - Start passing "ipv4" hints to getaddrinfo(), so servers don't do
24732 useless IPv6 DNS resolves.
24733 - Specify and implement client-side SOCKS5 interface for reverse DNS
24734 lookups (see doc/socks-extensions.txt). Also cache them.
24735 - When we change nameservers or IP addresses, reset and re-launch
24736 our tests for DNS hijacking.
24738 o Improvements on reachability testing:
24739 - Servers send out a burst of long-range padding cells once they've
24740 established that they're reachable. Spread them over 4 circuits,
24741 so hopefully a few will be fast. This exercises bandwidth and
24742 bootstraps them into the directory more quickly.
24743 - When we find our DirPort to be reachable, publish a new descriptor
24744 so we'll tell the world (reported by pnx).
24745 - Directory authorities now only decide that routers are reachable
24746 if their identity keys are as expected.
24747 - Do DirPort reachability tests less often, since a single test
24748 chews through many circuits before giving up.
24749 - Avoid some false positives during reachability testing: don't try
24750 to test via a server that's on the same /24 network as us.
24751 - Start publishing one minute or so after we find our ORPort
24752 to be reachable. This will help reduce the number of descriptors
24753 we have for ourselves floating around, since it's quite likely
24754 other things (e.g. DirPort) will change during that minute too.
24755 - Routers no longer try to rebuild long-term connections to directory
24756 authorities, and directory authorities no longer try to rebuild
24757 long-term connections to all servers. We still don't hang up
24758 connections in these two cases though -- we need to look at it
24759 more carefully to avoid flapping, and we likely need to wait til
24760 0.1.1.x is obsolete.
24762 o Improvements on rate limiting:
24763 - Enable write limiting as well as read limiting. Now we sacrifice
24764 capacity if we're pushing out lots of directory traffic, rather
24765 than overrunning the user's intended bandwidth limits.
24766 - Include TLS overhead when counting bandwidth usage; previously, we
24767 would count only the bytes sent over TLS, but not the bytes used
24769 - Servers decline directory requests much more aggressively when
24770 they're low on bandwidth. Otherwise they end up queueing more and
24771 more directory responses, which can't be good for latency.
24772 - But never refuse directory requests from local addresses.
24773 - Be willing to read or write on local connections (e.g. controller
24774 connections) even when the global rate limiting buckets are empty.
24775 - Flush local controller connection buffers periodically as we're
24776 writing to them, so we avoid queueing 4+ megabytes of data before
24778 - Revise and clean up the torrc.sample that we ship with; add
24779 a section for BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst.
24781 o Major features, NT services:
24782 - Install as NT_AUTHORITY\LocalService rather than as SYSTEM; add a
24783 command-line flag so that admins can override the default by saying
24784 "tor --service install --user "SomeUser"". This will not affect
24785 existing installed services. Also, warn the user that the service
24786 will look for its configuration file in the service user's
24787 %appdata% directory. (We can't do the "hardwire the user's appdata
24788 directory" trick any more, since we may not have read access to that
24790 - Support running the Tor service with a torrc not in the same
24791 directory as tor.exe and default to using the torrc located in
24792 the %appdata%\Tor\ of the user who installed the service. Patch
24794 - Add an --ignore-missing-torrc command-line option so that we can
24795 get the "use sensible defaults if the configuration file doesn't
24796 exist" behavior even when specifying a torrc location on the
24798 - When stopping an NT service, wait up to 10 sec for it to actually
24799 stop. (Patch from Matt Edman; resolves bug 295.)
24801 o Directory authority improvements:
24802 - Stop letting hibernating or obsolete servers affect uptime and
24804 - Stop listing hibernating servers in the v1 directory.
24805 - Authorities no longer recommend exits as guards if this would shift
24806 too much load to the exit nodes.
24807 - Authorities now specify server versions in networkstatus. This adds
24808 about 2% to the size of compressed networkstatus docs, and allows
24809 clients to tell which servers support BEGIN_DIR and which don't.
24810 The implementation is forward-compatible with a proposed future
24811 protocol version scheme not tied to Tor versions.
24812 - DirServer configuration lines now have an orport= option so
24813 clients can open encrypted tunnels to the authorities without
24814 having downloaded their descriptors yet. Enabled for moria1,
24815 moria2, tor26, and lefkada now in the default configuration.
24816 - Add a BadDirectory flag to network status docs so that authorities
24817 can (eventually) tell clients about caches they believe to be
24818 broken. Not used yet.
24819 - Allow authorities to list nodes as bad exits in their
24820 approved-routers file by fingerprint or by address. If most
24821 authorities set a BadExit flag for a server, clients don't think
24822 of it as a general-purpose exit. Clients only consider authorities
24823 that advertise themselves as listing bad exits.
24824 - Patch from Steve Hildrey: Generate network status correctly on
24825 non-versioning dirservers.
24826 - Have directory authorities allow larger amounts of drift in uptime
24827 without replacing the server descriptor: previously, a server that
24828 restarted every 30 minutes could have 48 "interesting" descriptors
24830 - Reserve the nickname "Unnamed" for routers that can't pick
24831 a hostname: any router can call itself Unnamed; directory
24832 authorities will never allocate Unnamed to any particular router;
24833 clients won't believe that any router is the canonical Unnamed.
24835 o Directory mirrors and clients:
24836 - Discard any v1 directory info that's over 1 month old (for
24837 directories) or over 1 week old (for running-routers lists).
24838 - Clients track responses with status 503 from dirservers. After a
24839 dirserver has given us a 503, we try not to use it until an hour has
24840 gone by, or until we have no dirservers that haven't given us a 503.
24841 - When we get a 503 from a directory, and we're not a server, we no
24842 longer count the failure against the total number of failures
24843 allowed for the object we're trying to download.
24844 - Prepare for servers to publish descriptors less often: never
24845 discard a descriptor simply for being too old until either it is
24846 recommended by no authorities, or until we get a better one for
24847 the same router. Make caches consider retaining old recommended
24848 routers for even longer.
24849 - Directory servers now provide 'Pragma: no-cache' and 'Expires'
24850 headers for content, so that we can work better in the presence of
24851 caching HTTP proxies.
24852 - Stop fetching descriptors if you're not a dir mirror and you
24853 haven't tried to establish any circuits lately. (This currently
24854 causes some dangerous behavior, because when you start up again
24855 you'll use your ancient server descriptors.)
24857 o Major fixes, crashes:
24858 - Stop crashing when the controller asks us to resetconf more than
24859 one config option at once. (Vidalia 0.0.11 does this.)
24860 - Fix a longstanding obscure crash bug that could occur when we run
24861 out of DNS worker processes, if we're not using eventdns. (Resolves
24863 - Fix an assert that could trigger if a controller quickly set then
24864 cleared EntryNodes. (Bug found by Udo van den Heuvel.)
24865 - Avoid crash when telling controller about stream-status and a
24866 stream is detached.
24867 - Avoid sending junk to controllers or segfaulting when a controller
24868 uses EVENT_NEW_DESC with verbose nicknames.
24869 - Stop triggering asserts if the controller tries to extend hidden
24870 service circuits (reported by mwenge).
24871 - If we start a server with ClientOnly 1, then set ClientOnly to 0
24872 and hup, stop triggering an assert based on an empty onion_key.
24873 - Mask out all signals in sub-threads; only the libevent signal
24874 handler should be processing them. This should prevent some crashes
24875 on some machines using pthreads. (Patch from coderman.)
24876 - Disable kqueue on OS X 10.3 and earlier, to fix bug 371.
24878 o Major fixes, anonymity/security:
24879 - Automatically avoid picking more than one node from the same
24880 /16 network when constructing a circuit. Add an
24881 "EnforceDistinctSubnets" option to let people disable it if they
24882 want to operate private test networks on a single subnet.
24883 - When generating bandwidth history, round down to the nearest
24884 1k. When storing accounting data, round up to the nearest 1k.
24885 - When we're running as a server, remember when we last rotated onion
24886 keys, so that we will rotate keys once they're a week old even if
24887 we never stay up for a week ourselves.
24888 - If a client asked for a server by name, and there's a named server
24889 in our network-status but we don't have its descriptor yet, we
24890 could return an unnamed server instead.
24891 - Reject (most) attempts to use Tor circuits with length one. (If
24892 many people start using Tor as a one-hop proxy, exit nodes become
24893 a more attractive target for compromise.)
24894 - Just because your DirPort is open doesn't mean people should be
24895 able to remotely teach you about hidden service descriptors. Now
24896 only accept rendezvous posts if you've got HSAuthoritativeDir set.
24897 - Fix a potential race condition in the rpm installer. Found by
24899 - Do not log IPs with TLS failures for incoming TLS
24900 connections. (Fixes bug 382.)
24902 o Major fixes, other:
24903 - If our system clock jumps back in time, don't publish a negative
24904 uptime in the descriptor.
24905 - When we start during an accounting interval before it's time to wake
24906 up, remember to wake up at the correct time. (May fix bug 342.)
24907 - Previously, we would cache up to 16 old networkstatus documents
24908 indefinitely, if they came from nontrusted authorities. Now we
24909 discard them if they are more than 10 days old.
24910 - When we have a state file we cannot parse, tell the user and
24911 move it aside. Now we avoid situations where the user starts
24912 Tor in 1904, Tor writes a state file with that timestamp in it,
24913 the user fixes her clock, and Tor refuses to start.
24914 - Publish a new descriptor after we hup/reload. This is important
24915 if our config has changed such that we'll want to start advertising
24916 our DirPort now, etc.
24917 - If we are using an exit enclave and we can't connect, e.g. because
24918 its webserver is misconfigured to not listen on localhost, then
24919 back off and try connecting from somewhere else before we fail.
24921 o New config options or behaviors:
24922 - When EntryNodes are configured, rebuild the guard list to contain,
24923 in order: the EntryNodes that were guards before; the rest of the
24924 EntryNodes; the nodes that were guards before.
24925 - Do not warn when individual nodes in the configuration's EntryNodes,
24926 ExitNodes, etc are down: warn only when all possible nodes
24927 are down. (Fixes bug 348.)
24928 - Put a lower-bound on MaxAdvertisedBandwidth.
24929 - Start using the state file to store bandwidth accounting data:
24930 the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. We'll keep generating it
24931 for a while for people who are still using 0.1.2.4-alpha.
24932 - Try to batch changes to the state file so that we do as few
24933 disk writes as possible while still storing important things in
24935 - The state file and the bw_accounting file get saved less often when
24936 the AvoidDiskWrites config option is set.
24937 - Make PIDFile work on Windows.
24938 - Add internal descriptions for a bunch of configuration options:
24939 accessible via controller interface and in comments in saved
24941 - Reject *:563 (NNTPS) in the default exit policy. We already reject
24942 NNTP by default, so this seems like a sensible addition.
24943 - Clients now reject hostnames with invalid characters. This should
24944 avoid some inadvertent info leaks. Add an option
24945 AllowNonRFC953Hostnames to disable this behavior, in case somebody
24946 is running a private network with hosts called @, !, and #.
24947 - Check for addresses with invalid characters at the exit as well,
24948 and warn less verbosely when they fail. You can override this by
24949 setting ServerDNSAllowNonRFC953Addresses to 1.
24950 - Remove some options that have been deprecated since at least
24951 0.1.0.x: AccountingMaxKB, LogFile, DebugLogFile, LogLevel, and
24952 SysLog. Use AccountingMax instead of AccountingMaxKB, and use Log
24953 to set log options. Mark PathlenCoinWeight as obsolete.
24954 - Stop accepting certain malformed ports in configured exit policies.
24955 - When the user uses bad syntax in the Log config line, stop
24956 suggesting other bad syntax as a replacement.
24957 - Add new config option "ResolvConf" to let the server operator
24958 choose an alternate resolve.conf file when using eventdns.
24959 - If one of our entry guards is on the ExcludeNodes list, or the
24960 directory authorities don't think it's a good guard, treat it as
24961 if it were unlisted: stop using it as a guard, and throw it off
24962 the guards list if it stays that way for a long time.
24963 - Allow directory authorities to be marked separately as authorities
24964 for the v1 directory protocol, the v2 directory protocol, and
24965 as hidden service directories, to make it easier to retire old
24966 authorities. V1 authorities should set "HSAuthoritativeDir 1"
24967 to continue being hidden service authorities too.
24968 - Remove 8888 as a LongLivedPort, and add 6697 (IRCS).
24969 - Make TrackExitHosts case-insensitive, and fix the behavior of
24970 ".suffix" TrackExitHosts items to avoid matching in the middle of
24972 - New DirPort behavior: if you have your dirport set, you download
24973 descriptors aggressively like a directory mirror, whether or not
24974 your ORPort is set.
24977 - Create a new file ReleaseNotes which was the old ChangeLog. The
24978 new ChangeLog file now includes the notes for all development
24980 - Add a new address-spec.txt document to describe our special-case
24981 addresses: .exit, .onion, and .noconnnect.
24982 - Fork the v1 directory protocol into its own spec document,
24983 and mark dir-spec.txt as the currently correct (v2) spec.
24985 o Packaging, porting, and contrib
24986 - "tor --verify-config" now exits with -1(255) or 0 depending on
24987 whether the config options are bad or good.
24988 - The Debian package now uses --verify-config when (re)starting,
24989 to distinguish configuration errors from other errors.
24990 - Adapt a patch from goodell to let the contrib/exitlist script
24991 take arguments rather than require direct editing.
24992 - Prevent the contrib/exitlist script from printing the same
24993 result more than once.
24994 - Add support to tor-resolve tool for reverse lookups and SOCKS5.
24995 - In the hidden service example in torrc.sample, stop recommending
24996 esoteric and discouraged hidden service options.
24997 - Patch from Michael Mohr to contrib/cross.sh, so it checks more
24998 values before failing, and always enables eventdns.
24999 - Try to detect Windows correctly when cross-compiling.
25000 - Libevent-1.2 exports, but does not define in its headers, strlcpy.
25001 Try to fix this in configure.in by checking for most functions
25002 before we check for libevent.
25003 - Update RPMs to require libevent 1.2.
25004 - Experimentally re-enable kqueue on OSX when using libevent 1.1b
25005 or later. Log when we are doing this, so we can diagnose it when
25006 it fails. (Also, recommend libevent 1.1b for kqueue and
25007 win32 methods; deprecate libevent 1.0b harder; make libevent
25008 recommendation system saner.)
25009 - Build with recent (1.3+) libevents on platforms that do not
25010 define the nonstandard types "u_int8_t" and friends.
25011 - Remove architecture from OS X builds. The official builds are
25012 now universal binaries.
25013 - Run correctly on OS X platforms with case-sensitive filesystems.
25014 - Correctly set maximum connection limit on Cygwin. (This time
25016 - Start compiling on MinGW on Windows (patches from Mike Chiussi
25018 - Start compiling on MSVC6 on Windows (patches from Frediano Ziglio).
25019 - Finally fix the openssl warnings from newer gccs that believe that
25020 ignoring a return value is okay, but casting a return value and
25021 then ignoring it is a sign of madness.
25022 - On architectures where sizeof(int)>4, still clamp declarable
25023 bandwidth to INT32_MAX.
25025 o Minor features, controller:
25026 - Warn the user when an application uses the obsolete binary v0
25027 control protocol. We're planning to remove support for it during
25028 the next development series, so it's good to give people some
25030 - Add STREAM_BW events to report per-entry-stream bandwidth
25031 use. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
25032 - Rate-limit SIGNEWNYM signals in response to controllers that
25033 impolitely generate them for every single stream. (Patch from
25034 mwenge; closes bug 394.)
25035 - Add a REMAP status to stream events to note that a stream's
25036 address has changed because of a cached address or a MapAddress
25038 - Make REMAP stream events have a SOURCE (cache or exit), and
25039 make them generated in every case where we get a successful
25040 connected or resolved cell.
25041 - Track reasons for OR connection failure; make these reasons
25042 available via the controller interface. (Patch from Mike Perry.)
25043 - Add a SOCKS_BAD_HOSTNAME client status event so controllers
25044 can learn when clients are sending malformed hostnames to Tor.
25045 - Specify and implement some of the controller status events.
25046 - Have GETINFO dir/status/* work on hosts with DirPort disabled.
25047 - Reimplement GETINFO so that info/names stays in sync with the
25049 - Implement "GETINFO fingerprint".
25050 - Implement "SETEVENTS GUARD" so controllers can get updates on
25051 entry guard status as it changes.
25052 - Make all connections to addresses of the form ".noconnect"
25053 immediately get closed. This lets application/controller combos
25054 successfully test whether they're talking to the same Tor by
25055 watching for STREAM events.
25056 - Add a REASON field to CIRC events; for backward compatibility, this
25057 field is sent only to controllers that have enabled the extended
25058 event format. Also, add additional reason codes to explain why
25059 a given circuit has been destroyed or truncated. (Patches from
25061 - Add a REMOTE_REASON field to extended CIRC events to tell the
25062 controller why a remote OR told us to close a circuit.
25063 - Stream events also now have REASON and REMOTE_REASON fields,
25064 working much like those for circuit events.
25065 - There's now a GETINFO ns/... field so that controllers can ask Tor
25066 about the current status of a router.
25067 - A new event type "NS" to inform a controller when our opinion of
25068 a router's status has changed.
25069 - Add a GETINFO events/names and GETINFO features/names so controllers
25070 can tell which events and features are supported.
25071 - A new CLEARDNSCACHE signal to allow controllers to clear the
25072 client-side DNS cache without expiring circuits.
25073 - Fix CIRC controller events so that controllers can learn the
25074 identity digests of non-Named servers used in circuit paths.
25075 - Let controllers ask for more useful identifiers for servers. Instead
25076 of learning identity digests for un-Named servers and nicknames
25077 for Named servers, the new identifiers include digest, nickname,
25078 and indication of Named status. Off by default; see control-spec.txt
25079 for more information.
25080 - Add a "getinfo address" controller command so it can display Tor's
25081 best guess to the user.
25082 - New controller event to alert the controller when our server
25083 descriptor has changed.
25084 - Give more meaningful errors on controller authentication failure.
25085 - Export the default exit policy via the control port, so controllers
25086 don't need to guess what it is / will be later.
25088 o Minor bugfixes, controller:
25089 - When creating a circuit via the controller, send a 'launched'
25090 event when we're done, so we follow the spec better.
25091 - Correct the control spec to match how the code actually responds
25092 to 'getinfo addr-mappings/*'. Reported by daejees.
25093 - The control spec described a GUARDS event, but the code
25094 implemented a GUARD event. Standardize on GUARD, but let people
25095 ask for GUARDS too. Reported by daejees.
25096 - Give the controller END_STREAM_REASON_DESTROY events _before_ we
25097 clear the corresponding on_circuit variable, and remember later
25098 that we don't need to send a redundant CLOSED event. (Resolves part
25100 - Report events where a resolve succeeded or where we got a socks
25101 protocol error correctly, rather than calling both of them
25103 - Change reported stream target addresses to IP consistently when
25104 we finally get the IP from an exit node.
25105 - Send log messages to the controller even if they happen to be very
25107 - Flush ERR-level controller status events just like we currently
25108 flush ERR-level log events, so that a Tor shutdown doesn't prevent
25109 the controller from learning about current events.
25110 - Report the circuit number correctly in STREAM CLOSED events. Bug
25111 reported by Mike Perry.
25112 - Do not report bizarre values for results of accounting GETINFOs
25113 when the last second's write or read exceeds the allotted bandwidth.
25114 - Report "unrecognized key" rather than an empty string when the
25115 controller tries to fetch a networkstatus that doesn't exist.
25116 - When the controller does a "GETINFO network-status", tell it
25117 about even those routers whose descriptors are very old, and use
25118 long nicknames where appropriate.
25119 - Fix handling of verbose nicknames with ORCONN controller events:
25120 make them show up exactly when requested, rather than exactly when
25122 - Controller signals now work on non-Unix platforms that don't define
25123 SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 the way we expect.
25124 - Respond to SIGNAL command before we execute the signal, in case
25125 the signal shuts us down. Suggested by Karsten Loesing.
25126 - Handle reporting OR_CONN_EVENT_NEW events to the controller.
25128 o Minor features, code performance:
25129 - Major performance improvement on inserting descriptors: change
25130 algorithm from O(n^2) to O(n).
25131 - Do not rotate onion key immediately after setting it for the first
25133 - Call router_have_min_dir_info half as often. (This is showing up in
25134 some profiles, but not others.)
25135 - When using GCC, make log_debug never get called at all, and its
25136 arguments never get evaluated, when no debug logs are configured.
25137 (This is showing up in some profiles, but not others.)
25138 - Statistics dumped by -USR2 now include a breakdown of public key
25139 operations, for profiling.
25140 - Make the common memory allocation path faster on machines where
25141 malloc(0) returns a pointer.
25142 - Split circuit_t into origin_circuit_t and or_circuit_t, and
25143 split connection_t into edge, or, dir, control, and base structs.
25144 These will save quite a bit of memory on busy servers, and they'll
25145 also help us track down bugs in the code and bugs in the spec.
25146 - Use OpenSSL's AES implementation on platforms where it's faster.
25147 This could save us as much as 10% CPU usage.
25149 o Minor features, descriptors and descriptor handling:
25150 - Avoid duplicate entries on MyFamily line in server descriptor.
25151 - When Tor receives a router descriptor that it asked for, but
25152 no longer wants (because it has received fresh networkstatuses
25153 in the meantime), do not warn the user. Cache the descriptor if
25154 we're a cache; drop it if we aren't.
25155 - Servers no longer ever list themselves in their "family" line,
25156 even if configured to do so. This makes it easier to configure
25157 family lists conveniently.
25159 o Minor fixes, confusing/misleading log messages:
25160 - Display correct results when reporting which versions are
25161 recommended, and how recommended they are. (Resolves bug 383.)
25162 - Inform the server operator when we decide not to advertise a
25163 DirPort due to AccountingMax enabled or a low BandwidthRate.
25164 - Only include function names in log messages for info/debug messages.
25165 For notice/warn/err, the content of the message should be clear on
25166 its own, and printing the function name only confuses users.
25167 - Remove even more protocol-related warnings from Tor server logs,
25168 such as bad TLS handshakes and malformed begin cells.
25169 - Fix bug 314: Tor clients issued "unsafe socks" warnings even
25170 when the IP address is mapped through MapAddress to a hostname.
25171 - Fix misleading log messages: an entry guard that is "unlisted",
25172 as well as not known to be "down" (because we've never heard
25173 of it), is not therefore "up".
25175 o Minor fixes, old/obsolete behavior:
25176 - Start assuming we can use a create_fast cell if we don't know
25177 what version a router is running.
25178 - We no longer look for identity and onion keys in "identity.key" and
25179 "onion.key" -- these were replaced by secret_id_key and
25180 secret_onion_key in 0.0.8pre1.
25181 - We no longer require unrecognized directory entries to be
25183 - Drop compatibility with obsolete Tors that permit create cells
25184 to have the wrong circ_id_type.
25185 - Remove code to special-case "-cvs" ending, since it has not
25186 actually mattered since 0.0.9.
25187 - Don't re-write the fingerprint file every restart, unless it has
25190 o Minor fixes, misc client-side behavior:
25191 - Always remove expired routers and networkstatus docs before checking
25192 whether we have enough information to build circuits. (Fixes
25194 - When computing clock skew from directory HTTP headers, consider what
25195 time it was when we finished asking for the directory, not what
25197 - Make our socks5 handling more robust to broken socks clients:
25198 throw out everything waiting on the buffer in between socks
25199 handshake phases, since they can't possibly (so the theory
25200 goes) have predicted what we plan to respond to them.
25201 - Expire socks connections if they spend too long waiting for the
25202 handshake to finish. Previously we would let them sit around for
25203 days, if the connecting application didn't close them either.
25204 - And if the socks handshake hasn't started, don't send a
25205 "DNS resolve socks failed" handshake reply; just close it.
25206 - If the user asks to use invalid exit nodes, be willing to use
25208 - Track unreachable entry guards correctly: don't conflate
25209 'unreachable by us right now' with 'listed as down by the directory
25210 authorities'. With the old code, if a guard was unreachable by us
25211 but listed as running, it would clog our guard list forever.
25212 - Behave correctly in case we ever have a network with more than
25213 2GB/s total advertised capacity.
25214 - Claim a commonname of Tor, rather than TOR, in TLS handshakes.
25215 - Fix a memory leak when we ask for "all" networkstatuses and we
25216 get one we don't recognize.
25219 Changes in version 0.1.1.26 - 2006-12-14
25220 o Security bugfixes:
25221 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
25222 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
25223 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
25224 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
25228 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
25229 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
25230 unlisted router (reported by seeess).
25233 Changes in version 0.1.1.25 - 2006-11-04
25235 - When a client asks us to resolve (rather than connect to)
25236 an address, and we have a cached answer, give them the cached
25237 answer. Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
25238 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we predict
25239 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
25240 its circuits on demand.
25241 - If none of our live entry guards have a high uptime, but we
25242 require a guard with a high uptime, try adding a new guard before
25243 we give up on the requirement. This patch should make long-lived
25244 connections more stable on average.
25245 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
25246 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
25247 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
25249 o Security bugfixes:
25250 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
25251 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
25254 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
25256 - Avoid possibility of controller-triggered crash when misusing
25257 certain commands from a v0 controller on platforms that do not
25258 handle printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
25259 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
25260 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
25261 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
25262 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
25263 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
25266 Changes in version 0.1.1.24 - 2006-09-29
25268 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
25269 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
25270 - Fix major performance regression from 0.1.0.x: instead of checking
25271 whether we have enough directory information every time we want to
25272 do something, only check when the directory information has changed.
25273 This should improve client CPU usage by 25-50%.
25274 - Don't crash if, after a server has been running for a while,
25275 it can't resolve its hostname.
25276 - When a client asks us to resolve (not connect to) an address,
25277 and we have a cached answer, give them the cached answer.
25278 Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
25281 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
25282 - Don't crash when the controller receives a third argument to an
25283 "extendcircuit" request.
25284 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
25285 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
25286 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
25287 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
25289 - Fix security bug on NetBSD that could allow someone to force
25290 uninitialized RAM to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This
25291 only affects NetBSD and other platforms that do not bounds-check
25293 - Warn user when using libevent 1.1a or earlier with win32 or kqueue
25294 methods: these are known to be buggy.
25295 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
25296 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
25297 we don't recognize.
25300 Changes in version 0.1.1.23 - 2006-07-30
25302 - Fast Tor servers, especially exit nodes, were triggering asserts
25303 due to a bug in handling the list of pending DNS resolves. Some
25304 bugs still remain here; we're hunting them.
25305 - Entry guards could crash clients by sending unexpected input.
25306 - More fixes on reachability testing: if you find yourself reachable,
25307 then don't ever make any client requests (so you stop predicting
25308 circuits), then hup or have your clock jump, then later your IP
25309 changes, you won't think circuits are working, so you won't try to
25310 test reachability, so you won't publish.
25313 - Avoid a crash if the controller does a resetconf firewallports
25314 and then a setconf fascistfirewall=1.
25315 - Avoid an integer underflow when the dir authority decides whether
25316 a router is stable: we might wrongly label it stable, and compute
25317 a slightly wrong median stability, when a descriptor is published
25319 - Fix a place where we might trigger an assert if we can't build our
25320 own server descriptor yet.
25323 Changes in version 0.1.1.22 - 2006-07-05
25325 - Fix a big bug that was causing servers to not find themselves
25326 reachable if they changed IP addresses. Since only 0.1.1.22+
25327 servers can do reachability testing correctly, now we automatically
25328 make sure to test via one of these.
25329 - Fix to allow clients and mirrors to learn directory info from
25330 descriptor downloads that get cut off partway through.
25331 - Directory authorities had a bug in deciding if a newly published
25332 descriptor was novel enough to make everybody want a copy -- a few
25333 servers seem to be publishing new descriptors many times a minute.
25335 - Fix a rare bug that was causing some servers to complain about
25336 "closing wedged cpuworkers" and skip some circuit create requests.
25337 - Make the Exit flag in directory status documents actually work.
25340 Changes in version 0.1.1.21 - 2006-06-10
25341 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.1.20:
25342 - Fix a rare crash on Tor servers that have enabled hibernation.
25343 - Fix a seg fault on startup for Tor networks that use only one
25344 directory authority.
25345 - Fix an assert from a race condition that occurs on Tor servers
25346 while exiting, where various threads are trying to log that they're
25347 exiting, and delete the logs, at the same time.
25348 - Make our unit tests pass again on certain obscure platforms.
25351 - Add support for building SUSE RPM packages.
25352 - Speed up initial bootstrapping for clients: if we are making our
25353 first ever connection to any entry guard, then don't mark it down
25355 - When only one Tor server in the network is labelled as a guard,
25356 and we've already picked him, we would cycle endlessly picking him
25357 again, being unhappy about it, etc. Now we specifically exclude
25358 current guards when picking a new guard.
25359 - Servers send create cells more reliably after the TLS connection
25360 is established: we were sometimes forgetting to send half of them
25361 when we had more than one pending.
25362 - If we get a create cell that asks us to extend somewhere, but the
25363 Tor server there doesn't match the expected digest, we now send
25364 a destroy cell back, rather than silently doing nothing.
25365 - Make options->RedirectExit work again.
25366 - Make cookie authentication for the controller work again.
25367 - Stop being picky about unusual characters in the arguments to
25368 mapaddress. It's none of our business.
25369 - Add a new config option "TestVia" that lets you specify preferred
25370 middle hops to use for test circuits. Perhaps this will let me
25371 debug the reachability problems better.
25373 o Log / documentation fixes:
25374 - If we're a server and some peer has a broken TLS certificate, don't
25375 log about it unless ProtocolWarnings is set, i.e., we want to hear
25376 about protocol violations by others.
25377 - Fix spelling of VirtualAddrNetwork in man page.
25378 - Add a better explanation at the top of the autogenerated torrc file
25379 about what happened to our old torrc.
25382 Changes in version 0.1.1.20 - 2006-05-23
25383 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.0.17:
25384 - Fix assert bug in close_logs() on exit: when we close and delete
25385 logs, remove them all from the global "logfiles" list.
25386 - Fix an assert error when we're out of space in the connection_list
25387 and we try to post a hidden service descriptor (reported by Peter
25389 - Fix a rare assert error when we've tried all intro points for
25390 a hidden service and we try fetching the service descriptor again:
25391 "Assertion conn->state != AP_CONN_STATE_RENDDESC_WAIT failed".
25392 - Setconf SocksListenAddress kills Tor if it fails to bind. Now back
25393 out and refuse the setconf if it would fail.
25394 - If you specify a relative torrc path and you set RunAsDaemon in
25395 your torrc, then it chdir()'s to the new directory. If you then
25396 HUP, it tries to load the new torrc location, fails, and exits.
25397 The fix: no longer allow a relative path to torrc when using -f.
25398 - Check for integer overflows in more places, when adding elements
25399 to smartlists. This could possibly prevent a buffer overflow
25400 on malicious huge inputs.
25402 o Security fixes, major:
25403 - When we're printing strings from the network, don't try to print
25404 non-printable characters. Now we're safer against shell escape
25405 sequence exploits, and also against attacks to fool users into
25406 misreading their logs.
25407 - Implement entry guards: automatically choose a handful of entry
25408 nodes and stick with them for all circuits. Only pick new guards
25409 when the ones you have are unsuitable, and if the old guards
25410 become suitable again, switch back. This will increase security
25411 dramatically against certain end-point attacks. The EntryNodes
25412 config option now provides some hints about which entry guards you
25413 want to use most; and StrictEntryNodes means to only use those.
25414 Fixes CVE-2006-0414.
25415 - Implement exit enclaves: if we know an IP address for the
25416 destination, and there's a running Tor server at that address
25417 which allows exit to the destination, then extend the circuit to
25418 that exit first. This provides end-to-end encryption and end-to-end
25419 authentication. Also, if the user wants a .exit address or enclave,
25420 use 4 hops rather than 3, and cannibalize a general circ for it
25422 - Obey our firewall options more faithfully:
25423 . If we can't get to a dirserver directly, try going via Tor.
25424 . Don't ever try to connect (as a client) to a place our
25425 firewall options forbid.
25426 . If we specify a proxy and also firewall options, obey the
25427 firewall options even when we're using the proxy: some proxies
25428 can only proxy to certain destinations.
25429 - Make clients regenerate their keys when their IP address changes.
25430 - For the OS X package's modified privoxy config file, comment
25431 out the "logfile" line so we don't log everything passed
25433 - Our TLS handshakes were generating a single public/private
25434 keypair for the TLS context, rather than making a new one for
25435 each new connection. Oops. (But we were still rotating them
25436 periodically, so it's not so bad.)
25437 - When we were cannibalizing a circuit with a particular exit
25438 node in mind, we weren't checking to see if that exit node was
25439 already present earlier in the circuit. Now we are.
25440 - Require server descriptors to list IPv4 addresses -- hostnames
25441 are no longer allowed. This also fixes potential vulnerabilities
25442 to servers providing hostnames as their address and then
25443 preferentially resolving them so they can partition users.
25444 - Our logic to decide if the OR we connected to was the right guy
25445 was brittle and maybe open to a mitm for invalid routers.
25447 o Security fixes, minor:
25448 - Adjust tor-spec.txt to parameterize cell and key lengths. Now
25449 Ian Goldberg can prove things about our handshake protocol more
25451 - Make directory authorities generate a separate "guard" flag to
25452 mean "would make a good entry guard". Clients now honor the
25453 is_guard flag rather than looking at is_fast or is_stable.
25454 - Try to list MyFamily elements by key, not by nickname, and warn
25455 if we've not heard of a server.
25456 - Start using RAND_bytes rather than RAND_pseudo_bytes from
25457 OpenSSL. Also, reseed our entropy every hour, not just at
25458 startup. And add entropy in 512-bit chunks, not 160-bit chunks.
25459 - Refuse server descriptors where the fingerprint line doesn't match
25460 the included identity key. Tor doesn't care, but other apps (and
25461 humans) might actually be trusting the fingerprint line.
25462 - We used to kill the circuit when we receive a relay command we
25463 don't recognize. Now we just drop that cell.
25464 - Fix a bug found by Lasse Overlier: when we were making internal
25465 circuits (intended to be cannibalized later for rendezvous and
25466 introduction circuits), we were picking them so that they had
25467 useful exit nodes. There was no need for this, and it actually
25468 aids some statistical attacks.
25469 - Start treating internal circuits and exit circuits separately.
25470 It's important to keep them separate because internal circuits
25471 have their last hops picked like middle hops, rather than like
25472 exit hops. So exiting on them will break the user's expectations.
25473 - Fix a possible way to DoS dirservers.
25474 - When the client asked for a rendezvous port that the hidden
25475 service didn't want to provide, we were sending an IP address
25476 back along with the end cell. Fortunately, it was zero. But stop
25479 o Packaging improvements:
25480 - Implement --with-libevent-dir option to ./configure. Improve
25481 search techniques to find libevent, and use those for openssl too.
25482 - Fix a couple of bugs in OpenSSL detection. Deal better when
25483 there are multiple SSLs installed with different versions.
25484 - Avoid warnings about machine/limits.h on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.
25485 - On non-gcc compilers (e.g. Solaris's cc), use "-g -O" instead of
25487 - Make unit tests (and other invocations that aren't the real Tor)
25488 run without launching listeners, creating subdirectories, and so on.
25489 - The OS X installer was adding a symlink for tor_resolve but
25490 the binary was called tor-resolve (reported by Thomas Hardly).
25491 - Now we can target arch and OS in rpm builds (contributed by
25492 Phobos). Also make the resulting dist-rpm filename match the
25494 - Apply Matt Ghali's --with-syslog-facility patch to ./configure
25495 if you log to syslog and want something other than LOG_DAEMON.
25496 - Fix the torify (tsocks) config file to not use Tor for localhost
25498 - Start shipping socks-extensions.txt, tor-doc-unix.html,
25499 tor-doc-server.html, and stylesheet.css in the tarball.
25500 - Stop shipping tor-doc.html, INSTALL, and README in the tarball.
25501 They are useless now.
25502 - Add Peter Palfrader's contributed check-tor script. It lets you
25503 easily check whether a given server (referenced by nickname)
25504 is reachable by you.
25505 - Add BSD-style contributed startup script "rc.subr" from Peter
25508 o Directory improvements -- new directory protocol:
25509 - See tor/doc/dir-spec.txt for all the juicy details. Key points:
25510 - Authorities and caches publish individual descriptors (by
25511 digest, by fingerprint, by "all", and by "tell me yours").
25512 - Clients don't download or use the old directory anymore. Now they
25513 download network-statuses from the directory authorities, and
25514 fetch individual server descriptors as needed from mirrors.
25515 - Clients don't download descriptors of non-running servers.
25516 - Download descriptors by digest, not by fingerprint. Caches try to
25517 download all listed digests from authorities; clients try to
25518 download "best" digests from caches. This avoids partitioning
25519 and isolating attacks better.
25520 - Only upload a new server descriptor when options change, 18
25521 hours have passed, uptime is reset, or bandwidth changes a lot.
25522 - Directory authorities silently throw away new descriptors that
25523 haven't changed much if the timestamps are similar. We do this to
25524 tolerate older Tor servers that upload a new descriptor every 15
25525 minutes. (It seemed like a good idea at the time.)
25526 - Clients choose directory servers from the network status lists,
25527 not from their internal list of router descriptors. Now they can
25528 go to caches directly rather than needing to go to authorities
25529 to bootstrap the first set of descriptors.
25530 - When picking a random directory, prefer non-authorities if any
25532 - Add a new flag to network-status indicating whether the server
25533 can answer v2 directory requests too.
25534 - Directory mirrors now cache up to 16 unrecognized network-status
25535 docs, so new directory authorities will be cached too.
25536 - Stop parsing, storing, or using running-routers output (but
25537 mirrors still cache and serve it).
25538 - Clients consider a threshold of "versioning" directory authorities
25539 before deciding whether to warn the user that he's obsolete.
25540 - Authorities publish separate sorted lists of recommended versions
25541 for clients and for servers.
25542 - Change DirServers config line to note which dirs are v1 authorities.
25543 - Put nicknames on the DirServer line, so we can refer to them
25544 without requiring all our users to memorize their IP addresses.
25545 - Remove option when getting directory cache to see whether they
25546 support running-routers; they all do now. Replace it with one
25547 to see whether caches support v2 stuff.
25548 - Stop listing down or invalid nodes in the v1 directory. This
25549 reduces its bulk by about 1/3, and reduces load on mirrors.
25550 - Mirrors no longer cache the v1 directory as often.
25551 - If we as a directory mirror don't know of any v1 directory
25552 authorities, then don't try to cache any v1 directories.
25554 o Other directory improvements:
25555 - Add lefkada.eecs.harvard.edu and tor.dizum.com as fourth and
25556 fifth authoritative directory servers.
25557 - Directory authorities no longer require an open connection from
25558 a server to consider him "reachable". We need this change because
25559 when we add new directory authorities, old servers won't know not
25560 to hang up on them.
25561 - Dir authorities now do their own external reachability testing
25562 of each server, and only list as running the ones they found to
25563 be reachable. We also send back warnings to the server's logs if
25564 it uploads a descriptor that we already believe is unreachable.
25565 - Spread the directory authorities' reachability testing over the
25566 entire testing interval, so we don't try to do 500 TLS's at once
25568 - Make the "stable" router flag in network-status be the median of
25569 the uptimes of running valid servers, and make clients pay
25570 attention to the network-status flags. Thus the cutoff adapts
25571 to the stability of the network as a whole, making IRC, IM, etc
25572 connections more reliable.
25573 - Make the v2 dir's "Fast" flag based on relative capacity, just
25574 like "Stable" is based on median uptime. Name everything in the
25575 top 7/8 Fast, and only the top 1/2 gets to be a Guard.
25576 - Retry directory requests if we fail to get an answer we like
25577 from a given dirserver (we were retrying before, but only if
25578 we fail to connect).
25579 - Return a robots.txt on our dirport to discourage google indexing.
25581 o Controller protocol improvements:
25582 - Revised controller protocol (version 1) that uses ascii rather
25583 than binary: tor/doc/control-spec.txt. Add supporting libraries
25584 in python and java and c# so you can use the controller from your
25585 applications without caring how our protocol works.
25586 - Allow the DEBUG controller event to work again. Mark certain log
25587 entries as "don't tell this to controllers", so we avoid cycles.
25588 - New controller function "getinfo accounting", to ask how
25589 many bytes we've used in this time period.
25590 - Add a "resetconf" command so you can set config options like
25591 AllowUnverifiedNodes and LongLivedPorts to "". Also, if you give
25592 a config option in the torrc with no value, then it clears it
25593 entirely (rather than setting it to its default).
25594 - Add a "getinfo config-file" to tell us where torrc is. Also
25595 expose guard nodes, config options/names.
25596 - Add a "quit" command (when when using the controller manually).
25597 - Add a new signal "newnym" to "change pseudonyms" -- that is, to
25598 stop using any currently-dirty circuits for new streams, so we
25599 don't link new actions to old actions. This also occurs on HUP
25600 or "signal reload".
25601 - If we would close a stream early (e.g. it asks for a .exit that
25602 we know would refuse it) but the LeaveStreamsUnattached config
25603 option is set by the controller, then don't close it.
25604 - Add a new controller event type "authdir_newdescs" that allows
25605 controllers to get all server descriptors that were uploaded to
25606 a router in its role as directory authority.
25607 - New controller option "getinfo desc/all-recent" to fetch the
25608 latest server descriptor for every router that Tor knows about.
25609 - Fix the controller's "attachstream 0" command to treat conn like
25610 it just connected, doing address remapping, handling .exit and
25611 .onion idioms, and so on. Now we're more uniform in making sure
25612 that the controller hears about new and closing connections.
25613 - Permit transitioning from ORPort==0 to ORPort!=0, and back, from
25614 the controller. Also, rotate dns and cpu workers if the controller
25615 changes options that will affect them; and initialize the dns
25616 worker cache tree whether or not we start out as a server.
25617 - Add a new circuit purpose 'controller' to let the controller ask
25618 for a circuit that Tor won't try to use. Extend the "extendcircuit"
25619 controller command to let you specify the purpose if you're starting
25620 a new circuit. Add a new "setcircuitpurpose" controller command to
25621 let you change a circuit's purpose after it's been created.
25622 - Let the controller ask for "getinfo dir/server/foo" so it can ask
25623 directly rather than connecting to the dir port. "getinfo
25624 dir/status/foo" also works, but currently only if your DirPort
25626 - Let the controller tell us about certain router descriptors
25627 that it doesn't want Tor to use in circuits. Implement
25628 "setrouterpurpose" and modify "+postdescriptor" to do this.
25629 - If the controller's *setconf commands fail, collect an error
25630 message in a string and hand it back to the controller -- don't
25631 just tell them to go read their logs.
25633 o Scalability, resource management, and performance:
25634 - Fix a major load balance bug: we were round-robin reading in 16 KB
25635 chunks, and servers with bandwidthrate of 20 KB, while downloading
25636 a 600 KB directory, would starve their other connections. Now we
25637 try to be a bit more fair.
25638 - Be more conservative about whether to advertise our DirPort.
25639 The main change is to not advertise if we're running at capacity
25640 and either a) we could hibernate ever or b) our capacity is low
25641 and we're using a default DirPort.
25642 - We weren't cannibalizing circuits correctly for
25643 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_C_ESTABLISH_REND and
25644 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_S_ESTABLISH_INTRO, so we were being forced to
25645 build those from scratch. This should make hidden services faster.
25646 - Predict required circuits better, with an eye toward making hidden
25647 services faster on the service end.
25648 - Compress exit policies even more: look for duplicate lines and
25650 - Generate 18.0.0.0/8 address policy format in descs when we can;
25651 warn when the mask is not reducible to a bit-prefix.
25652 - There used to be two ways to specify your listening ports in a
25653 server descriptor: on the "router" line and with a separate "ports"
25654 line. Remove support for the "ports" line.
25655 - Reduce memory requirements in our structs by changing the order
25656 of fields. Replace balanced trees with hash tables. Inline
25657 bottleneck smartlist functions. Add a "Map from digest to void*"
25658 abstraction so we can do less hex encoding/decoding, and use it
25659 in router_get_by_digest(). Many other CPU and memory improvements.
25660 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress to extract as much as possible from
25661 truncated compressed data. Try to extract as many
25662 descriptors as possible from truncated http responses (when
25663 purpose is DIR_PURPOSE_FETCH_ROUTERDESC).
25664 - Make circ->onionskin a pointer, not a static array. moria2 was using
25665 125000 circuit_t's after it had been up for a few weeks, which
25666 translates to 20+ megs of wasted space.
25667 - The private half of our EDH handshake keys are now chosen out
25668 of 320 bits, not 1024 bits. (Suggested by Ian Goldberg.)
25669 - Stop doing the complex voodoo overkill checking for insecure
25670 Diffie-Hellman keys. Just check if it's in [2,p-2] and be happy.
25671 - Do round-robin writes for TLS of at most 16 kB per write. This
25672 might be more fair on loaded Tor servers.
25673 - Do not use unaligned memory access on alpha, mips, or mipsel.
25674 It *works*, but is very slow, so we treat them as if it doesn't.
25676 o Other bugfixes and improvements:
25677 - Start storing useful information to $DATADIR/state, so we can
25678 remember things across invocations of Tor. Retain unrecognized
25679 lines so we can be forward-compatible, and write a TorVersion line
25680 so we can be backward-compatible.
25681 - If ORPort is set, Address is not explicitly set, and our hostname
25682 resolves to a private IP address, try to use an interface address
25683 if it has a public address. Now Windows machines that think of
25684 themselves as localhost can guess their address.
25685 - Regenerate our local descriptor if it's dirty and we try to use
25686 it locally (e.g. if it changes during reachability detection).
25687 This was causing some Tor servers to keep publishing the same
25688 initial descriptor forever.
25689 - Tor servers with dynamic IP addresses were needing to wait 18
25690 hours before they could start doing reachability testing using
25691 the new IP address and ports. This is because they were using
25692 the internal descriptor to learn what to test, yet they were only
25693 rebuilding the descriptor once they decided they were reachable.
25694 - It turns out we couldn't bootstrap a network since we added
25695 reachability detection in 0.1.0.1-rc. Good thing the Tor network
25696 has never gone down. Add an AssumeReachable config option to let
25697 servers and authorities bootstrap. When we're trying to build a
25698 high-uptime or high-bandwidth circuit but there aren't enough
25699 suitable servers, try being less picky rather than simply failing.
25700 - Newly bootstrapped Tor networks couldn't establish hidden service
25701 circuits until they had nodes with high uptime. Be more tolerant.
25702 - Really busy servers were keeping enough circuits open on stable
25703 connections that they were wrapping around the circuit_id
25704 space. (It's only two bytes.) This exposed a bug where we would
25705 feel free to reuse a circuit_id even if it still exists but has
25706 been marked for close. Try to fix this bug. Some bug remains.
25707 - When we fail to bind or listen on an incoming or outgoing
25708 socket, we now close it before refusing, rather than just
25709 leaking it. (Thanks to Peter Palfrader for finding.)
25710 - Fix a file descriptor leak in start_daemon().
25711 - On Windows, you can't always reopen a port right after you've
25712 closed it. So change retry_listeners() to only close and re-open
25713 ports that have changed.
25714 - Workaround a problem with some http proxies that refuse GET
25715 requests that specify "Content-Length: 0". Reported by Adrian.
25716 - Recover better from TCP connections to Tor servers that are
25717 broken but don't tell you (it happens!); and rotate TLS
25718 connections once a week.
25719 - Fix a scary-looking but apparently harmless bug where circuits
25720 would sometimes start out in state CIRCUIT_STATE_OR_WAIT at
25721 servers, and never switch to state CIRCUIT_STATE_OPEN.
25722 - Check for even more Windows version flags when writing the platform
25723 string in server descriptors, and note any we don't recognize.
25724 - Add reasons to DESTROY and RELAY_TRUNCATED cells, so clients can
25725 get a better idea of why their circuits failed. Not used yet.
25726 - Add TTLs to RESOLVED, CONNECTED, and END_REASON_EXITPOLICY cells.
25727 We don't use them yet, but maybe one day our DNS resolver will be
25728 able to discover them.
25729 - Let people type "tor --install" as well as "tor -install" when they
25730 want to make it an NT service.
25731 - Looks like we were never delivering deflated (i.e. compressed)
25732 running-routers lists, even when asked. Oops.
25733 - We were leaking some memory every time the client changed IPs.
25734 - Clean up more of the OpenSSL memory when exiting, so we can detect
25735 memory leaks better.
25736 - Never call free() on tor_malloc()d memory. This will help us
25737 use dmalloc to detect memory leaks.
25738 - Some Tor servers process billions of cells per day. These
25739 statistics are now uint64_t's.
25740 - Check [X-]Forwarded-For headers in HTTP requests when generating
25741 log messages. This lets people run dirservers (and caches) behind
25742 Apache but still know which IP addresses are causing warnings.
25743 - Fix minor integer overflow in calculating when we expect to use up
25744 our bandwidth allocation before hibernating.
25745 - Lower the minimum required number of file descriptors to 1000,
25746 so we can have some overhead for Valgrind on Linux, where the
25747 default ulimit -n is 1024.
25748 - Stop writing the "router.desc" file, ever. Nothing uses it anymore,
25749 and its existence is confusing some users.
25751 o Config option fixes:
25752 - Add a new config option ExitPolicyRejectPrivate which defaults
25753 to on. Now all exit policies will begin with rejecting private
25754 addresses, unless the server operator explicitly turns it off.
25755 - Bump the default bandwidthrate to 3 MB, and burst to 6 MB.
25756 - Add new ReachableORAddresses and ReachableDirAddresses options
25757 that understand address policies. FascistFirewall is now a synonym
25758 for "ReachableORAddresses *:443", "ReachableDirAddresses *:80".
25759 - Start calling it FooListenAddress rather than FooBindAddress,
25760 since few of our users know what it means to bind an address
25762 - If the user gave Tor an odd number of command-line arguments,
25763 we were silently ignoring the last one. Now we complain and fail.
25764 This wins the oldest-bug prize -- this bug has been present since
25765 November 2002, as released in Tor 0.0.0.
25766 - If you write "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1 6668" in your
25767 torrc rather than "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1:6668",
25768 it would silently ignore the 6668.
25769 - If we get a linelist or linelist_s config option from the torrc,
25770 e.g. ExitPolicy, and it has no value, warn and skip rather than
25771 silently resetting it to its default.
25772 - Setconf was appending items to linelists, not clearing them.
25773 - Add MyFamily to torrc.sample in the server section, so operators
25774 will be more likely to learn that it exists.
25775 - Make ContactInfo mandatory for authoritative directory servers.
25776 - MaxConn has been obsolete for a while now. Document the ConnLimit
25777 config option, which is a *minimum* number of file descriptors
25778 that must be available else Tor refuses to start.
25779 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
25780 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
25781 - Make MonthlyAccountingStart config option truly obsolete now.
25782 - Correct the man page entry on TrackHostExitsExpire.
25783 - Let directory authorities start even if they don't specify an
25784 Address config option.
25785 - Change "AllowUnverifiedNodes" to "AllowInvalidNodes", to
25786 reflect the updated flags in our v2 dir protocol.
25788 o Config option features:
25789 - Add a new config option FastFirstHopPK (on by default) so clients
25790 do a trivial crypto handshake for their first hop, since TLS has
25791 already taken care of confidentiality and authentication.
25792 - Let the user set ControlListenAddress in the torrc. This can be
25793 dangerous, but there are some cases (like a secured LAN) where it
25795 - New config options to help controllers: FetchServerDescriptors
25796 and FetchHidServDescriptors for whether to fetch server
25797 info and hidserv info or let the controller do it, and
25798 PublishServerDescriptor and PublishHidServDescriptors.
25799 - Also let the controller set the __AllDirActionsPrivate config
25800 option if you want all directory fetches/publishes to happen via
25801 Tor (it assumes your controller bootstraps your circuits).
25802 - Add "HardwareAccel" config option: support for crypto hardware
25803 accelerators via OpenSSL. Off by default, until we find somebody
25804 smart who can test it for us. (It appears to produce seg faults
25805 in at least some cases.)
25806 - New config option "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" for directory authorities
25807 as a panic button: if we get flooded with unusable servers we can
25808 revert to only listing servers in the approved-routers file.
25809 - Directory authorities can now reject/invalidate by key and IP,
25810 with the config options "AuthDirInvalid" and "AuthDirReject", or
25811 by marking a fingerprint as "!reject" or "!invalid" (as its
25812 nickname) in the approved-routers file. This is useful since
25813 currently we automatically list servers as running and usable
25814 even if we know they're jerks.
25815 - Add a new config option TestSocks so people can see whether their
25816 applications are using socks4, socks4a, socks5-with-ip, or
25817 socks5-with-fqdn. This way they don't have to keep mucking
25818 with tcpdump and wondering if something got cached somewhere.
25819 - Add "private:*" as an alias in configuration for policies. Now
25820 you can simplify your exit policy rather than needing to list
25821 every single internal or nonroutable network space.
25822 - Accept "private:*" in routerdesc exit policies; not generated yet
25823 because older Tors do not understand it.
25824 - Add configuration option "V1AuthoritativeDirectory 1" which
25825 moria1, moria2, and tor26 have set.
25826 - Implement an option, VirtualAddrMask, to set which addresses
25827 get handed out in response to mapaddress requests. This works
25828 around a bug in tsocks where 127.0.0.0/8 is never socksified.
25829 - Add a new config option FetchUselessDescriptors, off by default,
25830 for when you plan to run "exitlist" on your client and you want
25831 to know about even the non-running descriptors.
25832 - SocksTimeout: How long do we let a socks connection wait
25833 unattached before we fail it?
25834 - CircuitBuildTimeout: Cull non-open circuits that were born
25835 at least this many seconds ago.
25836 - CircuitIdleTimeout: Cull open clean circuits that were born
25837 at least this many seconds ago.
25838 - New config option SafeSocks to reject all application connections
25839 using unsafe socks protocols. Defaults to off.
25841 o Improved and clearer log messages:
25842 - Reduce clutter in server logs. We're going to try to make
25843 them actually usable now. New config option ProtocolWarnings that
25844 lets you hear about how _other Tors_ are breaking the protocol. Off
25846 - Divide log messages into logging domains. Once we put some sort
25847 of interface on this, it will let people looking at more verbose
25848 log levels specify the topics they want to hear more about.
25849 - Log server fingerprint on startup, so new server operators don't
25850 have to go hunting around their filesystem for it.
25851 - Provide dire warnings to any users who set DirServer manually;
25852 move it out of torrc.sample and into torrc.complete.
25853 - Make the log message less scary when all the dirservers are
25854 temporarily unreachable.
25855 - When tor_socketpair() fails in Windows, give a reasonable
25856 Windows-style errno back.
25857 - Improve tor_gettimeofday() granularity on windows.
25858 - We were printing the number of idle dns workers incorrectly when
25860 - Handle duplicate lines in approved-routers files without warning.
25861 - We were whining about using socks4 or socks5-with-local-lookup
25862 even when it's an IP address in the "virtual" range we designed
25863 exactly for this case.
25864 - Check for named servers when looking them up by nickname;
25865 warn when we're calling a non-named server by its nickname;
25866 don't warn twice about the same name.
25867 - Downgrade the dirserver log messages when whining about
25869 - Correct "your server is reachable" log entries to indicate that
25870 it was self-testing that told us so.
25871 - If we're trying to be a Tor server and running Windows 95/98/ME
25872 as a server, explain that we'll likely crash.
25873 - Provide a more useful warn message when our onion queue gets full:
25874 the CPU is too slow or the exit policy is too liberal.
25875 - Don't warn when we receive a 503 from a dirserver/cache -- this
25876 will pave the way for them being able to refuse if they're busy.
25877 - When we fail to bind a listener, try to provide a more useful
25878 log message: e.g., "Is Tor already running?"
25879 - Only start testing reachability once we've established a
25880 circuit. This will make startup on dir authorities less noisy.
25881 - Don't try to upload hidden service descriptors until we have
25882 established a circuit.
25883 - Tor didn't warn when it failed to open a log file.
25884 - Warn when listening on a public address for socks. We suspect a
25885 lot of people are setting themselves up as open socks proxies,
25886 and they have no idea that jerks on the Internet are using them,
25887 since they simply proxy the traffic into the Tor network.
25888 - Give a useful message when people run Tor as the wrong user,
25889 rather than telling them to start chowning random directories.
25890 - Fix a harmless bug that was causing Tor servers to log
25891 "Got an end because of misc error, but we're not an AP. Closing."
25892 - Fix wrong log message when you add a "HiddenServiceNodes" config
25893 line without any HiddenServiceDir line (reported by Chris Thomas).
25894 - Directory authorities now stop whining so loudly about bad
25895 descriptors that they fetch from other dirservers. So when there's
25896 a log complaint, it's for sure from a freshly uploaded descriptor.
25897 - When logging via syslog, include the pid whenever we provide
25898 a log entry. Suggested by Todd Fries.
25899 - When we're shutting down and we do something like try to post a
25900 server descriptor or rendezvous descriptor, don't complain that
25901 we seem to be unreachable. Of course we are, we're shutting down.
25902 - Change log line for unreachability to explicitly suggest /etc/hosts
25903 as the culprit. Also make it clearer what IP address and ports we're
25904 testing for reachability.
25905 - Put quotes around user-supplied strings when logging so users are
25906 more likely to realize if they add bad characters (like quotes)
25908 - NT service patch from Matt Edman to improve error messages on Win32.
25911 Changes in version 0.1.0.17 - 2006-02-17
25912 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
25913 - When servers with a non-zero DirPort came out of hibernation,
25914 sometimes they would trigger an assert.
25916 o Other important bugfixes:
25917 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
25918 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
25919 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
25920 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
25922 o Backported features:
25923 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
25924 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
25925 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
25926 without getting overloaded.
25927 - Whenever you get a 503 in response to a directory fetch, try
25928 once more. This will become important once servers start sending
25929 503's whenever they feel busy.
25930 - Fetch a new directory every 120 minutes, not every 40 minutes.
25931 Now that we have hundreds of thousands of users running the old
25932 directory algorithm, it's starting to hurt a lot.
25933 - Bump up the period for forcing a hidden service descriptor upload
25934 from 20 minutes to 1 hour.
25937 Changes in version 0.1.0.16 - 2006-01-02
25938 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
25939 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
25940 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
25941 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
25942 - It turns out sparc64 platforms crash on unaligned memory access
25943 too -- so detect and avoid this.
25944 - Handle truncated compressed data correctly (by detecting it and
25946 - Fix possible-but-unlikely free(NULL) in control.c.
25947 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
25948 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
25949 - Avoid potential infinite recursion when building a descriptor. (We
25950 don't know that it ever happened, but better to fix it anyway.)
25951 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
25952 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
25953 - Fix a memory stomping race bug when closing the joining point of two
25954 rendezvous circuits.
25955 - Fix an assert in time parsing found by Steven Murdoch.
25957 o Other bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
25958 - When we're doing reachability testing, provide more useful log
25959 messages so the operator knows what to expect.
25960 - Do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we are suppressing
25961 advertising it because of hibernation.
25962 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed -ldl.
25963 - One of the dirservers (tor26) changed its IP address.
25964 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
25965 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
25966 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
25967 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
25968 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
25969 - Give a more helpful log message when you try to change ORPort via
25970 the controller: you should upgrade Tor if you want that to work.
25971 - We were failing to parse Tor versions that start with "Tor ".
25972 - Tolerate faulty streams better: when a stream fails for reason
25973 exitpolicy, stop assuming that the router is lying about his exit
25974 policy. When a stream fails for reason misc, allow it to retry just
25975 as if it was resolvefailed. When a stream has failed three times,
25976 reset its failure count so we can try again and get all three tries.
25979 Changes in version 0.1.0.15 - 2005-09-23
25980 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
25981 - Reject ports 465 and 587 (spam targets) in default exit policy.
25982 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
25983 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
25984 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
25985 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
25986 - Don't try to print a null string when your server finds itself to
25987 be unreachable and the Address config option is empty.
25988 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
25989 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
25990 - Fix a minor memory leak in smartlist_string_remove().
25991 - We were only allowing ourselves to upload a server descriptor at
25992 most every 20 minutes, even if it changed earlier than that.
25993 - Clean up log entries that pointed to old URLs.
25996 Changes in version 0.1.0.14 - 2005-08-08
25997 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
25998 - Fix the other half of the bug with crypto handshakes
26000 - Fix an assert trigger if you send a 'signal term' via the
26001 controller when it's listening for 'event info' messages.
26004 Changes in version 0.1.0.13 - 2005-08-04
26005 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
26006 - Fix a critical bug in the security of our crypto handshakes.
26007 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
26008 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
26009 - Fix Windows installer to ship Tor license (thanks to Aphex for
26010 pointing out this oversight) and put a link to the doc directory
26012 - Explicitly set no-unaligned-access for sparc: it turns out the
26013 new gcc's let you compile broken code, but that doesn't make it
26017 Changes in version 0.1.0.12 - 2005-07-18
26018 o New directory servers:
26019 - tor26 has changed IP address.
26021 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
26022 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
26023 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
26024 pthreads libraries.
26025 - Don't trigger an assert if an authoritative directory server
26026 claims its dirport is 0.
26027 - Fix bug with removing Tor as an NT service: some people were
26028 getting "The service did not return an error." Thanks to Matt
26032 Changes in version 0.1.0.11 - 2005-06-30
26033 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
26034 - Fix major security bug: servers were disregarding their
26035 exit policies if clients behaved unexpectedly.
26036 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
26037 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
26038 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
26039 - The MAPADDRESS control command was broken.
26042 Changes in version 0.1.0.10 - 2005-06-14
26044 - Make NT services work and start on startup on Win32 (based on
26045 patch by Matt Edman). See the FAQ entry for details.
26046 - Make 'platform' string in descriptor more accurate for Win32
26047 servers, so it's not just "unknown platform".
26048 - REUSEADDR on normal platforms means you can rebind to the port
26049 right after somebody else has let it go. But REUSEADDR on Win32
26050 means you can bind to the port _even when somebody else already
26051 has it bound_! So, don't do that on Win32.
26052 - Clean up the log messages when starting on Win32 with no config
26054 - Allow seeding the RNG on Win32 even when you're not running as
26055 Administrator. If seeding the RNG on Win32 fails, quit.
26057 o Assert / crash bugs:
26058 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
26059 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
26060 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
26062 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
26063 Tor server triggers an assert. Stop asserting, and start handling
26064 TLS errors better in other situations too.
26065 - Fix a race condition that can trigger an assert when we have a
26066 pending create cell and an OR connection attempt fails.
26069 - Use pthreads for worker processes rather than forking. This was
26070 forced because when we forked, we ended up wasting a lot of
26071 duplicate ram over time.
26072 - Also switch to foo_r versions of some library calls to allow
26073 reentry and threadsafeness.
26074 - Implement --disable-threads configure option. Disable threads on
26075 netbsd and openbsd by default, because they have no reentrant
26076 resolver functions (!), and on solaris since it has other
26078 - Fix possible bug on threading platforms (e.g. win32) which was
26079 leaking a file descriptor whenever a cpuworker or dnsworker died.
26080 - Fix a minor memory leak when somebody establishes an introduction
26081 point at your Tor server.
26082 - Fix possible memory leak in tor_lookup_hostname(). (Thanks to
26084 - Add ./configure --with-dmalloc option, to track memory leaks.
26085 - And try to free all memory on closing, so we can detect what
26088 o Protocol correctness:
26089 - When we've connected to an OR and handshaked but didn't like
26090 the result, we were closing the conn without sending destroy
26091 cells back for pending circuits. Now send those destroys.
26092 - Start sending 'truncated' cells back rather than destroy cells
26093 if the circuit closes in front of you. This means we won't have
26094 to abandon partially built circuits.
26095 - Handle changed router status correctly when dirserver reloads
26096 fingerprint file. We used to be dropping all unverified descriptors
26097 right then. The bug was hidden because we would immediately
26098 fetch a directory from another dirserver, which would include the
26099 descriptors we just dropped.
26100 - Revise tor-spec to add more/better stream end reasons.
26101 - Revise all calls to connection_edge_end to avoid sending 'misc',
26102 and to take errno into account where possible.
26103 - Client now retries when streams end early for 'hibernating' or
26104 'resource limit' reasons, rather than failing them.
26105 - Try to be more zealous about calling connection_edge_end when
26106 things go bad with edge conns in connection.c.
26108 o Robustness improvements:
26109 - Better handling for heterogeneous / unreliable nodes:
26110 - Annotate circuits with whether they aim to contain high uptime
26111 nodes and/or high capacity nodes. When building circuits, choose
26113 - This means that every single node in an intro rend circuit,
26114 not just the last one, will have a minimum uptime.
26115 - New config option LongLivedPorts to indicate application streams
26116 that will want high uptime circuits.
26117 - Servers reset uptime when a dir fetch entirely fails. This
26118 hopefully reflects stability of the server's network connectivity.
26119 - If somebody starts his tor server in Jan 2004 and then fixes his
26120 clock, don't make his published uptime be a year.
26121 - Reset published uptime when we wake up from hibernation.
26122 - Introduce a notion of 'internal' circs, which are chosen without
26123 regard to the exit policy of the last hop. Intro and rendezvous
26124 circs must be internal circs, to avoid leaking information. Resolve
26125 and connect streams can use internal circs if they want.
26126 - New circuit pooling algorithm: keep track of what destination ports
26127 we've used recently (start out assuming we'll want to use 80), and
26128 make sure to have enough circs around to satisfy these ports. Also
26129 make sure to have 2 internal circs around if we've required internal
26130 circs lately (and with high uptime if we've seen that lately too).
26131 - Turn addr_policy_compare from a tristate to a quadstate; this should
26132 help address our "Ah, you allow 1.2.3.4:80. You are a good choice
26133 for google.com" problem.
26134 - When a client asks us for a dir mirror and we don't have one,
26135 launch an attempt to get a fresh one.
26136 - First cut at support for "create-fast" cells. Clients can use
26137 these when extending to their first hop, since the TLS already
26138 provides forward secrecy and authentication. Not enabled on
26141 o Reachability testing.
26142 - Your Tor server will automatically try to see if its ORPort and
26143 DirPort are reachable from the outside, and it won't upload its
26144 descriptor until it decides at least ORPort is reachable (when
26145 DirPort is not yet found reachable, publish it as zero).
26146 - When building testing circs for ORPort testing, use only
26147 high-bandwidth nodes, so fewer circuits fail.
26148 - Notice when our IP changes, and reset stats/uptime/reachability.
26149 - Authdirservers don't do ORPort reachability detection, since
26150 they're in clique mode, so it will be rare to find a server not
26151 already connected to them.
26152 - Authdirservers now automatically approve nodes running 0.1.0.2-rc
26156 - Now we allow two unverified servers with the same nickname
26157 but different keys. But if a nickname is verified, only that
26158 nickname+key are allowed.
26159 - If you're an authdirserver connecting to an address:port,
26160 and it's not the OR you were expecting, forget about that
26161 descriptor. If he *was* the one you were expecting, then forget
26162 about all other descriptors for that address:port.
26163 - Allow servers to publish descriptors from 12 hours in the future.
26164 Corollary: only whine about clock skew from the dirserver if
26165 he's a trusted dirserver (since now even verified servers could
26166 have quite wrong clocks).
26167 - Require servers that use the default dirservers to have public IP
26168 addresses. We have too many servers that are configured with private
26169 IPs and their admins never notice the log entries complaining that
26170 their descriptors are being rejected.
26172 o Efficiency improvements:
26173 - Use libevent. Now we can use faster async cores (like epoll, kpoll,
26174 and /dev/poll), and hopefully work better on Windows too.
26175 - Apple's OS X 10.4.0 ships with a broken kqueue API, and using
26176 kqueue on 10.3.9 causes kernel panics. Don't use kqueue on OS X.
26177 - Find libevent even if it's hiding in /usr/local/ and your
26178 CFLAGS and LDFLAGS don't tell you to look there.
26179 - Be able to link with libevent as a shared library (the default
26180 after 1.0d), even if it's hiding in /usr/local/lib and even
26181 if you haven't added /usr/local/lib to your /etc/ld.so.conf,
26182 assuming you're running gcc. Otherwise fail and give a useful
26184 - Switch to a new buffer management algorithm, which tries to avoid
26185 reallocing and copying quite as much. In first tests it looks like
26186 it uses *more* memory on average, but less cpu.
26187 - Switch our internal buffers implementation to use a ring buffer,
26188 to hopefully improve performance for fast servers a lot.
26189 - Reenable the part of the code that tries to flush as soon as an
26190 OR outbuf has a full TLS record available. Perhaps this will make
26191 OR outbufs not grow as huge except in rare cases, thus saving lots
26192 of CPU time plus memory.
26193 - Improve performance for dirservers: stop re-parsing the whole
26194 directory every time you regenerate it.
26195 - Keep a big splay tree of (circid,orconn)->circuit mappings to make
26196 it much faster to look up a circuit for each relay cell.
26197 - Remove most calls to assert_all_pending_dns_resolves_ok(),
26198 since they're eating our cpu on exit nodes.
26199 - Stop wasting time doing a case insensitive comparison for every
26200 dns name every time we do any lookup. Canonicalize the names to
26201 lowercase when you first see them.
26204 - Handle unavailable hidden services better. Handle slow or busy
26205 hidden services better.
26206 - Cannibalize GENERAL circs to be C_REND, C_INTRO, S_INTRO, and S_REND
26207 circ as necessary, if there are any completed ones lying around
26208 when we try to launch one.
26209 - Make hidden services try to establish a rendezvous for 30 seconds
26210 after fetching the descriptor, rather than for n (where n=3)
26211 attempts to build a circuit.
26212 - Adjust maximum skew and age for rendezvous descriptors: let skew
26213 be 48 hours rather than 90 minutes.
26214 - Reject malformed .onion addresses rather then passing them on as
26215 normal web requests.
26218 - More Tor controller support. See
26219 http://tor.eff.org/doc/control-spec.txt for all the new features,
26220 including signals to emulate unix signals from any platform;
26221 redirectstream; extendcircuit; mapaddress; getinfo; postdescriptor;
26222 closestream; closecircuit; etc.
26223 - Encode hashed controller passwords in hex instead of base64,
26224 to make it easier to write controllers.
26225 - Revise control spec and implementation to allow all log messages to
26226 be sent to controller with their severities intact (suggested by
26227 Matt Edman). Disable debug-level logs while delivering a debug-level
26228 log to the controller, to prevent loop. Update TorControl to handle
26229 new log event types.
26231 o New config options/defaults:
26232 - Begin scrubbing sensitive strings from logs by default. Turn off
26233 the config option SafeLogging if you need to do debugging.
26234 - New exit policy: accept most low-numbered ports, rather than
26235 rejecting most low-numbered ports.
26236 - Put a note in the torrc about abuse potential with the default
26238 - Add support for CONNECTing through https proxies, with "HttpsProxy"
26240 - Add HttpProxyAuthenticator and HttpsProxyAuthenticator support
26241 based on patch from Adam Langley (basic auth only).
26242 - Bump the default BandwidthRate from 1 MB to 2 MB, to accommodate
26243 the fast servers that have been joining lately. (Clients are now
26244 willing to load balance over up to 2 MB of advertised bandwidth
26246 - New config option MaxAdvertisedBandwidth which lets you advertise
26247 a low bandwidthrate (to not attract as many circuits) while still
26248 allowing a higher bandwidthrate in reality.
26249 - Require BandwidthRate to be at least 20kB/s for servers.
26250 - Add a NoPublish config option, so you can be a server (e.g. for
26251 testing running Tor servers in other Tor networks) without
26252 publishing your descriptor to the primary dirservers.
26253 - Add a new AddressMap config directive to rewrite incoming socks
26254 addresses. This lets you, for example, declare an implicit
26255 required exit node for certain sites.
26256 - Add a new TrackHostExits config directive to trigger addressmaps
26257 for certain incoming socks addresses -- for sites that break when
26258 your exit keeps changing (based on patch from Mike Perry).
26259 - Split NewCircuitPeriod option into NewCircuitPeriod (30 secs),
26260 which describes how often we retry making new circuits if current
26261 ones are dirty, and MaxCircuitDirtiness (10 mins), which describes
26262 how long we're willing to make use of an already-dirty circuit.
26263 - Change compiled-in SHUTDOWN_WAIT_LENGTH from a fixed 30 secs to
26264 a config option "ShutdownWaitLength" (when using kill -INT on
26266 - Fix an edge case in parsing config options: if they say "--"
26267 on the commandline, it's not a config option (thanks weasel).
26268 - New config option DirAllowPrivateAddresses for authdirservers.
26269 Now by default they refuse router descriptors that have non-IP or
26270 private-IP addresses.
26271 - Change DirFetchPeriod/StatusFetchPeriod to have a special "Be
26272 smart" default value: low for servers and high for clients.
26273 - Some people were putting "Address " in their torrc, and they had
26274 a buggy resolver that resolved " " to 0.0.0.0. Oops.
26275 - If DataDir is ~/.tor, and that expands to /.tor, then default to
26276 LOCALSTATEDIR/tor instead.
26277 - Implement --verify-config command-line option to check if your torrc
26278 is valid without actually launching Tor.
26280 o Logging improvements:
26281 - When dirservers refuse a server descriptor, we now log its
26282 contactinfo, platform, and the poster's IP address.
26283 - Only warn once per nickname from add_nickname_list_to_smartlist()
26284 per failure, so an entrynode or exitnode choice that's down won't
26286 - When we're connecting to an OR and he's got a different nickname/key
26287 than we were expecting, only complain loudly if we're an OP or a
26288 dirserver. Complaining loudly to the OR admins just confuses them.
26289 - Whine at you if you're a server and you don't set your contactinfo.
26290 - Warn when exit policy implicitly allows local addresses.
26291 - Give a better warning when some other server advertises an
26292 ORPort that is actually an apache running ssl.
26293 - If we get an incredibly skewed timestamp from a dirserver mirror
26294 that isn't a verified OR, don't warn -- it's probably him that's
26296 - When a dirserver causes you to give a warn, mention which dirserver
26298 - Initialize libevent later in the startup process, so the logs are
26299 already established by the time we start logging libevent warns.
26300 - Use correct errno on win32 if libevent fails.
26301 - Check and warn about known-bad/slow libevent versions.
26302 - Stop warning about sigpipes in the logs. We're going to
26303 pretend that getting these occasionally is normal and fine.
26305 o New contrib scripts:
26306 - New experimental script tor/contrib/exitlist: a simple python
26307 script to parse directories and find Tor nodes that exit to listed
26309 - New experimental script tor/contrib/ExerciseServer.py (needs more
26310 work) that uses the controller interface to build circuits and
26311 fetch pages over them. This will help us bootstrap servers that
26312 have lots of capacity but haven't noticed it yet.
26313 - New experimental script tor/contrib/PathDemo.py (needs more work)
26314 that uses the controller interface to let you choose whole paths
26316 "<hostname>.<path,separated by dots>.<length of path>.path"
26317 - New contributed script "privoxy-tor-toggle" to toggle whether
26318 Privoxy uses Tor. Seems to be configured for Debian by default.
26319 - Have torctl.in/tor.sh.in check for location of su binary (needed
26323 - chdir() to your datadirectory at the *end* of the daemonize process,
26324 not the beginning. This was a problem because the first time you
26325 run tor, if your datadir isn't there, and you have runasdaemon set
26326 to 1, it will try to chdir to it before it tries to create it. Oops.
26327 - Fix several double-mark-for-close bugs, e.g. where we were finding
26328 a conn for a cell even if that conn is already marked for close.
26329 - Stop most cases of hanging up on a socks connection without sending
26331 - Fix a bug in the RPM package: set home directory for _tor to
26332 something more reasonable when first installing.
26333 - Stop putting nodename in the Platform string in server descriptors.
26334 It doesn't actually help, and it is confusing/upsetting some people.
26335 - When using preferred entry or exit nodes, ignore whether the
26336 circuit wants uptime or capacity. They asked for the nodes, they
26338 - Tie MAX_DIR_SIZE to MAX_BUF_SIZE, so now directory sizes won't get
26339 artificially capped at 500kB.
26340 - Cache local dns resolves correctly even when they're .exit
26342 - If we're hibernating and we get a SIGINT, exit immediately.
26343 - tor-resolve requests were ignoring .exit if there was a working circuit
26344 they could use instead.
26345 - Pay more attention to the ClientOnly config option.
26346 - Resolve OS X installer bugs: stop claiming to be 0.0.9.2 in certain
26347 installer screens; and don't put stuff into StartupItems unless
26348 the user asks you to.
26351 - Rewrite address "serifos.exit" to "externalIP.serifos.exit"
26352 rather than just rejecting it.
26353 - If our clock jumps forward by 100 seconds or more, assume something
26354 has gone wrong with our network and abandon all not-yet-used circs.
26355 - When an application is using socks5, give him the whole variety of
26356 potential socks5 responses (connect refused, host unreachable, etc),
26357 rather than just "success" or "failure".
26358 - A more sane version numbering system. See
26359 http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/version-spec.txt for details.
26360 - Change version parsing logic: a version is "obsolete" if it is not
26361 recommended and (1) there is a newer recommended version in the
26362 same series, or (2) there are no recommended versions in the same
26363 series, but there are some recommended versions in a newer series.
26364 A version is "new" if it is newer than any recommended version in
26366 - Report HTTP reasons to client when getting a response from directory
26367 servers -- so you can actually know what went wrong.
26368 - Reject odd-looking addresses at the client (e.g. addresses that
26369 contain a colon), rather than having the server drop them because
26371 - Stop publishing socksport in the directory, since it's not
26372 actually meant to be public. For compatibility, publish a 0 there
26374 - Since we ship our own Privoxy on OS X, tweak it so it doesn't write
26375 cookies to disk and doesn't log each web request to disk. (Thanks
26376 to Brett Carrington for pointing this out.)
26377 - Add OSX uninstall instructions. An actual uninstall script will
26379 - Add "opt hibernating 1" to server descriptor to make it clearer
26380 whether the server is hibernating.
26383 Changes in version 0.0.9.10 - 2005-06-16
26384 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (backported from 0.1.0.10):
26385 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
26386 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
26387 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
26391 Changes in version 0.0.9.9 - 2005-04-23
26392 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
26393 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
26394 Tor server triggers an assert. This release contains a minimal
26395 backport from the broader fix that we put into 0.1.0.4-rc.
26398 Changes in version 0.0.9.8 - 2005-04-07
26399 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
26400 - We have a bug that I haven't found yet. Sometimes, very rarely,
26401 cpuworkers get stuck in the 'busy' state, even though the cpuworker
26402 thinks of itself as idle. This meant that no new circuits ever got
26403 established. Here's a workaround to kill any cpuworker that's been
26404 busy for more than 100 seconds.
26407 Changes in version 0.0.9.7 - 2005-04-01
26408 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
26409 - Fix another race crash bug (thanks to Glenn Fink for reporting).
26410 - Compare identity to identity, not to nickname, when extending to
26411 a router not already in the directory. This was preventing us from
26412 extending to unknown routers. Oops.
26413 - Make sure to create OS X Tor user in <500 range, so we aren't
26414 creating actual system users.
26415 - Note where connection-that-hasn't-sent-end was marked, and fix
26416 a few really loud instances of this harmless bug (it's fixed more
26420 Changes in version 0.0.9.6 - 2005-03-24
26421 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (crashes and asserts):
26422 - Add new end stream reasons to maintenance branch. Fix bug where
26423 reason (8) could trigger an assert. Prevent bug from recurring.
26424 - Apparently win32 stat wants paths to not end with a slash.
26425 - Fix assert triggers in assert_cpath_layer_ok(), where we were
26426 blowing away the circuit that conn->cpath_layer points to, then
26427 checking to see if the circ is well-formed. Backport check to make
26428 sure we dont use the cpath on a closed connection.
26429 - Prevent circuit_resume_edge_reading_helper() from trying to package
26430 inbufs for marked-for-close streams.
26431 - Don't crash on hup if your options->address has become unresolvable.
26432 - Some systems (like OS X) sometimes accept() a connection and tell
26433 you the remote host is 0.0.0.0:0. If this happens, due to some
26434 other mis-features, we get confused; so refuse the conn for now.
26436 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (other):
26437 - Fix harmless but scary "Unrecognized content encoding" warn message.
26438 - Add new stream error reason: TORPROTOCOL reason means "you are not
26439 speaking a version of Tor I understand; say bye-bye to your stream."
26440 - Be willing to cache directories from up to ROUTER_MAX_AGE seconds
26441 into the future, now that we are more tolerant of skew. This
26442 resolves a bug where a Tor server would refuse to cache a directory
26443 because all the directories it gets are too far in the future;
26444 yet the Tor server never logs any complaints about clock skew.
26445 - Mac packaging magic: make man pages useable, and do not overwrite
26446 existing torrc files.
26447 - Make OS X log happily to /var/log/tor/tor.log
26450 Changes in version 0.0.9.5 - 2005-02-22
26451 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
26452 - Fix an assert race at exit nodes when resolve requests fail.
26453 - Stop picking unverified dir mirrors--it only leads to misery.
26454 - Patch from Matt Edman to make NT services work better. Service
26455 support is still not compiled into the executable by default.
26456 - Patch from Dmitri Bely so the Tor service runs better under
26457 the win32 SYSTEM account.
26458 - Make tor-resolve actually work (?) on Win32.
26459 - Fix a sign bug when getrlimit claims to have 4+ billion
26460 file descriptors available.
26461 - Stop refusing to start when bandwidthburst == bandwidthrate.
26462 - When create cells have been on the onion queue more than five
26463 seconds, just send back a destroy and take them off the list.
26466 Changes in version 0.0.9.4 - 2005-02-03
26467 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
26468 - Fix an assert bug that took down most of our servers: when
26469 a server claims to have 1 GB of bandwidthburst, don't
26471 - Don't crash as badly if we have spawned the max allowed number
26472 of dnsworkers, or we're out of file descriptors.
26473 - Block more file-sharing ports in the default exit policy.
26474 - MaxConn is now automatically set to the hard limit of max
26475 file descriptors we're allowed (ulimit -n), minus a few for
26477 - Give a clearer message when servers need to raise their
26478 ulimit -n when they start running out of file descriptors.
26479 - SGI Compatibility patches from Jan Schaumann.
26480 - Tolerate a corrupt cached directory better.
26481 - When a dirserver hasn't approved your server, list which one.
26482 - Go into soft hibernation after 95% of the bandwidth is used,
26483 not 99%. This is especially important for daily hibernators who
26484 have a small accounting max. Hopefully it will result in fewer
26485 cut connections when the hard hibernation starts.
26486 - Load-balance better when using servers that claim more than
26487 800kB/s of capacity.
26488 - Make NT services work (experimental, only used if compiled in).
26491 Changes in version 0.0.9.3 - 2005-01-21
26492 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
26493 - Backport the cpu use fixes from main branch, so busy servers won't
26494 need as much processor time.
26495 - Work better when we go offline and then come back, or when we
26496 run Tor at boot before the network is up. We do this by
26497 optimistically trying to fetch a new directory whenever an
26498 application request comes in and we think we're offline -- the
26499 human is hopefully a good measure of when the network is back.
26500 - Backport some minimal hidserv bugfixes: keep rend circuits open as
26501 long as you keep using them; actually publish hidserv descriptors
26502 shortly after they change, rather than waiting 20-40 minutes.
26503 - Enable Mac startup script by default.
26504 - Fix duplicate dns_cancel_pending_resolve reported by Giorgos Pallas.
26505 - When you update AllowUnverifiedNodes or FirewallPorts via the
26506 controller's setconf feature, we were always appending, never
26508 - When you update HiddenServiceDir via setconf, it was screwing up
26509 the order of reading the lines, making it fail.
26510 - Do not rewrite a cached directory back to the cache; otherwise we
26511 will think it is recent and not fetch a newer one on startup.
26512 - Workaround for webservers that lie about Content-Encoding: Tor
26513 now tries to autodetect compressed directories and compression
26514 itself. This lets us Proxypass dir fetches through apache.
26517 Changes in version 0.0.9.2 - 2005-01-04
26518 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (crashes and asserts):
26519 - Fix an assert on startup when the disk is full and you're logging
26521 - If you do socks4 with an IP of 0.0.0.x but *don't* provide a socks4a
26522 style address, then we'd crash.
26523 - Fix an assert trigger when the running-routers string we get from
26524 a dirserver is broken.
26525 - Make worker threads start and run on win32. Now win32 servers
26527 - Bandaid (not actually fix, but now it doesn't crash) an assert
26528 where the dns worker dies mysteriously and the main Tor process
26529 doesn't remember anything about the address it was resolving.
26531 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (Win32):
26532 - Workaround for brain-damaged __FILE__ handling on MSVC: keep Nick's
26533 name out of the warning/assert messages.
26534 - Fix a superficial "unhandled error on read" bug on win32.
26535 - The win32 installer no longer requires a click-through for our
26536 license, since our Free Software license grants rights but does not
26538 - Win32: When connecting to a dirserver fails, try another one
26539 immediately. (This was already working for non-win32 Tors.)
26540 - Stop trying to parse $HOME on win32 when hunting for default
26542 - Make tor-resolve.c work on win32 by calling network_init().
26544 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (other):
26545 - Make 0.0.9.x build on Solaris again.
26546 - Due to a fencepost error, we were blowing away the \n when reporting
26547 confvalue items in the controller. So asking for multiple config
26548 values at once couldn't work.
26549 - When listing circuits that are pending on an opening OR connection,
26550 if we're an OR we were listing circuits that *end* at us as
26551 being pending on every listener, dns/cpu worker, etc. Stop that.
26552 - Dirservers were failing to create 'running-routers' or 'directory'
26553 strings if we had more than some threshold of routers. Fix them so
26554 they can handle any number of routers.
26555 - Fix a superficial "Duplicate mark for close" bug.
26556 - Stop checking for clock skew for OR connections, even for servers.
26557 - Fix a fencepost error that was chopping off the last letter of any
26558 nickname that is the maximum allowed nickname length.
26559 - Update URLs in log messages so they point to the new website.
26560 - Fix a potential problem in mangling server private keys while
26561 writing to disk (not triggered yet, as far as we know).
26562 - Include the licenses for other free software we include in Tor,
26563 now that we're shipping binary distributions more regularly.
26566 Changes in version 0.0.9.1 - 2004-12-15
26567 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
26568 - Make hibernation actually work.
26569 - Make HashedControlPassword config option work.
26570 - When we're reporting event circuit status to a controller,
26571 don't use the stream status code.
26574 Changes in version 0.0.9 - 2004-12-12
26575 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Crashes and asserts):
26576 - Catch and ignore SIGXFSZ signals when log files exceed 2GB; our
26577 write() call will fail and we handle it there.
26578 - When we run out of disk space, or other log writing error, don't
26579 crash. Just stop logging to that log and continue.
26580 - Fix isspace() and friends so they still make Solaris happy
26581 but also so they don't trigger asserts on win32.
26582 - Fix assert failure on malformed socks4a requests.
26583 - Fix an assert bug where a hidden service provider would fail if
26584 the first hop of his rendezvous circuit was down.
26585 - Better handling of size_t vs int, so we're more robust on 64
26588 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Win32):
26589 - Make windows sockets actually non-blocking (oops), and handle
26590 win32 socket errors better.
26591 - Fix parse_iso_time on platforms without strptime (eg win32).
26592 - win32: when being multithreaded, leave parent fdarray open.
26593 - Better handling of winsock includes on non-MSV win32 compilers.
26594 - Change our file IO stuff (especially wrt OpenSSL) so win32 is
26596 - Make unit tests work on win32.
26598 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Path selection and streams):
26599 - Calculate timeout for waiting for a connected cell from the time
26600 we sent the begin cell, not from the time the stream started. If
26601 it took a long time to establish the circuit, we would time out
26602 right after sending the begin cell.
26603 - Fix router_compare_addr_to_addr_policy: it was not treating a port
26604 of * as always matching, so we were picking reject *:* nodes as
26605 exit nodes too. Oops.
26606 - When read() failed on a stream, we would close it without sending
26607 back an end. So 'connection refused' would simply be ignored and
26608 the user would get no response.
26609 - Stop a sigpipe: when an 'end' cell races with eof from the app,
26610 we shouldn't hold-open-until-flush if the eof arrived first.
26611 - Let resolve conns retry/expire also, rather than sticking around
26613 - Fix more dns related bugs: send back resolve_failed and end cells
26614 more reliably when the resolve fails, rather than closing the
26615 circuit and then trying to send the cell. Also attach dummy resolve
26616 connections to a circuit *before* calling dns_resolve(), to fix
26617 a bug where cached answers would never be sent in RESOLVED cells.
26619 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Circuits):
26620 - Finally fix a bug that's been plaguing us for a year:
26621 With high load, circuit package window was reaching 0. Whenever
26622 we got a circuit-level sendme, we were reading a lot on each
26623 socket, but only writing out a bit. So we would eventually reach
26624 eof. This would be noticed and acted on even when there were still
26625 bytes sitting in the inbuf.
26626 - Use identity comparison, not nickname comparison, to choose which
26627 half of circuit-ID-space each side gets to use. This is needed
26628 because sometimes we think of a router as a nickname, and sometimes
26629 as a hex ID, and we can't predict what the other side will do.
26631 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Other):
26632 - Fix a whole slew of memory leaks.
26633 - Disallow NDEBUG. We don't ever want anybody to turn off debug.
26634 - If we are using select, make sure we stay within FD_SETSIZE.
26635 - When poll() is interrupted, we shouldn't believe the revents values.
26636 - Add a FAST_SMARTLIST define to optionally inline smartlist_get
26637 and smartlist_len, which are two major profiling offenders.
26638 - If do_hup fails, actually notice.
26639 - Flush the log file descriptor after we print "Tor opening log file",
26640 so we don't see those messages days later.
26641 - Hidden service operators now correctly handle version 1 style
26642 INTRODUCE1 cells (nobody generates them still, so not a critical
26644 - Handle more errnos from accept() without closing the listener.
26645 Some OpenBSD machines were closing their listeners because
26646 they ran out of file descriptors.
26647 - Some people had wrapped their tor client/server in a script
26648 that would restart it whenever it died. This did not play well
26649 with our "shut down if your version is obsolete" code. Now people
26650 don't fetch a new directory if their local cached version is
26652 - Make our autogen.sh work on ksh as well as bash.
26653 - Better torrc example lines for dirbindaddress and orbindaddress.
26654 - Improved bounds checking on parsed ints (e.g. config options and
26655 the ones we find in directories.)
26656 - Stop using separate defaults for no-config-file and
26657 empty-config-file. Now you have to explicitly turn off SocksPort,
26658 if you don't want it open.
26659 - We were starting to daemonize before we opened our logs, so if
26660 there were any problems opening logs, we would complain to stderr,
26661 which wouldn't work, and then mysteriously exit.
26662 - If a verified OR connects to us before he's uploaded his descriptor,
26663 or we verify him and hup but he still has the original TLS
26664 connection, then conn->nickname is still set like he's unverified.
26666 o Code security improvements, inspired by Ilja:
26667 - tor_snprintf wrapper over snprintf with consistent (though not C99)
26669 - Replace sprintf with tor_snprintf. (I think they were all safe, but
26671 - Replace strcpy/strncpy with strlcpy in more places.
26672 - Avoid strcat; use tor_snprintf or strlcat instead.
26674 o Features (circuits and streams):
26675 - New circuit building strategy: keep a list of ports that we've
26676 used in the past 6 hours, and always try to have 2 circuits open
26677 or on the way that will handle each such port. Seed us with port
26678 80 so web users won't complain that Tor is "slow to start up".
26679 - Make kill -USR1 dump more useful stats about circuits.
26680 - When warning about retrying or giving up, print the address, so
26681 the user knows which one it's talking about.
26682 - If you haven't used a clean circuit in an hour, throw it away,
26683 just to be on the safe side. (This means after 6 hours a totally
26684 unused Tor client will have no circuits open.)
26685 - Support "foo.nickname.exit" addresses, to let Alice request the
26686 address "foo" as viewed by exit node "nickname". Based on a patch
26687 from Geoff Goodell.
26688 - If your requested entry or exit node has advertised bandwidth 0,
26690 - Be more greedy about filling up relay cells -- we try reading again
26691 once we've processed the stuff we read, in case enough has arrived
26692 to fill the last cell completely.
26693 - Refuse application socks connections to port 0.
26694 - Use only 0.0.9pre1 and later servers for resolve cells.
26696 o Features (bandwidth):
26697 - Hibernation: New config option "AccountingMax" lets you
26698 set how many bytes per month (in each direction) you want to
26699 allow your server to consume. Rather than spreading those
26700 bytes out evenly over the month, we instead hibernate for some
26701 of the month and pop up at a deterministic time, work until
26702 the bytes are consumed, then hibernate again. Config option
26703 "MonthlyAccountingStart" lets you specify which day of the month
26704 your billing cycle starts on.
26705 - Implement weekly/monthly/daily accounting: now you specify your
26706 hibernation properties by
26707 AccountingMax N bytes|KB|MB|GB|TB
26708 AccountingStart day|week|month [day] HH:MM
26709 Defaults to "month 1 0:00".
26710 - Let bandwidth and interval config options be specified as 5 bytes,
26711 kb, kilobytes, etc; and as seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks.
26713 o Features (directories):
26714 - New "router-status" line in directory, to better bind each verified
26715 nickname to its identity key.
26716 - Clients can ask dirservers for /dir.z to get a compressed version
26717 of the directory. Only works for servers running 0.0.9, of course.
26718 - Make clients cache directories and use them to seed their router
26719 lists at startup. This means clients have a datadir again.
26720 - Respond to content-encoding headers by trying to uncompress as
26722 - Clients and servers now fetch running-routers; cache
26723 running-routers; compress running-routers; serve compressed
26725 - Make moria2 advertise a dirport of 80, so people behind firewalls
26726 will be able to get a directory.
26727 - Http proxy support
26728 - Dirservers translate requests for http://%s:%d/x to /x
26729 - You can specify "HttpProxy %s[:%d]" and all dir fetches will
26730 be routed through this host.
26731 - Clients ask for /tor/x rather than /x for new enough dirservers.
26732 This way we can one day coexist peacefully with apache.
26733 - Clients specify a "Host: %s%d" http header, to be compatible
26734 with more proxies, and so running squid on an exit node can work.
26735 - Protect dirservers from overzealous descriptor uploading -- wait
26736 10 seconds after directory gets dirty, before regenerating.
26738 o Features (packages and install):
26739 - Add NSI installer contributed by J Doe.
26740 - Apply NT service patch from Osamu Fujino. Still needs more work.
26741 - Commit VC6 and VC7 workspace/project files.
26742 - Commit a tor.spec for making RPM files, with help from jbash.
26743 - Add contrib/torctl.in contributed by Glenn Fink.
26744 - Make expand_filename handle ~ and ~username.
26745 - Use autoconf to enable largefile support where necessary. Use
26746 ftello where available, since ftell can fail at 2GB.
26747 - Ship src/win32/ in the tarball, so people can use it to build.
26748 - Make old win32 fall back to CWD if SHGetSpecialFolderLocation
26751 o Features (ui controller):
26752 - Control interface: a separate program can now talk to your
26753 client/server over a socket, and get/set config options, receive
26754 notifications of circuits and streams starting/finishing/dying,
26755 bandwidth used, etc. The next step is to get some GUIs working.
26756 Let us know if you want to help out. See doc/control-spec.txt .
26757 - Ship a contrib/tor-control.py as an example script to interact
26758 with the control port.
26759 - "tor --hash-password zzyxz" will output a salted password for
26760 use in authenticating to the control interface.
26761 - Implement the control-spec's SAVECONF command, to write your
26762 configuration to torrc.
26763 - Get cookie authentication for the controller closer to working.
26764 - When set_conf changes our server descriptor, upload a new copy.
26765 But don't upload it too often if there are frequent changes.
26767 o Features (config and command-line):
26768 - Deprecate unofficial config option abbreviations, and abbreviations
26769 not on the command line.
26770 - Configuration infrastructure support for warning on obsolete
26772 - Give a slightly more useful output for "tor -h".
26773 - Break DirFetchPostPeriod into:
26774 - DirFetchPeriod for fetching full directory,
26775 - StatusFetchPeriod for fetching running-routers,
26776 - DirPostPeriod for posting server descriptor,
26777 - RendPostPeriod for posting hidden service descriptors.
26778 - New log format in config:
26779 "Log minsev[-maxsev] stdout|stderr|syslog" or
26780 "Log minsev[-maxsev] file /var/foo"
26781 - DirPolicy config option, to let people reject incoming addresses
26782 from their dirserver.
26783 - "tor --list-fingerprint" will list your identity key fingerprint
26785 - Make tor --version --version dump the cvs Id of every file.
26786 - New 'MyFamily nick1,...' config option for a server to
26787 specify other servers that shouldn't be used in the same circuit
26788 with it. Only believed if nick1 also specifies us.
26789 - New 'NodeFamily nick1,nick2,...' config option for a client to
26790 specify nodes that it doesn't want to use in the same circuit.
26791 - New 'Redirectexit pattern address:port' config option for a
26792 server to redirect exit connections, e.g. to a local squid.
26793 - Add "pass" target for RedirectExit, to make it easier to break
26794 out of a sequence of RedirectExit rules.
26795 - Make the dirservers file obsolete.
26796 - Include a dir-signing-key token in directories to tell the
26797 parsing entity which key is being used to sign.
26798 - Remove the built-in bulky default dirservers string.
26799 - New config option "Dirserver %s:%d [fingerprint]", which can be
26800 repeated as many times as needed. If no dirservers specified,
26801 default to moria1,moria2,tor26.
26802 - Make 'Routerfile' config option obsolete.
26803 - Discourage people from setting their dirfetchpostperiod more often
26804 than once per minute.
26806 o Features (other):
26807 - kill -USR2 now moves all logs to loglevel debug (kill -HUP to
26808 get back to normal.)
26809 - Accept *:706 (silc) in default exit policy.
26810 - Implement new versioning format for post 0.1.
26811 - Distinguish between TOR_TLS_CLOSE and TOR_TLS_ERROR, so we can
26812 log more informatively.
26813 - Check clock skew for verified servers, but allow unverified
26814 servers and clients to have any clock skew.
26815 - Make sure the hidden service descriptors are at a random offset
26816 from each other, to hinder linkability.
26817 - Clients now generate a TLS cert too, in preparation for having
26818 them act more like real nodes.
26819 - Add a pure-C tor-resolve implementation.
26820 - Use getrlimit and friends to ensure we can reach MaxConn (currently
26821 1024) file descriptors.
26822 - Raise the max dns workers from 50 to 100.
26825 Changes in version 0.0.8.1 - 2004-10-13
26827 - Fix a seg fault that can be triggered remotely for Tor
26828 clients/servers with an open dirport.
26829 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
26830 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
26831 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
26832 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
26833 intermittent connections.
26834 - Fix a bug in parsing opt keywords with objects.
26835 - Fix a stale pointer assert bug when a stream detaches and
26837 - Fix a string format vulnerability (probably not exploitable)
26838 in reporting stats locally.
26839 - Fix an assert trigger: sometimes launching circuits can fail
26840 immediately, e.g. because too many circuits have failed recently.
26841 - Fix a compile warning on 64 bit platforms.
26844 Changes in version 0.0.8 - 2004-08-25
26846 - Made our unit tests compile again on OpenBSD 3.5, and tor
26847 itself compile again on OpenBSD on a sparc64.
26848 - We were neglecting milliseconds when logging on win32, so
26849 everything appeared to happen at the beginning of each second.
26850 - Check directory signature _before_ you decide whether you're
26851 you're running an obsolete version and should exit.
26852 - Check directory signature _before_ you parse the running-routers
26853 list to decide who's running.
26854 - Check return value of fclose while writing to disk, so we don't
26855 end up with broken files when servers run out of disk space.
26856 - Port it to SunOS 5.9 / Athena
26857 - Fix two bugs in saving onion keys to disk when rotating, so
26858 hopefully we'll get fewer people using old onion keys.
26859 - Remove our mostly unused -- and broken -- hex_encode()
26860 function. Use base16_encode() instead. (Thanks to Timo Lindfors
26861 for pointing out this bug.)
26862 - Only pick and establish intro points after we've gotten a
26864 - Fix assert triggers: if the other side returns an address 0.0.0.0,
26865 don't put it into the client dns cache.
26866 - If a begin failed due to exit policy, but we believe the IP
26867 address should have been allowed, switch that router to exitpolicy
26868 reject *:* until we get our next directory.
26870 o Protocol changes:
26871 - 'Extend' relay cell payloads now include the digest of the
26872 intended next hop's identity key. Now we can verify that we're
26873 extending to the right router, and also extend to routers we
26874 hadn't heard of before.
26877 - Tor nodes can now act as relays (with an advertised ORPort)
26878 without being manually verified by the dirserver operators.
26879 - Uploaded descriptors of unverified routers are now accepted
26880 by the dirservers, and included in the directory.
26881 - Verified routers are listed by nickname in the running-routers
26882 list; unverified routers are listed as "$<fingerprint>".
26883 - We now use hash-of-identity-key in most places rather than
26884 nickname or addr:port, for improved security/flexibility.
26885 - AllowUnverifiedNodes config option to let circuits choose no-name
26886 routers in entry,middle,exit,introduction,rendezvous positions.
26887 Allow middle and rendezvous positions by default.
26888 - When picking unverified routers, skip those with low uptime and/or
26889 low bandwidth, depending on what properties you care about.
26890 - ClientOnly option for nodes that never want to become servers.
26891 - Directory caching.
26892 - "AuthoritativeDir 1" option for the official dirservers.
26893 - Now other nodes (clients and servers) will cache the latest
26894 directory they've pulled down.
26895 - They can enable their DirPort to serve it to others.
26896 - Clients will pull down a directory from any node with an open
26897 DirPort, and check the signature/timestamp correctly.
26898 - Authoritative dirservers now fetch directories from other
26899 authdirservers, to stay better synced.
26900 - Running-routers list tells who's down also, along with noting
26901 if they're verified (listed by nickname) or unverified (listed
26903 - Allow dirservers to serve running-router list separately.
26904 This isn't used yet.
26905 - You can now fetch $DIRURL/running-routers to get just the
26906 running-routers line, not the whole descriptor list. (But
26907 clients don't use this yet.)
26908 - Clients choose nodes proportional to advertised bandwidth.
26909 - Clients avoid using nodes with low uptime as introduction points.
26910 - Handle servers with dynamic IP addresses: don't just replace
26911 options->Address with the resolved one at startup, and
26912 detect our address right before we make a routerinfo each time.
26913 - 'FascistFirewall' option to pick dirservers and ORs on specific
26914 ports; plus 'FirewallPorts' config option to tell FascistFirewall
26915 which ports are open. (Defaults to 80,443)
26916 - Try other dirservers immediately if the one you try is down. This
26917 should tolerate down dirservers better now.
26918 - ORs connect-on-demand to other ORs
26919 - If you get an extend cell to an OR you're not connected to,
26920 connect, handshake, and forward the create cell.
26921 - The authoritative dirservers stay connected to everybody,
26922 and everybody stays connected to 0.0.7 servers, but otherwise
26923 clients/servers expire unused connections after 5 minutes.
26924 - When servers get a sigint, they delay 30 seconds (refusing new
26925 connections) then exit. A second sigint causes immediate exit.
26926 - File and name management:
26927 - Look for .torrc if no CONFDIR "torrc" is found.
26928 - If no datadir is defined, then choose, make, and secure ~/.tor
26930 - If torrc not found, exitpolicy reject *:*.
26931 - Expands ~/ in filenames to $HOME/ (but doesn't yet expand ~arma).
26932 - If no nickname is defined, derive default from hostname.
26933 - Rename secret key files, e.g. identity.key -> secret_id_key,
26934 to discourage people from mailing their identity key to tor-ops.
26935 - Refuse to build a circuit before the directory has arrived --
26936 it won't work anyway, since you won't know the right onion keys
26938 - Parse tor version numbers so we can do an is-newer-than check
26939 rather than an is-in-the-list check.
26940 - New socks command 'resolve', to let us shim gethostbyname()
26942 - A 'tor_resolve' script to access the socks resolve functionality.
26943 - A new socks-extensions.txt doc file to describe our
26944 interpretation and extensions to the socks protocols.
26945 - Add a ContactInfo option, which gets published in descriptor.
26946 - Write tor version at the top of each log file
26947 - New docs in the tarball:
26949 - Document that you should proxy your SSL traffic too.
26950 - Log a warning if the user uses an unsafe socks variant, so people
26951 are more likely to learn about privoxy or socat.
26952 - Log a warning if you're running an unverified server, to let you
26953 know you might want to get it verified.
26954 - Change the default exit policy to reject the default edonkey,
26955 kazaa, gnutella ports.
26956 - Add replace_file() to util.[ch] to handle win32's rename().
26957 - Publish OR uptime in descriptor (and thus in directory) too.
26958 - Remember used bandwidth (both in and out), and publish 15-minute
26959 snapshots for the past day into our descriptor.
26960 - Be more aggressive about trying to make circuits when the network
26961 has changed (e.g. when you unsuspend your laptop).
26962 - Check for time skew on http headers; report date in response to
26964 - If the entrynode config line has only one node, don't pick it as
26966 - Add strict{entry|exit}nodes config options. If set to 1, then
26967 we refuse to build circuits that don't include the specified entry
26969 - OutboundBindAddress config option, to bind to a specific
26970 IP address for outgoing connect()s.
26971 - End truncated log entries (e.g. directories) with "[truncated]".
26974 Changes in version 0.0.7.3 - 2004-08-12
26975 o Stop dnsworkers from triggering an assert failure when you
26976 ask them to resolve the host "".
26979 Changes in version 0.0.7.2 - 2004-07-07
26980 o A better fix for the 0.0.0.0 problem, that will hopefully
26981 eliminate the remaining related assertion failures.
26984 Changes in version 0.0.7.1 - 2004-07-04
26985 o When an address resolves to 0.0.0.0, treat it as a failed resolve,
26986 since internally we use 0.0.0.0 to signify "not yet resolved".
26989 Changes in version 0.0.7 - 2004-06-07
26990 o Fixes for crashes and other obnoxious bugs:
26991 - Fix an epipe bug: sometimes when directory connections failed
26992 to connect, we would give them a chance to flush before closing
26994 - When we detached from a circuit because of resolvefailed, we
26995 would immediately try the same circuit twice more, and then
26996 give up on the resolve thinking we'd tried three different
26998 - Limit the number of intro circuits we'll attempt to build for a
26999 hidden service per 15-minute period.
27000 - Check recommended-software string *early*, before actually parsing
27001 the directory. Thus we can detect an obsolete version and exit,
27002 even if the new directory format doesn't parse.
27003 o Fixes for security bugs:
27004 - Remember which nodes are dirservers when you startup, and if a
27005 random OR enables his dirport, don't automatically assume he's
27006 a trusted dirserver.
27008 - Directory connections were asking the wrong poll socket to
27009 start writing, and not asking themselves to start writing.
27010 - When we detached from a circuit because we sent a begin but
27011 didn't get a connected, we would use it again the first time;
27012 but after that we would correctly switch to a different one.
27013 - Stop warning when the first onion decrypt attempt fails; they
27014 will sometimes legitimately fail now that we rotate keys.
27015 - Override unaligned-access-ok check when $host_cpu is ia64 or
27016 arm. Apparently they allow it but the kernel whines.
27017 - Dirservers try to reconnect periodically too, in case connections
27019 - Fix some memory leaks in directory servers.
27020 - Allow backslash in Win32 filenames.
27021 - Made Tor build complain-free on FreeBSD, hopefully without
27022 breaking other BSD builds. We'll see.
27023 - Check directory signatures based on name of signer, not on whom
27024 we got the directory from. This will let us cache directories more
27026 - Rotate dnsworkers and cpuworkers on SIGHUP, so they get new config
27029 - Doxygen markup on all functions and global variables.
27030 - Make directory functions update routerlist, not replace it. So
27031 now directory disagreements are not so critical a problem.
27032 - Remove the upper limit on number of descriptors in a dirserver's
27033 directory (not that we were anywhere close).
27034 - Allow multiple logfiles at different severity ranges.
27035 - Allow *BindAddress to specify ":port" rather than setting *Port
27036 separately. Allow multiple instances of each BindAddress config
27037 option, so you can bind to multiple interfaces if you want.
27038 - Allow multiple exit policy lines, which are processed in order.
27039 Now we don't need that huge line with all the commas in it.
27040 - Enable accept/reject policies on SOCKS connections, so you can bind
27041 to 0.0.0.0 but still control who can use your OP.
27042 - Updated the man page to reflect these features.
27045 Changes in version 0.0.6.2 - 2004-05-16
27046 o Our integrity-checking digest was checking only the most recent cell,
27047 not the previous cells like we'd thought.
27048 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
27051 Changes in version 0.0.6.1 - 2004-05-06
27052 o Fix two bugs in our AES counter-mode implementation (this affected
27053 onion-level stream encryption, but not TLS-level). It turns
27054 out we were doing something much more akin to a 16-character
27055 polyalphabetic cipher. Oops.
27056 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
27057 o Retire moria3 as a directory server, and add tor26 as a directory
27061 Changes in version 0.0.6 - 2004-05-02
27063 - Hidden services and rendezvous points are implemented. Go to
27064 http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/ for an index of currently available
27065 hidden services. (This only works via a socks4a proxy such as
27066 Privoxy, and currently it's quite slow.)
27067 - We now rotate link (tls context) keys and onion keys.
27068 - CREATE cells now include oaep padding, so you can tell
27069 if you decrypted them correctly.
27070 - Retry stream correctly when we fail to connect because of
27071 exit-policy-reject (should try another) or can't-resolve-address.
27072 - When we hup a dirserver and we've *removed* a server from the
27073 approved-routers list, now we remove that server from the
27074 in-memory directories too.
27075 - Add bandwidthburst to server descriptor.
27076 - Directories now say which dirserver signed them.
27077 - Use a tor_assert macro that logs failed assertions too.
27078 - Since we don't support truncateds much, don't bother sending them;
27079 just close the circ.
27080 - Fetch randomness from /dev/urandom better (not via fopen/fread)
27081 - Better debugging for tls errors
27082 - Set Content-Type on the directory and hidserv descriptor.
27083 - Remove IVs from cipher code, since AES-ctr has none.
27085 - Fix an assert trigger for exit nodes that's been plaguing us since
27086 the days of 0.0.2prexx (thanks weasel!)
27087 - Fix a bug where we were closing tls connections intermittently.
27088 It turns out openssl keeps its errors around -- so if an error
27089 happens, and you don't ask about it, and then another openssl
27090 operation happens and succeeds, and you ask if there was an error,
27091 it tells you about the first error.
27092 - Fix a bug that's been lurking since 27 may 03 (!)
27093 When passing back a destroy cell, we would use the wrong circ id.
27094 - Don't crash if a conn that sent a begin has suddenly lost its circuit.
27095 - Some versions of openssl have an SSL_pending function that erroneously
27096 returns bytes when there is a non-application record pending.
27097 - Win32 fixes. Tor now compiles on win32 with no warnings/errors.
27098 o We were using an array of length zero in a few places.
27099 o Win32's gethostbyname can't resolve an IP to an IP.
27100 o Win32's close can't close a socket.
27101 o Handle windows socket errors correctly.
27103 - check for <sys/limits.h> so we build on FreeBSD again, and
27104 <machine/limits.h> for NetBSD.
27107 Changes in version 0.0.5 - 2004-03-30
27108 o Install torrc as torrc.sample -- we no longer clobber your
27110 o Fix mangled-state bug in directory fetching (was causing sigpipes).
27111 o Only build circuits after we've fetched the directory: clients were
27112 using only the directory servers before they'd fetched a directory.
27113 This also means longer startup time; so it goes.
27114 o Fix an assert trigger where an OP would fail to handshake, and we'd
27115 expect it to have a nickname.
27116 o Work around a tsocks bug: do a socks reject when AP connection dies
27117 early, else tsocks goes into an infinite loop.
27118 o Hold socks connection open until reply is flushed (if possible)
27119 o Make exit nodes resolve IPs to IPs immediately, rather than asking
27120 the dns farm to do it.
27121 o Fix c99 aliasing warnings in rephist.c
27122 o Don't include server descriptors that are older than 24 hours in the
27124 o Give socks 'reject' replies their whole 15s to attempt to flush,
27125 rather than seeing the 60s timeout and assuming the flush had failed.
27126 o Clean automake droppings from the cvs repository
27127 o Add in a 'notice' log level for things the operator should hear
27128 but that aren't warnings
27131 Changes in version 0.0.4 - 2004-03-26
27132 o When connecting to a dirserver or OR and the network is down,
27136 Changes in version 0.0.3 - 2004-03-26
27137 o Warn and fail if server chose a nickname with illegal characters
27138 o Port to Solaris and Sparc:
27139 - include missing header fcntl.h
27140 - have autoconf find -lsocket -lnsl automatically
27141 - deal with hardware word alignment
27142 - make uname() work (solaris has a different return convention)
27143 - switch from using signal() to sigaction()
27144 o Preliminary work on reputation system:
27145 - Keep statistics on success/fail of connect attempts; they're published
27146 by kill -USR1 currently.
27147 - Add a RunTesting option to try to learn link state by creating test
27148 circuits, even when SocksPort is off.
27149 - Remove unused open circuits when there are too many.
27152 Changes in version 0.0.2 - 2004-03-19
27153 - Include strlcpy and strlcat for safer string ops
27154 - define INADDR_NONE so we compile (but still not run) on solaris
27157 Changes in version 0.0.2pre27 - 2004-03-14
27159 - Allow internal tor networks (we were rejecting internal IPs,
27160 now we allow them if they're set explicitly).
27161 - And fix a few endian issues.
27164 Changes in version 0.0.2pre26 - 2004-03-14
27166 - If a stream times out after 15s without a connected cell, don't
27167 try that circuit again: try a new one.
27168 - Retry streams at most 4 times. Then give up.
27169 - When a dirserver gets a descriptor from an unknown router, it
27170 logs its fingerprint (so the dirserver operator can choose to
27171 accept it even without mail from the server operator).
27172 - Inform unapproved servers when we reject their descriptors.
27173 - Make tor build on Windows again. It works as a client, who knows
27175 - Clearer instructions in the torrc for how to set up a server.
27176 - Be more efficient about reading fd's when our global token bucket
27177 (used for rate limiting) becomes empty.
27179 - Stop asserting that computers always go forward in time. It's
27181 - When we sent a cell (e.g. destroy) and then marked an OR connection
27182 expired, we might close it before finishing a flush if the other
27183 side isn't reading right then.
27184 - Don't allow dirservers to start if they haven't defined
27185 RecommendedVersions
27186 - We were caching transient dns failures. Oops.
27187 - Prevent servers from publishing an internal IP as their address.
27188 - Address a strcat vulnerability in circuit.c
27191 Changes in version 0.0.2pre25 - 2004-03-04
27193 - Put the OR's IP in its router descriptor, not its fqdn. That way
27194 we'll stop being stalled by gethostbyname for nodes with flaky dns,
27197 - If the user typed in an address that didn't resolve, the server
27201 Changes in version 0.0.2pre24 - 2004-03-03
27203 - Fix an assertion failure in dns.c, where we were trying to dequeue
27204 a pending dns resolve even if it wasn't pending
27205 - Fix a spurious socks5 warning about still trying to write after the
27206 connection is finished.
27207 - Hold certain marked_for_close connections open until they're finished
27208 flushing, rather than losing bytes by closing them too early.
27209 - Correctly report the reason for ending a stream
27210 - Remove some duplicate calls to connection_mark_for_close
27211 - Put switch_id and start_daemon earlier in the boot sequence, so it
27212 will actually try to chdir() to options.DataDirectory
27213 - Make 'make test' exit(1) if a test fails; fix some unit tests
27214 - Make tor fail when you use a config option it doesn't know about,
27215 rather than warn and continue.
27216 - Make --version work
27217 - Bugfixes on the rpm spec file and tor.sh, so it's more up to date
27220 Changes in version 0.0.2pre23 - 2004-02-29
27222 - Print a statement when the first circ is finished, so the user
27223 knows it's working.
27224 - If a relay cell is unrecognized at the end of the circuit,
27225 send back a destroy. (So attacks to mutate cells are more
27227 - New config option 'excludenodes' to avoid certain nodes for circuits.
27228 - When it daemonizes, it chdir's to the DataDirectory rather than "/",
27229 so you can collect coredumps there.
27231 - Fix a bug in tls flushing where sometimes data got wedged and
27232 didn't flush until more data got sent. Hopefully this bug was
27233 a big factor in the random delays we were seeing.
27234 - Make 'connected' cells include the resolved IP, so the client
27235 dns cache actually gets populated.
27236 - Disallow changing from ORPort=0 to ORPort>0 on hup.
27237 - When we time-out on a stream and detach from the circuit, send an
27238 end cell down it first.
27239 - Only warn about an unknown router (in exitnodes, entrynodes,
27240 excludenodes) after we've fetched a directory.
27243 Changes in version 0.0.2pre22 - 2004-02-26
27245 - Servers publish less revealing uname information in descriptors.
27246 - More memory tracking and assertions, to crash more usefully when
27248 - If the default torrc isn't there, just use some default defaults.
27249 Plus provide an internal dirservers file if they don't have one.
27250 - When the user tries to use Tor as an http proxy, give them an http
27251 501 failure explaining that we're a socks proxy.
27252 - Dump a new router.desc on hup, to help confused people who change
27253 their exit policies and then wonder why router.desc doesn't reflect
27255 - Clean up the generic tor.sh init script that we ship with.
27257 - If the exit stream is pending on the resolve, and a destroy arrives,
27258 then the stream wasn't getting removed from the pending list. I
27259 think this was the one causing recent server crashes.
27260 - Use a more robust poll on OSX 10.3, since their poll is flaky.
27261 - When it couldn't resolve any dirservers, it was useless from then on.
27262 Now it reloads the RouterFile (or default dirservers) if it has no
27264 - Move the 'tor' binary back to /usr/local/bin/ -- it turns out
27265 many users don't even *have* a /usr/local/sbin/.
27268 Changes in version 0.0.2pre21 - 2004-02-18
27270 - There's a ChangeLog file that actually reflects the changelog.
27271 - There's a 'torify' wrapper script, with an accompanying
27272 tor-tsocks.conf, that simplifies the process of using tsocks for
27273 tor. It even has a man page.
27274 - The tor binary gets installed to sbin rather than bin now.
27275 - Retry streams where the connected cell hasn't arrived in 15 seconds
27276 - Clean up exit policy handling -- get the default out of the torrc,
27277 so we can update it without forcing each server operator to fix
27279 - Allow imaps and pop3s in default exit policy
27281 - Prevent picking middleman nodes as the last node in the circuit
27284 Changes in version 0.0.2pre20 - 2004-01-30
27286 - We now have a deb package, and it's in debian unstable. Go to
27287 it, apt-getters. :)
27288 - I've split the TotalBandwidth option into BandwidthRate (how many
27289 bytes per second you want to allow, long-term) and
27290 BandwidthBurst (how many bytes you will allow at once before the cap
27291 kicks in). This better token bucket approach lets you, say, set
27292 BandwidthRate to 10KB/s and BandwidthBurst to 10MB, allowing good
27293 performance while not exceeding your monthly bandwidth quota.
27294 - Push out a tls record's worth of data once you've got it, rather
27295 than waiting until you've read everything waiting to be read. This
27296 may improve performance by pipelining better. We'll see.
27297 - Add an AP_CONN_STATE_CONNECTING state, to allow streams to detach
27298 from failed circuits (if they haven't been connected yet) and attach
27300 - Expire old streams that haven't managed to connect. Some day we'll
27301 have them reattach to new circuits instead.
27304 - Fix several memory leaks that were causing servers to become bloated
27306 - Fix a few very rare assert triggers. A few more remain.
27307 - Setuid to User _before_ complaining about running as root.
27310 Changes in version 0.0.2pre19 - 2004-01-07
27312 - Fix deadlock condition in dns farm. We were telling a child to die by
27313 closing the parent's file descriptor to him. But newer children were
27314 inheriting the open file descriptor from the parent, and since they
27315 weren't closing it, the socket never closed, so the child never read
27316 eof, so he never knew to exit. Similarly, dns workers were holding
27317 open other sockets, leading to all sorts of chaos.
27318 - New cleaner daemon() code for forking and backgrounding.
27319 - If you log to a file, it now prints an entry at the top of the
27320 logfile so you know it's working.
27321 - The onionskin challenge length was 30 bytes longer than necessary.
27322 - Started to patch up the spec so it's not quite so out of date.
27325 Changes in version 0.0.2pre18 - 2004-01-02
27327 - Fix endian issues with the 'integrity' field in the relay header.
27328 - Fix a potential bug where connections in state
27329 AP_CONN_STATE_CIRCUIT_WAIT might unexpectedly ask to write.
27332 Changes in version 0.0.2pre17 - 2003-12-30
27334 - Made --debuglogfile (or any second log file, actually) work.
27335 - Resolved an edge case in get_unique_circ_id_by_conn where a smart
27336 adversary could force us into an infinite loop.
27339 - Each onionskin handshake now includes a hash of the computed key,
27340 to prove the server's identity and help perfect forward secrecy.
27341 - Changed cell size from 256 to 512 bytes (working toward compatibility
27343 - Changed cell length to 2 bytes, and moved it to the relay header.
27344 - Implemented end-to-end integrity checking for the payloads of
27346 - Separated streamid from 'recognized' (otherwise circuits will get
27347 messed up when we try to have streams exit from the middle). We
27348 use the integrity-checking to confirm that a cell is addressed to
27350 - Randomize the initial circid and streamid values, so an adversary who
27351 breaks into a node can't learn how many circuits or streams have
27355 Changes in version 0.0.2pre16 - 2003-12-14
27357 - Fixed a bug that made HUP trigger an assert
27358 - Fixed a bug where a circuit that immediately failed wasn't being
27359 counted as a failed circuit in counting retries.
27362 - Now we close the circuit when we get a truncated cell: otherwise we're
27363 open to an anonymity attack where a bad node in the path truncates
27364 the circuit and then we open streams at him.
27365 - Add port ranges to exit policies
27366 - Add a conservative default exit policy
27367 - Warn if you're running tor as root
27368 - on HUP, retry OR connections and close/rebind listeners
27369 - options.EntryNodes: try these nodes first when picking the first node
27370 - options.ExitNodes: if your best choices happen to include any of
27371 your preferred exit nodes, you choose among just those preferred
27373 - options.ExcludedNodes: nodes that are never picked in path building
27376 Changes in version 0.0.2pre15 - 2003-12-03
27377 o Robustness and bugfixes:
27378 - Sometimes clients would cache incorrect DNS resolves, which would
27379 really screw things up.
27380 - An OP that goes offline would slowly leak all its sockets and stop
27382 - A wide variety of bugfixes in exit node selection, exit policy
27383 handling, and processing pending streams when a new circuit is
27385 - Pick nodes for a path only from those the directory says are up
27386 - Choose randomly from all running dirservers, not always the first one
27387 - Increase allowed http header size for directory fetch.
27388 - Stop writing to stderr (if we're daemonized it will be closed).
27389 - Enable -g always, so cores will be more useful to me.
27390 - Switch "-lcrypto -lssl" to "-lssl -lcrypto" for broken distributions.
27393 - Wrote a man page. It lists commonly used options.
27396 - Change default loglevel to warn.
27397 - Make PidFile default to null rather than littering in your CWD.
27398 - OnionRouter config option is now obsolete. Instead it just checks
27400 - Moved to a single unified torrc file for both clients and servers.
27403 Changes in version 0.0.2pre14 - 2003-11-29
27404 o Robustness and bugfixes:
27405 - Force the admin to make the DataDirectory himself
27406 - to get ownership/permissions right
27407 - so clients no longer make a DataDirectory and then never use it
27408 - fix bug where a client who was offline for 45 minutes would never
27409 pull down a directory again
27410 - fix (or at least hide really well) the dns assert bug that was
27411 causing server crashes
27412 - warnings and improved robustness wrt clockskew for certs
27413 - use the native daemon(3) to daemonize, when available
27414 - exit if bind() fails
27415 - exit if neither socksport nor orport is defined
27416 - include our own tor_timegm (Win32 doesn't have its own)
27417 - bugfix for win32 with lots of connections
27418 - fix minor bias in PRNG
27419 - make dirserver more robust to corrupt cached directory
27422 - Wrote the design document (woo)
27424 o Circuit building and exit policies:
27425 - Circuits no longer try to use nodes that the directory has told them
27427 - Exit policies now support bitmasks (18.0.0.0/255.0.0.0) and
27428 bitcounts (18.0.0.0/8).
27429 - Make AP connections standby for a circuit if no suitable circuit
27430 exists, rather than failing
27431 - Circuits choose exit node based on addr/port, exit policies, and
27432 which AP connections are standing by
27433 - Bump min pathlen from 2 to 3
27434 - Relay end cells have a payload to describe why the stream ended.
27435 - If the stream failed because of exit policy, try again with a new
27437 - Clients have a dns cache to remember resolved addresses.
27438 - Notice more quickly when we have no working circuits
27441 - APPort is now called SocksPort
27442 - SocksBindAddress, ORBindAddress, DirBindAddress let you configure
27444 - RecommendedVersions is now a config variable rather than
27445 hardcoded (for dirservers)
27446 - Reloads config on HUP
27447 - Usage info on -h or --help
27448 - If you set User and Group config vars, it'll setu/gid to them.
27450 Changes in version 0.0.2pre13 - 2003-10-19
27451 o General stability:
27452 - SSL_write no longer fails when it returns WANTWRITE and the number
27453 of bytes in the buf has changed by the next SSL_write call.
27454 - Fix segfault fetching directory when network is down
27455 - Fix a variety of minor memory leaks
27456 - Dirservers reload the fingerprints file on HUP, so I don't have
27457 to take down the network when I approve a new router
27458 - Default server config file has explicit Address line to specify fqdn
27461 - Buffers grow and shrink as needed (Cut process size from 20M to 2M)
27462 - Make listener connections not ever alloc bufs
27464 o Autoconf improvements:
27465 - don't clobber an external CFLAGS in ./configure
27466 - Make install now works
27467 - create var/lib/tor on make install
27468 - autocreate a tor.sh initscript to help distribs
27469 - autocreate the torrc and sample-server-torrc with correct paths
27471 o Log files and Daemonizing now work:
27472 - If --DebugLogFile is specified, log to it at -l debug
27473 - If --LogFile is specified, use it instead of commandline
27474 - If --RunAsDaemon is set, tor forks and backgrounds on startup