1 Changes in version 0.4.3.5 - 2020-05-15
2 Tor 0.4.3.5 is the first stable release in the 0.4.3.x series. This
3 series adds support for building without relay code enabled, and
4 implements functionality needed for OnionBalance with v3 onion
5 services. It includes significant refactoring of our configuration and
6 controller functionality, and fixes numerous smaller bugs and
9 Per our support policy, we support each stable release series for nine
10 months after its first stable release, or three months after the first
11 stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. This means
12 that 0.4.3.x will be supported until around February 2021--later, if
13 0.4.4.x is later than anticipated.
15 Note also that support for 0.4.1.x is about to end on May 20 of this
16 year; 0.4.2.x will be supported until September 15. We still plan to
17 continue supporting 0.3.5.x, our long-term stable series, until
20 Below are the changes since 0.4.3.4-rc. For a complete list of changes
21 since 0.4.2.6, see the ReleaseNotes file.
23 o Minor bugfixes (compiler compatibility):
24 - Avoid compiler warnings from Clang 10 related to the use of GCC-
25 style "/* falls through */" comments. Both Clang and GCC allow
26 __attribute__((fallthrough)) instead, so that's what we're using
27 now. Fixes bug 34078; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
28 - Fix compilation warnings with GCC 10.0.1. Fixes bug 34077; bugfix
31 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
32 - Stop truncating IPv6 addresses and ports in channel and connection
33 logs. Fixes bug 33918; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
34 - Fix a logic error in a log message about whether an address was
35 invalid. Previously, the code would never report that onion
36 addresses were onion addresses. Fixes bug 34131; bugfix
40 Changes in version 0.4.3.4-rc - 2020-04-13
41 Tor 0.4.3.4-rc is the first release candidate in its series. It fixes
42 several bugs from earlier versions, including one affecting DoS
43 defenses on bridges using pluggable transports.
45 o Major bugfixes (DoS defenses, bridges, pluggable transport):
46 - Fix a bug that was preventing DoS defenses from running on bridges
47 with a pluggable transport. Previously, the DoS subsystem was not
48 given the transport name of the client connection, thus failed to
49 find the GeoIP cache entry for that client address. Fixes bug
50 33491; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
52 o Minor feature (sendme, flow control):
53 - Default to sending SENDME version 1 cells. (Clients are already
54 sending these, because of a consensus parameter telling them to do
55 so: this change only affects what clients would do if the
56 consensus didn't contain a recommendation.) Closes ticket 33623.
58 o Minor features (testing):
59 - The unit tests now support a "TOR_SKIP_TESTCASES" environment
60 variable to specify a list of space-separated test cases that
61 should not be executed. We will use this to disable certain tests
62 that are failing on Appveyor because of mismatched OpenSSL
63 libraries. Part of ticket 33643.
65 o Minor bugfixes (--disable-module-relay):
66 - Fix an assertion failure when Tor is built without the relay
67 module, and then invoked with the "User" option. Fixes bug 33668;
68 bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
70 o Minor bugfixes (--disable-module-relay,--disable-module-dirauth):
71 - Set some output arguments in the relay and dirauth module stubs,
72 to guard against future stub argument handling bugs like 33668.
73 Fixes bug 33674; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
75 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
76 - Correctly output the enabled module in the configure summary.
77 Before that, the list shown was just plain wrong. Fixes bug 33646;
78 bugfix on 0.4.3.2-alpha.
80 o Minor bugfixes (client, IPv6):
81 - Stop forcing all non-SocksPorts to prefer IPv6 exit connections.
82 Instead, prefer IPv6 connections by default, but allow users to
83 change their configs using the "NoPreferIPv6" port flag. Fixes bug
84 33608; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
85 - Revert PreferIPv6 set by default on the SocksPort because it broke
86 the torsocks use case. Tor doesn't have a way for an application
87 to request the hostname to be resolved for a specific IP version,
88 but torsocks requires that. Up until now, IPv4 was used by default
89 so torsocks is expecting that, and can't handle a possible IPv6
90 being returned. Fixes bug 33804; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
92 o Minor bugfixes (key portability):
93 - When reading PEM-encoded key data, tolerate CRLF line-endings even
94 if we are not running on Windows. Previously, non-Windows hosts
95 would reject these line-endings in certain positions, making
96 certain key files hard to move from one host to another. Fixes bug
97 33032; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
99 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
100 - Flush stderr, stdout, and file logs during shutdown, if supported
101 by the OS. This change helps make sure that any final logs are
102 recorded. Fixes bug 33087; bugfix on 0.4.1.6.
103 - Stop closing stderr and stdout during shutdown. Closing these file
104 descriptors can hide sanitiser logs. Fixes bug 33087; bugfix
107 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3):
108 - Relax severity of a log message that can appear naturally when
109 decoding onion service descriptors as a relay. Also add some
110 diagnostics to debug any future bugs in that area. Fixes bug
111 31669; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
112 - Block a client-side assertion by disallowing the registration of
113 an x25519 client auth key that's all zeroes. Fixes bug 33545;
114 bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha. Based on patch from "cypherpunks".
116 o Code simplification and refactoring:
117 - Disable our coding standards best practices tracker in our git
118 hooks. (0.4.3 branches only.) Closes ticket 33678.
121 - Avoid conflicts between the fake sockets in tor's unit tests, and
122 real file descriptors. Resolves issues running unit tests with
123 GitHub Actions, where the process that embeds or launches the
124 tests has already opened a large number of file descriptors. Fixes
125 bug 33782; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Found and fixed by
129 - In our Appveyor Windows CI, copy required DLLs to test and app
130 directories, before running tor's tests. This ensures that tor.exe
131 and test*.exe use the correct version of each DLL. This fix is not
132 required, but we hope it will avoid DLL search issues in future.
133 Fixes bug 33673; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
134 - On Appveyor, skip the crypto/openssl_version test, which is
135 failing because of a mismatched library installation. Fix
139 Changes in version 0.4.3.3-alpha - 2020-03-18
140 Tor 0.4.3.3-alpha fixes several bugs in previous releases, including
141 TROVE-2020-002, a major denial-of-service vulnerability that affected
142 all released Tor instances since 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this
143 vulnerability, an attacker could cause Tor instances to consume a huge
144 amount of CPU, disrupting their operations for several seconds or
145 minutes. This attack could be launched by anybody against a relay, or
146 by a directory cache against any client that had connected to it. The
147 attacker could launch this attack as much as they wanted, thereby
148 disrupting service or creating patterns that could aid in traffic
149 analysis. This issue was found by OSS-Fuzz, and is also tracked
152 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
153 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
154 as soon as packages are available.
156 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service):
157 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
158 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
159 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
160 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
161 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
162 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
163 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
164 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
166 o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak):
167 - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit
168 padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit.
169 Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls.
170 This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593.
172 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
173 - Directory authorities will now send a 503 (not enough bandwidth)
174 code to clients when under bandwidth pressure. Known relays and
175 other authorities will always be answered regardless of the
176 bandwidth situation. Fixes bug 33029; bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
178 o Minor features (diagnostic):
179 - Improve assertions and add some memory-poisoning code to try to
180 track down possible causes of a rare crash (32564) in the EWMA
181 code. Closes ticket 33290.
183 o Minor features (directory authorities):
184 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors from relays running
185 Tor versions from the 0.2.9 and 0.4.0 series. The 0.3.5 series is
186 still allowed. Resolves ticket 32672. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
188 o Minor features (usability):
189 - Include more information when failing to parse a configuration
190 value. This should make it easier to tell what's going wrong when
191 a configuration file doesn't parse. Closes ticket 33460.
193 o Minor bugfix (relay, configuration):
194 - Warn if the ContactInfo field is not set, and tell the relay
195 operator that not having a ContactInfo field set might cause their
196 relay to get rejected in the future. Fixes bug 33361; bugfix
199 o Minor bugfixes (coding best practices checks):
200 - Allow the "practracker" script to read unicode files when using
201 Python 2. We made the script use unicode literals in 0.4.3.1-alpha,
202 but didn't change the codec for opening files. Fixes bug 33374;
203 bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
205 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
206 - Remove the buggy and unused mirroring job. Fixes bug 33213; bugfix
209 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client):
210 - Remove a BUG() warning that would cause a stack trace if an onion
211 service descriptor was freed while we were waiting for a
212 rendezvous circuit to complete. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
215 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3):
216 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
217 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
218 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
221 o Documentation (manpage):
222 - Alphabetize the Server and Directory server sections of the tor
223 manpage. Also split Statistics options into their own section of
224 the manpage. Closes ticket 33188. Work by Swati Thacker as part of
225 Google Season of Docs.
226 - Document the __OwningControllerProcess torrc option and specify
227 its polling interval. Resolves issue 32971.
229 o Testing (Travis CI):
230 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
231 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
232 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
234 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
235 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
236 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
237 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
238 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
241 Changes in version 0.4.2.7 - 2020-03-18
242 This is the third stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. It backports
243 numerous fixes from later releases, including a fix for TROVE-2020-
244 002, a major denial-of-service vulnerability that affected all
245 released Tor instances since 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this vulnerability,
246 an attacker could cause Tor instances to consume a huge amount of CPU,
247 disrupting their operations for several seconds or minutes. This
248 attack could be launched by anybody against a relay, or by a directory
249 cache against any client that had connected to it. The attacker could
250 launch this attack as much as they wanted, thereby disrupting service
251 or creating patterns that could aid in traffic analysis. This issue
252 was found by OSS-Fuzz, and is also tracked as CVE-2020-10592.
254 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
255 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
256 as soon as packages are available.
258 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
259 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
260 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
261 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
262 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
263 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
264 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
265 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
266 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
268 o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
269 - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit
270 padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit.
271 Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls.
272 This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593.
274 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
275 - Directory authorities will now send a 503 (not enough bandwidth)
276 code to clients when under bandwidth pressure. Known relays and
277 other authorities will always be answered regardless of the
278 bandwidth situation. Fixes bug 33029; bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
280 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
281 - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks
282 like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed.
285 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
286 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
287 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
289 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
290 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
291 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
292 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
293 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
296 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
297 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
298 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
299 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
302 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
303 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
304 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
305 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
307 o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
308 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
309 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
310 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
312 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
313 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
314 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
315 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
316 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
319 Changes in version 0.4.1.9 - 2020-03-18
320 Tor 0.4.1.9 backports important fixes from later Tor releases,
321 including a fix for TROVE-2020-002, a major denial-of-service
322 vulnerability that affected all released Tor instances since
323 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause Tor
324 instances to consume a huge amount of CPU, disrupting their operations
325 for several seconds or minutes. This attack could be launched by
326 anybody against a relay, or by a directory cache against any client
327 that had connected to it. The attacker could launch this attack as
328 much as they wanted, thereby disrupting service or creating patterns
329 that could aid in traffic analysis. This issue was found by OSS-Fuzz,
330 and is also tracked as CVE-2020-10592.
332 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
333 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
334 as soon as packages are available.
336 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
337 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
338 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
339 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
340 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
341 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
342 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
343 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
344 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
346 o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
347 - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit
348 padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit.
349 Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls.
350 This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593.
352 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
353 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
354 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
356 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
357 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
358 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
359 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
360 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
363 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
364 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
365 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
366 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
369 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
370 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
371 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
372 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
374 o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
375 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
376 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
377 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
379 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
380 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
381 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
382 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
383 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
386 Changes in version 0.3.5.10 - 2020-03-18
387 Tor 0.3.5.10 backports many fixes from later Tor releases, including a
388 fix for TROVE-2020-002, a major denial-of-service vulnerability that
389 affected all released Tor instances since 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this
390 vulnerability, an attacker could cause Tor instances to consume a huge
391 amount of CPU, disrupting their operations for several seconds or
392 minutes. This attack could be launched by anybody against a relay, or
393 by a directory cache against any client that had connected to it. The
394 attacker could launch this attack as much as they wanted, thereby
395 disrupting service or creating patterns that could aid in traffic
396 analysis. This issue was found by OSS-Fuzz, and is also tracked
399 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
400 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
401 as soon as packages are available.
403 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
404 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
405 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
406 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
407 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
408 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
409 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
410 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
411 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
413 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
414 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
415 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
416 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
417 libseccomp <2.4.0 this lead to some rules having no effect.
418 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
419 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
420 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
423 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
424 - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks
425 like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed.
428 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
429 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
430 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
432 o Minor bugfixes (crash, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
433 - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or
434 --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing
435 if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407;
436 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
438 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
439 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
440 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
441 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
442 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
445 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
446 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
447 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
448 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
451 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
452 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
453 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
454 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
456 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
457 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
458 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
459 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
461 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
462 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
463 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
465 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
466 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
468 o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
469 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
470 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
471 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
473 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
474 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
475 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
476 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
479 Changes in version 0.4.3.2-alpha - 2020-02-10
480 This is the second stable alpha release in the Tor 0.4.3.x series. It
481 fixes several bugs present in the previous alpha release. Anybody
482 running the previous alpha should upgrade, and look for bugs in this
485 o Major bugfixes (onion service client, authorization):
486 - On a NEWNYM signal, purge entries from the ephemeral client
487 authorization cache. The permanent ones are kept. Fixes bug 33139;
488 bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
490 o Minor features (best practices tracker):
491 - Practracker now supports a --regen-overbroad option to regenerate
492 the exceptions file, but only to revise exceptions to be _less_
493 tolerant of best-practices violations. Closes ticket 32372.
495 o Minor features (continuous integration):
496 - Run Doxygen Makefile target on Travis, so we can learn about
497 regressions in our internal documentation. Closes ticket 32455.
498 - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks
499 like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed.
502 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
503 - Revise configure options that were either missing or incorrect in
504 the configure summary. Fixes bug 32230; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
506 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
507 - Fix a memory leak introduced by refactoring of control reply
508 formatting code. Fixes bug 33039; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
509 - Fix a memory leak in GETINFO responses. Fixes bug 33103; bugfix
511 - When receiving "ACTIVE" or "DORMANT" signals on the control port,
512 report them as SIGNAL events. Previously we would log a bug
513 warning. Fixes bug 33104; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
515 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
516 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
517 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
518 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
519 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
521 - When logging a bug, do not say "Future instances of this warning
522 will be silenced" unless we are actually going to silence them.
523 Previously we would say this whenever a BUG() check failed in the
524 code. Fixes bug 33095; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
526 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v2):
527 - Move a series of v2 onion service warnings to protocol-warning
528 level because they can all be triggered remotely by a malformed
529 request. Fixes bug 32706; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
531 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client authorization):
532 - When removing client authorization credentials using the control
533 port, also remove the associated descriptor, so the onion service
534 can no longer be contacted. Fixes bug 33148; bugfix
537 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
538 - When receiving a message on standard error from a pluggable
539 transport, log it at info level, rather than as a warning. Fixes
540 bug 33005; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
542 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build):
543 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
544 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
545 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
547 o Minor bugfixes (TLS bug handling):
548 - When encountering a bug in buf_read_from_tls(), return a "MISC"
549 error code rather than "WANTWRITE". This change might help avoid
550 some CPU-wasting loops if the bug is ever triggered. Bug reported
551 by opara. Fixes bug 32673; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-alpha.
553 o Code simplification and refactoring (mainloop):
554 - Simplify the ip_address_changed() function by removing redundant
555 checks. Closes ticket 33091.
557 o Documentation (manpage):
558 - Split "Circuit Timeout" options and "Node Selection" options into
559 their own sections of the tor manpage. Closes tickets 32928 and
560 32929. Work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs.
563 Changes in version 0.4.2.6 - 2020-01-30
564 This is the second stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. It backports
565 several bugfixes from 0.4.3.1-alpha, including some that had affected
566 the Linux seccomp2 sandbox or Windows services. If you're running with
567 one of those configurations, you'll probably want to upgrade;
568 otherwise, you should be fine with 0.4.2.5.
570 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
571 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
572 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
573 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
574 libseccomp <2.4.0 this led to some rules having no effect.
575 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
576 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
577 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
579 - Fix crash when reloading logging configuration while the
580 experimental sandbox is enabled. Fixes bug 32841; bugfix on
581 0.4.1.7. Patch by Peter Gerber.
583 o Minor bugfixes (correctness checks, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
584 - Use GCC/Clang's printf-checking feature to make sure that
585 tor_assertf() arguments are correctly typed. Fixes bug 32765;
586 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
588 o Minor bugfixes (logging, crash, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
589 - Avoid a possible crash when trying to log a (fatal) assertion
590 failure about mismatched magic numbers in configuration objects.
591 Fixes bug 32771; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
593 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
594 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, do not apply it to the
595 test_practracker.sh script. Doing so caused a test failure. Fixes
596 bug 32705; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
597 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, log a notice to stderr when
598 skipping practracker checks. Fixes bug 32705; bugfix
601 o Minor bugfixes (windows service, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
602 - Initialize the publish/subscribe system when running as a windows
603 service. Fixes bug 32778; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
605 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
606 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
607 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
608 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
609 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
610 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
611 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
614 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
615 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
618 Changes in version 0.4.1.8 - 2020-01-30
619 This release backports several bugfixes from later release series,
620 including some that had affected the Linux seccomp2 sandbox or Windows
621 services. If you're running with one of those configurations, you'll
622 probably want to upgrade; otherwise, you should be fine with your
623 current version of 0.4.1.x.
625 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
626 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
627 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
628 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
629 libseccomp <2.4.0 this led to some rules having no effect.
630 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
631 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
632 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
634 - Fix crash when reloading logging configuration while the
635 experimental sandbox is enabled. Fixes bug 32841; bugfix on
636 0.4.1.7. Patch by Peter Gerber.
638 o Minor bugfixes (crash, backport form 0.4.2.4-rc):
639 - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or
640 --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing
641 if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407;
642 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
644 o Minor bugfixes (windows service, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
645 - Initialize the publish/subscribe system when running as a windows
646 service. Fixes bug 32778; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
648 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
649 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
650 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
651 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
652 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
653 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
654 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
657 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
658 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
661 Changes in version 0.4.3.1-alpha - 2020-01-22
662 This is the first alpha release in the 0.4.3.x series. It includes
663 improved support for application integration of onion services, support
664 for building in a client-only mode, and newly improved internal
665 documentation (online at https://src-ref.docs.torproject.org/tor/). It
666 also has numerous other small bugfixes and features, as well as
667 improvements to our code's internal organization that should help us
668 write better code in the future.
670 o New system requirements:
671 - When building Tor, you now need to have Python 3 in order to run
672 the integration tests. (Python 2 is officially unsupported
673 upstream, as of 1 Jan 2020.) Closes ticket 32608.
675 o Major features (build system):
676 - The relay code can now be disabled using the --disable-module-relay
677 configure option. When this option is set, we also disable the
678 dirauth module. Closes ticket 32123.
679 - When Tor is compiled --disable-module-relay, we also omit the code
680 used to act as a directory cache. Closes ticket 32487.
682 o Major features (directory authority, ed25519):
683 - Add support for banning a relay's ed25519 keys in the approved-
684 routers file. This will help us migrate away from RSA keys in the
685 future. Previously, only RSA keys could be banned in approved-
686 routers. Resolves ticket 22029. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
688 o Major features (onion service, controller):
689 - New control port commands to manage client-side onion service
690 authorization credentials. The ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_ADD command adds
691 a credential, ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_REMOVE deletes a credential, and
692 ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_VIEW lists the credentials. Closes ticket 30381.
694 o Major features (onion service, SOCKS5):
695 - Introduce a new SocksPort flag, ExtendedErrors, to support more
696 detailed error codes in information for applications that support
697 them. Closes ticket 30382; implements proposal 304.
699 o Major features (proxy):
700 - In addition to its current supported proxy types (HTTP CONNECT,
701 SOCKS4, and SOCKS5), Tor can now make its OR connections through a
702 HAProxy server. A new torrc option was added to specify the
703 address/port of the server: TCPProxy <protocol> <host>:<port>.
704 Currently the only supported protocol for the option is haproxy.
705 Closes ticket 31518. Patch done by Suphanat Chunhapanya (haxxpop).
707 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox):
708 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
709 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
710 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
711 libseccomp <2.4.0 this led to some rules having no effect.
712 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
713 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
714 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
716 - Fix crash when reloading logging configuration while the
717 experimental sandbox is enabled. Fixes bug 32841; bugfix on
718 0.4.1.7. Patch by Peter Gerber.
720 o Major bugfixes (networking):
721 - Correctly handle IPv6 addresses in SOCKS5 RESOLVE_PTR requests,
722 and accept strings as well as binary addresses. Fixes bug 32315;
723 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
725 o Major bugfixes (onion service):
726 - Report HS circuit failure back into the HS subsystem so we take
727 appropriate action with regards to the client introduction point
728 failure cache. This improves reachability of onion services, since
729 now clients notice failing introduction circuits properly. Fixes
730 bug 32020; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
732 o Minor feature (configure, build system):
733 - Output a list of enabled/disabled features at the end of the
734 configure process in a pleasing way. Closes ticket 31373.
736 o Minor feature (heartbeat, onion service):
737 - Add the DoS INTRODUCE2 defenses counter to the heartbeat DoS
738 message. Closes ticket 31371.
740 o Minor features (configuration validation):
741 - Configuration validation can now be done by per-module callbacks,
742 rather than a global validation function. This will let us reduce
743 the size of config.c and some of its more cumbersome functions.
746 o Minor features (configuration):
747 - If a configured hardware crypto accelerator in AccelName is
748 prefixed with "!", Tor now exits when it cannot be found. Closes
750 - We now use flag-driven logic to warn about obsolete configuration
751 fields, so that we can include their names. In 0.4.2, we used a
752 special type, which prevented us from generating good warnings.
753 Implements ticket 32404.
755 o Minor features (controller):
756 - Add stream isolation data to STREAM event. Closes ticket 19859.
757 - Implement a new GETINFO command to fetch microdescriptor
758 consensus. Closes ticket 31684.
760 o Minor features (debugging, directory system):
761 - Don't crash when we find a non-guard with a guard-fraction value
762 set. Instead, log a bug warning, in an attempt to figure out how
763 this happened. Diagnostic for ticket 32868.
765 o Minor features (defense in depth):
766 - Add additional checks around tor_vasprintf() usage, in case the
767 function returns an error. Patch by Tobias Stoeckmann. Fixes
770 o Minor features (developer tooling):
771 - Remove the 0.2.9.x series branches from git scripts (git-merge-
772 forward.sh, git-pull-all.sh, git-push-all.sh, git-setup-dirs.sh).
775 o Minor features (developer tools):
776 - Add a check_cocci_parse.sh script that checks that new code is
777 parseable by Coccinelle. Add an exceptions file for unparseable
778 files, and run the script from travis CI. Closes ticket 31919.
779 - Call the check_cocci_parse.sh script from a 'check-cocci' Makefile
780 target. Closes ticket 31919.
781 - Add a rename_c_identifiers.py tool to rename a bunch of C
782 identifiers at once, and generate a well-formed commit message
783 describing the change. This should help with refactoring. Closes
785 - Add some scripts in "scripts/coccinelle" to invoke the Coccinelle
786 semantic patching tool with the correct flags. These flags are
787 fairly easy to forget, and these scripts should help us use
788 Coccinelle more effectively in the future. Closes ticket 31705.
790 o Minor features (Doxygen):
791 - Update Doxygen configuration file to a more recent template (from
792 1.8.15). Closes ticket 32110.
793 - "make doxygen" now works with out-of-tree builds. Closes
795 - Make sure that doxygen outputs documentation for all of our C
796 files. Previously, some were missing @file declarations, causing
797 them to be ignored. Closes ticket 32307.
798 - Our "make doxygen" target now respects --enable-fatal-warnings by
799 default, and does not warn about items that are missing
800 documentation. To warn about missing documentation, run configure
801 with the "--enable-missing-doc-warnings" flag: doing so suspends
802 fatal warnings for doxygen. Closes ticket 32385.
804 o Minor features (git scripts):
805 - Add TOR_EXTRA_CLONE_ARGS to git-setup-dirs.sh for git clone
806 customisation. Closes ticket 32347.
807 - Add git-setup-dirs.sh, which sets up an upstream git repository
808 and worktrees for tor maintainers. Closes ticket 29603.
809 - Add TOR_EXTRA_REMOTE_* to git-setup-dirs.sh for a custom extra
810 remote. Closes ticket 32347.
811 - Call the check_cocci_parse.sh script from the git commit and push
812 hooks. Closes ticket 31919.
813 - Make git-push-all.sh skip unchanged branches when pushing to
814 upstream. The script already skipped unchanged test branches.
816 - Make git-setup-dirs.sh create a master symlink in the worktree
817 directory. Closes ticket 32347.
818 - Skip unmodified source files when doing some existing git hook
819 checks. Related to ticket 31919.
821 o Minor features (IPv6, client):
822 - Make Tor clients tell dual-stack exits that they prefer IPv6
823 connections. This change is equivalent to setting the PreferIPv6
824 flag on SOCKSPorts (and most other listener ports). Tor Browser
825 has been setting this flag for some time, and we want to remove a
826 client distinguisher at exits. Closes ticket 32637.
828 o Minor features (portability, android):
829 - When building for Android, disable some tests that depend on $HOME
830 and/or pwdb, which Android doesn't have. Closes ticket 32825.
831 Patch from Hans-Christoph Steiner.
833 o Minor features (relay modularity):
834 - Split the relay and server pluggable transport config code into
835 separate files in the relay module. Disable this code when the
836 relay module is disabled. Closes part of ticket 32213.
837 - When the relay module is disabled, reject attempts to set the
838 ORPort, DirPort, DirCache, BridgeRelay, ExtORPort, or
839 ServerTransport* options, rather than ignoring the values of these
840 options. Closes part of ticket 32213.
842 o Minor features (relay):
843 - When the relay module is disabled, change the default config so
844 that DirCache is 0, and ClientOnly is 1. Closes ticket 32410.
846 o Minor features (release tools):
847 - Port our ChangeLog formatting and sorting tools to Python 3.
850 o Minor features (testing):
851 - Detect some common failure cases for test_parseconf.sh in
852 src/test/conf_failures. Closes ticket 32451.
853 - Allow test_parseconf.sh to test expected log outputs for successful
854 configs, as well as failed configs. Closes ticket 32451.
855 - The test_parseconf.sh script now supports result variants for any
856 combination of the optional libraries lzma, nss, and zstd. Closes
859 o Minor features (tests, Android):
860 - When running the unit tests on Android, create temporary files in
861 a subdirectory of /data/local/tmp. Closes ticket 32172. Based on a
862 patch from Hans-Christoph Steiner.
864 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
865 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
866 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
868 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
869 - Fix "make autostyle" for out-of-tree builds. Fixes bug 32370;
870 bugfix on 0.4.1.2-alpha.
872 o Minor bugfixes (configuration handling):
873 - Make control_event_conf_changed() take in a config_line_t instead
874 of a smartlist of alternating key/value entries. Fixes bug 31531;
875 bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
877 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
878 - Check for multiplication overflow when parsing memory units inside
879 configuration. Fixes bug 30920; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
880 - When dumping the configuration, stop adding a trailing space after
881 the option name when there is no option value. This issue only
882 affects options that accept an empty value or list. (Most options
883 reject empty values, or delete the entire line from the dumped
884 options.) Fixes bug 32352; bugfix on 0.0.9pre6.
885 - Avoid changing the user's value of HardwareAccel as stored by
886 SAVECONF, when AccelName is set but HardwareAccel is not. Fixes
887 bug 32382; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
888 - When creating a KeyDirectory with the same location as the
889 DataDirectory (not recommended), respect the DataDirectory's
890 group-readable setting if one has not been set for the
891 KeyDirectory. Fixes bug 27992; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
893 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
894 - In routerstatus_has_changed(), check all the fields that are
895 output over the control port. Fixes bug 20218; bugfix
898 o Minor bugfixes (correctness checks):
899 - Use GCC/Clang's printf-checking feature to make sure that
900 tor_assertf() arguments are correctly typed. Fixes bug 32765;
901 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
903 o Minor bugfixes (developer tools):
904 - Allow paths starting with ./ in scripts/add_c_file.py. Fixes bug
905 31336; bugfix on 0.4.1.2-alpha.
907 o Minor bugfixes (dirauth module):
908 - Split the dirauth config code into a separate file in the dirauth
909 module. Disable this code when the dirauth module is disabled.
911 - When the dirauth module is disabled, reject attempts to set the
912 AuthoritativeDir option, rather than ignoring the value of the
913 option. Fixes bug 32213; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
915 o Minor bugfixes (embedded Tor):
916 - When starting Tor any time after the first time in a process,
917 register the thread in which it is running as the main thread.
918 Previously, we only did this on Windows, which could lead to bugs
919 like 23081 on non-Windows platforms. Fixes bug 32884; bugfix
922 o Minor bugfixes (git scripts):
923 - Avoid sleeping before the last push in git-push-all.sh. Closes
925 - Forward all unrecognised arguments in git-push-all.sh to git push.
928 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service v3):
929 - Do not rely on a "circuit established" flag for intro circuits but
930 instead always query the HS circuit map. This is to avoid sync
931 issue with that flag and the map. Fixes bug 32094; bugfix
934 o Minor bugfixes (logging, crash):
935 - Avoid a possible crash when trying to log a (fatal) assertion
936 failure about mismatched magic numbers in configuration objects.
937 Fixes bug 32771; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
939 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v2):
940 - When sending the INTRO cell for a v2 Onion Service, look at the
941 failure cache alongside timeout values to check if the intro point
942 is marked as failed. Previously, we only looked at the relay
943 timeout values. Fixes bug 25568; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by
946 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, client):
947 - Properly handle the client rendezvous circuit timeout. Previously
948 Tor would sometimes timeout a rendezvous circuit awaiting the
949 introduction ACK, and find itself unable to re-establish all
950 circuits because the rendezvous circuit timed out too early. Fixes
951 bug 32021; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
953 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
954 - In cancel_descriptor_fetches(), use
955 connection_list_by_type_purpose() instead of
956 connection_list_by_type_state(). Fixes bug 32639; bugfix on
957 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
959 o Minor bugfixes (scripts):
960 - Fix update_versions.py for out-of-tree builds. Fixes bug 32371;
961 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
963 o Minor bugfixes (test):
964 - Use the same code to find the tor binary in all of our test
965 scripts. This change makes sure we are always using the coverage
966 binary when coverage is enabled. Fixes bug 32368; bugfix
969 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
970 - Stop ignoring "tor --dump-config" errors in test_parseconf.sh.
971 Fixes bug 32468; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
972 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, do not apply it to the
973 test_practracker.sh script. Doing so caused a test failure. Fixes
974 bug 32705; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
975 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, log a notice to stderr when
976 skipping practracker checks. Fixes bug 32705; bugfix
979 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
980 - Our option-validation tests no longer depend on specially
981 configured non-default, non-passing sets of options. Previously,
982 the tests had been written to assume that options would _not_ be
983 set to their defaults, which led to needless complexity and
984 verbosity. Fixes bug 32175; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
986 o Minor bugfixes (windows service):
987 - Initialize the publish/subscribe system when running as a windows
988 service. Fixes bug 32778; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
990 o Deprecated features:
991 - Deprecate the ClientAutoIPv6ORPort option. This option was not
992 true "Happy Eyeballs", and often failed on connections that
993 weren't reliably dual-stack. Closes ticket 32942. Patch by
997 - Provide a quickstart guide for a Circuit Padding Framework, and
998 documentation for researchers to implement and study circuit
999 padding machines. Closes ticket 28804.
1000 - Add documentation in 'HelpfulTools.md' to describe how to build a
1001 tag file. Closes ticket 32779.
1002 - Create a high-level description of the long-term software
1003 architecture goals. Closes ticket 32206.
1004 - Describe the --dump-config command in the manual page. Closes
1006 - Unite coding advice from this_not_that.md in torguts repo into our
1007 coding standards document. Resolves ticket 31853.
1010 - Our Doxygen configuration no longer generates LaTeX output. The
1011 reference manual produced by doing this was over 4000 pages long,
1012 and generally unusable. Closes ticket 32099.
1013 - The option "TestingEstimatedDescriptorPropagationTime" is now
1014 marked as obsolete. It has had no effect since 0.3.0.7, when
1015 clients stopped rejecting consensuses "from the future". Closes
1017 - We no longer support consensus methods before method 28; these
1018 methods were only used by authorities running versions of Tor that
1019 are now at end-of-life. In effect, this means that clients,
1020 relays, and authorities now assume that authorities will be
1021 running version 0.3.5.x or later. Closes ticket 32695.
1024 - Add more test cases for tor's UTF-8 validation function. Also,
1025 check the arguments passed to the function for consistency. Closes
1027 - Improve test coverage for relay and dirauth config code, focusing
1028 on option validation and normalization. Closes ticket 32213.
1029 - Improve the consistency of test_parseconf.sh output, and run all
1030 the tests, even if one fails. Closes ticket 32213.
1031 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
1032 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
1033 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
1034 Closes ticket 32629.
1035 - Run the practracker unit tests in the pre-commit git hook. Closes
1037 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
1038 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
1039 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
1041 o Code simplification and refactoring (channel):
1042 - Channel layer had a variable length cell handler that was not used
1043 and thus removed. Closes ticket 32892.
1045 o Code simplification and refactoring (configuration):
1046 - Immutability is now implemented as a flag on individual
1047 configuration options rather than as part of the option-transition
1048 checking code. Closes ticket 32344.
1049 - Instead of keeping a list of configuration options to check for
1050 relative paths, check all the options whose type is "FILENAME".
1051 Solves part of ticket 32339.
1052 - Our default log (which ordinarily sends NOTICE-level messages to
1053 standard output) is now handled in a more logical manner.
1054 Previously, we replaced the configured log options if they were
1055 empty. Now, we interpret an empty set of log options as meaning
1056 "use the default log". Closes ticket 31999.
1057 - Remove some unused arguments from the options_validate() function,
1058 to simplify our code and tests. Closes ticket 32187.
1059 - Simplify the options_validate() code so that it looks at the
1060 default options directly, rather than taking default options as an
1061 argument. This change lets us simplify its interface. Closes
1063 - Use our new configuration architecture to move most authority-
1064 related options to the directory authority module. Closes
1066 - When parsing the command line, handle options that determine our
1067 "quiet level" and our mode of operation (e.g., --dump-config and
1068 so on) all in one table. Closes ticket 32003.
1070 o Code simplification and refactoring (controller):
1071 - Create a new abstraction for formatting control protocol reply
1072 lines based on key-value pairs. Refactor some existing control
1073 protocol code to take advantage of this. Closes ticket 30984.
1074 - Create a helper function that can fetch network status or
1075 microdesc consensuses. Closes ticket 31684.
1077 o Code simplification and refactoring (dirauth modularization):
1078 - Remove the last remaining HAVE_MODULE_DIRAUTH inside a function.
1079 Closes ticket 32163.
1080 - Replace some confusing identifiers in process_descs.c. Closes
1082 - Simplify some relay and dirauth config code. Closes ticket 32213.
1084 o Code simplification and refactoring (misc):
1085 - Make all the structs we declare follow the same naming convention
1086 of ending with "_t". Closes ticket 32415.
1087 - Move and rename some configuration-related code for clarity.
1088 Closes ticket 32304.
1089 - Our include.am files are now broken up by subdirectory.
1090 Previously, src/core/include.am covered all of the subdirectories
1091 in "core", "feature", and "app". Closes ticket 32137.
1092 - Remove underused NS*() macros from test code: they make our tests
1093 more confusing, especially for code-formatting tools. Closes
1096 o Code simplification and refactoring (relay modularization):
1097 - Disable relay_periodic when the relay module is disabled. Closes
1099 - Disable relay_sys when the relay module is disabled. Closes
1102 o Code simplification and refactoring (tool support):
1103 - Add numerous missing dependencies to our include files, so that
1104 they can be included in different reasonable orders and still
1105 compile. Addresses part of ticket 32764.
1106 - Fix some parts of our code that were difficult for Coccinelle to
1107 parse. Related to ticket 31705.
1108 - Fix some small issues in our code that prevented automatic
1109 formatting tools from working. Addresses part of ticket 32764.
1111 o Documentation (manpage):
1112 - Alphabetize the Client Options section of the tor manpage. Closes
1114 - Alphabetize the General Options section of the tor manpage. Closes
1116 - In the tor(1) manpage, reword and improve formatting of the
1117 COMMAND-LINE OPTIONS and DESCRIPTION sections. Closes ticket
1118 32277. Based on work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season
1120 - In the tor(1) manpage, reword and improve formatting of the FILES,
1121 SEE ALSO, and BUGS sections. Closes ticket 32176. Based on work by
1122 Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs.
1124 o Testing (circuit, EWMA):
1125 - Add unit tests for circuitmux and EWMA subsystems. Closes
1128 o Testing (continuous integration):
1129 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
1132 Changes in version 0.4.2.5 - 2019-12-09
1133 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. This series
1134 improves reliability and stability, and includes several stability and
1135 correctness improvements for onion services. It also fixes many smaller
1136 bugs present in previous series.
1138 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.2.x series for nine
1139 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.3.x:
1140 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
1141 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
1143 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.2.x series for nine
1144 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.3.x:
1145 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
1146 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
1148 Below are the changes since 0.4.1.4-rc. For a complete list of changes
1149 since 0.4.1.5, see the ReleaseNotes file.
1151 o Minor features (geoip):
1152 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
1153 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
1156 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU
1157 gcc extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition
1158 warnings. Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
1159 Closes ticket 32500.
1162 Changes in version 0.4.1.7 - 2019-12-09
1163 This release backports several bugfixes to improve stability and
1164 correctness. Anyone experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.1.6,
1165 including all relays relying on AccountingMax, should upgrade.
1167 o Major features (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
1168 - Directory authorities now reject relays running all currently
1169 deprecated release series. The currently supported release series
1170 are: 0.2.9, 0.3.5, 0.4.0, 0.4.1, and 0.4.2. Closes ticket 31549.
1172 o Major bugfixes (embedded Tor, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
1173 - Avoid a possible crash when restarting Tor in embedded mode and
1174 enabling a different set of publish/subscribe messages. Fixes bug
1175 31898; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
1177 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
1178 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
1179 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
1180 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
1181 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
1182 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
1183 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
1184 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
1186 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
1187 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
1188 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
1189 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
1190 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1192 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
1193 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
1194 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
1195 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
1196 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
1199 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
1200 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
1201 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
1202 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
1204 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
1205 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
1206 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
1208 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
1209 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
1210 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
1212 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
1213 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
1214 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
1215 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
1216 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
1217 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1219 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
1220 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
1221 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
1222 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
1224 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
1225 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
1226 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
1227 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1228 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
1229 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
1230 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1231 - When tor aborts due to an error, close log file descriptors before
1232 aborting. Closing the logs makes some OSes flush log file buffers,
1233 rather than deleting buffered log lines. Fixes bug 31594; bugfix
1236 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
1237 - Add a missing check for HAVE_PTHREAD_H, because the backtrace code
1238 uses mutexes. Fixes bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
1239 - Disable backtrace signal handlers when shutting down tor. Fixes
1240 bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
1241 - Rate-limit our the logging message about the obsolete .exit
1242 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
1243 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
1244 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
1246 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
1247 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
1248 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
1249 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
1251 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
1252 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
1253 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
1254 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
1255 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
1258 o Minor bugfixes (multithreading, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
1259 - Avoid some undefined behaviour when freeing mutexes. Fixes bug
1260 31736; bugfix on 0.0.7.
1262 o Minor bugfixes (process management, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
1263 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
1264 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
1266 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
1267 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
1268 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
1270 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
1271 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
1272 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
1273 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
1275 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
1276 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
1277 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
1278 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
1279 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1281 o Minor bugfixes (tests, SunOS, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
1282 - Avoid a map_anon_nofork test failure due to a signed/unsigned
1283 integer comparison. Fixes bug 31897; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
1285 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
1286 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
1287 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
1290 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
1291 - Explain why we can't destroy the backtrace buffer mutex. Explain
1292 why we don't need to destroy the log mutex. Closes ticket 31736.
1294 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
1295 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
1296 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
1297 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
1299 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
1300 Closes ticket 31859.
1301 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
1302 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
1304 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
1305 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
1306 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
1307 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
1308 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
1309 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
1310 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
1311 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
1312 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
1313 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
1315 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
1316 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
1317 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
1318 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
1319 Closes ticket 32500.
1322 Changes in version 0.4.0.6 - 2019-12-09
1323 This is the second stable release in the 0.4.0.x series. This release
1324 backports several bugfixes to improve stability and correctness. Anyone
1325 experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.0.5, including all relays
1326 relying on AccountingMax, should upgrade.
1328 Note that, per our support policy, support for the 0.4.0.x series will end
1329 on 2 Feb 2020. Anyone still running 0.4.0.x should plan to upgrade to the
1330 latest stable release, or downgrade to 0.3.5.x, which will get long-term
1331 support until 1 Feb 2022.
1333 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.4.1.5):
1334 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
1337 o Major bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
1338 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
1339 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
1340 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
1341 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
1342 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
1343 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
1344 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
1345 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
1346 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
1347 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
1349 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
1350 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
1351 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
1352 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
1353 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
1354 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
1356 o Major bugfixes (Onion service reachability, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
1357 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
1358 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
1359 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
1360 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
1363 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
1364 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
1365 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
1366 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
1367 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
1369 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
1370 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
1371 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
1372 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
1375 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
1376 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
1377 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
1378 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
1379 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
1380 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
1381 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
1382 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
1384 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
1385 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
1386 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
1387 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
1388 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1390 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
1391 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
1392 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
1393 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
1394 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
1397 o Minor features (compile-time modules, backport from version 0.4.1.1-alpha):
1398 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
1399 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
1401 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
1402 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
1403 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
1406 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
1407 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
1408 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
1410 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
1411 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
1412 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
1413 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
1415 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
1416 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
1417 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
1418 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
1419 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
1421 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
1422 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
1423 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
1425 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
1426 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
1427 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
1430 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
1431 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
1432 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
1434 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
1435 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
1436 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
1438 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
1439 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
1440 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
1442 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
1443 - On relays, properly check that a padding machine is absent before
1444 logging a warning about it being absent. Fixes bug 30649; bugfix
1447 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
1448 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
1449 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
1450 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
1451 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
1452 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1454 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection, backport from 0.4.1.5):
1455 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
1456 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
1457 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
1458 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
1460 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning, backport from 0.4.1.5):
1461 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
1462 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix
1465 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.1.5):
1466 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
1467 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
1469 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
1470 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
1471 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
1472 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
1474 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
1475 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
1476 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
1477 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
1479 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
1480 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
1481 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
1482 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
1484 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
1485 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
1486 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
1487 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
1489 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
1490 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
1491 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
1492 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
1493 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1494 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
1495 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1497 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
1498 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
1499 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
1500 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
1502 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
1503 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
1504 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
1505 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
1507 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
1508 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
1509 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
1512 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
1513 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
1514 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
1515 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1516 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
1517 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
1518 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1520 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
1521 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
1522 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
1523 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
1526 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
1527 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
1528 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
1529 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
1530 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
1532 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
1533 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
1534 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
1535 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
1536 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
1538 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
1539 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
1540 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
1543 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
1544 - Rate-limit our the logging message about the obsolete .exit
1545 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
1546 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
1547 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
1549 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
1550 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
1551 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
1552 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
1554 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
1555 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
1556 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
1557 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
1558 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
1561 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
1562 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
1563 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
1566 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
1567 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value
1568 from a download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug
1569 30894; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
1571 o Minor bugfixes (NetBSD, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
1572 - Fix usage of minherit() on NetBSD and other platforms that define
1573 MAP_INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE} instead of INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE}. Fixes bug
1574 30614; bugfix on 0.4.0.2-alpha. Patch from Taylor Campbell.
1576 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
1577 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
1578 implemenation) when failing to load an onion service client
1579 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1581 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
1582 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
1583 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
1584 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
1587 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
1588 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
1589 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
1590 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
1591 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
1592 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
1595 o Minor bugfixes (process management, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
1596 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
1597 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
1599 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
1600 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
1601 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
1603 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
1604 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
1605 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
1606 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
1608 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
1609 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
1610 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
1612 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
1613 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
1614 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
1615 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
1616 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1618 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
1619 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
1620 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
1623 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
1624 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
1625 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
1626 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
1627 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
1628 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
1629 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
1630 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
1631 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
1632 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1634 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
1635 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
1636 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
1637 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
1639 o Testing (backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
1640 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
1641 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
1642 Resolves issue 29702.
1644 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
1645 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
1647 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.5):
1648 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and
1649 tail stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
1650 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary. Closes
1653 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
1654 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
1655 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
1656 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
1658 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
1659 Closes ticket 31859.
1660 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
1661 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
1663 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
1664 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
1665 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
1666 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
1667 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
1668 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
1669 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
1670 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
1671 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
1672 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
1674 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
1675 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
1676 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
1677 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
1678 Closes ticket 32500.
1680 Changes in version 0.3.5.9 - 2019-12-09
1681 Tor 0.3.5.9 backports serveral fixes from later releases, including
1682 several that affect bridge users, relay stability, onion services,
1685 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.4.1.5):
1686 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
1689 o Major bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
1690 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
1691 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
1692 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
1693 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
1694 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
1695 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
1696 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
1697 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
1698 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
1699 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
1701 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
1702 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
1703 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
1704 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
1705 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
1706 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
1708 o Major bugfixes (NSS, relay, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
1709 - When running with NSS, disable TLS 1.2 ciphersuites that use
1710 SHA384 for their PRF. Due to an NSS bug, the TLS key exporters for
1711 these ciphersuites don't work -- which caused relays to fail to
1712 handshake with one another when these ciphersuites were enabled.
1713 Fixes bug 29241; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1715 o Major bugfixes (Onion service reachability, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
1716 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
1717 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
1718 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
1719 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
1722 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
1723 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
1724 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
1725 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
1726 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
1728 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
1729 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
1730 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
1731 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
1734 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
1735 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
1736 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
1737 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
1738 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1740 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
1741 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
1742 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
1743 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
1744 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
1747 o Minor features (address selection, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
1748 - Treat the subnet 100.64.0.0/10 as public for some purposes;
1749 private for others. This subnet is the RFC 6598 (Carrier Grade
1750 NAT) IP range, and is deployed by many ISPs as an alternative to
1751 RFC 1918 that does not break existing internal networks. Tor now
1752 blocks SOCKS and control ports on these addresses and warns users
1753 if client ports or ExtORPorts are listening on a RFC 6598 address.
1754 Closes ticket 28525. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1756 o Minor features (bandwidth authority, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
1757 - Make bandwidth authorities ignore relays that are reported in the
1758 bandwidth file with the flag "vote=0". This change allows us to
1759 report unmeasured relays for diagnostic reasons without including
1760 their bandwidth in the bandwidth authorities' vote. Closes
1763 o Minor features (compile-time modules, backport from version 0.4.1.1-alpha):
1764 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
1765 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
1767 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
1768 - On Travis Rust builds, cleanup Rust registry and refrain from
1769 caching the "target/" directory to speed up builds. Resolves
1772 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.5):
1773 - In Travis, tell timelimit to use stem's backtrace signals, and
1774 launch python directly from timelimit, so python receives the
1775 signals from timelimit, rather than make. Closes ticket 30117.
1777 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
1778 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
1779 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
1782 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
1783 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
1784 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
1786 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
1787 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
1788 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
1789 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
1791 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
1792 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
1793 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
1794 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
1795 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
1797 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
1798 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
1799 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
1801 o Minor features (NSS, diagnostic, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
1802 - Try to log an error from NSS (if there is any) and a more useful
1803 description of our situation if we are using NSS and a call to
1804 SSL_ExportKeyingMaterial() fails. Diagnostic for ticket 29241.
1806 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
1807 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
1808 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
1811 o Minor bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
1812 - Verify in more places that we are not about to create a buffer
1813 with more than INT_MAX bytes, to avoid possible OOB access in the
1814 event of bugs. Fixes bug 30041; bugfix on 0.2.0.16. Found and
1815 fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
1816 - Fix a potential double free bug when reading huge bandwidth files.
1817 The issue is not exploitable in the current Tor network because
1818 the vulnerable code is only reached when directory authorities
1819 read bandwidth files, but bandwidth files come from a trusted
1820 source (usually the authorities themselves). Furthermore, the
1821 issue is only exploitable in rare (non-POSIX) 32-bit architectures,
1822 which are not used by any of the current authorities. Fixes bug
1823 30040; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Bug found and fixed by
1826 o Minor bugfix (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
1827 - Reset coverage state on disk after Travis CI has finished. This
1828 should prevent future coverage merge errors from causing the test
1829 suite for the "process" subsystem to fail. The process subsystem
1830 was introduced in 0.4.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 29036; bugfix
1832 - Terminate test-stem if it takes more than 9.5 minutes to run.
1833 (Travis terminates the job after 10 minutes of no output.)
1834 Diagnostic for 29437. Fixes bug 30011; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
1836 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
1837 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
1838 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
1840 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
1841 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
1842 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
1844 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
1845 - Fix an unlikely memory leak in consensus_diff_apply(). Fixes bug
1846 29824; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. This is Coverity warning
1849 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
1850 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
1851 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
1853 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
1854 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
1855 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
1856 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
1857 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
1858 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1860 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection, backport from 0.4.1.5):
1861 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
1862 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
1863 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
1864 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
1866 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning, backport from 0.4.1.5):
1867 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
1868 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix
1871 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
1872 - Silence a compiler warning in test-memwipe.c on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
1873 29145; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
1875 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.1.5):
1876 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
1877 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
1879 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
1880 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
1881 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
1882 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
1884 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
1885 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
1886 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
1887 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
1889 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
1890 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
1891 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
1892 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
1894 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
1895 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
1896 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
1897 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
1899 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
1900 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
1901 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
1902 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
1903 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1904 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
1905 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1907 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
1908 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
1909 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
1910 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
1912 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
1913 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
1914 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
1915 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
1917 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
1918 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
1919 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
1922 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
1923 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
1924 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
1925 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1926 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
1927 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
1928 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1930 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
1931 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
1932 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
1933 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
1936 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
1937 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
1938 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
1939 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
1940 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
1942 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
1943 - Avoid logging that we are relaxing a circuit timeout when that
1944 timeout is fixed. Fixes bug 28698; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
1946 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
1947 - Correct a misleading error message when IPv4Only or IPv6Only is
1948 used but the resolved address can not be interpreted as an address
1949 of the specified IP version. Fixes bug 13221; bugfix on
1950 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
1951 - Log the correct port number for listening sockets when "auto" is
1952 used to let Tor pick the port number. Previously, port 0 was
1953 logged instead of the actual port number. Fixes bug 29144; bugfix
1954 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
1955 - Stop logging a BUG() warning when Tor is waiting for exit
1956 descriptors. Fixes bug 28656; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1958 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
1959 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
1960 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
1961 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
1962 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
1964 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
1965 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
1966 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
1969 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
1970 - Rate-limit our the logging message about the obsolete .exit
1971 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
1972 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
1973 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
1975 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
1976 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
1977 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
1978 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
1980 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
1981 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
1982 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
1983 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
1984 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
1987 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
1988 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
1989 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
1992 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
1993 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value
1994 from a download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug
1995 30894; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
1997 o Minor bugfixes (memory management, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
1998 - Refactor the shared random state's memory management so that it
1999 actually takes ownership of the shared random value pointers.
2000 Fixes bug 29706; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
2002 o Minor bugfixes (memory management, testing, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
2003 - Stop leaking parts of the shared random state in the shared-random
2004 unit tests. Fixes bug 29599; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
2006 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
2007 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
2008 implemenation) when failing to load an onion service client
2009 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2011 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
2012 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
2013 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
2014 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
2017 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
2018 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
2019 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
2020 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
2021 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
2022 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
2025 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
2026 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
2027 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
2028 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
2030 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.0.5):
2031 - Abort on panic in all build profiles, instead of potentially
2032 unwinding into C code. Fixes bug 27199; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2034 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
2035 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
2036 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
2038 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
2039 - Allow connections to single onion services to remain idle without
2040 being disconnected. Previously, relays acting as rendezvous points
2041 for single onion services were mistakenly closing idle rendezvous
2042 circuits after 60 seconds, thinking that they were unused
2043 directory-fetching circuits that had served their purpose. Fixes
2044 bug 29665; bugfix on 0.2.1.26.
2046 o Minor bugfixes (stats, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
2047 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including PaddingStatistics in
2048 relay and bridge extra-info documents. Fixes bug 29017; bugfix
2051 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
2052 - Downgrade some LOG_ERR messages in the address/* tests to
2053 warnings. The LOG_ERR messages were occurring when we had no
2054 configured network. We were failing the unit tests, because we
2055 backported 28668 to 0.3.5.8, but did not backport 29530. Fixes bug
2056 29530; bugfix on 0.3.5.8.
2057 - Fix our gcov wrapper script to look for object files at the
2058 correct locations. Fixes bug 29435; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2060 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
2061 - Backport the 0.3.4 src/test/test-network.sh to 0.2.9. We need a
2062 recent test-network.sh to use new chutney features in CI. Fixes
2063 bug 29703; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
2064 - Fix a test failure on Windows caused by an unexpected "BUG"
2065 warning in our tests for tor_gmtime_r(-1). Fixes bug 29922; bugfix
2068 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
2069 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
2070 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
2071 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
2072 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2074 o Minor bugfixes (TLS protocol, backport form 0.4.0.4-rc):
2075 - When classifying a client's selection of TLS ciphers, if the
2076 client ciphers are not yet available, do not cache the result.
2077 Previously, we had cached the unavailability of the cipher list
2078 and never looked again, which in turn led us to assume that the
2079 client only supported the ancient V1 link protocol. This, in turn,
2080 was causing Stem integration tests to stall in some cases. Fixes
2081 bug 30021; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
2083 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
2084 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
2085 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
2088 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
2089 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
2090 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
2091 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
2092 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
2093 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
2094 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
2095 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
2096 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
2097 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2099 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, CI, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
2100 - Skip the Appveyor 32-bit Windows Server 2016 job, and 64-bit
2101 Windows Server 2012 R2 job. The remaining 2 jobs still provide
2102 coverage of 64/32-bit, and Windows Server 2016/2012 R2. Also set
2103 fast_finish, so failed jobs terminate the build immediately. Fixes
2104 bug 29601; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
2106 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
2107 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
2108 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
2109 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
2111 o Testing (backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
2112 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
2113 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
2114 Resolves issue 29702.
2116 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
2117 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
2119 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.5):
2120 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and
2121 tail stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
2122 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary. Closes
2125 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
2126 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
2127 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
2128 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
2130 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
2131 Closes ticket 31859.
2132 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
2133 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
2135 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
2136 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
2137 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
2138 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
2139 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
2140 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
2141 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
2142 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
2143 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
2144 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
2146 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
2147 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
2148 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
2149 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
2150 Closes ticket 32500.
2152 Changes in version 0.4.2.4-rc - 2019-11-15
2153 Tor 0.4.2.4-rc is the first release candidate in its series. It fixes
2154 several bugs from earlier versions, including a few that would result in
2155 stack traces or incorrect behavior.
2157 o Minor features (build system):
2158 - Make pkg-config use --prefix when cross-compiling, if
2159 PKG_CONFIG_PATH is not set. Closes ticket 32191.
2161 o Minor features (geoip):
2162 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
2163 Country database. Closes ticket 32440.
2165 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3):
2166 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
2167 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
2168 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
2169 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
2170 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2172 o Minor bugfixes (code quality):
2173 - Fix "make check-includes" so it runs correctly on out-of-tree
2174 builds. Fixes bug 31335; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2176 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
2177 - Log the option name when skipping an obsolete option. Fixes bug
2178 32295; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
2180 o Minor bugfixes (crash):
2181 - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or
2182 --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing
2183 if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407;
2184 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2186 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
2187 - When checking if a directory connection is anonymous, test if the
2188 circuit was marked for close before looking at its channel. This
2189 avoids a BUG() stacktrace if the circuit was previously closed.
2190 Fixes bug 31958; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
2192 o Minor bugfixes (shellcheck):
2193 - Fix minor shellcheck errors in the git-*.sh scripts. Fixes bug
2194 32402; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
2195 - Start checking most scripts for shellcheck errors again. Fixes bug
2196 32402; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
2198 o Testing (continuous integration):
2199 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
2200 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
2201 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
2202 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
2203 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
2204 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
2205 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
2206 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
2207 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
2210 Changes in version 0.4.2.3-alpha - 2019-10-24
2211 This release fixes several bugs from the previous alpha release, and
2212 from earlier versions of Tor.
2214 o Major bugfixes (relay):
2215 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
2216 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
2217 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
2218 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
2219 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
2220 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
2221 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
2223 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services):
2224 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
2225 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
2226 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
2227 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
2230 o Minor feature (onion services, control port):
2231 - The ADD_ONION command's keyword "BEST" now defaults to ED25519-V3
2232 (v3) onion services. Previously it defaulted to RSA1024 (v2).
2233 Closes ticket 29669.
2235 o Minor features (testing):
2236 - When running tests that attempt to look up hostnames, replace the
2237 libc name lookup functions with ones that do not actually touch
2238 the network. This way, the tests complete more quickly in the
2239 presence of a slow or missing DNS resolver. Closes ticket 31841.
2241 o Minor features (testing, continuous integration):
2242 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
2243 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
2244 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
2246 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
2247 Closes ticket 31859.
2248 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
2249 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
2251 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
2252 - Interpret "--disable-module-dirauth=no" correctly. Fixes bug
2253 32124; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
2254 - Interpret "--with-tcmalloc=no" correctly. Fixes bug 32124; bugfix
2256 - Stop failing when jemalloc is requested, but tcmalloc is not
2257 found. Fixes bug 32124; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2258 - When pkg-config is not installed, or a library that depends on
2259 pkg-config is not found, tell the user what to do to fix the
2260 problem. Fixes bug 31922; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2262 o Minor bugfixes (connections):
2263 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
2264 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
2265 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
2267 o Minor bugfixes (error handling):
2268 - Always lock the backtrace buffer before it is used. Fixes bug
2269 31734; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
2271 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API):
2272 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
2273 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
2274 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
2275 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
2278 o Minor bugfixes (process management):
2279 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
2280 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
2282 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
2283 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
2284 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
2286 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
2287 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
2288 inconsistent timing sources. Fixes bug 31995; bugfix
2290 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
2291 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
2292 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
2293 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2295 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging):
2296 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
2297 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
2300 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
2301 - Fix an implicit conversion from ssize_t to size_t discovered by
2302 Coverity. Fixes bug 31682; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
2303 - Fix a memory leak in an unlikely error code path when encoding HS
2304 DoS establish intro extension cell. Fixes bug 32063; bugfix
2306 - When cleaning up intro circuits for a v3 onion service, don't
2307 remove circuits that have an established or pending circuit, even
2308 if they ran out of retries. This way, we don't remove a circuit on
2309 its last retry. Fixes bug 31652; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2312 - Correct the description of "GuardLifetime". Fixes bug 31189;
2313 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
2314 - Make clear in the man page, in both the bandwidth section and the
2315 AccountingMax section, that Tor counts in powers of two, not
2316 powers of ten: 1 GByte is 1024*1024*1024 bytes, not one billion
2317 bytes. Resolves ticket 32106.
2320 Changes in version 0.4.2.2-alpha - 2019-10-07
2321 This release fixes several bugs from the previous alpha release, and
2322 from earlier versions. It also includes a change in authorities, so
2323 that they begin to reject the currently unsupported release series.
2325 o Major features (directory authorities):
2326 - Directory authorities now reject relays running all currently
2327 deprecated release series. The currently supported release series
2328 are: 0.2.9, 0.3.5, 0.4.0, 0.4.1, and 0.4.2. Closes ticket 31549.
2330 o Major bugfixes (embedded Tor):
2331 - Avoid a possible crash when restarting Tor in embedded mode and
2332 enabling a different set of publish/subscribe messages. Fixes bug
2333 31898; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2335 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing):
2336 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
2337 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
2338 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
2339 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2341 o Minor features (auto-formatting scripts):
2342 - When annotating C macros, never generate a line that our check-
2343 spaces script would reject. Closes ticket 31759.
2344 - When annotating C macros, try to remove cases of double-negation.
2345 Closes ticket 31779.
2347 o Minor features (continuous integration):
2348 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
2349 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
2350 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
2352 o Minor features (geoip):
2353 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 1 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
2354 Country database. Closes ticket 31931.
2356 o Minor features (maintenance scripts):
2357 - Add a Coccinelle script to detect bugs caused by incrementing or
2358 decrementing a variable inside a call to log_debug(). Since
2359 log_debug() is a macro whose arguments are conditionally
2360 evaluated, it is usually an error to do this. One such bug was
2361 30628, in which SENDME cells were miscounted by a decrement
2362 operator inside a log_debug() call. Closes ticket 30743.
2364 o Minor features (onion services v3):
2365 - Assist users who try to setup v2 client authorization in v3 onion
2366 services by pointing them to the right documentation. Closes
2369 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor continuous integration):
2370 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install
2371 step. Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
2373 o Minor bugfixes (best practices tracker):
2374 - When listing overbroad exceptions, do not also list problems, and
2375 do not list insufficiently broad exceptions. Fixes bug 31338;
2376 bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
2378 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
2379 - Fix the MAPADDRESS controller command to accept one or more
2380 arguments. Previously, it required two or more arguments, and
2381 ignored the first. Fixes bug 31772; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2383 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
2384 - Add a missing check for HAVE_PTHREAD_H, because the backtrace code
2385 uses mutexes. Fixes bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
2386 - Disable backtrace signal handlers when shutting down tor. Fixes
2387 bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
2388 - Rate-limit our the logging message about the obsolete .exit
2389 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
2390 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
2391 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
2392 - When initialising log domain masks, only set known log domains.
2393 Fixes bug 31854; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
2395 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations):
2396 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
2397 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
2398 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
2400 o Minor bugfixes (modules):
2401 - Explain what the optional Directory Authority module is, and what
2402 happens when it is disabled. Fixes bug 31825; bugfix
2405 o Minor bugfixes (multithreading):
2406 - Avoid some undefined behaviour when freeing mutexes. Fixes bug
2407 31736; bugfix on 0.0.7.
2409 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
2410 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
2411 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
2412 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
2414 o Minor bugfixes (tests, SunOS):
2415 - Avoid a map_anon_nofork test failure due to a signed/unsigned
2416 integer comparison. Fixes bug 31897; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2418 o Code simplification and refactoring:
2419 - Refactor connection_control_process_inbuf() to reduce the size of
2420 a practracker exception. Closes ticket 31840.
2421 - Refactor the microdescs_parse_from_string() function into smaller
2422 pieces, for better comprehensibility. Closes ticket 31675.
2423 - Use SEVERITY_MASK_IDX() to find the LOG_* mask indexes in the unit
2424 tests and fuzzers, rather than using hard-coded values. Closes
2426 - Interface for function `decrypt_desc_layer` cleaned up. Closes
2430 - Document the signal-safe logging behaviour in the tor man page.
2431 Also add some comments to the relevant functions. Closes
2433 - Explain why we can't destroy the backtrace buffer mutex. Explain
2434 why we don't need to destroy the log mutex. Closes ticket 31736.
2435 - The Tor source code repository now includes a (somewhat dated)
2436 description of Tor's modular architecture, in doc/HACKING/design.
2437 This is based on the old "tor-guts.git" repository, which we are
2438 adopting and superseding. Closes ticket 31849.
2441 Changes in version 0.4.1.6 - 2019-09-19
2442 This release backports several bugfixes to improve stability and
2443 correctness. Anyone experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.1.5,
2444 or experiencing reliability issues with single onion services, should
2447 o Major bugfixes (crash, Linux, Android, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
2448 - Tolerate systems (including some Android installations) where
2449 madvise and MADV_DONTDUMP are available at build-time, but not at
2450 run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed syscall
2451 and abort. Fixes bug 31570; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2452 - Tolerate systems (including some Linux installations) where
2453 madvise and/or MADV_DONTFORK are available at build-time, but not
2454 at run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed
2455 syscall and abort. Fixes bug 31696; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2457 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
2458 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
2459 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
2462 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
2463 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
2464 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
2466 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
2467 - Add more stub functions to fix compilation on Android with link-
2468 time optimization when --disable-module-dirauth is used.
2469 Previously, these compilation settings would make the compiler
2470 look for functions that didn't exist. Fixes bug 31552; bugfix
2472 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
2473 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
2474 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
2476 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
2477 - Fix the MAPADDRESS controller command to accept one or more
2478 arguments. Previously, it required two or more arguments, and ignored
2479 the first. Fixes bug 31772; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2481 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
2482 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
2483 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
2484 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
2487 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
2488 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
2489 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
2490 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
2491 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2493 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
2494 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
2495 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
2498 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
2499 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
2500 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
2502 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
2503 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
2504 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
2505 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
2506 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
2507 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
2509 o Minor bugfixes (v3 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
2510 - Always retry v3 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
2511 a 3-hop path. Previously, v3 single onion services used a 3-hop
2512 path when rend circuits were retried after a remote or delayed
2513 failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug 23818;
2514 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2515 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
2516 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
2517 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
2518 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2520 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
2521 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
2522 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
2523 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
2526 Changes in version 0.4.2.1-alpha - 2019-09-17
2527 This is the first alpha release in the 0.4.2.x series. It adds new
2528 defenses for denial-of-service attacks against onion services. It also
2529 includes numerous kinds of bugfixes and refactoring to help improve
2530 Tor's stability and ease of development.
2532 o Major features (onion service v3, denial of service):
2533 - Add onion service introduction denial of service defenses. Intro
2534 points can now rate-limit client introduction requests, using
2535 parameters that can be sent by the service within the
2536 ESTABLISH_INTRO cell. If the cell extension for this is not used,
2537 the intro point will honor the consensus parameters. Closes
2540 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard):
2541 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
2542 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close.
2543 Previously we could end up in the situation where a subsystem is
2544 notified of a circuit opening, but the circuit is still marked for
2545 close, leading to undesirable behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix
2548 o Major bugfixes (crash, Linux, Android):
2549 - Tolerate systems (including some Android installations) where
2550 madvise and MADV_DONTDUMP are available at build-time, but not at
2551 run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed syscall
2552 and abort. Fixes bug 31570; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2553 - Tolerate systems (including some Linux installations) where
2554 madvise and/or MADV_DONTFORK are available at build-time, but not
2555 at run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed
2556 syscall and abort. Fixes bug 31696; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2558 o Minor features (best practices tracker):
2559 - Our best-practices tracker now integrates with our include-checker
2560 tool to keep track of how many layering violations we have not yet
2561 fixed. We hope to reduce this number over time to improve Tor's
2562 modularity. Closes ticket 31176.
2563 - Add a TOR_PRACTRACKER_OPTIONS variable for passing arguments to
2564 practracker from the environment. We may want this for continuous
2565 integration. Closes ticket 31309.
2566 - Give a warning rather than an error when a practracker exception
2567 is violated by a small amount, add a --list-overbroad option to
2568 practracker that lists exceptions that are stricter than they need
2569 to be, and provide an environment variable for disabling
2570 practracker. Closes ticket 30752.
2571 - Our best-practices tracker now looks at headers as well as C
2572 files. Closes ticket 31175.
2574 o Minor features (build system):
2575 - Add --disable-manpage and --disable-html-manual options to
2576 configure script. This will enable shortening build times by not
2577 building documentation. Resolves issue 19381.
2579 o Minor features (compilation):
2580 - Log a more useful error message when we are compiling and one of
2581 the compile-time hardening options we have selected can be linked
2582 but not executed. Closes ticket 27530.
2584 o Minor features (configuration):
2585 - The configuration code has been extended to allow splitting
2586 configuration data across multiple objects. Previously, all
2587 configuration data needed to be kept in a single object, which
2588 tended to become bloated. Closes ticket 31240.
2590 o Minor features (continuous integration):
2591 - When running CI builds on Travis, put some random data in
2592 ~/.torrc, to make sure no tests are reading the Tor configuration
2593 file from its default location. Resolves issue 30102.
2595 o Minor features (debugging):
2596 - Log a nonfatal assertion failure if we encounter a configuration
2597 line whose command is "CLEAR" but which has a nonempty value. This
2598 should be impossible, according to the rules of our configuration
2599 line parsing. Closes ticket 31529.
2601 o Minor features (git hooks):
2602 - Our pre-commit git hook now checks for a special file before
2603 running practracker, so that practracker only runs on branches
2604 that are based on master. Since the pre-push hook calls the pre-
2605 commit hook, practracker will also only run before pushes of
2606 branches based on master. Closes ticket 30979.
2608 o Minor features (git scripts):
2609 - Add a "--" command-line argument, to separate git-push-all.sh
2610 script arguments from arguments that are passed through to git
2611 push. Closes ticket 31314.
2612 - Add a -r <remote-name> argument to git-push-all.sh, so the script
2613 can push test branches to a personal remote. Closes ticket 31314.
2614 - Add a -t <test-branch-prefix> argument to git-merge-forward.sh and
2615 git-push-all.sh, which makes these scripts create, merge forward,
2616 and push test branches. Closes ticket 31314.
2617 - Add a -u argument to git-merge-forward.sh, so that the script can
2618 re-use existing test branches after a merge failure and fix.
2619 Closes ticket 31314.
2620 - Add a TOR_GIT_PUSH env var, which sets the default git push
2621 command and arguments for git-push-all.sh. Closes ticket 31314.
2622 - Add a TOR_PUSH_DELAY variable to git-push-all.sh, which makes the
2623 script push master and maint branches with a delay between each
2624 branch. These delays trigger the CI jobs in a set order, which
2625 should show the most likely failures first. Also make pushes
2626 atomic by default, and make the script pass any command-line
2627 arguments to git push. Closes ticket 29879.
2628 - Call the shellcheck script from the pre-commit hook. Closes
2630 - Skip pushing test branches that are the same as a remote
2631 maint/release/master branch in git-push-all.sh by default. Add a
2632 -s argument, so git-push-all.sh can push all test branches. Closes
2635 o Minor features (IPv6, logging):
2636 - Log IPv6 addresses as well as IPv4 addresses when describing
2637 routerinfos, routerstatuses, and nodes. Closes ticket 21003.
2639 o Minor features (onion service v3):
2640 - Do not allow single hop clients to fetch or post an HS descriptor
2641 from an HSDir. Closes ticket 24964.
2643 o Minor features (onion service):
2644 - Disallow single-hop clients at the introduction point. We've
2645 removed Tor2web support a while back and single-hop rendezvous
2646 attempts are blocked at the relays. This change should remove load
2647 off the network from spammy clients. Close ticket 24963.
2649 o Minor features (stem tests):
2650 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
2651 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
2654 o Minor features (testing):
2655 - Add a script to invoke "tor --dump-config" and "tor
2656 --verify-config" with various configuration options, and see
2657 whether tor's resulting configuration or error messages are what
2658 we expect. Use it for integration testing of our +Option and
2659 /Option flags. Closes ticket 31637.
2660 - Improve test coverage for our existing configuration parsing and
2661 management API. Closes ticket 30893.
2662 - Add integration tests to make sure that practracker gives the
2663 outputs we expect. Closes ticket 31477.
2664 - The practracker self-tests are now run as part of the Tor test
2665 suite. Closes ticket 31304.
2667 o Minor features (token bucket):
2668 - Implement a generic token bucket that uses a single counter, for
2669 use in anti-DoS onion service work. Closes ticket 30687.
2671 o Minor bugfixes (best practices tracker):
2672 - Fix a few issues in the best-practices script, including tests,
2673 tab tolerance, error reporting, and directory-exclusion logic.
2674 Fixes bug 29746; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2675 - When running check-best-practices, only consider files in the src
2676 subdirectory. Previously we had recursively considered all
2677 subdirectories, which made us get confused by the temporary
2678 directories made by "make distcheck". Fixes bug 31578; bugfix
2681 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
2682 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
2683 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
2685 o Minor bugfixes (chutney, makefiles, documentation):
2686 - "make test-network-all" now shows the warnings from each test-
2687 network.sh run on the console, so developers see new warnings
2688 early. We've also improved the documentation for this feature, and
2689 renamed a Makefile variable so the code is self-documenting. Fixes
2690 bug 30455; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc.
2692 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
2693 - Add more stub functions to fix compilation on Android with link-
2694 time optimization when --disable-module-dirauth is used.
2695 Previously, these compilation settings would make the compiler
2696 look for functions that didn't exist. Fixes bug 31552; bugfix
2698 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
2699 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
2700 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
2702 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
2703 - Invalid floating-point values in the configuration file are now
2704 treated as errors in the configuration. Previously, they were
2705 ignored and treated as zero. Fixes bug 31475; bugfix on 0.0.1.
2707 o Minor bugfixes (coverity):
2708 - Add an assertion when parsing a BEGIN cell so that coverity can be
2709 sure that we are not about to dereference a NULL address. Fixes
2710 bug 31026; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. This is CID 1447296.
2711 - In our siphash implementation, when building for coverity, use
2712 memcpy in place of a switch statement, so that coverity can tell
2713 we are not accessing out-of-bounds memory. Fixes bug 31025; bugfix
2714 on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This is tracked as CID 1447293 and 1447295.
2715 - Fix several coverity warnings from our unit tests. Fixes bug
2716 31030; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha, 0.3.2.1-alpha, and 0.4.0.1-alpha.
2718 o Minor bugfixes (developer tooling):
2719 - Only log git script changes in the post-merge script when the
2720 merge was to the master branch. Fixes bug 31040; bugfix
2723 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
2724 - Return a distinct status when formatting annotations fails. Fixes
2725 bug 30780; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
2727 o Minor bugfixes (error handling):
2728 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
2729 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
2730 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2731 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
2732 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
2733 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2734 - When tor aborts due to an error, close log file descriptors before
2735 aborting. Closing the logs makes some OSes flush log file buffers,
2736 rather than deleting buffered log lines. Fixes bug 31594; bugfix
2739 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6):
2740 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
2741 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
2742 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
2745 o Minor bugfixes (git hooks):
2746 - Remove a duplicate call to practracker from the pre-push hook. The
2747 pre-push hook already calls the pre-commit hook, which calls
2748 practracker. Fixes bug 31462; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2750 o Minor bugfixes (git scripts):
2751 - Stop hard-coding the bash path in the git scripts. Some OSes don't
2752 have bash in /usr/bin, others have an ancient bash at this path.
2753 Fixes bug 30840; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
2754 - Stop hard-coding the tor master branch name and worktree path in
2755 the git scripts. Fixes bug 30841; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
2756 - Allow git-push-all.sh to be run from any directory. Previously,
2757 the script only worked if run from an upstream worktree directory.
2758 Closes ticket 31678.
2760 o Minor bugfixes (guards):
2761 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
2762 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
2763 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
2764 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2766 o Minor bugfixes (ipv6):
2767 - Check for private IPv6 addresses alongside their IPv4 equivalents
2768 when authorities check descriptors. Previously, we only checked
2769 for private IPv4 addresses. Fixes bug 31088; bugfix on
2770 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2771 - When parsing microdescriptors, we should check the IPv6 exit
2772 policy alongside IPv4. Previously, we checked both exit policies
2773 for only router info structures, while microdescriptors were
2774 IPv4-only. Fixes bug 27284; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by
2777 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
2778 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
2779 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
2781 - Fix a code issue that would have broken our parsing of log domains
2782 as soon as we had 33 of them. Fortunately, we still only have 29.
2783 Fixes bug 31451; bugfix on 0.4.1.4-rc.
2785 o Minor bugfixes (memory management):
2786 - Stop leaking a small amount of memory in nt_service_install(), in
2787 unreachable code. Fixes bug 30799; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Patch
2790 o Minor bugfixes (networking, IP addresses):
2791 - When parsing addresses via Tor's internal DNS lookup API, reject
2792 IPv4 addresses in square brackets, and accept IPv6 addresses in
2793 square brackets. This change completes the work started in 23082,
2794 making address parsing consistent between tor's internal DNS
2795 lookup and address parsing APIs. Fixes bug 30721; bugfix
2797 - When parsing addresses via Tor's internal address:port parsing and
2798 DNS lookup APIs, require IPv6 addresses with ports to have square
2799 brackets. But allow IPv6 addresses without ports, whether or not
2800 they have square brackets. Fixes bug 30721; bugfix
2803 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
2804 - When purging the client descriptor cache, close any introduction
2805 point circuits associated with purged cache entries. This avoids
2806 picking those circuits later when connecting to the same
2807 introduction points. Fixes bug 30921; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2809 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
2810 - In the hs_ident_circuit_t data structure, remove the unused field
2811 circuit_type and the respective argument in hs_ident_circuit_new().
2812 This field was set by clients (for introduction) and services (for
2813 introduction and rendezvous) but was never used afterwards. Fixes
2814 bug 31490; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2816 o Minor bugfixes (operator tools):
2817 - Make tor-print-ed-signing-cert(1) print certificate expiration
2818 date in RFC 1123 and UNIX timestamp formats, to make output
2819 machine readable. Fixes bug 31012; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2821 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
2822 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
2823 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
2824 - Raise the minimum rustc version to 1.31.0, as checked by configure
2825 and CI. Fixes bug 31442; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
2827 o Minor bugfixes (sendme, code structure):
2828 - Rename the trunnel SENDME file definition from sendme.trunnel to
2829 sendme_cell.trunnel to avoid having twice sendme.{c|h} in the
2830 repository. Fixes bug 30769; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2832 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
2833 - Stop removing the ed25519 signature if the extra info file is too
2834 big. If the signature data was removed, but the keyword was kept,
2835 this could result in an unparseable extra info file. Fixes bug
2836 30958; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
2838 o Minor bugfixes (subsystems):
2839 - Make the subsystem init order match the subsystem module
2840 dependencies. Call windows process security APIs as early as
2841 possible. Initialize logging before network and time, so that
2842 network and time can use logging. Fixes bug 31615; bugfix
2845 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
2846 - Teach the util/socketpair_ersatz test to work correctly when we
2847 have no network stack configured. Fixes bug 30804; bugfix
2850 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services):
2851 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
2852 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
2853 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
2854 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
2855 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
2857 o Minor bugfixes (v3 single onion services):
2858 - Always retry v3 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
2859 a 3-hop path. Previously, v3 single onion services used a 3-hop
2860 path when rend circuits were retried after a remote or delayed
2861 failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug 23818;
2862 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2863 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
2864 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
2865 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
2866 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2869 - Improve documentation in circuit padding subsystem. Patch by
2870 Tobias Pulls. Closes ticket 31113.
2871 - Include an example usage for IPv6 ORPort in our sample torrc.
2872 Closes ticket 31320; patch from Ali Raheem.
2873 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
2874 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
2875 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
2878 - No longer include recommended package digests in votes as detailed
2879 in proposal 301. The RecommendedPackages torrc option is
2880 deprecated and will no longer have any effect. "package" lines
2881 will still be considered when computing consensuses for consensus
2882 methods that include them. (This change has no effect on the list
2883 of recommended Tor versions, which is still in use.) Closes
2885 - Remove torctl.in from contrib/dist directory. Resolves
2889 - Run shellcheck for all non-third-party shell scripts that are
2890 shipped with Tor. Closes ticket 29533.
2891 - When checking shell scripts, ignore any user-created directories.
2892 Closes ticket 30967.
2894 o Code simplification and refactoring (config handling):
2895 - Extract our variable manipulation code from confparse.c to a new
2896 lower-level typedvar.h module. Closes ticket 30864.
2897 - Lower another layer of object management from confparse.c to a
2898 more general tool. Now typed structure members are accessible via
2899 an abstract type. Implements ticket 30914.
2900 - Move our backend logic for working with configuration and state
2901 files into a lower-level library, since it no longer depends on
2902 any tor-specific functionality. Closes ticket 31626.
2903 - Numerous simplifications in configuration-handling logic: remove
2904 duplicated macro definitions, replace magical names with flags,
2905 and refactor "TestingTorNetwork" to use the same default-option
2906 logic as the rest of Tor. Closes ticket 30935.
2907 - Replace our ad-hoc set of flags for configuration variables and
2908 configuration variable types with fine-grained orthogonal flags
2909 corresponding to the actual behavior we want. Closes ticket 31625.
2911 o Code simplification and refactoring (misc):
2912 - Eliminate some uses of lower-level control reply abstractions,
2913 primarily in the onion_helper functions. Closes ticket 30889.
2914 - Rework bootstrap tracking to use the new publish-subscribe
2915 subsystem. Closes ticket 29976.
2916 - Rewrite format_node_description() and router_get_verbose_nickname()
2917 to use strlcpy() and strlcat(). The previous implementation used
2918 memcpy() and pointer arithmetic, which was error-prone. Closes
2919 ticket 31545. This is CID 1452819.
2920 - Split extrainfo_dump_to_string() into smaller functions. Closes
2922 - Use the ptrdiff_t type consistently for expressing variable
2923 offsets and pointer differences. Previously we incorrectly (but
2924 harmlessly) used int and sometimes off_t for these cases. Closes
2926 - Use the subsystems mechanism to manage the main event loop code.
2927 Closes ticket 30806.
2928 - Various simplifications and minor improvements to the circuit
2929 padding machines. Patch by Tobias Pulls. Closes tickets 31112
2932 o Documentation (hard-coded directories):
2933 - Improve the documentation for the DirAuthority and FallbackDir
2934 torrc options. Closes ticket 30955.
2936 o Documentation (tor.1 man page):
2937 - Fix typo in tor.1 man page: the option is "--help", not "-help".
2938 Fixes bug 31008; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
2941 Changes in version 0.4.1.5 - 2019-08-20
2942 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.1.x series. This series
2943 adds experimental circuit-level padding, authenticated SENDME cells to
2944 defend against certain attacks, and several performance improvements
2945 to save on CPU consumption. It fixes bugs in bootstrapping and v3
2946 onion services. It also includes numerous smaller features and
2947 bugfixes on earlier versions.
2949 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.1.x series for nine
2950 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.2.x:
2951 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
2952 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
2954 Below are the changes since 0.4.1.4-rc. For a complete list of changes
2955 since 0.4.0.5, see the ReleaseNotes file.
2957 o Directory authority changes:
2958 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
2961 o Minor features (circuit padding logging):
2962 - Demote noisy client-side warn logs about circuit padding to
2963 protocol warnings. Add additional log messages and circuit ID
2964 fields to help with bug 30992 and any other future issues.
2966 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding negotiation):
2967 - Bump the circuit padding protocol version to explicitly signify
2968 that the HS setup machine support is finalized in 0.4.1.x-stable.
2969 This also means that 0.4.1.x-alpha clients will not negotiate
2970 padding with 0.4.1.x-stable relays, and 0.4.1.x-stable clients
2971 will not negotiate padding with 0.4.1.x-alpha relays (or 0.4.0.x
2972 relays). Fixes bug 31356; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2974 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
2975 - Ignore non-padding cells on padding circuits. This addresses
2976 various warning messages from subsystems that were not expecting
2977 padding circuits. Fixes bug 30942; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2979 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection):
2980 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
2981 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
2982 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
2983 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
2985 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, standards compliance):
2986 - Fix a bug that would invoke undefined behavior on certain
2987 operating systems when trying to asprintf() a string exactly
2988 INT_MAX bytes long. We don't believe this is exploitable, but it's
2989 better to fix it anyway. Fixes bug 31001; bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
2990 Found and fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
2992 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning):
2993 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
2994 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix
2997 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
2998 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
2999 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
3001 o Minor bugfixes (distribution):
3002 - Do not ship any temporary files found in the
3003 scripts/maint/practracker directory. Fixes bug 31311; bugfix
3006 o Testing (continuous integration):
3007 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and
3008 tail stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
3009 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary. Closes
3013 Changes in version 0.4.1.4-rc - 2019-07-25
3014 Tor 0.4.1.4-rc fixes a few bugs from previous versions of Tor, and
3015 updates to a new list of fallback directories. If no new bugs are
3016 found, the next release in the 0.4.1.x serious should be stable.
3018 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard):
3019 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
3020 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
3021 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
3022 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
3023 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
3025 o Minor features (continuous integration):
3026 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
3027 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
3029 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
3030 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
3031 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
3032 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
3033 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
3035 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
3036 - On relays, properly check that a padding machine is absent before
3037 logging a warning about it being absent. Fixes bug 30649; bugfix
3039 - Add two NULL checks in unreachable places to silence Coverity (CID
3040 144729 and 1447291) and better future-proof ourselves. Fixes bug
3041 31024; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3043 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit):
3044 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
3045 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
3046 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
3048 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
3049 - Fix a conflict between the flag used for messaging-domain log
3050 messages, and the LD_NO_MOCK testing flag. Fixes bug 31080; bugfix
3053 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
3054 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value from a
3055 download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug 30894; bugfix
3058 o Code simplification and refactoring:
3059 - Remove some dead code from circpad_machine_remove_token() to fix
3060 some Coverity warnings (CID 1447298). Fixes bug 31027; bugfix
3064 Changes in version 0.4.1.3-alpha - 2019-06-25
3065 Tor 0.4.1.3-alpha resolves numerous bugs left over from the previous
3066 alpha, most of them from earlier release series.
3068 o Major bugfixes (Onion service reachability):
3069 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
3070 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
3071 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
3072 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
3075 o Minor features (geoip):
3076 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 10 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
3077 Country database. Closes ticket 30852.
3079 o Minor features (logging):
3080 - Give a more useful assertion failure message if we think we have
3081 minherit() but we fail to make a region non-inheritable. Give a
3082 compile-time warning if our support for minherit() is incomplete.
3083 Closes ticket 30686.
3085 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation):
3086 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
3087 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
3089 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
3090 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
3091 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
3092 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
3093 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3094 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
3095 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3097 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
3098 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
3099 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
3100 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
3102 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
3103 - When running as a bridge with pluggable transports, always publish
3104 pluggable transport information in our extrainfo descriptor, even
3105 if ExtraInfoStatistics is 0. This information is needed by
3106 BridgeDB. Fixes bug 30956; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3109 - Mention URLs for Travis/Appveyor/Jenkins in ReleasingTor.md.
3110 Closes ticket 30630.
3113 Changes in version 0.4.1.2-alpha - 2019-06-06
3114 Tor 0.4.1.2-alpha resolves numerous bugs--some of them from the
3115 previous alpha, and some much older. It also contains minor testing
3116 improvements, and an improvement to the security of our authenticated
3117 SENDME implementation.
3119 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
3120 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
3121 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
3122 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
3123 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
3124 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
3125 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
3126 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
3127 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
3128 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
3129 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
3131 o Major bugfixes (flow control, SENDME):
3132 - Decrement the stream-level package window after packaging a cell.
3133 Previously, it was done inside a log_debug() call, meaning that if
3134 debug logs were not enabled, the decrement would never happen, and
3135 thus the window would be out of sync with the other end point.
3136 Fixes bug 30628; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3138 o Major bugfixes (onion service reachability):
3139 - Properly clean up the introduction point map and associated state
3140 when circuits change purpose from onion service circuits to
3141 pathbias, measurement, or other circuit types. This may fix some
3142 instances of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
3145 o Minor features (authenticated SENDME):
3146 - Ensure that there is enough randomness on every circuit to prevent
3147 an attacker from successfully predicting the hashes they will need
3148 to include in authenticated SENDME cells. At a random interval, if
3149 we have not sent randomness already, we now leave some extra space
3150 at the end of a cell that we can fill with random bytes. Closes
3153 o Minor features (continuous integration):
3154 - When running coverage builds on Travis, we now set
3155 TOR_TEST_RNG_SEED, to avoid RNG-based coverage differences. Part
3158 o Minor features (maintenance):
3159 - Add a new "make autostyle" target that developers can use to apply
3160 all automatic Tor style and consistency conversions to the
3161 codebase. Closes ticket 30539.
3163 o Minor features (testing):
3164 - The circuitpadding tests now use a reproducible RNG implementation,
3165 so that if a test fails, we can learn why. Part of ticket 28878.
3166 - Tor's tests now support an environment variable, TOR_TEST_RNG_SEED,
3167 to set the RNG seed for tests that use a reproducible RNG. Part of
3169 - When running tests in coverage mode, take additional care to make
3170 our coverage deterministic, so that we can accurately track
3171 changes in code coverage. Closes ticket 30519.
3173 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies):
3174 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
3175 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
3176 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
3178 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
3179 - POSTDESCRIPTOR requests should work again. Previously, they were
3180 broken if a "purpose=" flag was specified. Fixes bug 30580; bugfix
3182 - Repair the HSFETCH command so that it works again. Previously, it
3183 expected a body when it shouldn't have. Fixes bug 30646; bugfix
3186 o Minor bugfixes (developer tooling):
3187 - Fix pre-push hook to allow fixup and squash commits when pushing
3188 to non-upstream git remote. Fixes bug 30286; bugfix
3191 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
3192 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
3193 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
3196 o Minor bugfixes (NetBSD):
3197 - Fix usage of minherit() on NetBSD and other platforms that define
3198 MAP_INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE} instead of INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE}. Fixes bug
3199 30614; bugfix on 0.4.0.2-alpha. Patch from Taylor Campbell.
3201 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler):
3202 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
3203 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
3204 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
3207 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
3208 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
3209 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
3210 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
3211 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
3212 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
3215 o Minor bugfixes (shutdown, libevent, memory safety):
3216 - Avoid use-after-free bugs when shutting down, by making sure that
3217 we shut down libevent only after shutting down all of its users.
3218 We believe these are harmless in practice, since they only occur
3219 on the shutdown path, and do not involve any attacker-controlled
3220 data. Fixes bug 30629; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3222 o Minor bugfixes (static analysis):
3223 - Fix several spurious Coverity warnings about the unit tests, to
3224 lower our chances of missing real warnings in the future. Fixes
3225 bug 30150; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha and various other Tor versions.
3228 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
3229 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
3230 Resolves issue 29702.
3233 Changes in version 0.4.1.1-alpha - 2019-05-22
3234 This is the first alpha in the 0.4.1.x series. It introduces
3235 lightweight circuit padding to make some onion-service circuits harder
3236 to distinguish, includes a new "authenticated SENDME" feature to make
3237 certain denial-of-service attacks more difficult, and improves
3238 performance in several areas.
3240 o Major features (circuit padding):
3241 - Onion service clients now add padding cells at the start of their
3242 INTRODUCE and RENDEZVOUS circuits, to make those circuits' traffic
3243 look more like general purpose Exit traffic. The overhead for this
3244 is 2 extra cells in each direction for RENDEZVOUS circuits, and 1
3245 extra upstream cell and 10 downstream cells for INTRODUCE
3246 circuits. This feature is only enabled when also supported by the
3247 circuit's middle node. (Clients may specify fixed middle nodes
3248 with the MiddleNodes option, and may force-disable this feature
3249 with the CircuitPadding option.) Closes ticket 28634.
3251 o Major features (code organization):
3252 - Tor now includes a generic publish-subscribe message-passing
3253 subsystem that we can use to organize intermodule dependencies. We
3254 hope to use this to reduce dependencies between modules that don't
3255 need to be related, and to generally simplify our codebase. Closes
3258 o Major features (controller protocol):
3259 - Controller commands are now parsed using a generalized parsing
3260 subsystem. Previously, each controller command was responsible for
3261 parsing its own input, which led to strange inconsistencies.
3262 Closes ticket 30091.
3264 o Major features (flow control):
3265 - Implement authenticated SENDMEs as detailed in proposal 289. A
3266 SENDME cell now includes the digest of the traffic that it
3267 acknowledges, so that once an end point receives the SENDME, it
3268 can confirm the other side's knowledge of the previous cells that
3269 were sent, and prevent certain types of denial-of-service attacks.
3270 This behavior is controlled by two new consensus parameters: see
3271 the proposal for more details. Fixes ticket 26288.
3273 o Major features (performance):
3274 - Our node selection algorithm now excludes nodes in linear time.
3275 Previously, the algorithm was quadratic, which could slow down
3276 heavily used onion services. Closes ticket 30307.
3278 o Major features (performance, RNG):
3279 - Tor now constructs a fast secure pseudorandom number generator for
3280 each thread, to use when performance is critical. This PRNG is
3281 based on AES-CTR, using a buffering construction similar to
3282 libottery and the (newer) OpenBSD arc4random() code. It
3283 outperforms OpenSSL 1.1.1a's CSPRNG by roughly a factor of 100 for
3284 small outputs. Although we believe it to be cryptographically
3285 strong, we are only using it when necessary for performance.
3286 Implements tickets 29023 and 29536.
3288 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3):
3289 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
3290 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
3291 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
3292 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
3294 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
3295 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
3296 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
3297 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
3300 o Minor features (circuit padding):
3301 - We now use a fast PRNG when scheduling circuit padding. Part of
3303 - Allow the padding machine designer to pick the edges of their
3304 histogram instead of trying to compute them automatically using an
3305 exponential formula. Resolves some undefined behavior in the case
3306 of small histograms and allows greater flexibility on machine
3307 design. Closes ticket 29298; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3308 - Allow circuit padding machines to hold a circuit open until they
3309 are done padding it. Closes ticket 28780.
3311 o Minor features (compile-time modules):
3312 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
3313 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
3315 o Minor features (continuous integration):
3316 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
3317 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
3319 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
3321 o Minor features (controller):
3322 - Add onion service version 3 support to the HSFETCH command.
3323 Previously, only version 2 onion services were supported. Closes
3324 ticket 25417. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3326 o Minor features (debugging):
3327 - Introduce tor_assertf() and tor_assertf_nonfatal() to enable
3328 logging of additional information during assert failure. Now we
3329 can use format strings to include information for trouble
3330 shooting. Resolves ticket 29662.
3332 o Minor features (defense in depth):
3333 - In smartlist_remove_keeporder(), set unused pointers to NULL, in
3334 case a bug causes them to be used later. Closes ticket 30176.
3335 Patch from Tobias Stoeckmann.
3336 - Tor now uses a cryptographically strong PRNG even for decisions
3337 that we do not believe are security-sensitive. Previously, for
3338 performance reasons, we had used a trivially predictable linear
3339 congruential generator algorithm for certain load-balancing and
3340 statistical sampling decisions. Now we use our fast RNG in those
3341 cases. Closes ticket 29542.
3343 o Minor features (developer tools):
3344 - Tor's "practracker" test script now checks for files and functions
3345 that seem too long and complicated. Existing overlong functions
3346 and files are accepted for now, but should eventually be
3347 refactored. Closes ticket 29221.
3348 - Add some scripts used for git maintenance to scripts/git. Closes
3350 - Call practracker from pre-push and pre-commit git hooks to let
3351 developers know if they made any code style violations. Closes
3353 - Add a script to check that each header has a well-formed and
3354 unique guard macro. Closes ticket 29756.
3356 o Minor features (geoip):
3357 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 13 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
3358 Country database. Closes ticket 30522.
3360 o Minor features (HTTP tunnel):
3361 - Return an informative web page when the HTTPTunnelPort is used as
3362 an HTTP proxy. Closes ticket 27821, patch by "eighthave".
3364 o Minor features (IPv6, v3 onion services):
3365 - Make v3 onion services put IPv6 addresses in service descriptors.
3366 Before this change, service descriptors only contained IPv4
3367 addresses. Implements 26992.
3369 o Minor features (modularity):
3370 - The "--disable-module-dirauth" compile-time option now disables
3371 even more dirauth-only code. Closes ticket 30345.
3373 o Minor features (performance):
3374 - Use OpenSSL's implementations of SHA3 when available (in OpenSSL
3375 1.1.1 and later), since they tend to be faster than tiny-keccak.
3376 Closes ticket 28837.
3378 o Minor features (testing):
3379 - Tor's unit test code now contains helper functions to replace the
3380 PRNG with a deterministic or reproducible version for testing.
3381 Previously, various tests implemented this in various ways.
3382 Implements ticket 29732.
3383 - We now have a script, cov-test-determinism.sh, to identify places
3384 where our unit test coverage has become nondeterministic. Closes
3386 - Check that representative subsets of values of `int` and `unsigned
3387 int` can be represented by `void *`. Resolves issue 29537.
3389 o Minor bugfixes (bridge authority):
3390 - Bridge authorities now set bridges as running or non-running when
3391 about to dump their status to a file. Previously, they set bridges
3392 as running in response to a GETINFO command, but those shouldn't
3393 modify data structures. Fixes bug 24490; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
3394 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3396 o Minor bugfixes (channel padding statistics):
3397 - Channel padding write totals and padding-enabled totals are now
3398 counted properly in relay extrainfo descriptors. Fixes bug 29231;
3399 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3401 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
3402 - Add a "CircuitPadding" torrc option to disable circuit padding.
3403 Fixes bug 28693; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3404 - Allow circuit padding machines to specify that they do not
3405 contribute much overhead, and provide consensus flags and torrc
3406 options to force clients to only use these low overhead machines.
3407 Fixes bug 29203; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3408 - Provide a consensus parameter to fully disable circuit padding, to
3409 be used in emergency network overload situations. Fixes bug 30173;
3410 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3411 - The circuit padding subsystem will no longer schedule padding if
3412 dormant mode is enabled. Fixes bug 28636; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3413 - Inspect a circuit-level cell queue before sending padding, to
3414 avoid sending padding while too much data is already queued. Fixes
3415 bug 29204; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3416 - Avoid calling monotime_absolute_usec() in circuit padding machines
3417 that do not use token removal or circuit RTT estimation. Fixes bug
3418 29085; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3420 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations):
3421 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
3422 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
3423 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
3425 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
3426 - Teach the controller parser to distinguish an object preceded by
3427 an argument list from one without. Previously, it couldn't
3428 distinguish an argument list from the first line of a multiline
3429 object. Fixes bug 29984; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
3431 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, ipv6):
3432 - Directory authorities with IPv6 support now always mark themselves
3433 as reachable via IPv6. Fixes bug 24338; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
3434 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3436 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
3437 - Improve the documentation for using MapAddress with ".exit". Fixes
3438 bug 30109; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
3439 - Improve the monotonic time module and function documentation to
3440 explain what "monotonic" actually means, and document some results
3441 that have surprised people. Fixes bug 29640; bugfix
3443 - Use proper formatting when providing an example on quoting options
3444 that contain whitespace. Fixes bug 29635; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
3446 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
3447 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
3448 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
3449 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
3450 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
3451 - Warn operators when the MyFamily option is set but ContactInfo is
3452 missing, as the latter should be set too. Fixes bug 25110; bugfix
3455 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
3456 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
3457 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
3460 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
3461 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
3462 implemenation) when failing to load an onion service client
3463 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3464 - When refusing to launch a controller's HSFETCH request because of
3465 rate-limiting, respond to the controller with a new response,
3466 "QUERY_RATE_LIMITED". Previously, we would log QUERY_NO_HSDIR for
3467 this case. Fixes bug 28269; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Patch by
3469 - When relaunching a circuit to a rendezvous service, mark the
3470 circuit as needing high-uptime routers as appropriate. Fixes bug
3471 17357; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3472 - Stop ignoring IPv6 link specifiers sent to v3 onion services.
3473 (IPv6 support for v3 onion services is still incomplete: see
3474 ticket 23493 for details.) Fixes bug 23588; bugfix on
3475 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3477 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, performance):
3478 - When building circuits to onion services, call tor_addr_parse()
3479 less often. Previously, we called tor_addr_parse() in
3480 circuit_is_acceptable() even if its output wasn't used. This
3481 change should improve performance when building circuits. Fixes
3482 bug 22210; bugfix on 0.2.8.12. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3484 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
3485 - When checking whether a node is a bridge, use a fast check to make
3486 sure that its identity is set. Previously, we used a constant-time
3487 check, which is not necessary in this case. Fixes bug 30308;
3488 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3490 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
3491 - Tor now sets TOR_PT_EXIT_ON_STDIN_CLOSE=1 for client transports as
3492 well as servers. Fixes bug 25614; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
3494 o Minor bugfixes (probability distributions):
3495 - Refactor and improve parts of the probability distribution code
3496 that made Coverity complain. Fixes bug 29805; bugfix
3499 o Minor bugfixes (python):
3500 - Stop assuming that /usr/bin/python3 exists. For scripts that work
3501 with python2, use /usr/bin/python. Otherwise, use /usr/bin/env
3502 python3. Fixes bug 29913; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
3504 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
3505 - When running as a relay, if IPv6Exit is set to 1 while ExitRelay
3506 is auto, act as if ExitRelay is 1. Previously, we would ignore
3507 IPv6Exit if ExitRelay was 0 or auto. Fixes bug 29613; bugfix on
3508 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3510 o Minor bugfixes (stats):
3511 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including bandwidth usage
3512 statistics, GeoIPFile hashes, ServerTransportPlugin lines, and
3513 bridge statistics by country in extra-info documents. Fixes bug
3514 29018; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
3516 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
3517 - Call setrlimit() to disable core dumps in test_bt_cl.c. Previously
3518 we used `ulimit -c` in test_bt.sh, which violates POSIX shell
3519 compatibility. Fixes bug 29061; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3520 - Fix some incorrect code in the v3 onion service unit tests. Fixes
3521 bug 29243; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3522 - In the "routerkeys/*" tests, check the return values of mkdir()
3523 for possible failures. Fixes bug 29939; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
3524 Found by Coverity as CID 1444254.
3525 - Split test_utils_general() into several smaller test functions.
3526 This makes it easier to perform resource deallocation on assert
3527 failure, and fixes Coverity warnings CID 1444117 and CID 1444118.
3528 Fixes bug 29823; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
3530 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve):
3531 - Fix a memory leak in tor-resolve that could happen if Tor gave it
3532 a malformed SOCKS response. (Memory leaks in tor-resolve don't
3533 actually matter, but it's good to fix them anyway.) Fixes bug
3534 30151; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3536 o Code simplification and refactoring:
3537 - Abstract out the low-level formatting of replies on the control
3538 port. Implements ticket 30007.
3539 - Add several assertions in an attempt to fix some Coverity
3540 warnings. Closes ticket 30149.
3541 - Introduce a connection_dir_buf_add() helper function that checks
3542 for compress_state of dir_connection_t and automatically writes a
3543 string to directory connection with or without compression.
3544 Resolves issue 28816.
3545 - Make the base32_decode() API return the number of bytes written,
3546 for consistency with base64_decode(). Closes ticket 28913.
3547 - Move most relay-only periodic events out of mainloop.c into the
3548 relay subsystem. Closes ticket 30414.
3549 - Refactor and encapsulate parts of the codebase that manipulate
3550 crypt_path_t objects. Resolves issue 30236.
3551 - Refactor several places in our code that Coverity incorrectly
3552 believed might have memory leaks. Closes ticket 30147.
3553 - Remove redundant return values in crypto_format, and the
3554 associated return value checks elsewhere in the code. Make the
3555 implementations in crypto_format consistent, and remove redundant
3556 code. Resolves ticket 29660.
3557 - Rename tor_mem_is_zero() to fast_mem_is_zero(), to emphasize that
3558 it is not a constant-time function. Closes ticket 30309.
3559 - Replace hs_desc_link_specifier_t with link_specifier_t, and remove
3560 all hs_desc_link_specifier_t-specific code. Fixes bug 22781;
3561 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3562 - Simplify v3 onion service link specifier handling code. Fixes bug
3563 23576; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3564 - Split crypto_digest.c into NSS code, OpenSSL code, and shared
3565 code. Resolves ticket 29108.
3566 - Split control.c into several submodules, in preparation for
3567 distributing its current responsibilities throughout the codebase.
3568 Closes ticket 29894.
3569 - Start to move responsibility for knowing about periodic events to
3570 the appropriate subsystems, so that the mainloop doesn't need to
3571 know all the periodic events in the rest of the codebase.
3572 Implements tickets 30293 and 30294.
3575 - Document how to find git commits and tags for bug fixes in
3576 CodingStandards.md. Update some file documentation. Closes
3580 - Remove the linux-tor-prio.sh script from contrib/operator-tools
3581 directory. Resolves issue 29434.
3582 - Remove the obsolete OpenSUSE initscript. Resolves issue 30076.
3583 - Remove the obsolete script at contrib/dist/tor.sh.in. Resolves
3586 o Code simplification and refactoring (shell scripts):
3587 - Clean up many of our shell scripts to fix shellcheck warnings.
3588 These include autogen.sh (ticket 26069), test_keygen.sh (ticket
3589 29062), test_switch_id.sh (ticket 29065), test_rebind.sh (ticket
3590 29063), src/test/fuzz/minimize.sh (ticket 30079), test_rust.sh
3591 (ticket 29064), torify (ticket 29070), asciidoc-helper.sh (29926),
3592 fuzz_multi.sh (30077), fuzz_static_testcases.sh (ticket 29059),
3593 nagios-check-tor-authority-cert (ticket 29071),
3594 src/test/fuzz/fixup_filenames.sh (ticket 30078), test-network.sh
3595 (ticket 29060), test_key_expiration.sh (ticket 30002),
3596 zero_length_keys.sh (ticket 29068), and test_workqueue_*.sh
3599 o Testing (chutney):
3600 - In "make test-network-all", test IPv6-only v3 single onion
3601 services, using the chutney network single-onion-v23-ipv6-md.
3602 Closes ticket 27251.
3605 Changes in version 0.4.0.5 - 2019-05-02
3606 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.0.x series. It contains
3607 improvements for power management and bootstrap reporting, as well as
3608 preliminary backend support for circuit padding to prevent some kinds
3609 of traffic analysis. It also continues our work in refactoring Tor for
3610 long-term maintainability.
3612 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.0.x series for nine
3613 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.1.x:
3614 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
3615 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
3617 Below are the changes since 0.4.0.4-rc. For a complete list of changes
3618 since 0.3.5.7, see the ReleaseNotes file.
3620 o Minor features (continuous integration):
3621 - In Travis, tell timelimit to use stem's backtrace signals, and
3622 launch python directly from timelimit, so python receives the
3623 signals from timelimit, rather than make. Closes ticket 30117.
3625 o Minor features (diagnostic):
3626 - Add more diagnostic log messages in an attempt to solve the issue
3627 of NUL bytes appearing in a microdescriptor cache. Related to
3630 o Minor features (testing):
3631 - Use the approx_time() function when setting the "Expires" header
3632 in directory replies, to make them more testable. Needed for
3635 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
3636 - Abort on panic in all build profiles, instead of potentially
3637 unwinding into C code. Fixes bug 27199; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3639 o Minor bugfixes (shellcheck):
3640 - Look for scripts in their correct locations during "make
3641 shellcheck". Previously we had looked in the wrong place during
3642 out-of-tree builds. Fixes bug 30263; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3644 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
3645 - Check the time in the "Expires" header using approx_time(). Fixes
3646 bug 30001; bugfix on 0.4.0.4-rc.
3648 o Minor bugfixes (UI):
3649 - Lower log level of unlink() errors during bootstrap. Fixes bug
3650 29930; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3653 Changes in version 0.4.0.4-rc - 2019-04-11
3654 Tor 0.4.0.4-rc is the first release candidate in its series; it fixes
3655 several bugs from earlier versions, including some that had affected
3656 stability, and one that prevented relays from working with NSS.
3658 o Major bugfixes (NSS, relay):
3659 - When running with NSS, disable TLS 1.2 ciphersuites that use
3660 SHA384 for their PRF. Due to an NSS bug, the TLS key exporters for
3661 these ciphersuites don't work -- which caused relays to fail to
3662 handshake with one another when these ciphersuites were enabled.
3663 Fixes bug 29241; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3665 o Minor features (bandwidth authority):
3666 - Make bandwidth authorities ignore relays that are reported in the
3667 bandwidth file with the flag "vote=0". This change allows us to
3668 report unmeasured relays for diagnostic reasons without including
3669 their bandwidth in the bandwidth authorities' vote. Closes
3671 - When a directory authority is using a bandwidth file to obtain the
3672 bandwidth values that will be included in the next vote, serve
3673 this bandwidth file at /tor/status-vote/next/bandwidth. Closes
3676 o Minor features (circuit padding):
3677 - Stop warning about undefined behavior in the probability
3678 distribution tests. Float division by zero may technically be
3679 undefined behavior in C, but it's well defined in IEEE 754.
3680 Partial backport of 29298. Closes ticket 29527; bugfix
3683 o Minor features (continuous integration):
3684 - On Travis Rust builds, cleanup Rust registry and refrain from
3685 caching the "target/" directory to speed up builds. Resolves
3688 o Minor features (dormant mode):
3689 - Add a DormantCanceledByStartup option to tell Tor that it should
3690 treat a startup event as cancelling any previous dormant state.
3691 Integrators should use this option with caution: it should only be
3692 used if Tor is being started because of something that the user
3693 did, and not if Tor is being automatically started in the
3694 background. Closes ticket 29357.
3696 o Minor features (geoip):
3697 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 2 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
3698 Country database. Closes ticket 29992.
3700 o Minor features (NSS, diagnostic):
3701 - Try to log an error from NSS (if there is any) and a more useful
3702 description of our situation if we are using NSS and a call to
3703 SSL_ExportKeyingMaterial() fails. Diagnostic for ticket 29241.
3705 o Minor bugfixes (security):
3706 - Fix a potential double free bug when reading huge bandwidth files.
3707 The issue is not exploitable in the current Tor network because
3708 the vulnerable code is only reached when directory authorities
3709 read bandwidth files, but bandwidth files come from a trusted
3710 source (usually the authorities themselves). Furthermore, the
3711 issue is only exploitable in rare (non-POSIX) 32-bit architectures,
3712 which are not used by any of the current authorities. Fixes bug
3713 30040; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Bug found and fixed by
3715 - Verify in more places that we are not about to create a buffer
3716 with more than INT_MAX bytes, to avoid possible OOB access in the
3717 event of bugs. Fixes bug 30041; bugfix on 0.2.0.16. Found and
3718 fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
3720 o Minor bugfix (continuous integration):
3721 - Reset coverage state on disk after Travis CI has finished. This
3722 should prevent future coverage merge errors from causing the test
3723 suite for the "process" subsystem to fail. The process subsystem
3724 was introduced in 0.4.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 29036; bugfix
3726 - Terminate test-stem if it takes more than 9.5 minutes to run.
3727 (Travis terminates the job after 10 minutes of no output.)
3728 Diagnostic for 29437. Fixes bug 30011; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
3730 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap reporting):
3731 - During bootstrap reporting, correctly distinguish pluggable
3732 transports from plain proxies. Fixes bug 28925; bugfix
3735 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
3736 - Fix an unlikely memory leak in consensus_diff_apply(). Fixes bug
3737 29824; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. This is Coverity warning
3740 o Minor bugfixes (circuitpadding testing):
3741 - Minor tweaks to avoid rare test failures related to timers and
3742 monotonic time. Fixes bug 29500; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3744 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
3745 - Actually include the bandwidth-file-digest line in directory
3746 authority votes. Fixes bug 29959; bugfix on 0.4.0.2-alpha.
3748 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
3749 - On Windows, when errors cause us to reload a consensus from disk,
3750 tell the user that we are retrying at log level "notice".
3751 Previously we only logged this information at "info", which was
3752 confusing because the errors themselves were logged at "warning".
3753 Improves previous fix for 28614. Fixes bug 30004; bugfix
3756 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
3757 - Restore old behavior when it comes to discovering the path of a
3758 given Pluggable Transport executable file. A change in
3759 0.4.0.1-alpha had broken this behavior on paths containing a
3760 space. Fixes bug 29874; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3762 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
3763 - Backport the 0.3.4 src/test/test-network.sh to 0.2.9. We need a
3764 recent test-network.sh to use new chutney features in CI. Fixes
3765 bug 29703; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
3766 - Fix a test failure on Windows caused by an unexpected "BUG"
3767 warning in our tests for tor_gmtime_r(-1). Fixes bug 29922; bugfix
3770 o Minor bugfixes (TLS protocol):
3771 - When classifying a client's selection of TLS ciphers, if the
3772 client ciphers are not yet available, do not cache the result.
3773 Previously, we had cached the unavailability of the cipher list
3774 and never looked again, which in turn led us to assume that the
3775 client only supported the ancient V1 link protocol. This, in turn,
3776 was causing Stem integration tests to stall in some cases. Fixes
3777 bug 30021; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
3779 o Code simplification and refactoring:
3780 - Introduce a connection_dir_buf_add() helper function that detects
3781 whether compression is in use, and adds a string accordingly.
3782 Resolves issue 28816.
3783 - Refactor handle_get_next_bandwidth() to use
3784 connection_dir_buf_add(). Implements ticket 29897.
3787 - Clarify that Tor performs stream isolation among *Port listeners
3788 by default. Resolves issue 29121.
3791 Changes in version 0.4.0.3-alpha - 2019-03-22
3792 Tor 0.4.0.3-alpha is the third in its series; it fixes several small
3793 bugs from earlier versions.
3795 o Minor features (address selection):
3796 - Treat the subnet 100.64.0.0/10 as public for some purposes;
3797 private for others. This subnet is the RFC 6598 (Carrier Grade
3798 NAT) IP range, and is deployed by many ISPs as an alternative to
3799 RFC 1918 that does not break existing internal networks. Tor now
3800 blocks SOCKS and control ports on these addresses and warns users
3801 if client ports or ExtORPorts are listening on a RFC 6598 address.
3802 Closes ticket 28525. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3804 o Minor features (geoip):
3805 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the March 4 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
3806 Country database. Closes ticket 29666.
3808 o Minor bugfixes (circuitpadding):
3809 - Inspect the circuit-level cell queue before sending padding, to
3810 avoid sending padding when too much data is queued. Fixes bug
3811 29204; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3813 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
3814 - Correct a misleading error message when IPv4Only or IPv6Only is
3815 used but the resolved address can not be interpreted as an address
3816 of the specified IP version. Fixes bug 13221; bugfix on
3817 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
3818 - Log the correct port number for listening sockets when "auto" is
3819 used to let Tor pick the port number. Previously, port 0 was
3820 logged instead of the actual port number. Fixes bug 29144; bugfix
3821 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
3822 - Stop logging a BUG() warning when Tor is waiting for exit
3823 descriptors. Fixes bug 28656; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3825 o Minor bugfixes (memory management):
3826 - Refactor the shared random state's memory management so that it
3827 actually takes ownership of the shared random value pointers.
3828 Fixes bug 29706; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
3830 o Minor bugfixes (memory management, testing):
3831 - Stop leaking parts of the shared random state in the shared-random
3832 unit tests. Fixes bug 29599; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
3834 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
3835 - Fix an assertion failure crash bug when a pluggable transport is
3836 terminated during the bootstrap phase. Fixes bug 29562; bugfix
3839 o Minor bugfixes (Rust, protover):
3840 - Add a missing "Padding" value to the Rust implementation of
3841 protover. Fixes bug 29631; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3843 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services):
3844 - Allow connections to single onion services to remain idle without
3845 being disconnected. Previously, relays acting as rendezvous points
3846 for single onion services were mistakenly closing idle rendezvous
3847 circuits after 60 seconds, thinking that they were unused
3848 directory-fetching circuits that had served their purpose. Fixes
3849 bug 29665; bugfix on 0.2.1.26.
3851 o Minor bugfixes (stats):
3852 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including PaddingStatistics in
3853 relay and bridge extra-info documents. Fixes bug 29017; bugfix
3856 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
3857 - Downgrade some LOG_ERR messages in the address/* tests to
3858 warnings. The LOG_ERR messages were occurring when we had no
3859 configured network. We were failing the unit tests, because we
3860 backported 28668 to 0.3.5.8, but did not backport 29530. Fixes bug
3861 29530; bugfix on 0.3.5.8.
3862 - Fix our gcov wrapper script to look for object files at the
3863 correct locations. Fixes bug 29435; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3864 - Decrease the false positive rate of stochastic probability
3865 distribution tests. Fixes bug 29693; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3867 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, CI):
3868 - Skip the Appveyor 32-bit Windows Server 2016 job, and 64-bit
3869 Windows Server 2012 R2 job. The remaining 2 jobs still provide
3870 coverage of 64/32-bit, and Windows Server 2016/2012 R2. Also set
3871 fast_finish, so failed jobs terminate the build immediately. Fixes
3872 bug 29601; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
3875 Changes in version 0.3.5.8 - 2019-02-21
3876 Tor 0.3.5.8 backports several fixes from later releases, including fixes
3877 for an annoying SOCKS-parsing bug that affected users in earlier 0.3.5.x
3880 It also includes a fix for a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor
3881 0.3.2.1-alpha and later. All Tor instances running an affected release
3882 should upgrade to 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
3884 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
3885 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
3886 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
3887 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
3888 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
3889 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
3890 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
3891 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
3893 o Major bugfixes (networking, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
3894 - Gracefully handle empty username/password fields in SOCKS5
3895 username/password auth message and allow SOCKS5 handshake to
3896 continue. Previously, we had rejected these handshakes, breaking
3897 certain applications. Fixes bug 29175; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3899 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
3900 - Compile correctly when OpenSSL is built with engine support
3901 disabled, or with deprecated APIs disabled. Closes ticket 29026.
3902 Patches from "Mangix".
3904 o Minor features (geoip):
3905 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
3906 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
3908 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
3909 - Treat all unexpected ERR and BUG messages as test failures. Closes
3912 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
3913 - Stop logging a "BUG()" warning and stacktrace when we find a SOCKS
3914 connection waiting for a descriptor that we actually have in the
3915 cache. It turns out that this can actually happen, though it is
3916 rare. Now, tor will recover and retry the descriptor. Fixes bug
3917 28669; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
3919 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
3920 - Fix tor_ersatz_socketpair on IPv6-only systems. Previously, the
3921 IPv6 socket was bound using an address family of AF_INET instead
3922 of AF_INET6. Fixes bug 28995; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from
3925 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
3926 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
3927 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
3928 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
3930 o Minor bugfixes (client, clock skew, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
3931 - Select guards even if the consensus has expired, as long as the
3932 consensus is still reasonably live. Fixes bug 24661; bugfix
3935 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
3936 - Compile correctly on OpenBSD; previously, we were missing some
3937 headers required in order to detect it properly. Fixes bug 28938;
3938 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
3940 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
3941 - Describe the contents of the v3 onion service client authorization
3942 files correctly: They hold public keys, not private keys. Fixes
3943 bug 28979; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Spotted by "Felixix".
3945 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
3946 - Rework rep_hist_log_link_protocol_counts() to iterate through all
3947 link protocol versions when logging incoming/outgoing connection
3948 counts. Tor no longer skips version 5, and we won't have to
3949 remember to update this function when new link protocol version is
3950 developed. Fixes bug 28920; bugfix on 0.2.6.10.
3952 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
3953 - Log more information at "warning" level when unable to read a
3954 private key; log more information at "info" level when unable to
3955 read a public key. We had warnings here before, but they were lost
3956 during our NSS work. Fixes bug 29042; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3958 o Minor bugfixes (misc, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
3959 - The amount of total available physical memory is now determined
3960 using the sysctl identifier HW_PHYSMEM (rather than HW_USERMEM)
3961 when it is defined and a 64-bit variant is not available. Fixes
3962 bug 28981; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
3964 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
3965 - Avoid crashing if ClientOnionAuthDir (incorrectly) contains more
3966 than one private key for a hidden service. Fixes bug 29040; bugfix
3968 - In hs_cache_store_as_client() log an HSDesc we failed to parse at
3969 "debug" level. Tor used to log it as a warning, which caused very
3970 long log lines to appear for some users. Fixes bug 29135; bugfix
3972 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
3973 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
3974 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
3975 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
3977 o Minor bugfixes (tests, directory clients, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
3978 - Mark outdated dirservers when Tor only has a reasonably live
3979 consensus. Fixes bug 28569; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
3981 o Minor bugfixes (tests, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
3982 - Detect and suppress "bug" warnings from the util/time test on
3983 Windows. Fixes bug 29161; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
3984 - Do not log an error-level message if we fail to find an IPv6
3985 network interface from the unit tests. Fixes bug 29160; bugfix
3988 o Minor bugfixes (usability, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
3989 - Stop saying "Your Guard ..." in pathbias_measure_{use,close}_rate().
3990 Some users took this phrasing to mean that the mentioned guard was
3991 under their control or responsibility, which it is not. Fixes bug
3992 28895; bugfix on Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha.
3995 Changes in version 0.3.4.11 - 2019-02-21
3996 Tor 0.3.4.11 is the third stable release in its series. It includes
3997 a fix for a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor 0.3.2.1-alpha and
3998 later. All Tor instances running an affected release should upgrade to
3999 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
4001 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
4002 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
4003 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
4004 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
4005 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
4006 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
4007 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
4008 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
4010 o Minor features (geoip):
4011 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
4012 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
4014 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
4015 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
4016 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
4017 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
4019 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
4020 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
4021 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
4022 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
4023 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
4026 Changes in version 0.3.3.12 - 2019-02-21
4027 Tor 0.3.3.12 fixes a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor
4028 0.3.2.1-alpha and later. All Tor instances running an affected release
4029 should upgrade to 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
4031 This release marks the end of support for the Tor 0.3.3.x series. We
4032 recommend that users switch to either the Tor 0.3.4 series (supported
4033 until at least 10 June 2019), or the Tor 0.3.5 series, which will
4034 receive long-term support until at least 1 Feb 2022.
4036 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
4037 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
4038 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
4039 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
4040 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
4041 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
4042 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
4043 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
4045 o Minor features (geoip):
4046 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
4047 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
4049 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
4050 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
4051 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
4052 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
4054 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
4055 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
4056 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
4057 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
4058 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
4061 Changes in version 0.4.0.2-alpha - 2019-02-21
4062 Tor 0.4.0.2-alpha is the second alpha in its series; it fixes several
4063 bugs from earlier versions, including several that had broken
4064 backward compatibility.
4066 It also includes a fix for a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor
4067 0.3.2.1-alpha and later. All Tor instances running an affected release
4068 should upgrade to 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
4070 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
4071 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
4072 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
4073 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
4074 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
4075 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
4076 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
4077 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
4079 o Major bugfixes (networking):
4080 - Gracefully handle empty username/password fields in SOCKS5
4081 username/password auth messsage and allow SOCKS5 handshake to
4082 continue. Previously, we had rejected these handshakes, breaking
4083 certain applications. Fixes bug 29175; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4085 o Major bugfixes (windows, startup):
4086 - When reading a consensus file from disk, detect whether it was
4087 written in text mode, and re-read it in text mode if so. Always
4088 write consensus files in binary mode so that we can map them into
4089 memory later. Previously, we had written in text mode, which
4090 confused us when we tried to map the file on windows. Fixes bug
4091 28614; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4093 o Minor features (compilation):
4094 - Compile correctly when OpenSSL is built with engine support
4095 disabled, or with deprecated APIs disabled. Closes ticket 29026.
4096 Patches from "Mangix".
4098 o Minor features (developer tooling):
4099 - Check that bugfix versions in changes files look like Tor versions
4100 from the versions spec. Warn when bugfixes claim to be on a future
4101 release. Closes ticket 27761.
4102 - Provide a git pre-commit hook that disallows committing if we have
4103 any failures in our code and changelog formatting checks. It is
4104 now available in scripts/maint/pre-commit.git-hook. Implements
4107 o Minor features (directory authority):
4108 - When a directory authority is using a bandwidth file to obtain
4109 bandwidth values, include the digest of that file in the vote.
4110 Closes ticket 26698.
4112 o Minor features (geoip):
4113 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
4114 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
4116 o Minor features (testing):
4117 - Treat all unexpected ERR and BUG messages as test failures. Closes
4120 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust):
4121 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
4122 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
4123 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
4125 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
4126 - Fix compilation warnings in test_circuitpadding.c. Fixes bug
4127 29169; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4128 - Silence a compiler warning in test-memwipe.c on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
4129 29145; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
4131 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
4132 - Describe the contents of the v3 onion service client authorization
4133 files correctly: They hold public keys, not private keys. Fixes
4134 bug 28979; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Spotted by "Felixix".
4136 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox):
4137 - Fix startup crash when experimental sandbox support is enabled.
4138 Fixes bug 29150; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Patch by Peter Gerber.
4140 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
4141 - Avoid logging that we are relaxing a circuit timeout when that
4142 timeout is fixed. Fixes bug 28698; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
4143 - Log more information at "warning" level when unable to read a
4144 private key; log more information at "info" level when unable to
4145 read a public key. We had warnings here before, but they were lost
4146 during our NSS work. Fixes bug 29042; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4148 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
4149 - The amount of total available physical memory is now determined
4150 using the sysctl identifier HW_PHYSMEM (rather than HW_USERMEM)
4151 when it is defined and a 64-bit variant is not available. Fixes
4152 bug 28981; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
4154 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
4155 - Avoid crashing if ClientOnionAuthDir (incorrectly) contains more
4156 than one private key for a hidden service. Fixes bug 29040; bugfix
4158 - In hs_cache_store_as_client() log an HSDesc we failed to parse at
4159 "debug" level. Tor used to log it as a warning, which caused very
4160 long log lines to appear for some users. Fixes bug 29135; bugfix
4162 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
4163 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
4164 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
4165 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
4167 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler):
4168 - When re-adding channels to the pending list, check the correct
4169 channel's sched_heap_idx. This issue has had no effect in mainline
4170 Tor, but could have led to bugs down the road in improved versions
4171 of our circuit scheduling code. Fixes bug 29508; bugfix
4174 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
4175 - Fix intermittent failures on an adaptive padding test. Fixes one
4176 case of bug 29122; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4177 - Disable an unstable circuit-padding test that was failing
4178 intermittently because of an ill-defined small histogram. Such
4179 histograms will be allowed again after 29298 is implemented. Fixes
4180 a second case of bug 29122; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4181 - Detect and suppress "bug" warnings from the util/time test on
4182 Windows. Fixes bug 29161; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
4183 - Do not log an error-level message if we fail to find an IPv6
4184 network interface from the unit tests. Fixes bug 29160; bugfix
4188 - In the manpage entry describing MapAddress torrc setting, use
4189 example IP addresses from ranges specified for use in documentation
4190 by RFC 5737. Resolves issue 28623.
4193 - Remove the old check-tor script. Resolves issue 29072.
4196 Changes in version 0.4.0.1-alpha - 2019-01-18
4197 Tor 0.4.0.1-alpha is the first release in the new 0.4.0.x series. It
4198 introduces improved features for power and bandwidth conservation,
4199 more accurate reporting of bootstrap progress for user interfaces, and
4200 an experimental backend for an exciting new adaptive padding feature.
4201 There is also the usual assortment of bugfixes and minor features, all
4204 o Major features (battery management, client, dormant mode):
4205 - When Tor is running as a client, and it is unused for a long time,
4206 it can now enter a "dormant" state. When Tor is dormant, it avoids
4207 network and CPU activity until it is reawoken either by a user
4208 request or by a controller command. For more information, see the
4209 configuration options starting with "Dormant". Implements tickets
4211 - The client's memory of whether it is "dormant", and how long it
4212 has spent idle, persists across invocations. Implements
4214 - There is a DormantOnFirstStartup option that integrators can use
4215 if they expect that in many cases, Tor will be installed but
4218 o Major features (bootstrap reporting):
4219 - When reporting bootstrap progress, report the first connection
4220 uniformly, regardless of whether it's a connection for building
4221 application circuits. This allows finer-grained reporting of early
4222 progress than previously possible, with the improvements of ticket
4223 27169. Closes tickets 27167 and 27103. Addresses ticket 27308.
4224 - When reporting bootstrap progress, treat connecting to a proxy or
4225 pluggable transport as separate from having successfully used that
4226 proxy or pluggable transport to connect to a relay. Closes tickets
4229 o Major features (circuit padding):
4230 - Implement preliminary support for the circuit padding portion of
4231 Proposal 254. The implementation supports Adaptive Padding (aka
4232 WTF-PAD) state machines for use between experimental clients and
4233 relays. Support is also provided for APE-style state machines that
4234 use probability distributions instead of histograms to specify
4235 inter-packet delay. At the moment, Tor does not provide any
4236 padding state machines that are used in normal operation: for now,
4237 this feature exists solely for experimentation. Closes
4240 o Major features (refactoring):
4241 - Tor now uses an explicit list of its own subsystems when
4242 initializing and shutting down. Previously, these systems were
4243 managed implicitly in various places throughout the codebase.
4244 (There may still be some subsystems using the old system.) Closes
4247 o Minor features (bootstrap reporting):
4248 - When reporting bootstrap progress, stop distinguishing between
4249 situations where only internal paths are available and situations
4250 where external paths are available. Previously, Tor would often
4251 erroneously report that it had only internal paths. Closes
4254 o Minor features (continuous integration):
4255 - Log Python version during each Travis CI job. Resolves
4258 o Minor features (controller):
4259 - Add a DROPOWNERSHIP command to undo the effects of TAKEOWNERSHIP.
4260 Implements ticket 28843.
4262 o Minor features (developer tooling):
4263 - Provide a git hook script to prevent "fixup!" and "squash!"
4264 commits from ending up in the master branch, as scripts/main/pre-
4265 push.git-hook. Closes ticket 27993.
4267 o Minor features (directory authority):
4268 - Directory authorities support a new consensus algorithm, under
4269 which the family lines in microdescriptors are encoded in a
4270 canonical form. This change makes family lines more compressible
4271 in transit, and on the client. Closes ticket 28266; implements
4274 o Minor features (directory authority, relay):
4275 - Authorities now vote on a "StaleDesc" flag to indicate that a
4276 relay's descriptor is so old that the relay should upload again
4277 soon. Relays treat this flag as a signal to upload a new
4278 descriptor. This flag will eventually let us remove the
4279 'published' date from routerstatus entries, and make our consensus
4280 diffs much smaller. Closes ticket 26770; implements proposal 293.
4282 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
4283 - Update the fallback whitelist based on operator opt-ins and opt-
4284 outs. Closes ticket 24805, patch by Phoul.
4286 o Minor features (FreeBSD):
4287 - On FreeBSD-based systems, warn relay operators if the
4288 "net.inet.ip.random_id" sysctl (IP ID randomization) is disabled.
4289 Closes ticket 28518.
4291 o Minor features (HTTP standards compliance):
4292 - Stop sending the header "Content-type: application/octet-stream"
4293 along with transparently compressed documents: this confused
4294 browsers. Closes ticket 28100.
4296 o Minor features (IPv6):
4297 - We add an option ClientAutoIPv6ORPort, to make clients randomly
4298 prefer a node's IPv4 or IPv6 ORPort. The random preference is set
4299 every time a node is loaded from a new consensus or bridge config.
4300 We expect that this option will enable clients to bootstrap more
4301 quickly without having to determine whether they support IPv4,
4302 IPv6, or both. Closes ticket 27490. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4303 - When using addrs_in_same_network_family(), avoid choosing circuit
4304 paths that pass through the same IPv6 subnet more than once.
4305 Previously, we only checked IPv4 subnets. Closes ticket 24393.
4306 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4308 o Minor features (log messages):
4309 - Improve log message in v3 onion services that could print out
4310 negative revision counters. Closes ticket 27707. Patch
4313 o Minor features (memory usage):
4314 - Save memory by storing microdescriptor family lists with a more
4315 compact representation. Closes ticket 27359.
4316 - Tor clients now use mmap() to read consensus files from disk, so
4317 that they no longer need keep the full text of a consensus in
4318 memory when parsing it or applying a diff. Closes ticket 27244.
4320 o Minor features (parsing):
4321 - Directory authorities now validate that router descriptors and
4322 ExtraInfo documents are in a valid subset of UTF-8, and reject
4323 them if they are not. Closes ticket 27367.
4325 o Minor features (performance):
4326 - Cache the results of summarize_protocol_flags(), so that we don't
4327 have to parse the same protocol-versions string over and over.
4328 This should save us a huge number of malloc calls on startup, and
4329 may reduce memory fragmentation with some allocators. Closes
4331 - Remove a needless memset() call from get_token_arguments, thereby
4332 speeding up the tokenization of directory objects by about 20%.
4333 Closes ticket 28852.
4334 - Replace parse_short_policy() with a faster implementation, to
4335 improve microdescriptor parsing time. Closes ticket 28853.
4336 - Speed up directory parsing a little by avoiding use of the non-
4337 inlined strcmp_len() function. Closes ticket 28856.
4338 - Speed up microdescriptor parsing by about 30%, to help improve
4339 startup time. Closes ticket 28839.
4341 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
4342 - Add support for emitting STATUS updates to Tor's control port from
4343 a pluggable transport process. Closes ticket 28846.
4344 - Add support for logging to Tor's logging subsystem from a
4345 pluggable transport process. Closes ticket 28180.
4347 o Minor features (process management):
4348 - Add a new process API for handling child processes. This new API
4349 allows Tor to have bi-directional communication with child
4350 processes on both Unix and Windows. Closes ticket 28179.
4351 - Use the subsystem manager to initialize and shut down the process
4352 module. Closes ticket 28847.
4354 o Minor features (relay):
4355 - When listing relay families, list them in canonical form including
4356 the relay's own identity, and try to give a more useful set of
4357 warnings. Part of ticket 28266 and proposal 298.
4359 o Minor features (required protocols):
4360 - Before exiting because of a missing required protocol, Tor will
4361 now check the publication time of the consensus, and not exit
4362 unless the consensus is newer than the Tor program's own release
4363 date. Previously, Tor would not check the consensus publication
4364 time, and so might exit because of a missing protocol that might
4365 no longer be required in a current consensus. Implements proposal
4366 297; closes ticket 27735.
4368 o Minor features (testing):
4369 - Allow a HeartbeatPeriod of less than 30 minutes in testing Tor
4370 networks. Closes ticket 28840. Patch by Rob Jansen.
4372 o Minor bugfixes (client, clock skew):
4373 - Bootstrap successfully even when Tor's clock is behind the clocks
4374 on the authorities. Fixes bug 28591; bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
4375 - Select guards even if the consensus has expired, as long as the
4376 consensus is still reasonably live. Fixes bug 24661; bugfix
4379 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
4380 - Compile correctly on OpenBSD; previously, we were missing some
4381 headers required in order to detect it properly. Fixes bug 28938;
4382 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
4384 o Minor bugfixes (directory clients):
4385 - Mark outdated dirservers when Tor only has a reasonably live
4386 consensus. Fixes bug 28569; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
4388 o Minor bugfixes (directory mirrors):
4389 - Even when a directory mirror's clock is behind the clocks on the
4390 authorities, we now allow the mirror to serve "future"
4391 consensuses. Fixes bug 28654; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
4393 o Minor bugfixes (DNS):
4394 - Gracefully handle an empty or absent resolve.conf file by falling
4395 back to using "localhost" as a DNS server (and hoping it works).
4396 Previously, we would just stop running as an exit. Fixes bug
4397 21900; bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
4399 o Minor bugfixes (guards):
4400 - In count_acceptable_nodes(), the minimum number is now one bridge
4401 or guard node, and two non-guard nodes for a circuit. Previously,
4402 we had added up the sum of all nodes with a descriptor, but that
4403 could cause us to build failing circuits when we had either too
4404 many bridges or not enough guard nodes. Fixes bug 25885; bugfix on
4405 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4407 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
4408 - Fix tor_ersatz_socketpair on IPv6-only systems. Previously, the
4409 IPv6 socket was bound using an address family of AF_INET instead
4410 of AF_INET6. Fixes bug 28995; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from
4413 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
4414 - Rework rep_hist_log_link_protocol_counts() to iterate through all
4415 link protocol versions when logging incoming/outgoing connection
4416 counts. Tor no longer skips version 5, and we won't have to
4417 remember to update this function when new link protocol version is
4418 developed. Fixes bug 28920; bugfix on 0.2.6.10.
4420 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
4421 - Introduce additional checks into tor_addr_parse() to reject
4422 certain incorrect inputs that previously were not detected. Fixes
4423 bug 23082; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
4425 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client):
4426 - Stop logging a "BUG()" warning and stacktrace when we find a SOCKS
4427 connection waiting for a descriptor that we actually have in the
4428 cache. It turns out that this can actually happen, though it is
4429 rare. Now, tor will recover and retry the descriptor. Fixes bug
4430 28669; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
4432 o Minor bugfixes (periodic events):
4433 - Refrain from calling routerlist_remove_old_routers() from
4434 check_descriptor_callback(). Instead, create a new hourly periodic
4435 event. Fixes bug 27929; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
4437 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
4438 - Make sure that data is continously read from standard output and
4439 standard error pipes of a pluggable transport child-process, to
4440 avoid deadlocking when a pipe's buffer is full. Fixes bug 26360;
4441 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
4443 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
4444 - Instead of relying on hs_free_all() to clean up all onion service
4445 objects in test_build_descriptors(), we now deallocate them one by
4446 one. This lets Coverity know that we are not leaking memory there
4447 and fixes CID 1442277. Fixes bug 28989; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4449 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
4450 - Stop saying "Your Guard ..." in pathbias_measure_{use,close}_rate().
4451 Some users took this phrasing to mean that the mentioned guard was
4452 under their control or responsibility, which it is not. Fixes bug
4453 28895; bugfix on Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha.
4455 o Code simplification and refactoring:
4456 - Reimplement NETINFO cell parsing and generation to rely on
4457 trunnel-generated wire format handling code. Closes ticket 27325.
4458 - Remove unnecessary unsafe code from the Rust macro "cstr!". Closes
4460 - Rework SOCKS wire format handling to rely on trunnel-generated
4461 parsing/generation code. Resolves ticket 27620.
4462 - Split out bootstrap progress reporting from control.c into a
4463 separate file. Part of ticket 27402.
4464 - The .may_include files that we use to describe our directory-by-
4465 directory dependency structure now describe a noncircular
4466 dependency graph over the directories that they cover. Our
4467 checkIncludes.py tool now enforces this noncircularity. Closes
4471 - Mention that you cannot add a new onion service if Tor is already
4472 running with Sandbox enabled. Closes ticket 28560.
4473 - Improve ControlPort documentation. Mention that it accepts
4474 address:port pairs, and can be used multiple times. Closes
4476 - Document the exact output of "tor --version". Closes ticket 28889.
4479 - Stop responding to the 'GETINFO status/version/num-concurring' and
4480 'GETINFO status/version/num-versioning' control port commands, as
4481 those were deprecated back in 0.2.0.30. Also stop listing them in
4482 output of 'GETINFO info/names'. Resolves ticket 28757.
4483 - The scripts used to generate and maintain the list of fallback
4484 directories have been extracted into a new "fallback-scripts"
4485 repository. Closes ticket 27914.
4488 - Run shellcheck for scripts in the in scripts/ directory. Closes
4490 - Add unit tests for tokenize_string() and get_next_token()
4491 functions. Resolves ticket 27625.
4493 o Code simplification and refactoring (onion service v3):
4494 - Consolidate the authorized client descriptor cookie computation
4495 code from client and service into one function. Closes
4498 o Code simplification and refactoring (shell scripts):
4499 - Cleanup scan-build.sh to silence shellcheck warnings. Closes
4501 - Fix issues that shellcheck found in chutney-git-bisect.sh.
4502 Resolves ticket 28006.
4503 - Fix issues that shellcheck found in updateRustDependencies.sh.
4504 Resolves ticket 28012.
4505 - Fix shellcheck warnings in cov-diff script. Resolves issue 28009.
4506 - Fix shellcheck warnings in run_calltool.sh. Resolves ticket 28011.
4507 - Fix shellcheck warnings in run_trunnel.sh. Resolves issue 28010.
4508 - Fix shellcheck warnings in scripts/test/coverage. Resolves
4512 Changes in version 0.3.3.11 - 2019-01-07
4513 Tor 0.3.3.11 backports numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
4514 numerous fixes, including an important fix for anyone using OpenSSL
4515 1.1.1. Anyone running an earlier version of Tor 0.3.3 should upgrade
4516 to this version, or to a later series.
4518 As a reminder, support the Tor 0.3.3 series will end on 22 Feb 2019.
4519 We anticipate that this will be the last release of Tor 0.3.3, unless
4520 some major bug is before then. Some time between now and then, users
4521 should switch to either the Tor 0.3.4 series (supported until at least
4522 10 June 2019), or the Tor 0.3.5 series, which will receive long-term
4523 support until at least 1 Feb 2022.
4525 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
4526 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
4527 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
4528 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
4529 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
4532 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
4533 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
4534 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
4535 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4537 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
4538 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
4539 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
4540 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
4541 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
4542 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
4543 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
4544 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
4546 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
4547 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
4548 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
4549 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
4551 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
4552 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
4553 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
4554 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
4555 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
4557 o Minor features (geoip):
4558 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
4559 Country database. Closes ticket 29012.
4561 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround, backport from 0.3.5.7):
4562 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
4563 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
4564 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
4565 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
4566 Closes ticket 28973.
4568 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.5.7):
4569 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
4570 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
4571 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
4573 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
4574 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
4575 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
4578 o Minor bugfixes (code safety, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
4579 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
4580 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
4582 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
4583 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
4584 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
4585 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
4587 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
4588 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
4589 with a different relay, instead making a BUG() warning. Fixes bug
4590 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4592 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions, backport form 0.3.5.3-alpha):
4593 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
4594 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
4595 were the same, the default setting (0) for
4596 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
4597 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
4600 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
4601 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
4602 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
4605 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
4606 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
4607 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
4608 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
4609 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4611 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
4612 - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
4613 descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
4614 gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
4615 authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4617 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
4618 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
4619 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
4620 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
4621 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
4622 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4624 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel):
4625 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to
4626 an HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix on
4629 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
4630 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
4631 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
4633 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
4634 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
4635 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4637 o Minor bugfixes (protover, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
4638 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
4639 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
4642 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
4643 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
4644 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
4645 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
4646 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
4647 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
4648 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
4649 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4651 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
4652 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
4653 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
4654 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
4656 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
4657 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
4658 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4659 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
4660 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
4661 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4662 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
4663 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
4664 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
4665 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
4667 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
4668 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
4669 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
4670 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
4671 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
4672 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
4674 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
4675 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
4676 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
4677 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
4678 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
4680 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, guard selection, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
4681 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
4682 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
4685 Changes in version 0.3.4.10 - 2019-01-07
4686 Tor 0.3.4.9 is the second stable release in its series; it backports
4687 numerous fixes, including an important fix for relays, and for anyone
4688 using OpenSSL 1.1.1. Anyone running an earlier version of Tor 0.3.4
4691 As a reminder, the Tor 0.3.4 series will be supported until 10 June
4692 2019. Some time between now and then, users should switch to the Tor
4693 0.3.5 series, which will receive long-term support until at least 1
4696 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
4697 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
4698 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
4699 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
4700 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
4703 o Major bugfixes (relay, directory, backport from 0.3.5.7):
4704 - Always reactivate linked connections in the main loop so long as
4705 any linked connection has been active. Previously, connections
4706 serving directory information wouldn't get reactivated after the
4707 first chunk of data was sent (usually 32KB), which would prevent
4708 clients from bootstrapping. Fixes bug 28912; bugfix on
4709 0.3.4.1-alpha. Patch by "cypherpunks3".
4711 o Minor features (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
4712 - Always show the configure and test logs, and upload them as build
4713 artifacts, when building for Windows using Appveyor CI.
4716 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
4717 - For purposes of CIRC_BW-based dropped cell detection, track half-
4718 closed stream ids, and allow their ENDs, SENDMEs, DATA and path
4719 bias check cells to arrive without counting it as dropped until
4720 either the END arrives, or the windows are empty. Closes
4723 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
4724 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
4725 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
4726 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
4727 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
4729 o Minor features (geoip):
4730 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
4731 Country database. Closes ticket 28395.
4733 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround, backport from 0.3.5.7):
4734 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
4735 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
4736 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
4737 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
4738 Closes ticket 28973.
4740 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
4741 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
4742 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
4743 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
4745 o Minor bugfixes (connection, relay, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
4746 - Avoid a logging a BUG() stacktrace when closing connection held
4747 open because the write side is rate limited but not the read side.
4748 Now, the connection read side is simply shut down until Tor is
4749 able to flush the connection and close it. Fixes bug 27750; bugfix
4752 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
4753 - Manually configure the zstd compiler options, when building using
4754 mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. The MSYS2 mingw zstd package does
4755 not come with a pkg-config file. Fixes bug 28454; bugfix
4757 - Stop using an external OpenSSL install, and stop installing MSYS2
4758 packages, when building using mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. Fixes
4759 bug 28399; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
4761 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
4762 - Explicitly specify the path to the OpenSSL library and do not
4763 download OpenSSL from Pacman, but instead use the library that is
4764 already provided by AppVeyor. Fixes bug 28574; bugfix on master.
4766 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions, backport form 0.3.5.3-alpha):
4767 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
4768 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
4769 were the same, the default setting (0) for
4770 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
4771 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
4774 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
4775 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
4776 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
4778 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
4779 - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
4780 descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
4781 gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
4782 authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4784 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
4785 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
4786 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
4787 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
4788 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
4789 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4791 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.5.7):
4792 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
4793 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
4794 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
4796 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, guard selection, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
4797 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
4798 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
4801 Changes in version 0.3.5.7 - 2019-01-07
4802 Tor 0.3.5.7 is the first stable release in its series; it includes
4803 compilation and portability fixes, and a fix for a severe problem
4804 affecting directory caches.
4806 The Tor 0.3.5 series includes several new features and performance
4807 improvements, including client authorization for v3 onion services,
4808 cleanups to bootstrap reporting, support for improved bandwidth-
4809 measurement tools, experimental support for NSS in place of OpenSSL,
4810 and much more. It also begins a full reorganization of Tor's code
4811 layout, for improved modularity and maintainability in the future.
4812 Finally, there is the usual set of performance improvements and
4813 bugfixes that we try to do in every release series.
4815 There are a couple of changes in the 0.3.5 that may affect
4816 compatibility. First, the default version for newly created onion
4817 services is now v3. Use the HiddenServiceVersion option if you want to
4818 override this. Second, some log messages related to bootstrapping have
4819 changed; if you use stem, you may need to update to the latest version
4820 so it will recognize them.
4822 We have designated 0.3.5 as a "long-term support" (LTS) series: we
4823 will continue to patch major bugs in typical configurations of 0.3.5
4824 until at least 1 Feb 2022. (We do not plan to provide long-term
4825 support for embedding, Rust support, NSS support, running a directory
4826 authority, or unsupported platforms. For these, you will need to stick
4827 with the latest stable release.)
4829 Below are the changes since 0.3.5.6-rc. For a complete list of changes
4830 since 0.3.4.9, see the ReleaseNotes file.
4832 o Major bugfixes (relay, directory):
4833 - Always reactivate linked connections in the main loop so long as
4834 any linked connection has been active. Previously, connections
4835 serving directory information wouldn't get reactivated after the
4836 first chunk of data was sent (usually 32KB), which would prevent
4837 clients from bootstrapping. Fixes bug 28912; bugfix on
4838 0.3.4.1-alpha. Patch by "cypherpunks3".
4840 o Minor features (compilation):
4841 - When possible, place our warning flags in a separate file, to
4842 avoid flooding verbose build logs. Closes ticket 28924.
4844 o Minor features (geoip):
4845 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
4846 Country database. Closes ticket 29012.
4848 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround):
4849 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
4850 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
4851 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
4852 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
4853 Closes ticket 28973.
4855 o Minor features (performance):
4856 - Remove about 96% of the work from the function that we run at
4857 startup to test our curve25519_basepoint implementation. Since
4858 this function has yet to find an actual failure, we now only run
4859 it for 8 iterations instead of 200. Based on our profile
4860 information, this change should save around 8% of our startup time
4861 on typical desktops, and may have a similar effect on other
4862 platforms. Closes ticket 28838.
4863 - Stop re-validating our hardcoded Diffie-Hellman parameters on
4864 every startup. Doing this wasted time and cycles, especially on
4865 low-powered devices. Closes ticket 28851.
4867 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
4868 - Fix compilation for Android by adding a missing header to
4869 freespace.c. Fixes bug 28974; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4871 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
4872 - Fix an unreached code path where we checked the value of
4873 "hostname" inside send_resolved_hostname_cell(). Previously, we
4874 used it before checking it; now we check it first. Fixes bug
4875 28879; bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
4877 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
4878 - Make sure that test_rebind.py actually obeys its timeout, even
4879 when it receives a large number of log messages. Fixes bug 28883;
4880 bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
4881 - Stop running stem's unit tests as part of "make test-stem", but
4882 continue to run stem's unit and online tests during "make test-
4883 stem-full". Fixes bug 28568; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
4885 o Minor bugfixes (windows services):
4886 - Make Tor start correctly as an NT service again: previously it was
4887 broken by refactoring. Fixes bug 28612; bugfix on 0.3.5.3-alpha.
4889 o Code simplification and refactoring:
4890 - When parsing a port configuration, make it more obvious to static
4891 analyzer tools that we always initialize the address. Closes
4895 Changes in version 0.3.5.6-rc - 2018-12-18
4896 Tor 0.3.5.6-rc fixes numerous small bugs in earlier versions of Tor.
4897 It is the first release candidate in the 0.3.5.x series; if no further
4898 huge bugs are found, our next release may be the stable 0.3.5.x.
4900 o Minor features (continuous integration, Windows):
4901 - Always show the configure and test logs, and upload them as build
4902 artifacts, when building for Windows using Appveyor CI.
4905 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
4906 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
4907 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
4908 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
4909 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
4911 o Minor features (geoip):
4912 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 5 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
4913 Country database. Closes ticket 28744.
4915 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
4916 - Add missing dependency on libgdi32.dll for tor-print-ed-signing-
4917 cert.exe on Windows. Fixes bug 28485; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4919 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows):
4920 - Explicitly specify the path to the OpenSSL library and do not
4921 download OpenSSL from Pacman, but instead use the library that is
4922 already provided by AppVeyor. Fixes bug 28574; bugfix on master.
4924 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
4925 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
4926 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
4927 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
4928 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
4929 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4931 o Minor bugfixes (restart-in-process, boostrap):
4932 - Add missing resets of bootstrap tracking state when shutting down
4933 (regression caused by ticket 27169). Fixes bug 28524; bugfix
4936 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
4937 - Use a separate DataDirectory for the test_rebind script.
4938 Previously, this script would run using the default DataDirectory,
4939 and sometimes fail. Fixes bug 28562; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4940 Patch from Taylor R Campbell.
4941 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
4942 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
4944 o Minor bugfixes (Windows):
4945 - Correctly identify Windows 8.1, Windows 10, and Windows Server
4946 2008 and later from their NT versions. Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on
4947 0.2.2.34; reported by Keifer Bly.
4948 - On recent Windows versions, the GetVersionEx() function may report
4949 an earlier Windows version than the running OS. To avoid user
4950 confusion, add "[or later]" to Tor's version string on affected
4951 versions of Windows. Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on 0.2.2.34; reported
4953 - Remove Windows versions that were never supported by the
4954 GetVersionEx() function. Stop duplicating the latest Windows
4955 version in get_uname(). Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on 0.2.2.34;
4956 reported by Keifer Bly.
4959 - Increase logging and tag all log entries with timestamps in
4960 test_rebind.py. Provides diagnostics for issue 28229.
4962 o Code simplification and refactoring (shared random, dirauth):
4963 - Change many tor_assert() to use BUG() instead. The idea is to not
4964 crash a dirauth but rather scream loudly with a stacktrace and let
4965 it continue run. The shared random subsystem is very resilient and
4966 if anything wrong happens with it, at worst a non coherent value
4967 will be put in the vote and discarded by the other authorities.
4968 Closes ticket 19566.
4970 o Documentation (onion services):
4971 - Document in the man page that changing ClientOnionAuthDir value or
4972 adding a new file in the directory will not work at runtime upon
4973 sending a HUP if Sandbox 1. Closes ticket 28128.
4974 - Note in the man page that the only real way to fully revoke an
4975 onion service v3 client authorization is by restarting the tor
4976 process. Closes ticket 28275.
4979 Changes in version 0.3.5.5-alpha - 2018-11-16
4980 Tor 0.3.5.5-alpha includes numerous bugfixes on earlier releases,
4981 including several that we hope to backport to older release series in
4984 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability):
4985 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
4986 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
4987 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
4988 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
4991 o Minor features (geoip):
4992 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
4993 Country database. Closes ticket 28395.
4995 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
4996 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
4997 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
4998 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
5000 o Minor bugfixes (connection, relay):
5001 - Avoid a logging a BUG() stacktrace when closing connection held
5002 open because the write side is rate limited but not the read side.
5003 Now, the connection read side is simply shut down until Tor is
5004 able to flush the connection and close it. Fixes bug 27750; bugfix
5007 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows):
5008 - Manually configure the zstd compiler options, when building using
5009 mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. The MSYS2 mingw zstd package does
5010 not come with a pkg-config file. Fixes bug 28454; bugfix
5012 - Stop using an external OpenSSL install, and stop installing MSYS2
5013 packages, when building using mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. Fixes
5014 bug 28399; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5016 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
5017 - Make Doxygen work again after the code movement in the 0.3.5
5018 source tree. Fixes bug 28435; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5020 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
5021 - Permit the "shutdown()" system call, which is apparently used by
5022 OpenSSL under some circumstances. Fixes bug 28183; bugfix
5025 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
5026 - Stop talking about the Named flag in log messages. Clients have
5027 ignored the Named flag since 0.3.2. Fixes bug 28441; bugfix
5030 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
5031 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
5032 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
5034 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
5035 - On an intro point for a version 3 onion service, stop closing
5036 introduction circuits on an NACK. This lets the client decide
5037 whether to reuse the circuit or discard it. Previously, we closed
5038 intro circuits when sending NACKs. Fixes bug 27841; bugfix on
5039 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chaunan.
5040 - When replacing a descriptor in the client cache, make sure to
5041 close all client introduction circuits for the old descriptor, so
5042 we don't end up with unusable leftover circuits. Fixes bug 27471;
5043 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5046 Changes in version 0.3.5.4-alpha - 2018-11-08
5047 Tor 0.3.5.4-alpha includes numerous bugfixes on earlier versions and
5048 improves our continuous integration support. It continues our attempts
5049 to stabilize this alpha branch and build it into a foundation for an
5050 acceptable long-term-support release.
5052 o Major bugfixes (compilation, rust):
5053 - Rust tests can now build and run successfully with the
5054 --enable-fragile-hardening option enabled. Doing this currently
5055 requires the rust beta channel; it will be possible with stable
5056 rust once Rust version 1.31 is released. Patch from Alex Crichton.
5057 Fixes bugs 27272, 27273, and 27274. Bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5059 o Major bugfixes (embedding, main loop):
5060 - When DisableNetwork becomes set, actually disable periodic events
5061 that are already enabled. (Previously, we would refrain from
5062 enabling new ones, but we would leave the old ones turned on.)
5063 Fixes bug 28348; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5065 o Minor features (continuous integration):
5066 - Add a Travis CI build for --enable-nss on Linux gcc. Closes
5068 - Add new CI job to Travis configuration to run stem-based
5069 integration tests. Closes ticket 27913.
5071 o Minor features (Windows, continuous integration):
5072 - Build tor on Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2016 using
5073 Appveyor's CI. Closes ticket 28318.
5075 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, also in 0.3.4.9):
5076 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
5077 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
5080 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
5081 - Fix a pair of missing headers on OpenBSD. Fixes bug 28303; bugfix
5082 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
5084 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, OpenSolaris):
5085 - Fix compilation on OpenSolaris and its descendants by adding a
5086 missing include to compat_pthreads.c. Fixes bug 27963; bugfix
5089 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
5090 - Refuse to start with relative file paths and RunAsDaemon set
5091 (regression from the fix for bug 22731). Fixes bug 28298; bugfix
5094 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, also in 0.3.4.9):
5095 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
5096 with a different relay, instead of a BUG() warning with a
5097 backtrace. Fixes bug 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5099 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
5100 - Build the service descriptor's signing key certificate before
5101 uploading, so we always have a fresh one: leaving no chances for
5102 it to expire service side. Fixes bug 27838; bugfix
5105 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client authorization):
5106 - Fix an assert() when adding a client authorization for the first
5107 time and then sending a HUP signal to the service. Before that,
5108 Tor would stop abruptly. Fixes bug 27995; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5110 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
5111 - Unless we have explicitly set HiddenServiceVersion, detect the
5112 onion service version and then look for invalid options.
5113 Previously, we did the reverse, but that broke existing configs
5114 which were pointed to a v2 service and had options like
5115 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient set. Fixes bug 28127; bugfix on
5116 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5118 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
5119 - Make the OPE code (which is used for v3 onion services) run
5120 correctly on big-endian platforms. Fixes bug 28115; bugfix
5123 o Minor bugfixes (protover, rust):
5124 - Reject extra commas in version strings. Fixes bug 27197; bugfix
5127 o Minor bugfixes (relay shutdown, systemd):
5128 - Notify systemd of ShutdownWaitLength so it can be set to longer
5129 than systemd's TimeoutStopSec. In Tor's systemd service file, set
5130 TimeoutSec to 60 seconds to allow Tor some time to shut down.
5131 Fixes bug 28113; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
5133 o Minor bugfixes (rust, also in 0.3.4.9):
5134 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
5135 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5136 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
5137 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
5138 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5140 o Minor bugfixes (rust, directory authority, also in 0.3.4.9):
5141 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
5142 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
5143 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
5144 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
5146 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
5147 - Avoid hangs and race conditions in test_rebind.py. Fixes bug
5148 27968; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5150 o Minor bugfixes (testing, also in 0.3.4.9):
5151 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
5152 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
5153 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
5154 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
5156 o Documentation (onion service manpage):
5157 - Improve HSv3 client authorization by making some options more
5158 explicit and detailed. Closes ticket 28026. Patch by Mike Tigas.
5161 Changes in version 0.3.4.9 - 2018-11-02
5162 Tor 0.3.4.9 is the second stable release in its series; it backports
5163 numerous fixes, including a fix for a bandwidth management bug that
5164 was causing memory exhaustion on relays. Anyone running an earlier
5165 version of Tor 0.3.4.9 should upgrade.
5167 o Major bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
5168 - Fix compilation on ARM (and other less-used CPUs) when compiling
5169 with OpenSSL before 1.1. Fixes bug 27781; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5171 o Major bugfixes (mainloop, bootstrap, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
5172 - Make sure Tor bootstraps and works properly if only the
5173 ControlPort is set. Prior to this fix, Tor would only bootstrap
5174 when a client port was set (Socks, Trans, NATD, DNS or HTTPTunnel
5175 port). Fixes bug 27849; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5177 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
5178 - When our write bandwidth limit is exhausted, stop writing on the
5179 connection. Previously, we had a typo in the code that would make
5180 us stop reading instead, leading to relay connections being stuck
5181 indefinitely and consuming kernel RAM. Fixes bug 28089; bugfix
5184 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
5185 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
5186 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
5187 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5189 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
5190 - Don't do a distcheck with --disable-module-dirauth in Travis.
5191 Implements ticket 27252.
5192 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
5193 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
5194 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
5195 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
5196 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
5197 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
5198 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
5200 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
5201 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
5202 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
5203 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
5205 o Minor features (geoip):
5206 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
5207 Country database. Closes ticket 27991.
5209 o Minor bugfixes (32-bit OSX and iOS, timing, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
5210 - Fix an integer overflow bug in our optimized 32-bit millisecond-
5211 difference algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Previously, it
5212 would overflow when calculating the difference between two times
5213 more than 47 days apart. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
5215 - Improve the precision of our 32-bit millisecond difference
5216 algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139;
5217 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5218 - Relax the tolerance on the mainloop/update_time_jumps test when
5219 running on 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
5222 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
5223 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
5224 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
5227 o Minor bugfixes (CI, appveyor, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
5228 - Only install the necessary mingw packages during our appveyor
5229 builds. This change makes the build a little faster, and prevents
5230 a conflict with a preinstalled mingw openssl that appveyor now
5231 ships. Fixes bugs 27943 and 27765; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
5233 o Minor bugfixes (code safety, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
5234 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
5235 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
5237 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
5238 - Stop reinstalling identical packages in our Windows CI. Fixes bug
5239 27464; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5241 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
5242 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
5243 with a different relay, instead making a BUG() warning. Fixes bug
5244 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5246 o Minor bugfixes (directory connection shutdown, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
5247 - Avoid a double-close when shutting down a stalled directory
5248 connection. Fixes bug 26896; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5250 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
5251 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to an
5252 HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix
5255 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
5256 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
5257 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5259 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
5260 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
5261 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
5264 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
5265 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
5266 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
5267 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
5268 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5270 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
5271 - When selecting a v3 rendezvous point, don't only look at the
5272 protover, but also check whether the curve25519 onion key is
5273 present. This way we avoid picking a relay that supports the v3
5274 rendezvous but for which we don't have the microdescriptor. Fixes
5275 bug 27797; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5277 o Minor bugfixes (protover, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
5278 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
5279 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
5282 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
5283 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
5284 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
5285 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
5286 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
5287 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
5288 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
5289 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5291 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
5292 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
5293 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
5294 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
5296 o Minor bugfixes (rust, directory authority, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
5297 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
5298 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
5299 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
5300 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
5302 o Minor bugfixes (rust, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
5303 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
5304 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5305 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
5306 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
5307 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5309 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
5310 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
5311 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
5312 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
5313 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
5314 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
5316 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
5317 - Make the hs_service tests use the same time source when creating
5318 the introduction point and when testing it. Now tests work better
5319 on very slow systems like ARM or Travis. Fixes bug 27810; bugfix
5322 o Minor bugfixes (testing, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
5323 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
5324 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
5325 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
5326 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
5329 Changes in version 0.3.5.3-alpha - 2018-10-17
5330 Tor 0.3.5.3-alpha fixes several bugs, mostly from previous 0.3.5.x
5331 versions. One important fix for relays addresses a problem with rate-
5332 limiting code from back in 0.3.4.x: If the fix works out, we'll be
5333 backporting it soon. This release is still an alpha, but we hope it's
5334 getting closer and closer to stability.
5336 o Major features (onion services):
5337 - Version 3 onion services can now use the per-service
5338 HiddenServiceExportCircuitID option to differentiate client
5339 circuits. It communicates with the service by using the HAProxy
5340 protocol to assign virtual IP addresses to inbound client
5341 circuits. Closes ticket 4700. Patch by Mahrud Sayrafi.
5343 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
5344 - Fix compilation on ARM (and other less-used CPUs) when compiling
5345 with OpenSSL before 1.1. Fixes bug 27781; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5347 o Major bugfixes (initialization, crash):
5348 - Fix an assertion crash that would stop Tor from starting up if it
5349 tried to activate a periodic event too early. Fixes bug 27861;
5350 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5352 o Major bugfixes (mainloop, bootstrap):
5353 - Make sure Tor bootstraps and works properly if only the
5354 ControlPort is set. Prior to this fix, Tor would only bootstrap
5355 when a client port was set (Socks, Trans, NATD, DNS or HTTPTunnel
5356 port). Fixes bug 27849; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5358 o Major bugfixes (relay):
5359 - When our write bandwidth limit is exhausted, stop writing on the
5360 connection. Previously, we had a typo in the code that would make
5361 us stop reading instead, leading to relay connections being stuck
5362 indefinitely and consuming kernel RAM. Fixes bug 28089; bugfix
5365 o Minor features (continuous integration):
5366 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
5367 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
5368 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
5369 - Report what program produced the mysterious core file that we
5370 occasionally see on Travis CI during make distcheck. Closes
5373 o Minor features (geoip):
5374 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
5375 Country database. Closes ticket 27991.
5377 o Minor bugfixes (code safety):
5378 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
5379 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
5382 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
5383 - Compile the ed25519-donna code with a correct declaration of
5384 crypto_strongest_rand(). Previously, we built it with one type,
5385 but linked it against another in the unit tests, which caused
5386 compilation failures with LTO enabled. This could have caused
5387 other undefined behavior in the tests. Fixes bug 27728; bugfix
5390 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, netbsd):
5391 - Add a missing include back into procmon.c. Fixes bug 27990; bugfix
5394 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, appveyor):
5395 - Install only the necessary mingw packages during our appveyor
5396 builds. This change makes the build a little faster, and prevents
5397 a conflict with a preinstalled mingw openssl that appveyor now
5398 ships. Fixes bugs 27765 and 27943; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
5400 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions):
5401 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
5402 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
5403 were the same, the default setting (0) for
5404 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
5405 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
5408 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
5409 - Fix a small memory leak when calling Tor with --dump-config. Fixes
5410 bug 27893; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5412 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
5413 - In retry_listeners_ports(), make sure that we're removing a member
5414 of old_conns smartlist at most once. Fixes bug 27808; bugfix
5416 - Refrain from attempting socket rebinding when old and new
5417 listeners are in different address families. Fixes bug 27928;
5418 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5420 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
5421 - Stop dumping a stack trace when trying to connect to an intro
5422 point without having a descriptor for it. Fixes bug 27774; bugfix
5424 - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
5425 descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
5426 gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
5427 authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5428 - When selecting a v3 rendezvous point, don't only look at the
5429 protover, but also check whether the curve25519 onion key is
5430 present. This way we avoid picking a relay that supports the v3
5431 rendezvous but for which we don't have the microdescriptor. Fixes
5432 bug 27797; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5434 o Minor bugfixes (protover):
5435 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
5436 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
5439 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
5440 - Make the hs_service tests use the same time source when creating
5441 the introduction point and when testing it. Now tests work better
5442 on very slow systems like ARM or Travis. Fixes bug 27810; bugfix
5444 - In test_rebind.py, check if the Python version is in the supported
5445 range. Fixes bug 27675; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5447 o Code simplification and refactoring:
5448 - Divide more large Tor source files -- especially ones that span
5449 multiple areas of functionality -- into smaller parts, including
5450 onion.c and main.c. Closes ticket 26747.
5451 - Divide the "routerparse.c" module into separate modules for each
5452 group of parsed objects. Closes ticket 27924.
5453 - Move protover_rust.c to the same place protover.c was moved to.
5454 Closes ticket 27814.
5455 - Split directory.c into separate pieces for client, server, and
5456 common functionality. Closes ticket 26744.
5457 - Split the non-statistics-related parts from the rephist.c and
5458 geoip.c modules. Closes ticket 27892.
5459 - Split the router.c file into relay-only and shared components, to
5460 help with future modularization. Closes ticket 27864.
5463 - In the tor-resolve(1) manpage, fix the reference to socks-
5464 extensions.txt by adding a web URL. Resolves ticket 27853.
5465 - Mention that we require Python to be 2.7 or newer for some
5466 integration tests that we ship with Tor. Resolves ticket 27677.
5469 Changes in version 0.3.5.2-alpha - 2018-09-21
5470 Tor 0.3.5.2-alpha fixes several bugs in 0.3.5.1-alpha, including one
5471 that made Tor think it had run out of sockets. Anybody running a relay
5472 or an onion service on 0.3.5.1-alpha should upgrade.
5474 o Major bugfixes (relay bandwidth statistics):
5475 - When we close relayed circuits, report the data in the circuit
5476 queues as being written in our relay bandwidth stats. This
5477 mitigates guard discovery and other attacks that close circuits
5478 for the explicit purpose of noticing this discrepancy in
5479 statistics. Fixes bug 23512; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
5481 o Major bugfixes (socket accounting):
5482 - In our socket accounting code, count a socket as closed even when
5483 it is closed indirectly by the TLS layer. Previously, we would
5484 count these sockets as still in use, and incorrectly believe that
5485 we had run out of sockets. Fixes bug 27795; bugfix
5488 o Minor bugfixes (32-bit OSX and iOS, timing):
5489 - Fix an integer overflow bug in our optimized 32-bit millisecond-
5490 difference algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Previously, it
5491 would overflow when calculating the difference between two times
5492 more than 47 days apart. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
5494 - Improve the precision of our 32-bit millisecond difference
5495 algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139;
5496 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5497 - Relax the tolerance on the mainloop/update_time_jumps test when
5498 running on 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
5501 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
5502 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
5503 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
5504 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
5505 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5507 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
5508 - Fix an unlikely memory leak when trying to read a private key from
5509 a ridiculously large file. Fixes bug 27764; bugfix on
5510 0.3.5.1-alpha. This is CID 1439488.
5512 o Minor bugfixes (NSS):
5513 - Correctly detect failure to open a dummy TCP socket when stealing
5514 ownership of an fd from the NSS layer. Fixes bug 27782; bugfix
5517 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
5518 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
5519 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
5520 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
5522 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
5523 - Revise the "conditionvar_timeout" test so that it succeeds even on
5524 heavily loaded systems where the test threads are not scheduled
5525 within 200 msec. Fixes bug 27073; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
5527 o Code simplification and refactoring:
5528 - Divide the routerlist.c and dirserv.c modules into smaller parts.
5529 Closes ticket 27799.
5532 Changes in version 0.3.5.1-alpha - 2018-09-18
5533 Tor 0.3.5.1-alpha is the first release of the 0.3.5.x series. It adds
5534 client authorization for modern (v3) onion services, improves
5535 bootstrap reporting, begins reorganizing Tor's codebase, adds optional
5536 support for NSS in place of OpenSSL, and much more.
5538 o Major features (onion services, UI change):
5539 - For a newly created onion service, the default version is now 3.
5540 Tor still supports existing version 2 services, but the operator
5541 now needs to set "HiddenServiceVersion 2" in order to create a new
5542 version 2 service. For existing services, Tor now learns the
5543 version by reading the key file. Closes ticket 27215.
5545 o Major features (relay, UI change):
5546 - Relays no longer run as exits by default. If the "ExitRelay"
5547 option is auto (or unset), and no exit policy is specified with
5548 ExitPolicy or ReducedExitPolicy, we now treat ExitRelay as 0.
5549 Previously in this case, we allowed exit traffic and logged a
5550 warning message. Closes ticket 21530. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5551 - Tor now validates that the ContactInfo config option is valid UTF-
5552 8 when parsing torrc. Closes ticket 27428.
5554 o Major features (bootstrap):
5555 - Don't report directory progress until after a connection to a
5556 relay or bridge has succeeded. Previously, we'd report 80%
5557 progress based on cached directory information when we couldn't
5558 even connect to the network. Closes ticket 27169.
5560 o Major features (new code layout):
5561 - Nearly all of Tor's source code has been moved around into more
5562 logical places. The "common" directory is now divided into a set
5563 of libraries in "lib", and files in the "or" directory have been
5564 split into "core" (logic absolutely needed for onion routing),
5565 "feature" (independent modules in Tor), and "app" (to configure
5566 and invoke the rest of Tor). See doc/HACKING/CodeStructure.md for
5567 more information. Closes ticket 26481.
5569 This refactoring is not complete: although the libraries have been
5570 refactored to be acyclic, the main body of Tor is still too
5571 interconnected. We will attempt to improve this in the future.
5573 o Major features (onion services v3):
5574 - Implement onion service client authorization at the descriptor
5575 level: only authorized clients can decrypt a service's descriptor
5576 to find out how to contact it. A new torrc option was added to
5577 control this client side: ClientOnionAuthDir <path>. On the
5578 service side, if the "authorized_clients/" directory exists in the
5579 onion service directory path, client configurations are read from
5580 the files within. See the manpage for more details. Closes ticket
5581 27547. Patch done by Suphanat Chunhapanya (haxxpop).
5582 - Improve revision counter generation in next-gen onion services.
5583 Onion services can now scale by hosting multiple instances on
5584 different hosts without synchronization between them, which was
5585 previously impossible because descriptors would get rejected by
5586 HSDirs. Addresses ticket 25552.
5588 o Major features (portability, cryptography, experimental, TLS):
5589 - Tor now has the option to compile with the NSS library instead of
5590 OpenSSL. This feature is experimental, and we expect that bugs may
5591 remain. It is mainly intended for environments where Tor's
5592 performance is not CPU-bound, and where NSS is already known to be
5593 installed. To try it out, configure Tor with the --enable-nss
5594 flag. Closes tickets 26631, 26815, and 26816.
5596 If you are experimenting with this option and using an old cached
5597 consensus, Tor may fail to start. To solve this, delete your
5598 "cached-consensus" and "cached-microdesc-consensus" files,
5599 (if present), and restart Tor.
5601 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
5602 - Actually check that the address we get from DirAuthority
5603 configuration line is valid IPv4. Explicitly disallow DirAuthority
5604 address to be a DNS hostname. Fixes bug 26488; bugfix
5607 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process):
5608 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
5609 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
5610 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5612 o Minor features (admin tools):
5613 - Add a new --key-expiration option to print the expiration date of
5614 the signing cert in an ed25519_signing_cert file. Resolves
5617 o Minor features (build):
5618 - If you pass the "--enable-pic" option to configure, Tor will try
5619 to tell the compiler to build position-independent code suitable
5620 to link into a dynamic library. (The default remains -fPIE, for
5621 code suitable for a relocatable executable.) Closes ticket 23846.
5623 o Minor features (code correctness, testing):
5624 - Tor's build process now includes a "check-includes" make target to
5625 verify that no module of Tor relies on any headers from a higher-
5626 level module. We hope to use this feature over time to help
5627 refactor our codebase. Closes ticket 26447.
5629 o Minor features (code layout):
5630 - We have a new "lowest-level" error-handling API for use by code
5631 invoked from within the logging module. With this interface, the
5632 logging code is no longer at risk of calling into itself if a
5633 failure occurs while it is trying to log something. Closes
5636 o Minor features (compilation):
5637 - Tor's configure script now supports a --with-malloc= option to
5638 select your malloc implementation. Supported options are
5639 "tcmalloc", "jemalloc", "openbsd" (deprecated), and "system" (the
5640 default). Addresses part of ticket 20424. Based on a patch from
5643 o Minor features (config):
5644 - The "auto" keyword in torrc is now case-insensitive. Closes
5647 o Minor features (continuous integration):
5648 - Don't do a distcheck with --disable-module-dirauth in Travis.
5649 Implements ticket 27252.
5650 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
5651 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
5652 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
5653 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
5654 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
5655 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
5656 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
5657 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
5658 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
5660 o Minor features (controller):
5661 - Emit CIRC_BW events as soon as we detect that we processed an
5662 invalid or otherwise dropped cell on a circuit. This allows
5663 vanguards and other controllers to react more quickly to dropped
5664 cells. Closes ticket 27678.
5665 - For purposes of CIRC_BW-based dropped cell detection, track half-
5666 closed stream ids, and allow their ENDs, SENDMEs, DATA and path
5667 bias check cells to arrive without counting it as dropped until
5668 either the END arrives, or the windows are empty. Closes
5670 - Implement a 'GETINFO md/all' controller command to enable getting
5671 all known microdescriptors. Closes ticket 8323.
5672 - The GETINFO command now support an "uptime" argument, to return
5673 Tor's uptime in seconds. Closes ticket 25132.
5675 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
5676 - Make our OOM handler aware of the DNS cache so that it doesn't
5677 fill up the memory. This check is important for our DoS mitigation
5678 subsystem. Closes ticket 18642. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5680 o Minor features (development):
5681 - Tor's makefile now supports running the "clippy" Rust style tool
5682 on our Rust code. Closes ticket 22156.
5684 o Minor features (directory authority):
5685 - There is no longer an artificial upper limit on the length of
5686 bandwidth lines. Closes ticket 26223.
5687 - When a bandwidth file is used to obtain the bandwidth measurements,
5688 include this bandwidth file headers in the votes. Closes
5690 - Improved support for networks with only a single authority or a
5691 single fallback directory. Patch from Gabriel Somlo. Closes
5694 o Minor features (embedding API):
5695 - The Tor controller API now supports a function to launch Tor with
5696 a preconstructed owning controller FD, so that embedding
5697 applications don't need to manage controller ports and
5698 authentication. Closes ticket 24204.
5699 - The Tor controller API now has a function that returns the name
5700 and version of the backend implementing the API. Closes
5703 o Minor features (geoip):
5704 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
5705 Country database. Closes ticket 27631.
5707 o Minor features (memory management):
5708 - Get Libevent to use the same memory allocator as Tor, by calling
5709 event_set_mem_functions() during initialization. Resolves
5712 o Minor features (memory usage):
5713 - When not using them, store legacy TAP public onion keys in DER-
5714 encoded format, rather than as expanded public keys. This should
5715 save several megabytes on typical clients. Closes ticket 27246.
5717 o Minor features (OpenSSL):
5718 - When possible, use RFC5869 HKDF implementation from OpenSSL rather
5719 than our own. Resolves ticket 19979.
5721 o Minor features (Rust, code quality):
5722 - Improve rust code quality in the rust protover implementation by
5723 making it more idiomatic. Includes changing an internal API to
5724 take &str instead of &String. Closes ticket 26492.
5726 o Minor features (testing):
5727 - Add scripts/test/chutney-git-bisect.sh, for bisecting using
5728 chutney. Implements ticket 27211.
5730 o Minor features (tor-resolve):
5731 - The tor-resolve utility can now be used with IPv6 SOCKS proxies.
5732 Side-effect of the refactoring for ticket 26526.
5734 o Minor features (UI):
5735 - Log each included configuration file or directory as we read it,
5736 to provide more visibility about where Tor is reading from. Patch
5737 from Unto Sten; closes ticket 27186.
5738 - Lower log level of "Scheduler type KIST has been enabled" to INFO.
5739 Closes ticket 26703.
5741 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
5742 - Try harder to get descriptors in non-exit test networks, by using
5743 the mid weight for the third hop when there are no exits. Fixes
5744 bug 27237; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
5746 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
5747 - Avoid casting smartlist index to int implicitly, as it may trigger
5748 a warning (-Wshorten-64-to-32). Fixes bug 26282; bugfix on
5749 0.2.3.13-alpha, 0.2.7.1-alpha and 0.2.1.1-alpha.
5750 - Use time_t for all values in
5751 predicted_ports_prediction_time_remaining(). Rework the code that
5752 computes difference between durations/timestamps. Fixes bug 27165;
5753 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5755 o Minor bugfixes (client, memory usage):
5756 - When not running as a directory cache, there is no need to store
5757 the text of the current consensus networkstatus in RAM.
5758 Previously, however, clients would store it anyway, at a cost of
5759 over 5 MB. Now, they do not. Fixes bug 27247; bugfix
5762 o Minor bugfixes (client, reachableaddresses):
5763 - Instead of adding a "reject *:*" line to ReachableAddresses when
5764 loading the configuration, add one to the policy after parsing it
5765 in parse_reachable_addresses(). This prevents extra "reject *.*"
5766 lines from accumulating on reloads. Fixes bug 20874; bugfix on
5767 0.1.1.5-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5769 o Minor bugfixes (code quality):
5770 - Rename sandbox_getaddrinfo() and other functions to no longer
5771 misleadingly suggest that they are sandbox-only. Fixes bug 26525;
5772 bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
5774 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, Onion Services):
5775 - In rend_service_parse_port_config(), disallow any input to remain
5776 after address-port pair was parsed. This will catch address and
5777 port being whitespace-separated by mistake of the user. Fixes bug
5778 27044; bugfix on 0.2.9.10.
5780 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
5781 - Stop reinstalling identical packages in our Windows CI. Fixes bug
5782 27464; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5784 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
5785 - Consider all routerinfo errors other than "not a server" to be
5786 transient for the purpose of "GETINFO exit-policy/*" controller
5787 request. Print stacktrace in the unlikely case of failing to
5788 recompute routerinfo digest. Fixes bug 27034; bugfix
5791 o Minor bugfixes (directory connection shutdown):
5792 - Avoid a double-close when shutting down a stalled directory
5793 connection. Fixes bug 26896; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5795 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel):
5796 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to an
5797 HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix
5800 o Minor bugfixes (ipv6):
5801 - In addrs_in_same_network_family(), we choose the subnet size based
5802 on the IP version (IPv4 or IPv6). Previously, we chose a fixed
5803 subnet size of /16 for both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. Fixes bug
5804 15518; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5806 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
5807 - As a precaution, do an early return from log_addr_has_changed() if
5808 Tor is running as client. Also, log a stack trace for debugging as
5809 this function should only be called when Tor runs as server. Fixes
5810 bug 26892; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
5811 - Refrain from mentioning bug 21018 in the logs, as it is already
5812 fixed. Fixes bug 25477; bugfix on 0.2.9.8.
5814 o Minor bugfixes (logging, documentation):
5815 - When SafeLogging is enabled, scrub IP address in
5816 channel_tls_process_netinfo_cell(). Also, add a note to manpage
5817 that scrubbing is not guaranteed on loglevels below Notice. Fixes
5818 bug 26882; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
5820 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding):
5821 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
5822 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5824 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v2):
5825 - Log at level "info", not "warning", in the case that we do not
5826 have a consensus when a .onion request comes in. This can happen
5827 normally while bootstrapping. Fixes bug 27040; bugfix
5830 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
5831 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
5832 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
5835 o Minor bugfixes (OS compatibility):
5836 - Properly handle configuration changes that move a listener to/from
5837 wildcard IP address. If the first attempt to bind a socket fails,
5838 close the old listener and try binding the socket again. Fixes bug
5839 17873; bugfix on 0.0.8pre-1.
5841 o Minor bugfixes (performance)::
5842 - Rework node_is_a_configured_bridge() to no longer call
5843 node_get_all_orports(), which was performing too many memory
5844 allocations. Fixes bug 27224; bugfix on 0.2.3.9.
5846 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics):
5847 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
5848 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
5849 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
5851 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
5852 - Consider the fact that we'll be making direct connections to our
5853 entry and guard nodes when computing the fraction of nodes that
5854 have their descriptors. Also, if we are using bridges and there is
5855 at least one bridge with a full descriptor, treat the fraction of
5856 guards available as 100%. Fixes bug 25886; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
5857 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5858 - Update the message logged on relays when DirCache is disabled.
5859 Since 0.3.3.5-rc, authorities require DirCache (V2Dir) for the
5860 Guard flag. Fixes bug 24312; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
5862 o Minor bugfixes (rust, protover):
5863 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
5864 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
5865 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
5866 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
5867 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
5868 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
5869 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5871 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
5872 - Fix two unit tests to work when HOME environment variable is not
5873 set. Fixes bug 27096; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
5874 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
5875 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
5876 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
5877 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
5878 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
5879 - When logging a version mismatch in our openssl_version tests,
5880 report the actual offending version strings. Fixes bug 26152;
5881 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
5882 - Fix forking tests on Windows when there is a space somewhere in
5883 the path. Fixes bug 26437; bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
5885 o Code simplification and refactoring:
5886 - 'updateFallbackDirs.py' now ignores the blacklist file, as it's not
5887 longer needed. Closes ticket 26502.
5888 - Include paths to header files within Tor are now qualified by
5889 directory within the top-level src directory.
5890 - Many structures have been removed from the centralized "or.h"
5891 header, and moved into their own headers. This will allow us to
5892 reduce the number of places in the code that rely on each
5893 structure's contents and layout. Closes ticket 26383.
5894 - Remove ATTR_NONNULL macro from codebase. Resolves ticket 26527.
5895 - Remove GetAdaptersAddresses_fn_t. The code that used it was
5896 removed as part of the 26481 refactor. Closes ticket 27467.
5897 - Rework Tor SOCKS server code to use Trunnel and benefit from
5898 autogenerated functions for parsing and generating SOCKS wire
5899 format. New implementation is cleaner, more maintainable and
5900 should be less prone to heartbleed-style vulnerabilities.
5901 Implements a significant fraction of ticket 3569.
5902 - Split sampled_guards_update_from_consensus() and
5903 select_entry_guard_for_circuit() into subfunctions. In
5904 entry_guards_update_primary() unite three smartlist enumerations
5905 into one and move smartlist comparison code out of the function.
5906 Closes ticket 21349.
5907 - Tor now assumes that you have standards-conformant stdint.h and
5908 inttypes.h headers when compiling. Closes ticket 26626.
5909 - Unify our bloom filter logic. Previously we had two copies of this
5910 code: one for routerlist filtering, and one for address set
5911 calculations. Closes ticket 26510.
5912 - Use the simpler strcmpstart() helper in
5913 rend_parse_v2_service_descriptor instead of strncmp(). Closes
5915 - Utility functions that can perform a DNS lookup are now wholly
5916 separated from those that can't, in separate headers and C
5917 modules. Closes ticket 26526.
5920 - Copy paragraph and URL to Tor's code of conduct document from
5921 CONTRIBUTING to new CODE_OF_CONDUCT file. Resolves ticket 26638.
5922 - Remove old instructions from INSTALL document. Closes ticket 26588.
5923 - Warn users that they should not include MyFamily line(s) in their
5924 torrc when running Tor bridge. Closes ticket 26908.
5927 - Tor no longer supports building with the dmalloc library. For
5928 debugging memory issues, we suggest using gperftools or msan
5929 instead. Closes ticket 26426.
5930 - Tor no longer attempts to run on Windows environments without the
5931 GetAdaptersAddresses() function. This function has existed since
5932 Windows XP, which is itself already older than we support.
5933 - Remove Tor2web functionality for version 2 onion services. The
5934 Tor2webMode and Tor2webRendezvousPoints options are now obsolete.
5935 (This feature was never shipped in vanilla Tor and it was only
5936 possible to use this feature by building the support at compile
5937 time. Tor2webMode is not implemented for version 3 onion services.)
5938 Closes ticket 26367.
5941 Changes in version 0.2.9.17 - 2018-09-10
5942 Tor 0.2.9.17 backports numerous bugfixes from later versions of Tor.
5944 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
5945 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
5946 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
5947 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
5949 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
5950 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
5952 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
5953 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
5954 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
5955 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
5957 o Minor features (geoip):
5958 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
5959 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
5961 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
5962 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
5963 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
5964 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
5966 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
5967 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
5968 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
5969 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
5970 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
5971 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
5972 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
5973 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
5976 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
5977 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
5978 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
5979 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
5981 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
5982 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
5983 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
5984 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
5986 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
5987 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
5988 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
5989 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5991 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
5992 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
5993 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
5994 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
5995 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
5997 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
5998 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
5999 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
6002 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6003 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
6004 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
6005 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
6006 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
6008 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
6009 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
6010 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
6013 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
6014 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
6015 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
6016 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6018 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
6019 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
6020 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
6022 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
6023 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
6024 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
6027 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6028 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
6029 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
6030 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
6031 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
6033 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6034 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
6035 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
6038 Changes in version 0.3.2.12 - 2018-09-10
6039 Tor 0.3.2.12 backport numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
6041 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
6042 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
6043 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
6044 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
6046 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6047 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
6049 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
6050 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
6051 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
6052 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
6054 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6055 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
6058 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
6059 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
6060 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
6061 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
6063 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6064 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
6065 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
6066 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
6068 o Minor features (geoip):
6069 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
6070 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
6072 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
6073 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
6074 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
6075 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
6076 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
6077 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
6078 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
6080 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6081 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
6082 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
6083 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
6084 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
6085 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
6086 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
6087 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
6090 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6091 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
6092 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
6093 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
6095 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
6096 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
6097 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
6098 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
6100 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6101 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
6102 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
6103 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
6104 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6106 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
6107 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
6108 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
6109 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
6110 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
6112 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
6113 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
6114 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
6117 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6118 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
6119 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
6120 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
6121 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
6123 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
6124 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
6125 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
6128 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6129 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
6130 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
6133 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
6134 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
6135 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
6138 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6139 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
6141 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
6142 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
6143 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
6144 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
6146 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
6147 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
6148 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
6149 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6151 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
6152 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
6153 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
6155 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
6156 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
6157 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
6158 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
6159 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6160 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
6161 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
6164 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility):
6165 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on OpenSSL
6166 internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL behavior in
6167 a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p. Fixes bug 27226;
6168 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
6170 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6171 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
6172 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
6173 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
6174 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
6176 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6177 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
6178 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
6181 Changes in version 0.3.3.10 - 2018-09-10
6182 Tor 0.3.3.10 backports numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
6184 o Minor features (bug workaround, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6185 - Compile correctly on systems that provide the C11 stdatomic.h
6186 header, but where C11 atomic functions don't actually compile.
6187 Closes ticket 26779; workaround for Debian issue 903709.
6189 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
6190 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
6191 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
6192 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
6194 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6195 - Backport Travis rust distcheck to 0.3.3. Closes ticket 24629.
6196 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
6198 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
6199 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
6200 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
6201 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
6203 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6204 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
6207 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
6208 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
6209 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
6210 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
6212 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6213 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
6214 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
6215 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
6217 o Minor features (geoip):
6218 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
6219 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
6221 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
6222 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
6223 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
6224 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
6225 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
6226 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
6227 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
6229 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6230 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
6231 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
6232 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
6233 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
6234 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
6235 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
6236 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
6239 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6240 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
6241 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
6242 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
6244 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
6245 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
6246 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
6247 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
6249 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6250 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
6251 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
6252 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
6253 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6255 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
6256 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
6257 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
6258 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
6259 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
6261 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
6262 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
6263 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
6266 o Minor bugfixes (in-process restart, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6267 - Always call tor_free_all() when leaving tor_run_main(). When we
6268 did not, restarting tor in-process would cause an assertion
6269 failure. Fixes bug 26948; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6271 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6272 - Fix a bug in our sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
6273 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
6274 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
6275 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
6277 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
6278 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
6279 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
6282 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6283 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
6284 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
6287 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
6288 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
6289 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
6292 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
6293 - Work around two different bugs in the OS X 10.10 and later SDKs
6294 that would prevent us from successfully targeting earlier versions
6295 of OS X. Fixes bug 26876; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6297 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6298 - Fix compilation of the unit tests on GNU/Hurd, which does not
6299 define PATH_MAX. Fixes bug 26873; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch
6302 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6303 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
6305 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
6306 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
6307 - Protover parsing was accepting the presence of whitespace in
6308 version strings, which the C implementation would choke on, e.g.
6309 "Desc=1\t,2". Fixes bug 27177; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
6310 - Protover parsing was ignoring a 2nd hyphen and everything after
6311 it, accepting entries like "Link=1-5-foo". Fixes bug 27164; bugfix
6313 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
6314 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
6315 - cd to ${abs_top_builddir}/src/rust before running cargo in
6316 src/test/test_rust.sh. This makes the working directory consistent
6317 between builds and tests. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
6319 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
6320 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
6321 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
6322 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6324 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
6325 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
6326 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
6328 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
6329 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
6330 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
6331 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
6332 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6333 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
6334 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
6337 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6338 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
6339 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
6340 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
6341 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
6343 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
6344 - Stop sending ed25519 link specifiers in v3 onion service introduce
6345 cells and descriptors, when the rendezvous or introduction point
6346 doesn't support ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 26627;
6347 bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
6349 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6350 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
6351 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
6354 Changes in version 0.3.4.8 - 2018-09-10
6355 Tor 0.3.4.8 is the first stable release in its series; it includes
6356 compilation and portability fixes.
6358 The Tor 0.3.4 series includes improvements for running Tor in
6359 low-power and embedded environments, which should help performance in
6360 general. We've begun work on better modularity, and included preliminary
6361 changes on the directory authority side to accommodate a new bandwidth
6362 measurement system. We've also integrated more continuous-integration
6363 systems into our development process, and made corresponding changes to
6364 Tor's testing infrastructure. Finally, we've continued to refine
6365 our anti-denial-of-service code.
6367 Below are the changes since 0.3.4.7-rc. For a complete list of changes
6368 since 0.3.3.9, see the ReleaseNotes file.
6370 o Minor features (compatibility):
6371 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
6372 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
6373 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
6375 o Minor features (continuous integration):
6376 - Log the compiler path and version during Appveyor builds.
6377 Implements ticket 27449.
6378 - Show config.log and test-suite.log after failed Appveyor builds.
6379 Also upload the zipped full logs as a build artifact. Implements
6382 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
6383 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
6384 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
6385 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
6386 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
6387 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
6388 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
6389 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
6392 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
6393 - Disable gcc hardening in Appveyor Windows 64-bit builds. As of
6394 August 29 2018, Appveyor images come with gcc 8.2.0 by default.
6395 Executables compiled for 64-bit Windows with this version of gcc
6396 crash when Tor's --enable-gcc-hardening flag is set. Fixes bug
6397 27460; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6398 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
6399 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
6400 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
6401 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
6403 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
6404 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
6405 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
6408 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney):
6409 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
6410 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
6411 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
6412 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6413 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
6414 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
6417 Changes in version 0.3.4.7-rc - 2018-08-24
6418 Tor 0.3.4.7-rc fixes several small compilation, portability, and
6419 correctness issues in previous versions of Tor. This version is a
6420 release candidate: if no serious bugs are found, we expect that the
6421 stable 0.3.4 release will be (almost) the same as this release.
6423 o Minor features (bug workaround):
6424 - Compile correctly on systems that provide the C11 stdatomic.h
6425 header, but where C11 atomic functions don't actually compile.
6426 Closes ticket 26779; workaround for Debian issue 903709.
6428 o Minor features (continuous integration):
6429 - Backport Travis rust distcheck to 0.3.3. Closes ticket 24629.
6430 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
6432 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
6433 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
6434 - Only post Appveyor IRC notifications when the build fails.
6435 Implements ticket 27275.
6436 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
6437 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
6439 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust):
6440 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
6443 o Minor features (directory authorities):
6444 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
6445 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
6446 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
6448 o Minor features (geoip):
6449 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
6450 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
6452 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows):
6453 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
6454 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
6455 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
6457 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
6458 - Improve Appveyor CI IRC logging. Generate correct branches and
6459 URLs for pull requests and tags. Use unambiguous short commits.
6460 Fixes bug 26979; bugfix on master.
6461 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
6462 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
6463 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
6464 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6466 o Minor bugfixes (in-process restart):
6467 - Always call tor_free_all() when leaving tor_run_main(). When we
6468 did not, restarting tor in-process would cause an assertion
6469 failure. Fixes bug 26948; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6471 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
6472 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
6473 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
6474 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
6475 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
6477 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
6478 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
6479 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
6482 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
6483 - Fix compilation of the unit tests on GNU/Hurd, which does not
6484 define PATH_MAX. Fixes bug 26873; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch
6487 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
6488 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
6490 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
6491 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
6492 - Protover parsing was accepting the presence of whitespace in
6493 version strings, which the C implementation would choke on, e.g.
6494 "Desc=1\t,2". Fixes bug 27177; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
6495 - Protover parsing was ignoring a 2nd hyphen and everything after
6496 it, accepting entries like "Link=1-5-foo". Fixes bug 27164; bugfix
6498 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
6499 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
6500 - cd to ${abs_top_builddir}/src/rust before running cargo in
6501 src/test/test_rust.sh. This makes the working directory consistent
6502 between builds and tests. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
6504 o Minor bugfixes (testing, bootstrap):
6505 - When calculating bootstrap progress, check exit policies and the
6506 exit flag. Previously, Tor would only check the exit flag, which
6507 caused race conditions in small and fast networks like chutney.
6508 Fixes bug 27236; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
6510 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility):
6511 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
6512 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
6513 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
6514 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
6516 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation):
6517 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
6518 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
6521 Changes in version 0.3.4.6-rc - 2018-08-06
6522 Tor 0.3.4.6-rc fixes several small compilation, portability, and
6523 correctness issues in previous versions of Tor. This version is a
6524 release candidate: if no serious bugs are found, we expect that the
6525 stable 0.3.4 release will be (almost) the same as this release.
6527 o Major bugfixes (event scheduler):
6528 - When we enable a periodic event, schedule it in the event loop
6529 rather than running it immediately. Previously, we would re-run
6530 periodic events immediately in the middle of (for example)
6531 changing our options, with unpredictable effects. Fixes bug 27003;
6532 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6534 o Minor features (compilation):
6535 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
6536 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
6538 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
6539 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
6540 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
6541 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
6542 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
6543 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
6545 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
6546 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
6547 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
6548 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
6550 o Minor features (controller):
6551 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
6552 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
6553 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
6555 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
6556 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
6557 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
6560 o Minor features (geoip):
6561 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
6562 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
6564 o Minor features (Rust, portability):
6565 - Rust cross-compilation is now supported. Closes ticket 25895.
6567 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
6568 - Update build system so that tor builds again with --disable-unittests
6569 after recent refactoring. Fixes bug 26789; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
6570 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
6571 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
6572 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
6573 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
6575 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
6576 - Report the port correctly when a port is configured to bind to
6577 "auto". Fixes bug 26568; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6578 - Parse the "HSADDRESS=" parameter in HSPOST commands properly.
6579 Previously, it was misparsed and ignored. Fixes bug 26523; bugfix
6580 on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
6582 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, flow control):
6583 - Upon receiving a stream-level SENDME cell, verify that our window
6584 has not grown too large. Fixes bug 26214; bugfix on svn
6587 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness):
6588 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
6589 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
6591 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
6592 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
6593 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
6596 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
6597 - Avoid a compilation error in test_bwmgt.c on Solaris 10. Fixes bug
6598 26994; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6599 - Work around two different bugs in the OS X 10.10 and later SDKs
6600 that would prevent us from successfully targeting earlier versions
6601 of OS X. Fixes bug 26876; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6603 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web):
6604 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web
6605 clients fail to authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes
6606 bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6608 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
6609 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
6610 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
6612 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility):
6613 - When running the ntor_ref.py and hs_ntor_ref.py tests, make sure
6614 only to pass strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python
6615 subprocess module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this.
6616 Fixes bug 26535; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha (for ntor_ref.py) and
6617 0.3.1.1-alpha (for hs_ntor_ref.py).
6619 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
6620 - Stop sending ed25519 link specifiers in v3 onion service introduce
6621 cells and descriptors, when the rendezvous or introduction point
6622 doesn't support ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 26627;
6623 bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
6626 Changes in version 0.3.4.5-rc - 2018-07-13
6627 Tor 0.3.4.5-rc moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
6628 bridge relays should upgrade.
6630 o Directory authority changes:
6631 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
6632 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
6633 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
6636 Changes in version 0.3.3.9 - 2018-07-13
6637 Tor 0.3.3.9 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
6638 bridge relays should upgrade.
6640 o Directory authority changes:
6641 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
6642 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
6643 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
6646 Changes in version 0.3.2.11 - 2018-07-13
6647 Tor 0.3.2.11 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
6648 bridge relays should upgrade. We also take this opportunity to backport
6651 o Directory authority changes:
6652 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
6653 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
6654 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
6656 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.3.3.7):
6657 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
6658 Closes ticket 26343.
6660 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
6661 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
6662 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
6663 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
6664 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
6666 o Major bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
6667 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
6668 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
6670 o Minor features (sandbox, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
6671 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
6672 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
6673 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
6675 o Minor feature (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
6676 - Update the Travis CI configuration to use the stable Rust channel,
6677 now that we have decided to require that. Closes ticket 25714.
6679 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
6680 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
6681 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
6682 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
6683 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
6684 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
6686 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
6687 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
6688 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
6689 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
6691 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
6692 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
6693 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
6696 o Minor features (geoip):
6697 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
6698 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
6700 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
6701 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
6702 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
6703 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
6704 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
6706 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
6707 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
6708 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
6710 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
6711 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
6712 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
6713 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
6714 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6715 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
6716 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
6717 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
6720 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
6721 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
6722 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
6723 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
6724 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
6725 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
6727 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
6728 - Document that the PerConnBW{Rate,Burst} options will fall back to
6729 their corresponding consensus parameters only if those parameters
6730 are set. Previously we had claimed that these values would always
6731 be set in the consensus. Fixes bug 25296; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
6733 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
6734 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
6735 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
6736 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
6737 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
6739 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
6740 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
6741 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
6744 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
6745 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
6746 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
6748 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
6749 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
6750 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
6751 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
6753 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
6754 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
6755 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6756 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
6757 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
6758 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
6759 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6761 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
6762 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
6763 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
6764 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
6767 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
6768 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
6769 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6771 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
6772 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
6773 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6775 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
6776 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
6777 onion service introduction point creation finishing within 5
6778 seconds of real clock time. Fixes bug 25450; bugfix
6781 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
6782 - Fix a C99 compliance issue in our configuration script that caused
6783 compilation issues when compiling Tor with certain versions of
6784 xtools. Fixes bug 25474; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
6786 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
6787 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
6788 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
6790 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
6791 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
6792 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
6795 Changes in version 0.2.9.16 - 2018-07-13
6796 Tor 0.2.9.16 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
6797 bridge relays should upgrade. We also take this opportunity to backport
6800 o Directory authority changes:
6801 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
6802 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
6803 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
6805 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.3.3.7):
6806 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
6807 Closes ticket 26343.
6809 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
6810 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
6811 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
6812 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
6813 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
6815 o Minor features (sandbox, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
6816 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
6817 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
6818 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
6820 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
6821 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
6822 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
6823 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
6824 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
6825 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
6827 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
6828 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
6829 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
6832 o Minor features (geoip):
6833 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
6834 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
6836 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
6837 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
6838 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
6839 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
6840 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
6842 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
6843 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
6844 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
6846 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
6847 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
6848 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
6849 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
6852 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
6853 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
6854 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
6855 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
6856 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
6857 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
6859 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
6860 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
6861 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
6862 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
6863 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
6865 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
6866 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
6867 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
6870 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
6871 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
6872 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
6874 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
6875 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
6876 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
6877 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
6879 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
6880 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
6881 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
6883 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
6884 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
6885 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
6888 Changes in version 0.3.4.4-rc - 2018-07-09
6889 Tor 0.3.4.4-rc fixes several small compilation, portability, and
6890 correctness issues in previous versions of Tor. This version is a
6891 release candidate: if no serious bugs are found, we expect that the
6892 stable 0.3.4 release will be (almost) the same as this release.
6894 o Minor features (compilation):
6895 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
6896 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
6899 o Minor features (geoip):
6900 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
6901 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
6903 o Minor features (Rust, portability):
6904 - Rust cross-compilation is now supported. Closes ticket 25895.
6906 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
6907 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
6908 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
6909 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
6910 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
6912 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
6913 - Report the port correctly when a port is configured to bind to
6914 "auto". Fixes bug 26568; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6915 - Handle the HSADDRESS= argument to the HSPOST command properly.
6916 (Previously, this argument was misparsed and thus ignored.) Fixes
6917 bug 26523; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
6919 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, flow control):
6920 - Upon receiving a stream-level SENDME cell, verify that our window
6921 has not grown too large. Fixes bug 26214; bugfix on svn
6924 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness):
6925 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
6926 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
6928 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility):
6929 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
6930 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
6931 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
6932 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6933 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
6934 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
6935 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
6939 Changes in version 0.3.3.8 - 2018-07-09
6940 Tor 0.3.3.8 backports several changes from the 0.3.4.x series, including
6941 fixes for a memory leak affecting directory authorities.
6943 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
6944 - Stop leaking memory on directory authorities when planning to
6945 vote. This bug was crashing authorities by exhausting their
6946 memory. Fixes bug 26435; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
6948 o Major bugfixes (rust, testing, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
6949 - Make sure that failing tests in Rust will actually cause the build
6950 to fail: previously, they were ignored. Fixes bug 26258; bugfix
6953 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
6954 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
6955 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
6958 o Minor features (geoip):
6959 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
6960 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
6962 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
6963 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
6964 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
6965 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
6967 o Minor bugfixes (circuit path selection, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
6968 - Don't count path selection failures as circuit build failures.
6969 This change should eliminate cases where Tor blames its guard or
6970 the network for situations like insufficient microdescriptors
6971 and/or overly restrictive torrc settings. Fixes bug 25705; bugfix
6974 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
6975 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
6976 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
6977 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
6978 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
6980 o Minor bugfixes (control port, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
6981 - Handle the HSADDRESS= argument to the HSPOST command properly.
6982 (Previously, this argument was misparsed and thus ignored.) Fixes
6983 bug 26523; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
6985 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
6986 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
6987 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
6989 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
6990 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
6991 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
6992 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
6995 o Minor bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
6996 - When shutting down, Tor now clears all the flags in the control.c
6997 module. This should prevent a bug where authentication cookies are
6998 not generated on restart. Fixes bug 25512; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7000 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
7001 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
7002 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
7003 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
7004 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7005 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
7006 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
7007 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
7011 Changes in version 0.3.4.3-alpha - 2018-06-26
7012 Tor 0.3.4.3-alpha fixes several bugs in earlier versions, including
7013 one that was causing stability issues on directory authorities.
7015 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
7016 - Stop leaking memory on directory authorities when planning to
7017 vote. This bug was crashing authorities by exhausting their
7018 memory. Fixes bug 26435; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
7020 o Major bugfixes (rust, testing):
7021 - Make sure that failing tests in Rust will actually cause the build
7022 to fail: previously, they were ignored. Fixes bug 26258; bugfix
7025 o Minor feature (directory authorities):
7026 - Stop warning about incomplete bw lines before the first complete
7027 bw line has been found, so that additional header lines can be
7028 ignored. Fixes bug 25960; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha
7030 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic):
7031 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
7032 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
7033 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
7035 o Minor features (unit tests):
7036 - Test complete bandwidth measurements files, and test that
7037 incomplete bandwidth lines only give warnings when the end of the
7038 header has not been detected. Fixes bug 25947; bugfix
7041 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
7042 - Refrain from compiling unit testing related object files when
7043 --disable-unittests is set to configure script. Fixes bug 24891;
7044 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
7045 - When linking the libtor_testing.a library, only include the
7046 dirauth object files once. Previously, they were getting added
7047 twice. Fixes bug 26402; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7048 - The --enable-fatal-warnings flag now affects Rust code as well.
7049 Closes ticket 26245.
7051 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
7052 - Recompute some consensus information after detecting a clock jump,
7053 or after transitioning from a non-live consensus to a live
7054 consensus. We do this to avoid having an outdated state, and
7055 miscalculating the index for next-generation onion services. Fixes
7056 bug 24977; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7058 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
7059 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
7060 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
7061 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
7064 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
7065 - Fix compilation of the doctests in the Rust crypto crate. Fixes
7066 bug 26415; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7067 - Instead of trying to read the geoip configuration files from
7068 within the unit tests, instead create our own ersatz files with
7069 just enough geoip data in the format we expect. Trying to read
7070 from the source directory created problems on Windows with mingw,
7071 where the build system's paths are not the same as the platform's
7072 paths. Fixes bug 25787; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7073 - Refrain from trying to get an item from an empty smartlist in
7074 test_bridges_clear_bridge_list. Set DEBUG_SMARTLIST in unit tests
7075 to catch improper smartlist usage. Furthermore, enable
7076 DEBUG_SMARTLIST globally when build is configured with fragile
7077 hardening. Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7080 Changes in version 0.3.3.7 - 2018-06-12
7081 Tor 0.3.3.7 backports several changes from the 0.3.4.x series, including
7082 fixes for bugs affecting compatibility and stability.
7084 o Directory authority changes:
7085 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
7086 Closes ticket 26343.
7088 o Minor features (geoip):
7089 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
7090 Country database. Closes ticket 26351.
7092 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
7093 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
7094 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
7095 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
7096 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
7097 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
7099 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
7100 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
7101 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7103 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
7104 - Improve accuracy of the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port event's
7105 TIMEOUT_RATE and CLOSE_RATE fields. (We were previously
7106 miscounting the total number of circuits for these field values.)
7107 Fixes bug 26121; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7109 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
7110 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
7111 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
7113 o Minor bugfixes (path selection, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7114 - Only select relays when they have the descriptors we prefer to use
7115 for them. This change fixes a bug where we could select a relay
7116 because it had _some_ descriptor, but reject it later with a
7117 nonfatal assertion error because it didn't have the exact one we
7118 wanted. Fixes bugs 25691 and 25692; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
7121 Changes in version 0.3.4.2-alpha - 2018-06-12
7122 Tor 0.3.4.2-alpha fixes several minor bugs in the previous alpha
7123 release, and forward-ports an authority-only security fix from 0.3.3.6.
7125 o Directory authority changes:
7126 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
7127 Closes ticket 26343.
7129 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authority, denial-of-service, also in 0.3.3.6):
7130 - Fix a bug that could have allowed an attacker to force a directory
7131 authority to use up all its RAM by passing it a maliciously
7132 crafted protocol versions string. Fixes bug 25517; bugfix on
7133 0.2.9.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2018-005.
7135 o Minor features (continuous integration):
7136 - Add the necessary configuration files for continuous integration
7137 testing on Windows, via the Appveyor platform. Closes ticket
7138 25549. Patches from Marcin Cieślak and Isis Lovecruft.
7140 o Minor features (geoip):
7141 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
7142 Country database. Closes ticket 26351.
7144 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl):
7145 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
7146 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
7147 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
7148 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
7149 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
7151 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
7152 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
7153 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7154 - Fix compilation when using OpenSSL 1.1.0 with the "no-deprecated"
7155 flag enabled. Fixes bug 26156; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7156 - Avoid a compiler warning when casting the return value of
7157 smartlist_len() to double with DEBUG_SMARTLIST enabled. Fixes bug
7158 26283; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
7160 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
7161 - Do not count 0-length RELAY_COMMAND_DATA cells as valid data in
7162 CIRC_BW events. Previously, such cells were counted entirely in
7163 the OVERHEAD field. Now they are not. Fixes bug 26259; bugfix
7166 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
7167 - Improve accuracy of the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port event's
7168 TIMEOUT_RATE and CLOSE_RATE fields. (We were previously
7169 miscounting the total number of circuits for these field values.)
7170 Fixes bug 26121; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7172 o Minor bugfixes (hardening):
7173 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
7174 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
7176 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
7177 - Fix a bug that blocked the creation of ephemeral v3 onion
7178 services. Fixes bug 25939; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7180 o Minor bugfixes (test coverage tools):
7181 - Update our "cov-diff" script to handle output from the latest
7182 version of gcov, and to remove extraneous timestamp information
7183 from its output. Fixes bugs 26101 and 26102; bugfix
7187 Changes in version 0.3.3.6 - 2018-05-22
7188 Tor 0.3.3.6 is the first stable release in the 0.3.3 series. It
7189 backports several important fixes from the 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7191 The Tor 0.3.3 series includes controller support and other
7192 improvements for v3 onion services, official support for embedding Tor
7193 within other applications, and our first non-trivial module written in
7194 the Rust programming language. (Rust is still not enabled by default
7195 when building Tor.) And as usual, there are numerous other smaller
7196 bugfixes, features, and improvements.
7198 Below are the changes since 0.3.3.5-rc. For a list of all changes
7199 since 0.3.2.10, see the ReleaseNotes file.
7201 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, security, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7202 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
7203 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
7204 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
7205 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
7207 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authority, denial-of-service):
7208 - Fix a bug that could have allowed an attacker to force a directory
7209 authority to use up all its RAM by passing it a maliciously
7210 crafted protocol versions string. Fixes bug 25517; bugfix on
7211 0.2.9.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2018-005.
7213 o Major bugfixes (crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7214 - Avoid a rare assertion failure in the circuit build timeout code
7215 if we fail to allow any circuits to actually complete. Fixes bug
7216 25733; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
7218 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7219 - Avoid a crash when testing router reachability on a router that
7220 could have an ed25519 ID, but which does not. Fixes bug 25415;
7221 bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
7223 o Major bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7224 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
7225 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
7227 o Major bugfixes (relay, denial of service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7228 - Impose a limit on circuit cell queue size. The limit can be
7229 controlled by a consensus parameter. Fixes bug 25226; bugfix
7232 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7233 - Avoid some compilation warnings with recent versions of LibreSSL.
7234 Closes ticket 26006.
7236 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7237 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
7238 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
7239 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
7240 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
7241 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
7243 o Minor features (geoip):
7244 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 1 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country
7245 database. Closes ticket 26104.
7247 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7248 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
7249 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
7252 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7253 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
7254 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
7255 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
7256 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
7258 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7259 - Stop saying in the manual that clients cache ipv4 dns answers from
7260 exit relays. We haven't used them since 0.2.6.3-alpha, and in
7261 ticket 24050 we stopped even caching them as of 0.3.2.6-alpha, but
7262 we forgot to say so in the man page. Fixes bug 26052; bugfix
7265 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7266 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
7267 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
7269 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7270 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
7271 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7272 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
7273 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
7274 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
7275 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7277 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7278 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
7279 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7281 o Documentation (backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7282 - Correct an IPv6 error in the documentation for ExitPolicy. Closes
7283 ticket 25857. Patch from "CTassisF".
7286 Changes in version 0.3.4.1-alpha - 2018-05-17
7287 Tor 0.3.4.1-alpha is the first release in the 0.3.4.x series. It
7288 includes refactoring to begin reducing Tor's binary size and idle CPU
7289 usage on mobile, along with prep work for new bandwidth scanners,
7290 improvements to the experimental "vanguards" feature, and numerous
7291 other small features and bugfixes.
7293 o New system requirements:
7294 - Tor no longer tries to support old operating systems without
7295 mmap() or some local equivalent. Apparently, compilation on such
7296 systems has been broken for some time, without anybody noticing or
7297 complaining. Closes ticket 25398.
7299 o Major feature (directory authority, modularization):
7300 - The directory authority subsystem has been modularized. The code
7301 is now located in src/or/dirauth/, and is compiled in by default.
7302 To disable the module, the configure option
7303 --disable-module-dirauth has been added. This module may be
7304 disabled by default in some future release. Closes ticket 25610.
7306 o Major features (main loop, CPU usage):
7307 - When Tor is disabled (via DisableNetwork or via hibernation), it
7308 no longer needs to run any per-second events. This change should
7309 make it easier for mobile applications to disable Tor while the
7310 device is sleeping, or Tor is not running. Closes ticket 26063.
7311 - Tor no longer enables all of its periodic events by default.
7312 Previously, Tor would enable all possible main loop events,
7313 regardless of whether it needed them. Furthermore, many of these
7314 events are now disabled with Tor is hibernating or DisableNetwork
7315 is set. This is a big step towards reducing client CPU usage by
7316 reducing the amount of wake-ups the daemon does. Closes ticket
7318 - The bandwidth-limitation logic has been refactored so that
7319 bandwidth calculations are performed on-demand, rather than every
7320 TokenBucketRefillInterval milliseconds. This change should improve
7321 the granularity of our bandwidth calculations, and limit the
7322 number of times that the Tor process needs to wake up when it is
7323 idle. Closes ticket 25373.
7324 - Move responsibility for many operations from a once-per-second
7325 callback to a callback that is only scheduled as needed. Moving
7326 this functionality has allowed us to disable the callback when
7327 Tor's network is disabled. Once enough items are removed from our
7328 once-per-second callback, we can eliminate it entirely to conserve
7329 CPU when idle. The functionality removed includes: closing
7330 connections, circuits, and channels (ticket 25932); consensus
7331 voting (25937); flushing log callbacks (25951); honoring delayed
7332 SIGNEWNYM requests (25949); rescanning the consensus cache
7333 (25931); saving the state file to disk (25948); warning relay
7334 operators about unreachable ports (25952); and keeping track of
7335 Tor's uptime (26009).
7337 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, security):
7338 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
7339 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
7340 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
7341 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
7343 o Major bugfixes (crash):
7344 - Avoid a rare assertion failure in the circuit build timeout code
7345 if we fail to allow any circuits to actually complete. Fixes bug
7346 25733; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
7348 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
7349 - Avoid a crash when testing router reachability on a router that
7350 could have an ed25519 ID, but which does not. Fixes bug 25415;
7351 bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
7353 o Major bugfixes (onion service):
7354 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
7355 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
7357 o Major bugfixes (protover, voting):
7358 - Revise Rust implementation of protover to use a more memory-
7359 efficient voting algorithm and corresponding data structures, thus
7360 avoiding a potential (but small impact) DoS attack where specially
7361 crafted protocol strings would expand to several potential
7362 megabytes in memory. In the process, several portions of code were
7363 revised to be methods on new, custom types, rather than functions
7364 taking interchangeable types, thus increasing type safety of the
7365 module. Custom error types and handling were added as well, in
7366 order to facilitate better error dismissal/handling in outside
7367 crates and avoid mistakenly passing an internal error string to C
7368 over the FFI boundary. Many tests were added, and some previous
7369 differences between the C and Rust implementations have been
7370 remedied. Fixes bug 24031; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7372 o Major bugfixes (relay, denial of service):
7373 - Impose a limit on circuit cell queue size. The limit can be
7374 controlled by a consensus parameter. Fixes bug 25226; bugfix
7377 o Minor features (accounting):
7378 - When Tor becomes dormant, it now uses a scheduled event to wake up
7379 at the right time. Previously, we would use the per-second timer
7380 to check whether to wake up, but we no longer have any per-second
7381 timers enabled when the network is disabled. Closes ticket 26064.
7383 o Minor features (code quality):
7384 - Add optional spell-checking for the Tor codebase, using the
7385 "misspell" program. To use this feature, run "make check-typos".
7386 Closes ticket 25024.
7388 o Minor features (compatibility):
7389 - Tor now detects versions of OpenSSL 1.1.0 and later compiled with
7390 the no-deprecated option, and builds correctly with them. Closes
7391 tickets 19429, 19981, and 25353.
7392 - Avoid some compilation warnings with recent versions of LibreSSL.
7393 Closes ticket 26006.
7395 o Minor features (compression, zstd):
7396 - When running with zstd, Tor now considers using advanced functions
7397 that the zstd maintainers have labeled as potentially unstable. To
7398 prevent breakage, Tor will only use this functionality when the
7399 runtime version of the zstd library matches the version with which
7400 Tor was compiled. Closes ticket 25162.
7402 o Minor features (configuration):
7403 - The "DownloadSchedule" options have been renamed to end with
7404 "DownloadInitialDelay". The old names are still allowed, but will
7405 produce a warning. Comma-separated lists are still permitted for
7406 these options, but all values after the first are ignored (as they
7407 have been since 0.2.9). Closes ticket 23354.
7409 o Minor features (continuous integration):
7410 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
7411 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
7412 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
7413 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
7414 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
7416 o Minor features (control port):
7417 - Introduce GETINFO "current-time/{local,utc}" to return the local
7418 and UTC times respectively in ISO format. This helps a controller
7419 like Tor Browser detect a time-related error. Closes ticket 25511.
7420 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7421 - Introduce new fields to the CIRC_BW event. There are two new
7422 fields in each of the read and written directions. The DELIVERED
7423 fields report the total valid data on the circuit, as measured by
7424 the payload sizes of verified and error-checked relay command
7425 cells. The OVERHEAD fields report the total unused bytes in each
7426 of these cells. Closes ticket 25903.
7428 o Minor features (directory authority):
7429 - Directory authorities now open their key-pinning files as O_SYNC,
7430 to limit their chances of accidentally writing partial lines.
7431 Closes ticket 23909.
7433 o Minor features (directory authority, forward compatibility):
7434 - Make the lines of the measured bandwidth file able to contain
7435 their entries in any order. Previously, the node_id entry needed
7436 to come first. Closes ticket 26004.
7438 o Minor features (entry guards):
7439 - Introduce a new torrc option NumPrimaryGuards for controlling the
7440 number of primary guards. Closes ticket 25843.
7442 o Minor features (geoip):
7443 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 1 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country
7444 database. Closes ticket 26104.
7446 o Minor features (performance):
7447 - Avoid a needless call to malloc() when processing an incoming
7448 relay cell. Closes ticket 24914.
7449 - Make our timing-wheel code run a tiny bit faster on 32-bit
7450 platforms, by preferring 32-bit math to 64-bit. Closes
7452 - Avoid a needless malloc()/free() pair every time we handle an ntor
7453 handshake. Closes ticket 25150.
7455 o Minor features (testing):
7456 - Add a unit test for voting_schedule_get_start_of_next_interval().
7457 Closes ticket 26014, and helps make unit test coverage
7459 - A new unittests module specifically for testing the functions in
7460 the (new-ish) bridges.c module has been created with new
7461 unittests, raising the code coverage percentages. Closes 25425.
7462 - We now have improved testing for addressmap_get_virtual_address()
7463 function. This should improve our test coverage, and make our test
7464 coverage more deterministic. Closes ticket 25993.
7466 o Minor features (timekeeping, circuit scheduling):
7467 - When keeping track of how busy each circuit have been recently on
7468 a given connection, use coarse-grained monotonic timers rather
7469 than gettimeofday(). This change should marginally increase
7470 accuracy and performance. Implements part of ticket 25927.
7472 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth management):
7473 - Consider ourselves "low on write bandwidth" if we have exhausted
7474 our write bandwidth some time in the last second. This was the
7475 documented behavior before, but the actual behavior was to change
7476 this value every TokenBucketRefillInterval. Fixes bug 25828;
7477 bugfix on 0.2.3.5-alpha.
7479 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
7480 - Add a missing lock acquisition in the shutdown code of the control
7481 subsystem. Fixes bug 25675; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Found by
7482 Coverity; this is CID 1433643.
7484 o Minor bugfixes (circuit path selection):
7485 - Don't count path selection failures as circuit build failures.
7486 This change should eliminate cases where Tor blames its guard or
7487 the network for situations like insufficient microdescriptors
7488 and/or overly restrictive torrc settings. Fixes bug 25705; bugfix
7491 o Minor bugfixes (client):
7492 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
7493 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
7496 o Minor bugfixes (code style):
7497 - Fixed multiple includes of transports.h in src/or/connection.c
7498 Fixes bug 25261; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
7499 - Remove the unused variable n_possible from the function
7500 channel_get_for_extend(). Fixes bug 25645; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha
7502 o Minor bugfixes (control interface):
7503 - Respond with more human-readable error messages to GETINFO exit-
7504 policy/* requests. Also, let controller know if an error is
7505 transient (response code 551) or not (response code 552). Fixes
7506 bug 25852; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
7508 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
7509 - Make CIRC_BW event reflect the total of all data sent on a
7510 circuit, including padding and dropped cells. Also fix a mis-
7511 counting bug when STREAM_BW events were enabled. Fixes bug 25400;
7512 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
7514 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client):
7515 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the cell
7516 immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for close, but
7517 continue processing the cell as if the connection were open. Fixes bug
7518 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
7520 o Minor bugfixes (directory client):
7521 - When unverified-consensus is verified, rename it to cached-
7522 consenus. Fixes bug 4187; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
7523 - Fixed launching a certificate fetch always during the scheduled
7524 periodic consensus fetch by fetching only in those cases when
7525 consensus are waiting for certs. Fixes bug 24740; bugfix
7528 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
7529 - Stop saying in the manual that clients cache ipv4 dns answers from
7530 exit relays. We haven't used them since 0.2.6.3-alpha, and in
7531 ticket 24050 we stopped even caching them as of 0.3.2.6-alpha, but
7532 we forgot to say so in the man page. Fixes bug 26052; bugfix
7535 o Minor bugfixes (error reporting):
7536 - Improve tolerance for directory authorities with skewed clocks.
7537 Previously, an authority with a clock more than 60 seconds ahead
7538 could cause a client with a correct clock to warn that the
7539 client's clock was behind. Now the clocks of a majority of
7540 directory authorities have to be ahead of the client before this
7541 warning will occur. Fixes bug 25756; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
7543 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
7544 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
7545 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
7547 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
7548 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
7549 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7550 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
7551 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
7552 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
7553 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7555 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
7556 - Only select relays when they have the descriptors we prefer to use
7557 for them. This change fixes a bug where we could select a relay
7558 because it had _some_ descriptor, but reject it later with a
7559 nonfatal assertion error because it didn't have the exact one we
7560 wanted. Fixes bugs 25691 and 25692; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
7562 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
7563 - Do not align mmap length, as it is not required by POSIX, and the
7564 getpagesize function is deprecated. Fixes bug 25399; bugfix
7567 o Minor bugfixes (portability, FreeBSD):
7568 - In have_enough_mem_for_dircache(), the variable DIRCACHE_MIN_MEM_MB
7569 does not stringify on FreeBSD, so we switch to tor_asprintf().
7570 Fixes bug 20887; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7572 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics):
7573 - When a relay is collecting internal statistics about how many
7574 create cell requests it has seen of each type, accurately count
7575 the requests from relays that temporarily fall out of the
7576 consensus. (To be extra conservative, we were already ignoring
7577 requests from clients in our counts, and we continue ignoring them
7578 here.) Fixes bug 24910; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
7580 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash):
7581 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
7582 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7584 o Minor bugfixes (restart-in-process):
7585 - When shutting down, Tor now clears all the flags in the control.c
7586 module. This should prevent a bug where authentication cookies are
7587 not generated on restart. Fixes bug 25512; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7589 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
7590 - When testing workqueue event-cancellation, make sure that we
7591 actually cancel an event, and that cancel each event with equal
7592 probability. (It was previously possible, though extremely
7593 unlikely, for our event-canceling test not to cancel any events.)
7594 Fixes bug 26008; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
7595 - Repeat part of the test in test_client_pick_intro() a number of
7596 times, to give it consistent coverage. Fixes bug 25996; bugfix
7598 - Remove randomness from the hs_common/responsible_hsdirs test, so
7599 that it always takes the same path through the function it tests.
7600 Fixes bug 25997; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7601 - Change the behavior of the "channel/outbound" test so that it
7602 never causes a 10-second rollover for the EWMA circuitmux code.
7603 Previously, this behavior would happen randomly, and result in
7604 fluctuating test coverage. Fixes bug 25994; bugfix
7606 - Use X509_new() to allocate certificates that will be freed later
7607 with X509_free(). Previously, some parts of the unit tests had
7608 used tor_malloc_zero(), which is incorrect, and which caused test
7609 failures on Windows when they were built with extra hardening.
7610 Fixes bugs 25943 and 25944; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by
7612 - While running the circuit_timeout test, fix the PRNG to a
7613 deterministic AES stream, so that the test coverage from this test
7614 will itself be deterministic. Fixes bug 25995; bugfix
7617 o Minor bugfixes (vanguards):
7618 - Allow the last hop in a vanguard circuit to be the same as our
7619 first, to prevent the adversary from influencing guard node choice
7620 by choice of last hop. Also prevent the creation of A - B - A
7621 paths, or A - A paths, which are forbidden by relays. Fixes bug
7622 25870; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7624 o Code simplification and refactoring:
7625 - Remove duplicate code in parse_{c,s}method_line and bootstrap
7626 their functionalities into a single function. Fixes bug 6236;
7627 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
7628 - We remove the PortForwarding and PortForwardingHelper options,
7629 related functions, and the port_forwarding tests. These options
7630 were used by the now-deprecated Vidalia to help ordinary users
7631 become Tor relays or bridges. Closes ticket 25409. Patch by
7633 - In order to make the OR and dir checking function in router.c less
7634 confusing we renamed some functions and
7635 consider_testing_reachability() has been split into
7636 router_should_check_reachability() and
7637 router_do_reachability_checks(). Also we improved the documentation
7638 in some functions. Closes ticket 18918.
7639 - Initial work to isolate Libevent usage to a handful of modules in
7640 our codebase, to simplify our call structure, and so that we can
7641 more easily change event loops in the future if needed. Closes
7643 - Introduce a function to call getsockname() and return tor_addr_t,
7644 to save a little complexity throughout the codebase. Closes
7646 - Make hsdir_index in node_t a hsdir_index_t rather than a pointer
7647 as hsdir_index is always present. Also, we move hsdir_index_t into
7648 or.h. Closes ticket 23094. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7649 - Merge functions used for describing nodes and suppress the
7650 functions that do not allocate memory for the output buffer
7651 string. NODE_DESC_BUF_LEN constant and format_node_description()
7652 function cannot be used externally from router.c module anymore.
7653 Closes ticket 25432. Patch by valentecaio.
7654 - Our main loop has been simplified so that all important operations
7655 happen inside events. Previously, some operations had to happen
7656 outside the event loop, to prevent infinite sequences of event
7657 activations. Closes ticket 25374.
7658 - Put a SHA1 public key digest in hs_service_intro_point_t, and use
7659 it in register_intro_circ() and service_intro_point_new(). This
7660 prevents the digest from being re-calculated each time. Closes
7661 ticket 23107. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7662 - Refactor token-bucket implementations to use a common backend.
7663 Closes ticket 25766.
7664 - Remove extern declaration of stats_n_seconds_working variable from
7665 main, protecting its accesses with get_uptime() and reset_uptime()
7666 functions. Closes ticket 25081, patch by “valentecaio”.
7667 - Remove our previous logic for "cached gettimeofday()" -- our
7668 coarse monotonic timers are fast enough for this purpose, and far
7669 less error-prone. Implements part of ticket 25927.
7670 - Remove the return value for fascist_firewall_choose_address_base(),
7671 and sister functions such as fascist_firewall_choose_address_node()
7672 and fascist_firewall_choose_address_rs(). Also, while we're here,
7673 initialize the ap argument as leaving it uninitialized can pose a
7674 security hazard. Closes ticket 24734. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7675 - Rename two fields of connection_t struct. timestamp_lastwritten is
7676 renamed to timestamp_last_write_allowed and timestamp_lastread is
7677 renamed to timestamp_last_read_allowed. Closes ticket 24714, patch
7679 - Since Tor requires C99, remove our old workaround code for libc
7680 implementations where free(NULL) doesn't work. Closes ticket 24484.
7681 - Use our standard rate-limiting code to deal with excessive
7682 libevent failures, rather than the hand-rolled logic we had
7683 before. Closes ticket 26016.
7684 - We remove the return value of node_get_prim_orport() and
7685 node_get_prim_dirport(), and introduce node_get_prim_orport() in
7686 node_ipv6_or_preferred() and node_ipv6_dir_preferred() in order to
7687 check for a null address. Closes ticket 23873. Patch by
7689 - We switch to should_record_bridge_info() in
7690 geoip_note_client_seen() and options_need_geoip_info() instead of
7691 accessing the configuration values directly. Fixes bug 25290;
7692 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7694 o Deprecated features:
7695 - As we are not recommending 0.2.5 anymore, we require relays that
7696 once had an ed25519 key associated with their RSA key to always
7697 have that key, instead of allowing them to drop back to a version
7698 that didn't support ed25519. This means they need to use a new RSA
7699 key if they want to downgrade to an older version of tor without
7700 ed25519. Closes ticket 20522.
7703 - Correct an IPv6 error in the documentation for ExitPolicy. Closes
7704 ticket 25857. Patch from "CTassisF".
7707 - Directory authorities will no longer support voting according to
7708 any consensus method before consensus method 25. This keeps
7709 authorities compatible with all authorities running 0.2.9.8 and
7710 later, and does not break any clients or relays. Implements ticket
7711 24378 and proposal 290.
7712 - The PortForwarding and PortForwardingHelper features have been
7713 removed. The reasoning is, given that implementations of NAT
7714 traversal protocols within common consumer grade routers are
7715 frequently buggy, and that the target audience for a NAT punching
7716 feature is a perhaps less-technically-inclined relay operator,
7717 when the helper fails to setup traversal the problems are usually
7718 deep, ugly, and very router specific, making them horrendously
7719 impossible for technical support to reliable assist with, and thus
7720 resulting in frustration all around. Unfortunately, relay
7721 operators who would like to run relays behind NATs will need to
7722 become more familiar with the port forwarding configurations on
7723 their local router. Closes 25409.
7724 - The TestingEnableTbEmptyEvent option has been removed. It was used
7725 in testing simulations to measure how often connection buckets
7726 were emptied, in order to improve our scheduling, but it has not
7727 been actively used in years. Closes ticket 25760.
7728 - The old "round-robin" circuit multiplexer (circuitmux)
7729 implementation has been removed, along with a fairly large set of
7730 code that existed to support it. It has not been the default
7731 circuitmux since we introduced the "EWMA" circuitmux in 0.2.4.x,
7732 but it still required an unreasonable amount of memory and CPU.
7733 Closes ticket 25268.
7736 Changes in version 0.3.3.5-rc - 2018-04-15
7737 Tor 0.3.3.5-rc fixes various bugs in earlier versions of Tor,
7738 including some that could affect reliability or correctness.
7740 This is the first release candidate in the 0.3.3 series. If we find no
7741 new bugs or regression here, then the first stable 0.3.3 release will
7742 be nearly identical to this one.
7744 o Major bugfixes (security, protover, voting):
7745 - Revise Rust implementation of protover to use a more memory-
7746 efficient voting algorithm and corresponding data structures, thus
7747 avoiding a potential memory-based DoS attack where specially
7748 crafted protocol strings would expand to fill available memory.
7749 Fixes bug 24031; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7751 o Major bugfixes (performance, load balancing):
7752 - Directory authorities no longer vote in favor of the Guard flag
7753 for relays without directory support. Starting in Tor
7754 0.3.0.1-alpha, clients have been avoiding using such relays in the
7755 Guard position, leading to increasingly broken load balancing for
7756 the 5%-or-so of Guards that don't advertise directory support.
7757 Fixes bug 22310; bugfix on 0.3.0.6.
7759 o Minor feature (continuous integration):
7760 - Update the Travis CI configuration to use the stable Rust channel,
7761 now that we have decided to require that. Closes ticket 25714.
7763 o Minor features (config options):
7764 - Change the way the default value for MaxMemInQueues is calculated.
7765 We now use 40% of the hardware RAM if the system has 8 GB RAM or
7766 more. Otherwise we use the former value of 75%. Closes
7769 o Minor features (geoip):
7770 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
7771 Country database. Closes ticket 25718.
7773 o Minor bugfixes (client):
7774 - When using a listed relay as a bridge, and also using
7775 microdescriptors, and considering that relay as a non-bridge in a
7776 circuit, treat its microdescriptor as a valid source of
7777 information about that relay. This change should prevent a non-
7778 fatal assertion error. Fixes bug 25691; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
7780 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
7781 - Restore the correct operation of the RESOLVE command, which had
7782 been broken since we added the ability to enable/disable DNS on
7783 specific listener ports. Fixes bug 25617; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
7785 o Minor bugfixes (distribution, compilation, rust):
7786 - Build correctly when the rust dependencies submodule is loaded,
7787 but the TOR_RUST_DEPENDENCIES environment variable is not set.
7788 Fixes bug 25679; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7789 - Actually include all of our Rust source in our source
7790 distributions. (Previously, a few of the files were accidentally
7791 omitted.) Fixes bug 25732; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
7793 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
7794 - Document that the PerConnBW{Rate,Burst} options will fall back to
7795 their corresponding consensus parameters only if those parameters
7796 are set. Previously we had claimed that these values would always
7797 be set in the consensus. Fixes bug 25296; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
7798 - Revert a misformatting issue in the ExitPolicy documentation.
7799 Fixes bug 25582; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7801 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay DNS retries):
7802 - Re-attempt timed-out DNS queries 3 times before failure, since our
7803 timeout is 5 seconds for them, but clients wait 10-15. Also allow
7804 slightly more timeouts per resolver when an exit has multiple
7805 resolvers configured. Fixes bug 21394; bugfix on 0.3.1.9.
7807 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
7808 - Re-instate counting the client HSDir fetch circuits against the
7809 MaxClientCircuitsPending rate limit. Fixes bug 24989; bugfix
7811 - Remove underscores from the _HSLayer{2,3}Nodes options. This
7812 expert-user configuration can now be enabled as HSLayer{2,3}Nodes.
7813 Fixes bug 25581; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha
7815 o Code simplification and refactoring:
7816 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
7817 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
7819 o Documentation (manpage, denial of service):
7820 - Provide more detail about the denial-of-service options, by
7821 listing each mitigation and explaining how they relate. Closes
7825 Changes in version 0.3.3.4-alpha - 2018-03-29
7826 Tor 0.3.3.4-alpha includes various bugfixes for issues found during
7827 the alpha testing of earlier releases in its series. We are
7828 approaching a stable 0.3.3.4-alpha release: more testing is welcome!
7830 o New system requirements:
7831 - When built with Rust, Tor now depends on version 0.2.39 of the
7832 libc crate. Closes tickets 25310 and 25664.
7834 o Major bugfixes (relay, connection):
7835 - If we have failed to connect to a relay and received a connection
7836 refused, timeout, or similar error (at the TCP level), do not try
7837 that same address/port again for 60 seconds after the failure has
7838 occurred. Fixes bug 24767; bugfix on 0.0.6.
7840 o Minor features (geoip):
7841 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the March 8 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
7842 Country database. Closes ticket 25469.
7844 o Minor features (log messages):
7845 - Improve log message in the out-of-memory handler to include
7846 information about memory usage from the different compression
7847 backends. Closes ticket 25372.
7849 o Minor features (sandbox):
7850 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
7851 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
7852 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
7854 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
7855 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
7856 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
7857 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
7859 o Minor bugfixes (channel, client):
7860 - Better identify client connection when reporting to the geoip
7861 client cache. Fixes bug 24904; bugfix on 0.3.1.7.
7863 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
7864 - Fix a C99 compliance issue in our configuration script that caused
7865 compilation issues when compiling Tor with certain versions of
7866 xtools. Fixes bug 25474; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
7868 o Minor bugfixes (controller, reliability):
7869 - Avoid a (nonfatal) assertion failure when extending a one-hop
7870 circuit from the controller to become a multihop circuit. Fixes
7871 bug 24903; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
7873 o Major bugfixes (networking):
7874 - Tor will no longer reject IPv6 address strings from Tor Browser
7875 when they are passed as hostnames in SOCKS5 requests. Fixes bug
7876 25036, bugfix on Tor 0.3.1.2.
7878 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
7879 - string_is_valid_hostname() will not consider IP strings to be
7880 valid hostnames. Fixes bug 25055; bugfix on Tor 0.2.5.5.
7882 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
7883 - Avoid an assertion failure when the next onion service
7884 descriptor rotation type is out of sync with the consensus's
7885 valid-after time. Instead, log a warning message with extra
7886 information, so we can better hunt down the cause of this
7887 assertion. Fixes bug 25306; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7889 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
7890 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
7891 onion service introduction point creation finishing within 5
7892 seconds of real clock time. Fixes bug 25450; bugfix
7894 - Rust crates are now automatically detected and tested. Previously,
7895 some crates were not tested by `make test-rust` due to a static
7896 string in the `src/test/test_rust.sh` script specifying which
7897 crates to test. Fixes bug 25560; bugfix on 0.3.3.3-alpha.
7899 o Minor bugfixes (testing, benchmarks):
7900 - Fix a crash when running benchmark tests on win32 systems. The
7901 crash was due to a mutex that wasn't initialized before logging
7902 and options were initialized. Fixes bug 25479; bugfix
7905 o Minor bugfixes (warnings, ipv6):
7906 - Avoid a bug warning that could occur when trying to connect to a
7907 relay over IPv6. This warning would occur on a Tor instance that
7908 downloads router descriptors, but prefers to use microdescriptors.
7909 Fixes bug 25213; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7911 o Code simplification and refactoring:
7912 - Remove the old (deterministic) directory retry logic entirely:
7913 We've used exponential backoff exclusively for some time. Closes
7917 - Improved the documentation of AccountingStart parameter. Closes
7919 - Update the documentation for "Log" to include the current list of
7920 logging domains. Closes ticket 25378.
7923 Changes in version 0.3.1.10 - 2018-03-03
7924 Tor 0.3.1.10 backports a number of bugfixes, including important fixes for
7927 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
7928 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
7930 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
7931 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
7933 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
7936 All directory authorities should upgrade to one of the versions
7937 released today. Relays running 0.3.1.x may wish to update to one of
7938 the versions released today, for the DoS mitigations.
7940 Please note: according to our release calendar, Tor 0.3.1 will no
7941 longer be supported after 1 July 2018. If you will be running Tor
7942 after that date, you should make sure to plan to upgrade to the latest
7943 stable version, or downgrade to 0.2.9 (which will receive long-term
7946 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
7947 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
7948 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
7949 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
7952 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
7953 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
7954 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
7955 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
7956 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
7957 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
7958 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
7959 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
7960 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
7961 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
7962 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
7963 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
7964 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
7966 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
7967 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
7968 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
7970 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
7971 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
7972 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
7973 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
7974 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
7975 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
7976 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
7978 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
7979 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
7980 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7982 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
7983 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
7984 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
7985 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
7986 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
7987 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
7988 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7990 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
7991 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
7992 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
7993 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
7995 o Minor feature (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
7996 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
7997 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
7998 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
8000 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
8001 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
8002 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
8003 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
8004 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
8005 Closes ticket 24978.
8007 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors, backport from 0.3.2.9):
8008 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
8009 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
8010 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
8011 information. Closes ticket 24801.
8012 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
8013 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
8014 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
8015 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
8017 o Minor features (geoip):
8018 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
8021 o Minor bugfix (channel connection, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
8022 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
8023 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
8024 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
8025 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
8027 o Minor bugfix (directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
8028 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
8029 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
8030 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
8031 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
8033 o Minor bugfixes (address selection, backport from 0.3.2.9):
8034 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
8035 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
8036 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
8037 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
8040 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
8041 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
8042 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
8043 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
8044 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
8045 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
8046 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
8047 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
8048 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
8049 - Don't try fetching microdescriptors from relays that have failed
8050 to deliver them in the past. Fixes bug 23817; bugfix
8053 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.7-rc):
8054 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
8055 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
8057 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
8058 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
8059 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
8062 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
8063 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
8064 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
8065 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
8066 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
8067 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
8068 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
8070 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
8071 - Recover better from empty or corrupt files in the consensus cache
8072 directory. Fixes bug 24099; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8073 - When a consensus diff calculation is only partially successful,
8074 only record the successful parts as having succeeded. Partial
8075 success can happen if (for example) one compression method fails
8076 but the others succeed. Previously we misrecorded all the
8077 calculations as having succeeded, which would later cause a
8078 nonfatal assertion failure. Fixes bug 24086; bugfix
8081 o Minor bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
8082 - Tor now updates its guard state when it reads a consensus
8083 regardless of whether it's missing descriptors. That makes tor use
8084 its primary guards to fetch descriptors in some edge cases where
8085 it would previously have used fallback directories. Fixes bug
8086 23862; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8088 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
8089 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
8090 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
8091 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8093 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage, backport from 0.3.2.8-rc):
8094 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
8095 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
8096 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
8097 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
8100 o Minor bugfixes (network layer, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
8101 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
8102 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
8103 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
8104 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
8105 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
8107 o Minor bugfixes (path selection, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
8108 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
8109 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
8110 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
8111 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
8112 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
8113 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
8114 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
8115 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
8116 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
8117 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
8118 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
8120 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
8121 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
8122 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
8123 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8125 o Minor bugfixes (OSX, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
8126 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
8127 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
8128 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
8130 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc, backport from 0.3.2.9):
8131 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
8132 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
8133 to cyptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
8136 o Minor bugfixes (relay, partial backport):
8137 - Make the internal channel_is_client() function look at what sort
8138 of connection handshake the other side used, rather than whether
8139 the other side ever sent a create_fast cell to us. Backports part
8140 of the fixes from bugs 22805 and 24898.
8142 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
8143 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
8145 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
8146 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
8148 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
8149 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
8150 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
8153 Changes in version 0.2.9.15 - 2018-03-03
8154 Tor 0.2.9.15 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
8157 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
8158 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
8160 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
8161 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
8163 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
8166 All directory authorities should upgrade to one of the versions
8167 released today. Relays running 0.2.9.x may wish to update to one of
8168 the versions released today, for the DoS mitigations.
8170 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
8171 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
8172 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
8173 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
8176 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation):
8177 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
8178 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
8179 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
8180 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
8181 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
8182 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
8183 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
8184 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
8185 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
8186 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
8187 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
8188 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
8190 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping):
8191 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
8192 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
8193 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
8194 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
8195 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
8196 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
8197 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
8198 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
8200 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior):
8201 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
8202 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
8203 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
8204 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
8205 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
8206 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
8208 o Minor feature (relay statistics):
8209 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
8210 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
8211 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
8213 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL):
8214 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
8215 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
8216 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
8217 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
8218 Closes ticket 24978.
8220 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
8221 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
8222 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
8223 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
8225 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
8226 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
8227 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
8228 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
8229 information. Closes ticket 24801.
8230 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
8231 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
8232 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
8233 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
8235 o Minor features (geoip):
8236 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
8239 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
8240 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
8241 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
8243 o Minor bugfix (channel connection):
8244 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
8245 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
8246 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
8247 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
8249 o Minor bugfix (directory authority):
8250 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
8251 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
8252 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
8253 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
8255 o Minor bugfixes (address selection):
8256 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
8257 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
8258 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
8259 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
8262 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
8263 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
8264 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
8266 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
8267 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
8268 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
8271 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
8272 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
8273 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
8274 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
8275 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
8276 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
8277 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
8279 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage):
8280 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
8281 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
8282 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
8283 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
8286 o Minor bugfixes (network layer):
8287 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
8288 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
8289 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
8290 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
8291 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
8293 o Minor bugfixes (OSX):
8294 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
8295 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
8296 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
8298 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
8299 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
8300 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
8301 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
8302 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
8303 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
8304 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
8305 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
8306 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
8307 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
8308 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
8309 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
8311 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc):
8312 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
8313 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
8314 to cryptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
8317 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
8318 - Make the internal channel_is_client() function look at what sort
8319 of connection handshake the other side used, rather than whether
8320 the other side ever sent a create_fast cell to us. Backports part
8321 of the fixes from bugs 22805 and 24898.
8323 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
8324 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
8326 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
8327 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
8330 Changes in version 0.3.2.10 - 2018-03-03
8331 Tor 0.3.2.10 is the second stable release in the 0.3.2 series. It
8332 backports a number of bugfixes, including important fixes for security
8335 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
8336 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
8338 Additionally, it backports a fix for a bug whose severity we have
8339 upgraded: Bug 24700, which was fixed in 0.3.3.2-alpha, can be remotely
8340 triggered in order to crash relays with a use-after-free pattern. As
8341 such, we are now tracking that bug as TROVE-2018-002 and
8342 CVE-2018-0491, and backporting it to earlier releases. This bug
8343 affected versions 0.3.2.1-alpha through 0.3.2.9, as well as version
8346 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
8347 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
8349 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
8352 Relays running 0.3.2.x SHOULD upgrade to one of the versions released
8353 today, for the fix to TROVE-2018-002. Directory authorities should
8354 also upgrade. (Relays on earlier versions might want to update too for
8355 the DoS mitigations.)
8357 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
8358 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
8359 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
8360 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
8363 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, KIST, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
8364 - Avoid adding the same channel twice in the KIST scheduler pending
8365 list, which could lead to remote denial-of-service use-after-free
8366 attacks against relays. Fixes bug 24700; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8368 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
8369 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
8370 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
8371 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
8372 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
8373 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
8374 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
8375 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
8376 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
8377 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
8378 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
8379 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
8380 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
8382 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
8383 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
8384 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
8385 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
8386 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
8387 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
8388 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
8389 - New-style (v3) onion services now obey the "max rendezvous circuit
8390 attempts" logic. Previously they would make as many rendezvous
8391 circuit attempts as they could fit in the MAX_REND_TIMEOUT second
8392 window before giving up. Fixes bug 24894; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8394 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
8395 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
8396 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8398 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
8399 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
8400 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
8401 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
8402 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
8403 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
8404 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8406 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, consensus, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
8407 - The scheduler subsystem was failing to promptly notice changes in
8408 consensus parameters, making it harder to switch schedulers
8409 network-wide. Fixes bug 24975; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8411 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
8412 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
8413 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
8414 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
8416 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
8417 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
8418 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
8419 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
8420 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
8421 Closes ticket 24978.
8423 o Minor features (geoip):
8424 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
8427 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
8428 - When logging a failure to create an onion service's descriptor,
8429 also log what the problem with the descriptor was. Diagnostic
8432 o Minor bugfix (channel connection, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
8433 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
8434 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
8435 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
8436 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
8438 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
8439 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
8440 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
8441 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
8442 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
8443 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
8444 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
8446 o Minor bugfix (directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
8447 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
8448 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
8449 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
8450 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
8452 o Minor bugfixes (build, rust, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
8453 - When building with Rust on OSX, link against libresolv, to work
8454 around the issue at https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/46797.
8455 Fixes bug 24652; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8457 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
8458 - Remove a BUG() statement when a client fetches an onion descriptor
8459 that has a lower revision counter than the one in its cache. This
8460 can happen in normal circumstances due to HSDir desync. Fixes bug
8461 24976; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8463 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
8464 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
8465 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
8466 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8468 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
8469 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
8470 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
8471 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8473 o Minor bugfixes (OSX, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
8474 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
8475 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
8476 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
8478 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
8479 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
8481 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
8482 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
8484 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
8485 - Fix a memory leak in the scheduler/loop_kist unit test. Fixes bug
8486 25005; bugfix on 0.3.2.7-rc.
8488 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
8489 - Look at the "HSRend" protocol version, not the "HSDir" protocol
8490 version, when deciding whether a consensus entry can support the
8491 v3 onion service protocol as a rendezvous point. Fixes bug 25105;
8492 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8494 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
8495 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
8496 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
8498 o Documentation (backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha)
8499 - Document that operators who run more than one relay or bridge are
8500 expected to set MyFamily and ContactInfo correctly. Closes
8504 Changes in version 0.3.3.3-alpha - 2018-03-03
8505 Tor 0.3.3.3-alpha is the third alpha release for the 0.3.3.x series.
8506 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
8507 against directory authorities tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
8509 Additionally, with this release, we are upgrading the severity of a
8510 bug fixed in 0.3.3.2-alpha. Bug 24700, which was fixed in
8511 0.3.3.2-alpha, can be remotely triggered in order to crash relays with
8512 a use-after-free pattern. As such, we are now tracking that bug as
8513 TROVE-2018-002 and CVE-2018-0491. This bug affected versions
8514 0.3.2.1-alpha through 0.3.2.9, as well as 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8516 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
8519 Relays running 0.3.2.x should upgrade to one of the versions released
8520 today, for the fix to TROVE-2018-002. Directory authorities should
8521 also upgrade. (Relays on earlier versions might want to update too for
8522 the DoS mitigations.)
8524 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority):
8525 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
8526 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
8527 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
8530 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL):
8531 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
8532 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
8533 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
8534 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
8535 Closes ticket 24978.
8537 o Minor features (logging):
8538 - Clarify the log messages produced when getrandom() or a related
8539 entropy-generation mechanism gives an error. Closes ticket 25120.
8541 o Minor features (testing):
8542 - Add a "make test-rust" target to run the rust tests only. Closes
8545 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service):
8546 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
8547 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
8548 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
8549 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
8550 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
8551 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
8553 o Minor bugfixes (DoS mitigation):
8554 - Add extra safety checks when refilling the circuit creation bucket
8555 to ensure we never set a value above the allowed maximum burst.
8556 Fixes bug 25202; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
8557 - When a new consensus arrives, don't update our DoS-mitigation
8558 parameters if we aren't a public relay. Fixes bug 25223; bugfix
8561 o Minor bugfixes (man page, SocksPort):
8562 - Remove dead code from the old "SocksSocket" option, and rename
8563 SocksSocketsGroupWritable to UnixSocksGroupWritable. The old option
8564 still works, but is deprecated. Fixes bug 24343; bugfix on 0.2.6.3.
8566 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
8567 - Reduce the number of circuits that will be opened at once during
8568 the circuit build timeout phase. This is done by increasing the
8569 idle timeout to 3 minutes, and lowering the maximum number of
8570 concurrent learning circuits to 10. Fixes bug 24769; bugfix
8573 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance):
8574 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
8576 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
8577 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
8579 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, rust):
8580 - Resolve a denial-of-service issue caused by an infinite loop in
8581 the rust protover code. Fixes bug 25250, bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8582 Also tracked as TROVE-2018-003.
8584 o Code simplification and refactoring:
8585 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
8586 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
8589 Changes in version 0.3.3.2-alpha - 2018-02-10
8590 Tor 0.3.3.2-alpha is the second alpha in the 0.3.3.x series. It
8591 introduces a mechanism to handle the high loads that many relay
8592 operators have been reporting recently. It also fixes several bugs in
8593 older releases. If this new code proves reliable, we plan to backport
8594 it to older supported release series.
8596 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation):
8597 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
8598 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
8599 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
8600 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
8601 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
8602 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
8603 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
8604 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
8605 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
8606 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
8607 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
8608 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
8610 o Major bugfixes (netflow padding):
8611 - Stop adding unneeded channel padding right after we finish
8612 flushing to a connection that has been trying to flush for many
8613 seconds. Instead, treat all partial or complete flushes as
8614 activity on the channel, which will defer the time until we need
8615 to add padding. This fix should resolve confusing and scary log
8616 messages like "Channel padding timeout scheduled 221453ms in the
8617 past." Fixes bug 22212; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8619 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions):
8620 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
8621 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8623 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, consensus):
8624 - The scheduler subsystem was failing to promptly notice changes in
8625 consensus parameters, making it harder to switch schedulers
8626 network-wide. Fixes bug 24975; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8628 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
8629 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
8630 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
8631 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
8633 o Minor features (directory authority):
8634 - When directory authorities are unable to add signatures to a
8635 pending consensus, log the reason why. Closes ticket 24849.
8637 o Minor features (geoip):
8638 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
8641 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic):
8642 - When logging a failure to create an onion service's descriptor,
8643 also log what the problem with the descriptor was. Diagnostic for
8646 o Minor bugfix (channel connection):
8647 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
8648 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
8649 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
8650 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
8652 o Minor bugfix (directory authority):
8653 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
8654 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
8655 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
8656 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
8658 o Minor bugfixes (all versions of Tor):
8659 - Use the "misspell" tool to detect and fix typos throughout the
8660 source code. Fixes bug 23650; bugfix on various versions of Tor.
8661 Patch from Deepesh Pathak.
8663 o Minor bugfixes (circuit, cannibalization):
8664 - Don't cannibalize preemptively-built circuits if we no longer
8665 recognize their first hop. This situation can happen if our Guard
8666 relay went off the consensus after the circuit was created. Fixes
8667 bug 24469; bugfix on 0.0.6.
8669 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
8670 - Remove a nonworking, unnecessary check to see whether a circuit
8671 hop's identity digest was set when the circuit failed. Fixes bug
8672 24927; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
8674 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
8675 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
8676 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
8677 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8678 - Fix a (mostly harmless) race condition when invoking
8679 LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN message from a subthread while the torrc options
8680 are changing. Fixes bug 23954; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
8682 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
8683 - Remove a BUG() statement when a client fetches an onion descriptor
8684 that has a lower revision counter than the one in its cache. This
8685 can happen in normal circumstances due to HSDir desync. Fixes bug
8686 24976; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8687 - If we are configured to offer a single onion service, don't log
8688 long-term established one hop rendezvous points in the heartbeat.
8689 Fixes bug 25116; bugfix on 0.2.9.6-rc.
8691 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
8692 - Avoid calling protocol_list_supports_protocol() from inside tight
8693 loops when running with cached routerinfo_t objects. Instead,
8694 summarize the relevant protocols as flags in the routerinfo_t, as
8695 we do for routerstatus_t objects. This change simplifies our code
8696 a little, and saves a large amount of short-term memory allocation
8697 operations. Fixes bug 25008; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
8699 o Minor bugfixes (Rust FFI):
8700 - Fix a minor memory leak which would happen whenever the C code
8701 would call the Rust implementation of
8702 protover_get_supported_protocols(). This was due to the C version
8703 returning a static string, whereas the Rust version newly allocated
8704 a CString to pass across the FFI boundary. Consequently, the C
8705 code was not expecting to need to free() what it was given. Fixes
8706 bug 25127; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8708 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler, KIST):
8709 - Avoid adding the same channel twice in the KIST scheduler pending
8710 list, which would waste CPU cycles. Fixes bug 24700; bugfix
8713 o Minor bugfixes (unit test, monotonic time):
8714 - Increase a constant (1msec to 10msec) in the monotonic time test
8715 that makes sure the nsec/usec/msec times read are synchronized.
8716 This change was needed to accommodate slow systems like armel or
8717 when the clock_gettime() is not a VDSO on the running kernel.
8718 Fixes bug 25113; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
8720 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
8721 - Look at the "HSRend" protocol version, not the "HSDir" protocol
8722 version, when deciding whether a consensus entry can support the
8723 v3 onion service protocol as a rendezvous point. Fixes bug 25105;
8724 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8726 o Code simplification and refactoring:
8727 - Remove the unused nodelist_recompute_all_hsdir_indices(). Closes
8729 - Remove a series of counters used to track circuit extend attempts
8730 and connection status but that in reality we aren't using for
8731 anything other than stats logged by a SIGUSR1 signal. Closes
8734 o Documentation (man page):
8735 - The HiddenServiceVersion torrc option accepts only one number:
8736 either version 2 or 3. Closes ticket 25026; bugfix
8740 Changes in version 0.3.3.1-alpha - 2018-01-25
8741 Tor 0.3.3.1-alpha is the first release in the 0.3.3.x series. It adds
8742 several new features to Tor, including several improvements to
8743 bootstrapping, and support for an experimental "vanguards" feature to
8744 resist guard discovery attacks. This series also includes better
8745 support for applications that need to embed Tor or manage v3
8748 o Major features (embedding):
8749 - There is now a documented stable API for programs that need to
8750 embed Tor. See tor_api.h for full documentation and known bugs.
8751 Closes ticket 23684.
8752 - Tor now has support for restarting in the same process.
8753 Controllers that run Tor using the "tor_api.h" interface can now
8754 restart Tor after Tor has exited. This support is incomplete,
8755 however: we fixed crash bugs that prevented it from working at
8756 all, but many bugs probably remain, including a possibility of
8757 security issues. Implements ticket 24581.
8759 o Major features (IPv6, directory documents):
8760 - Add consensus method 27, which adds IPv6 ORPorts to the microdesc
8761 consensus. This information makes it easier for IPv6 clients to
8762 bootstrap and choose reachable entry guards. Implements ticket 23826.
8763 - Add consensus method 28, which removes IPv6 ORPorts from
8764 microdescriptors. Now that the consensus contains IPv6 ORPorts, they
8765 are redundant in microdescs. This change will be used by Tor clients
8766 on 0.2.8.x and later. (That is to say, with all Tor clients that
8767 have IPv6 bootstrap and guard support.) Implements ticket 23828.
8768 - Expand the documentation for AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity when it is
8769 set by different numbers of authorities. Fixes 23870
8772 o Major features (onion service v3, control port):
8773 - The control port now supports commands and events for v3 onion
8774 services. It is now possible to create ephemeral v3 services using
8775 ADD_ONION. Additionally, several events (HS_DESC, HS_DESC_CONTENT,
8776 CIRC and CIRC_MINOR) and commands (GETINFO, HSPOST, ADD_ONION and
8777 DEL_ONION) have been extended to support v3 onion services. Closes
8778 ticket 20699; implements proposal 284.
8780 o Major features (onion services):
8781 - Provide torrc options to pin the second and third hops of onion
8782 service circuits to a list of nodes. The option HSLayer2Guards
8783 pins the second hop, and the option HSLayer3Guards pins the third
8784 hop. These options are for use in conjunction with experiments
8785 with "vanguards" for preventing guard enumeration attacks. Closes
8788 o Major features (rust, portability, experimental):
8789 - Tor now ships with an optional implementation of one of its
8790 smaller modules (protover.c) in the Rust programming language. To
8791 try it out, install a Rust build environment, and configure Tor
8792 with "--enable-rust --enable-cargo-online-mode". This should not
8793 cause any user-visible changes, but should help us gain more
8794 experience with Rust, and plan future Rust integration work.
8795 Implementation by Chelsea Komlo. Closes ticket 22840.
8797 o Minor features (storage, configuration):
8798 - Users can store cached directory documents somewhere other than
8799 the DataDirectory by using the CacheDirectory option. Similarly,
8800 the storage location for relay's keys can be overridden with the
8801 KeyDirectory option. Closes ticket 22703.
8803 o Major features (v3 onion services, ipv6):
8804 - When v3 onion service clients send introduce cells, they now
8805 include the IPv6 address of the rendezvous point, if it has one.
8806 Current v3 onion services running 0.3.2 ignore IPv6 addresses, but
8807 in future Tor versions, IPv6-only v3 single onion services will be
8808 able to use IPv6 addresses to connect directly to the rendezvous
8809 point. Closes ticket 23577. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8811 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior):
8812 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
8813 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
8814 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
8815 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
8816 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
8817 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
8818 - New-style (v3) onion services now obey the "max rendezvous circuit
8819 attempts" logic. Previously they would make as many rendezvous
8820 circuit attempts as they could fit in the MAX_REND_TIMEOUT second
8821 window before giving up. Fixes bug 24894; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8823 o Major bugfixes (relays):
8824 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
8825 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
8826 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
8827 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
8828 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
8829 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8831 o Minor feature (IPv6):
8832 - Make IPv6-only clients wait for microdescs for relays, even if we
8833 were previously using descriptors (or were using them as a bridge)
8834 and have a cached descriptor for them. Implements ticket 23827.
8835 - When a consensus has IPv6 ORPorts, make IPv6-only clients use
8836 them, rather than waiting to download microdescriptors.
8837 Implements ticket 23827.
8839 o Minor features (cleanup):
8840 - Tor now deletes the CookieAuthFile and ExtORPortCookieAuthFile
8841 when it stops. Closes ticket 23271.
8843 o Minor features (defensive programming):
8844 - Most of the functions in Tor that free objects have been replaced
8845 with macros that free the objects and set the corresponding
8846 pointers to NULL. This change should help prevent a large class of
8847 dangling pointer bugs. Closes ticket 24337.
8848 - Where possible, the tor_free() macro now only evaluates its input
8849 once. Part of ticket 24337.
8850 - Check that microdesc ed25519 ids are non-zero in
8851 node_get_ed25519_id() before returning them. Implements ticket
8852 24001, patch by "aruna1234".
8854 o Minor features (embedding):
8855 - Tor can now start with a preauthenticated control connection
8856 created by the process that launched it. This feature is meant for
8857 use by programs that want to launch and manage a Tor process
8858 without allowing other programs to manage it as well. For more
8859 information, see the __OwningControllerFD option documented in
8860 control-spec.txt. Closes ticket 23900.
8861 - On most errors that would cause Tor to exit, it now tries to
8862 return from the tor_main() function, rather than calling the
8863 system exit() function. Most users won't notice a difference here,
8864 but it should be significant for programs that run Tor inside
8865 a separate thread: they should now be able to survive Tor's exit
8866 conditions rather than having Tor shut down the entire process.
8867 Closes ticket 23848.
8868 - Applications that want to embed Tor can now tell Tor not to
8869 register any of its own POSIX signal handlers, using the
8870 __DisableSignalHandlers option. Closes ticket 24588.
8872 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
8873 - Avoid selecting fallbacks that change their IP addresses too
8874 often. Select more fallbacks by ignoring the Guard flag, and
8875 allowing lower cutoffs for the Running and V2Dir flags. Also allow
8876 a lower bandwidth, and a higher number of fallbacks per operator
8877 (5% of the list). Implements ticket 24785.
8878 - Update the fallback whitelist and blacklist based on opt-ins and
8879 relay changes. Closes tickets 22321, 24678, 22527, 24135,
8882 o Minor features (fallback directory mirror configuration):
8883 - Add a nickname to each fallback in a C comment. This makes it
8884 easier for operators to find their relays, and allows stem to use
8885 nicknames to identify fallbacks. Implements ticket 24600.
8886 - Add a type and version header to the fallback directory mirror
8887 file. Also add a delimiter to the end of each fallback entry. This
8888 helps external parsers like stem and Relay Search. Implements
8890 - Add an extrainfo cache flag for each fallback in a C comment. This
8891 allows stem to use fallbacks to fetch extra-info documents, rather
8892 than using authorities. Implements ticket 22759.
8893 - Add the generateFallbackDirLine.py script for automatically
8894 generating fallback directory mirror lines from relay fingerprints.
8895 No more typos! Add the lookupFallbackDirContact.py script for
8896 automatically looking up operator contact info from relay
8897 fingerprints. Implements ticket 24706, patch by teor and atagar.
8898 - Reject any fallback directory mirror that serves an expired
8899 consensus. Implements ticket 20942, patch by "minik".
8900 - Remove commas and equals signs from external string inputs to the
8901 fallback list. This avoids format confusion attacks. Implements
8903 - Remove the "weight=10" line from fallback directory mirror
8904 entries. Ticket 24681 will maintain the current fallback weights
8905 by changing Tor's default fallback weight to 10. Implements
8907 - Stop logging excessive information about fallback netblocks.
8908 Implements ticket 24791.
8910 o Minor features (forward-compatibility):
8911 - If a relay supports some link authentication protocol that we do
8912 not recognize, then include that relay's ed25519 key when telling
8913 other relays to extend to it. Previously, we treated future
8914 versions as if they were too old to support ed25519 link
8915 authentication. Closes ticket 20895.
8917 o Minor features (heartbeat):
8918 - Add onion service information to our heartbeat logs, displaying
8919 stats about the activity of configured onion services. Closes
8922 o Minor features (instrumentation, development):
8923 - Add the MainloopStats option to allow developers to get
8924 instrumentation information from the main event loop via the
8925 heartbeat messages. We hope to use this to improve Tor's behavior
8926 when it's trying to sleep. Closes ticket 24605.
8928 o Minor features (log messages):
8929 - Improve a warning message that happens when we fail to re-parse an
8930 old router because of an expired certificate. Closes ticket 20020.
8931 - Make the log more quantitative when we hit MaxMemInQueues
8932 threshold exposing some values. Closes ticket 24501.
8934 o Minor features (logging, android):
8935 - Added support for the Android logging subsystem. Closes
8938 o Minor features (performance):
8939 - Support predictive circuit building for onion service circuits
8940 with multiple layers of guards. Closes ticket 23101.
8941 - Use stdatomic.h where available, rather than mutexes, to implement
8942 atomic_counter_t. Closes ticket 23953.
8944 o Minor features (performance, 32-bit):
8945 - Improve performance on 32-bit systems by avoiding 64-bit division
8946 when calculating the timestamp in milliseconds for channel padding
8947 computations. Implements ticket 24613.
8948 - Improve performance on 32-bit systems by avoiding 64-bit division
8949 when timestamping cells and buffer chunks for OOM calculations.
8950 Implements ticket 24374.
8952 o Minor features (performance, OSX, iOS):
8953 - Use the mach_approximate_time() function (when available) to
8954 implement coarse monotonic time. Having a coarse time function
8955 should avoid a large number of system calls, and improve
8956 performance slightly, especially under load. Closes ticket 24427.
8958 o Minor features (performance, windows):
8959 - Improve performance on Windows Vista and Windows 7 by adjusting
8960 TCP send window size according to the recommendation from
8961 SIO_IDEAL_SEND_BACKLOG_QUERY. Closes ticket 22798. Patch
8964 o Major features (relay):
8965 - Implement an option, ReducedExitPolicy, to allow an Tor exit relay
8966 operator to use a more reasonable ("reduced") exit policy, rather
8967 than the default one. If you want to run an exit node without
8968 thinking too hard about which ports to allow, this one is for you.
8969 Closes ticket 13605. Patch from Neel Chauhan.
8971 o Minor features (testing, debugging, embedding):
8972 - For development purposes, Tor now has a mode in which it runs for
8973 a few seconds, then stops, and starts again without exiting the
8974 process. This mode is meant to help us debug various issues with
8975 ticket 23847. To use this feature, compile with
8976 --enable-restart-debugging, and set the TOR_DEBUG_RESTART
8977 environment variable. This is expected to crash a lot, and is
8978 really meant for developers only. It will likely be removed in a
8979 future release. Implements ticket 24583.
8981 o Minor bugfix (network IPv6 test):
8982 - Tor's test scripts now check if "ping -6 ::1" works when the user
8983 runs "make test-network-all". Fixes bug 24677; bugfix on
8984 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
8986 o Minor bugfixes (build, rust):
8987 - Fix output of autoconf checks to display success messages for Rust
8988 dependencies and a suitable rustc compiler version. Fixes bug
8989 24612; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
8990 - When building with Rust on OSX, link against libresolv, to work
8991 around the issue at https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/46797.
8992 Fixes bug 24652; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8993 - Don't pass the --quiet option to cargo: it seems to suppress some
8994 errors, which is not what we want to do when building. Fixes bug
8995 24518; bugfix on 0.3.1.7.
8996 - Build correctly when building from outside Tor's source tree with
8997 the TOR_RUST_DEPENDENCIES option set. Fixes bug 22768; bugfix
9000 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, IPv6):
9001 - When creating a routerstatus (vote) from a routerinfo (descriptor),
9002 set the IPv6 address to the unspecified IPv6 address, and
9003 explicitly initialize the port to zero. Fixes bug 24488; bugfix
9006 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directory mirrors):
9007 - Make updateFallbackDirs.py search harder for python. (Some OSs
9008 don't put it in /usr/bin.) Fixes bug 24708; bugfix
9011 o Minor bugfixes (hibernation, bandwidth accounting, shutdown):
9012 - When hibernating, close connections normally and allow them to
9013 flush. Fixes bug 23571; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Also fixes
9015 - Do not attempt to launch self-reachability tests when entering
9016 hibernation. Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
9017 - Resolve several bugs related to descriptor fetching on bridge
9018 clients with bandwidth accounting enabled. (This combination is
9019 not recommended!) Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix
9021 - When hibernating, do not attempt to launch DNS checks. Fixes a
9022 case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
9023 - When hibernating, do not try to upload or download descriptors.
9024 Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
9026 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, bridges):
9027 - Tor now always sets IPv6 preferences for bridges. Fixes bug 24573;
9028 bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
9029 - Tor now sets IPv6 address in the routerstatus as well as in the
9030 router descriptors when updating addresses for a bridge. Closes
9031 ticket 24572; bugfix on 0.2.4.5-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
9033 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
9034 - When running with the sandbox enabled, reload configuration files
9035 correctly even when %include was used. Previously we would crash.
9036 Fixes bug 22605; bugfix on 0.3.1. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
9038 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
9039 - Avoid possible at-exit memory leaks related to use of Libevent's
9040 event_base_once() function. (This function tends to leak memory if
9041 the event_base is closed before the event fires.) Fixes bug 24584;
9042 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
9043 - Fix a harmless memory leak in tor-resolve. Fixes bug 24582; bugfix
9046 o Minor bugfixes (OSX):
9047 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
9048 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
9049 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
9051 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening):
9052 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
9053 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
9054 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9056 o Minor bugfixes (performance, timeouts):
9057 - Consider circuits for timeout as soon as they complete a hop. This
9058 is more accurate than applying the timeout in
9059 circuit_expire_building() because that function is only called
9060 once per second, which is now too slow for typical timeouts on the
9061 current network. Fixes bug 23114; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
9062 - Use onion service circuits (and other circuits longer than 3 hops)
9063 to calculate a circuit build timeout. Previously, Tor only
9064 calculated its build timeout based on circuits that planned to be
9065 exactly 3 hops long. With this change, we include measurements
9066 from all circuits at the point where they complete their third
9067 hop. Fixes bug 23100; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
9069 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
9070 - Give out Exit flags in bootstrapping networks. Fixes bug 24137;
9071 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
9072 - Fix a memory leak in the scheduler/loop_kist unit test. Fixes bug
9073 25005; bugfix on 0.3.2.7-rc.
9075 o Code simplification and refactoring:
9076 - Remove /usr/athena from search path in configure.ac. Closes
9078 - Remove duplicate code in node_has_curve25519_onion_key() and
9079 node_get_curve25519_onion_key(), and add a check for a zero
9080 microdesc curve25519 onion key. Closes ticket 23966, patch by
9081 "aruna1234" and teor.
9082 - Rewrite channel_rsa_id_group_set_badness to reduce temporary
9083 memory allocations with large numbers of OR connections (e.g.
9084 relays). Closes ticket 24119.
9085 - Separate the function that deletes ephemeral files when Tor
9087 - Small changes to Tor's buf_t API to make it suitable for use as a
9088 general-purpose safe string constructor. Closes ticket 22342.
9089 - Switch -Wnormalized=id to -Wnormalized=nfkc in configure.ac to
9090 avoid source code identifier confusion. Closes ticket 24467.
9091 - The tor_git_revision[] constant no longer needs to be redeclared
9092 by everything that links against the rest of Tor. Done as part of
9093 ticket 23845, to simplify our external API.
9094 - We make extend_info_from_node() use node_get_curve25519_onion_key()
9095 introduced in ticket 23577 to access the curve25519 public keys
9096 rather than accessing it directly. Closes ticket 23760. Patch by
9098 - Add a function to log channels' scheduler state changes to aid
9099 debugging efforts. Closes ticket 24531.
9102 - Add documentation on how to build tor with Rust dependencies
9103 without having to be online. Closes ticket 22907; bugfix
9105 - Clarify the behavior of RelayBandwidth{Rate,Burst} with client
9106 traffic. Closes ticket 24318.
9107 - Document that OutboundBindAddress doesn't apply to DNS requests.
9108 Closes ticket 22145. Patch from Aruna Maurya.
9109 - Document that operators who run more than one relay or bridge are
9110 expected to set MyFamily and ContactInfo correctly. Closes
9113 o Code simplification and refactoring (channels):
9114 - Remove the incoming and outgoing channel queues. These were never
9115 used, but still took up a step in our fast path.
9116 - The majority of the channel unit tests have been rewritten and the
9117 code coverage has now been raised to 83.6% for channel.c. Closes
9119 - Remove other dead code from the channel subsystem: All together,
9120 this cleanup has removed more than 1500 lines of code overall and
9121 adding very little except for unit test.
9123 o Code simplification and refactoring (circuit rendezvous):
9124 - Split the client-side rendezvous circuit lookup into two
9125 functions: one that returns only established circuits and another
9126 that returns all kinds of circuits. Closes ticket 23459.
9128 o Code simplification and refactoring (controller):
9129 - Make most of the variables in networkstatus_getinfo_by_purpose()
9130 const. Implements ticket 24489.
9133 Changes in version 0.3.2.9 - 2018-01-09
9134 Tor 0.3.2.9 is the first stable release in the 0.3.2 series.
9136 The 0.3.2 series includes our long-anticipated new onion service
9137 design, with numerous security features. (For more information, see
9138 our blog post at https://blog.torproject.org/fall-harvest.) We also
9139 have a new circuit scheduler algorithm for improved performance on
9140 relays everywhere (see https://blog.torproject.org/kist-and-tell),
9141 along with many smaller features and bugfixes.
9143 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support each stable release
9144 series for at least the next nine months, or for three months after
9145 the first stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. If
9146 you need a release with long-term support, we recommend that you stay
9147 with the 0.2.9 series.
9149 Below is a list of the changes since 0.3.2.8-rc. For a list of all
9150 changes since 0.3.1, see the ReleaseNotes file.
9152 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
9153 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
9154 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
9155 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
9156 information. Closes ticket 24801.
9157 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
9158 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
9159 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
9160 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
9162 o Minor features (geoip):
9163 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 5 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9166 o Minor bugfixes (address selection):
9167 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
9168 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
9169 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
9170 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
9173 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
9174 - Resolve a few shadowed-variable warnings in the onion service
9175 code. Fixes bug 24634; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9177 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc):
9178 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
9179 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
9180 to cryptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
9184 Changes in version 0.3.2.8-rc - 2017-12-21
9185 Tor 0.3.2.8-rc fixes a pair of bugs in the KIST and KISTLite
9186 schedulers that had led servers under heavy load to overload their
9187 outgoing connections. All relay operators running earlier 0.3.2.x
9188 versions should upgrade. This version also includes a mitigation for
9189 over-full DESTROY queues leading to out-of-memory conditions: if it
9190 works, we will soon backport it to earlier release series.
9192 This is the second release candidate in the 0.3.2 series. If we find
9193 no new bugs or regression here, then the first stable 0.3.2 release
9194 will be nearly identical to this.
9196 o Major bugfixes (KIST, scheduler):
9197 - The KIST scheduler did not correctly account for data already
9198 enqueued in each connection's send socket buffer, particularly in
9199 cases when the TCP/IP congestion window was reduced between
9200 scheduler calls. This situation lead to excessive per-connection
9201 buffering in the kernel, and a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug
9202 24665; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9204 o Minor features (geoip):
9205 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
9208 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service v3):
9209 - Bump hsdir_spread_store parameter from 3 to 4 in order to increase
9210 the probability of reaching a service for a client missing
9211 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 24425; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9213 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage):
9214 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
9215 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
9216 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
9217 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
9220 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler, KIST):
9221 - Use a sane write limit for KISTLite when writing onto a connection
9222 buffer instead of using INT_MAX and shoving as much as it can.
9223 Because the OOM handler cleans up circuit queues, we are better
9224 off at keeping them in that queue instead of the connection's
9225 buffer. Fixes bug 24671; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9228 Changes in version 0.3.2.7-rc - 2017-12-14
9229 Tor 0.3.2.7-rc fixes various bugs in earlier versions of Tor,
9230 including some that could affect reliability or correctness.
9232 This is the first release candidate in the 0.3.2 series. If we find no
9233 new bugs or regression here, then the first stable 0.3.2. release will
9234 be nearly identical to this.
9236 o Major bugfixes (circuit prediction):
9237 - Fix circuit prediction logic so that a client doesn't treat a port
9238 as being "handled" by a circuit if that circuit already has
9239 isolation settings on it. This change should make Tor clients more
9240 responsive by improving their chances of having a pre-created
9241 circuit ready for use when a request arrives. Fixes bug 18859;
9242 bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
9244 o Minor features (logging):
9245 - Provide better warnings when the getrandom() syscall fails. Closes
9248 o Minor features (portability):
9249 - Tor now compiles correctly on arm64 with libseccomp-dev installed.
9250 (It doesn't yet work with the sandbox enabled.) Closes
9253 o Minor bugfixes (bridge clients, bootstrap):
9254 - Retry directory downloads when we get our first bridge descriptor
9255 during bootstrap or while reconnecting to the network. Keep
9256 retrying every time we get a bridge descriptor, until we have a
9257 reachable bridge. Fixes part of bug 24367; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
9258 - Stop delaying bridge descriptor fetches when we have cached bridge
9259 descriptors. Instead, only delay bridge descriptor fetches when we
9260 have at least one reachable bridge. Fixes part of bug 24367;
9261 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
9262 - Stop delaying directory fetches when we have cached bridge
9263 descriptors. Instead, only delay bridge descriptor fetches when
9264 all our bridges are definitely unreachable. Fixes part of bug
9265 24367; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
9267 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
9268 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
9269 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
9271 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
9272 - Fix several places in our codebase where a C compiler would be
9273 likely to eliminate a check, based on assuming that undefined
9274 behavior had not happened elsewhere in the code. These cases are
9275 usually a sign of redundant checking or dubious arithmetic. Found
9276 by Georg Koppen using the "STACK" tool from Wang, Zeldovich,
9277 Kaashoek, and Solar-Lezama. Fixes bug 24423; bugfix on various
9280 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
9281 - Fix a race where an onion service would launch a new intro circuit
9282 after closing an old one, but fail to register it before freeing
9283 the previously closed circuit. This bug was making the service
9284 unable to find the established intro circuit and thus not upload
9285 its descriptor, thus making a service unavailable for up to 24
9286 hours. Fixes bug 23603; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9288 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler, KIST):
9289 - Properly set the scheduler state of an unopened channel in the
9290 KIST scheduler main loop. This prevents a harmless but annoying
9291 log warning. Fixes bug 24502; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
9292 - Avoid a possible integer overflow when computing the available
9293 space on the TCP buffer of a channel. This had no security
9294 implications; but could make KIST allow too many cells on a
9295 saturated connection. Fixes bug 24590; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9296 - Downgrade to "info" a harmless warning about the monotonic time
9297 moving backwards: This can happen on platform not supporting
9298 monotonic time. Fixes bug 23696; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9301 Changes in version 0.3.2.6-alpha - 2017-12-01
9302 This version of Tor is the latest in the 0.3.2 alpha series. It
9303 includes fixes for several important security issues. All Tor users
9304 should upgrade to this release, or to one of the other releases coming
9307 o Major bugfixes (security):
9308 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
9309 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
9310 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
9311 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
9312 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
9313 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
9314 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
9315 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
9316 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
9317 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
9319 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
9320 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
9321 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
9322 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
9323 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
9324 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
9325 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
9328 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2):
9329 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
9330 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
9331 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
9332 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
9334 o Major bugfixes (security, relay):
9335 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
9336 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
9337 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
9338 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
9339 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
9340 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
9341 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
9342 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
9344 o Minor feature (relay statistics):
9345 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
9346 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
9347 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
9349 o Minor features (directory authority):
9350 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
9353 o Minor bugfixes (client):
9354 - By default, do not enable storage of client-side DNS values. These
9355 values were unused by default previously, but they should not have
9356 been cached at all. Fixes bug 24050; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
9359 Changes in version 0.3.1.9 - 2017-12-01:
9360 Tor 0.3.1.9 backports important security and stability fixes from the
9361 0.3.2 development series. All Tor users should upgrade to this
9362 release, or to another of the releases coming out today.
9364 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
9365 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
9366 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
9367 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
9368 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
9369 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
9370 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
9371 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
9372 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
9373 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
9374 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
9376 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
9377 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
9378 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
9379 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
9380 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
9381 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
9382 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
9385 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
9386 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
9387 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
9388 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
9389 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
9391 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
9392 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
9393 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
9394 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
9395 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
9396 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
9397 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
9398 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
9399 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
9401 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
9402 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
9403 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
9404 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
9405 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
9406 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
9409 o Minor features (bridge):
9410 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
9411 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
9412 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
9413 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
9416 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
9417 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
9420 o Minor features (geoip):
9421 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
9424 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
9425 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
9426 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
9427 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
9428 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
9430 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
9431 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
9432 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
9434 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
9435 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
9436 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
9437 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
9438 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
9439 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
9441 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
9442 - Rename the consensus parameter "hsdir-interval" to "hsdir_interval"
9443 so it matches dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 24262; bugfix
9446 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
9447 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
9448 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
9449 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
9450 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
9453 Changes in version 0.3.0.13 - 2017-12-01
9454 Tor 0.3.0.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
9455 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
9456 to another of the releases coming out today.
9458 Note: the Tor 0.3.0 series will no longer be supported after 26 Jan
9459 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
9460 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
9462 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
9463 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
9464 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
9465 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
9466 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
9467 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
9468 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
9469 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
9470 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
9471 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
9472 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
9474 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
9475 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
9476 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
9477 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
9478 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
9479 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
9480 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
9483 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
9484 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
9485 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
9486 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
9487 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
9489 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
9490 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
9491 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
9492 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
9493 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
9494 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
9495 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
9496 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
9497 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
9499 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
9500 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
9501 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
9502 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
9503 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
9504 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
9507 o Minor features (security, windows, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
9508 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
9509 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
9510 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
9511 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
9512 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
9514 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
9515 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
9516 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
9517 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
9518 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
9521 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
9522 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
9525 o Minor features (geoip):
9526 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
9529 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
9530 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
9531 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
9532 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
9533 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
9535 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
9536 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
9537 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
9539 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
9540 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
9541 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
9542 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
9543 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
9544 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
9546 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
9547 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
9548 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
9549 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
9550 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
9552 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
9553 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
9554 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
9557 Changes in version 0.2.9.14 - 2017-12-01
9558 Tor 0.3.0.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
9559 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
9560 to another of the releases coming out today.
9562 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
9563 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
9564 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
9565 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
9566 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
9567 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
9570 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
9571 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
9572 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
9573 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
9574 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
9575 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
9576 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
9577 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
9578 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
9579 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
9580 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
9582 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
9583 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
9584 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
9585 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
9586 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
9587 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
9588 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
9591 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
9592 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
9593 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
9594 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
9595 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
9597 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
9598 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
9599 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
9600 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
9601 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
9602 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
9604 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
9605 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
9606 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
9607 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
9608 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
9611 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
9612 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
9615 o Minor features (geoip):
9616 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
9619 o Minor features (security, windows, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
9620 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
9621 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
9622 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
9623 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
9624 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
9626 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
9627 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
9628 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
9629 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
9630 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
9632 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
9633 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
9634 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
9636 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
9637 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
9638 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
9639 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
9640 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
9641 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
9643 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
9644 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
9645 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
9646 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
9647 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
9649 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
9650 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
9651 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
9654 Changes in version 0.2.8.17 - 2017-12-01
9655 Tor 0.2.8.17 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
9656 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
9657 to another of the releases coming out today.
9659 Note: the Tor 0.2.8 series will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
9660 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade with
9661 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
9663 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
9664 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
9665 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
9666 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
9667 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
9668 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
9669 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
9670 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
9671 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
9672 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
9673 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
9674 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
9675 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
9676 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
9677 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
9680 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
9681 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
9682 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
9683 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
9684 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
9686 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
9687 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path through
9688 ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the version of
9689 our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part of bug 21534;
9690 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012
9693 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
9694 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
9695 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
9696 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
9697 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
9700 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
9701 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
9704 o Minor features (geoip):
9705 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
9708 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
9709 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
9710 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
9713 Changes in version 0.2.5.16 - 2017-12-01
9714 Tor 0.2.5.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
9715 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
9716 to another of the releases coming out today.
9718 Note: the Tor 0.2.5 series will no longer be supported after 1 May
9719 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade to
9720 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
9722 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
9723 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
9724 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
9725 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
9726 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
9727 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
9728 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
9729 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
9730 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
9731 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
9732 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
9733 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
9734 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
9735 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
9736 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
9739 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
9740 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
9741 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
9742 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
9743 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
9744 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
9746 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
9747 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
9748 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
9749 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
9750 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
9753 o Minor features (geoip):
9754 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
9758 Changes in version 0.3.2.5-alpha - 2017-11-22
9759 Tor 0.3.2.5-alpha is the fifth alpha release in the 0.3.2.x series. It
9760 fixes several stability and reliability bugs, including a fix for
9761 intermittent bootstrapping failures that some people have been seeing
9762 since the 0.3.0.x series.
9764 Please test this alpha out -- many of these fixes will soon be
9765 backported to stable Tor versions if no additional bugs are found
9768 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping):
9769 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
9770 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
9771 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
9772 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
9773 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
9774 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
9775 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
9776 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
9777 - Don't try fetching microdescriptors from relays that have failed
9778 to deliver them in the past. Fixes bug 23817; bugfix
9781 o Minor features (directory authority):
9782 - Make the "Exit" flag assignment only depend on whether the exit
9783 policy allows connections to ports 80 and 443. Previously relays
9784 would get the Exit flag if they allowed connections to one of
9785 these ports and also port 6667. Resolves ticket 23637.
9787 o Minor features (geoip):
9788 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
9791 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
9792 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
9793 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
9795 o Minor features (logging):
9796 - Downgrade a pair of log messages that could occur when an exit's
9797 resolver gave us an unusual (but not forbidden) response. Closes
9799 - Improve the message we log when re-enabling circuit build timeouts
9800 after having received a consensus. Closes ticket 20963.
9802 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
9803 - Fix a memory leak warning in one of the libevent-related
9804 configuration tests that could occur when manually specifying
9805 -fsanitize=address. Fixes bug 24279; bugfix on 0.3.0.2-alpha.
9806 Found and patched by Alex Xu.
9807 - When detecting OpenSSL on Windows from our configure script, make
9808 sure to try linking with the ws2_32 library. Fixes bug 23783;
9809 bugfix on 0.3.2.2-alpha.
9811 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
9812 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
9813 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
9816 o Minor bugfixes (control port, onion services):
9817 - Report "FAILED" instead of "UPLOAD_FAILED" "FAILED" for the
9818 HS_DESC event when a service is not able to upload a descriptor.
9819 Fixes bug 24230; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
9821 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache):
9822 - Recover better from empty or corrupt files in the consensus cache
9823 directory. Fixes bug 24099; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9824 - When a consensus diff calculation is only partially successful,
9825 only record the successful parts as having succeeded. Partial
9826 success can happen if (for example) one compression method fails
9827 but the others succeed. Previously we misrecorded all the
9828 calculations as having succeeded, which would later cause a
9829 nonfatal assertion failure. Fixes bug 24086; bugfix
9832 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
9833 - Only log once if we notice that KIST support is gone. Fixes bug
9834 24158; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9835 - Suppress a log notice when relay descriptors arrive. We already
9836 have a bootstrap progress for this so no need to log notice
9837 everytime tor receives relay descriptors. Microdescriptors behave
9838 the same. Fixes bug 23861; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
9840 o Minor bugfixes (network layer):
9841 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
9842 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
9843 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
9844 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
9845 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
9847 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
9848 - The introduction circuit was being timed out too quickly while
9849 waiting for the rendezvous circuit to complete. Keep the intro
9850 circuit around longer instead of timing out and reopening new ones
9851 constantly. Fixes bug 23681; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
9852 - Rename the consensus parameter "hsdir-interval" to "hsdir_interval"
9853 so it matches dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 24262; bugfix
9855 - Silence a warning about failed v3 onion descriptor uploads that
9856 can happen naturally under certain edge cases. Fixes part of bug
9857 23662; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9859 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
9860 - Fix a memory leak in one of the bridge-distribution test cases.
9861 Fixes bug 24345; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
9862 - Fix a bug in our fuzzing mock replacement for crypto_pk_checksig(),
9863 to correctly handle cases where a caller gives it an RSA key of
9864 under 160 bits. (This is not actually a bug in Tor itself, but
9865 rather in our fuzzing code.) Fixes bug 24247; bugfix on
9866 0.3.0.3-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz as issue 4177.
9869 - Add notes in man page regarding OS support for the various
9870 scheduler types. Attempt to use less jargon in the scheduler
9871 section. Closes ticket 24254.
9874 Changes in version 0.3.2.4-alpha - 2017-11-08
9875 Tor 0.3.2.4-alpha is the fourth alpha release in the 0.3.2.x series.
9876 It fixes several stability and reliability bugs, especially including
9877 a major reliability issue that has been plaguing fast exit relays in
9880 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS):
9881 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
9882 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
9883 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
9884 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
9885 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
9888 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, channel):
9889 - Stop processing scheduled channels if they closed while flushing
9890 cells. This can happen if the write on the connection fails
9891 leading to the channel being closed while in the scheduler loop.
9892 Fixes bug 23751; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9894 o Minor features (logging, scheduler):
9895 - Introduce a SCHED_BUG() function to log extra information about
9896 the scheduler state if we ever catch a bug in the scheduler.
9897 Closes ticket 23753.
9899 o Minor features (removed deprecations):
9900 - The ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses flag can once again be set in
9901 non-testing Tor networks, so long as they do not use the default
9902 directory authorities. This change also removes the deprecation of
9903 this flag from 0.2.9.2-alpha. Closes ticket 21031.
9905 o Minor features (testing):
9906 - Our fuzzing tests now test the encrypted portions of v3 onion
9907 service descriptors. Implements more of 21509.
9909 o Minor bugfixes (directory client):
9910 - On failure to download directory information, delay retry attempts
9911 by a random amount based on the "decorrelated jitter" algorithm.
9912 Our previous delay algorithm tended to produce extra-long delays
9913 too easily. Fixes bug 23816; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
9915 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, v3 single onion services):
9916 - Remove buggy code for IPv6-only v3 single onion services, and
9917 reject attempts to configure them. This release supports IPv4,
9918 dual-stack, and IPv6-only v3 onion services; and IPv4 and dual-
9919 stack v3 single onion services. Fixes bug 23820; bugfix
9922 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
9923 - Give only a protocol warning when the ed25519 key is not
9924 consistent between the descriptor and microdescriptor of a relay.
9925 This can happen, for instance, if the relay has been flagged
9926 NoEdConsensus. Fixes bug 24025; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9928 o Minor bugfixes (manpage, onion service):
9929 - Document that the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option is
9930 0-10 for v2 services and 0-20 for v3 services. Fixes bug 24115;
9931 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9933 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
9934 - Fix a minor memory leak at exit in the KIST scheduler. This bug
9935 should have no user-visible impact. Fixes bug 23774; bugfix
9937 - Fix a memory leak when decrypting a badly formatted v3 onion
9938 service descriptor. Fixes bug 24150; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9939 Found by OSS-Fuzz; this is OSS-Fuzz issue 3994.
9941 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
9942 - Cache some needed onion service client information instead of
9943 constantly computing it over and over again. Fixes bug 23623;
9944 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9945 - Properly retry HSv3 descriptor fetches when missing required
9946 directory information. Fixes bug 23762; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9948 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
9949 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
9950 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
9951 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
9952 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
9953 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
9954 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
9955 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
9956 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
9957 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
9958 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
9959 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
9961 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash):
9962 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
9963 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
9964 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
9965 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
9967 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
9968 - Fix a spurious fuzzing-only use of an uninitialized value. Found
9969 by Brian Carpenter. Fixes bug 24082; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
9970 - Test that IPv6-only clients can use microdescriptors when running
9971 "make test-network-all". Requires chutney master 61c28b9 or later.
9972 Closes ticket 24109.
9975 Changes in version 0.3.2.3-alpha - 2017-10-27
9976 Tor 0.3.2.3-alpha is the third release in the 0.3.2 series. It fixes
9977 numerous small bugs in earlier versions of 0.3.2.x, and adds a new
9978 directory authority, Bastet.
9980 o Directory authority changes:
9981 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
9982 Closes ticket 23910.
9983 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
9984 Closes ticket 23592.
9986 o Minor features (bridge):
9987 - Bridge relays can now set the BridgeDistribution config option to
9988 add a "bridge-distribution-request" line to their bridge
9989 descriptor, which tells BridgeDB how they'd like their bridge
9990 address to be given out. (Note that as of Oct 2017, BridgeDB does
9991 not yet implement this feature.) As a side benefit, this feature
9992 provides a way to distinguish bridge descriptors from non-bridge
9993 descriptors. Implements tickets 18329.
9995 o Minor features (client, entry guards):
9996 - Improve log messages when missing descriptors for primary guards.
9997 Resolves ticket 23670.
9999 o Minor features (geoip):
10000 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
10003 o Minor bugfixes (bridge):
10004 - Overwrite the bridge address earlier in the process of retrieving
10005 its descriptor, to make sure we reach it on the configured
10006 address. Fixes bug 20532; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
10008 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
10009 - Document better how to read gcov, and what our gcov postprocessing
10010 scripts do. Fixes bug 23739; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
10012 o Minor bugfixes (entry guards):
10013 - Tor now updates its guard state when it reads a consensus
10014 regardless of whether it's missing descriptors. That makes tor use
10015 its primary guards to fetch descriptors in some edge cases where
10016 it would previously have used fallback directories. Fixes bug
10017 23862; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
10019 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service client):
10020 - When handling multiple SOCKS request for the same .onion address,
10021 only fetch the service descriptor once.
10022 - When a descriptor fetch fails with a non-recoverable error, close
10023 all pending SOCKS requests for that .onion. Fixes bug 23653;
10024 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10026 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
10027 - Always regenerate missing hidden service public key files. Prior
10028 to this, if the public key was deleted from disk, it wouldn't get
10029 recreated. Fixes bug 23748; bugfix on 0.3.2.2-alpha. Patch
10031 - Make sure that we have a usable ed25519 key when the intro point
10032 relay supports ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 24002;
10033 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10035 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, v2):
10036 - When reloading configured hidden services, copy all information
10037 from the old service object. Previously, some data was omitted,
10038 causing delays in descriptor upload, and other bugs. Fixes bug
10039 23790; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
10041 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, defensive programming):
10042 - Clear the target address when node_get_prim_orport() returns
10043 early. Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
10045 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
10046 - Avoid a BUG warning when receiving a dubious CREATE cell while an
10047 option transition is in progress. Fixes bug 23952; bugfix
10050 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
10051 - Adjust the GitLab CI configuration to more closely match that of
10052 Travis CI. Fixes bug 23757; bugfix on 0.3.2.2-alpha.
10053 - Prevent scripts/test/coverage from attempting to move gcov output
10054 to the root directory. Fixes bug 23741; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10055 - When running unit tests as root, skip a test that would fail
10056 because it expects a permissions error. This affects some
10057 continuous integration setups. Fixes bug 23758; bugfix
10059 - Stop unconditionally mirroring the tor repository in GitLab CI.
10060 This prevented developers from enabling GitLab CI on master. Fixes
10061 bug 23755; bugfix on 0.3.2.2-alpha.
10062 - Fix the hidden service v3 descriptor decoding fuzzing to use the
10063 latest decoding API correctly. Fixes bug 21509; bugfix
10066 o Minor bugfixes (warnings):
10067 - When we get an HTTP request on a SOCKS port, tell the user about
10068 the new HTTPTunnelPort option. Previously, we would give a "Tor is
10069 not an HTTP Proxy" message, which stopped being true when
10070 HTTPTunnelPort was introduced. Fixes bug 23678; bugfix
10074 Changes in version 0.2.5.15 - 2017-10-25
10075 Tor 0.2.5.15 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
10076 series. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
10078 Note: the Tor 0.2.5 series will no longer be supported after 1 May
10079 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade to
10080 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
10082 o Directory authority changes:
10083 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
10084 Closes ticket 23910.
10085 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
10086 Closes ticket 23592.
10088 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
10089 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
10090 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
10091 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
10092 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
10094 o Minor features (geoip):
10095 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
10098 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
10099 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
10100 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
10101 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
10102 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
10103 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
10104 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
10105 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
10106 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
10108 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
10109 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
10110 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
10111 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
10112 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
10113 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
10114 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
10115 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
10116 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
10119 Changes in version 0.2.8.16 - 2017-10-25
10120 Tor 0.2.8.16 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
10121 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
10122 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
10124 Note: the Tor 0.2.8 series will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
10125 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
10126 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
10128 o Directory authority changes:
10129 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
10130 Closes ticket 23910.
10131 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
10132 Closes ticket 23592.
10134 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
10135 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
10136 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
10137 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
10139 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
10140 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
10141 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
10142 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
10143 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
10145 o Minor features (geoip):
10146 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
10150 Changes in version 0.2.9.13 - 2017-10-25
10151 Tor 0.2.9.13 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
10152 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
10153 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
10155 o Directory authority changes:
10156 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
10157 Closes ticket 23910.
10158 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
10159 Closes ticket 23592.
10161 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
10162 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
10163 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
10164 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
10166 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
10167 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
10168 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
10169 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
10170 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
10172 o Minor features (geoip):
10173 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
10176 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
10177 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
10178 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
10179 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
10180 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
10181 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
10182 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
10183 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
10186 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
10187 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
10188 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
10190 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
10191 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
10192 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
10193 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
10194 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
10195 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
10196 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
10199 Changes in version 0.3.0.12 - 2017-10-25
10200 Tor 0.3.0.12 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
10201 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
10202 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
10204 Note: the Tor 0.3.0 series will no longer be supported after 26 Jan
10205 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
10206 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
10208 o Directory authority changes:
10209 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
10210 Closes ticket 23910.
10211 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
10212 Closes ticket 23592.
10214 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
10215 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
10216 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
10217 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
10219 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
10220 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
10221 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
10222 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
10223 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
10225 o Minor features (geoip):
10226 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
10229 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
10230 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
10231 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
10232 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
10233 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
10234 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
10235 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
10236 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
10239 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
10240 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
10241 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
10242 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
10244 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
10245 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
10246 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
10248 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
10249 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
10250 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
10251 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
10252 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
10253 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
10254 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
10257 Changes in version 0.3.1.8 - 2017-10-25
10258 Tor 0.3.1.8 is the second stable release in the 0.3.1 series.
10259 It includes several bugfixes, including a bugfix for a crash issue
10260 that had affected relays under memory pressure. It also adds
10261 a new directory authority, Bastet.
10263 o Directory authority changes:
10264 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
10265 Closes ticket 23910.
10266 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
10267 Closes ticket 23592.
10269 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
10270 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
10271 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
10272 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
10274 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
10275 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
10276 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
10277 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
10278 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
10280 o Minor features (geoip):
10281 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
10284 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
10285 - Fix a compilation warning when building with zstd support on
10286 32-bit platforms. Fixes bug 23568; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
10287 and fixed by Andreas Stieger.
10289 o Minor bugfixes (compression, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
10290 - Handle a pathological case when decompressing Zstandard data when
10291 the output buffer size is zero. Fixes bug 23551; bugfix
10294 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
10295 - Remove the length limit on HTTP status lines that authorities can
10296 send in their replies. Fixes bug 23499; bugfix on 0.3.1.6-rc.
10298 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
10299 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
10300 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
10301 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
10303 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
10304 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
10305 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
10307 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
10308 - Fix additional channelpadding unit test failures by using mocked
10309 time instead of actual time for all tests. Fixes bug 23608; bugfix
10313 Changes in version 0.3.2.2-alpha - 2017-09-29
10314 Tor 0.3.2.2-alpha is the second release in the 0.3.2 series. This
10315 release fixes several minor bugs in the new scheduler and next-
10316 generation onion services; both features were newly added in the 0.3.2
10317 series. Other fixes in this alpha include several fixes for non-fatal
10318 tracebacks which would appear in logs.
10320 With the aim to stabilise the 0.3.2 series by 15 December 2017, this
10321 alpha does not contain any substantial new features. Minor features
10322 include better testing and logging.
10324 The following comprises the complete list of changes included
10327 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure):
10328 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
10329 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
10330 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
10332 o Major bugfixes (scheduler):
10333 - If a channel is put into the scheduler's pending list, then it
10334 starts closing, and then if the scheduler runs before it finishes
10335 closing, the scheduler will get stuck trying to flush its cells
10336 while the lower layers refuse to cooperate. Fix that race
10337 condition by giving the scheduler an escape method. Fixes bug
10338 23676; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10340 o Minor features (build, compilation):
10341 - The "check-changes" feature is now part of the "make check" tests;
10342 we'll use it to try to prevent misformed changes files from
10343 accumulating. Closes ticket 23564.
10344 - Tor builds should now fail if there are any mismatches between the
10345 C type representing a configuration variable and the C type the
10346 data-driven parser uses to store a value there. Previously, we
10347 needed to check these by hand, which sometimes led to mistakes.
10348 Closes ticket 23643.
10350 o Minor features (directory authorities):
10351 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
10352 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
10353 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
10354 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
10356 o Minor features (hidden service, circuit, logging):
10357 - Improve logging of many callsite in the circuit subsystem to print
10358 the circuit identifier(s).
10359 - Log when we cleanup an intro point from a service so we know when
10360 and for what reason it happened. Closes ticket 23604.
10362 o Minor features (logging):
10363 - Log more circuit information whenever we are about to try to
10364 package a relay cell on a circuit with a nonexistent n_chan.
10365 Attempt to diagnose ticket 8185.
10366 - Improve info-level log identification of particular circuits, to
10367 help with debugging. Closes ticket 23645.
10369 o Minor features (relay):
10370 - When choosing which circuits can be expired as unused, consider
10371 circuits from clients even if those clients used regular CREATE
10372 cells to make them; and do not consider circuits from relays even
10373 if they were made with CREATE_FAST. Part of ticket 22805.
10375 o Minor features (robustness):
10376 - Change several fatal assertions when flushing buffers into non-
10377 fatal assertions, to prevent any recurrence of 23690.
10379 o Minor features (spec conformance, bridge, diagnostic):
10380 - When handling the USERADDR command on an ExtOrPort, warn when the
10381 transports provides a USERADDR with no port. In a future version,
10382 USERADDR commands of this format may be rejected. Detects problems
10383 related to ticket 23080.
10385 o Minor features (testing):
10386 - Add a unit test to make sure that our own generated platform
10387 string will be accepted by directory authorities. Closes
10390 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrapping):
10391 - When warning about state file clock skew, report the correct
10392 direction for the detected skew. Fixes bug 23606; bugfix
10394 - Avoid an assertion failure when logging a state file clock skew
10395 very early in bootstrapping. Fixes bug 23607; bugfix
10398 o Minor bugfixes (build, compilation):
10399 - Fix a compilation warning when building with zstd support on
10400 32-bit platforms. Fixes bug 23568; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
10401 and fixed by Andreas Stieger.
10402 - When searching for OpenSSL, don't accept any OpenSSL library that
10403 lacks TLSv1_1_method(): Tor doesn't build with those versions.
10404 Additionally, look in /usr/local/opt/openssl, if it's present.
10405 These changes together repair the default build on OSX systems
10406 with Homebrew installed. Fixes bug 23602; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
10408 o Minor bugfixes (compression):
10409 - Handle a pathological case when decompressing Zstandard data when
10410 the output buffer size is zero. Fixes bug 23551; bugfix
10413 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
10414 - Fix manpage to not refer to the obsolete (and misspelled)
10415 UseEntryGuardsAsDirectoryGuards parameter in the description of
10416 NumDirectoryGuards. Fixes bug 23611; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
10418 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service v3):
10419 - Don't log an assertion failure when we can't find the right
10420 information to extend to an introduction point. In rare cases,
10421 this could happen, causing a warning, even though tor would
10422 recover gracefully. Fixes bug 23159; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10423 - Pad RENDEZVOUS cell up to the size of the legacy cell which is
10424 much bigger so the rendezvous point can't distinguish which hidden
10425 service protocol is being used. Fixes bug 23420; bugfix
10428 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay):
10429 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
10430 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
10431 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
10433 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance):
10434 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
10435 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
10436 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
10437 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
10438 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
10440 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler):
10441 - When switching schedulers due to a consensus change, we didn't
10442 give the new scheduler a chance to react to the consensus. Fix
10443 that. Fixes bug 23537; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10444 - Make the KISTSchedRunInterval option a non negative value. With
10445 this, the way to disable KIST through the consensus is to set it
10446 to 0. Fixes bug 23539; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10447 - Only notice log the selected scheduler when we switch scheduler
10448 types. Fixes bug 23552; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10449 - Avoid a compilation warning on macOS in scheduler_ev_add() caused
10450 by a different tv_usec data type. Fixes bug 23575; bugfix
10452 - Make a hard exit if tor is unable to pick a scheduler which can
10453 happen if the user specifies a scheduler type that is not
10454 supported and not other types in Schedulers. Fixes bug 23581;
10455 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10456 - Properly initialize the scheduler last run time counter so it is
10457 not 0 at the first tick. Fixes bug 23696; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10459 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
10460 - Capture and detect several "Result does not fit" warnings in unit
10461 tests on platforms with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 21800; bugfix
10463 - Fix additional channelpadding unit test failures by using mocked
10464 time instead of actual time for all tests. Fixes bug 23608; bugfix
10466 - The removal of some old scheduler options caused some tests to
10467 fail on BSD systems. Assume current behavior is correct and make
10468 the tests pass again. Fixes bug 23566; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10470 o Code simplification and refactoring:
10471 - Remove various ways of testing circuits and connections for
10472 "clientness"; instead, favor channel_is_client(). Part of
10475 o Deprecated features:
10476 - The ReachableDirAddresses and ClientPreferIPv6DirPort options are
10477 now deprecated; they do not apply to relays, and they have had no
10478 effect on clients since 0.2.8.x. Closes ticket 19704.
10481 - HiddenServiceVersion man page entry wasn't mentioning the now
10482 supported version 3. Fixes ticket 23580; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10483 - Clarify that the Address option is entirely about setting an
10484 advertised IPv4 address. Closes ticket 18891.
10485 - Clarify the manpage's use of the term "address" to clarify what
10486 kind of address is intended. Closes ticket 21405.
10487 - Document that onion service subdomains are allowed, and ignored.
10488 Closes ticket 18736.
10491 Changes in version 0.3.2.1-alpha - 2017-09-18
10492 Tor 0.3.2.1-alpha is the first release in the 0.3.2.x series. It
10493 includes support for our next-generation ("v3") onion service
10494 protocol, and adds a new circuit scheduler for more responsive
10495 forwarding decisions from relays. There are also numerous other small
10496 features and bugfixes here.
10498 Below are the changes since Tor 0.3.1.7.
10500 o Major feature (scheduler, channel):
10501 - Tor now uses new schedulers to decide which circuits should
10502 deliver cells first, in order to improve congestion at relays. The
10503 first type is called "KIST" ("Kernel Informed Socket Transport"),
10504 and is only available on Linux-like systems: it uses feedback from
10505 the kernel to prevent the kernel's TCP buffers from growing too
10506 full. The second new scheduler type is called "KISTLite": it
10507 behaves the same as KIST, but runs on systems without kernel
10508 support for inspecting TCP implementation details. The old
10509 scheduler is still available, under the name "Vanilla". To change
10510 the default scheduler preference order, use the new "Schedulers"
10511 option. (The default preference order is "KIST,KISTLite,Vanilla".)
10513 Matt Traudt implemented KIST, based on research by Rob Jansen,
10514 John Geddes, Christ Wacek, Micah Sherr, and Paul Syverson. For
10515 more information, see the design paper at
10516 http://www.robgjansen.com/publications/kist-sec2014.pdf and the
10517 followup implementation paper at https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.01044.
10518 Closes ticket 12541.
10520 o Major features (next-generation onion services):
10521 - Tor now supports the next-generation onion services protocol for
10522 clients and services! As part of this release, the core of
10523 proposal 224 has been implemented and is available for
10524 experimentation and testing by our users. This newer version of
10525 onion services ("v3") features many improvements over the legacy
10528 a) Better crypto (replaced SHA1/DH/RSA1024
10529 with SHA3/ed25519/curve25519)
10531 b) Improved directory protocol, leaking much less information to
10534 c) Improved directory protocol, with smaller surface for
10537 d) Better onion address security against impersonation.
10539 e) More extensible introduction/rendezvous protocol.
10541 f) A cleaner and more modular codebase.
10543 You can identify a next-generation onion address by its length:
10544 they are 56 characters long, as in
10545 "4acth47i6kxnvkewtm6q7ib2s3ufpo5sqbsnzjpbi7utijcltosqemad.onion".
10547 In the future, we will release more options and features for v3
10548 onion services, but we first need a testing period, so that the
10549 current codebase matures and becomes more robust. Planned features
10550 include: offline keys, advanced client authorization, improved
10551 guard algorithms, and statistics. For full details, see
10554 Legacy ("v2") onion services will still work for the foreseeable
10555 future, and will remain the default until this new codebase gets
10556 tested and hardened. Service operators who want to experiment with
10557 the new system can use the 'HiddenServiceVersion 3' torrc
10558 directive along with the regular onion service configuration
10559 options. We will publish a blog post about this new feature
10562 o Major bugfixes (usability, control port):
10563 - Report trusted clock skew indications as bootstrap errors, so
10564 controllers can more easily alert users when their clocks are
10565 wrong. Fixes bug 23506; bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha.
10567 o Minor features (bug detection):
10568 - Log a warning message with a stack trace for any attempt to call
10569 get_options() during option validation. This pattern has caused
10570 subtle bugs in the past. Closes ticket 22281.
10572 o Minor features (client):
10573 - You can now use Tor as a tunneled HTTP proxy: use the new
10574 HTTPTunnelPort option to open a port that accepts HTTP CONNECT
10575 requests. Closes ticket 22407.
10576 - Add an extra check to make sure that we always use the newer guard
10577 selection code for picking our guards. Closes ticket 22779.
10578 - When downloading (micro)descriptors, don't split the list into
10579 multiple requests unless we want at least 32 descriptors.
10580 Previously, we split at 4, not 32, which led to significant
10581 overhead in HTTP request size and degradation in compression
10582 performance. Closes ticket 23220.
10584 o Minor features (command line):
10585 - Add a new commandline option, --key-expiration, which prints when
10586 the current signing key is going to expire. Implements ticket
10587 17639; patch by Isis Lovecruft.
10589 o Minor features (control port):
10590 - If an application tries to use the control port as an HTTP proxy,
10591 respond with a meaningful "This is the Tor control port" message,
10592 and log the event. Closes ticket 1667. Patch from Ravi
10594 - Provide better error message for GETINFO desc/(id|name) when not
10595 fetching router descriptors. Closes ticket 5847. Patch by
10597 - Add GETINFO "{desc,md}/download-enabled", to inform the controller
10598 whether Tor will try to download router descriptors and
10599 microdescriptors respectively. Closes ticket 22684.
10600 - Added new GETINFO targets "ip-to-country/{ipv4,ipv6}-available",
10601 so controllers can tell whether the geoip databases are loaded.
10602 Closes ticket 23237.
10603 - Adds a timestamp field to the CIRC_BW and STREAM_BW bandwidth
10604 events. Closes ticket 19254. Patch by "DonnchaC".
10606 o Minor features (development support):
10607 - Developers can now generate a call-graph for Tor using the
10608 "calltool" python program, which post-processes object dumps. It
10609 should work okay on many Linux and OSX platforms, and might work
10610 elsewhere too. To run it, install calltool from
10611 https://gitweb.torproject.org/user/nickm/calltool.git and run
10612 "make callgraph". Closes ticket 19307.
10614 o Minor features (ed25519):
10615 - Add validation function to checks for torsion components in
10616 ed25519 public keys, used by prop224 client-side code. Closes
10617 ticket 22006. Math help by Ian Goldberg.
10619 o Minor features (exit relay, DNS):
10620 - Improve the clarity and safety of the log message from evdns when
10621 receiving an apparently spoofed DNS reply. Closes ticket 3056.
10623 o Minor features (integration, hardening):
10624 - Add a new NoExec option to prevent Tor from running other
10625 programs. When this option is set to 1, Tor will never try to run
10626 another program, regardless of the settings of
10627 PortForwardingHelper, ClientTransportPlugin, or
10628 ServerTransportPlugin. Once NoExec is set, it cannot be disabled
10629 without restarting Tor. Closes ticket 22976.
10631 o Minor features (logging):
10632 - Improve the warning message for specifying a relay by nickname.
10633 The previous message implied that nickname registration was still
10634 part of the Tor network design, which it isn't. Closes
10636 - If the sandbox filter fails to load, suggest to the user that
10637 their kernel might not support seccomp2. Closes ticket 23090.
10639 o Minor features (portability):
10640 - Check at configure time whether uint8_t is the same type as
10641 unsigned char. Lots of existing code already makes this
10642 assumption, and there could be strict aliasing issues if the
10643 assumption is violated. Closes ticket 22410.
10645 o Minor features (relay, configuration):
10646 - Reject attempts to use relative file paths when RunAsDaemon is
10647 set. Previously, Tor would accept these, but the directory-
10648 changing step of RunAsDaemon would give strange and/or confusing
10649 results. Closes ticket 22731.
10651 o Minor features (startup, safety):
10652 - When configured to write a PID file, Tor now exits if it is unable
10653 to do so. Previously, it would warn and continue. Closes
10656 o Minor features (static analysis):
10657 - The BUG() macro has been changed slightly so that Coverity no
10658 longer complains about dead code if the bug is impossible. Closes
10661 o Minor features (testing):
10662 - The default chutney network tests now include tests for the v3
10663 hidden service design. Make sure you have the latest version of
10664 chutney if you want to run these. Closes ticket 22437.
10665 - Add a unit test to verify that we can parse a hardcoded v2 hidden
10666 service descriptor. Closes ticket 15554.
10668 o Minor bugfixes (certificate handling):
10669 - Fix a time handling bug in Tor certificates set to expire after
10670 the year 2106. Fixes bug 23055; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Found by
10671 Coverity as CID 1415728.
10673 o Minor bugfixes (client, usability):
10674 - Refrain from needlessly rejecting SOCKS5-with-hostnames and
10675 SOCKS4a requests that contain IP address strings, even when
10676 SafeSocks in enabled, as this prevents user from connecting to
10677 known IP addresses without relying on DNS for resolving. SafeSocks
10678 still rejects SOCKS connections that connect to IP addresses when
10679 those addresses are _not_ encoded as hostnames. Fixes bug 22461;
10680 bugfix on Tor 0.2.6.2-alpha.
10682 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
10683 - Call htons() in extend_cell_format() for encoding a 16-bit value.
10684 Previously we used ntohs(), which happens to behave the same on
10685 all the platforms we support, but which isn't really correct.
10686 Fixes bug 23106; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
10687 - For defense-in-depth, make the controller's write_escaped_data()
10688 function robust to extremely long inputs. Fixes bug 19281; bugfix
10689 on 0.1.1.1-alpha. Reported by Guido Vranken.
10691 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
10692 - Fix unused-variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
10693 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
10695 o Minor bugfixes (consensus expiry):
10696 - Check for adequate directory information correctly. Previously, Tor
10697 would reconsider whether it had sufficient directory information
10698 every 2 minutes. Fixes bug 23091; bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha.
10700 o Minor bugfixes (directory protocol):
10701 - Directory servers now include a "Date:" http header for response
10702 codes other than 200. Clients starting with a skewed clock and a
10703 recent consensus were getting "304 Not modified" responses from
10704 directory authorities, so without the Date header, the client
10705 would never hear about a wrong clock. Fixes bug 23499; bugfix
10707 - Make clients wait for 6 seconds before trying to download a
10708 consensus from an authority. Fixes bug 17750; bugfix
10711 o Minor bugfixes (DoS-resistance):
10712 - If future code asks if there are any running bridges, without
10713 checking if bridges are enabled, log a BUG warning rather than
10714 crashing. Fixes bug 23524; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
10716 o Minor bugfixes (format strictness):
10717 - Restrict several data formats to decimal. Previously, the
10718 BuildTimeHistogram entries in the state file, the "bw=" entries in
10719 the bandwidth authority file, and the process IDs passed to the
10720 __OwningControllerProcess option could all be specified in hex or
10721 octal as well as in decimal. This was not an intentional feature.
10722 Fixes bug 22802; bugfixes on 0.2.2.1-alpha, 0.2.2.2-alpha,
10725 o Minor bugfixes (heartbeat):
10726 - If we fail to write a heartbeat message, schedule a retry for the
10727 minimum heartbeat interval number of seconds in the future. Fixes
10728 bug 19476; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
10730 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, logging):
10731 - Fix some messages on unexpected errors from the seccomp2 library.
10732 Fixes bug 22750; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
10734 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
10735 - Remove duplicate log messages regarding opening non-local
10736 SocksPorts upon parsing config and opening listeners at startup.
10737 Fixes bug 4019; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
10738 - Use a more comprehensible log message when telling the user
10739 they've excluded every running exit node. Fixes bug 7890; bugfix
10741 - When logging the number of descriptors we intend to download per
10742 directory request, do not log a number higher than then the number
10743 of descriptors we're fetching in total. Fixes bug 19648; bugfix
10745 - When warning about a directory owned by the wrong user, log the
10746 actual name of the user owning the directory. Previously, we'd log
10747 the name of the process owner twice. Fixes bug 23487; bugfix
10749 - The tor specification says hop counts are 1-based, so fix two log
10750 messages that mistakenly logged 0-based hop counts. Fixes bug
10751 18982; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha and 0.2.4.5-alpha. Patch by teor.
10752 Credit to Xiaofan Li for reporting this issue.
10754 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
10755 - Stop using the PATH_MAX variable, which is not defined on GNU
10756 Hurd. Fixes bug 23098; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10758 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
10759 - When uploading our descriptor for the first time after startup,
10760 report the reason for uploading as "Tor just started" rather than
10761 leaving it blank. Fixes bug 22885; bugfix on 0.2.3.4-alpha.
10762 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
10763 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
10764 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
10765 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
10767 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
10768 - Fix a broken unit test for the OutboundAddress option: the parsing
10769 function was never returning an error on failure. Fixes bug 23366;
10770 bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
10771 - Fix a signed-integer overflow in the unit tests for
10772 dir/download_status_random_backoff, which was untriggered until we
10773 fixed bug 17750. Fixes bug 22924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
10775 o Minor bugfixes (usability, control port):
10776 - Stop making an unnecessary routerlist check in NETINFO clock skew
10777 detection; this was preventing clients from reporting NETINFO clock
10778 skew to controllers. Fixes bug 23532; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
10780 o Code simplification and refactoring:
10781 - Extract the code for handling newly-open channels into a separate
10782 function from the general code to handle channel state
10783 transitions. This change simplifies our callgraph, reducing the
10784 size of the largest strongly connected component by roughly a
10785 factor of two. Closes ticket 22608.
10786 - Remove dead code for largely unused statistics on the number of
10787 times we've attempted various public key operations. Fixes bug
10788 19871; bugfix on 0.1.2.4-alpha. Fix by Isis Lovecruft.
10789 - Remove several now-obsolete functions for asking about old
10790 variants directory authority status. Closes ticket 22311; patch
10792 - Remove some of the code that once supported "Named" and "Unnamed"
10793 routers. Authorities no longer vote for these flags. Closes
10795 - Rename the obsolete malleable hybrid_encrypt functions used in TAP
10796 and old hidden services, to indicate that they aren't suitable for
10797 new protocols or formats. Closes ticket 23026.
10798 - Replace our STRUCT_OFFSET() macro with offsetof(). Closes ticket
10799 22521. Patch from Neel Chauhan.
10800 - Split the enormous circuit_send_next_onion_skin() function into
10801 multiple subfunctions. Closes ticket 22804.
10802 - Split the portions of the buffer.c module that handle particular
10803 protocols into separate modules. Part of ticket 23149.
10804 - Use our test macros more consistently, to produce more useful
10805 error messages when our unit tests fail. Add coccinelle patches to
10806 allow us to re-check for test macro uses. Closes ticket 22497.
10808 o Deprecated features:
10809 - Deprecate HTTPProxy/HTTPProxyAuthenticator config options. They
10810 only applies to direct unencrypted HTTP connections to your
10811 directory server, which your Tor probably isn't using. Closes
10815 - Clarify in the manual that "Sandbox 1" is only supported on Linux
10816 kernels. Closes ticket 22677.
10817 - Document all values of PublishServerDescriptor in the manpage.
10818 Closes ticket 15645.
10819 - Improve the documentation for the directory port part of the
10820 DirAuthority line. Closes ticket 20152.
10821 - Restore documentation for the authorities' "approved-routers"
10822 file. Closes ticket 21148.
10824 o Removed features:
10825 - The AllowDotExit option has been removed as unsafe. It has been
10826 deprecated since 0.2.9.2-alpha. Closes ticket 23426.
10827 - The ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses flag can no longer be set on
10828 non-testing networks. It has been deprecated since 0.2.9.2-alpha.
10829 Closes ticket 21031.
10830 - The controller API no longer includes an AUTHDIR_NEWDESCS event:
10831 nobody was using it any longer. Closes ticket 22377.
10834 Changes in version 0.2.8.15 - 2017-09-18
10835 Tor 0.2.8.15 backports a collection of bugfixes from later
10838 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
10839 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
10840 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
10841 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
10843 Note that Tor 0.2.8.x will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
10844 2018. We suggest that you upgrade to the latest stable release if
10845 possible. If you can't, we recommend that you upgrade at least to
10846 0.2.9, which will be supported until 2020.
10848 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
10849 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
10850 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
10851 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
10852 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
10855 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
10858 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
10859 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
10860 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
10863 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
10864 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
10865 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
10866 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
10867 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
10868 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
10869 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
10870 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
10871 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
10873 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
10874 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
10875 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
10876 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
10877 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
10878 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
10879 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
10880 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
10881 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
10884 Changes in version 0.2.9.12 - 2017-09-18
10885 Tor 0.2.9.12 backports a collection of bugfixes from later
10888 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
10889 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
10890 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
10891 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
10893 o Major features (security, backport from 0.3.0.2-alpha):
10894 - Change the algorithm used to decide DNS TTLs on client and server
10895 side, to better resist DNS-based correlation attacks like the
10896 DefecTor attack of Greschbach, Pulls, Roberts, Winter, and
10897 Feamster. Now relays only return one of two possible DNS TTL
10898 values, and clients are willing to believe DNS TTL values up to 3
10899 hours long. Closes ticket 19769.
10901 o Major bugfixes (crash, directory connections, backport from 0.3.0.5-rc):
10902 - Fix a rare crash when sending a begin cell on a circuit whose
10903 linked directory connection had already been closed. Fixes bug
10904 21576; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
10906 o Major bugfixes (DNS, backport from 0.3.0.2-alpha):
10907 - Fix a bug that prevented exit nodes from caching DNS records for
10908 more than 60 seconds. Fixes bug 19025; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
10910 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
10911 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
10912 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
10913 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
10915 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
10916 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
10917 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
10918 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
10919 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
10921 o Minor features (code style, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
10922 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
10923 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
10924 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
10926 o Minor features (geoip):
10927 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
10930 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
10931 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
10932 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
10933 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
10935 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
10936 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug 22915;
10937 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
10938 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt support
10939 on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
10940 - When building with certain versions the mingw C header files, avoid
10941 float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions isfinite(),
10942 isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
10944 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.7):
10945 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for running tor_sscanf()
10946 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
10948 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
10949 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
10950 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
10953 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.1.7):
10954 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
10955 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
10956 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an
10957 empty body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
10959 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
10960 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
10961 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
10962 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
10963 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
10964 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
10966 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
10967 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
10968 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
10969 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
10970 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
10971 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
10972 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
10973 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
10974 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
10976 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
10977 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
10978 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
10979 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
10981 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
10982 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
10983 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10985 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
10986 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
10987 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
10988 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
10989 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
10991 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.0.5-rc):
10992 - Avoid a double-marked-circuit warning that could happen when we
10993 receive DESTROY cells under heavy load. Fixes bug 20059; bugfix
10996 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
10997 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
10998 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
10999 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
11000 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
11002 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
11003 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
11004 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
11005 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
11006 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
11007 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
11008 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
11009 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
11010 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
11013 Changes in version 0.3.0.11 - 2017-09-18
11014 Tor 0.3.0.11 backports a collection of bugfixes from Tor the 0.3.1
11017 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
11018 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
11019 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
11020 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
11022 o Minor features (code style, backport from 0.3.1.7):
11023 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
11024 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
11025 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
11028 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11031 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.7):
11032 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for calling tor_sscanf()
11033 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
11035 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.1.7):
11036 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
11037 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
11038 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an empty
11039 body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
11041 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
11042 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
11043 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
11044 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
11046 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
11047 - Remove a forgotten debugging message when an introduction point
11048 successfully establishes a hidden service prop224 circuit with
11050 - Change three other log_warn() for an introduction point to
11051 protocol warnings, because they can be failure from the network
11052 and are not relevant to the operator. Fixes bug 23078; bugfix on
11053 0.3.0.1-alpha and 0.3.0.2-alpha.
11056 Changes in version 0.3.1.7 - 2017-09-18
11057 Tor 0.3.1.7 is the first stable release in the 0.3.1 series.
11059 With the 0.3.1 series, Tor now serves and downloads directory
11060 information in more compact formats, to save on bandwidth overhead. It
11061 also contains a new padding system to resist netflow-based traffic
11062 analysis, and experimental support for building parts of Tor in Rust
11063 (though no parts of Tor are in Rust yet). There are also numerous
11064 small features, bugfixes on earlier release series, and groundwork for
11065 the hidden services revamp of 0.3.2.
11067 This release also includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a security bug
11068 that affects hidden services running with the SafeLogging option
11069 disabled. For more information, see
11070 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
11072 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support each stable release
11073 series for at least the next nine months, or for three months after
11074 the first stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. If
11075 you need a release with long-term support, we recommend that you stay
11076 with the 0.2.9 series.
11078 Below is a list of the changes since 0.3.1.6-rc. For a list of all
11079 changes since 0.3.0, see the ReleaseNotes file.
11081 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden services, loggging):
11082 - Fix a bug where we could log uninitialized stack when a certain
11083 hidden service error occurred while SafeLogging was disabled.
11084 Fixes bug #23490; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This is also tracked as
11085 TROVE-2017-008 and CVE-2017-0380.
11087 o Minor features (defensive programming):
11088 - Create a pair of consensus parameters, nf_pad_tor2web and
11089 nf_pad_single_onion, to disable netflow padding in the consensus
11090 for non-anonymous connections in case the overhead is high. Closes
11093 o Minor features (diagnostic):
11094 - Add a stack trace to the bug warnings that can be logged when
11095 trying to send an outgoing relay cell with n_chan == 0. Diagnostic
11096 attempt for bug 23105.
11098 o Minor features (geoip):
11099 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11102 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
11103 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for calling tor_sscanf()
11104 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
11106 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
11107 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
11108 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
11109 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an empty
11110 body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
11112 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
11113 - Inform the geoip and rephist modules about all requests, even on
11114 relays that are only fetching microdescriptors. Fixes a bug
11115 related to 21585; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11117 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
11118 - Fix a channelpadding unit test failure on slow systems by using
11119 mocked time instead of actual time. Fixes bug 23077; bugfix
11123 Changes in version 0.3.1.6-rc - 2017-09-05
11124 Tor 0.3.1.6-rc fixes a few small bugs and annoyances in the 0.3.1
11125 release series, including a bug that produced weird behavior on
11126 Windows directory caches.
11128 This is the first release candidate in the Tor 0.3.1 series. If we
11129 find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable 0.3.1 release
11130 will be nearly identical to it.
11132 o Major bugfixes (windows, directory cache):
11133 - On Windows, do not try to delete cached consensus documents and
11134 diffs before they are unmapped from memory--Windows won't allow
11135 that. Instead, allow the consensus cache directory to grow larger,
11136 to hold files that might need to stay around longer. Fixes bug
11137 22752; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11139 o Minor features (directory authority):
11140 - Improve the message that authorities report to relays that present
11141 RSA/Ed25519 keypairs that conflict with previously pinned keys.
11142 Closes ticket 22348.
11144 o Minor features (geoip):
11145 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 3 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11148 o Minor features (testing):
11149 - Add more tests for compression backend initialization. Closes
11152 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache):
11153 - Fix a memory leak when recovering space in the consensus cache.
11154 Fixes bug 23139; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11156 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
11157 - Increase the number of circuits that a service is allowed to
11158 open over a specific period of time. The value was lower than it
11159 should be (8 vs 12) in the normal case of 3 introduction points.
11160 Fixes bug 22159; bugfix on 0.3.0.5-rc.
11161 - Fix a BUG warning during HSv3 descriptor decoding that could be
11162 cause by a specially crafted descriptor. Fixes bug 23233; bugfix
11163 on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Bug found by "haxxpop".
11164 - Rate-limit the log messages if we exceed the maximum number of
11165 allowed intro circuits. Fixes bug 22159; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11167 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
11168 - Remove a forgotten debugging message when an introduction point
11169 successfully establishes a hidden service prop224 circuit with
11171 - Change three other log_warn() for an introduction point to
11172 protocol warnings, because they can be failure from the network
11173 and are not relevant to the operator. Fixes bug 23078; bugfix on
11174 0.3.0.1-alpha and 0.3.0.2-alpha.
11176 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
11177 - When a relay is not running as a directory cache, it will no
11178 longer generate compressed consensuses and consensus diff
11179 information. Previously, this was a waste of disk and CPU. Fixes
11180 bug 23275; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11182 o Minor bugfixes (robustness, error handling):
11183 - Improve our handling of the cases where OpenSSL encounters a
11184 memory error while encoding keys and certificates. We haven't
11185 observed these errors in the wild, but if they do happen, we now
11186 detect and respond better. Fixes bug 19418; bugfix on all versions
11187 of Tor. Reported by Guido Vranken.
11189 o Minor bugfixes (stability):
11190 - Avoid crashing on a double-free when unable to load or process an
11191 included file. Fixes bug 23155; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
11192 with the clang static analyzer.
11194 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
11195 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
11196 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
11197 - Port the hs_ntor handshake test to work correctly with recent
11198 versions of the pysha3 module. Fixes bug 23071; bugfix
11201 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service):
11202 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
11203 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
11204 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
11205 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
11206 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
11207 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
11210 Changes in version 0.3.0.10 - 2017-08-02
11211 Tor 0.3.0.10 backports a collection of small-to-medium bugfixes
11212 from the current Tor alpha series. OpenBSD users and TPROXY users
11213 should upgrade; others are probably okay sticking with 0.3.0.9.
11215 o Major features (build system, continuous integration, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
11216 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
11217 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
11218 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
11219 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
11220 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
11221 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
11222 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
11223 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
11225 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
11226 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
11227 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
11228 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
11230 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
11231 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
11232 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
11233 handling of "0xbar" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
11234 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
11236 o Minor features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
11237 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11240 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting, backport from 0.3.1.2-alpha):
11241 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
11242 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
11243 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
11245 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warnings, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
11246 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug 22915;
11247 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
11248 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt
11249 support on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
11250 - When building with certain versions of the mingw C header files,
11251 avoid float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions
11252 isfinite(), isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix
11255 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
11256 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
11257 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
11260 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
11261 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
11262 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
11263 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
11264 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
11265 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
11267 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
11268 - When rejecting a router descriptor for running an obsolete version
11269 of Tor without ntor support, warn about the obsolete tor version,
11270 not the missing ntor key. Fixes bug 20270; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
11272 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
11273 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
11274 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
11276 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha)
11277 - Fix a memory leak in the link-handshake/certs_ok_ed25519 test.
11278 Fixes bug 22803; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11281 Changes in version 0.3.1.5-alpha - 2017-08-01
11282 Tor 0.3.1.5-alpha improves the performance of consensus diff
11283 calculation, fixes a crash bug on older versions of OpenBSD, and fixes
11284 several other bugs. If no serious bugs are found in this version, the
11285 next version will be a release candidate.
11287 This release also marks the end of support for the Tor 0.2.4.x,
11288 0.2.6.x, and 0.2.7.x release series. Those releases will receive no
11289 further bug or security fixes. Anyone still running or distributing
11290 one of those versions should upgrade.
11292 o Major features (build system, continuous integration):
11293 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
11294 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
11295 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
11296 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
11297 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
11298 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
11299 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
11300 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
11302 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service):
11303 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
11304 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
11305 handling of "0xbar" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
11306 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
11308 o Major bugfixes (relay, performance):
11309 - Perform circuit handshake operations at a higher priority than we
11310 use for consensus diff creation and compression. This should
11311 prevent circuits from starving when a relay or bridge receives a
11312 new consensus, especially on lower-powered machines. Fixes bug
11313 22883; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11315 o Minor features (bridge authority):
11316 - Add "fingerprint" lines to the networkstatus-bridges file produced
11317 by bridge authorities. Closes ticket 22207.
11319 o Minor features (directory cache, consensus diff):
11320 - Add a new MaxConsensusAgeForDiffs option to allow directory cache
11321 operators with low-resource environments to adjust the number of
11322 consensuses they'll store and generate diffs from. Most cache
11323 operators should leave it unchanged. Helps to work around
11326 o Minor features (geoip):
11327 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11330 o Minor features (relay, performance):
11331 - Always start relays with at least two worker threads, to prevent
11332 priority inversion on slow tasks. Part of the fix for bug 22883.
11333 - Allow background work to be queued with different priorities, so
11334 that a big pile of slow low-priority jobs will not starve out
11335 higher priority jobs. This lays the groundwork for a fix for
11338 o Minor bugfixes (build system, rust):
11339 - Fix a problem where Rust toolchains were not being found when
11340 building without --enable-cargo-online-mode, due to setting the
11341 $HOME environment variable instead of $CARGO_HOME. Fixes bug
11342 22830; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fix by Chelsea Komlo.
11344 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, zstd):
11345 - Write zstd epilogues correctly when the epilogue requires
11346 reallocation of the output buffer, even with zstd 1.3.0.
11347 (Previously, we worked on 1.2.0 and failed with 1.3.0). Fixes bug
11348 22927; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11350 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warnings):
11351 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug
11352 22915; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
11353 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt
11354 support on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
11355 - Compile correctly when both openssl 1.1.0 and libscrypt are
11356 detected. Previously this would cause an error. Fixes bug 22892;
11357 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11358 - When building with certain versions of the mingw C header files,
11359 avoid float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions
11360 isfinite(), isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix
11363 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support):
11364 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
11365 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
11366 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
11367 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
11368 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
11370 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
11371 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
11372 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
11373 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
11374 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
11375 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
11376 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
11377 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
11380 o Minor bugfixes (error reporting, windows):
11381 - When formatting Windows error messages, use the English format to
11382 avoid codepage issues. Fixes bug 22520; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-alpha.
11385 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx):
11386 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
11387 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
11388 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
11390 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
11391 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
11392 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
11394 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
11395 - Fix a small memory leak when validating a configuration that uses
11396 two or more AF_UNIX sockets for the same port type. Fixes bug
11397 23053; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. This is CID 1415725.
11399 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
11400 - test_consdiff_base64cmp would fail on OS X because while OS X
11401 follows the standard of (less than zero/zero/greater than zero),
11402 it doesn't follow the convention of (-1/0/+1). Make the test
11403 comply with the standard. Fixes bug 22870; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11404 - Fix a memory leak in the link-handshake/certs_ok_ed25519 test.
11405 Fixes bug 22803; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11408 Changes in version 0.3.1.4-alpha - 2017-06-29
11409 Tor 0.3.1.4-alpha fixes a path selection bug that would allow a client
11410 to use a guard that was in the same network family as a chosen exit
11411 relay. This is a security regression; all clients running earlier
11412 versions of 0.3.0.x or 0.3.1.x should upgrade to 0.3.0.9
11415 This release also fixes several other bugs introduced in 0.3.0.x
11416 and 0.3.1.x, including others that can affect bandwidth usage
11419 o New dependencies:
11420 - To build with zstd and lzma support, Tor now requires the
11421 pkg-config tool at build time. (This requirement was new in
11422 0.3.1.1-alpha, but was not noted at the time. Noting it here to
11423 close ticket 22623.)
11425 o Major bugfixes (path selection, security):
11426 - When choosing which guard to use for a circuit, avoid the exit's
11427 family along with the exit itself. Previously, the new guard
11428 selection logic avoided the exit, but did not consider its family.
11429 Fixes bug 22753; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2017-
11430 006 and CVE-2017-0377.
11432 o Major bugfixes (compression, zstd):
11433 - Correctly detect a full buffer when decompressing a large zstd-
11434 compressed input. Previously, we would sometimes treat a full
11435 buffer as an error. Fixes bug 22628; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11437 o Major bugfixes (directory protocol):
11438 - Ensure that we send "304 Not modified" as HTTP status code when a
11439 client is attempting to fetch a consensus or consensus diff, and
11440 the best one we can send them is one they already have. Fixes bug
11441 22702; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11443 o Major bugfixes (entry guards):
11444 - When starting with an old consensus, do not add new entry guards
11445 unless the consensus is "reasonably live" (under 1 day old). Fixes
11446 one root cause of bug 22400; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11448 o Minor features (bug mitigation, diagnostics, logging):
11449 - Avoid an assertion failure, and log a better error message, when
11450 unable to remove a file from the consensus cache on Windows.
11451 Attempts to mitigate and diagnose bug 22752.
11453 o Minor features (geoip):
11454 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11457 o Minor bugfixes (compression):
11458 - When compressing or decompressing a buffer, check for a failure to
11459 create a compression object. Fixes bug 22626; bugfix
11461 - When decompressing a buffer, check for extra data after the end of
11462 the compressed data. Fixes bug 22629; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11463 - When decompressing an object received over an anonymous directory
11464 connection, if we have already decompressed it using an acceptable
11465 compression method, do not reject it for looking like an
11466 unacceptable compression method. Fixes part of bug 22670; bugfix
11468 - When serving directory votes compressed with zlib, do not claim to
11469 have compressed them with zstd. Fixes bug 22669; bugfix
11471 - When spooling compressed data to an output buffer, don't try to
11472 spool more data when there is no more data to spool and we are not
11473 trying to flush the input. Previously, we would sometimes launch
11474 compression requests with nothing to do, which interferes with our
11475 22672 checks. Fixes bug 22719; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
11477 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming):
11478 - Detect and break out of infinite loops in our compression code. We
11479 don't think that any such loops exist now, but it's best to be
11480 safe. Closes ticket 22672.
11481 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
11482 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
11483 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
11484 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
11485 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
11486 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
11487 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
11488 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
11490 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
11491 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
11492 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
11493 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
11494 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
11495 - Fix a crash in the LZMA module, when the sandbox was enabled, and
11496 liblzma would allocate more than 16 MB of memory. We solve this by
11497 bumping the mprotect() limit in the sandbox module from 16 MB to
11498 20 MB. Fixes bug 22751; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11500 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
11501 - When decompressing, do not warn if we fail to decompress using a
11502 compression method that we merely guessed. Fixes part of bug
11503 22670; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
11504 - When decompressing, treat mismatch between content-encoding and
11505 actual compression type as a protocol warning. Fixes part of bug
11506 22670; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
11507 - Downgrade "assigned_to_cpuworker failed" message to info-level
11508 severity. In every case that can reach it, either a better warning
11509 has already been logged, or no warning is warranted. Fixes bug
11510 22356; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
11511 - Demote a warn that was caused by libevent delays to info if
11512 netflow padding is less than 4.5 seconds late, or to notice
11513 if it is more (4.5 seconds is the amount of time that a netflow
11514 record might be emitted after, if we chose the maximum timeout).
11515 Fixes bug 22212; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11517 o Minor bugfixes (process behavior):
11518 - When exiting because of an error, always exit with a nonzero exit
11519 status. Previously, we would fail to report an error in our exit
11520 status in cases related to __OwningControllerProcess failure,
11521 lockfile contention, and Ed25519 key initialization. Fixes bug
11522 22720; bugfix on versions 0.2.1.6-alpha, 0.2.2.28-beta, and
11523 0.2.7.2-alpha respectively. Reported by "f55jwk4f"; patch
11527 - Add a manpage description for the key-pinning-journal file. Closes
11529 - Correctly note that bandwidth accounting values are stored in the
11530 state file, and the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. Closes
11532 - Document more of the files in the Tor data directory, including
11533 cached-extrainfo, secret_onion_key{,_ntor}.old, hidserv-stats,
11534 approved-routers, sr-random, and diff-cache. Found while fixing
11538 Changes in version 0.3.0.9 - 2017-06-29
11539 Tor 0.3.0.9 fixes a path selection bug that would allow a client
11540 to use a guard that was in the same network family as a chosen exit
11541 relay. This is a security regression; all clients running earlier
11542 versions of 0.3.0.x or 0.3.1.x should upgrade to 0.3.0.9 or
11545 This release also backports several other bugfixes from the 0.3.1.x
11548 o Major bugfixes (path selection, security, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
11549 - When choosing which guard to use for a circuit, avoid the exit's
11550 family along with the exit itself. Previously, the new guard
11551 selection logic avoided the exit, but did not consider its family.
11552 Fixes bug 22753; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2017-
11553 006 and CVE-2017-0377.
11555 o Major bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
11556 - Don't block bootstrapping when a primary bridge is offline and we
11557 can't get its descriptor. Fixes bug 22325; fixes one case of bug
11558 21969; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
11560 o Major bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
11561 - When starting with an old consensus, do not add new entry guards
11562 unless the consensus is "reasonably live" (under 1 day old). Fixes
11563 one root cause of bug 22400; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11565 o Minor features (geoip):
11566 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11569 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
11570 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
11571 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
11572 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
11573 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
11575 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
11576 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
11577 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
11578 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
11579 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
11581 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
11582 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
11583 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
11584 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
11585 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
11586 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
11587 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
11588 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
11589 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
11592 Changes in version 0.3.1.3-alpha - 2017-06-08
11593 Tor 0.3.1.3-alpha fixes a pair of bugs that would allow an attacker to
11594 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
11595 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
11596 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-004 and TROVE-2017-005.
11598 Tor 0.3.1.3-alpha also includes fixes for several key management bugs
11599 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
11600 bugfixes described below.
11602 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
11603 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure when a hidden service
11604 handles a malformed BEGIN cell. Fixes bug 22493, tracked as
11605 TROVE-2017-004 and as CVE-2017-0375; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11606 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
11607 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
11608 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
11611 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake):
11612 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
11613 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
11614 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
11615 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
11616 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
11617 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
11620 o Major bugfixes (relays, key management):
11621 - Regenerate link and authentication certificates whenever the key
11622 that signs them changes; also, regenerate link certificates
11623 whenever the signed key changes. Previously, these processes were
11624 only weakly coupled, and we relays could (for minutes to hours)
11625 wind up with an inconsistent set of keys and certificates, which
11626 other relays would not accept. Fixes two cases of bug 22460;
11627 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11628 - When sending an Ed25519 signing->link certificate in a CERTS cell,
11629 send the certificate that matches the x509 certificate that we
11630 used on the TLS connection. Previously, there was a race condition
11631 if the TLS context rotated after we began the TLS handshake but
11632 before we sent the CERTS cell. Fixes a case of bug 22460; bugfix
11635 o Major bugfixes (torrc, crash):
11636 - Fix a crash bug when using %include in torrc. Fixes bug 22417;
11637 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
11639 o Minor features (code style):
11640 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
11641 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
11642 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
11644 o Minor features (diagnostic):
11645 - Add logging messages to try to diagnose a rare bug that seems to
11646 generate RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificates dated in the 1970s. We
11647 think this is happening because of incorrect system clocks, but
11648 we'd like to know for certain. Diagnostic for bug 22466.
11650 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
11651 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
11652 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
11654 o Minor bugfixes (directory protocol):
11655 - Check for libzstd >= 1.1, because older versions lack the
11656 necessary streaming API. Fixes bug 22413; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11658 o Minor bugfixes (link handshake):
11659 - Lower the lifetime of the RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificate to six
11660 months, and regenerate it when it is within one month of expiring.
11661 Previously, we had generated this certificate at startup with a
11662 ten-year lifetime, but that could lead to weird behavior when Tor
11663 was started with a grossly inaccurate clock. Mitigates bug 22466;
11664 mitigation on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11666 o Minor bugfixes (storage directories):
11667 - Always check for underflows in the cached storage directory usage.
11668 If the usage does underflow, re-calculate it. Also, avoid a
11669 separate underflow when the usage is not known. Fixes bug 22424;
11670 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11672 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
11673 - The unit tests now pass on systems where localhost is misconfigured
11674 to some IPv4 address other than 127.0.0.1. Fixes bug 6298; bugfix
11678 - Clarify the manpage for the (deprecated) torify script. Closes
11681 Changes in version 0.3.0.8 - 2017-06-08
11682 Tor 0.3.0.8 fixes a pair of bugs that would allow an attacker to
11683 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
11684 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
11685 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-004 and TROVE-2017-005.
11687 Tor 0.3.0.8 also includes fixes for several key management bugs
11688 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
11689 bugfixes described below.
11691 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security, backport
11692 from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
11693 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure when a hidden service
11694 handles a malformed BEGIN cell. Fixes bug 22493, tracked as
11695 TROVE-2017-004 and as CVE-2017-0375; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11696 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
11697 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
11698 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
11701 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
11702 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
11703 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
11704 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
11705 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
11706 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
11707 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
11710 o Major bugfixes (relays, key management, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
11711 - Regenerate link and authentication certificates whenever the key
11712 that signs them changes; also, regenerate link certificates
11713 whenever the signed key changes. Previously, these processes were
11714 only weakly coupled, and we relays could (for minutes to hours)
11715 wind up with an inconsistent set of keys and certificates, which
11716 other relays would not accept. Fixes two cases of bug 22460;
11717 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11718 - When sending an Ed25519 signing->link certificate in a CERTS cell,
11719 send the certificate that matches the x509 certificate that we
11720 used on the TLS connection. Previously, there was a race condition
11721 if the TLS context rotated after we began the TLS handshake but
11722 before we sent the CERTS cell. Fixes a case of bug 22460; bugfix
11725 o Major bugfixes (hidden service v3, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
11726 - Stop rejecting v3 hidden service descriptors because their size
11727 did not match an old padding rule. Fixes bug 22447; bugfix on
11730 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
11731 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
11732 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
11733 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
11734 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
11736 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
11737 - Do not crash when starting with LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0. Fixes
11738 bug 22252; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
11740 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
11741 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
11742 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
11744 o Minor bugfixes (link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
11745 - Lower the lifetime of the RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificate to six
11746 months, and regenerate it when it is within one month of expiring.
11747 Previously, we had generated this certificate at startup with a
11748 ten-year lifetime, but that could lead to weird behavior when Tor
11749 was started with a grossly inaccurate clock. Mitigates bug 22466;
11750 mitigation on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11752 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority, backport from
11754 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
11755 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
11756 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
11759 Changes in version 0.2.9.11 - 2017-06-08
11760 Tor 0.2.9.11 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
11761 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
11762 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
11763 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
11764 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
11766 Tor 0.2.9.11 also backports fixes for several key management bugs
11767 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
11768 bugfixes described below.
11770 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security, backport
11771 from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
11772 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
11773 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
11774 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
11777 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
11778 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
11779 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
11780 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
11781 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
11782 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
11783 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
11786 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
11787 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
11788 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
11789 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
11790 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
11792 o Minor features (future-proofing, backport from 0.3.0.7):
11793 - Tor no longer refuses to download microdescriptors or descriptors if
11794 they are listed as "published in the future". This change will
11795 eventually allow us to stop listing meaningful "published" dates
11796 in microdescriptor consensuses, and thereby allow us to reduce the
11797 resources required to download consensus diffs by over 50%.
11798 Implements part of ticket 21642; implements part of proposal 275.
11800 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.0.4-rc)
11801 - Directory authorities now reject relays running versions
11802 0.2.9.1-alpha through 0.2.9.4-alpha, because those relays
11803 suffer from bug 20499 and don't keep their consensus cache
11804 up-to-date. Resolves ticket 20509.
11806 o Minor features (geoip):
11807 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11810 o Minor bugfixes (control port, backport from 0.3.0.6):
11811 - The GETINFO extra-info/digest/<digest> command was broken because
11812 of a wrong base16 decode return value check, introduced when
11813 refactoring that API. Fixes bug 22034; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
11815 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
11816 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
11817 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
11819 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.0.7):
11820 - The getpid() system call is now permitted under the Linux seccomp2
11821 sandbox, to avoid crashing with versions of OpenSSL (and other
11822 libraries) that attempt to learn the process's PID by using the
11823 syscall rather than the VDSO code. Fixes bug 21943; bugfix
11826 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority, backport
11827 from 0.3.1.2-alpha):
11828 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
11829 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
11830 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
11832 Changes in version 0.2.8.14 - 2017-06-08
11833 Tor 0.2.7.8 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
11834 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
11835 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
11836 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
11837 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
11839 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
11840 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
11841 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
11842 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
11845 o Minor features (geoip):
11846 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11849 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
11850 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
11851 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
11852 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
11853 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
11855 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
11856 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
11857 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
11859 Changes in version 0.2.7.8 - 2017-06-08
11860 Tor 0.2.7.8 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
11861 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
11862 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
11863 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
11864 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
11866 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
11867 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
11868 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
11869 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
11872 o Minor features (geoip):
11873 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11876 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
11877 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
11878 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
11881 Changes in version 0.2.6.12 - 2017-06-08
11882 Tor 0.2.6.12 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
11883 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
11884 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
11885 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
11886 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
11888 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
11889 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
11890 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
11891 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
11894 o Minor features (geoip):
11895 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11898 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
11899 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
11900 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
11902 Changes in version 0.2.5.14 - 2017-06-08
11903 Tor 0.2.5.14 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
11904 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
11905 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
11906 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
11907 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
11909 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
11910 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
11911 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
11912 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
11915 o Minor features (geoip):
11916 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11919 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
11920 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
11921 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
11923 Changes in version 0.2.4.29 - 2017-06-08
11924 Tor 0.2.4.29 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
11925 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
11926 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
11927 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
11928 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
11930 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
11931 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
11932 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
11933 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
11936 o Minor features (geoip):
11937 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11940 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
11941 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
11942 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
11945 Changes in version 0.3.1.2-alpha - 2017-05-26
11946 Tor 0.3.1.2-alpha is the second release in the 0.3.1.x series. It
11947 fixes a few bugs found while testing 0.3.1.1-alpha, including a
11948 memory corruption bug that affected relay stability.
11950 o Major bugfixes (crash, relay):
11951 - Fix a memory-corruption bug in relays that set MyFamily.
11952 Previously, they would double-free MyFamily elements when making
11953 the next descriptor or when changing their configuration. Fixes
11954 bug 22368; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11956 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
11957 - Log a better message when a directory authority replies to an
11958 upload with an unexpected status code. Fixes bug 11121; bugfix
11961 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority):
11962 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
11963 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
11964 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
11967 Changes in version 0.3.1.1-alpha - 2017-05-22
11968 Tor 0.3.1.1-alpha is the first release in the 0.3.1.x series. It
11969 reduces the bandwidth usage for Tor's directory protocol, adds some
11970 basic padding to resist netflow-based traffic analysis and to serve as
11971 the basis of other padding in the future, and adds rust support to the
11974 It also contains numerous other small features and improvements to
11975 security, correctness, and performance.
11977 Below are the changes since 0.3.0.7.
11979 o Major features (directory protocol):
11980 - Tor relays and authorities can now serve clients an abbreviated
11981 version of the consensus document, containing only the changes
11982 since an older consensus document that the client holds. Clients
11983 now request these documents when available. When both client and
11984 server use this new protocol, they will use far less bandwidth (up
11985 to 94% less) to keep the client's consensus up-to-date. Implements
11986 proposal 140; closes ticket 13339. Based on work by Daniel Martí.
11987 - Tor can now compress directory traffic with lzma or with zstd
11988 compression algorithms, which can deliver better bandwidth
11989 performance. Because lzma is computationally expensive, it's only
11990 used for documents that can be compressed once and served many
11991 times. Support for these algorithms requires that tor is built
11992 with the libzstd and/or liblzma libraries available. Implements
11993 proposal 278; closes ticket 21662.
11994 - Relays now perform the more expensive compression operations, and
11995 consensus diff generation, in worker threads. This separation
11996 avoids delaying the main thread when a new consensus arrives.
11998 o Major features (experimental):
11999 - Tor can now build modules written in Rust. To turn this on, pass
12000 the "--enable-rust" flag to the configure script. It's not time to
12001 get excited yet: currently, there is no actual Rust functionality
12002 beyond some simple glue code, and a notice at startup to tell you
12003 that Rust is running. Still, we hope that programmers and
12004 packagers will try building Tor with Rust support, so that we can
12005 find issues and solve portability problems. Closes ticket 22106.
12007 o Major features (traffic analysis resistance):
12008 - Connections between clients and relays now send a padding cell in
12009 each direction every 1.5 to 9.5 seconds (tunable via consensus
12010 parameters). This padding will not resist specialized
12011 eavesdroppers, but it should be enough to make many ISPs' routine
12012 network flow logging less useful in traffic analysis against
12015 Padding is negotiated using Tor's link protocol, so both relays
12016 and clients must upgrade for this to take effect. Clients may
12017 still send padding despite the relay's version by setting
12018 ConnectionPadding 1 in torrc, and may disable padding by setting
12019 ConnectionPadding 0 in torrc. Padding may be minimized for mobile
12020 users with the torrc option ReducedConnectionPadding. Implements
12021 Proposal 251 and Section 2 of Proposal 254; closes ticket 16861.
12022 - Relays will publish 24 hour totals of padding and non-padding cell
12023 counts to their extra-info descriptors, unless PaddingStatistics 0
12024 is set in torrc. These 24 hour totals are also rounded to
12025 multiples of 10000.
12027 o Major bugfixes (connection usage):
12028 - We use NETINFO cells to try to determine if both relays involved
12029 in a connection will agree on the canonical status of that
12030 connection. We prefer the connections where this is the case for
12031 extend cells, and try to close connections where relays disagree
12032 on their canonical status early. Also, we now prefer the oldest
12033 valid connection for extend cells. These two changes should reduce
12034 the number of long-term connections that are kept open between
12035 relays. Fixes bug 17604; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
12036 - Relays now log hourly statistics (look for
12037 "channel_check_for_duplicates" lines) on the total number of
12038 connections to other relays. If the number of connections per
12039 relay is unexpectedly large, this log message is at notice level.
12040 Otherwise it is at info.
12042 o Major bugfixes (entry guards):
12043 - Don't block bootstrapping when a primary bridge is offline and we
12044 can't get its descriptor. Fixes bug 22325; fixes one case of bug
12045 21969; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
12047 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support):
12048 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
12049 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
12050 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
12052 o Minor features (security, windows):
12053 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
12054 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
12055 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
12056 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
12057 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
12059 o Minor features (config options):
12060 - Allow "%include" directives in torrc configuration files. These
12061 directives import the settings from other files, or from all the
12062 files in a directory. Closes ticket 1922. Code by Daniel Pinto.
12063 - Make SAVECONF return an error when overwriting a torrc that has
12064 includes. Using SAVECONF with the FORCE option will allow it to
12065 overwrite torrc even if includes are used. Related to ticket 1922.
12066 - Add "GETINFO config-can-saveconf" to tell controllers if SAVECONF
12067 will work without the FORCE option. Related to ticket 1922.
12069 o Minor features (controller):
12070 - Warn the first time that a controller requests data in the long-
12071 deprecated 'GETINFO network-status' format. Closes ticket 21703.
12073 o Minor features (defaults):
12074 - The default value for UseCreateFast is now 0: clients which
12075 haven't yet received a consensus document will now use a proper
12076 ntor handshake to talk to their directory servers whenever they
12077 can. Closes ticket 21407.
12078 - Onion key rotation and expiry intervals are now defined as a
12079 network consensus parameter, per proposal 274. The default
12080 lifetime of an onion key is increased from 7 to 28 days. Old onion
12081 keys will expire after 7 days by default. This change will make
12082 consensus diffs much smaller, and save significant bandwidth.
12083 Closes ticket 21641.
12085 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
12086 - Update the fallback directory mirror whitelist and blacklist based
12087 on operator emails. Closes task 21121.
12088 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
12089 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
12090 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
12091 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
12093 o Minor features (hidden services, logging):
12094 - Log a message when a hidden service descriptor has fewer
12095 introduction points than specified in
12096 HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints. Closes tickets 21598.
12097 - Log a message when a hidden service reaches its introduction point
12098 circuit limit, and when that limit is reset. Follow up to ticket
12099 21594; closes ticket 21622.
12100 - Warn user if multiple entries in EntryNodes and at least one
12101 HiddenService are used together. Pinning EntryNodes along with a
12102 hidden service can be possibly harmful; for instance see ticket
12103 14917 or 21155. Closes ticket 21155.
12105 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
12106 - We now have a document storage backend compatible with the Linux
12107 seccomp2 sandbox. This backend is used for consensus documents and
12108 diffs between them; in the long term, we'd like to use it for
12109 unparseable directory material too. Closes ticket 21645
12110 - Increase the maximum allowed size passed to mprotect(PROT_WRITE)
12111 from 1MB to 16MB. This was necessary with the glibc allocator in
12112 order to allow worker threads to allocate more memory -- which in
12113 turn is necessary because of our new use of worker threads for
12114 compression. Closes ticket 22096.
12116 o Minor features (logging):
12117 - Log files are no longer created world-readable by default.
12118 (Previously, most distributors would store the logs in a non-
12119 world-readable location to prevent inappropriate access. This
12120 change is an extra precaution.) Closes ticket 21729; patch
12123 o Minor features (performance):
12124 - Our Keccak (SHA-3) implementation now accesses memory more
12125 efficiently, especially on little-endian systems. Closes
12127 - Add an O(1) implementation of channel_find_by_global_id(), to
12128 speed some controller functions.
12130 o Minor features (relay, configuration):
12131 - The MyFamily option may now be repeated as many times as desired,
12132 for relays that want to configure large families. Closes ticket
12133 4998; patch by Daniel Pinto.
12135 o Minor features (safety):
12136 - Add an explicit check to extrainfo_parse_entry_from_string() for
12137 NULL inputs. We don't believe this can actually happen, but it may
12138 help silence a warning from the Clang analyzer. Closes
12141 o Minor features (testing):
12142 - Add a "--disable-memory-sentinels" feature to help with fuzzing.
12143 When Tor is compiled with this option, we disable a number of
12144 redundant memory-safety failsafes that are intended to stop bugs
12145 from becoming security issues. This makes it easier to hunt for
12146 bugs that would be security issues without the failsafes turned
12147 on. Closes ticket 21439.
12148 - Add a general event-tracing instrumentation support to Tor. This
12149 subsystem will enable developers and researchers to add fine-
12150 grained instrumentation to their Tor instances, for use when
12151 examining Tor network performance issues. There are no trace
12152 events yet, and event-tracing is off by default unless enabled at
12153 compile time. Implements ticket 13802.
12154 - Improve our version parsing tests: add tests for typical version
12155 components, add tests for invalid versions, including numeric
12156 range and non-numeric prefixes. Unit tests 21278, 21450, and
12157 21507. Partially implements 21470.
12159 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting):
12160 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
12161 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
12162 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
12164 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
12165 - Accurately identify client connections by their lack of peer
12166 authentication. This means that we bail out earlier if asked to
12167 extend to a client. Follow-up to 21407. Fixes bug 21406; bugfix
12170 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
12171 - Do not crash when starting with LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0. Fixes
12172 bug 22252; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
12174 o Minor bugfixes (connection lifespan):
12175 - Allow more control over how long TLS connections are kept open:
12176 unify CircuitIdleTimeout and PredictedPortsRelevanceTime into a
12177 single option called CircuitsAvailableTimeout. Also, allow the
12178 consensus to control the default values for both this preference
12179 and the lifespan of relay-to-relay connections. Fixes bug 17592;
12180 bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
12181 - Increase the initial circuit build timeout testing frequency, to
12182 help ensure that ReducedConnectionPadding clients finish learning
12183 a timeout before their orconn would expire. The initial testing
12184 rate was set back in the days of TAP and before the Tor Browser
12185 updater, when we had to be much more careful about new clients
12186 making lots of circuits. With this change, a circuit build timeout
12187 is learned in about 15-20 minutes, instead of 100-120 minutes.
12189 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
12190 - GETINFO onions/current and onions/detached no longer respond with
12191 551 on empty lists. Fixes bug 21329; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
12192 - Trigger HS descriptor events on the control port when the client
12193 fails to pick a hidden service directory for a hidden service.
12194 This can happen if all the hidden service directories are in
12195 ExcludeNodes, or they have all been queried within the last 15
12196 minutes. Fixes bug 22042; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
12198 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
12199 - When rejecting a router descriptor for running an obsolete version
12200 of Tor without ntor support, warn about the obsolete tor version,
12201 not the missing ntor key. Fixes bug 20270; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
12202 - Prevent the shared randomness subsystem from asserting when
12203 initialized by a bridge authority with an incomplete configuration
12204 file. Fixes bug 21586; bugfix on 0.2.9.8.
12206 o Minor bugfixes (exit-side DNS):
12207 - Fix an untriggerable assertion that checked the output of a
12208 libevent DNS error, so that the assertion actually behaves as
12209 expected. Fixes bug 22244; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by Andrey
12210 Karpov using PVS-Studio.
12212 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
12213 - Make the usage example in updateFallbackDirs.py actually work, and
12214 explain what it does. Fixes bug 22270; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
12215 - Decrease the guard flag average required to be a fallback. This
12216 allows us to keep relays that have their guard flag removed when
12217 they restart. Fixes bug 20913; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12218 - Decrease the minimum number of fallbacks to 100. Fixes bug 20913;
12219 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12220 - Make sure fallback directory mirrors have the same address, port,
12221 and relay identity key for at least 30 days before they are
12222 selected. Fixes bug 20913; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12224 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
12225 - Stop printing a cryptic warning when a hidden service gets a
12226 request to connect to a virtual port that it hasn't configured.
12227 Fixes bug 16706; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
12228 - Simplify hidden service descriptor creation by using an existing
12229 flag to check if an introduction point is established. Fixes bug
12230 21599; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12232 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
12233 - Fix a small memory leak at exit from the backtrace handler code.
12234 Fixes bug 21788; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
12236 o Minor bugfixes (protocol, logging):
12237 - Downgrade a log statement about unexpected relay cells from "bug"
12238 to "protocol warning", because there is at least one use case
12239 where it can be triggered by a buggy tor implementation. Fixes bug
12240 21293; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
12242 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
12243 - Use unbuffered I/O for utility functions around the
12244 process_handle_t type. This fixes unit test failures reported on
12245 OpenBSD and FreeBSD. Fixes bug 21654; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
12246 - Make display of captured unit test log messages consistent. Fixes
12247 bug 21510; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
12248 - Make test-network.sh always call chutney's test-network.sh.
12249 Previously, this only worked on systems which had bash installed,
12250 due to some bash-specific code in the script. Fixes bug 19699;
12251 bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc. Follow-up to ticket 21581.
12253 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency):
12254 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
12255 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
12256 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
12257 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
12259 o Minor bugfixes (windows, relay):
12260 - Resolve "Failure from drain_fd: No error" warnings on Windows
12261 relays. Fixes bug 21540; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
12263 o Code simplification and refactoring:
12264 - Break up the 630-line function connection_dir_client_reached_eof()
12265 into a dozen smaller functions. This change should help
12266 maintainability and readability of the client directory code.
12267 - Isolate our use of the openssl headers so that they are only
12268 included from our crypto wrapper modules, and from tests that
12269 examine those modules' internals. Closes ticket 21841.
12270 - Simplify our API to launch directory requests, making it more
12271 extensible and less error-prone. Now it's easier to add extra
12272 headers to directory requests. Closes ticket 21646.
12273 - Our base64 decoding functions no longer overestimate the output
12274 space that they need when parsing unpadded inputs. Closes
12276 - Remove unused "ROUTER_ADDED_NOTIFY_GENERATOR" internal value.
12277 Resolves ticket 22213.
12278 - The logic that directory caches use to spool request to clients,
12279 serving them one part at a time so as not to allocate too much
12280 memory, has been refactored for consistency. Previously there was
12281 a separate spooling implementation per type of spoolable data. Now
12282 there is one common spooling implementation, with extensible data
12283 types. Closes ticket 21651.
12284 - Tor's compression module now supports multiple backends. Part of
12285 the implementation for proposal 278; closes ticket 21663.
12288 - Clarify the behavior of the KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth sub-option.
12289 Closes ticket 21873.
12290 - Correct documentation about the default DataDirectory value.
12291 Closes ticket 21151.
12292 - Document the default behavior of NumEntryGuards and
12293 NumDirectoryGuards correctly. Fixes bug 21715; bugfix
12295 - Document key=value pluggable transport arguments for Bridge lines
12296 in torrc. Fixes bug 20341; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
12297 - Note that bandwidth-limiting options don't affect TCP headers or
12298 DNS. Closes ticket 17170.
12300 o Removed features (configuration options, all in ticket 22060):
12301 - These configuration options are now marked Obsolete, and no longer
12302 have any effect: AllowInvalidNodes, AllowSingleHopCircuits,
12303 AllowSingleHopExits, ExcludeSingleHopRelays, FastFirstHopPK,
12304 TLSECGroup, WarnUnsafeSocks. They were first marked as deprecated
12305 in 0.2.9.2-alpha and have now been removed. The previous default
12306 behavior is now always chosen; the previous (less secure) non-
12307 default behavior is now unavailable.
12308 - CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout and
12309 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout were deprecated in
12310 0.2.9.2-alpha and now have been removed. HS circuits never close
12311 on circuit build timeout; they have a longer timeout period.
12312 - {Control,DNS,Dir,Socks,Trans,NATD,OR}ListenAddress were deprecated
12313 in 0.2.9.2-alpha and now have been removed. Use the ORPort option
12314 (and others) to configure listen-only and advertise-only addresses.
12316 o Removed features (tools):
12317 - We've removed the tor-checkkey tool from src/tools. Long ago, we
12318 used it to help people detect RSA keys that were generated by
12319 versions of Debian affected by CVE-2008-0166. But those keys have
12320 been out of circulation for ages, and this tool is no longer
12321 required. Closes ticket 21842.
12324 Changes in version 0.3.0.7 - 2017-05-15
12325 Tor 0.3.0.7 fixes a medium-severity security bug in earlier versions
12326 of Tor 0.3.0.x, where an attacker could cause a Tor relay process
12327 to exit. Relays running earlier versions of Tor 0.3.0.x should upgrade;
12328 clients are not affected.
12330 o Major bugfixes (hidden service directory, security):
12331 - Fix an assertion failure in the hidden service directory code, which
12332 could be used by an attacker to remotely cause a Tor relay process to
12333 exit. Relays running earlier versions of Tor 0.3.0.x should upgrade.
12334 should upgrade. This security issue is tracked as TROVE-2017-002.
12335 Fixes bug 22246; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12338 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12341 o Minor features (future-proofing):
12342 - Tor no longer refuses to download microdescriptors or descriptors
12343 if they are listed as "published in the future". This change will
12344 eventually allow us to stop listing meaningful "published" dates
12345 in microdescriptor consensuses, and thereby allow us to reduce the
12346 resources required to download consensus diffs by over 50%.
12347 Implements part of ticket 21642; implements part of proposal 275.
12349 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
12350 - The getpid() system call is now permitted under the Linux seccomp2
12351 sandbox, to avoid crashing with versions of OpenSSL (and other
12352 libraries) that attempt to learn the process's PID by using the
12353 syscall rather than the VDSO code. Fixes bug 21943; bugfix
12357 Changes in version 0.3.0.6 - 2017-04-26
12358 Tor 0.3.0.6 is the first stable release of the Tor 0.3.0 series.
12360 With the 0.3.0 series, clients and relays now use Ed25519 keys to
12361 authenticate their link connections to relays, rather than the old
12362 RSA1024 keys that they used before. (Circuit crypto has been
12363 Curve25519-authenticated since 0.2.4.8-alpha.) We have also replaced
12364 the guard selection and replacement algorithm to behave more robustly
12365 in the presence of unreliable networks, and to resist guard-
12368 This series also includes numerous other small features and bugfixes,
12369 along with more groundwork for the upcoming hidden-services revamp.
12371 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support the Tor 0.3.0
12372 release series for at least the next nine months, or for three months
12373 after the first stable release of the 0.3.1 series: whichever is
12374 longer. If you need a release with long-term support, we recommend
12375 that you stay with the 0.2.9 series.
12377 Below are the changes since 0.3.0.5-rc. For a list of all changes
12378 since 0.2.9, see the ReleaseNotes file.
12380 o Minor features (geoip):
12381 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12384 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
12385 - The GETINFO extra-info/digest/<digest> command was broken because
12386 of a wrong base16 decode return value check, introduced when
12387 refactoring that API. Fixes bug 22034; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
12389 o Minor bugfixes (crash prevention):
12390 - Fix a (currently untriggerable, but potentially dangerous) crash
12391 bug when base32-encoding inputs whose sizes are not a multiple of
12392 5. Fixes bug 21894; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
12395 Changes in version 0.3.0.5-rc - 2017-04-05
12396 Tor 0.3.0.5-rc fixes a few remaining bugs, large and small, in the
12397 0.3.0 release series.
12399 This is the second release candidate in the Tor 0.3.0 series, and has
12400 much fewer changes than the first. If we find no new bugs or
12401 regressions here, the first stable 0.3.0 release will be nearly
12404 o Major bugfixes (crash, directory connections):
12405 - Fix a rare crash when sending a begin cell on a circuit whose
12406 linked directory connection had already been closed. Fixes bug
12407 21576; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
12409 o Major bugfixes (guard selection):
12410 - Fix a guard selection bug where Tor would refuse to bootstrap in
12411 some cases if the user swapped a bridge for another bridge in
12412 their configuration file. Fixes bug 21771; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12413 Reported by "torvlnt33r".
12415 o Minor features (geoip):
12416 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the March 7 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12419 o Minor bugfix (compilation):
12420 - Fix a warning when compiling hs_service.c. Previously, it had no
12421 exported symbols when compiled for libor.a, resulting in a
12422 compilation warning from clang. Fixes bug 21825; bugfix
12425 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
12426 - Make hidden services check for failed intro point connections,
12427 even when they have exceeded their intro point creation limit.
12428 Fixes bug 21596; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
12429 - Make hidden services with 8 to 10 introduction points check for
12430 failed circuits immediately after startup. Previously, they would
12431 wait for 5 minutes before performing their first checks. Fixes bug
12432 21594; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
12434 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
12435 - Fix a memory leak when using GETCONF on a port option. Fixes bug
12436 21682; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
12438 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
12439 - Avoid a double-marked-circuit warning that could happen when we
12440 receive DESTROY cells under heavy load. Fixes bug 20059; bugfix
12443 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
12444 - Run the entry_guard_parse_from_state_full() test with the time set
12445 to a specific date. (The guard state that this test was parsing
12446 contained guards that had expired since the test was first
12447 written.) Fixes bug 21799; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12450 - Update the description of the directory server options in the
12451 manual page, to clarify that a relay no longer needs to set
12452 DirPort in order to be a directory cache. Closes ticket 21720.
12456 Changes in version 0.2.8.13 - 2017-03-03
12457 Tor 0.2.8.13 backports a security fix from later Tor
12458 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.8.12 or earlier should upgrade to this
12459 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
12460 release series, and if they build Tor with the --enable-expensive-hardening
12463 Note that support for Tor 0.2.8.x is ending next year: we will not issue
12464 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.8.x series after 1 Jan 2018. If you need
12465 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
12467 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
12468 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
12469 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
12470 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
12471 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
12472 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
12473 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
12475 o Minor features (geoip):
12476 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12480 Changes in version 0.2.7.7 - 2017-03-03
12481 Tor 0.2.7.7 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
12482 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.7.6 or earlier should upgrade to
12483 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
12486 Note that support for Tor 0.2.7.x is ending this year: we will not issue
12487 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.7.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
12488 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
12490 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
12491 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
12493 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
12494 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
12495 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
12497 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
12498 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
12499 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
12502 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
12503 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
12504 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
12505 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
12506 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
12507 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
12508 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
12509 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
12510 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
12512 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
12513 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
12514 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
12515 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
12516 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
12517 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
12518 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
12519 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
12520 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
12521 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
12522 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
12523 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
12524 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
12526 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
12527 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
12528 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
12529 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
12530 Reported by Guido Vranken.
12532 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
12533 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
12534 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
12536 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
12537 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
12538 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
12539 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
12540 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
12541 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
12542 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
12545 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
12546 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
12547 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
12548 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
12549 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
12550 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
12551 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
12553 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
12554 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
12555 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
12556 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
12559 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
12560 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
12561 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
12562 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
12564 o Minor features (geoip):
12565 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12569 Changes in version 0.2.6.11 - 2017-03-03
12570 Tor 0.2.6.11 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
12571 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.6.10 or earlier should upgrade to
12572 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
12575 Note that support for Tor 0.2.6.x is ending this year: we will not issue
12576 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.6.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
12577 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
12579 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
12580 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
12582 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
12583 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
12584 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
12586 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
12587 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
12588 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
12591 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
12592 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
12593 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
12594 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
12595 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
12596 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
12597 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
12598 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
12599 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
12601 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
12602 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
12603 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
12604 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
12605 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
12606 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
12607 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
12608 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
12609 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
12611 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
12612 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
12613 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
12614 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
12615 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
12617 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
12618 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
12619 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
12620 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
12621 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
12624 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
12625 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
12626 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
12627 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
12628 Reported by Guido Vranken.
12630 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
12631 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
12632 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
12634 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
12635 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
12636 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
12637 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
12638 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
12639 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
12642 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
12643 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
12644 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
12645 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
12646 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
12647 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
12648 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
12651 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
12652 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
12653 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
12654 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
12655 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
12656 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
12657 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
12659 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
12660 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
12661 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
12662 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
12665 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
12666 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
12667 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
12668 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
12670 o Minor features (geoip):
12671 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12674 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
12675 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
12676 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
12679 Changes in version 0.2.5.13 - 2017-03-03
12680 Tor 0.2.5.13 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
12681 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.5.13 or earlier should upgrade to
12682 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
12685 Note that support for Tor 0.2.5.x is ending next year: we will not issue
12686 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.5.x series after 1 May 2018. If you need
12687 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
12689 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
12690 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
12692 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
12693 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
12694 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
12696 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
12697 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
12698 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
12701 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
12702 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
12703 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
12704 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
12705 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
12706 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
12707 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
12708 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
12709 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
12711 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
12712 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
12713 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
12714 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
12715 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
12716 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
12717 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
12718 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
12719 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
12721 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
12722 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
12723 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
12724 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
12725 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
12727 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
12728 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
12729 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
12730 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
12731 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
12734 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
12735 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
12736 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
12737 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
12738 Reported by Guido Vranken.
12740 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
12741 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
12742 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
12744 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
12745 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
12746 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
12747 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
12748 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
12749 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
12752 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
12753 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
12754 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
12755 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
12756 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
12757 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
12758 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
12761 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
12762 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
12763 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
12764 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
12765 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
12766 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
12767 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
12769 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
12770 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
12771 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
12772 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
12775 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
12776 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
12777 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
12778 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
12780 o Minor features (geoip):
12781 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12784 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
12785 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
12786 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
12788 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling, backport from 0.2.7.2-alpha):
12789 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
12790 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
12791 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
12792 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
12793 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
12795 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
12796 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
12797 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
12801 Changes in version 0.2.4.28 - 2017-03-03
12802 Tor 0.2.4.28 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
12803 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.4.27 or earlier should upgrade to
12804 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
12807 Note that support for Tor 0.2.4.x is ending soon: we will not issue
12808 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.4.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
12809 a Tor release series with long-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
12811 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
12812 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
12814 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
12815 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
12816 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
12818 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
12819 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
12820 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
12823 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
12824 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
12825 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
12826 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
12827 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
12828 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
12829 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
12830 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
12831 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
12833 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
12834 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
12835 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
12836 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
12837 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
12838 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
12839 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
12840 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
12841 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
12843 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
12844 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
12845 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
12846 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
12847 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
12850 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
12851 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
12852 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
12853 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
12854 Reported by Guido Vranken.
12856 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
12857 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
12858 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
12860 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
12861 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
12862 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
12863 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
12864 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
12865 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
12868 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
12869 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
12870 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
12871 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
12872 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
12873 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
12874 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
12877 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
12878 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
12879 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
12880 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
12881 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
12882 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
12883 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
12885 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
12886 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
12887 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
12888 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
12891 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
12892 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
12893 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
12894 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
12896 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
12897 - Make it harder for attackers to overload hidden services with
12898 introductions, by blocking multiple introduction requests on the
12899 same circuit. Resolves ticket 15515.
12901 o Minor features (geoip):
12902 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12905 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
12906 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
12907 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
12909 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
12910 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
12911 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
12915 Changes in version 0.3.0.4-rc - 2017-03-01
12916 Tor 0.3.0.4-rc fixes some remaining bugs, large and small, in the
12917 0.3.0 release series, and introduces a few reliability features to
12918 keep them from coming back.
12920 This is the first release candidate in the Tor 0.3.0 series. If we
12921 find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable 0.3.0 release
12922 will be nearly identical to it.
12924 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
12925 - When the same bridge is configured multiple times with the same
12926 identity, but at different address:port combinations, treat those
12927 bridge instances as separate guards. This fix restores the ability
12928 of clients to configure the same bridge with multiple pluggable
12929 transports. Fixes bug 21027; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12931 o Major bugfixes (hidden service directory v3):
12932 - Stop crashing on a failed v3 hidden service descriptor lookup
12933 failure. Fixes bug 21471; bugfixes on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12935 o Major bugfixes (parsing):
12936 - When parsing a malformed content-length field from an HTTP
12937 message, do not read off the end of the buffer. This bug was a
12938 potential remote denial-of-service attack against Tor clients and
12939 relays. A workaround was released in October 2016, to prevent this
12940 bug from crashing Tor. This is a fix for the underlying issue,
12941 which should no longer matter (if you applied the earlier patch).
12942 Fixes bug 20894; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Bug found by fuzzing
12943 using AFL (http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/).
12944 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
12945 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
12946 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
12947 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
12948 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
12949 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
12951 o Minor feature (protocol versioning):
12952 - Add new protocol version for proposal 224. HSIntro now advertises
12953 version "3-4" and HSDir version "1-2". Fixes ticket 20656.
12955 o Minor features (directory authorities):
12956 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors that claim to be
12957 malformed versions of Tor. Helps prevent exploitation of
12959 - Reject version numbers with components that exceed INT32_MAX.
12960 Otherwise 32-bit and 64-bit platforms would behave inconsistently.
12961 Fixes bug 21450; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
12962 - Directory authorities now reject relays running versions
12963 0.2.9.1-alpha through 0.2.9.4-alpha, because those relays
12964 suffer from bug 20499 and don't keep their consensus cache
12965 up-to-date. Resolves ticket 20509.
12967 o Minor features (geoip):
12968 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12971 o Minor features (reliability, crash):
12972 - Try better to detect problems in buffers where they might grow (or
12973 think they have grown) over 2 GB in size. Diagnostic for
12976 o Minor features (testing):
12977 - During 'make test-network-all', if tor logs any warnings, ask
12978 chutney to output them. Requires a recent version of chutney with
12979 the 21572 patch. Implements 21570.
12981 o Minor bugfixes (certificate expiration time):
12982 - Avoid using link certificates that don't become valid till some
12983 time in the future. Fixes bug 21420; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha
12985 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
12986 - Repair a couple of (unreachable or harmless) cases of the risky
12987 comparison-by-subtraction pattern that caused bug 21278.
12988 - Remove a redundant check for the UseEntryGuards option from the
12989 options_transition_affects_guards() function. Fixes bug 21492;
12990 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12992 o Minor bugfixes (directory mirrors):
12993 - Allow relays to use directory mirrors without a DirPort: these
12994 relays need to be contacted over their ORPorts using a begindir
12995 connection. Fixes one case of bug 20711; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
12996 - Clarify the message logged when a remote relay is unexpectedly
12997 missing an ORPort or DirPort: users were confusing this with a
12998 local port. Fixes another case of bug 20711; bugfix
13001 o Minor bugfixes (guards):
13002 - Don't warn about a missing guard state on timeout-measurement
13003 circuits: they aren't supposed to be using guards. Fixes an
13004 instance of bug 21007; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13005 - Silence a BUG() warning when attempting to use a guard whose
13006 descriptor we don't know, and make this scenario less likely to
13007 happen. Fixes bug 21415; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13009 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
13010 - Pass correct buffer length when encoding legacy ESTABLISH_INTRO
13011 cells. Previously, we were using sizeof() on a pointer, instead of
13012 the real destination buffer. Fortunately, that value was only used
13013 to double-check that there was enough room--which was already
13014 enforced elsewhere. Fixes bug 21553; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13016 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
13017 - Fix Raspbian build issues related to missing socket errno in
13018 test_util.c. Fixes bug 21116; bugfix on 0.2.8.2. Patch
13020 - Rename "make fuzz" to "make test-fuzz-corpora", since it doesn't
13021 actually fuzz anything. Fixes bug 21447; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
13022 - Use bash in src/test/test-network.sh. This ensures we reliably
13023 call chutney's newer tools/test-network.sh when available. Fixes
13024 bug 21562; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
13027 - Small fixes to the fuzzing documentation. Closes ticket 21472.
13030 Changes in version 0.2.9.10 - 2017-03-01
13031 Tor 0.2.9.10 backports a security fix from later Tor release. It also
13032 includes fixes for some major issues affecting directory authorities,
13033 LibreSSL compatibility, and IPv6 correctness.
13035 The Tor 0.2.9.x release series is now marked as a long-term-support
13036 series. We intend to backport security fixes to 0.2.9.x until at
13037 least January of 2020.
13039 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, 0.3.0.3-alpha):
13040 - During voting, when marking a relay as a probable sybil, do not
13041 clear its BadExit flag: sybils can still be bad in other ways
13042 too. (We still clear the other flags.) Fixes bug 21108; bugfix
13045 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 Exits, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
13046 - Stop rejecting all IPv6 traffic on Exits whose exit policy rejects
13047 any IPv6 addresses. Instead, only reject a port over IPv6 if the
13048 exit policy rejects that port on more than an IPv6 /16 of
13049 addresses. This bug was made worse by 17027 in 0.2.8.1-alpha,
13050 which rejected a relay's own IPv6 address by default. Fixes bug
13051 21357; bugfix on commit 004f3f4e53 in 0.2.4.7-alpha.
13053 o Major bugfixes (parsing, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
13054 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
13055 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
13056 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
13057 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
13058 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
13059 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
13061 o Minor features (directory authorities, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
13062 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors that claim to be
13063 malformed versions of Tor. Helps prevent exploitation of
13065 - Reject version numbers with components that exceed INT32_MAX.
13066 Otherwise 32-bit and 64-bit platforms would behave inconsistently.
13067 Fixes bug 21450; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
13069 o Minor features (geoip):
13070 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13073 o Minor features (portability, compilation, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
13074 - Autoconf now checks to determine if OpenSSL structures are opaque,
13075 instead of explicitly checking for OpenSSL version numbers. Part
13077 - Support building with recent LibreSSL code that uses opaque
13078 structures. Closes ticket 21359.
13080 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
13081 - Repair a couple of (unreachable or harmless) cases of the risky
13082 comparison-by-subtraction pattern that caused bug 21278.
13084 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
13085 - The tor-resolve command line tool now rejects hostnames over 255
13086 characters in length. Previously, it would silently truncate them,
13087 which could lead to bugs. Fixes bug 21280; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
13088 Patch by "junglefowl".
13091 Changes in version 0.3.0.3-alpha - 2017-02-03
13092 Tor 0.3.0.3-alpha fixes a few significant bugs introduced over the
13093 0.3.0.x development series, including some that could cause
13094 authorities to behave badly. There is also a fix for a longstanding
13095 bug that could prevent IPv6 exits from working. Tor 0.3.0.3-alpha also
13096 includes some smaller features and bugfixes.
13098 The Tor 0.3.0.x release series is now in patch-freeze: no additional
13099 features will be considered for inclusion in 0.3.0.x. We suspect that
13100 some bugs will probably remain, however, and we encourage people to
13103 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
13104 - During voting, when marking a relay as a probable sybil, do not
13105 clear its BadExit flag: sybils can still be bad in other ways
13106 too. (We still clear the other flags.) Fixes bug 21108; bugfix
13108 - When deciding whether we have just found a router to be reachable,
13109 do not penalize it for not having performed an Ed25519 link
13110 handshake if it does not claim to support an Ed25519 handshake.
13111 Previously, we would treat such relays as non-running. Fixes bug
13112 21107; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13114 o Major bugfixes (entry guards):
13115 - Stop trying to build circuits through entry guards for which we
13116 have no descriptor. Also, stop crashing in the case that we *do*
13117 accidentally try to build a circuit in such a state. Fixes bug
13118 21242; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13120 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 Exits):
13121 - Stop rejecting all IPv6 traffic on Exits whose exit policy rejects
13122 any IPv6 addresses. Instead, only reject a port over IPv6 if the
13123 exit policy rejects that port on more than an IPv6 /16 of
13124 addresses. This bug was made worse by 17027 in 0.2.8.1-alpha,
13125 which rejected a relay's own IPv6 address by default. Fixes bug
13126 21357; bugfix on commit 004f3f4e53 in 0.2.4.7-alpha.
13128 o Minor feature (client):
13129 - Enable IPv6 traffic on the SocksPort by default. To disable this,
13130 a user will have to specify "NoIPv6Traffic". Closes ticket 21269.
13132 o Minor feature (fallback scripts):
13133 - Add a check_existing mode to updateFallbackDirs.py, which checks
13134 if fallbacks in the hard-coded list are working. Closes ticket
13135 20174. Patch by haxxpop.
13137 o Minor features (ciphersuite selection):
13138 - Clients now advertise a list of ciphersuites closer to the ones
13139 preferred by Firefox. Closes part of ticket 15426.
13140 - Allow relays to accept a wider range of ciphersuites, including
13141 chacha20-poly1305 and AES-CCM. Closes the other part of 15426.
13143 o Minor features (controller, configuration):
13144 - Each of the *Port options, such as SocksPort, ORPort, ControlPort,
13145 and so on, now comes with a __*Port variant that will not be saved
13146 to the torrc file by the controller's SAVECONF command. This
13147 change allows TorBrowser to set up a single-use domain socket for
13148 each time it launches Tor. Closes ticket 20956.
13149 - The GETCONF command can now query options that may only be
13150 meaningful in context-sensitive lists. This allows the controller
13151 to query the mixed SocksPort/__SocksPort style options introduced
13152 in feature 20956. Implements ticket 21300.
13154 o Minor features (portability, compilation):
13155 - Autoconf now checks to determine if OpenSSL structures are opaque,
13156 instead of explicitly checking for OpenSSL version numbers. Part
13158 - Support building with recent LibreSSL code that uses opaque
13159 structures. Closes ticket 21359.
13161 o Minor features (relay):
13162 - We now allow separation of exit and relay traffic to different
13163 source IP addresses, using the OutboundBindAddressExit and
13164 OutboundBindAddressOR options respectively. Closes ticket 17975.
13165 Written by Michael Sonntag.
13167 o Minor bugfix (logging):
13168 - Don't recommend the use of Tor2web in non-anonymous mode.
13169 Recommending Tor2web is a bad idea because the client loses all
13170 anonymity. Tor2web should only be used in specific cases by users
13171 who *know* and understand the issues. Fixes bug 21294; bugfix
13174 o Minor bugfixes (client):
13175 - Always recover from failures in extend_info_from_node(), in an
13176 attempt to prevent any recurrence of bug 21242. Fixes bug 21372;
13177 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
13179 o Minor bugfixes (client, entry guards):
13180 - Fix a bug warning (with backtrace) when we fail a channel that
13181 circuits to fallback directories on it. Fixes bug 21128; bugfix
13183 - Fix a spurious bug warning (with backtrace) when removing an
13184 expired entry guard. Fixes bug 21129; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13185 - Fix a bug of the new guard algorithm where tor could stall for up
13186 to 10 minutes before retrying a guard after a long period of no
13187 network. Fixes bug 21052; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13188 - Do not try to build circuits until we have descriptors for our
13189 primary entry guards. Related to fix for bug 21242.
13191 o Minor bugfixes (configure, autoconf):
13192 - Rename the configure option --enable-expensive-hardening to
13193 --enable-fragile-hardening. Expensive hardening makes the tor
13194 daemon abort when some kinds of issues are detected. Thus, it
13195 makes tor more at risk of remote crashes but safer against RCE or
13196 heartbleed bug category. We now try to explain this issue in a
13197 message from the configure script. Fixes bug 21290; bugfix
13200 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
13201 - Restore the (deprecated) DROPGUARDS controller command. Fixes bug
13202 20824; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13204 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
13205 - Clean up the code for expiring intro points with no associated
13206 circuits. It was causing, rarely, a service with some expiring
13207 introduction points to not open enough additional introduction
13208 points. Fixes part of bug 21302; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13209 - Stop setting the torrc option HiddenServiceStatistics to "0" just
13210 because we're not a bridge or relay. Instead, we preserve whatever
13211 value the user set (or didn't set). Fixes bug 21150; bugfix
13213 - Resolve two possible underflows which could lead to creating and
13214 closing a lot of introduction point circuits in a non-stop loop.
13215 Fixes bug 21302; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13217 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
13218 - Use "OpenBSD" compiler macro instead of "OPENBSD" or "__OpenBSD__".
13219 It is supported by OpenBSD itself, and also by most OpenBSD
13220 variants (such as Bitrig). Fixes bug 20980; bugfix
13222 - When mapping a file of length greater than SIZE_MAX, do not
13223 silently truncate its contents. This issue could occur on 32 bit
13224 systems with large file support and files which are larger than 4
13225 GB. Fixes bug 21134; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13227 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve):
13228 - The tor-resolve command line tool now rejects hostnames over 255
13229 characters in length. Previously, it would silently truncate them,
13230 which could lead to bugs. Fixes bug 21280; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
13231 Patch by "junglefowl".
13233 o Minor bugfixes (Windows services):
13234 - Be sure to initialize the monotonic time subsystem before using
13235 it, even when running as an NT service. Fixes bug 21356; bugfix
13239 Changes in version 0.3.0.2-alpha - 2017-01-23
13240 Tor 0.3.0.2-alpha fixes a denial-of-service bug where an attacker could
13241 cause relays and clients to crash, even if they were not built with
13242 the --enable-expensive-hardening option. This bug affects all 0.2.9.x
13243 versions, and also affects 0.3.0.1-alpha: all relays running an affected
13244 version should upgrade.
13246 Tor 0.3.0.2-alpha also improves how exit relays and clients handle DNS
13247 time-to-live values, makes directory authorities enforce the 1-to-1
13248 mapping of relay RSA identity keys to ED25519 identity keys, fixes a
13249 client-side onion service reachability bug, does better at selecting
13250 the set of fallback directories, and more.
13252 o Major bugfixes (security, also in 0.2.9.9):
13253 - Downgrade the "-ftrapv" option from "always on" to "only on when
13254 --enable-expensive-hardening is provided." This hardening option, like
13255 others, can turn survivable bugs into crashes--and having it on by
13256 default made a (relatively harmless) integer overflow bug into a
13257 denial-of-service bug. Fixes bug 21278 (TROVE-2017-001); bugfix on
13260 o Major features (security):
13261 - Change the algorithm used to decide DNS TTLs on client and server
13262 side, to better resist DNS-based correlation attacks like the
13263 DefecTor attack of Greschbach, Pulls, Roberts, Winter, and
13264 Feamster. Now relays only return one of two possible DNS TTL
13265 values, and clients are willing to believe DNS TTL values up to 3
13266 hours long. Closes ticket 19769.
13268 o Major features (directory authority, security):
13269 - The default for AuthDirPinKeys is now 1: directory authorities
13270 will reject relays where the RSA identity key matches a previously
13271 seen value, but the Ed25519 key has changed. Closes ticket 18319.
13273 o Major bugfixes (client, guard, crash):
13274 - In circuit_get_global_origin_list(), return the actual list of
13275 origin circuits. The previous version of this code returned the
13276 list of all the circuits, and could have caused strange bugs,
13277 including possible crashes. Fixes bug 21118; bugfix
13280 o Major bugfixes (client, onion service, also in 0.2.9.9):
13281 - Fix a client-side onion service reachability bug, where multiple
13282 socks requests to an onion service (or a single slow request)
13283 could cause us to mistakenly mark some of the service's
13284 introduction points as failed, and we cache that failure so
13285 eventually we run out and can't reach the service. Also resolves a
13286 mysterious "Remote server sent bogus reason code 65021" log
13287 warning. The bug was introduced in ticket 17218, where we tried to
13288 remember the circuit end reason as a uint16_t, which mangled
13289 negative values. Partially fixes bug 21056 and fixes bug 20307;
13290 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13292 o Major bugfixes (DNS):
13293 - Fix a bug that prevented exit nodes from caching DNS records for
13294 more than 60 seconds. Fixes bug 19025; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
13296 o Minor features (controller):
13297 - Add "GETINFO sr/current" and "GETINFO sr/previous" keys, to expose
13298 shared-random values to the controller. Closes ticket 19925.
13300 o Minor features (entry guards):
13301 - Add UseEntryGuards to TEST_OPTIONS_DEFAULT_VALUES in order to not
13302 break regression tests.
13303 - Require UseEntryGuards when UseBridges is set, in order to make
13304 sure bridges aren't bypassed. Resolves ticket 20502.
13306 o Minor features (fallback directories):
13307 - Select 200 fallback directories for each release. Closes
13309 - Allow 3 fallback relays per operator, which is safe now that we
13310 are choosing 200 fallback relays. Closes ticket 20912.
13311 - Exclude relays affected by bug 20499 from the fallback list.
13312 Exclude relays from the fallback list if they are running versions
13313 known to be affected by bug 20499, or if in our tests they deliver
13314 a stale consensus (i.e. one that expired more than 24 hours ago).
13315 Closes ticket 20539.
13316 - Reduce the minimum fallback bandwidth to 1 MByte/s. Part of
13318 - Require fallback directories to have the same address and port for
13319 7 days (now that we have enough relays with this stability).
13320 Relays whose OnionOO stability timer is reset on restart by bug
13321 18050 should upgrade to Tor 0.2.8.7 or later, which has a fix for
13322 this issue. Closes ticket 20880; maintains short-term fix
13324 - Require fallbacks to have flags for 90% of the time (weighted
13325 decaying average), rather than 95%. This allows at least 73% of
13326 clients to bootstrap in the first 5 seconds without contacting an
13327 authority. Part of ticket 18828.
13328 - Annotate updateFallbackDirs.py with the bandwidth and consensus
13329 weight for each candidate fallback. Closes ticket 20878.
13330 - Make it easier to change the output sort order of fallbacks.
13331 Closes ticket 20822.
13332 - Display the relay fingerprint when downloading consensuses from
13333 fallbacks. Closes ticket 20908.
13335 o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.9.9):
13336 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13339 o Minor features (next-gen onion service directories):
13340 - Remove the "EnableOnionServicesV3" consensus parameter that we
13341 introduced in 0.3.0.1-alpha: relays are now always willing to act
13342 as v3 onion service directories. Resolves ticket 19899.
13344 o Minor features (linting):
13345 - Enhance the changes file linter to warn on Tor versions that are
13346 prefixed with "tor-". Closes ticket 21096.
13348 o Minor features (logging):
13349 - In several places, describe unset ed25519 keys as "<unset>",
13350 rather than the scary "AAAAAAAA...AAA". Closes ticket 21037.
13352 o Minor bugfix (control protocol):
13353 - The reply to a "GETINFO config/names" request via the control
13354 protocol now spells the type "Dependent" correctly. This is a
13355 breaking change in the control protocol. (The field seems to be
13356 ignored by the most common known controllers.) Fixes bug 18146;
13357 bugfix on 0.1.1.4-alpha.
13359 o Minor bugfixes (bug resilience):
13360 - Fix an unreachable size_t overflow in base64_decode(). Fixes bug
13361 19222; bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Found by Guido Vranken; fixed by
13362 Hans Jerry Illikainen.
13364 o Minor bugfixes (build):
13365 - Replace obsolete Autoconf macros with their modern equivalent and
13366 prevent similar issues in the future. Fixes bug 20990; bugfix
13369 o Minor bugfixes (client, guards):
13370 - Fix bug where Tor would think that there are circuits waiting for
13371 better guards even though those circuits have been freed. Fixes
13372 bug 21142; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13374 o Minor bugfixes (config):
13375 - Don't assert on startup when trying to get the options list and
13376 LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is set to 0: we are currently parsing the
13377 options so of course they aren't ready yet. Fixes bug 21062;
13378 bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
13380 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
13381 - Make the GETINFO interface for inquiring about entry guards
13382 support the new guards backend. Fixes bug 20823; bugfix
13385 o Minor bugfixes (dead code):
13386 - Remove a redundant check for PidFile changes at runtime in
13387 options_transition_allowed(): this check is already performed
13388 regardless of whether the sandbox is active. Fixes bug 21123;
13389 bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
13391 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
13392 - Update the tor manual page to document every option that can not
13393 be changed while tor is running. Fixes bug 21122.
13395 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
13396 - Stop failing when a relay has no uptime data in
13397 updateFallbackDirs.py. Fixes bug 20945; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13398 - Avoid checking fallback candidates' DirPorts if they are down in
13399 OnionOO. When a relay operator has multiple relays, this
13400 prioritizes relays that are up over relays that are down. Fixes
13401 bug 20926; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
13402 - Stop failing when OUTPUT_COMMENTS is True in updateFallbackDirs.py.
13403 Fixes bug 20877; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
13405 o Minor bugfixes (guards, bootstrapping):
13406 - When connecting to a directory guard during bootstrap, do not mark
13407 the guard as successful until we receive a good-looking directory
13408 response from it. Fixes bug 20974; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13410 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
13411 - Fix the config reload pruning of old vs new services so it
13412 actually works when both ephemeral and non-ephemeral services are
13413 configured. Fixes bug 21054; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13414 - Allow the number of introduction points to be as low as 0, rather
13415 than as low as 3. Fixes bug 21033; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13417 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
13418 - Make IPv6-using clients try harder to find an IPv6 directory
13419 server. Fixes bug 20999; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
13420 - When IPv6 addresses have not been downloaded yet (microdesc
13421 consensus documents don't list relay IPv6 addresses), use hard-
13422 coded addresses for authorities, fallbacks, and configured
13423 bridges. Now IPv6-only clients can use microdescriptors. Fixes bug
13424 20996; bugfix on b167e82 from 19608 in 0.2.8.5-alpha.
13426 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
13427 - Fix a memory leak when configuring hidden services. Fixes bug
13428 20987; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13430 o Minor bugfixes (portability, also in 0.2.9.9):
13431 - Avoid crashing when Tor is built using headers that contain
13432 CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, but then tries to run on an older kernel
13433 without CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE. Fixes bug 21035; bugfix
13435 - Fix Libevent detection on platforms without Libevent 1 headers
13436 installed. Fixes bug 21051; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
13438 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
13439 - Honor DataDirectoryGroupReadable when tor is a relay. Previously,
13440 initializing the keys would reset the DataDirectory to 0700
13441 instead of 0750 even if DataDirectoryGroupReadable was set to 1.
13442 Fixes bug 19953; bugfix on 0.0.2pre16. Patch by "redfish".
13444 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
13445 - Remove undefined behavior from the backtrace generator by removing
13446 its signal handler. Fixes bug 21026; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
13448 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
13449 - Allow the unit tests to pass even when DNS lookups of bogus
13450 addresses do not fail as expected. Fixes bug 20862 and 20863;
13451 bugfix on unit tests introduced in 0.2.8.1-alpha
13452 through 0.2.9.4-alpha.
13454 o Code simplification and refactoring:
13455 - Refactor code to manipulate global_origin_circuit_list into
13456 separate functions. Closes ticket 20921.
13458 o Documentation (formatting):
13459 - Clean up formatting of tor.1 man page and HTML doc, where <pre>
13460 blocks were incorrectly appearing. Closes ticket 20885.
13462 o Documentation (man page):
13463 - Clarify many options in tor.1 and add some min/max values for
13464 HiddenService options. Closes ticket 21058.
13467 Changes in version 0.2.9.9 - 2017-01-23
13468 Tor 0.2.9.9 fixes a denial-of-service bug where an attacker could
13469 cause relays and clients to crash, even if they were not built with
13470 the --enable-expensive-hardening option. This bug affects all 0.2.9.x
13471 versions, and also affects 0.3.0.1-alpha: all relays running an affected
13472 version should upgrade.
13474 This release also resolves a client-side onion service reachability
13475 bug, and resolves a pair of small portability issues.
13477 o Major bugfixes (security):
13478 - Downgrade the "-ftrapv" option from "always on" to "only on when
13479 --enable-expensive-hardening is provided." This hardening option,
13480 like others, can turn survivable bugs into crashes -- and having
13481 it on by default made a (relatively harmless) integer overflow bug
13482 into a denial-of-service bug. Fixes bug 21278 (TROVE-2017-001);
13483 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
13485 o Major bugfixes (client, onion service):
13486 - Fix a client-side onion service reachability bug, where multiple
13487 socks requests to an onion service (or a single slow request)
13488 could cause us to mistakenly mark some of the service's
13489 introduction points as failed, and we cache that failure so
13490 eventually we run out and can't reach the service. Also resolves a
13491 mysterious "Remote server sent bogus reason code 65021" log
13492 warning. The bug was introduced in ticket 17218, where we tried to
13493 remember the circuit end reason as a uint16_t, which mangled
13494 negative values. Partially fixes bug 21056 and fixes bug 20307;
13495 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13497 o Minor features (geoip):
13498 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13501 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
13502 - Avoid crashing when Tor is built using headers that contain
13503 CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, but then tries to run on an older kernel
13504 without CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE. Fixes bug 21035; bugfix
13506 - Fix Libevent detection on platforms without Libevent 1 headers
13507 installed. Fixes bug 21051; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
13510 Changes in version 0.3.0.1-alpha - 2016-12-19
13511 Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha is the first alpha release in the 0.3.0 development
13512 series. It strengthens Tor's link and circuit handshakes by
13513 identifying relays by their Ed25519 keys, improves the algorithm that
13514 clients use to choose and maintain their list of guards, and includes
13515 additional backend support for the next-generation hidden service
13516 design. It also contains numerous other small features and
13517 improvements to security, correctness, and performance.
13519 Below are the changes since 0.2.9.8.
13521 o Major features (guard selection algorithm):
13522 - Tor's guard selection algorithm has been redesigned from the
13523 ground up, to better support unreliable networks and restrictive
13524 sets of entry nodes, and to better resist guard-capture attacks by
13525 hostile local networks. Implements proposal 271; closes
13528 o Major features (next-generation hidden services):
13529 - Relays can now handle v3 ESTABLISH_INTRO cells as specified by
13530 prop224 aka "Next Generation Hidden Services". Service and clients
13531 don't use this functionality yet. Closes ticket 19043. Based on
13532 initial code by Alec Heifetz.
13533 - Relays now support the HSDir version 3 protocol, so that they can
13534 can store and serve v3 descriptors. This is part of the next-
13535 generation onion service work detailed in proposal 224. Closes
13538 o Major features (protocol, ed25519 identity keys):
13539 - Relays now use Ed25519 to prove their Ed25519 identities and to
13540 one another, and to clients. This algorithm is faster and more
13541 secure than the RSA-based handshake we've been doing until now.
13542 Implements the second big part of proposal 220; Closes
13544 - Clients now support including Ed25519 identity keys in the EXTEND2
13545 cells they generate. By default, this is controlled by a consensus
13546 parameter, currently disabled. You can turn this feature on for
13547 testing by setting ExtendByEd25519ID in your configuration. This
13548 might make your traffic appear different than the traffic
13549 generated by other users, however. Implements part of ticket
13550 15056; part of proposal 220.
13551 - Relays now understand requests to extend to other relays by their
13552 Ed25519 identity keys. When an Ed25519 identity key is included in
13553 an EXTEND2 cell, the relay will only extend the circuit if the
13554 other relay can prove ownership of that identity. Implements part
13555 of ticket 15056; part of proposal 220.
13557 o Major bugfixes (scheduler):
13558 - Actually compare circuit policies in ewma_cmp_cmux(). This bug
13559 caused the channel scheduler to behave more or less randomly,
13560 rather than preferring channels with higher-priority circuits.
13561 Fixes bug 20459; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
13563 o Minor features (controller):
13564 - When HSFETCH arguments cannot be parsed, say "Invalid argument"
13565 rather than "unrecognized." Closes ticket 20389; patch from
13568 o Minor features (diagnostic, directory client):
13569 - Warn when we find an unexpected inconsistency in directory
13570 download status objects. Prevents some negative consequences of
13573 o Minor features (directory authority):
13574 - Add a new authority-only AuthDirTestEd25519LinkKeys option (on by
13575 default) to control whether authorities should try to probe relays
13576 by their Ed25519 link keys. This option will go away in a few
13577 releases--unless we encounter major trouble in our ed25519 link
13578 protocol rollout, in which case it will serve as a safety option.
13580 o Minor features (directory cache):
13581 - Relays and bridges will now refuse to serve the consensus they
13582 have if they know it is too old for a client to use. Closes
13585 o Minor features (ed25519 link handshake):
13586 - Advertise support for the ed25519 link handshake using the
13587 subprotocol-versions mechanism, so that clients can tell which
13588 relays can identity themselves by Ed25519 ID. Closes ticket 20552.
13590 o Minor features (fingerprinting resistance, authentication):
13591 - Extend the length of RSA keys used for TLS link authentication to
13592 2048 bits. (These weren't used for forward secrecy; for forward
13593 secrecy, we used P256.) Closes ticket 13752.
13595 o Minor features (infrastructure):
13596 - Implement smartlist_add_strdup() function. Replaces the use of
13597 smartlist_add(sl, tor_strdup(str)). Closes ticket 20048.
13599 o Minor bugfixes (client):
13600 - When clients that use bridges start up with a cached consensus on
13601 disk, they were ignoring it and downloading a new one. Now they
13602 use the cached one. Fixes bug 20269; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
13604 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
13605 - Accept non-space whitespace characters after the severity level in
13606 the `Log` option. Fixes bug 19965; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
13607 - Support "TByte" and "TBytes" units in options given in bytes.
13608 "TB", "terabyte(s)", "TBit(s)" and "terabit(s)" were already
13609 supported. Fixes bug 20622; bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
13611 o Minor bugfixes (consensus weight):
13612 - Add new consensus method that initializes bw weights to 1 instead
13613 of 0. This prevents a zero weight from making it all the way to
13614 the end (happens in small testing networks) and causing an error.
13615 Fixes bug 14881; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
13617 o Minor bugfixes (descriptors):
13618 - Correctly recognise downloaded full descriptors as valid, even
13619 when using microdescriptors as circuits. This affects clients with
13620 FetchUselessDescriptors set, and may affect directory authorities.
13621 Fixes bug 20839; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
13623 o Minor bugfixes (directory system):
13624 - Download all consensus flavors, descriptors, and authority
13625 certificates when FetchUselessDescriptors is set, regardless of
13626 whether tor is a directory cache or not. Fixes bug 20667; bugfix
13627 on all recent tor versions.
13628 - Bridges and relays now use microdescriptors (like clients do)
13629 rather than old-style router descriptors. Now bridges will blend
13630 in with clients in terms of the circuits they build. Fixes bug
13631 6769; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
13633 o Minor bugfixes (ed25519 certificates):
13634 - Correctly interpret ed25519 certificates that would expire some
13635 time after 19 Jan 2038. Fixes bug 20027; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13637 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
13638 - Stop ignoring misconfigured hidden services. Instead, refuse to
13639 start tor until the misconfigurations have been corrected. Fixes
13640 bug 20559; bugfix on multiple commits in 0.2.7.1-alpha
13643 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak at exit):
13644 - Fix a small harmless memory leak at exit of the previously unused
13645 RSA->Ed identity cross-certificate. Fixes bug 17779; bugfix
13648 o Minor bugfixes (util):
13649 - When finishing writing a file to disk, if we were about to replace
13650 the file with the temporary file created before and we fail to
13651 replace it, remove the temporary file so it doesn't stay on disk.
13652 Fixes bug 20646; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Patch by fk.
13654 o Minor bugfixes (Windows):
13655 - Check for getpagesize before using it to mmap files. This fixes
13656 compilation in some MinGW environments. Fixes bug 20530; bugfix on
13657 0.1.2.1-alpha. Reported by "ice".
13659 o Code simplification and refactoring:
13660 - Abolish all global guard context in entrynodes.c; replace with new
13661 guard_selection_t structure as preparation for proposal 271.
13662 Closes ticket 19858.
13663 - Introduce rend_service_is_ephemeral() that tells if given onion
13664 service is ephemeral. Replace unclear NULL-checkings for service
13665 directory with this function. Closes ticket 20526.
13666 - Extract magic numbers in circuituse.c into defined variables.
13667 - Refactor circuit_is_available_for_use to remove unnecessary check.
13668 - Refactor circuit_predict_and_launch_new for readability and
13669 testability. Closes ticket 18873.
13670 - Refactor large if statement in purpose_needs_anonymity to use
13671 switch statement instead. Closes part of ticket 20077.
13672 - Refactor the hashing API to return negative values for errors, as
13673 is done as throughout the codebase. Closes ticket 20717.
13674 - Remove data structures that were used to index or_connection
13675 objects by their RSA identity digests. These structures are fully
13676 redundant with the similar structures used in the
13677 channel abstraction.
13678 - Remove duplicate code in the channel_write_*cell() functions.
13679 Closes ticket 13827; patch from Pingl.
13680 - Remove redundant behavior of is_sensitive_dir_purpose, refactor to
13681 use only purpose_needs_anonymity. Closes part of ticket 20077.
13682 - The code to generate and parse EXTEND and EXTEND2 cells has been
13683 replaced with code automatically generated by the
13687 - Include the "TBits" unit in Tor's man page. Fixes part of bug
13688 20622; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
13689 - Change '1' to 'weight_scale' in consensus bw weights calculation
13690 comments, as that is reality. Closes ticket 20273. Patch
13692 - Correct the value for AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee in the manpage, from
13693 250 KBytes to 2 MBytes. Fixes bug 20435; bugfix
13695 - Stop the man page from incorrectly stating that HiddenServiceDir
13696 must already exist. Fixes 20486.
13697 - Clarify that when ClientRejectInternalAddresses is enabled (which
13698 is the default), multicast DNS hostnames for machines on the local
13699 network (of the form *.local) are also rejected. Closes
13702 o Removed features:
13703 - The AuthDirMaxServersPerAuthAddr option no longer exists: The same
13704 limit for relays running on a single IP applies to authority IP
13705 addresses as well as to non-authority IP addresses. Closes
13707 - The UseDirectoryGuards torrc option no longer exists: all users
13708 that use entry guards will also use directory guards. Related to
13709 proposal 271; implements part of ticket 20831.
13712 - New unit tests for tor_htonll(). Closes ticket 19563. Patch
13713 from "overcaffeinated".
13714 - Perform the coding style checks when running the tests and fail
13715 when coding style violations are found. Closes ticket 5500.
13716 - Add tests for networkstatus_compute_bw_weights_v10.
13717 - Add unit tests circuit_predict_and_launch_new.
13718 - Extract dummy_origin_circuit_new so it can be used by other
13722 Changes in version 0.2.8.12 - 2016-12-19
13723 Tor 0.2.8.12 backports a fix for a medium-severity issue (bug 21018
13724 below) where Tor clients could crash when attempting to visit a
13725 hostile hidden service. Clients are recommended to upgrade as packages
13726 become available for their systems.
13728 It also includes an updated list of fallback directories, backported
13731 Now that the Tor 0.2.9 series is stable, only major bugfixes will be
13732 backported to 0.2.8 in the future.
13734 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backported from 0.2.9.8):
13735 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
13736 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
13737 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
13738 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
13739 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
13740 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
13741 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
13742 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
13744 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backported from 0.2.9.8):
13745 - Replace the 81 remaining fallbacks of the 100 originally
13746 introduced in Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha in March 2016, with a list of 177
13747 fallbacks (123 new, 54 existing, 27 removed) generated in December
13748 2016. Resolves ticket 20170.
13750 o Minor features (geoip, backported from 0.2.9.7-rc):
13751 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
13755 Changes in version 0.2.9.8 - 2016-12-19
13756 Tor 0.2.9.8 is the first stable release of the Tor 0.2.9 series.
13758 The Tor 0.2.9 series makes mandatory a number of security features
13759 that were formerly optional. It includes support for a new shared-
13760 randomness protocol that will form the basis for next generation
13761 hidden services, includes a single-hop hidden service mode for
13762 optimizing .onion services that don't actually want to be hidden,
13763 tries harder not to overload the directory authorities with excessive
13764 downloads, and supports a better protocol versioning scheme for
13765 improved compatibility with other implementations of the Tor protocol.
13767 And of course, there are numerous other bugfixes and improvements.
13769 This release also includes a fix for a medium-severity issue (bug
13770 21018 below) where Tor clients could crash when attempting to visit a
13771 hostile hidden service. Clients are recommended to upgrade as packages
13772 become available for their systems.
13774 Below are the changes since 0.2.9.7-rc. For a list of all changes
13775 since 0.2.8, see the ReleaseNotes file.
13777 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security):
13778 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
13779 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
13780 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
13781 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
13782 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
13783 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
13784 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
13785 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
13787 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
13788 - Replace the 81 remaining fallbacks of the 100 originally
13789 introduced in Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha in March 2016, with a list of 177
13790 fallbacks (123 new, 54 existing, 27 removed) generated in December
13791 2016. Resolves ticket 20170.
13794 Changes in version 0.2.9.7-rc - 2016-12-12
13795 Tor 0.2.9.7-rc fixes a few small bugs remaining in Tor 0.2.9.6-rc,
13796 including a few that had prevented tests from passing on
13799 o Minor features (geoip):
13800 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
13803 o Minor bugfix (build):
13804 - The current Git revision when building from a local repository is
13805 now detected correctly when using git worktrees. Fixes bug 20492;
13806 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
13808 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
13809 - When computing old Tor protocol line version in protover, we were
13810 looking at 0.2.7.5 twice instead of a specific case for
13811 0.2.9.1-alpha. Fixes bug 20810; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
13813 o Minor bugfixes (download scheduling):
13814 - Resolve a "bug" warning when considering a download schedule whose
13815 delay had approached INT_MAX. Fixes 20875; bugfix on 0.2.9.5-alpha.
13817 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
13818 - Downgrade a harmless log message about the
13819 pending_entry_connections list from "warn" to "info". Mitigates
13822 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
13823 - Fix a small memory leak when receiving AF_UNIX connections on a
13824 SocksPort. Fixes bug 20716; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
13825 - When moving a signed descriptor object from a source to an
13826 existing destination, free the allocated memory inside that
13827 destination object. Fixes bug 20715; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
13829 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, use-after-free, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
13830 - Fix a memory leak and use-after-free error when removing entries
13831 from the sandbox's getaddrinfo() cache. Fixes bug 20710; bugfix on
13832 0.2.5.5-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
13834 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
13835 - Use the correct spelling of MAC_OS_X_VERSION_10_12 on configure.ac
13836 Fixes bug 20935; bugfix on 0.2.9.6-rc.
13838 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
13839 - Stop expecting NetBSD unit tests to report success for ipfw. Part
13840 of a fix for bug 19960; bugfix on 0.2.9.5-alpha.
13841 - Fix tolerances in unit tests for monotonic time comparisons
13842 between nanoseconds and microseconds. Previously, we accepted a 10
13843 us difference only, which is not realistic on every platform's
13844 clock_gettime(). Fixes bug 19974; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
13845 - Remove a double-free in the single onion service unit test. Stop
13846 ignoring a return value. Make future changes less error-prone.
13847 Fixes bug 20864; bugfix on 0.2.9.6-rc.
13850 Changes in version 0.2.8.11 - 2016-12-08
13851 Tor 0.2.8.11 backports fixes for additional portability issues that
13852 could prevent Tor from building correctly on OSX Sierra, or with
13853 OpenSSL 1.1. Affected users should upgrade; others can safely stay
13856 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
13857 - Avoid compilation errors when building on OSX Sierra. Sierra began
13858 to support the getentropy() and clock_gettime() APIs, but created
13859 a few problems in doing so. Tor 0.2.9 has a more thorough set of
13860 workarounds; in 0.2.8, we are just using the /dev/urandom and mach
13861 monotonic time interfaces. Fixes bug 20865. Bugfix
13864 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
13865 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 1.1 and less commonly-used CPU
13866 architectures. Closes ticket 20588.
13869 Changes in version 0.2.8.10 - 2016-12-02
13870 Tor 0.2.8.10 backports a fix for a bug that would sometimes make clients
13871 unusable after they left standby mode. It also backports fixes for
13872 a few portability issues and a small but problematic memory leak.
13874 o Major bugfixes (client reliability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
13875 - When Tor leaves standby because of a new application request, open
13876 circuits as needed to serve that request. Previously, we would
13877 potentially wait a very long time. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
13880 o Major bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
13881 - Clients now respond to new application stream requests immediately
13882 when they arrive, rather than waiting up to one second before
13883 starting to handle them. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
13886 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.6-rc):
13887 - Work around a bug in the OSX 10.12 SDK that would prevent us from
13888 successfully targeting earlier versions of OSX. Resolves
13891 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
13892 - Fix implicit conversion warnings under OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug
13893 20551; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
13895 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
13896 - Work around a memory leak in OpenSSL 1.1 when encoding public
13897 keys. Fixes bug 20553; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
13899 o Minor features (geoip):
13900 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
13903 Changes in version 0.2.9.6-rc - 2016-12-02
13904 Tor 0.2.9.6-rc fixes a few remaining bugs found in the previous alpha
13905 version. We hope that it will be ready to become stable soon, and we
13906 encourage everyone to test this release. If no showstopper bugs are
13907 found here, the next 0.2.9 release will be stable.
13909 o Major bugfixes (relay, resolver, logging):
13910 - For relays that don't know their own address, avoid attempting a
13911 local hostname resolve for each descriptor we download. This
13912 will cut down on the number of "Success: chose address 'x.x.x.x'"
13913 log lines, and also avoid confusing clock jumps if the resolver
13914 is slow. Fixes bugs 20423 and 20610; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13916 o Minor bugfixes (client, fascistfirewall):
13917 - Avoid spurious warnings when ReachableAddresses or FascistFirewall
13918 is set. Fixes bug 20306; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
13920 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
13921 - Stop ignoring the anonymity status of saved keys for hidden
13922 services and single onion services when first starting tor.
13923 Instead, refuse to start tor if any hidden service key has been
13924 used in a different hidden service anonymity mode. Fixes bug
13925 20638; bugfix on 17178 in 0.2.9.3-alpha; reported by ahf.
13927 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
13928 - Work around a bug in the OSX 10.12 SDK that would prevent us from
13929 successfully targeting earlier versions of OSX. Resolves
13931 - Run correctly when built on Windows build environments that
13932 require _vcsprintf(). Fixes bug 20560; bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
13934 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web):
13935 - Stop complaining about long-term one-hop circuits deliberately
13936 created by single onion services and Tor2web. These log messages
13937 are intended to diagnose issue 8387, which relates to circuits
13938 hanging around forever for no reason. Fixes bug 20613; bugfix on
13939 0.2.9.1-alpha. Reported by "pastly".
13941 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
13942 - Stop spurious failures in the local interface address discovery
13943 unit tests. Fixes bug 20634; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha; patch by
13947 - Correct the minimum bandwidth value in torrc.sample, and queue a
13948 corresponding change for torrc.minimal. Closes ticket 20085.
13951 Changes in version 0.2.9.5-alpha - 2016-11-08
13952 Tor 0.2.9.5-alpha fixes numerous bugs discovered in the previous alpha
13953 version. We believe one or two probably remain, and we encourage
13954 everyone to test this release.
13956 o Major bugfixes (client performance):
13957 - Clients now respond to new application stream requests immediately
13958 when they arrive, rather than waiting up to one second before
13959 starting to handle them. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
13962 o Major bugfixes (client reliability):
13963 - When Tor leaves standby because of a new application request, open
13964 circuits as needed to serve that request. Previously, we would
13965 potentially wait a very long time. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
13968 o Major bugfixes (download scheduling):
13969 - When using an exponential backoff schedule, do not give up on
13970 downloading just because we have failed a bunch of times. Since
13971 each delay is longer than the last, retrying indefinitely won't
13972 hurt. Fixes bug 20536; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
13973 - If a consensus expires while we are waiting for certificates to
13974 download, stop waiting for certificates.
13975 - If we stop waiting for certificates less than a minute after we
13976 started downloading them, do not consider the certificate download
13977 failure a separate failure. Fixes bug 20533; bugfix
13979 - Remove the maximum delay on exponential-backoff scheduling. Since
13980 we now allow an infinite number of failures (see ticket 20536), we
13981 must now allow the time to grow longer on each failure. Fixes part
13982 of bug 20534; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
13983 - Make our initial download delays closer to those from 0.2.8. Fixes
13984 another part of bug 20534; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
13985 - When determining when to download a directory object, handle times
13986 after 2038 if the operating system supports them. (Someday this
13987 will be important!) Fixes bug 20587; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13988 - When using exponential backoff in test networks, use a lower
13989 exponent, so the delays do not vary as much. This helps test
13990 networks bootstrap consistently. Fixes bug 20597; bugfix on 20499.
13992 o Minor features (geoip):
13993 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
13996 o Minor bugfixes (client directory scheduling):
13997 - Treat "relay too busy to answer request" as a failed request and a
13998 reason to back off on our retry frequency. This is safe now that
13999 exponential backoffs retry indefinitely, and avoids a bug where we
14000 would reset our download schedule erroneously. Fixes bug 20593;
14001 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
14003 o Minor bugfixes (client, logging):
14004 - Remove a BUG warning in circuit_pick_extend_handshake(). Instead,
14005 assume all nodes support EXTEND2. Use ntor whenever a key is
14006 available. Fixes bug 20472; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
14007 - On DNSPort, stop logging a BUG warning on a failed hostname
14008 lookup. Fixes bug 19869; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
14010 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
14011 - When configuring hidden services, check every hidden service
14012 directory's permissions. Previously, we only checked the last
14013 hidden service. Fixes bug 20529; bugfix the work to fix 13942
14016 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
14017 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 1.1 and less commonly-used CPU
14018 architectures. Closes ticket 20588.
14019 - Use ECDHE ciphers instead of ECDH in tortls tests. LibreSSL has
14020 removed the ECDH ciphers which caused the tests to fail on
14021 platforms which use it. Fixes bug 20460; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14022 - Fix implicit conversion warnings under OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug
14023 20551; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
14025 o Minor bugfixes (relay bootstrap):
14026 - Ensure relays don't make multiple connections during bootstrap.
14027 Fixes bug 20591; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14029 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
14030 - Work around a memory leak in OpenSSL 1.1 when encoding public
14031 keys. Fixes bug 20553; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
14032 - Avoid a small memory leak when informing worker threads about
14033 rotated onion keys. Fixes bug 20401; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
14034 - Do not try to parallelize workers more than 16x without the user
14035 explicitly configuring us to do so, even if we do detect more than
14036 16 CPU cores. Fixes bug 19968; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
14038 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services):
14039 - Start correctly when creating a single onion service in a
14040 directory that did not previously exist. Fixes bug 20484; bugfix
14043 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
14044 - Avoid a unit test failure on systems with over 16 detectable CPU
14045 cores. Fixes bug 19968; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
14048 - Clarify that setting HiddenServiceNonAnonymousMode requires you to
14049 also set "SOCKSPort 0". Fixes bug 20487; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
14050 - Module-level documentation for several more modules. Closes
14051 tickets 19287 and 19290.
14054 Changes in version 0.2.8.9 - 2016-10-17
14055 Tor 0.2.8.9 backports a fix for a security hole in previous versions
14056 of Tor that would allow a remote attacker to crash a Tor client,
14057 hidden service, relay, or authority. All Tor users should upgrade to
14058 this version, or to 0.2.9.4-alpha. Patches will be released for older
14061 o Major features (security fixes, also in 0.2.9.4-alpha):
14062 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
14063 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
14064 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
14065 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
14066 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
14067 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
14068 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
14069 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
14071 o Minor features (geoip):
14072 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
14076 Changes in version 0.2.9.4-alpha - 2016-10-17
14077 Tor 0.2.9.4-alpha fixes a security hole in previous versions of Tor
14078 that would allow a remote attacker to crash a Tor client, hidden
14079 service, relay, or authority. All Tor users should upgrade to this
14080 version, or to 0.2.8.9. Patches will be released for older versions
14083 Tor 0.2.9.4-alpha also adds numerous small features and fix-ups to
14084 previous versions of Tor, including the implementation of a feature to
14085 future- proof the Tor ecosystem against protocol changes, some bug
14086 fixes necessary for Tor Browser to use unix domain sockets correctly,
14087 and several portability improvements. We anticipate that this will be
14088 the last alpha in the Tor 0.2.9 series, and that the next release will
14089 be a release candidate.
14091 o Major features (security fixes):
14092 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
14093 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
14094 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
14095 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
14096 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
14097 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
14098 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
14099 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
14101 o Major features (subprotocol versions):
14102 - Tor directory authorities now vote on a set of recommended
14103 subprotocol versions, and on a set of required subprotocol
14104 versions. Clients and relays that lack support for a _required_
14105 subprotocol version will not start; those that lack support for a
14106 _recommended_ subprotocol version will warn the user to upgrade.
14107 Closes ticket 19958; implements part of proposal 264.
14108 - Tor now uses "subprotocol versions" to indicate compatibility.
14109 Previously, versions of Tor looked at the declared Tor version of
14110 a relay to tell whether they could use a given feature. Now, they
14111 should be able to rely on its declared subprotocol versions. This
14112 change allows compatible implementations of the Tor protocol(s) to
14113 exist without pretending to be 100% bug-compatible with particular
14114 releases of Tor itself. Closes ticket 19958; implements part of
14117 o Minor feature (fallback directories):
14118 - Remove broken fallbacks from the hard-coded fallback directory
14119 list. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor.
14121 o Minor features (client, directory):
14122 - Since authorities now omit all routers that lack the Running and
14123 Valid flags, we assume that any relay listed in the consensus must
14124 have those flags. Closes ticket 20001; implements part of
14127 o Minor features (compilation, portability):
14128 - Compile correctly on MacOS 10.12 (aka "Sierra"). Closes
14131 o Minor features (development tools, etags):
14132 - Teach the "make tags" Makefile target how to correctly find
14133 "MOCK_IMPL" function definitions. Patch from nherring; closes
14136 o Minor features (geoip):
14137 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
14140 o Minor features (unix domain sockets):
14141 - When configuring a unix domain socket for a SocksPort,
14142 ControlPort, or Hidden service, you can now wrap the address in
14143 quotes, using C-style escapes inside the quotes. This allows unix
14144 domain socket paths to contain spaces.
14146 o Minor features (virtual addresses):
14147 - Increase the maximum number of bits for the IPv6 virtual network
14148 prefix from 16 to 104. In this way, the condition for address
14149 allocation is less restrictive. Closes ticket 20151; feature
14152 o Minor bugfixes (address discovery):
14153 - Stop reordering IP addresses returned by the OS. This makes it
14154 more likely that Tor will guess the same relay IP address every
14155 time. Fixes issue 20163; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha, ticket 17027.
14156 Reported by René Mayrhofer, patch by "cypherpunks".
14158 o Minor bugfixes (client, unix domain sockets):
14159 - Disable IsolateClientAddr when using AF_UNIX backed SocksPorts as
14160 the client address is meaningless. Fixes bug 20261; bugfix
14163 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, OpenBSD):
14164 - Detect Libevent2 functions correctly on systems that provide
14165 libevent2, but where libevent1 is linked with -levent. Fixes bug
14166 19904; bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha. Patch from Rubiate.
14168 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
14169 - When parsing quoted configuration values from the torrc file,
14170 handle windows line endings correctly. Fixes bug 19167; bugfix on
14171 0.2.0.16-alpha. Patch from "Pingl".
14173 o Minor bugfixes (getpass):
14174 - Defensively fix a non-triggerable heap corruption at do_getpass()
14175 to protect ourselves from mistakes in the future. Fixes bug
14176 19223; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Bug found by Guido Vranken, patch
14179 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
14180 - Allow hidden services to run on IPv6 addresses even when the
14181 IPv6Exit option is not set. Fixes bug 18357; bugfix
14185 - Add module-level internal documentation for 36 C files that
14186 previously didn't have a high-level overview. Closes ticket #20385.
14188 o Required libraries:
14189 - When building with OpenSSL, Tor now requires version 1.0.1 or
14190 later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 and earlier are no longer supported by the
14191 OpenSSL team, and should not be used. Closes ticket 20303.
14194 Changes in version 0.2.9.3-alpha - 2016-09-23
14195 Tor 0.2.9.3-alpha adds improved support for entities that want to make
14196 high-performance services available through the Tor .onion mechanism
14197 without themselves receiving anonymity as they host those services. It
14198 also tries harder to ensure that all steps on a circuit are using the
14199 strongest crypto possible, strengthens some TLS properties, and
14200 resolves several bugs -- including a pair of crash bugs from the 0.2.8
14201 series. Anybody running an earlier version of 0.2.9.x should upgrade.
14203 o Major bugfixes (crash, also in 0.2.8.8):
14204 - Fix a complicated crash bug that could affect Tor clients
14205 configured to use bridges when replacing a networkstatus consensus
14206 in which one of their bridges was mentioned. OpenBSD users saw
14207 more crashes here, but all platforms were potentially affected.
14208 Fixes bug 20103; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
14210 o Major bugfixes (relay, OOM handler, also in 0.2.8.8):
14211 - Fix a timing-dependent assertion failure that could occur when we
14212 tried to flush from a circuit after having freed its cells because
14213 of an out-of-memory condition. Fixes bug 20203; bugfix on
14214 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to "cypherpunks" for help diagnosing
14217 o Major features (circuit building, security):
14218 - Authorities, relays and clients now require ntor keys in all
14219 descriptors, for all hops (except for rare hidden service protocol
14220 cases), for all circuits, and for all other roles. Part of
14222 - Tor authorities, relays, and clients only use ntor, except for
14223 rare cases in the hidden service protocol. Part of ticket 19163.
14225 o Major features (single-hop "hidden" services):
14226 - Add experimental HiddenServiceSingleHopMode and
14227 HiddenServiceNonAnonymousMode options. When both are set to 1,
14228 every hidden service on a Tor instance becomes a non-anonymous
14229 Single Onion Service. Single Onions make one-hop (direct)
14230 connections to their introduction and rendezvous points. One-hop
14231 circuits make Single Onion servers easily locatable, but clients
14232 remain location-anonymous. This is compatible with the existing
14233 hidden service implementation, and works on the current tor
14234 network without any changes to older relays or clients. Implements
14235 proposal 260, completes ticket 17178. Patch by teor and asn.
14237 o Major features (resource management):
14238 - Tor can now notice it is about to run out of sockets, and
14239 preemptively close connections of lower priority. (This feature is
14240 off by default for now, since the current prioritizing method is
14241 yet not mature enough. You can enable it by setting
14242 "DisableOOSCheck 0", but watch out: it might close some sockets
14243 you would rather have it keep.) Closes ticket 18640.
14245 o Major bugfixes (circuit building):
14246 - Hidden service client-to-intro-point and service-to-rendezvous-
14247 point circuits use the TAP key supplied by the protocol, to avoid
14248 epistemic attacks. Fixes bug 19163; bugfix on 0.2.4.18-rc.
14250 o Major bugfixes (compilation, OpenBSD):
14251 - Fix a Libevent-detection bug in our autoconf script that would
14252 prevent Tor from linking successfully on OpenBSD. Patch from
14253 rubiate. Fixes bug 19902; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
14255 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
14256 - Clients now require hidden services to include the TAP keys for
14257 their intro points in the hidden service descriptor. This prevents
14258 an inadvertent upgrade to ntor, which a malicious hidden service
14259 could use to distinguish clients by consensus version. Fixes bug
14260 20012; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch by teor.
14262 o Minor features (security, TLS):
14263 - Servers no longer support clients that without AES ciphersuites.
14264 (3DES is no longer considered an acceptable cipher.) We believe
14265 that no such Tor clients currently exist, since Tor has required
14266 OpenSSL 0.9.7 or later since 2009. Closes ticket 19998.
14268 o Minor feature (fallback directories):
14269 - Remove 8 fallbacks that are no longer suitable, leaving 81 of the
14270 100 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha in March
14271 2016. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor.
14273 o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.8.8):
14274 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
14277 o Minor feature (port flags):
14278 - Add new flags to the *Port options to finer control over which
14279 requests are allowed. The flags are NoDNSRequest, NoOnionTraffic,
14280 and the synthetic flag OnionTrafficOnly, which is equivalent to
14281 NoDNSRequest, NoIPv4Traffic, and NoIPv6Traffic. Closes enhancement
14282 18693; patch by "teor".
14284 o Minor features (directory authority):
14285 - After voting, if the authorities decide that a relay is not
14286 "Valid", they no longer include it in the consensus at all. Closes
14287 ticket 20002; implements part of proposal 272.
14289 o Minor features (testing):
14290 - Disable memory protections on OpenBSD when performing our unit
14291 tests for memwipe(). The test deliberately invokes undefined
14292 behavior, and the OpenBSD protections interfere with this. Patch
14293 from "rubiate". Closes ticket 20066.
14295 o Minor features (testing, ipv6):
14296 - Add the single-onion and single-onion-ipv6 chutney targets to
14297 "make test-network-all". This requires a recent chutney version
14298 with the single onion network flavours (git c72a652 or later).
14299 Closes ticket 20072; patch by teor.
14300 - Add the hs-ipv6 chutney target to make test-network-all's IPv6
14301 tests. Remove bridges+hs, as it's somewhat redundant. This
14302 requires a recent chutney version that supports IPv6 clients,
14303 relays, and authorities. Closes ticket 20069; patch by teor.
14305 o Minor features (Tor2web):
14306 - Make Tor2web clients respect ReachableAddresses. This feature was
14307 inadvertently enabled in 0.2.8.6, then removed by bugfix 19973 on
14308 0.2.8.7. Implements feature 20034. Patch by teor.
14310 o Minor features (unit tests):
14311 - We've done significant work to make the unit tests run faster.
14312 - Our link-handshake unit tests now check that when invalid
14313 handshakes fail, they fail with the error messages we expected.
14314 - Our unit testing code that captures log messages no longer
14315 prevents them from being written out if the user asked for them
14316 (by passing --debug or --info or or --notice --warn to the "test"
14317 binary). This change prevents us from missing unexpected log
14318 messages simply because we were looking for others. Related to
14320 - The unit tests now log all warning messages with the "BUG" flag.
14321 Previously, they only logged errors by default. This change will
14322 help us make our testing code more correct, and make sure that we
14323 only hit this code when we mean to. In the meantime, however,
14324 there will be more warnings in the unit test logs than before.
14325 This is preparatory work for ticket 19999.
14326 - The unit tests now treat any failure of a "tor_assert_nonfatal()"
14327 assertion as a test failure.
14329 o Minor bug fixes (circuits):
14330 - Use the CircuitBuildTimeout option whenever
14331 LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled. Previously, we would respect
14332 the option when a user disabled it, but not when it was disabled
14333 because some other option was set. Fixes bug 20073; bugfix on
14334 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch by teor.
14336 o Minor bugfixes (allocation):
14337 - Change how we allocate memory for large chunks on buffers, to
14338 avoid a (currently impossible) integer overflow, and to waste less
14339 space when allocating unusually large chunks. Fixes bug 20081;
14340 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Issue identified by Guido Vranken.
14341 - Always include orconfig.h before including any other C headers.
14342 Sometimes, it includes macros that affect the behavior of the
14343 standard headers. Fixes bug 19767; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha (the
14344 first version to use AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS).
14345 - Fix a syntax error in the IF_BUG_ONCE__() macro in non-GCC-
14346 compatible compilers. Fixes bug 20141; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
14347 Patch from Gisle Vanem.
14348 - Stop trying to build with Clang 4.0's -Wthread-safety warnings.
14349 They apparently require a set of annotations that we aren't
14350 currently using, and they create false positives in our pthreads
14351 wrappers. Fixes bug 20110; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
14353 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
14354 - Die with a more useful error when the operator forgets to place
14355 the authority_signing_key file into the keys directory. This
14356 avoids an uninformative assert & traceback about having an invalid
14357 key. Fixes bug 20065; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
14358 - When allowing private addresses, mark Exits that only exit to
14359 private locations as such. Fixes bug 20064; bugfix
14362 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
14363 - Document the default PathsNeededToBuildCircuits value that's used
14364 by clients when the directory authorities don't set
14365 min_paths_for_circs_pct. Fixes bug 20117; bugfix on 02c320916e02
14366 in 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch by teor, reported by Jesse V.
14367 - Fix manual for the User option: it takes a username, not a UID.
14368 Fixes bug 19122; bugfix on 0.0.2pre16 (the first version to have
14371 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
14372 - Stop logging intro point details to the client log on certain
14373 error conditions. Fixed as part of bug 20012; bugfix on
14374 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch by teor.
14376 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, testing):
14377 - Check for IPv6 correctly on Linux when running test networks.
14378 Fixes bug 19905; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc; patch by teor.
14380 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
14381 - Add permission to run the sched_yield() and sigaltstack() system
14382 calls, in order to support versions of Tor compiled with asan or
14383 ubsan code that use these calls. Now "sandbox 1" and
14384 "--enable-expensive-hardening" should be compatible on more
14385 systems. Fixes bug 20063; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
14387 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
14388 - When logging a message from the BUG() macro, be explicit about
14389 what we were asserting. Previously we were confusing what we were
14390 asserting with what the bug was. Fixes bug 20093; bugfix
14392 - When we are unable to remove the bw_accounting file, do not warn
14393 if the reason we couldn't remove it was that it didn't exist.
14394 Fixes bug 19964; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from 'pastly'.
14396 o Minor bugfixes (option parsing):
14397 - Count unix sockets when counting client listeners (SOCKS, Trans,
14398 NATD, and DNS). This has no user-visible behaviour changes: these
14399 options are set once, and never read. Required for correct
14400 behaviour in ticket 17178. Fixes bug 19677; bugfix on
14401 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by teor.
14403 o Minor bugfixes (options):
14404 - Check the consistency of UseEntryGuards and EntryNodes more
14405 reliably. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch
14407 - Stop changing the configured value of UseEntryGuards on
14408 authorities and Tor2web clients. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on
14409 commits 51fc6799 in 0.1.1.16-rc and acda1735 in 0.2.4.3-alpha.
14412 o Minor bugfixes (Tor2web):
14413 - Prevent Tor2web clients running hidden services, these services
14414 are not anonymous due to the one-hop client paths. Fixes bug
14415 19678. Patch by teor.
14417 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
14418 - Fix a shared-random unit test that was failing on big endian
14419 architectures due to internal representation of a integer copied
14420 to a buffer. The test is changed to take a full 32 bytes of data
14421 and use the output of a python script that make the COMMIT and
14422 REVEAL calculation according to the spec. Fixes bug 19977; bugfix
14424 - The tor_tls_server_info_callback unit test no longer crashes when
14425 debug-level logging is turned on. Fixes bug 20041; bugfix
14429 Changes in version 0.2.8.8 - 2016-09-23
14430 Tor 0.2.8.8 fixes two crash bugs present in previous versions of the
14431 0.2.8.x series. Relays running 0.2.8.x should upgrade, as should users
14432 who select public relays as their bridges.
14434 o Major bugfixes (crash):
14435 - Fix a complicated crash bug that could affect Tor clients
14436 configured to use bridges when replacing a networkstatus consensus
14437 in which one of their bridges was mentioned. OpenBSD users saw
14438 more crashes here, but all platforms were potentially affected.
14439 Fixes bug 20103; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
14441 o Major bugfixes (relay, OOM handler):
14442 - Fix a timing-dependent assertion failure that could occur when we
14443 tried to flush from a circuit after having freed its cells because
14444 of an out-of-memory condition. Fixes bug 20203; bugfix on
14445 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to "cypherpunks" for help diagnosing
14448 o Minor feature (fallback directories):
14449 - Remove 8 fallbacks that are no longer suitable, leaving 81 of the
14450 100 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha in March
14451 2016. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor.
14453 o Minor features (geoip):
14454 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
14458 Changes in version 0.2.9.2-alpha - 2016-08-24
14459 Tor 0.2.9.2-alpha continues development of the 0.2.9 series with
14460 several new features and bugfixes. It also includes an important
14461 authority update and an important bugfix from 0.2.8.7. Everyone who
14462 sets the ReachableAddresses option, and all bridges, are strongly
14463 encouraged to upgrade to 0.2.8.7, or to 0.2.9.2-alpha.
14465 o Directory authority changes (also in 0.2.8.7):
14466 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
14467 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
14469 o Major bugfixes (client, security, also in 0.2.8.7):
14470 - Only use the ReachableAddresses option to restrict the first hop
14471 in a path. In earlier versions of 0.2.8.x, it would apply to
14472 every hop in the path, with a possible degradation in anonymity
14473 for anyone using an uncommon ReachableAddress setting. Fixes bug
14474 19973; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
14476 o Major features (user interface):
14477 - Tor now supports the ability to declare options deprecated, so
14478 that we can recommend that people stop using them. Previously,
14479 this was done in an ad-hoc way. Closes ticket 19820.
14481 o Major bugfixes (directory downloads):
14482 - Avoid resetting download status for consensuses hourly, since we
14483 already have another, smarter retry mechanism. Fixes bug 8625;
14484 bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
14486 o Minor features (config):
14487 - Warn users when descriptor and port addresses are inconsistent.
14488 Mitigates bug 13953; patch by teor.
14490 o Minor features (geoip):
14491 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 2 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
14494 o Minor features (user interface):
14495 - There is a new --list-deprecated-options command-line option to
14496 list all of the deprecated options. Implemented as part of
14499 o Minor bugfixes (code style):
14500 - Fix an integer signedness conversion issue in the case conversion
14501 tables. Fixes bug 19168; bugfix on 0.2.1.11-alpha.
14503 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
14504 - Build correctly on versions of libevent2 without support for
14505 evutil_secure_rng_add_bytes(). Fixes bug 19904; bugfix
14507 - Fix a compilation warning on GCC versions before 4.6. Our
14508 ENABLE_GCC_WARNING macro used the word "warning" as an argument,
14509 when it is also required as an argument to the compiler pragma.
14510 Fixes bug 19901; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
14512 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, also in 0.2.8.7):
14513 - Remove an inappropriate "inline" in tortls.c that was causing
14514 warnings on older versions of GCC. Fixes bug 19903; bugfix
14517 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories, also in 0.2.8.7):
14518 - Avoid logging a NULL string pointer when loading fallback
14519 directory information. Fixes bug 19947; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha
14520 and 0.2.8.1-alpha. Report and patch by "rubiate".
14522 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
14523 - Log a more accurate message when we fail to dump a microdescriptor.
14524 Fixes bug 17758; bugfix on 0.2.2.8-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
14526 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
14527 - Fix a series of slow memory leaks related to parsing torrc files
14528 and options. Fixes bug 19466; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
14530 o Deprecated features:
14531 - A number of DNS-cache-related sub-options for client ports are now
14532 deprecated for security reasons, and may be removed in a future
14533 version of Tor. (We believe that client-side DNS caching is a bad
14534 idea for anonymity, and you should not turn it on.) The options
14535 are: CacheDNS, CacheIPv4DNS, CacheIPv6DNS, UseDNSCache,
14536 UseIPv4Cache, and UseIPv6Cache.
14537 - A number of options are deprecated for security reasons, and may
14538 be removed in a future version of Tor. The options are:
14539 AllowDotExit, AllowInvalidNodes, AllowSingleHopCircuits,
14540 AllowSingleHopExits, ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses,
14541 CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout,
14542 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout,
14543 ExcludeSingleHopRelays, FastFirstHopPK, TLSECGroup,
14544 UseNTorHandshake, and WarnUnsafeSocks.
14545 - The *ListenAddress options are now deprecated as unnecessary: the
14546 corresponding *Port options should be used instead. These options
14547 may someday be removed. The affected options are:
14548 ControlListenAddress, DNSListenAddress, DirListenAddress,
14549 NATDListenAddress, ORListenAddress, SocksListenAddress,
14550 and TransListenAddress.
14553 - Correct the IPv6 syntax in our documentation for the
14554 VirtualAddrNetworkIPv6 torrc option. Closes ticket 19743.
14557 - We no longer include the (dead, deprecated) bufferevent code in
14558 Tor. Closes ticket 19450. Based on a patch from U+039b.
14561 Changes in version 0.2.8.7 - 2016-08-24
14562 Tor 0.2.8.7 fixes an important bug related to the ReachableAddresses
14563 option in 0.2.8.6, and replaces a retiring bridge authority. Everyone
14564 who sets the ReachableAddresses option, and all bridges, are strongly
14565 encouraged to upgrade.
14567 o Directory authority changes:
14568 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
14569 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
14571 o Major bugfixes (client, security):
14572 - Only use the ReachableAddresses option to restrict the first hop
14573 in a path. In earlier versions of 0.2.8.x, it would apply to
14574 every hop in the path, with a possible degradation in anonymity
14575 for anyone using an uncommon ReachableAddress setting. Fixes bug
14576 19973; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
14578 o Minor features (geoip):
14579 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 2 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
14582 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
14583 - Remove an inappropriate "inline" in tortls.c that was causing
14584 warnings on older versions of GCC. Fixes bug 19903; bugfix
14587 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
14588 - Avoid logging a NULL string pointer when loading fallback
14589 directory information. Fixes bug 19947; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha
14590 and 0.2.8.1-alpha. Report and patch by "rubiate".
14593 Changes in version 0.2.9.1-alpha - 2016-08-08
14594 Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha is the first alpha release in the 0.2.9 development
14595 series. It improves our support for hardened builds and compiler
14596 warnings, deploys some critical infrastructure for improvements to
14597 hidden services, includes a new timing backend that we hope to use for
14598 better support for traffic padding, makes it easier for programmers to
14599 log unexpected events, and contains other small improvements to
14600 security, correctness, and performance.
14602 Below are the changes since 0.2.8.6.
14604 o New system requirements:
14605 - Tor now requires Libevent version 2.0.10-stable or later. Older
14606 versions of Libevent have less efficient backends for several
14607 platforms, and lack the DNS code that we use for our server-side
14608 DNS support. This implements ticket 19554.
14609 - Tor now requires zlib version 1.2 or later, for security,
14610 efficiency, and (eventually) gzip support. (Back when we started,
14611 zlib 1.1 and zlib 1.0 were still found in the wild. 1.2 was
14612 released in 2003. We recommend the latest version.)
14614 o Major features (build, hardening):
14615 - Tor now builds with -ftrapv by default on compilers that support
14616 it. This option detects signed integer overflow (which C forbids),
14617 and turns it into a hard-failure. We do not apply this option to
14618 code that needs to run in constant time to avoid side-channels;
14619 instead, we use -fwrapv in that code. Closes ticket 17983.
14620 - When --enable-expensive-hardening is selected, stop applying the
14621 clang/gcc sanitizers to code that needs to run in constant time.
14622 Although we are aware of no introduced side-channels, we are not
14623 able to prove that there are none. Related to ticket 17983.
14625 o Major features (compilation):
14626 - Our big list of extra GCC warnings is now enabled by default when
14627 building with GCC (or with anything like Clang that claims to be
14628 GCC-compatible). To make all warnings into fatal compilation
14629 errors, pass --enable-fatal-warnings to configure. Closes
14631 - Use the Autoconf macro AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS to automatically
14632 turn on C and POSIX extensions. (Previously, we attempted to do
14633 this on an ad hoc basis.) Closes ticket 19139.
14635 o Major features (directory authorities, hidden services):
14636 - Directory authorities can now perform the shared randomness
14637 protocol specified by proposal 250. Using this protocol, directory
14638 authorities generate a global fresh random value every day. In the
14639 future, this value will be used by hidden services to select
14640 HSDirs. This release implements the directory authority feature;
14641 the hidden service side will be implemented in the future as part
14642 of proposal 224. Resolves ticket 16943; implements proposal 250.
14644 o Major features (downloading, random exponential backoff):
14645 - When we fail to download an object from a directory service, wait
14646 for an (exponentially increasing) randomized amount of time before
14647 retrying, rather than a fixed interval as we did before. This
14648 prevents a group of Tor instances from becoming too synchronized,
14649 or a single Tor instance from becoming too predictable, in its
14650 download schedule. Closes ticket 15942.
14652 o Major bugfixes (exit policies):
14653 - Avoid disclosing exit outbound bind addresses, configured port
14654 bind addresses, and local interface addresses in relay descriptors
14655 by default under ExitPolicyRejectPrivate. Instead, only reject
14656 these (otherwise unlisted) addresses if
14657 ExitPolicyRejectLocalInterfaces is set. Fixes bug 18456; bugfix on
14658 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by teor.
14660 o Major bugfixes (hidden service client):
14661 - Allow Tor clients with appropriate controllers to work with
14662 FetchHidServDescriptors set to 0. Previously, this option also
14663 disabled descriptor cache lookup, thus breaking hidden services
14664 entirely. Fixes bug 18704; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Patch by "twim".
14666 o Minor features (build, hardening):
14667 - Detect and work around a libclang_rt problem that would prevent
14668 clang from finding __mulodi4() on some 32-bit platforms, and thus
14669 keep -ftrapv from linking on those systems. Closes ticket 19079.
14670 - When building on a system without runtime support for the runtime
14671 hardening options, try to log a useful warning at configuration
14672 time, rather than an incomprehensible warning at link time. If
14673 expensive hardening was requested, this warning becomes an error.
14674 Closes ticket 18895.
14676 o Minor features (code safety):
14677 - In our integer-parsing functions, ensure that maxiumum value we
14678 give is no smaller than the minimum value. Closes ticket 19063;
14681 o Minor features (controller):
14682 - Implement new GETINFO queries for all downloads that use
14683 download_status_t to schedule retries. This allows controllers to
14684 examine the schedule for pending downloads. Closes ticket 19323.
14685 - Allow controllers to configure basic client authorization on
14686 hidden services when they create them with the ADD_ONION control
14687 command. Implements ticket 15588. Patch by "special".
14688 - Fire a STATUS_SERVER controller event whenever the hibernation
14689 status changes between "awake"/"soft"/"hard". Closes ticket 18685.
14691 o Minor features (directory authority):
14692 - Directory authorities now only give the Guard flag to a relay if
14693 they are also giving it the Stable flag. This change allows us to
14694 simplify path selection for clients. It should have minimal effect
14695 in practice, since >99% of Guards already have the Stable flag.
14696 Implements ticket 18624.
14697 - Directory authorities now write their v3-status-votes file out to
14698 disk earlier in the consensus process, so we have a record of the
14699 votes even if we abort the consensus process. Resolves
14702 o Minor features (hidden service):
14703 - Stop being so strict about the payload length of "rendezvous1"
14704 cells. We used to be locked in to the "TAP" handshake length, and
14705 now we can handle better handshakes like "ntor". Resolves
14708 o Minor features (infrastructure, time):
14709 - Tor now uses the operating system's monotonic timers (where
14710 available) for internal fine-grained timing. Previously we would
14711 look at the system clock, and then attempt to compensate for the
14712 clock running backwards. Closes ticket 18908.
14713 - Tor now includes an improved timer backend, so that we can
14714 efficiently support tens or hundreds of thousands of concurrent
14715 timers, as will be needed for some of our planned anti-traffic-
14716 analysis work. This code is based on William Ahern's "timeout.c"
14717 project, which implements a "tickless hierarchical timing wheel".
14718 Closes ticket 18365.
14720 o Minor features (logging):
14721 - Provide a more useful warning message when configured with an
14722 invalid Nickname. Closes ticket 18300; patch from "icanhasaccount".
14723 - When dumping unparseable router descriptors, optionally store them
14724 in separate files, named by digest, up to a configurable size
14725 limit. You can change the size limit by setting the
14726 MaxUnparseableDescSizeToLog option, and disable this feature by
14727 setting that option to 0. Closes ticket 18322.
14728 - Add a set of macros to check nonfatal assertions, for internal
14729 use. Migrating more of our checks to these should help us avoid
14730 needless crash bugs. Closes ticket 18613.
14732 o Minor features (performance):
14733 - Change the "optimistic data" extension from "off by default" to
14734 "on by default". The default was ordinarily overridden by a
14735 consensus option, but when clients were bootstrapping for the
14736 first time, they would not have a consensus to get the option
14737 from. Changing this default saves a round-trip during startup.
14738 Closes ticket 18815.
14740 o Minor features (relay, usability):
14741 - When the directory authorities refuse a bad relay's descriptor,
14742 encourage the relay operator to contact us. Many relay operators
14743 won't notice this line in their logs, but it's a win if even a few
14744 learn why we don't like what their relay was doing. Resolves
14747 o Minor features (testing):
14748 - Let backtrace tests work correctly under AddressSanitizer. Fixes
14749 part of bug 18934; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
14750 - Move the test-network.sh script to chutney, and modify tor's test-
14751 network.sh to call the (newer) chutney version when available.
14752 Resolves ticket 19116. Patch by teor.
14753 - Use the lcov convention for marking lines as unreachable, so that
14754 we don't count them when we're generating test coverage data.
14755 Update our coverage tools to understand this convention. Closes
14758 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
14759 - Remember the directory we fetched the consensus or previous
14760 certificates from, and use it to fetch future authority
14761 certificates. This change improves bootstrapping performance.
14762 Fixes bug 18963; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14764 o Minor bugfixes (build):
14765 - The test-stem and test-network makefile targets now depend only on
14766 the tor binary that they are testing. Previously, they depended on
14767 "make all". Fixes bug 18240; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Based on a
14768 patch from "cypherpunks".
14770 o Minor bugfixes (circuits):
14771 - Make sure extend_info_from_router() is only called on servers.
14772 Fixes bug 19639; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14774 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
14775 - When building with Clang, use a full set of GCC warnings.
14776 (Previously, we included only a subset, because of the way we
14777 detected them.) Fixes bug 19216; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
14779 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
14780 - Authorities now sort the "package" lines in their votes, for ease
14781 of debugging. (They are already sorted in consensus documents.)
14782 Fixes bug 18840; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
14783 - When parsing a detached signature, make sure we use the length of
14784 the digest algorithm instead of an hardcoded DIGEST256_LEN in
14785 order to avoid comparing bytes out-of-bounds with a smaller digest
14786 length such as SHA1. Fixes bug 19066; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
14788 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
14789 - Document the --passphrase-fd option in the tor manpage. Fixes bug
14790 19504; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
14791 - Fix the description of the --passphrase-fd option in the
14792 tor-gencert manpage. The option is used to pass the number of a
14793 file descriptor to read the passphrase from, not to read the file
14794 descriptor from. Fixes bug 19505; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-alpha.
14796 o Minor bugfixes (ephemeral hidden service):
14797 - When deleting an ephemeral hidden service, close its intro points
14798 even if they are not completely open. Fixes bug 18604; bugfix
14801 o Minor bugfixes (guard selection):
14802 - Use a single entry guard even if the NumEntryGuards consensus
14803 parameter is not provided. Fixes bug 17688; bugfix
14805 - Don't mark guards as unreachable if connection_connect() fails.
14806 That function fails for local reasons, so it shouldn't reveal
14807 anything about the status of the guard. Fixes bug 14334; bugfix
14810 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service client):
14811 - Increase the minimum number of internal circuits we preemptively
14812 build from 2 to 3, so a circuit is available when a client
14813 connects to another onion service. Fixes bug 13239; bugfix
14816 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
14817 - When logging a directory ownership mismatch, log the owning
14818 username correctly. Fixes bug 19578; bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta.
14820 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
14821 - Fix a small, uncommon memory leak that could occur when reading a
14822 truncated ed25519 key file. Fixes bug 18956; bugfix
14825 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
14826 - Allow clients to retry HSDirs much faster in test networks. Fixes
14827 bug 19702; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
14828 - Disable ASAN's detection of segmentation faults while running
14829 test_bt.sh, so that we can make sure that our own backtrace
14830 generation code works. Fixes another aspect of bug 18934; bugfix
14831 on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
14832 - Fix the test-network-all target on out-of-tree builds by using the
14833 correct path to the test driver script. Fixes bug 19421; bugfix
14836 o Minor bugfixes (time):
14837 - Improve overflow checks in tv_udiff and tv_mdiff. Fixes bug 19483;
14838 bugfix on all released tor versions.
14839 - When computing the difference between two times in milliseconds,
14840 we now round to the nearest millisecond correctly. Previously, we
14841 could sometimes round in the wrong direction. Fixes bug 19428;
14842 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
14844 o Minor bugfixes (user interface):
14845 - Display a more accurate number of suppressed messages in the log
14846 rate-limiter. Previously, there was a potential integer overflow
14847 in the counter. Now, if the number of messages hits a maximum, the
14848 rate-limiter doesn't count any further. Fixes bug 19435; bugfix
14850 - Fix a typo in the passphrase prompt for the ed25519 identity key.
14851 Fixes bug 19503; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14853 o Code simplification and refactoring:
14854 - Remove redundant declarations of the MIN macro. Closes
14856 - Rename tor_dup_addr() to tor_addr_to_str_dup() to avoid confusion.
14857 Closes ticket 18462; patch from "icanhasaccount".
14858 - Split the 600-line directory_handle_command_get function into
14859 separate functions for different URL types. Closes ticket 16698.
14862 - Fix spelling of "--enable-tor2web-mode" in the manpage. Closes
14863 ticket 19153. Patch from "U+039b".
14865 o Removed features:
14866 - Remove support for "GET /tor/bytes.txt" DirPort request, and
14867 "GETINFO dir-usage" controller request, which were only available
14868 via a compile-time option in Tor anyway. Feature was added in
14869 0.2.2.1-alpha. Resolves ticket 19035.
14870 - There is no longer a compile-time option to disable support for
14871 TransPort. (If you don't want TransPort; just don't use it.) Patch
14872 from "U+039b". Closes ticket 19449.
14875 - Run more workqueue tests as part of "make check". These had
14876 previously been implemented, but you needed to know special
14877 command-line options to enable them.
14878 - We now have unit tests for our code to reject zlib "compression
14879 bombs". (Fortunately, the code works fine.)
14882 Changes in version 0.2.8.6 - 2016-08-02
14884 Tor 0.2.8.6 is the first stable version of the Tor 0.2.8 series.
14886 The Tor 0.2.8 series improves client bootstrapping performance,
14887 completes the authority-side implementation of improved identity
14888 keys for relays, and includes numerous bugfixes and performance
14889 improvements throughout the program. This release continues to
14890 improve the coverage of Tor's test suite. For a full list of
14891 changes since Tor 0.2.7, see the ReleaseNotes file.
14893 Changes since 0.2.8.5-rc:
14895 o Minor features (geoip):
14896 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
14899 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
14900 - Fix a compilation warning in the unit tests on systems where char
14901 is signed. Fixes bug 19682; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14903 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
14904 - Remove 1 fallback that was on the hardcoded list, then opted-out,
14905 leaving 89 of the 100 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
14906 0.2.8.2-alpha in March 2016. Closes ticket 19782; patch by teor.
14908 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
14909 - Allow more syscalls when running with "Sandbox 1" enabled:
14910 sysinfo, getsockopt(SO_SNDBUF), and setsockopt(SO_SNDBUFFORCE). On
14911 some systems, these are required for Tor to start. Fixes bug
14912 18397; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
14913 - Allow IPPROTO_UDP datagram sockets when running with "Sandbox 1",
14914 so that get_interface_address6_via_udp_socket_hack() can work.
14915 Fixes bug 19660; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
14918 Changes in version 0.2.8.5-rc - 2016-07-07
14919 Tor 0.2.8.5-rc is the second release candidate in the Tor 0.2.8
14920 series. If we find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable
14921 0.2.8 release will be identical to it. It has a few small bugfixes
14922 against previous versions.
14924 o Directory authority changes:
14925 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
14927 o Major bugfixes (heartbeat):
14928 - Fix a regression that would crash Tor when the periodic
14929 "heartbeat" log messages were disabled. Fixes bug 19454; bugfix on
14930 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by "kubaku".
14932 o Minor features (build):
14933 - Tor now again builds with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development
14934 branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre6-dev). Closes ticket 19499.
14935 - When building manual pages, set the timezone to "UTC", so that the
14936 output is reproducible. Fixes bug 19558; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
14937 Patch from intrigeri.
14939 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directory selection):
14940 - Avoid errors during fallback selection if there are no eligible
14941 fallbacks. Fixes bug 19480; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha. Patch
14944 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, microdescriptors):
14945 - Don't check node addresses when we only have a routerstatus. This
14946 allows IPv6-only clients to bootstrap by fetching microdescriptors
14947 from fallback directory mirrors. (The microdescriptor consensus
14948 has no IPv6 addresses in it.) Fixes bug 19608; bugfix
14951 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
14952 - Reduce pointlessly verbose log messages when directory servers
14953 can't be found. Fixes bug 18849; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha and
14954 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
14955 - When a fallback directory changes its fingerprint from the hard-
14956 coded fingerprint, log a less severe, more explanatory log
14957 message. Fixes bug 18812; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
14959 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandboxing):
14960 - Allow statistics to be written to disk when "Sandbox 1" is
14961 enabled. Fixes bugs 19556 and 19957; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha and
14962 0.2.6.1-alpha respectively.
14964 o Minor bugfixes (user interface):
14965 - Remove a warning message "Service [scrubbed] not found after
14966 descriptor upload". This message appears when one uses HSPOST
14967 control command to upload a service descriptor. Since there is
14968 only a descriptor and no service, showing this message is
14969 pointless and confusing. Fixes bug 19464; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14971 o Fallback directory list:
14972 - Add a comment to the generated fallback directory list that
14973 explains how to comment out unsuitable fallbacks in a way that's
14974 compatible with the stem fallback parser.
14975 - Update fallback whitelist and blacklist based on relay operator
14976 emails. Blacklist unsuitable (non-working, over-volatile)
14977 fallbacks. Resolves ticket 19071. Patch by teor.
14978 - Remove 10 unsuitable fallbacks, leaving 90 of the 100 fallbacks
14979 originally introduced in Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha in March 2016. Closes
14980 ticket 19071; patch by teor.
14983 Changes in version 0.2.8.4-rc - 2016-06-15
14984 Tor 0.2.8.4-rc is the first release candidate in the Tor 0.2.8 series.
14985 If we find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable 0.2.8
14986 release will be identical to it. It has a few small bugfixes against
14989 o Major bugfixes (user interface):
14990 - Correctly give a warning in the cases where a relay is specified
14991 by nickname, and one such relay is found, but it is not officially
14992 Named. Fixes bug 19203; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
14994 o Minor features (build):
14995 - Tor now builds once again with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development
14996 branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre5 and 1.1.0-pre6-dev).
14998 o Minor features (geoip):
14999 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
15002 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
15003 - Cause the unit tests to compile correctly on mingw64 versions that
15004 lack sscanf. Fixes bug 19213; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
15006 o Minor bugfixes (downloading):
15007 - Predict more correctly whether we'll be downloading over HTTP when
15008 we determine the maximum length of a URL. This should avoid a
15009 "BUG" warning about the Squid HTTP proxy and its URL limits. Fixes
15013 Changes in version 0.2.8.3-alpha - 2016-05-26
15014 Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha resolves several bugs, most of them introduced over
15015 the course of the 0.2.8 development cycle. It improves the behavior of
15016 directory clients, fixes several crash bugs, fixes a gap in compiler
15017 hardening, and allows the full integration test suite to run on
15020 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy):
15021 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
15022 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
15023 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
15024 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
15026 o Major bugfixes (security, compilation):
15027 - Correctly detect compiler flags on systems where _FORTIFY_SOURCE
15028 is predefined. Previously, our use of -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE would
15029 cause a compiler warning, thereby making other checks fail, and
15030 needlessly disabling compiler-hardening support. Fixes one case of
15031 bug 18841; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta. Patch from "trudokal".
15033 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authorities):
15034 - Fix a crash and out-of-bounds write during authority voting, when
15035 the list of relays includes duplicate ed25519 identity keys. Fixes
15036 bug 19032; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
15038 o Major bugfixes (client, bootstrapping):
15039 - Check if bootstrap consensus downloads are still needed when the
15040 linked connection attaches. This prevents tor making unnecessary
15041 begindir-style connections, which are the only directory
15042 connections tor clients make since the fix for 18483 was merged.
15043 - Fix some edge cases where consensus download connections may not
15044 have been closed, even though they were not needed. Related to fix
15046 - Make relays retry consensus downloads the correct number of times,
15047 rather than the more aggressive client retry count. Fixes part of
15049 - Stop downloading consensuses when we have a consensus, even if we
15050 don't have all the certificates for it yet. Fixes bug 18809;
15051 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patches by arma and teor.
15053 o Major bugfixes (directory mirrors):
15054 - Decide whether to advertise begindir support in the the same way
15055 we decide whether to advertise our DirPort. Allowing these
15056 decisions to become out-of-sync led to surprising behavior like
15057 advertising begindir support when hibernation made us not
15058 advertise a DirPort. Resolves bug 18616; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
15061 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 bridges, client):
15062 - Actually use IPv6 addresses when selecting directory addresses for
15063 IPv6 bridges. Fixes bug 18921; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch
15066 o Major bugfixes (key management):
15067 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
15068 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
15069 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
15070 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
15071 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
15072 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
15075 o Major bugfixes (testing):
15076 - Fix a bug that would block 'make test-network-all' on systems where
15077 IPv6 packets were lost. Fixes bug 19008; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
15078 - Avoid "WSANOTINITIALISED" warnings in the unit tests. Fixes bug 18668;
15079 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
15081 o Minor features (clients):
15082 - Make clients, onion services, and bridge relays always use an
15083 encrypted begindir connection for directory requests. Resolves
15084 ticket 18483. Patch by "teor".
15086 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
15087 - Give each fallback the same weight for client selection; restrict
15088 fallbacks to one per operator; report fallback directory detail
15089 changes when rebuilding list; add new fallback directory mirrors
15090 to the whitelist; and many other minor simplifications and fixes.
15091 Closes tasks 17905, 18749, bug 18689, and fixes part of bug 18812 on
15092 0.2.8.1-alpha; patch by "teor".
15093 - Replace the 21 fallbacks generated in January 2016 and included in
15094 Tor 0.2.8.1-alpha, with a list of 100 fallbacks generated in March
15095 2016. Closes task 17158; patch by "teor".
15097 o Minor features (geoip):
15098 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
15101 o Minor bugfixes (assert, portability):
15102 - Fix an assertion failure in memarea.c on systems where "long" is
15103 shorter than the size of a pointer. Fixes bug 18716; bugfix
15106 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
15107 - Consistently use the consensus download schedule for authority
15108 certificates. Fixes bug 18816; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
15110 o Minor bugfixes (build):
15111 - Remove a pair of redundant AM_CONDITIONAL declarations from
15112 configure.ac. Fixes one final case of bug 17744; bugfix
15114 - Resolve warnings when building on systems that are concerned with
15115 signed char. Fixes bug 18728; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha
15117 - When libscrypt.h is found, but no libscrypt library can be linked,
15118 treat libscrypt as absent. Fixes bug 19161; bugfix
15121 o Minor bugfixes (client):
15122 - Turn all TestingClientBootstrap* into non-testing torrc options.
15123 This changes simply renames them by removing "Testing" in front of
15124 them and they do not require TestingTorNetwork to be enabled
15125 anymore. Fixes bug 18481; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
15126 - Make directory node selection more reliable, mainly for IPv6-only
15127 clients and clients with few reachable addresses. Fixes bug 18929;
15128 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by "teor".
15130 o Minor bugfixes (controller, microdescriptors):
15131 - Make GETINFO dir/status-vote/current/consensus conform to the
15132 control specification by returning "551 Could not open cached
15133 consensus..." when not caching consensuses. Fixes bug 18920;
15134 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
15136 o Minor bugfixes (crypto, portability):
15137 - The SHA3 and SHAKE routines now produce the correct output on Big
15138 Endian systems. No code calls either algorithm yet, so this is
15139 primarily a build fix. Fixes bug 18943; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
15140 - Tor now builds again with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development
15141 branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre4 and 1.1.0-pre5-dev). Closes
15144 o Minor bugfixes (directories):
15145 - When fetching extrainfo documents, compare their SHA256 digests
15146 and Ed25519 signing key certificates with the routerinfo that led
15147 us to fetch them, rather than with the most recent routerinfo.
15148 Otherwise we generate many spurious warnings about mismatches.
15149 Fixes bug 17150; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15151 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
15152 - When we can't generate a signing key because OfflineMasterKey is
15153 set, do not imply that we should have been able to load it. Fixes
15154 bug 18133; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15155 - Stop periodic_event_dispatch() from blasting twelve lines per
15156 second at loglevel debug. Fixes bug 18729; fix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
15157 - When rejecting a misformed INTRODUCE2 cell, only log at
15158 PROTOCOL_WARN severity. Fixes bug 18761; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
15160 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
15161 - Avoid reporting a spurious error when we decide that we don't need
15162 to terminate a pluggable transport because it has already exited.
15163 Fixes bug 18686; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
15165 o Minor bugfixes (pointer arithmetic):
15166 - Fix a bug in memarea_alloc() that could have resulted in remote
15167 heap write access, if Tor had ever passed an unchecked size to
15168 memarea_alloc(). Fortunately, all the sizes we pass to
15169 memarea_alloc() are pre-checked to be less than 128 kilobytes.
15170 Fixes bug 19150; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha. Bug found by
15173 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
15174 - Consider more config options when relays decide whether to
15175 regenerate their descriptor. Fixes more of bug 12538; bugfix
15177 - Resolve some edge cases where we might launch an ORPort
15178 reachability check even when DisableNetwork is set. Noticed while
15179 fixing bug 18616; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
15181 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
15182 - We now include consensus downloads via IPv6 in our directory-
15183 request statistics. Fixes bug 18460; bugfix on 0.2.3.14-alpha.
15185 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
15186 - Allow directories in small networks to bootstrap by skipping
15187 DirPort checks when the consensus has no exits. Fixes bug 19003;
15188 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
15189 - Fix a small memory leak that would occur when the
15190 TestingEnableCellStatsEvent option was turned on. Fixes bug 18673;
15191 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
15193 o Minor bugfixes (time handling):
15194 - When correcting a corrupt 'struct tm' value, fill in the tm_wday
15195 field. Otherwise, our unit tests crash on Windows. Fixes bug
15196 18977; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
15199 - Document the contents of the 'datadir/keys' subdirectory in the
15200 manual page. Closes ticket 17621.
15201 - Stop recommending use of nicknames to identify relays in our
15202 MapAddress documentation. Closes ticket 18312.
15205 Changes in version 0.2.8.2-alpha - 2016-03-28
15206 Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha is the second alpha in its series. It fixes numerous
15207 bugs in earlier versions of Tor, including some that prevented
15208 authorities using Tor 0.2.7.x from running correctly. IPv6 and
15209 directory support should also be much improved.
15211 o New system requirements:
15212 - Tor no longer supports versions of OpenSSL with a broken
15213 implementation of counter mode. (This bug was present in OpenSSL
15214 1.0.0, and was fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.0a.) Tor still detects, but no
15215 longer runs with, these versions.
15216 - Tor no longer attempts to support platforms where the "time_t"
15217 type is unsigned. (To the best of our knowledge, only OpenVMS does
15218 this, and Tor has never actually built on OpenVMS.) Closes
15220 - Tor now uses Autoconf version 2.63 or later, and Automake 1.11 or
15221 later (released in 2008 and 2009 respectively). If you are
15222 building Tor from the git repository instead of from the source
15223 distribution, and your tools are older than this, you will need to
15224 upgrade. Closes ticket 17732.
15226 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers):
15227 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
15228 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
15229 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
15230 Reported by Guido Vranken.
15232 o Major bugfixes (bridges, pluggable transports):
15233 - Modify the check for OR connections to private addresses. Allow
15234 bridges on private addresses, including pluggable transports that
15235 ignore the (potentially private) address in the bridge line. Fixes
15236 bug 18517; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by gk, patch by teor.
15238 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
15239 - Repair hardened builds under the clang compiler. Previously, our
15240 use of _FORTIFY_SOURCE would conflict with clang's address
15241 sanitizer. Fixes bug 14821; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
15243 o Major bugfixes (crash on shutdown):
15244 - Correctly handle detaching circuits from muxes when shutting down.
15245 Fixes bug 18116; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
15246 - Fix an assert-on-exit bug related to counting memory usage in
15247 rephist.c. Fixes bug 18651; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
15249 o Major bugfixes (crash on startup):
15250 - Fix a segfault during startup: If a Unix domain socket was
15251 configured as listener (such as a ControlSocket or a SocksPort
15252 "unix:" socket), and tor was started as root but not configured to
15253 switch to another user, tor would segfault while trying to string
15254 compare a NULL value. Fixes bug 18261; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
15257 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash):
15258 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
15259 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
15261 o Major bugfixes (relays, bridge clients):
15262 - Ensure relays always allow IPv4 OR and Dir connections. Ensure
15263 bridge clients use the address configured in the bridge line.
15264 Fixes bug 18348; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by sysrqb,
15267 o Major bugfixes (voting):
15268 - Actually enable support for authorities to match routers by their
15269 Ed25519 identities. Previously, the code had been written, but
15270 some debugging code that had accidentally been left in the
15271 codebase made it stay turned off. Fixes bug 17702; bugfix
15273 - When collating votes by Ed25519 identities, authorities now
15274 include a "NoEdConsensus" flag if the ed25519 value (or lack
15275 thereof) for a server does not reflect the majority consensus.
15276 Related to bug 17668; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15277 - When generating a vote with keypinning disabled, never include two
15278 entries for the same ed25519 identity. This bug was causing
15279 authorities to generate votes that they could not parse when a
15280 router violated key pinning by changing its RSA identity but
15281 keeping its Ed25519 identity. Fixes bug 17668; fixes part of bug
15282 18318. Bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15284 o Minor features (security, win32):
15285 - Set SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE on Win32 to avoid a local port-stealing
15286 attack. Fixes bug 18123; bugfix on all tor versions. Patch
15289 o Minor features (bug-resistance):
15290 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
15291 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
15292 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
15294 o Minor features (build):
15295 - Detect systems with FreeBSD-derived kernels (such as GNU/kFreeBSD)
15296 as having possible IPFW support. Closes ticket 18448. Patch from
15297 Steven Chamberlain.
15299 o Minor features (code hardening):
15300 - Use tor_snprintf() and tor_vsnprintf() even in external and low-
15301 level code, to harden against accidental failures to NUL-
15302 terminate. Part of ticket 17852. Patch from jsturgix. Found
15305 o Minor features (crypto):
15306 - Validate the hard-coded Diffie-Hellman parameters and ensure that
15307 p is a safe prime, and g is a suitable generator. Closes
15310 o Minor features (geoip):
15311 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the March 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
15314 o Minor features (hidden service directory):
15315 - Streamline relay-side hsdir handling: when relays consider whether
15316 to accept an uploaded hidden service descriptor, they no longer
15317 check whether they are one of the relays in the network that is
15318 "supposed" to handle that descriptor. Implements ticket 18332.
15320 o Minor features (IPv6):
15321 - Add ClientPreferIPv6DirPort, which is set to 0 by default. If set
15322 to 1, tor prefers IPv6 directory addresses.
15323 - Add ClientUseIPv4, which is set to 1 by default. If set to 0, tor
15324 avoids using IPv4 for client OR and directory connections.
15325 - Try harder to obey the IP version restrictions "ClientUseIPv4 0",
15326 "ClientUseIPv6 0", "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort", and
15327 "ClientPreferIPv6DirPort". Closes ticket 17840; patch by teor.
15329 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
15330 - Reject attempts to change our Address with "Sandbox 1" enabled.
15331 Changing Address with Sandbox turned on would never actually work,
15332 but previously it would fail in strange and confusing ways. Found
15333 while fixing 18548.
15335 o Minor features (robustness):
15336 - Exit immediately with an error message if the code attempts to use
15337 Libevent without having initialized it. This should resolve some
15338 frequently-made mistakes in our unit tests. Closes ticket 18241.
15340 o Minor features (unix domain sockets):
15341 - Add a new per-socket option, RelaxDirModeCheck, to allow creating
15342 Unix domain sockets without checking the permissions on the parent
15343 directory. (Tor checks permissions by default because some
15344 operating systems only check permissions on the parent directory.
15345 However, some operating systems do look at permissions on the
15346 socket, and tor's default check is unneeded.) Closes ticket 18458.
15349 o Minor bugfixes (exit policies, security):
15350 - Refresh an exit relay's exit policy when interface addresses
15351 change. Previously, tor only refreshed the exit policy when the
15352 configured external address changed. Fixes bug 18208; bugfix on
15353 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by teor.
15355 o Minor bugfixes (security, hidden services):
15356 - Prevent hidden services connecting to client-supplied rendezvous
15357 addresses that are reserved as internal or multicast. Fixes bug
15358 8976; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by dgoulet and teor.
15360 o Minor bugfixes (build):
15361 - Do not link the unit tests against both the testing and non-
15362 testing versions of the static libraries. Fixes bug 18490; bugfix
15364 - Avoid spurious failures from configure files related to calling
15365 exit(0) in TOR_SEARCH_LIBRARY. Fixes bug 18626; bugfix on
15366 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
15367 - Silence spurious clang-scan warnings in the ed25519_donna code by
15368 explicitly initializing some objects. Fixes bug 18384; bugfix on
15369 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by teor.
15371 o Minor bugfixes (client, bootstrap):
15372 - Count receipt of new microdescriptors as progress towards
15373 bootstrapping. Previously, with EntryNodes set, Tor might not
15374 successfully repopulate the guard set on bootstrapping. Fixes bug
15375 16825; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
15377 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
15378 - Update to the latest version of Trunnel, which tries harder to
15379 avoid generating code that can invoke memcpy(p,NULL,0). Bug found
15380 by clang address sanitizer. Fixes bug 18373; bugfix
15383 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
15384 - Fix a tiny memory leak when parsing a port configuration ending in
15385 ":auto". Fixes bug 18374; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
15387 o Minor bugfixes (containers):
15388 - If we somehow attempt to construct a heap with more than
15389 1073741822 elements, avoid an integer overflow when maintaining
15390 the heap property. Fixes bug 18296; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
15392 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
15393 - Fix a bad memory handling bug that would occur if we had queued a
15394 cell on a channel's incoming queue. Fortunately, we can't actually
15395 queue a cell like that as our code is constructed today, but it's
15396 best to avoid this kind of error, even if there isn't any code
15397 that triggers it today. Fixes bug 18570; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
15399 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
15400 - When generating a URL for a directory server on an IPv6 address,
15401 wrap the IPv6 address in square brackets. Fixes bug 18051; bugfix
15402 on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Malek.
15404 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directory mirrors):
15405 - When requesting extrainfo descriptors from a trusted directory
15406 server, check whether it is an authority or a fallback directory
15407 which supports extrainfo descriptors. Fixes bug 18489; bugfix on
15408 0.2.4.7-alpha. Reported by atagar, patch by teor.
15410 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, client):
15411 - Handle the case where the user makes several fast consecutive
15412 requests to the same .onion address. Previously, the first six
15413 requests would each trigger a descriptor fetch, each picking a
15414 directory (there are 6 overall) and the seventh one would fail
15415 because no directories were left, thereby triggering a close on
15416 all current directory connections asking for the hidden service.
15417 The solution here is to not close the connections if we have
15418 pending directory fetches. Fixes bug 15937; bugfix
15421 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, control port):
15422 - Add the onion address to the HS_DESC event for the UPLOADED action
15423 both on success or failure. It was previously hardcoded with
15424 UNKNOWN. Fixes bug 16023; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15426 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, directory):
15427 - Bridges now refuse "rendezvous2" (hidden service descriptor)
15428 publish attempts. Suggested by ticket 18332.
15430 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
15431 - Allow the setrlimit syscall, and the prlimit and prlimit64
15432 syscalls, which some libc implementations use under the hood.
15433 Fixes bug 15221; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
15434 - Avoid a 10-second delay when starting as a client with "Sandbox 1"
15435 enabled and no DNS resolvers configured. This should help TAILS
15436 start up faster. Fixes bug 18548; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
15437 - Fix the sandbox's interoperability with unix domain sockets under
15438 setuid. Fixes bug 18253; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
15440 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
15441 - When logging information about an unparsable networkstatus vote or
15442 consensus, do not say "vote" when we mean consensus. Fixes bug
15443 18368; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
15444 - Scrub service name in "unrecognized service ID" log messages.
15445 Fixes bug 18600; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha.
15446 - Downgrade logs and backtraces about IP versions to info-level.
15447 Only log backtraces once each time tor runs. Assists in diagnosing
15448 bug 18351; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by sysrqb and
15449 Christian, patch by teor.
15451 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety):
15452 - Avoid freeing an uninitialized pointer when opening a socket fails
15453 in get_interface_addresses_ioctl(). Fixes bug 18454; bugfix on
15454 0.2.3.11-alpha. Reported by toralf and "cypherpunks", patch
15456 - Correctly duplicate addresses in get_interface_address6_list().
15457 Fixes bug 18454; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by toralf,
15458 patch by "cypherpunks".
15459 - Fix a memory leak in tor-gencert. Fixes part of bug 18672; bugfix
15461 - Fix a memory leak in "tor --list-fingerprint". Fixes part of bug
15462 18672; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
15464 o Minor bugfixes (private directory):
15465 - Prevent a race condition when creating private directories. Fixes
15466 part of bug 17852; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13. Part of ticket 17852.
15467 Patch from jsturgix. Found with Flawfinder.
15469 o Minor bugfixes (test networks, IPv6):
15470 - Allow internal IPv6 addresses in descriptors in test networks.
15471 Fixes bug 17153; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Patch by teor, reported
15474 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
15475 - We no longer disable assertions in the unit tests when coverage is
15476 enabled. Instead, we require you to say --disable-asserts-in-tests
15477 to the configure script if you need assertions disabled in the
15478 unit tests (for example, if you want to perform branch coverage).
15479 Fixes bug 18242; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
15481 o Minor bugfixes (time parsing):
15482 - Avoid overflow in tor_timegm when parsing dates in and after 2038
15483 on platforms with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 18479; bugfix on
15484 0.0.2pre14. Patch by teor.
15486 o Minor bugfixes (tor-gencert):
15487 - Correctly handle the case where an authority operator enters a
15488 passphrase but sends an EOF before sending a newline. Fixes bug
15489 17443; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by junglefowl.
15491 o Code simplification and refactoring:
15492 - Quote all the string interpolations in configure.ac -- even those
15493 which we are pretty sure can't contain spaces. Closes ticket
15494 17744. Patch from zerosion.
15495 - Remove specialized code for non-inplace AES_CTR. 99% of our AES is
15496 inplace, so there's no need to have a separate implementation for
15497 the non-inplace code. Closes ticket 18258. Patch from Malek.
15498 - Simplify return types for some crypto functions that can't
15499 actually fail. Patch from Hassan Alsibyani. Closes ticket 18259.
15502 - Change build messages to refer to "Fedora" instead of "Fedora
15503 Core", and "dnf" instead of "yum". Closes tickets 18459 and 18426.
15504 Patches from "icanhasaccount" and "cypherpunks".
15506 o Removed features:
15507 - We no longer maintain an internal freelist in memarea.c.
15508 Allocators should be good enough to make this code unnecessary,
15509 and it's doubtful that it ever had any performance benefit.
15512 - Fix several warnings from clang's address sanitizer produced in
15514 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on FreeBSD until we
15515 solve bug 17808. Closes ticket 18204.
15518 Changes in version 0.2.8.1-alpha - 2016-02-04
15519 Tor 0.2.8.1-alpha is the first alpha release in its series. It
15520 includes numerous small features and bugfixes against previous Tor
15521 versions, and numerous small infrastructure improvements. The most
15522 notable features are a set of improvements to the directory subsystem.
15524 o Major features (security, Linux):
15525 - When Tor starts as root on Linux and is told to switch user ID, it
15526 can now retain the capability to bind to low ports. By default,
15527 Tor will do this only when it's switching user ID and some low
15528 ports have been configured. You can change this behavior with the
15529 new option KeepBindCapabilities. Closes ticket 8195.
15531 o Major features (directory system):
15532 - When bootstrapping multiple consensus downloads at a time, use the
15533 first one that starts downloading, and close the rest. This
15534 reduces failures when authorities or fallback directories are slow
15535 or down. Together with the code for feature 15775, this feature
15536 should reduces failures due to fallback churn. Implements ticket
15537 4483. Patch by "teor". Implements IPv4 portions of proposal 210 by
15538 "mikeperry" and "teor".
15539 - Include a trial list of 21 default fallback directories, generated
15540 in January 2016, based on an opt-in survey of suitable relays.
15541 Doing this should make clients bootstrap more quickly and reliably,
15542 and reduce the load on the directory authorities. Closes ticket
15543 15775. Patch by "teor".
15544 Candidates identified using an OnionOO script by "weasel", "teor",
15545 "gsathya", and "karsten".
15546 - Previously only relays that explicitly opened a directory port
15547 (DirPort) accepted directory requests from clients. Now all
15548 relays, with and without a DirPort, accept and serve tunneled
15549 directory requests that they receive through their ORPort. You can
15550 disable this behavior using the new DirCache option. Closes
15553 o Major key updates:
15554 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
15555 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
15558 o Minor features (security, clock):
15559 - Warn when the system clock appears to move back in time (when the
15560 state file was last written in the future). Tor doesn't know that
15561 consensuses have expired if the clock is in the past. Patch by
15562 "teor". Implements ticket 17188.
15564 o Minor features (security, exit policies):
15565 - ExitPolicyRejectPrivate now rejects more private addresses by
15566 default. Specifically, it now rejects the relay's outbound bind
15567 addresses (if configured), and the relay's configured port
15568 addresses (such as ORPort and DirPort). Fixes bug 17027; bugfix on
15569 0.2.0.11-alpha. Patch by "teor".
15571 o Minor features (security, memory erasure):
15572 - Set the unused entries in a smartlist to NULL. This helped catch
15573 a (harmless) bug, and shouldn't affect performance too much.
15574 Implements ticket 17026.
15575 - Use SecureMemoryWipe() function to securely clean memory on
15576 Windows. Previously we'd use OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() function.
15577 Implements feature 17986.
15578 - Use explicit_bzero or memset_s when present. Previously, we'd use
15579 OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() function. Closes ticket 7419; patches
15580 from <logan@hackers.mu> and <selven@hackers.mu>.
15581 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
15582 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
15583 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
15586 o Minor features (security, RNG):
15587 - Adjust Tor's use of OpenSSL's RNG APIs so that they absolutely,
15588 positively are not allowed to fail. Previously we depended on
15589 internal details of OpenSSL's behavior. Closes ticket 17686.
15590 - Never use the system entropy output directly for anything besides
15591 seeding the PRNG. When we want to generate important keys, instead
15592 of using system entropy directly, we now hash it with the PRNG
15593 stream. This may help resist certain attacks based on broken OS
15594 entropy implementations. Closes part of ticket 17694.
15595 - Use modern system calls (like getentropy() or getrandom()) to
15596 generate strong entropy on platforms that have them. Closes
15599 o Minor features (accounting):
15600 - Added two modes to the AccountingRule option: One for limiting
15601 only the number of bytes sent ("AccountingRule out"), and one for
15602 limiting only the number of bytes received ("AccountingRule in").
15603 Closes ticket 15989; patch from "unixninja92".
15605 o Minor features (build):
15606 - Since our build process now uses "make distcheck", we no longer
15607 force "make dist" to depend on "make check". Closes ticket 17893;
15608 patch from "cypherpunks."
15609 - Tor now builds successfully with the recent OpenSSL 1.1
15610 development branch, and with the latest LibreSSL. Closes tickets
15611 17549, 17921, and 17984.
15613 o Minor features (controller):
15614 - Adds the FallbackDir entries to 'GETINFO config/defaults'. Closes
15615 tickets 16774 and 17817. Patch by George Tankersley.
15616 - New 'GETINFO hs/service/desc/id/' command to retrieve a hidden
15617 service descriptor from a service's local hidden service
15618 descriptor cache. Closes ticket 14846.
15619 - Add 'GETINFO exit-policy/reject-private/[default,relay]', so
15620 controllers can examine the the reject rules added by
15621 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate. This makes it easier for stem to display
15624 o Minor features (crypto):
15625 - Add SHA512 support to crypto.c. Closes ticket 17663; patch from
15627 - Add SHA3 and SHAKE support to crypto.c. Closes ticket 17783.
15628 - When allocating a digest state object, allocate no more space than
15629 we actually need. Previously, we would allocate as much space as
15630 the state for the largest algorithm would need. This change saves
15631 up to 672 bytes per circuit. Closes ticket 17796.
15632 - Improve performance when hashing non-multiple of 8 sized buffers,
15633 based on Andrew Moon's public domain SipHash-2-4 implementation.
15634 Fixes bug 17544; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
15636 o Minor features (directory downloads):
15637 - Wait for busy authorities and fallback directories to become non-
15638 busy when bootstrapping. (A similar change was made in 6c443e987d
15639 for directory caches chosen from the consensus.) Closes ticket
15640 17864; patch by "teor".
15641 - Add UseDefaultFallbackDirs, which enables any hard-coded fallback
15642 directory mirrors. The default is 1; set it to 0 to disable
15643 fallbacks. Implements ticket 17576. Patch by "teor".
15645 o Minor features (geoip):
15646 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 5 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
15649 o Minor features (IPv6):
15650 - Add an argument 'ipv6=address:orport' to the DirAuthority and
15651 FallbackDir torrc options, to specify an IPv6 address for an
15652 authority or fallback directory. Add hard-coded ipv6 addresses for
15653 directory authorities that have them. Closes ticket 17327; patch
15654 from Nick Mathewson and "teor".
15655 - Add address policy assume_action support for IPv6 addresses.
15656 - Limit IPv6 mask bits to 128.
15657 - Warn when comparing against an AF_UNSPEC address in a policy, it's
15658 almost always a bug. Closes ticket 17863; patch by "teor".
15659 - Allow users to configure directory authorities and fallback
15660 directory servers with IPv6 addresses and ORPorts. Resolves
15662 - routerset_parse now accepts IPv6 literal addresses. Fixes bug
15663 17060; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
15664 - Make tor_ersatz_socketpair work on IPv6-only systems. Fixes bug
15665 17638; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Patch by "teor".
15667 o Minor features (logging):
15668 - When logging to syslog, allow a tag to be added to the syslog
15669 identity (the string prepended to every log message). The tag can
15670 be configured with SyslogIdentityTag and defaults to none. Setting
15671 it to "foo" will cause logs to be tagged as "Tor-foo". Closes
15674 o Minor features (portability):
15675 - Use timingsafe_memcmp() where available. Closes ticket 17944;
15676 patch from <logan@hackers.mu>.
15678 o Minor features (relay, address discovery):
15679 - Add a family argument to get_interface_addresses_raw() and
15680 subfunctions to make network interface address interogation more
15681 efficient. Now Tor can specifically ask for IPv4, IPv6 or both
15682 types of interfaces from the operating system. Resolves
15684 - When get_interface_address6_list(.,AF_UNSPEC,.) is called and
15685 fails to enumerate interface addresses using the platform-specific
15686 API, have it rely on the UDP socket fallback technique to try and
15687 find out what IP addresses (both IPv4 and IPv6) our machine has.
15688 Resolves ticket 17951.
15690 o Minor features (replay cache):
15691 - The replay cache now uses SHA256 instead of SHA1. Implements
15692 feature 8961. Patch by "teor", issue reported by "rransom".
15694 o Minor features (unix file permissions):
15695 - Defer creation of Unix sockets until after setuid. This avoids
15696 needing CAP_CHOWN and CAP_FOWNER when using systemd's
15697 CapabilityBoundingSet, or chown and fowner when using SELinux.
15698 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
15699 - If any directory created by Tor is marked as group readable, the
15700 filesystem group is allowed to be either the default GID or the
15701 root user. Allowing root to read the DataDirectory prevents the
15702 need for CAP_READ_SEARCH when using systemd's
15703 CapabilityBoundingSet, or dac_read_search when using SELinux.
15704 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
15705 - Introduce a new DataDirectoryGroupReadable option. If it is set to
15706 1, the DataDirectory will be made readable by the default GID.
15707 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
15709 o Minor bugfixes (accounting):
15710 - The max bandwidth when using 'AccountRule sum' is now correctly
15711 logged. Fixes bug 18024; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch
15712 from "unixninja92".
15714 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
15715 - When closing an entry connection, generate a warning if we should
15716 have sent an end cell for it but we haven't. Fixes bug 17876;
15717 bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
15718 - Assert that allocated memory held by the reputation code is freed
15719 according to its internal counters. Fixes bug 17753; bugfix
15721 - Assert when the TLS contexts fail to initialize. Fixes bug 17683;
15724 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
15725 - Mark all object files that include micro-revision.i as depending
15726 on it, so as to make parallel builds more reliable. Fixes bug
15727 17826; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
15728 - Don't try to use the pthread_condattr_setclock() function unless
15729 it actually exists. Fixes compilation on NetBSD-6.x. Fixes bug
15730 17819; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
15731 - Fix backtrace compilation on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 17827; bugfix
15733 - Fix compilation of sandbox.c with musl-libc. Fixes bug 17347;
15734 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from 'jamestk'.
15735 - Fix search for libevent libraries on OpenBSD (and other systems
15736 that install libevent 1 and libevent 2 in parallel). Fixes bug
15737 16651; bugfix on 0.1.0.7-rc. Patch from "rubiate".
15738 - Isolate environment variables meant for tests from the rest of the
15739 build system. Fixes bug 17818; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
15740 - Replace usage of 'INLINE' with 'inline'. Fixes bug 17804; bugfix
15742 - Remove config.log only from make distclean, not from make clean.
15743 Fixes bug 17924; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
15745 o Minor bugfixes (crypto):
15746 - Check the return value of HMAC() and assert on failure. Fixes bug
15747 17658; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by "teor".
15749 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
15750 - Mark fallbacks as "too busy" when they return a 503 response,
15751 rather than just marking authorities. Fixes bug 17572; bugfix on
15752 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
15754 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
15755 - Update the limits in max_dl_per_request for IPv6 address length.
15756 Fixes bug 17573; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
15758 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
15759 - Fix a crash when using offline master ed25519 keys with the Linux
15760 seccomp2 sandbox enabled. Fixes bug 17675; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
15762 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
15763 - In log messages that include a function name, use __FUNCTION__
15764 instead of __PRETTY_FUNCTION__. In GCC, these are synonymous, but
15765 with clang __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ has extra information we don't
15766 need. Fixes bug 16563; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Fix by Tom van
15768 - Remove needless quotes from a log message about unparseable
15769 addresses. Fixes bug 17843; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
15771 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
15772 - Remove an #endif from configure.ac so that we correctly detect the
15773 presence of in6_addr.s6_addr32. Fixes bug 17923; bugfix
15776 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
15777 - Check that both the ORPort and DirPort (if present) are reachable
15778 before publishing a relay descriptor. Otherwise, relays publish a
15779 descriptor with DirPort 0 when the DirPort reachability test takes
15780 longer than the ORPort reachability test. Fixes bug 18050; bugfix
15781 on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "starlight", patch by "teor".
15783 o Minor bugfixes (relays, hidden services):
15784 - Refuse connection requests to private OR addresses unless
15785 ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set. Previously, tor would connect,
15786 then refuse to send any cells to a private address. Fixes bugs
15787 17674 and 8976; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by "teor".
15789 o Minor bugfixes (safe logging):
15790 - When logging a malformed hostname received through socks4, scrub
15791 it if SafeLogging says we should. Fixes bug 17419; bugfix
15794 o Minor bugfixes (statistics code):
15795 - Consistently check for overflow in round_*_to_next_multiple_of
15796 functions, and add unit tests with additional and maximal values.
15797 Fixes part of bug 13192; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
15798 - Handle edge cases in the laplace functions: avoid division by
15799 zero, avoid taking the log of zero, and silence clang type
15800 conversion warnings using round and trunc. Add unit tests for edge
15801 cases with maximal values. Fixes part of bug 13192; bugfix
15804 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
15805 - The test for log_heartbeat was incorrectly failing in timezones
15806 with non-integer offsets. Instead of comparing the end of the time
15807 string against a constant, compare it to the output of
15808 format_local_iso_time when given the correct input. Fixes bug
15809 18039; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
15810 - Make unit tests pass on IPv6-only systems, and systems without
15811 localhost addresses (like some FreeBSD jails). Fixes bug 17632;
15812 bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by "teor".
15813 - Fix a memory leak in the ntor test. Fixes bug 17778; bugfix
15815 - Check the full results of SHA256 and SHA512 digests in the unit
15816 tests. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha. Patch by "teor".
15818 o Code simplification and refactoring:
15819 - Move logging of redundant policy entries in
15820 policies_parse_exit_policy_internal into its own function. Closes
15821 ticket 17608; patch from "juce".
15822 - Extract the more complicated parts of circuit_mark_for_close()
15823 into a new function that we run periodically before circuits are
15824 freed. This change removes more than half of the functions
15825 currently in the "blob". Closes ticket 17218.
15826 - Clean up a little duplicated code in
15827 crypto_expand_key_material_TAP(). Closes ticket 17587; patch
15829 - Decouple the list of streams waiting to be attached to circuits
15830 from the overall connection list. This change makes it possible to
15831 attach streams quickly while simplifying Tor's callgraph and
15832 avoiding O(N) scans of the entire connection list. Closes
15834 - When a direct directory request fails immediately on launch,
15835 instead of relaunching that request from inside the code that
15836 launches it, instead mark the connection for teardown. This change
15837 simplifies Tor's callback and prevents the directory-request
15838 launching code from invoking itself recursively. Closes
15840 - Remove code for configuring OpenSSL dynamic locks; OpenSSL doesn't
15841 use them. Closes ticket 17926.
15844 - Add a description of the correct use of the '--keygen' command-
15845 line option. Closes ticket 17583; based on text by 's7r'.
15846 - Document the minimum HeartbeatPeriod value. Closes ticket 15638.
15847 - Explain actual minima for BandwidthRate. Closes ticket 16382.
15848 - Fix a minor formatting typo in the manpage. Closes ticket 17791.
15849 - Mention torspec URL in the manpage and point the reader to it
15850 whenever we mention a document that belongs in torspce. Fixes
15853 o Removed features:
15854 - Remove client-side support for connecting to Tor relays running
15855 versions of Tor before 0.2.3.6-alpha. These relays didn't support
15856 the v3 TLS handshake protocol, and are no longer allowed on the
15857 Tor network. Implements the client side of ticket 11150. Based on
15858 patches by Tom van der Woerdt.
15861 - Add unit tests to check for common RNG failure modes, such as
15862 returning all zeroes, identical values, or incrementing values
15863 (OpenSSL's rand_predictable feature). Patch by "teor".
15864 - Log more information when the backtrace tests fail. Closes ticket
15865 17892. Patch from "cypherpunks."
15866 - Always test both ed25519 backends, so that we can be sure that our
15867 batch-open replacement code works. Part of ticket 16794.
15868 - Cover dns_resolve_impl() in dns.c with unit tests. Implements a
15869 portion of ticket 16831.
15870 - More unit tests for compat_libevent.c, procmon.c, tortls.c,
15871 util_format.c, directory.c, and options_validate.c. Closes tickets
15872 17075, 17082, 17084, 17003, and 17076 respectively. Patches from
15874 - Unit tests for directory_handle_command_get. Closes ticket 17004.
15875 Patch from Reinaldo de Souza Jr.
15878 Changes in version 0.2.7.6 - 2015-12-10
15879 Tor version 0.2.7.6 fixes a major bug in entry guard selection, as
15880 well as a minor bug in hidden service reliability.
15882 o Major bugfixes (guard selection):
15883 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
15884 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
15885 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
15886 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
15887 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
15890 o Minor features (geoip):
15891 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 1 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
15894 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
15895 - When checking for net/pfvar.h, include netinet/in.h if possible.
15896 This fixes transparent proxy detection on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
15897 17551; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Patch from "rubiate".
15898 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
15899 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
15901 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
15902 - When displaying an IPv6 exit policy, include the mask bits
15903 correctly even when the number is greater than 31. Fixes bug
15904 16056; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch from "gturner".
15905 - The wrong list was used when looking up expired intro points in a
15906 rend service object, causing what we think could be reachability
15907 issues for hidden services, and triggering a BUG log. Fixes bug
15908 16702; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15909 - Fix undefined behavior in the tor_cert_checksig function. Fixes
15910 bug 17722; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15913 Changes in version 0.2.7.5 - 2015-11-20
15914 The Tor 0.2.7 release series is dedicated to the memory of Tor user
15915 and privacy advocate Caspar Bowden (1961-2015). Caspar worked
15916 tirelessly to advocate human rights regardless of national borders,
15917 and oppose the encroachments of mass surveillance. He opposed national
15918 exceptionalism, he brought clarity to legal and policy debates, he
15919 understood and predicted the impact of mass surveillance on the world,
15920 and he laid the groundwork for resisting it. While serving on the Tor
15921 Project's board of directors, he brought us his uncompromising focus
15922 on technical excellence in the service of humankind. Caspar was an
15923 inimitable force for good and a wonderful friend. He was kind,
15924 humorous, generous, gallant, and believed we should protect one
15925 another without exception. We honor him here for his ideals, his
15926 efforts, and his accomplishments. Please honor his memory with works
15927 that would make him proud.
15929 Tor 0.2.7.5 is the first stable release in the Tor 0.2.7 series.
15931 The 0.2.7 series adds a more secure identity key type for relays,
15932 improves cryptography performance, resolves several longstanding
15933 hidden-service performance issues, improves controller support for
15934 hidden services, and includes small bugfixes and performance
15935 improvements throughout the program. This release series also includes
15936 more tests than before, and significant simplifications to which parts
15937 of Tor invoke which others.
15939 (This release contains no code changes since 0.2.7.4-rc.)
15942 Changes in version 0.2.7.4-rc - 2015-10-21
15943 Tor 0.2.7.4-rc is the second release candidate in the 0.2.7 series. It
15944 fixes some important memory leaks, and a scary-looking (but mostly
15945 harmless in practice) invalid-read bug. It also has a few small
15946 bugfixes, notably fixes for compilation and portability on different
15947 platforms. If no further significant bounds are found, the next
15948 release will the the official stable release.
15950 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness):
15951 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
15952 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
15953 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
15954 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
15957 o Major bugfixes (correctness):
15958 - Fix a use-after-free bug in validate_intro_point_failure(). Fixes
15959 bug 17401; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
15961 o Major bugfixes (memory leaks):
15962 - Fix a memory leak in ed25519 batch signature checking. Fixes bug
15963 17398; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
15964 - Fix a memory leak in rend_cache_failure_entry_free(). Fixes bug
15965 17402; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
15966 - Fix a memory leak when reading an expired signing key from disk.
15967 Fixes bug 17403; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-rc.
15969 o Minor features (geoIP):
15970 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
15973 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
15974 - Repair compilation with the most recent (unreleased, alpha)
15975 vesions of OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes part of ticket 17237.
15976 - Fix an integer overflow warning in test_crypto_slow.c. Fixes bug
15977 17251; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15978 - Fix compilation of sandbox.c with musl-libc. Fixes bug 17347;
15979 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from 'jamestk'.
15981 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
15982 - Use libexecinfo on FreeBSD to enable backtrace support. Fixes
15983 part of bug 17151; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from
15986 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox):
15987 - Add the "hidserv-stats" filename to our sandbox filter for the
15988 HiddenServiceStatistics option to work properly. Fixes bug 17354;
15989 bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from David Goulet.
15991 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
15992 - Add unit tests for get_interface_address* failure cases. Fixes bug
15993 17173; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by fk/teor.
15994 - Fix breakage when running 'make check' with BSD make. Fixes bug
15995 17154; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by Marcin Cieślak.
15996 - Make the get_ifaddrs_* unit tests more tolerant of different
15997 network configurations. (Don't assume every test box has an IPv4
15998 address, and don't assume every test box has a non-localhost
15999 address.) Fixes bug 17255; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by "teor".
16000 - Skip backtrace tests when backtrace support is not compiled in.
16001 Fixes part of bug 17151; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha. Patch from
16005 - Fix capitalization of SOCKS in sample torrc. Closes ticket 15609.
16006 - Note that HiddenServicePorts can take a unix domain socket. Closes
16010 Changes in version 0.2.7.3-rc - 2015-09-25
16011 Tor 0.2.7.3-rc is the first release candidate in the 0.2.7 series. It
16012 contains numerous usability fixes for Ed25519 keys, safeguards against
16013 several misconfiguration problems, significant simplifications to
16014 Tor's callgraph, and numerous bugfixes and small features.
16016 This is the most tested release of Tor to date. The unit tests cover
16017 39.40% of the code, and the integration tests (accessible with "make
16018 test-full-online", requiring stem and chutney and a network
16019 connection) raise the coverage to 64.49%.
16021 o Major features (security, hidden services):
16022 - Hidden services, if using the EntryNodes option, are required to
16023 use more than one EntryNode, in order to avoid a guard discovery
16024 attack. (This would only affect people who had configured hidden
16025 services and manually specified the EntryNodes option with a
16026 single entry-node. The impact was that it would be easy to
16027 remotely identify the guard node used by such a hidden service.
16028 See ticket for more information.) Fixes ticket 14917.
16030 o Major features (Ed25519 keys, keypinning):
16031 - The key-pinning option on directory authorities is now advisory-
16032 only by default. In a future version, or when the AuthDirPinKeys
16033 option is set, pins are enforced again. Disabling key-pinning
16034 seemed like a good idea so that we can survive the fallout of any
16035 usability problems associated with Ed25519 keys. Closes
16038 o Major features (Ed25519 performance):
16039 - Improve the speed of Ed25519 operations and Curve25519 keypair
16040 generation when built targeting 32 bit x86 platforms with SSE2
16041 available. Implements ticket 16535.
16042 - Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 signature verification by
16043 using Ed25519-donna's batch verification support. Implements
16046 o Major features (performance testing):
16047 - The test-network.sh script now supports performance testing.
16048 Requires corresponding chutney performance testing changes. Patch
16049 by "teor". Closes ticket 14175.
16051 o Major features (relay, Ed25519):
16052 - Significant usability improvements for Ed25519 key management. Log
16053 messages are better, and the code can recover from far more
16054 failure conditions. Thanks to "s7r" for reporting and diagnosing
16056 - Add a new OfflineMasterKey option to tell Tor never to try loading
16057 or generating a secret Ed25519 identity key. You can use this in
16058 combination with tor --keygen to manage offline and/or encrypted
16059 Ed25519 keys. Implements ticket 16944.
16060 - Add a --newpass option to allow changing or removing the
16061 passphrase of an encrypted key with tor --keygen. Implements part
16063 - On receiving a HUP signal, check to see whether the Ed25519
16064 signing key has changed, and reload it if so. Closes ticket 16790.
16066 o Major bugfixes (relay, Ed25519):
16067 - Avoid crashing on 'tor --keygen'. Fixes bug 16679; bugfix on
16068 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by "s7r".
16069 - Improve handling of expired signing keys with offline master keys.
16070 Fixes bug 16685; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by "s7r".
16072 o Minor features (client-side privacy):
16073 - New KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth option to indefinitely extend circuit
16074 lifespan when IsolateSOCKSAuth and streams with SOCKS
16075 authentication are attached to the circuit. This allows
16076 applications like TorBrowser to manage circuit lifetime on their
16077 own. Implements feature 15482.
16078 - When logging malformed hostnames from SOCKS5 requests, respect
16079 SafeLogging configuration. Fixes bug 16891; bugfix on 0.1.1.16-rc.
16081 o Minor features (compilation):
16082 - Give a warning as early as possible when trying to build with an
16083 unsupported OpenSSL version. Closes ticket 16901.
16084 - Fail during configure if we're trying to build against an OpenSSL
16085 built without ECC support. Fixes bug 17109, bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha
16086 which started requiring ECC.
16088 o Minor features (geoip):
16089 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
16092 o Minor features (hidden services):
16093 - Relays need to have the Fast flag to get the HSDir flag. As this
16094 is being written, we'll go from 2745 HSDirs down to 2342, a ~14%
16095 drop. This change should make some attacks against the hidden
16096 service directory system harder. Fixes ticket 15963.
16097 - Turn on hidden service statistics collection by setting the torrc
16098 option HiddenServiceStatistics to "1" by default. (This keeps
16099 track only of the fraction of traffic used by hidden services, and
16100 the total number of hidden services in existence.) Closes
16102 - Client now uses an introduction point failure cache to know when
16103 to fetch or keep a descriptor in their cache. Previously, failures
16104 were recorded implicitly, but not explicitly remembered. Closes
16107 o Minor features (testing, authorities, documentation):
16108 - New TestingDirAuthVote{Exit,Guard,HSDir}IsStrict flags to
16109 explicitly manage consensus flags in testing networks. Patch by
16110 "robgjansen", modified by "teor". Implements part of ticket 14882.
16112 o Minor bugfixes (security, exit policies):
16113 - ExitPolicyRejectPrivate now also rejects the relay's published
16114 IPv6 address (if any), and any publicly routable IPv4 or IPv6
16115 addresses on any local interfaces. ticket 17027. Patch by "teor".
16116 Fixes bug 17027; bugfix on 0.2.0.11-alpha.
16118 o Minor bug fixes (torrc exit policies):
16119 - In torrc, "accept6 *" and "reject6 *" ExitPolicy lines now only
16120 produce IPv6 wildcard addresses. Previously they would produce
16121 both IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard addresses. Patch by "teor". Fixes part
16122 of bug 16069; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
16123 - When parsing torrc ExitPolicies, we now warn for a number of cases
16124 where the user's intent is likely to differ from Tor's actual
16125 behavior. These include: using an IPv4 address with an accept6 or
16126 reject6 line; using "private" on an accept6 or reject6 line; and
16127 including any ExitPolicy lines after accept *:* or reject *:*.
16128 Related to ticket 16069.
16129 - When parsing torrc ExitPolicies, we now issue an info-level
16130 message when expanding an "accept/reject *" line to include both
16131 IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard addresses. Related to ticket 16069.
16132 - In each instance above, usage advice is provided to avoid the
16133 message. Resolves ticket 16069. Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug
16134 16069; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
16136 o Minor bugfixes (authority):
16137 - Don't assign "HSDir" to a router if it isn't Valid and Running.
16138 Fixes bug 16524; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16139 - Downgrade log messages about Ed25519 key issues if they are in old
16140 cached router descriptors. Fixes part of bug 16286; bugfix
16142 - When we find an Ed25519 key issue in a cached descriptor, stop
16143 saying the descriptor was just "uploaded". Fixes another part of
16144 bug 16286; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16146 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
16147 - Repair a warning and a spurious result when getting the maximum
16148 number of file descriptors from the controller. Fixes bug 16697;
16149 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16151 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
16152 - When calling channel_free_list(), avoid calling smartlist_remove()
16153 while inside a FOREACH loop. This partially reverts commit
16154 17356fe7fd96af where the correct SMARTLIST_DEL_CURRENT was
16155 incorrectly removed. Fixes bug 16924; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
16157 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
16158 - Advise users on how to configure separate IPv4 and IPv6 exit
16159 policies in the manpage and sample torrcs. Related to ticket 16069.
16160 - Fix the usage message of tor-resolve(1) so that it no longer lists
16161 the removed -F option. Fixes bug 16913; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
16162 - Fix an error in the manual page and comments for
16163 TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir[IsStrict], which suggested that a HSDir
16164 required "ORPort connectivity". While this is true, it is in no
16165 way unique to the HSDir flag. Of all the flags, only HSDirs need a
16166 DirPort configured in order for the authorities to assign that
16167 particular flag. Patch by "teor". Fixed as part of 14882; bugfix
16170 o Minor bugfixes (Ed25519):
16171 - Fix a memory leak when reading router descriptors with expired
16172 Ed25519 certificates. Fixes bug 16539; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16174 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
16175 - Allow bridge authorities to run correctly under the seccomp2
16176 sandbox. Fixes bug 16964; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
16177 - Allow routers with ed25519 keys to run correctly under the
16178 seccomp2 sandbox. Fixes bug 16965; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16180 o Minor bugfixes (open file limit):
16181 - Fix set_max_file_descriptors() to set by default the max open file
16182 limit to the current limit when setrlimit() fails. Fixes bug
16183 16274; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch by dgoulet.
16185 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
16186 - Try harder to normalize the exit status of the Tor process to the
16187 standard-provided range. Fixes bug 16975; bugfix on every version
16189 - Check correctly for Windows socket errors in the workqueue
16190 backend. Fixes bug 16741; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
16191 - Fix the behavior of crypto_rand_time_range() when told to consider
16192 times before 1970. (These times were possible when running in a
16193 simulated network environment where time()'s output starts at
16194 zero.) Fixes bug 16980; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
16195 - Restore correct operation of TLS client-cipher detection on
16196 OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug 14047; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16198 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
16199 - Ensure that worker threads actually exit when a fatal error or
16200 shutdown is indicated. This fix doesn't currently affect the
16201 behavior of Tor, because Tor workers never indicates fatal error
16202 or shutdown except in the unit tests. Fixes bug 16868; bugfix
16204 - Unblock threads before releasing the work queue mutex to ensure
16205 predictable scheduling behavior. Fixes bug 16644; bugfix
16208 o Code simplification and refactoring:
16209 - Change the function that's called when we need to retry all
16210 downloads so that it only reschedules the downloads to happen
16211 immediately, rather than launching them all at once itself. This
16212 further simplifies Tor's callgraph.
16213 - Move some format-parsing functions out of crypto.c and
16214 crypto_curve25519.c into crypto_format.c and/or util_format.c.
16215 - Move the client-only parts of init_keys() into a separate
16216 function. Closes ticket 16763.
16217 - Simplify the microdesc_free() implementation so that it no longer
16218 appears (to code analysis tools) to potentially invoke a huge
16219 suite of other microdesc functions.
16220 - Simply the control graph further by deferring the inner body of
16221 directory_all_unreachable() into a callback. Closes ticket 16762.
16222 - Treat the loss of an owning controller as equivalent to a SIGTERM
16223 signal. This removes a tiny amount of duplicated code, and
16224 simplifies our callgraph. Closes ticket 16788.
16225 - When generating an event to send to the controller, we no longer
16226 put the event over the network immediately. Instead, we queue
16227 these events, and use a Libevent callback to deliver them. This
16228 change simplifies Tor's callgraph by reducing the number of
16229 functions from which all other Tor functions are reachable. Closes
16231 - Wrap Windows-only C files inside '#ifdef _WIN32' so that tools
16232 that try to scan or compile every file on Unix won't decide that
16234 - Remove the unused "nulterminate" argument from buf_pullup().
16237 - Recommend a 40 GB example AccountingMax in torrc.sample rather
16238 than a 4 GB max. Closes ticket 16742.
16239 - Include the TUNING document in our source tarball. It is referred
16240 to in the ChangeLog and an error message. Fixes bug 16929; bugfix
16244 - The internal pure-C tor-fw-helper tool is now removed from the Tor
16245 distribution, in favor of the pure-Go clone available from
16246 https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor-fw-helper.git/ . The libraries
16247 used by the C tor-fw-helper are not, in our opinion, very
16248 confidence- inspiring in their secure-programming techniques.
16249 Closes ticket 13338.
16250 - Remove the code that would try to aggressively flush controller
16251 connections while writing to them. This code was introduced in
16252 0.1.2.7-alpha, in order to keep output buffers from exceeding
16253 their limits. But there is no longer a maximum output buffer size,
16254 and flushing data in this way caused some undesirable recursions
16255 in our call graph. Closes ticket 16480.
16258 - Make "bridges+hs" the default test network. This tests almost all
16259 tor functionality during make test-network, while allowing tests
16260 to succeed on non-IPv6 systems. Requires chutney commit 396da92 in
16261 test-network-bridges-hs. Closes tickets 16945 (tor) and 16946
16262 (chutney). Patches by "teor".
16263 - Autodetect CHUTNEY_PATH if the chutney and Tor sources are side-
16264 by-side in the same parent directory. Closes ticket 16903. Patch
16266 - Use environment variables rather than autoconf substitutions to
16267 send variables from the build system to the test scripts. This
16268 change should be easier to maintain, and cause 'make distcheck' to
16269 work better than before. Fixes bug 17148.
16270 - Add a new set of callgraph analysis scripts that use clang to
16271 produce a list of which Tor functions are reachable from which
16272 other Tor functions. We're planning to use these to help simplify
16273 our code structure by identifying illogical dependencies.
16274 - Add new 'test-full' and 'test-full-online' targets to run all
16275 tests, including integration tests with stem and chutney.
16276 - Make the test-workqueue test work on Windows by initializing the
16277 network before we begin.
16278 - New make target (make test-network-all) to run multiple applicable
16279 chutney test cases. Patch from Teor; closes 16953.
16280 - Unit test dns_resolve(), dns_clip_ttl() and dns_get_expiry_ttl()
16281 functions in dns.c. Implements a portion of ticket 16831.
16282 - When building Tor with testing coverage enabled, run Chutney tests
16283 (if any) using the 'tor-cov' coverage binary.
16284 - When running test-network or test-stem, check for the absence of
16285 stem/chutney before doing any build operations.
16288 Changes in version 0.2.7.2-alpha - 2015-07-27
16289 This, the second alpha in the Tor 0.2.7 series, has a number of new
16290 features, including a way to manually pick the number of introduction
16291 points for hidden services, and the much stronger Ed25519 signing key
16292 algorithm for regular Tor relays (including support for encrypted
16293 offline identity keys in the new algorithm).
16295 Support for Ed25519 on relays is currently limited to signing router
16296 descriptors; later alphas in this series will extend Ed25519 key
16297 support to more parts of the Tor protocol.
16299 o Major features (Ed25519 identity keys, Proposal 220):
16300 - All relays now maintain a stronger identity key, using the Ed25519
16301 elliptic curve signature format. This master key is designed so
16302 that it can be kept offline. Relays also generate an online
16303 signing key, and a set of other Ed25519 keys and certificates.
16304 These are all automatically regenerated and rotated as needed.
16305 Implements part of ticket 12498.
16306 - Directory authorities now vote on Ed25519 identity keys along with
16307 RSA1024 keys. Implements part of ticket 12498.
16308 - Directory authorities track which Ed25519 identity keys have been
16309 used with which RSA1024 identity keys, and do not allow them to
16310 vary freely. Implements part of ticket 12498.
16311 - Microdescriptors now include Ed25519 identity keys. Implements
16312 part of ticket 12498.
16313 - Add support for offline encrypted Ed25519 master keys. To use this
16314 feature on your tor relay, run "tor --keygen" to make a new master
16315 key (or to make a new signing key if you already have a master
16316 key). Closes ticket 13642.
16318 o Major features (Hidden services):
16319 - Add the torrc option HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints, to
16320 specify a fixed number of introduction points. Its maximum value
16321 is 10 and default is 3. Using this option can increase a hidden
16322 service's reliability under load, at the cost of making it more
16323 visible that the hidden service is facing extra load. Closes
16325 - Remove the adaptive algorithm for choosing the number of
16326 introduction points, which used to change the number of
16327 introduction points (poorly) depending on the number of
16328 connections the HS sees. Closes ticket 4862.
16330 o Major features (onion key cross-certification):
16331 - Relay descriptors now include signatures of their own identity
16332 keys, made using the TAP and ntor onion keys. These signatures
16333 allow relays to prove ownership of their own onion keys. Because
16334 of this change, microdescriptors will no longer need to include
16335 RSA identity keys. Implements proposal 228; closes ticket 12499.
16337 o Major features (performance):
16338 - Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 operations by using the
16339 public-domain Ed25519-donna by Andrew M. ("floodyberry").
16340 Implements ticket 16467.
16341 - Improve the runtime speed of the ntor handshake by using an
16342 optimized curve25519 basepoint scalarmult implementation from the
16343 public-domain Ed25519-donna by Andrew M. ("floodyberry"), based on
16344 ideas by Adam Langley. Implements ticket 9663.
16346 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy, also in 0.2.6.9):
16347 - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream
16348 isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group
16349 was being overwritten by a default value when the listener
16350 connection was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on
16351 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by "jojelino".
16353 o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability, also in 0.2.6.10):
16354 - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a
16355 client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug
16356 14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability
16357 regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since
16358 we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in
16359 some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much
16360 of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix
16363 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
16364 - When cannibalizing a circuit for an introduction point, always
16365 extend to the chosen exit node (creating a 4 hop circuit).
16366 Previously Tor would use the current circuit exit node, which
16367 changed the original choice of introduction point, and could cause
16368 the hidden service to skip excluded introduction points or
16369 reconnect to a skipped introduction point. Fixes bug 16260; bugfix
16372 o Major bugfixes (open file limit):
16373 - The open file limit wasn't checked before calling
16374 tor_accept_socket_nonblocking(), which would make Tor exceed the
16375 limit. Now, before opening a new socket, Tor validates the open
16376 file limit just before, and if the max has been reached, return an
16377 error. Fixes bug 16288; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
16379 o Major bugfixes (stability, also in 0.2.6.10):
16380 - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds
16381 of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400;
16382 bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch
16383 by "cypherpunks_backup".
16384 - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when
16385 connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden
16386 service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix
16389 o Minor features (directory authorities, security, also in 0.2.6.9):
16390 - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag.
16391 For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806
16392 HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil
16393 attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable to
16394 require at the very least 7 days, while maintaining the 96 hours
16395 uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243.
16397 o Minor features (client):
16398 - Relax the validation of hostnames in SOCKS5 requests, allowing the
16399 character '_' to appear, in order to cope with domains observed in
16400 the wild that are serving non-RFC compliant records. Resolves
16402 - Relax the validation done to hostnames in SOCKS5 requests, and
16403 allow a single trailing '.' to cope with clients that pass FQDNs
16404 using that syntax to explicitly indicate that the domain name is
16405 fully-qualified. Fixes bug 16674; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
16406 - Add GroupWritable and WorldWritable options to unix-socket based
16407 SocksPort and ControlPort options. These options apply to a single
16408 socket, and override {Control,Socks}SocketsGroupWritable. Closes
16411 o Minor features (control protocol):
16412 - Support network-liveness GETINFO key and NETWORK_LIVENESS event in
16413 the control protocol. Resolves ticket 15358.
16415 o Minor features (directory authorities):
16416 - Directory authorities no longer vote against the "Fast", "Stable",
16417 and "HSDir" flags just because they were going to vote against
16418 "Running": if the consensus turns out to be that the router was
16419 running, then the authority's vote should count. Patch from Peter
16420 Retzlaff; closes issue 8712.
16422 o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.6.10):
16423 - Update geoip to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
16424 - Update geoip6 to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
16426 o Minor features (hidden services):
16427 - Add the new options "HiddenServiceMaxStreams" and
16428 "HiddenServiceMaxStreamsCloseCircuit" to allow hidden services to
16429 limit the maximum number of simultaneous streams per circuit, and
16430 optionally tear down the circuit when the limit is exceeded. Part
16433 o Minor features (portability):
16434 - Use C99 variadic macros when the compiler is not GCC. This avoids
16435 failing compilations on MSVC, and fixes a log-file-based race
16436 condition in our old workarounds. Original patch from Gisle Vanem.
16438 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, also in 0.2.6.9):
16439 - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is
16440 installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on
16441 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
16443 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
16444 - Add the descriptor ID in each HS_DESC control event. It was
16445 missing, but specified in control-spec.txt. Fixes bug 15881;
16446 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
16448 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling, also in 0.2.6.10):
16449 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
16450 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
16451 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
16452 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
16453 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
16455 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
16456 - Fix a crash when reloading configuration while at least one
16457 configured and one ephemeral hidden service exists. Fixes bug
16458 16060; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
16459 - Avoid crashing with a double-free bug when we create an ephemeral
16460 hidden service but adding it fails for some reason. Fixes bug
16461 16228; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
16463 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
16464 - Use the sandbox in tor_open_cloexec whether or not O_CLOEXEC is
16465 defined. Patch by "teor". Fixes bug 16515; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
16467 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.10):
16468 - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need
16469 these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix
16470 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor".
16472 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.9):
16473 - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relay, by allowing the
16474 renaming of secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex
16475 syscalls. Fixes bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by
16477 - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox
16478 code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by
16481 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
16482 - Fix a rarely-encountered memory leak when failing to initialize
16483 the thread pool. Fixes bug 16631; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
16484 from "cypherpunks".
16486 o Minor bugfixes (systemd):
16487 - Fix an accidental formatting error that broke the systemd
16488 configuration file. Fixes bug 16152; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
16489 - Tor's systemd unit file no longer contains extraneous spaces.
16490 These spaces would sometimes confuse tools like deb-systemd-
16491 helper. Fixes bug 16162; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
16493 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
16494 - Use the configured Python executable when running test-stem-full.
16495 Fixes bug 16470; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
16497 o Minor bugfixes (tests, also in 0.2.6.9):
16498 - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug
16499 16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
16501 o Minor bugfixes (threads, comments):
16502 - Always initialize return value in compute_desc_id in rendcommon.c
16503 Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug 16115; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
16504 - Check for NULL values in getinfo_helper_onions(). Patch by "teor".
16505 Fixes part of bug 16115; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
16506 - Remove undefined directive-in-macro in test_util_writepid clang
16507 3.7 complains that using a preprocessor directive inside a macro
16508 invocation in test_util_writepid in test_util.c is undefined.
16509 Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug 16115; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
16511 o Code simplification and refactoring:
16512 - Define WINVER and _WIN32_WINNT centrally, in orconfig.h, in order
16513 to ensure they remain consistent and visible everywhere.
16514 - Remove some vestigial workarounds for the MSVC6 compiler. We
16515 haven't supported that in ages.
16516 - The link authentication code has been refactored for better
16517 testability and reliability. It now uses code generated with the
16518 "trunnel" binary encoding generator, to reduce the risk of bugs
16519 due to programmer error. Done as part of ticket 12498.
16522 - Include a specific and (hopefully) accurate documentation of the
16523 torrc file's meta-format in doc/torrc_format.txt. This is mainly
16524 of interest to people writing programs to parse or generate torrc
16525 files. This document is not a commitment to long-term
16526 compatibility; some aspects of the current format are a bit
16527 ridiculous. Closes ticket 2325.
16529 o Removed features:
16530 - Tor no longer supports copies of OpenSSL that are missing support
16531 for Elliptic Curve Cryptography. (We began using ECC when
16532 available in 0.2.4.8-alpha, for more safe and efficient key
16533 negotiation.) In particular, support for at least one of P256 or
16534 P224 is now required, with manual configuration needed if only
16535 P224 is available. Resolves ticket 16140.
16536 - Tor no longer supports versions of OpenSSL before 1.0. (If you are
16537 on an operating system that has not upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0 or
16538 later, and you compile Tor from source, you will need to install a
16539 more recent OpenSSL to link Tor against.) These versions of
16540 OpenSSL are still supported by the OpenSSL, but the numerous
16541 cryptographic improvements in later OpenSSL releases makes them a
16542 clear choice. Resolves ticket 16034.
16543 - Remove the HidServDirectoryV2 option. Now all relays offer to
16544 store hidden service descriptors. Related to 16543.
16545 - Remove the VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 option, since all
16546 authorities have long set it to 1. Closes ticket 16543.
16549 - Document use of coverity, clang static analyzer, and clang dynamic
16550 undefined behavior and address sanitizers in doc/HACKING. Include
16551 detailed usage instructions in the blacklist. Patch by "teor".
16552 Closes ticket 15817.
16553 - The link authentication protocol code now has extensive tests.
16554 - The relay descriptor signature testing code now has
16556 - The test_workqueue program now runs faster, and is enabled by
16557 default as a part of "make check".
16558 - Now that OpenSSL has its own scrypt implementation, add an unit
16559 test that checks for interoperability between libscrypt_scrypt()
16560 and OpenSSL's EVP_PBE_scrypt() so that we could not use libscrypt
16561 and rely on EVP_PBE_scrypt() whenever possible. Resolves
16565 Changes in version 0.2.6.10 - 2015-07-12
16566 Tor version 0.2.6.10 fixes some significant stability and hidden
16567 service client bugs, bulletproofs the cryptography init process, and
16568 fixes a bug when using the sandbox code with some older versions of
16569 Linux. Everyone running an older version, especially an older version
16570 of 0.2.6, should upgrade.
16572 o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability):
16573 - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a
16574 client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug
16575 14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability
16576 regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since
16577 we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in
16578 some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much
16579 of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix
16582 o Major bugfixes (stability):
16583 - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds
16584 of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400;
16585 bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch
16586 by "cypherpunks_backup".
16587 - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when
16588 connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden
16589 service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix
16592 o Minor features (geoip):
16593 - Update geoip to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
16594 - Update geoip6 to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
16596 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling):
16597 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
16598 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
16599 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
16600 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
16601 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
16603 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
16604 - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need
16605 these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix
16606 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor".
16609 Changes in version 0.2.6.9 - 2015-06-11
16610 Tor 0.2.6.9 fixes a regression in the circuit isolation code, increases the
16611 requirements for receiving an HSDir flag, and addresses some other small
16612 bugs in the systemd and sandbox code. Clients using circuit isolation
16613 should upgrade; all directory authorities should upgrade.
16615 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
16616 - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream
16617 isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group was
16618 being overwritten by a default value when the listener connection
16619 was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
16622 o Minor feature (directory authorities, security):
16623 - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag.
16624 For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806
16625 HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil
16626 attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable which
16627 takes at the very least 7 days to do so and by keeping the 96
16628 hours uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243.
16630 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
16631 - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is
16632 installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on
16633 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
16635 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
16636 - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relaymby renaming of
16637 secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex syscalls. Fixes
16638 bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by Peter Palfrader.
16639 - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox
16640 code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by
16643 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
16644 - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug
16645 16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
16648 Changes in version 0.2.6.8 - 2015-05-21
16649 Tor 0.2.6.8 fixes a bit of dodgy code in parsing INTRODUCE2 cells, and
16650 fixes an authority-side bug in assigning the HSDir flag. All directory
16651 authorities should upgrade.
16653 o Major bugfixes (hidden services, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
16654 - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
16655 flag to relays without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
16656 can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
16659 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
16660 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
16661 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
16664 o Minor features (geoip):
16665 - Update geoip to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
16666 - Update geoip6 to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
16670 Changes in version 0.2.7.1-alpha - 2015-05-12
16671 Tor 0.2.7.1-alpha is the first alpha release in its series. It
16672 includes numerous small features and bugfixes against previous Tor
16673 versions, and numerous small infrastructure improvements. The most
16674 notable features are several new ways for controllers to interact with
16675 the hidden services subsystem.
16677 o New system requirements:
16678 - Tor no longer includes workarounds to support Libevent versions
16679 before 1.3e. Libevent 2.0 or later is recommended. Closes
16682 o Major features (controller):
16683 - Add the ADD_ONION and DEL_ONION commands that allow the creation
16684 and management of hidden services via the controller. Closes
16686 - New "GETINFO onions/current" and "GETINFO onions/detached"
16687 commands to get information about hidden services created via the
16688 controller. Part of ticket 6411.
16689 - New HSFETCH command to launch a request for a hidden service
16690 descriptor. Closes ticket 14847.
16691 - New HSPOST command to upload a hidden service descriptor. Closes
16692 ticket 3523. Patch by "DonnchaC".
16694 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
16695 - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
16696 flag to relays without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
16697 can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
16700 o Minor features (clock-jump tolerance):
16701 - Recover better when our clock jumps back many hours, like might
16702 happen for Tails or Whonix users who start with a very wrong
16703 hardware clock, use Tor to discover a more accurate time, and then
16704 fix their clock. Resolves part of ticket 8766.
16706 o Minor features (command-line interface):
16707 - Make --hash-password imply --hush to prevent unnecessary noise.
16708 Closes ticket 15542. Patch from "cypherpunks".
16709 - Print a warning whenever we find a relative file path being used
16710 as torrc option. Resolves issue 14018.
16712 o Minor features (controller):
16713 - Add DirAuthority lines for default directory authorities to the
16714 output of the "GETINFO config/defaults" command if not already
16715 present. Implements ticket 14840.
16716 - Controllers can now use "GETINFO hs/client/desc/id/..." to
16717 retrieve items from the client's hidden service descriptor cache.
16718 Closes ticket 14845.
16719 - Implement a new controller command "GETINFO status/fresh-relay-
16720 descs" to fetch a descriptor/extrainfo pair that was generated on
16721 demand just for the controller's use. Implements ticket 14784.
16723 o Minor features (DoS-resistance):
16724 - Make it harder for attackers to overload hidden services with
16725 introductions, by blocking multiple introduction requests on the
16726 same circuit. Resolves ticket 15515.
16728 o Minor features (geoip):
16729 - Update geoip to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
16730 - Update geoip6 to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
16733 o Minor features (HS popularity countermeasure):
16734 - To avoid leaking HS popularity, don't cycle the introduction point
16735 when we've handled a fixed number of INTRODUCE2 cells but instead
16736 cycle it when a random number of introductions is reached, thus
16737 making it more difficult for an attacker to find out the amount of
16738 clients that have used the introduction point for a specific HS.
16739 Closes ticket 15745.
16741 o Minor features (logging):
16742 - Include the Tor version in all LD_BUG log messages, since people
16743 tend to cut and paste those into the bugtracker. Implements
16746 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
16747 - When launching managed pluggable transports on Linux systems,
16748 attempt to have the kernel deliver a SIGTERM on tor exit if the
16749 pluggable transport process is still running. Resolves
16751 - When launching managed pluggable transports, setup a valid open
16752 stdin in the child process that can be used to detect if tor has
16753 terminated. The "TOR_PT_EXIT_ON_STDIN_CLOSE" environment variable
16754 can be used by implementations to detect this new behavior.
16755 Resolves ticket 15435.
16757 o Minor features (testing):
16758 - Add a test to verify that the compiler does not eliminate our
16759 memwipe() implementation. Closes ticket 15377.
16760 - Add make rule `check-changes` to verify the format of changes
16761 files. Closes ticket 15180.
16762 - Add unit tests for control_event_is_interesting(). Add a compile-
16763 time check that the number of events doesn't exceed the capacity
16764 of control_event_t.event_mask. Closes ticket 15431, checks for
16765 bugs similar to 13085. Patch by "teor".
16766 - Command-line argument tests moved to Stem. Resolves ticket 14806.
16767 - Integrate the ntor, backtrace, and zero-length keys tests into the
16768 automake test suite. Closes ticket 15344.
16769 - Remove assertions during builds to determine Tor's test coverage.
16770 We don't want to trigger these even in assertions, so including
16771 them artificially makes our branch coverage look worse than it is.
16772 This patch provides the new test-stem-full and coverage-html-full
16773 configure options. Implements ticket 15400.
16775 o Minor bugfixes (build):
16776 - Improve out-of-tree builds by making non-standard rules work and
16777 clean up additional files and directories. Fixes bug 15053; bugfix
16780 o Minor bugfixes (command-line interface):
16781 - When "--quiet" is provided along with "--validate-config", do not
16782 write anything to stdout on success. Fixes bug 14994; bugfix
16784 - When complaining about bad arguments to "--dump-config", use
16785 stderr, not stdout.
16787 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, unit tests):
16788 - Only add the default fallback directories when the DirAuthorities,
16789 AlternateDirAuthority, and FallbackDir directory config options
16790 are set to their defaults. The default fallback directory list is
16791 currently empty, this fix will only change tor's behavior when it
16792 has default fallback directories. Includes unit tests for
16793 consider_adding_dir_servers(). Fixes bug 15642; bugfix on
16794 90f6071d8dc0 in 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
16796 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
16797 - For correctness, avoid modifying a constant string in
16798 handle_control_postdescriptor. Fixes bug 15546; bugfix
16800 - Remove side-effects from tor_assert() calls. This was harmless,
16801 because we never disable assertions, but it is bad style and
16802 unnecessary. Fixes bug 15211; bugfix on 0.2.5.5, 0.2.2.36,
16805 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
16806 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
16807 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
16809 - Remove an extraneous newline character from the end of hidden
16810 service descriptors. Fixes bug 15296; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
16812 o Minor bugfixes (interface):
16813 - Print usage information for --dump-config when it is used without
16814 an argument. Also, fix the error message to use different wording
16815 and add newline at the end. Fixes bug 15541; bugfix
16818 o Minor bugfixes (logs):
16819 - When building Tor under Clang, do not include an extra set of
16820 parentheses in log messages that include function names. Fixes bug
16821 15269; bugfix on every released version of Tor when compiled with
16822 recent enough Clang.
16824 o Minor bugfixes (network):
16825 - When attempting to use fallback technique for network interface
16826 lookup, disregard loopback and multicast addresses since they are
16827 unsuitable for public communications.
16829 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
16830 - Disregard the ConnDirectionStatistics torrc options when Tor is
16831 not a relay since in that mode of operation no sensible data is
16832 being collected and because Tor might run into measurement hiccups
16833 when running as a client for some time, then becoming a relay.
16834 Fixes bug 15604; bugfix on 0.2.2.35.
16836 o Minor bugfixes (test networks):
16837 - When self-testing reachability, use ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses to
16838 determine if local/private addresses imply reachability. The
16839 previous fix used TestingTorNetwork, which implies
16840 ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses, but this excluded rare configurations
16841 where ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set but TestingTorNetwork is
16842 not. Fixes bug 15771; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by "teor",
16843 issue discovered by CJ Ess.
16845 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
16846 - Check for matching value in server response in ntor_ref.py. Fixes
16847 bug 15591; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported and fixed
16849 - Set the severity correctly when testing
16850 get_interface_addresses_ifaddrs() and
16851 get_interface_addresses_win32(), so that the tests fail gracefully
16852 instead of triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 15759; bugfix on
16853 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported by Nicolas Derive.
16855 o Code simplification and refactoring:
16856 - Move the hacky fallback code out of get_interface_address6() into
16857 separate function and get it covered with unit-tests. Resolves
16859 - Refactor hidden service client-side cache lookup to intelligently
16860 report its various failure cases, and disentangle failure cases
16861 involving a lack of introduction points. Closes ticket 14391.
16862 - Use our own Base64 encoder instead of OpenSSL's, to allow more
16863 control over the output. Part of ticket 15652.
16866 - Improve the descriptions of statistics-related torrc options in
16867 the manpage to describe rationale and possible uses cases. Fixes
16869 - Improve the layout and formatting of ./configure --help messages.
16870 Closes ticket 15024. Patch from "cypherpunks".
16871 - Standardize on the term "server descriptor" in the manual page.
16872 Previously, we had used "router descriptor", "server descriptor",
16873 and "relay descriptor" interchangeably. Part of ticket 14987.
16876 - Remove `USE_OPENSSL_BASE64` and the corresponding fallback code
16877 and always use the internal Base64 decoder. The internal decoder
16878 has been part of tor since 0.2.0.10-alpha, and no one should
16879 be using the OpenSSL one. Part of ticket 15652.
16880 - Remove the 'tor_strclear()' function; use memwipe() instead.
16881 Closes ticket 14922.
16883 o Removed features:
16884 - Remove the (seldom-used) DynamicDHGroups feature. For anti-
16885 fingerprinting we now recommend pluggable transports; for forward-
16886 secrecy in TLS, we now use the P-256 group. Closes ticket 13736.
16887 - Remove the undocumented "--digests" command-line option. It
16888 complicated our build process, caused subtle build issues on
16889 multiple platforms, and is now redundant since we started
16890 including git version identifiers. Closes ticket 14742.
16891 - Tor no longer contains checks for ancient directory cache versions
16892 that didn't know about microdescriptors.
16893 - Tor no longer contains workarounds for stat files generated by
16894 super-old versions of Tor that didn't choose guards sensibly.
16897 Changes in version 0.2.4.27 - 2015-04-06
16898 Tor 0.2.4.27 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that
16899 could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients
16900 visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as
16901 possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available.
16903 This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden
16904 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
16906 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
16907 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
16908 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
16909 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
16910 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
16911 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
16912 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
16914 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
16915 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
16916 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
16917 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
16918 Resolves ticket 15515.
16921 Changes in version 0.2.5.12 - 2015-04-06
16922 Tor 0.2.5.12 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that
16923 could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients
16924 visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as
16925 possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available.
16927 This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden
16928 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
16930 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
16931 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
16932 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
16933 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
16934 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
16935 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
16936 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
16938 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
16939 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
16940 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
16941 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
16942 Resolves ticket 15515.
16945 Changes in version 0.2.6.7 - 2015-04-06
16946 Tor 0.2.6.7 fixes two security issues that could be used by an
16947 attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients visiting hidden
16948 services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as possible; clients
16949 should upgrade whenever packages become available.
16951 This release also contains two simple improvements to make hidden
16952 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
16954 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
16955 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
16956 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
16957 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
16958 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
16959 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
16960 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
16962 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
16963 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
16964 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
16965 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
16966 Resolves ticket 15515.
16967 - Decrease the amount of reattempts that a hidden service performs
16968 when its rendezvous circuits fail. This reduces the computational
16969 cost for running a hidden service under heavy load. Resolves
16973 Changes in version 0.2.6.6 - 2015-03-24
16974 Tor 0.2.6.6 is the first stable release in the 0.2.6 series.
16976 It adds numerous safety, security, correctness, and performance
16977 improvements. Client programs can be configured to use more kinds of
16978 sockets, AutomapHosts works better, the multithreading backend is
16979 improved, cell transmission is refactored, test coverage is much
16980 higher, more denial-of-service attacks are handled, guard selection is
16981 improved to handle long-term guards better, pluggable transports
16982 should work a bit better, and some annoying hidden service performance
16983 bugs should be addressed.
16985 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
16986 - Use the correct datatype in the SipHash-2-4 function to prevent
16987 compilers from assuming any sort of alignment. Fixes bug 15436;
16988 bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
16990 Changes in version 0.2.6.5-rc - 2015-03-18
16991 Tor 0.2.6.5-rc is the second and (hopefully) last release candidate in
16992 the 0.2.6. It fixes a small number of bugs found in 0.2.6.4-rc.
16994 o Major bugfixes (client):
16995 - Avoid crashing when making certain configuration option changes on
16996 clients. Fixes bug 15245; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported
16999 o Major bugfixes (pluggable transports):
17000 - Initialize the extended OR Port authentication cookie before
17001 launching pluggable transports. This prevents a race condition
17002 that occurred when server-side pluggable transports would cache the
17003 authentication cookie before it has been (re)generated. Fixes bug
17004 15240; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
17006 o Major bugfixes (portability):
17007 - Do not crash on startup when running on Solaris. Fixes a bug
17008 related to our fix for 9495; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Reported
17011 o Minor features (heartbeat):
17012 - On relays, report how many connections we negotiated using each
17013 version of the Tor link protocols. This information will let us
17014 know if removing support for very old versions of the Tor
17015 protocols is harming the network. Closes ticket 15212.
17017 o Code simplification and refactoring:
17018 - Refactor main loop to extract the 'loop' part. This makes it
17019 easier to run Tor under Shadow. Closes ticket 15176.
17022 Changes in version 0.2.5.11 - 2015-03-17
17023 Tor 0.2.5.11 is the second stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
17025 It backports several bugfixes from the 0.2.6 branch, including a
17026 couple of medium-level security fixes for relays and exit nodes.
17027 It also updates the list of directory authorities.
17029 o Directory authority changes:
17030 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
17031 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
17032 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
17033 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
17034 closes ticket 14487.
17036 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
17037 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
17038 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
17041 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
17042 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
17043 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
17044 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
17045 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
17046 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
17047 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
17048 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
17050 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
17051 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
17052 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
17053 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
17055 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
17056 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
17057 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
17058 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
17060 o Minor features (controller):
17061 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
17062 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
17063 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
17065 o Minor features (geoip):
17066 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
17067 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
17070 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
17071 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
17072 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
17073 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
17074 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
17075 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
17077 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
17078 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
17079 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
17080 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
17082 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
17083 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
17084 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
17085 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
17086 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
17087 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
17088 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
17089 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
17091 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
17092 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
17093 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
17095 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
17096 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
17097 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
17098 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
17099 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
17103 Changes in version 0.2.4.26 - 2015-03-17
17104 Tor 0.2.4.26 includes an updated list of directory authorities. It
17105 also backports a couple of stability and security bugfixes from 0.2.5
17108 o Directory authority changes:
17109 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
17110 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
17111 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
17112 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
17113 closes ticket 14487.
17115 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability, also in 0.2.6.3-alpha):
17116 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
17117 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
17118 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
17120 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security, also in 0.2.6.4-rc):
17121 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
17122 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
17123 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
17124 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
17125 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
17126 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
17127 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
17129 o Minor features (geoip):
17130 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
17131 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
17134 Changes in version 0.2.6.4-rc - 2015-03-09
17135 Tor 0.2.6.4-alpha fixes an issue in the directory code that an
17136 attacker might be able to use in order to crash certain Tor
17137 directories. It also resolves some minor issues left over from, or
17138 introduced in, Tor 0.2.6.3-alpha or earlier.
17140 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
17141 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
17142 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
17145 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
17146 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
17147 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout is passed to
17148 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
17149 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
17150 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
17151 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
17152 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
17154 o Major bugfixes (FreeBSD IPFW transparent proxy):
17155 - Fix address detection with FreeBSD transparent proxies, when
17156 "TransProxyType ipfw" is in use. Fixes bug 15064; bugfix
17159 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
17160 - Pass IPPROTO_TCP rather than 0 to socket(), so that the Linux
17161 seccomp2 sandbox doesn't fail. Fixes bug 14989; bugfix
17163 - Allow AF_UNIX hidden services to be used with the seccomp2
17164 sandbox. Fixes bug 15003; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
17165 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
17166 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
17167 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
17169 o Minor features (controller):
17170 - Messages about problems in the bootstrap process now include
17171 information about the server we were trying to connect to when we
17172 noticed the problem. Closes ticket 15006.
17174 o Minor features (geoip):
17175 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
17176 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
17179 o Minor features (logs):
17180 - Quiet some log messages in the heartbeat and at startup. Closes
17183 o Minor bugfixes (certificate handling):
17184 - If an authority operator accidentally makes a signing certificate
17185 with a future publication time, do not discard its real signing
17186 certificates. Fixes bug 11457; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
17187 - Remove any old authority certificates that have been superseded
17188 for at least two days. Previously, we would keep superseded
17189 certificates until they expired, if they were published close in
17190 time to the certificate that superseded them. Fixes bug 11454;
17191 bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
17193 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
17194 - Fix a compilation warning on s390. Fixes bug 14988; bugfix
17196 - Fix a compilation warning on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 15151; bugfix
17199 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
17200 - Fix endianness issues in unit test for resolve_my_address() to
17201 have it pass on big endian systems. Fixes bug 14980; bugfix on
17203 - Avoid a side-effect in a tor_assert() in the unit tests. Fixes bug
17204 15188; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha. Patch from Tom van der Woerdt.
17205 - When running the new 'make test-stem' target, use the configured
17206 python binary. Fixes bug 15037; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
17207 from "cypherpunks".
17208 - When running the zero-length-keys tests, do not use the default
17209 torrc file. Fixes bug 15033; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported
17212 o Directory authority IP change:
17213 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
17214 closes ticket 14487.
17217 - Remove some lingering dead code that once supported mempools.
17218 Mempools were disabled by default in 0.2.5, and removed entirely
17219 in 0.2.6.3-alpha. Closes more of ticket 14848; patch
17223 Changes in version 0.2.6.3-alpha - 2015-02-19
17224 Tor 0.2.6.3-alpha is the third (and hopefully final) alpha release in
17225 the 0.2.6.x series. It introduces support for more kinds of sockets,
17226 makes it harder to accidentally run an exit, improves our
17227 multithreading backend, incorporates several fixes for the
17228 AutomapHostsOnResolve option, and fixes numerous other bugs besides.
17230 If no major regressions or security holes are found in this version,
17231 the next version will be a release candidate.
17233 o Deprecated versions:
17234 - Tor relays older than 0.2.4.18-rc are no longer allowed to
17235 advertise themselves on the network. Closes ticket 13555.
17237 o Major features (security, unix domain sockets):
17238 - Allow SocksPort to be an AF_UNIX Unix Domain Socket. Now high risk
17239 applications can reach Tor without having to create AF_INET or
17240 AF_INET6 sockets, meaning they can completely disable their
17241 ability to make non-Tor network connections. To create a socket of
17242 this type, use "SocksPort unix:/path/to/socket". Implements
17244 - Support mapping hidden service virtual ports to AF_UNIX sockets.
17245 The syntax is "HiddenServicePort 80 unix:/path/to/socket".
17246 Implements ticket 11485.
17248 o Major features (changed defaults):
17249 - Prevent relay operators from unintentionally running exits: When a
17250 relay is configured as an exit node, we now warn the user unless
17251 the "ExitRelay" option is set to 1. We warn even more loudly if
17252 the relay is configured with the default exit policy, since this
17253 can indicate accidental misconfiguration. Setting "ExitRelay 0"
17254 stops Tor from running as an exit relay. Closes ticket 10067.
17256 o Major features (directory system):
17257 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors from a directory
17258 server, we no longer launch multiple simultaneous requests to the
17259 same server. This reduces load on the directory servers,
17260 especially when directory guards are in use. Closes ticket 9969.
17261 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors over a tunneled
17262 connection, do not limit the length of our requests to what the
17263 Squid proxy is willing to handle. Part of ticket 9969.
17264 - Authorities can now vote on the correct digests and latest
17265 versions for different software packages. This allows packages
17266 that include Tor to use the Tor authority system as a way to get
17267 notified of updates and their correct digests. Implements proposal
17268 227. Closes ticket 10395.
17270 o Major features (guards):
17271 - Introduce the Guardfraction feature to improves load balancing on
17272 guard nodes. Specifically, it aims to reduce the traffic gap that
17273 guard nodes experience when they first get the Guard flag. This is
17274 a required step if we want to increase the guard lifetime to 9
17275 months or greater. Closes ticket 9321.
17277 o Major features (performance):
17278 - Make the CPU worker implementation more efficient by avoiding the
17279 kernel and lengthening pipelines. The original implementation used
17280 sockets to transfer data from the main thread to the workers, and
17281 didn't allow any thread to be assigned more than a single piece of
17282 work at once. The new implementation avoids communications
17283 overhead by making requests in shared memory, avoiding kernel IO
17284 where possible, and keeping more requests in flight at once.
17285 Implements ticket 9682.
17287 o Major features (relay):
17288 - Raise the minimum acceptable configured bandwidth rate for bridges
17289 to 50 KiB/sec and for relays to 75 KiB/sec. (The old values were
17290 20 KiB/sec.) Closes ticket 13822.
17292 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
17293 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
17294 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
17295 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
17297 o Major bugfixes (mixed relay-client operation):
17298 - When running as a relay and client at the same time (not
17299 recommended), if we decide not to use a new guard because we want
17300 to retry older guards, only close the locally-originating circuits
17301 passing through that guard. Previously we would close all the
17302 circuits through that guard. Fixes bug 9819; bugfix on
17303 0.2.1.1-alpha. Reported by "skruffy".
17305 o Minor features (build):
17306 - New --disable-system-torrc compile-time option to prevent Tor from
17307 looking for the system-wide torrc or torrc-defaults files.
17308 Resolves ticket 13037.
17310 o Minor features (controller):
17311 - Include SOCKS_USERNAME and SOCKS_PASSWORD values in controller
17312 events so controllers can observe circuit isolation inputs. Closes
17314 - ControlPort now supports the unix:/path/to/socket syntax as an
17315 alternative to the ControlSocket option, for consistency with
17316 SocksPort and HiddenServicePort. Closes ticket 14451.
17317 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
17318 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
17319 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
17321 o Minor features (Denial of service resistance):
17322 - Count the total number of bytes used storing hidden service
17323 descriptors against the value of MaxMemInQueues. If we're low on
17324 memory, and more than 20% of our memory is used holding hidden
17325 service descriptors, free them until no more than 10% of our
17326 memory holds hidden service descriptors. Free the least recently
17327 fetched descriptors first. Resolves ticket 13806.
17328 - When we have recently been under memory pressure (over 3/4 of
17329 MaxMemInQueues is allocated), then allocate smaller zlib objects
17330 for small requests. Closes ticket 11791.
17332 o Minor features (geoip):
17333 - Update geoip and geoip6 files to the January 7 2015 Maxmind
17334 GeoLite2 Country database.
17336 o Minor features (guard nodes):
17337 - Reduce the time delay before saving guard status to disk from 10
17338 minutes to 30 seconds (or from one hour to 10 minutes if
17339 AvoidDiskWrites is set). Closes ticket 12485.
17341 o Minor features (hidden service):
17342 - Make Sybil attacks against hidden services harder by changing the
17343 minimum time required to get the HSDir flag from 25 hours up to 96
17344 hours. Addresses ticket 14149.
17345 - New option "HiddenServiceAllowUnknownPorts" to allow hidden
17346 services to disable the anti-scanning feature introduced in
17347 0.2.6.2-alpha. With this option not set, a connection to an
17348 unlisted port closes the circuit. With this option set, only a
17349 RELAY_DONE cell is sent. Closes ticket 14084.
17351 o Minor features (interface):
17352 - Implement "-f -" command-line option to read torrc configuration
17353 from standard input, if you don't want to store the torrc file in
17354 the file system. Implements feature 13865.
17356 o Minor features (logging):
17357 - Add a count of unique clients to the bridge heartbeat message.
17358 Resolves ticket 6852.
17359 - Suppress "router info incompatible with extra info" message when
17360 reading extrainfo documents from cache. (This message got loud
17361 around when we closed bug 9812 in 0.2.6.2-alpha.) Closes
17363 - Elevate hidden service authorized-client message from DEBUG to
17364 INFO. Closes ticket 14015.
17366 o Minor features (stability):
17367 - Add assertions in our hash-table iteration code to check for
17368 corrupted values that could cause infinite loops. Closes
17371 o Minor features (systemd):
17372 - Various improvements and modernizations in systemd hardening
17373 support. Closes ticket 13805. Patch from Craig Andrews.
17375 o Minor features (testing networks):
17376 - Drop the minimum RendPostPeriod on a testing network to 5 seconds,
17377 and the default on a testing network to 2 minutes. Drop the
17378 MIN_REND_INITIAL_POST_DELAY on a testing network to 5 seconds, but
17379 keep the default on a testing network at 30 seconds. This reduces
17380 HS bootstrap time to around 25 seconds. Also, change the default
17381 time in test-network.sh to match. Closes ticket 13401. Patch
17383 - Create TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir to correspond to
17384 TestingDirAuthVoteExit/Guard. Ensures that authorities vote the
17385 HSDir flag for the listed relays regardless of uptime or ORPort
17386 connectivity. Respects the value of VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2.
17387 Partial implementation for ticket 14067. Patch by "teor".
17389 o Minor features (tor2web mode):
17390 - Introduce the config option Tor2webRendezvousPoints, which allows
17391 clients in Tor2webMode to select a specific Rendezvous Point to be
17392 used in HS circuits. This might allow better performance for
17393 Tor2Web nodes. Implements ticket 12844.
17395 o Minor bugfixes (client DNS):
17396 - Report the correct cached DNS expiration times on SOCKS port or in
17397 DNS replies. Previously, we would report everything as "never
17398 expires." Fixes bug 14193; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
17399 - Avoid a small memory leak when we find a cached answer for a
17400 reverse DNS lookup in a client-side DNS cache. (Remember, client-
17401 side DNS caching is off by default, and is not recommended.) Fixes
17402 bug 14259; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
17404 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
17405 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
17406 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
17407 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
17408 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
17409 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
17410 - Prevent changes to other options from removing the wildcard value
17411 "." from "AutomapHostsSuffixes". Fixes bug 12509; bugfix
17413 - Allow MapAddress and AutomapHostsOnResolve to work together when
17414 an address is mapped into another address type (like .onion) that
17415 must be automapped at resolve time. Fixes bug 7555; bugfix
17418 o Minor bugfixes (client, bridges):
17419 - When we are using bridges and we had a network connectivity
17420 problem, only retry connecting to our currently configured
17421 bridges, not all bridges we know about and remember using. Fixes
17422 bug 14216; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
17424 o Minor bugfixes (client, IPv6):
17425 - Reject socks requests to literal IPv6 addresses when IPv6Traffic
17426 flag is not set; and not because the NoIPv4Traffic flag was set.
17427 Previously we'd looked at the NoIPv4Traffic flag for both types of
17428 literal addresses. Fixes bug 14280; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
17430 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
17431 - The address of an array in the middle of a structure will always
17432 be non-NULL. clang recognises this and complains. Disable the
17433 tautologous and redundant check to silence this warning. Fixes bug
17434 14001; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
17435 - Avoid warnings when building with systemd 209 or later. Fixes bug
17436 14072; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "h.venev".
17437 - Compile correctly with (unreleased) OpenSSL 1.1.0 headers.
17438 Addresses ticket 14188.
17439 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
17440 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
17441 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
17442 - Do not compile any code related to Tor2Web mode when Tor2Web mode
17443 is not enabled at compile time. Previously, this code was included
17444 in a disabled state. See discussion on ticket 12844.
17445 - Remove the --disable-threads configure option again. It was
17446 accidentally partially reintroduced in 29ac883606d6d. Fixes bug
17447 14819; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
17449 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
17450 - Report "down" in response to the "GETINFO entry-guards" command
17451 when relays are down with an unreachable_since value. Previously,
17452 we would report "up". Fixes bug 14184; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
17453 - Avoid crashing on a malformed EXTENDCIRCUIT command. Fixes bug
17454 14116; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
17455 - Add a code for the END_CIRC_REASON_IP_NOW_REDUNDANT circuit close
17456 reason. Fixes bug 14207; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
17458 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
17459 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
17460 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
17461 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
17462 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
17463 - Do not attempt to download extrainfo documents which we will be
17464 unable to validate with a matching server descriptor. Fixes bug
17465 13762; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
17466 - Fix a bug that was truncating AUTHDIR_NEWDESC events sent to the
17467 control port. Fixes bug 14953; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
17468 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
17469 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
17470 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
17472 o Minor bugfixes (file handling):
17473 - Stop failing when key files are zero-length. Instead, generate new
17474 keys, and overwrite the empty key files. Fixes bug 13111; bugfix
17475 on all versions of Tor. Patch by "teor".
17476 - Stop generating a fresh .old RSA onion key file when the .old file
17477 is missing. Fixes part of 13111; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
17478 - Avoid overwriting .old key files with empty key files.
17479 - Skip loading zero-length extrainfo store, router store, stats,
17480 state, and key files.
17481 - Avoid crashing when trying to reload a torrc specified as a
17482 relative path with RunAsDaemon turned on. Fixes bug 13397; bugfix
17485 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
17486 - Close the introduction circuit when we have no more usable intro
17487 points, instead of waiting for it to time out. This also ensures
17488 that no follow-up HS descriptor fetch is triggered when the
17489 circuit eventually times out. Fixes bug 14224; bugfix on 0.0.6.
17490 - When fetching a hidden service descriptor for a down service that
17491 was recently up, do not keep refetching until we try the same
17492 replica twice in a row. Fixes bug 14219; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
17493 - Successfully launch Tor with a nonexistent hidden service
17494 directory. Our fix for bug 13942 didn't catch this case. Fixes bug
17495 14106; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
17497 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
17498 - Avoid crashing when there are more log domains than entries in
17499 domain_list. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
17500 - Add a string representation for LD_SCHED. Fixes bug 14740; bugfix
17502 - Don't log messages to stdout twice when starting up. Fixes bug
17503 13993; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
17505 o Minor bugfixes (parsing):
17506 - Stop accepting milliseconds (or other junk) at the end of
17507 descriptor publication times. Fixes bug 9286; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25.
17508 - Support two-number and three-number version numbers correctly, in
17509 case we change the Tor versioning system in the future. Fixes bug
17510 13661; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
17512 o Minor bugfixes (path counting):
17513 - When deciding whether the consensus lists any exit nodes, count
17514 the number listed in the consensus, not the number we have
17515 descriptors for. Fixes part of bug 14918; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
17516 - When deciding whether we have any exit nodes, only examine
17517 ExitNodes when the ExitNodes option is actually set. Fixes part of
17518 bug 14918; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
17519 - Get rid of redundant and possibly scary warnings that we are
17520 missing directory information while we bootstrap. Fixes part of
17521 bug 14918; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
17523 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
17524 - Fix the ioctl()-based network interface lookup code so that it
17525 will work on systems that have variable-length struct ifreq, for
17527 - Fix scheduler compilation on targets where char is unsigned. Fixes
17528 bug 14764; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Reported by Christian Kujau.
17530 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox):
17531 - Allow glibc fatal errors to be sent to stderr before Tor exits.
17532 Previously, glibc would try to write them to /dev/tty, and the
17533 sandbox would trap the call and make Tor exit prematurely. Fixes
17534 bug 14759; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
17536 o Minor bugfixes (shutdown):
17537 - When shutting down, always call event_del() on lingering read or
17538 write events before freeing them. Otherwise, we risk double-frees
17539 or read-after-frees in event_base_free(). Fixes bug 12985; bugfix
17542 o Minor bugfixes (small memory leaks):
17543 - Avoid leaking memory when using IPv6 virtual address mappings.
17544 Fixes bug 14123; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by Tom van
17547 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
17548 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
17549 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
17551 o Minor bugfixes (systemd support):
17552 - Fix detection and operation of systemd watchdog. Fixes part of bug
17553 14141; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from Tomasz Torcz.
17554 - Run correctly under systemd with the RunAsDaemon option set. Fixes
17555 part of bug 14141; bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc. Patch from Tomasz Torcz.
17556 - Inform the systemd supervisor about more changes in the Tor
17557 process status. Implements part of ticket 14141. Patch from
17559 - Cause the "--disable-systemd" option to actually disable systemd
17560 support. Fixes bug 14350; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch
17563 o Minor bugfixes (TLS):
17564 - Check more thoroughly throughout the TLS code for possible
17565 unlogged TLS errors. Possible diagnostic or fix for bug 13319.
17567 o Minor bugfixes (transparent proxy):
17568 - Use getsockname, not getsockopt, to retrieve the address for a
17569 TPROXY-redirected connection. Fixes bug 13796; bugfix
17572 o Code simplification and refactoring:
17573 - Move fields related to isolating and configuring client ports into
17574 a shared structure. Previously, they were duplicated across
17575 port_cfg_t, listener_connection_t, and edge_connection_t. Failure
17576 to copy them correctly had been the cause of at least one bug in
17577 the past. Closes ticket 8546.
17578 - Refactor the get_interface_addresses_raw() doom-function into
17579 multiple smaller and simpler subfunctions. Cover the resulting
17580 subfunctions with unit-tests. Fixes a significant portion of
17582 - Remove workaround in dirserv_thinks_router_is_hs_dir() that was
17583 only for version <= 0.2.2.24 which is now deprecated. Closes
17585 - Remove a test for a long-defunct broken version-one
17589 - Adding section on OpenBSD to our TUNING document. Thanks to mmcc
17590 for writing the OpenBSD-specific tips. Resolves ticket 13702.
17591 - Make the tor-resolve documentation match its help string and its
17592 options. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
17593 - Log a more useful error message from tor-resolve when failing to
17594 look up a hidden service address. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
17596 o Downgraded warnings:
17597 - Don't warn when we've attempted to contact a relay using the wrong
17598 ntor onion key. Closes ticket 9635.
17600 o Removed features:
17601 - To avoid confusion with the "ExitRelay" option, "ExitNode" is no
17602 longer silently accepted as an alias for "ExitNodes".
17603 - The --enable-mempool and --enable-buf-freelists options, which
17604 were originally created to work around bad malloc implementations,
17605 no longer exist. They were off-by-default in 0.2.5. Closes
17609 - Make the checkdir/perms test complete successfully even if the
17610 global umask is not 022. Fixes bug 14215; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
17611 - Test that tor does not fail when key files are zero-length. Check
17612 that tor generates new keys, and overwrites the empty key files.
17613 - Test that tor generates new keys when keys are missing
17614 (existing behavior).
17615 - Test that tor does not overwrite key files that already contain
17616 data (existing behavior). Tests bug 13111. Patch by "teor".
17617 - New "make test-stem" target to run stem integration tests.
17618 Requires that the "STEM_SOURCE_DIR" environment variable be set.
17619 Closes ticket 14107.
17620 - Make the test_cmdline_args.py script work correctly on Windows.
17621 Patch from Gisle Vanem.
17622 - Move the slower unit tests into a new "./src/test/test-slow"
17623 binary that can be run independently of the other tests. Closes
17625 - Avoid undefined behavior when sampling huge values from the
17626 Laplace distribution. This made unittests fail on Raspberry Pi.
17627 Bug found by Device. Fixes bug 14090; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
17630 Changes in version 0.2.6.2-alpha - 2014-12-31
17631 Tor 0.2.6.2-alpha is the second alpha release in the 0.2.6.x series.
17632 It introduces a major new backend for deciding when to send cells on
17633 channels, which should lead down the road to big performance
17634 increases. It contains security and statistics features for better
17635 work on hidden services, and numerous bugfixes.
17637 This release contains many new unit tests, along with major
17638 performance improvements for running testing networks using Chutney.
17639 Thanks to a series of patches contributed by "teor", testing networks
17640 should now bootstrap in seconds, rather than minutes.
17642 o Major features (relay, infrastructure):
17643 - Complete revision of the code that relays use to decide which cell
17644 to send next. Formerly, we selected the best circuit to write on
17645 each channel, but we didn't select among channels in any
17646 sophisticated way. Now, we choose the best circuits globally from
17647 among those whose channels are ready to deliver traffic.
17649 This patch implements a new inter-cmux comparison API, a global
17650 high/low watermark mechanism and a global scheduler loop for
17651 transmission prioritization across all channels as well as among
17652 circuits on one channel. This schedule is currently tuned to
17653 (tolerantly) avoid making changes in network performance, but it
17654 should form the basis for major circuit performance increases in
17655 the future. Code by Andrea; tuning by Rob Jansen; implements
17658 o Major features (hidden services):
17659 - Make HS port scanning more difficult by immediately closing the
17660 circuit when a user attempts to connect to a nonexistent port.
17661 Closes ticket 13667.
17662 - Add a HiddenServiceStatistics option that allows Tor relays to
17663 gather and publish statistics about the overall size and volume of
17664 hidden service usage. Specifically, when this option is turned on,
17665 an HSDir will publish an approximate number of hidden services
17666 that have published descriptors to it the past 24 hours. Also, if
17667 a relay has acted as a hidden service rendezvous point, it will
17668 publish the approximate amount of rendezvous cells it has relayed
17669 the past 24 hours. The statistics themselves are obfuscated so
17670 that the exact values cannot be derived. For more details see
17671 proposal 238, "Better hidden service stats from Tor relays". This
17672 feature is currently disabled by default. Implements feature 13192.
17674 o Major bugfixes (client, automap):
17675 - Repair automapping with IPv6 addresses. This automapping should
17676 have worked previously, but one piece of debugging code that we
17677 inserted to detect a regression actually caused the regression to
17678 manifest itself again. Fixes bug 13811 and bug 12831; bugfix on
17679 0.2.4.7-alpha. Diagnosed and fixed by Francisco Blas
17682 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
17683 - When closing an introduction circuit that was opened in parallel
17684 with others, don't mark the introduction point as unreachable.
17685 Previously, the first successful connection to an introduction
17686 point would make the other introduction points get marked as
17687 having timed out. Fixes bug 13698; bugfix on 0.0.6rc2.
17689 o Directory authority changes:
17690 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
17691 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
17692 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
17694 o Major removed features:
17695 - Tor clients no longer support connecting to hidden services
17696 running on Tor 0.2.2.x and earlier; the Support022HiddenServices
17697 option has been removed. (There shouldn't be any hidden services
17698 running these versions on the network.) Closes ticket 7803.
17700 o Minor features (client):
17701 - Validate hostnames in SOCKS5 requests more strictly. If SafeSocks
17702 is enabled, reject requests with IP addresses as hostnames.
17703 Resolves ticket 13315.
17705 o Minor features (controller):
17706 - Add a "SIGNAL HEARTBEAT" controller command that tells Tor to
17707 write an unscheduled heartbeat message to the log. Implements
17710 o Minor features (geoip):
17711 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 15 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
17714 o Minor features (hidden services):
17715 - When re-enabling the network, don't try to build introduction
17716 circuits until we have successfully built a circuit. This makes
17717 hidden services come up faster when the network is re-enabled.
17718 Patch from "akwizgran". Closes ticket 13447.
17719 - When we fail to retrieve a hidden service descriptor, send the
17720 controller an "HS_DESC FAILED" controller event. Implements
17722 - New HiddenServiceDirGroupReadable option to cause hidden service
17723 directories and hostname files to be created group-readable. Patch
17724 from "anon", David Stainton, and "meejah". Closes ticket 11291.
17726 o Minor features (systemd):
17727 - Where supported, when running with systemd, report successful
17728 startup to systemd. Part of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
17729 - When running with systemd, support systemd watchdog messages. Part
17730 of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
17732 o Minor features (transparent proxy):
17733 - Update the transparent proxy option checks to allow for both ipfw
17734 and pf on OS X. Closes ticket 14002.
17735 - Use the correct option when using IPv6 with transparent proxy
17736 support on Linux. Resolves 13808. Patch by Francisco Blas
17739 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
17740 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
17741 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
17742 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
17743 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
17745 - Clear all memory targeted by tor_addr_{to,from}_sockaddr(), not
17746 just the part that's used. This makes it harder for data leak bugs
17747 to occur in the event of other programming failures. Resolves
17750 o Minor bugfixes (client, microdescriptors):
17751 - Use a full 256 bits of the SHA256 digest of a microdescriptor when
17752 computing which microdescriptors to download. This keeps us from
17753 erroneous download behavior if two microdescriptor digests ever
17754 have the same first 160 bits. Fixes part of bug 13399; bugfix
17756 - Reset a router's status if its microdescriptor digest changes,
17757 even if the first 160 bits remain the same. Fixes part of bug
17758 13399; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
17760 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
17761 - Silence clang warnings under --enable-expensive-hardening,
17762 including implicit truncation of 64 bit values to 32 bit, const
17763 char assignment to self, tautological compare, and additional
17764 parentheses around equality tests. Fixes bug 13577; bugfix
17766 - Fix a clang warning about checking whether an address in the
17767 middle of a structure is NULL. Fixes bug 14001; bugfix
17770 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
17771 - Correctly send a controller event when we find that a rendezvous
17772 circuit has finished. Fixes bug 13936; bugfix on 0.1.1.5-alpha.
17773 - Pre-check directory permissions for new hidden-services to avoid
17774 at least one case of "Bug: Acting on config options left us in a
17775 broken state. Dying." Fixes bug 13942; bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
17776 - When adding a new hidden service (for example, via SETCONF), Tor
17777 no longer congratulates the user for running a relay. Fixes bug
17778 13941; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
17779 - When fetching hidden service descriptors, we now check not only
17780 for whether we got the hidden service we had in mind, but also
17781 whether we got the particular descriptors we wanted. This prevents
17782 a class of inefficient but annoying DoS attacks by hidden service
17783 directories. Fixes bug 13214; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported
17786 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
17787 - Make transparent proxy support work along with the seccomp2
17788 sandbox. Fixes part of bug 13808; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch
17789 by Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera.
17790 - Fix a memory leak in tor-resolve when running with the sandbox
17791 enabled. Fixes bug 14050; bugfix on 0.2.5.9-rc.
17793 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
17794 - Downgrade warnings about RSA signature failures to info log level.
17795 Emit a warning when an extra info document is found incompatible
17796 with a corresponding router descriptor. Fixes bug 9812; bugfix
17798 - Make connection_ap_handshake_attach_circuit() log the circuit ID
17799 correctly. Fixes bug 13701; bugfix on 0.0.6.
17801 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
17802 - Stop allowing invalid address patterns like "*/24" that contain
17803 both a wildcard address and a bit prefix length. This affects all
17804 our address-range parsing code. Fixes bug 7484; bugfix
17807 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks, fast startup):
17808 - Allow Tor to build circuits using a consensus with no exits. If
17809 the consensus has no exits (typical of a bootstrapping test
17810 network), allow Tor to build circuits once enough descriptors have
17811 been downloaded. This assists in bootstrapping a testing Tor
17812 network. Fixes bug 13718; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch
17814 - When V3AuthVotingInterval is low, give a lower If-Modified-Since
17815 header to directory servers. This allows us to obtain consensuses
17816 promptly when the consensus interval is very short. This assists
17817 in bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718
17818 and 13963; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
17819 - Stop assuming that private addresses are local when checking
17820 reachability in a TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when testing, assume
17821 all OR connections are remote. (This is necessary due to many test
17822 scenarios running all relays on localhost.) This assists in
17823 bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes bug 13924; bugfix on
17824 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by "teor".
17825 - Avoid building exit circuits from a consensus with no exits. Now
17826 thanks to our fix for 13718, we accept a no-exit network as not
17827 wholly lost, but we need to remember not to try to build exit
17828 circuits on it. Closes ticket 13814; patch by "teor".
17829 - Stop requiring exits to have non-zero bandwithcapacity in a
17830 TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when TestingMinExitFlagThreshold is 0,
17831 ignore exit bandwidthcapacity. This assists in bootstrapping a
17832 testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718 and 13839; bugfix
17833 on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
17834 - Add "internal" to some bootstrap statuses when no exits are
17835 available. If the consensus does not contain Exits, Tor will only
17836 build internal circuits. In this case, relevant statuses will
17837 contain the word "internal" as indicated in the Tor control-
17838 spec.txt. When bootstrap completes, Tor will be ready to build
17839 internal circuits. If a future consensus contains Exits, exit
17840 circuits may become available. Fixes part of bug 13718; bugfix on
17841 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch by "teor".
17842 - Decrease minimum consensus interval to 10 seconds when
17843 TestingTorNetwork is set, or 5 seconds for the first consensus.
17844 Fix assumptions throughout the code that assume larger intervals.
17845 Fixes bugs 13718 and 13823; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch
17847 - Avoid excluding guards from path building in minimal test
17848 networks, when we're in a test network and excluding guards would
17849 exclude all relays. This typically occurs in incredibly small tor
17850 networks, and those using "TestingAuthVoteGuard *". Fixes part of
17851 bug 13718; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha. Patch by "teor".
17853 o Code simplification and refactoring:
17854 - Stop using can_complete_circuits as a global variable; access it
17855 with a function instead.
17856 - Avoid using operators directly as macro arguments: this lets us
17857 apply coccinelle transformations to our codebase more directly.
17858 Closes ticket 13172.
17859 - Combine the functions used to parse ClientTransportPlugin and
17860 ServerTransportPlugin into a single function. Closes ticket 6456.
17861 - Add inline functions and convenience macros for inspecting channel
17862 state. Refactor the code to use convenience macros instead of
17863 checking channel state directly. Fixes issue 7356.
17864 - Document all members of was_router_added_t and rename
17865 ROUTER_WAS_NOT_NEW to ROUTER_IS_ALREADY_KNOWN to make it less
17866 confusable with ROUTER_WAS_TOO_OLD. Fixes issue 13644.
17867 - In connection_exit_begin_conn(), use END_CIRC_REASON_TORPROTOCOL
17868 constant instead of hardcoded value. Fixes issue 13840.
17869 - Refactor our generic strmap and digestmap types into a single
17870 implementation, so that we can add a new digest256map
17874 - Document the bridge-authority-only 'networkstatus-bridges' file.
17875 Closes ticket 13713; patch from "tom".
17876 - Fix typo in PredictedPortsRelevanceTime option description in
17877 manpage. Resolves issue 13707.
17878 - Stop suggesting that users specify relays by nickname: it isn't a
17879 good idea. Also, properly cross-reference how to specify relays in
17880 all parts of manual documenting options that take a list of
17881 relays. Closes ticket 13381.
17882 - Clarify the HiddenServiceDir option description in manpage to make
17883 it clear that relative paths are taken with respect to the current
17884 working directory. Also clarify that this behavior is not
17885 guaranteed to remain indefinitely. Fixes issue 13913.
17888 - New tests for many parts of channel, relay, and circuitmux
17889 functionality. Code by Andrea; part of 9262.
17890 - New tests for parse_transport_line(). Part of ticket 6456.
17891 - In the unit tests, use chgrp() to change the group of the unit
17892 test temporary directory to the current user, so that the sticky
17893 bit doesn't interfere with tests that check directory groups.
17895 - Add unit tests for resolve_my_addr(). Part of ticket 12376; patch
17899 Changes in version 0.2.6.1-alpha - 2014-10-30
17900 Tor 0.2.6.1-alpha is the first release in the Tor 0.2.6.x series. It
17901 includes numerous code cleanups and new tests, and fixes a large
17902 number of annoying bugs. Out-of-memory conditions are handled better
17903 than in 0.2.5, pluggable transports have improved proxy support, and
17904 clients now use optimistic data for contacting hidden services. Also,
17905 we are now more robust to changes in what we consider a parseable
17906 directory object, so that tightening restrictions does not have a risk
17907 of introducing infinite download loops.
17909 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to be
17910 bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should stay
17911 with 0.2.5.x for now.
17913 o New compiler and system requirements:
17914 - Tor 0.2.6.x requires that your compiler support more of the C99
17915 language standard than before. The 'configure' script now detects
17916 whether your compiler supports C99 mid-block declarations and
17917 designated initializers. If it does not, Tor will not compile.
17919 We may revisit this requirement if it turns out that a significant
17920 number of people need to build Tor with compilers that don't
17921 bother implementing a 15-year-old standard. Closes ticket 13233.
17922 - Tor no longer supports systems without threading support. When we
17923 began working on Tor, there were several systems that didn't have
17924 threads, or where the thread support wasn't able to run the
17925 threads of a single process on multiple CPUs. That no longer
17926 holds: every system where Tor needs to run well now has threading
17927 support. Resolves ticket 12439.
17929 o Removed platform support:
17930 - We no longer include special code to build on Windows CE; as far
17931 as we know, nobody has used Tor on Windows CE in a very long time.
17932 Closes ticket 11446.
17934 o Major features (bridges):
17935 - Expose the outgoing upstream HTTP/SOCKS proxy to pluggable
17936 transports if they are configured via the "TOR_PT_PROXY"
17937 environment variable. Implements proposal 232. Resolves
17940 o Major features (client performance, hidden services):
17941 - Allow clients to use optimistic data when connecting to a hidden
17942 service, which should remove a round-trip from hidden service
17943 initialization. See proposal 181 for details. Implements
17946 o Major features (directory system):
17947 - Upon receiving an unparseable directory object, if its digest
17948 matches what we expected, then don't try to download it again.
17949 Previously, when we got a descriptor we didn't like, we would keep
17950 trying to download it over and over. Closes ticket 11243.
17952 o Major features (sample torrc):
17953 - Add a new, infrequently-changed "torrc.minimal". This file is
17954 similar to torrc.sample, but it will change as infrequently as
17955 possible, for the benefit of users whose systems prompt them for
17956 intervention whenever a default configuration file is changed.
17957 Making this change allows us to update torrc.sample to be a more
17958 generally useful "sample torrc".
17960 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
17961 - Do not assign the HSDir flag to relays if they are not Valid, or
17962 currently hibernating. Fixes 12573; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
17964 o Major bugfixes (directory bandwidth performance):
17965 - Don't flush the zlib buffer aggressively when compressing
17966 directory information for clients. This should save about 7% of
17967 the bandwidth currently used for compressed descriptors and
17968 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 11787; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
17970 o Minor features (security, memory wiping):
17971 - Ensure we securely wipe keys from memory after
17972 crypto_digest_get_digest and init_curve25519_keypair_from_file
17973 have finished using them. Resolves ticket 13477.
17975 o Minor features (security, out-of-memory handling):
17976 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, allocate less memory for
17977 temporary data structures. Fixes issue 10115.
17978 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, consider more types of
17979 buffers, including those on directory connections, and zlib
17980 buffers. Resolves ticket 11792.
17983 - When identity keypair is generated for first time, log a
17984 congratulatory message that links to the new relay lifecycle
17985 document. Implements feature 10427.
17987 o Minor features (client):
17988 - Clients are now willing to send optimistic data (before they
17989 receive a 'connected' cell) to relays of any version. (Relays
17990 without support for optimistic data are no longer supported on the
17991 Tor network.) Resolves ticket 13153.
17993 o Minor features (directory authorities):
17994 - Don't list relays with a bandwidth estimate of 0 in the consensus.
17995 Implements a feature proposed during discussion of bug 13000.
17996 - In tor-gencert, report an error if the user provides the same
17997 argument more than once.
17998 - If a directory authority can't find a best consensus method in the
17999 votes that it holds, it now falls back to its favorite consensus
18000 method. Previously, it fell back to method 1. Neither of these is
18001 likely to get enough signatures, but "fall back to favorite"
18002 doesn't require us to maintain support an obsolete consensus
18003 method. Implements part of proposal 215.
18005 o Minor features (logging):
18006 - On Unix-like systems, you can now use named pipes as the target of
18007 the Log option, and other options that try to append to files.
18008 Closes ticket 12061. Patch from "carlo von lynX".
18009 - When opening a log file at startup, send it every log message that
18010 we generated between startup and opening it. Previously, log
18011 messages that were generated before opening the log file were only
18012 logged to stdout. Closes ticket 6938.
18013 - Add a TruncateLogFile option to overwrite logs instead of
18014 appending to them. Closes ticket 5583.
18016 o Minor features (portability, Solaris):
18017 - Threads are no longer disabled by default on Solaris; we believe
18018 that the versions of Solaris with broken threading support are all
18019 obsolete by now. Resolves ticket 9495.
18021 o Minor features (relay):
18022 - Re-check our address after we detect a changed IP address from
18023 getsockname(). This ensures that the controller command "GETINFO
18024 address" will report the correct value. Resolves ticket 11582.
18026 - A new AccountingRule option lets Relays set whether they'd like
18027 AccountingMax to be applied separately to inbound and outbound
18028 traffic, or applied to the sum of inbound and outbound traffic.
18029 Resolves ticket 961. Patch by "chobe".
18031 o Minor features (testing networks):
18032 - Add the TestingDirAuthVoteExit option, which lists nodes to assign
18033 the "Exit" flag regardless of their uptime, bandwidth, or exit
18034 policy. TestingTorNetwork must be set for this option to have any
18035 effect. Previously, authorities would take up to 35 minutes to
18036 give nodes the Exit flag in a test network. Partially implements
18039 o Minor features (validation):
18040 - Check all date/time values passed to tor_timegm and
18041 parse_rfc1123_time for validity, taking leap years into account.
18042 Improves HTTP header validation. Implemented with bug 13476.
18043 - In correct_tm(), limit the range of values returned by system
18044 localtime(_r) and gmtime(_r) to be between the years 1 and 8099.
18045 This means we don't have to deal with negative or too large dates,
18046 even if a clock is wrong. Otherwise we might fail to read a file
18047 written by us which includes such a date. Fixes bug 13476.
18049 o Minor bugfixes (bridge clients):
18050 - When configured to use a bridge without an identity digest (not
18051 recommended), avoid launching an extra channel to it when
18052 bootstrapping. Fixes bug 7733; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
18054 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
18055 - When DisableNetwork is set, do not launch pluggable transport
18056 plugins, and if any are running, terminate them. Fixes bug 13213;
18057 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
18059 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
18060 - Fix several instances of possible integer overflow/underflow/NaN.
18061 Fixes bug 13104; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha and later. Patches
18063 - In circuit_build_times_calculate_timeout() in circuitstats.c,
18064 avoid dividing by zero in the pareto calculations. This traps
18065 under clang's "undefined-trap" sanitizer. Fixes bug 13290; bugfix
18067 - Fix an integer overflow in format_time_interval(). Fixes bug
18068 13393; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
18069 - Set the correct day of year value when the system's localtime(_r)
18070 or gmtime(_r) functions fail to set struct tm. Not externally
18071 visible. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
18072 - Avoid unlikely signed integer overflow in tor_timegm on systems
18073 with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
18075 o Minor bugfixes (client):
18076 - Fix smartlist_choose_node_by_bandwidth() so that relays with the
18077 BadExit flag are not considered worthy candidates. Fixes bug
18078 13066; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
18079 - Use the consensus schedule for downloading consensuses, and not
18080 the generic schedule. Fixes bug 11679; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
18081 - Handle unsupported or malformed SOCKS5 requests properly by
18082 responding with the appropriate error message before closing the
18083 connection. Fixes bugs 12971 and 13314; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13.
18085 o Minor bugfixes (client, torrc):
18086 - Stop modifying the value of our DirReqStatistics torrc option just
18087 because we're not a bridge or relay. This bug was causing Tor
18088 Browser users to write "DirReqStatistics 0" in their torrc files
18089 as if they had chosen to change the config. Fixes bug 4244; bugfix
18091 - When GeoIPExcludeUnknown is enabled, do not incorrectly decide
18092 that our options have changed every time we SIGHUP. Fixes bug
18093 9801; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch from "qwerty1".
18095 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
18096 - Return an error when the second or later arguments of the
18097 "setevents" controller command are invalid events. Previously we
18098 would return success while silently skipping invalid events. Fixes
18099 bug 13205; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Reported by "fpxnns".
18101 o Minor bugfixes (directory system):
18102 - Always believe that v3 directory authorities serve extra-info
18103 documents, whether they advertise "caches-extra-info" or not.
18104 Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18105 - When running as a v3 directory authority, advertise that you serve
18106 extra-info documents so that clients who want them can find them
18107 from you too. Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18108 - Check the BRIDGE_DIRINFO flag bitwise rather than using equality.
18109 Previously, directories offering BRIDGE_DIRINFO and some other
18110 flag (i.e. microdescriptors or extrainfo) would be ignored when
18111 looking for bridges. Partially fixes bug 13163; bugfix
18114 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
18115 - Check for orconns and use connection_or_close_for_error() rather
18116 than connection_mark_for_close() directly in the getsockopt()
18117 failure case of connection_handle_write_impl(). Fixes bug 11302;
18118 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
18120 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
18121 - When generating our family list, remove spaces from around the
18122 entries. Fixes bug 12728; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
18123 - If our previous bandwidth estimate was 0 bytes, allow publishing a
18124 new relay descriptor immediately. Fixes bug 13000; bugfix
18127 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks):
18128 - Fix TestingDirAuthVoteGuard to properly give out Guard flags in a
18129 testing network. Fixes bug 13064; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
18130 - Stop using the default authorities in networks which provide both
18131 AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority. Partially
18132 fixes bug 13163; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
18134 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
18135 - Stop spawn test failures due to a race condition between the
18136 SIGCHLD handler updating the process status, and the test reading
18137 it. Fixes bug 13291; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
18139 o Minor bugfixes (testing, Windows):
18140 - Avoid passing an extra backslash when creating a temporary
18141 directory for running the unit tests on Windows. Fixes bug 12392;
18142 bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
18144 o Minor bugfixes (windows):
18145 - Remove code to special-case handling of NTE_BAD_KEYSET when
18146 acquiring windows CryptoAPI context. This error can't actually
18147 occur for the parameters we're providing. Fixes bug 10816; bugfix
18150 o Minor bugfixes (zlib):
18151 - Avoid truncating a zlib stream when trying to finalize it with an
18152 empty output buffer. Fixes bug 11824; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
18155 - Allow our configure script to build correctly with autoconf 2.62
18156 again. Fixes bug 12693; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
18157 - Improve the error message from ./configure to make it clear that
18158 when asciidoc has not been found, the user will have to either add
18159 --disable-asciidoc argument or install asciidoc. Resolves
18162 o Code simplification and refactoring:
18163 - Change the entry_is_live() function to take named bitfield
18164 elements instead of an unnamed list of booleans. Closes
18166 - Refactor and unit-test entry_is_time_to_retry() in entrynodes.c.
18167 Resolves ticket 12205.
18168 - Use calloc and reallocarray functions instead of multiply-
18169 then-malloc. This makes it less likely for us to fall victim to an
18170 integer overflow attack when allocating. Resolves ticket 12855.
18171 - Use the standard macro name SIZE_MAX, instead of our
18173 - Document usage of the NO_DIRINFO and ALL_DIRINFO flags clearly in
18174 functions which take them as arguments. Replace 0 with NO_DIRINFO
18175 in a function call for clarity. Seeks to prevent future issues
18177 - Avoid 4 null pointer errors under clang static analysis by using
18178 tor_assert() to prove that the pointers aren't null. Fixes
18180 - Rework the API of policies_parse_exit_policy() to use a bitmask to
18181 represent parsing options, instead of a confusing mess of
18182 booleans. Resolves ticket 8197.
18183 - Introduce a helper function to parse ExitPolicy in
18184 or_options_t structure.
18187 - Add a doc/TUNING document with tips for handling large numbers of
18188 TCP connections when running busy Tor relay. Update the warning
18189 message to point to this file when running out of sockets
18190 operating system is allowing to use simultaneously. Resolves
18193 o Removed features:
18194 - We no longer remind the user about configuration options that have
18195 been obsolete since 0.2.3.x or earlier. Patch by Adrien Bak.
18196 - Remove our old, non-weighted bandwidth-based node selection code.
18197 Previously, we used it as a fallback when we couldn't perform
18198 weighted bandwidth-based node selection. But that would only
18199 happen in the cases where we had no consensus, or when we had a
18200 consensus generated by buggy or ancient directory authorities. In
18201 either case, it's better to use the more modern, better maintained
18202 algorithm, with reasonable defaults for the weights. Closes
18204 - Remove the --disable-curve25519 configure option. Relays and
18205 clients now are required to support curve25519 and the
18207 - The old "StrictEntryNodes" and "StrictExitNodes" options, which
18208 used to be deprecated synonyms for "StrictNodes", are now marked
18209 obsolete. Resolves ticket 12226.
18210 - Clients don't understand the BadDirectory flag in the consensus
18211 anymore, and ignore it.
18214 - Refactor the function that chooses guard nodes so that it can more
18215 easily be tested; write some tests for it.
18216 - Fix and re-enable the fgets_eagain unit test. Fixes bug 12503;
18217 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks."
18218 - Create unit tests for format_time_interval(). With bug 13393.
18219 - Add unit tests for tor_timegm signed overflow, tor_timegm and
18220 parse_rfc1123_time validity checks, correct_tm year clamping. Unit
18221 tests (visible) fixes in bug 13476.
18222 - Add a "coverage-html" make target to generate HTML-visualized
18223 coverage results when building with --enable-coverage. (Requires
18224 lcov.) Patch from Kevin Murray.
18225 - Enable the backtrace handler (where supported) when running the
18227 - Revise all unit tests that used the legacy test_* macros to
18228 instead use the recommended tt_* macros. This patch was generated
18229 with coccinelle, to avoid manual errors. Closes ticket 13119.
18231 o Distribution (systemd):
18232 - systemd unit file: only allow tor to write to /var/lib/tor and
18233 /var/log/tor. The rest of the filesystem is accessible for reading
18234 only. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 12751.
18235 - systemd unit file: ensure that the process and all its children
18236 can never gain new privileges. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
18238 - systemd unit file: set up /var/run/tor as writable for the Tor
18239 service. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 13196.
18241 o Removed features (directory authorities):
18242 - Remove code that prevented authorities from listing Tor relays
18243 affected by CVE-2011-2769 as guards. These relays are already
18244 rejected altogether due to the minimum version requirement of
18245 0.2.3.16-alpha. Closes ticket 13152.
18246 - The "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" option no longer has any effect, as
18247 the fingerprints file (approved-routers) has been deprecated.
18248 - Directory authorities do not support being Naming dirauths anymore.
18249 The "NamingAuthoritativeDir" config option is now obsolete.
18250 - Directory authorities do not support giving out the BadDirectory
18252 - Directory authorities no longer advertise or support consensus
18253 methods 1 through 12 inclusive. These consensus methods were
18254 obsolete and/or insecure: maintaining the ability to support them
18255 served no good purpose. Implements part of proposal 215; closes
18258 o Testing (test-network.sh):
18259 - Stop using "echo -n", as some shells' built-in echo doesn't
18260 support "-n". Instead, use "/bin/echo -n". Partially fixes
18262 - Stop an apparent test-network hang when used with make -j2. Fixes
18264 - Add a --delay option to test-network.sh, which configures the
18265 delay before the chutney network tests for data transmission.
18266 Partially implements ticket 13161.
18269 Changes in version 0.2.5.10 - 2014-10-24
18270 Tor 0.2.5.10 is the first stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
18272 It adds several new security features, including improved
18273 denial-of-service resistance for relays, new compiler hardening
18274 options, and a system-call sandbox for hardened installations on Linux
18275 (requires seccomp2). The controller protocol has several new features,
18276 resolving IPv6 addresses should work better than before, and relays
18277 should be a little more CPU-efficient. We've added support for more
18278 OpenBSD and FreeBSD transparent proxy types. We've improved the build
18279 system and testing infrastructure to allow unit testing of more parts
18280 of the Tor codebase. Finally, we've addressed several nagging pluggable
18281 transport usability issues, and included numerous other small bugfixes
18282 and features mentioned below.
18284 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.2.3.x; those Tor versions
18285 have accumulated many known flaws; everyone should upgrade.
18287 o Deprecated versions:
18288 - Tor 0.2.3.x has reached end-of-life; it has received no patches or
18289 attention for some while.
18292 Changes in version 0.2.5.9-rc - 2014-10-20
18293 Tor 0.2.5.9-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.5.x
18294 series. It disables SSL3 in response to the recent "POODLE" attack
18295 (even though POODLE does not affect Tor). It also works around a crash
18296 bug caused by some operating systems' response to the "POODLE" attack
18297 (which does affect Tor). It also contains a few miscellaneous fixes.
18299 o Major security fixes:
18300 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
18301 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
18302 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
18304 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround):
18305 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
18306 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes bug
18307 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
18310 - Disable the sandbox name resolver cache when running tor-resolve:
18311 tor-resolve doesn't use the sandbox code, and turning it on was
18312 breaking attempts to do tor-resolve on a non-default server on
18313 Linux. Fixes bug 13295; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
18315 o Compilation fixes:
18316 - Build and run correctly on systems like OpenBSD-current that have
18317 patched OpenSSL to remove get_cipher_by_char and/or its
18318 implementations. Fixes issue 13325.
18320 o Downgraded warnings:
18321 - Downgrade the severity of the 'unexpected sendme cell from client'
18322 from 'warn' to 'protocol warning'. Closes ticket 8093.
18325 Changes in version 0.2.4.25 - 2014-10-20
18326 Tor 0.2.4.25 disables SSL3 in response to the recent "POODLE" attack
18327 (even though POODLE does not affect Tor). It also works around a crash
18328 bug caused by some operating systems' response to the "POODLE" attack
18329 (which does affect Tor).
18331 o Major security fixes (also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
18332 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
18333 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
18334 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
18336 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround, also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
18337 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
18338 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes bug
18339 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
18342 Changes in version 0.2.5.8-rc - 2014-09-22
18343 Tor 0.2.5.8-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.5.x
18344 series. It fixes a bug that affects consistency and speed when
18345 connecting to hidden services, and it updates the location of one of
18346 the directory authorities.
18349 - Clients now send the correct address for their chosen rendezvous
18350 point when trying to access a hidden service. They used to send
18351 the wrong address, which would still work some of the time because
18352 they also sent the identity digest of the rendezvous point, and if
18353 the hidden service happened to try connecting to the rendezvous
18354 point from a relay that already had a connection open to it,
18355 the relay would reuse that connection. Now connections to hidden
18356 services should be more robust and faster. Also, this bug meant
18357 that clients were leaking to the hidden service whether they were
18358 on a little-endian (common) or big-endian (rare) system, which for
18359 some users might have reduced their anonymity. Fixes bug 13151;
18360 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
18362 o Directory authority changes:
18363 - Change IP address for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
18366 Changes in version 0.2.4.24 - 2014-09-22
18367 Tor 0.2.4.24 fixes a bug that affects consistency and speed when
18368 connecting to hidden services, and it updates the location of one of
18369 the directory authorities.
18372 - Clients now send the correct address for their chosen rendezvous
18373 point when trying to access a hidden service. They used to send
18374 the wrong address, which would still work some of the time because
18375 they also sent the identity digest of the rendezvous point, and if
18376 the hidden service happened to try connecting to the rendezvous
18377 point from a relay that already had a connection open to it,
18378 the relay would reuse that connection. Now connections to hidden
18379 services should be more robust and faster. Also, this bug meant
18380 that clients were leaking to the hidden service whether they were
18381 on a little-endian (common) or big-endian (rare) system, which for
18382 some users might have reduced their anonymity. Fixes bug 13151;
18383 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
18385 o Directory authority changes:
18386 - Change IP address for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
18388 o Minor features (geoip):
18389 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
18393 Changes in version 0.2.5.7-rc - 2014-09-11
18394 Tor 0.2.5.7-rc fixes several regressions from earlier in the 0.2.5.x
18395 release series, and some long-standing bugs related to ORPort reachability
18396 testing and failure to send CREATE cells. It is the first release
18397 candidate for the Tor 0.2.5.x series.
18399 o Major bugfixes (client, startup):
18400 - Start making circuits as soon as DisabledNetwork is turned off.
18401 When Tor started with DisabledNetwork set, it would correctly
18402 conclude that it shouldn't build circuits, but it would mistakenly
18403 cache this conclusion, and continue believing it even when
18404 DisableNetwork is set to 0. Fixes the bug introduced by the fix
18405 for bug 11200; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
18406 - Resume expanding abbreviations for command-line options. The fix
18407 for bug 4647 accidentally removed our hack from bug 586 that
18408 rewrote HashedControlPassword to __HashedControlSessionPassword
18409 when it appears on the commandline (which allowed the user to set
18410 her own HashedControlPassword in the torrc file while the
18411 controller generates a fresh session password for each run). Fixes
18412 bug 12948; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
18413 - Warn about attempts to run hidden services and relays in the same
18414 process: that's probably not a good idea. Closes ticket 12908.
18416 o Major bugfixes (relay):
18417 - Avoid queuing or sending destroy cells for circuit ID zero when we
18418 fail to send a CREATE cell. Fixes bug 12848; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
18419 Found and fixed by "cypherpunks".
18420 - Fix ORPort reachability detection on relays running behind a
18421 proxy, by correctly updating the "local" mark on the controlling
18422 channel when changing the address of an or_connection_t after the
18423 handshake. Fixes bug 12160; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
18425 o Minor features (bridge):
18426 - Add an ExtORPortCookieAuthFileGroupReadable option to make the
18427 cookie file for the ExtORPort g+r by default.
18429 o Minor features (geoip):
18430 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
18433 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
18434 - Reduce the log severity of the "Pluggable transport proxy does not
18435 provide any needed transports and will not be launched." message,
18436 since Tor Browser includes several ClientTransportPlugin lines in
18437 its torrc-defaults file, leading every Tor Browser user who looks
18438 at her logs to see these notices and wonder if they're dangerous.
18439 Resolves bug 13124; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
18440 - Downgrade "Unexpected onionskin length after decryption" warning
18441 to a protocol-warn, since there's nothing relay operators can do
18442 about a client that sends them a malformed create cell. Resolves
18443 bug 12996; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
18444 - Log more specific warnings when we get an ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS
18445 cell on a cannibalized or non-OR circuit. Resolves ticket 12997.
18446 - When logging information about an EXTEND2 or EXTENDED2 cell, log
18447 their names correctly. Fixes part of bug 12700; bugfix
18449 - When logging information about a relay cell whose command we don't
18450 recognize, log its command as an integer. Fixes part of bug 12700;
18451 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
18452 - Escape all strings from the directory connection before logging
18453 them. Fixes bug 13071; bugfix on 0.1.1.15. Patch from "teor".
18455 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
18456 - Restore the functionality of CookieAuthFileGroupReadable. Fixes
18457 bug 12864; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
18458 - Actually send TRANSPORT_LAUNCHED and HS_DESC events to
18459 controllers. Fixes bug 13085; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch
18462 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
18463 - Fix compilation of test.h with MSVC. Patch from Gisle Vanem;
18464 bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
18465 - Make the nmake make files work again. Fixes bug 13081. Bugfix on
18466 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
18467 - In routerlist_assert_ok(), don't take the address of a
18468 routerinfo's cache_info member unless that routerinfo is non-NULL.
18469 Fixes bug 13096; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha. Patch by "teor".
18470 - Fix a large number of false positive warnings from the clang
18471 analyzer static analysis tool. This should make real warnings
18472 easier for clang analyzer to find. Patch from "teor". Closes
18475 o Distribution (systemd):
18476 - Verify configuration file via ExecStartPre in the systemd unit
18477 file. Patch from intrigeri; resolves ticket 12730.
18478 - Explicitly disable RunAsDaemon in the systemd unit file. Our
18479 current systemd unit uses "Type = simple", so systemd does not
18480 expect tor to fork. If the user has "RunAsDaemon 1" in their
18481 torrc, then things won't work as expected. This is e.g. the case
18482 on Debian (and derivatives), since there we pass "--defaults-torrc
18483 /usr/share/tor/tor-service-defaults-torrc" (that contains
18484 "RunAsDaemon 1") by default. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
18488 - Adjust the URLs in the README to refer to the new locations of
18489 several documents on the website. Fixes bug 12830. Patch from
18491 - Document 'reject6' and 'accept6' ExitPolicy entries. Resolves
18495 Changes in version 0.2.5.6-alpha - 2014-07-28
18496 Tor 0.2.5.6-alpha brings us a big step closer to slowing down the
18497 risk from guard rotation, and fixes a variety of other issues to get
18498 us closer to a release candidate.
18500 o Major features (also in 0.2.4.23):
18501 - Make the number of entry guards configurable via a new
18502 NumEntryGuards consensus parameter, and the number of directory
18503 guards configurable via a new NumDirectoryGuards consensus
18504 parameter. Implements ticket 12688.
18506 o Major bugfixes (also in 0.2.4.23):
18507 - Fix a bug in the bounds-checking in the 32-bit curve25519-donna
18508 implementation that caused incorrect results on 32-bit
18509 implementations when certain malformed inputs were used along with
18510 a small class of private ntor keys. This bug does not currently
18511 appear to allow an attacker to learn private keys or impersonate a
18512 Tor server, but it could provide a means to distinguish 32-bit Tor
18513 implementations from 64-bit Tor implementations. Fixes bug 12694;
18514 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Bug found by Robert Ransom; fix from
18518 - Perform circuit cleanup operations even when circuit
18519 construction operations are disabled (because the network is
18520 disabled, or because there isn't enough directory information).
18521 Previously, when we were not building predictive circuits, we
18522 were not closing expired circuits either. Fixes bug 8387; bugfix on
18523 0.1.1.11-alpha. This bug became visible in 0.2.4.10-alpha when we
18524 became more strict about when we have "enough directory information
18525 to build circuits".
18528 - Authorities now assign the Guard flag to the fastest 25% of the
18529 network (it used to be the fastest 50%). Also raise the consensus
18530 weight that guarantees the Guard flag from 250 to 2000. For the
18531 current network, this results in about 1100 guards, down from 2500.
18532 This step paves the way for moving the number of entry guards
18533 down to 1 (proposal 236) while still providing reasonable expected
18534 performance for most users. Implements ticket 12690.
18535 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 10 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
18537 - Slightly enhance the diagnostic message for bug 12184.
18539 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.4.23):
18540 - Warn and drop the circuit if we receive an inbound 'relay early'
18541 cell. Those used to be normal to receive on hidden service circuits
18542 due to bug 1038, but the buggy Tor versions are long gone from
18543 the network so we can afford to resume watching for them. Resolves
18544 the rest of bug 1038; bugfix on 0.2.1.19.
18545 - Correct a confusing error message when trying to extend a circuit
18546 via the control protocol but we don't know a descriptor or
18547 microdescriptor for one of the specified relays. Fixes bug 12718;
18548 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
18551 - Fix compilation when building with bufferevents enabled. (This
18552 configuration is still not expected to work, however.)
18553 Fixes bugs 12438, 12474, 11578; bugfixes on 0.2.5.1-alpha and
18554 0.2.5.3-alpha. Patches from Anthony G. Basile and Sathyanarayanan
18556 - Compile correctly with builds and forks of OpenSSL (such as
18557 LibreSSL) that disable compression. Fixes bug 12602; bugfix on
18558 0.2.1.1-alpha. Patch from "dhill".
18561 Changes in version 0.2.4.23 - 2014-07-28
18562 Tor 0.2.4.23 brings us a big step closer to slowing down the risk from
18563 guard rotation, and also backports several important fixes from the
18564 Tor 0.2.5 alpha release series.
18567 - Clients now look at the "usecreatefast" consensus parameter to
18568 decide whether to use CREATE_FAST or CREATE cells for the first hop
18569 of their circuit. This approach can improve security on connections
18570 where Tor's circuit handshake is stronger than the available TLS
18571 connection security levels, but the tradeoff is more computational
18572 load on guard relays. Implements proposal 221. Resolves ticket 9386.
18573 - Make the number of entry guards configurable via a new
18574 NumEntryGuards consensus parameter, and the number of directory
18575 guards configurable via a new NumDirectoryGuards consensus
18576 parameter. Implements ticket 12688.
18579 - Fix a bug in the bounds-checking in the 32-bit curve25519-donna
18580 implementation that caused incorrect results on 32-bit
18581 implementations when certain malformed inputs were used along with
18582 a small class of private ntor keys. This bug does not currently
18583 appear to allow an attacker to learn private keys or impersonate a
18584 Tor server, but it could provide a means to distinguish 32-bit Tor
18585 implementations from 64-bit Tor implementations. Fixes bug 12694;
18586 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Bug found by Robert Ransom; fix from
18590 - Warn and drop the circuit if we receive an inbound 'relay early'
18591 cell. Those used to be normal to receive on hidden service circuits
18592 due to bug 1038, but the buggy Tor versions are long gone from
18593 the network so we can afford to resume watching for them. Resolves
18594 the rest of bug 1038; bugfix on 0.2.1.19.
18595 - Correct a confusing error message when trying to extend a circuit
18596 via the control protocol but we don't know a descriptor or
18597 microdescriptor for one of the specified relays. Fixes bug 12718;
18598 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
18599 - Avoid an illegal read from stack when initializing the TLS
18600 module using a version of OpenSSL without all of the ciphers
18601 used by the v2 link handshake. Fixes bug 12227; bugfix on
18602 0.2.4.8-alpha. Found by "starlight".
18605 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 10 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
18609 Changes in version 0.2.5.5-alpha - 2014-06-18
18610 Tor 0.2.5.5-alpha fixes a wide variety of remaining issues in the Tor
18611 0.2.5.x release series, including a couple of DoS issues, some
18612 performance regressions, a large number of bugs affecting the Linux
18613 seccomp2 sandbox code, and various other bugfixes. It also adds
18614 diagnostic bugfixes for a few tricky issues that we're trying to
18617 o Major features (security, traffic analysis resistance):
18618 - Several major improvements to the algorithm used to decide when to
18619 close TLS connections. Previous versions of Tor closed connections
18620 at a fixed interval after the last time a non-padding cell was
18621 sent over the connection, regardless of the target of the
18622 connection. Now, we randomize the intervals by adding up to 50% of
18623 their base value, we measure the length of time since connection
18624 last had at least one circuit, and we allow connections to known
18625 ORs to remain open a little longer (15 minutes instead of 3
18626 minutes minimum). These changes should improve Tor's resistance
18627 against some kinds of traffic analysis, and lower some overhead
18628 from needlessly closed connections. Fixes ticket 6799.
18629 Incidentally fixes ticket 12023; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
18631 o Major bugfixes (security, OOM, new since 0.2.5.4-alpha, also in 0.2.4.22):
18632 - Fix a memory leak that could occur if a microdescriptor parse
18633 fails during the tokenizing step. This bug could enable a memory
18634 exhaustion attack by directory servers. Fixes bug 11649; bugfix
18637 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authorities):
18638 - Directory authorities now include a digest of each relay's
18639 identity key as a part of its microdescriptor.
18641 This is a workaround for bug 11743 (reported by "cypherpunks"),
18642 where Tor clients do not support receiving multiple
18643 microdescriptors with the same SHA256 digest in the same
18644 consensus. When clients receive a consensus like this, they only
18645 use one of the relays. Without this fix, a hostile relay could
18646 selectively disable some client use of target relays by
18647 constructing a router descriptor with a different identity and the
18648 same microdescriptor parameters and getting the authorities to
18649 list it in a microdescriptor consensus. This fix prevents an
18650 attacker from causing a microdescriptor collision, because the
18651 router's identity is not forgeable.
18653 o Major bugfixes (relay):
18654 - Use a direct dirport connection when uploading non-anonymous
18655 descriptors to the directory authorities. Previously, relays would
18656 incorrectly use tunnel connections under a fairly wide variety of
18657 circumstances. Fixes bug 11469; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
18658 - When a circuit accidentally has the same circuit ID for its
18659 forward and reverse direction, correctly detect the direction of
18660 cells using that circuit. Previously, this bug made roughly one
18661 circuit in a million non-functional. Fixes bug 12195; this is a
18662 bugfix on every version of Tor.
18664 o Major bugfixes (client, pluggable transports):
18665 - When managing pluggable transports, use OS notification facilities
18666 to learn if they have crashed, and don't attempt to kill any
18667 process that has already exited. Fixes bug 8746; bugfix
18670 o Minor features (diagnostic):
18671 - When logging a warning because of bug 7164, additionally check the
18672 hash table for consistency (as proposed on ticket 11737). This may
18673 help diagnose bug 7164.
18674 - When we log a heartbeat, log how many one-hop circuits we have
18675 that are at least 30 minutes old, and log status information about
18676 a few of them. This is an attempt to track down bug 8387.
18677 - When encountering an unexpected CR while writing text to a file on
18678 Windows, log the name of the file. Should help diagnosing
18680 - Give more specific warnings when a client notices that an onion
18681 handshake has failed. Fixes ticket 9635.
18682 - Add significant new logging code to attempt to diagnose bug 12184,
18683 where relays seem to run out of available circuit IDs.
18684 - Improve the diagnostic log message for bug 8387 even further to
18685 try to improve our odds of figuring out why one-hop directory
18686 circuits sometimes do not get closed.
18688 o Minor features (security, memory management):
18689 - Memory allocation tricks (mempools and buffer freelists) are now
18690 disabled by default. You can turn them back on with
18691 --enable-mempools and --enable-buf-freelists respectively. We're
18692 disabling these features because malloc performance is good enough
18693 on most platforms, and a similar feature in OpenSSL exacerbated
18694 exploitation of the Heartbleed attack. Resolves ticket 11476.
18696 o Minor features (security):
18697 - Apply the secure SipHash-2-4 function to the hash table mapping
18698 circuit IDs and channels to circuits. We missed this one when we
18699 were converting all the other hash functions to use SipHash back
18700 in 0.2.5.3-alpha. Resolves ticket 11750.
18702 o Minor features (build):
18703 - The configure script has a --disable-seccomp option to turn off
18704 support for libseccomp on systems that have it, in case it (or
18705 Tor's use of it) is broken. Resolves ticket 11628.
18707 o Minor features (other):
18708 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 4 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
18711 o Minor bugfixes (security, new since 0.2.5.4-alpha, also in 0.2.4.22):
18712 - When running a hidden service, do not allow TunneledDirConns 0;
18713 this will keep the hidden service from running, and also
18714 make it publish its descriptors directly over HTTP. Fixes bug 10849;
18715 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
18717 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
18718 - Avoid a bug where every successful connection made us recompute
18719 the flag telling us whether we have sufficient information to
18720 build circuits. Previously, we would forget our cached value
18721 whenever we successfully opened a channel (or marked a router as
18722 running or not running for any other reason), regardless of
18723 whether we had previously believed the router to be running. This
18724 forced us to run an expensive update operation far too often.
18725 Fixes bug 12170; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
18726 - Avoid using tor_memeq() for checking relay cell integrity. This
18727 removes a possible performance bottleneck. Fixes part of bug
18728 12169; bugfix on 0.2.1.31.
18730 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
18731 - Fix compilation of test_status.c when building with MVSC. Bugfix
18732 on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
18733 - Resolve GCC complaints on OpenBSD about discarding constness in
18734 TO_{ORIGIN,OR}_CIRCUIT functions. Fixes part of bug 11633; bugfix
18735 on 0.1.1.23. Patch from Dana Koch.
18736 - Resolve clang complaints on OpenBSD with -Wshorten-64-to-32 due to
18737 treatment of long and time_t as comparable types. Fixes part of
18738 bug 11633. Patch from Dana Koch.
18739 - Make Tor compile correctly with --disable-buf-freelists. Fixes bug
18740 11623; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
18741 - When deciding whether to build the 64-bit curve25519
18742 implementation, detect platforms where we can compile 128-bit
18743 arithmetic but cannot link it. Fixes bug 11729; bugfix on
18744 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch from "conradev".
18745 - Fix compilation when DNS_CACHE_DEBUG is enabled. Fixes bug 11761;
18746 bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha. Found by "cypherpunks".
18747 - Fix compilation with dmalloc. Fixes bug 11605; bugfix
18750 o Minor bugfixes (Directory server):
18751 - When sending a compressed set of descriptors or microdescriptors,
18752 make sure to finalize the zlib stream. Previously, we would write
18753 all the compressed data, but if the last descriptor we wanted to
18754 send was missing or too old, we would not mark the stream as
18755 finished. This caused problems for decompression tools. Fixes bug
18756 11648; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
18758 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp sandbox):
18759 - Make the seccomp sandbox code compile under ARM Linux. Fixes bug
18760 11622; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
18761 - Avoid crashing when re-opening listener ports with the seccomp
18762 sandbox active. Fixes bug 12115; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
18763 - Avoid crashing with the seccomp sandbox enabled along with
18764 ConstrainedSockets. Fixes bug 12139; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
18765 - When we receive a SIGHUP with the sandbox enabled, correctly
18766 support rotating our log files. Fixes bug 12032; bugfix
18768 - Avoid crash when running with sandboxing enabled and
18769 DirReqStatistics not disabled. Fixes bug 12035; bugfix
18771 - Fix a "BUG" warning when trying to write bridge-stats files with
18772 the Linux syscall sandbox filter enabled. Fixes bug 12041; bugfix
18774 - Prevent the sandbox from crashing on startup when run with the
18775 --enable-expensive-hardening configuration option. Fixes bug
18776 11477; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
18777 - When running with DirPortFrontPage and sandboxing both enabled,
18778 reload the DirPortFrontPage correctly when restarting. Fixes bug
18779 12028; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
18780 - Don't try to enable the sandbox when using the Tor binary to check
18781 its configuration, hash a passphrase, or so on. Doing so was
18782 crashing on startup for some users. Fixes bug 11609; bugfix
18784 - Avoid warnings when running with sandboxing and node statistics
18785 enabled at the same time. Fixes part of 12064; bugfix on
18786 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Michael Wolf.
18787 - Avoid warnings when running with sandboxing enabled at the same
18788 time as cookie authentication, hidden services, or directory
18789 authority voting. Fixes part of 12064; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
18790 - Do not allow options that require calls to exec to be enabled
18791 alongside the seccomp2 sandbox: they will inevitably crash. Fixes
18792 bug 12043; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
18793 - Handle failures in getpwnam()/getpwuid() when running with the
18794 User option set and the Linux syscall sandbox enabled. Fixes bug
18795 11946; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
18796 - Refactor the getaddrinfo workaround that the seccomp sandbox uses
18797 to avoid calling getaddrinfo() after installing the sandbox
18798 filters. Previously, it preloaded a cache with the IPv4 address
18799 for our hostname, and nothing else. Now, it loads the cache with
18800 every address that it used to initialize the Tor process. Fixes
18801 bug 11970; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
18803 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
18804 - Enable the ExtORPortCookieAuthFile option, to allow changing the
18805 default location of the authentication token for the extended OR
18806 Port as used by sever-side pluggable transports. We had
18807 implemented this option before, but the code to make it settable
18808 had been omitted. Fixes bug 11635; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
18809 - Avoid another 60-second delay when starting Tor in a pluggable-
18810 transport-using configuration when we already have cached
18811 descriptors for our bridges. Fixes bug 11965; bugfix
18814 o Minor bugfixes (client):
18815 - Avoid "Tried to open a socket with DisableNetwork set" warnings
18816 when starting a client with bridges configured and DisableNetwork
18817 set. (Tor launcher starts Tor with DisableNetwork set the first
18818 time it runs.) Fixes bug 10405; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
18820 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
18821 - The Python parts of the test scripts now work on Python 3 as well
18822 as Python 2, so systems where '/usr/bin/python' is Python 3 will
18823 no longer have the tests break. Fixes bug 11608; bugfix
18825 - When looking for versions of python that we could run the tests
18826 with, check for "python2.7" and "python3.3"; previously we were
18827 only looking for "python", "python2", and "python3". Patch from
18828 Dana Koch. Fixes bug 11632; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
18829 - Fix all valgrind warnings produced by the unit tests. There were
18830 over a thousand memory leak warnings previously, mostly produced
18831 by forgetting to free things in the unit test code. Fixes bug
18832 11618, bugfixes on many versions of Tor.
18834 o Minor bugfixes (tor-fw-helper):
18835 - Give a correct log message when tor-fw-helper fails to launch.
18836 (Previously, we would say something like "tor-fw-helper sent us a
18837 string we could not parse".) Fixes bug 9781; bugfix
18840 o Minor bugfixes (relay, threading):
18841 - Check return code on spawn_func() in cpuworker code, so that we
18842 don't think we've spawned a nonworking cpuworker and write junk to
18843 it forever. Fix related to bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor
18844 versions. Found by "skruffy".
18845 - Use a pthread_attr to make sure that spawn_func() cannot return an
18846 error while at the same time launching a thread. Fix related to
18847 bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor versions. Reported
18850 o Minor bugfixes (relay, oom prevention):
18851 - Correctly detect the total available system memory. We tried to do
18852 this in 0.2.5.4-alpha, but the code was set up to always return an
18853 error value, even on success. Fixes bug 11805; bugfix
18856 o Minor bugfixes (relay, other):
18857 - We now drop CREATE cells for already-existent circuit IDs and for
18858 zero-valued circuit IDs, regardless of other factors that might
18859 otherwise have called for DESTROY cells. Fixes bug 12191; bugfix
18861 - Avoid an illegal read from stack when initializing the TLS module
18862 using a version of OpenSSL without all of the ciphers used by the
18863 v2 link handshake. Fixes bug 12227; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Found
18865 - When rejecting DATA cells for stream_id zero, still count them
18866 against the circuit's deliver window so that we don't fail to send
18867 a SENDME. Fixes bug 11246; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
18869 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
18870 - Fix a misformatted log message about delayed directory fetches.
18871 Fixes bug 11654; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
18872 - Squelch a spurious LD_BUG message "No origin circuit for
18873 successful SOCKS stream" in certain hidden service failure cases;
18877 - Include a tor.service file in contrib/dist for use with systemd.
18878 Some distributions will be able to use this file unmodified;
18879 others will need to tweak it, or write their own. Patch from Jamie
18880 Nguyen; resolves ticket 8368.
18883 - Clean up several option names in the manpage to match their real
18884 names, add the missing documentation for a couple of testing and
18885 directory authority options, remove the documentation for a
18886 V2-directory fetching option that no longer exists. Resolves
18888 - Correct the documentation so that it lists the correct directory
18889 for the stats files. (They are in a subdirectory called "stats",
18891 - In the manpage, move more authority-only options into the
18892 directory authority section so that operators of regular directory
18893 caches don't get confused.
18896 - The contrib directory has been sorted and tidied. Before, it was
18897 an unsorted dumping ground for useful and not-so-useful things.
18898 Now, it is divided based on functionality, and the items which
18899 seemed to be nonfunctional or useless have been removed. Resolves
18900 ticket 8966; based on patches from "rl1987".
18903 - Remove /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL that was meant to help debug WFU
18904 and MTBF calculations, but that nobody was using. Fixes ticket 11742.
18905 - The TunnelDirConns and PreferTunnelledDirConns options no longer
18906 exist; tunneled directory connections have been available since
18907 0.1.2.5-alpha, and turning them off is not a good idea. This is a
18908 brute-force fix for 10849, where "TunnelDirConns 0" would break
18912 Changes in version 0.2.4.22 - 2014-05-16
18913 Tor 0.2.4.22 backports numerous high-priority fixes from the Tor 0.2.5
18914 alpha release series. These include blocking all authority signing
18915 keys that may have been affected by the OpenSSL "heartbleed" bug,
18916 choosing a far more secure set of TLS ciphersuites by default, closing
18917 a couple of memory leaks that could be used to run a target relay out
18918 of RAM, and several others.
18920 o Major features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
18921 - Block authority signing keys that were used on authorities
18922 vulnerable to the "heartbleed" bug in OpenSSL (CVE-2014-0160). (We
18923 don't have any evidence that these keys _were_ compromised; we're
18924 doing this to be prudent.) Resolves ticket 11464.
18926 o Major bugfixes (security, OOM):
18927 - Fix a memory leak that could occur if a microdescriptor parse
18928 fails during the tokenizing step. This bug could enable a memory
18929 exhaustion attack by directory servers. Fixes bug 11649; bugfix
18932 o Major bugfixes (TLS cipher selection, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
18933 - The relay ciphersuite list is now generated automatically based on
18934 uniform criteria, and includes all OpenSSL ciphersuites with
18935 acceptable strength and forward secrecy. Previously, we had left
18936 some perfectly fine ciphersuites unsupported due to omission or
18937 typo. Resolves bugs 11513, 11492, 11498, 11499. Bugs reported by
18938 'cypherpunks'. Bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
18939 - Relays now trust themselves to have a better view than clients of
18940 which TLS ciphersuites are better than others. (Thanks to bug
18941 11513, the relay list is now well-considered, whereas the client
18942 list has been chosen mainly for anti-fingerprinting purposes.)
18943 Relays prefer: AES over 3DES; then ECDHE over DHE; then GCM over
18944 CBC; then SHA384 over SHA256 over SHA1; and last, AES256 over
18945 AES128. Resolves ticket 11528.
18946 - Clients now try to advertise the same list of ciphersuites as
18947 Firefox 28. This change enables selection of (fast) GCM
18948 ciphersuites, disables some strange old ciphers, and stops
18949 advertising the ECDH (not to be confused with ECDHE) ciphersuites.
18950 Resolves ticket 11438.
18952 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, security):
18953 - When running a hidden service, do not allow TunneledDirConns 0:
18954 trying to set that option together with a hidden service would
18955 otherwise prevent the hidden service from running, and also make
18956 it publish its descriptors directly over HTTP. Fixes bug 10849;
18957 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
18959 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
18960 - Avoid sending a garbage value to the controller when a circuit is
18961 cannibalized. Fixes bug 11519; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
18963 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
18964 - Stop leaking memory when we successfully resolve a PTR record.
18965 Fixes bug 11437; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
18967 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
18968 - Avoid 60-second delays in the bootstrapping process when Tor is
18969 launching for a second time while using bridges. Fixes bug 9229;
18970 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
18972 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
18973 - Give the correct URL in the warning message when trying to run a
18974 relay on an ancient version of Windows. Fixes bug 9393.
18976 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
18977 - Fix a compilation error when compiling with --disable-curve25519.
18978 Fixes bug 9700; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
18981 - Downgrade the warning severity for the the "md was still
18982 referenced 1 node(s)" warning. Tor 0.2.5.4-alpha has better code
18983 for trying to diagnose this bug, and the current warning in
18984 earlier versions of tor achieves nothing useful. Addresses warning
18987 o Minor features (log verbosity, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
18988 - When we run out of usable circuit IDs on a channel, log only one
18989 warning for the whole channel, and describe how many circuits
18990 there were on the channel. Fixes part of ticket 11553.
18992 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
18993 - Decrease the lower limit of MaxMemInCellQueues to 256 MBytes (but
18994 leave the default at 8GBytes), to better support Raspberry Pi
18995 users. Fixes bug 9686; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
18997 o Documentation (backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
18998 - Correctly document that we search for a system torrc file before
18999 looking in ~/.torrc. Fixes documentation side of 9213; bugfix on
19003 Changes in version 0.2.5.4-alpha - 2014-04-25
19004 Tor 0.2.5.4-alpha includes several security and performance
19005 improvements for clients and relays, including blacklisting authority
19006 signing keys that were used while susceptible to the OpenSSL
19007 "heartbleed" bug, fixing two expensive functions on busy relays,
19008 improved TLS ciphersuite preference lists, support for run-time
19009 hardening on compilers that support AddressSanitizer, and more work on
19010 the Linux sandbox code.
19012 There are also several usability fixes for clients (especially clients
19013 that use bridges), two new TransPort protocols supported (one on
19014 OpenBSD, one on FreeBSD), and various other bugfixes.
19016 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.2.2.x; those Tor versions
19017 have accumulated many known flaws; everyone should upgrade.
19019 o Major features (security):
19020 - If you don't specify MaxMemInQueues yourself, Tor now tries to
19021 pick a good value based on your total system memory. Previously,
19022 the default was always 8 GB. You can still override the default by
19023 setting MaxMemInQueues yourself. Resolves ticket 11396.
19024 - Block authority signing keys that were used on authorities
19025 vulnerable to the "heartbleed" bug in OpenSSL (CVE-2014-0160). (We
19026 don't have any evidence that these keys _were_ compromised; we're
19027 doing this to be prudent.) Resolves ticket 11464.
19029 o Major features (relay performance):
19030 - Speed up server-side lookups of rendezvous and introduction point
19031 circuits by using hashtables instead of linear searches. These
19032 functions previously accounted between 3 and 7% of CPU usage on
19033 some busy relays. Resolves ticket 9841.
19034 - Avoid wasting CPU when extending a circuit over a channel that is
19035 nearly out of circuit IDs. Previously, we would do a linear scan
19036 over possible circuit IDs before finding one or deciding that we
19037 had exhausted our possibilities. Now, we try at most 64 random
19038 circuit IDs before deciding that we probably won't succeed. Fixes
19039 a possible root cause of ticket 11553.
19041 o Major features (seccomp2 sandbox, Linux only):
19042 - The seccomp2 sandbox can now run a test network for multiple hours
19043 without crashing. The sandbox is still experimental, and more bugs
19044 will probably turn up. To try it, enable "Sandbox 1" on a Linux
19045 host. Resolves ticket 11351.
19046 - Strengthen sandbox code: the sandbox can now test the arguments
19047 for rename(), and blocks _sysctl() entirely. Resolves another part
19049 - When the sandbox blocks a system call, it now tries to log a stack
19050 trace before exiting. Resolves ticket 11465.
19052 o Major bugfixes (TLS cipher selection):
19053 - The relay ciphersuite list is now generated automatically based on
19054 uniform criteria, and includes all OpenSSL ciphersuites with
19055 acceptable strength and forward secrecy. Previously, we had left
19056 some perfectly fine ciphersuites unsupported due to omission or
19057 typo. Resolves bugs 11513, 11492, 11498, 11499. Bugs reported by
19058 'cypherpunks'. Bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
19059 - Relays now trust themselves to have a better view than clients of
19060 which TLS ciphersuites are better than others. (Thanks to bug
19061 11513, the relay list is now well-considered, whereas the client
19062 list has been chosen mainly for anti-fingerprinting purposes.)
19063 Relays prefer: AES over 3DES; then ECDHE over DHE; then GCM over
19064 CBC; then SHA384 over SHA256 over SHA1; and last, AES256 over
19065 AES128. Resolves ticket 11528.
19066 - Clients now try to advertise the same list of ciphersuites as
19067 Firefox 28. This change enables selection of (fast) GCM
19068 ciphersuites, disables some strange old ciphers, and stops
19069 advertising the ECDH (not to be confused with ECDHE) ciphersuites.
19070 Resolves ticket 11438.
19072 o Major bugfixes (bridge client):
19073 - Avoid 60-second delays in the bootstrapping process when Tor is
19074 launching for a second time while using bridges. Fixes bug 9229;
19075 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
19077 o Minor features (transparent proxy, *BSD):
19078 - Support FreeBSD's ipfw firewall interface for TransPort ports on
19079 FreeBSD. To enable it, set "TransProxyType ipfw". Resolves ticket
19080 10267; patch from "yurivict".
19081 - Support OpenBSD's divert-to rules with the pf firewall for
19082 transparent proxy ports. To enable it, set "TransProxyType
19083 pf-divert". This allows Tor to run a TransPort transparent proxy
19084 port on OpenBSD 4.4 or later without root privileges. See the
19085 pf.conf(5) manual page for information on configuring pf to use
19086 divert-to rules. Closes ticket 10896; patch from Dana Koch.
19088 o Minor features (security):
19089 - New --enable-expensive-hardening option to enable security
19090 hardening options that consume nontrivial amounts of CPU and
19091 memory. Right now, this includes AddressSanitizer and UbSan, which
19092 are supported in newer versions of GCC and Clang. Closes ticket
19095 o Minor features (log verbosity):
19096 - Demote the message that we give when a flushing connection times
19097 out for too long from NOTICE to INFO. It was usually meaningless.
19098 Resolves ticket 5286.
19099 - Don't log so many notice-level bootstrapping messages at startup
19100 about downloading descriptors. Previously, we'd log a notice
19101 whenever we learned about more routers. Now, we only log a notice
19102 at every 5% of progress. Fixes bug 9963.
19103 - Warn less verbosely when receiving a malformed
19104 ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cell. Fixes ticket 11279.
19105 - When we run out of usable circuit IDs on a channel, log only one
19106 warning for the whole channel, and describe how many circuits
19107 there were on the channel. Fixes part of ticket 11553.
19109 o Minor features (relay):
19110 - If a circuit timed out for at least 3 minutes, check if we have a
19111 new external IP address, and publish a new descriptor with the new
19112 IP address if it changed. Resolves ticket 2454.
19114 o Minor features (controller):
19115 - Make the entire exit policy available from the control port via
19116 GETINFO exit-policy/*. Implements enhancement 7952. Patch from
19118 - Because of the fix for ticket 11396, the real limit for memory
19119 usage may no longer match the configured MaxMemInQueues value. The
19120 real limit is now exposed via GETINFO limits/max-mem-in-queues.
19122 o Minor features (bridge client):
19123 - Report a more useful failure message when we can't connect to a
19124 bridge because we don't have the right pluggable transport
19125 configured. Resolves ticket 9665. Patch from Fábio J. Bertinatto.
19127 o Minor features (diagnostic):
19128 - Add more log messages to diagnose bug 7164, which causes
19129 intermittent "microdesc_free() called but md was still referenced"
19130 warnings. We now include more information, to figure out why we
19131 might be cleaning a microdescriptor for being too old if it's
19132 still referenced by a live node_t object.
19134 o Minor bugfixes (client, DNSPort):
19135 - When using DNSPort, try to respond to AAAA requests with AAAA
19136 answers. Previously, we hadn't looked at the request type when
19137 deciding which answer type to prefer. Fixes bug 10468; bugfix on
19139 - When receiving a DNS query for an unsupported record type, reply
19140 with no answer rather than with a NOTIMPL error. This behavior
19141 isn't correct either, but it will break fewer client programs, we
19142 hope. Fixes bug 10268; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Original patch
19145 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay):
19146 - Stop leaking memory when we successfully resolve a PTR record.
19147 Fixes bug 11437; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
19149 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client):
19150 - Stop accepting bridge lines containing hostnames. Doing so would
19151 cause clients to perform DNS requests on the hostnames, which was
19152 not sensible behavior. Fixes bug 10801; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19153 - Avoid a 60-second delay in the bootstrapping process when a Tor
19154 client with pluggable transports re-reads its configuration at
19155 just the wrong time. Re-fixes bug 11156; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
19157 o Minor bugfixes (client, logging during bootstrap):
19158 - Warn only once if we start logging in an unsafe way. Previously,
19159 we complain as many times as we had problems. Fixes bug 9870;
19160 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
19161 - Only report the first fatal bootstrap error on a given OR
19162 connection. This stops us from telling the controller bogus error
19163 messages like "DONE". Fixes bug 10431; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
19164 - Be more helpful when trying to run sandboxed on Linux without
19165 libseccomp. Instead of saying "Sandbox is not implemented on this
19166 platform", we now explain that we need to be built with
19167 libseccomp. Fixes bug 11543; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
19168 - Avoid generating spurious warnings when starting with
19169 DisableNetwork enabled. Fixes bug 11200 and bug 10405; bugfix on
19172 o Minor bugfixes (closing OR connections):
19173 - If write_to_buf() in connection_write_to_buf_impl_() ever fails,
19174 check if it's an or_connection_t and correctly call
19175 connection_or_close_for_error() rather than
19176 connection_mark_for_close() directly. Fixes bug 11304; bugfix on
19178 - When closing all connections on setting DisableNetwork to 1, use
19179 connection_or_close_normally() rather than closing OR connections
19180 out from under the channel layer. Fixes bug 11306; bugfix on
19183 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
19184 - Avoid sending a garbage value to the controller when a circuit is
19185 cannibalized. Fixes bug 11519; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
19187 o Minor bugfixes (tor-fw-helper):
19188 - Allow tor-fw-helper to build again by adding src/ext to its
19189 CPPFLAGS. Fixes bug 11296; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
19191 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
19192 - Avoid potential crashes or bad behavior when launching a
19193 server-side managed proxy with ORPort or ExtORPort temporarily
19194 disabled. Fixes bug 9650; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
19196 o Minor bugfixes (platform-specific):
19197 - Fix compilation on Solaris, which does not have <endian.h>. Fixes
19198 bug 11426; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
19199 - When dumping a malformed directory object to disk, save it in
19200 binary mode on Windows, not text mode. Fixes bug 11342; bugfix on
19202 - Don't report failures from make_socket_reuseable() on incoming
19203 sockets on OSX: this can happen when incoming connections close
19204 early. Fixes bug 10081.
19206 o Minor bugfixes (trivial memory leaks):
19207 - Fix a small memory leak when signing a directory object. Fixes bug
19208 11275; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
19209 - Free placeholder entries in our circuit table at exit; fixes a
19210 harmless memory leak. Fixes bug 11278; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
19211 - Don't re-initialize a second set of OpenSSL mutexes when starting
19212 up. Previously, we'd make one set of mutexes, and then immediately
19213 replace them with another. Fixes bug 11726; bugfix on
19215 - Resolve some memory leaks found by coverity in the unit tests, on
19216 exit in tor-gencert, and on a failure to compute digests for our
19217 own keys when generating a v3 networkstatus vote. These leaks
19218 should never have affected anyone in practice.
19220 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
19221 - Only retry attempts to connect to a chosen rendezvous point 8
19222 times, not 30. Fixes bug 4241; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
19224 o Minor bugfixes (misc code correctness):
19225 - Fix various instances of undefined behavior in channeltls.c,
19226 tor_memmem(), and eventdns.c that would cause us to construct
19227 pointers to memory outside an allocated object. (These invalid
19228 pointers were not accessed, but C does not even allow them to
19229 exist.) Fixes bug 10363; bugfixes on 0.1.1.1-alpha, 0.1.2.1-alpha,
19230 0.2.0.10-alpha, and 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "bobnomnom".
19231 - Use the AddressSanitizer and Ubsan sanitizers (in clang-3.4) to
19232 fix some miscellaneous errors in our tests and codebase. Fixes bug
19233 11232. Bugfixes on versions back as far as 0.2.1.11-alpha.
19234 - Always check return values for unlink, munmap, UnmapViewOfFile;
19235 check strftime return values more often. In some cases all we can
19236 do is report a warning, but this may help prevent deeper bugs from
19237 going unnoticed. Closes ticket 8787; bugfixes on many, many tor
19239 - Fix numerous warnings from the clang "scan-build" static analyzer.
19240 Some of these are programming style issues; some of them are false
19241 positives that indicated awkward code; some are undefined behavior
19242 cases related to constructing (but not using) invalid pointers;
19243 some are assumptions about API behavior; some are (harmlessly)
19244 logging sizeof(ptr) bytes from a token when sizeof(*ptr) would be
19245 correct; and one or two are genuine bugs that weren't reachable
19246 from the rest of the program. Fixes bug 8793; bugfixes on many,
19250 - Build the torify.1 manpage again. Previously, we were only trying
19251 to build it when also building tor-fw-helper. That's why we didn't
19252 notice that we'd broken the ability to build it. Fixes bug 11321;
19253 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
19254 - Fix the layout of the SOCKSPort flags in the manpage. Fixes bug
19255 11061; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
19256 - Correctly document that we search for a system torrc file before
19257 looking in ~/.torrc. Fixes documentation side of 9213; bugfix on
19259 - Resolve warnings from Doxygen.
19261 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
19262 - Remove is_internal_IP() function. Resolves ticket 4645.
19263 - Remove unused function circuit_dump_by_chan from circuitlist.c.
19264 Closes issue 9107; patch from "marek".
19265 - Change our use of the ENUM_BF macro to avoid declarations that
19268 o Deprecated versions:
19269 - Tor 0.2.2.x has reached end-of-life; it has received no patches or
19270 attention for some while. Directory authorities no longer accept
19271 descriptors from relays running any version of Tor prior to Tor
19272 0.2.3.16-alpha. Resolves ticket 11149.
19275 - New macros in test.h to simplify writing mock-functions for unit
19276 tests. Part of ticket 11507. Patch from Dana Koch.
19277 - Complete tests for the status.c module. Resolves ticket 11507.
19278 Patch from Dana Koch.
19281 - Remove all code for the long unused v1 directory protocol.
19282 Resolves ticket 11070.
19285 Changes in version 0.2.5.3-alpha - 2014-03-22
19286 Tor 0.2.5.3-alpha includes all the fixes from 0.2.4.21. It contains
19287 two new anti-DoS features for Tor relays, resolves a bug that kept
19288 SOCKS5 support for IPv6 from working, fixes several annoying usability
19289 issues for bridge users, and removes more old code for unused
19292 The Tor 0.2.5.x release series is now in patch-freeze: no feature
19293 patches not already written will be considered for inclusion in 0.2.5.x.
19295 o Major features (relay security, DoS-resistance):
19296 - When deciding whether we have run out of memory and we need to
19297 close circuits, also consider memory allocated in buffers for
19298 streams attached to each circuit.
19300 This change, which extends an anti-DoS feature introduced in
19301 0.2.4.13-alpha and improved in 0.2.4.14-alpha, lets Tor exit relays
19302 better resist more memory-based DoS attacks than before. Since the
19303 MaxMemInCellQueues option now applies to all queues, it is renamed
19304 to MaxMemInQueues. This feature fixes bug 10169.
19305 - Avoid hash-flooding denial-of-service attacks by using the secure
19306 SipHash-2-4 hash function for our hashtables. Without this
19307 feature, an attacker could degrade performance of a targeted
19308 client or server by flooding their data structures with a large
19309 number of entries to be stored at the same hash table position,
19310 thereby slowing down the Tor instance. With this feature, hash
19311 table positions are derived from a randomized cryptographic key,
19312 and an attacker cannot predict which entries will collide. Closes
19314 - Decrease the lower limit of MaxMemInQueues to 256 MBytes (but leave
19315 the default at 8GBytes), to better support Raspberry Pi users. Fixes
19316 bug 9686; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
19318 o Minor features (bridges, pluggable transports):
19319 - Bridges now write the SHA1 digest of their identity key
19320 fingerprint (that is, a hash of a hash of their public key) to
19321 notice-level logs, and to a new hashed-fingerprint file. This
19322 information will help bridge operators look up their bridge in
19323 Globe and similar tools. Resolves ticket 10884.
19324 - Improve the message that Tor displays when running as a bridge
19325 using pluggable transports without an Extended ORPort listener.
19326 Also, log the message in the log file too. Resolves ticket 11043.
19328 o Minor features (other):
19329 - Add a new option, PredictedPortsRelevanceTime, to control how long
19330 after having received a request to connect to a given port Tor
19331 will try to keep circuits ready in anticipation of future requests
19332 for that port. Patch from "unixninja92"; implements ticket 9176.
19333 - Generate a warning if any ports are listed in the SocksPolicy,
19334 DirPolicy, AuthDirReject, AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, or
19335 AuthDirBadExit options. (These options only support address
19336 ranges.) Fixes part of ticket 11108.
19337 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
19340 o Minor bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.2-alpha, also in 0.2.4.21):
19341 - Build without warnings under clang 3.4. (We have some macros that
19342 define static functions only some of which will get used later in
19343 the module. Starting with clang 3.4, these give a warning unless the
19344 unused attribute is set on them.) Resolves ticket 10904.
19345 - Fix build warnings about missing "a2x" comment when building the
19346 manpages from scratch on OpenBSD; OpenBSD calls it "a2x.py".
19347 Fixes bug 10929; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
19349 o Minor bugfixes (client):
19350 - Improve the log message when we can't connect to a hidden service
19351 because all of the hidden service directory nodes hosting its
19352 descriptor are excluded. Improves on our fix for bug 10722, which
19353 was a bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
19354 - Raise a control port warning when we fail to connect to all of
19355 our bridges. Previously, we didn't inform the controller, and
19356 the bootstrap process would stall. Fixes bug 11069; bugfix on
19358 - Exit immediately when a process-owning controller exits.
19359 Previously, tor relays would wait for a little while after their
19360 controller exited, as if they had gotten an INT signal -- but this
19361 was problematic, since there was no feedback for the user. To do a
19362 clean shutdown, controllers should send an INT signal and give Tor
19363 a chance to clean up. Fixes bug 10449; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
19364 - Stop attempting to connect to bridges before our pluggable
19365 transports are configured (harmless but resulted in some erroneous
19366 log messages). Fixes bug 11156; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
19367 - Fix connections to IPv6 addresses over SOCKS5. Previously, we were
19368 generating incorrect SOCKS5 responses, and confusing client
19369 applications. Fixes bug 10987; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
19371 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges):
19372 - Avoid crashing on a malformed resolv.conf file when running a
19373 relay using Libevent 1. Fixes bug 8788; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
19374 - Non-exit relays no longer launch mock DNS requests to check for
19375 DNS hijacking. This has been unnecessary since 0.2.1.7-alpha, when
19376 non-exit relays stopped servicing DNS requests. Fixes bug 965;
19377 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Patch from Matt Pagan.
19378 - Bridges now report complete directory request statistics. Related
19379 to bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
19380 - Bridges now never collect statistics that were designed for
19381 relays. Fixes bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
19382 - Stop giving annoying warning messages when we decide not to launch
19383 a pluggable transport proxy that we don't need (because there are
19384 no bridges configured to use it). Resolves ticket 5018; bugfix
19386 - Give the correct URL in the warning message when trying to run a
19387 relay on an ancient version of Windows. Fixes bug 9393.
19389 o Minor bugfixes (backtrace support):
19390 - Support automatic backtraces on more platforms by using the
19391 "-fasynchronous-unwind-tables" compiler option. This option is
19392 needed for platforms like 32-bit Intel where "-fomit-frame-pointer"
19393 is on by default and table generation is not. This doesn't yet
19394 add Windows support; only Linux, OSX, and some BSDs are affected.
19395 Reported by 'cypherpunks'; fixes bug 11047; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
19396 - Avoid strange behavior if two threads hit failed assertions at the
19397 same time and both try to log backtraces at once. (Previously, if
19398 this had happened, both threads would have stored their intermediate
19399 results in the same buffer, and generated junk outputs.) Reported by
19400 "cypherpunks". Fixes bug 11048; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
19401 - Fix a compiler warning in format_number_sigsafe(). Bugfix on
19402 0.2.5.2-alpha; patch from Nick Hopper.
19404 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
19405 - Fix a small bug in the unit tests that might have made the tests
19406 call 'chmod' with an uninitialized bitmask. Fixes bug 10928;
19407 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
19410 - Remove all remaining code related to version-0 hidden service
19411 descriptors: they have not been in use since 0.2.2.1-alpha. Fixes
19412 the rest of bug 10841.
19415 - Document in the manpage that "KBytes" may also be written as
19416 "kilobytes" or "KB", that "Kbits" may also be written as
19417 "kilobits", and so forth. Closes ticket 9222.
19418 - Document that the ClientOnly config option overrides ORPort.
19419 Our old explanation made ClientOnly sound as though it did
19420 nothing at all. Resolves bug 9059.
19421 - Explain that SocksPolicy, DirPolicy, and similar options don't
19422 take port arguments. Fixes the other part of ticket 11108.
19423 - Fix a comment about the rend_server_descriptor_t.protocols field
19424 to more accurately describe its range. Also, make that field
19425 unsigned, to more accurately reflect its usage. Fixes bug 9099;
19426 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
19427 - Fix the manpage's description of HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient:
19428 the maximum client name length is 16, not 19. Fixes bug 11118;
19429 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
19431 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
19432 - Get rid of router->address, since in all cases it was just the
19433 string representation of router->addr. Resolves ticket 5528.
19435 o Test infrastructure:
19436 - Update to the latest version of tinytest.
19437 - Improve the tinytest implementation of string operation tests so
19438 that comparisons with NULL strings no longer crash the tests; they
19439 now just fail, normally. Fixes bug 9004; bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
19442 Changes in version 0.2.4.21 - 2014-02-28
19443 Tor 0.2.4.21 further improves security against potential adversaries who
19444 find breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and backports several stability
19445 and robustness patches from the 0.2.5 branch.
19447 o Major features (client security):
19448 - When we choose a path for a 3-hop circuit, make sure it contains
19449 at least one relay that supports the NTor circuit extension
19450 handshake. Otherwise, there is a chance that we're building
19451 a circuit that's worth attacking by an adversary who finds
19452 breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and that chance changes the game
19453 theory. Implements ticket 9777.
19456 - Do not treat streams that fail with reason
19457 END_STREAM_REASON_INTERNAL as indicating a definite circuit failure,
19458 since it could also indicate an ENETUNREACH connection error. Fixes
19459 part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
19461 o Code simplification and refactoring:
19462 - Remove data structures which were introduced to implement the
19463 CellStatistics option: they are now redundant with the new timestamp
19464 field in the regular packed_cell_t data structure, which we did
19465 in 0.2.4.18-rc in order to resolve bug 9093. Resolves ticket 10870.
19468 - Always clear OpenSSL bignums before freeing them -- even bignums
19469 that don't contain secrets. Resolves ticket 10793. Patch by
19471 - Build without warnings under clang 3.4. (We have some macros that
19472 define static functions only some of which will get used later in
19473 the module. Starting with clang 3.4, these give a warning unless the
19474 unused attribute is set on them.) Resolves ticket 10904.
19475 - Update geoip and geoip6 files to the February 7 2014 Maxmind
19476 GeoLite2 Country database.
19479 - Set the listen() backlog limit to the largest actually supported
19480 on the system, not to the value in a header file. Fixes bug 9716;
19481 bugfix on every released Tor.
19482 - Treat ENETUNREACH, EACCES, and EPERM connection failures at an
19483 exit node as a NOROUTE error, not an INTERNAL error, since they
19484 can apparently happen when trying to connect to the wrong sort
19485 of netblocks. Fixes part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
19486 - Fix build warnings about missing "a2x" comment when building the
19487 manpages from scratch on OpenBSD; OpenBSD calls it "a2x.py".
19488 Fixes bug 10929; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
19489 - Avoid a segfault on SIGUSR1, where we had freed a connection but did
19490 not entirely remove it from the connection lists. Fixes bug 9602;
19491 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
19492 - Fix a segmentation fault in our benchmark code when running with
19493 Fedora's OpenSSL package, or any other OpenSSL that provides
19494 ECDH but not P224. Fixes bug 10835; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
19495 - Turn "circuit handshake stats since last time" log messages into a
19496 heartbeat message. Fixes bug 10485; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
19498 o Documentation fixes:
19499 - Document that all but one DirPort entry must have the NoAdvertise
19500 flag set. Fixes bug 10470; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha / 0.2.3.16-alpha.
19503 Changes in version 0.2.5.2-alpha - 2014-02-13
19504 Tor 0.2.5.2-alpha includes all the fixes from 0.2.4.18-rc and 0.2.4.20,
19505 like the "poor random number generation" fix and the "building too many
19506 circuits" fix. It also further improves security against potential
19507 adversaries who find breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and launches
19508 pluggable transports on demand (which gets us closer to integrating
19509 pluggable transport support by default -- not to be confused with Tor
19510 bundles enabling pluggable transports and bridges by default).
19512 o Major features (client security):
19513 - When we choose a path for a 3-hop circuit, make sure it contains
19514 at least one relay that supports the NTor circuit extension
19515 handshake. Otherwise, there is a chance that we're building
19516 a circuit that's worth attacking by an adversary who finds
19517 breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and that chance changes the game
19518 theory. Implements ticket 9777.
19519 - Clients now look at the "usecreatefast" consensus parameter to
19520 decide whether to use CREATE_FAST or CREATE cells for the first hop
19521 of their circuit. This approach can improve security on connections
19522 where Tor's circuit handshake is stronger than the available TLS
19523 connection security levels, but the tradeoff is more computational
19524 load on guard relays. Implements proposal 221. Resolves ticket 9386.
19526 o Major features (bridges):
19527 - Don't launch pluggable transport proxies if we don't have any
19528 bridges configured that would use them. Now we can list many
19529 pluggable transports, and Tor will dynamically start one when it
19530 hears a bridge address that needs it. Resolves ticket 5018.
19531 - The bridge directory authority now assigns status flags (Stable,
19532 Guard, etc) to bridges based on thresholds calculated over all
19533 Running bridges. Now bridgedb can finally make use of its features
19534 to e.g. include at least one Stable bridge in its answers. Fixes
19537 o Major features (other):
19538 - Extend ORCONN controller event to include an "ID" parameter,
19539 and add four new controller event types CONN_BW, CIRC_BW,
19540 CELL_STATS, and TB_EMPTY that show connection and circuit usage.
19541 The new events are emitted in private Tor networks only, with the
19542 goal of being able to better track performance and load during
19543 full-network simulations. Implements proposal 218 and ticket 7359.
19544 - On some platforms (currently: recent OSX versions, glibc-based
19545 platforms that support the ELF format, and a few other
19546 Unix-like operating systems), Tor can now dump stack traces
19547 when a crash occurs or an assertion fails. By default, traces
19548 are dumped to stderr (if possible) and to any logs that are
19549 reporting errors. Implements ticket 9299.
19552 - Avoid a segfault on SIGUSR1, where we had freed a connection but did
19553 not entirely remove it from the connection lists. Fixes bug 9602;
19554 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
19555 - Do not treat streams that fail with reason
19556 END_STREAM_REASON_INTERNAL as indicating a definite circuit failure,
19557 since it could also indicate an ENETUNREACH connection error. Fixes
19558 part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
19560 o Major bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.20):
19561 - Do not allow OpenSSL engines to replace the PRNG, even when
19562 HardwareAccel is set. The only default builtin PRNG engine uses
19563 the Intel RDRAND instruction to replace the entire PRNG, and
19564 ignores all attempts to seed it with more entropy. That's
19565 cryptographically stupid: the right response to a new alleged
19566 entropy source is never to discard all previously used entropy
19567 sources. Fixes bug 10402; works around behavior introduced in
19568 OpenSSL 1.0.0. Diagnosis and investigation thanks to "coderman"
19570 - Fix assertion failure when AutomapHostsOnResolve yields an IPv6
19571 address. Fixes bug 10465; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
19572 - Avoid launching spurious extra circuits when a stream is pending.
19573 This fixes a bug where any circuit that _wasn't_ unusable for new
19574 streams would be treated as if it were, causing extra circuits to
19575 be launched. Fixes bug 10456; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
19577 o Major bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
19578 - No longer stop reading or writing on cpuworker connections when
19579 our rate limiting buckets go empty. Now we should handle circuit
19580 handshake requests more promptly. Resolves bug 9731.
19581 - Stop trying to bootstrap all our directory information from
19582 only our first guard. Discovered while fixing bug 9946; bugfix
19585 o Minor features (bridges, pluggable transports):
19586 - Add threshold cutoffs to the networkstatus document created by
19587 the Bridge Authority. Fixes bug 1117.
19588 - On Windows, spawn background processes using the CREATE_NO_WINDOW
19589 flag. Now Tor Browser Bundle 3.5 with pluggable transports enabled
19590 doesn't pop up a blank console window. (In Tor Browser Bundle 2.x,
19591 Vidalia set this option for us.) Implements ticket 10297.
19593 o Minor features (security):
19594 - Always clear OpenSSL bignums before freeing them -- even bignums
19595 that don't contain secrets. Resolves ticket 10793. Patch by
19598 o Minor features (config options and command line):
19599 - Add an --allow-missing-torrc commandline option that tells Tor to
19600 run even if the configuration file specified by -f is not available.
19601 Implements ticket 10060.
19602 - Add support for the TPROXY transparent proxying facility on Linux.
19603 See documentation for the new TransProxyType option for more
19604 details. Implementation by "thomo". Closes ticket 10582.
19606 o Minor features (controller):
19607 - Add a new "HS_DESC" controller event that reports activities
19608 related to hidden service descriptors. Resolves ticket 8510.
19609 - New "DROPGUARDS" controller command to forget all current entry
19610 guards. Not recommended for ordinary use, since replacing guards
19611 too frequently makes several attacks easier. Resolves ticket 9934;
19614 o Minor features (build):
19615 - Assume that a user using ./configure --host wants to cross-compile,
19616 and give an error if we cannot find a properly named
19617 tool-chain. Add a --disable-tool-name-check option to proceed
19618 nevertheless. Addresses ticket 9869. Patch by Benedikt Gollatz.
19619 - If we run ./configure and the compiler recognizes -fstack-protector
19620 but the linker rejects it, warn the user about a potentially missing
19621 libssp package. Addresses ticket 9948. Patch from Benedikt Gollatz.
19623 o Minor features (testing):
19624 - If Python is installed, "make check" now runs extra tests beyond
19625 the unit test scripts.
19626 - When bootstrapping a test network, sometimes very few relays get
19627 the Guard flag. Now a new option "TestingDirAuthVoteGuard" can
19628 specify a set of relays which should be voted Guard regardless of
19629 their uptime or bandwidth. Addresses ticket 9206.
19631 o Minor features (log messages):
19632 - When ServerTransportPlugin is set on a bridge, Tor can write more
19633 useful statistics about bridge use in its extrainfo descriptors,
19634 but only if the Extended ORPort ("ExtORPort") is set too. Add a
19635 log message to inform the user in this case. Resolves ticket 9651.
19636 - When receiving a new controller connection, log the origin address.
19637 Resolves ticket 9698; patch from "sigpipe".
19638 - When logging OpenSSL engine status at startup, log the status of
19639 more engines. Fixes ticket 10043; patch from Joshua Datko.
19640 - Turn "circuit handshake stats since last time" log messages into a
19641 heartbeat message. Fixes bug 10485; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
19643 o Minor features (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
19644 - Improve the circuit queue out-of-memory handler. Previously, when
19645 we ran low on memory, we'd close whichever circuits had the most
19646 queued cells. Now, we close those that have the *oldest* queued
19647 cells, on the theory that those are most responsible for us
19648 running low on memory. Based on analysis from a forthcoming paper
19649 by Jansen, Tschorsch, Johnson, and Scheuermann. Fixes bug 9093.
19650 - Generate bootstrapping status update events correctly when fetching
19651 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 9927.
19652 - Update to the October 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
19654 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
19655 - When closing a channel that has already been open, do not close
19656 pending circuits that were waiting to connect to the same relay.
19657 Fixes bug 9880; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Thanks to skruffy for
19660 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
19661 - Treat ENETUNREACH, EACCES, and EPERM connection failures at an
19662 exit node as a NOROUTE error, not an INTERNAL error, since they
19663 can apparently happen when trying to connect to the wrong sort
19664 of netblocks. Fixes part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
19666 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
19667 - Fix a bug where the first connection works to a bridge that uses a
19668 pluggable transport with client-side parameters, but we don't send
19669 the client-side parameters on subsequent connections. (We don't
19670 use any pluggable transports with client-side parameters yet,
19671 but ScrambleSuit will soon become the first one.) Fixes bug 9162;
19672 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Based on a patch from "rl1987".
19674 o Minor bugfixes (node selection):
19675 - If ExcludeNodes is set, consider non-excluded hidden service
19676 directory servers before excluded ones. Do not consider excluded
19677 hidden service directory servers at all if StrictNodes is
19678 set. (Previously, we would sometimes decide to connect to those
19679 servers, and then realize before we initiated a connection that
19680 we had excluded them.) Fixes bug 10722; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
19681 Reported by "mr-4".
19682 - If we set the ExitNodes option but it doesn't include any nodes
19683 that have the Exit flag, we would choose not to bootstrap. Now we
19684 bootstrap so long as ExitNodes includes nodes which can exit to
19685 some port. Fixes bug 10543; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
19687 o Minor bugfixes (controller and command-line):
19688 - If changing a config option via "setconf" fails in a recoverable
19689 way, we used to nonetheless write our new control ports to the
19690 file described by the "ControlPortWriteToFile" option. Now we only
19691 write out that file if we successfully switch to the new config
19692 option. Fixes bug 5605; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch from "Ryman".
19693 - When a command-line option such as --version or --help that
19694 ordinarily implies --hush appears on the command line along with
19695 --quiet, then actually obey --quiet. Previously, we obeyed --quiet
19696 only if it appeared later on the command line. Fixes bug 9578;
19697 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
19699 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
19700 - Previously we used two temporary files when writing descriptors to
19701 disk; now we only use one. Fixes bug 1376.
19702 - Remove an erroneous (but impossible and thus harmless) pointer
19703 comparison that would have allowed compilers to skip a bounds
19704 check in channeltls.c. Fixes bugs 10313 and 9980; bugfix on
19705 0.2.0.10-alpha. Noticed by Jared L Wong and David Fifield.
19706 - Fix an always-true assertion in pluggable transports code so it
19707 actually checks what it was trying to check. Fixes bug 10046;
19708 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Found by "dcb".
19710 o Minor bugfixes (protocol correctness):
19711 - When receiving a VERSIONS cell with an odd number of bytes, close
19712 the connection immediately since the cell is malformed. Fixes bug
19713 10365; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom"; fix by
19716 o Minor bugfixes (build):
19717 - Restore the ability to compile Tor with V2_HANDSHAKE_SERVER
19718 turned off (that is, without support for v2 link handshakes). Fixes
19719 bug 4677; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Patch from "piet".
19720 - Fix compilation warnings and startup issues when running with
19721 "Sandbox 1" and libseccomp-2.1.0. Fixes bug 10563; bugfix on
19723 - Fix compilation on Solaris 9, which didn't like us having an
19724 identifier named "sun". Fixes bug 10565; bugfix in 0.2.5.1-alpha.
19726 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
19727 - Fix a segmentation fault in our benchmark code when running with
19728 Fedora's OpenSSL package, or any other OpenSSL that provides
19729 ECDH but not P224. Fixes bug 10835; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
19731 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
19732 - Fix a bug where clients using bridges would report themselves
19733 as 50% bootstrapped even without a live consensus document.
19734 Fixes bug 9922; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
19735 - Suppress a warning where, if there's only one directory authority
19736 in the network, we would complain that votes and signatures cannot
19737 be uploaded to other directory authorities. Fixes bug 10842;
19738 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
19739 - Report bootstrapping progress correctly when we're downloading
19740 microdescriptors. We had updated our "do we have enough microdescs
19741 to begin building circuits?" logic most recently in 0.2.4.10-alpha
19742 (see bug 5956), but we left the bootstrap status event logic at
19743 "how far through getting 1/4 of them are we?" Fixes bug 9958;
19744 bugfix on 0.2.2.36, which is where they diverged (see bug 5343).
19746 o Minor bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.20):
19747 - Avoid a crash bug when starting with a corrupted microdescriptor
19748 cache file. Fixes bug 10406; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
19749 - If we fail to dump a previously cached microdescriptor to disk, avoid
19750 freeing duplicate data later on. Fixes bug 10423; bugfix on
19751 0.2.4.13-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom".
19753 o Minor bugfixes on 0.2.4.x (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
19754 - Correctly log long IPv6 exit policies, instead of truncating them
19755 or reporting an error. Fixes bug 9596; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
19756 - Our default TLS ecdhe groups were backwards: we meant to be using
19757 P224 for relays (for performance win) and P256 for bridges (since
19758 it is more common in the wild). Instead we had it backwards. After
19759 reconsideration, we decided that the default should be P256 on all
19760 hosts, since its security is probably better, and since P224 is
19761 reportedly used quite little in the wild. Found by "skruffy" on
19762 IRC. Fix for bug 9780; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
19763 - Free directory authority certificate download statuses on exit
19764 rather than leaking them. Fixes bug 9644; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
19766 o Minor bugfixes on 0.2.3.x (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
19767 - If the guard we choose first doesn't answer, we would try the
19768 second guard, but once we connected to the second guard we would
19769 abandon it and retry the first one, slowing down bootstrapping.
19770 The fix is to treat all our initially chosen guards as acceptable
19771 to use. Fixes bug 9946; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
19772 - Fix an assertion failure that would occur when disabling the
19773 ORPort setting on a running Tor process while accounting was
19774 enabled. Fixes bug 6979; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
19775 - When examining the list of network interfaces to find our address,
19776 do not consider non-running or disabled network interfaces. Fixes
19777 bug 9904; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. Patch from "hantwister".
19778 - Avoid an off-by-one error when checking buffer boundaries when
19779 formatting the exit status of a pluggable transport helper.
19780 This is probably not an exploitable bug, but better safe than
19781 sorry. Fixes bug 9928; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc. Bug found by
19784 o Removed code and features:
19785 - Clients now reject any directory authority certificates lacking
19786 a dir-key-crosscert element. These have been included since
19787 0.2.1.9-alpha, so there's no real reason for them to be optional
19788 any longer. Completes proposal 157. Resolves ticket 10162.
19789 - Remove all code that existed to support the v2 directory system,
19790 since there are no longer any v2 directory authorities. Resolves
19792 - Remove the HSAuthoritativeDir and AlternateHSAuthority torrc
19793 options, which were used for designating authorities as "Hidden
19794 service authorities". There has been no use of hidden service
19795 authorities since 0.2.2.1-alpha, when we stopped uploading or
19796 downloading v0 hidden service descriptors. Fixes bug 10881; also
19797 part of a fix for bug 10841.
19799 o Code simplification and refactoring:
19800 - Remove some old fallback code designed to keep Tor clients working
19801 in a network with only two working relays. Elsewhere in the code we
19802 have long since stopped supporting such networks, so there wasn't
19803 much point in keeping it around. Addresses ticket 9926.
19804 - Reject 0-length EXTEND2 cells more explicitly. Fixes bug 10536;
19805 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported by "cypherpunks".
19806 - Remove data structures which were introduced to implement the
19807 CellStatistics option: they are now redundant with the addition
19808 of a timestamp to the regular packed_cell_t data structure, which
19809 we did in 0.2.4.18-rc in order to resolve ticket 9093. Implements
19812 o Documentation (man page) fixes:
19813 - Update manpage to describe some of the files you can expect to
19814 find in Tor's DataDirectory. Addresses ticket 9839.
19815 - Document that all but one DirPort entry must have the NoAdvertise
19816 flag set. Fixes bug 10470; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha / 0.2.3.16-alpha.
19818 o Documentation fixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
19819 - Clarify the usage and risks of setting the ContactInfo torrc line
19820 for your relay or bridge. Resolves ticket 9854.
19821 - Add anchors to the manpage so we can link to the html version of
19822 the documentation for specific options. Resolves ticket 9866.
19823 - Replace remaining references to DirServer in man page and
19824 log entries. Resolves ticket 10124.
19827 - Make the "tor-gencert" tool used by directory authority operators
19828 create 2048-bit signing keys by default (rather than 1024-bit, since
19829 1024-bit is uncomfortably small these days). Addresses ticket 10324.
19832 Changes in version 0.2.4.20 - 2013-12-22
19833 Tor 0.2.4.20 fixes potentially poor random number generation for users
19834 who 1) use OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, 2) set "HardwareAccel 1" in their
19835 torrc file, 3) have "Sandy Bridge" or "Ivy Bridge" Intel processors,
19836 and 4) have no state file in their DataDirectory (as would happen on
19837 first start). Users who generated relay or hidden service identity
19838 keys in such a situation should discard them and generate new ones.
19840 This release also fixes a logic error that caused Tor clients to build
19841 many more preemptive circuits than they actually need.
19844 - Do not allow OpenSSL engines to replace the PRNG, even when
19845 HardwareAccel is set. The only default builtin PRNG engine uses
19846 the Intel RDRAND instruction to replace the entire PRNG, and
19847 ignores all attempts to seed it with more entropy. That's
19848 cryptographically stupid: the right response to a new alleged
19849 entropy source is never to discard all previously used entropy
19850 sources. Fixes bug 10402; works around behavior introduced in
19851 OpenSSL 1.0.0. Diagnosis and investigation thanks to "coderman"
19853 - Fix assertion failure when AutomapHostsOnResolve yields an IPv6
19854 address. Fixes bug 10465; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
19855 - Avoid launching spurious extra circuits when a stream is pending.
19856 This fixes a bug where any circuit that _wasn't_ unusable for new
19857 streams would be treated as if it were, causing extra circuits to
19858 be launched. Fixes bug 10456; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
19861 - Avoid a crash bug when starting with a corrupted microdescriptor
19862 cache file. Fixes bug 10406; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
19863 - If we fail to dump a previously cached microdescriptor to disk, avoid
19864 freeing duplicate data later on. Fixes bug 10423; bugfix on
19865 0.2.4.13-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom".
19868 Changes in version 0.2.4.19 - 2013-12-11
19869 The Tor 0.2.4 release series is dedicated to the memory of Aaron Swartz
19870 (1986-2013). Aaron worked on diverse projects including helping to guide
19871 Creative Commons, playing a key role in stopping SOPA/PIPA, bringing
19872 transparency to the U.S government's PACER documents, and contributing
19873 design and development for Tor and Tor2Web. Aaron was one of the latest
19874 martyrs in our collective fight for civil liberties and human rights,
19875 and his death is all the more painful because he was one of us.
19877 Tor 0.2.4.19, the first stable release in the 0.2.4 branch, features
19878 a new circuit handshake and link encryption that use ECC to provide
19879 better security and efficiency; makes relays better manage circuit
19880 creation requests; uses "directory guards" to reduce client enumeration
19881 risks; makes bridges collect and report statistics about the pluggable
19882 transports they support; cleans up and improves our geoip database;
19883 gets much closer to IPv6 support for clients, bridges, and relays; makes
19884 directory authorities use measured bandwidths rather than advertised
19885 ones when computing flags and thresholds; disables client-side DNS
19886 caching to reduce tracking risks; and fixes a big bug in bridge
19887 reachability testing. This release introduces two new design
19888 abstractions in the code: a new "channel" abstraction between circuits
19889 and or_connections to allow for implementing alternate relay-to-relay
19890 transports, and a new "circuitmux" abstraction storing the queue of
19891 circuits for a channel. The release also includes many stability,
19892 security, and privacy fixes.
19895 Changes in version 0.2.4.18-rc - 2013-11-16
19896 Tor 0.2.4.18-rc is the fourth release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
19897 series. It takes a variety of fixes from the 0.2.5.x branch to improve
19898 stability, performance, and better handling of edge cases.
19901 - Re-enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 when built with OpenSSL 1.0.1e or later.
19902 Resolves ticket 6055. (OpenSSL before 1.0.1 didn't have TLS 1.1 or
19903 1.2, and OpenSSL from 1.0.1 through 1.0.1d had bugs that prevented
19904 renegotiation from working with TLS 1.1 or 1.2, so we had disabled
19905 them to solve bug 6033.)
19908 - No longer stop reading or writing on cpuworker connections when
19909 our rate limiting buckets go empty. Now we should handle circuit
19910 handshake requests more promptly. Resolves bug 9731.
19911 - If we are unable to save a microdescriptor to the journal, do not
19912 drop it from memory and then reattempt downloading it. Fixes bug
19913 9645; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
19914 - Stop trying to bootstrap all our directory information from
19915 only our first guard. Discovered while fixing bug 9946; bugfix
19917 - The new channel code sometimes lost track of in-progress circuits,
19918 causing long-running clients to stop building new circuits. The
19919 fix is to always call circuit_n_chan_done(chan, 0) from
19920 channel_closed(). Fixes bug 9776; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
19922 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.4.x):
19923 - Correctly log long IPv6 exit policies, instead of truncating them
19924 or reporting an error. Fixes bug 9596; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
19925 - Our default TLS ecdhe groups were backwards: we meant to be using
19926 P224 for relays (for performance win) and P256 for bridges (since
19927 it is more common in the wild). Instead we had it backwards. After
19928 reconsideration, we decided that the default should be P256 on all
19929 hosts, since its security is probably better, and since P224 is
19930 reportedly used quite little in the wild. Found by "skruffy" on
19931 IRC. Fix for bug 9780; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
19932 - Free directory authority certificate download statuses on exit
19933 rather than leaking them. Fixes bug 9644; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
19935 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x and earlier):
19936 - If the guard we choose first doesn't answer, we would try the
19937 second guard, but once we connected to the second guard we would
19938 abandon it and retry the first one, slowing down bootstrapping.
19939 The fix is to treat all our initially chosen guards as acceptable
19940 to use. Fixes bug 9946; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
19941 - Fix an assertion failure that would occur when disabling the
19942 ORPort setting on a running Tor process while accounting was
19943 enabled. Fixes bug 6979; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
19944 - When examining the list of network interfaces to find our address,
19945 do not consider non-running or disabled network interfaces. Fixes
19946 bug 9904; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. Patch from "hantwister".
19947 - Avoid an off-by-one error when checking buffer boundaries when
19948 formatting the exit status of a pluggable transport helper.
19949 This is probably not an exploitable bug, but better safe than
19950 sorry. Fixes bug 9928; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc. Bug found by
19953 o Minor features (protecting client timestamps):
19954 - Clients no longer send timestamps in their NETINFO cells. These were
19955 not used for anything, and they provided one small way for clients
19956 to be distinguished from each other as they moved from network to
19957 network or behind NAT. Implements part of proposal 222.
19958 - Clients now round timestamps in INTRODUCE cells down to the nearest
19959 10 minutes. If a new Support022HiddenServices option is set to 0, or
19960 if it's set to "auto" and the feature is disabled in the consensus,
19961 the timestamp is sent as 0 instead. Implements part of proposal 222.
19962 - Stop sending timestamps in AUTHENTICATE cells. This is not such
19963 a big deal from a security point of view, but it achieves no actual
19964 good purpose, and isn't needed. Implements part of proposal 222.
19965 - Reduce down accuracy of timestamps in hidden service descriptors.
19966 Implements part of proposal 222.
19968 o Minor features (other):
19969 - Improve the circuit queue out-of-memory handler. Previously, when
19970 we ran low on memory, we'd close whichever circuits had the most
19971 queued cells. Now, we close those that have the *oldest* queued
19972 cells, on the theory that those are most responsible for us
19973 running low on memory. Based on analysis from a forthcoming paper
19974 by Jansen, Tschorsch, Johnson, and Scheuermann. Fixes bug 9093.
19975 - Generate bootstrapping status update events correctly when fetching
19976 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 9927.
19977 - Update to the October 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
19979 o Documentation fixes:
19980 - Clarify the usage and risks of setting the ContactInfo torrc line
19981 for your relay or bridge. Resolves ticket 9854.
19982 - Add anchors to the manpage so we can link to the html version of
19983 the documentation for specific options. Resolves ticket 9866.
19984 - Replace remaining references to DirServer in man page and
19985 log entries. Resolves ticket 10124.
19988 Changes in version 0.2.5.1-alpha - 2013-10-02
19989 Tor 0.2.5.1-alpha introduces experimental support for syscall sandboxing
19990 on Linux, allows bridges that offer pluggable transports to report usage
19991 statistics, fixes many issues to make testing easier, and provides
19992 a pile of minor features and bugfixes that have been waiting for a
19993 release of the new branch.
19995 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to
19996 be bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
19997 stay with 0.2.4.x for now.
19999 o Major features (security):
20000 - Use the seccomp2 syscall filtering facility on Linux to limit
20001 which system calls Tor can invoke. This is an experimental,
20002 Linux-only feature to provide defense-in-depth against unknown
20003 attacks. To try turning it on, set "Sandbox 1" in your torrc
20004 file. Please be ready to report bugs. We hope to add support
20005 for better sandboxing in the future, including more fine-grained
20006 filters, better division of responsibility, and support for more
20007 platforms. This work has been done by Cristian-Matei Toader for
20008 Google Summer of Code.
20009 - Re-enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 when built with OpenSSL 1.0.1e or later.
20010 Resolves ticket 6055. (OpenSSL before 1.0.1 didn't have TLS 1.1 or
20011 1.2, and OpenSSL from 1.0.1 through 1.0.1d had bugs that prevented
20012 renegotiation from working with TLS 1.1 or 1.2, so we had disabled
20013 them to solve bug 6033.)
20015 o Major features (other):
20016 - Add support for passing arguments to managed pluggable transport
20017 proxies. Implements ticket 3594.
20018 - Bridges now track GeoIP information and the number of their users
20019 even when pluggable transports are in use, and report usage
20020 statistics in their extra-info descriptors. Resolves tickets 4773
20022 - Make testing Tor networks bootstrap better: lower directory fetch
20023 retry schedules and maximum interval without directory requests,
20024 and raise maximum download tries. Implements ticket 6752.
20025 - Add make target 'test-network' to run tests on a Chutney network.
20026 Implements ticket 8530.
20027 - The ntor handshake is now on-by-default, no matter what the
20028 directory authorities recommend. Implements ticket 8561.
20031 - Instead of writing destroy cells directly to outgoing connection
20032 buffers, queue them and intersperse them with other outgoing cells.
20033 This can prevent a set of resource starvation conditions where too
20034 many pending destroy cells prevent data cells from actually getting
20035 delivered. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed". Fixes bug 7912;
20036 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
20037 - If we are unable to save a microdescriptor to the journal, do not
20038 drop it from memory and then reattempt downloading it. Fixes bug
20039 9645; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
20040 - The new channel code sometimes lost track of in-progress circuits,
20041 causing long-running clients to stop building new circuits. The
20042 fix is to always call circuit_n_chan_done(chan, 0) from
20043 channel_closed(). Fixes bug 9776; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
20046 - Tor now builds each source file in two modes: a mode that avoids
20047 exposing identifiers needlessly, and another mode that exposes
20048 more identifiers for testing. This lets the compiler do better at
20049 optimizing the production code, while enabling us to take more
20050 radical measures to let the unit tests test things.
20051 - The production builds no longer include functions used only in
20052 the unit tests; all functions exposed from a module only for
20053 unit-testing are now static in production builds.
20054 - Add an --enable-coverage configuration option to make the unit
20055 tests (and a new src/or/tor-cov target) to build with gcov test
20059 - We now have rudimentary function mocking support that our unit
20060 tests can use to test functions in isolation. Function mocking
20061 lets the tests temporarily replace a function's dependencies with
20062 stub functions, so that the tests can check the function without
20063 invoking the other functions it calls.
20064 - Add more unit tests for the <circid,channel>->circuit map, and
20065 the destroy-cell-tracking code to fix bug 7912.
20066 - Unit tests for failing cases of the TAP onion handshake.
20067 - More unit tests for address-manipulation functions.
20069 o Minor features (protecting client timestamps):
20070 - Clients no longer send timestamps in their NETINFO cells. These were
20071 not used for anything, and they provided one small way for clients
20072 to be distinguished from each other as they moved from network to
20073 network or behind NAT. Implements part of proposal 222.
20074 - Clients now round timestamps in INTRODUCE cells down to the nearest
20075 10 minutes. If a new Support022HiddenServices option is set to 0, or
20076 if it's set to "auto" and the feature is disabled in the consensus,
20077 the timestamp is sent as 0 instead. Implements part of proposal 222.
20078 - Stop sending timestamps in AUTHENTICATE cells. This is not such
20079 a big deal from a security point of view, but it achieves no actual
20080 good purpose, and isn't needed. Implements part of proposal 222.
20081 - Reduce down accuracy of timestamps in hidden service descriptors.
20082 Implements part of proposal 222.
20084 o Minor features (config options):
20085 - Config (torrc) lines now handle fingerprints which are missing
20086 their initial '$'. Resolves ticket 4341; improvement over 0.0.9pre5.
20087 - Support a --dump-config option to print some or all of the
20088 configured options. Mainly useful for debugging the command-line
20089 option parsing code. Helps resolve ticket 4647.
20090 - Raise awareness of safer logging: notify user of potentially
20091 unsafe config options, like logging more verbosely than severity
20092 "notice" or setting SafeLogging to 0. Resolves ticket 5584.
20093 - Add a new configuration option TestingV3AuthVotingStartOffset
20094 that bootstraps a network faster by changing the timing for
20095 consensus votes. Addresses ticket 8532.
20096 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportOptions" that allows
20097 bridge operators to pass configuration parameters to their
20098 pluggable transports. Resolves ticket 8929.
20099 - The config (torrc) file now accepts bandwidth and space limits in
20100 bits as well as bytes. (Anywhere that you can say "2 Kilobytes",
20101 you can now say "16 kilobits", and so on.) Resolves ticket 9214.
20104 o Minor features (build):
20105 - Add support for `--library-versions` flag. Implements ticket 6384.
20106 - Return the "unexpected sendme" warnings to a warn severity, but make
20107 them rate limited, to help diagnose ticket 8093.
20108 - Detect a missing asciidoc, and warn the user about it, during
20109 configure rather than at build time. Fixes issue 6506. Patch from
20112 o Minor features (other):
20113 - Use the SOCK_NONBLOCK socket type, if supported, to open nonblocking
20114 sockets in a single system call. Implements ticket 5129.
20115 - Log current accounting state (bytes sent and received + remaining
20116 time for the current accounting period) in the relay's heartbeat
20117 message. Implements ticket 5526; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
20118 - Implement the TRANSPORT_LAUNCHED control port event that
20119 notifies controllers about new launched pluggable
20120 transports. Resolves ticket 5609.
20121 - If we're using the pure-C 32-bit curve25519_donna implementation
20122 of curve25519, build it with the -fomit-frame-pointer option to
20123 make it go faster on register-starved hosts. This improves our
20124 handshake performance by about 6% on i386 hosts without nacl.
20125 Closes ticket 8109.
20126 - Update to the September 4 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
20129 - Set the listen() backlog limit to the largest actually supported
20130 on the system, not to the value in a header file. Fixes bug 9716;
20131 bugfix on every released Tor.
20132 - No longer accept malformed http headers when parsing urls from
20133 headers. Now we reply with Bad Request ("400"). Fixes bug 2767;
20134 bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
20135 - In munge_extrainfo_into_routerinfo(), check the return value of
20136 memchr(). This would have been a serious issue if we ever passed
20137 it a non-extrainfo. Fixes bug 8791; bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Patch
20139 - On the chance that somebody manages to build Tor on a
20140 platform where time_t is unsigned, correct the way that
20141 microdesc_add_to_cache() handles negative time arguments.
20142 Fixes bug 8042; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
20143 - Reject relative control socket paths and emit a warning. Previously,
20144 single-component control socket paths would be rejected, but Tor
20145 would not log why it could not validate the config. Fixes bug 9258;
20146 bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
20148 o Minor bugfixes (command line):
20149 - Use a single command-line parser for parsing torrc options on the
20150 command line and for finding special command-line options to avoid
20151 inconsistent behavior for torrc option arguments that have the same
20152 names as command-line options. Fixes bugs 4647 and 9578; bugfix on
20154 - No longer allow 'tor --hash-password' with no arguments. Fixes bug
20155 9573; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
20157 o Minor fixes (build, auxiliary programs):
20158 - Stop preprocessing the "torify" script with autoconf, since
20159 it no longer refers to LOCALSTATEDIR. Fixes bug 5505; patch
20161 - The tor-fw-helper program now follows the standard convention and
20162 exits with status code "0" on success. Fixes bug 9030; bugfix on
20163 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Arlo Breault.
20164 - Corrected ./configure advice for what openssl dev package you should
20165 install on Debian. Fixes bug 9207; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
20167 o Minor code improvements:
20168 - Remove constants and tests for PKCS1 padding; it's insecure and
20169 shouldn't be used for anything new. Fixes bug 8792; patch
20171 - Remove instances of strcpy() from the unit tests. They weren't
20172 hurting anything, since they were only in the unit tests, but it's
20173 embarrassing to have strcpy() in the code at all, and some analysis
20174 tools don't like it. Fixes bug 8790; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha and
20175 0.2.3.8-alpha. Patch from Arlo Breault.
20177 o Removed features:
20178 - Remove migration code from when we renamed the "cached-routers"
20179 file to "cached-descriptors" back in 0.2.0.8-alpha. This
20180 incidentally resolves ticket 6502 by cleaning up the related code
20181 a bit. Patch from Akshay Hebbar.
20183 o Code simplification and refactoring:
20184 - Extract the common duplicated code for creating a subdirectory
20185 of the data directory and writing to a file in it. Fixes ticket
20186 4282; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
20187 - Since OpenSSL 0.9.7, the i2d_*() functions support allocating output
20188 buffer. Avoid calling twice: i2d_RSAPublicKey(), i2d_DHparams(),
20189 i2d_X509(), and i2d_PublicKey(). Resolves ticket 5170.
20190 - Add a set of accessor functions for the circuit timeout data
20191 structure. Fixes ticket 6153; patch from "piet".
20192 - Clean up exit paths from connection_listener_new(). Closes ticket
20193 8789. Patch from Arlo Breault.
20194 - Since we rely on OpenSSL 0.9.8 now, we can use EVP_PKEY_cmp()
20195 and drop our own custom pkey_eq() implementation. Fixes bug 9043.
20196 - Use a doubly-linked list to implement the global circuit list.
20197 Resolves ticket 9108. Patch from Marek Majkowski.
20198 - Remove contrib/id_to_fp.c since it wasn't used anywhere.
20201 Changes in version 0.2.4.17-rc - 2013-09-05
20202 Tor 0.2.4.17-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
20203 series. It adds an emergency step to help us tolerate the massive
20204 influx of users: 0.2.4 clients using the new (faster and safer) "NTor"
20205 circuit-level handshakes now effectively jump the queue compared to
20206 the 0.2.3 clients using "TAP" handshakes. This release also fixes a
20207 big bug hindering bridge reachability tests.
20210 - Relays now process the new "NTor" circuit-level handshake requests
20211 with higher priority than the old "TAP" circuit-level handshake
20212 requests. We still process some TAP requests to not totally starve
20213 0.2.3 clients when NTor becomes popular. A new consensus parameter
20214 "NumNTorsPerTAP" lets us tune the balance later if we need to.
20215 Implements ticket 9574.
20218 - If the circuit build timeout logic is disabled (via the consensus,
20219 or because we are an authority), then don't build testing circuits.
20220 Fixes bug 9657; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
20221 - Bridges now send AUTH_CHALLENGE cells during their v3 handshakes;
20222 previously they did not, which prevented them from receiving
20223 successful connections from relays for self-test or bandwidth
20224 testing. Also, when a relay is extending a circuit to a bridge,
20225 it needs to send a NETINFO cell, even when the bridge hasn't sent
20226 an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell. Fixes bug 9546; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
20227 - If the time to download the next old-style networkstatus is in
20228 the future, do not decline to consider whether to download the
20229 next microdescriptor networkstatus. Fixes bug 9564; bugfix on
20233 - Avoid double-closing the listener socket in our socketpair()
20234 replacement (used on Windows) in the case where the addresses on
20235 our opened sockets don't match what we expected. Fixes bug 9400;
20236 bugfix on 0.0.2pre7. Found by Coverity.
20238 o Minor fixes (config options):
20239 - Avoid overflows when the user sets MaxCircuitDirtiness to a
20240 ridiculously high value, by imposing a (ridiculously high) 30-day
20241 maximum on MaxCircuitDirtiness.
20242 - Fix the documentation of HeartbeatPeriod to say that the heartbeat
20243 message is logged at notice, not at info.
20244 - Warn and fail if a server is configured not to advertise any
20245 ORPorts at all. (We need *something* to put in our descriptor,
20246 or we just won't work.)
20249 - Track how many "TAP" and "NTor" circuit handshake requests we get,
20250 and how many we complete, and log it every hour to help relay
20251 operators follow trends in network load. Addresses ticket 9658.
20252 - Update to the August 7 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
20255 Changes in version 0.2.4.16-rc - 2013-08-10
20256 Tor 0.2.4.16-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
20257 series. It fixes several crash bugs in the 0.2.4 branch.
20260 - Fix a bug in the voting algorithm that could yield incorrect results
20261 when a non-naming authority declared too many flags. Fixes bug 9200;
20262 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
20263 - Fix an uninitialized read that could in some cases lead to a remote
20264 crash while parsing INTRODUCE2 cells. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
20265 Anybody running a hidden service on the experimental 0.2.4.x
20266 branch should upgrade. (This is, so far as we know, unrelated to
20268 - Avoid an assertion failure when processing DNS replies without the
20269 answer types we expected. Fixes bug 9337; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
20270 - Avoid a crash when using --hash-password. Fixes bug 9295; bugfix on
20271 0.2.4.15-rc. Found by stem integration tests.
20274 - Fix an invalid memory read that occurred when a pluggable
20275 transport proxy failed its configuration protocol.
20276 Fixes bug 9288; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
20277 - When evaluating whether to use a connection that we haven't
20278 decided is canonical using a recent link protocol version,
20279 decide that it's canonical only if it used address _does_
20280 match the desired address. Fixes bug 9309; bugfix on
20281 0.2.4.4-alpha. Reported by skruffy.
20282 - Make the default behavior of NumDirectoryGuards be to track
20283 NumEntryGuards. Now a user who changes only NumEntryGuards will get
20284 the behavior she expects. Fixes bug 9354; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
20285 - Fix a spurious compilation warning with some older versions of
20286 GCC on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 9254; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
20289 - Update to the July 3 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
20292 Changes in version 0.2.4.15-rc - 2013-07-01
20293 Tor 0.2.4.15-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
20294 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
20295 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
20298 - When receiving a new configuration file via the control port's
20299 LOADCONF command, do not treat the defaults file as absent.
20300 Fixes bug 9122; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
20303 - Issue a warning when running with the bufferevents backend enabled.
20304 It's still not stable, and people should know that they're likely
20305 to hit unexpected problems. Closes ticket 9147.
20308 Changes in version 0.2.4.14-alpha - 2013-06-18
20309 Tor 0.2.4.14-alpha fixes a pair of client guard enumeration problems
20310 present in 0.2.4.13-alpha.
20313 - When we have too much memory queued in circuits (according to a new
20314 MaxMemInCellQueues option), close the circuits consuming the most
20315 memory. This prevents us from running out of memory as a relay if
20316 circuits fill up faster than they can be drained. Fixes bug 9063;
20317 bugfix on the 54th commit of Tor. This bug is a further fix beyond
20318 bug 6252, whose fix was merged into 0.2.3.21-rc.
20320 This change also fixes an earlier approach taken in 0.2.4.13-alpha,
20321 where we tried to solve this issue simply by imposing an upper limit
20322 on the number of queued cells for a single circuit. That approach
20323 proved to be problematic, since there are ways to provoke clients to
20324 send a number of cells in excess of any such reasonable limit. Fixes
20325 bug 9072; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
20327 - Limit hidden service descriptors to at most ten introduction
20328 points, to slow one kind of guard enumeration. Fixes bug 9002;
20329 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
20332 Changes in version 0.2.4.13-alpha - 2013-06-14
20333 Tor 0.2.4.13-alpha fixes a variety of potential remote crash
20334 vulnerabilities, makes socks5 username/password circuit isolation
20335 actually actually work (this time for sure!), and cleans up a bunch
20336 of other issues in preparation for a release candidate.
20338 o Major bugfixes (robustness):
20339 - Close any circuit that has too many cells queued on it. Fixes
20340 bug 9063; bugfix on the 54th commit of Tor. This bug is a further
20341 fix beyond bug 6252, whose fix was merged into 0.2.3.21-rc.
20342 - Prevent the get_freelists() function from running off the end of
20343 the list of freelists if it somehow gets an unrecognized
20344 allocation. Fixes bug 8844; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by
20346 - Avoid an assertion failure on OpenBSD (and perhaps other BSDs)
20347 when an exit connection with optimistic data succeeds immediately
20348 rather than returning EINPROGRESS. Fixes bug 9017; bugfix on
20350 - Fix a directory authority crash bug when building a consensus
20351 using an older consensus as its basis. Fixes bug 8833. Bugfix
20355 - Avoid a memory leak where we would leak a consensus body when we
20356 find that a consensus which we couldn't previously verify due to
20357 missing certificates is now verifiable. Fixes bug 8719; bugfix
20359 - We used to always request authority certificates by identity digest,
20360 meaning we'd get the newest one even when we wanted one with a
20361 different signing key. Then we would complain about being given
20362 a certificate we already had, and never get the one we really
20363 wanted. Now we use the "fp-sk/" resource as well as the "fp/"
20364 resource to request the one we want. Fixes bug 5595; bugfix on
20366 - Follow the socks5 protocol when offering username/password
20367 authentication. The fix for bug 8117 exposed this bug, and it
20368 turns out real-world applications like Pidgin do care. Bugfix on
20369 0.2.3.2-alpha; fixes bug 8879.
20370 - Prevent failures on Windows Vista and later when rebuilding the
20371 microdescriptor cache. Diagnosed by Robert Ransom. Fixes bug 8822;
20372 bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
20375 - Fix an impossible buffer overrun in the AES unit tests. Fixes
20376 bug 8845; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Found by eugenis.
20377 - If for some reason we fail to write a microdescriptor while
20378 rebuilding the cache, do not let the annotations from that
20379 microdescriptor linger in the cache file, and do not let the
20380 microdescriptor stay recorded as present in its old location.
20381 Fixes bug 9047; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
20382 - Fix a memory leak that would occur whenever a configuration
20383 option changed. Fixes bug 8718; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
20384 - Paste the description for PathBias parameters from the man
20385 page into or.h, so the code documents them too. Fixes bug 7982;
20386 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta and 0.2.4.8-alpha.
20387 - Relays now treat a changed IPv6 ORPort as sufficient reason to
20388 publish an updated descriptor. Fixes bug 6026; bugfix on
20390 - When launching a resolve request on behalf of an AF_UNIX control
20391 socket, omit the address field of the new entry connection, used in
20392 subsequent controller events, rather than letting tor_dup_addr()
20393 set it to "<unknown address type>". Fixes bug 8639; bugfix on
20396 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
20397 - Fix a scaling issue in the path bias accounting code that
20398 resulted in "Bug:" log messages from either
20399 pathbias_scale_close_rates() or pathbias_count_build_success().
20400 This represents a bugfix on a previous bugfix: the original fix
20401 attempted in 0.2.4.10-alpha was incomplete. Fixes bug 8235; bugfix
20403 - Give a less useless error message when the user asks for an IPv4
20404 address on an IPv6-only port, or vice versa. Fixes bug 8846; bugfix
20408 - Downgrade "unexpected SENDME" warnings to protocol-warn for 0.2.4.x,
20409 to tolerate bug 8093 for now.
20410 - Add an "ignoring-advertised-bws" boolean to the flag-threshold lines
20411 in directory authority votes to describe whether they have enough
20412 measured bandwidths to ignore advertised (relay descriptor)
20413 bandwidth claims. Resolves ticket 8711.
20414 - Update to the June 5 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
20416 o Removed documentation:
20417 - Remove some of the older contents of doc/ as obsolete; move others
20418 to torspec.git. Fixes bug 8965.
20420 o Code simplification and refactoring:
20421 - Avoid using character buffers when constructing most directory
20422 objects: this approach was unwieldy and error-prone. Instead,
20423 build smartlists of strings, and concatenate them when done.
20426 Changes in version 0.2.4.12-alpha - 2013-04-18
20427 Tor 0.2.4.12-alpha moves Tor forward on several fronts: it starts the
20428 process for lengthening the guard rotation period, makes directory
20429 authority opinions in the consensus a bit less gameable, makes socks5
20430 username/password circuit isolation actually work, and fixes a wide
20431 variety of other issues.
20434 - Raise the default time that a client keeps an entry guard from
20435 "1-2 months" to "2-3 months", as suggested by Tariq Elahi's WPES
20436 2012 paper. (We would make it even longer, but we need better client
20437 load balancing first.) Also, make the guard lifetime controllable
20438 via a new GuardLifetime torrc option and a GuardLifetime consensus
20439 parameter. Start of a fix for bug 8240; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
20440 - Directory authorities now prefer using measured bandwidths to
20441 advertised ones when computing flags and thresholds. Resolves
20443 - Directory authorities that have more than a threshold number
20444 of relays with measured bandwidths now treat relays with unmeasured
20445 bandwidths as having bandwidth 0. Resolves ticket 8435.
20447 o Major bugfixes (assert / resource use):
20448 - Avoid a bug where our response to TLS renegotiation under certain
20449 network conditions could lead to a busy-loop, with 100% CPU
20450 consumption. Fixes bug 5650; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
20451 - Avoid an assertion when we discover that we'd like to write a cell
20452 onto a closing connection: just discard the cell. Fixes another
20453 case of bug 7350; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
20455 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
20456 - When we mark a circuit as unusable for new circuits, have it
20457 continue to be unusable for new circuits even if MaxCircuitDirtiness
20458 is increased too much at the wrong time, or the system clock jumps
20459 backwards. Fixes bug 6174; bugfix on 0.0.2pre26.
20460 - If ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses ("do not believe DNS queries
20461 which have resolved to internal addresses") is set, apply that
20462 rule to IPv6 as well. Fixes bug 8475; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
20463 - When an exit relay rejects a stream with reason "exit policy", but
20464 we only know an exit policy summary (e.g. from the microdesc
20465 consensus) for it, do not mark the relay as useless for all exiting.
20466 Instead, mark just the circuit as unsuitable for that particular
20467 address. Fixes part of bug 7582; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
20468 - Allow applications to get proper stream isolation with
20469 IsolateSOCKSAuth. Many SOCKS5 clients that want to offer
20470 username/password authentication also offer "no authentication". Tor
20471 had previously preferred "no authentication", so the applications
20472 never actually sent Tor their auth details. Now Tor selects
20473 username/password authentication if it's offered. You can disable
20474 this behavior on a per-SOCKSPort basis via PreferSOCKSNoAuth. Fixes
20475 bug 8117; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
20477 o Major bugfixes (other):
20478 - When unable to find any working directory nodes to use as a
20479 directory guard, give up rather than adding the same non-working
20480 nodes to the directory guard list over and over. Fixes bug 8231;
20481 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
20484 - Reject as invalid most directory objects containing a NUL.
20485 Belt-and-suspender fix for bug 8037.
20486 - In our testsuite, create temporary directories with a bit more
20487 entropy in their name to make name collisions less likely. Fixes
20489 - Add CACHED keyword to ADDRMAP events in the control protocol
20490 to indicate whether a DNS result will be cached or not. Resolves
20492 - Update to the April 3 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
20494 o Minor features (build):
20495 - Detect and reject attempts to build Tor with threading support
20496 when OpenSSL has been compiled without threading support.
20498 - Clarify that when autoconf is checking for nacl, it is checking
20499 specifically for nacl with a fast curve25519 implementation.
20501 - Warn if building on a platform with an unsigned time_t: there
20502 are too many places where Tor currently assumes that time_t can
20503 hold negative values. We'd like to fix them all, but probably
20506 o Minor bugfixes (build):
20507 - Fix some bugs in tor-fw-helper-natpmp when trying to build and
20508 run it on Windows. More bugs likely remain. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
20509 Fixes bug 7280; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
20510 - Add the old src/or/micro-revision.i filename to CLEANFILES.
20511 On the off chance that somebody has one, it will go away as soon
20512 as they run "make clean". Fix for bug 7143; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
20513 - Build Tor correctly on 32-bit platforms where the compiler can build
20514 but not run code using the "uint128_t" construction. Fixes bug 8587;
20515 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
20516 - Fix compilation warning with some versions of clang that would
20517 prefer the -Wswitch-enum compiler flag to warn about switch
20518 statements with missing enum values, even if those switch
20519 statements have a "default:" statement. Fixes bug 8598; bugfix
20522 o Minor bugfixes (protocol):
20523 - Fix the handling of a TRUNCATE cell when it arrives while the
20524 circuit extension is in progress. Fixes bug 7947; bugfix on 0.0.7.1.
20525 - Fix a misframing issue when reading the version numbers in a
20526 VERSIONS cell. Previously we would recognize [00 01 00 02] as
20527 'version 1, version 2, and version 0x100', when it should have
20528 only included versions 1 and 2. Fixes bug 8059; bugfix on
20529 0.2.0.10-alpha. Reported pseudonymously.
20530 - Make the format and order of STREAM events for DNS lookups
20531 consistent among the various ways to launch DNS lookups. Fixes
20532 bug 8203; bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc. Patch by "Desoxy".
20533 - Correct our check for which versions of Tor support the EXTEND2
20534 cell. We had been willing to send it to Tor 0.2.4.7-alpha and
20535 later, when support was really added in version 0.2.4.8-alpha.
20536 Fixes bug 8464; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
20538 o Minor bugfixes (other):
20539 - Correctly store microdescriptors and extrainfo descriptors with
20540 an internal NUL byte. Fixes bug 8037; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
20541 Bug reported by "cypherpunks".
20542 - Increase the width of the field used to remember a connection's
20543 link protocol version to two bytes. Harmless for now, since the
20544 only currently recognized versions are one byte long. Reported
20545 pseudonymously. Fixes bug 8062; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
20546 - If the state file's path bias counts are invalid (presumably from a
20547 buggy Tor prior to 0.2.4.10-alpha), make them correct. Also add
20548 additional checks and log messages to the scaling of Path Bias
20549 counts, in case there still are remaining issues with scaling.
20550 Should help resolve bug 8235.
20551 - Eliminate several instances where we use "Nickname=ID" to refer to
20552 nodes in logs. Use "Nickname (ID)" instead. (Elsewhere, we still use
20553 "$ID=Nickname", which is also acceptable.) Fixes bug 7065. Bugfix
20554 on 0.2.3.21-rc, 0.2.4.5-alpha, 0.2.4.8-alpha, and 0.2.4.10-alpha.
20556 o Minor bugfixes (syscalls):
20557 - Always check the return values of functions fcntl() and
20558 setsockopt(). We don't believe these are ever actually failing in
20559 practice, but better safe than sorry. Also, checking these return
20560 values should please analysis tools like Coverity. Patch from
20561 'flupzor'. Fixes bug 8206; bugfix on all versions of Tor.
20562 - Use direct writes rather than stdio when building microdescriptor
20563 caches, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031, or at least make it
20566 o Minor bugfixes (config):
20567 - When rejecting a configuration because we were unable to parse a
20568 quoted string, log an actual error message. Fixes bug 7950; bugfix
20570 - Behave correctly when the user disables LearnCircuitBuildTimeout
20571 but doesn't tell us what they would like the timeout to be. Fixes
20572 bug 6304; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
20573 - When autodetecting the number of CPUs, use the number of available
20574 CPUs in preference to the number of configured CPUs. Inform the
20575 user if this reduces the number of available CPUs. Fixes bug 8002;
20576 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
20577 - Make it an error when you set EntryNodes but disable UseGuardNodes,
20578 since it will (surprisingly to some users) ignore EntryNodes. Fixes
20579 bug 8180; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
20580 - Allow TestingTorNetworks to override the 4096-byte minimum for
20581 the Fast threshold. Otherwise they can't bootstrap until they've
20582 observed more traffic. Fixes bug 8508; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
20583 - Fix some logic errors when the user manually overrides the
20584 PathsNeededToBuildCircuits option in torrc. Fixes bug 8599; bugfix
20587 o Minor bugfixes (log messages to help diagnose bugs):
20588 - If we fail to free a microdescriptor because of bug 7164, log
20589 the filename and line number from which we tried to free it.
20590 - Add another diagnostic to the heartbeat message: track and log
20591 overhead that TLS is adding to the data we write. If this is
20592 high, we are sending too little data to SSL_write at a time.
20593 Diagnostic for bug 7707.
20594 - Add more detail to a log message about relaxed timeouts, to help
20596 - Warn more aggressively when flushing microdescriptors to a
20597 microdescriptor cache fails, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031,
20598 or at least make it more diagnosable.
20599 - Improve debugging output to help track down bug 8185 ("Bug:
20600 outgoing relay cell has n_chan==NULL. Dropping.")
20601 - Log the purpose of a path-bias testing circuit correctly.
20602 Improves a log message from bug 8477; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
20604 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.4.x log messages that were too noisy):
20605 - Don't attempt to relax the timeout of already opened 1-hop circuits.
20606 They might never timeout. This should eliminate some/all cases of
20607 the relaxed timeout log message.
20608 - Use circuit creation time for network liveness evaluation. This
20609 should eliminate warning log messages about liveness caused
20610 by changes in timeout evaluation. Fixes bug 6572; bugfix on
20612 - Reduce a path bias length check from notice to info. The message
20613 is triggered when creating controller circuits. Fixes bug 8196;
20614 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
20615 - Fix a path state issue that triggered a notice during relay startup.
20616 Fixes bug 8320; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
20617 - Reduce occurrences of warns about circuit purpose in
20618 connection_ap_expire_building(). Fixes bug 8477; bugfix on
20621 o Minor bugfixes (pre-0.2.4.x log messages that were too noisy):
20622 - If we encounter a write failure on a SOCKS connection before we
20623 finish our SOCKS handshake, don't warn that we closed the
20624 connection before we could send a SOCKS reply. Fixes bug 8427;
20625 bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
20626 - Correctly recognize that [::1] is a loopback address. Fixes
20627 bug 8377; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
20628 - Fix a directory authority warn caused when we have a large amount
20629 of badexit bandwidth. Fixes bug 8419; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
20630 - Don't log inappropriate heartbeat messages when hibernating: a
20631 hibernating node is _expected_ to drop out of the consensus,
20632 decide it isn't bootstrapped, and so forth. Fixes bug 7302;
20633 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
20634 - Don't complain about bootstrapping problems while hibernating.
20635 These complaints reflect a general code problem, but not one
20636 with any problematic effects (no connections are actually
20637 opened). Fixes part of bug 7302; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
20639 o Documentation fixes:
20640 - Update tor-fw-helper.1.txt and tor-fw-helper.c to make option
20641 names match. Fixes bug 7768.
20642 - Make the torify manpage no longer refer to tsocks; torify hasn't
20643 supported tsocks since 0.2.3.14-alpha.
20644 - Make the tor manpage no longer reference tsocks.
20645 - Fix the GeoIPExcludeUnknown documentation to refer to
20646 ExcludeExitNodes rather than the currently nonexistent
20647 ExcludeEntryNodes. Spotted by "hamahangi" on tor-talk.
20650 - The tor-tsocks.conf is no longer distributed or installed. We
20651 recommend that tsocks users use torsocks instead. Resolves
20655 Changes in version 0.2.4.11-alpha - 2013-03-11
20656 Tor 0.2.4.11-alpha makes relay measurement by directory authorities
20657 more robust, makes hidden service authentication work again, and
20658 resolves a DPI fingerprint for Tor's SSL transport.
20660 o Major features (directory authorities):
20661 - Directory authorities now support a new consensus method (17)
20662 where they cap the published bandwidth of servers for which
20663 insufficient bandwidth measurements exist. Fixes part of bug 2286.
20664 - Directory authorities that set "DisableV2DirectoryInfo_ 1" no longer
20665 serve any v2 directory information. Now we can test disabling the
20666 old deprecated v2 directory format, and see whether doing so has
20667 any effect on network load. Begins to fix bug 6783.
20668 - Directory authorities now include inside each vote a statement of
20669 the performance thresholds they used when assigning flags.
20670 Implements ticket 8151.
20672 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
20673 - Stop marking every relay as having been down for one hour every
20674 time we restart a directory authority. These artificial downtimes
20675 were messing with our Stable and Guard flag calculations. Fixes
20676 bug 8218 (introduced by the fix for 1035). Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
20678 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
20679 - Allow hidden service authentication to succeed again. When we
20680 refactored the hidden service introduction code back
20681 in 0.2.4.1-alpha, we didn't update the code that checks
20682 whether authentication information is present, causing all
20683 authentication checks to return "false". Fix for bug 8207; bugfix
20684 on 0.2.4.1-alpha. Found by Coverity; this is CID 718615.
20686 o Minor features (relays, bridges):
20687 - Make bridge relays check once a minute for whether their IP
20688 address has changed, rather than only every 15 minutes. Resolves
20689 bugs 1913 and 1992.
20690 - Refactor resolve_my_address() so it returns the method by which we
20691 decided our public IP address (explicitly configured, resolved from
20692 explicit hostname, guessed from interfaces, learned by gethostname).
20693 Now we can provide more helpful log messages when a relay guesses
20694 its IP address incorrectly (e.g. due to unexpected lines in
20695 /etc/hosts). Resolves ticket 2267.
20696 - Teach bridge-using clients to avoid 0.2.2 bridges when making
20697 microdescriptor-related dir requests, and only fall back to normal
20698 descriptors if none of their bridges can handle microdescriptors
20699 (as opposed to the fix in ticket 4013, which caused them to fall
20700 back to normal descriptors if *any* of their bridges preferred
20701 them). Resolves ticket 4994.
20702 - Randomize the lifetime of our SSL link certificate, so censors can't
20703 use the static value for filtering Tor flows. Resolves ticket 8443;
20704 related to ticket 4014 which was included in 0.2.2.33.
20705 - Support a new version of the link protocol that allows 4-byte circuit
20706 IDs. Previously, circuit IDs were limited to 2 bytes, which presented
20707 a possible resource exhaustion issue. Closes ticket 7351; implements
20710 o Minor features (portability):
20711 - Tweak the curve25519-donna*.c implementations to tolerate systems
20712 that lack stdint.h. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
20713 - Use Ville Laurikari's implementation of AX_CHECK_SIGN() to determine
20714 the signs of types during autoconf. This is better than our old
20715 approach, which didn't work when cross-compiling.
20716 - Detect the sign of enum values, rather than assuming that MSC is the
20717 only compiler where enum types are all signed. Fixes bug 7727;
20718 bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
20720 o Minor features (other):
20721 - Say "KBytes" rather than "KB" in the man page (for various values
20722 of K), to further reduce confusion about whether Tor counts in
20723 units of memory or fractions of units of memory. Resolves ticket 7054.
20724 - Clear the high bit on curve25519 public keys before passing them to
20725 our backend, in case we ever wind up using a backend that doesn't do
20726 so itself. If we used such a backend, and *didn't* clear the high bit,
20727 we could wind up in a situation where users with such backends would
20728 be distinguishable from users without. Fixes bug 8121; bugfix on
20730 - Update to the March 6 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
20732 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
20733 - When we receive a RELAY_END cell with the reason DONE, or with no
20734 reason, before receiving a RELAY_CONNECTED cell, report the SOCKS
20735 status as "connection refused". Previously we reported these cases
20736 as success but then immediately closed the connection. Fixes bug
20737 7902; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
20738 - Downgrade an assertion in connection_ap_expire_beginning to an
20739 LD_BUG message. The fix for bug 8024 should prevent this message
20740 from displaying, but just in case, a warn that we can diagnose
20741 is better than more assert crashes. Fixes bug 8065; bugfix on
20743 - Lower path use bias thresholds to .80 for notice and .60 for warn.
20744 Also make the rate limiting flags for the path use bias log messages
20745 independent from the original path bias flags. Fixes bug 8161;
20746 bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
20748 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
20749 - Stop trying to resolve our hostname so often (e.g. every time we
20750 think about doing a directory fetch). Now we reuse the cached
20751 answer in some cases. Fixes bugs 1992 (bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc)
20752 and 2410 (bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha).
20753 - Stop sending a stray "(null)" in some cases for the server status
20754 "EXTERNAL_ADDRESS" controller event. Resolves bug 8200; bugfix
20756 - When choosing which stream on a formerly stalled circuit to wake
20757 first, make better use of the platform's weak RNG. Previously,
20758 we had been using the % ("modulo") operator to try to generate a
20759 1/N chance of picking each stream, but this behaves badly with
20760 many platforms' choice of weak RNG. Fixes bug 7801; bugfix on
20762 - Use our own weak RNG when we need a weak RNG. Windows's rand() and
20763 Irix's random() only return 15 bits; Solaris's random() returns more
20764 bits but its RAND_MAX says it only returns 15, and so on. Motivated
20765 by the fix for bug 7801; bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha.
20767 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
20768 - Directory authorities now use less space when formatting identical
20769 microdescriptor lines in directory votes. Fixes bug 8158; bugfix
20772 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks spotted by Coverity -- bug 7816):
20773 - Avoid leaking memory if we fail to compute a consensus signature
20774 or we generate a consensus we can't parse. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
20775 - Fix a memory leak when receiving headers from an HTTPS proxy. Bugfix
20777 - Fix a memory leak during safe-cookie controller authentication.
20778 Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
20779 - Avoid memory leak of IPv6 policy content if we fail to format it into
20780 a router descriptor. Bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
20782 o Minor bugfixes (other code correctness issues):
20783 - Avoid a crash if we fail to generate an extrainfo descriptor.
20784 Fixes bug 8208; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Found by Coverity;
20785 this is CID 718634.
20786 - When detecting the largest possible file descriptor (in order to
20787 close all file descriptors when launching a new program), actually
20788 use _SC_OPEN_MAX. The old code for doing this was very, very broken.
20789 Fixes bug 8209; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Found by Coverity; this
20791 - Fix a copy-and-paste error when adding a missing A1 to a routerset
20792 because of GeoIPExcludeUnknown. Fix for Coverity CID 980650.
20793 Bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
20794 - Fix an impossible-to-trigger integer overflow when estimating how
20795 long our onionskin queue would take. (This overflow would require us
20796 to accept 4 million onionskins before processing 100 of them.) Fixes
20797 bug 8210; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
20799 o Code simplification and refactoring:
20800 - Add a wrapper function for the common "log a message with a
20804 Changes in version 0.2.4.10-alpha - 2013-02-04
20805 Tor 0.2.4.10-alpha adds defenses at the directory authority level from
20806 certain attacks that flood the network with relays; changes the queue
20807 for circuit create requests from a sized-based limit to a time-based
20808 limit; resumes building with MSVC on Windows; and fixes a wide variety
20811 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
20812 - When computing directory thresholds, ignore any rejected-as-sybil
20813 nodes during the computation so that they can't influence Fast,
20814 Guard, etc. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
20816 - When marking a node as a likely sybil, reset its uptime metrics
20817 to zero, so that it cannot time towards getting marked as Guard,
20818 Stable, or HSDir. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
20822 - When a TLS write is partially successful but incomplete, remember
20823 that the flushed part has been flushed, and notice that bytes were
20824 actually written. Reported and fixed pseudonymously. Fixes bug
20825 7708; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.5-rc.
20826 - Reject bogus create and relay cells with 0 circuit ID or 0 stream
20827 ID: these could be used to create unexpected streams and circuits
20828 which would count as "present" to some parts of Tor but "absent"
20829 to others, leading to zombie circuits and streams or to a bandwidth
20830 denial-of-service. Fixes bug 7889; bugfix on every released version
20831 of Tor. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
20832 - Rename all macros in our local copy of queue.h to begin with "TOR_".
20833 This change seems the only good way to permanently prevent conflicts
20834 with queue.h on various operating systems. Fixes bug 8107; bugfix
20837 o Major features (relay):
20838 - Instead of limiting the number of queued onionskins (aka circuit
20839 create requests) to a fixed, hard-to-configure number, we limit
20840 the size of the queue based on how many we expect to be able to
20841 process in a given amount of time. We estimate the time it will
20842 take to process an onionskin based on average processing time
20843 of previous onionskins. Closes ticket 7291. You'll never have to
20844 configure MaxOnionsPending again.
20846 o Major features (portability):
20847 - Resume building correctly with MSVC and Makefile.nmake. This patch
20848 resolves numerous bugs and fixes reported by ultramage, including
20849 7305, 7308, 7309, 7310, 7312, 7313, 7315, 7316, and 7669.
20850 - Make the ntor and curve25519 code build correctly with MSVC.
20851 Fix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
20854 - When directory authorities are computing thresholds for flags,
20855 never let the threshold for the Fast flag fall below 4096
20856 bytes. Also, do not consider nodes with extremely low bandwidths
20857 when deciding thresholds for various directory flags. This change
20858 should raise our threshold for Fast relays, possibly in turn
20859 improving overall network performance; see ticket 1854. Resolves
20861 - The Tor client now ignores sub-domain components of a .onion
20862 address. This change makes HTTP "virtual" hosting
20863 possible: http://foo.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ and
20864 http://bar.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ can be two different websites
20865 hosted on the same hidden service. Implements proposal 204.
20866 - We compute the overhead from passing onionskins back and forth to
20867 cpuworkers, and report it when dumping statistics in response to
20868 SIGUSR1. Supports ticket 7291.
20870 o Minor features (path selection):
20871 - When deciding whether we have enough descriptors to build circuits,
20872 instead of looking at raw relay counts, look at which fraction
20873 of (bandwidth-weighted) paths we're able to build. This approach
20874 keeps clients from building circuits if their paths are likely to
20875 stand out statistically. The default fraction of paths needed is
20876 taken from the consensus directory; you can override it with the
20877 new PathsNeededToBuildCircuits option. Fixes ticket 5956.
20878 - When any country code is listed in ExcludeNodes or ExcludeExitNodes,
20879 and we have GeoIP information, also exclude all nodes with unknown
20880 countries "??" and "A1". This behavior is controlled by the
20881 new GeoIPExcludeUnknown option: you can make such nodes always
20882 excluded with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 1", and disable the feature
20883 with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 0". Setting "GeoIPExcludeUnknown auto"
20884 gets you the default behavior. Implements feature 7706.
20885 - Path Use Bias: Perform separate accounting for successful circuit
20886 use. Keep separate statistics on stream attempt rates versus stream
20887 success rates for each guard. Provide configurable thresholds to
20888 determine when to emit log messages or disable use of guards that
20889 fail too many stream attempts. Resolves ticket 7802.
20891 o Minor features (log messages):
20892 - When learning a fingerprint for a bridge, log its corresponding
20893 transport type. Implements ticket 7896.
20894 - Improve the log message when "Bug/attack: unexpected sendme cell
20895 from client" occurs, to help us track bug 8093.
20898 - Remove a couple of extraneous semicolons that were upsetting the
20899 cparser library. Patch by Christian Grothoff. Fixes bug 7115;
20900 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
20901 - Remove a source of rounding error during path bias count scaling;
20902 don't count cannibalized circuits as used for path bias until we
20903 actually try to use them; and fix a circuit_package_relay_cell()
20904 warning message about n_chan==NULL. Fixes bug 7802.
20905 - Detect nacl when its headers are in a nacl/ subdirectory. Also,
20906 actually link against nacl when we're configured to use it. Fixes
20907 bug 7972; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
20908 - Compile correctly with the --disable-curve25519 option. Fixes
20909 bug 8153; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
20911 o Build improvements:
20912 - Do not report status verbosely from autogen.sh unless the -v flag
20913 is specified. Fixes issue 4664. Patch from Onizuka.
20914 - Replace all calls to snprintf() outside of src/ext with
20915 tor_snprintf(). Also remove the #define to replace snprintf with
20916 _snprintf on Windows; they have different semantics, and all of
20917 our callers should be using tor_snprintf() anyway. Fixes bug 7304.
20918 - Try to detect if we are ever building on a platform where
20919 memset(...,0,...) does not set the value of a double to 0.0. Such
20920 platforms are permitted by the C standard, though in practice
20921 they're pretty rare (since IEEE 754 is nigh-ubiquitous). We don't
20922 currently support them, but it's better to detect them and fail
20923 than to perform erroneously.
20925 o Removed features:
20926 - Stop exporting estimates of v2 and v3 directory traffic shares
20927 in extrainfo documents. They were unneeded and sometimes inaccurate.
20928 Also stop exporting any v2 directory request statistics. Resolves
20930 - Drop support for detecting and warning about versions of Libevent
20931 before 1.3e. Nothing reasonable ships with them any longer;
20932 warning the user about them shouldn't be needed. Resolves ticket
20935 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
20936 - Rename "isin" functions to "contains", for grammar. Resolves
20938 - Rename Tor's logging function log() to tor_log(), to avoid conflicts
20939 with the natural logarithm function from the system libm. Resolves
20943 Changes in version 0.2.4.9-alpha - 2013-01-15
20944 Tor 0.2.4.9-alpha provides a quick fix to make the new ntor handshake
20945 work more robustly.
20948 - Fix backward compatibility logic when receiving an embedded ntor
20949 handshake tunneled in a CREATE cell. This clears up the "Bug:
20950 couldn't format CREATED cell" warning. Fixes bug 7959; bugfix
20954 Changes in version 0.2.4.8-alpha - 2013-01-14
20955 Tor 0.2.4.8-alpha introduces directory guards to reduce user enumeration
20956 risks, adds a new stronger and faster circuit handshake, and offers
20957 stronger and faster link encryption when both sides support it.
20960 - Preliminary support for directory guards (proposal 207): when
20961 possible, clients now use their entry guards for non-anonymous
20962 directory requests. This can help prevent client enumeration. Note
20963 that this behavior only works when we have a usable consensus
20964 directory, and when options about what to download are more or less
20965 standard. In the future we should re-bootstrap from our guards,
20966 rather than re-bootstrapping from the preconfigured list of
20967 directory sources that ships with Tor. Resolves ticket 6526.
20968 - Tor relays and clients now support a better CREATE/EXTEND cell
20969 format, allowing the sender to specify multiple address, identity,
20970 and handshake types. Implements Robert Ransom's proposal 200;
20971 closes ticket 7199.
20973 o Major features (new circuit handshake):
20974 - Tor now supports a new circuit extension handshake designed by Ian
20975 Goldberg, Douglas Stebila, and Berkant Ustaoglu. Our original
20976 circuit extension handshake, later called "TAP", was a bit slow
20977 (especially on the relay side), had a fragile security proof, and
20978 used weaker keys than we'd now prefer. The new circuit handshake
20979 uses Dan Bernstein's "curve25519" elliptic-curve Diffie-Hellman
20980 function, making it significantly more secure than the older
20981 handshake, and significantly faster. Tor can use one of two built-in
20982 pure-C curve25519-donna implementations by Adam Langley, or it
20983 can link against the "nacl" library for a tuned version if present.
20985 The built-in version is very fast for 64-bit systems when building
20986 with GCC. The built-in 32-bit version is still faster than the
20987 old TAP protocol, but using libnacl is better on most such hosts.
20989 Clients don't currently use this protocol by default, since
20990 comparatively few clients support it so far. To try it, set
20991 UseNTorHandshake to 1.
20993 Implements proposal 216; closes ticket 7202.
20995 o Major features (better link encryption):
20996 - Relays can now enable the ECDHE TLS ciphersuites when available
20997 and appropriate. These ciphersuites let us negotiate forward-secure
20998 TLS secret keys more safely and more efficiently than with our
20999 previous use of Diffie-Hellman modulo a 1024-bit prime. By default,
21000 public relays prefer the (faster) P224 group, and bridges prefer
21001 the (more common) P256 group; you can override this with the
21004 Enabling these ciphers was a little tricky, since for a long time,
21005 clients had been claiming to support them without actually doing
21006 so, in order to foil fingerprinting. But with the client-side
21007 implementation of proposal 198 in 0.2.3.17-beta, clients can now
21008 match the ciphers from recent Firefox versions *and* list the
21009 ciphers they actually mean, so relays can believe such clients
21010 when they advertise ECDHE support in their TLS ClientHello messages.
21012 This feature requires clients running 0.2.3.17-beta or later,
21013 and requires both sides to be running OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later
21014 with ECC support. OpenSSL 1.0.1, with the compile-time option
21015 "enable-ec_nistp_64_gcc_128", is highly recommended.
21017 Implements the relay side of proposal 198; closes ticket 7200.
21020 - Avoid crashing when, as a relay without IPv6-exit support, a
21021 client insists on getting an IPv6 address or nothing. Fixes bug
21022 7814; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
21025 - Improve circuit build timeout handling for hidden services.
21026 In particular: adjust build timeouts more accurately depending
21027 upon the number of hop-RTTs that a particular circuit type
21028 undergoes. Additionally, launch intro circuits in parallel
21029 if they timeout, and take the first one to reply as valid.
21030 - Work correctly on Unix systems where EAGAIN and EWOULDBLOCK are
21031 separate error codes; or at least, don't break for that reason.
21032 Fixes bug 7935. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
21033 - Update to the January 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
21035 o Minor features (testing):
21036 - Add benchmarks for DH (1024-bit multiplicative group) and ECDH
21037 (P-256) Diffie-Hellman handshakes to src/or/bench.
21038 - Add benchmark functions to test onion handshake performance.
21040 o Minor features (path bias detection):
21041 - Alter the Path Bias log messages to be more descriptive in terms
21042 of reporting timeouts and other statistics.
21043 - Create three levels of Path Bias log messages, as opposed to just
21044 two. These are configurable via consensus as well as via the torrc
21045 options PathBiasNoticeRate, PathBiasWarnRate, PathBiasExtremeRate.
21046 The default values are 0.70, 0.50, and 0.30 respectively.
21047 - Separate the log message levels from the decision to drop guards,
21048 which also is available via torrc option PathBiasDropGuards.
21049 PathBiasDropGuards still defaults to 0 (off).
21050 - Deprecate PathBiasDisableRate in favor of PathBiasDropGuards
21051 in combination with PathBiasExtremeRate.
21052 - Increase the default values for PathBiasScaleThreshold and
21053 PathBiasCircThreshold from (200, 20) to (300, 150).
21054 - Add in circuit usage accounting to path bias. If we try to use a
21055 built circuit but fail for any reason, it counts as path bias.
21056 Certain classes of circuits where the adversary gets to pick your
21057 destination node are exempt from this accounting. Usage accounting
21058 can be specifically disabled via consensus parameter or torrc.
21059 - Convert all internal path bias state to double-precision floating
21060 point, to avoid roundoff error and other issues.
21061 - Only record path bias information for circuits that have completed
21062 *two* hops. Assuming end-to-end tagging is the attack vector, this
21063 makes us more resilient to ambient circuit failure without any
21064 detection capability loss.
21066 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
21067 - Rate-limit the "No circuits are opened. Relaxed timeout for a
21068 circuit with channel state open..." message to once per hour to
21069 keep it from filling the notice logs. Mitigates bug 7799 but does
21070 not fix the underlying cause. Bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
21071 - Avoid spurious warnings when configuring multiple client ports of
21072 which only some are nonlocal. Previously, we had claimed that some
21073 were nonlocal when in fact they weren't. Fixes bug 7836; bugfix on
21076 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
21077 - Get rid of a couple of harmless clang warnings, where we compared
21078 enums to ints. These warnings are newly introduced in clang 3.2.
21079 - Split the onion.c file into separate modules for the onion queue
21080 and the different handshakes it supports.
21081 - Remove the marshalling/unmarshalling code for sending requests to
21082 cpuworkers over a socket, and instead just send structs. The
21083 recipient will always be the same Tor binary as the sender, so
21084 any encoding is overkill.
21087 Changes in version 0.2.4.7-alpha - 2012-12-24
21088 Tor 0.2.4.7-alpha introduces a new approach to providing fallback
21089 directory mirrors for more robust bootstrapping; fixes more issues where
21090 clients with changing network conditions refuse to make any circuits;
21091 adds initial support for exiting to IPv6 addresses; resumes being able
21092 to update our GeoIP database, and includes the geoip6 file this time;
21093 turns off the client-side DNS cache by default due to privacy risks;
21094 and fixes a variety of other issues.
21096 o Major features (client resilience):
21097 - Add a new "FallbackDir" torrc option to use when we can't use
21098 a directory mirror from the consensus (either because we lack a
21099 consensus, or because they're all down). Currently, all authorities
21100 are fallbacks by default, and there are no other default fallbacks,
21101 but that will change. This option will allow us to give clients a
21102 longer list of servers to try to get a consensus from when first
21103 connecting to the Tor network, and thereby reduce load on the
21104 directory authorities. Implements proposal 206, "Preconfigured
21105 directory sources for bootstrapping". We also removed the old
21106 "FallbackNetworkstatus" option, since we never got it working well
21107 enough to use it. Closes bug 572.
21108 - If we have no circuits open, use a relaxed timeout (the
21109 95-percentile cutoff) until a circuit succeeds. This heuristic
21110 should allow Tor to succeed at building circuits even when the
21111 network connection drastically changes. Should help with bug 3443.
21113 o Major features (IPv6):
21114 - Relays can now exit to IPv6 addresses: make sure that you have IPv6
21115 connectivity, then set the IPv6Exit flag to 1. Also make sure your
21116 exit policy reads as you would like: the address * applies to all
21117 address families, whereas *4 is IPv4 address only, and *6 is IPv6
21118 addresses only. On the client side, you'll need to wait until the
21119 authorities have upgraded, wait for enough exits to support IPv6,
21120 apply the "IPv6Traffic" flag to a SocksPort, and use Socks5. Closes
21121 ticket 5547, implements proposal 117 as revised in proposal 208.
21123 We DO NOT recommend that clients with actual anonymity needs start
21124 using IPv6 over Tor yet, since not enough exits support it yet.
21126 o Major features (geoip database):
21127 - Maxmind began labelling Tor relays as being in country "A1",
21128 which breaks by-country node selection inside Tor. Now we use a
21129 script to replace "A1" ("Anonymous Proxy") entries in our geoip
21130 file with real country codes. This script fixes about 90% of "A1"
21131 entries automatically and uses manual country code assignments to
21132 fix the remaining 10%. See src/config/README.geoip for details.
21133 Fixes bug 6266. Also update to the December 5 2012 Maxmind GeoLite
21134 Country database, as modified above.
21136 o Major bugfixes (client-side DNS):
21137 - Turn off the client-side DNS cache by default. Updating and using
21138 the DNS cache is now configurable on a per-client-port
21139 level. SOCKSPort, DNSPort, etc lines may now contain
21140 {No,}Cache{IPv4,IPv6,}DNS lines to indicate that we shouldn't
21141 cache these types of DNS answers when we receive them from an
21142 exit node in response to an application request on this port, and
21143 {No,}UseCached{IPv4,IPv6,DNS} lines to indicate that if we have
21144 cached DNS answers of these types, we shouldn't use them. It's
21145 potentially risky to use cached DNS answers at the client, since
21146 doing so can indicate to one exit what answers we've gotten
21147 for DNS lookups in the past. With IPv6, this becomes especially
21148 problematic. Using cached DNS answers for requests on the same
21149 circuit would present less linkability risk, since all traffic
21150 on a circuit is already linkable, but it would also provide
21151 little performance benefit: the exit node caches DNS replies
21152 too. Implements a simplified version of Proposal 205. Implements
21155 o Major bugfixes (other):
21156 - Alter circuit build timeout measurement to start at the point
21157 where we begin the CREATE/CREATE_FAST step (as opposed to circuit
21158 initialization). This should make our timeout measurements more
21159 uniform. Previously, we were sometimes including ORconn setup time
21160 in our circuit build time measurements. Should resolve bug 3443.
21161 - Fix an assertion that could trigger in hibernate_go_dormant() when
21162 closing an or_connection_t: call channel_mark_for_close() rather
21163 than connection_mark_for_close(). Fixes bug 7267. Bugfix on
21165 - Include the geoip6 IPv6 GeoIP database in the tarball. Fixes bug
21166 7655; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
21169 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportListenAddr" to let bridge
21170 operators select the address where their pluggable transports will
21171 listen for connections. Resolves ticket 7013.
21172 - Allow an optional $ before the node identity digest in the
21173 controller command GETINFO ns/id/<identity>, for consistency with
21174 md/id/<identity> and desc/id/<identity>. Resolves ticket 7059.
21175 - Log packaged cell fullness as part of the heartbeat message.
21176 Diagnosis to try to determine the extent of bug 7743.
21178 o Minor features (IPv6):
21179 - AutomapHostsOnResolve now supports IPv6 addresses. By default, we
21180 prefer to hand out virtual IPv6 addresses, since there are more of
21181 them and we can't run out. To override this behavior and make IPv4
21182 addresses preferred, set NoPreferIPv6Automap on whatever SOCKSPort
21183 or DNSPort you're using for resolving. Implements ticket 7571.
21184 - AutomapHostsOnResolve responses are now randomized, to avoid
21185 annoying situations where Tor is restarted and applications
21186 connect to the wrong addresses.
21187 - Never try more than 1000 times to pick a new virtual address when
21188 AutomapHostsOnResolve is set. That's good enough so long as we
21189 aren't close to handing out our entire virtual address space;
21190 if you're getting there, it's best to switch to IPv6 virtual
21194 - The ADDRMAP command can no longer generate an ill-formed error
21195 code on a failed MAPADDRESS. It now says "internal" rather than
21196 an English sentence fragment with spaces in the middle. Bugfix on
21197 Tor 0.2.0.19-alpha.
21198 - Fix log messages and comments to avoid saying "GMT" when we mean
21199 "UTC". Fixes bug 6113.
21200 - Compile on win64 using mingw64. Fixes bug 7260; patches from
21202 - Fix a crash when debugging unit tests on Windows: deallocate a
21203 shared library with FreeLibrary, not CloseHandle. Fixes bug 7306;
21204 bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Reported by "ultramage".
21207 - The DirServer option is now DirAuthority, for consistency with
21208 current naming patterns. You can still use the old DirServer form.
21210 o Code simplification and refactoring:
21211 - Move the client-side address-map/virtual-address/DNS-cache code
21212 out of connection_edge.c into a new addressmap.c module.
21213 - Remove unused code for parsing v1 directories and "running routers"
21214 documents. Fixes bug 6887.
21217 Changes in version 0.2.3.25 - 2012-11-19
21218 The Tor 0.2.3 release series is dedicated to the memory of Len "rabbi"
21219 Sassaman (1980-2011), a long-time cypherpunk, anonymity researcher,
21220 Mixmaster maintainer, Pynchon Gate co-designer, CodeCon organizer,
21221 programmer, and friend. Unstinting in his dedication to the cause of
21222 freedom, he inspired and helped many of us as we began our work on
21223 anonymity, and inspires us still. Please honor his memory by writing
21224 software to protect people's freedoms, and by helping others to do so.
21226 Tor 0.2.3.25, the first stable release in the 0.2.3 branch, features
21227 significantly reduced directory overhead (via microdescriptors),
21228 enormous crypto performance improvements for fast relays on new
21229 enough hardware, a new v3 TLS handshake protocol that can better
21230 resist fingerprinting, support for protocol obfuscation plugins (aka
21231 pluggable transports), better scalability for hidden services, IPv6
21232 support for bridges, performance improvements like allowing clients
21233 to skip the first round-trip on the circuit ("optimistic data") and
21234 refilling token buckets more often, a new "stream isolation" design
21235 to isolate different applications on different circuits, and many
21236 stability, security, and privacy fixes.
21239 - Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so
21240 that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory,
21241 the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler
21242 was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the
21243 memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program,
21244 hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that
21245 by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler
21246 is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use
21247 a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352.
21248 Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov.
21251 - Fix a harmless bug when opting against publishing a relay descriptor
21252 because DisableNetwork is set. Fixes bug 7464; bugfix on
21256 Changes in version 0.2.4.6-alpha - 2012-11-13
21257 Tor 0.2.4.6-alpha fixes an assert bug that has been plaguing relays,
21258 makes our defense-in-depth memory wiping more reliable, and begins to
21259 count IPv6 addresses in bridge statistics,
21262 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur when closing a connection
21263 with a spliced rendezvous circuit. Fix for bug 7212; bugfix on
21265 - Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so
21266 that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory,
21267 the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler
21268 was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the
21269 memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program,
21270 hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that
21271 by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler
21272 is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use
21273 a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352.
21274 Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov.
21277 - Add GeoIP database for IPv6 addresses. The new config option
21279 - Bridge statistics now count bridge clients connecting over IPv6:
21280 bridge statistics files now list "bridge-ip-versions" and
21281 extra-info documents list "geoip6-db-digest". The control protocol
21282 "CLIENTS_SEEN" and "ip-to-country" queries now support IPv6. Initial
21283 implementation by "shkoo", addressing ticket 5055.
21286 - Warn when we are binding low ports when hibernation is enabled;
21287 previously we had warned when we were _advertising_ low ports with
21288 hibernation enabled. Fixes bug 7285; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
21289 - Fix a harmless bug when opting against publishing a relay descriptor
21290 because DisableNetwork is set. Fixes bug 7464; bugfix on
21292 - Add warning message when a managed proxy dies during configuration.
21293 Fixes bug 7195; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
21294 - Fix a linking error when building tor-fw-helper without miniupnp.
21295 Fixes bug 7235; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha. Fix by Anthony G. Basile.
21296 - Check for closing an or_connection_t without going through correct
21297 channel functions; emit a warning and then call
21298 connection_or_close_for_error() so we don't assert as in bugs 7212
21300 - Compile correctly on compilers without C99 designated initializer
21301 support. Fixes bug 7286; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
21302 - Avoid a possible assert that can occur when channel_send_destroy() is
21303 called on a channel in CHANNEL_STATE_CLOSING, CHANNEL_STATE_CLOSED,
21304 or CHANNEL_STATE_ERROR when the Tor process is resumed after being
21305 blocked for a long interval. Fixes bug 7350; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
21306 - Fix a memory leak on failing cases of channel_tls_process_certs_cell.
21307 Fixes bug 7422; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
21309 o Code simplification and refactoring:
21310 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h, so that we don't
21311 need to hand-roll our own pointer and list structures whenever we
21312 need them. (We can't rely on a sys/queue.h, since some operating
21313 systems don't have them, and the ones that do have them don't all
21314 present the same extensions.)
21317 Changes in version 0.2.4.5-alpha - 2012-10-25
21318 Tor 0.2.4.5-alpha comes hard at the heels of 0.2.4.4-alpha, to fix
21319 two important security vulnerabilities that could lead to remotely
21320 triggerable relay crashes, fix a major bug that was preventing clients
21321 from choosing suitable exit nodes, and refactor some of our code.
21323 o Major bugfixes (security, also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
21324 - Fix a group of remotely triggerable assertion failures related to
21325 incorrect link protocol negotiation. Found, diagnosed, and fixed
21326 by "some guy from France". Fix for CVE-2012-2250; bugfix on
21328 - Fix a denial of service attack by which any directory authority
21329 could crash all the others, or by which a single v2 directory
21330 authority could crash everybody downloading v2 directory
21331 information. Fixes bug 7191; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21333 o Major bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
21334 - When parsing exit policy summaries from microdescriptors, we had
21335 previously been ignoring the last character in each one, so that
21336 "accept 80,443,8080" would be treated by clients as indicating
21337 a node that allows access to ports 80, 443, and 808. That would
21338 lead to clients attempting connections that could never work,
21339 and ignoring exit nodes that would support their connections. Now
21340 clients parse these exit policy summaries correctly. Fixes bug 7192;
21341 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
21343 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
21344 - Clients now consider the ClientRejectInternalAddresses config option
21345 when using a microdescriptor consensus stanza to decide whether
21346 an exit relay would allow exiting to an internal address. Fixes
21347 bug 7190; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
21350 - Only disable TLS session ticket support when running as a TLS
21351 server. Now clients will blend better with regular Firefox
21352 connections. Fixes bug 7189; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.23-rc.
21354 o Code simplification and refactoring:
21355 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h (originally by
21357 - Move the entry node code from circuitbuild.c to its own file.
21358 - Move the circuit build timeout tracking code from circuitbuild.c
21362 Changes in version 0.2.3.24-rc - 2012-10-25
21363 Tor 0.2.3.24-rc fixes two important security vulnerabilities that
21364 could lead to remotely triggerable relay crashes, and fixes
21365 a major bug that was preventing clients from choosing suitable exit
21368 o Major bugfixes (security):
21369 - Fix a group of remotely triggerable assertion failures related to
21370 incorrect link protocol negotiation. Found, diagnosed, and fixed
21371 by "some guy from France". Fix for CVE-2012-2250; bugfix on
21373 - Fix a denial of service attack by which any directory authority
21374 could crash all the others, or by which a single v2 directory
21375 authority could crash everybody downloading v2 directory
21376 information. Fixes bug 7191; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21379 - When parsing exit policy summaries from microdescriptors, we had
21380 previously been ignoring the last character in each one, so that
21381 "accept 80,443,8080" would be treated by clients as indicating
21382 a node that allows access to ports 80, 443, and 808. That would
21383 lead to clients attempting connections that could never work,
21384 and ignoring exit nodes that would support their connections. Now
21385 clients parse these exit policy summaries correctly. Fixes bug 7192;
21386 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
21389 - Clients now consider the ClientRejectInternalAddresses config option
21390 when using a microdescriptor consensus stanza to decide whether
21391 an exit relay would allow exiting to an internal address. Fixes
21392 bug 7190; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
21395 Changes in version 0.2.4.4-alpha - 2012-10-20
21396 Tor 0.2.4.4-alpha adds a new v3 directory authority, fixes a privacy
21397 vulnerability introduced by a change in OpenSSL, fixes a remotely
21398 triggerable assert, and adds new channel_t and circuitmux_t abstractions
21399 that will make it easier to test new connection transport and cell
21400 scheduling algorithms.
21402 o New directory authorities (also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
21403 - Add Faravahar (run by Sina Rabbani) as the ninth v3 directory
21404 authority. Closes ticket 5749.
21406 o Major bugfixes (security/privacy, also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
21407 - Disable TLS session tickets. OpenSSL's implementation was giving
21408 our TLS session keys the lifetime of our TLS context objects, when
21409 perfect forward secrecy would want us to discard anything that
21410 could decrypt a link connection as soon as the link connection
21411 was closed. Fixes bug 7139; bugfix on all versions of Tor linked
21412 against OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later. Found by Florent Daignière.
21413 - Discard extraneous renegotiation attempts once the V3 link
21414 protocol has been initiated. Failure to do so left us open to
21415 a remotely triggerable assertion failure. Fixes CVE-2012-2249;
21416 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "some guy from France".
21418 o Internal abstraction features:
21419 - Introduce new channel_t abstraction between circuits and
21420 or_connection_t to allow for implementing alternate OR-to-OR
21421 transports. A channel_t is an abstract object which can either be a
21422 cell-bearing channel, which is responsible for authenticating and
21423 handshaking with the remote OR and transmitting cells to and from
21424 it, or a listening channel, which spawns new cell-bearing channels
21425 at the request of remote ORs. Implements part of ticket 6465.
21426 - Also new is the channel_tls_t subclass of channel_t, adapting it
21427 to the existing or_connection_t code. The V2/V3 protocol handshaking
21428 code which formerly resided in command.c has been moved below the
21429 channel_t abstraction layer and may be found in channeltls.c now.
21430 Implements the rest of ticket 6465.
21431 - Introduce new circuitmux_t storing the queue of circuits for
21432 a channel; this encapsulates and abstracts the queue logic and
21433 circuit selection policy, and allows the latter to be overridden
21434 easily by switching out a policy object. The existing EWMA behavior
21435 is now implemented as a circuitmux_policy_t. Resolves ticket 6816.
21437 o Required libraries:
21438 - Tor now requires OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later is
21439 strongly recommended.
21442 - Warn users who run hidden services on a Tor client with
21443 UseEntryGuards disabled that their hidden services will be
21444 vulnerable to http://freehaven.net/anonbib/#hs-attack06 (the
21445 attack which motivated Tor to support entry guards in the first
21446 place). Resolves ticket 6889.
21447 - Tor now builds correctly on Bitrig, an OpenBSD fork. Patch from
21448 dhill. Resolves ticket 6982.
21449 - Option OutboundBindAddress can be specified multiple times and
21450 accepts IPv6 addresses. Resolves ticket 6876.
21452 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
21453 - Don't serve or accept v2 hidden service descriptors over a
21454 relay's DirPort. It's never correct to do so, and disabling it
21455 might make it more annoying to exploit any bugs that turn up in the
21456 descriptor-parsing code. Fixes bug 7149.
21457 - Fix two cases in src/or/transports.c where we were calling
21458 fmt_addr() twice in a parameter list. Bug found by David
21459 Fifield. Fixes bug 7014; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
21460 - Fix memory leaks whenever we logged any message about the "path
21461 bias" detection. Fixes bug 7022; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc.
21462 - When relays refuse a "create" cell because their queue of pending
21463 create cells is too big (typically because their cpu can't keep up
21464 with the arrival rate), send back reason "resource limit" rather
21465 than reason "internal", so network measurement scripts can get a
21466 more accurate picture. Fixes bug 7037; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
21469 - Command-line option "--version" implies "--quiet". Fixes bug 6997.
21470 - Free some more still-in-use memory at exit, to make hunting for
21471 memory leaks easier. Resolves bug 7029.
21472 - When a Tor client gets a "truncated" relay cell, the first byte of
21473 its payload specifies why the circuit was truncated. We were
21474 ignoring this 'reason' byte when tearing down the circuit, resulting
21475 in the controller not being told why the circuit closed. Now we
21476 pass the reason from the truncated cell to the controller. Bugfix
21477 on 0.1.2.3-alpha; fixes bug 7039.
21478 - Downgrade "Failed to hand off onionskin" messages to "debug"
21479 severity, since they're typically redundant with the "Your computer
21480 is too slow" messages. Fixes bug 7038; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
21481 - Make clients running with IPv6 bridges connect over IPv6 again,
21482 even without setting new config options ClientUseIPv6 and
21483 ClientPreferIPv6ORPort. Fixes bug 6757; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
21484 - Use square brackets around IPv6 addresses in numerous places
21485 that needed them, including log messages, HTTPS CONNECT proxy
21486 requests, TransportProxy statefile entries, and pluggable transport
21487 extra-info lines. Fixes bug 7011; patch by David Fifield.
21489 o Code refactoring and cleanup:
21490 - Source files taken from other packages now reside in src/ext;
21491 previously they were scattered around the rest of Tor.
21492 - Avoid use of reserved identifiers in our C code. The C standard
21493 doesn't like us declaring anything that starts with an
21494 underscore, so let's knock it off before we get in trouble. Fix
21495 for bug 1031; bugfix on the first Tor commit.
21498 Changes in version 0.2.3.23-rc - 2012-10-20
21499 Tor 0.2.3.23-rc adds a new v3 directory authority, fixes a privacy
21500 vulnerability introduced by a change in OpenSSL, and fixes a variety
21501 of smaller bugs in preparation for the release.
21503 o New directory authorities:
21504 - Add Faravahar (run by Sina Rabbani) as the ninth v3 directory
21505 authority. Closes ticket 5749.
21507 o Major bugfixes (security/privacy):
21508 - Disable TLS session tickets. OpenSSL's implementation was giving
21509 our TLS session keys the lifetime of our TLS context objects, when
21510 perfect forward secrecy would want us to discard anything that
21511 could decrypt a link connection as soon as the link connection
21512 was closed. Fixes bug 7139; bugfix on all versions of Tor linked
21513 against OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later. Found by Florent Daignière.
21514 - Discard extraneous renegotiation attempts once the V3 link
21515 protocol has been initiated. Failure to do so left us open to
21516 a remotely triggerable assertion failure. Fixes CVE-2012-2249;
21517 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "some guy from France".
21520 - Fix a possible crash bug when checking for deactivated circuits
21521 in connection_or_flush_from_first_active_circuit(). Fixes bug 6341;
21522 bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Bug report and fix received pseudonymously.
21524 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
21525 - Fix two cases in src/or/transports.c where we were calling
21526 fmt_addr() twice in a parameter list. Bug found by David
21527 Fifield. Fixes bug 7014; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
21528 - Convert an assert in the pathbias code to a log message. The assert
21529 appears to only be triggerable by Tor2Web mode. Fixes bug 6866;
21530 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
21531 - Fix memory leaks whenever we logged any message about the "path
21532 bias" detection. Fixes bug 7022; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc.
21534 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
21535 - Don't serve or accept v2 hidden service descriptors over a relay's
21536 DirPort. It's never correct to do so, and disabling it might
21537 make it more annoying to exploit any bugs that turn up in the
21538 descriptor-parsing code. Fixes bug 7149.
21539 - When relays refuse a "create" cell because their queue of pending
21540 create cells is too big (typically because their cpu can't keep up
21541 with the arrival rate), send back reason "resource limit" rather
21542 than reason "internal", so network measurement scripts can get a
21543 more accurate picture. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha; fixes bug 7037.
21544 - Correct file sizes when reading binary files on Cygwin, to avoid
21545 a bug where Tor would fail to read its state file. Fixes bug 6844;
21546 bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
21547 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing the list of supported
21548 rendezvous/introduction protocols in a hidden service descriptor.
21549 Previously, Tor would have confused (as-yet-unused) protocol version
21550 numbers greater than 32 with lower ones on many platforms. Fixes
21551 bug 6827; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Found by George Kadianakis.
21553 o Documentation fixes:
21554 - Clarify that hidden services are TCP only. Fixes bug 6024.
21557 Changes in version 0.2.4.3-alpha - 2012-09-22
21558 Tor 0.2.4.3-alpha fixes another opportunity for a remotely triggerable
21559 assertion, resumes letting relays test reachability of their DirPort,
21560 and cleans up a bunch of smaller bugs.
21563 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
21564 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
21565 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
21568 - Fix a possible crash bug when checking for deactivated circuits
21569 in connection_or_flush_from_first_active_circuit(). Fixes bug 6341;
21570 bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Bug report and fix received pseudonymously.
21571 - Allow routers to detect that their own DirPorts are running. When
21572 we removed support for versions_supports_begindir, we also
21573 accidentally removed the mechanism we used to self-test our
21574 DirPort. Diagnosed with help from kargig. Fixes bugs 6814 and 6815;
21575 bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
21577 o Security features:
21578 - Switch to a completely time-invariant approach for picking nodes
21579 weighted by bandwidth. Our old approach would run through the
21580 part of the loop after it had made its choice slightly slower
21581 than it ran through the part of the loop before it had made its
21582 choice. Addresses ticket 6538.
21583 - Disable the use of Guard nodes when in Tor2WebMode. Guard usage
21584 by tor2web clients allows hidden services to identify tor2web
21585 clients through their repeated selection of the same rendezvous
21586 and introduction point circuit endpoints (their guards). Resolves
21590 - Enable Tor to read configuration, state, and key information from
21591 a FIFO. Previously Tor would only read from files with a positive
21592 stat.st_size. Code from meejah; fixes bug 6044.
21595 - Correct file sizes when reading binary files on Cygwin, to avoid
21596 a bug where Tor would fail to read its state file. Fixes bug 6844;
21597 bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
21598 - Correctly handle votes with more than 31 flags. Fixes bug 6853;
21599 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
21600 - When complaining about a client port on a public address, log
21601 which address we're complaining about. Fixes bug 4020; bugfix on
21602 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Tom Fitzhenry.
21603 - Convert an assert in the pathbias code to a log message. The assert
21604 appears to only be triggerable by Tor2Web mode. Fixes bug 6866;
21605 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
21606 - Our new buildsystem was overzealous about rebuilding manpages: it
21607 would rebuild them all whenever any one of them changed. Now our
21608 dependency checking should be correct. Fixes bug 6843; bugfix on
21610 - Don't do reachability testing over IPv6 unless AuthDirPublishIPv6
21611 is set. Fixes bug 6880. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
21612 - Correct log printout about which address family is preferred
21613 when connecting to a bridge with both an IPv4 and IPv6 OR port.
21614 Fixes bug 6884; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
21616 o Minor bugfixes (code cleanliness):
21617 - Fix round_to_power_of_2() so it doesn't invoke undefined behavior
21618 with large values. This situation was untriggered, but nevertheless
21619 incorrect. Fixes bug 6831; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21620 - Reject consensus votes with more than 64 known-flags. We aren't even
21621 close to that limit yet, and our code doesn't handle it correctly.
21622 Fixes bug 6833; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21623 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing the list of supported
21624 rendezvous/introduction protocols in a hidden service descriptor.
21625 Previously, Tor would have confused (as-yet-unused) protocol version
21626 numbers greater than 32 with lower ones on many platforms. Fixes
21627 bug 6827; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Found by George Kadianakis.
21628 - Fix handling of rendezvous client authorization types over 8.
21629 Fixes bug 6861; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
21630 - Fix building with older versions of GCC (2.95, for one) that don't
21631 like preprocessor directives inside macro arguments. Found by
21632 grarpamp. Fixes bug 6842; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
21633 - Switch weighted node selection rule from using a list of doubles
21634 to using a list of int64_t. This change should make the process
21635 slightly easier to debug and maintain. Needed to finish ticket 6538.
21637 o Code simplification and refactoring:
21638 - Move the generic "config" code into a new file, and have "config.c"
21639 hold only torrc- and state-related code. Resolves ticket 6823.
21640 - Move the core of our "choose a weighted element at random" logic
21641 into its own function, and give it unit tests. Now the logic is
21642 testable, and a little less fragile too.
21643 - Removed the testing_since field of node_t, which hasn't been used
21644 for anything since 0.2.0.9-alpha.
21646 o Documentation fixes:
21647 - Clarify that hidden services are TCP only. Fixes bug 6024.
21648 - Resolve a typo in torrc.sample.in. Fixes bug 6819; bugfix on
21652 Changes in version 0.2.3.22-rc - 2012-09-11
21653 Tor 0.2.3.22-rc fixes another opportunity for a remotely triggerable
21657 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
21658 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
21659 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
21662 - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
21663 version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
21667 Changes in version 0.2.2.39 - 2012-09-11
21668 Tor 0.2.2.39 fixes two more opportunities for remotely triggerable
21672 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
21673 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
21674 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
21675 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
21676 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
21677 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
21678 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
21682 Changes in version 0.2.4.2-alpha - 2012-09-10
21683 Tor 0.2.4.2-alpha enables port forwarding for pluggable transports,
21684 raises the default rate limiting even more, and makes the bootstrapping
21685 log messages less noisy.
21688 - Automatically forward the TCP ports of pluggable transport
21689 proxies using tor-fw-helper if PortForwarding is enabled. Implements
21693 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst values from 5MB/10MB
21694 to 1GB/1GB. The previous defaults were intended to be "basically
21695 infinite", but it turns out they're now limiting our 100mbit+
21696 relays and bridges. Fixes bug 6605; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha (the
21697 last time we raised it).
21700 - Detect when we're running with a version of OpenSSL other than the
21701 one we compiled with. This has occasionally given people hard-to-
21703 - Log fewer lines at level "notice" about our OpenSSL and Libevent
21704 versions and capabilities when everything is going right. Resolves
21705 part of ticket 6736.
21706 - Directory authorities no long accept descriptors for any version of
21707 Tor before 0.2.2.35, or for any 0.2.3 release before 0.2.3.10-alpha.
21708 These versions are insecure, unsupported, or both. Implements
21712 - Rename the (internal-use-only) UsingTestingNetworkDefaults option
21713 to start with a triple-underscore so the controller won't touch it.
21714 Patch by Meejah. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
21715 - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
21716 version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
21718 - Rename the (testing-use-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option
21719 so it doesn't start with _. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
21720 - Don't follow the NULL pointer if microdescriptor generation fails.
21721 (This does not appear to be triggerable, but it's best to be safe.)
21722 Found by "f. tp.". Fixes bug 6797; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
21723 - Fix mis-declared dependencies on src/common/crypto.c and
21724 src/or/tor_main.c that could break out-of-tree builds under some
21725 circumstances. Fixes bug 6778; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
21726 - Avoid a warning when building common_sha1.i out of tree. Fixes bug
21727 6778; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
21728 - Fix a harmless (in this case) build warning for implicitly
21729 converting a strlen() to an int. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
21731 o Removed features:
21732 - Now that all versions before 0.2.2.x are disallowed, we no longer
21733 need to work around their missing features. Thus we can remove a
21734 bunch of compatibility code.
21736 o Code refactoring:
21737 - Tweak tor-fw-helper to accept an arbitrary amount of arbitrary
21738 TCP ports to forward. In the past it only accepted two ports:
21739 the ORPort and the DirPort.
21742 Changes in version 0.2.4.1-alpha - 2012-09-05
21743 Tor 0.2.4.1-alpha lets bridges publish their pluggable transports to
21744 bridgedb; lets relays use IPv6 addresses and directory authorities
21745 advertise them; and switches to a cleaner build interface.
21747 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to
21748 be bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
21749 stay with 0.2.3.x for now.
21751 o Major features (bridges):
21752 - Bridges now report the pluggable transports they support to the
21753 bridge authority, so it can pass the supported transports on to
21754 bridgedb and/or eventually do reachability testing. Implements
21757 o Major features (IPv6):
21758 - Bridge authorities now accept IPv6 bridge addresses and include
21759 them in network status documents. Implements ticket 5534.
21760 - Clients who set "ClientUseIPv6 1" may connect to entry nodes over
21761 IPv6. Set "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort 1" to make this even more likely
21762 to happen. Implements ticket 5535.
21763 - All kind of relays, not just bridges, can now advertise an IPv6
21764 OR port. Implements ticket 6362.
21765 - Directory authorities vote on IPv6 OR ports using the new consensus
21766 method 14. Implements ticket 6363.
21768 o Major features (build):
21769 - Switch to a nonrecursive Makefile structure. Now instead of each
21770 Makefile.am invoking other Makefile.am's, there is a master
21771 Makefile.am that includes the others. This change makes our build
21772 process slightly more maintainable, and improves parallelism for
21773 building with make -j. Original patch by Stewart Smith; various
21774 fixes by Jim Meyering.
21775 - Where available, we now use automake's "silent" make rules by
21776 default, so that warnings are easier to spot. You can get the old
21777 behavior with "make V=1". Patch by Stewart Smith for ticket 6522.
21779 o Minor features (code security and spec conformance):
21780 - Clear keys and key-derived material left on the stack in
21781 rendservice.c and rendclient.c. Check return value of
21782 crypto_pk_write_private_key_to_string() in rend_service_load_keys().
21783 These fixes should make us more forward-secure against cold-boot
21784 attacks and the like. Fixes bug 2385.
21785 - Reject EXTEND cells sent to nonexistent streams. According to the
21786 spec, an EXTEND cell sent to _any_ nonzero stream ID is invalid, but
21787 we were only checking for stream IDs that were currently in use.
21788 Found while hunting for more instances of bug 6271. Bugfix on
21789 0.0.2pre8, which introduced incremental circuit construction.
21791 o Minor features (streamlining);
21792 - No longer include the "opt" prefix when generating routerinfos
21793 or v2 directories: it has been needless since Tor 0.1.2. Closes
21795 - Remove some now-needless code that tried to aggressively flush
21796 OR connections as data was added to them. Since 0.2.0.1-alpha, our
21797 cell queue logic has saved us from the failure mode that this code
21798 was supposed to prevent. Removing this code will limit the number
21799 of baroque control flow paths through Tor's network logic. Reported
21800 pseudonymously on IRC. Fixes bug 6468; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21802 o Minor features (controller):
21803 - Add a "GETINFO signal/names" control port command. Implements
21805 - Provide default values for all options via "GETINFO config/defaults".
21806 Implements ticket 4971.
21808 o Minor features (IPv6):
21809 - New config option "AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity 1" that directory
21810 authorities should set if they have IPv6 connectivity and want to
21811 do reachability tests for IPv6 relays. Implements feature 5974.
21812 - A relay with an IPv6 OR port now sends that address in NETINFO
21813 cells (in addition to its other address). Implements ticket 6364.
21815 o Minor features (log messages):
21816 - Omit the first heartbeat log message, because it never has anything
21817 useful to say, and it clutters up the bootstrapping messages.
21818 Resolves ticket 6758.
21819 - Don't log about reloading the microdescriptor cache at startup. Our
21820 bootstrap warnings are supposed to tell the user when there's a
21821 problem, and our bootstrap notices say when there isn't. Resolves
21822 ticket 6759; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
21823 - Don't log "I learned some more directory information" when we're
21824 reading cached directory information. Reserve it for when new
21825 directory information arrives in response to a fetch. Resolves
21827 - Prevent rounding error in path bias counts when scaling
21828 them down, and use the correct scale factor default. Also demote
21829 some path bias related log messages down a level and make others
21830 less scary sounding. Fixes bug 6647. Bugfix against 0.2.3.17-beta.
21831 - We no longer warn so much when generating manpages from their
21834 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
21835 - Enhance our internal sscanf replacement so that we can eliminate
21836 the last remaining uses of the system sscanf. (Though those uses
21837 of sscanf were safe, sscanf itself is generally error prone, so
21838 we want to eliminate when we can.) Fixes ticket 4195 and Coverity
21840 - Move ipv6_preferred from routerinfo_t to node_t. Addresses bug 4620.
21841 - Move last_reachable and testing_since from routerinfo_t to node_t.
21842 Implements ticket 5529.
21843 - Add replaycache_t structure, functions and unit tests, then refactor
21844 rend_service_introduce() to be more clear to read, improve, debug,
21845 and test. Resolves bug 6177.
21846 - Finally remove support for malloc_good_size and malloc_usable_size.
21847 We had hoped that these functions would let us eke a little more
21848 memory out of our malloc implementation. Unfortunately, the only
21849 implementations that provided these functions are also ones that
21850 are already efficient about not overallocation: they never got us
21851 more than 7 or so bytes per allocation. Removing them saves us a
21852 little code complexity and a nontrivial amount of build complexity.
21854 o New requirements:
21855 - Tor maintainers now require Automake version 1.9 or later to build
21856 Tor from the Git repository. (Automake is not required when building
21857 from a source distribution.)
21860 Changes in version 0.2.3.21-rc - 2012-09-05
21861 Tor 0.2.3.21-rc is the fourth release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
21862 series. It fixes a trio of potential security bugs, fixes a bug where
21863 we were leaving some of the fast relays out of the microdescriptor
21864 consensus, resumes interpreting "ORPort 0" and "DirPort 0" correctly,
21865 and cleans up other smaller issues.
21867 o Major bugfixes (security):
21868 - Tear down the circuit if we get an unexpected SENDME cell. Clients
21869 could use this trick to make their circuits receive cells faster
21870 than our flow control would have allowed, or to gum up the network,
21871 or possibly to do targeted memory denial-of-service attacks on
21872 entry nodes. Fixes bug 6252. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor --
21873 from July 2002, before the release of Tor 0.0.0. We had committed
21874 this patch previously, but we had to revert it because of bug 6271.
21875 Now that 6271 is fixed, this patch appears to work.
21876 - Reject any attempt to extend to an internal address. Without
21877 this fix, a router could be used to probe addresses on an internal
21878 network to see whether they were accepting connections. Fixes bug
21879 6710; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
21880 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
21881 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
21882 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
21883 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
21887 - Remove the upper bound on microdescriptor length. We were hitting
21888 the limit for routers with complex exit policies or family
21889 declarations, causing clients to not use them. Fixes the first
21890 piece of bug 6404; fix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
21891 - Detect "ORPort 0" as meaning, uniformly, that we're not running
21892 as a relay. Previously, some of our code would treat the presence
21893 of any ORPort line as meaning that we should act like a relay,
21894 even though our new listener code would correctly not open any
21895 ORPorts for ORPort 0. Similar bugs in other Port options are also
21896 fixed. Fixes the first half of bug 6507; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
21899 - Avoid a pair of double-free and use-after-mark bugs that can
21900 occur with certain timings in canceled and re-received DNS
21901 requests. Fixes bug 6472; bugfix on 0.0.7rc1.
21902 - Fix build and 64-bit compile warnings from --enable-openbsd-malloc.
21903 Fixes bug 6379. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
21904 - Allow one-hop directory fetching circuits the full "circuit build
21905 timeout" period, rather than just half of it, before failing them
21906 and marking the relay down. This fix should help reduce cases where
21907 clients declare relays (or worse, bridges) unreachable because
21908 the TLS handshake takes a few seconds to complete. Fixes bug 6743;
21909 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha, where we changed the timeout from a static
21911 - Authorities no longer include any router in their microdescriptor
21912 consensuses for which they couldn't generate or agree on a
21913 microdescriptor. Fixes the second piece of bug 6404; fix on
21915 - Detect and reject attempts to specify both "FooPort" and
21916 "FooPort 0" in the same configuration domain. (It's still okay
21917 to have a FooPort in your configuration file, and use "FooPort 0"
21918 on the command line to disable it.) Fixes the second half of bug
21919 6507; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
21920 - Make wildcarded addresses (that is, ones beginning with "*.") work
21921 when provided via the controller's MapAddress command. Previously,
21922 they were accepted, but we never actually noticed that they were
21923 wildcards. Fixes bug 6244; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
21924 - Avoid crashing on a malformed state file where EntryGuardPathBias
21925 precedes EntryGuard. Fix for bug 6774; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
21926 - Add a (probably redundant) memory clear between iterations of
21927 the router status voting loop, to prevent future coding errors
21928 where data might leak between iterations of the loop. Resolves
21931 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
21932 - Downgrade "set buildtimeout to low value" messages to "info"
21933 severity; they were never an actual problem, there was never
21934 anything reasonable to do about them, and they tended to spam logs
21935 from time to time. Fixes bug 6251; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
21936 - Downgrade path-bias warning messages to "info". We'll try to get
21937 them working better in 0.2.4. Add internal circuit construction
21938 state to protect against the noisy warn message "Unexpectedly high
21939 circuit_successes". Also add some additional rate-limited notice
21940 messages to help determine the root cause of the warn. Fixes bug
21941 6475. Bugfix against 0.2.3.17-beta.
21942 - Move log message when unable to find a microdesc in a routerstatus
21943 entry to parse time. Previously we'd spam this warning every time
21944 we tried to figure out which microdescriptors to download. Fixes
21945 the third piece of bug 6404; fix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
21948 - Consider new, removed or changed IPv6 OR ports a non-cosmetic
21949 change when the authority is deciding whether to accept a newly
21950 uploaded descriptor. Implements ticket 6423.
21951 - Add missing documentation for consensus and microdesc files.
21952 Resolves ticket 6732.
21955 Changes in version 0.2.2.38 - 2012-08-12
21956 Tor 0.2.2.38 fixes a remotely triggerable crash bug, and fixes a timing
21957 attack that could in theory leak path information.
21960 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
21961 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
21962 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
21963 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
21964 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
21965 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
21966 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
21967 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
21968 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
21969 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
21970 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
21971 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
21972 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
21973 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
21976 Changes in version 0.2.3.20-rc - 2012-08-05
21977 Tor 0.2.3.20-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
21978 series. It fixes a pair of code security bugs and a potential anonymity
21979 issue, updates our RPM spec files, and cleans up other smaller issues.
21982 - Avoid read-from-freed-memory and double-free bugs that could occur
21983 when a DNS request fails while launching it. Fixes bug 6480;
21984 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21985 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
21986 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
21987 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
21988 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
21989 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
21990 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
21991 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
21992 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
21993 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
21994 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
21995 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
21996 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
21997 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
21998 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
22001 - Try to make the warning when giving an obsolete SOCKSListenAddress
22002 a little more useful.
22003 - Terminate active server managed proxies if Tor stops being a
22004 relay. Addresses parts of bug 6274; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
22005 - Provide a better error message about possible OSX Asciidoc failure
22006 reasons. Fixes bug 6436.
22007 - Warn when Tor is configured to use accounting in a way that can
22008 link a hidden service to some other hidden service or public
22009 address. Resolves ticket 6490.
22012 - Check return value of fputs() when writing authority certificate
22013 file. Fixes Coverity issue 709056; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22014 - Ignore ServerTransportPlugin lines when Tor is not configured as
22015 a relay. Fixes bug 6274; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
22016 - When disabling guards for having too high a proportion of failed
22017 circuits, make sure to look at each guard. Fixes bug 6397; bugfix
22021 - Update our default RPM spec files to work with mock and rpmbuild
22022 on RHEL/Fedora. They have an updated set of dependencies and
22023 conflicts, a fix for an ancient typo when creating the "_tor"
22024 user, and better instructions. Thanks to Ondrej Mikle for the
22025 patch series. Fixes bug 6043.
22028 - Make it possible to set the TestingTorNetwork configuration
22029 option using AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority
22030 as an alternative to setting DirServer. Addresses ticket 6377.
22033 - Clarify the documentation for the Alternate*Authority options.
22035 - Fix some typos in the manpages. Patch from A. Costa. Fixes bug 6500.
22037 o Code simplification and refactoring:
22038 - Do not use SMARTLIST_FOREACH for any loop whose body exceeds
22039 10 lines. Also, don't nest them. Doing so in the past has
22040 led to hard-to-debug code. The new style is to use the
22041 SMARTLIST_FOREACH_{BEGIN,END} pair. Addresses issue 6400.
22044 Changes in version 0.2.3.19-rc - 2012-07-06
22045 Tor 0.2.3.19-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
22046 series. It fixes the compile on Windows, reverts to a GeoIP database
22047 that isn't as broken, and fixes a flow control bug that has been around
22048 since the beginning of Tor.
22051 - Fix a bug handling SENDME cells on nonexistent streams that could
22052 result in bizarre window values. Report and patch contributed
22053 pseudonymously. Fixes part of bug 6271. This bug was introduced
22054 before the first Tor release, in svn commit r152.
22055 - Revert to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database. In the
22056 June 2012 database, Maxmind marked many Tor relays as country "A1",
22057 which will cause risky behavior for clients that set EntryNodes
22058 or ExitNodes. Addresses bug 6334; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
22059 - Instead of ENOBUFS on Windows, say WSAENOBUFS. Fixes compilation
22060 on Windows. Fixes bug 6296; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
22063 - Fix wrong TCP port range in parse_port_range(). Fixes bug 6218;
22064 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
22067 Changes in version 0.2.3.18-rc - 2012-06-28
22068 Tor 0.2.3.18-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
22069 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
22070 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
22073 - Allow wildcarded mapaddress targets to be specified on the
22074 controlport. Partially fixes bug 6244; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
22075 - Make our linker option detection code more robust against linkers
22076 such as on FreeBSD 8, where a bad combination of options completes
22077 successfully but makes an unrunnable binary. Fixes bug 6173;
22078 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
22080 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
22081 - Avoid a false positive in the util/threads unit test by increasing
22082 the maximum timeout time. Fixes bug 6227; bugfix on 0.2.0.4-alpha.
22083 - Replace "Sending publish request" log messages with "Launching
22084 upload", so that they no longer confusingly imply that we're
22085 sending something to a directory we might not even be connected
22086 to yet. Fixes bug 3311; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
22087 - Make sure to set *socket_error in all error cases in
22088 connection_connect(), so it can't produce a warning about
22089 errno being zero from errno_to_orconn_end_reason(). Bugfix on
22090 0.2.1.1-alpha; resolves ticket 6028.
22091 - Downgrade "Got a certificate, but we already have it" log messages
22092 from warning to info, except when we're a dirauth. Fixes bug 5238;
22093 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
22094 - When checking for requested signatures on the latest consensus
22095 before serving it to a client, make sure to check the right
22096 consensus flavor. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
22097 - Downgrade "eventdns rejected address" message to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN.
22098 Fixes bug 5932; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
22100 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
22101 - Make format_helper_exit_status() avoid unnecessary space padding
22102 and stop confusing log_from_pipe(). Fixes ticket 5557; bugfix
22104 - Downgrade a message about cleaning the microdescriptor cache to
22105 "info" from "notice". Fixes bug 6238; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
22106 - Log a BUG message at severity INFO if we have a networkstatus with
22107 a missing entry for some microdescriptor. Continues on a patch
22109 - Improve the log message when a managed proxy fails to launch. Fixes
22110 bug 5099; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
22111 - Don't do DNS lookups when parsing corrupted managed proxy protocol
22112 messages. Fixes bug 6226; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
22113 - When formatting wildcarded address mappings for the controller,
22114 be sure to include "*." as appropriate. Partially fixes bug 6244;
22115 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
22116 - Avoid a warning caused by using strcspn() from glibc with clang 3.0.
22117 Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
22118 - Stop logging messages about running with circuit timeout learning
22119 enabled at severity LD_BUG. Fixes bug 6169; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
22120 - Disable a spurious warning about reading on a marked and flushing
22121 connection. We shouldn't be doing that, but apparently we
22122 sometimes do. Fixes bug 6203; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
22123 - Fix a bug that stopped AllowDotExit from working on addresses
22124 that had an entry in the DNS cache. Fixes bug 6211; bugfix on
22127 o Code simplification, refactoring, unit tests:
22128 - Move tor_gettimeofday_cached() into compat_libevent.c, and use
22129 Libevent's notion of cached time when possible.
22130 - Remove duplicate code for invoking getrlimit() from control.c.
22131 - Add a unit test for the environment_variable_names_equal function.
22134 - Document the --defaults-torrc option, and the new (in 0.2.3)
22135 semantics for overriding, extending, and clearing lists of
22136 options. Closes bug 4748.
22139 Changes in version 0.2.3.17-beta - 2012-06-15
22140 Tor 0.2.3.17-beta enables compiler and linker hardening by default,
22141 gets our TLS handshake back on track for being able to blend in with
22142 Firefox, fixes a big bug in 0.2.3.16-alpha that broke Tor's interaction
22143 with Vidalia, and otherwise continues to get us closer to a release
22147 - Enable gcc and ld hardening by default. Resolves ticket 5210.
22148 - Update TLS cipher list to match Firefox 8 and later. Resolves
22150 - Implement the client side of proposal 198: remove support for
22151 clients falsely claiming to support standard ciphersuites that
22152 they can actually provide. As of modern OpenSSL versions, it's not
22153 necessary to fake any standard ciphersuite, and doing so prevents
22154 us from using better ciphersuites in the future, since servers
22155 can't know whether an advertised ciphersuite is really supported or
22156 not. Some hosts -- notably, ones with very old versions of OpenSSL
22157 or where OpenSSL has been built with ECC disabled -- will stand
22158 out because of this change; TBB users should not be affected.
22161 - Change the default value for DynamicDHGroups (introduced in
22162 0.2.3.9-alpha) to 0. This feature can make Tor relays less
22163 identifiable by their use of the mod_ssl DH group, but at
22164 the cost of some usability (#4721) and bridge tracing (#6087)
22165 regressions. Resolves ticket 5598.
22166 - Send a CRLF at the end of each STATUS_* control protocol event. This
22167 bug tickled a bug in Vidalia which would make it freeze. Fixes
22168 bug 6094; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
22171 - Disable writing on marked-for-close connections when they are
22172 blocked on bandwidth, to prevent busy-looping in Libevent. Fixes
22173 bug 5263; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13, where we first added a special
22174 case for flushing marked connections.
22175 - Detect SSL handshake even when the initial attempt to write the
22176 server hello fails. Fixes bug 4592; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
22177 - Change the AllowDotExit rules so they should actually work.
22178 We now enforce AllowDotExit only immediately after receiving an
22179 address via SOCKS or DNSPort: other sources are free to provide
22180 .exit addresses after the resolution occurs. Fixes bug 3940;
22181 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
22182 - Fix a (harmless) integer overflow in cell statistics reported by
22183 some fast relays. Fixes bug 5849; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
22184 - Make sure circuitbuild.c checks LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in all the
22185 right places and never depends on the consensus parameters or
22186 computes adaptive timeouts when it is disabled. Fixes bug 5049;
22187 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
22188 - When building Tor on Windows with -DUNICODE (not default), ensure
22189 that error messages, filenames, and DNS server names are always
22190 NUL-terminated when we convert them to a single-byte encoding.
22191 Fixes bug 5909; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
22192 - Make Tor build correctly again with -DUNICODE -D_UNICODE defined.
22193 Fixes bug 6097; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
22194 - Fix an edge case where TestingTorNetwork is set but the authorities
22195 and relays all have an uptime of zero, where the private Tor network
22196 could briefly lack support for hidden services. Fixes bug 3886;
22197 bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
22198 - Correct the manpage's descriptions for the default values of
22199 DirReqStatistics and ExtraInfoStatistics. Fixes bug 2865; bugfix
22201 - Fix the documentation for the --hush and --quiet command line
22202 options, which changed their behavior back in 0.2.3.3-alpha.
22203 - Fix compilation warning with clang 3.1. Fixes bug 6141; bugfix on
22207 - Rate-limit the "Weighted bandwidth is 0.000000" message, and add
22208 more information to it, so that we can track it down in case it
22209 returns again. Mitigates bug 5235.
22210 - Check CircuitBuildTimeout and LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in
22211 options_validate(); warn if LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled and
22212 CircuitBuildTimeout is set unreasonably low. Resolves ticket 5452.
22213 - Warn the user when HTTPProxy, but no other proxy type, is
22214 configured. This can cause surprising behavior: it doesn't send
22215 all of Tor's traffic over the HTTPProxy -- it sends unencrypted
22216 directory traffic only. Resolves ticket 4663.
22217 - Issue a notice if a guard completes less than 40% of your circuits.
22218 Threshold is configurable by torrc option PathBiasNoticeRate and
22219 consensus parameter pb_noticepct. There is additional, off-by-
22220 default code to disable guards which fail too many circuits.
22221 Addresses ticket 5458.
22222 - Update to the June 6 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22224 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
22225 - Remove validate_pluggable_transports_config(): its warning
22226 message is now handled by connection_or_connect().
22229 Changes in version 0.2.2.37 - 2012-06-06
22230 Tor 0.2.2.37 introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
22231 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
22235 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
22236 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
22237 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
22238 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
22239 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
22240 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
22241 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
22242 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
22243 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
22244 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
22245 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
22248 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
22249 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
22252 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
22253 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
22256 Changes in version 0.2.3.16-alpha - 2012-06-05
22257 Tor 0.2.3.16-alpha introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
22258 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
22259 currently). It also fixes a variety of smaller bugs and other cleanups
22260 that get us closer to a release candidate.
22262 o Major bugfixes (general):
22263 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
22264 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
22265 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
22266 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
22267 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
22268 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
22269 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
22270 - Pass correct OR address to managed proxies (like obfsproxy),
22271 even when ORListenAddress is used. Fixes bug 4865; bugfix on
22273 - The advertised platform of a router now includes only its operating
22274 system's name (e.g., "Linux", "Darwin", "Windows 7"), and not its
22275 service pack level (for Windows) or its CPU architecture (for Unix).
22276 We also no longer include the "git-XYZ" tag in the version. Resolves
22279 o Major bugfixes (clients):
22280 - If we are unable to find any exit that supports our predicted ports,
22281 stop calling them predicted, so that we don't loop and build
22282 hopeless circuits indefinitely. Fixes bug 3296; bugfix on 0.0.9pre6,
22283 which introduced predicted ports.
22284 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
22285 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
22286 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
22287 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
22288 - Check at each new consensus whether our entry guards were picked
22289 long enough ago that we should rotate them. Previously, we only
22290 did this check at startup, which could lead to us holding a guard
22291 indefinitely. Fixes bug 5380; bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc.
22292 - When fetching a bridge descriptor from a bridge authority,
22293 always do so anonymously, whether we have been able to open
22294 circuits or not. Partial fix for bug 1938; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
22295 This behavior makes it *safer* to use UpdateBridgesFromAuthority,
22296 but we'll need to wait for bug 6010 before it's actually usable.
22298 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
22299 - When computing weight parameters, behave more robustly in the
22300 presence of a bad bwweightscale value. Previously, the authorities
22301 would crash if they agreed on a sufficiently broken weight_scale
22302 value: now, they use a reasonable default and carry on. Partial
22303 fix for 5786; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
22304 - Check more thoroughly to prevent a rogue authority from
22305 double-voting on any consensus directory parameter. Previously,
22306 authorities would crash in this case if the total number of
22307 votes for any parameter exceeded the number of active voters,
22308 but would let it pass otherwise. Partial fix for bug 5786; bugfix
22312 - Rate-limit log messages when asked to connect anonymously to
22313 a private address. When these hit, they tended to hit fast and
22314 often. Also, don't bother trying to connect to addresses that we
22315 are sure will resolve to 127.0.0.1: getting 127.0.0.1 in a directory
22316 reply makes us think we have been lied to, even when the address the
22317 client tried to connect to was "localhost." Resolves ticket 2822.
22318 - Allow packagers to insert an extra string in server descriptor
22319 platform lines by setting the preprocessor variable TOR_BUILD_TAG.
22320 Resolves the rest of ticket 2988.
22321 - Raise the threshold of server descriptors needed (75%) and exit
22322 server descriptors needed (50%) before we will declare ourselves
22323 bootstrapped. This will make clients start building circuits a
22324 little later, but makes the initially constructed circuits less
22325 skewed and less in conflict with further directory fetches. Fixes
22327 - Close any connection that sends unrecognized junk before the
22328 handshake. Solves an issue noted in bug 4369.
22329 - Improve log messages about managed transports. Resolves ticket 5070.
22330 - Tag a bridge's descriptor as "never to be sent unencrypted".
22331 This shouldn't matter, since bridges don't open non-anonymous
22332 connections to the bridge authority and don't allow unencrypted
22333 directory connections from clients, but we might as well make
22334 sure. Closes bug 5139.
22335 - Expose our view of whether we have gone dormant to the controller,
22336 via a new "GETINFO dormant" value. Torbutton and other controllers
22337 can use this to avoid doing periodic requests through Tor while
22338 it's dormant (bug 4718). Fixes bug 5954.
22339 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
22340 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
22341 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22343 o Minor bugfixes (already included in 0.2.2.36):
22344 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
22345 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
22346 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
22347 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
22348 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
22349 Esteban Manchado Velázques.
22350 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
22351 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
22352 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
22353 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
22354 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
22355 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
22356 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
22357 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
22358 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
22359 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
22360 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
22361 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
22362 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
22364 o Minor bugfixes (coding cleanup, on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
22365 - Prevent a null-pointer dereference when receiving a data cell
22366 for a nonexistent stream when the circuit in question has an
22367 empty deliver window. We don't believe this is triggerable,
22368 since we don't currently allow deliver windows to become empty,
22369 but the logic is tricky enough that it's better to make the code
22370 robust. Fixes bug 5541; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
22371 - Fix a memory leak when trying to launch a DNS request when the
22372 network is disabled or the nameservers are unconfigurable. Fixes
22373 bug 5916; bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha (for the unconfigurable
22374 nameserver case) and on 0.2.3.9-alpha (for the DisableNetwork case).
22375 - Don't hold a Windows file handle open for every file mapping;
22376 the file mapping handle is sufficient. Fixes bug 5951; bugfix on
22378 - Avoid O(n^2) performance characteristics when parsing a large
22379 extrainfo cache. Fixes bug 5828; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22380 - Format more doubles with %f, not %lf. Patch from grarpamp to make
22381 Tor build correctly on older BSDs again. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on
22383 - Make our replacement implementation of strtok_r() compatible with
22384 the standard behavior of strtok_r(). Patch by nils. Fixes bug 5091;
22385 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
22386 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed
22387 SETCIRCUITPURPOSE command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796;
22388 bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
22389 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
22390 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
22391 - Defensively refactor rend_mid_rendezvous() so that protocol
22392 violations and length checks happen in the beginning. Fixes
22394 - Set _WIN32_WINNT to 0x0501 consistently throughout the code, so
22395 that IPv6 stuff will compile on MSVC, and compilation issues
22396 will be easier to track down. Fixes bug 5861.
22398 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
22399 - Exit nodes now correctly report EADDRINUSE and EADDRNOTAVAIL as
22400 resource exhaustion, so that clients can adjust their load to
22401 try other exits. Fixes bug 4710; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc, which
22402 started using END_STREAM_REASON_RESOURCELIMIT.
22403 - Don't check for whether the address we're using for outbound
22404 connections has changed until after the outbound connection has
22405 completed. On Windows, getsockname() doesn't succeed until the
22406 connection is finished. Fixes bug 5374; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
22407 - If the configuration tries to set MyFamily on a bridge, refuse to
22408 do so, and warn about the security implications. Fixes bug 4657;
22409 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
22410 - If the client fails to set a reasonable set of ciphersuites
22411 during its v2 handshake renegotiation, allow the renegotiation to
22412 continue nevertheless (i.e. send all the required certificates).
22413 Fixes bug 4591; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
22414 - When we receive a SIGHUP and the controller __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP
22415 option is set to 0 (which Vidalia version 0.2.16 now does when
22416 a SAVECONF attempt fails), perform other actions that SIGHUP
22417 usually causes (like reopening the logs). Fixes bug 5095; bugfix
22419 - If we fail to write a microdescriptor to the disk cache, do not
22420 continue replacing the old microdescriptor file. Fixes bug 2954;
22421 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
22422 - Exit nodes don't need to fetch certificates for authorities that
22423 they don't recognize; only directory authorities, bridges,
22424 and caches need to do that. Fixes part of bug 2297; bugfix on
22426 - Correctly handle checking the permissions on the parent
22427 directory of a control socket in the root directory. Bug found
22428 by Esteban Manchado Velázquez. Fixes bug 5089; bugfix on Tor
22430 - When told to add a bridge with the same digest as a preexisting
22431 bridge but a different addr:port, change the addr:port as
22432 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
22433 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
22434 - End AUTHCHALLENGE error messages (in the control protocol) with
22435 a CRLF. Fixes bug 5760; bugfix on 0.2.2.36 and 0.2.3.13-alpha.
22437 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
22438 - Turn an assertion (that the number of handshakes received as a
22439 server is not < 1) into a warning. Fixes bug 4873; bugfix on
22441 - Format IPv4 addresses correctly in ADDRMAP events. (Previously,
22442 we had reversed them when the answer was cached.) Fixes bug
22443 5723; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
22444 - Work correctly on Linux systems with accept4 support advertised in
22445 their headers, but without accept4 support in the kernel. Fix
22446 by murb. Fixes bug 5762; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
22447 - When told to add a bridge with the same addr:port as a preexisting
22448 bridge but a different transport, change the transport as
22449 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
22450 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
22451 - Avoid a "double-reply" warning when replying to a SOCKS request
22452 with a parse error. Patch from Fabian Keil. Fixes bug 4108;
22453 bugfix on 0.2.3.4-alpha.
22454 - Fix a bug where a bridge authority crashes if it has seen no
22455 directory requests when it's time to write statistics to disk.
22456 Fixes bug 5891; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Also fixes bug 5508 in
22458 - Don't try to open non-control listeners when DisableNetwork is set.
22459 Previously, we'd open all listeners, then immediately close them.
22460 Fixes bug 5604; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
22461 - Don't abort the managed proxy protocol if the managed proxy
22462 sends us an unrecognized line; ignore it instead. Fixes bug
22463 5910; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
22464 - Fix a compile warning in crypto.c when compiling with clang 3.1.
22465 Fixes bug 5969, bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
22466 - Fix a compilation issue on GNU Hurd, which doesn't have PATH_MAX.
22467 Fixes bug 5355; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
22468 - Remove bogus definition of "_WIN32" from src/win32/orconfig.h, to
22469 unbreak the MSVC build. Fixes bug 5858; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
22470 - Resolve numerous small warnings and build issues with MSVC. Resolves
22473 o Documentation fixes:
22474 - Improve the manual's documentation for the NT Service command-line
22475 options. Addresses ticket 3964.
22476 - Clarify SessionGroup documentation slightly; resolves ticket 5437.
22477 - Document the changes to the ORPort and DirPort options, and the
22478 fact that {OR/Dir}ListenAddress is now unnecessary (and
22479 therefore deprecated). Resolves ticket 5597.
22482 - Remove the torrc.bridge file: we don't use it for anything, and
22483 it had become badly desynchronized from torrc.sample. Resolves
22487 Changes in version 0.2.2.36 - 2012-05-24
22488 Tor 0.2.2.36 updates the addresses for two of the eight directory
22489 authorities, fixes some potential anonymity and security issues,
22490 and fixes several crash bugs.
22492 Tor 0.2.1.x has reached its end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many
22493 known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should upgrade. If
22494 you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete, stop using
22495 those packages and upgrade anyway.
22497 o Directory authority changes:
22498 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
22499 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
22503 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
22504 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
22505 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
22506 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
22507 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
22508 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
22509 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
22510 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
22511 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
22512 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
22513 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
22514 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
22515 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
22516 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
22517 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
22518 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
22519 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
22520 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
22521 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
22522 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
22523 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
22524 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
22525 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
22526 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
22527 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
22528 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
22529 this attack. Fixes bug 5185; implements proposal 193.
22532 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
22533 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
22534 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
22535 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
22537 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
22538 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
22540 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
22541 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
22542 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
22543 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
22544 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
22545 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
22546 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
22547 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
22550 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
22551 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
22552 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
22553 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
22554 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
22555 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
22556 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
22557 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
22558 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
22559 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
22560 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
22561 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
22562 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
22563 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
22564 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
22565 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
22566 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
22567 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
22568 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
22569 Esteban Manchado Velázques.
22570 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
22571 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
22572 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
22573 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
22574 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
22575 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
22576 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
22577 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
22578 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
22579 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
22580 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
22581 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
22582 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
22583 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
22584 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
22585 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
22586 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
22587 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
22588 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
22589 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
22590 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed SETCIRCUITPURPOSE
22591 command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
22592 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
22593 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
22594 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
22595 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
22597 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
22598 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
22599 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
22600 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
22601 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
22602 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
22603 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
22604 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
22605 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
22606 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
22607 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
22608 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
22609 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
22610 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
22611 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
22614 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
22615 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
22616 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
22617 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
22619 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22622 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
22623 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
22624 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
22625 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
22626 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
22627 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
22628 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
22631 Changes in version 0.2.3.15-alpha - 2012-04-30
22632 Tor 0.2.3.15-alpha fixes a variety of smaller bugs, including making
22633 the development branch build on Windows again.
22635 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
22636 - Make sure that there are no unhandled pending TLS errors before
22637 reading from a TLS stream. We had checks in 0.1.0.3-rc, but
22638 lost them in 0.1.0.5-rc when we refactored read_to_buf_tls().
22639 Bugfix on 0.1.0.5-rc; fixes bug 4528.
22640 - Fix an assert that directory authorities could trigger on sighup
22641 during some configuration state transitions. We now don't treat
22642 it as a fatal error when the new descriptor we just generated in
22643 init_keys() isn't accepted. Fixes bug 4438; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
22644 - After we pick a directory mirror, we would refuse to use it if
22645 it's in our ExcludeExitNodes list, resulting in mysterious failures
22646 to bootstrap for people who just wanted to avoid exiting from
22647 certain locations. Fixes bug 5623; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
22648 - When building with --enable-static-tor on OpenBSD, do not
22649 erroneously attempt to link -lrt. Fixes bug 5103.
22651 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
22652 - When Tor is built with kernel headers from a recent (last few
22653 years) Linux kernel, do not fail to run on older (pre-2.6.28
22654 Linux kernels). Fixes bug 5112; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
22655 - Fix cross-compilation issues with mingw. Bugfixes on 0.2.3.6-alpha
22656 and 0.2.3.12-alpha.
22657 - Fix compilation with miniupnpc version 1.6; patch from
22658 Anthony G. Basile. Fixes bug 5434; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
22659 - Fix compilation with MSVC, which had defined MS_WINDOWS. Bugfix
22660 on 0.2.3.13-alpha; found and fixed by Gisle Vanem.
22661 - Fix compilation on platforms without unistd.h, or where environ
22662 is defined in stdlib.h. Fixes bug 5704; bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
22665 - Directory authorities are now a little more lenient at accepting
22666 older router descriptors, or newer router descriptors that don't
22667 make big changes. This should help ameliorate past and future
22668 issues where routers think they have uploaded valid descriptors,
22669 but the authorities don't think so. Fix for ticket 2479.
22670 - Make the code that clients use to detect an address change be
22671 IPv6-aware, so that it won't fill clients' logs with error
22672 messages when trying to get the IPv4 address of an IPv6
22673 connection. Implements ticket 5537.
22675 o Removed features:
22676 - Remove the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays option;
22677 authorities needed to use it for a while to keep the network working
22678 as people upgraded to 0.2.1.31, 0.2.2.34, or 0.2.3.6-alpha, but
22679 that was six months ago. As of now, it should no longer be needed
22683 Changes in version 0.2.3.14-alpha - 2012-04-23
22684 Tor 0.2.3.14-alpha fixes yet more bugs to get us closer to a release
22685 candidate. It also dramatically speeds up AES: fast relays should
22686 consider switching to the newer OpenSSL library.
22688 o Directory authority changes:
22689 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
22693 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
22694 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
22695 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
22696 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
22698 - If authorities are unable to get a v2 consensus document from other
22699 directory authorities, they no longer fall back to fetching
22700 them from regular directory caches. Fixes bug 5635; bugfix on
22701 0.2.2.26-beta, where routers stopped downloading v2 consensus
22702 documents entirely.
22703 - When we start a Tor client with a normal consensus already cached,
22704 be willing to download a microdescriptor consensus. Fixes bug 4011;
22705 fix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
22707 o Major features (performance):
22708 - When built to use OpenSSL 1.0.1, and built for an x86 or x86_64
22709 instruction set, take advantage of OpenSSL's AESNI, bitsliced, or
22710 vectorized AES implementations as appropriate. These can be much,
22711 much faster than other AES implementations.
22713 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.2.x and earlier):
22714 - Don't launch more than 10 service-side introduction-point circuits
22715 for a hidden service in five minutes. Previously, we would consider
22716 launching more introduction-point circuits if at least one second
22717 had passed without any introduction-point circuits failing. Fixes
22718 bug 4607; bugfix on 0.0.7pre1.
22719 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
22720 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
22721 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
22722 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
22723 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
22724 - Enforce correct return behavior of tor_vsscanf() when the '%%'
22725 pattern is used. Fixes bug 5558. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13.
22726 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
22727 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
22728 - Don't log that we have "decided to publish new relay descriptor"
22729 unless we are actually publishing a descriptor. Fixes bug 3942;
22730 bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
22732 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.3.x):
22733 - Fix a bug where a bridge authority crashes (on a failed assert)
22734 if it has seen no directory requests when it's time to write
22735 statistics to disk. Fixes bug 5508. Bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
22736 - Fix bug stomping on ORPort option NoListen and ignoring option
22737 NoAdvertise. Fixes bug 5151; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
22738 - In the testsuite, provide a large enough buffer in the tor_sscanf
22739 unit test. Otherwise we'd overrun that buffer and crash during
22740 the unit tests. Found by weasel. Fixes bug 5449; bugfix on
22742 - Make sure we create the keys directory if it doesn't exist and we're
22743 about to store the dynamic Diffie-Hellman parameters. Fixes bug
22744 5572; bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
22745 - Fix a small memory leak when trying to decode incorrect base16
22746 authenticator during SAFECOOKIE authentication. Found by
22747 Coverity Scan. Fixes CID 507. Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
22750 - Add more information to a log statement that might help track down
22751 bug 4091. If you're seeing "Bug: tor_addr_is_internal() called with a
22752 non-IP address" messages (or any Bug messages, for that matter!),
22753 please let us know about it.
22754 - Relays now understand an IPv6 address when they get one from a
22755 directory server. Resolves ticket 4875.
22756 - Resolve IPv6 addresses in bridge and entry statistics to country
22757 code "??" which means we at least count them. Resolves ticket 5053;
22758 improves on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
22759 - Update to the April 3 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22760 - Begin a doc/state-contents.txt file to explain the contents of
22761 the Tor state file. Fixes bug 2987.
22763 o Default torrc changes:
22764 - Stop listing "socksport 9050" in torrc.sample. We open a socks
22765 port on 9050 by default anyway, so this should not change anything
22767 - Stop mentioning the deprecated *ListenAddress options in
22768 torrc.sample. Fixes bug 5438.
22769 - Document unit of bandwidth related options in sample torrc.
22772 o Removed features:
22773 - The "torify" script no longer supports the "tsocks" socksifier
22774 tool, since tsocks doesn't support DNS and UDP right for Tor.
22775 Everyone should be using torsocks instead. Fixes bugs 3530 and
22776 5180. Based on a patch by "ugh".
22778 o Code refactoring:
22779 - Change the symmetric cipher interface so that creating and
22780 initializing a stream cipher are no longer separate functions.
22781 - Remove all internal support for unpadded RSA. We never used it, and
22782 it would be a bad idea to start.
22785 Changes in version 0.2.3.13-alpha - 2012-03-26
22786 Tor 0.2.3.13-alpha fixes a variety of stability and correctness bugs
22787 in managed pluggable transports, as well as providing other cleanups
22788 that get us closer to a release candidate.
22790 o Directory authority changes:
22791 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
22794 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
22795 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
22796 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
22797 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
22798 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
22799 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
22800 this attack. Fixes bug 5185, implements proposal 193.
22801 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
22802 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
22803 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
22804 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
22805 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
22806 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
22807 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
22808 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
22809 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
22811 o Major bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.3.x):
22812 - Avoid an assert when managed proxies like obfsproxy are configured,
22813 and we receive HUP signals or setconf attempts too rapidly. This
22814 situation happens most commonly when Vidalia tries to attach to
22815 Tor or tries to configure the Tor it's attached to. Fixes bug 5084;
22816 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
22817 - Fix a relay-side pluggable transports bug where managed proxies were
22818 unreachable from the Internet, because Tor asked them to bind on
22819 localhost. Fixes bug 4725; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
22820 - Stop discarding command-line arguments when TestingTorNetwork
22821 is set. Discovered by Kevin Bauer. Fixes bug 5373; bugfix on
22822 0.2.3.9-alpha, where task 4552 added support for two layers of
22824 - Resume allowing the unit tests to run in gdb. This was accidentally
22825 made impossible when the DisableDebuggerAttachment option was
22826 introduced. Fixes bug 5448; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
22827 - Resume building with nat-pmp support. Fixes bug 4955; bugfix on
22828 0.2.3.11-alpha. Reported by Anthony G. Basile.
22830 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
22831 - Ensure we don't cannibalize circuits that are longer than three hops
22832 already, so we don't end up making circuits with 5 or more
22833 hops. Patch contributed by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 5231; bugfix on
22834 0.1.0.1-rc which introduced cannibalization.
22835 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
22836 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
22837 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
22838 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
22839 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
22840 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
22841 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
22842 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
22843 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
22844 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
22845 - Directory caches no longer refuse to clean out descriptors because
22846 of missing v2 networkstatus documents, unless they're configured
22847 to retrieve v2 networkstatus documents. Fixes bug 4838; bugfix on
22848 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch by Daniel Bryg.
22849 - Update to the latest version of the tinytest unit testing framework.
22850 This includes a couple of bugfixes that can be relevant for
22851 running forked unit tests on Windows, and removes all reserved
22854 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
22855 - On a failed pipe() call, don't leak file descriptors. Fixes bug
22856 4296; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
22857 - Spec conformance: on a v3 handshake, do not send a NETINFO cell
22858 until after we have received a CERTS cell. Fixes bug 4361; bugfix
22859 on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by "frosty".
22860 - When binding to an IPv6 address, set the IPV6_V6ONLY socket
22861 option, so that the IP stack doesn't decide to use it for IPv4
22862 too. Fixes bug 4760; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
22863 - Ensure that variables set in Tor's environment cannot override
22864 environment variables that Tor passes to a managed
22865 pluggable-transport proxy. Previously, Tor would pass every
22866 variable in its environment to managed proxies along with the new
22867 ones, in such a way that on many operating systems, the inherited
22868 environment variables would override those which Tor tried to
22869 explicitly set. Bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha for most Unixoid systems;
22870 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha for Windows.
22873 - A wide variety of new unit tests by Esteban Manchado Velázquez.
22874 - Shorten links in the tor-exit-notice file. Patch by Christian Kujau.
22875 - Update to the March 6 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22878 Changes in version 0.2.3.12-alpha - 2012-02-13
22879 Tor 0.2.3.12-alpha lets fast exit relays scale better, allows clients
22880 to use bridges that run Tor 0.2.2.x, and resolves several big bugs
22881 when Tor is configured to use a pluggable transport like obfsproxy.
22884 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
22885 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
22887 - Set the SO_REUSEADDR socket option before we call bind() on outgoing
22888 connections. This change should allow busy exit relays to stop
22889 running out of available sockets as quickly. Fixes bug 4950;
22890 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
22891 - Allow 0.2.3.x clients to use 0.2.2.x bridges. Previously the client
22892 would ask the bridge for microdescriptors, which are only supported
22893 in 0.2.3.x, and then fail to bootstrap when it didn't get the
22894 answers it wanted. Fixes bug 4013; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
22895 - Properly set up obfsproxy's environment when in managed mode. The
22896 Tor Browser Bundle needs LD_LIBRARY_PATH to be passed to obfsproxy,
22897 and when you run your Tor as a daemon, there's no HOME. Fixes bugs
22898 5076 and 5082; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
22901 - Use the dead_strip option when building Tor on OS X. This reduces
22902 binary size by almost 19% when linking openssl and libevent
22903 statically, which we do for Tor Browser Bundle.
22904 - Fix broken URLs in the sample torrc file, and tell readers about
22905 the OutboundBindAddress, ExitPolicyRejectPrivate, and
22906 PublishServerDescriptor options. Addresses bug 4652.
22907 - Update to the February 7 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22910 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
22911 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
22912 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
22913 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
22914 - Don't put "TOR_PT_EXTENDED_SERVER_PORT=127.0.0.1:4200" in a
22915 managed pluggable transport server proxy's environment.
22916 Previously, we would put it there, even though Tor doesn't
22917 implement an 'extended server port' yet, and even though Tor
22918 almost certainly isn't listening at that address. For now, we set
22919 it to an empty string to avoid crashing older obfsproxies. Bugfix
22921 - Log the heartbeat message every HeartbeatPeriod seconds, not every
22922 HeartbeatPeriod + 1 seconds. Fixes bug 4942; bugfix on
22923 0.2.3.1-alpha. Bug reported by Scott Bennett.
22924 - Calculate absolute paths correctly on Windows. Fixes bug 4973;
22925 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
22926 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
22927 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
22928 - Use the correct CVE number for CVE-2011-4576 in our comments and
22929 log messages. Found by "fermenthor". Resolves bug 5066; bugfix on
22932 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
22933 - Use the _WIN32 macro throughout our code to detect Windows.
22934 (Previously we had used the obsolete 'WIN32' and the idiosyncratic
22938 Changes in version 0.2.3.11-alpha - 2012-01-22
22939 Tor 0.2.3.11-alpha marks feature-freeze for the 0.2.3 tree. It deploys
22940 the last step of the plan to limit maximum circuit length, includes
22941 a wide variety of hidden service performance and correctness fixes,
22942 works around an OpenSSL security flaw if your distro is too stubborn
22943 to upgrade, and fixes a bunch of smaller issues.
22946 - Now that Tor 0.2.0.x is completely deprecated, enable the final
22947 part of "Proposal 110: Avoiding infinite length circuits" by
22948 refusing all circuit-extend requests that do not use a relay_early
22949 cell. This change helps Tor resist a class of denial-of-service
22950 attacks by limiting the maximum circuit length.
22951 - Adjust the number of introduction points that a hidden service
22952 will try to maintain based on how long its introduction points
22953 remain in use and how many introductions they handle. Fixes
22955 - Try to use system facilities for enumerating local interface
22956 addresses, before falling back to our old approach (which was
22957 binding a UDP socket, and calling getsockname() on it). That
22958 approach was scaring OS X users whose draconian firewall
22959 software warned about binding to UDP sockets, regardless of
22960 whether packets were sent. Now we try to use getifaddrs(),
22961 SIOCGIFCONF, or GetAdaptersAddresses(), depending on what the
22962 system supports. Resolves ticket 1827.
22964 o Major security workaround:
22965 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
22966 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
22967 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
22968 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
22969 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
22970 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
22971 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
22972 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
22973 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
22974 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
22975 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
22978 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
22979 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
22980 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
22981 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
22982 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
22983 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
22984 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
22985 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha and 0.2.3.1-alpha.
22986 - Do not use OpenSSL 1.0.0's counter mode: it has a critical bug
22987 that was fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.0a. We test for the counter mode
22988 bug at runtime, not compile time, because some distributions hack
22989 their OpenSSL to mis-report its version. Fixes bug 4779; bugfix
22990 on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Found by Pascal.
22992 o Minor features (controller):
22993 - Use absolute path names when reporting the torrc filename in the
22994 control protocol, so a controller can more easily find the torrc
22995 file. Resolves bug 1101.
22996 - Extend the control protocol to report flags that control a circuit's
22997 path selection in CIRC events and in replies to 'GETINFO
22998 circuit-status'. Implements part of ticket 2411.
22999 - Extend the control protocol to report the hidden service address
23000 and current state of a hidden-service-related circuit in CIRC
23001 events and in replies to 'GETINFO circuit-status'. Implements part
23003 - When reporting the path to the cookie file to the controller,
23004 give an absolute path. Resolves ticket 4881.
23005 - Allow controllers to request an event notification whenever a
23006 circuit is cannibalized or its purpose is changed. Implements
23007 part of ticket 3457.
23008 - Include the creation time of a circuit in CIRC and CIRC2
23009 control-port events and the list produced by the 'GETINFO
23010 circuit-status' control-port command.
23012 o Minor features (directory authorities):
23013 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
23014 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
23015 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
23016 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
23018 - Authority operators can now vote for all relays in a given
23019 set of countries to be BadDir/BadExit/Invalid/Rejected.
23020 - Provide two consensus parameters (FastFlagMinThreshold and
23021 FastFlagMaxThreshold) to control the range of allowable bandwidths
23022 for the Fast directory flag. These allow authorities to run
23023 experiments on appropriate requirements for being a "Fast" node.
23024 The AuthDirFastGuarantee config value still applies. Implements
23026 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
23027 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
23029 o Minor features (other):
23030 - Don't disable the DirPort when we cannot exceed our AccountingMax
23031 limit during this interval because the effective bandwidthrate is
23032 low enough. This is useful in a situation where AccountMax is only
23033 used as an additional safeguard or to provide statistics.
23034 - Prepend an informative header to generated dynamic_dh_params files.
23035 - If EntryNodes are given, but UseEntryGuards is set to 0, warn that
23036 EntryNodes will have no effect. Resolves issue 2571.
23037 - Log more useful messages when we fail to disable debugger
23039 - Log which authority we're missing votes from when we go to fetch
23040 them from the other auths.
23041 - Log (at debug level) whenever a circuit's purpose is changed.
23042 - Add missing documentation for the MaxClientCircuitsPending,
23043 UseMicrodescriptors, UserspaceIOCPBuffers, and
23044 _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents options, all introduced during
23045 the 0.2.3.x series.
23046 - Update to the January 3 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
23048 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
23049 - Don't close hidden service client circuits which have almost
23050 finished connecting to their destination when they reach
23051 the normal circuit-build timeout. Previously, we would close
23052 introduction circuits which are waiting for an acknowledgement
23053 from the introduction point, and rendezvous circuits which have
23054 been specified in an INTRODUCE1 cell sent to a hidden service,
23055 after the normal CBT. Now, we mark them as 'timed out', and launch
23056 another rendezvous attempt in parallel. This behavior change can
23057 be disabled using the new CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout
23058 option. Fixes part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
23059 - Don't close hidden-service-side rendezvous circuits when they
23060 reach the normal circuit-build timeout. This behavior change can
23061 be disabled using the new
23062 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout option. Fixes the
23063 remaining part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
23064 - Make sure we never mark the wrong rendezvous circuit as having
23065 had its introduction cell acknowledged by the introduction-point
23066 relay. Previously, when we received an INTRODUCE_ACK cell on a
23067 client-side hidden-service introduction circuit, we might have
23068 marked a rendezvous circuit other than the one we specified in
23069 the INTRODUCE1 cell as INTRO_ACKED, which would have produced
23070 a warning message and interfered with the hidden service
23071 connection-establishment process. Fixes bug 4759; bugfix on
23072 0.2.3.3-alpha, when we added the stream-isolation feature which
23073 might cause Tor to open multiple rendezvous circuits for the same
23075 - Don't trigger an assertion failure when we mark a new client-side
23076 hidden-service introduction circuit for close during the process
23077 of creating it. Fixes bug 4796; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported
23080 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
23081 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
23082 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta and
23084 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
23085 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
23086 - Fix the log message describing how we work around discovering
23087 that our version is the ill-fated OpenSSL 0.9.8l. Fixes bug
23088 4837; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
23089 - When logging about a disallowed .exit name, do not also call it
23090 an "invalid onion address". Fixes bug 3325; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
23092 o Minor bugfixes (build fixes):
23093 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
23094 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
23095 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
23096 - During configure, search for library containing cos function as
23097 libm lives in libcore on some platforms (BeOS/Haiku). Linking
23098 against libm was hard-coded before. Fixes the first part of bug
23099 4727; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin Hebnes
23101 - Detect attempts to build Tor on (as yet hypothetical) versions
23102 of Windows where sizeof(intptr_t) != sizeof(SOCKET). Partial
23103 fix for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
23104 - Preprocessor directives should not be put inside the arguments
23105 of a macro. This would break compilation with GCC releases prior
23106 to version 3.3. We would never recommend such an old GCC version,
23107 but it is apparently required for binary compatibility on some
23108 platforms (namely, certain builds of Haiku). Fixes the other part
23109 of bug 4727; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin
23112 o Minor bugfixes (other):
23113 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
23114 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
23115 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
23116 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
23117 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
23118 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
23119 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
23120 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
23121 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un". This was
23122 erroneously listed as fixed in 0.2.3.9-alpha, but the fix had
23123 accidentally been reverted.
23124 - Fix our implementation of crypto_random_hostname() so it can't
23125 overflow on ridiculously large inputs. (No Tor version has ever
23126 provided this kind of bad inputs, but let's be correct in depth.)
23127 Fixes bug 4413; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Fix by Stephen Palmateer.
23128 - Find more places in the code that should have been testing for
23129 invalid sockets using the SOCKET_OK macro. Required for a fix
23130 for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
23131 - Fix an assertion failure when, while running with bufferevents, a
23132 connection finishes connecting after it is marked for close, but
23133 before it is closed. Fixes bug 4697; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
23134 - test_util_spawn_background_ok() hardcoded the expected value
23135 for ENOENT to 2. This isn't portable as error numbers are
23136 platform specific, and particularly the hurd has ENOENT at
23137 0x40000002. Construct expected string at runtime, using the correct
23138 value for ENOENT. Fixes bug 4733; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
23139 - Reject attempts to disable DisableDebuggerAttachment while Tor is
23140 running. Fixes bug 4650; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
23141 - Use an appropriate-width type for sockets in tor-fw-helper on
23142 win64. Fixes bug 1983 at last. Bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
23145 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
23146 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
23147 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
23148 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
23149 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
23150 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
23151 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
23153 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
23154 - Use OpenSSL's built-in SSL_state_string_long() instead of our
23155 own homebrewed ssl_state_to_string() replacement. Patch from
23156 Emile Snyder. Fixes bug 4653.
23157 - Use macros to indicate OpenSSL versions, so we don't need to worry
23158 about accidental hexadecimal bit shifts.
23159 - Remove some workaround code for OpenSSL 0.9.6 (which is no longer
23161 - Convert more instances of tor_snprintf+tor_strdup into tor_asprintf.
23162 - Use the smartlist_add_asprintf() alias more consistently.
23163 - Use a TOR_INVALID_SOCKET macro when initializing a socket to an
23164 invalid value, rather than just -1.
23165 - Rename a handful of old identifiers, mostly related to crypto
23166 structures and crypto functions. By convention, our "create an
23167 object" functions are called "type_new()", our "free an object"
23168 functions are called "type_free()", and our types indicate that
23169 they are types only with a final "_t". But a handful of older
23170 types and functions broke these rules, with function names like
23171 "type_create" or "subsystem_op_type", or with type names like
23175 Changes in version 0.2.3.10-alpha - 2011-12-16
23176 Tor 0.2.3.10-alpha fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in
23177 Tor's buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
23179 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
23180 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
23181 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
23182 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
23183 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
23184 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
23185 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
23186 (which Tor does not do by default).
23188 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
23189 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
23190 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
23191 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
23192 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
23194 This release also contains a few minor bugfixes for issues discovered
23198 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
23199 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
23200 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
23201 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
23204 - If we can't attach streams to a rendezvous circuit when we
23205 finish connecting to a hidden service, clear the rendezvous
23206 circuit's stream-isolation state and try to attach streams
23207 again. Previously, we cleared rendezvous circuits' isolation
23208 state either too early (if they were freshly built) or not at all
23209 (if they had been built earlier and were cannibalized). Bugfix on
23210 0.2.3.3-alpha; fixes bug 4655.
23211 - Fix compilation of the libnatpmp helper on non-Windows. Bugfix on
23212 0.2.3.9-alpha; fixes bug 4691. Reported by Anthony G. Basile.
23213 - Fix an assertion failure when a relay with accounting enabled
23214 starts up while dormant. Fixes bug 4702; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
23217 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
23220 Changes in version 0.2.2.35 - 2011-12-16
23221 Tor 0.2.2.35 fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in Tor's
23222 buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
23224 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
23225 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
23226 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
23227 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
23228 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
23229 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
23230 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
23231 (which Tor does not do by default).
23233 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
23234 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
23235 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
23236 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
23237 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
23239 Tor 0.2.2.35 also fixes several bugs in previous versions, including
23240 crash bugs for unusual configurations, and a long-term bug that
23241 would prevent Tor from starting on Windows machines with draconian
23244 With this release, we remind everyone that 0.2.0.x has reached its
23245 formal end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many known flaws, and
23246 nobody should be using them. You should upgrade -- ideally to the
23247 0.2.2.x series. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are
23248 obsolete, stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
23250 The Tor 0.2.1.x series is also approaching its end-of-life: it will no
23251 longer receive support after some time in early 2012.
23254 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
23255 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
23256 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
23257 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
23258 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
23259 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
23260 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
23261 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
23263 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
23264 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
23265 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
23266 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
23267 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
23268 close based on processing a cell on it.
23269 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
23270 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
23271 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
23272 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
23273 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
23274 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
23275 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
23276 - Don't crash when we're running as a relay and don't have a GeoIP
23277 file. Bugfix on 0.2.2.34; fixes bug 4340. This backports a fix
23278 we've had in the 0.2.3.x branch already.
23279 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
23280 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
23281 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
23282 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
23283 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34.
23286 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
23287 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
23288 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
23289 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
23290 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
23291 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
23292 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
23294 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
23295 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
23296 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
23297 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
23298 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
23299 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
23300 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
23301 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
23302 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
23303 - Fix a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
23304 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
23305 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
23306 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
23307 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
23308 - Backport fixes for a pair of compilation warnings on Windows.
23309 Fixes bug 4521; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta and on 0.2.2.29-beta.
23310 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str on an address of
23311 unknown type, we would have done a strdup on an uninitialized
23312 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
23313 Reported by "troll_un".
23314 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
23315 tor_addr_lookup. Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
23316 Reported by "troll_un".
23317 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
23318 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
23319 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
23320 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
23323 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
23324 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
23325 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
23326 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
23327 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
23328 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
23329 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
23330 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
23331 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
23332 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
23333 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
23335 o Packaging changes:
23336 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
23337 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
23340 Changes in version 0.2.1.32 - 2011-12-16
23341 Tor 0.2.1.32 backports important security and privacy fixes for
23342 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
23343 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
23344 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
23346 The Tor 0.2.1.x series will reach formal end-of-life some time in
23347 early 2012; we will stop releasing patches for it then.
23349 o Major bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
23350 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
23351 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
23352 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
23353 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
23354 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
23355 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
23356 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
23357 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
23360 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
23363 Changes in version 0.2.3.9-alpha - 2011-12-08
23364 Tor 0.2.3.9-alpha introduces initial IPv6 support for bridges, adds
23365 a "DisableNetwork" security feature that bundles can use to avoid
23366 touching the network until bridges are configured, moves forward on
23367 the pluggable transport design, fixes a flaw in the hidden service
23368 design that unnecessarily prevented clients with wrong clocks from
23369 reaching hidden services, and fixes a wide variety of other issues.
23372 - Clients can now connect to private bridges over IPv6. Bridges
23373 still need at least one IPv4 address in order to connect to
23374 other relays. Note that we don't yet handle the case where the
23375 user has two bridge lines for the same bridge (one IPv4, one
23376 IPv6). Implements parts of proposal 186.
23377 - New "DisableNetwork" config option to prevent Tor from launching any
23378 connections or accepting any connections except on a control port.
23379 Bundles and controllers can set this option before letting Tor talk
23380 to the rest of the network, for example to prevent any connections
23381 to a non-bridge address. Packages like Orbot can also use this
23382 option to instruct Tor to save power when the network is off.
23383 - Clients and bridges can now be configured to use a separate
23384 "transport" proxy. This approach makes the censorship arms race
23385 easier by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation plugins. It
23386 implements the "managed proxy" part of proposal 180 (ticket 3472).
23387 - When using OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, use OpenSSL's counter mode
23388 implementation. It makes AES_CTR about 7% faster than our old one
23389 (which was about 10% faster than the one OpenSSL used to provide).
23390 Resolves ticket 4526.
23391 - Add a "tor2web mode" for clients that want to connect to hidden
23392 services non-anonymously (and possibly more quickly). As a safety
23393 measure to try to keep users from turning this on without knowing
23394 what they are doing, tor2web mode must be explicitly enabled at
23395 compile time, and a copy of Tor compiled to run in tor2web mode
23396 cannot be used as a normal Tor client. Implements feature 2553.
23397 - Add experimental support for running on Windows with IOCP and no
23398 kernel-space socket buffers. This feature is controlled by a new
23399 "UserspaceIOCPBuffers" config option (off by default), which has
23400 no effect unless Tor has been built with support for bufferevents,
23401 is running on Windows, and has enabled IOCP. This may, in the long
23402 run, help solve or mitigate bug 98.
23403 - Use a more secure consensus parameter voting algorithm. Now at
23404 least three directory authorities or a majority of them must
23405 vote on a given parameter before it will be included in the
23406 consensus. Implements proposal 178.
23409 - Hidden services now ignore the timestamps on INTRODUCE2 cells.
23410 They used to check that the timestamp was within 30 minutes
23411 of their system clock, so they could cap the size of their
23412 replay-detection cache, but that approach unnecessarily refused
23413 service to clients with wrong clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha, when
23414 the v3 intro-point protocol (the first one which sent a timestamp
23415 field in the INTRODUCE2 cell) was introduced; fixes bug 3460.
23416 - Only use the EVP interface when AES acceleration is enabled,
23417 to avoid a 5-7% performance regression. Resolves issue 4525;
23418 bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
23420 o Privacy/anonymity features (bridge detection):
23421 - Make bridge SSL certificates a bit more stealthy by using random
23422 serial numbers, in the same fashion as OpenSSL when generating
23423 self-signed certificates. Implements ticket 4584.
23424 - Introduce a new config option "DynamicDHGroups", enabled by
23425 default, which provides each bridge with a unique prime DH modulus
23426 to be used during SSL handshakes. This option attempts to help
23427 against censors who might use the Apache DH modulus as a static
23428 identifier for bridges. Addresses ticket 4548.
23430 o Minor features (new/different config options):
23431 - New configuration option "DisableDebuggerAttachment" (on by default)
23432 to prevent basic debugging attachment attempts by other processes.
23433 Supports Mac OS X and Gnu/Linux. Resolves ticket 3313.
23434 - Allow MapAddress directives to specify matches against super-domains,
23435 as in "MapAddress *.torproject.org *.torproject.org.torserver.exit".
23436 Implements issue 933.
23437 - Slightly change behavior of "list" options (that is, config
23438 options that can appear more than once) when they appear both in
23439 torrc and on the command line. Previously, the command-line options
23440 would be appended to the ones from torrc. Now, the command-line
23441 options override the torrc options entirely. This new behavior
23442 allows the user to override list options (like exit policies and
23443 ports to listen on) from the command line, rather than simply
23444 appending to the list.
23445 - You can get the old (appending) command-line behavior for "list"
23446 options by prefixing the option name with a "+".
23447 - You can remove all the values for a "list" option from the command
23448 line without adding any new ones by prefixing the option name
23450 - Add experimental support for a "defaults" torrc file to be parsed
23451 before the regular torrc. Torrc options override the defaults file's
23452 options in the same way that the command line overrides the torrc.
23453 The SAVECONF controller command saves only those options which
23454 differ between the current configuration and the defaults file. HUP
23455 reloads both files. (Note: This is an experimental feature; its
23456 behavior will probably be refined in future 0.2.3.x-alpha versions
23457 to better meet packagers' needs.) Implements task 4552.
23460 - Try to make the introductory warning message that Tor prints on
23461 startup more useful for actually finding help and information.
23462 Resolves ticket 2474.
23463 - Running "make version" now displays the version of Tor that
23464 we're about to build. Idea from katmagic; resolves issue 4400.
23465 - Expire old or over-used hidden service introduction points.
23466 Required by fix for bug 3460.
23467 - Move the replay-detection cache for the RSA-encrypted parts of
23468 INTRODUCE2 cells to the introduction point data structures.
23469 Previously, we would use one replay-detection cache per hidden
23470 service. Required by fix for bug 3460.
23471 - Reduce the lifetime of elements of hidden services' Diffie-Hellman
23472 public key replay-detection cache from 60 minutes to 5 minutes. This
23473 replay-detection cache is now used only to detect multiple
23474 INTRODUCE2 cells specifying the same rendezvous point, so we can
23475 avoid launching multiple simultaneous attempts to connect to it.
23477 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.2.x and earlier):
23478 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
23479 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
23481 - Fix a minor formatting issue in one of tor-gencert's error messages.
23483 - Prevent a false positive from the check-spaces script, by disabling
23484 the "whitespace between function name and (" check for functions
23486 - Fix a log message suggesting that people contact a non-existent
23487 email address. Fixes bug 3448.
23488 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
23489 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
23490 - Report a real bootstrap problem to the controller on router
23491 identity mismatch. Previously we just said "foo", which probably
23492 made a lot of sense at the time. Fixes bug 4169; bugfix on
23494 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str() on an address of
23495 unknown type, we would have done a strdup() on an uninitialized
23496 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
23497 Reported by "troll_un".
23498 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
23499 tor_addr_lookup(). Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
23500 Reported by "troll_un".
23501 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
23502 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
23503 - Initialize conn->addr to a valid state in spawn_cpuworker(). Fixes
23504 bug 4532; found by "troll_un".
23506 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.3.x):
23507 - Fix a compile warning in tor_inet_pton(). Bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha;
23509 - Don't send two ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cells when opening a new
23510 circuit for use as a hidden service client's rendezvous point.
23511 Fixes bugs 4641 and 4171; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Diagnosed
23512 with help from wanoskarnet.
23513 - Restore behavior of overriding SocksPort, ORPort, and similar
23514 options from the command line. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
23517 - Properly handle the case where the build-tree is not the same
23518 as the source tree when generating src/common/common_sha1.i,
23519 src/or/micro-revision.i, and src/or/or_sha1.i. Fixes bug 3953;
23520 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23522 o Code simplifications, cleanups, and refactorings:
23523 - Remove the pure attribute from all functions that used it
23524 previously. In many cases we assigned it incorrectly, because the
23525 functions might assert or call impure functions, and we don't have
23526 evidence that keeping the pure attribute is worthwhile. Implements
23527 changes suggested in ticket 4421.
23528 - Remove some dead code spotted by coverity. Fixes cid 432.
23529 Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha, closes bug 4637.
23532 Changes in version 0.2.3.8-alpha - 2011-11-22
23533 Tor 0.2.3.8-alpha fixes some crash and assert bugs, including a
23534 socketpair-related bug that has been bothering Windows users. It adds
23535 support to serve microdescriptors to controllers, so Vidalia's network
23536 map can resume listing relays (once Vidalia implements its side),
23537 and adds better support for hardware AES acceleration. Finally, it
23538 starts the process of adjusting the bandwidth cutoff for getting the
23539 "Fast" flag from 20KB to (currently) 32KB -- preliminary results show
23540 that tiny relays harm performance more than they help network capacity.
23543 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
23544 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
23545 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
23546 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
23548 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
23549 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
23550 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
23551 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
23552 - Remove the artificially low cutoff of 20KB to guarantee the Fast
23553 flag. In the past few years the average relay speed has picked
23554 up, and while the "top 7/8 of the network get the Fast flag" and
23555 "all relays with 20KB or more of capacity get the Fast flag" rules
23556 used to have the same result, now the top 7/8 of the network has
23557 a capacity more like 32KB. Bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc. Fixes bug 4489.
23558 - Fix a rare assertion failure when checking whether a v0 hidden
23559 service descriptor has any usable introduction points left, and
23560 we don't have enough information to build a circuit to the first
23561 intro point named in the descriptor. The HS client code in
23562 0.2.3.x no longer uses v0 HS descriptors, but this assertion can
23563 trigger on (and crash) v0 HS authorities. Fixes bug 4411.
23564 Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha; diagnosed by frosty_un.
23565 - Make bridge authorities not crash when they are asked for their own
23566 descriptor. Bugfix on 0.2.3.7-alpha, reported by Lucky Green.
23567 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
23568 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
23569 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
23570 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
23571 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34 and 0.2.3.7-alpha.
23574 - Allow Tor controllers like Vidalia to obtain the microdescriptor
23575 for a relay by identity digest or nickname. Previously,
23576 microdescriptors were only available by their own digests, so a
23577 controller would have to ask for and parse the whole microdescriptor
23578 consensus in order to look up a single relay's microdesc. Fixes
23579 bug 3832; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
23580 - Use OpenSSL's EVP interface for AES encryption, so that all AES
23581 operations can use hardware acceleration (if present). Resolves
23584 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
23585 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
23586 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
23587 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
23588 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
23589 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
23590 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
23591 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
23592 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
23593 - Allow manual 'authenticate' commands to the controller interface
23594 from netcat (nc) as well as telnet. We were rejecting them because
23595 they didn't come with the expected whitespace at the end of the
23596 command. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 2893.
23597 - Fix some (not actually triggerable) buffer size checks in usage of
23598 tor_inet_ntop. Fixes bug 4434; bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch
23600 - Fix parsing of some corner-cases with tor_inet_pton(). Fixes
23601 bug 4515; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fix by Anders Sundman.
23602 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
23603 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
23604 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
23605 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
23606 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
23607 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
23608 - Rename the bench_{aes,dmap} functions to test_*, so that tinytest
23609 can pick them up when the tests aren't disabled. Bugfix on
23610 0.2.2.4-alpha which introduced tinytest.
23611 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
23612 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
23613 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
23614 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
23615 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
23616 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
23618 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
23619 - Make util unit tests build correctly with MSVC. Bugfix on
23620 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Gisle Vanem.
23621 - Successfully detect AUTH_CHALLENGE cells with no recognized
23622 authentication type listed. Fixes bug 4367; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
23623 Found by frosty_un.
23624 - If a relay receives an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell it can't answer,
23625 it should still send a NETINFO cell to allow the connection to
23626 become open. Fixes bug 4368; fix on 0.2.3.6-alpha; bug found by
23628 - Log less loudly when we get an invalid authentication certificate
23629 from a source other than a directory authority: it's not unusual
23630 to see invalid certs because of clock skew. Fixes bug 4370; bugfix
23632 - Tolerate servers with more clock skew in their authentication
23633 certificates than previously. Fixes bug 4371; bugfix on
23635 - Fix a couple of compile warnings on Windows. Fixes bug 4469; bugfix
23636 on 0.2.3.4-alpha and 0.2.3.6-alpha.
23639 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
23640 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
23641 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
23642 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
23643 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
23644 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
23645 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
23646 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
23647 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
23648 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
23649 - When we fail to initialize Libevent, retry with IOCP disabled so we
23650 don't need to turn on multi-threading support in Libevent, which in
23651 turn requires a working socketpair(). This is a workaround for bug
23652 4457, which affects Libevent versions from 2.0.1-alpha through
23654 - Detect when we try to build on a platform that doesn't define
23655 AF_UNSPEC to 0. We don't work there, so refuse to compile.
23656 - Update to the November 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
23658 o Packaging changes:
23659 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
23660 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
23662 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
23663 - Remove some redundant #include directives throughout the code.
23664 Patch from Andrea Gelmini.
23665 - Unconditionally use OpenSSL's AES implementation instead of our
23666 old built-in one. OpenSSL's AES has been better for a while, and
23667 relatively few servers should still be on any version of OpenSSL
23668 that doesn't have good optimized assembly AES.
23669 - Use the name "CERTS" consistently to refer to the new cell type;
23670 we were calling it CERT in some places and CERTS in others.
23673 - Numerous new unit tests for functions in util.c and address.c by
23675 - The long-disabled benchmark tests are now split into their own
23676 ./src/test/bench binary.
23677 - The benchmark tests can now use more accurate timers than
23678 gettimeofday() when such timers are available.
23681 Changes in version 0.2.3.7-alpha - 2011-10-30
23682 Tor 0.2.3.7-alpha fixes a crash bug in 0.2.3.6-alpha introduced by
23683 the new v3 handshake. It also resolves yet another bridge address
23687 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
23688 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
23689 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
23690 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
23691 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
23692 close based on processing a cell on it.
23693 - Fix a double-free bug that would occur when we received an invalid
23694 certificate in a CERT cell in the new v3 handshake. Fixes bug 4343;
23695 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
23696 - Bridges no longer include their address in NETINFO cells on outgoing
23697 OR connections, to allow them to blend in better with clients.
23698 Removes another avenue for enumerating bridges. Reported by
23699 "troll_un". Fixes bug 4348; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha, when NETINFO
23700 cells were introduced.
23703 - Fixed a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
23704 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
23707 Changes in version 0.2.3.6-alpha - 2011-10-26
23708 Tor 0.2.3.6-alpha includes the fix from 0.2.2.34 for a critical
23709 anonymity vulnerability where an attacker can deanonymize Tor
23710 users. Everybody should upgrade.
23712 This release also features support for a new v3 connection handshake
23713 protocol, and fixes to make hidden service connections more robust.
23716 - Implement a new handshake protocol (v3) for authenticating Tors to
23717 each other over TLS. It should be more resistant to fingerprinting
23718 than previous protocols, and should require less TLS hacking for
23719 future Tor implementations. Implements proposal 176.
23720 - Allow variable-length padding cells to disguise the length of
23721 Tor's TLS records. Implements part of proposal 184.
23723 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
23724 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
23725 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
23726 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
23727 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
23728 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
23729 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
23730 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
23731 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
23732 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
23733 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
23734 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
23735 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
23736 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
23737 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
23738 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
23739 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
23740 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
23743 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
23744 - Improve hidden service robustness: when an attempt to connect to
23745 a hidden service ends, be willing to refetch its hidden service
23746 descriptors from each of the HSDir relays responsible for them
23747 immediately. Previously, we would not consider refetching the
23748 service's descriptors from each HSDir for 15 minutes after the last
23749 fetch, which was inconvenient if the hidden service was not running
23750 during the first attempt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 3335.
23751 - When one of a hidden service's introduction points appears to be
23752 unreachable, stop trying it. Previously, we would keep trying
23753 to build circuits to the introduction point until we lost the
23754 descriptor, usually because the user gave up and restarted Tor.
23755 Partly fixes bug 3825.
23756 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
23757 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
23758 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
23759 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
23760 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
23761 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
23762 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
23764 o Major bugfixes (other):
23765 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
23766 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
23767 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
23768 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
23769 Found by "frosty_un".
23770 - Don't update the AccountingSoftLimitHitAt state file entry whenever
23771 tor gets started. This prevents a wrong average bandwidth
23772 estimate, which would cause relays to always start a new accounting
23773 interval at the earliest possible moment. Fixes bug 2003; bugfix
23774 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Reported by BryonEldridge, who also helped
23775 immensely in tracking this bug down.
23776 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
23777 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
23780 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
23781 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
23782 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
23783 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
23784 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
23785 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
23786 - Rephrase the log message emitted if the TestSocks check is
23787 successful. Patch from Fabian Keil; fixes bug 4094.
23788 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
23789 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
23790 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
23791 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
23792 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
23793 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
23794 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
23795 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
23796 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
23797 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
23798 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
23799 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
23800 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
23802 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
23803 - Fix a bug in configure.in that kept it from building a configure
23804 script with autoconf versions earlier than 2.61. Fixes bug 2430;
23805 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
23806 - Don't warn users that they are exposing a client port to the
23807 Internet if they have specified an RFC1918 address. Previously,
23808 we would warn if the user had specified any non-loopback
23809 address. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Fixes bug 4018; reported by Tas.
23810 - Fix memory leaks in the failing cases of the new SocksPort and
23811 ControlPort code. Found by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha;
23812 fixes coverity CIDs 485, 486, and 487.
23815 - When a hidden service's introduction point times out, consider
23816 trying it again during the next attempt to connect to the
23817 HS. Previously, we would not try it again unless a newly fetched
23818 descriptor contained it. Required by fixes for bugs 1297 and 3825.
23819 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
23820 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
23821 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
23822 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
23823 - The Bridge Authority now writes statistics on how many bridge
23824 descriptors it gave out in total, and how many unique descriptors
23825 it gave out. It also lists how often the most and least commonly
23826 fetched descriptors were given out, as well as the median and
23827 25th/75th percentile. Implements tickets 4200 and 4294.
23828 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
23830 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
23831 - Remove some old code to remember statistics about which descriptors
23832 we've served as a directory mirror. The feature wasn't used and
23833 is outdated now that microdescriptors are around.
23834 - Rename Tor functions that turn strings into addresses, so that
23835 "parse" indicates that no hostname resolution occurs, and
23836 "lookup" indicates that hostname resolution may occur. This
23837 should help prevent mistakes in the future. Fixes bug 3512.
23840 Changes in version 0.2.2.34 - 2011-10-26
23841 Tor 0.2.2.34 fixes a critical anonymity vulnerability where an attacker
23842 can deanonymize Tor users. Everybody should upgrade.
23844 The attack relies on four components: 1) Clients reuse their TLS cert
23845 when talking to different relays, so relays can recognize a user by
23846 the identity key in her cert. 2) An attacker who knows the client's
23847 identity key can probe each guard relay to see if that identity key
23848 is connected to that guard relay right now. 3) A variety of active
23849 attacks in the literature (starting from "Low-Cost Traffic Analysis
23850 of Tor" by Murdoch and Danezis in 2005) allow a malicious website to
23851 discover the guard relays that a Tor user visiting the website is using.
23852 4) Clients typically pick three guards at random, so the set of guards
23853 for a given user could well be a unique fingerprint for her. This
23854 release fixes components #1 and #2, which is enough to block the attack;
23855 the other two remain as open research problems. Special thanks to
23856 "frosty_un" for reporting the issue to us!
23858 Clients should upgrade so they are no longer recognizable by the TLS
23859 certs they present. Relays should upgrade so they no longer allow a
23860 remote attacker to probe them to test whether unpatched clients are
23861 currently connected to them.
23863 This release also fixes several vulnerabilities that allow an attacker
23864 to enumerate bridge relays. Some bridge enumeration attacks still
23865 remain; see for example proposal 188.
23867 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
23868 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
23869 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
23870 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
23871 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
23872 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
23873 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
23874 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
23875 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
23876 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
23877 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
23878 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
23879 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
23880 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
23881 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
23882 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
23883 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
23884 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
23887 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (bridge enumeration):
23888 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
23889 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
23890 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
23891 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
23892 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
23893 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
23894 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
23895 when bridges were introduced.
23896 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
23897 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
23898 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
23899 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
23900 Found by "frosty_un".
23903 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
23904 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
23906 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
23907 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
23908 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
23909 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
23910 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
23911 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
23912 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
23915 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
23916 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
23917 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
23918 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
23919 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
23920 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
23921 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
23922 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
23923 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
23924 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
23925 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
23926 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
23927 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
23928 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
23929 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
23930 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
23931 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
23932 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
23934 o Minor bugfixes (log messages and documentation):
23935 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
23936 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
23937 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
23938 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
23939 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
23940 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
23941 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
23942 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
23943 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
23944 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
23945 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
23948 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
23949 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
23950 Backported from 0.2.3.1-alpha; implements ticket 3951.
23951 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
23954 Changes in version 0.2.1.31 - 2011-10-26
23955 Tor 0.2.1.31 backports important security and privacy fixes for
23956 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
23957 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
23958 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
23960 o Security fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
23961 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
23962 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
23963 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
23964 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
23965 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
23966 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
23967 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
23968 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
23969 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
23971 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
23972 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
23973 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
23974 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
23975 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
23976 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
23977 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
23978 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
23979 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
23980 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
23981 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
23982 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
23983 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
23984 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
23985 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
23986 Found by "frosty_un".
23987 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
23988 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
23989 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
23990 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
23991 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
23992 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
23993 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
23994 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
23995 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
23996 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
23997 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
23998 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
23999 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
24000 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
24001 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
24002 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
24003 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
24004 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
24005 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
24007 o Minor bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
24008 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
24009 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
24010 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
24011 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
24012 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
24013 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
24014 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
24016 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
24017 enabled. Fixes bug 1526.
24018 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
24019 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
24020 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
24021 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
24022 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
24023 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
24024 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
24025 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
24026 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
24027 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
24029 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
24030 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24031 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
24032 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24033 - Require that introduction point keys and onion keys have public
24034 exponent 65537. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
24035 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
24036 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
24037 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
24039 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
24041 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
24042 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
24043 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
24044 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
24045 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
24046 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
24047 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
24048 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
24050 o Minor bugfixes (only in 0.2.1.x):
24051 - Resume using micro-version numbers in 0.2.1.x: our Debian packages
24052 rely on them. Bugfix on 0.2.1.30.
24053 - Use git revisions instead of svn revisions when generating our
24054 micro-version numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
24056 o Minor features (also included in 0.2.2.x):
24057 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
24058 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
24059 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
24060 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
24063 Changes in version 0.2.3.5-alpha - 2011-09-28
24064 Tor 0.2.3.5-alpha fixes two bugs that make it possible to enumerate
24065 bridge relays; fixes an assertion error that many users started hitting
24066 today; and adds the ability to refill token buckets more often than
24067 once per second, allowing significant performance improvements.
24070 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
24071 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
24072 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
24073 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
24074 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
24075 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
24076 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
24077 when bridges were introduced.
24080 - Fix an "Assertion md->held_by_node == 1 failed" error that could
24081 occur when the same microdescriptor was referenced by two node_t
24082 objects at once. Fix for bug 4118; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.1-alpha.
24084 o Major features (networking):
24085 - Add a new TokenBucketRefillInterval option to refill token buckets
24086 more frequently than once per second. This should improve network
24087 performance, alleviate queueing problems, and make traffic less
24088 bursty. Implements proposal 183; closes ticket 3630. Design by
24089 Florian Tschorsch and Björn Scheuermann; implementation by
24093 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
24094 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
24095 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
24097 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
24098 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
24099 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
24100 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
24101 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
24103 o Minor features (diagnostics):
24104 - When the system call to create a listener socket fails, log the
24105 error message explaining why. This may help diagnose bug 4027.
24108 Changes in version 0.2.3.4-alpha - 2011-09-13
24109 Tor 0.2.3.4-alpha includes the fixes from 0.2.2.33, including a slight
24110 tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run
24111 this new version reachable from Iran again. It also fixes a few new
24112 bugs in 0.2.3.x, and teaches relays to recognize when they're not
24113 listed in the network consensus and republish.
24115 o Major bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
24116 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
24117 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
24118 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
24120 o Minor features (security, also part of 0.2.2.33):
24121 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
24122 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
24123 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
24124 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
24125 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
24126 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
24127 that these attacks are infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
24128 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
24129 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
24130 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
24132 o Minor features (also part of 0.2.2.33):
24133 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
24134 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
24135 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
24136 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
24137 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
24138 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
24139 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
24140 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
24141 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
24143 o Minor bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
24144 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
24145 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
24146 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
24147 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
24148 fixes part of bug 2442.
24149 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
24150 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
24151 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
24153 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
24154 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
24155 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
24156 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
24157 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
24159 o Build fixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
24160 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
24161 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
24162 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
24163 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
24166 - Fix a bug where the SocksPort option (for example) would get
24167 ignored and replaced by the default if a SocksListenAddress
24168 option was set. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha; fixes bug 3936. Fix by
24172 - Relays now try regenerating and uploading their descriptor more
24173 frequently if they are not listed in the consensus, or if the
24174 version of their descriptor listed in the consensus is too
24175 old. This fix should prevent situations where a server declines
24176 to re-publish itself because it has done so too recently, even
24177 though the authorities decided not to list its recent-enough
24178 descriptor. Fix for bug 3327.
24181 - Relays now include a reason for regenerating their descriptors
24182 in an HTTP header when uploading to the authorities. This will
24183 make it easier to debug descriptor-upload issues in the future.
24184 - When starting as root and then changing our UID via the User
24185 control option, and we have a ControlSocket configured, make sure
24186 that the ControlSocket is owned by the same account that Tor will
24187 run under. Implements ticket 3421; fix by Jérémy Bobbio.
24190 - Abort if tor_vasprintf fails in connection_printf_to_buf (a
24191 utility function used in the control-port code). This shouldn't
24192 ever happen unless Tor is completely out of memory, but if it did
24193 happen and Tor somehow recovered from it, Tor could have sent a log
24194 message to a control port in the middle of a reply to a controller
24195 command. Fixes part of bug 3428; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
24196 - Make 'FetchUselessDescriptors' cause all descriptor types and
24197 all consensus types (including microdescriptors) to get fetched.
24198 Fixes bug 3851; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
24200 o Code refactoring:
24201 - Make a new "entry connection" struct as an internal subtype of "edge
24202 connection", to simplify the code and make exit connections smaller.
24205 Changes in version 0.2.2.33 - 2011-09-13
24206 Tor 0.2.2.33 fixes several bugs, and includes a slight tweak to Tor's
24207 TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run this new version
24208 reachable from Iran again.
24211 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
24212 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
24213 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
24215 o Minor features (security):
24216 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
24217 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
24218 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
24219 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
24220 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
24221 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
24222 that these attacks are infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
24223 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
24224 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
24225 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
24228 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
24229 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
24230 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
24231 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
24232 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
24233 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
24234 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
24235 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
24236 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
24238 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
24239 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
24240 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
24241 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
24242 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
24243 raised by bug 3898.
24244 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
24245 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
24246 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
24247 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
24248 fixes part of bug 2442.
24249 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
24250 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
24251 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
24253 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
24254 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
24255 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
24256 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
24257 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
24260 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
24261 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
24262 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
24263 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
24264 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
24265 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
24268 Changes in version 0.2.3.3-alpha - 2011-09-01
24269 Tor 0.2.3.3-alpha adds a new "stream isolation" feature to improve Tor's
24270 security, and provides client-side support for the microdescriptor
24271 and optimistic data features introduced earlier in the 0.2.3.x
24272 series. It also includes numerous critical bugfixes in the (optional)
24273 bufferevent-based networking backend.
24275 o Major features (stream isolation):
24276 - You can now configure Tor so that streams from different
24277 applications are isolated on different circuits, to prevent an
24278 attacker who sees your streams as they leave an exit node from
24279 linking your sessions to one another. To do this, choose some way
24280 to distinguish the applications: have them connect to different
24281 SocksPorts, or have one of them use SOCKS4 while the other uses
24282 SOCKS5, or have them pass different authentication strings to the
24283 SOCKS proxy. Then, use the new SocksPort syntax to configure the
24284 degree of isolation you need. This implements Proposal 171.
24285 - There's a new syntax for specifying multiple client ports (such as
24286 SOCKSPort, TransPort, DNSPort, NATDPort): you can now just declare
24287 multiple *Port entries with full addr:port syntax on each.
24288 The old *ListenAddress format is still supported, but you can't
24289 mix it with the new *Port syntax.
24291 o Major features (other):
24292 - Enable microdescriptor fetching by default for clients. This allows
24293 clients to download a much smaller amount of directory information.
24294 To disable it (and go back to the old-style consensus and
24295 descriptors), set "UseMicrodescriptors 0" in your torrc file.
24296 - Tor's firewall-helper feature, introduced in 0.2.3.1-alpha (see the
24297 "PortForwarding" config option), now supports Windows.
24298 - When using an exit relay running 0.2.3.x, clients can now
24299 "optimistically" send data before the exit relay reports that
24300 the stream has opened. This saves a round trip when starting
24301 connections where the client speaks first (such as web browsing).
24302 This behavior is controlled by a consensus parameter (currently
24303 disabled). To turn it on or off manually, use the "OptimisticData"
24304 torrc option. Implements proposal 181; code by Ian Goldberg.
24306 o Major bugfixes (bufferevents, fixes on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
24307 - When using IOCP on Windows, we need to enable Libevent windows
24309 - The IOCP backend now works even when the user has not specified
24310 the (internal, debugging-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option.
24311 Fixes part of bug 3752.
24312 - Correctly record the bytes we've read and written when using
24313 bufferevents, so that we can include them in our bandwidth history
24314 and advertised bandwidth. Fixes bug 3803.
24315 - Apply rate-limiting only at the bottom of a chain of filtering
24316 bufferevents. This prevents us from filling up internal read
24317 buffers and violating rate-limits when filtering bufferevents
24318 are enabled. Fixes part of bug 3804.
24319 - Add high-watermarks to the output buffers for filtered
24320 bufferevents. This prevents us from filling up internal write
24321 buffers and wasting CPU cycles when filtering bufferevents are
24322 enabled. Fixes part of bug 3804.
24323 - Correctly notice when data has been written from a bufferevent
24324 without flushing it completely. Fixes bug 3805.
24325 - Fix a bug where server-side tunneled bufferevent-based directory
24326 streams would get closed prematurely. Fixes bug 3814.
24327 - Fix a use-after-free error with per-connection rate-limiting
24328 buckets. Fixes bug 3888.
24330 o Major bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
24331 - If we're configured to write our ControlPorts to disk, only write
24332 them after switching UID and creating the data directory. This way,
24333 we don't fail when starting up with a nonexistent DataDirectory
24334 and a ControlPortWriteToFile setting based on that directory. Fixes
24335 bug 3747; bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.26-beta.
24338 - Added a new CONF_CHANGED event so that controllers can be notified
24339 of any configuration changes made by other controllers, or by the
24340 user. Implements ticket 1692.
24341 - Use evbuffer_copyout() in inspect_evbuffer(). This fixes a memory
24342 leak when using bufferevents, and lets Libevent worry about how to
24343 best copy data out of a buffer.
24344 - Replace files in stats/ rather than appending to them. Now that we
24345 include statistics in extra-info descriptors, it makes no sense to
24346 keep old statistics forever. Implements ticket 2930.
24348 o Minor features (build compatibility):
24349 - Limited, experimental support for building with nmake and MSVC.
24350 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
24351 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
24353 o Minor features (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
24354 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
24356 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x-alpha):
24357 - Fix a spurious warning when parsing SOCKS requests with
24358 bufferevents enabled. Fixes bug 3615; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
24359 - Get rid of a harmless warning that could happen on relays running
24360 with bufferevents. The warning was caused by someone doing an http
24361 request to a relay's orport. Also don't warn for a few related
24362 non-errors. Fixes bug 3700; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
24364 o Minor bugfixes (on 2.2.x and earlier):
24365 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
24366 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
24367 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
24368 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
24369 raised by bug 3898.
24370 - The "--quiet" and "--hush" options now apply not only to Tor's
24371 behavior before logs are configured, but also to Tor's behavior in
24372 the absence of configured logs. Fixes bug 3550; bugfix on
24375 o Minor bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
24376 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
24377 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
24378 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
24379 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
24380 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
24381 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
24382 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
24383 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
24384 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
24385 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
24386 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24387 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
24388 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
24389 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
24390 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
24391 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
24392 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
24393 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
24396 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
24397 - Rewrite the listener-selection logic so that parsing which ports
24398 we want to listen on is now separate from binding to the ports
24402 - Building Tor with bufferevent support now requires Libevent
24403 2.0.13-stable or later. Previous versions of Libevent had bugs in
24404 SSL-related bufferevents and related issues that would make Tor
24405 work badly with bufferevents. Requiring 2.0.13-stable also allows
24406 Tor with bufferevents to take advantage of Libevent APIs
24407 introduced after 2.0.8-rc.
24410 Changes in version 0.2.2.32 - 2011-08-27
24411 The Tor 0.2.2 release series is dedicated to the memory of Andreas
24412 Pfitzmann (1958-2010), a pioneer in anonymity and privacy research,
24413 a founder of the PETS community, a leader in our field, a mentor,
24414 and a friend. He left us with these words: "I had the possibility
24415 to contribute to this world that is not as it should be. I hope I
24416 could help in some areas to make the world a better place, and that
24417 I could also encourage other people to be engaged in improving the
24418 world. Please, stay engaged. This world needs you, your love, your
24419 initiative -- now I cannot be part of that anymore."
24421 Tor 0.2.2.32, the first stable release in the 0.2.2 branch, is finally
24422 ready. More than two years in the making, this release features improved
24423 client performance and hidden service reliability, better compatibility
24424 for Android, correct behavior for bridges that listen on more than
24425 one address, more extensible and flexible directory object handling,
24426 better reporting of network statistics, improved code security, and
24427 many many other features and bugfixes.
24430 Changes in version 0.2.2.31-rc - 2011-08-17
24431 Tor 0.2.2.31-rc is the second and hopefully final release candidate
24432 for the Tor 0.2.2.x series.
24435 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
24436 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
24437 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
24438 - If we're configured to write our ControlPorts to disk, only write
24439 them after switching UID and creating the data directory. This way,
24440 we don't fail when starting up with a nonexistent DataDirectory
24441 and a ControlPortWriteToFile setting based on that directory. Fixes
24442 bug 3747; bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.26-beta.
24445 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
24448 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
24449 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
24450 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24451 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
24452 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
24453 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
24454 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
24455 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
24456 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
24457 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
24458 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
24459 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
24460 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
24461 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24462 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
24463 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
24464 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
24465 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
24469 Changes in version 0.2.3.2-alpha - 2011-07-18
24470 Tor 0.2.3.2-alpha introduces two new experimental features:
24471 microdescriptors and pluggable transports. It also continues cleaning
24472 up a variety of recently introduced features.
24475 - Clients can now use microdescriptors instead of regular descriptors
24476 to build circuits. Microdescriptors are authority-generated
24477 summaries of regular descriptors' contents, designed to change
24478 very rarely (see proposal 158 for details). This feature is
24479 designed to save bandwidth, especially for clients on slow internet
24480 connections. It's off by default for now, since nearly no caches
24481 support it, but it will be on-by-default for clients in a future
24482 version. You can use the UseMicrodescriptors option to turn it on.
24483 - Tor clients using bridges can now be configured to use a separate
24484 'transport' proxy for each bridge. This approach helps to resist
24485 censorship by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation
24486 plugins. It implements part of proposal 180. Implements ticket 2841.
24487 - While we're trying to bootstrap, record how many TLS connections
24488 fail in each state, and report which states saw the most failures
24489 in response to any bootstrap failures. This feature may speed up
24490 diagnosis of censorship events. Implements ticket 3116.
24492 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
24493 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes (as with
24494 'EntryNodes {cc}' or 'EntryNodes 1.1.1.1/16'), choose only a
24495 random subset to be guards, and choose them in random
24496 order. Fixes bug 2798.
24497 - Tor could crash when remembering a consensus in a non-used consensus
24498 flavor without having a current consensus set. Fixes bug 3361.
24499 - Comparing an unknown address to a microdescriptor's shortened exit
24500 policy would always give a "rejected" result. Fixes bug 3599.
24501 - Using microdescriptors as a client no longer prevents Tor from
24502 uploading and downloading hidden service descriptors. Fixes
24506 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
24507 - Accept attempts to include a password authenticator in the
24508 handshake, as supported by SOCKS5. This handles SOCKS clients that
24509 don't know how to omit a password when authenticating. Resolves
24511 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes, and there are
24512 enough of them listed as Guard so that we don't need to consider
24513 the non-guard entries, prefer the ones listed with the Guard flag.
24514 - Check for and recover from inconsistency in the microdescriptor
24515 cache. This will make it harder for us to accidentally free a
24516 microdescriptor without removing it from the appropriate data
24517 structures. Fixes issue 3135; issue noted by "wanoskarnet".
24518 - Log SSL state transitions at log level DEBUG, log domain
24519 HANDSHAKE. This can be useful for debugging censorship events.
24520 Implements ticket 3264.
24521 - Add port 6523 (Gobby) to LongLivedPorts. Patch by intrigeri;
24522 implements ticket 3439.
24524 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
24525 - Do not free all general-purpose regular descriptors just
24526 because microdescriptor use is enabled. Fixes bug 3113.
24527 - Correctly link libevent_openssl when --enable-static-libevent
24528 is passed to configure. Fixes bug 3118.
24529 - Bridges should not complain during their heartbeat log messages that
24530 they are unlisted in the consensus: that's more or less the point
24531 of being a bridge. Fixes bug 3183.
24532 - Report a SIGNAL event to controllers when acting on a delayed
24533 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Previously, we would report a SIGNAL
24534 event to the controller if we acted on a SIGNAL NEWNYM command
24535 immediately, and otherwise not report a SIGNAL event for the
24536 command at all. Fixes bug 3349.
24537 - Fix a crash when handling the SIGNAL controller command or
24538 reporting ERR-level status events with bufferevents enabled. Found
24539 by Robert Ransom. Fixes bug 3367.
24540 - Always ship the tor-fw-helper manpage in our release tarballs.
24541 Fixes bug 3389. Reported by Stephen Walker.
24542 - Fix a class of double-mark-for-close bugs when bufferevents
24543 are enabled. Fixes bug 3403.
24544 - Update tor-fw-helper to support libnatpmp-20110618. Fixes bug 3434.
24545 - Add SIGNAL to the list returned by the 'GETINFO events/names'
24546 control-port command. Fixes part of bug 3465.
24547 - Prevent using negative indices during unit test runs when read_all()
24548 fails. Spotted by coverity.
24549 - Fix a rare memory leak when checking the nodelist without it being
24550 present. Found by coverity.
24551 - Only try to download a microdescriptor-flavored consensus from
24552 a directory cache that provides them.
24554 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
24555 - Assert that hidden-service-related operations are not performed
24556 using single-hop circuits. Previously, Tor would assert that
24557 client-side streams are not attached to single-hop circuits,
24558 but not that other sensitive operations on the client and service
24559 side are not performed using single-hop circuits. Fixes bug 3332;
24561 - Don't publish a new relay descriptor when we reload our onion key,
24562 unless the onion key has actually changed. Fixes bug 3263 and
24563 resolves another cause of bug 1810. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
24564 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
24565 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
24566 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24567 - Make 'tor --digests' list hashes of all Tor source files. Bugfix
24568 on 0.2.2.4-alpha; fixes bug 3427.
24570 o Code simplification and refactoring:
24571 - Use tor_sscanf() in place of scanf() in more places through the
24572 code. This makes us a little more locale-independent, and
24573 should help shut up code-analysis tools that can't tell
24574 a safe sscanf string from a dangerous one.
24575 - Use tt_assert(), not tor_assert(), for checking for test failures.
24576 This makes the unit tests more able to go on in the event that
24578 - Split connection_about_to_close() into separate functions for each
24582 - On Windows, we now define the _WIN32_WINNT macros only if they
24583 are not already defined. This lets the person building Tor decide,
24584 if they want, to require a later version of Windows.
24587 Changes in version 0.2.2.30-rc - 2011-07-07
24588 Tor 0.2.2.30-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.2.x
24589 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
24590 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
24593 - Send a SUCCEEDED stream event to the controller when a reverse
24594 resolve succeeded. Fixes bug 3536; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1. Issue
24595 discovered by katmagic.
24596 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
24597 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
24598 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
24599 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
24600 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
24601 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
24602 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
24603 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
24604 - Add BUILDTIMEOUT_SET to the list returned by the 'GETINFO
24605 events/names' control-port command. Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha;
24606 fixes part of bug 3465.
24607 - Fix a memory leak when receiving a descriptor for a hidden
24608 service we didn't ask for. Found by Coverity; CID #30. Bugfix
24612 - Update to the July 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
24615 Changes in version 0.2.2.29-beta - 2011-06-20
24616 Tor 0.2.2.29-beta reverts an accidental behavior change for users who
24617 have bridge lines in their torrc but don't want to use them; gets
24618 us closer to having the control socket feature working on Debian;
24619 and fixes a variety of smaller bugs.
24622 - Revert the UseBridges option to its behavior before 0.2.2.28-beta.
24623 When we changed the default behavior to "use bridges if any
24624 are listed in the torrc", we surprised users who had bridges
24625 in their torrc files but who didn't actually want to use them.
24626 Partial resolution for bug 3354.
24629 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
24630 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
24631 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
24632 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
24633 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
24634 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
24637 - Fix a bug when using ControlSocketsGroupWritable with User. The
24638 directory's group would be checked against the current group, not
24639 the configured group. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio. Fixes bug 3393;
24640 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
24641 - Make connection_printf_to_buf()'s behavior sane. Its callers
24642 expect it to emit a CRLF iff the format string ends with CRLF;
24643 it actually emitted a CRLF iff (a) the format string ended with
24644 CRLF or (b) the resulting string was over 1023 characters long or
24645 (c) the format string did not end with CRLF *and* the resulting
24646 string was 1021 characters long or longer. Bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha;
24647 fixes part of bug 3407.
24648 - Make send_control_event_impl()'s behavior sane. Its callers
24649 expect it to always emit a CRLF at the end of the string; it
24650 might have emitted extra control characters as well. Bugfix on
24651 0.1.1.9-alpha; fixes another part of bug 3407.
24652 - Make crypto_rand_int() check the value of its input correctly.
24653 Previously, it accepted values up to UINT_MAX, but could return a
24654 negative number if given a value above INT_MAX+1. Found by George
24655 Kadianakis. Fixes bug 3306; bugfix on 0.2.2pre14.
24656 - Avoid a segfault when reading a malformed circuit build state
24657 with more than INT_MAX entries. Found by wanoskarnet. Bugfix on
24659 - When asked about a DNS record type we don't support via a
24660 client DNSPort, reply with NOTIMPL rather than an empty
24661 reply. Patch by intrigeri. Fixes bug 3369; bugfix on 2.0.1-alpha.
24662 - Fix a rare memory leak during stats writing. Found by coverity.
24665 - Update to the June 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
24667 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
24668 - Remove some dead code as indicated by coverity.
24669 - Remove a few dead assignments during router parsing. Found by
24671 - Add some forgotten return value checks during unit tests. Found
24673 - Don't use 1-bit wide signed bit fields. Found by coverity.
24676 Changes in version 0.2.2.28-beta - 2011-06-04
24677 Tor 0.2.2.28-beta makes great progress towards a new stable release: we
24678 fixed a big bug in whether relays stay in the consensus consistently,
24679 we moved closer to handling bridges and hidden services correctly,
24680 and we started the process of better handling the dreaded "my Vidalia
24681 died, and now my Tor demands a password when I try to reconnect to it"
24685 - Don't decide to make a new descriptor when receiving a HUP signal.
24686 This bug has caused a lot of 0.2.2.x relays to disappear from the
24687 consensus periodically. Fixes the most common case of triggering
24688 bug 1810; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
24689 - Actually allow nameservers with IPv6 addresses. Fixes bug 2574.
24690 - Don't try to build descriptors if "ORPort auto" is set and we
24691 don't know our actual ORPort yet. Fix for bug 3216; bugfix on
24693 - Resolve a crash that occurred when setting BridgeRelay to 1 with
24694 accounting enabled. Fixes bug 3228; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
24695 - Apply circuit timeouts to opened hidden-service-related circuits
24696 based on the correct start time. Previously, we would apply the
24697 circuit build timeout based on time since the circuit's creation;
24698 it was supposed to be applied based on time since the circuit
24699 entered its current state. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes part of bug 1297.
24700 - Use the same circuit timeout for client-side introduction
24701 circuits as for other four-hop circuits, rather than the timeout
24702 for single-hop directory-fetch circuits; the shorter timeout may
24703 have been appropriate with the static circuit build timeout in
24704 0.2.1.x and earlier, but caused many hidden service access attempts
24705 to fail with the adaptive CBT introduced in 0.2.2.2-alpha. Bugfix
24706 on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes another part of bug 1297.
24707 - In ticket 2511 we fixed a case where you could use an unconfigured
24708 bridge if you had configured it as a bridge the last time you ran
24709 Tor. Now fix another edge case: if you had configured it as a bridge
24710 but then switched to a different bridge via the controller, you
24711 would still be willing to use the old one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha;
24715 - Add an __OwningControllerProcess configuration option and a
24716 TAKEOWNERSHIP control-port command. Now a Tor controller can ensure
24717 that when it exits, Tor will shut down. Implements feature 3049.
24718 - If "UseBridges 1" is set and no bridges are configured, Tor will
24719 now refuse to build any circuits until some bridges are set.
24720 If "UseBridges auto" is set, Tor will use bridges if they are
24721 configured and we are not running as a server, but otherwise will
24722 make circuits as usual. The new default is "auto". Patch by anonym,
24723 so the Tails LiveCD can stop automatically revealing you as a Tor
24727 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
24728 - Remove a trailing asterisk from "exit-policy/default" in the
24729 output of the control port command "GETINFO info/names". Bugfix
24731 - Use a wide type to hold sockets when built for 64-bit Windows builds.
24733 - Warn when the user configures two HiddenServiceDir lines that point
24734 to the same directory. Bugfix on 0.0.6 (the version introducing
24735 HiddenServiceDir); fixes bug 3289.
24736 - Remove dead code from rend_cache_lookup_v2_desc_as_dir. Fixes
24737 part of bug 2748; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
24738 - Log malformed requests for rendezvous descriptors as protocol
24739 warnings, not warnings. Also, use a more informative log message
24740 in case someone sees it at log level warning without prior
24741 info-level messages. Fixes the other part of bug 2748; bugfix
24743 - Clear the table recording the time of the last request for each
24744 hidden service descriptor from each HS directory on SIGNAL NEWNYM.
24745 Previously, we would clear our HS descriptor cache on SIGNAL
24746 NEWNYM, but if we had previously retrieved a descriptor (or tried
24747 to) from every directory responsible for it, we would refuse to
24748 fetch it again for up to 15 minutes. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha;
24750 - Fix a log message that said "bits" while displaying a value in
24751 bytes. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 3318; bugfix on
24753 - When checking for 1024-bit keys, check for 1024 bits, not 128
24754 bytes. This allows Tor to correctly discard keys of length 1017
24755 through 1023. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
24758 - Relays now log the reason for publishing a new relay descriptor,
24759 so we have a better chance of hunting down instances of bug 1810.
24760 Resolves ticket 3252.
24761 - Revise most log messages that refer to nodes by nickname to
24762 instead use the "$key=nickname at address" format. This should be
24763 more useful, especially since nicknames are less and less likely
24764 to be unique. Resolves ticket 3045.
24765 - Log (at info level) when purging pieces of hidden-service-client
24766 state because of SIGNAL NEWNYM.
24769 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
24770 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
24773 Changes in version 0.2.2.27-beta - 2011-05-18
24774 Tor 0.2.2.27-beta fixes a bridge-related stability bug in the previous
24775 release, and also adds a few more general bugfixes.
24778 - Fix a crash bug when changing bridges in a running Tor process.
24779 Fixes bug 3213; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
24780 - When the controller configures a new bridge, don't wait 10 to 60
24781 seconds before trying to fetch its descriptor. Bugfix on
24782 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 3198 (suggested by 2355).
24785 - Require that onion keys have exponent 65537 in microdescriptors too.
24786 Fixes more of bug 3207; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
24787 - Tor used to limit HttpProxyAuthenticator values to 48 characters.
24788 Changed the limit to 512 characters by removing base64 newlines.
24789 Fixes bug 2752. Fix by Michael Yakubovich.
24790 - When a client starts or stops using bridges, never use a circuit
24791 that was built before the configuration change. This behavior could
24792 put at risk a user who uses bridges to ensure that her traffic
24793 only goes to the chosen addresses. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes
24797 Changes in version 0.2.2.26-beta - 2011-05-17
24798 Tor 0.2.2.26-beta fixes a variety of potential privacy problems. It
24799 also introduces a new "socksport auto" approach that should make it
24800 easier to run multiple Tors on the same system, and does a lot of
24801 cleanup to get us closer to a release candidate.
24803 o Security/privacy fixes:
24804 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
24805 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
24806 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
24807 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
24808 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
24809 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
24810 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
24811 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
24812 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
24813 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
24814 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
24815 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
24816 - On SIGHUP, do not clear out all TrackHostExits mappings, client
24817 DNS cache entries, and virtual address mappings: that's what
24818 NEWNYM is for. Fixes bug 1345; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
24821 - The options SocksPort, ControlPort, and so on now all accept a
24822 value "auto" that opens a socket on an OS-selected port. A
24823 new ControlPortWriteToFile option tells Tor to write its
24824 actual control port or ports to a chosen file. If the option
24825 ControlPortFileGroupReadable is set, the file is created as
24826 group-readable. Now users can run two Tor clients on the same
24827 system without needing to manually mess with parameters. Resolves
24828 part of ticket 3076.
24829 - Set SO_REUSEADDR on all sockets, not just listeners. This should
24830 help busy exit nodes avoid running out of useable ports just
24831 because all the ports have been used in the near past. Resolves
24835 - New "GETINFO net/listeners/(type)" controller command to return
24836 a list of addresses and ports that are bound for listeners for a
24837 given connection type. This is useful when the user has configured
24838 "SocksPort auto" and the controller needs to know which port got
24839 chosen. Resolves another part of ticket 3076.
24840 - Add a new ControlSocketsGroupWritable configuration option: when
24841 it is turned on, ControlSockets are group-writeable by the default
24842 group of the current user. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio; implements
24844 - Tor now refuses to create a ControlSocket in a directory that is
24845 world-readable (or group-readable if ControlSocketsGroupWritable
24846 is 0). This is necessary because some operating systems do not
24847 enforce permissions on an AF_UNIX sockets. Permissions on the
24848 directory holding the socket, however, seems to work everywhere.
24849 - Rate-limit a warning about failures to download v2 networkstatus
24850 documents. Resolves part of bug 1352.
24851 - Backport code from 0.2.3.x that allows directory authorities to
24852 clean their microdescriptor caches. Needed to resolve bug 2230.
24853 - When an HTTPS proxy reports "403 Forbidden", we now explain
24854 what it means rather than calling it an unexpected status code.
24855 Closes bug 2503. Patch from Michael Yakubovich.
24856 - Update to the May 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
24859 - Authorities now clean their microdesc cache periodically and when
24860 reading from disk initially, not only when adding new descriptors.
24861 This prevents a bug where we could lose microdescriptors. Bugfix
24862 on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 2230.
24863 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
24864 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
24865 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
24867 - Avoid a bug that would keep us from replacing a microdescriptor
24868 cache on Windows. (We would try to replace the file while still
24869 holding it open. That's fine on Unix, but Windows doesn't let us
24870 do that.) Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; bug found by wanoskarnet.
24871 - Add missing explanations for the authority-related torrc options
24872 RephistTrackTime, BridgePassword, and V3AuthUseLegacyKey in the
24873 man page. Resolves issue 2379.
24874 - As an authority, do not upload our own vote or signature set to
24875 ourself. It would tell us nothing new, and as of 0.2.2.24-alpha,
24876 it would get flagged as a duplicate. Resolves bug 3026.
24877 - Accept hidden service descriptors if we think we might be a hidden
24878 service directory, regardless of what our consensus says. This
24879 helps robustness, since clients and hidden services can sometimes
24880 have a more up-to-date view of the network consensus than we do,
24881 and if they think that the directory authorities list us a HSDir,
24882 we might actually be one. Related to bug 2732; bugfix on
24884 - When a controller changes TrackHostExits, remove mappings for
24885 hosts that should no longer have their exits tracked. Bugfix on
24887 - When a controller changes VirtualAddrNetwork, remove any mappings
24888 for hosts that were automapped to the old network. Bugfix on
24890 - When a controller changes one of the AutomapHosts* options, remove
24891 any mappings for hosts that should no longer be automapped. Bugfix
24893 - Do not reset the bridge descriptor download status every time we
24894 re-parse our configuration or get a configuration change. Fixes
24895 bug 3019; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
24897 o Minor bugfixes (code cleanup):
24898 - When loading the microdesc journal, remember its current size.
24899 In 0.2.2, this helps prevent the microdesc journal from growing
24900 without limit on authorities (who are the only ones to use it in
24901 0.2.2). Fixes a part of bug 2230; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
24902 Fix posted by "cypherpunks."
24903 - The microdesc journal is supposed to get rebuilt only if it is
24904 at least _half_ the length of the store, not _twice_ the length
24905 of the store. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes part of bug 2230.
24906 - Fix a potential null-pointer dereference while computing a
24907 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, found with the help of
24909 - Avoid a possible null-pointer dereference when rebuilding the mdesc
24910 cache without actually having any descriptors to cache. Bugfix on
24911 0.2.2.6-alpha. Issue discovered using clang's static analyzer.
24912 - If we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3 legacy keypair,
24913 warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead. Bugfix on
24914 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
24915 - Resolve an untriggerable issue in smartlist_string_num_isin(),
24916 where if the function had ever in the future been used to check
24917 for the presence of a too-large number, it would have given an
24918 incorrect result. (Fortunately, we only used it for 16-bit
24919 values.) Fixes bug 3175; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
24920 - Require that introduction point keys and onion handshake keys
24921 have a public exponent of 65537. Starts to fix bug 3207; bugfix
24924 o Removed features:
24925 - Caches no longer download and serve v2 networkstatus documents
24926 unless FetchV2Networkstatus flag is set: these documents haven't
24927 haven't been used by clients or relays since 0.2.0.x. Resolves
24931 Changes in version 0.2.3.1-alpha - 2011-05-05
24932 Tor 0.2.3.1-alpha adds some new experimental features, including support
24933 for an improved network IO backend, IOCP networking on Windows,
24934 microdescriptor caching, "fast-start" support for streams, and automatic
24935 home router configuration. There are also numerous internal improvements
24936 to try to make the code easier for developers to work with.
24938 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to be
24939 bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
24940 stay with 0.2.2.x for now.
24943 - Tor can now optionally build with the "bufferevents" buffered IO
24944 backend provided by Libevent 2. To use this feature, make sure you
24945 have the latest possible version of Libevent, and pass the
24946 --enable-bufferevents flag to configure when building Tor from
24947 source. This feature will make our networking code more flexible,
24948 let us stack layers on each other, and let us use more efficient
24949 zero-copy transports where available.
24950 - As an experimental feature, Tor can use IOCP for networking on Windows.
24951 Once this code is tuned and optimized, it promises much better
24952 performance than the select-based backend we've used in the past. To
24953 try this feature, you must build Tor with Libevent 2, configure Tor
24954 with the "bufferevents" buffered IO backend, and add "DisableIOCP 0" to
24955 your torrc. There are known bugs here: only try this if you can help
24956 debug it as it breaks.
24957 - The EntryNodes option can now include country codes like {de} or IP
24958 addresses or network masks. Previously we had disallowed these options
24959 because we didn't have an efficient way to keep the list up to
24960 date. Fixes bug 1982, but see bug 2798 for an unresolved issue here.
24961 - Exit nodes now accept and queue data on not-yet-connected streams.
24962 Previously, the client wasn't allowed to send data until the stream was
24963 connected, which slowed down all connections. This change will enable
24964 clients to perform a "fast-start" on streams and send data without
24965 having to wait for a confirmation that the stream has opened. (Patch
24966 from Ian Goldberg; implements the server side of Proposal 174.)
24967 - Tor now has initial support for automatic port mapping on the many
24968 home routers that support NAT-PMP or UPnP. (Not yet supported on
24969 Windows). To build the support code, you'll need to have libnatpnp
24970 library and/or the libminiupnpc library, and you'll need to enable the
24971 feature specifically by passing "--enable-upnp" and/or
24972 "--enable-natpnp" to configure. To turn it on, use the new
24973 PortForwarding option.
24974 - Caches now download, cache, and serve multiple "flavors" of the
24975 consensus, including a flavor that describes microdescriptors.
24976 - Caches now download, cache, and serve microdescriptors -- small
24977 summaries of router descriptors that are authenticated by all of the
24978 directory authorities. Once enough caches are running this code,
24979 clients will be able to save significant amounts of directory bandwidth
24980 by downloading microdescriptors instead of router descriptors.
24983 - Make logging resolution configurable with a new LogTimeGranularity
24984 option, and change the default from 1 millisecond to 1 second.
24985 Implements enhancement 1668.
24986 - We log which torrc file we're using on startup. Implements ticket
24988 - Ordinarily, Tor does not count traffic from private addresses (like
24989 127.0.0.1 or 10.0.0.1) when calculating rate limits or accounting.
24990 There is now a new option, CountPrivateBandwidth, to disable this
24991 behavior. Patch from Daniel Cagara.
24992 - New --enable-static-tor configure option for building Tor as
24993 statically as possible. Idea, general hackery and thoughts from
24994 Alexei Czeskis, John Gilmore, Jacob Appelbaum. Implements ticket
24996 - If you set the NumCPUs option to 0, Tor will now try to detect how
24997 many CPUs you have. This is the new default behavior.
24998 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
24999 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
25000 - Relays that set "ConnDirectionStatistics 1" write statistics on the
25001 bidirectional use of connections to disk every 24 hours.
25002 - Add a GeoIP file digest to the extra-info descriptor. Implements
25004 - The NodeFamily option -- which let you declare that you want to
25005 consider nodes to be part of a family whether they list themselves
25006 that way or not -- now allows IP address ranges and country codes.
25007 - Add a new 'Heartbeat' log message type to periodically log a message
25008 describing Tor's status at level Notice. This feature is meant for
25009 operators who log at notice, and want to make sure that their Tor
25010 server is still working. Implementation by George Kadianakis.
25012 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.25-alpha):
25013 - When loading the microdesc journal, remember its current size.
25014 In 0.2.2, this helps prevent the microdesc journal from growing
25015 without limit on authorities (who are the only ones to use it in
25016 0.2.2). Fixes a part of bug 2230; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
25017 Fix posted by "cypherpunks."
25018 - The microdesc journal is supposed to get rebuilt only if it is
25019 at least _half_ the length of the store, not _twice_ the length
25020 of the store. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes part of bug 2230.
25021 - If as an authority we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3
25022 legacy keypair, warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead.
25023 Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
25024 - Authorities now clean their microdesc cache periodically and when
25025 reading from disk initially, not only when adding new descriptors.
25026 This prevents a bug where we could lose microdescriptors. Bugfix
25029 o Minor features (controller):
25030 - Add a new SIGNAL event to the controller interface so that
25031 controllers can be notified when Tor handles a signal. Resolves
25032 issue 1955. Patch by John Brooks.
25033 - Add a new GETINFO option to get total bytes read and written. Patch
25034 from pipe, revised by atagar. Resolves ticket 2345.
25035 - Implement some GETINFO controller fields to provide information about
25036 the Tor process's pid, euid, username, and resource limits.
25039 - Our build system requires automake 1.6 or later to create the
25040 Makefile.in files. Previously, you could have used 1.4.
25041 This only affects developers and people building Tor from git;
25042 people who build Tor from the source distribution without changing
25043 the Makefile.am files should be fine.
25044 - Our autogen.sh script uses autoreconf to launch autoconf, automake, and
25045 so on. This is more robust against some of the failure modes
25046 associated with running the autotools pieces on their own.
25048 o Minor packaging issues:
25049 - On OpenSUSE, create the /var/run/tor directory on startup if it is not
25050 already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
25052 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
25053 - A major revision to our internal node-selecting and listing logic.
25054 Tor already had at least two major ways to look at the question of
25055 "which Tor servers do we know about": a list of router descriptors,
25056 and a list of entries in the current consensus. With
25057 microdescriptors, we're adding a third. Having so many systems
25058 without an abstraction layer over them was hurting the codebase.
25059 Now, we have a new "node_t" abstraction that presents a consistent
25060 interface to a client's view of a Tor node, and holds (nearly) all
25061 of the mutable state formerly in routerinfo_t and routerstatus_t.
25062 - The helper programs tor-gencert, tor-resolve, and tor-checkkey
25063 no longer link against Libevent: they never used it, but
25064 our library structure used to force them to link it.
25066 o Removed features:
25067 - Remove some old code to work around even older versions of Tor that
25068 used forked processes to handle DNS requests. Such versions of Tor
25069 are no longer in use as servers.
25071 o Documentation fixes:
25072 - Correct a broken faq link in the INSTALL file. Fixes bug 2307.
25073 - Add missing documentation for the authority-related torrc options
25074 RephistTrackTime, BridgePassword, and V3AuthUseLegacyKey. Resolves
25078 Changes in version 0.2.2.25-alpha - 2011-04-29
25079 Tor 0.2.2.25-alpha fixes many bugs: hidden service clients are more
25080 robust, routers no longer overreport their bandwidth, Win7 should crash
25081 a little less, and NEWNYM (as used by Vidalia's "new identity" button)
25082 now prevents hidden service-related activity from being linkable. It
25083 provides more information to Vidalia so you can see if your bridge is
25084 working. Also, 0.2.2.25-alpha revamps the Entry/Exit/ExcludeNodes and
25085 StrictNodes configuration options to make them more reliable, more
25086 understandable, and more regularly applied. If you use those options,
25087 please see the revised documentation for them in the manual page.
25090 - Relays were publishing grossly inflated bandwidth values because
25091 they were writing their state files wrong--now they write the
25092 correct value. Also, resume reading bandwidth history from the
25093 state file correctly. Fixes bug 2704; bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
25094 - Improve hidden service robustness: When we find that we have
25095 extended a hidden service's introduction circuit to a relay not
25096 listed as an introduction point in the HS descriptor we currently
25097 have, retry with an introduction point from the current
25098 descriptor. Previously we would just give up. Fixes bugs 1024 and
25099 1930; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
25100 - Clients now stop trying to use an exit node associated with a given
25101 destination by TrackHostExits if they fail to reach that exit node.
25102 Fixes bug 2999. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
25103 - Fix crash bug on platforms where gmtime and localtime can return
25104 NULL. Windows 7 users were running into this one. Fixes part of bug
25105 2077. Bugfix on all versions of Tor. Found by boboper.
25107 o Security and stability fixes:
25108 - Don't double-free a parsable, but invalid, microdescriptor, even if
25109 it is followed in the blob we're parsing by an unparsable
25110 microdescriptor. Fixes an issue reported in a comment on bug 2954.
25111 Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fix by "cypherpunks".
25112 - If the Nickname configuration option isn't given, Tor would pick a
25113 nickname based on the local hostname as the nickname for a relay.
25114 Because nicknames are not very important in today's Tor and the
25115 "Unnamed" nickname has been implemented, this is now problematic
25116 behavior: It leaks information about the hostname without being
25117 useful at all. Fixes bug 2979; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, which
25118 introduced the Unnamed nickname. Reported by tagnaq.
25119 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
25120 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
25121 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
25122 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
25123 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
25126 - Export GeoIP information on bridge usage to controllers even if we
25127 have not yet been running for 24 hours. Now Vidalia bridge operators
25128 can get more accurate and immediate feedback about their
25129 contributions to the network.
25131 o Major features and bugfixes (node selection):
25132 - Revise and reconcile the meaning of the ExitNodes, EntryNodes,
25133 ExcludeEntryNodes, ExcludeExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, and StrictNodes
25134 options. Previously, we had been ambiguous in describing what
25135 counted as an "exit" node, and what operations exactly "StrictNodes
25136 0" would permit. This created confusion when people saw nodes built
25137 through unexpected circuits, and made it hard to tell real bugs from
25138 surprises. Now the intended behavior is:
25139 . "Exit", in the context of ExitNodes and ExcludeExitNodes, means
25140 a node that delivers user traffic outside the Tor network.
25141 . "Entry", in the context of EntryNodes, means a node used as the
25142 first hop of a multihop circuit. It doesn't include direct
25143 connections to directory servers.
25144 . "ExcludeNodes" applies to all nodes.
25145 . "StrictNodes" changes the behavior of ExcludeNodes only. When
25146 StrictNodes is set, Tor should avoid all nodes listed in
25147 ExcludeNodes, even when it will make user requests fail. When
25148 StrictNodes is *not* set, then Tor should follow ExcludeNodes
25149 whenever it can, except when it must use an excluded node to
25150 perform self-tests, connect to a hidden service, provide a
25151 hidden service, fulfill a .exit request, upload directory
25152 information, or fetch directory information.
25153 Collectively, the changes to implement the behavior fix bug 1090.
25154 - ExcludeNodes now takes precedence over EntryNodes and ExitNodes: if
25155 a node is listed in both, it's treated as excluded.
25156 - ExcludeNodes now applies to directory nodes -- as a preference if
25157 StrictNodes is 0, or an absolute requirement if StrictNodes is 1.
25158 Don't exclude all the directory authorities and set StrictNodes to 1
25159 unless you really want your Tor to break.
25160 - ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes now override exit enclaving.
25161 - ExcludeExitNodes now overrides .exit requests.
25162 - We don't use bridges listed in ExcludeNodes.
25163 - When StrictNodes is 1:
25164 . We now apply ExcludeNodes to hidden service introduction points
25165 and to rendezvous points selected by hidden service users. This
25166 can make your hidden service less reliable: use it with caution!
25167 . If we have used ExcludeNodes on ourself, do not try relay
25168 reachability self-tests.
25169 . If we have excluded all the directory authorities, we will not
25170 even try to upload our descriptor if we're a relay.
25171 . Do not honor .exit requests to an excluded node.
25172 - Remove a misfeature that caused us to ignore the Fast/Stable flags
25173 when ExitNodes is set. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
25174 - When the set of permitted nodes changes, we now remove any mappings
25175 introduced via TrackExitHosts to now-excluded nodes. Bugfix on
25177 - We never cannibalize a circuit that had excluded nodes on it, even
25178 if StrictNodes is 0. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
25179 - Revert a change where we would be laxer about attaching streams to
25180 circuits than when building the circuits. This was meant to prevent
25181 a set of bugs where streams were never attachable, but our improved
25182 code here should make this unnecessary. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
25183 - Keep track of how many times we launch a new circuit to handle a
25184 given stream. Too many launches could indicate an inconsistency
25185 between our "launch a circuit to handle this stream" logic and our
25186 "attach this stream to one of the available circuits" logic.
25187 - Improve log messages related to excluded nodes.
25190 - Fix a spurious warning when moving from a short month to a long
25191 month on relays with month-based BandwidthAccounting. Bugfix on
25192 0.2.2.17-alpha; fixes bug 3020.
25193 - When a client finds that an origin circuit has run out of 16-bit
25194 stream IDs, we now mark it as unusable for new streams. Previously,
25195 we would try to close the entire circuit. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
25196 - Add a forgotten cast that caused a compile warning on OS X 10.6.
25197 Bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
25198 - Be more careful about reporting the correct error from a failed
25199 connect() system call. Under some circumstances, it was possible to
25200 look at an incorrect value for errno when sending the end reason.
25201 Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
25202 - Correctly handle an "impossible" overflow cases in connection byte
25203 counting, where we write or read more than 4GB on an edge connection
25204 in a single second. Bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
25205 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
25206 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
25208 - Clients and hidden services now use HSDir-flagged relays for hidden
25209 service descriptor downloads and uploads even if the relays have no
25210 DirPort set and the client has disabled TunnelDirConns. This will
25211 eventually allow us to give the HSDir flag to relays with no
25212 DirPort. Fixes bug 2722; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
25213 - Downgrade "no current certificates known for authority" message from
25214 Notice to Info. Fixes bug 2899; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
25215 - Make the SIGNAL DUMP control-port command work on FreeBSD. Fixes bug
25216 2917. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
25217 - Only limit the lengths of single HS descriptors, even when multiple
25218 HS descriptors are published to an HSDir relay in a single POST
25219 operation. Fixes bug 2948; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by hsdir.
25220 - Write the current time into the LastWritten line in our state file,
25221 rather than the time from the previous write attempt. Also, stop
25222 trying to use a time of -1 in our log statements. Fixes bug 3039;
25223 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
25224 - Be more consistent in our treatment of file system paths. "~" should
25225 get expanded to the user's home directory in the Log config option.
25226 Fixes bug 2971; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha, which introduced the
25227 feature for the -f and --DataDirectory options.
25230 - Make sure every relay writes a state file at least every 12 hours.
25231 Previously, a relay could go for weeks without writing its state
25232 file, and on a crash could lose its bandwidth history, capacity
25233 estimates, client country statistics, and so on. Addresses bug 3012.
25234 - Send END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE in response to EHOSTUNREACH errors.
25235 Clients before 0.2.1.27 didn't handle NOROUTE correctly, but such
25236 clients are already deprecated because of security bugs.
25237 - Don't allow v0 hidden service authorities to act as clients.
25238 Required by fix for bug 3000.
25239 - Ignore SIGNAL NEWNYM commands on relay-only Tor instances. Required
25240 by fix for bug 3000.
25241 - Ensure that no empty [dirreq-](read|write)-history lines are added
25242 to an extrainfo document. Implements ticket 2497.
25244 o Code simplification and refactoring:
25245 - Remove workaround code to handle directory responses from servers
25246 that had bug 539 (they would send HTTP status 503 responses _and_
25247 send a body too). Since only server versions before
25248 0.2.0.16-alpha/0.1.2.19 were affected, there is no longer reason to
25249 keep the workaround in place.
25250 - Remove the old 'fuzzy time' logic. It was supposed to be used for
25251 handling calculations where we have a known amount of clock skew and
25252 an allowed amount of unknown skew. But we only used it in three
25253 places, and we never adjusted the known/unknown skew values. This is
25254 still something we might want to do someday, but if we do, we'll
25255 want to do it differently.
25256 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
25257 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
25258 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
25259 - Use GetTempDir to find the proper temporary directory location on
25260 Windows when generating temporary files for the unit tests. Patch by
25264 Changes in version 0.2.2.24-alpha - 2011-04-08
25265 Tor 0.2.2.24-alpha fixes a variety of bugs, including a big bug that
25266 prevented Tor clients from effectively using "multihomed" bridges,
25267 that is, bridges that listen on multiple ports or IP addresses so users
25268 can continue to use some of their addresses even if others get blocked.
25271 - Fix a bug where bridge users who configure the non-canonical
25272 address of a bridge automatically switch to its canonical
25273 address. If a bridge listens at more than one address, it should be
25274 able to advertise those addresses independently and any non-blocked
25275 addresses should continue to work. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.x. Fixes
25277 - If you configured Tor to use bridge A, and then quit and
25278 configured Tor to use bridge B instead, it would happily continue
25279 to use bridge A if it's still reachable. While this behavior is
25280 a feature if your goal is connectivity, in some scenarios it's a
25281 dangerous bug. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 2511.
25282 - Directory authorities now use data collected from their own
25283 uptime observations when choosing whether to assign the HSDir flag
25284 to relays, instead of trusting the uptime value the relay reports in
25285 its descriptor. This change helps prevent an attack where a small
25286 set of nodes with frequently-changing identity keys can blackhole
25287 a hidden service. (Only authorities need upgrade; others will be
25288 fine once they do.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 2709.
25291 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
25292 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
25293 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
25294 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
25295 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
25296 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
25297 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
25299 - Make directory authorities more accurate at recording when
25300 relays that have failed several reachability tests became
25301 unreachable, so we can provide more accuracy at assigning Stable,
25302 Guard, HSDir, etc flags. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Resolves bug 2716.
25303 - Fix an issue that prevented static linking of libevent on
25304 some platforms (notably Linux). Fixes bug 2698; bugfix on
25305 versions 0.2.1.23/0.2.2.8-alpha (the versions introducing
25306 the --with-static-libevent configure option).
25307 - We now ask the other side of a stream (the client or the exit)
25308 for more data on that stream when the amount of queued data on
25309 that stream dips low enough. Previously, we wouldn't ask the
25310 other side for more data until either it sent us more data (which
25311 it wasn't supposed to do if it had exhausted its window!) or we
25312 had completely flushed all our queued data. This flow control fix
25313 should improve throughput. Fixes bug 2756; bugfix on the earliest
25314 released versions of Tor (svn commit r152).
25315 - Avoid a double-mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
25316 transparent proxy connection. (We thought we had fixed this in
25317 0.2.2.23-alpha, but it turns out our fix was checking the wrong
25318 connection.) Fixes bug 2757; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha (the original
25319 bug) and 0.2.2.23-alpha (the incorrect fix).
25320 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
25321 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
25324 - Directory authorities now log the source of a rejected POSTed v3
25325 networkstatus vote.
25326 - Make compilation with clang possible when using
25327 --enable-gcc-warnings by removing two warning options that clang
25328 hasn't implemented yet and by fixing a few warnings. Implements
25330 - When expiring circuits, use microsecond timers rather than
25331 one-second timers. This can avoid an unpleasant situation where a
25332 circuit is launched near the end of one second and expired right
25333 near the beginning of the next, and prevent fluctuations in circuit
25335 - Use computed circuit-build timeouts to decide when to launch
25336 parallel introduction circuits for hidden services. (Previously,
25337 we would retry after 15 seconds.)
25338 - Update to the April 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
25341 - Create the /var/run/tor directory on startup on OpenSUSE if it is
25342 not already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
25344 o Documentation changes:
25345 - Modernize the doxygen configuration file slightly. Fixes bug 2707.
25346 - Resolve all doxygen warnings except those for missing documentation.
25348 - Add doxygen documentation for more functions, fields, and types.
25351 Changes in version 0.2.2.23-alpha - 2011-03-08
25352 Tor 0.2.2.23-alpha lets relays record their bandwidth history so when
25353 they restart they don't lose their bandwidth capacity estimate. This
25354 release also fixes a diverse set of user-facing bugs, ranging from
25355 relays overrunning their rate limiting to clients falsely warning about
25356 clock skew to bridge descriptor leaks by our bridge directory authority.
25359 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
25360 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
25361 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
25362 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
25363 the rest of bug 1074.
25364 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
25365 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
25366 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
25367 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
25368 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
25369 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
25370 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
25371 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
25372 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
25373 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
25374 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
25375 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
25376 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
25377 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
25380 - Relays now save observed peak bandwidth throughput rates to their
25381 state file (along with total usage, which was already saved)
25382 so that they can determine their correct estimated bandwidth on
25383 restart. Resolves bug 1863, where Tor relays would reset their
25384 estimated bandwidth to 0 after restarting.
25385 - Directory authorities now take changes in router IP address and
25386 ORPort into account when determining router stability. Previously,
25387 if a router changed its IP or ORPort, the authorities would not
25388 treat it as having any downtime for the purposes of stability
25389 calculation, whereas clients would experience downtime since the
25390 change could take a while to propagate to them. Resolves issue 1035.
25391 - Enable Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) and Data Execution
25392 Prevention (DEP) by default on Windows to make it harder for
25393 attackers to exploit vulnerabilities. Patch from John Brooks.
25395 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
25396 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
25397 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
25398 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
25399 - Avoid a double mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
25400 transparent proxy connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Fixes
25402 - Correctly detect failure to allocate an OpenSSL BIO. Fixes bug 2378;
25403 found by "cypherpunks". This bug was introduced before the first
25404 Tor release, in svn commit r110.
25405 - Country codes aren't supported in EntryNodes until 0.2.3.x, so
25406 don't mention them in the manpage. Fixes bug 2450; issue
25407 spotted by keb and G-Lo.
25408 - Fix a bug in bandwidth history state parsing that could have been
25409 triggered if a future version of Tor ever changed the timing
25410 granularity at which bandwidth history is measured. Bugfix on
25411 Tor 0.1.1.11-alpha.
25412 - When a relay decides that its DNS is too broken for it to serve
25413 as an exit server, it advertised itself as a non-exit, but
25414 continued to act as an exit. This could create accidental
25415 partitioning opportunities for users. Instead, if a relay is
25416 going to advertise reject *:* as its exit policy, it should
25417 really act with exit policy "reject *:*". Fixes bug 2366.
25418 Bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha. Bugfix by user "postman" on trac.
25419 - In the special case where you configure a public exit relay as your
25420 bridge, Tor would be willing to use that exit relay as the last
25421 hop in your circuit as well. Now we fail that circuit instead.
25422 Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 2403. Reported by "piebeer".
25423 - Fix a bug with our locking implementation on Windows that couldn't
25424 correctly detect when a file was already locked. Fixes bug 2504,
25425 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
25426 - Fix IPv6-related connect() failures on some platforms (BSD, OS X).
25427 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes first part of bug 2660. Patch by
25429 - Set target port in get_interface_address6() correctly. Bugfix
25430 on 0.1.1.4-alpha and 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes second part of bug 2660.
25431 - Directory authorities are now more robust to hops back in time
25432 when calculating router stability. Previously, if a run of uptime
25433 or downtime appeared to be negative, the calculation could give
25434 incorrect results. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha; noticed when fixing
25436 - Fix an assert that got triggered when using the TestingTorNetwork
25437 configuration option and then issuing a GETINFO config-text control
25438 command. Fixes bug 2250; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
25440 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
25441 - Clients should not weight BadExit nodes as Exits in their node
25442 selection. Similarly, directory authorities should not count BadExit
25443 bandwidth as Exit bandwidth when computing bandwidth-weights.
25444 Bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 2203.
25445 - Correctly clear our dir_read/dir_write history when there is an
25446 error parsing any bw history value from the state file. Bugfix on
25447 Tor 0.2.2.15-alpha.
25448 - Resolve a bug in verifying signatures of directory objects
25449 with digests longer than SHA1. Bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha.
25450 Fixes bug 2409. Found by "piebeer".
25451 - Bridge authorities no longer crash on SIGHUP when they try to
25452 publish their relay descriptor to themselves. Fixes bug 2572. Bugfix
25456 - Log less aggressively about circuit timeout changes, and improve
25457 some other circuit timeout messages. Resolves bug 2004.
25458 - Log a little more clearly about the times at which we're no longer
25459 accepting new connections. Resolves bug 2181.
25460 - Reject attempts at the client side to open connections to private
25461 IP addresses (like 127.0.0.1, 10.0.0.1, and so on) with
25462 a randomly chosen exit node. Attempts to do so are always
25463 ill-defined, generally prevented by exit policies, and usually
25464 in error. This will also help to detect loops in transparent
25465 proxy configurations. You can disable this feature by setting
25466 "ClientRejectInternalAddresses 0" in your torrc.
25467 - Always treat failure to allocate an RSA key as an unrecoverable
25469 - Update to the March 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
25471 o Minor features (log subsystem):
25472 - Add documentation for configuring logging at different severities in
25473 different log domains. We've had this feature since 0.2.1.1-alpha,
25474 but for some reason it never made it into the manpage. Fixes
25476 - Make it simpler to specify "All log domains except for A and B".
25477 Previously you needed to say "[*,~A,~B]". Now you can just say
25479 - Add a "LogMessageDomains 1" option to include the domains of log
25480 messages along with the messages. Without this, there's no way
25481 to use log domains without reading the source or doing a lot
25484 o Packaging changes:
25485 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
25486 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
25487 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
25490 Changes in version 0.2.1.30 - 2011-02-23
25491 Tor 0.2.1.30 fixes a variety of less critical bugs. The main other
25492 change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays
25493 and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
25494 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
25495 buys us time until we roll out a better solution.
25498 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
25499 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
25500 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
25501 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
25502 the rest of bug 1074.
25503 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
25504 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
25505 Found by "piebeer".
25506 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
25507 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
25508 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
25509 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
25510 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
25511 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
25512 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
25515 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
25517 - Update to the February 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
25520 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
25521 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
25522 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28. Found by "doorss".
25523 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
25524 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
25525 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
25526 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
25527 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
25528 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
25529 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
25530 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
25532 o Packaging changes:
25533 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
25534 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
25535 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
25536 - Do not include Git version tags as though they are SVN tags when
25537 generating a tarball from inside a repository that has switched
25538 between branches. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
25541 Changes in version 0.2.2.22-alpha - 2011-01-25
25542 Tor 0.2.2.22-alpha fixes a few more less-critical security issues. The
25543 main other change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes
25544 relays and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
25545 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
25546 will buy us a bit more time until we roll out a better solution.
25549 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
25550 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
25551 Found by "piebeer".
25552 - Don't assert when changing from bridge to relay or vice versa
25553 via the controller. The assert happened because we didn't properly
25554 initialize our keys in this case. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha; fixes
25555 bug 2433. Reported by bastik.
25558 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
25560 - Provide a log message stating which geoip file we're parsing
25561 instead of just stating that we're parsing the geoip file.
25562 Implements ticket 2432.
25565 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
25566 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
25567 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28 / 0.2.2.20-alpha. Found by "doorss".
25570 Changes in version 0.2.2.21-alpha - 2011-01-15
25571 Tor 0.2.2.21-alpha includes all the patches from Tor 0.2.1.29, which
25572 continues our recent code security audit work. The main fix resolves
25573 a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote code
25574 execution (CVE-2011-0427). Other fixes address a variety of assert
25575 and crash bugs, most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
25577 o Major bugfixes (security), also included in 0.2.1.29:
25578 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
25579 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
25580 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
25582 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
25583 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
25584 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
25585 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
25586 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
25587 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
25588 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
25589 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
25591 o Major bugfixes (crashes), also included in 0.2.1.29:
25592 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
25593 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
25594 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
25595 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
25596 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
25597 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
25598 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
25599 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
25600 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
25601 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
25602 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
25603 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
25604 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
25607 o Minor bugfixes (other), also included in 0.2.1.29:
25608 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
25609 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
25610 bug reported by doorss.
25611 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
25612 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
25613 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
25614 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
25615 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
25617 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
25618 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
25619 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
25620 - Correctly handle wrapping around when we run out of virtual
25621 address space. Found by cypherpunks; bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
25623 o Minor features, also included in 0.2.1.29:
25624 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
25625 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
25627 o Build changes, also included in 0.2.1.29:
25628 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
25629 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
25630 Automake 1.7 or later.
25631 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
25632 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
25633 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
25634 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
25636 o Major bugfixes, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
25637 - Prevent crash/heap corruption when the cbtnummodes consensus
25638 parameter is set to 0 or large values. Fixes bug 2317; bugfix
25641 o Major features, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
25642 - Introduce minimum/maximum values that clients will believe
25643 from the consensus. Now we'll have a better chance to avoid crashes
25644 or worse when a consensus param has a weird value.
25646 o Minor features, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
25647 - Make sure to disable DirPort if running as a bridge. DirPorts aren't
25648 used on bridges, and it makes bridge scanning somewhat easier.
25649 - If writing the state file to disk fails, wait up to an hour before
25650 retrying again, rather than trying again each second. Fixes bug
25651 2346; bugfix on Tor 0.1.1.3-alpha.
25652 - Make Libevent log messages get delivered to controllers later,
25653 and not from inside the Libevent log handler. This prevents unsafe
25654 reentrant Libevent calls while still letting the log messages
25656 - Detect platforms that brokenly use a signed size_t, and refuse to
25657 build there. Found and analyzed by doorss and rransom.
25658 - Fix a bunch of compile warnings revealed by mingw with gcc 4.5.
25661 o Minor bugfixes, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
25662 - Handle SOCKS messages longer than 128 bytes long correctly, rather
25663 than waiting forever for them to finish. Fixes bug 2330; bugfix
25664 on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Found by doorss.
25665 - Add assertions to check for overflow in arguments to
25666 base32_encode() and base32_decode(); fix a signed-unsigned
25667 comparison there too. These bugs are not actually reachable in Tor,
25668 but it's good to prevent future errors too. Found by doorss.
25669 - Correctly detect failures to create DNS requests when using Libevent
25670 versions before v2. (Before Libevent 2, we used our own evdns
25671 implementation. Its return values for Libevent's evdns_resolve_*()
25672 functions are not consistent with those from Libevent.) Fixes bug
25673 2363; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Found by "lodger".
25675 o Documentation, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
25676 - Document the default socks host and port (127.0.0.1:9050) for
25680 Changes in version 0.2.1.29 - 2011-01-15
25681 Tor 0.2.1.29 continues our recent code security audit work. The main
25682 fix resolves a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote
25683 code execution. Other fixes address a variety of assert and crash bugs,
25684 most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
25686 o Major bugfixes (security):
25687 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
25688 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
25689 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
25691 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
25692 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
25693 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
25694 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
25695 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
25696 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
25697 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
25698 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
25700 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
25701 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
25702 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
25703 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
25704 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
25705 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
25706 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
25707 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
25708 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
25709 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
25710 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
25711 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
25712 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
25713 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
25716 o Minor bugfixes (other):
25717 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
25718 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
25719 bug reported by doorss.
25720 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
25721 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
25722 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
25723 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
25724 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
25726 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
25727 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
25728 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
25729 - Correctly handle wrapping around to when we run out of virtual
25730 address space. Found by cypherpunks, bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
25731 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
25732 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
25733 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
25734 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
25737 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
25738 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
25741 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
25742 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
25743 Automake 1.7 or later.
25746 Changes in version 0.2.2.20-alpha - 2010-12-17
25747 Tor 0.2.2.20-alpha does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
25748 exploitable bugs. We also fix a variety of other significant bugs,
25749 change the IP address for one of our directory authorities, and update
25750 the minimum version that Tor relays must run to join the network.
25753 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
25754 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
25755 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
25756 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
25757 - Fix a bug that could break accounting on 64-bit systems with large
25758 time_t values, making them hibernate for impossibly long intervals.
25759 Fixes bug 2146. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre6; fix by boboper.
25760 - Fix a logic error in directory_fetches_from_authorities() that
25761 would cause all _non_-exits refusing single-hop-like circuits
25762 to fetch from authorities, when we wanted to have _exits_ fetch
25763 from authorities. Fixes more of 2097. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha;
25765 - Fix a stream fairness bug that would cause newer streams on a given
25766 circuit to get preference when reading bytes from the origin or
25767 destination. Fixes bug 2210. Fix by Mashael AlSabah. This bug was
25768 introduced before the first Tor release, in svn revision r152.
25770 o Directory authority changes:
25771 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
25774 - Avoid crashes when AccountingMax is set on clients. Fixes bug 2235.
25775 Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha. Diagnosed by boboper.
25776 - Fix an off-by-one error in calculating some controller command
25777 argument lengths. Fortunately, this mistake is harmless since
25778 the controller code does redundant NUL termination too. Found by
25779 boboper. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
25780 - Do not dereference NULL if a bridge fails to build its
25781 extra-info descriptor. Found by an anonymous commenter on
25782 Trac. Bugfix on 0.2.2.19-alpha.
25785 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
25786 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any versions of
25787 Tor between 0.2.1.3-alpha and 0.2.1.18 inclusive; they have
25788 known bugs that keep RELAY_EARLY cells from working on rendezvous
25789 circuits. Followup to fix for bug 2081.
25790 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any version of Tor
25791 older than 0.2.0.26-rc. That version is the earliest that fetches
25792 current directory information correctly. Fixes bug 2156.
25793 - Report only the top 10 ports in exit-port stats in order not to
25794 exceed the maximum extra-info descriptor length of 50 KB. Implements
25798 Changes in version 0.2.1.28 - 2010-12-17
25799 Tor 0.2.1.28 does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
25800 exploitable bugs. We also took this opportunity to change the IP address
25801 for one of our directory authorities, and to update the geoip database
25805 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
25806 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
25807 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
25808 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
25810 o Directory authority changes:
25811 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
25814 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
25817 Changes in version 0.2.1.27 - 2010-11-23
25818 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
25819 Tor 0.2.1.27 makes relays work with openssl 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b. We
25820 also took this opportunity to fix several crash bugs, integrate a new
25821 directory authority, and update the bundled GeoIP database.
25824 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
25825 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
25826 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
25827 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
25828 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
25829 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
25830 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
25831 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
25832 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
25833 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
25834 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
25835 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
25836 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
25837 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
25838 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
25839 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
25840 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
25841 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
25842 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
25843 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
25844 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
25845 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
25846 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
25849 - Move to the November 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather
25850 than the June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that
25851 count how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we'll
25852 have more accurate data, especially for many African countries.
25854 o New directory authorities:
25855 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
25859 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in directory caches or
25860 bridge users when using a very short voting interval on a testing
25861 network. Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on
25863 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
25864 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
25865 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
25866 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
25867 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
25868 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
25870 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
25871 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
25872 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
25875 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
25876 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
25877 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
25878 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
25879 it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
25880 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
25881 Patch from mingw-san.
25884 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
25885 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
25886 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
25887 - Stop shipping the old doc/website/ directory in the tarball. We
25888 changed the website format in late 2010, and what we shipped in
25889 0.2.1.26 really wasn't that useful anyway.
25892 Changes in version 0.2.2.19-alpha - 2010-11-22
25893 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
25894 Tor 0.2.2.19-alpha makes relays work with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b.
25897 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
25898 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
25899 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
25900 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
25901 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
25904 - Try harder not to exceed the maximum length of 50 KB when writing
25905 statistics to extra-info descriptors. This bug was triggered by very
25906 fast relays reporting exit-port, entry, and dirreq statistics.
25907 Reported by Olaf Selke. Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. Fixes bug 2183.
25908 - Publish a router descriptor even if generating an extra-info
25909 descriptor fails. Previously we would not publish a router
25910 descriptor without an extra-info descriptor; this can cause fast
25911 exit relays collecting exit-port statistics to drop from the
25912 consensus. Bugfix on 0.1.2.9-rc; fixes bug 2195.
25915 Changes in version 0.2.2.18-alpha - 2010-11-16
25916 Tor 0.2.2.18-alpha fixes several crash bugs that have been nagging
25917 us lately, makes unpublished bridge relays able to detect their IP
25918 address, and fixes a wide variety of other bugs to get us much closer
25919 to a stable release.
25922 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
25923 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
25924 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
25925 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
25926 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
25927 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
25928 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
25929 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
25930 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
25931 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
25932 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
25933 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
25934 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
25935 - Maintain separate TLS contexts and certificates for incoming and
25936 outgoing connections in bridge relays. Previously we would use the
25937 same TLS contexts and certs for incoming and outgoing connections.
25938 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses bug 988.
25939 - Maintain separate identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS
25940 contexts in bridge relays. Previously we would use the same
25941 identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS contexts. Bugfix on
25942 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses the other half of bug 988.
25943 - Avoid an assertion failure when we as an authority receive a
25944 duplicate upload of a router descriptor that we already have,
25945 but which we previously considered an obsolete descriptor.
25946 Fixes another case of bug 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
25947 - Avoid a crash bug triggered by looking at a dangling pointer while
25948 setting the network status consensus. Found by Robert Ransom.
25949 Bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Fixes bug 2097.
25950 - Fix a logic error where servers that _didn't_ act as exits would
25951 try to keep their server lists more aggressively up to date than
25952 exits, when it was supposed to be the other way around. Bugfix
25955 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.1.x and earlier):
25956 - When we're trying to guess whether we know our IP address as
25957 a relay, we would log various ways that we failed to guess
25958 our address, but never log that we ended up guessing it
25959 successfully. Now add a log line to help confused and anxious
25960 relay operators. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1534.
25961 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
25962 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
25963 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
25964 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
25965 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
25966 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
25967 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
25968 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
25969 - Correctly describe errors that occur when generating a TLS object.
25970 Previously we would attribute them to a failure while generating a
25971 TLS context. Patch by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc; fixes
25973 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
25974 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
25975 - Fix warnings that newer versions of autoconf produced during
25976 ./autogen.sh. These warnings appear to be harmless in our case,
25977 but they were extremely verbose. Fixes bug 2020.
25979 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.2.x):
25980 - Enable protection of small arrays whenever we build with gcc
25981 hardening features, not only when also building with warnings
25982 enabled. Fixes bug 2031; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha. Reported by keb.
25985 - Make hidden services work better in private Tor networks by not
25986 requiring any uptime to join the hidden service descriptor
25987 DHT. Implements ticket 2088.
25988 - Rate-limit the "your application is giving Tor only an IP address"
25989 warning. Addresses bug 2000; bugfix on 0.0.8pre2.
25990 - When AllowSingleHopExits is set, print a warning to explain to the
25991 relay operator why most clients are avoiding her relay.
25992 - Update to the November 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
25994 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
25995 - When we fixed bug 1038 we had to put in a restriction not to send
25996 RELAY_EARLY cells on rend circuits. This was necessary as long
25997 as relays using Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18-alpha were
25998 active. Now remove this obsolete check. Resolves bug 2081.
25999 - Some options used different conventions for uppercasing of acronyms
26000 when comparing manpage and source. Fix those in favor of the
26001 manpage, as it makes sense to capitalize acronyms.
26002 - Remove the torrc.complete file. It hasn't been kept up to date
26003 and users will have better luck checking out the manpage.
26004 - Remove the obsolete "NoPublish" option; it has been flagged
26005 as obsolete and has produced a warning since 0.1.1.18-rc.
26006 - Remove everything related to building the expert bundle for OS X.
26007 It has confused many users, doesn't work right on OS X 10.6,
26008 and is hard to get rid of once installed. Resolves bug 1274.
26011 Changes in version 0.2.2.17-alpha - 2010-09-30
26012 Tor 0.2.2.17-alpha introduces a feature to make it harder for clients
26013 to use one-hop circuits (which can put the exit relays at higher risk,
26014 plus unbalance the network); fixes a big bug in bandwidth accounting
26015 for relays that want to limit their monthly bandwidth use; fixes a
26016 big pile of bugs in how clients tolerate temporary network failure;
26017 and makes our adaptive circuit build timeout feature (which improves
26018 client performance if your network is fast while not breaking things
26019 if your network is slow) better handle bad networks.
26022 - Exit relays now try harder to block exit attempts from unknown
26023 relays, to make it harder for people to use them as one-hop proxies
26024 a la tortunnel. Controlled by the refuseunknownexits consensus
26025 parameter (currently enabled), or you can override it on your
26026 relay with the RefuseUnknownExits torrc option. Resolves bug 1751.
26028 o Major bugfixes (0.2.1.x and earlier):
26029 - Fix a bug in bandwidth accounting that could make us use twice
26030 the intended bandwidth when our interval start changes due to
26031 daylight saving time. Now we tolerate skew in stored vs computed
26032 interval starts: if the start of the period changes by no more than
26033 50% of the period's duration, we remember bytes that we transferred
26034 in the old period. Fixes bug 1511; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
26035 - Always search the Windows system directory for system DLLs, and
26036 nowhere else. Bugfix on 0.1.1.23; fixes bug 1954.
26037 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
26038 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
26039 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
26040 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
26041 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
26043 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
26044 - Fix compilation on Windows. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha; related to
26046 - Fix a segfault that could happen when operating a bridge relay with
26047 no GeoIP database set. Fixes bug 1964; bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha.
26048 - The consensus bandwidth-weights (used by clients to choose fast
26049 relays) entered an unexpected edge case in September where
26050 Exits were much scarcer than Guards, resulting in bad weight
26051 recommendations. Now we compute them using new constraints that
26052 should succeed in all cases. Also alter directory authorities to
26053 not include the bandwidth-weights line if they fail to produce
26054 valid values. Fixes bug 1952; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
26055 - When weighting bridges during path selection, we used to trust
26056 the bandwidths they provided in their descriptor, only capping them
26057 at 10MB/s. This turned out to be problematic for two reasons:
26058 Bridges could claim to handle a lot more traffic then they
26059 actually would, thus making more clients pick them and have a
26060 pretty effective DoS attack. The other issue is that new bridges
26061 that might not have a good estimate for their bw capacity yet
26062 would not get used at all unless no other bridges are available
26063 to a client. Fixes bug 1912; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
26065 o Major bugfixes (on the circuit build timeout feature, 0.2.2.x):
26066 - Ignore cannibalized circuits when recording circuit build times.
26067 This should provide for a minor performance improvement for hidden
26068 service users using 0.2.2.14-alpha, and should remove two spurious
26069 notice log messages. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1740.
26070 - Simplify the logic that causes us to decide if the network is
26071 unavailable for purposes of recording circuit build times. If we
26072 receive no cells whatsoever for the entire duration of a circuit's
26073 full measured lifetime, the network is probably down. Also ignore
26074 one-hop directory fetching circuit timeouts when calculating our
26075 circuit build times. These changes should hopefully reduce the
26076 cases where we see ridiculous circuit build timeouts for people
26077 with spotty wireless connections. Fixes part of bug 1772; bugfix
26079 - Prevent the circuit build timeout from becoming larger than
26080 the maximum build time we have ever seen. Also, prevent the time
26081 period for measurement circuits from becoming larger than twice that
26082 value. Fixes the other part of bug 1772; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
26085 - When we run out of directory information such that we can't build
26086 circuits, but then get enough that we can build circuits, log when
26087 we actually construct a circuit, so the user has a better chance of
26088 knowing what's going on. Fixes bug 1362.
26089 - Be more generous with how much bandwidth we'd use up (with
26090 accounting enabled) before entering "soft hibernation". Previously,
26091 we'd refuse new connections and circuits once we'd used up 95% of
26092 our allotment. Now, we use up 95% of our allotment, AND make sure
26093 that we have no more than 500MB (or 3 hours of expected traffic,
26094 whichever is lower) remaining before we enter soft hibernation.
26095 - If we've configured EntryNodes and our network goes away and/or all
26096 our entrynodes get marked down, optimistically retry them all when
26097 a new socks application request appears. Fixes bug 1882.
26098 - Add some more defensive programming for architectures that can't
26099 handle unaligned integer accesses. We don't know of any actual bugs
26100 right now, but that's the best time to fix them. Fixes bug 1943.
26101 - Support line continuations in the torrc config file. If a line
26102 ends with a single backslash character, the newline is ignored, and
26103 the configuration value is treated as continuing on the next line.
26106 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
26107 - For bandwidth accounting, calculate our expected bandwidth rate
26108 based on the time during which we were active and not in
26109 soft-hibernation during the last interval. Previously, we were
26110 also considering the time spent in soft-hibernation. If this
26111 was a long time, we would wind up underestimating our bandwidth
26112 by a lot, and skewing our wakeup time towards the start of the
26113 accounting interval. Fixes bug 1789. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
26115 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
26116 - Resume generating CIRC FAILED REASON=TIMEOUT control port messages,
26117 which were disabled by the circuit build timeout changes in
26118 0.2.2.14-alpha. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1739.
26119 - Make sure we don't warn about missing bandwidth weights when
26120 choosing bridges or other relays not in the consensus. Bugfix on
26121 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 1805.
26122 - In our logs, do not double-report signatures from unrecognized
26123 authorities both as "from unknown authority" and "not
26124 present". Fixes bug 1956, bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
26127 Changes in version 0.2.2.16-alpha - 2010-09-17
26128 Tor 0.2.2.16-alpha fixes a variety of old stream fairness bugs (most
26129 evident at exit relays), and also continues to resolve all the little
26130 bugs that have been filling up trac lately.
26132 o Major bugfixes (stream-level fairness):
26133 - When receiving a circuit-level SENDME for a blocked circuit, try
26134 to package cells fairly from all the streams that had previously
26135 been blocked on that circuit. Previously, we had started with the
26136 oldest stream, and allowed each stream to potentially exhaust
26137 the circuit's package window. This gave older streams on any
26138 given circuit priority over newer ones. Fixes bug 1937. Detected
26139 originally by Camilo Viecco. This bug was introduced before the
26140 first Tor release, in svn commit r152: it is the new winner of
26141 the longest-lived bug prize.
26142 - When the exit relay got a circuit-level sendme cell, it started
26143 reading on the exit streams, even if had 500 cells queued in the
26144 circuit queue already, so the circuit queue just grew and grew in
26145 some cases. We fix this by not re-enabling reading on receipt of a
26146 sendme cell when the cell queue is blocked. Fixes bug 1653. Bugfix
26147 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Detected by Mashael AlSabah. Original patch by
26149 - Newly created streams were allowed to read cells onto circuits,
26150 even if the circuit's cell queue was blocked and waiting to drain.
26151 This created potential unfairness, as older streams would be
26152 blocked, but newer streams would gladly fill the queue completely.
26153 We add code to detect this situation and prevent any stream from
26154 getting more than one free cell. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Partially
26158 - Update to the September 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
26159 - Warn when CookieAuthFileGroupReadable is set but CookieAuthFile is
26160 not. This would lead to a cookie that is still not group readable.
26161 Closes bug 1843. Suggested by katmagic.
26162 - When logging a rate-limited warning, we now mention how many messages
26163 got suppressed since the last warning.
26164 - Add new "perconnbwrate" and "perconnbwburst" consensus params to
26165 do individual connection-level rate limiting of clients. The torrc
26166 config options with the same names trump the consensus params, if
26167 both are present. Replaces the old "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst"
26168 consensus params which were broken from 0.2.2.7-alpha through
26169 0.2.2.14-alpha. Closes bug 1947.
26170 - When a router changes IP address or port, authorities now launch
26171 a new reachability test for it. Implements ticket 1899.
26172 - Make the formerly ugly "2 unknown, 7 missing key, 0 good, 0 bad,
26173 2 no signature, 4 required" messages about consensus signatures
26174 easier to read, and make sure they get logged at the same severity
26175 as the messages explaining which keys are which. Fixes bug 1290.
26176 - Don't warn when we have a consensus that we can't verify because
26177 of missing certificates, unless those certificates are ones
26178 that we have been trying and failing to download. Fixes bug 1145.
26179 - If you configure your bridge with a known identity fingerprint,
26180 and the bridge authority is unreachable (as it is in at least
26181 one country now), fall back to directly requesting the descriptor
26182 from the bridge. Finishes the feature started in 0.2.0.10-alpha;
26184 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
26185 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
26186 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
26188 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
26189 - Authorities will now attempt to download consensuses if their
26190 own efforts to make a live consensus have failed. This change
26191 means authorities that restart will fetch a valid consensus, and
26192 it means authorities that didn't agree with the current consensus
26193 will still fetch and serve it if it has enough signatures. Bugfix
26194 on 0.2.0.9-alpha; fixes bug 1300.
26195 - Ensure DNS requests launched by "RESOLVE" commands from the
26196 controller respect the __LeaveStreamsUnattached setconf options. The
26197 same goes for requests launched via DNSPort or transparent
26198 proxying. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1525.
26199 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
26200 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
26201 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
26202 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
26204 - Rate-limit "Failed to hand off onionskin" warnings.
26205 - Never relay a cell for a circuit we have already destroyed.
26206 Between marking a circuit as closeable and finally closing it,
26207 it may have been possible for a few queued cells to get relayed,
26208 even though they would have been immediately dropped by the next
26209 OR in the circuit. Fixes bug 1184; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
26210 - Never queue a cell for a circuit that's already been marked
26212 - Never vote for a server as "Running" if we have a descriptor for
26213 it claiming to be hibernating, and that descriptor was published
26214 more recently than our last contact with the server. Bugfix on
26215 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 911.
26216 - Squash a compile warning on OpenBSD. Reported by Tas; fixes
26219 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
26220 - Fix a regression introduced in 0.2.2.7-alpha that marked relays
26221 down if a directory fetch fails and you've configured either
26222 bridges or EntryNodes. The intent was to mark the relay as down
26223 _unless_ you're using bridges or EntryNodes, since if you are
26224 then you could quickly run out of entry points.
26225 - Fix the Windows directory-listing code. A bug introduced in
26226 0.2.2.14-alpha could make Windows directory servers forget to load
26227 some of their cached v2 networkstatus files.
26228 - Really allow clients to use relays as bridges. Fixes bug 1776;
26229 bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha.
26230 - Demote a warn to info that happens when the CellStatistics option
26231 was just enabled. Bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha; fixes bug 1921.
26232 Reported by Moritz Bartl.
26233 - On Windows, build correctly either with or without Unicode support.
26234 This is necessary so that Tor can support fringe platforms like
26235 Windows 98 (which has no Unicode), or Windows CE (which has no
26236 non-Unicode). Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1797.
26239 - Add a unit test for cross-platform directory-listing code.
26242 Changes in version 0.2.2.15-alpha - 2010-08-18
26243 Tor 0.2.2.15-alpha fixes a big bug in hidden service availability,
26244 fixes a variety of other bugs that were preventing performance
26245 experiments from moving forward, fixes several bothersome memory leaks,
26246 and generally closes a lot of smaller bugs that have been filling up
26250 - Stop assigning the HSDir flag to relays that disable their
26251 DirPort (and thus will refuse to answer directory requests). This
26252 fix should dramatically improve the reachability of hidden services:
26253 hidden services and hidden service clients pick six HSDir relays
26254 to store and retrieve the hidden service descriptor, and currently
26255 about half of the HSDir relays will refuse to work. Bugfix on
26256 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes part of bug 1693.
26257 - The PerConnBWRate and Burst config options, along with the
26258 bwconnrate and bwconnburst consensus params, initialized each conn's
26259 token bucket values only when the connection is established. Now we
26260 update them if the config options change, and update them every time
26261 we get a new consensus. Otherwise we can encounter an ugly edge
26262 case where we initialize an OR conn to client-level bandwidth,
26263 but then later the relay joins the consensus and we leave it
26264 throttled. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha; fixes bug 1830.
26265 - Fix a regression that caused Tor to rebind its ports if it receives
26266 SIGHUP while hibernating. Bugfix in 0.1.1.6-alpha; closes bug 919.
26269 - Lower the maximum weighted-fractional-uptime cutoff to 98%. This
26270 should give us approximately 40-50% more Guard-flagged nodes,
26271 improving the anonymity the Tor network can provide and also
26272 decreasing the dropoff in throughput that relays experience when
26273 they first get the Guard flag.
26274 - Allow enabling or disabling the *Statistics config options while
26278 - Update to the August 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
26279 - Have the controller interface give a more useful message than
26280 "Internal Error" in response to failed GETINFO requests.
26281 - Warn when the same option is provided more than once in a torrc
26282 file, on the command line, or in a single SETCONF statement, and
26283 the option is one that only accepts a single line. Closes bug 1384.
26284 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
26285 Patch from mingw-san.
26286 - Add support for the country code "{??}" in torrc options like
26287 ExcludeNodes, to indicate all routers of unknown country. Closes
26289 - Relays report the number of bytes spent on answering directory
26290 requests in extra-info descriptors similar to {read,write}-history.
26291 Implements enhancement 1790.
26293 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
26294 - Complain if PublishServerDescriptor is given multiple arguments that
26295 include 0 or 1. This configuration will be rejected in the future.
26296 Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; closes bug 1107.
26297 - Disallow BridgeRelay 1 and ORPort 0 at once in the configuration.
26298 Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha; closes bug 928.
26299 - Change "Application request when we're believed to be offline."
26300 notice to "Application request when we haven't used client
26301 functionality lately.", to clarify that it's not an error. Bugfix
26302 on 0.0.9.3; fixes bug 1222.
26303 - Fix a bug in the controller interface where "GETINFO ns/asdaskljkl"
26304 would return "551 Internal error" rather than "552 Unrecognized key
26305 ns/asdaskljkl". Bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
26306 - Users can't configure a regular relay to be their bridge. It didn't
26307 work because when Tor fetched the bridge descriptor, it found
26308 that it already had it, and didn't realize that the purpose of the
26309 descriptor had changed. Now we replace routers with a purpose other
26310 than bridge with bridge descriptors when fetching them. Bugfix on
26311 0.1.1.9-alpha. Bug 1776 not yet fixed because now we immediately
26312 refetch the descriptor with router purpose 'general', disabling
26314 - Fix a rare bug in rend_fn unit tests: we would fail a test when
26315 a randomly generated port is 0. Diagnosed by Matt Edman. Bugfix
26316 on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1808.
26317 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
26318 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
26319 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
26320 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
26321 it. Also update the spec to reflect this new reason. Bugfix on
26322 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
26323 - Delay geoip stats collection by bridges for 6 hours, not 2 hours,
26324 when we switch from being a public relay to a bridge. Otherwise
26325 there will still be clients that see the relay in their consensus,
26326 and the stats will end up wrong. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug
26328 - Instead of giving an assertion failure on an internal mismatch
26329 on estimated freelist size, just log a BUG warning and try later.
26330 Mitigates but does not fix bug 1125.
26331 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in caches or bridge users
26332 when using a very short voting interval on a testing network.
26333 Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
26335 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
26336 - Alter directory authorities to always consider Exit-flagged nodes
26337 as potential Guard nodes in their votes. The actual decision to
26338 use Exits as Guards is done in the consensus bandwidth weights.
26339 Fixes bug 1294; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
26340 - When the controller is reporting the purpose of circuits that
26341 didn't finish building before the circuit build timeout, it was
26342 printing UNKNOWN_13. Now print EXPIRED. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
26343 - Our libevent version parsing code couldn't handle versions like
26344 1.4.14b-stable and incorrectly warned the user about using an
26345 old and broken version of libevent. Treat 1.4.14b-stable like
26346 1.4.14-stable when parsing the version. Fixes bug 1731; bugfix
26348 - Don't use substitution references like $(VAR:MOD) when
26349 $(asciidoc_files) is empty -- make(1) on NetBSD transforms
26350 '$(:x)' to 'x' rather than the empty string. This bites us in
26351 doc/ when configured with --disable-asciidoc. Bugfix on
26352 0.2.2.9-alpha; fixes bug 1773.
26353 - Remove a spurious hidden service server-side log notice about
26354 "Ancient non-dirty circuits". Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes
26356 - Fix compilation with --with-dmalloc set. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha;
26358 - Correctly report written bytes on linked connections. Found while
26359 implementing 1790. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
26360 - Fix three memory leaks: one in circuit_build_times_parse_state(),
26361 one in dirvote_add_signatures_to_pending_consensus(), and one every
26362 time we parse a v3 network consensus. Bugfixes on 0.2.2.14-alpha,
26363 0.2.2.6-alpha, and 0.2.2.10-alpha respectively; fixes bug 1831.
26365 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
26366 - Take a first step towards making or.h smaller by splitting out
26367 function definitions for all source files in src/or/. Leave
26368 structures and defines in or.h for now.
26369 - Remove a bunch of unused function declarations as well as a block of
26370 #if 0'd code from the unit tests. Closes bug 1824.
26371 - New unit tests for exit-port history statistics; refactored exit
26372 statistics code to be more easily tested.
26373 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
26374 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
26375 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
26378 Changes in version 0.2.2.14-alpha - 2010-07-12
26379 Tor 0.2.2.14-alpha greatly improves client-side handling of
26380 circuit build timeouts, which are used to estimate speed and improve
26381 performance. We also move to a much better GeoIP database, port Tor to
26382 Windows CE, introduce new compile flags that improve code security,
26383 add an eighth v3 directory authority, and address a lot of more
26387 - Tor directory authorities no longer crash when started with a
26388 cached-microdesc-consensus file in their data directory. Bugfix
26389 on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 1532.
26390 - Treat an unset $HOME like an empty $HOME rather than triggering an
26391 assert. Bugfix on 0.0.8pre1; fixes bug 1522.
26392 - Ignore negative and large circuit build timeout values that can
26393 happen during a suspend or hibernate. These values caused various
26394 asserts to fire. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1245.
26395 - Alter calculation of Pareto distribution parameter 'Xm' for
26396 Circuit Build Timeout learning to use the weighted average of the
26397 top N=3 modes (because we have three entry guards). Considering
26398 multiple modes should improve the timeout calculation in some cases,
26399 and prevent extremely high timeout values. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha;
26401 - Alter calculation of Pareto distribution parameter 'Alpha' to use a
26402 right censored distribution model. This approach improves over the
26403 synthetic timeout generation approach that was producing insanely
26404 high timeout values. Now we calculate build timeouts using truncated
26405 times. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bugs 1245 and 1335.
26406 - Do not close circuits that are under construction when they reach
26407 the circuit build timeout. Instead, leave them building (but do not
26408 use them) for up until the time corresponding to the 95th percentile
26409 on the Pareto CDF or 60 seconds, whichever is greater. This is done
26410 to provide better data for the new Pareto model. This percentile
26411 can be controlled by the consensus.
26414 - Move to the June 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather than the
26415 June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that count
26416 how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we have
26417 more accurate data for many African countries.
26418 - Port Tor to build and run correctly on Windows CE systems, using
26419 the wcecompat library. Contributed by Valerio Lupi.
26420 - New "--enable-gcc-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
26421 to turn on gcc compile time hardening options. It ensures
26422 that signed ints have defined behavior (-fwrapv), enables
26423 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 (requiring -O2), adds stack smashing protection
26424 with canaries (-fstack-protector-all), turns on ASLR protection if
26425 supported by the kernel (-fPIE, -pie), and adds additional security
26426 related warnings. Verified to work on Mac OS X and Debian Lenny.
26427 - New "--enable-linker-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
26428 to turn on ELF specific hardening features (relro, now). This does
26429 not work with Mac OS X or any other non-ELF binary format.
26431 o New directory authorities:
26432 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
26436 - New config option "WarnUnsafeSocks 0" disables the warning that
26437 occurs whenever Tor receives a socks handshake using a version of
26438 the socks protocol that can only provide an IP address (rather
26439 than a hostname). Setups that do DNS locally over Tor are fine,
26440 and we shouldn't spam the logs in that case.
26441 - Convert the HACKING file to asciidoc, and add a few new sections
26442 to it, explaining how we use Git, how we make changelogs, and
26443 what should go in a patch.
26444 - Add a TIMEOUT_RATE keyword to the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port
26445 event, to give information on the current rate of circuit timeouts
26446 over our stored history.
26447 - Add ability to disable circuit build time learning via consensus
26448 parameter and via a LearnCircuitBuildTimeout config option. Also
26449 automatically disable circuit build time calculation if we are
26450 either a AuthoritativeDirectory, or if we fail to write our state
26451 file. Fixes bug 1296.
26452 - More gracefully handle corrupt state files, removing asserts
26453 in favor of saving a backup and resetting state.
26454 - Rename the "log.h" header to "torlog.h" so as to conflict with fewer
26458 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
26460 - When a2x fails, mention that the user could disable manpages instead
26461 of trying to fix their asciidoc installation.
26462 - Where available, use Libevent 2.0's periodic timers so that our
26463 once-per-second cleanup code gets called even more closely to
26464 once per second than it would otherwise. Fixes bug 943.
26465 - If you run a bridge that listens on multiple IP addresses, and
26466 some user configures a bridge address that uses a different IP
26467 address than your bridge writes in its router descriptor, and the
26468 user doesn't specify an identity key, their Tor would discard the
26469 descriptor because "it isn't one of our configured bridges", and
26470 fail to bootstrap. Now believe the descriptor and bootstrap anyway.
26471 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
26472 - If OpenSSL fails to make a duplicate of a private or public key, log
26473 an error message and try to exit cleanly. May help with debugging
26474 if bug 1209 ever remanifests.
26475 - Save a couple bytes in memory allocation every time we escape
26476 certain characters in a string. Patch from Florian Zumbiehl.
26477 - Make it explicit that we don't cannibalize one-hop circuits. This
26478 happens in the wild, but doesn't turn out to be a problem because
26479 we fortunately don't use those circuits. Many thanks to outofwords
26480 for the initial analysis and to swissknife who confirmed that
26481 two-hop circuits are actually created.
26482 - Make directory mirrors report non-zero dirreq-v[23]-shares again.
26483 Fixes bug 1564; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
26484 - Eliminate a case where a circuit build time warning was displayed
26485 after network connectivity resumed. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
26488 Changes in version 0.2.1.26 - 2010-05-02
26489 Tor 0.2.1.26 addresses the recent connection and memory overload
26490 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
26491 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
26492 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
26494 This release also fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL libraries
26495 that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
26498 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
26499 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
26500 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
26501 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
26502 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
26503 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
26504 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
26505 their directory fetches over TLS).
26506 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
26507 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
26508 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
26509 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
26510 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
26511 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
26512 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
26513 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
26516 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
26517 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
26521 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
26522 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
26523 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
26524 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
26525 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
26526 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
26527 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
26530 Changes in version 0.2.2.13-alpha - 2010-04-24
26531 Tor 0.2.2.13-alpha addresses the recent connection and memory overload
26532 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
26533 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
26534 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
26537 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
26538 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
26539 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
26540 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
26541 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
26542 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
26543 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
26544 their directory fetches over TLS).
26547 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
26548 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
26550 - Directory authorities now do an immediate reachability check as soon
26551 as they hear about a new relay. This change should slightly reduce
26552 the time between setting up a relay and getting listed as running
26553 in the consensus. It should also improve the time between setting
26554 up a bridge and seeing use by bridge users.
26555 - Directory authorities no longer launch a TLS connection to every
26556 relay as they startup. Now that we have 2k+ descriptors cached,
26557 the resulting network hiccup is becoming a burden. Besides,
26558 authorities already avoid voting about Running for the first half
26559 hour of their uptime.
26562 Changes in version 0.2.2.12-alpha - 2010-04-20
26563 Tor 0.2.2.12-alpha fixes a critical bug in how directory authorities
26564 handle and vote on descriptors. It was causing relays to drop out of
26568 - Many relays have been falling out of the consensus lately because
26569 not enough authorities know about their descriptor for them to get
26570 a majority of votes. When we deprecated the v2 directory protocol,
26571 we got rid of the only way that v3 authorities can hear from each
26572 other about other descriptors. Now authorities examine every v3
26573 vote for new descriptors, and fetch them from that authority. Bugfix
26575 - Fix two typos in tor_vasprintf() that broke the compile on Windows,
26576 and a warning in or.h related to bandwidth_weight_rule_t that
26577 prevented clean compile on OS X. Fixes bug 1363; bugfix on
26579 - Fix a segfault on relays when DirReqStatistics is enabled
26580 and 24 hours pass. Bug found by keb. Fixes bug 1365; bugfix on
26584 - Demote a confusing TLS warning that relay operators might get when
26585 someone tries to talk to their OrPort. It is neither the operator's
26586 fault nor can they do anything about it. Fixes bug 1364; bugfix
26590 Changes in version 0.2.2.11-alpha - 2010-04-15
26591 Tor 0.2.2.11-alpha fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL
26592 libraries that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
26595 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
26596 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
26597 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
26598 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
26599 - Fix a parsing error that made every possible value of
26600 CircPriorityHalflifeMsec get treated as "1 msec". Bugfix
26601 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Rename CircPriorityHalflifeMsec to
26602 CircuitPriorityHalflifeMsec, so authorities can tell newer relays
26603 about the option without breaking older ones.
26604 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
26605 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
26606 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
26607 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
26610 - Experiment with a more aggressive approach to preventing clients
26611 from making one-hop exit streams. Exit relays who want to try it
26612 out can set "RefuseUnknownExits 1" in their torrc, and then look
26613 for "Attempt by %s to open a stream" log messages. Let us know
26615 - Add support for statically linking zlib by specifying
26616 --enable-static-zlib, to go with our support for statically linking
26617 openssl and libevent. Resolves bug 1358.
26620 - Fix a segfault that happens whenever a Tor client that is using
26621 libevent2's bufferevents gets a hup signal. Bugfix on 0.2.2.5-alpha;
26623 - When we cleaned up the contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file, we left
26624 out the first line. Fixes bug 1295.
26625 - When building the manpage from a tarball, we required asciidoc, but
26626 the asciidoc -> roff/html conversion was already done for the
26627 tarball. Make 'make' complain only when we need asciidoc (either
26628 because we're compiling directly from git, or because we altered
26629 the asciidoc manpage in the tarball). Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
26630 - When none of the directory authorities vote on any params, Tor
26631 segfaulted when trying to make the consensus from the votes. We
26632 didn't trigger the bug in practice, because authorities do include
26633 params in their votes. Bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 1322.
26636 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
26637 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
26638 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
26639 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
26640 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
26641 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
26642 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
26645 Changes in version 0.2.2.10-alpha - 2010-03-07
26646 Tor 0.2.2.10-alpha fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.2.9-alpha that
26647 could prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also
26648 starts the groundwork for another client-side performance boost, since
26649 currently we're not making efficient use of relays that have both the
26650 Guard flag and the Exit flag.
26653 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
26654 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
26655 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
26656 0.2.2.9-alpha; fixes bug 1269.
26658 o Major features (performance):
26659 - Directory authorities now compute consensus weightings that instruct
26660 clients how to weight relays flagged as Guard, Exit, Guard+Exit,
26661 and no flag. Clients that use these weightings will distribute
26662 network load more evenly across these different relay types. The
26663 weightings are in the consensus so we can change them globally in
26664 the future. Extra thanks to "outofwords" for finding some nasty
26665 security bugs in the first implementation of this feature.
26667 o Minor features (performance):
26668 - Always perform router selections using weighted relay bandwidth,
26669 even if we don't need a high capacity circuit at the time. Non-fast
26670 circuits now only differ from fast ones in that they can use relays
26671 not marked with the Fast flag. This "feature" could turn out to
26672 be a horrible bug; we should investigate more before it goes into
26676 - Allow disabling building of the manpages. Skipping the manpage
26677 speeds up the build considerably.
26679 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
26680 - Fix a memleak in the EXTENDCIRCUIT logic. Spotted by coverity.
26681 Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
26682 - Disallow values larger than INT32_MAX for PerConnBWRate|Burst
26683 config option. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
26684 - Ship the asciidoc-helper file in the tarball, so that people can
26685 build from source if they want to, and touching the .1.txt files
26686 doesn't break the build. Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
26688 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x or earlier):
26689 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
26690 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
26692 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
26693 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
26694 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
26695 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
26697 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
26698 - Fix some urls in the exit notice file and make it XHTML1.1 strict
26699 compliant. Based on a patch from Christian Kujau.
26700 - Don't use sed in asciidoc-helper anymore.
26701 - Make the build process fail if asciidoc cannot be found and
26702 building with asciidoc isn't disabled.
26705 Changes in version 0.2.2.9-alpha - 2010-02-22
26706 Tor 0.2.2.9-alpha makes Tor work again on the latest OS X, updates the
26707 location of a directory authority, and cleans up a bunch of small bugs.
26709 o Directory authority changes:
26710 - Change IP address for dannenberg (v3 directory authority), and
26711 remove moria2 (obsolete v1, v2 directory authority and v0 hidden
26712 service directory authority) from the list.
26715 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
26716 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
26717 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
26718 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
26719 libraries in a security patch.
26720 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
26721 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
26722 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
26723 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
26725 - Authorities could be tricked into giving out the Exit flag to relays
26726 that didn't allow exiting to any ports. This bug could screw
26727 with load balancing and stats. Bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha; fixes bug
26728 1238. Bug discovered by Martin Kowalczyk.
26729 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
26730 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
26731 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
26734 - Fix static compilation by listing the openssl libraries in the right
26735 order. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.8-alpha; fixes bug 1237.
26736 - Resume handling .exit hostnames in a special way: originally we
26737 stripped the .exit part and used the requested exit relay. In
26738 0.2.2.1-alpha we stopped treating them in any special way, meaning
26739 if you use a .exit address then Tor will pass it on to the exit
26740 relay. Now we reject the .exit stream outright, since that behavior
26741 might be more expected by the user. Found and diagnosed by Scott
26742 Bennett and Downie on or-talk.
26743 - Don't spam the controller with events when we have no file
26744 descriptors available. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. (Rate-limiting
26745 for log messages was already solved from bug 748.)
26746 - Avoid a bogus overlapped memcpy in tor_addr_copy(). Reported by
26748 - Make the DNSPort option work with libevent 2.x. Don't alter the
26749 behavior for libevent 1.x. Fixes bug 1143. Found by SwissTorExit.
26750 - Emit a GUARD DROPPED controller event for a case we missed.
26751 - Make more fields in the controller protocol case-insensitive, since
26752 control-spec.txt said they were.
26753 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
26754 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
26755 - Fix a spec conformance issue: the network-status-version token
26756 must be the first token in a v3 consensus or vote. Discovered by
26757 parakeep. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
26759 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
26760 - Generate our manpage and HTML documentation using Asciidoc. This
26761 change should make it easier to maintain the documentation, and
26762 produce nicer HTML.
26763 - Remove the --enable-iphone option. According to reports from Marco
26764 Bonetti, Tor builds fine without any special tweaking on recent
26765 iPhone SDK versions.
26766 - Removed some unnecessary files from the source distribution. The
26767 AUTHORS file has now been merged into the people page on the
26768 website. The roadmaps and design doc can now be found in the
26769 projects directory in svn.
26770 - Enabled various circuit build timeout constants to be controlled
26771 by consensus parameters. Also set better defaults for these
26772 parameters based on experimentation on broadband and simulated
26773 high latency links.
26776 - The 'EXTENDCIRCUIT' control port command can now be used with
26777 a circ id of 0 and no path. This feature will cause Tor to build
26778 a new 'fast' general purpose circuit using its own path selection
26780 - Added a BUILDTIMEOUT_SET controller event to describe changes
26781 to the circuit build timeout.
26782 - Future-proof the controller protocol a bit by ignoring keyword
26783 arguments we do not recognize.
26784 - Expand homedirs passed to tor-checkkey. This should silence a
26785 coverity complaint about passing a user-supplied string into
26786 open() without checking it.
26789 Changes in version 0.2.1.25 - 2010-03-16
26790 Tor 0.2.1.25 fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.1.23 that could
26791 prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also fixes
26792 several minor potential security bugs.
26795 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
26796 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
26797 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
26798 0.2.1.23; fixes bug 1269.
26799 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
26800 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
26801 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
26804 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
26805 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
26807 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
26808 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
26809 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
26810 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
26814 Changes in version 0.2.1.24 - 2010-02-21
26815 Tor 0.2.1.24 makes Tor work again on the latest OS X -- this time
26819 - Work correctly out-of-the-box with even more vendor-patched versions
26820 of OpenSSL. In particular, make it so Debian and OS X don't need
26821 customized patches to run/build.
26824 Changes in version 0.2.1.23 - 2010-02-13
26825 Tor 0.2.1.23 fixes a huge client-side performance bug, makes Tor work
26826 again on the latest OS X, and updates the location of a directory
26829 o Major bugfixes (performance):
26830 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
26831 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
26832 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
26833 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
26834 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
26835 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
26836 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
26839 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
26840 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
26841 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
26842 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
26843 libraries in a security patch.
26844 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
26845 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
26846 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
26847 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
26850 o Directory authority changes:
26851 - Change IP address for dannenberg (v3 directory authority), and
26852 remove moria2 (obsolete v1, v2 directory authority and v0 hidden
26853 service directory authority) from the list.
26856 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
26857 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
26860 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
26861 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
26862 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
26863 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
26864 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
26867 Changes in version 0.2.2.8-alpha - 2010-01-26
26868 Tor 0.2.2.8-alpha fixes a crash bug in 0.2.2.7-alpha that has been
26869 causing bridge relays to disappear. If you're running a bridge,
26873 - Fix a memory corruption bug on bridges that occurred during the
26874 inclusion of stats data in extra-info descriptors. Also fix the
26875 interface for geoip_get_bridge_stats* to prevent similar bugs in
26876 the future. Diagnosis by Tas, patch by Karsten and Sebastian.
26877 Fixes bug 1208; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
26880 - Ignore OutboundBindAddress when connecting to localhost.
26881 Connections to localhost need to come _from_ localhost, or else
26882 local servers (like DNS and outgoing HTTP/SOCKS proxies) will often
26886 Changes in version 0.2.2.7-alpha - 2010-01-19
26887 Tor 0.2.2.7-alpha fixes a huge client-side performance bug, as well
26888 as laying the groundwork for further relay-side performance fixes. It
26889 also starts cleaning up client behavior with respect to the EntryNodes,
26890 ExitNodes, and StrictNodes config options.
26892 This release also rotates two directory authority keys, due to a
26893 security breach of some of the Torproject servers.
26895 o Directory authority changes:
26896 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
26899 o Major features (performance):
26900 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
26901 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
26902 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
26903 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
26904 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
26905 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
26906 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
26907 - When choosing which cells to relay first, relays can now favor
26908 circuits that have been quiet recently, to provide lower latency
26909 for low-volume circuits. By default, relays enable or disable this
26910 feature based on a setting in the consensus. You can override
26911 this default by using the new "CircuitPriorityHalflife" config
26912 option. Design and code by Ian Goldberg, Can Tang, and Chris
26914 - Add separate per-conn write limiting to go with the per-conn read
26915 limiting. We added a global write limit in Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha,
26916 but never per-conn write limits.
26917 - New consensus params "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst" to let us
26918 rate-limit client connections as they enter the network. It's
26919 controlled in the consensus so we can turn it on and off for
26920 experiments. It's starting out off. Based on proposal 163.
26922 o Major features (relay selection options):
26923 - Switch to a StrictNodes config option, rather than the previous
26924 "StrictEntryNodes" / "StrictExitNodes" separation that was missing a
26925 "StrictExcludeNodes" option.
26926 - If EntryNodes, ExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, or ExcludeExitNodes
26927 change during a config reload, mark and discard all our origin
26928 circuits. This fix should address edge cases where we change the
26929 config options and but then choose a circuit that we created before
26931 - If EntryNodes or ExitNodes are set, be more willing to use an
26932 unsuitable (e.g. slow or unstable) circuit. The user asked for it,
26934 - Make EntryNodes config option much more aggressive even when
26935 StrictNodes is not set. Before it would prepend your requested
26936 entrynodes to your list of guard nodes, but feel free to use others
26937 after that. Now it chooses only from your EntryNodes if any of
26938 those are available, and only falls back to others if a) they're
26939 all down and b) StrictNodes is not set.
26940 - Now we refresh your entry guards from EntryNodes at each consensus
26941 fetch -- rather than just at startup and then they slowly rot as
26942 the network changes.
26945 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
26946 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
26947 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
26950 - Log a notice when we get a new control connection. Now it's easier
26951 for security-conscious users to recognize when a local application
26952 is knocking on their controller door. Suggested by bug 1196.
26953 - New config option "CircuitStreamTimeout" to override our internal
26954 timeout schedule for how many seconds until we detach a stream from
26955 a circuit and try a new circuit. If your network is particularly
26956 slow, you might want to set this to a number like 60.
26957 - New controller command "getinfo config-text". It returns the
26958 contents that Tor would write if you send it a SAVECONF command,
26959 so the controller can write the file to disk itself.
26960 - New options for SafeLogging to allow scrubbing only log messages
26961 generated while acting as a relay.
26962 - Ship the bridges spec file in the tarball too.
26963 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
26964 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
26965 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
26966 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
26967 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
26969 o Minor bugfixes (compiling):
26970 - Fix compilation on OS X 10.3, which has a stub mlockall() but
26971 hides it. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
26972 - Fix compilation on Solaris by removing support for the
26973 DisableAllSwap config option. Solaris doesn't have an rlimit for
26974 mlockall, so we cannot use it safely. Fixes bug 1198; bugfix on
26977 o Minor bugfixes (crashes):
26978 - Do not segfault when writing buffer stats when we haven't observed
26979 a single circuit to report about. Found by Fabian Lanze. Bugfix on
26981 - If we're in the pathological case where there's no exit bandwidth
26982 but there is non-exit bandwidth, or no guard bandwidth but there
26983 is non-guard bandwidth, don't crash during path selection. Bugfix
26985 - Fix an impossible-to-actually-trigger buffer overflow in relay
26986 descriptor generation. Bugfix on 0.1.0.15.
26988 o Minor bugfixes (privacy):
26989 - Fix an instance where a Tor directory mirror might accidentally
26990 log the IP address of a misbehaving Tor client. Bugfix on
26992 - Don't list Windows capabilities in relay descriptors. We never made
26993 use of them, and maybe it's a bad idea to publish them. Bugfix
26996 o Minor bugfixes (other):
26997 - Resolve an edge case in path weighting that could make us misweight
26998 our relay selection. Fixes bug 1203; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
26999 - Fix statistics on client numbers by country as seen by bridges that
27000 were broken in 0.2.2.1-alpha. Also switch to reporting full 24-hour
27001 intervals instead of variable 12-to-48-hour intervals.
27002 - After we free an internal connection structure, overwrite it
27003 with a different memory value than we use for overwriting a freed
27004 internal circuit structure. Should help with debugging. Suggested
27006 - Update our OpenSSL 0.9.8l fix so that it works with OpenSSL 0.9.8m
27009 o Removed features:
27010 - Remove the HSAuthorityRecordStats option that version 0 hidden
27011 service authorities could have used to track statistics of overall
27012 hidden service usage.
27015 Changes in version 0.2.1.22 - 2010-01-19
27016 Tor 0.2.1.22 fixes a critical privacy problem in bridge directory
27017 authorities -- it would tell you its whole history of bridge descriptors
27018 if you make the right directory request. This stable update also
27019 rotates two of the seven v3 directory authority keys and locations.
27021 o Directory authority changes:
27022 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
27026 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
27027 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
27028 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
27031 Changes in version 0.2.1.21 - 2009-12-21
27032 Tor 0.2.1.21 fixes an incompatibility with the most recent OpenSSL
27033 library. If you use Tor on Linux / Unix and you're getting SSL
27034 renegotiation errors, upgrading should help. We also recommend an
27035 upgrade if you're an exit relay.
27038 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
27039 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
27040 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, of course, but OpenSSL
27041 0.9.8l won't work unless we say we are.
27042 - Avoid crashing if the client is trying to upload many bytes and the
27043 circuit gets torn down at the same time, or if the flip side
27044 happens on the exit relay. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1150.
27047 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
27048 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
27049 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
27050 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
27051 - Fix a couple of very-hard-to-trigger memory leaks, and one hard-to-
27052 trigger platform-specific option misparsing case found by Coverity
27054 - Fix a compilation warning on Fedora 12 by removing an impossible-to-
27055 trigger assert. Fixes bug 1173.
27058 Changes in version 0.2.2.6-alpha - 2009-11-19
27059 Tor 0.2.2.6-alpha lays the groundwork for many upcoming features:
27060 support for the new lower-footprint "microdescriptor" directory design,
27061 future-proofing our consensus format against new hash functions or
27062 other changes, and an Android port. It also makes Tor compatible with
27063 the upcoming OpenSSL 0.9.8l release, and fixes a variety of bugs.
27066 - Directory authorities can now create, vote on, and serve multiple
27067 parallel formats of directory data as part of their voting process.
27068 Partially implements Proposal 162: "Publish the consensus in
27070 - Directory authorities can now agree on and publish small summaries
27071 of router information that clients can use in place of regular
27072 server descriptors. This transition will eventually allow clients
27073 to use far less bandwidth for downloading information about the
27074 network. Begins the implementation of Proposal 158: "Clients
27075 download consensus + microdescriptors".
27076 - The directory voting system is now extensible to use multiple hash
27077 algorithms for signatures and resource selection. Newer formats
27078 are signed with SHA256, with a possibility for moving to a better
27079 hash algorithm in the future.
27080 - New DisableAllSwap option. If set to 1, Tor will attempt to lock all
27081 current and future memory pages via mlockall(). On supported
27082 platforms (modern Linux and probably BSD but not Windows or OS X),
27083 this should effectively disable any and all attempts to page out
27084 memory. This option requires that you start your Tor as root --
27085 if you use DisableAllSwap, please consider using the User option
27086 to properly reduce the privileges of your Tor.
27087 - Numerous changes, bugfixes, and workarounds from Nathan Freitas
27088 to help Tor build correctly for Android phones.
27091 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
27092 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
27093 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, but OpenSSL 0.9.8l
27094 won't work unless we say we are.
27097 - Fix a crash bug when trying to initialize the evdns module in
27098 Libevent 2. Bugfix on 0.2.1.16-rc.
27099 - Stop logging at severity 'warn' when some other Tor client tries
27100 to establish a circuit with us using weak DH keys. It's a protocol
27101 violation, but that doesn't mean ordinary users need to hear about
27102 it. Fixes the bug part of bug 1114. Bugfix on 0.1.0.13.
27103 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
27104 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
27105 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
27106 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
27107 - Fix numerous small code-flaws found by Coverity Scan Rung 3.
27108 - If all authorities restart at once right before a consensus vote,
27109 nobody will vote about "Running", and clients will get a consensus
27110 with no usable relays. Instead, authorities refuse to build a
27111 consensus if this happens. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1066.
27112 - If your relay can't keep up with the number of incoming create
27113 cells, it would log one warning per failure into your logs. Limit
27114 warnings to 1 per minute. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre10; fixes bug 1042.
27115 - Bridges now use "reject *:*" as their default exit policy. Bugfix
27116 on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1113.
27117 - Fix a memory leak on directory authorities during voting that was
27118 introduced in 0.2.2.1-alpha. Found via valgrind.
27121 Changes in version 0.2.1.20 - 2009-10-15
27122 Tor 0.2.1.20 fixes a crash bug when you're accessing many hidden
27123 services at once, prepares for more performance improvements, and
27124 fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
27126 The Windows and OS X bundles also include a more recent Vidalia,
27127 and switch from Privoxy to Polipo.
27129 The OS X installers are now drag and drop. It's best to un-install
27130 Tor/Vidalia and then install this new bundle, rather than upgrade. If
27131 you want to upgrade, you'll need to update the paths for Tor and Polipo
27132 in the Vidalia Settings window.
27135 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
27136 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
27137 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
27138 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
27139 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
27141 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
27142 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
27144 - Avoid segfault in rare cases when finishing an introduction circuit
27145 as a client and finding out that we don't have an introduction key
27146 for it. Fixes bug 1073. Reported by Aaron Swartz.
27149 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
27150 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
27151 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
27153 o New directory authorities:
27154 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
27156 - Move moria1 and tonga to alternate IP addresses.
27159 - Fix a signed/unsigned compile warning in 0.2.1.19.
27160 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
27162 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
27163 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
27164 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
27165 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
27166 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
27167 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
27168 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
27169 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
27170 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
27171 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
27172 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
27173 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
27174 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
27175 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
27176 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
27177 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
27178 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
27180 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
27181 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
27182 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090. Bugfix on
27184 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
27185 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
27189 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
27190 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
27191 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
27192 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
27193 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
27196 Changes in version 0.2.2.5-alpha - 2009-10-11
27197 Tor 0.2.2.5-alpha fixes a few compile problems in 0.2.2.4-alpha.
27200 - Make the tarball compile again. Oops. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
27202 o Directory authorities:
27203 - Temporarily (just for this release) move dizum to an alternate
27207 Changes in version 0.2.2.4-alpha - 2009-10-10
27208 Tor 0.2.2.4-alpha fixes more crash bugs in 0.2.2.2-alpha. It also
27209 introduces a new unit test framework, shifts directry authority
27210 addresses around to reduce the impact from recent blocking events,
27211 and fixes a few smaller bugs.
27214 - Fix several more asserts in the circuit_build_times code, for
27215 example one that causes Tor to fail to start once we have
27216 accumulated 5000 build times in the state file. Bugfixes on
27217 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1108.
27219 o New directory authorities:
27220 - Move moria1 and Tonga to alternate IP addresses.
27223 - Log SSL state transitions at debug level during handshake, and
27224 include SSL states in error messages. This may help debug future
27225 SSL handshake issues.
27226 - Add a new "Handshake" log domain for activities that happen
27227 during the TLS handshake.
27228 - Revert to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file. The September one
27229 seems to have removed most US IP addresses.
27230 - Directory authorities now reject Tor relays with versions less than
27231 0.1.2.14. This step cuts out four relays from the current network,
27232 none of which are very big.
27235 - Fix a couple of smaller issues with gathering statistics. Bugfixes
27237 - Fix two memory leaks in the error case of
27238 circuit_build_times_parse_state(). Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
27239 - Don't count one-hop circuits when we're estimating how long it
27240 takes circuits to build on average. Otherwise we'll set our circuit
27241 build timeout lower than we should. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
27242 - Directory authorities no longer change their opinion of, or vote on,
27243 whether a router is Running, unless they have themselves been
27244 online long enough to have some idea. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
27247 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
27248 - Revise our unit tests to use the "tinytest" framework, so we
27249 can run tests in their own processes, have smarter setup/teardown
27250 code, and so on. The unit test code has moved to its own
27251 subdirectory, and has been split into multiple modules.
27254 Changes in version 0.2.2.3-alpha - 2009-09-23
27255 Tor 0.2.2.3-alpha fixes a few crash bugs in 0.2.2.2-alpha.
27258 - Fix an overzealous assert in our new circuit build timeout code.
27259 Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1103.
27262 - If the networkstatus consensus tells us that we should use a
27263 negative circuit package window, ignore it. Otherwise we'll
27264 believe it and then trigger an assert. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
27267 Changes in version 0.2.2.2-alpha - 2009-09-21
27268 Tor 0.2.2.2-alpha introduces our latest performance improvement for
27269 clients: Tor tracks the average time it takes to build a circuit, and
27270 avoids using circuits that take too long to build. For fast connections,
27271 this feature can cut your expected latency in half. For slow or flaky
27272 connections, it could ruin your Tor experience. Let us know if it does!
27275 - Tor now tracks how long it takes to build client-side circuits
27276 over time, and adapts its timeout to local network performance.
27277 Since a circuit that takes a long time to build will also provide
27278 bad performance, we get significant latency improvements by
27279 discarding the slowest 20% of circuits. Specifically, Tor creates
27280 circuits more aggressively than usual until it has enough data
27281 points for a good timeout estimate. Implements proposal 151.
27282 We are especially looking for reports (good and bad) from users with
27283 both EDGE and broadband connections that can move from broadband
27284 to EDGE and find out if the build-time data in the .tor/state gets
27285 reset without loss of Tor usability. You should also see a notice
27286 log message telling you that Tor has reset its timeout.
27287 - Directory authorities can now vote on arbitrary integer values as
27288 part of the consensus process. This is designed to help set
27289 network-wide parameters. Implements proposal 167.
27290 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
27291 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
27292 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
27295 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
27296 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
27300 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
27301 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
27302 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
27303 - Fix parsing for memory or time units given without a space between
27304 the number and the unit. Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1076.
27305 - A networkstatus vote must contain exactly one signature. Spec
27306 conformance issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
27307 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
27308 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
27309 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
27310 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
27311 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
27312 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
27313 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
27314 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
27315 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
27316 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
27317 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
27318 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
27319 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
27320 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
27322 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
27323 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
27324 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090, but more problems
27325 remain. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
27326 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
27327 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
27329 - Make our 'torify' script more portable; if we have only one of
27330 'torsocks' or 'tsocks' installed, don't complain to the user;
27331 and explain our warning about tsocks better.
27334 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
27335 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
27336 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
27337 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
27338 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
27339 - Update to the "September 4 2009" ip-to-country file.
27342 Changes in version 0.2.2.1-alpha - 2009-08-26
27343 Tor 0.2.2.1-alpha disables ".exit" address notation by default, allows
27344 Tor clients to bootstrap on networks where only port 80 is reachable,
27345 makes it more straightforward to support hardware crypto accelerators,
27346 and starts the groundwork for gathering stats safely at relays.
27349 - Start the process of disabling ".exit" address notation, since it
27350 can be used for a variety of esoteric application-level attacks
27351 on users. To reenable it, set "AllowDotExit 1" in your torrc. Fix
27354 o New directory authorities:
27355 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
27359 - New AccelName and AccelDir options add support for dynamic OpenSSL
27360 hardware crypto acceleration engines.
27361 - Tor now supports tunneling all of its outgoing connections over
27362 a SOCKS proxy, using the SOCKS4Proxy and/or SOCKS5Proxy
27363 configuration options. Code by Christopher Davis.
27366 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
27367 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
27368 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
27369 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
27370 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
27373 o New options for gathering stats safely:
27374 - Directory mirrors that set "DirReqStatistics 1" write statistics
27375 about directory requests to disk every 24 hours. As compared to the
27376 --enable-geoip-stats flag in 0.2.1.x, there are a few improvements:
27377 1) stats are written to disk exactly every 24 hours; 2) estimated
27378 shares of v2 and v3 requests are determined as mean values, not at
27379 the end of a measurement period; 3) unresolved requests are listed
27380 with country code '??'; 4) directories also measure download times.
27381 - Exit nodes that set "ExitPortStatistics 1" write statistics on the
27382 number of exit streams and transferred bytes per port to disk every
27384 - Relays that set "CellStatistics 1" write statistics on how long
27385 cells spend in their circuit queues to disk every 24 hours.
27386 - Entry nodes that set "EntryStatistics 1" write statistics on the
27387 rough number and origins of connecting clients to disk every 24
27389 - Relays that write any of the above statistics to disk and set
27390 "ExtraInfoStatistics 1" include the past 24 hours of statistics in
27391 their extra-info documents.
27394 - New --digests command-line switch to output the digests of the
27395 source files Tor was built with.
27396 - The "torify" script now uses torsocks where available.
27397 - The memarea code now uses a sentinel value at the end of each area
27398 to make sure nothing writes beyond the end of an area. This might
27399 help debug some conceivable causes of bug 930.
27400 - Time and memory units in the configuration file can now be set to
27401 fractional units. For example, "2.5 GB" is now a valid value for
27403 - Certain Tor clients (such as those behind check.torproject.org) may
27404 want to fetch the consensus in an extra early manner. To enable this
27405 a user may now set FetchDirInfoExtraEarly to 1. This also depends on
27406 setting FetchDirInfoEarly to 1. Previous behavior will stay the same
27407 as only certain clients who must have this information sooner should
27409 - Instead of adding the svn revision to the Tor version string, report
27410 the git commit (when we're building from a git checkout).
27413 - If any of the v3 certs we download are unparseable, we should
27414 actually notice the failure so we don't retry indefinitely. Bugfix
27415 on 0.2.0.x; reported by "rotator".
27416 - If the cached cert file is unparseable, warn but don't exit.
27417 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
27419 - When Tor fails to parse a descriptor of any kind, dump it to disk.
27420 Might help diagnosing bug 1051.
27422 o Deprecated and removed features:
27423 - The controller no longer accepts the old obsolete "addr-mappings/"
27424 or "unregistered-servers-" GETINFO values.
27425 - Hidden services no longer publish version 0 descriptors, and clients
27426 do not request or use version 0 descriptors. However, the old hidden
27427 service authorities still accept and serve version 0 descriptors
27428 when contacted by older hidden services/clients.
27429 - The EXTENDED_EVENTS and VERBOSE_NAMES controller features are now
27430 always on; using them is necessary for correct forward-compatible
27432 - Remove support for .noconnect style addresses. Nobody was using
27433 them, and they provided another avenue for detecting Tor users
27434 via application-level web tricks.
27436 o Packaging changes:
27437 - Upgrade Vidalia from 0.1.15 to 0.2.3 in the Windows and OS X
27438 installer bundles. See
27439 https://trac.vidalia-project.net/browser/vidalia/tags/vidalia-0.2.3/CHANGELOG
27440 for details of what's new in Vidalia 0.2.3.
27441 - Windows Vidalia Bundle: update Privoxy from 3.0.6 to 3.0.14-beta.
27442 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: move to Polipo 1.0.4 with Tor specific
27443 configuration file, rather than the old Privoxy.
27444 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: Vidalia, Tor, and Polipo are compiled as
27445 x86-only for better compatibility with OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard.
27446 - OS X Tor Expert Bundle: Tor is compiled as x86-only for
27447 better compatibility with OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard.
27448 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: The multi-package installer is now replaced
27449 by a simple drag and drop to the /Applications folder. This change
27450 occurred with the upgrade to Vidalia 0.2.3.
27453 Changes in version 0.2.1.19 - 2009-07-28
27454 Tor 0.2.1.19 fixes a major bug with accessing and providing hidden
27455 services on Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18.
27458 - Make accessing hidden services on 0.2.1.x work right again.
27459 Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha; workaround for bug 1038. Diagnosis and
27460 part of patch provided by "optimist".
27463 - When a relay/bridge is writing out its identity key fingerprint to
27464 the "fingerprint" file and to its logs, write it without spaces. Now
27465 it will look like the fingerprints in our bridges documentation,
27466 and confuse fewer users.
27469 - Relays no longer publish a new server descriptor if they change
27470 their MaxAdvertisedBandwidth config option but it doesn't end up
27471 changing their advertised bandwidth numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.28-rc;
27472 fixes bug 1026. Patch from Sebastian.
27473 - Avoid leaking memory every time we get a create cell but we have
27474 so many already queued that we refuse it. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha;
27475 fixes bug 1034. Reported by BarkerJr.
27478 Changes in version 0.2.1.18 - 2009-07-24
27479 Tor 0.2.1.18 lays the foundations for performance improvements,
27480 adds status events to help users diagnose bootstrap problems, adds
27481 optional authentication/authorization for hidden services, fixes a
27482 variety of potential anonymity problems, and includes a huge pile of
27483 other features and bug fixes.
27486 - Add LIBS=-lrt to Makefile.am so the Tor RPMs use a static libevent.
27489 Changes in version 0.2.1.17-rc - 2009-07-07
27490 Tor 0.2.1.17-rc marks the fourth -- and hopefully last -- release
27491 candidate for the 0.2.1.x series. It lays the groundwork for further
27492 client performance improvements, and also fixes a big bug with directory
27493 authorities that were causing them to assign Guard and Stable flags
27496 The Windows bundles also finally include the geoip database that we
27497 thought we'd been shipping since 0.2.0.x (oops), and the OS X bundles
27498 should actually install Torbutton rather than giving you a cryptic
27499 failure message (oops).
27502 - Clients now use the bandwidth values in the consensus, rather than
27503 the bandwidth values in each relay descriptor. This approach opens
27504 the door to more accurate bandwidth estimates once the directory
27505 authorities start doing active measurements. Implements more of
27509 - When Tor clients restart after 1-5 days, they discard all their
27510 cached descriptors as too old, but they still use the cached
27511 consensus document. This approach is good for robustness, but
27512 bad for performance: since they don't know any bandwidths, they
27513 end up choosing at random rather than weighting their choice by
27514 speed. Fixed by the above feature of putting bandwidths in the
27515 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
27516 - Directory authorities were neglecting to mark relays down in their
27517 internal histories if the relays fall off the routerlist without
27518 ever being found unreachable. So there were relays in the histories
27519 that haven't been seen for eight months, and are listed as being
27520 up for eight months. This wreaked havoc on the "median wfu"
27521 and "median mtbf" calculations, in turn making Guard and Stable
27522 flags very wrong, hurting network performance. Fixes bugs 696 and
27523 969. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
27526 - Serve the DirPortFrontPage page even when we have been approaching
27527 our quotas recently. Fixes bug 1013; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
27528 - The control port would close the connection before flushing long
27529 replies, such as the network consensus, if a QUIT command was issued
27530 before the reply had completed. Now, the control port flushes all
27531 pending replies before closing the connection. Also fixed a spurious
27532 warning when a QUIT command is issued after a malformed or rejected
27533 AUTHENTICATE command, but before the connection was closed. Patch
27534 by Marcus Griep. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; fixes bugs 1015 and 1016.
27535 - When we can't find an intro key for a v2 hidden service descriptor,
27536 fall back to the v0 hidden service descriptor and log a bug message.
27537 Workaround for bug 1024.
27538 - Fix a log message that did not respect the SafeLogging option.
27542 - If we're a relay and we change our IP address, be more verbose
27543 about the reason that made us change. Should help track down
27544 further bugs for relays on dynamic IP addresses.
27547 Changes in version 0.2.0.35 - 2009-06-24
27549 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
27550 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
27551 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
27552 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
27553 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
27556 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
27557 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
27558 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
27559 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
27560 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
27561 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
27562 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
27563 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
27564 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
27565 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
27568 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
27569 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
27570 0.2.0.33; fixes bug 672.
27571 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
27572 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
27573 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
27574 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
27575 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
27578 Changes in version 0.2.1.16-rc - 2009-06-20
27579 Tor 0.2.1.16-rc speeds up performance for fast exit relays, and fixes
27580 a bunch of minor bugs.
27583 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
27584 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
27585 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
27587 o Major performance improvements (on 0.2.0.x):
27588 - Disable and refactor some debugging checks that forced a linear scan
27589 over the whole server-side DNS cache. These accounted for over 50%
27590 of CPU time on a relatively busy exit node's gprof profile. Found
27592 - Disable some debugging checks that appeared in exit node profile
27596 - Update to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
27597 - Do not have tor-resolve automatically refuse all .onion addresses;
27598 if AutomapHostsOnResolve is set in your torrc, this will work fine.
27600 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
27601 - Log correct error messages for DNS-related network errors on
27603 - Fix a race condition that could cause crashes or memory corruption
27604 when running as a server with a controller listening for log
27606 - Avoid crashing when we have a policy specified in a DirPolicy or
27607 SocksPolicy or ReachableAddresses option with ports set on it,
27608 and we re-load the policy. May fix bug 996.
27609 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
27610 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
27611 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
27612 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
27613 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
27615 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
27616 - Don't warn users about low port and hibernation mix when they
27617 provide a *ListenAddress directive to fix that. Bugfix on
27619 - When switching back and forth between bridge mode, do not start
27620 gathering GeoIP data until two hours have passed.
27621 - Do not complain that the user has requested an excluded node as
27622 an exit when the node is not really an exit. This could happen
27623 because the circuit was for testing, or an introduction point.
27627 Changes in version 0.2.1.15-rc - 2009-05-25
27628 Tor 0.2.1.15-rc marks the second release candidate for the 0.2.1.x
27629 series. It fixes a major bug on fast exit relays, as well as a variety
27630 of more minor bugs.
27632 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
27633 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
27634 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
27635 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
27637 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
27638 - Actually return -1 in the error case for read_bandwidth_usage().
27639 Harmless bug, since we currently don't care about the return value
27640 anywhere. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
27641 - Provide a more useful log message if bug 977 (related to buffer
27642 freelists) ever reappears, and do not crash right away.
27643 - Fix an assertion failure on 64-bit platforms when we allocated
27644 memory right up to the end of a memarea, then realigned the memory
27645 one step beyond the end. Fixes a possible cause of bug 930.
27646 - Protect the count of open sockets with a mutex, so we can't
27647 corrupt it when two threads are closing or opening sockets at once.
27648 Fix for bug 939. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
27649 - Don't allow a bridge to publish its router descriptor to a
27650 non-bridge directory authority. Fixes part of bug 932.
27651 - When we change to or from being a bridge, reset our counts of
27652 client usage by country. Fixes bug 932.
27653 - Fix a bug that made stream bandwidth get misreported to the
27655 - Stop using malloc_usable_size() to use more area than we had
27656 actually allocated: it was safe, but made valgrind really unhappy.
27657 - Fix a memory leak when v3 directory authorities load their keys
27658 and cert from disk. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
27660 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
27661 - Fix use of freed memory when deciding to mark a non-addable
27662 descriptor as never-downloadable. Bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
27665 Changes in version 0.2.1.14-rc - 2009-04-12
27666 Tor 0.2.1.14-rc marks the first release candidate for the 0.2.1.x
27667 series. It begins fixing some major performance problems, and also
27668 finally addresses the bug that was causing relays on dynamic IP
27669 addresses to fall out of the directory.
27672 - Clients replace entry guards that were chosen more than a few months
27673 ago. This change should significantly improve client performance,
27674 especially once more people upgrade, since relays that have been
27675 a guard for a long time are currently overloaded.
27677 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0):
27678 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
27679 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
27680 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
27681 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
27682 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
27683 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
27684 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
27685 - Relays were falling out of the networkstatus consensus for
27686 part of a day if they changed their local config but the
27687 authorities discarded their new descriptor as "not sufficiently
27688 different". Now directory authorities accept a descriptor as changed
27689 if bandwidthrate or bandwidthburst changed. Partial fix for bug 962;
27690 patch by Sebastian.
27691 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
27692 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
27695 - When generating circuit events with verbose nicknames for
27696 controllers, try harder to look up nicknames for routers on a
27697 circuit. (Previously, we would look in the router descriptors we had
27698 for nicknames, but not in the consensus.) Partial fix for bug 941.
27699 - If the bridge config line doesn't specify a port, assume 443.
27700 This makes bridge lines a bit smaller and easier for users to
27702 - Raise the minimum bandwidth to be a relay from 20000 bytes to 20480
27703 bytes (aka 20KB/s), to match our documentation. Also update
27704 directory authorities so they always assign the Fast flag to relays
27705 with 20KB/s of capacity. Now people running relays won't suddenly
27706 find themselves not seeing any use, if the network gets faster
27708 - Update to the "April 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
27711 - Avoid trying to print raw memory to the logs when we decide to
27712 give up on downloading a given relay descriptor. Bugfix on
27714 - In tor-resolve, when the Tor client to use is specified by
27715 <hostname>:<port>, actually use the specified port rather than
27716 defaulting to 9050. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
27717 - Make directory usage recording work again. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
27718 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
27719 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
27721 - Avoid double-free on list of successfully uploaded hidden
27722 service discriptors. Fix for bug 948. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
27723 - Change memarea_strndup() implementation to work even when
27724 duplicating a string at the end of a page. This bug was
27725 harmless for now, but could have meant crashes later. Fix by
27726 lark. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
27727 - Limit uploaded directory documents to be 16M rather than 500K.
27728 The directory authorities were refusing v3 consensus votes from
27729 other authorities, since the votes are now 504K. Fixes bug 959;
27730 bugfix on 0.0.2pre17 (where we raised it from 50K to 500K ;).
27731 - Directory authorities should never send a 503 "busy" response to
27732 requests for votes or keys. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha; exposed by
27736 Changes in version 0.2.1.13-alpha - 2009-03-09
27737 Tor 0.2.1.13-alpha includes another big pile of minor bugfixes and
27738 cleanups. We're finally getting close to a release candidate.
27741 - Correctly update the list of which countries we exclude as
27742 exits, when the GeoIP file is loaded or reloaded. Diagnosed by
27743 lark. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
27745 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x and earlier):
27746 - Automatically detect MacOSX versions earlier than 10.4.0, and
27747 disable kqueue from inside Tor when running with these versions.
27748 We previously did this from the startup script, but that was no
27749 help to people who didn't use the startup script. Resolves bug 863.
27750 - When we had picked an exit node for a connection, but marked it as
27751 "optional", and it turned out we had no onion key for the exit,
27752 stop wanting that exit and try again. This situation may not
27753 be possible now, but will probably become feasible with proposal
27754 158. Spotted by rovv. Fixes another case of bug 752.
27755 - Clients no longer cache certificates for authorities they do not
27756 recognize. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
27757 - When we can't transmit a DNS request due to a network error, retry
27758 it after a while, and eventually transmit a failing response to
27759 the RESOLVED cell. Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
27760 - If the controller claimed responsibility for a stream, but that
27761 stream never finished making its connection, it would live
27762 forever in circuit_wait state. Now we close it after SocksTimeout
27763 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; reported by Mike Perry.
27764 - Drop begin cells to a hidden service if they come from the middle
27765 of a circuit. Patch from lark.
27766 - When we erroneously receive two EXTEND cells for the same circuit
27767 ID on the same connection, drop the second. Patch from lark.
27768 - Fix a crash that occurs on exit nodes when a nameserver request
27769 timed out. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; our CLEAR debugging code had
27770 been suppressing the bug since 0.1.2.10-alpha. Partial fix for
27772 - Do not assume that a stack-allocated character array will be
27773 64-bit aligned on platforms that demand that uint64_t access is
27774 aligned. Possible fix for bug 604.
27775 - Parse dates and IPv4 addresses in a locale- and libc-independent
27776 manner, to avoid platform-dependent behavior on malformed input.
27777 - Build correctly when configured to build outside the main source
27778 path. Patch from Michael Gold.
27779 - We were already rejecting relay begin cells with destination port
27780 of 0. Now also reject extend cells with destination port or address
27781 of 0. Suggested by lark.
27783 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
27784 - Don't re-extend introduction circuits if we ran out of RELAY_EARLY
27785 cells. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Fixes more of bug 878.
27786 - If we're an exit node, scrub the IP address to which we are exiting
27787 in the logs. Bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
27790 - On Linux, use the prctl call to re-enable core dumps when the user
27792 - New controller event NEWCONSENSUS that lists the networkstatus
27793 lines for every recommended relay. Now controllers like Torflow
27794 can keep up-to-date on which relays they should be using.
27795 - Update to the "February 26 2009" ip-to-country file.
27798 Changes in version 0.2.0.34 - 2009-02-08
27799 Tor 0.2.0.34 features several more security-related fixes. You should
27800 upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or a
27801 directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
27802 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit).
27804 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.1.2.x. Those Tor versions
27805 have many known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should
27806 upgrade. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete,
27807 stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
27810 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
27811 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
27812 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
27813 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
27814 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
27815 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.0.33.
27816 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
27817 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
27820 - Fix compilation on systems where time_t is a 64-bit integer.
27821 Patch from Matthias Drochner.
27822 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
27823 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
27826 Changes in version 0.2.1.12-alpha - 2009-02-08
27827 Tor 0.2.1.12-alpha features several more security-related fixes. You
27828 should upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or
27829 a directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
27830 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit). It also
27831 includes a big pile of minor bugfixes and cleanups.
27834 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
27835 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
27836 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
27837 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
27838 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
27839 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
27842 - Let controllers actually ask for the "clients_seen" event for
27843 getting usage summaries on bridge relays. Bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha;
27844 reported by Matt Edman.
27845 - Fix a compile warning on OSX Panther. Fixes bug 913; bugfix against
27847 - Fix a bug in address parsing that was preventing bridges or hidden
27848 service targets from being at IPv6 addresses.
27849 - Solve a bug that kept hardware crypto acceleration from getting
27850 enabled when accounting was turned on. Fixes bug 907. Bugfix on
27852 - Remove a bash-ism from configure.in to build properly on non-Linux
27853 platforms. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
27854 - Fix code so authorities _actually_ send back X-Descriptor-Not-New
27855 headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
27856 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
27857 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
27858 - Fix another interesting corner-case of bug 891 spotted by rovv:
27859 Previously, if two hosts had different amounts of clock drift, and
27860 one of them created a new connection with just the wrong timing,
27861 the other might decide to deprecate the new connection erroneously.
27862 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha.
27863 - Resolve a very rare crash bug that could occur when the user forced
27864 a nameserver reconfiguration during the middle of a nameserver
27865 probe. Fixes bug 526. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
27866 - Support changing value of ServerDNSRandomizeCase during SIGHUP.
27867 Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
27868 - If we're using bridges and our network goes away, be more willing
27869 to forgive our bridges and try again when we get an application
27870 request. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
27873 - Support platforms where time_t is 64 bits long. (Congratulations,
27874 NetBSD!) Patch from Matthias Drochner.
27875 - Add a 'getinfo status/clients-seen' controller command, in case
27876 controllers want to hear clients_seen events but connect late.
27879 - Disable GCC's strict alias optimization by default, to avoid the
27880 likelihood of its introducing subtle bugs whenever our code violates
27881 the letter of C99's alias rules.
27884 Changes in version 0.2.0.33 - 2009-01-21
27885 Tor 0.2.0.33 fixes a variety of bugs that were making relays less
27886 useful to users. It also finally fixes a bug where a relay or client
27887 that's been off for many days would take a long time to bootstrap.
27889 This update also fixes an important security-related bug reported by
27890 Ilja van Sprundel. You should upgrade. (We'll send out more details
27891 about the bug once people have had some time to upgrade.)
27894 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
27895 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
27898 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
27899 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
27900 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
27901 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
27902 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha;
27903 reported by "wood".
27904 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
27905 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
27906 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
27907 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
27908 identify a connection.
27909 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
27910 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
27911 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
27912 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
27913 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
27914 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
27915 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
27916 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
27917 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
27918 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
27920 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
27921 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could be
27922 useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in practice
27923 it just means we spend many minutes trying directory mirrors that
27924 are long gone from the network. Also discard router descriptors as
27925 we load them if they are more than five days old, since the onion
27926 key is probably wrong by now. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
27929 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
27930 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
27932 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
27933 - Compile without warnings on solaris.
27934 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
27935 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
27936 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
27937 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880.
27938 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
27939 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
27941 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
27942 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, we retry failed
27943 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
27944 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
27945 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
27946 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
27947 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
27948 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
27949 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
27950 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
27951 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
27952 Fixes one case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
27953 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
27954 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
27955 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
27956 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
27957 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
27958 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
27959 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous descriptor to
27960 the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor with the same ID.
27961 Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
27962 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
27963 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
27964 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
27965 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
27966 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
27967 840. Patch from rovv.
27968 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
27969 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
27970 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
27972 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
27973 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
27974 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
27975 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
27976 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
27977 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
27978 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
27980 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
27981 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP. Bugfix on
27982 0.0.6pre1. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
27985 - Report the case where all signatures in a detached set are rejected
27986 differently than the case where there is an error handling the
27988 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
27989 descriptors, print out a more useful error message rather than
27990 triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
27991 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
27992 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
27993 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
27994 ServerDNSRamdomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
27995 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
27996 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
27998 - Check DNS replies for more matching fields to better resist DNS
28000 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
28001 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed, or
28005 Changes in version 0.2.1.11-alpha - 2009-01-20
28006 Tor 0.2.1.11-alpha finishes fixing the "if your Tor is off for a
28007 week it will take a long time to bootstrap again" bug. It also fixes
28008 an important security-related bug reported by Ilja van Sprundel. You
28009 should upgrade. (We'll send out more details about the bug once people
28010 have had some time to upgrade.)
28013 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
28014 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
28017 - Discard router descriptors as we load them if they are more than
28018 five days old. Otherwise if Tor is off for a long time and then
28019 starts with cached descriptors, it will try to use the onion
28020 keys in those obsolete descriptors when building circuits. Bugfix
28021 on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
28024 - Try to make sure that the version of Libevent we're running with
28025 is binary-compatible with the one we built with. May address bug
28027 - Make setting ServerDNSRandomizeCase to 0 actually work. Bugfix
28028 for bug 905. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
28029 - Add a new --enable-local-appdata configuration switch to change
28030 the default location of the datadir on win32 from APPDATA to
28031 LOCAL_APPDATA. In the future, we should migrate to LOCAL_APPDATA
28032 entirely. Patch from coderman.
28035 - Make outbound DNS packets respect the OutboundBindAddress setting.
28036 Fixes the bug part of bug 798. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
28037 - When our circuit fails at the first hop (e.g. we get a destroy
28038 cell back), avoid using that OR connection anymore, and also
28039 tell all the one-hop directory requests waiting for it that they
28040 should fail. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
28041 - In the torify(1) manpage, mention that tsocks will leak your
28045 Changes in version 0.2.1.10-alpha - 2009-01-06
28046 Tor 0.2.1.10-alpha fixes two major bugs in bridge relays (one that
28047 would make the bridge relay not so useful if it had DirPort set to 0,
28048 and one that could let an attacker learn a little bit of information
28049 about the bridge's users), and a bug that would cause your Tor relay
28050 to ignore a circuit create request it can't decrypt (rather than reply
28051 with an error). It also fixes a wide variety of other bugs.
28054 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
28055 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could
28056 be useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in
28057 practice it just means we spend many minutes trying directory
28058 mirrors that are long gone from the network. Helps bug 887 a bit;
28060 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
28061 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
28062 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
28063 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
28064 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
28065 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
28066 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
28067 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
28068 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
28069 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
28073 - New controller event "clients_seen" to report a geoip-based summary
28074 of which countries we've seen clients from recently. Now controllers
28075 like Vidalia can show bridge operators that they're actually making
28077 - Build correctly against versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later built
28078 without support for deprecated functions.
28079 - Update to the "December 19 2008" ip-to-country file.
28081 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
28082 - Authorities now vote for the Stable flag for any router whose
28083 weighted MTBF is at least 5 days, regardless of the mean MTBF.
28084 - Do not remove routers as too old if we do not have any consensus
28085 document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
28086 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
28087 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
28088 - When an exit relay resolves a stream address to a local IP address,
28089 do not just keep retrying that same exit relay over and
28090 over. Instead, just close the stream. Addresses bug 872. Bugfix
28091 on 0.2.0.32. Patch from rovv.
28092 - If a hidden service sends us an END cell, do not consider
28093 retrying the connection; just close it. Patch from rovv.
28094 - When we made bridge authorities stop serving bridge descriptors over
28095 unencrypted links, we also broke DirPort reachability testing for
28096 bridges. So bridges with a non-zero DirPort were printing spurious
28097 warns to their logs. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Fixes bug 709.
28098 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
28099 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
28100 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
28101 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
28102 - Squeeze 2-5% out of client performance (according to oprofile) by
28103 improving the implementation of some policy-manipulation functions.
28105 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
28106 - Make get_interface_address() function work properly again; stop
28107 guessing the wrong parts of our address as our address.
28108 - Do not cannibalize a circuit if we're out of RELAY_EARLY cells to
28109 send on that circuit. Otherwise we might violate the proposal-110
28110 limit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Partial fix for bug 878. Diagnosis
28112 - When we're sending non-EXTEND cells to the first hop in a circuit,
28113 for example to use an encrypted directory connection, we don't need
28114 to use RELAY_EARLY cells: the first hop knows what kind of cell
28115 it is, and nobody else can even see the cell type. Conserving
28116 RELAY_EARLY cells makes it easier to cannibalize circuits like
28118 - Stop logging nameserver addresses in reverse order.
28119 - If we are retrying a directory download slowly over and over, do
28120 not automatically give up after the 254th failure. Bugfix on
28122 - Resume reporting accurate "stream end" reasons to the local control
28123 port. They were lost in the changes for Proposal 148. Bugfix on
28126 o Deprecated and removed features:
28127 - The old "tor --version --version" command, which would print out
28128 the subversion "Id" of most of the source files, is now removed. It
28129 turned out to be less useful than we'd expected, and harder to
28132 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
28133 - Change our header file guard macros to be less likely to conflict
28134 with system headers. Adam Langley noticed that we were conflicting
28135 with log.h on Android.
28136 - Tool-assisted documentation cleanup. Nearly every function or
28137 static variable in Tor should have its own documentation now.
28140 Changes in version 0.2.1.9-alpha - 2008-12-25
28141 Tor 0.2.1.9-alpha fixes many more bugs, some of them security-related.
28143 o New directory authorities:
28144 - gabelmoo (the authority run by Karsten Loesing) now has a new
28148 - Never use a connection with a mismatched address to extend a
28149 circuit, unless that connection is canonical. A canonical
28150 connection is one whose address is authenticated by the router's
28151 identity key, either in a NETINFO cell or in a router descriptor.
28152 - Avoid a possible memory corruption bug when receiving hidden service
28153 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
28156 - Fix a logic error that would automatically reject all but the first
28157 configured DNS server. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Possible fix for
28158 part of bug 813/868. Bug spotted by coderman.
28159 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
28160 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
28161 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
28162 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
28163 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in 0.1.2.1-alpha;
28164 reported by "wood".
28165 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
28166 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, retry failed
28167 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
28168 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
28171 - Give a better error message when an overzealous init script says
28172 "sudo -u username tor --user username". Makes Bug 882 easier for
28174 - When a directory authority gives us a new guess for our IP address,
28175 log which authority we used. Hopefully this will help us debug
28176 the recent complaints about bad IP address guesses.
28177 - Detect svn revision properly when we're using git-svn.
28178 - Try not to open more than one descriptor-downloading connection
28179 to an authority at once. This should reduce load on directory
28180 authorities. Fixes bug 366.
28181 - Add cross-certification to newly generated certificates, so that
28182 a signing key is enough information to look up a certificate.
28183 Partial implementation of proposal 157.
28184 - Start serving certificates by <identity digest, signing key digest>
28185 pairs. Partial implementation of proposal 157.
28186 - Clients now never report any stream end reason except 'MISC'.
28187 Implements proposal 148.
28188 - On platforms with a maximum syslog string length, truncate syslog
28189 messages to that length ourselves, rather than relying on the
28190 system to do it for us.
28191 - Optimize out calls to time(NULL) that occur for every IO operation,
28192 or for every cell. On systems where time() is a slow syscall,
28193 this fix will be slightly helpful.
28194 - Exit servers can now answer resolve requests for ip6.arpa addresses.
28195 - When we download a descriptor that we then immediately (as
28196 a directory authority) reject, do not retry downloading it right
28197 away. Should save some bandwidth on authorities. Fix for bug
28198 888. Patch by Sebastian Hahn.
28199 - When a download gets us zero good descriptors, do not notify
28200 Tor that new directory information has arrived.
28201 - Avoid some nasty corner cases in the logic for marking connections
28202 as too old or obsolete or noncanonical for circuits. Partial
28205 o Minor features (controller):
28206 - New CONSENSUS_ARRIVED event to note when a new consensus has
28207 been fetched and validated.
28208 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
28209 descriptors file, print out a more useful error message rather
28210 than triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
28211 - Add an internal-use-only __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP option for
28212 controllers to prevent SIGHUP from reloading the
28213 configuration. Fixes bug 856.
28216 - Resume using the correct "REASON=" stream when telling the
28217 controller why we closed a stream. Bugfix in 0.2.1.1-alpha.
28218 - When a canonical connection appears later in our internal list
28219 than a noncanonical one for a given OR ID, always use the
28220 canonical one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 805.
28222 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
28223 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
28224 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
28225 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
28226 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
28227 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
28228 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
28229 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
28230 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
28232 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
28233 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP (bugfix on
28234 0.0.6pre1); also, do not stall hidden services because we're
28235 throwing away introduction points; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Spotted
28236 by John Brooks. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
28237 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous
28238 descriptor to the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor
28239 with the same ID. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
28241 o Deprecated and removed features:
28242 - RedirectExits has been removed. It was deprecated since
28244 - Finally remove deprecated "EXTENDED_FORMAT" controller feature. It
28245 has been called EXTENDED_EVENTS since 0.1.2.4-alpha.
28246 - Cell pools are now always enabled; --disable-cell-pools is ignored.
28248 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
28249 - Rename the confusing or_is_obsolete field to the more appropriate
28250 is_bad_for_new_circs, and move it to or_connection_t where it
28252 - Move edge-only flags from connection_t to edge_connection_t: not
28253 only is this better coding, but on machines of plausible alignment,
28254 it should save 4-8 bytes per connection_t. "Every little bit helps."
28255 - Rename ServerDNSAllowBrokenResolvConf to ServerDNSAllowBrokenConfig
28256 for consistency; keep old option working for backward compatibility.
28257 - Simplify the code for finding connections to use for a circuit.
28260 Changes in version 0.2.1.8-alpha - 2008-12-08
28261 Tor 0.2.1.8-alpha fixes some crash bugs in earlier alpha releases,
28262 builds better on unusual platforms like Solaris and old OS X, and
28263 fixes a variety of other issues.
28266 - New DirPortFrontPage option that takes an html file and publishes
28267 it as "/" on the DirPort. Now relay operators can provide a
28268 disclaimer without needing to set up a separate webserver. There's
28269 a sample disclaimer in contrib/tor-exit-notice.html.
28272 - When the client is choosing entry guards, now it selects at most
28273 one guard from a given relay family. Otherwise we could end up with
28274 all of our entry points into the network run by the same operator.
28275 Suggested by Camilo Viecco. Fix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
28278 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
28279 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
28280 - Fix a possible segfault when establishing an exit connection. Bugfix
28284 - Get file locking working on win32. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Fixes
28286 - Made Tor a little less aggressive about deleting expired
28287 certificates. Partial fix for bug 854.
28288 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
28289 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fix for bug 862.
28290 - Fix a crash bug when changing EntryNodes from the controller. Bugfix
28291 on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Fix for bug 867. Patched by Sebastian.
28292 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
28294 - If one win32 nameserver fails to get added, continue adding the
28295 rest, and don't automatically fail.
28296 - Use fcntl() for locking when flock() is not available. Should fix
28297 compilation on Solaris. Should fix Bug 873. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
28298 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
28299 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
28301 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
28302 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
28303 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
28304 - Do not use C's stdio library for writing to log files. This will
28305 improve logging performance by a minute amount, and will stop
28306 leaking fds when our disk is full. Fixes bug 861.
28307 - Stop erroneous use of O_APPEND in cases where we did not in fact
28308 want to re-seek to the end of a file before every last write().
28309 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
28310 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880. Bugfix
28312 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
28316 - Directory mirrors no longer fetch the v1 directory or
28317 running-routers files. They are obsolete, and nobody asks for them
28318 anymore. This is the first step to making v1 authorities obsolete.
28320 o Minor features (controller):
28321 - Return circuit purposes in response to GETINFO circuit-status. Fixes
28325 Changes in version 0.2.0.32 - 2008-11-20
28326 Tor 0.2.0.32 fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
28327 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
28328 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
28329 services, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
28330 variety of other issues.
28333 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
28334 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
28335 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
28336 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
28337 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
28338 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
28339 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848 and 857.
28340 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
28341 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
28342 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
28343 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
28344 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
28347 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
28348 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
28350 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
28351 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
28352 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
28353 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
28354 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
28355 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
28356 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
28357 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
28358 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
28359 requests failed, because the router descriptor has not been
28360 downloaded yet. In these cases, do not attempt to upload the
28361 rendezvous descriptor, but wait until the router descriptor is
28362 downloaded and retry. Likewise, do not attempt to fetch a rendezvous
28363 descriptor from a hidden service directory for which the router
28364 descriptor has not yet been downloaded. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
28368 - Fix several infrequent memory leaks spotted by Coverity.
28369 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
28370 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
28371 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
28372 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
28373 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
28374 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
28375 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
28376 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
28377 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
28378 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
28379 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
28380 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
28381 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
28382 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch from by rovv.
28383 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
28384 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
28385 list. It has been gone for many months.
28386 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
28387 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fixes bug 862.
28388 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
28391 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
28392 - Make DNS resolved events into "CLOSED", not "FAILED". Bugfix on
28393 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves bug 807.
28396 Changes in version 0.2.1.7-alpha - 2008-11-08
28397 Tor 0.2.1.7-alpha fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
28398 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
28399 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
28400 services, adds better defense against DNS poisoning attacks on exit
28401 relays, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
28402 variety of other issues.
28405 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
28406 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
28407 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
28408 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
28409 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
28410 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
28411 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
28412 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
28413 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
28414 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
28415 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
28416 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848.
28417 - Do not use or believe expired v3 authority certificates. Patch
28418 from Karsten. Bugfix in 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 851.
28421 - Now NodeFamily and MyFamily config options allow spaces in
28422 identity fingerprints, so it's easier to paste them in.
28423 Suggested by Lucky Green.
28424 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
28425 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
28426 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
28427 ServerDNSRandomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
28428 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
28429 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
28431 - Preserve case in replies to DNSPort requests in order to support
28432 the 0x20 hack for resisting DNS poisoning attacks.
28434 o Hidden service performance improvements:
28435 - When the client launches an introduction circuit, retry with a
28436 new circuit after 30 seconds rather than 60 seconds.
28437 - Launch a second client-side introduction circuit in parallel
28438 after a delay of 15 seconds (based on work by Christian Wilms).
28439 - Hidden services start out building five intro circuits rather
28440 than three, and when the first three finish they publish a service
28441 descriptor using those. Now we publish our service descriptor much
28442 faster after restart.
28445 - Minor fix in the warning messages when you're having problems
28446 bootstrapping; also, be more forgiving of bootstrap problems when
28447 we're still making incremental progress on a given bootstrap phase.
28448 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
28449 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
28450 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
28451 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
28452 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
28453 840. Patch from rovv.
28454 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
28455 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
28456 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
28457 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
28458 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
28459 Fixes another case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
28460 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
28461 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
28462 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
28464 - Avoid using a negative right-shift when comparing 32-bit
28465 addresses. Possible fix for bug 845 and bug 811.
28466 - Make the assert_circuit_ok() function work correctly on circuits that
28467 have already been marked for close.
28468 - Fix read-off-the-end-of-string error in unit tests when decoding
28469 introduction points.
28470 - Fix uninitialized size field for memory area allocation: may improve
28471 memory performance during directory parsing.
28472 - Treat duplicate certificate fetches as failures, so that we do
28473 not try to re-fetch an expired certificate over and over and over.
28474 - Do not say we're fetching a certificate when we'll in fact skip it
28475 because of a pending download.
28478 Changes in version 0.2.1.6-alpha - 2008-09-30
28479 Tor 0.2.1.6-alpha further improves performance and robustness of
28480 hidden services, starts work on supporting per-country relay selection,
28481 and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
28484 - Implement proposal 121: make it possible to build hidden services
28485 that only certain clients are allowed to connect to. This is
28486 enforced at several points, so that unauthorized clients are unable
28487 to send INTRODUCE cells to the service, or even (depending on the
28488 type of authentication) to learn introduction points. This feature
28489 raises the bar for certain kinds of active attacks against hidden
28490 services. Code by Karsten Loesing.
28491 - Relays now store and serve v2 hidden service descriptors by default,
28492 i.e., the new default value for HidServDirectoryV2 is 1. This is
28493 the last step in proposal 114, which aims to make hidden service
28494 lookups more reliable.
28495 - Start work to allow node restrictions to include country codes. The
28496 syntax to exclude nodes in a country with country code XX is
28497 "ExcludeNodes {XX}". Patch from Robert Hogan. It still needs some
28498 refinement to decide what config options should take priority if
28499 you ask to both use a particular node and exclude it.
28500 - Allow ExitNodes list to include IP ranges and country codes, just
28501 like the Exclude*Nodes lists. Patch from Robert Hogan.
28504 - Fix a bug when parsing ports in tor_addr_port_parse() that caused
28505 Tor to fail to start if you had it configured to use a bridge
28506 relay. Fixes bug 809. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
28507 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
28508 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
28509 requests failed, because the router descriptor had not been
28510 downloaded yet. In these cases, we now wait until the router
28511 descriptor is downloaded, and then retry. Likewise, clients
28512 now skip over a hidden service directory if they don't yet have
28513 its router descriptor, rather than futilely requesting it and
28514 putting mysterious complaints in the logs. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
28516 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
28517 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
28518 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
28519 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
28520 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
28521 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
28522 - DNS replies need to have names matching their requests, but
28523 these names should be in the questions section, not necessarily
28524 in the answers section. Fixes bug 823. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
28527 - Update to the "September 1 2008" ip-to-country file.
28528 - Allow ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy again. We had
28529 rejected them in 0.1.0.15, because back in 2005 they were commonly
28530 misconfigured and ended up as spam targets. We hear they are better
28531 locked down these days.
28532 - Use a lockfile to make sure that two Tor processes are not
28533 simultaneously running with the same datadir.
28534 - Serve the latest v3 networkstatus consensus via the control
28535 port. Use "getinfo dir/status-vote/current/consensus" to fetch it.
28536 - Better logging about stability/reliability calculations on directory
28538 - Drop the requirement to have an open dir port for storing and
28539 serving v2 hidden service descriptors.
28540 - Directory authorities now serve a /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL to
28541 help debug WFU and MTBF calculations.
28542 - Implement most of Proposal 152: allow specialized servers to permit
28543 single-hop circuits, and clients to use those servers to build
28544 single-hop circuits when using a specialized controller. Patch
28545 from Josh Albrecht. Resolves feature request 768.
28546 - Add a -p option to tor-resolve for specifying the SOCKS port: some
28547 people find host:port too confusing.
28548 - Make TrackHostExit mappings expire a while after their last use, not
28549 after their creation. Patch from Robert Hogan.
28550 - Provide circuit purposes along with circuit events to the controller.
28553 - Fix compile on OpenBSD 4.4-current. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
28555 - Fixed some memory leaks -- some quite frequent, some almost
28556 impossible to trigger -- based on results from Coverity.
28557 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
28558 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
28559 - Fix an assertion bug in parsing policy-related options; possible fix
28561 - Catch and report a few more bootstrapping failure cases when Tor
28562 fails to establish a TCP connection. Cleanup on 0.2.1.x.
28563 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
28564 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
28565 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
28566 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
28567 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
28568 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
28569 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
28570 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
28571 - If we are not using BEGIN_DIR cells, don't attempt to contact hidden
28572 service directories if they have no advertised dir port. Bugfix
28574 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
28575 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
28576 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
28577 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch by rovv.
28578 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
28579 - Avoid a "0 divided by 0" calculation when calculating router uptime
28580 at directory authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
28581 - Make DNS resolved controller events into "CLOSED", not
28582 "FAILED". Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves
28584 - Fix a bug where an unreachable relay would establish enough
28585 reachability testing circuits to do a bandwidth test -- if
28586 we already have a connection to the middle hop of the testing
28587 circuit, then it could establish the last hop by using the existing
28588 connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, exposed when we made testing
28589 circuits no longer use entry guards in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
28590 - If we have correct permissions on $datadir, we complain to stdout
28591 and fail to start. But dangerous permissions on
28592 $datadir/cached-status/ would cause us to open a log and complain
28593 there. Now complain to stdout and fail to start in both cases. Fixes
28594 bug 820, reported by seeess.
28595 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
28596 list. It has been gone for many months.
28598 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
28599 - Revise the connection_new functions so that a more typesafe variant
28600 exists. This will work better with Coverity, and let us find any
28601 actual mistakes we're making here.
28602 - Refactor unit testing logic so that dmalloc can be used sensibly
28603 with unit tests to check for memory leaks.
28604 - Move all hidden-service related fields from connection and circuit
28605 structure to substructures: this way they won't eat so much memory.
28608 Changes in version 0.2.0.31 - 2008-09-03
28609 Tor 0.2.0.31 addresses two potential anonymity issues, starts to fix
28610 a big bug we're seeing where in rare cases traffic from one Tor stream
28611 gets mixed into another stream, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
28614 - Make sure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
28615 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
28616 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc.
28617 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
28618 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
28619 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
28621 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
28622 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
28623 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
28624 pointed out by rovv.
28627 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
28628 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
28629 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
28630 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
28631 - Pick size of default geoip filename string correctly on windows.
28632 Fixes bug 806. Bugfix on 0.2.0.30.
28633 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
28634 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
28635 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
28636 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
28637 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
28638 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open
28639 /dev/pf before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from
28640 Christopher Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
28641 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
28642 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
28643 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
28644 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
28645 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit is
28646 getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly. Bugfix on
28647 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
28650 Changes in version 0.2.1.5-alpha - 2008-08-31
28651 Tor 0.2.1.5-alpha moves us closer to handling IPv6 destinations, puts
28652 in a lot of the infrastructure for adding authorization to hidden
28653 services, lays the groundwork for having clients read their load
28654 balancing information out of the networkstatus consensus rather than
28655 the individual router descriptors, addresses two potential anonymity
28656 issues, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
28659 - Convert many internal address representations to optionally hold
28661 - Generate and accept IPv6 addresses in many protocol elements.
28662 - Make resolver code handle nameservers located at ipv6 addresses.
28663 - Begin implementation of proposal 121 ("Client authorization for
28664 hidden services"): configure hidden services with client
28665 authorization, publish descriptors for them, and configure
28666 authorization data for hidden services at clients. The next
28667 step is to actually access hidden services that perform client
28669 - More progress toward proposal 141: Network status consensus
28670 documents and votes now contain bandwidth information for each
28671 router and a summary of that router's exit policy. Eventually this
28672 will be used by clients so that they do not have to download every
28673 known descriptor before building circuits.
28675 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x and before):
28676 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
28677 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
28678 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
28679 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
28680 identify a connection.
28681 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
28682 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
28683 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
28685 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
28686 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
28687 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
28688 pointed out by rovv.
28691 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
28692 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
28693 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
28694 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open /dev/pf
28695 before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from Christopher
28696 Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
28697 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
28698 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
28699 - Add a missing safe_str() call for a debug log message.
28700 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
28701 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
28702 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
28703 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
28704 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
28705 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
28708 - Rate-limit too-many-sockets messages: when they happen, they happen
28709 a lot. Resolves bug 748.
28710 - Resist DNS poisoning a little better by making sure that names in
28711 answer sections match.
28712 - Print the SOCKS5 error message string as well as the error code
28713 when a tor-resolve request fails. Patch from Jacob.
28716 Changes in version 0.2.1.4-alpha - 2008-08-04
28717 Tor 0.2.1.4-alpha fixes a pair of crash bugs in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
28720 - The address part of exit policies was not correctly written
28721 to router descriptors. This generated router descriptors that failed
28722 their self-checks. Noticed by phobos, fixed by Karsten. Bugfix
28724 - Tor triggered a false assert when extending a circuit to a relay
28725 but we already have a connection open to that relay. Noticed by
28726 phobos, fixed by Karsten. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
28729 - Fix a hidden service logging bug: in some edge cases, the router
28730 descriptor of a previously picked introduction point becomes
28731 obsolete and we need to give up on it rather than continually
28732 complaining that it has become obsolete. Observed by xiando. Bugfix
28735 o Removed features:
28736 - Take out the TestVia config option, since it was a workaround for
28737 a bug that was fixed in Tor 0.1.1.21.
28740 Changes in version 0.2.1.3-alpha - 2008-08-03
28741 Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha implements most of the pieces to prevent
28742 infinite-length circuit attacks (see proposal 110); fixes a bug that
28743 might cause exit relays to corrupt streams they send back; allows
28744 address patterns (e.g. 255.128.0.0/16) to appear in ExcludeNodes and
28745 ExcludeExitNodes config options; and fixes a big pile of bugs.
28747 o Bootstrapping bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x-alpha):
28748 - Send a bootstrap problem "warn" event on the first problem if the
28749 reason is NO_ROUTE (that is, our network is down).
28752 - Implement most of proposal 110: The first K cells to be sent
28753 along a circuit are marked as special "early" cells; only K "early"
28754 cells will be allowed. Once this code is universal, we can block
28755 certain kinds of DOS attack by requiring that EXTEND commands must
28756 be sent using an "early" cell.
28759 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
28760 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
28761 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
28762 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
28763 - Ensure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
28764 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
28765 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779; fixes a bug on 0.1.0.4-rc.
28768 - When relays do their initial bandwidth measurement, don't limit
28769 to just our entry guards for the test circuits. Otherwise we tend
28770 to have multiple test circuits going through a single entry guard,
28771 which makes our bandwidth test less accurate. Fixes part of bug 654;
28772 patch contributed by Josh Albrecht.
28773 - Add an ExcludeExitNodes option so users can list a set of nodes
28774 that should be be excluded from the exit node position, but
28775 allowed elsewhere. Implements proposal 151.
28776 - Allow address patterns (e.g., 255.128.0.0/16) to appear in
28777 ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes lists.
28778 - Change the implementation of ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes to
28779 be more efficient. Formerly it was quadratic in the number of
28780 servers; now it should be linear. Fixes bug 509.
28781 - Save 16-22 bytes per open circuit by moving the n_addr, n_port,
28782 and n_conn_id_digest fields into a separate structure that's
28783 only needed when the circuit has not yet attached to an n_conn.
28786 - Change the contrib/tor.logrotate script so it makes the new
28787 logs as "_tor:_tor" rather than the default, which is generally
28788 "root:wheel". Fixes bug 676, reported by Serge Koksharov.
28789 - Stop using __attribute__((nonnull)) with GCC: it can give us useful
28790 warnings (occasionally), but it can also cause the compiler to
28791 eliminate error-checking code. Suggested by Peter Gutmann.
28792 - When a hidden service is giving up on an introduction point candidate
28793 that was not included in the last published rendezvous descriptor,
28794 don't reschedule publication of the next descriptor. Fixes bug 763.
28796 - Mark RendNodes, RendExcludeNodes, HiddenServiceNodes, and
28797 HiddenServiceExcludeNodes as obsolete: they never worked properly,
28798 and nobody claims to be using them. Fixes bug 754. Bugfix on
28799 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch from Christian Wilms.
28800 - Fix a small alignment and memory-wasting bug on buffer chunks.
28803 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
28804 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit
28805 is getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly.
28806 Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
28808 o Removed features:
28809 - Remove all backward-compatibility code to support relays running
28810 versions of Tor so old that they no longer work at all on the
28814 Changes in version 0.2.0.30 - 2008-07-15
28816 - Stop using __attribute__((nonnull)) with GCC: it can give us useful
28817 warnings (occasionally), but it can also cause the compiler to
28818 eliminate error-checking code. Suggested by Peter Gutmann.
28821 Changes in version 0.2.0.29-rc - 2008-07-08
28822 Tor 0.2.0.29-rc fixes two big bugs with using bridges, fixes more
28823 hidden-service performance bugs, and fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
28826 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their keys,
28827 you would only launch a request for the descriptor of the first one
28828 on your list. (Tor considered launching requests for the others, but
28829 found that it already had a connection on the way for $0000...0000
28830 so it didn't open another.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
28831 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their keys, and the
28832 connection to one of the bridges failed, you would cancel all
28833 pending bridge connections. (After all, they all have the same
28834 digest.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
28835 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
28836 and Tor had built circuits preemptively for such purposes, we
28837 were ignoring all the preemptive circuits and launching a new one
28838 instead. Bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
28839 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
28840 and Tor *did* manage to reuse one of the preemptively built
28841 circuits, it didn't correctly remember which one it used,
28842 so it asked for another one soon after, until there were no
28843 more preemptive circuits, at which point it launched one from
28844 scratch. Bugfix on 0.0.9.x.
28845 - Make directory servers include the X-Your-Address-Is: http header in
28846 their responses even for begin_dir conns. Now clients who only
28847 ever use begin_dir connections still have a way to learn their IP
28848 address. Fixes bug 737; bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc. Reported by goldy.
28851 - Fix a macro/CPP interaction that was confusing some compilers:
28852 some GCCs don't like #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments.
28854 - Fix macro collision between OpenSSL 0.9.8h and Windows headers.
28855 Fixes bug 704; fix from Steven Murdoch.
28856 - When opening /dev/null in finish_daemonize(), do not pass the
28857 O_CREAT flag. Fortify was complaining, and correctly so. Fixes
28858 bug 742; fix from Michael Scherer. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre19.
28859 - Correctly detect transparent proxy support on Linux hosts that
28860 require in.h to be included before netfilter_ipv4.h. Patch
28862 - Disallow session resumption attempts during the renegotiation
28863 stage of the v2 handshake protocol. Clients should never be trying
28864 session resumption at this point, but apparently some did, in
28865 ways that caused the handshake to fail. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Bug
28866 found by Geoff Goodell.
28869 Changes in version 0.2.1.2-alpha - 2008-06-20
28870 Tor 0.2.1.2-alpha includes a new "TestingTorNetwork" config option to
28871 make it easier to set up your own private Tor network; fixes several
28872 big bugs with using more than one bridge relay; fixes a big bug with
28873 offering hidden services quickly after Tor starts; and uses a better
28874 API for reporting potential bootstrapping problems to the controller.
28877 - New TestingTorNetwork config option to allow adjustment of
28878 previously constant values that, while reasonable, could slow
28879 bootstrapping. Implements proposal 135. Patch from Karsten.
28882 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their digests,
28883 you would only learn a request for the descriptor of the first one
28884 on your list. (Tor considered launching requests for the others, but
28885 found that it already had a connection on the way for $0000...0000
28886 so it didn't open another.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
28887 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their digests,
28888 and the connection to one of the bridges failed, you would cancel
28889 all pending bridge connections. (After all, they all have the
28890 same digest.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
28891 - When establishing a hidden service, introduction points that
28892 originate from cannibalized circuits are completely ignored and not
28893 included in rendezvous service descriptors. This might be another
28894 reason for delay in making a hidden service available. Bugfix
28895 from long ago (0.0.9.x?)
28898 - Allow OpenSSL to use dynamic locks if it wants.
28899 - When building a consensus, do not include routers that are down.
28900 This will cut down 30% to 40% on consensus size. Implements
28902 - In directory authorities' approved-routers files, allow
28903 fingerprints with or without space.
28904 - Add a "GETINFO /status/bootstrap-phase" controller option, so the
28905 controller can query our current bootstrap state in case it attaches
28906 partway through and wants to catch up.
28907 - Send an initial "Starting" bootstrap status event, so we have a
28908 state to start out in.
28911 - Asking for a conditional consensus at .../consensus/<fingerprints>
28912 would crash a dirserver if it did not already have a
28913 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
28914 - Clean up some macro/CPP interactions: some GCC versions don't like
28915 #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments. Fixes bug 707. Bugfix on
28918 o Bootstrapping bugfixes (on 0.2.1.1-alpha):
28919 - Directory authorities shouldn't complain about bootstrapping
28920 problems just because they do a lot of reachability testing and
28921 some of the connection attempts fail.
28922 - Start sending "count" and "recommendation" key/value pairs in
28923 bootstrap problem status events, so the controller can hear about
28924 problems even before Tor decides they're worth reporting for sure.
28925 - If you're using bridges, generate "bootstrap problem" warnings
28926 as soon as you run out of working bridges, rather than waiting
28927 for ten failures -- which will never happen if you have less than
28929 - If we close our OR connection because there's been a circuit
28930 pending on it for too long, we were telling our bootstrap status
28931 events "REASON=NONE". Now tell them "REASON=TIMEOUT".
28934 Changes in version 0.2.1.1-alpha - 2008-06-13
28935 Tor 0.2.1.1-alpha fixes a lot of memory fragmentation problems that
28936 were making the Tor process bloat especially on Linux; makes our TLS
28937 handshake blend in better; sends "bootstrap phase" status events to
28938 the controller, so it can keep the user informed of progress (and
28939 problems) fetching directory information and establishing circuits;
28940 and adds a variety of smaller features.
28943 - More work on making our TLS handshake blend in: modify the list
28944 of ciphers advertised by OpenSSL in client mode to even more
28945 closely resemble a common web browser. We cheat a little so that
28946 we can advertise ciphers that the locally installed OpenSSL doesn't
28948 - Start sending "bootstrap phase" status events to the controller,
28949 so it can keep the user informed of progress fetching directory
28950 information and establishing circuits. Also inform the controller
28951 if we think we're stuck at a particular bootstrap phase. Implements
28953 - Resume using OpenSSL's RAND_poll() for better (and more portable)
28954 cross-platform entropy collection again. We used to use it, then
28955 stopped using it because of a bug that could crash systems that
28956 called RAND_poll when they had a lot of fds open. It looks like the
28957 bug got fixed in late 2006. Our new behavior is to call RAND_poll()
28958 at startup, and to call RAND_poll() when we reseed later only if
28959 we have a non-buggy OpenSSL version.
28962 - When we choose to abandon a new entry guard because we think our
28963 older ones might be better, close any circuits pending on that
28964 new entry guard connection. This fix should make us recover much
28965 faster when our network is down and then comes back. Bugfix on
28966 0.1.2.8-beta; found by lodger.
28968 o Memory fixes and improvements:
28969 - Add a malloc_good_size implementation to OpenBSD_malloc_linux.c,
28970 to avoid unused RAM in buffer chunks and memory pools.
28971 - Speed up parsing and cut down on memory fragmentation by using
28972 stack-style allocations for parsing directory objects. Previously,
28973 this accounted for over 40% of allocations from within Tor's code
28974 on a typical directory cache.
28975 - Use a Bloom filter rather than a digest-based set to track which
28976 descriptors we need to keep around when we're cleaning out old
28977 router descriptors. This speeds up the computation significantly,
28978 and may reduce fragmentation.
28979 - Reduce the default smartlist size from 32 to 16; it turns out that
28980 most smartlists hold around 8-12 elements tops.
28981 - Make dumpstats() log the fullness and size of openssl-internal
28983 - If the user has applied the experimental SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS
28984 patch to their OpenSSL, turn it on to save memory on servers. This
28985 patch will (with any luck) get included in a mainline distribution
28987 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
28988 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed,
28992 - Stop reloading the router list from disk for no reason when we
28993 run out of reachable directory mirrors. Once upon a time reloading
28994 it would set the 'is_running' flag back to 1 for them. It hasn't
28995 done that for a long time.
28996 - In very rare situations new hidden service descriptors were
28997 published earlier than 30 seconds after the last change to the
28998 service. (We currently think that a hidden service descriptor
28999 that's been stable for 30 seconds is worth publishing.)
29002 - Allow separate log levels to be configured for different logging
29003 domains. For example, this allows one to log all notices, warnings,
29004 or errors, plus all memory management messages of level debug or
29005 higher, with: Log [MM] debug-err [*] notice-err file /var/log/tor.
29006 - Add a couple of extra warnings to --enable-gcc-warnings for GCC 4.3,
29007 and stop using a warning that had become unfixably verbose under
29009 - New --hush command-line option similar to --quiet. While --quiet
29010 disables all logging to the console on startup, --hush limits the
29011 output to messages of warning and error severity.
29012 - Servers support a new URL scheme for consensus downloads that
29013 allows the client to specify which authorities are trusted.
29014 The server then only sends the consensus if the client will trust
29015 it. Otherwise a 404 error is sent back. Clients use this
29016 new scheme when the server supports it (meaning it's running
29017 0.2.1.1-alpha or later). Implements proposal 134.
29018 - New configure/torrc options (--enable-geoip-stats,
29019 DirRecordUsageByCountry) to record how many IPs we've served
29020 directory info to in each country code, how many status documents
29021 total we've sent to each country code, and what share of the total
29022 directory requests we should expect to see.
29023 - Use the TLS1 hostname extension to more closely resemble browser
29025 - Lots of new unit tests.
29026 - Add a macro to implement the common pattern of iterating through
29027 two parallel lists in lockstep.
29030 Changes in version 0.2.0.28-rc - 2008-06-13
29031 Tor 0.2.0.28-rc fixes an anonymity-related bug, fixes a hidden-service
29032 performance bug, and fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
29035 - Fix a bug where, when we were choosing the 'end stream reason' to
29036 put in our relay end cell that we send to the exit relay, Tor
29037 clients on Windows were sometimes sending the wrong 'reason'. The
29038 anonymity problem is that exit relays may be able to guess whether
29039 the client is running Windows, thus helping partition the anonymity
29040 set. Down the road we should stop sending reasons to exit relays,
29041 or otherwise prevent future versions of this bug.
29044 - While setting up a hidden service, some valid introduction circuits
29045 were overlooked and abandoned. This might be the reason for
29046 the long delay in making a hidden service available. Bugfix on
29050 - Update to the "June 9 2008" ip-to-country file.
29051 - Run 'make test' as part of 'make dist', so we stop releasing so
29052 many development snapshots that fail their unit tests.
29055 - When we're checking if we have enough dir info for each relay
29056 to begin establishing circuits, make sure that we actually have
29057 the descriptor listed in the consensus, not just any descriptor.
29059 - Bridge relays no longer print "xx=0" in their extrainfo document
29060 for every single country code in the geoip db. Bugfix on
29062 - Only warn when we fail to load the geoip file if we were planning to
29063 include geoip stats in our extrainfo document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.27-rc.
29064 - If we change our MaxAdvertisedBandwidth and then reload torrc,
29065 Tor won't realize it should publish a new relay descriptor. Fixes
29066 bug 688, reported by mfr. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
29067 - When we haven't had any application requests lately, don't bother
29068 logging that we have expired a bunch of descriptors. Bugfix
29070 - Make relay cells written on a connection count as non-padding when
29071 tracking how long a connection has been in use. Bugfix on
29072 0.2.0.1-alpha. Spotted by lodger.
29073 - Fix unit tests in 0.2.0.27-rc.
29074 - Fix compile on Windows.
29077 Changes in version 0.2.0.27-rc - 2008-06-03
29078 Tor 0.2.0.27-rc adds a few features we left out of the earlier
29079 release candidates. In particular, we now include an IP-to-country
29080 GeoIP database, so controllers can easily look up what country a
29081 given relay is in, and so bridge relays can give us some sanitized
29082 summaries about which countries are making use of bridges. (See proposal
29083 126-geoip-fetching.txt for details.)
29086 - Include an IP-to-country GeoIP file in the tarball, so bridge
29087 relays can report sanitized summaries of the usage they're seeing.
29090 - Add a "PURPOSE=" argument to "STREAM NEW" events, as suggested by
29091 Robert Hogan. Fixes the first part of bug 681.
29092 - Make bridge authorities never serve extrainfo docs.
29093 - Add support to detect Libevent versions in the 1.4.x series
29095 - Fix build on gcc 4.3 with --enable-gcc-warnings set.
29096 - Include a new contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file that exit relay
29097 operators can put on their website to help reduce abuse queries.
29100 - When tunneling an encrypted directory connection, and its first
29101 circuit fails, do not leave it unattached and ask the controller
29102 to deal. Fixes the second part of bug 681.
29103 - Make bridge authorities correctly expire old extrainfo documents
29107 Changes in version 0.2.0.26-rc - 2008-05-13
29108 Tor 0.2.0.26-rc fixes a major security vulnerability caused by a bug
29109 in Debian's OpenSSL packages. All users running any 0.2.0.x version
29110 should upgrade, whether they're running Debian or not.
29112 o Major security fixes:
29113 - Use new V3 directory authority keys on the tor26, gabelmoo, and
29114 moria1 V3 directory authorities. The old keys were generated with
29115 a vulnerable version of Debian's OpenSSL package, and must be
29116 considered compromised. Other authorities' keys were not generated
29117 with an affected version of OpenSSL.
29120 - List authority signatures as "unrecognized" based on DirServer
29121 lines, not on cert cache. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
29124 - Add a new V3AuthUseLegacyKey option to make it easier for
29125 authorities to change their identity keys if they have to.
29128 Changes in version 0.2.0.25-rc - 2008-04-23
29129 Tor 0.2.0.25-rc makes Tor work again on OS X and certain BSDs.
29132 - Remember to initialize threading before initializing logging.
29133 Otherwise, many BSD-family implementations will crash hard on
29134 startup. Fixes bug 671. Bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc.
29137 - Authorities correctly free policies on bad servers on
29138 exit. Fixes bug 672. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
29141 Changes in version 0.2.0.24-rc - 2008-04-22
29142 Tor 0.2.0.24-rc adds dizum (run by Alex de Joode) as the new sixth
29143 v3 directory authority, makes relays with dynamic IP addresses and no
29144 DirPort notice more quickly when their IP address changes, fixes a few
29145 rare crashes and memory leaks, and fixes a few other miscellaneous bugs.
29147 o New directory authorities:
29148 - Take lefkada out of the list of v3 directory authorities, since
29149 it has been down for months.
29150 - Set up dizum (run by Alex de Joode) as the new sixth v3 directory
29154 - Detect address changes more quickly on non-directory mirror
29155 relays. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 652.
29157 o Minor features (security):
29158 - Reject requests for reverse-dns lookup of names that are in
29159 a private address space. Patch from lodger.
29160 - Non-exit relays no longer allow DNS requests. Fixes bug 619. Patch
29163 o Minor bugfixes (crashes):
29164 - Avoid a rare assert that can trigger when Tor doesn't have much
29165 directory information yet and it tries to fetch a v2 hidden
29166 service descriptor. Fixes bug 651, reported by nwf.
29167 - Initialize log mutex before initializing dmalloc. Otherwise,
29168 running with dmalloc would crash. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha.
29169 - Use recursive pthread mutexes in order to avoid deadlock when
29170 logging debug-level messages to a controller. Bug spotted by nwf,
29171 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
29173 o Minor bugfixes (resource management):
29174 - Keep address policies from leaking memory: start their refcount
29175 at 1, not 2. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
29176 - Free authority certificates on exit, so they don't look like memory
29177 leaks. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha.
29178 - Free static hashtables for policy maps and for TLS connections on
29179 shutdown, so they don't look like memory leaks. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
29180 - Avoid allocating extra space when computing consensuses on 64-bit
29181 platforms. Bug spotted by aakova.
29183 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
29184 - Do not read the configuration file when we've only been told to
29185 generate a password hash. Fixes bug 643. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5. Fix
29186 based on patch from Sebastian Hahn.
29187 - Exit relays that are used as a client can now reach themselves
29188 using the .exit notation, rather than just launching an infinite
29189 pile of circuits. Fixes bug 641. Reported by Sebastian Hahn.
29190 - When attempting to open a logfile fails, tell us why.
29191 - Fix a dumb bug that was preventing us from knowing that we should
29192 preemptively build circuits to handle expected directory requests.
29193 Fixes bug 660. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
29194 - Warn less verbosely about clock skew from netinfo cells from
29195 untrusted sources. Fixes bug 663.
29196 - Make controller stream events for DNS requests more consistent,
29197 by adding "new stream" events for DNS requests, and removing
29198 spurious "stream closed" events" for cached reverse resolves.
29199 Patch from mwenge. Fixes bug 646.
29200 - Correctly notify one-hop connections when a circuit build has
29201 failed. Possible fix for bug 669. Found by lodger.
29204 Changes in version 0.2.0.23-rc - 2008-03-24
29205 Tor 0.2.0.23-rc is the fourth release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
29206 makes bootstrapping faster if the first directory mirror you contact
29207 is down. The bundles also include the new Vidalia 0.1.2 release.
29210 - When a tunneled directory request is made to a directory server
29211 that's down, notice after 30 seconds rather than 120 seconds. Also,
29212 fail any begindir streams that are pending on it, so they can
29213 retry elsewhere. This was causing multi-minute delays on bootstrap.
29216 Changes in version 0.2.0.22-rc - 2008-03-18
29217 Tor 0.2.0.22-rc is the third release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
29218 enables encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays, fixes
29219 some broken TLS behavior we added in 0.2.0.20-rc, and resolves many
29220 other bugs. The bundles also include Vidalia 0.1.1 and Torbutton 1.1.17.
29223 - Enable encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays,
29224 so censor tools that block Tor directory connections based on their
29225 plaintext patterns will no longer work. This means Tor works in
29226 certain censored countries by default again.
29229 - Make sure servers always request certificates from clients during
29230 TLS renegotiation. Reported by lodger; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
29231 - Do not enter a CPU-eating loop when a connection is closed in
29232 the middle of client-side TLS renegotiation. Fixes bug 622. Bug
29233 diagnosed by lodger; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
29234 - Fix assertion failure that could occur when a blocked circuit
29235 became unblocked, and it had pending client DNS requests. Bugfix
29236 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 632.
29238 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
29239 - Generate "STATUS_SERVER" events rather than misspelled
29240 "STATUS_SEVER" events. Caught by mwenge.
29241 - When counting the number of bytes written on a TLS connection,
29242 look at the BIO actually used for writing to the network, not
29243 at the BIO used (sometimes) to buffer data for the network.
29244 Looking at different BIOs could result in write counts on the
29245 order of ULONG_MAX. Fixes bug 614.
29246 - On Windows, correctly detect errors when listing the contents of
29247 a directory. Fix from lodger.
29249 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
29250 - Downgrade "sslv3 alert handshake failure" message to INFO.
29251 - If we set RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst very high but
29252 left BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst at the default, we would be
29253 silently limited by those defaults. Now raise them to match the
29254 RelayBandwidth* values.
29255 - Fix the SVK version detection logic to work correctly on a branch.
29256 - Make --enable-openbsd-malloc work correctly on Linux with alpha
29257 CPUs. Fixes bug 625.
29258 - Logging functions now check that the passed severity is sane.
29259 - Use proper log levels in the testsuite call of
29260 get_interface_address6().
29261 - When using a nonstandard malloc, do not use the platform values for
29262 HAVE_MALLOC_GOOD_SIZE or HAVE_MALLOC_USABLE_SIZE.
29263 - Make the openbsd malloc code use 8k pages on alpha CPUs and
29265 - Detect mismatched page sizes when using --enable-openbsd-malloc.
29266 - Avoid double-marked-for-close warning when certain kinds of invalid
29267 .in-addr.arpa addresses are passed to the DNSPort. Part of a fix
29268 for bug 617. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
29269 - Make sure that the "NULL-means-reject *:*" convention is followed by
29270 all the policy manipulation functions, avoiding some possible crash
29271 bugs. Bug found by lodger. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
29272 - Fix the implementation of ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses so that it
29273 actually works, and doesn't warn about every single reverse lookup.
29274 Fixes the other part of bug 617. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
29277 - Only log guard node status when guard node status has changed.
29278 - Downgrade the 3 most common "INFO" messages to "DEBUG". This will
29279 make "INFO" 75% less verbose.
29282 Changes in version 0.2.0.21-rc - 2008-03-02
29283 Tor 0.2.0.21-rc is the second release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
29284 makes Tor work well with Vidalia again, fixes a rare assert bug,
29285 and fixes a pair of more minor bugs. The bundles also include Vidalia
29286 0.1.0 and Torbutton 1.1.16.
29289 - The control port should declare that it requires password auth
29290 when HashedControlSessionPassword is set too. Patch from Matt Edman;
29291 bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Fixes bug 615.
29292 - Downgrade assert in connection_buckets_decrement() to a log message.
29293 This may help us solve bug 614, and in any case will make its
29294 symptoms less severe. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Reported by fredzupy.
29295 - We were sometimes miscounting the number of bytes read from the
29296 network, causing our rate limiting to not be followed exactly.
29297 Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by lodger.
29300 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 0.9.8 and 0.9.8a. All other supported
29301 OpenSSL versions should have been working fine. Diagnosis and patch
29302 from lodger, Karsten Loesing, and Sebastian Hahn. Fixes bug 616.
29303 Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
29306 Changes in version 0.2.0.20-rc - 2008-02-24
29307 Tor 0.2.0.20-rc is the first release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
29308 makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS handshake, makes
29309 hidden services work better again, helps relays bootstrap if they don't
29310 know their IP address, adds optional support for linking in openbsd's
29311 allocator or tcmalloc, allows really fast relays to scale past 15000
29312 sockets, and fixes a bunch of minor bugs reported by Veracode.
29315 - Enable the revised TLS handshake based on the one designed by
29316 Steven Murdoch in proposal 124, as revised in proposal 130. It
29317 includes version negotiation for OR connections as described in
29318 proposal 105. The new handshake is meant to be harder for censors
29319 to fingerprint, and it adds the ability to detect certain kinds of
29320 man-in-the-middle traffic analysis attacks. The version negotiation
29321 feature will allow us to improve Tor's link protocol more safely
29323 - Choose which bridge to use proportional to its advertised bandwidth,
29324 rather than uniformly at random. This should speed up Tor for
29325 bridge users. Also do this for people who set StrictEntryNodes.
29326 - When a TrackHostExits-chosen exit fails too many times in a row,
29327 stop using it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 437.
29330 - Resolved problems with (re-)fetching hidden service descriptors.
29331 Patch from Karsten Loesing; fixes problems with 0.2.0.18-alpha
29332 and 0.2.0.19-alpha.
29333 - If we only ever used Tor for hidden service lookups or posts, we
29334 would stop building circuits and start refusing connections after
29335 24 hours, since we falsely believed that Tor was dormant. Reported
29336 by nwf; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
29337 - Servers that don't know their own IP address should go to the
29338 authorities for their first directory fetch, even if their DirPort
29339 is off or if they don't know they're reachable yet. This will help
29340 them bootstrap better. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 609.
29341 - When counting the number of open sockets, count not only the number
29342 of sockets we have received from the socket() call, but also
29343 the number we've gotten from accept() and socketpair(). This bug
29344 made us fail to count all sockets that we were using for incoming
29345 connections. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
29346 - Fix code used to find strings within buffers, when those strings
29347 are not in the first chunk of the buffer. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
29348 - Fix potential segfault when parsing HTTP headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
29349 - Add a new __HashedControlSessionPassword option for controllers
29350 to use for one-off session password hashes that shouldn't get
29351 saved to disk by SAVECONF --- Vidalia users were accumulating a
29352 pile of HashedControlPassword lines in their torrc files, one for
29353 each time they had restarted Tor and then clicked Save. Make Tor
29354 automatically convert "HashedControlPassword" to this new option but
29355 only when it's given on the command line. Partial fix for bug 586.
29357 o Minor features (performance):
29358 - Tune parameters for cell pool allocation to minimize amount of
29360 - Add OpenBSD malloc code from phk as an optional malloc
29361 replacement on Linux: some glibc libraries do very poorly
29362 with Tor's memory allocation patterns. Pass
29363 --enable-openbsd-malloc to get the replacement malloc code.
29364 - Add a --with-tcmalloc option to the configure script to link
29365 against tcmalloc (if present). Does not yet search for
29366 non-system include paths.
29367 - Stop imposing an arbitrary maximum on the number of file descriptors
29368 used for busy servers. Bug reported by Olaf Selke; patch from
29371 o Minor features (other):
29372 - When SafeLogging is disabled, log addresses along with all TLS
29374 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings, check for whether Apple's
29375 warning "-Wshorten-64-to-32" is available.
29376 - Add a --passphrase-fd argument to the tor-gencert command for
29379 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks and code problems):
29380 - We were leaking a file descriptor if Tor started with a zero-length
29381 cached-descriptors file. Patch by freddy77; bugfix on 0.1.2.
29382 - Detect size overflow in zlib code. Reported by Justin Ferguson and
29384 - We were comparing the raw BridgePassword entry with a base64'ed
29385 version of it, when handling a "/tor/networkstatus-bridges"
29386 directory request. Now compare correctly. Noticed by Veracode.
29387 - Recover from bad tracked-since value in MTBF-history file.
29388 Should fix bug 537.
29389 - Alter the code that tries to recover from unhandled write
29390 errors, to not try to flush onto a socket that's given us
29391 unhandled errors. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
29392 - Make Unix controlsockets work correctly on OpenBSD. Patch from
29393 tup. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
29395 o Minor bugfixes (other):
29396 - If we have an extra-info document for our server, always make
29397 it available on the control port, even if we haven't gotten
29398 a copy of it from an authority yet. Patch from mwenge.
29399 - Log the correct memory chunk sizes for empty RAM chunks in mempool.c.
29400 - Directory mirrors no longer include a guess at the client's IP
29401 address if the connection appears to be coming from the same /24
29402 network; it was producing too many wrong guesses.
29403 - Make the new hidden service code respect the SafeLogging setting.
29404 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Patch from Karsten.
29405 - When starting as an authority, do not overwrite all certificates
29406 cached from other authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 606.
29407 - If we're trying to flush the last bytes on a connection (for
29408 example, when answering a directory request), reset the
29409 time-to-give-up timeout every time we manage to write something
29410 on the socket. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
29411 - Change the behavior of "getinfo status/good-server-descriptor"
29412 so it doesn't return failure when any authority disappears.
29413 - Even though the man page said that "TrackHostExits ." should
29414 work, nobody had ever implemented it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x.
29415 - Report TLS "zero return" case as a "clean close" and "IO error"
29416 as a "close". Stop calling closes "unexpected closes": existing
29417 Tors don't use SSL_close(), so having a connection close without
29418 the TLS shutdown handshake is hardly unexpected.
29419 - Send NAMESERVER_STATUS messages for a single failed nameserver
29422 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
29423 - Remove the tor_strpartition function: its logic was confused,
29424 and it was only used for one thing that could be implemented far
29428 Changes in version 0.2.0.19-alpha - 2008-02-09
29429 Tor 0.2.0.19-alpha makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS
29430 handshake, makes path selection for relays more secure and IP address
29431 guessing more robust, and generally fixes a lot of bugs in preparation
29432 for calling the 0.2.0 branch stable.
29435 - Do not include recognizeable strings in the commonname part of
29436 Tor's x509 certificates.
29439 - If we're a relay, avoid picking ourselves as an introduction point,
29440 a rendezvous point, or as the final hop for internal circuits. Bug
29441 reported by taranis and lodger. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
29442 - Patch from "Andrew S. Lists" to catch when we contact a directory
29443 mirror at IP address X and he says we look like we're coming from
29444 IP address X. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
29446 o Minor features (security):
29447 - Be more paranoid about overwriting sensitive memory on free(),
29448 as a defensive programming tactic to ensure forward secrecy.
29450 o Minor features (directory authority):
29451 - Actually validate the options passed to AuthDirReject,
29452 AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, and AuthDirBadExit.
29453 - Reject router descriptors with out-of-range bandwidthcapacity or
29454 bandwidthburst values.
29456 o Minor features (controller):
29457 - Reject controller commands over 1MB in length. This keeps rogue
29458 processes from running us out of memory.
29460 o Minor features (misc):
29461 - Give more descriptive well-formedness errors for out-of-range
29462 hidden service descriptor/protocol versions.
29463 - Make memory debugging information describe more about history
29464 of cell allocation, so we can help reduce our memory use.
29466 o Deprecated features (controller):
29467 - The status/version/num-versioning and status/version/num-concurring
29468 GETINFO options are no longer useful in the v3 directory protocol:
29469 treat them as deprecated, and warn when they're used.
29472 - When our consensus networkstatus has been expired for a while, stop
29473 being willing to build circuits using it. Fixes bug 401. Bugfix
29475 - Directory caches now fetch certificates from all authorities
29476 listed in a networkstatus consensus, even when they do not
29477 recognize them. Fixes bug 571. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
29478 - When connecting to a bridge without specifying its key, insert
29479 the connection into the identity-to-connection map as soon as
29480 a key is learned. Fixes bug 574. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
29481 - Detect versions of OS X where malloc_good_size() is present in the
29482 library but never actually declared. Resolves bug 587. Bugfix
29484 - Stop incorrectly truncating zlib responses to directory authority
29485 signature download requests. Fixes bug 593. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
29486 - Stop recommending that every server operator send mail to tor-ops.
29487 Resolves bug 597. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
29488 - Don't trigger an assert if we start a directory authority with a
29489 private IP address (like 127.0.0.1).
29490 - Avoid possible failures when generating a directory with routers
29491 with over-long versions strings, or too many flags set. Bugfix
29493 - If an attempt to launch a DNS resolve request over the control
29494 port fails because we have overrun the limit on the number of
29495 connections, tell the controller that the request has failed.
29496 - Avoid using too little bandwidth when our clock skips a few
29497 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
29498 - Fix shell error when warning about missing packages in configure
29499 script, on Fedora or Red Hat machines. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
29500 - Do not become confused when receiving a spurious VERSIONS-like
29501 cell from a confused v1 client. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
29502 - Re-fetch v2 (as well as v0) rendezvous descriptors when all
29503 introduction points for a hidden service have failed. Patch from
29504 Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
29506 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
29507 - Remove some needless generality from cpuworker code, for improved
29509 - Stop overloading the circuit_t.onionskin field for both "onionskin
29510 from a CREATE cell that we are waiting for a cpuworker to be
29511 assigned" and "onionskin from an EXTEND cell that we are going to
29512 send to an OR as soon as we are connected". Might help with bug 600.
29513 - Add an in-place version of aes_crypt() so that we can avoid doing a
29514 needless memcpy() call on each cell payload.
29517 Changes in version 0.2.0.18-alpha - 2008-01-25
29518 Tor 0.2.0.18-alpha adds a sixth v3 directory authority run by CCC,
29519 fixes a big memory leak in 0.2.0.17-alpha, and adds new config options
29520 that can warn or reject connections to ports generally associated with
29521 vulnerable-plaintext protocols.
29523 o New directory authorities:
29524 - Set up dannenberg (run by CCC) as the sixth v3 directory
29528 - Fix a major memory leak when attempting to use the v2 TLS
29529 handshake code. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; fixes bug 589.
29530 - We accidentally enabled the under-development v2 TLS handshake
29531 code, which was causing log entries like "TLS error while
29532 renegotiating handshake". Disable it again. Resolves bug 590.
29533 - We were computing the wrong Content-Length: header for directory
29534 responses that need to be compressed on the fly, causing clients
29535 asking for those items to always fail. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; partially
29539 - Avoid going directly to the directory authorities even if you're a
29540 relay, if you haven't found yourself reachable yet or if you've
29541 decided not to advertise your dirport yet. Addresses bug 556.
29542 - If we've gone 12 hours since our last bandwidth check, and we
29543 estimate we have less than 50KB bandwidth capacity but we could
29544 handle more, do another bandwidth test.
29545 - New config options WarnPlaintextPorts and RejectPlaintextPorts so
29546 Tor can warn and/or refuse connections to ports commonly used with
29547 vulnerable-plaintext protocols. Currently we warn on ports 23,
29548 109, 110, and 143, but we don't reject any.
29551 - When we setconf ClientOnly to 1, close any current OR and Dir
29552 listeners. Reported by mwenge.
29553 - When we get a consensus that's been signed by more people than
29554 we expect, don't log about it; it's not a big deal. Reported
29558 - Don't answer "/tor/networkstatus-bridges" directory requests if
29559 the request isn't encrypted.
29560 - Make "ClientOnly 1" config option disable directory ports too.
29561 - Patches from Karsten Loesing to make v2 hidden services more
29562 robust: work even when there aren't enough HSDir relays available;
29563 retry when a v2 rend desc fetch fails; but don't retry if we
29564 already have a usable v0 rend desc.
29567 Changes in version 0.2.0.17-alpha - 2008-01-17
29568 Tor 0.2.0.17-alpha makes the tarball build cleanly again (whoops).
29571 - Make the tor-gencert man page get included correctly in the tarball.
29574 Changes in version 0.2.0.16-alpha - 2008-01-17
29575 Tor 0.2.0.16-alpha adds a fifth v3 directory authority run by Karsten
29576 Loesing, and generally cleans up a lot of features and minor bugs.
29578 o New directory authorities:
29579 - Set up gabelmoo (run by Karsten Loesing) as the fifth v3 directory
29582 o Major performance improvements:
29583 - Switch our old ring buffer implementation for one more like that
29584 used by free Unix kernels. The wasted space in a buffer with 1mb
29585 of data will now be more like 8k than 1mb. The new implementation
29586 also avoids realloc();realloc(); patterns that can contribute to
29587 memory fragmentation.
29590 - Configuration files now accept C-style strings as values. This
29591 helps encode characters not allowed in the current configuration
29592 file format, such as newline or #. Addresses bug 557.
29593 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
29594 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out
29595 there that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such
29596 bodies when they receive them.
29597 - When we're not serving v2 directory information, there is no reason
29598 to actually keep any around. Remove the obsolete files and directory
29599 on startup if they are very old and we aren't going to serve them.
29601 o Minor performance improvements:
29602 - Reference-count and share copies of address policy entries; only 5%
29603 of them were actually distinct.
29604 - Never walk through the list of logs if we know that no log is
29605 interested in a given message.
29608 - When an authority has not signed a consensus, do not try to
29609 download a nonexistent "certificate with key 00000000". Bugfix
29610 on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 569.
29611 - Fix a rare assert error when we're closing one of our threads:
29612 use a mutex to protect the list of logs, so we never write to the
29613 list as it's being freed. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Fixes the very rare
29614 bug 575, which is kind of the revenge of bug 222.
29615 - Patch from Karsten Loesing to complain less at both the client
29616 and the relay when a relay used to have the HSDir flag but doesn't
29617 anymore, and we try to upload a hidden service descriptor.
29618 - Stop leaking one cert per TLS context. Fixes bug 582. Bugfix on
29620 - Do not try to download missing certificates until we have tried
29621 to check our fallback consensus. Fixes bug 583.
29622 - Make bridges round reported GeoIP stats info up to the nearest
29623 estimate, not down. Now we can distinguish between "0 people from
29624 this country" and "1 person from this country".
29625 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.
29626 - Avoid possible segfault if key generation fails in
29627 crypto_pk_hybrid_encrypt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.
29628 - Avoid segfault in the case where a badly behaved v2 versioning
29629 directory sends a signed networkstatus with missing client-versions.
29631 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
29632 router_get_by_hexdigest(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.
29633 - Correct bad index on array access in parse_http_time(). Bugfix
29635 - Fix possible bug in vote generation when server versions are present
29636 but client versions are not.
29637 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
29638 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
29640 - Avoid bogus crash-prone, leak-prone tor_realloc when we're
29641 compressing large objects and find ourselves with more than 4k
29642 left over. Bugfix on 0.2.0.
29643 - Fix a small memory leak when setting up a hidden service.
29644 - Fix a few memory leaks that could in theory happen under bizarre
29646 - Fix an assert if we post a general-purpose descriptor via the
29647 control port but that descriptor isn't mentioned in our current
29648 network consensus. Bug reported by Jon McLachlan; bugfix on
29651 o Minor features (controller):
29652 - Get NS events working again. Patch from tup.
29653 - The GETCONF command now escapes and quotes configuration values
29654 that don't otherwise fit into the torrc file.
29655 - The SETCONF command now handles quoted values correctly.
29657 o Minor features (directory authorities):
29658 - New configuration options to override default maximum number of
29659 servers allowed on a single IP address. This is important for
29660 running a test network on a single host.
29661 - Actually implement the -s option to tor-gencert.
29662 - Add a manual page for tor-gencert.
29664 o Minor features (bridges):
29665 - Bridge authorities no longer serve bridge descriptors over
29666 unencrypted connections.
29668 o Minor features (other):
29669 - Add hidden services and DNSPorts to the list of things that make
29670 Tor accept that it has running ports. Change starting Tor with no
29671 ports from a fatal error to a warning; we might change it back if
29672 this turns out to confuse anybody. Fixes bug 579.
29675 Changes in version 0.1.2.19 - 2008-01-17
29676 Tor 0.1.2.19 fixes a huge memory leak on exit relays, makes the default
29677 exit policy a little bit more conservative so it's safer to run an
29678 exit relay on a home system, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
29681 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
29682 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
29683 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
29684 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
29685 on network address.
29688 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
29689 buckets to become negative. Fixes bug 544.
29690 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
29691 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry.
29692 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
29693 service descriptor database even when DirPort is zero.
29694 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
29695 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
29696 crashing or mis-answering these requests.
29697 - When we decide to send a 503 response to a request for servers, do
29698 not then also send the server descriptors: this defeats the whole
29699 purpose. Fixes bug 539.
29702 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
29703 rebuild our server descriptor.
29704 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
29705 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about
29706 unknown routers in a config option. (Patch from mwenge.)
29707 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
29708 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
29709 nonstandard integer types.
29710 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
29711 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
29712 - If we were having problems getting a particular descriptor from the
29713 directory caches, and then we learned about a new descriptor for
29714 that router, we weren't resetting our failure count. Reported
29716 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
29717 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out there
29718 that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such bodies
29719 when they receive them.
29720 - Run correctly on systems where rlim_t is larger than unsigned long.
29721 This includes some 64-bit systems.
29722 - Run correctly on platforms (like some versions of OS X 10.5) where
29723 the real limit for number of open files is OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max
29724 from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES).
29725 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure.
29726 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
29727 router_get_by_hexdigest().
29728 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
29729 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
29733 Changes in version 0.2.0.15-alpha - 2007-12-25
29734 Tor 0.2.0.14-alpha and 0.2.0.15-alpha fix a bunch of bugs with the
29735 features added in 0.2.0.13-alpha.
29738 - Fix several remotely triggerable asserts based on DirPort requests
29739 for a v2 or v3 networkstatus object before we were prepared. This
29740 was particularly bad for 0.2.0.13 and later bridge relays, who
29741 would never have a v2 networkstatus and would thus always crash
29742 when used. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.x.
29743 - Estimate the v3 networkstatus size more accurately, rather than
29744 estimating it at zero bytes and giving it artificially high priority
29745 compared to other directory requests. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
29748 - Fix configure.in logic for cross-compilation.
29749 - When we load a bridge descriptor from the cache, and it was
29750 previously unreachable, mark it as retriable so we won't just
29751 ignore it. Also, try fetching a new copy immediately. Bugfixes
29753 - The bridge GeoIP stats were counting other relays, for example
29754 self-reachability and authority-reachability tests.
29757 - Support compilation to target iPhone; patch from cjacker huang.
29758 To build for iPhone, pass the --enable-iphone option to configure.
29761 Changes in version 0.2.0.14-alpha - 2007-12-23
29763 - Fix a crash on startup if you install Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha fresh
29764 without a datadirectory from a previous Tor install. Reported
29766 - Fix a crash when we fetch a descriptor that turns out to be
29767 unexpected (it used to be in our networkstatus when we started
29768 fetching it, but it isn't in our current networkstatus), and we
29769 aren't using bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
29770 - Fix a crash when accessing hidden services: it would work the first
29771 time you use a given introduction point for your service, but
29772 on subsequent requests we'd be using garbage memory. Fixed by
29773 Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
29774 - Fix a crash when we load a bridge descriptor from disk but we don't
29775 currently have a Bridge line for it in our torrc. Bugfix on
29779 - If bridge authorities set BridgePassword, they will serve a
29780 snapshot of known bridge routerstatuses from their DirPort to
29781 anybody who knows that password. Unset by default.
29784 - Make the unit tests build again.
29785 - Make "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" actually work.
29786 - Make PublishServerDescriptor default to 1, so the default doesn't
29787 have to change as we invent new directory protocol versions.
29788 - Fix test for rlim_t on OSX 10.3: sys/resource.h doesn't want to
29789 be included unless sys/time.h is already included. Fixes
29790 bug 553. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
29791 - If we receive a general-purpose descriptor and then receive an
29792 identical bridge-purpose descriptor soon after, don't discard
29793 the next one as a duplicate.
29796 - If BridgeRelay is set to 1, then the default for
29797 PublishServerDescriptor is now "bridge" rather than "v2,v3".
29798 - If the user sets RelayBandwidthRate but doesn't set
29799 RelayBandwidthBurst, then make them equal rather than erroring out.
29802 Changes in version 0.2.0.13-alpha - 2007-12-21
29803 Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha adds a fourth v3 directory authority run by Geoff
29804 Goodell, fixes many more bugs, and adds a lot of infrastructure for
29807 o New directory authorities:
29808 - Set up lefkada (run by Geoff Goodell) as the fourth v3 directory
29812 - Only update guard status (usable / not usable) once we have
29813 enough directory information. This was causing us to always pick
29814 two new guards on startup (bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha), and it was
29815 causing us to discard all our guards on startup if we hadn't been
29816 running for a few weeks (bugfix on 0.1.2.x). Fixes bug 448.
29817 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
29818 service descriptor databases even when DirPort is zero. Bugfix
29820 - We were ignoring our RelayBandwidthRate for the first 30 seconds
29821 after opening a circuit -- even a relayed circuit. Bugfix on
29823 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
29824 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
29825 crashing or mis-answering these types of requests.
29826 - Relays were publishing their server descriptor to v1 and v2
29827 directory authorities, but they didn't try publishing to v3-only
29828 authorities. Fix this; and also stop publishing to v1 authorities.
29830 - When we were reading router descriptors from cache, we were ignoring
29831 the annotations -- so for example we were reading in bridge-purpose
29832 descriptors as general-purpose descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
29833 - When we decided to send a 503 response to a request for servers, we
29834 were then also sending the server descriptors: this defeats the
29835 whole purpose. Fixes bug 539; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
29838 - Bridge relays now behave like clients with respect to time
29839 intervals for downloading new consensus documents -- otherwise they
29840 stand out. Bridge users now wait until the end of the interval,
29841 so their bridge relay will be sure to have a new consensus document.
29842 - Three new config options (AlternateDirAuthority,
29843 AlternateBridgeAuthority, and AlternateHSAuthority) that let the
29844 user selectively replace the default directory authorities by type,
29845 rather than the all-or-nothing replacement that DirServer offers.
29846 - Tor can now be configured to read a GeoIP file from disk in one
29847 of two formats. This can be used by controllers to map IP addresses
29848 to countries. Eventually, it may support exit-by-country.
29849 - When possible, bridge relays remember which countries users
29850 are coming from, and report aggregate information in their
29851 extra-info documents, so that the bridge authorities can learn
29852 where Tor is blocked.
29853 - Bridge directory authorities now do reachability testing on the
29854 bridges they know. They provide router status summaries to the
29855 controller via "getinfo ns/purpose/bridge", and also dump summaries
29856 to a file periodically.
29857 - Stop fetching directory info so aggressively if your DirPort is
29858 on but your ORPort is off; stop fetching v2 dir info entirely.
29859 You can override these choices with the new FetchDirInfoEarly
29863 - The fix in 0.2.0.12-alpha cleared the "hsdir" flag in v3 network
29864 consensus documents when there are too many relays at a single
29865 IP address. Now clear it in v2 network status documents too, and
29866 also clear it in routerinfo_t when the relay is no longer listed
29867 in the relevant networkstatus document.
29868 - Don't crash if we get an unexpected value for the
29869 PublishServerDescriptor config option. Reported by Matt Edman;
29870 bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
29871 - Our new v2 hidden service descriptor format allows descriptors
29872 that have no introduction points. But Tor crashed when we tried
29873 to build a descriptor with no intro points (and it would have
29874 crashed if we had tried to parse one). Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; patch
29875 by Karsten Loesing.
29876 - Fix building with dmalloc 5.5.2 with glibc.
29877 - Reject uploaded descriptors and extrainfo documents if they're
29878 huge. Otherwise we'll cache them all over the network and it'll
29879 clog everything up. Reported by Aljosha Judmayer.
29880 - Check for presence of s6_addr16 and s6_addr32 fields in in6_addr
29881 via autoconf. Should fix compile on solaris. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
29882 - When the DANGEROUS_VERSION controller status event told us we're
29883 running an obsolete version, it used the string "OLD" to describe
29884 it. Yet the "getinfo" interface used the string "OBSOLETE". Now use
29885 "OBSOLETE" in both cases. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
29886 - If we can't expand our list of entry guards (e.g. because we're
29887 using bridges or we have StrictEntryNodes set), don't mark relays
29888 down when they fail a directory request. Otherwise we're too quick
29889 to mark all our entry points down. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
29890 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
29891 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about unknown
29892 routers in a config option. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. (Patch from mwenge.)
29893 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
29894 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
29895 nonstandard integer types. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
29896 - Fix compilation with --disable-threads set. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
29897 - Don't crash on name lookup when we have no current consensus. Fixes
29898 bug 538; bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
29899 - Only Tors that want to mirror the v2 directory info should
29900 create the "cached-status" directory in their datadir. (All Tors
29901 used to create it.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
29902 - Directory authorities should only automatically download Extra Info
29903 documents if they're v1, v2, or v3 authorities. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
29906 - On the USR1 signal, when dmalloc is in use, log the top 10 memory
29907 consumers. (We already do this on HUP.)
29908 - Authorities and caches fetch the v2 networkstatus documents
29909 less often, now that v3 is encouraged.
29910 - Add a new config option BridgeRelay that specifies you want to
29911 be a bridge relay. Right now the only difference is that it makes
29912 you answer begin_dir requests, and it makes you cache dir info,
29913 even if your DirPort isn't on.
29914 - Add "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" so controllers can
29915 ask about source, timestamp of arrival, purpose, etc. We need
29916 something like this to help Vidalia not do GeoIP lookups on bridge
29918 - Allow multiple HashedControlPassword config lines, to support
29919 multiple controller passwords.
29920 - Authorities now decide whether they're authoritative for a given
29921 router based on the router's purpose.
29922 - New config options AuthDirBadDir and AuthDirListBadDirs for
29923 authorities to mark certain relays as "bad directories" in the
29924 networkstatus documents. Also supports the "!baddir" directive in
29925 the approved-routers file.
29928 Changes in version 0.2.0.12-alpha - 2007-11-16
29929 This twelfth development snapshot fixes some more build problems as
29930 well as a few minor bugs.
29933 - Make it build on OpenBSD again. Patch from tup.
29934 - Substitute BINDIR and LOCALSTATEDIR in scripts. Fixes
29935 package-building for Red Hat, OS X, etc.
29937 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
29938 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
29939 rebuild our server descriptor.
29941 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
29942 - When we're lacking a consensus, don't try to perform rendezvous
29943 operations. Reported by Karsten Loesing.
29944 - Fix a small memory leak whenever we decide against using a
29945 newly picked entry guard. Reported by Mike Perry.
29946 - When authorities detected more than two relays running on the same
29947 IP address, they were clearing all the status flags but forgetting
29948 to clear the "hsdir" flag. So clients were being told that a
29949 given relay was the right choice for a v2 hsdir lookup, yet they
29950 never had its descriptor because it was marked as 'not running'
29952 - If we're trying to fetch a bridge descriptor and there's no way
29953 the bridge authority could help us (for example, we don't know
29954 a digest, or there is no bridge authority), don't be so eager to
29955 fall back to asking the bridge authority.
29956 - If we're using bridges or have strictentrynodes set, and our
29957 chosen exit is in the same family as all our bridges/entry guards,
29958 then be flexible about families.
29961 - When we negotiate a v2 link-layer connection (not yet implemented),
29962 accept RELAY_EARLY cells and turn them into RELAY cells if we've
29963 negotiated a v1 connection for their next step. Initial code for
29967 Changes in version 0.2.0.11-alpha - 2007-11-12
29968 This eleventh development snapshot fixes some build problems with
29969 the previous snapshot. It also includes a more secure-by-default exit
29970 policy for relays, fixes an enormous memory leak for exit relays, and
29971 fixes another bug where servers were falling out of the directory list.
29974 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
29975 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
29976 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
29977 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
29978 on network address. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
29981 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
29982 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry; bugfix
29984 - On authorities, never downgrade to old router descriptors simply
29985 because they're listed in the consensus. This created a catch-22
29986 where we wouldn't list a new descriptor because there was an
29987 old one in the consensus, and we couldn't get the new one in the
29988 consensus because we wouldn't list it. Possible fix for bug 548.
29989 Also, this might cause bug 543 to appear on authorities; if so,
29990 we'll need a band-aid for that. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
29992 o Packaging fixes on 0.2.0.10-alpha:
29993 - We were including instructions about what to do with the
29994 src/config/fallback-consensus file, but we weren't actually
29995 including it in the tarball. Disable all of that for now.
29998 - Allow people to say PreferTunnelledDirConns rather than
29999 PreferTunneledDirConns, for those alternate-spellers out there.
30002 - Don't reevaluate all the information from our consensus document
30003 just because we've downloaded a v2 networkstatus that we intend
30004 to cache. Fixes bug 545; bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
30007 Changes in version 0.2.0.10-alpha - 2007-11-10
30008 This tenth development snapshot adds a third v3 directory authority
30009 run by Mike Perry, adds most of Karsten Loesing's new hidden service
30010 descriptor format, fixes a bad crash bug and new bridge bugs introduced
30011 in 0.2.0.9-alpha, fixes many bugs with the v3 directory implementation,
30012 fixes some minor memory leaks in previous 0.2.0.x snapshots, and
30013 addresses many more minor issues.
30015 o New directory authorities:
30016 - Set up ides (run by Mike Perry) as the third v3 directory authority.
30019 - Allow tunnelled directory connections to ask for an encrypted
30020 "begin_dir" connection or an anonymized "uses a full Tor circuit"
30021 connection independently. Now we can make anonymized begin_dir
30022 connections for (e.g.) more secure hidden service posting and
30024 - More progress on proposal 114: code from Karsten Loesing to
30025 implement new hidden service descriptor format.
30026 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst to 5MB/10MB, to
30027 accommodate the growing number of servers that use the default
30028 and are reaching it.
30029 - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which nodes
30030 to advertise as Guards: they must be in the top 7/8 in terms of
30031 how long we have known about them, and above the median of those
30032 nodes in terms of weighted fractional uptime.
30033 - Make "not enough dir info yet" warnings describe *why* Tor feels
30034 it doesn't have enough directory info yet.
30037 - Stop servers from crashing if they set a Family option (or
30038 maybe in other situations too). Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported
30040 - Make bridge users work again -- the move to v3 directories in
30041 0.2.0.9-alpha had introduced a number of bugs that made bridges
30042 no longer work for clients.
30043 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
30044 buckets to become negative. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 544.
30046 o Major bugfixes (v3 dir, bugfixes on 0.2.0.9-alpha):
30047 - When the consensus lists a router descriptor that we previously were
30048 mirroring, but that we considered non-canonical, reload the
30049 descriptor as canonical. This fixes bug 543 where Tor servers
30050 would start complaining after a few days that they don't have
30051 enough directory information to build a circuit.
30052 - Consider replacing the current consensus when certificates arrive
30053 that make the pending consensus valid. Previously, we were only
30054 considering replacement when the new certs _didn't_ help.
30055 - Fix an assert error on startup if we didn't already have the
30056 consensus and certs cached in our datadirectory: we were caching
30057 the consensus in consensus_waiting_for_certs but then free'ing it
30059 - Avoid sending a request for "keys/fp" (for which we'll get a 400 Bad
30060 Request) if we need more v3 certs but we've already got pending
30061 requests for all of them.
30062 - Correctly back off from failing certificate downloads. Fixes
30064 - Authorities don't vote on the Running flag if they have been running
30065 for less than 30 minutes themselves. Fixes bug 547, where a newly
30066 started authority would vote that everyone was down.
30068 o New requirements:
30069 - Drop support for OpenSSL version 0.9.6. Just about nobody was using
30070 it, it had no AES, and it hasn't seen any security patches since
30074 - Clients now hold circuitless TLS connections open for 1.5 times
30075 MaxCircuitDirtiness (15 minutes), since it is likely that they'll
30076 rebuild a new circuit over them within that timeframe. Previously,
30077 they held them open only for KeepalivePeriod (5 minutes).
30078 - Use "If-Modified-Since" to avoid retrieving consensus
30079 networkstatuses that we already have.
30080 - When we have no consensus, check FallbackNetworkstatusFile (defaults
30081 to $PREFIX/share/tor/fallback-consensus) for a consensus. This way
30082 we start knowing some directory caches.
30083 - When we receive a consensus from the future, warn about skew.
30084 - Improve skew reporting: try to give the user a better log message
30085 about how skewed they are, and how much this matters.
30086 - When we have a certificate for an authority, believe that
30087 certificate's claims about the authority's IP address.
30088 - New --quiet command-line option to suppress the default console log.
30089 Good in combination with --hash-password.
30090 - Authorities send back an X-Descriptor-Not-New header in response to
30091 an accepted-but-discarded descriptor upload. Partially implements
30093 - Make the log message for "tls error. breaking." more useful.
30094 - Better log messages about certificate downloads, to attempt to
30095 track down the second incarnation of bug 546.
30097 o Minor features (bridges):
30098 - If bridge users set UpdateBridgesFromAuthority, but the digest
30099 they ask for is a 404 from the bridge authority, they now fall
30100 back to trying the bridge directly.
30101 - Bridges now use begin_dir to publish their server descriptor to
30102 the bridge authority, even when they haven't set TunnelDirConns.
30104 o Minor features (controller):
30105 - When reporting clock skew, and we know that the clock is _at least
30106 as skewed_ as some value, but we don't know the actual value,
30107 report the value as a "minimum skew."
30110 - Update linux-tor-prio.sh script to allow QoS based on the uid of
30111 the Tor process. Patch from Marco Bonetti with tweaks from Mike
30115 - Refuse to start if both ORPort and UseBridges are set. Bugfix
30116 on 0.2.0.x, suggested by Matt Edman.
30117 - Don't stop fetching descriptors when FetchUselessDescriptors is
30118 set, even if we stop asking for circuits. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x;
30119 reported by tup and ioerror.
30120 - Better log message on vote from unknown authority.
30121 - Don't log "Launching 0 request for 0 router" message.
30123 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
30124 - Stop leaking memory every time we parse a v3 certificate. Bugfix
30126 - Stop leaking memory every time we load a v3 certificate. Bugfix
30127 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 536.
30128 - Stop leaking a cached networkstatus on exit. Bugfix on
30130 - Stop leaking voter information every time we free a consensus.
30131 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
30132 - Stop leaking signed data every time we check a voter signature.
30133 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
30134 - Stop leaking a signature every time we fail to parse a consensus or
30135 a vote. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
30136 - Stop leaking v2_download_status_map on shutdown. Bugfix on
30138 - Stop leaking conn->nickname every time we make a connection to a
30139 Tor relay without knowing its expected identity digest (e.g. when
30140 using bridges). Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
30142 - Minor bugfixes (portability):
30143 - Run correctly on platforms where rlim_t is larger than unsigned
30144 long, and/or where the real limit for number of open files is
30145 OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES). In
30146 particular, these may be needed for OS X 10.5.
30149 Changes in version 0.1.2.18 - 2007-10-28
30150 Tor 0.1.2.18 fixes many problems including crash bugs, problems with
30151 hidden service introduction that were causing huge delays, and a big
30152 bug that was causing some servers to disappear from the network status
30153 lists for a few hours each day.
30155 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
30156 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
30157 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
30158 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451:
30159 "connection_stop_writing: Assertion conn->write_event failed"
30160 Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
30161 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
30162 rend_process_relay_cell().
30164 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
30165 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
30166 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
30167 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
30168 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
30169 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
30170 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. These
30171 changes could speed up hidden service connections dramatically.
30173 o Major bugfixes (other):
30174 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we get a
30175 HUP signal. This led (in a roundabout way) to some servers getting
30176 dropped from the networkstatus lists for a few hours each day.
30177 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
30178 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
30179 circuit cannibalization).
30180 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
30181 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
30182 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
30183 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
30184 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
30185 consensus. Fixes bug 529.
30188 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
30189 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. Resolves
30191 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
30192 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is
30193 absent. Resolves bug 467.
30194 - Fix a user-triggerable segfault in expand_filename(). (There isn't
30195 a way to trigger this remotely.)
30196 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
30197 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
30198 were reporting the dir port.)
30199 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
30200 command. Bugfix on 0.1.2.17.
30201 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
30202 the future. Fixes bug 434.
30203 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
30205 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
30206 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
30207 the onion key from getting rotated.
30208 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
30209 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
30210 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
30211 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff
30212 is fishy. Resolves bug 463.
30213 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
30214 option. Patch from Robert Hogan.
30215 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
30216 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
30219 Changes in version 0.2.0.9-alpha - 2007-10-24
30220 This ninth development snapshot switches clients to the new v3 directory
30221 system; allows servers to be listed in the network status even when they
30222 have the same nickname as a registered server; and fixes many other
30223 bugs including a big one that was causing some servers to disappear
30224 from the network status lists for a few hours each day.
30226 o Major features (directory system):
30227 - Clients now download v3 consensus networkstatus documents instead
30228 of v2 networkstatus documents. Clients and caches now base their
30229 opinions about routers on these consensus documents. Clients only
30230 download router descriptors listed in the consensus.
30231 - Authorities now list servers who have the same nickname as
30232 a different named server, but list them with a new flag,
30233 "Unnamed". Now we can list servers that happen to pick the same
30234 nickname as a server that registered two years ago and then
30235 disappeared. Partially implements proposal 122.
30236 - If the consensus lists a router as "Unnamed", the name is assigned
30237 to a different router: do not identify the router by that name.
30238 Partially implements proposal 122.
30239 - Authorities can now come to a consensus on which method to use to
30240 compute the consensus. This gives us forward compatibility.
30243 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we HUP or
30244 when we find our DirPort to be reachable but won't actually publish
30245 it. New descriptors without any real changes are dropped by the
30246 authorities, and can screw up our "publish every 18 hours" schedule.
30248 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
30249 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
30250 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
30251 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
30252 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
30253 consensus. Fixes bug 529; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
30254 - Fix awful behavior in DownloadExtraInfo option where we'd fetch
30255 extrainfo documents and then discard them immediately for not
30256 matching the latest router. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
30258 o Minor features (v3 directory protocol):
30259 - Allow tor-gencert to generate a new certificate without replacing
30261 - Allow certificates to include an address.
30262 - When we change our directory-cache settings, reschedule all voting
30263 and download operations.
30264 - Reattempt certificate downloads immediately on failure, as long as
30265 we haven't failed a threshold number of times yet.
30266 - Delay retrying consensus downloads while we're downloading
30267 certificates to verify the one we just got. Also, count getting a
30268 consensus that we already have (or one that isn't valid) as a failure,
30269 and count failing to get the certificates after 20 minutes as a
30271 - Build circuits and download descriptors even if our consensus is a
30272 little expired. (This feature will go away once authorities are
30275 o Minor features (router descriptor cache):
30276 - If we find a cached-routers file that's been sitting around for more
30277 than 28 days unmodified, then most likely it's a leftover from
30278 when we upgraded to 0.2.0.8-alpha. Remove it. It has no good
30280 - When we (as a cache) download a descriptor because it was listed
30281 in a consensus, remember when the consensus was supposed to expire,
30282 and don't expire the descriptor until then.
30284 o Minor features (performance):
30285 - Call routerlist_remove_old_routers() much less often. This should
30286 speed startup, especially on directory caches.
30287 - Don't try to launch new descriptor downloads quite so often when we
30288 already have enough directory information to build circuits.
30289 - Base64 decoding was actually showing up on our profile when parsing
30290 the initial descriptor file; switch to an in-process all-at-once
30291 implementation that's about 3.5x times faster than calling out to
30294 o Minor features (compilation):
30295 - Detect non-ASCII platforms (if any still exist) and refuse to
30296 build there: some of our code assumes that 'A' is 65 and so on.
30298 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory authorities, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x):
30299 - Make the "next period" votes into "current period" votes immediately
30300 after publishing the consensus; avoid a heisenbug that made them
30301 stick around indefinitely.
30302 - When we discard a vote as a duplicate, do not report this as
30304 - Treat missing v3 keys or certificates as an error when running as a
30305 v3 directory authority.
30306 - When we're configured to be a v3 authority, but we're only listed
30307 as a non-v3 authority in our DirServer line for ourself, correct
30309 - If an authority doesn't have a qualified hostname, just put
30310 its address in the vote. This fixes the problem where we referred to
30311 "moria on moria:9031."
30312 - Distinguish between detached signatures for the wrong period, and
30313 detached signatures for a divergent vote.
30314 - Fix a small memory leak when computing a consensus.
30315 - When there's no consensus, we were forming a vote every 30
30316 minutes, but writing the "valid-after" line in our vote based
30317 on our configured V3AuthVotingInterval: so unless the intervals
30318 matched up, we immediately rejected our own vote because it didn't
30319 start at the voting interval that caused us to construct a vote.
30321 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory protocol, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x):
30322 - Delete unverified-consensus when the real consensus is set.
30323 - Consider retrying a consensus networkstatus fetch immediately
30324 after one fails: don't wait 60 seconds to notice.
30325 - When fetching a consensus as a cache, wait until a newer consensus
30326 should exist before trying to replace the current one.
30327 - Use a more forgiving schedule for retrying failed consensus
30328 downloads than for other types.
30330 o Minor bugfixes (other directory issues):
30331 - Correct the implementation of "download votes by digest." Bugfix on
30333 - Authorities no longer send back "400 you're unreachable please fix
30334 it" errors to Tor servers that aren't online all the time. We're
30335 supposed to tolerate these servers now. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
30337 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
30338 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
30339 option. Patch from Robert Hogan; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
30340 - Respond to INT and TERM SIGNAL commands before we execute the
30341 signal, in case the signal shuts us down. We had a patch in
30342 0.1.2.1-alpha that tried to do this by queueing the response on
30343 the connection's buffer before shutting down, but that really
30344 isn't the same thing at all. Bug located by Matt Edman.
30346 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
30347 - Correctly check for bad options to the "PublishServerDescriptor"
30348 config option. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; reported by Matt Edman.
30349 - Stop leaking memory on failing case of base32_decode, and make
30350 it accept upper-case letters. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
30351 - Don't try to download extrainfo documents when we're trying to
30352 fetch enough directory info to build a circuit: having enough
30353 info should get priority. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
30354 - Don't complain that "your server has not managed to confirm that its
30355 ports are reachable" if we haven't been able to build any circuits
30356 yet. Bug found by spending four hours without a v3 consensus. Bugfix
30358 - Detect the reason for failing to mmap a descriptor file we just
30359 wrote, and give a more useful log message. Fixes bug 533. Bugfix
30362 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
30363 - Remove support for the old bw_accounting file: we've been storing
30364 bandwidth accounting information in the state file since
30365 0.1.2.5-alpha. This may result in bandwidth accounting errors
30366 if you try to upgrade from 0.1.1.x or earlier, or if you try to
30367 downgrade to 0.1.1.x or earlier.
30368 - New convenience code to locate a file within the DataDirectory.
30369 - Move non-authority functionality out of dirvote.c.
30370 - Refactor the arguments for router_pick_{directory_|trusteddir}server
30371 so that they all take the same named flags.
30374 - Include the "tor-ctrl.sh" bash script by Stefan Behte to provide
30375 Unix users an easy way to script their Tor process (e.g. by
30376 adjusting bandwidth based on the time of the day).
30379 Changes in version 0.2.0.8-alpha - 2007-10-12
30380 This eighth development snapshot fixes a crash bug that's been bothering
30381 us since February 2007, lets bridge authorities store a list of bridge
30382 descriptors they've seen, gets v3 directory voting closer to working,
30383 starts caching v3 directory consensus documents on directory mirrors,
30384 and fixes a variety of smaller issues including some minor memory leaks.
30386 o Major features (router descriptor cache):
30387 - Store routers in a file called cached-descriptors instead of in
30388 cached-routers. Initialize cached-descriptors from cached-routers
30389 if the old format is around. The new format allows us to store
30390 annotations along with descriptors.
30391 - Use annotations to record the time we received each descriptor, its
30392 source, and its purpose.
30393 - Disable the SETROUTERPURPOSE controller command: it is now
30395 - Controllers should now specify cache=no or cache=yes when using
30396 the +POSTDESCRIPTOR command.
30397 - Bridge authorities now write bridge descriptors to disk, meaning
30398 we can export them to other programs and begin distributing them
30401 o Major features (directory authorities):
30402 - When a v3 authority is missing votes or signatures, it now tries
30404 - Directory authorities track weighted fractional uptime as well as
30405 weighted mean-time-between failures. WFU is suitable for deciding
30406 whether a node is "usually up", while MTBF is suitable for deciding
30407 whether a node is "likely to stay up." We need both, because
30408 "usually up" is a good requirement for guards, while "likely to
30409 stay up" is a good requirement for long-lived connections.
30411 o Major features (v3 directory system):
30412 - Caches now download v3 network status documents as needed,
30413 and download the descriptors listed in them.
30414 - All hosts now attempt to download and keep fresh v3 authority
30415 certificates, and re-attempt after failures.
30416 - More internal-consistency checks for vote parsing.
30418 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
30419 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
30420 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
30421 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451. Bugfix on
30424 o Major bugfixes (performance):
30425 - Fix really bad O(n^2) performance when parsing a long list of
30426 routers: Instead of searching the entire list for an "extra-info "
30427 string which usually wasn't there, once for every routerinfo
30428 we read, just scan lines forward until we find one we like.
30430 - When we add data to a write buffer in response to the data on that
30431 write buffer getting low because of a flush, do not consider the
30432 newly added data as a candidate for immediate flushing, but rather
30433 make it wait until the next round of writing. Otherwise, we flush
30434 and refill recursively, and a single greedy TLS connection can
30435 eat all of our bandwidth. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
30437 o Minor features (v3 authority system):
30438 - Add more ways for tools to download the votes that lead to the
30440 - Send a 503 when low on bandwidth and a vote, consensus, or
30441 certificate is requested.
30442 - If-modified-since is now implemented properly for all kinds of
30443 certificate requests.
30445 o Minor bugfixes (network statuses):
30446 - Tweak the implementation of proposal 109 slightly: allow at most
30447 two Tor servers on the same IP address, except if it's the location
30448 of a directory authority, in which case allow five. Bugfix on
30451 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
30452 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
30453 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
30454 were reporting the dir port.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
30456 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory system):
30457 - Fix logic to look up a cert by its signing key digest. Bugfix on
30459 - Only change the reply to a vote to "OK" if it's not already
30460 set. This gets rid of annoying "400 OK" log messages, which may
30461 have been masking some deeper issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
30462 - When we get a valid consensus, recompute the voting schedule.
30463 - Base the valid-after time of a vote on the consensus voting
30464 schedule, not on our preferred schedule.
30465 - Make the return values and messages from signature uploads and
30466 downloads more sensible.
30467 - Fix a memory leak when serving votes and consensus documents, and
30468 another when serving certificates.
30470 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
30471 - Use a slightly simpler string hashing algorithm (copying Python's
30472 instead of Java's) and optimize our digest hashing algorithm to take
30473 advantage of 64-bit platforms and to remove some possibly-costly
30475 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we parse guards from our state
30476 file. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
30477 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we write out a file. Bugfix on
30479 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
30480 command. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
30482 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
30483 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
30484 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
30485 - Stop calling tor_strlower() on uninitialized memory in some cases.
30486 Bugfix in 0.2.0.7-alpha.
30488 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
30489 - Treat some 403 responses from directory servers as INFO rather than
30490 WARN-severity events.
30491 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
30492 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff is
30493 fishy. Resolves bug 463.
30495 o Minor bugfixes (anonymity):
30496 - Never report that we've used more bandwidth than we're willing to
30497 relay: it leaks how much non-relay traffic we're using. Resolves
30499 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
30500 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
30501 circuit cannibalization).
30503 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
30504 - Make a bunch of functions static. Remove some dead code.
30505 - Pull out about a third of the really big routerlist.c; put it in a
30506 new module, networkstatus.c.
30507 - Merge the extra fields in local_routerstatus_t back into
30508 routerstatus_t: we used to need one routerstatus_t for each
30509 authority's opinion, plus a local_routerstatus_t for the locally
30510 computed consensus opinion. To save space, we put the locally
30511 modified fields into local_routerstatus_t, and only the common
30512 stuff into routerstatus_t. But once v3 directories are in use,
30513 clients and caches will no longer need to hold authority opinions;
30514 thus, the rationale for keeping the types separate is now gone.
30515 - Make the code used to reschedule and reattempt downloads more
30517 - Turn all 'Are we a directory server/mirror?' logic into a call to
30519 - Remove the code to generate the oldest (v1) directory format.
30520 The code has been disabled since 0.2.0.5-alpha.
30523 Changes in version 0.2.0.7-alpha - 2007-09-21
30524 This seventh development snapshot makes bridges work again, makes bridge
30525 authorities work for the first time, fixes two huge performance flaws
30526 in hidden services, and fixes a variety of minor issues.
30528 o New directory authorities:
30529 - Set up moria1 and tor26 as the first v3 directory authorities. See
30530 doc/spec/dir-spec.txt for details on the new directory design.
30532 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
30533 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
30534 rend_process_relay_cell(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
30536 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
30537 - Fix a bug that made servers send a "404 Not found" in response to
30538 attempts to fetch their server descriptor. This caused Tor servers
30539 to take many minutes to establish reachability for their DirPort,
30540 and it totally crippled bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
30541 - Make "UpdateBridgesFromAuthority" torrc option work: when bridge
30542 users configure that and specify a bridge with an identity
30543 fingerprint, now they will lookup the bridge descriptor at the
30544 default bridge authority via a one-hop tunnel, but once circuits
30545 are established they will switch to a three-hop tunnel for later
30546 connections to the bridge authority. Bugfix in 0.2.0.3-alpha.
30548 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
30549 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
30550 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
30551 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
30552 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
30553 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
30554 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. Both
30555 are bugfixes on 0.1.2.x, and they could speed up hidden service
30556 connections dramatically. Thanks to Karsten Loesing.
30558 o Minor features (security):
30559 - As a client, do not believe any server that tells us that an
30560 address maps to an internal address space.
30561 - Make it possible to enable HashedControlPassword and
30562 CookieAuthentication at the same time.
30564 o Minor features (guard nodes):
30565 - Tag every guard node in our state file with the version that
30566 we believe added it, or with our own version if we add it. This way,
30567 if a user temporarily runs an old version of Tor and then switches
30568 back to a new one, she doesn't automatically lose her guards.
30570 o Minor features (speed):
30571 - When implementing AES counter mode, update only the portions of the
30572 counter buffer that need to change, and don't keep separate
30573 network-order and host-order counters when they are the same (i.e.,
30574 on big-endian hosts.)
30576 o Minor features (controller):
30577 - Accept LF instead of CRLF on controller, since some software has a
30578 hard time generating real Internet newlines.
30579 - Add GETINFO values for the server status events
30580 "REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED" and "GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR". Patch from
30583 o Removed features:
30584 - Routers no longer include bandwidth-history lines in their
30585 descriptors; this information is already available in extra-info
30586 documents, and including it in router descriptors took up 60%
30587 (!) of compressed router descriptor downloads. Completes
30588 implementation of proposal 104.
30589 - Remove the contrib scripts ExerciseServer.py, PathDemo.py,
30590 and TorControl.py, as they use the old v0 controller protocol,
30591 and are obsoleted by TorFlow anyway.
30592 - Drop support for v1 rendezvous descriptors, since we never used
30593 them anyway, and the code has probably rotted by now. Based on
30594 patch from Karsten Loesing.
30595 - On OSX, stop warning the user that kqueue support in libevent is
30596 "experimental", since it seems to have worked fine for ages.
30599 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
30600 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is absent. Fixes
30601 bug 467. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
30602 - Fix a user-triggerable (but not remotely-triggerable) segfault
30603 in expand_filename(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
30604 - Fix a memory leak when freeing incomplete requests from DNSPort.
30605 Found by Niels Provos with valgrind. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
30606 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
30607 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. (Resolves
30608 bug 499.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
30609 - Servers used to decline to publish their DirPort if their
30610 BandwidthRate, RelayBandwidthRate, or MaxAdvertisedBandwidth
30611 were below a threshold. Now they only look at BandwidthRate and
30612 RelayBandwidthRate. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
30613 - Remove an optimization in the AES counter-mode code that assumed
30614 that the counter never exceeded 2^68. When the counter can be set
30615 arbitrarily as an IV (as it is by Karsten's new hidden services
30616 code), this assumption no longer holds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
30617 - Resume listing "AUTHORITY" flag for authorities in network status.
30618 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; reported by Alex de Joode.
30620 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
30621 - Revamp file-writing logic so we don't need to have the entire
30622 contents of a file in memory at once before we write to disk. Tor,
30624 - Turn "descriptor store" into a full-fledged type.
30625 - Move all NT services code into a separate source file.
30626 - Unify all code that computes medians, percentile elements, etc.
30627 - Get rid of a needless malloc when parsing address policies.
30630 Changes in version 0.1.2.17 - 2007-08-30
30631 Tor 0.1.2.17 features a new Vidalia version in the Windows and OS
30632 X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for the
30633 ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
30634 security risks. Everybody who uses Vidalia (or another controller)
30637 In addition, this Tor update fixes major load balancing problems with
30638 path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many people
30641 o Major bugfixes (security):
30642 - We removed support for the old (v0) control protocol. It has been
30643 deprecated since Tor 0.1.1.1-alpha, and keeping it secure has
30644 become more of a headache than it's worth.
30646 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
30647 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
30648 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
30650 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
30651 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
30652 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
30653 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
30654 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
30655 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
30657 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
30658 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
30659 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
30660 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
30661 circuit every 15 seconds. Fixes bug 454; reported by lodger.
30663 o Minor features (controller):
30664 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
30665 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
30666 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
30667 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
30669 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
30670 - Save on most routerlist_assert_ok() calls in routerlist.c, thus
30671 greatly speeding up loading cached-routers from disk on startup.
30672 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
30673 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and now
30674 its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice powers of
30675 two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values slightly over
30676 powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
30678 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
30679 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
30680 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
30681 Based on patch from Mike Perry.
30682 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
30683 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
30684 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
30685 if we ran off the end of the list.
30686 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
30687 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
30688 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
30689 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
30690 every time we change any piece of our config.
30691 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
30692 encourage people using them to stop.
30693 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. Original patch
30695 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
30696 servers to choose a circuit.
30697 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
30698 unparseable piece of it.
30701 Changes in version 0.2.0.6-alpha - 2007-08-26
30702 This sixth development snapshot features a new Vidalia version in the
30703 Windows and OS X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for
30704 the ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
30707 In addition, this snapshot fixes major load balancing problems
30708 with path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many
30709 people have upgraded. The directory authorities also use a new
30710 mean-time-between-failure approach to tracking which servers are stable,
30711 rather than just looking at the most recent uptime.
30713 o New directory authorities:
30714 - Set up Tonga as the default bridge directory authority.
30717 - Directory authorities now track servers by weighted
30718 mean-times-between-failures. When we have 4 or more days of data,
30719 use measured MTBF rather than declared uptime to decide whether
30720 to call a router Stable. Implements proposal 108.
30722 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
30723 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
30724 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
30726 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
30727 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
30728 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
30729 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
30730 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
30731 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
30733 o Major bugfixes (descriptor parsing):
30734 - Handle unexpected whitespace better in malformed descriptors. Bug
30735 found using Benedikt Boss's new Tor fuzzer! Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
30738 - There is now an ugly, temporary "desc/all-recent-extrainfo-hack"
30739 GETINFO for Torstat to use until it can switch to using extrainfos.
30740 - Optionally (if built with -DEXPORTMALLINFO) export the output
30741 of mallinfo via http, as tor/mallinfo.txt. Only accessible
30745 - Do not intermix bridge routers with controller-added
30746 routers. (Bugfix on 0.2.0.x)
30747 - Do not fail with an assert when accept() returns an unexpected
30748 address family. Addresses but does not wholly fix bug 483. (Bugfix
30750 - Let directory authorities startup even when they can't generate
30751 a descriptor immediately, e.g. because they don't know their
30753 - Stop putting the authentication cookie in a file called "0"
30754 in your working directory if you don't specify anything for the
30755 new CookieAuthFile option. Reported by Matt Edman.
30756 - Make it possible to read the PROTOCOLINFO response in a way that
30757 conforms to our control-spec. Reported by Matt Edman.
30758 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
30759 servers to choose a circuit. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
30760 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
30761 unparseable piece of it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
30762 - Unmap the extrainfo cache file on exit.
30765 Changes in version 0.2.0.5-alpha - 2007-08-19
30766 This fifth development snapshot fixes compilation on Windows again;
30767 fixes an obnoxious client-side bug that slowed things down and put
30768 extra load on the network; gets us closer to using the v3 directory
30769 voting scheme; makes it easier for Tor controllers to use cookie-based
30770 authentication; and fixes a variety of other bugs.
30772 o Removed features:
30773 - Version 1 directories are no longer generated in full. Instead,
30774 authorities generate and serve "stub" v1 directories that list
30775 no servers. This will stop Tor versions 0.1.0.x and earlier from
30776 working, but (for security reasons) nobody should be running those
30779 o Major bugfixes (compilation, 0.2.0.x):
30780 - Try to fix Win32 compilation again: improve checking for IPv6 types.
30781 - Try to fix MSVC compilation: build correctly on platforms that do
30782 not define s6_addr16 or s6_addr32.
30783 - Fix compile on platforms without getaddrinfo: bug found by Li-Hui
30786 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
30787 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
30788 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
30789 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
30790 circuit every 15 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; fixes bug 454;
30791 reported by lodger.
30793 o Minor features (directory servers):
30794 - When somebody requests a list of statuses or servers, and we have
30795 none of those, return a 404 rather than an empty 200.
30797 o Minor features (directory voting):
30798 - Store v3 consensus status consensuses on disk, and reload them
30801 o Minor features (security):
30802 - Warn about unsafe ControlPort configurations.
30803 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
30804 encourage people using them to stop.
30806 o Minor features (controller):
30807 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
30808 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
30809 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
30810 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
30811 - New config option CookieAuthFile to choose a new location for the
30812 cookie authentication file, and config option
30813 CookieAuthFileGroupReadable to make it group-readable.
30815 o Minor features (unit testing):
30816 - Add command-line arguments to unit-test executable so that we can
30817 invoke any chosen test from the command line rather than having
30818 to run the whole test suite at once; and so that we can turn on
30819 logging for the unit tests.
30821 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
30822 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
30823 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
30824 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
30825 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
30826 every time we change any piece of our config.
30827 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
30828 the future. Fixes bug 434.
30829 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
30831 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
30832 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
30833 the onion key from getting rotated.
30834 - Clean up torrc sample config file.
30835 - Do not automatically run configure from autogen.sh. This
30836 non-standard behavior tended to annoy people who have built other
30839 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
30840 - Fix a bug with AutomapHostsOnResolve that would always cause
30841 the second request to fail. Bug reported by Kate. Bugfix on
30843 - Fix a bug in ADDRMAP controller replies that would sometimes
30844 try to print a NULL. Patch from tup.
30845 - Read v3 directory authority keys from the right location.
30846 - Numerous bugfixes to directory voting code.
30849 Changes in version 0.1.2.16 - 2007-08-01
30850 Tor 0.1.2.16 fixes a critical security vulnerability that allows a
30851 remote attacker in certain situations to rewrite the user's torrc
30852 configuration file. This can completely compromise anonymity of users
30853 in most configurations, including those running the Vidalia bundles,
30854 TorK, etc. Or worse.
30856 o Major security fixes:
30857 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
30858 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
30861 Changes in version 0.2.0.4-alpha - 2007-08-01
30862 This fourth development snapshot fixes a critical security vulnerability
30863 for most users, specifically those running Vidalia, TorK, etc. Everybody
30864 should upgrade to either 0.1.2.16 or 0.2.0.4-alpha.
30866 o Major security fixes:
30867 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
30868 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
30870 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
30871 - Fix win32 compilation: apparently IN_ADDR and IN6_ADDR are already
30874 o Minor features (performance):
30875 - Be even more aggressive about releasing RAM from small
30876 empty buffers. Thanks to our free-list code, this shouldn't be too
30877 performance-intensive.
30878 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
30879 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and
30880 now its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice
30881 powers of two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values
30882 slightly over powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
30883 - Log malloc statistics from mallinfo() on platforms where it
30887 Changes in version 0.2.0.3-alpha - 2007-07-29
30888 This third development snapshot introduces new experimental
30889 blocking-resistance features and a preliminary version of the v3
30890 directory voting design, and includes many other smaller features
30894 - The first pieces of our "bridge" design for blocking-resistance
30895 are implemented. People can run bridge directory authorities;
30896 people can run bridges; and people can configure their Tor clients
30897 with a set of bridges to use as the first hop into the Tor network.
30898 See http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/Jul-2007/msg00249.html for
30900 - Create listener connections before we setuid to the configured
30901 User and Group. Now non-Windows users can choose port values
30902 under 1024, start Tor as root, and have Tor bind those ports
30903 before it changes to another UID. (Windows users could already
30905 - Added a new ConstrainedSockets config option to set SO_SNDBUF and
30906 SO_RCVBUF on TCP sockets. Hopefully useful for Tor servers running
30907 on "vserver" accounts. (Patch from coderman.)
30908 - Be even more aggressive about separating local traffic from relayed
30909 traffic when RelayBandwidthRate is set. (Refines proposal 111.)
30911 o Major features (experimental):
30912 - First cut of code for "v3 dir voting": directory authorities will
30913 vote on a common network status document rather than each publishing
30914 their own opinion. This code needs more testing and more corner-case
30915 handling before it's ready for use.
30918 - Directory authorities now call routers Fast if their bandwidth is
30919 at least 100KB/s, and consider their bandwidth adequate to be a
30920 Guard if it is at least 250KB/s, no matter the medians. This fix
30921 complements proposal 107. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
30922 - Directory authorities now never mark more than 3 servers per IP as
30923 Valid and Running. (Implements proposal 109, by Kevin Bauer and
30925 - Minor change to organizationName and commonName generation
30926 procedures in TLS certificates during Tor handshakes, to invalidate
30927 some earlier censorware approaches. This is not a long-term
30928 solution, but applying it will give us a bit of time to look into
30929 the epidemiology of countermeasures as they spread.
30931 o Major bugfixes (directory):
30932 - Rewrite directory tokenization code to never run off the end of
30933 a string. Fixes bug 455. Patch from croup. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
30935 o Minor features (controller):
30936 - Add a SOURCE_ADDR field to STREAM NEW events so that controllers can
30937 match requests to applications. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
30938 - Report address and port correctly on connections to DNSPort. (Patch
30939 from Robert Hogan.)
30940 - Add a RESOLVE command to launch hostname lookups. (Original patch
30941 from Robert Hogan.)
30942 - Add GETINFO status/enough-dir-info to let controllers tell whether
30943 Tor has downloaded sufficient directory information. (Patch
30945 - You can now use the ControlSocket option to tell Tor to listen for
30946 controller connections on Unix domain sockets on systems that
30947 support them. (Patch from Peter Palfrader.)
30948 - STREAM NEW events are generated for DNSPort requests and for
30949 tunneled directory connections. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
30950 - New "GETINFO address-mappings/*" command to get address mappings
30951 with expiry information. "addr-mappings/*" is now deprecated.
30954 o Minor features (misc):
30955 - Merge in some (as-yet-unused) IPv6 address manipulation code. (Patch
30957 - The tor-gencert tool for v3 directory authorities now creates all
30958 files as readable to the file creator only, and write-protects
30959 the authority identity key.
30960 - When dumping memory usage, list bytes used in buffer memory
30962 - When running with dmalloc, dump more stats on hup and on exit.
30963 - Directory authorities now fail quickly and (relatively) harmlessly
30964 if they generate a network status document that is somehow
30967 o Traffic load balancing improvements:
30968 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
30969 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
30970 (Based on patch from Mike Perry.)
30971 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
30972 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
30973 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
30974 if we ran off the end of the list. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
30976 o Performance improvements:
30977 - Be more aggressive with freeing buffer RAM or putting it on the
30979 - Use Critical Sections rather than Mutexes for synchronizing threads
30980 on win32; Mutexes are heavier-weight, and designed for synchronizing
30983 o Deprecated and removed features:
30984 - RedirectExits is now deprecated.
30985 - Stop allowing address masks that do not correspond to bit prefixes.
30986 We have warned about these for a really long time; now it's time
30987 to reject them. (Patch from croup.)
30989 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
30990 - Fix another crash bug related to extra-info caching. (Bug found by
30991 Peter Palfrader.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
30992 - Directories no longer return a "304 not modified" when they don't
30993 have the networkstatus the client asked for. Also fix a memory
30994 leak when returning 304 not modified. [Bugfixes on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
30995 - We had accidentally labelled 0.1.2.x directory servers as not
30996 suitable for begin_dir requests, and had labelled no directory
30997 servers as suitable for uploading extra-info documents. [Bugfix
31000 o Minor bugfixes (dns):
31001 - Fix a crash when DNSPort is set more than once. (Patch from Robert
31002 Hogan.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
31003 - Add DNSPort connections to the global connection list, so that we
31004 can time them out correctly. (Bug found by Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix
31006 - Fix a dangling reference that could lead to a crash when DNSPort is
31007 changed or closed (Patch from Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix on
31010 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
31011 - Provide DNS expiry times in GMT, not in local time. For backward
31012 compatibility, ADDRMAP events only provide GMT expiry in an extended
31013 field. "GETINFO address-mappings" always does the right thing.
31014 - Use CRLF line endings properly in NS events.
31015 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. (Original patch
31016 from tup.) [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x-alpha]
31017 - Do not include spaces in SOURCE_ADDR fields in STREAM
31018 events. Resolves bug 472. [Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha]
31021 Changes in version 0.1.2.15 - 2007-07-17
31022 Tor 0.1.2.15 fixes several crash bugs, fixes some anonymity-related
31023 problems, fixes compilation on BSD, and fixes a variety of other
31024 bugs. Everybody should upgrade.
31026 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
31027 - Fix compile on FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD. Oops.
31029 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
31030 - Try even harder not to dereference the first character after
31031 an mmap(). Reported by lodger.
31032 - Fix a crash bug in directory authorities when we re-number the
31033 routerlist while inserting a new router.
31034 - When the cached-routers file is an even multiple of the page size,
31035 don't run off the end and crash. (Fixes bug 455; based on idea
31037 - Fix eventdns.c behavior on Solaris: It is critical to include
31038 orconfig.h _before_ sys/types.h, so that we can get the expected
31039 definition of _FILE_OFFSET_BITS.
31041 o Major bugfixes (security):
31042 - Fix a possible buffer overrun when using BSD natd support. Bug
31044 - When sending destroy cells from a circuit's origin, don't include
31045 the reason for tearing down the circuit. The spec says we didn't,
31046 and now we actually don't. Reported by lodger.
31047 - Keep streamids from different exits on a circuit separate. This
31048 bug may have allowed other routers on a given circuit to inject
31049 cells into streams. Reported by lodger; fixes bug 446.
31050 - If there's a never-before-connected-to guard node in our list,
31051 never choose any guards past it. This way we don't expand our
31052 guard list unless we need to.
31054 o Minor bugfixes (guard nodes):
31055 - Weight guard selection by bandwidth, so that low-bandwidth nodes
31056 don't get overused as guards.
31058 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
31059 - Correctly count the number of authorities that recommend each
31060 version. Previously, we were under-counting by 1.
31061 - Fix a potential crash bug when we load many server descriptors at
31062 once and some of them make others of them obsolete. Fixes bug 458.
31064 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
31065 - Stop tearing down the whole circuit when the user asks for a
31066 connection to a port that the hidden service didn't configure.
31069 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
31070 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
31071 cached-routers while Tor was running. Reported by janbar.
31072 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by
31073 bandwidth. Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact
31074 unlikely. Patch from lodger.
31075 - Backport a couple of memory leak fixes.
31076 - Backport miscellaneous cosmetic bugfixes.
31079 Changes in version 0.2.0.2-alpha - 2007-06-02
31080 o Major bugfixes on 0.2.0.1-alpha:
31081 - Fix an assertion failure related to servers without extra-info digests.
31082 Resolves bugs 441 and 442.
31084 o Minor features (directory):
31085 - Support "If-Modified-Since" when answering HTTP requests for
31086 directories, running-routers documents, and network-status documents.
31087 (There's no need to support it for router descriptors, since those
31088 are downloaded by descriptor digest.)
31090 o Minor build issues:
31091 - Clear up some MIPSPro compiler warnings.
31092 - When building from a tarball on a machine that happens to have SVK
31093 installed, report the micro-revision as whatever version existed
31094 in the tarball, not as "x".
31097 Changes in version 0.2.0.1-alpha - 2007-06-01
31098 This early development snapshot provides new features for people running
31099 Tor as both a client and a server (check out the new RelayBandwidth
31100 config options); lets Tor run as a DNS proxy; and generally moves us
31101 forward on a lot of fronts.
31103 o Major features, server usability:
31104 - New config options RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst:
31105 a separate set of token buckets for relayed traffic. Right now
31106 relayed traffic is defined as answers to directory requests, and
31107 OR connections that don't have any local circuits on them.
31109 o Major features, client usability:
31110 - A client-side DNS proxy feature to replace the need for
31111 dns-proxy-tor: Just set "DNSPort 9999", and Tor will now listen
31112 for DNS requests on port 9999, use the Tor network to resolve them
31113 anonymously, and send the reply back like a regular DNS server.
31114 The code still only implements a subset of DNS.
31115 - Make PreferTunneledDirConns and TunnelDirConns work even when
31116 we have no cached directory info. This means Tor clients can now
31117 do all of their connections protected by TLS.
31119 o Major features, performance and efficiency:
31120 - Directory authorities accept and serve "extra info" documents for
31121 routers. These documents contain fields from router descriptors
31122 that aren't usually needed, and that use a lot of excess
31123 bandwidth. Once these fields are removed from router descriptors,
31124 the bandwidth savings should be about 60%. [Partially implements
31126 - Servers upload extra-info documents to any authority that accepts
31127 them. Authorities (and caches that have been configured to download
31128 extra-info documents) download them as needed. [Partially implements
31130 - Change the way that Tor buffers data that it is waiting to write.
31131 Instead of queueing data cells in an enormous ring buffer for each
31132 client->OR or OR->OR connection, we now queue cells on a separate
31133 queue for each circuit. This lets us use less slack memory, and
31134 will eventually let us be smarter about prioritizing different kinds
31136 - Use memory pools to allocate cells with better speed and memory
31137 efficiency, especially on platforms where malloc() is inefficient.
31138 - Stop reading on edge connections when their corresponding circuit
31139 buffers are full; start again as the circuits empty out.
31141 o Major features, other:
31142 - Add an HSAuthorityRecordStats option that hidden service authorities
31143 can use to track statistics of overall hidden service usage without
31144 logging information that would be very useful to an attacker.
31145 - Start work implementing multi-level keys for directory authorities:
31146 Add a standalone tool to generate key certificates. (Proposal 103.)
31149 - Directory authorities now call routers Stable if they have an
31150 uptime of at least 30 days, even if that's not the median uptime
31151 in the network. Implements proposal 107, suggested by Kevin Bauer
31154 o Minor fixes (resource management):
31155 - Count the number of open sockets separately from the number
31156 of active connection_t objects. This will let us avoid underusing
31157 our allocated connection limit.
31158 - We no longer use socket pairs to link an edge connection to an
31159 anonymous directory connection or a DirPort test connection.
31160 Instead, we track the link internally and transfer the data
31161 in-process. This saves two sockets per "linked" connection (at the
31162 client and at the server), and avoids the nasty Windows socketpair()
31164 - Keep unused 4k and 16k buffers on free lists, rather than wasting 8k
31165 for every single inactive connection_t. Free items from the
31166 4k/16k-buffer free lists when they haven't been used for a while.
31168 o Minor features (build):
31169 - Make autoconf search for libevent, openssl, and zlib consistently.
31170 - Update deprecated macros in configure.in.
31171 - When warning about missing headers, tell the user to let us
31172 know if the compile succeeds anyway, so we can downgrade the
31174 - Include the current subversion revision as part of the version
31175 string: either fetch it directly if we're in an SVN checkout, do
31176 some magic to guess it if we're in an SVK checkout, or use
31177 the last-detected version if we're building from a .tar.gz.
31178 Use this version consistently in log messages.
31180 o Minor features (logging):
31181 - Always prepend "Bug: " to any log message about a bug.
31182 - Put a platform string (e.g. "Linux i686") in the startup log
31183 message, so when people paste just their logs, we know if it's
31184 OpenBSD or Windows or what.
31185 - When logging memory usage, break down memory used in buffers by
31188 o Minor features (directory system):
31189 - New config option V2AuthoritativeDirectory that all directory
31190 authorities should set. This will let future authorities choose
31191 not to serve V2 directory information.
31192 - Directory authorities allow multiple router descriptors and/or extra
31193 info documents to be uploaded in a single go. This will make
31194 implementing proposal 104 simpler.
31196 o Minor features (controller):
31197 - Add a new config option __DisablePredictedCircuits designed for
31198 use by the controller, when we don't want Tor to build any circuits
31200 - Let the controller specify HOP=%d as an argument to ATTACHSTREAM,
31201 so we can exit from the middle of the circuit.
31202 - Implement "getinfo status/circuit-established".
31203 - Implement "getinfo status/version/..." so a controller can tell
31204 whether the current version is recommended, and whether any versions
31205 are good, and how many authorities agree. (Patch from shibz.)
31207 o Minor features (hidden services):
31208 - Allow multiple HiddenServicePort directives with the same virtual
31209 port; when they occur, the user is sent round-robin to one
31210 of the target ports chosen at random. Partially fixes bug 393 by
31211 adding limited ad-hoc round-robining.
31213 o Minor features (other):
31215 - Add a new AutomapHostsOnResolve option: when it is enabled, any
31216 resolve request for hosts matching a given pattern causes Tor to
31217 generate an internal virtual address mapping for that host. This
31218 allows DNSPort to work sensibly with hidden service users. By
31219 default, .exit and .onion addresses are remapped; the list of
31220 patterns can be reconfigured with AutomapHostsSuffixes.
31221 - Add an "-F" option to tor-resolve to force a resolve for a .onion
31222 address. Thanks to the AutomapHostsOnResolve option, this is no
31223 longer a completely silly thing to do.
31224 - If Tor is invoked from something that isn't a shell (e.g. Vidalia),
31225 now we expand "-f ~/.tor/torrc" correctly. Suggested by Matt Edman.
31226 - Treat "2gb" when given in torrc for a bandwidth as meaning 2gb,
31227 minus 1 byte: the actual maximum declared bandwidth.
31229 o Removed features:
31230 - Removed support for the old binary "version 0" controller protocol.
31231 This has been deprecated since 0.1.1, and warnings have been issued
31232 since 0.1.2. When we encounter a v0 control message, we now send
31233 back an error and close the connection.
31234 - Remove the old "dns worker" server DNS code: it hasn't been default
31235 since 0.1.2.2-alpha, and all the servers seem to be using the new
31238 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
31239 - Even though Windows is equally happy with / and \ as path separators,
31240 try to use \ consistently on Windows and / consistently on Unix: it
31241 makes the log messages nicer.
31242 - Correctly report platform name on Windows 95 OSR2 and Windows 98 SE.
31243 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
31244 partial results on small file reads.
31246 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
31247 - Correctly enforce that elements of directory objects do not appear
31248 more often than they are allowed to appear.
31249 - When we are reporting the DirServer line we just parsed, we were
31250 logging the second stanza of the key fingerprint, not the first.
31252 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
31253 - When we hit an EOF on a log (probably because we're shutting down),
31254 don't try to remove the log from the list: just mark it as
31255 unusable. (Bulletproofs against bug 222.)
31257 o Minor bugfixes (other):
31258 - In the exitlist script, only consider the most recently published
31259 server descriptor for each server. Also, when the user requests
31260 a list of servers that _reject_ connections to a given address,
31261 explicitly exclude the IPs that also have servers that accept
31262 connections to that address. (Resolves bug 405.)
31263 - Stop allowing hibernating servers to be "stable" or "fast".
31264 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
31265 cached-routers while Tor was running. (Reported by janbar)
31266 - Make the NodeFamilies config option work. (Reported by
31267 lodger -- it has never actually worked, even though we added it
31269 - Check return values from pthread_mutex functions.
31270 - Don't save non-general-purpose router descriptors to the disk cache,
31271 because we have no way of remembering what their purpose was when
31273 - Add even more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
31274 - Build without verbose warnings even on (not-yet-released) gcc 4.2.
31275 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by bandwidth.
31276 Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact unlikely.
31278 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
31279 - Make 'getinfo fingerprint' return a 551 error if we're not a
31280 server, so we match what the control spec claims we do. Reported
31282 - Fix a typo in an error message when extendcircuit fails that
31283 caused us to not follow the \r\n-based delimiter protocol. Reported
31286 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
31287 - Stop passing around circuit_t and crypt_path_t pointers that are
31288 implicit in other procedure arguments.
31289 - Drop the old code to choke directory connections when the
31290 corresponding OR connections got full: thanks to the cell queue
31291 feature, OR conns don't get full any more.
31292 - Make dns_resolve() handle attaching connections to circuits
31293 properly, so the caller doesn't have to.
31294 - Rename wants_to_read and wants_to_write to read/write_blocked_on_bw.
31295 - Keep the connection array as a dynamic smartlist_t, rather than as
31296 a fixed-sized array. This is important, as the number of connections
31297 is becoming increasingly decoupled from the number of sockets.
31300 Changes in version 0.1.2.14 - 2007-05-25
31301 Tor 0.1.2.14 changes the addresses of two directory authorities (this
31302 change especially affects those who serve or use hidden services),
31303 and fixes several other crash- and security-related bugs.
31305 o Directory authority changes:
31306 - Two directory authorities (moria1 and moria2) just moved to new
31307 IP addresses. This change will particularly affect those who serve
31308 or use hidden services.
31310 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
31311 - If a directory server runs out of space in the connection table
31312 as it's processing a begin_dir request, it will free the exit stream
31313 but leave it attached to the circuit, leading to unpredictable
31314 behavior. (Reported by seeess, fixes bug 425.)
31315 - Fix a bug in dirserv_remove_invalid() that would cause authorities
31316 to corrupt memory under some really unlikely scenarios.
31317 - Tighten router parsing rules. (Bugs reported by Benedikt Boss.)
31318 - Avoid segfaults when reading from mmaped descriptor file. (Reported
31321 o Major bugfixes (security):
31322 - When choosing an entry guard for a circuit, avoid using guards
31323 that are in the same family as the chosen exit -- not just guards
31324 that are exactly the chosen exit. (Reported by lodger.)
31326 o Major bugfixes (resource management):
31327 - If a directory authority is down, skip it when deciding where to get
31328 networkstatus objects or descriptors. Otherwise we keep asking
31329 every 10 seconds forever. Fixes bug 384.
31330 - Count it as a failure if we fetch a valid network-status but we
31331 don't want to keep it. Otherwise we'll keep fetching it and keep
31332 not wanting to keep it. Fixes part of bug 422.
31333 - If all of our dirservers have given us bad or no networkstatuses
31334 lately, then stop hammering them once per minute even when we
31335 think they're failed. Fixes another part of bug 422.
31338 - Actually set the purpose correctly for descriptors inserted with
31339 purpose=controller.
31340 - When we have k non-v2 authorities in our DirServer config,
31341 we ignored the last k authorities in the list when updating our
31343 - Correctly back-off from requesting router descriptors that we are
31344 having a hard time downloading.
31345 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
31346 partial results on small file reads.
31347 - Don't rebuild the entire router store every time we get 32K of
31348 routers: rebuild it when the journal gets very large, or when
31349 the gaps in the store get very large.
31352 - When routers publish SVN revisions in their router descriptors,
31353 authorities now include those versions correctly in networkstatus
31355 - Warn when using a version of libevent before 1.3b to run a server on
31356 OSX or BSD: these versions interact badly with userspace threads.
31359 Changes in version 0.1.2.13 - 2007-04-24
31360 This release features some major anonymity fixes, such as safer path
31361 selection; better client performance; faster bootstrapping, better
31362 address detection, and better DNS support for servers; write limiting as
31363 well as read limiting to make servers easier to run; and a huge pile of
31364 other features and bug fixes. The bundles also ship with Vidalia 0.0.11.
31366 Tor 0.1.2.13 is released in memory of Rob Levin (1955-2006), aka lilo
31367 of the Freenode IRC network, remembering his patience and vision for
31368 free speech on the Internet.
31371 - Fix a memory leak when we ask for "all" networkstatuses and we
31372 get one we don't recognize.
31373 - Add more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
31374 - Disable kqueue on OS X 10.3 and earlier, to fix bug 371.
31377 Changes in version 0.1.2.12-rc - 2007-03-16
31379 - Fix an infinite loop introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha when we serve
31380 directory information requested inside Tor connections (i.e. via
31381 begin_dir cells). It only triggered when the same connection was
31382 serving other data at the same time. Reported by seeess.
31385 - When creating a circuit via the controller, send a 'launched'
31386 event when we're done, so we follow the spec better.
31389 Changes in version 0.1.2.11-rc - 2007-03-15
31390 o Minor bugfixes (controller), reported by daejees:
31391 - Correct the control spec to match how the code actually responds
31392 to 'getinfo addr-mappings/*'.
31393 - The control spec described a GUARDS event, but the code
31394 implemented a GUARD event. Standardize on GUARD, but let people
31395 ask for GUARDS too.
31398 Changes in version 0.1.2.10-rc - 2007-03-07
31399 o Major bugfixes (Windows):
31400 - Do not load the NT services library functions (which may not exist)
31401 just to detect if we're a service trying to shut down. Now we run
31402 on Win98 and friends again.
31404 o Minor bugfixes (other):
31405 - Clarify a couple of log messages.
31406 - Fix a misleading socks5 error number.
31409 Changes in version 0.1.2.9-rc - 2007-03-02
31410 o Major bugfixes (Windows):
31411 - On MinGW, use "%I64u" to printf/scanf 64-bit integers, instead
31412 of the usual GCC "%llu". This prevents a bug when saving 64-bit
31413 int configuration values: the high-order 32 bits would get
31414 truncated. In particular, we were being bitten by the default
31415 MaxAdvertisedBandwidth of 128 TB turning into 0. (Fixes bug 400
31416 and maybe also bug 397.)
31418 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
31419 - Use OpenSSL's AES implementation on platforms where it's faster.
31420 This could save us as much as 10% CPU usage.
31422 o Minor bugfixes (server):
31423 - Do not rotate onion key immediately after setting it for the first
31426 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
31427 - Stop calling servers that have been hibernating for a long time
31428 "stable". Also, stop letting hibernating or obsolete servers affect
31429 uptime and bandwidth cutoffs.
31430 - Stop listing hibernating servers in the v1 directory.
31432 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
31433 - Upload hidden service descriptors slightly less often, to reduce
31434 load on authorities.
31436 o Minor bugfixes (other):
31437 - Fix an assert that could trigger if a controller quickly set then
31438 cleared EntryNodes. Bug found by Udo van den Heuvel.
31439 - On architectures where sizeof(int)>4, still clamp declarable bandwidth
31441 - Fix a potential race condition in the rpm installer. Found by
31443 - Try to fix eventdns warnings once and for all: do not treat a dns rcode
31444 of 2 as indicating that the server is completely bad; it sometimes
31445 means that the server is just bad for the request in question. (may fix
31446 the last of bug 326.)
31447 - Disable encrypted directory connections when we don't have a server
31448 descriptor for the destination. We'll get this working again in
31452 Changes in version 0.1.2.8-beta - 2007-02-26
31453 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
31454 - Stop crashing when the controller asks us to resetconf more than
31455 one config option at once. (Vidalia 0.0.11 does this.)
31456 - Fix a crash that happened on Win98 when we're given command-line
31457 arguments: don't try to load NT service functions from advapi32.dll
31458 except when we need them. (Bug introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha;
31460 - Fix a longstanding obscure crash bug that could occur when
31461 we run out of DNS worker processes. (Resolves bug 390.)
31463 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
31464 - Correctly detect whether hidden service descriptor downloads are
31465 in-progress. (Suggested by Karsten Loesing; fixes bug 399.)
31467 o Major bugfixes (accounting):
31468 - When we start during an accounting interval before it's time to wake
31469 up, remember to wake up at the correct time. (May fix bug 342.)
31471 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
31472 - Give the controller END_STREAM_REASON_DESTROY events _before_ we
31473 clear the corresponding on_circuit variable, and remember later
31474 that we don't need to send a redundant CLOSED event. Resolves part
31476 - Report events where a resolve succeeded or where we got a socks
31477 protocol error correctly, rather than calling both of them
31479 - Change reported stream target addresses to IP consistently when
31480 we finally get the IP from an exit node.
31481 - Send log messages to the controller even if they happen to be very
31484 o Minor bugfixes (other):
31485 - Display correct results when reporting which versions are
31486 recommended, and how recommended they are. (Resolves bug 383.)
31487 - Improve our estimates for directory bandwidth to be less random:
31488 guess that an unrecognized directory will have the average bandwidth
31489 from all known directories, not that it will have the average
31490 bandwidth from those directories earlier than it on the list.
31491 - If we start a server with ClientOnly 1, then set ClientOnly to 0
31492 and hup, stop triggering an assert based on an empty onion_key.
31493 - On platforms with no working mmap() equivalent, don't warn the
31494 user when cached-routers doesn't exist.
31495 - Warn the user when mmap() [or its equivalent] fails for some reason
31496 other than file-not-found.
31497 - Don't warn the user when cached-routers.new doesn't exist: that's
31498 perfectly fine when starting up for the first time.
31499 - When EntryNodes are configured, rebuild the guard list to contain,
31500 in order: the EntryNodes that were guards before; the rest of the
31501 EntryNodes; the nodes that were guards before.
31502 - Mask out all signals in sub-threads; only the libevent signal
31503 handler should be processing them. This should prevent some crashes
31504 on some machines using pthreads. (Patch from coderman.)
31505 - Fix switched arguments on memset in the implementation of
31506 tor_munmap() for systems with no mmap() call.
31507 - When Tor receives a router descriptor that it asked for, but
31508 no longer wants (because it has received fresh networkstatuses
31509 in the meantime), do not warn the user. Cache the descriptor if
31510 we're a cache; drop it if we aren't.
31511 - Make earlier entry guards _really_ get retried when the network
31513 - On a malformed DNS reply, always give an error to the corresponding
31515 - Build with recent libevents on platforms that do not define the
31516 nonstandard types "u_int8_t" and friends.
31518 o Minor features (controller):
31519 - Warn the user when an application uses the obsolete binary v0
31520 control protocol. We're planning to remove support for it during
31521 the next development series, so it's good to give people some
31523 - Add STREAM_BW events to report per-entry-stream bandwidth
31524 use. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
31525 - Rate-limit SIGNEWNYM signals in response to controllers that
31526 impolitely generate them for every single stream. (Patch from
31527 mwenge; closes bug 394.)
31528 - Make REMAP stream events have a SOURCE (cache or exit), and
31529 make them generated in every case where we get a successful
31530 connected or resolved cell.
31532 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
31533 - Call router_have_min_dir_info half as often. (This is showing up in
31534 some profiles, but not others.)
31535 - When using GCC, make log_debug never get called at all, and its
31536 arguments never get evaluated, when no debug logs are configured.
31537 (This is showing up in some profiles, but not others.)
31540 - Remove some never-implemented options. Mark PathlenCoinWeight as
31542 - Implement proposal 106: Stop requiring clients to have well-formed
31543 certificates; stop checking nicknames in certificates. (Clients
31544 have certificates so that they can look like Tor servers, but in
31545 the future we might want to allow them to look like regular TLS
31546 clients instead. Nicknames in certificates serve no purpose other
31547 than making our protocol easier to recognize on the wire.)
31548 - Revise messages on handshake failure again to be even more clear about
31549 which are incoming connections and which are outgoing.
31550 - Discard any v1 directory info that's over 1 month old (for
31551 directories) or over 1 week old (for running-routers lists).
31552 - Do not warn when individual nodes in the configuration's EntryNodes,
31553 ExitNodes, etc are down: warn only when all possible nodes
31554 are down. (Fixes bug 348.)
31555 - Always remove expired routers and networkstatus docs before checking
31556 whether we have enough information to build circuits. (Fixes
31558 - Put a lower-bound on MaxAdvertisedBandwidth.
31561 Changes in version 0.1.2.7-alpha - 2007-02-06
31562 o Major bugfixes (rate limiting):
31563 - Servers decline directory requests much more aggressively when
31564 they're low on bandwidth. Otherwise they end up queueing more and
31565 more directory responses, which can't be good for latency.
31566 - But never refuse directory requests from local addresses.
31567 - Fix a memory leak when sending a 503 response for a networkstatus
31569 - Be willing to read or write on local connections (e.g. controller
31570 connections) even when the global rate limiting buckets are empty.
31571 - If our system clock jumps back in time, don't publish a negative
31572 uptime in the descriptor. Also, don't let the global rate limiting
31573 buckets go absurdly negative.
31574 - Flush local controller connection buffers periodically as we're
31575 writing to them, so we avoid queueing 4+ megabytes of data before
31578 o Major bugfixes (NT services):
31579 - Install as NT_AUTHORITY\LocalService rather than as SYSTEM; add a
31580 command-line flag so that admins can override the default by saying
31581 "tor --service install --user "SomeUser"". This will not affect
31582 existing installed services. Also, warn the user that the service
31583 will look for its configuration file in the service user's
31584 %appdata% directory. (We can't do the 'hardwire the user's appdata
31585 directory' trick any more, since we may not have read access to that
31588 o Major bugfixes (other):
31589 - Previously, we would cache up to 16 old networkstatus documents
31590 indefinitely, if they came from nontrusted authorities. Now we
31591 discard them if they are more than 10 days old.
31592 - Fix a crash bug in the presence of DNS hijacking (reported by Andrew
31594 - Detect and reject malformed DNS responses containing circular
31596 - If exits are rare enough that we're not marking exits as guards,
31597 ignore exit bandwidth when we're deciding the required bandwidth
31599 - When we're handling a directory connection tunneled over Tor,
31600 don't fill up internal memory buffers with all the data we want
31601 to tunnel; instead, only add it if the OR connection that will
31602 eventually receive it has some room for it. (This can lead to
31603 slowdowns in tunneled dir connections; a better solution will have
31604 to wait for 0.2.0.)
31606 o Minor bugfixes (dns):
31607 - Add some defensive programming to eventdns.c in an attempt to catch
31608 possible memory-stomping bugs.
31609 - Detect and reject DNS replies containing IPv4 or IPv6 records with
31610 an incorrect number of bytes. (Previously, we would ignore the
31612 - Fix as-yet-unused reverse IPv6 lookup code so it sends nybbles
31613 in the correct order, and doesn't crash.
31614 - Free memory held in recently-completed DNS lookup attempts on exit.
31615 This was not a memory leak, but may have been hiding memory leaks.
31616 - Handle TTL values correctly on reverse DNS lookups.
31617 - Treat failure to parse resolv.conf as an error.
31619 o Minor bugfixes (other):
31620 - Fix crash with "tor --list-fingerprint" (reported by seeess).
31621 - When computing clock skew from directory HTTP headers, consider what
31622 time it was when we finished asking for the directory, not what
31624 - Expire socks connections if they spend too long waiting for the
31625 handshake to finish. Previously we would let them sit around for
31626 days, if the connecting application didn't close them either.
31627 - And if the socks handshake hasn't started, don't send a
31628 "DNS resolve socks failed" handshake reply; just close it.
31629 - Stop using C functions that OpenBSD's linker doesn't like.
31630 - Don't launch requests for descriptors unless we have networkstatuses
31631 from at least half of the authorities. This delays the first
31632 download slightly under pathological circumstances, but can prevent
31633 us from downloading a bunch of descriptors we don't need.
31634 - Do not log IPs with TLS failures for incoming TLS
31635 connections. (Fixes bug 382.)
31636 - If the user asks to use invalid exit nodes, be willing to use
31638 - Stop using the reserved ac_cv namespace in our configure script.
31639 - Call stat() slightly less often; use fstat() when possible.
31640 - Refactor the way we handle pending circuits when an OR connection
31641 completes or fails, in an attempt to fix a rare crash bug.
31642 - Only rewrite a conn's address based on X-Forwarded-For: headers
31643 if it's a parseable public IP address; and stop adding extra quotes
31644 to the resulting address.
31647 - Weight directory requests by advertised bandwidth. Now we can
31648 let servers enable write limiting but still allow most clients to
31649 succeed at their directory requests. (We still ignore weights when
31650 choosing a directory authority; I hope this is a feature.)
31653 - Create a new file ReleaseNotes which was the old ChangeLog. The
31654 new ChangeLog file now includes the summaries for all development
31656 - Check for addresses with invalid characters at the exit as well
31657 as at the client, and warn less verbosely when they fail. You can
31658 override this by setting ServerDNSAllowNonRFC953Addresses to 1.
31659 - Adapt a patch from goodell to let the contrib/exitlist script
31660 take arguments rather than require direct editing.
31661 - Inform the server operator when we decide not to advertise a
31662 DirPort due to AccountingMax enabled or a low BandwidthRate. It
31663 was confusing Zax, so now we're hopefully more helpful.
31664 - Bring us one step closer to being able to establish an encrypted
31665 directory tunnel without knowing a descriptor first. Still not
31666 ready yet. As part of the change, now assume we can use a
31667 create_fast cell if we don't know anything about a router.
31668 - Allow exit nodes to use nameservers running on ports other than 53.
31669 - Servers now cache reverse DNS replies.
31670 - Add an --ignore-missing-torrc command-line option so that we can
31671 get the "use sensible defaults if the configuration file doesn't
31672 exist" behavior even when specifying a torrc location on the command
31675 o Minor features (controller):
31676 - Track reasons for OR connection failure; make these reasons
31677 available via the controller interface. (Patch from Mike Perry.)
31678 - Add a SOCKS_BAD_HOSTNAME client status event so controllers
31679 can learn when clients are sending malformed hostnames to Tor.
31680 - Clean up documentation for controller status events.
31681 - Add a REMAP status to stream events to note that a stream's
31682 address has changed because of a cached address or a MapAddress
31686 Changes in version 0.1.2.6-alpha - 2007-01-09
31688 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if a single TLS
31689 connection handles more than 4 gigs in either direction, we crash.
31690 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if we're an
31691 advertised exit node, somebody might try to exit from us when
31692 we're bootstrapping and before we've built our descriptor yet.
31693 Refuse the connection rather than crashing.
31696 - Warn if we (as a server) find that we've resolved an address that we
31697 weren't planning to resolve.
31698 - Warn that using select() on any libevent version before 1.1 will be
31699 unnecessarily slow (even for select()).
31700 - Flush ERR-level controller status events just like we currently
31701 flush ERR-level log events, so that a Tor shutdown doesn't prevent
31702 the controller from learning about current events.
31704 o Minor features (more controller status events):
31705 - Implement EXTERNAL_ADDRESS server status event so controllers can
31706 learn when our address changes.
31707 - Implement BAD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR server status event so controllers
31708 can learn when directories reject our descriptor.
31709 - Implement SOCKS_UNKNOWN_PROTOCOL client status event so controllers
31710 can learn when a client application is speaking a non-socks protocol
31712 - Implement DANGEROUS_SOCKS client status event so controllers
31713 can learn when a client application is leaking DNS addresses.
31714 - Implement BUG general status event so controllers can learn when
31715 Tor is unhappy about its internal invariants.
31716 - Implement CLOCK_SKEW general status event so controllers can learn
31717 when Tor thinks the system clock is set incorrectly.
31718 - Implement GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR and ACCEPTED_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR
31719 server status events so controllers can learn when their descriptors
31720 are accepted by a directory.
31721 - Implement CHECKING_REACHABILITY and REACHABILITY_{SUCCEEDED|FAILED}
31722 server status events so controllers can learn about Tor's progress in
31723 deciding whether it's reachable from the outside.
31724 - Implement BAD_LIBEVENT general status event so controllers can learn
31725 when we have a version/method combination in libevent that needs to
31727 - Implement NAMESERVER_STATUS, NAMESERVER_ALL_DOWN, DNS_HIJACKED,
31728 and DNS_USELESS server status events so controllers can learn
31729 about changes to DNS server status.
31731 o Minor features (directory):
31732 - Authorities no longer recommend exits as guards if this would shift
31733 too much load to the exit nodes.
31736 Changes in version 0.1.2.5-alpha - 2007-01-06
31738 - Enable write limiting as well as read limiting. Now we sacrifice
31739 capacity if we're pushing out lots of directory traffic, rather
31740 than overrunning the user's intended bandwidth limits.
31741 - Include TLS overhead when counting bandwidth usage; previously, we
31742 would count only the bytes sent over TLS, but not the bytes used
31744 - Support running the Tor service with a torrc not in the same
31745 directory as tor.exe and default to using the torrc located in
31746 the %appdata%\Tor\ of the user who installed the service. Patch
31748 - Servers now check for the case when common DNS requests are going to
31749 wildcarded addresses (i.e. all getting the same answer), and change
31750 their exit policy to reject *:* if it's happening.
31751 - Implement BEGIN_DIR cells, so we can connect to the directory
31752 server via TLS to do encrypted directory requests rather than
31753 plaintext. Enable via the TunnelDirConns and PreferTunneledDirConns
31754 config options if you like.
31756 o Minor features (config and docs):
31757 - Start using the state file to store bandwidth accounting data:
31758 the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. We'll keep generating it
31759 for a while for people who are still using 0.1.2.4-alpha.
31760 - Try to batch changes to the state file so that we do as few
31761 disk writes as possible while still storing important things in
31763 - The state file and the bw_accounting file get saved less often when
31764 the AvoidDiskWrites config option is set.
31765 - Make PIDFile work on Windows (untested).
31766 - Add internal descriptions for a bunch of configuration options:
31767 accessible via controller interface and in comments in saved
31769 - Reject *:563 (NNTPS) in the default exit policy. We already reject
31770 NNTP by default, so this seems like a sensible addition.
31771 - Clients now reject hostnames with invalid characters. This should
31772 avoid some inadvertent info leaks. Add an option
31773 AllowNonRFC953Hostnames to disable this behavior, in case somebody
31774 is running a private network with hosts called @, !, and #.
31775 - Add a maintainer script to tell us which options are missing
31776 documentation: "make check-docs".
31777 - Add a new address-spec.txt document to describe our special-case
31778 addresses: .exit, .onion, and .noconnnect.
31780 o Minor features (DNS):
31781 - Ongoing work on eventdns infrastructure: now it has dns server
31782 and ipv6 support. One day Tor will make use of it.
31783 - Add client-side caching for reverse DNS lookups.
31784 - Add support to tor-resolve tool for reverse lookups and SOCKS5.
31785 - When we change nameservers or IP addresses, reset and re-launch
31786 our tests for DNS hijacking.
31788 o Minor features (directory):
31789 - Authorities now specify server versions in networkstatus. This adds
31790 about 2% to the size of compressed networkstatus docs, and allows
31791 clients to tell which servers support BEGIN_DIR and which don't.
31792 The implementation is forward-compatible with a proposed future
31793 protocol version scheme not tied to Tor versions.
31794 - DirServer configuration lines now have an orport= option so
31795 clients can open encrypted tunnels to the authorities without
31796 having downloaded their descriptors yet. Enabled for moria1,
31797 moria2, tor26, and lefkada now in the default configuration.
31798 - Directory servers are more willing to send a 503 "busy" if they
31799 are near their write limit, especially for v1 directory requests.
31800 Now they can use their limited bandwidth for actual Tor traffic.
31801 - Clients track responses with status 503 from dirservers. After a
31802 dirserver has given us a 503, we try not to use it until an hour has
31803 gone by, or until we have no dirservers that haven't given us a 503.
31804 - When we get a 503 from a directory, and we're not a server, we don't
31805 count the failure against the total number of failures allowed
31806 for the thing we're trying to download.
31807 - Report X-Your-Address-Is correctly from tunneled directory
31808 connections; don't report X-Your-Address-Is when it's an internal
31809 address; and never believe reported remote addresses when they're
31811 - Protect against an unlikely DoS attack on directory servers.
31812 - Add a BadDirectory flag to network status docs so that authorities
31813 can (eventually) tell clients about caches they believe to be
31816 o Minor features (controller):
31817 - Have GETINFO dir/status/* work on hosts with DirPort disabled.
31818 - Reimplement GETINFO so that info/names stays in sync with the
31820 - Implement "GETINFO fingerprint".
31821 - Implement "SETEVENTS GUARD" so controllers can get updates on
31822 entry guard status as it changes.
31824 o Minor features (clean up obsolete pieces):
31825 - Remove some options that have been deprecated since at least
31826 0.1.0.x: AccountingMaxKB, LogFile, DebugLogFile, LogLevel, and
31827 SysLog. Use AccountingMax instead of AccountingMaxKB, and use Log
31828 to set log options.
31829 - We no longer look for identity and onion keys in "identity.key" and
31830 "onion.key" -- these were replaced by secret_id_key and
31831 secret_onion_key in 0.0.8pre1.
31832 - We no longer require unrecognized directory entries to be
31835 o Major bugfixes (security):
31836 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
31837 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
31838 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
31839 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
31841 - When generating bandwidth history, round down to the nearest
31842 1k. When storing accounting data, round up to the nearest 1k.
31843 - When we're running as a server, remember when we last rotated onion
31844 keys, so that we will rotate keys once they're a week old even if
31845 we never stay up for a week ourselves.
31847 o Major bugfixes (other):
31848 - Fix a longstanding bug in eventdns that prevented the count of
31849 timed-out resolves from ever being reset. This bug caused us to
31850 give up on a nameserver the third time it timed out, and try it
31851 10 seconds later... and to give up on it every time it timed out
31853 - Take out the '5 second' timeout from the connection retry
31854 schedule. Now the first connect attempt will wait a full 10
31855 seconds before switching to a new circuit. Perhaps this will help
31856 a lot. Based on observations from Mike Perry.
31857 - Fix a bug on the Windows implementation of tor_mmap_file() that
31858 would prevent the cached-routers file from ever loading. Reported
31862 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
31863 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
31864 unlisted router. Reported by seeess.
31865 - Avoid a double-free when parsing malformed DirServer lines.
31866 - Fix a bug when a BSD-style PF socket is first used. Patch from
31868 - Fix a bug in 0.1.2.2-alpha that prevented clients from asking
31869 to resolve an address at a given exit node even when they ask for
31871 - Servers no longer ever list themselves in their "family" line,
31872 even if configured to do so. This makes it easier to configure
31873 family lists conveniently.
31874 - When running as a server, don't fall back to 127.0.0.1 when no
31875 nameservers are configured in /etc/resolv.conf; instead, make the
31876 user fix resolv.conf or specify nameservers explicitly. (Resolves
31878 - Stop accepting certain malformed ports in configured exit policies.
31879 - Don't re-write the fingerprint file every restart, unless it has
31881 - Stop warning when a single nameserver fails: only warn when _all_ of
31882 our nameservers have failed. Also, when we only have one nameserver,
31883 raise the threshold for deciding that the nameserver is dead.
31884 - Directory authorities now only decide that routers are reachable
31885 if their identity keys are as expected.
31886 - When the user uses bad syntax in the Log config line, stop
31887 suggesting other bad syntax as a replacement.
31888 - Correctly detect ipv6 DNS capability on OpenBSD.
31890 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
31891 - Report the circuit number correctly in STREAM CLOSED events. Bug
31892 reported by Mike Perry.
31893 - Do not report bizarre values for results of accounting GETINFOs
31894 when the last second's write or read exceeds the allotted bandwidth.
31895 - Report "unrecognized key" rather than an empty string when the
31896 controller tries to fetch a networkstatus that doesn't exist.
31899 Changes in version 0.1.1.26 - 2006-12-14
31900 o Security bugfixes:
31901 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
31902 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
31903 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
31904 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
31908 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
31909 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
31910 unlisted router (reported by seeess).
31913 Changes in version 0.1.2.4-alpha - 2006-12-03
31915 - Add support for using natd; this allows FreeBSDs earlier than
31916 5.1.2 to have ipfw send connections through Tor without using
31917 SOCKS. (Patch from Zajcev Evgeny with tweaks from tup.)
31920 - Make all connections to addresses of the form ".noconnect"
31921 immediately get closed. This lets application/controller combos
31922 successfully test whether they're talking to the same Tor by
31923 watching for STREAM events.
31924 - Make cross.sh cross-compilation script work even when autogen.sh
31925 hasn't been run. (Patch from Michael Mohr.)
31926 - Statistics dumped by -USR2 now include a breakdown of public key
31927 operations, for profiling.
31930 - Fix a major leak when directory authorities parse their
31931 approved-routers list, a minor memory leak when we fail to pick
31932 an exit node, and a few rare leaks on errors.
31933 - Handle TransPort connections even when the server sends data before
31934 the client sends data. Previously, the connection would just hang
31935 until the client sent data. (Patch from tup based on patch from
31937 - Avoid assert failure when our cached-routers file is empty on
31941 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
31942 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
31943 - Have directory authorities allow larger amounts of drift in uptime
31944 without replacing the server descriptor: previously, a server that
31945 restarted every 30 minutes could have 48 "interesting" descriptors
31947 - Start linking to the Tor specification and Tor reference manual
31948 correctly in the Windows installer.
31949 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
31950 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
31951 - Resume building on Irix64, and fix a lot of warnings from its
31952 MIPSpro C compiler.
31953 - Don't corrupt last_guessed_ip in router_new_address_suggestion()
31954 when we're running as a client.
31957 Changes in version 0.1.1.25 - 2006-11-04
31959 - When a client asks us to resolve (rather than connect to)
31960 an address, and we have a cached answer, give them the cached
31961 answer. Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
31962 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we predict
31963 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
31964 its circuits on demand.
31965 - If none of our live entry guards have a high uptime, but we
31966 require a guard with a high uptime, try adding a new guard before
31967 we give up on the requirement. This patch should make long-lived
31968 connections more stable on average.
31969 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
31970 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
31971 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
31973 o Security bugfixes:
31974 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
31975 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
31978 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
31980 - Avoid possibility of controller-triggered crash when misusing
31981 certain commands from a v0 controller on platforms that do not
31982 handle printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
31983 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
31984 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
31985 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
31986 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
31987 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
31990 Changes in version 0.1.2.3-alpha - 2006-10-29
31992 - Prepare for servers to publish descriptors less often: never
31993 discard a descriptor simply for being too old until either it is
31994 recommended by no authorities, or until we get a better one for
31995 the same router. Make caches consider retaining old recommended
31996 routers for even longer.
31997 - If most authorities set a BadExit flag for a server, clients
31998 don't think of it as a general-purpose exit. Clients only consider
31999 authorities that advertise themselves as listing bad exits.
32000 - Directory servers now provide 'Pragma: no-cache' and 'Expires'
32001 headers for content, so that we can work better in the presence of
32002 caching HTTP proxies.
32003 - Allow authorities to list nodes as bad exits by fingerprint or by
32006 o Minor features, controller:
32007 - Add a REASON field to CIRC events; for backward compatibility, this
32008 field is sent only to controllers that have enabled the extended
32009 event format. Also, add additional reason codes to explain why
32010 a given circuit has been destroyed or truncated. (Patches from
32012 - Add a REMOTE_REASON field to extended CIRC events to tell the
32013 controller about why a remote OR told us to close a circuit.
32014 - Stream events also now have REASON and REMOTE_REASON fields,
32015 working much like those for circuit events.
32016 - There's now a GETINFO ns/... field so that controllers can ask Tor
32017 about the current status of a router.
32018 - A new event type "NS" to inform a controller when our opinion of
32019 a router's status has changed.
32020 - Add a GETINFO events/names and GETINFO features/names so controllers
32021 can tell which events and features are supported.
32022 - A new CLEARDNSCACHE signal to allow controllers to clear the
32023 client-side DNS cache without expiring circuits.
32025 o Security bugfixes:
32026 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
32027 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
32030 - Avoid sending junk to controllers or segfaulting when a controller
32031 uses EVENT_NEW_DESC with verbose nicknames.
32032 - Stop triggering asserts if the controller tries to extend hidden
32033 service circuits (reported by mwenge).
32034 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
32035 - When the controller does a "GETINFO network-status", tell it
32036 about even those routers whose descriptors are very old, and use
32037 long nicknames where appropriate.
32038 - Change NT service functions to be loaded on demand. This lets us
32039 build with MinGW without breaking Tor for Windows 98 users.
32040 - Do DirPort reachability tests less often, since a single test
32041 chews through many circuits before giving up.
32042 - In the hidden service example in torrc.sample, stop recommending
32043 esoteric and discouraged hidden service options.
32044 - When stopping an NT service, wait up to 10 sec for it to actually
32045 stop. Patch from Matt Edman; resolves bug 295.
32046 - Fix handling of verbose nicknames with ORCONN controller events:
32047 make them show up exactly when requested, rather than exactly when
32049 - When reporting verbose nicknames in entry_guards_getinfo(), avoid
32050 printing a duplicate "$" in the keys we send (reported by mwenge).
32051 - Correctly set maximum connection limit on Cygwin. (This time
32053 - Try to detect Windows correctly when cross-compiling.
32054 - Detect the size of the routers file correctly even if it is
32055 corrupted (on systems without mmap) or not page-aligned (on systems
32056 with mmap). This bug was harmless.
32057 - Sometimes we didn't bother sending a RELAY_END cell when an attempt
32058 to open a stream fails; now we do in more cases. This should
32059 make clients able to find a good exit faster in some cases, since
32060 unhandleable requests will now get an error rather than timing out.
32061 - Resolve two memory leaks when rebuilding the on-disk router cache
32062 (reported by fookoowa).
32063 - Clean up minor code warnings suggested by the MIPSpro C compiler,
32064 and reported by some Centos users.
32065 - Controller signals now work on non-Unix platforms that don't define
32066 SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 the way we expect.
32067 - Patch from Michael Mohr to contrib/cross.sh, so it checks more
32068 values before failing, and always enables eventdns.
32069 - Libevent-1.2 exports, but does not define in its headers, strlcpy.
32070 Try to fix this in configure.in by checking for most functions
32071 before we check for libevent.
32074 Changes in version 0.1.2.2-alpha - 2006-10-07
32076 - Make our async eventdns library on-by-default for Tor servers,
32077 and plan to deprecate the separate dnsworker threads.
32078 - Add server-side support for "reverse" DNS lookups (using PTR
32079 records so clients can determine the canonical hostname for a given
32080 IPv4 address). Only supported by servers using eventdns; servers
32081 now announce in their descriptors whether they support eventdns.
32082 - Specify and implement client-side SOCKS5 interface for reverse DNS
32083 lookups (see doc/socks-extensions.txt).
32084 - Add a BEGIN_DIR relay cell type for an easier in-protocol way to
32085 connect to directory servers through Tor. Previously, clients needed
32086 to find Tor exits to make private connections to directory servers.
32087 - Avoid choosing Exit nodes for entry or middle hops when the
32088 total bandwidth available from non-Exit nodes is much higher than
32089 the total bandwidth available from Exit nodes.
32090 - Workaround for name servers (like Earthlink's) that hijack failing
32091 DNS requests and replace the no-such-server answer with a "helpful"
32092 redirect to an advertising-driven search portal. Also work around
32093 DNS hijackers who "helpfully" decline to hijack known-invalid
32094 RFC2606 addresses. Config option "ServerDNSDetectHijacking 0"
32095 lets you turn it off.
32096 - Send out a burst of long-range padding cells once we've established
32097 that we're reachable. Spread them over 4 circuits, so hopefully
32098 a few will be fast. This exercises our bandwidth and bootstraps
32099 us into the directory more quickly.
32101 o New/improved config options:
32102 - Add new config option "ResolvConf" to let the server operator
32103 choose an alternate resolve.conf file when using eventdns.
32104 - Add an "EnforceDistinctSubnets" option to control our "exclude
32105 servers on the same /16" behavior. It's still on by default; this
32106 is mostly for people who want to operate private test networks with
32107 all the machines on the same subnet.
32108 - If one of our entry guards is on the ExcludeNodes list, or the
32109 directory authorities don't think it's a good guard, treat it as
32110 if it were unlisted: stop using it as a guard, and throw it off
32111 the guards list if it stays that way for a long time.
32112 - Allow directory authorities to be marked separately as authorities
32113 for the v1 directory protocol, the v2 directory protocol, and
32114 as hidden service directories, to make it easier to retire old
32115 authorities. V1 authorities should set "HSAuthoritativeDir 1"
32116 to continue being hidden service authorities too.
32117 - Remove 8888 as a LongLivedPort, and add 6697 (IRCS).
32119 o Minor features, controller:
32120 - Fix CIRC controller events so that controllers can learn the
32121 identity digests of non-Named servers used in circuit paths.
32122 - Let controllers ask for more useful identifiers for servers. Instead
32123 of learning identity digests for un-Named servers and nicknames
32124 for Named servers, the new identifiers include digest, nickname,
32125 and indication of Named status. Off by default; see control-spec.txt
32126 for more information.
32127 - Add a "getinfo address" controller command so it can display Tor's
32128 best guess to the user.
32129 - New controller event to alert the controller when our server
32130 descriptor has changed.
32131 - Give more meaningful errors on controller authentication failure.
32133 o Minor features, other:
32134 - When asked to resolve a hostname, don't use non-exit servers unless
32135 requested to do so. This allows servers with broken DNS to be
32136 useful to the network.
32137 - Divide eventdns log messages into warn and info messages.
32138 - Reserve the nickname "Unnamed" for routers that can't pick
32139 a hostname: any router can call itself Unnamed; directory
32140 authorities will never allocate Unnamed to any particular router;
32141 clients won't believe that any router is the canonical Unnamed.
32142 - Only include function names in log messages for info/debug messages.
32143 For notice/warn/err, the content of the message should be clear on
32144 its own, and printing the function name only confuses users.
32145 - Avoid some false positives during reachability testing: don't try
32146 to test via a server that's on the same /24 as us.
32147 - If we fail to build a circuit to an intended enclave, and it's
32148 not mandatory that we use that enclave, stop wanting it.
32149 - When eventdns is enabled, allow multithreaded builds on NetBSD and
32150 OpenBSD. (We had previously disabled threads on these platforms
32151 because they didn't have working thread-safe resolver functions.)
32153 o Major bugfixes, anonymity/security:
32154 - If a client asked for a server by name, and there's a named server
32155 in our network-status but we don't have its descriptor yet, we
32156 could return an unnamed server instead.
32157 - Fix NetBSD bug that could allow someone to force uninitialized RAM
32158 to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This only affects NetBSD
32159 and other platforms that do not bounds-check tolower().
32160 - Reject (most) attempts to use Tor circuits with length one. (If
32161 many people start using Tor as a one-hop proxy, exit nodes become
32162 a more attractive target for compromise.)
32163 - Just because your DirPort is open doesn't mean people should be
32164 able to remotely teach you about hidden service descriptors. Now
32165 only accept rendezvous posts if you've got HSAuthoritativeDir set.
32167 o Major bugfixes, other:
32168 - Don't crash on race condition in dns.c: tor_assert(!resolve->expire)
32169 - When a client asks the server to resolve (not connect to)
32170 an address, and it has a cached answer, give them the cached answer.
32171 Previously, the server would give them no answer at all.
32172 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
32173 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
32174 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we anticipated
32175 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
32176 its circuits on demand.
32177 - Avoid crashing when we mmap a router cache file of size 0.
32178 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
32179 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
32180 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
32182 o Minor bugfixes, correctness:
32183 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
32184 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
32185 we don't recognize.
32186 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
32188 - Avoid controller-triggered crash when misusing certain commands
32189 from a v0 controller on platforms that do not handle
32190 printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
32191 - Don't crash when a controller sends a third argument to an
32192 "extendcircuit" request.
32193 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
32194 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
32195 - Avoid crash when telling controller stream-status and a stream
32197 - Patch from Adam Langley to fix assert() in eventdns.c.
32198 - Fix a debug log message in eventdns to say "X resolved to Y"
32199 instead of "X resolved to X".
32200 - Make eventdns give strings for DNS errors, not just error numbers.
32201 - Track unreachable entry guards correctly: don't conflate
32202 'unreachable by us right now' with 'listed as down by the directory
32203 authorities'. With the old code, if a guard was unreachable by
32204 us but listed as running, it would clog our guard list forever.
32205 - Behave correctly in case we ever have a network with more than
32206 2GB/s total advertised capacity.
32207 - Make TrackExitHosts case-insensitive, and fix the behavior of
32208 ".suffix" TrackExitHosts items to avoid matching in the middle of
32210 - Finally fix the openssl warnings from newer gccs that believe that
32211 ignoring a return value is okay, but casting a return value and
32212 then ignoring it is a sign of madness.
32213 - Prevent the contrib/exitlist script from printing the same
32214 result more than once.
32215 - Patch from Steve Hildrey: Generate network status correctly on
32216 non-versioning dirservers.
32217 - Don't listen to the X-Your-Address-Is hint if you did the lookup
32218 via Tor; otherwise you'll think you're the exit node's IP address.
32220 o Minor bugfixes, performance:
32221 - Two small performance improvements on parsing descriptors.
32222 - Major performance improvement on inserting descriptors: change
32223 algorithm from O(n^2) to O(n).
32224 - Make the common memory allocation path faster on machines where
32225 malloc(0) returns a pointer.
32226 - Start remembering X-Your-Address-Is directory hints even if you're
32227 a client, so you can become a server more smoothly.
32228 - Avoid duplicate entries on MyFamily line in server descriptor.
32230 o Packaging, features:
32231 - Remove architecture from OS X builds. The official builds are
32232 now universal binaries.
32233 - The Debian package now uses --verify-config when (re)starting,
32234 to distinguish configuration errors from other errors.
32235 - Update RPMs to require libevent 1.1b.
32237 o Packaging, bugfixes:
32238 - Patches so Tor builds with MinGW on Windows.
32239 - Patches so Tor might run on Cygwin again.
32240 - Resume building on non-gcc compilers and ancient gcc. Resume
32241 building with the -O0 compile flag. Resume building cleanly on
32243 - Run correctly on OS X platforms with case-sensitive filesystems.
32244 - Correct includes for net/if.h and net/pfvar.h on OpenBSD (from Tup).
32245 - Add autoconf checks so Tor can build on Solaris x86 again.
32248 - Documented (and renamed) ServerDNSSearchDomains and
32249 ServerDNSResolvConfFile options.
32250 - Be clearer that the *ListenAddress directives can be repeated
32254 Changes in version 0.1.1.24 - 2006-09-29
32256 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
32257 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
32258 - Fix major performance regression from 0.1.0.x: instead of checking
32259 whether we have enough directory information every time we want to
32260 do something, only check when the directory information has changed.
32261 This should improve client CPU usage by 25-50%.
32262 - Don't crash if, after a server has been running for a while,
32263 it can't resolve its hostname.
32266 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
32267 - Don't crash when the controller receives a third argument to an
32268 "extendcircuit" request.
32269 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
32270 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
32271 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
32272 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
32274 - Fix security bug on NetBSD that could allow someone to force
32275 uninitialized RAM to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This
32276 only affects NetBSD and other platforms that do not bounds-check
32278 - Warn user when using libevent 1.1a or earlier with win32 or kqueue
32279 methods: these are known to be buggy.
32280 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
32281 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
32282 we don't recognize.
32285 Changes in version 0.1.2.1-alpha - 2006-08-27
32287 - Add "eventdns" async dns library from Adam Langley, tweaked to
32288 build on OSX and Windows. Only enabled if you pass the
32289 --enable-eventdns argument to configure.
32290 - Allow servers with no hostname or IP address to learn their
32291 IP address by asking the directory authorities. This code only
32292 kicks in when you would normally have exited with a "no address"
32293 error. Nothing's authenticated, so use with care.
32294 - Rather than waiting a fixed amount of time between retrying
32295 application connections, we wait only 5 seconds for the first,
32296 10 seconds for the second, and 15 seconds for each retry after
32297 that. Hopefully this will improve the expected user experience.
32298 - Patch from Tup to add support for transparent AP connections:
32299 this basically bundles the functionality of trans-proxy-tor
32300 into the Tor mainline. Now hosts with compliant pf/netfilter
32301 implementations can redirect TCP connections straight to Tor
32302 without diverting through SOCKS. Needs docs.
32303 - Busy directory servers save lots of memory by spooling server
32304 descriptors, v1 directories, and v2 networkstatus docs to buffers
32305 as needed rather than en masse. Also mmap the cached-routers
32306 files, so we don't need to keep the whole thing in memory too.
32307 - Automatically avoid picking more than one node from the same
32308 /16 network when constructing a circuit.
32309 - Revise and clean up the torrc.sample that we ship with; add
32310 a section for BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst.
32313 - Split circuit_t into origin_circuit_t and or_circuit_t, and
32314 split connection_t into edge, or, dir, control, and base structs.
32315 These will save quite a bit of memory on busy servers, and they'll
32316 also help us track down bugs in the code and bugs in the spec.
32317 - Experimentally re-enable kqueue on OSX when using libevent 1.1b
32318 or later. Log when we are doing this, so we can diagnose it when
32319 it fails. (Also, recommend libevent 1.1b for kqueue and
32320 win32 methods; deprecate libevent 1.0b harder; make libevent
32321 recommendation system saner.)
32322 - Start being able to build universal binaries on OS X (thanks
32324 - Export the default exit policy via the control port, so controllers
32325 don't need to guess what it is / will be later.
32326 - Add a man page entry for ProtocolWarnings.
32327 - Add TestVia config option to the man page.
32328 - Remove even more protocol-related warnings from Tor server logs,
32329 such as bad TLS handshakes and malformed begin cells.
32330 - Stop fetching descriptors if you're not a dir mirror and you
32331 haven't tried to establish any circuits lately. [This currently
32332 causes some dangerous behavior, because when you start up again
32333 you'll use your ancient server descriptors.]
32334 - New DirPort behavior: if you have your dirport set, you download
32335 descriptors aggressively like a directory mirror, whether or not
32336 your ORPort is set.
32337 - Get rid of the router_retry_connections notion. Now routers
32338 no longer try to rebuild long-term connections to directory
32339 authorities, and directory authorities no longer try to rebuild
32340 long-term connections to all servers. We still don't hang up
32341 connections in these two cases though -- we need to look at it
32342 more carefully to avoid flapping, and we likely need to wait til
32343 0.1.1.x is obsolete.
32344 - Drop compatibility with obsolete Tors that permit create cells
32345 to have the wrong circ_id_type.
32346 - Re-enable per-connection rate limiting. Get rid of the "OP
32347 bandwidth" concept. Lay groundwork for "bandwidth classes" --
32348 separate global buckets that apply depending on what sort of conn
32350 - Start publishing one minute or so after we find our ORPort
32351 to be reachable. This will help reduce the number of descriptors
32352 we have for ourselves floating around, since it's quite likely
32353 other things (e.g. DirPort) will change during that minute too.
32354 - Fork the v1 directory protocol into its own spec document,
32355 and mark dir-spec.txt as the currently correct (v2) spec.
32358 - When we find our DirPort to be reachable, publish a new descriptor
32359 so we'll tell the world (reported by pnx).
32360 - Publish a new descriptor after we hup/reload. This is important
32361 if our config has changed such that we'll want to start advertising
32362 our DirPort now, etc.
32363 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
32364 - When we have a state file we cannot parse, tell the user and
32365 move it aside. Now we avoid situations where the user starts
32366 Tor in 1904, Tor writes a state file with that timestamp in it,
32367 the user fixes her clock, and Tor refuses to start.
32368 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
32369 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
32371 - "tor --verify-config" now exits with -1(255) or 0 depending on
32372 whether the config options are bad or good.
32373 - Resolve bug 321 when using dnsworkers: append a period to every
32374 address we resolve at the exit node, so that we do not accidentally
32375 pick up local addresses, and so that failing searches are retried
32376 in the resolver search domains. (This is already solved for
32377 eventdns.) (This breaks Blossom servers for now.)
32378 - If we are using an exit enclave and we can't connect, e.g. because
32379 its webserver is misconfigured to not listen on localhost, then
32380 back off and try connecting from somewhere else before we fail.
32383 - Start compiling on MinGW on Windows (patches from Mike Chiussi).
32384 - Start compiling on MSVC6 on Windows (patches from Frediano Ziglio).
32385 - Fix bug 314: Tor clients issued "unsafe socks" warnings even
32386 when the IP address is mapped through MapAddress to a hostname.
32387 - Start passing "ipv4" hints to getaddrinfo(), so servers don't do
32388 useless IPv6 DNS resolves.
32389 - Patch suggested by Karsten Loesing: respond to SIGNAL command
32390 before we execute the signal, in case the signal shuts us down.
32391 - Clean up AllowInvalidNodes man page entry.
32392 - Claim a commonname of Tor, rather than TOR, in TLS handshakes.
32393 - Add more asserts to track down an assert error on a windows Tor
32394 server with connection_add being called with socket == -1.
32395 - Handle reporting OR_CONN_EVENT_NEW events to the controller.
32396 - Fix misleading log messages: an entry guard that is "unlisted",
32397 as well as not known to be "down" (because we've never heard
32398 of it), is not therefore "up".
32399 - Remove code to special-case "-cvs" ending, since it has not
32400 actually mattered since 0.0.9.
32401 - Make our socks5 handling more robust to broken socks clients:
32402 throw out everything waiting on the buffer in between socks
32403 handshake phases, since they can't possibly (so the theory
32404 goes) have predicted what we plan to respond to them.
32407 Changes in version 0.1.1.23 - 2006-07-30
32409 - Fast Tor servers, especially exit nodes, were triggering asserts
32410 due to a bug in handling the list of pending DNS resolves. Some
32411 bugs still remain here; we're hunting them.
32412 - Entry guards could crash clients by sending unexpected input.
32413 - More fixes on reachability testing: if you find yourself reachable,
32414 then don't ever make any client requests (so you stop predicting
32415 circuits), then hup or have your clock jump, then later your IP
32416 changes, you won't think circuits are working, so you won't try to
32417 test reachability, so you won't publish.
32420 - Avoid a crash if the controller does a resetconf firewallports
32421 and then a setconf fascistfirewall=1.
32422 - Avoid an integer underflow when the dir authority decides whether
32423 a router is stable: we might wrongly label it stable, and compute
32424 a slightly wrong median stability, when a descriptor is published
32426 - Fix a place where we might trigger an assert if we can't build our
32427 own server descriptor yet.
32430 Changes in version 0.1.1.22 - 2006-07-05
32432 - Fix a big bug that was causing servers to not find themselves
32433 reachable if they changed IP addresses. Since only 0.1.1.22+
32434 servers can do reachability testing correctly, now we automatically
32435 make sure to test via one of these.
32436 - Fix to allow clients and mirrors to learn directory info from
32437 descriptor downloads that get cut off partway through.
32438 - Directory authorities had a bug in deciding if a newly published
32439 descriptor was novel enough to make everybody want a copy -- a few
32440 servers seem to be publishing new descriptors many times a minute.
32442 - Fix a rare bug that was causing some servers to complain about
32443 "closing wedged cpuworkers" and skip some circuit create requests.
32444 - Make the Exit flag in directory status documents actually work.
32447 Changes in version 0.1.1.21 - 2006-06-10
32448 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.1.20:
32449 - Fix a rare crash on Tor servers that have enabled hibernation.
32450 - Fix a seg fault on startup for Tor networks that use only one
32451 directory authority.
32452 - Fix an assert from a race condition that occurs on Tor servers
32453 while exiting, where various threads are trying to log that they're
32454 exiting, and delete the logs, at the same time.
32455 - Make our unit tests pass again on certain obscure platforms.
32458 - Add support for building SUSE RPM packages.
32459 - Speed up initial bootstrapping for clients: if we are making our
32460 first ever connection to any entry guard, then don't mark it down
32462 - When only one Tor server in the network is labelled as a guard,
32463 and we've already picked him, we would cycle endlessly picking him
32464 again, being unhappy about it, etc. Now we specifically exclude
32465 current guards when picking a new guard.
32466 - Servers send create cells more reliably after the TLS connection
32467 is established: we were sometimes forgetting to send half of them
32468 when we had more than one pending.
32469 - If we get a create cell that asks us to extend somewhere, but the
32470 Tor server there doesn't match the expected digest, we now send
32471 a destroy cell back, rather than silently doing nothing.
32472 - Make options->RedirectExit work again.
32473 - Make cookie authentication for the controller work again.
32474 - Stop being picky about unusual characters in the arguments to
32475 mapaddress. It's none of our business.
32476 - Add a new config option "TestVia" that lets you specify preferred
32477 middle hops to use for test circuits. Perhaps this will let me
32478 debug the reachability problems better.
32480 o Log / documentation fixes:
32481 - If we're a server and some peer has a broken TLS certificate, don't
32482 log about it unless ProtocolWarnings is set, i.e., we want to hear
32483 about protocol violations by others.
32484 - Fix spelling of VirtualAddrNetwork in man page.
32485 - Add a better explanation at the top of the autogenerated torrc file
32486 about what happened to our old torrc.
32489 Changes in version 0.1.1.20 - 2006-05-23
32491 - Downgrade a log severity where servers complain that they're
32493 - Avoid a compile warning on FreeBSD.
32494 - Remove string size limit on NEWDESC messages; solve bug 291.
32495 - Correct the RunAsDaemon entry in the man page; ignore RunAsDaemon
32496 more thoroughly when we're running on windows.
32499 Changes in version 0.1.1.19-rc - 2006-05-03
32501 - Regenerate our local descriptor if it's dirty and we try to use
32502 it locally (e.g. if it changes during reachability detection).
32503 - If we setconf our ORPort to 0, we continued to listen on the
32504 old ORPort and receive connections.
32505 - Avoid a second warning about machine/limits.h on Debian
32507 - Be willing to add our own routerinfo into the routerlist.
32508 Now authorities will include themselves in their directories
32509 and network-statuses.
32510 - Stop trying to upload rendezvous descriptors to every
32511 directory authority: only try the v1 authorities.
32512 - Servers no longer complain when they think they're not
32513 registered with the directory authorities. There were too many
32515 - Backport dist-rpm changes so rpms can be built without errors.
32518 - Implement an option, VirtualAddrMask, to set which addresses
32519 get handed out in response to mapaddress requests. This works
32520 around a bug in tsocks where 127.0.0.0/8 is never socksified.
32523 Changes in version 0.1.1.18-rc - 2006-04-10
32525 - Work harder to download live network-statuses from all the
32526 directory authorities we know about. Improve the threshold
32527 decision logic so we're more robust to edge cases.
32528 - When fetching rendezvous descriptors, we were willing to ask
32529 v2 authorities too, which would always return 404.
32532 - Stop listing down or invalid nodes in the v1 directory. This will
32533 reduce its bulk by about 1/3, and reduce load on directory
32535 - When deciding whether a router is Fast or Guard-worthy, consider
32536 his advertised BandwidthRate and not just the BandwidthCapacity.
32537 - No longer ship INSTALL and README files -- they are useless now.
32538 - Force rpmbuild to behave and honor target_cpu.
32539 - Avoid warnings about machine/limits.h on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.
32540 - Start to include translated versions of the tor-doc-*.html
32541 files, along with the screenshots. Still needs more work.
32542 - Start sending back 512 and 451 errors if mapaddress fails,
32543 rather than not sending anything back at all.
32544 - When we fail to bind or listen on an incoming or outgoing
32545 socket, we should close it before failing. otherwise we just
32546 leak it. (thanks to weasel for finding.)
32547 - Allow "getinfo dir/status/foo" to work, as long as your DirPort
32548 is enabled. (This is a hack, and will be fixed in 0.1.2.x.)
32549 - Make NoPublish (even though deprecated) work again.
32550 - Fix a minor security flaw where a versioning auth dirserver
32551 could list a recommended version many times in a row to make
32552 clients more convinced that it's recommended.
32553 - Fix crash bug if there are two unregistered servers running
32554 with the same nickname, one of them is down, and you ask for
32555 them by nickname in your EntryNodes or ExitNodes. Also, try
32556 to pick the one that's running rather than an arbitrary one.
32557 - Fix an infinite loop we could hit if we go offline for too long.
32558 - Complain when we hit WSAENOBUFS on recv() or write() too.
32559 Perhaps this will help us hunt the bug.
32560 - If you're not a versioning dirserver, don't put the string
32561 "client-versions \nserver-versions \n" in your network-status.
32562 - Lower the minimum required number of file descriptors to 1000,
32563 so we can have some overhead for Valgrind on Linux, where the
32564 default ulimit -n is 1024.
32567 - Add tor.dizum.com as the fifth authoritative directory server.
32568 - Add a new config option FetchUselessDescriptors, off by default,
32569 for when you plan to run "exitlist" on your client and you want
32570 to know about even the non-running descriptors.
32573 Changes in version 0.1.1.17-rc - 2006-03-28
32575 - Clients and servers since 0.1.1.10-alpha have been expiring
32576 connections whenever they are idle for 5 minutes and they *do*
32577 have circuits on them. Oops. With this new version, clients will
32578 discard their previous entry guard choices and avoid choosing
32579 entry guards running these flawed versions.
32580 - Fix memory leak when uncompressing concatenated zlib streams. This
32581 was causing substantial leaks over time on Tor servers.
32582 - The v1 directory was including servers as much as 48 hours old,
32583 because that's how the new routerlist->routers works. Now only
32584 include them if they're 20 hours old or less.
32587 - Resume building on irix64, netbsd 2.0, etc.
32588 - On non-gcc compilers (e.g. solaris), use "-g -O" instead of
32590 - Stop writing the "router.desc" file, ever. Nothing uses it anymore,
32591 and it is confusing some users.
32592 - Mirrors stop caching the v1 directory so often.
32593 - Make the max number of old descriptors that a cache will hold
32594 rise with the number of directory authorities, so we can scale.
32595 - Change our win32 uname() hack to be more forgiving about what
32596 win32 versions it thinks it's found.
32599 - Add lefkada.eecs.harvard.edu as a fourth authoritative directory
32601 - When the controller's *setconf commands fail, collect an error
32602 message in a string and hand it back to the controller.
32603 - Make the v2 dir's "Fast" flag based on relative capacity, just
32604 like "Stable" is based on median uptime. Name everything in the
32605 top 7/8 Fast, and only the top 1/2 gets to be a Guard.
32606 - Log server fingerprint on startup, so new server operators don't
32607 have to go hunting around their filesystem for it.
32608 - Return a robots.txt on our dirport to discourage google indexing.
32609 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/status/foo so it can ask
32610 directly rather than connecting to the dir port. Only works when
32611 dirport is set for now.
32613 o New config options rather than constants in the code:
32614 - SocksTimeout: How long do we let a socks connection wait
32615 unattached before we fail it?
32616 - CircuitBuildTimeout: Cull non-open circuits that were born
32617 at least this many seconds ago.
32618 - CircuitIdleTimeout: Cull open clean circuits that were born
32619 at least this many seconds ago.
32622 Changes in version 0.1.1.16-rc - 2006-03-18
32623 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.15-rc:
32624 - Fix assert when the controller asks to attachstream a connect-wait
32625 or resolve-wait stream.
32626 - Now do address rewriting when the controller asks us to attach
32627 to a particular circuit too. This will let Blossom specify
32628 "moria2.exit" without having to learn what moria2's IP address is.
32629 - Make the "tor --verify-config" command-line work again, so people
32630 can automatically check if their torrc will parse.
32631 - Authoritative dirservers no longer require an open connection from
32632 a server to consider him "reachable". We need this change because
32633 when we add new auth dirservers, old servers won't know not to
32635 - Let Tor build on Sun CC again.
32636 - Fix an off-by-one buffer size in dirserv.c that magically never
32637 hit our three authorities but broke sjmurdoch's own tor network.
32638 - If we as a directory mirror don't know of any v1 directory
32639 authorities, then don't try to cache any v1 directories.
32640 - Stop warning about unknown servers in our family when they are
32641 given as hex digests.
32642 - Stop complaining as quickly to the server operator that he
32643 hasn't registered his nickname/key binding.
32644 - Various cleanups so we can add new V2 Auth Dirservers.
32645 - Change "AllowUnverifiedNodes" to "AllowInvalidNodes", to
32646 reflect the updated flags in our v2 dir protocol.
32647 - Resume allowing non-printable characters for exit streams (both
32648 for connecting and for resolving). Now we tolerate applications
32649 that don't follow the RFCs. But continue to block malformed names
32652 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
32653 - Fix assert bug in close_logs(): when we close and delete logs,
32654 remove them all from the global "logfiles" list.
32655 - Fix minor integer overflow in calculating when we expect to use up
32656 our bandwidth allocation before hibernating.
32657 - Fix a couple of bugs in OpenSSL detection. Also, deal better when
32658 there are multiple SSLs installed with different versions.
32659 - When we try to be a server and Address is not explicitly set and
32660 our hostname resolves to a private IP address, try to use an
32661 interface address if it has a public address. Now Windows machines
32662 that think of themselves as localhost can work by default.
32665 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/server/foo so it can ask
32666 directly rather than connecting to the dir port.
32667 - Let the controller tell us about certain router descriptors
32668 that it doesn't want Tor to use in circuits. Implement
32669 SETROUTERPURPOSE and modify +POSTDESCRIPTOR to do this.
32670 - New config option SafeSocks to reject all application connections
32671 using unsafe socks protocols. Defaults to off.
32674 Changes in version 0.1.1.15-rc - 2006-03-11
32675 o Bugfixes and cleanups:
32676 - When we're printing strings from the network, don't try to print
32677 non-printable characters. This protects us against shell escape
32678 sequence exploits, and also against attacks to fool humans into
32679 misreading their logs.
32680 - Fix a bug where Tor would fail to establish any connections if you
32681 left it off for 24 hours and then started it: we were happy with
32682 the obsolete network statuses, but they all referred to router
32683 descriptors that were too old to fetch, so we ended up with no
32684 valid router descriptors.
32685 - Fix a seg fault in the controller's "getinfo orconn-status"
32686 command while listing status on incoming handshaking connections.
32687 Introduce a status name "NEW" for these connections.
32688 - If we get a linelist or linelist_s config option from the torrc
32689 (e.g. ExitPolicy) and it has no value, warn and skip rather than
32690 silently resetting it to its default.
32691 - Don't abandon entry guards until they've been down or gone for
32693 - Cleaner and quieter log messages.
32696 - New controller signal NEWNYM that makes new application requests
32697 use clean circuits.
32698 - Add a new circuit purpose 'controller' to let the controller ask
32699 for a circuit that Tor won't try to use. Extend the EXTENDCIRCUIT
32700 controller command to let you specify the purpose if you're
32701 starting a new circuit. Add a new SETCIRCUITPURPOSE controller
32702 command to let you change a circuit's purpose after it's been
32704 - Accept "private:*" in routerdesc exit policies; not generated yet
32705 because older Tors do not understand it.
32706 - Add BSD-style contributed startup script "rc.subr" from Peter
32710 Changes in version 0.1.1.14-alpha - 2006-02-20
32711 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
32712 - Don't die if we ask for a stdout or stderr log (even implicitly)
32713 and we're set to RunAsDaemon -- just warn.
32714 - We still had a few bugs in the OR connection rotation code that
32715 caused directory servers to slowly aggregate connections to other
32716 fast Tor servers. This time for sure!
32717 - Make log entries on Win32 include the name of the function again.
32718 - We were treating a pair of exit policies if they were equal even
32719 if one said accept and the other said reject -- causing us to
32720 not always publish a new descriptor since we thought nothing
32722 - Retry pending server downloads as well as pending networkstatus
32723 downloads when we unexpectedly get a socks request.
32724 - We were ignoring the IS_FAST flag in the directory status,
32725 meaning we were willing to pick trivial-bandwidth nodes for "fast"
32727 - If the controller's SAVECONF command fails (e.g. due to file
32728 permissions), let the controller know that it failed.
32731 - If we're trying to be a Tor server and running Windows 95/98/ME
32732 as a server, explain that we'll likely crash.
32733 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
32734 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
32735 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
32736 without getting overloaded.
32737 - Compress exit policies even more -- look for duplicate lines
32739 - Clients now honor the "guard" flag in the router status when
32740 picking entry guards, rather than looking at is_fast or is_stable.
32741 - Retain unrecognized lines in $DATADIR/state file, so that we can
32742 be forward-compatible.
32743 - Generate 18.0.0.0/8 address policy format in descs when we can;
32744 warn when the mask is not reducible to a bit-prefix.
32745 - Let the user set ControlListenAddress in the torrc. This can be
32746 dangerous, but there are some cases (like a secured LAN) where it
32748 - Split ReachableAddresses into ReachableDirAddresses and
32749 ReachableORAddresses, so we can restrict Dir conns to port 80
32750 and OR conns to port 443.
32751 - Now we can target arch and OS in rpm builds (contributed by
32752 Phobos). Also make the resulting dist-rpm filename match the
32754 - New config options to help controllers: FetchServerDescriptors
32755 and FetchHidServDescriptors for whether to fetch server
32756 info and hidserv info or let the controller do it, and
32757 PublishServerDescriptor and PublishHidServDescriptors.
32758 - Also let the controller set the __AllDirActionsPrivate config
32759 option if you want all directory fetches/publishes to happen via
32760 Tor (it assumes your controller bootstraps your circuits).
32763 Changes in version 0.1.0.17 - 2006-02-17
32764 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
32765 - When servers with a non-zero DirPort came out of hibernation,
32766 sometimes they would trigger an assert.
32768 o Other important bugfixes:
32769 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
32770 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
32771 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
32772 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
32774 o Backported features:
32775 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
32776 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
32777 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
32778 without getting overloaded.
32779 - Whenever you get a 503 in response to a directory fetch, try
32780 once more. This will become important once servers start sending
32781 503's whenever they feel busy.
32782 - Fetch a new directory every 120 minutes, not every 40 minutes.
32783 Now that we have hundreds of thousands of users running the old
32784 directory algorithm, it's starting to hurt a lot.
32785 - Bump up the period for forcing a hidden service descriptor upload
32786 from 20 minutes to 1 hour.
32789 Changes in version 0.1.1.13-alpha - 2006-02-09
32790 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
32791 - When you tried to setconf ORPort via the controller, Tor would
32792 crash. So people using TorCP to become a server were sad.
32793 - Solve (I hope) the stack-smashing bug that we were seeing on fast
32794 servers. The problem appears to be something do with OpenSSL's
32795 random number generation, or how we call it, or something. Let me
32796 know if the crashes continue.
32797 - Turn crypto hardware acceleration off by default, until we find
32798 somebody smart who can test it for us. (It appears to produce
32799 seg faults in at least some cases.)
32800 - Fix a rare assert error when we've tried all intro points for
32801 a hidden service and we try fetching the service descriptor again:
32802 "Assertion conn->state != AP_CONN_STATE_RENDDESC_WAIT failed"
32805 - Fix a major load balance bug: we were round-robining in 16 KB
32806 chunks, and servers with bandwidthrate of 20 KB, while downloading
32807 a 600 KB directory, would starve their other connections. Now we
32808 try to be a bit more fair.
32809 - Dir authorities and mirrors were never expiring the newest
32810 descriptor for each server, causing memory and directory bloat.
32811 - Fix memory-bloating and connection-bloating bug on servers: We
32812 were never closing any connection that had ever had a circuit on
32813 it, because we were checking conn->n_circuits == 0, yet we had a
32814 bug that let it go negative.
32815 - Make Tor work using squid as your http proxy again -- squid
32816 returns an error if you ask for a URL that's too long, and it uses
32817 a really generic error message. Plus, many people are behind a
32818 transparent squid so they don't even realize it.
32819 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
32820 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
32821 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
32822 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
32823 - Add a new config option ExitPolicyRejectPrivate which defaults to
32824 1. This means all exit policies will begin with rejecting private
32825 addresses, unless the server operator explicitly turns it off.
32828 - Clients no longer download descriptors for non-running
32830 - Before we add new directory authorities, we should make it
32831 clear that only v1 authorities should receive/publish hidden
32832 service descriptors.
32835 - As soon as we've fetched some more directory info, immediately
32836 try to download more server descriptors. This way we don't have
32837 a 10 second pause during initial bootstrapping.
32838 - Remove even more loud log messages that the server operator can't
32840 - When we're running an obsolete or un-recommended version, make
32841 the log message more clear about what the problem is and what
32842 versions *are* still recommended.
32843 - Provide a more useful warn message when our onion queue gets full:
32844 the CPU is too slow or the exit policy is too liberal.
32845 - Don't warn when we receive a 503 from a dirserver/cache -- this
32846 will pave the way for them being able to refuse if they're busy.
32847 - When we fail to bind a listener, try to provide a more useful
32848 log message: e.g., "Is Tor already running?"
32849 - Adjust tor-spec to parameterize cell and key lengths. Now Ian
32850 Goldberg can prove things about our handshake protocol more
32852 - MaxConn has been obsolete for a while now. Document the ConnLimit
32853 config option, which is a *minimum* number of file descriptors
32854 that must be available else Tor refuses to start.
32855 - Apply Matt Ghali's --with-syslog-facility patch to ./configure
32856 if you log to syslog and want something other than LOG_DAEMON.
32857 - Make dirservers generate a separate "guard" flag to mean,
32858 "would make a good entry guard". Make clients parse it and vote
32859 on it. Not used by clients yet.
32860 - Implement --with-libevent-dir option to ./configure. Also, improve
32861 search techniques to find libevent, and use those for openssl too.
32862 - Bump the default bandwidthrate to 3 MB, and burst to 6 MB
32863 - Only start testing reachability once we've established a
32864 circuit. This will make startup on dirservers less noisy.
32865 - Don't try to upload hidden service descriptors until we have
32866 established a circuit.
32867 - Fix the controller's "attachstream 0" command to treat conn like
32868 it just connected, doing address remapping, handling .exit and
32869 .onion idioms, and so on. Now we're more uniform in making sure
32870 that the controller hears about new and closing connections.
32873 Changes in version 0.1.1.12-alpha - 2006-01-11
32874 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
32875 - The fix to close duplicate server connections was closing all
32876 Tor client connections if they didn't establish a circuit
32877 quickly enough. Oops.
32878 - Fix minor memory issue (double-free) that happened on exit.
32880 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
32881 - Tor didn't warn when it failed to open a log file.
32884 Changes in version 0.1.1.11-alpha - 2006-01-10
32885 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
32886 - Include all the assert/crash fixes from 0.1.0.16.
32887 - If you start Tor and then quit very quickly, there were some
32888 races that tried to free things that weren't allocated yet.
32889 - Fix a rare memory stomp if you're running hidden services.
32890 - Fix segfault when specifying DirServer in config without nickname.
32891 - Fix a seg fault when you finish connecting to a server but at
32892 that moment you dump his server descriptor.
32893 - Extendcircuit and Attachstream controller commands would
32894 assert/crash if you don't give them enough arguments.
32895 - Fix an assert error when we're out of space in the connection_list
32896 and we try to post a hidden service descriptor (reported by weasel).
32897 - If you specify a relative torrc path and you set RunAsDaemon in
32898 your torrc, then it chdir()'s to the new directory. If you HUP,
32899 it tries to load the new torrc location, fails, and exits.
32900 The fix: no longer allow a relative path to torrc using -f.
32903 - Implement "entry guards": automatically choose a handful of entry
32904 nodes and stick with them for all circuits. Only pick new guards
32905 when the ones you have are unsuitable, and if the old guards
32906 become suitable again, switch back. This will increase security
32907 dramatically against certain end-point attacks. The EntryNodes
32908 config option now provides some hints about which entry guards you
32909 want to use most; and StrictEntryNodes means to only use those.
32910 - New directory logic: download by descriptor digest, not by
32911 fingerprint. Caches try to download all listed digests from
32912 authorities; clients try to download "best" digests from caches.
32913 This avoids partitioning and isolating attacks better.
32914 - Make the "stable" router flag in network-status be the median of
32915 the uptimes of running valid servers, and make clients pay
32916 attention to the network-status flags. Thus the cutoff adapts
32917 to the stability of the network as a whole, making IRC, IM, etc
32918 connections more reliable.
32921 - Tor servers with dynamic IP addresses were needing to wait 18
32922 hours before they could start doing reachability testing using
32923 the new IP address and ports. This is because they were using
32924 the internal descriptor to learn what to test, yet they were only
32925 rebuilding the descriptor once they decided they were reachable.
32926 - Tor 0.1.1.9 and 0.1.1.10 had a serious bug that caused clients
32927 to download certain server descriptors, throw them away, and then
32928 fetch them again after 30 minutes. Now mirrors throw away these
32929 server descriptors so clients can't get them.
32930 - We were leaving duplicate connections to other ORs open for a week,
32931 rather than closing them once we detect a duplicate. This only
32932 really affected authdirservers, but it affected them a lot.
32933 - Spread the authdirservers' reachability testing over the entire
32934 testing interval, so we don't try to do 500 TLS's at once every
32938 - If the network is down, and we try to connect to a conn because
32939 we have a circuit in mind, and we timeout (30 seconds) because the
32940 network never answers, we were expiring the circuit, but we weren't
32941 obsoleting the connection or telling the entry_guards functions.
32942 - Some Tor servers process billions of cells per day. These statistics
32943 need to be uint64_t's.
32944 - Check for integer overflows in more places, when adding elements
32945 to smartlists. This could possibly prevent a buffer overflow
32946 on malicious huge inputs. I don't see any, but I haven't looked
32948 - ReachableAddresses kept growing new "reject *:*" lines on every
32950 - When you "setconf log" via the controller, it should remove all
32951 logs. We were automatically adding back in a "log notice stdout".
32952 - Newly bootstrapped Tor networks couldn't establish hidden service
32953 circuits until they had nodes with high uptime. Be more tolerant.
32954 - We were marking servers down when they could not answer every piece
32955 of the directory request we sent them. This was far too harsh.
32956 - Fix the torify (tsocks) config file to not use Tor for localhost
32958 - Directory authorities now go to the proper authority when asking for
32959 a networkstatus, even when they want a compressed one.
32960 - Fix a harmless bug that was causing Tor servers to log
32961 "Got an end because of misc error, but we're not an AP. Closing."
32962 - Authorities were treating their own descriptor changes as cosmetic,
32963 meaning the descriptor available in the network-status and the
32964 descriptor that clients downloaded were different.
32965 - The OS X installer was adding a symlink for tor_resolve but
32966 the binary was called tor-resolve (reported by Thomas Hardly).
32967 - Workaround a problem with some http proxies where they refuse GET
32968 requests that specify "Content-Length: 0" (reported by Adrian).
32969 - Fix wrong log message when you add a "HiddenServiceNodes" config
32970 line without any HiddenServiceDir line (reported by Chris Thomas).
32973 - Write the TorVersion into the state file so we have a prayer of
32974 keeping forward and backward compatibility.
32975 - Revive the FascistFirewall config option rather than eliminating it:
32976 now it's a synonym for ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443.
32977 - Clients choose directory servers from the network status lists,
32978 not from their internal list of router descriptors. Now they can
32979 go to caches directly rather than needing to go to authorities
32981 - Directory authorities ignore router descriptors that have only
32982 cosmetic differences: do this for 0.1.0.x servers now too.
32983 - Add a new flag to network-status indicating whether the server
32984 can answer v2 directory requests too.
32985 - Authdirs now stop whining so loudly about bad descriptors that
32986 they fetch from other dirservers. So when there's a log complaint,
32987 it's for sure from a freshly uploaded descriptor.
32988 - Reduce memory requirements in our structs by changing the order
32990 - There used to be two ways to specify your listening ports in a
32991 server descriptor: on the "router" line and with a separate "ports"
32992 line. Remove support for the "ports" line.
32993 - New config option "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" for auth dirservers as
32994 a panic button: if we get flooded with unusable servers we can
32995 revert to only listing servers in the approved-routers file.
32996 - Auth dir servers can now mark a fingerprint as "!reject" or
32997 "!invalid" in the approved-routers file (as its nickname), to
32998 refuse descriptors outright or include them but marked as invalid.
32999 - Servers store bandwidth history across restarts/crashes.
33000 - Add reasons to DESTROY and RELAY_TRUNCATED cells, so clients can
33001 get a better idea of why their circuits failed. Not used yet.
33002 - Directory mirrors now cache up to 16 unrecognized network-status
33003 docs. Now we can add new authdirservers and they'll be cached too.
33004 - When picking a random directory, prefer non-authorities if any
33006 - New controller option "getinfo desc/all-recent" to fetch the
33007 latest server descriptor for every router that Tor knows about.
33010 Changes in version 0.1.0.16 - 2006-01-02
33011 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
33012 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
33013 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
33014 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
33015 - It turns out sparc64 platforms crash on unaligned memory access
33016 too -- so detect and avoid this.
33017 - Handle truncated compressed data correctly (by detecting it and
33019 - Fix possible-but-unlikely free(NULL) in control.c.
33020 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
33021 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
33022 - Avoid potential infinite recursion when building a descriptor. (We
33023 don't know that it ever happened, but better to fix it anyway.)
33024 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
33025 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
33026 - Fix a memory stomping race bug when closing the joining point of two
33027 rendezvous circuits.
33028 - Fix an assert in time parsing found by Steven Murdoch.
33030 o Other bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
33031 - When we're doing reachability testing, provide more useful log
33032 messages so the operator knows what to expect.
33033 - Do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we are suppressing
33034 advertising it because of hibernation.
33035 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed -ldl.
33036 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
33037 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
33038 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
33039 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
33040 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
33041 - Give a more helpful log message when you try to change ORPort via
33042 the controller: you should upgrade Tor if you want that to work.
33043 - We were failing to parse Tor versions that start with "Tor ".
33044 - Tolerate faulty streams better: when a stream fails for reason
33045 exitpolicy, stop assuming that the router is lying about his exit
33046 policy. When a stream fails for reason misc, allow it to retry just
33047 as if it was resolvefailed. When a stream has failed three times,
33048 reset its failure count so we can try again and get all three tries.
33051 Changes in version 0.1.1.10-alpha - 2005-12-11
33052 o Correctness bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
33053 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
33054 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
33055 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
33056 - Stop doing the complex voodoo overkill checking for insecure
33057 Diffie-Hellman keys. Just check if it's in [2,p-2] and be happy.
33058 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
33059 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
33060 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
33061 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
33062 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
33063 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
33064 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
33065 - Recover better from TCP connections to Tor servers that are
33066 broken but don't tell you (it happens!); and rotate TLS
33067 connections once a week.
33068 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
33069 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
33070 - Fix a scary-looking but apparently harmless bug where circuits
33071 would sometimes start out in state CIRCUIT_STATE_OR_WAIT at
33072 servers, and never switch to state CIRCUIT_STATE_OPEN.
33073 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed to
33075 - Give a useful message when people run Tor as the wrong user,
33076 rather than telling them to start chowning random directories.
33077 - We were failing to inform the controller about new .onion streams.
33079 o Security bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
33080 - Refuse server descriptors if the fingerprint line doesn't match
33081 the included identity key. Tor doesn't care, but other apps (and
33082 humans) might actually be trusting the fingerprint line.
33083 - We used to kill the circuit when we receive a relay command we
33084 don't recognize. Now we just drop it.
33085 - Start obeying our firewall options more rigorously:
33086 . If we can't get to a dirserver directly, try going via Tor.
33087 . Don't ever try to connect (as a client) to a place our
33088 firewall options forbid.
33089 . If we specify a proxy and also firewall options, obey the
33090 firewall options even when we're using the proxy: some proxies
33091 can only proxy to certain destinations.
33092 - Fix a bug found by Lasse Overlier: when we were making internal
33093 circuits (intended to be cannibalized later for rendezvous and
33094 introduction circuits), we were picking them so that they had
33095 useful exit nodes. There was no need for this, and it actually
33096 aids some statistical attacks.
33097 - Start treating internal circuits and exit circuits separately.
33098 It's important to keep them separate because internal circuits
33099 have their last hops picked like middle hops, rather than like
33100 exit hops. So exiting on them will break the user's expectations.
33102 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
33103 - Take out the mis-feature where we tried to detect IP address
33104 flapping for people with DynDNS, and chose not to upload a new
33105 server descriptor sometimes.
33106 - Try to be compatible with OpenSSL 0.9.6 again.
33107 - Log fix: when the controller is logging about .onion addresses,
33108 sometimes it didn't include the ".onion" part of the address.
33109 - Don't try to modify options->DirServers internally -- if the
33110 user didn't specify any, just add the default ones directly to
33111 the trusted dirserver list. This fixes a bug where people running
33112 controllers would use SETCONF on some totally unrelated config
33113 option, and Tor would start yelling at them about changing their
33115 - Let the controller's redirectstream command specify a port, in
33116 case the controller wants to change that too.
33117 - When we requested a pile of server descriptors, we sometimes
33118 accidentally launched a duplicate request for the first one.
33119 - Bugfix for trackhostexits: write down the fingerprint of the
33120 chosen exit, not its nickname, because the chosen exit might not
33122 - When parsing foo.exit, if foo is unknown, and we are leaving
33123 circuits unattached, set the chosen_exit field and leave the
33124 address empty. This matters because controllers got confused
33126 - Directory authorities no longer try to download server
33127 descriptors that they know they will reject.
33129 o Features and updates:
33130 - Replace balanced trees with hash tables: this should make stuff
33131 significantly faster.
33132 - Resume using the AES counter-mode implementation that we ship,
33133 rather than OpenSSL's. Ours is significantly faster.
33134 - Many other CPU and memory improvements.
33135 - Add a new config option FastFirstHopPK (on by default) so clients
33136 do a trivial crypto handshake for their first hop, since TLS has
33137 already taken care of confidentiality and authentication.
33138 - Add a new config option TestSocks so people can see if their
33139 applications are using socks4, socks4a, socks5-with-ip, or
33140 socks5-with-hostname. This way they don't have to keep mucking
33141 with tcpdump and wondering if something got cached somewhere.
33142 - Warn when listening on a public address for socks. I suspect a
33143 lot of people are setting themselves up as open socks proxies,
33144 and they have no idea that jerks on the Internet are using them,
33145 since they simply proxy the traffic into the Tor network.
33146 - Add "private:*" as an alias in configuration for policies. Now
33147 you can simplify your exit policy rather than needing to list
33148 every single internal or nonroutable network space.
33149 - Add a new controller event type that allows controllers to get
33150 all server descriptors that were uploaded to a router in its role
33151 as authoritative dirserver.
33152 - Start shipping socks-extensions.txt, tor-doc-unix.html,
33153 tor-doc-server.html, and stylesheet.css in the tarball.
33154 - Stop shipping tor-doc.html in the tarball.
33157 Changes in version 0.1.1.9-alpha - 2005-11-15
33158 o Usability improvements:
33159 - Start calling it FooListenAddress rather than FooBindAddress,
33160 since few of our users know what it means to bind an address
33162 - Reduce clutter in server logs. We're going to try to make
33163 them actually usable now. New config option ProtocolWarnings that
33164 lets you hear about how _other Tors_ are breaking the protocol. Off
33166 - Divide log messages into logging domains. Once we put some sort
33167 of interface on this, it will let people looking at more verbose
33168 log levels specify the topics they want to hear more about.
33169 - Make directory servers return better http 404 error messages
33170 instead of a generic "Servers unavailable".
33171 - Check for even more Windows version flags when writing the platform
33172 string in server descriptors, and note any we don't recognize.
33173 - Clean up more of the OpenSSL memory when exiting, so we can detect
33174 memory leaks better.
33175 - Make directory authorities be non-versioning, non-naming by
33176 default. Now we can add new directory servers without requiring
33177 their operators to pay close attention.
33178 - When logging via syslog, include the pid whenever we provide
33179 a log entry. Suggested by Todd Fries.
33181 o Performance improvements:
33182 - Directory servers now silently throw away new descriptors that
33183 haven't changed much if the timestamps are similar. We do this to
33184 tolerate older Tor servers that upload a new descriptor every 15
33185 minutes. (It seemed like a good idea at the time.)
33186 - Inline bottleneck smartlist functions; use fast versions by default.
33187 - Add a "Map from digest to void*" abstraction digestmap_t so we
33188 can do less hex encoding/decoding. Use it in router_get_by_digest()
33189 to resolve a performance bottleneck.
33190 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress to extract as much as possible from
33191 truncated compressed data. Try to extract as many
33192 descriptors as possible from truncated http responses (when
33193 DIR_PURPOSE_FETCH_ROUTERDESC).
33194 - Make circ->onionskin a pointer, not a static array. moria2 was using
33195 125000 circuit_t's after it had been up for a few weeks, which
33196 translates to 20+ megs of wasted space.
33197 - The private half of our EDH handshake keys are now chosen out
33198 of 320 bits, not 1024 bits. (Suggested by Ian Goldberg.)
33200 o Security improvements:
33201 - Start making directory caches retain old routerinfos, so soon
33202 clients can start asking by digest of descriptor rather than by
33203 fingerprint of server.
33204 - Add half our entropy from RAND_poll in OpenSSL. This knows how
33205 to use egd (if present), openbsd weirdness (if present), vms/os2
33206 weirdness (if we ever port there), and more in the future.
33208 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
33209 - Do round-robin writes of at most 16 kB per write. This might be
33210 more fair on loaded Tor servers, and it might resolve our Windows
33211 crash bug. It might also slow things down.
33212 - Our TLS handshakes were generating a single public/private
33213 keypair for the TLS context, rather than making a new one for
33214 each new connections. Oops. (But we were still rotating them
33215 periodically, so it's not so bad.)
33216 - When we were cannibalizing a circuit with a particular exit
33217 node in mind, we weren't checking to see if that exit node was
33218 already present earlier in the circuit. Oops.
33219 - When a Tor server's IP changes (e.g. from a dyndns address),
33220 upload a new descriptor so clients will learn too.
33221 - Really busy servers were keeping enough circuits open on stable
33222 connections that they were wrapping around the circuit_id
33223 space. (It's only two bytes.) This exposed a bug where we would
33224 feel free to reuse a circuit_id even if it still exists but has
33225 been marked for close. Try to fix this bug. Some bug remains.
33226 - If we would close a stream early (e.g. it asks for a .exit that
33227 we know would refuse it) but the LeaveStreamsUnattached config
33228 option is set by the controller, then don't close it.
33230 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.8-alpha:
33231 - Fix a big pile of memory leaks, some of them serious.
33232 - Do not try to download a routerdesc if we would immediately reject
33234 - Resume inserting a newline between all router descriptors when
33235 generating (old style) signed directories, since our spec says
33237 - When providing content-type application/octet-stream for
33238 server descriptors using .z, we were leaving out the
33239 content-encoding header. Oops. (Everything tolerated this just
33240 fine, but that doesn't mean we need to be part of the problem.)
33241 - Fix a potential seg fault in getconf and getinfo using version 1
33242 of the controller protocol.
33243 - Avoid crash: do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we
33244 are suppressing it because of hibernation.
33245 - Make --hash-password not crash on exit.
33248 Changes in version 0.1.1.8-alpha - 2005-10-07
33249 o New features (major):
33250 - Clients don't download or use the directory anymore. Now they
33251 download and use network-statuses from the trusted dirservers,
33252 and fetch individual server descriptors as needed from mirrors.
33253 See dir-spec.txt for all the gory details.
33254 - Be more conservative about whether to advertise our DirPort.
33255 The main change is to not advertise if we're running at capacity
33256 and either a) we could hibernate or b) our capacity is low and
33257 we're using a default DirPort.
33258 - Use OpenSSL's AES when OpenSSL has version 0.9.7 or later.
33260 o New features (minor):
33261 - Try to be smart about when to retry network-status and
33262 server-descriptor fetches. Still needs some tuning.
33263 - Stop parsing, storing, or using running-routers output (but
33264 mirrors still cache and serve it).
33265 - Consider a threshold of versioning dirservers (dirservers who have
33266 an opinion about which Tor versions are still recommended) before
33267 deciding whether to warn the user that he's obsolete.
33268 - Dirservers can now reject/invalidate by key and IP, with the
33269 config options "AuthDirInvalid" and "AuthDirReject". This is
33270 useful since currently we automatically list servers as running
33271 and usable even if we know they're jerks.
33272 - Provide dire warnings to any users who set DirServer; move it out
33273 of torrc.sample and into torrc.complete.
33274 - Add MyFamily to torrc.sample in the server section.
33275 - Add nicknames to the DirServer line, so we can refer to them
33276 without requiring all our users to memorize their IP addresses.
33277 - When we get an EOF or a timeout on a directory connection, note
33278 how many bytes of serverdesc we are dropping. This will help
33279 us determine whether it is smart to parse incomplete serverdesc
33281 - Add a new function to "change pseudonyms" -- that is, to stop
33282 using any currently-dirty circuits for new streams, so we don't
33283 link new actions to old actions. Currently it's only called on
33284 HUP (or SIGNAL RELOAD).
33285 - On sighup, if UseHelperNodes changed to 1, use new circuits.
33286 - Start using RAND_bytes rather than RAND_pseudo_bytes from
33287 OpenSSL. Also, reseed our entropy every hour, not just at
33288 startup. And entropy in 512-bit chunks, not 160-bit chunks.
33290 o Fixes on 0.1.1.7-alpha:
33291 - Nobody ever implemented EVENT_ADDRMAP for control protocol
33292 version 0, so don't let version 0 controllers ask for it.
33293 - If you requested something with too many newlines via the
33294 v1 controller protocol, you could crash tor.
33295 - Fix a number of memory leaks, including some pretty serious ones.
33296 - Re-enable DirPort testing again, so Tor servers will be willing
33297 to advertise their DirPort if it's reachable.
33298 - On TLS handshake, only check the other router's nickname against
33299 its expected nickname if is_named is set.
33301 o Fixes forward-ported from 0.1.0.15:
33302 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
33303 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
33304 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
33305 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
33307 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
33308 - For the OS X package's modified privoxy config file, comment
33309 out the "logfile" line so we don't log everything passed
33311 - We were whining about using socks4 or socks5-with-local-lookup
33312 even when it's an IP in the "virtual" range we designed exactly
33314 - We were leaking some memory every time the client changes IPs.
33315 - Never call free() on tor_malloc()d memory. This will help us
33316 use dmalloc to detect memory leaks.
33317 - Check for named servers when looking them up by nickname;
33318 warn when we'recalling a non-named server by its nickname;
33319 don't warn twice about the same name.
33320 - Try to list MyFamily elements by key, not by nickname, and warn
33321 if we've not heard of the server.
33322 - Make windows platform detection (uname equivalent) smarter.
33323 - It turns out sparc64 doesn't like unaligned access either.
33326 Changes in version 0.1.0.15 - 2005-09-23
33327 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
33328 - Reject ports 465 and 587 (spam targets) in default exit policy.
33329 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
33330 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
33331 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
33332 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
33333 - Don't try to print a null string when your server finds itself to
33334 be unreachable and the Address config option is empty.
33335 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
33336 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
33337 - Fix a minor memory leak in smartlist_string_remove().
33338 - We were only allowing ourselves to upload a server descriptor at
33339 most every 20 minutes, even if it changed earlier than that.
33340 - Clean up log entries that pointed to old URLs.
33343 Changes in version 0.1.1.7-alpha - 2005-09-14
33344 o Fixes on 0.1.1.6-alpha:
33345 - Exit servers were crashing when people asked them to make a
33346 connection to an address not in their exit policy.
33347 - Looking up a non-existent stream for a v1 control connection would
33349 - Fix a seg fault if we ask a dirserver for a descriptor by
33350 fingerprint but he doesn't know about him.
33351 - SETCONF was appending items to linelists, not clearing them.
33352 - SETCONF SocksBindAddress killed Tor if it fails to bind. Now back
33353 out and refuse the setconf if it would fail.
33354 - Downgrade the dirserver log messages when whining about
33358 - Add Peter Palfrader's check-tor script to tor/contrib/
33359 It lets you easily check whether a given server (referenced by
33360 nickname) is reachable by you.
33361 - Numerous changes to move towards client-side v2 directories. Not
33364 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
33365 - If the user gave tor an odd number of command-line arguments,
33366 we were silently ignoring the last one. Now we complain and fail.
33367 [This wins the oldest-bug prize -- this bug has been present since
33368 November 2002, as released in Tor 0.0.0.]
33369 - Do not use unaligned memory access on alpha, mips, or mipsel.
33370 It *works*, but is very slow, so we treat them as if it doesn't.
33371 - Retry directory requests if we fail to get an answer we like
33372 from a given dirserver (we were retrying before, but only if
33373 we fail to connect).
33374 - When writing the RecommendedVersions line, sort them first.
33375 - When the client asked for a rendezvous port that the hidden
33376 service didn't want to provide, we were sending an IP address
33377 back along with the end cell. Fortunately, it was zero. But stop
33379 - Correct "your server is reachable" log entries to indicate that
33380 it was self-testing that told us so.
33383 Changes in version 0.1.1.6-alpha - 2005-09-09
33384 o Fixes on 0.1.1.5-alpha:
33385 - We broke fascistfirewall in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
33386 - Fix segfault in unit tests in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
33387 - Fix bug with tor_memmem finding a match at the end of the string.
33388 - Make unit tests run without segfaulting.
33389 - Resolve some solaris x86 compile warnings.
33390 - Handle duplicate lines in approved-routers files without warning.
33391 - Fix bug where as soon as a server refused any requests due to his
33392 exit policy (e.g. when we ask for localhost and he tells us that's
33393 127.0.0.1 and he won't do it), we decided he wasn't obeying his
33394 exit policy using him for any exits.
33395 - Only do openssl hardware accelerator stuff if openssl version is
33398 o New controller features/fixes:
33399 - Add a "RESETCONF" command so you can set config options like
33400 AllowUnverifiedNodes and LongLivedPorts to "". Also, if you give
33401 a config option in the torrc with no value, then it clears it
33402 entirely (rather than setting it to its default).
33403 - Add a "GETINFO config-file" to tell us where torrc is.
33404 - Avoid sending blank lines when GETINFO replies should be empty.
33405 - Add a QUIT command for the controller (for using it manually).
33406 - Fix a bug in SAVECONF that was adding default dirservers and
33407 other redundant entries to the torrc file.
33409 o Start on the new directory design:
33410 - Generate, publish, cache, serve new network-status format.
33411 - Publish individual descriptors (by fingerprint, by "all", and by
33413 - Publish client and server recommended versions separately.
33414 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress() to handle multiple concatenated
33415 compressed strings. Serve compressed groups of router
33416 descriptors. The compression logic here could be more
33418 - Distinguish v1 authorities (all currently trusted directories)
33419 from v2 authorities (all trusted directories).
33420 - Change DirServers config line to note which dirs are v1 authorities.
33421 - Add configuration option "V1AuthoritativeDirectory 1" which
33422 moria1, moria2, and tor26 should set.
33423 - Remove option when getting directory cache to see whether they
33424 support running-routers; they all do now. Replace it with one
33425 to see whether caches support v2 stuff.
33428 - Dirservers now do their own external reachability testing of each
33429 Tor server, and only list them as running if they've been found to
33430 be reachable. We also send back warnings to the server's logs if
33431 it uploads a descriptor that we already believe is unreachable.
33432 - Implement exit enclaves: if we know an IP address for the
33433 destination, and there's a running Tor server at that address
33434 which allows exit to the destination, then extend the circuit to
33435 that exit first. This provides end-to-end encryption and end-to-end
33436 authentication. Also, if the user wants a .exit address or enclave,
33437 use 4 hops rather than 3, and cannibalize a general circ for it
33439 - Permit transitioning from ORPort=0 to ORPort!=0, and back, from the
33440 controller. Also, rotate dns and cpu workers if the controller
33441 changes options that will affect them; and initialize the dns
33442 worker cache tree whether or not we start out as a server.
33443 - Only upload a new server descriptor when options change, 18
33444 hours have passed, uptime is reset, or bandwidth changes a lot.
33445 - Check [X-]Forwarded-For headers in HTTP requests when generating
33446 log messages. This lets people run dirservers (and caches) behind
33447 Apache but still know which IP addresses are causing warnings.
33449 o Config option changes:
33450 - Replace (Fascist)Firewall* config options with a new
33451 ReachableAddresses option that understands address policies.
33452 For example, "ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443"
33453 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
33454 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
33455 - Make MonthlyAccountingStart config option truly obsolete now.
33457 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
33458 - Reject ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy, since
33459 people have started using them for spam too.
33460 - It turns out we couldn't bootstrap a network since we added
33461 reachability detection in 0.1.0.1-rc. Good thing the Tor network
33462 has never gone down. Add an AssumeReachable config option to let
33463 servers and dirservers bootstrap. When we're trying to build a
33464 high-uptime or high-bandwidth circuit but there aren't enough
33465 suitable servers, try being less picky rather than simply failing.
33466 - Our logic to decide if the OR we connected to was the right guy
33467 was brittle and maybe open to a mitm for unverified routers.
33468 - We weren't cannibalizing circuits correctly for
33469 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_C_ESTABLISH_REND and
33470 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_S_ESTABLISH_INTRO, so we were being forced to
33471 build those from scratch. This should make hidden services faster.
33472 - Predict required circuits better, with an eye toward making hidden
33473 services faster on the service end.
33474 - Retry streams if the exit node sends back a 'misc' failure. This
33475 should result in fewer random failures. Also, after failing
33476 from resolve failed or misc, reset the num failures, so we give
33477 it a fair shake next time we try.
33478 - Clean up the rendezvous warn log msgs, and downgrade some to info.
33479 - Reduce severity on logs about dns worker spawning and culling.
33480 - When we're shutting down and we do something like try to post a
33481 server descriptor or rendezvous descriptor, don't complain that
33482 we seem to be unreachable. Of course we are, we're shutting down.
33483 - Add TTLs to RESOLVED, CONNECTED, and END_REASON_EXITPOLICY cells.
33484 We don't use them yet, but maybe one day our DNS resolver will be
33485 able to discover them.
33486 - Make ContactInfo mandatory for authoritative directory servers.
33487 - Require server descriptors to list IPv4 addresses -- hostnames
33488 are no longer allowed. This also fixes some potential security
33489 problems with people providing hostnames as their address and then
33490 preferentially resolving them to partition users.
33491 - Change log line for unreachability to explicitly suggest /etc/hosts
33492 as the culprit. Also make it clearer what IP address and ports we're
33493 testing for reachability.
33494 - Put quotes around user-supplied strings when logging so users are
33495 more likely to realize if they add bad characters (like quotes)
33497 - Let auth dir servers start without specifying an Address config
33499 - Make unit tests (and other invocations that aren't the real Tor)
33500 run without launching listeners, creating subdirectories, and so on.
33503 Changes in version 0.1.1.5-alpha - 2005-08-08
33504 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.14.
33506 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
33507 - If you write "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1 6668" in your
33508 torrc rather than "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1:6668",
33509 it would silently using ignore the 6668.
33512 Changes in version 0.1.0.14 - 2005-08-08
33513 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
33514 - Fix the other half of the bug with crypto handshakes
33516 - Fix an assert trigger if you send a 'signal term' via the
33517 controller when it's listening for 'event info' messages.
33520 Changes in version 0.1.1.4-alpha - 2005-08-04
33521 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.13.
33524 - Improve tor_gettimeofday() granularity on windows.
33525 - Make clients regenerate their keys when their IP address changes.
33526 - Implement some more GETINFO goodness: expose helper nodes, config
33527 options, getinfo keys.
33530 Changes in version 0.1.0.13 - 2005-08-04
33531 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
33532 - Fix a critical bug in the security of our crypto handshakes.
33533 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
33534 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
33535 - Fix Windows installer to ship Tor license (thanks to Aphex for
33536 pointing out this oversight) and put a link to the doc directory
33538 - Explicitly set no-unaligned-access for sparc: it turns out the
33539 new gcc's let you compile broken code, but that doesn't make it
33543 Changes in version 0.1.1.3-alpha - 2005-07-23
33544 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
33545 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "post descriptor"
33547 - Fix several bugs in handling the controller's "extend circuit"
33549 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "stream status" event.
33550 - Fix an assert failure if we have a controller listening for
33551 circuit events and we go offline.
33552 - Re-allow hidden service descriptors to publish 0 intro points.
33553 - Fix a crash when generating your hidden service descriptor if
33554 you don't have enough intro points already.
33556 o New features on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
33557 - New controller function "getinfo accounting", to ask how
33558 many bytes we've used in this time period.
33559 - Experimental support for helper nodes: a lot of the risk from
33560 a small static adversary comes because users pick new random
33561 nodes every time they rebuild a circuit. Now users will try to
33562 stick to the same small set of entry nodes if they can. Not
33563 enabled by default yet.
33565 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.12:
33566 - If you're an auth dir server, always publish your dirport,
33567 even if you haven't yet found yourself to be reachable.
33568 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
33569 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
33572 Changes in version 0.1.0.12 - 2005-07-18
33573 o New directory servers:
33574 - tor26 has changed IP address.
33576 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
33577 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
33578 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
33579 pthreads libraries.
33580 - Don't trigger an assert if an authoritative directory server
33581 claims its dirport is 0.
33582 - Fix bug with removing Tor as an NT service: some people were
33583 getting "The service did not return an error." Thanks to Matt
33587 Changes in version 0.1.1.2-alpha - 2005-07-15
33588 o New directory servers:
33589 - tor26 has changed IP address.
33591 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, crashes/leaks:
33592 - Port the servers-not-obeying-their-exit-policies fix from
33594 - Fix an fd leak in start_daemon().
33595 - On Windows, you can't always reopen a port right after you've
33596 closed it. So change retry_listeners() to only close and re-open
33597 ports that have changed.
33598 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
33600 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, usability:
33601 - When tor_socketpair() fails in Windows, give a reasonable
33602 Windows-style errno back.
33603 - Let people type "tor --install" as well as "tor -install" when
33605 want to make it an NT service.
33606 - NT service patch from Matt Edman to improve error messages.
33607 - When the controller asks for a config option with an abbreviated
33608 name, give the full name in our response.
33609 - Correct the man page entry on TrackHostExitsExpire.
33610 - Looks like we were never delivering deflated (i.e. compressed)
33611 running-routers lists, even when asked. Oops.
33612 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
33613 pthreads libraries.
33615 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
33616 - Fix a seg fault with autodetecting which controller version is
33620 - New hidden service descriptor format: put a version in it, and
33621 let people specify introduction/rendezvous points that aren't
33622 in "the directory" (which is subjective anyway).
33623 - Allow the DEBUG controller event to work again. Mark certain log
33624 entries as "don't tell this to controllers", so we avoid cycles.
33627 Changes in version 0.1.0.11 - 2005-06-30
33628 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
33629 - Fix major security bug: servers were disregarding their
33630 exit policies if clients behaved unexpectedly.
33631 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
33632 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
33633 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
33634 - The MAPADDRESS control command was broken.
33637 Changes in version 0.1.1.1-alpha - 2005-06-29
33639 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
33640 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
33641 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
33642 - Fix a possible way to DoS dirservers.
33643 - When we complain that your exit policy implicitly allows local or
33644 private address spaces, name them explicitly so operators can
33646 - Make the log message less scary when all the dirservers are
33647 temporarily unreachable.
33648 - We were printing the number of idle dns workers incorrectly when
33652 - Revised controller protocol (version 1) that uses ascii rather
33653 than binary. Add supporting libraries in python and java so you
33654 can use the controller from your applications without caring how
33655 our protocol works.
33656 - Spiffy new support for crypto hardware accelerators. Can somebody
33660 Changes in version 0.0.9.10 - 2005-06-16
33661 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (backported from 0.1.0.10):
33662 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
33663 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
33664 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
33668 Changes in version 0.1.0.10 - 2005-06-14
33669 o Allow a few EINVALs from libevent before dying. Warn on kqueue with
33670 libevent before 1.1a.
33673 Changes in version 0.1.0.9-rc - 2005-06-09
33675 - Reset buf->highwater every time buf_shrink() is called, not just on
33676 a successful shrink. This was causing significant memory bloat.
33677 - Fix buffer overflow when checking hashed passwords.
33678 - Security fix: if seeding the RNG on Win32 fails, quit.
33679 - Allow seeding the RNG on Win32 even when you're not running as
33681 - Disable threading on Solaris too. Something is wonky with it,
33682 cpuworkers, and reentrant libs.
33683 - Reenable the part of the code that tries to flush as soon as an
33684 OR outbuf has a full TLS record available. Perhaps this will make
33685 OR outbufs not grow as huge except in rare cases, thus saving lots
33686 of CPU time plus memory.
33687 - Reject malformed .onion addresses rather then passing them on as
33688 normal web requests.
33689 - Adapt patch from Adam Langley: fix possible memory leak in
33690 tor_lookup_hostname().
33691 - Initialize libevent later in the startup process, so the logs are
33692 already established by the time we start logging libevent warns.
33693 - Use correct errno on win32 if libevent fails.
33694 - Check and warn about known-bad/slow libevent versions.
33695 - Pay more attention to the ClientOnly config option.
33696 - Have torctl.in/tor.sh.in check for location of su binary (needed
33698 - Correct/add man page entries for LongLivedPorts, ExitPolicy,
33699 KeepalivePeriod, ClientOnly, NoPublish, HttpProxy, HttpsProxy,
33700 HttpProxyAuthenticator
33701 - Stop warning about sigpipes in the logs. We're going to
33702 pretend that getting these occasionally is normal and fine.
33703 - Resolve OS X installer bugs: stop claiming to be 0.0.9.2 in
33705 installer screens; and don't put stuff into StartupItems unless
33706 the user asks you to.
33707 - Require servers that use the default dirservers to have public IP
33708 addresses. We have too many servers that are configured with private
33709 IPs and their admins never notice the log entries complaining that
33710 their descriptors are being rejected.
33711 - Add OSX uninstall instructions. An actual uninstall script will
33715 Changes in version 0.1.0.8-rc - 2005-05-23
33717 - It turns out that kqueue on OS X 10.3.9 was causing kernel
33718 panics. Disable kqueue on all OS X Tors.
33719 - Fix RPM: remove duplicate line accidentally added to the rpm
33721 - Disable threads on openbsd too, since its gethostaddr is not
33723 - Tolerate libevent 0.8 since it still works, even though it's
33725 - Enable building on Red Hat 9.0 again.
33726 - Allow the middle hop of the testing circuit to be running any
33727 version, now that most of them have the bugfix to let them connect
33728 to unknown servers. This will allow reachability testing to work
33729 even when 0.0.9.7-0.0.9.9 become obsolete.
33730 - Handle relay cells with rh.length too large. This prevents
33731 a potential attack that could read arbitrary memory (maybe even
33732 keys) from the exit server's process.
33733 - We screwed up the dirport reachability testing when we don't yet
33734 have a cached version of the directory. Hopefully now fixed.
33735 - Clean up router_load_single_router() (used by the controller),
33736 so it doesn't seg fault on error.
33737 - Fix a minor memory leak when somebody establishes an introduction
33738 point at your Tor server.
33739 - If a socks connection ends because read fails, don't warn that
33740 you're not sending a socks reply back.
33743 - Add HttpProxyAuthenticator config option too, that works like
33744 the HttpsProxyAuthenticator config option.
33745 - Encode hashed controller passwords in hex instead of base64,
33746 to make it easier to write controllers.
33749 Changes in version 0.1.0.7-rc - 2005-05-17
33751 - Fix a bug in the OS X package installer that prevented it from
33752 installing on Tiger.
33753 - Fix a script bug in the OS X package installer that made it
33754 complain during installation.
33755 - Find libevent even if it's hiding in /usr/local/ and your
33756 CFLAGS and LDFLAGS don't tell you to look there.
33757 - Be able to link with libevent as a shared library (the default
33758 after 1.0d), even if it's hiding in /usr/local/lib and even
33759 if you haven't added /usr/local/lib to your /etc/ld.so.conf,
33760 assuming you're running gcc. Otherwise fail and give a useful
33762 - Fix a bug in the RPM packager: set home directory for _tor to
33763 something more reasonable when first installing.
33764 - Free a minor amount of memory that is still reachable on exit.
33767 Changes in version 0.1.0.6-rc - 2005-05-14
33769 - Implement --disable-threads configure option. Disable threads on
33770 netbsd by default, because it appears to have no reentrant resolver
33772 - Apple's OS X 10.4.0 ships with a broken kqueue. The new libevent
33773 release (1.1) detects and disables kqueue if it's broken.
33774 - Append default exit policy before checking for implicit internal
33775 addresses. Now we don't log a bunch of complaints on startup
33776 when using the default exit policy.
33777 - Some people were putting "Address " in their torrc, and they had
33778 a buggy resolver that resolved " " to 0.0.0.0. Oops.
33779 - If DataDir is ~/.tor, and that expands to /.tor, then default to
33780 LOCALSTATEDIR/tor instead.
33781 - Fix fragmented-message bug in TorControl.py.
33782 - Resolve a minor bug which would prevent unreachable dirports
33783 from getting suppressed in the published descriptor.
33784 - When the controller gave us a new descriptor, we weren't resolving
33785 it immediately, so Tor would think its address was 0.0.0.0 until
33786 we fetched a new directory.
33787 - Fix an uppercase/lowercase case error in suppressing a bogus
33788 libevent warning on some Linuxes.
33791 - Begin scrubbing sensitive strings from logs by default. Turn off
33792 the config option SafeLogging if you need to do debugging.
33793 - Switch to a new buffer management algorithm, which tries to avoid
33794 reallocing and copying quite as much. In first tests it looks like
33795 it uses *more* memory on average, but less cpu.
33796 - First cut at support for "create-fast" cells. Clients can use
33797 these when extending to their first hop, since the TLS already
33798 provides forward secrecy and authentication. Not enabled on
33800 - When dirservers refuse a router descriptor, we now log its
33801 contactinfo, platform, and the poster's IP address.
33802 - Call tor_free_all instead of connections_free_all after forking, to
33803 save memory on systems that need to fork.
33804 - Whine at you if you're a server and you don't set your contactinfo.
33805 - Implement --verify-config command-line option to check if your torrc
33806 is valid without actually launching Tor.
33807 - Rewrite address "serifos.exit" to "localhost.serifos.exit"
33808 rather than just rejecting it.
33811 Changes in version 0.1.0.5-rc - 2005-04-27
33813 - Stop trying to print a null pointer if an OR conn fails because
33814 we didn't like its cert.
33816 - Switch our internal buffers implementation to use a ring buffer,
33817 to hopefully improve performance for fast servers a lot.
33818 - Add HttpsProxyAuthenticator support (basic auth only), based
33819 on patch from Adam Langley.
33820 - Bump the default BandwidthRate from 1 MB to 2 MB, to accommodate
33821 the fast servers that have been joining lately.
33822 - Give hidden service accesses extra time on the first attempt,
33823 since 60 seconds is often only barely enough. This might improve
33825 - Improve performance for dirservers: stop re-parsing the whole
33826 directory every time you regenerate it.
33827 - Add more debugging info to help us find the weird dns freebsd
33828 pthreads bug; cleaner debug messages to help track future issues.
33831 Changes in version 0.0.9.9 - 2005-04-23
33832 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
33833 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
33834 Tor server triggers an assert. This release contains a minimal
33835 backport from the broader fix that we put into 0.1.0.4-rc.
33838 Changes in version 0.1.0.4-rc - 2005-04-23
33840 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
33841 Tor server triggers an assert. Stop asserting, and start handling
33842 TLS errors better in other situations too.
33843 - When the controller asks us to tell it about all the debug-level
33844 logs, it turns out we were generating debug-level logs while
33845 telling it about them, which turns into a bad loop. Now keep
33846 track of whether you're sending a debug log to the controller,
33847 and don't log when you are.
33848 - Fix the "postdescriptor" feature of the controller interface: on
33849 non-complete success, only say "done" once.
33851 - Clients are now willing to load balance over up to 2mB, not 1mB,
33852 of advertised bandwidth capacity.
33853 - Add a NoPublish config option, so you can be a server (e.g. for
33854 testing running Tor servers in other Tor networks) without
33855 publishing your descriptor to the primary dirservers.
33858 Changes in version 0.1.0.3-rc - 2005-04-08
33859 o Improvements on 0.1.0.2-rc:
33860 - Client now retries when streams end early for 'hibernating' or
33861 'resource limit' reasons, rather than failing them.
33862 - More automated handling for dirserver operators:
33863 - Automatically approve nodes running 0.1.0.2-rc or later,
33864 now that the the reachability detection stuff is working.
33865 - Now we allow two unverified servers with the same nickname
33866 but different keys. But if a nickname is verified, only that
33867 nickname+key are allowed.
33868 - If you're an authdirserver connecting to an address:port,
33869 and it's not the OR you were expecting, forget about that
33870 descriptor. If he *was* the one you were expecting, then forget
33871 about all other descriptors for that address:port.
33872 - Allow servers to publish descriptors from 12 hours in the future.
33873 Corollary: only whine about clock skew from the dirserver if
33874 he's a trusted dirserver (since now even verified servers could
33875 have quite wrong clocks).
33876 - Adjust maximum skew and age for rendezvous descriptors: let skew
33877 be 48 hours rather than 90 minutes.
33878 - Efficiency improvements:
33879 - Keep a big splay tree of (circid,orconn)->circuit mappings to make
33880 it much faster to look up a circuit for each relay cell.
33881 - Remove most calls to assert_all_pending_dns_resolves_ok(),
33882 since they're eating our cpu on exit nodes.
33883 - Stop wasting time doing a case insensitive comparison for every
33884 dns name every time we do any lookup. Canonicalize the names to
33885 lowercase and be done with it.
33886 - Start sending 'truncated' cells back rather than destroy cells,
33887 if the circuit closes in front of you. This means we won't have
33888 to abandon partially built circuits.
33889 - Only warn once per nickname from add_nickname_list_to_smartlist
33890 per failure, so an entrynode or exitnode choice that's down won't
33892 - Put a note in the torrc about abuse potential with the default
33894 - Revise control spec and implementation to allow all log messages to
33895 be sent to controller with their severities intact (suggested by
33896 Matt Edman). Update TorControl to handle new log event types.
33897 - Provide better explanation messages when controller's POSTDESCRIPTOR
33899 - Stop putting nodename in the Platform string in server descriptors.
33900 It doesn't actually help, and it is confusing/upsetting some people.
33902 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.2-rc:
33903 - We were printing the host mask wrong in exit policies in server
33904 descriptors. This isn't a critical bug though, since we were still
33905 obeying the exit policy internally.
33906 - Fix Tor when compiled with libevent but without pthreads: move
33907 connection_unregister() from _connection_free() to
33909 - Fix an assert trigger (already fixed in 0.0.9.x): when we have
33910 the rare mysterious case of accepting a conn on 0.0.0.0:0, then
33911 when we look through the connection array, we'll find any of the
33912 cpu/dnsworkers. This is no good.
33914 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.8:
33915 - Fix possible bug on threading platforms (e.g. win32) which was
33916 leaking a file descriptor whenever a cpuworker or dnsworker died.
33917 - When using preferred entry or exit nodes, ignore whether the
33918 circuit wants uptime or capacity. They asked for the nodes, they
33920 - chdir() to your datadirectory at the *end* of the daemonize process,
33921 not the beginning. This was a problem because the first time you
33922 run tor, if your datadir isn't there, and you have runasdaemon set
33923 to 1, it will try to chdir to it before it tries to create it. Oops.
33924 - Handle changed router status correctly when dirserver reloads
33925 fingerprint file. We used to be dropping all unverified descriptors
33926 right then. The bug was hidden because we would immediately
33927 fetch a directory from another dirserver, which would include the
33928 descriptors we just dropped.
33929 - When we're connecting to an OR and he's got a different nickname/key
33930 than we were expecting, only complain loudly if we're an OP or a
33931 dirserver. Complaining loudly to the OR admins just confuses them.
33932 - Tie MAX_DIR_SIZE to MAX_BUF_SIZE, so now directory sizes won't get
33933 artificially capped at 500kB.
33936 Changes in version 0.0.9.8 - 2005-04-07
33937 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
33938 - We have a bug that I haven't found yet. Sometimes, very rarely,
33939 cpuworkers get stuck in the 'busy' state, even though the cpuworker
33940 thinks of itself as idle. This meant that no new circuits ever got
33941 established. Here's a workaround to kill any cpuworker that's been
33942 busy for more than 100 seconds.
33945 Changes in version 0.1.0.2-rc - 2005-04-01
33946 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.1-rc:
33947 - Fixes on reachability detection:
33948 - Don't check for reachability while hibernating.
33949 - If ORPort is reachable but DirPort isn't, still publish the
33950 descriptor, but zero out DirPort until it's found reachable.
33951 - When building testing circs for ORPort testing, use only
33952 high-bandwidth nodes, so fewer circuits fail.
33953 - Complain about unreachable ORPort separately from unreachable
33954 DirPort, so the user knows what's going on.
33955 - Make sure we only conclude ORPort reachability if we didn't
33956 initiate the conn. Otherwise we could falsely conclude that
33957 we're reachable just because we connected to the guy earlier
33958 and he used that same pipe to extend to us.
33959 - Authdirservers shouldn't do ORPort reachability detection,
33960 since they're in clique mode, so it will be rare to find a
33961 server not already connected to them.
33962 - When building testing circuits, always pick middle hops running
33963 Tor 0.0.9.7, so we avoid the "can't extend to unknown routers"
33964 bug. (This is a kludge; it will go away when 0.0.9.x becomes
33966 - When we decide we're reachable, actually publish our descriptor
33968 - Fix bug in redirectstream in the controller.
33969 - Fix the state descriptor strings so logs don't claim edge streams
33970 are in a different state than they actually are.
33971 - Use recent libevent features when possible (this only really affects
33972 win32 and osx right now, because the new libevent with these
33973 features hasn't been released yet). Add code to suppress spurious
33975 - Prevent possible segfault in connection_close_unattached_ap().
33976 - Fix newlines on torrc in win32.
33977 - Improve error msgs when tor-resolve fails.
33979 o Improvements on 0.0.9.x:
33980 - New experimental script tor/contrib/ExerciseServer.py (needs more
33981 work) that uses the controller interface to build circuits and
33982 fetch pages over them. This will help us bootstrap servers that
33983 have lots of capacity but haven't noticed it yet.
33984 - New experimental script tor/contrib/PathDemo.py (needs more work)
33985 that uses the controller interface to let you choose whole paths
33987 "<hostname>.<path,separated by dots>.<length of path>.path"
33988 - When we've connected to an OR and handshaked but didn't like
33989 the result, we were closing the conn without sending destroy
33990 cells back for pending circuits. Now send those destroys.
33993 Changes in version 0.0.9.7 - 2005-04-01
33994 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
33995 - Fix another race crash bug (thanks to Glenn Fink for reporting).
33996 - Compare identity to identity, not to nickname, when extending to
33997 a router not already in the directory. This was preventing us from
33998 extending to unknown routers. Oops.
33999 - Make sure to create OS X Tor user in <500 range, so we aren't
34000 creating actual system users.
34001 - Note where connection-that-hasn't-sent-end was marked, and fix
34002 a few really loud instances of this harmless bug (it's fixed more
34006 Changes in version 0.1.0.1-rc - 2005-03-28
34008 - Add reachability testing. Your Tor server will automatically try
34009 to see if its ORPort and DirPort are reachable from the outside,
34010 and it won't upload its descriptor until it decides they are.
34011 - Handle unavailable hidden services better. Handle slow or busy
34012 hidden services better.
34013 - Add support for CONNECTing through https proxies, with "HttpsProxy"
34015 - New exit policy: accept most low-numbered ports, rather than
34016 rejecting most low-numbered ports.
34017 - More Tor controller support (still experimental). See
34018 http://tor.eff.org/doc/control-spec.txt for all the new features,
34019 including signals to emulate unix signals from any platform;
34020 redirectstream; extendcircuit; mapaddress; getinfo; postdescriptor;
34021 closestream; closecircuit; etc.
34022 - Make nt services work and start on startup on win32 (based on
34023 patch by Matt Edman).
34024 - Add a new AddressMap config directive to rewrite incoming socks
34025 addresses. This lets you, for example, declare an implicit
34026 required exit node for certain sites.
34027 - Add a new TrackHostExits config directive to trigger addressmaps
34028 for certain incoming socks addresses -- for sites that break when
34029 your exit keeps changing (based on patch by Mike Perry).
34030 - Redo the client-side dns cache so it's just an addressmap too.
34031 - Notice when our IP changes, and reset stats/uptime/reachability.
34032 - When an application is using socks5, give him the whole variety of
34033 potential socks5 responses (connect refused, host unreachable, etc),
34034 rather than just "success" or "failure".
34035 - A more sane version numbering system. See
34036 http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/version-spec.txt for details.
34037 - New contributed script "exitlist": a simple python script to
34038 parse directories and find Tor nodes that exit to listed
34040 - New contributed script "privoxy-tor-toggle" to toggle whether
34041 Privoxy uses Tor. Seems to be configured for Debian by default.
34042 - Report HTTP reasons to client when getting a response from directory
34043 servers -- so you can actually know what went wrong.
34044 - New config option MaxAdvertisedBandwidth which lets you advertise
34045 a low bandwidthrate (to not attract as many circuits) while still
34046 allowing a higher bandwidthrate in reality.
34048 o Robustness/stability fixes:
34049 - Make Tor use Niels Provos's libevent instead of its current
34050 poll-but-sometimes-select mess. This will let us use faster async
34051 cores (like epoll, kpoll, and /dev/poll), and hopefully work better
34053 - pthread support now too. This was forced because when we forked,
34054 we ended up wasting a lot of duplicate ram over time. Also switch
34055 to foo_r versions of some library calls to allow reentry and
34057 - Better handling for heterogeneous / unreliable nodes:
34058 - Annotate circuits w/ whether they aim to contain high uptime nodes
34059 and/or high capacity nodes. When building circuits, choose
34061 - This means that every single node in an intro rend circuit,
34062 not just the last one, will have a minimum uptime.
34063 - New config option LongLivedPorts to indicate application streams
34064 that will want high uptime circuits.
34065 - Servers reset uptime when a dir fetch entirely fails. This
34066 hopefully reflects stability of the server's network connectivity.
34067 - If somebody starts his tor server in Jan 2004 and then fixes his
34068 clock, don't make his published uptime be a year.
34069 - Reset published uptime when you wake up from hibernation.
34070 - Introduce a notion of 'internal' circs, which are chosen without
34071 regard to the exit policy of the last hop. Intro and rendezvous
34072 circs must be internal circs, to avoid leaking information. Resolve
34073 and connect streams can use internal circs if they want.
34074 - New circuit pooling algorithm: make sure to have enough circs around
34075 to satisfy any predicted ports, and also make sure to have 2 internal
34076 circs around if we've required internal circs lately (and with high
34077 uptime if we've seen that lately too).
34078 - Split NewCircuitPeriod option into NewCircuitPeriod (30 secs),
34079 which describes how often we retry making new circuits if current
34080 ones are dirty, and MaxCircuitDirtiness (10 mins), which describes
34081 how long we're willing to make use of an already-dirty circuit.
34082 - Cannibalize GENERAL circs to be C_REND, C_INTRO, S_INTRO, and S_REND
34083 circ as necessary, if there are any completed ones lying around
34084 when we try to launch one.
34085 - Make hidden services try to establish a rendezvous for 30 seconds,
34086 rather than for n (where n=3) attempts to build a circuit.
34087 - Change SHUTDOWN_WAIT_LENGTH from a fixed 30 secs to a config option
34088 "ShutdownWaitLength".
34089 - Try to be more zealous about calling connection_edge_end when
34090 things go bad with edge conns in connection.c.
34091 - Revise tor-spec to add more/better stream end reasons.
34092 - Revise all calls to connection_edge_end to avoid sending "misc",
34093 and to take errno into account where possible.
34096 - Fix a race condition that can trigger an assert, when we have a
34097 pending create cell and an OR connection fails right then.
34098 - Fix several double-mark-for-close bugs, e.g. where we were finding
34099 a conn for a cell even if that conn is already marked for close.
34100 - Make sequence of log messages when starting on win32 with no config
34101 file more reasonable.
34102 - When choosing an exit node for a new non-internal circ, don't take
34103 into account whether it'll be useful for any pending x.onion
34104 addresses -- it won't.
34105 - Turn addr_policy_compare from a tristate to a quadstate; this should
34106 help address our "Ah, you allow 1.2.3.4:80. You are a good choice
34107 for google.com" problem.
34108 - Make "platform" string in descriptor more accurate for Win32 servers,
34109 so it's not just "unknown platform".
34110 - Fix an edge case in parsing config options (thanks weasel).
34111 If they say "--" on the commandline, it's not an option.
34112 - Reject odd-looking addresses at the client (e.g. addresses that
34113 contain a colon), rather than having the server drop them because
34115 - tor-resolve requests were ignoring .exit if there was a working circuit
34116 they could use instead.
34117 - REUSEADDR on normal platforms means you can rebind to the port
34118 right after somebody else has let it go. But REUSEADDR on win32
34119 means to let you bind to the port _even when somebody else
34120 already has it bound_! So, don't do that on Win32.
34121 - Change version parsing logic: a version is "obsolete" if it is not
34122 recommended and (1) there is a newer recommended version in the
34123 same series, or (2) there are no recommended versions in the same
34124 series, but there are some recommended versions in a newer series.
34125 A version is "new" if it is newer than any recommended version in
34127 - Stop most cases of hanging up on a socks connection without sending
34131 - Require BandwidthRate to be at least 20kB/s for servers.
34132 - When a dirserver causes you to give a warn, mention which dirserver
34134 - New config option DirAllowPrivateAddresses for authdirservers.
34135 Now by default they refuse router descriptors that have non-IP or
34136 private-IP addresses.
34137 - Stop publishing socksport in the directory, since it's not
34138 actually meant to be public. For compatibility, publish a 0 there
34140 - Change DirFetchPeriod/StatusFetchPeriod to have a special "Be
34141 smart" value, that is low for servers and high for clients.
34142 - If our clock jumps forward by 100 seconds or more, assume something
34143 has gone wrong with our network and abandon all not-yet-used circs.
34144 - Warn when exit policy implicitly allows local addresses.
34145 - If we get an incredibly skewed timestamp from a dirserver mirror
34146 that isn't a verified OR, don't warn -- it's probably him that's
34148 - Since we ship our own Privoxy on OS X, tweak it so it doesn't write
34149 cookies to disk and doesn't log each web request to disk. (Thanks
34150 to Brett Carrington for pointing this out.)
34151 - When a client asks us for a dir mirror and we don't have one,
34152 launch an attempt to get a fresh one.
34153 - If we're hibernating and we get a SIGINT, exit immediately.
34154 - Add --with-dmalloc ./configure option, to track memory leaks.
34155 - And try to free all memory on closing, so we can detect what
34157 - Cache local dns resolves correctly even when they're .exit
34159 - Give a better warning when some other server advertises an
34160 ORPort that is actually an apache running ssl.
34161 - Add "opt hibernating 1" to server descriptor to make it clearer
34162 whether the server is hibernating.
34165 Changes in version 0.0.9.6 - 2005-03-24
34166 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (crashes and asserts):
34167 - Add new end stream reasons to maintenance branch. Fix bug where
34168 reason (8) could trigger an assert. Prevent bug from recurring.
34169 - Apparently win32 stat wants paths to not end with a slash.
34170 - Fix assert triggers in assert_cpath_layer_ok(), where we were
34171 blowing away the circuit that conn->cpath_layer points to, then
34172 checking to see if the circ is well-formed. Backport check to make
34173 sure we dont use the cpath on a closed connection.
34174 - Prevent circuit_resume_edge_reading_helper() from trying to package
34175 inbufs for marked-for-close streams.
34176 - Don't crash on hup if your options->address has become unresolvable.
34177 - Some systems (like OS X) sometimes accept() a connection and tell
34178 you the remote host is 0.0.0.0:0. If this happens, due to some
34179 other mis-features, we get confused; so refuse the conn for now.
34181 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (other):
34182 - Fix harmless but scary "Unrecognized content encoding" warn message.
34183 - Add new stream error reason: TORPROTOCOL reason means "you are not
34184 speaking a version of Tor I understand; say bye-bye to your stream."
34185 - Be willing to cache directories from up to ROUTER_MAX_AGE seconds
34186 into the future, now that we are more tolerant of skew. This
34187 resolves a bug where a Tor server would refuse to cache a directory
34188 because all the directories it gets are too far in the future;
34189 yet the Tor server never logs any complaints about clock skew.
34190 - Mac packaging magic: make man pages useable, and do not overwrite
34191 existing torrc files.
34192 - Make OS X log happily to /var/log/tor/tor.log
34195 Changes in version 0.0.9.5 - 2005-02-22
34196 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
34197 - Fix an assert race at exit nodes when resolve requests fail.
34198 - Stop picking unverified dir mirrors--it only leads to misery.
34199 - Patch from Matt Edman to make NT services work better. Service
34200 support is still not compiled into the executable by default.
34201 - Patch from Dmitri Bely so the Tor service runs better under
34202 the win32 SYSTEM account.
34203 - Make tor-resolve actually work (?) on Win32.
34204 - Fix a sign bug when getrlimit claims to have 4+ billion
34205 file descriptors available.
34206 - Stop refusing to start when bandwidthburst == bandwidthrate.
34207 - When create cells have been on the onion queue more than five
34208 seconds, just send back a destroy and take them off the list.
34211 Changes in version 0.0.9.4 - 2005-02-03
34212 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
34213 - Fix an assert bug that took down most of our servers: when
34214 a server claims to have 1 GB of bandwidthburst, don't
34216 - Don't crash as badly if we have spawned the max allowed number
34217 of dnsworkers, or we're out of file descriptors.
34218 - Block more file-sharing ports in the default exit policy.
34219 - MaxConn is now automatically set to the hard limit of max
34220 file descriptors we're allowed (ulimit -n), minus a few for
34222 - Give a clearer message when servers need to raise their
34223 ulimit -n when they start running out of file descriptors.
34224 - SGI Compatibility patches from Jan Schaumann.
34225 - Tolerate a corrupt cached directory better.
34226 - When a dirserver hasn't approved your server, list which one.
34227 - Go into soft hibernation after 95% of the bandwidth is used,
34228 not 99%. This is especially important for daily hibernators who
34229 have a small accounting max. Hopefully it will result in fewer
34230 cut connections when the hard hibernation starts.
34231 - Load-balance better when using servers that claim more than
34232 800kB/s of capacity.
34233 - Make NT services work (experimental, only used if compiled in).
34236 Changes in version 0.0.9.3 - 2005-01-21
34237 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
34238 - Backport the cpu use fixes from main branch, so busy servers won't
34239 need as much processor time.
34240 - Work better when we go offline and then come back, or when we
34241 run Tor at boot before the network is up. We do this by
34242 optimistically trying to fetch a new directory whenever an
34243 application request comes in and we think we're offline -- the
34244 human is hopefully a good measure of when the network is back.
34245 - Backport some minimal hidserv bugfixes: keep rend circuits open as
34246 long as you keep using them; actually publish hidserv descriptors
34247 shortly after they change, rather than waiting 20-40 minutes.
34248 - Enable Mac startup script by default.
34249 - Fix duplicate dns_cancel_pending_resolve reported by Giorgos Pallas.
34250 - When you update AllowUnverifiedNodes or FirewallPorts via the
34251 controller's setconf feature, we were always appending, never
34253 - When you update HiddenServiceDir via setconf, it was screwing up
34254 the order of reading the lines, making it fail.
34255 - Do not rewrite a cached directory back to the cache; otherwise we
34256 will think it is recent and not fetch a newer one on startup.
34257 - Workaround for webservers that lie about Content-Encoding: Tor
34258 now tries to autodetect compressed directories and compression
34259 itself. This lets us Proxypass dir fetches through apache.
34262 Changes in version 0.0.9.2 - 2005-01-04
34263 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (crashes and asserts):
34264 - Fix an assert on startup when the disk is full and you're logging
34266 - If you do socks4 with an IP of 0.0.0.x but *don't* provide a socks4a
34267 style address, then we'd crash.
34268 - Fix an assert trigger when the running-routers string we get from
34269 a dirserver is broken.
34270 - Make worker threads start and run on win32. Now win32 servers
34272 - Bandaid (not actually fix, but now it doesn't crash) an assert
34273 where the dns worker dies mysteriously and the main Tor process
34274 doesn't remember anything about the address it was resolving.
34276 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (Win32):
34277 - Workaround for brain-damaged __FILE__ handling on MSVC: keep Nick's
34278 name out of the warning/assert messages.
34279 - Fix a superficial "unhandled error on read" bug on win32.
34280 - The win32 installer no longer requires a click-through for our
34281 license, since our Free Software license grants rights but does not
34283 - Win32: When connecting to a dirserver fails, try another one
34284 immediately. (This was already working for non-win32 Tors.)
34285 - Stop trying to parse $HOME on win32 when hunting for default
34287 - Make tor-resolve.c work on win32 by calling network_init().
34289 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (other):
34290 - Make 0.0.9.x build on Solaris again.
34291 - Due to a fencepost error, we were blowing away the \n when reporting
34292 confvalue items in the controller. So asking for multiple config
34293 values at once couldn't work.
34294 - When listing circuits that are pending on an opening OR connection,
34295 if we're an OR we were listing circuits that *end* at us as
34296 being pending on every listener, dns/cpu worker, etc. Stop that.
34297 - Dirservers were failing to create 'running-routers' or 'directory'
34298 strings if we had more than some threshold of routers. Fix them so
34299 they can handle any number of routers.
34300 - Fix a superficial "Duplicate mark for close" bug.
34301 - Stop checking for clock skew for OR connections, even for servers.
34302 - Fix a fencepost error that was chopping off the last letter of any
34303 nickname that is the maximum allowed nickname length.
34304 - Update URLs in log messages so they point to the new website.
34305 - Fix a potential problem in mangling server private keys while
34306 writing to disk (not triggered yet, as far as we know).
34307 - Include the licenses for other free software we include in Tor,
34308 now that we're shipping binary distributions more regularly.
34311 Changes in version 0.0.9.1 - 2004-12-15
34312 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
34313 - Make hibernation actually work.
34314 - Make HashedControlPassword config option work.
34315 - When we're reporting event circuit status to a controller,
34316 don't use the stream status code.
34319 Changes in version 0.0.9 - 2004-12-12
34321 - Clean up manpage and torrc.sample file.
34322 - Clean up severities and text of log warnings.
34324 - Make servers trigger an assert when they enter hibernation.
34327 Changes in version 0.0.9rc7 - 2004-12-08
34328 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc:
34329 - Fix a stack-trashing crash when an exit node begins hibernating.
34330 - Avoid looking at unallocated memory while considering which
34331 ports we need to build circuits to cover.
34332 - Stop a sigpipe: when an 'end' cell races with eof from the app,
34333 we shouldn't hold-open-until-flush if the eof arrived first.
34334 - Fix a bug with init_cookie_authentication() in the controller.
34335 - When recommending new-format log lines, if the upper bound is
34336 LOG_ERR, leave it implicit.
34338 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
34339 - Fix a whole slew of memory leaks.
34340 - Fix isspace() and friends so they still make Solaris happy
34341 but also so they don't trigger asserts on win32.
34342 - Fix parse_iso_time on platforms without strptime (eg win32).
34343 - win32: tolerate extra "readable" events better.
34344 - win32: when being multithreaded, leave parent fdarray open.
34345 - Make unit tests work on win32.
34348 Changes in version 0.0.9rc6 - 2004-12-06
34349 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
34350 - Clean up some more integer underflow opportunities (not exploitable
34352 - While hibernating, hup should not regrow our listeners.
34353 - Send an end to the streams we close when we hibernate, rather
34354 than just chopping them off.
34355 - React to eof immediately on non-open edge connections.
34357 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
34358 - Calculate timeout for waiting for a connected cell from the time
34359 we sent the begin cell, not from the time the stream started. If
34360 it took a long time to establish the circuit, we would time out
34361 right after sending the begin cell.
34362 - Fix router_compare_addr_to_addr_policy: it was not treating a port
34363 of * as always matching, so we were picking reject *:* nodes as
34364 exit nodes too. Oops.
34367 - New circuit building strategy: keep a list of ports that we've
34368 used in the past 6 hours, and always try to have 2 circuits open
34369 or on the way that will handle each such port. Seed us with port
34370 80 so web users won't complain that Tor is "slow to start up".
34371 - Make kill -USR1 dump more useful stats about circuits.
34372 - When warning about retrying or giving up, print the address, so
34373 the user knows which one it's talking about.
34374 - If you haven't used a clean circuit in an hour, throw it away,
34375 just to be on the safe side. (This means after 6 hours a totally
34376 unused Tor client will have no circuits open.)
34379 Changes in version 0.0.9rc5 - 2004-12-01
34380 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
34381 - Disallow NDEBUG. We don't ever want anybody to turn off debug.
34382 - Let resolve conns retry/expire also, rather than sticking around
34384 - If we are using select, make sure we stay within FD_SETSIZE.
34386 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
34387 - Fix integer underflow in tor_vsnprintf() that may be exploitable,
34388 but doesn't seem to be currently; thanks to Ilja van Sprundel for
34390 - If anybody set DirFetchPostPeriod, give them StatusFetchPeriod
34391 instead. Impose minima and maxima for all *Period options; impose
34392 even tighter maxima for fetching if we are a caching dirserver.
34393 Clip rather than rejecting.
34394 - Fetch cached running-routers from servers that serve it (that is,
34395 authdirservers and servers running 0.0.9rc5-cvs or later.)
34398 - Accept *:706 (silc) in default exit policy.
34399 - Implement new versioning format for post 0.1.
34400 - Support "foo.nickname.exit" addresses, to let Alice request the
34401 address "foo" as viewed by exit node "nickname". Based on a patch
34403 - Make tor --version --version dump the cvs Id of every file.
34406 Changes in version 0.0.9rc4 - 2004-11-28
34407 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
34408 - Make windows sockets actually non-blocking (oops), and handle
34409 win32 socket errors better.
34411 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
34412 - Actually catch the -USR2 signal.
34415 Changes in version 0.0.9rc3 - 2004-11-25
34416 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
34417 - Flush the log file descriptor after we print "Tor opening log file",
34418 so we don't see those messages days later.
34420 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
34421 - Make tor-resolve work again.
34422 - Avoid infinite loop in tor-resolve if tor hangs up on it.
34423 - Fix an assert trigger for clients/servers handling resolves.
34426 Changes in version 0.0.9rc2 - 2004-11-24
34427 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
34428 - I broke socks5 support while fixing the eof bug.
34429 - Allow unitless bandwidths and intervals; they default to bytes
34431 - New servers don't start out hibernating; they are active until
34432 they run out of bytes, so they have a better estimate of how
34433 long it takes, and so their operators can know they're working.
34436 Changes in version 0.0.9rc1 - 2004-11-23
34437 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
34438 - Finally fix a bug that's been plaguing us for a year:
34439 With high load, circuit package window was reaching 0. Whenever
34440 we got a circuit-level sendme, we were reading a lot on each
34441 socket, but only writing out a bit. So we would eventually reach
34442 eof. This would be noticed and acted on even when there were still
34443 bytes sitting in the inbuf.
34444 - When poll() is interrupted, we shouldn't believe the revents values.
34446 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre6:
34447 - Fix hibernate bug that caused pre6 to be broken.
34448 - Don't keep rephist info for routers that haven't had activity for
34449 24 hours. (This matters now that clients have keys, since we track
34451 - Never call close_temp_logs while validating log options.
34452 - Fix backslash-escaping on tor.sh.in and torctl.in.
34455 - Implement weekly/monthly/daily accounting: now you specify your
34456 hibernation properties by
34457 AccountingMax N bytes|KB|MB|GB|TB
34458 AccountingStart day|week|month [day] HH:MM
34459 Defaults to "month 1 0:00".
34460 - Let bandwidth and interval config options be specified as 5 bytes,
34461 kb, kilobytes, etc; and as seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks.
34462 - kill -USR2 now moves all logs to loglevel debug (kill -HUP to
34463 get back to normal.)
34464 - If your requested entry or exit node has advertised bandwidth 0,
34466 - Be more greedy about filling up relay cells -- we try reading again
34467 once we've processed the stuff we read, in case enough has arrived
34468 to fill the last cell completely.
34469 - Apply NT service patch from Osamu Fujino. Still needs more work.
34472 Changes in version 0.0.9pre6 - 2004-11-15
34473 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
34474 - Fix assert failure on malformed socks4a requests.
34475 - Use identity comparison, not nickname comparison, to choose which
34476 half of circuit-ID-space each side gets to use. This is needed
34477 because sometimes we think of a router as a nickname, and sometimes
34478 as a hex ID, and we can't predict what the other side will do.
34479 - Catch and ignore SIGXFSZ signals when log files exceed 2GB; our
34480 write() call will fail and we handle it there.
34481 - Add a FAST_SMARTLIST define to optionally inline smartlist_get
34482 and smartlist_len, which are two major profiling offenders.
34484 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre5:
34485 - Fix a bug in read_all that was corrupting config files on windows.
34486 - When we're raising the max number of open file descriptors to
34487 'unlimited', don't log that we just raised it to '-1'.
34488 - Include event code with events, as required by control-spec.txt.
34489 - Don't give a fingerprint when clients do --list-fingerprint:
34490 it's misleading, because it will never be the same again.
34491 - Stop using strlcpy in tor_strndup, since it was slowing us
34493 - Remove warn on startup about missing cached-directory file.
34494 - Make kill -USR1 work again.
34495 - Hibernate if we start tor during the "wait for wakeup-time" phase
34496 of an accounting interval. Log our hibernation plans better.
34497 - Authoritative dirservers now also cache their directory, so they
34498 have it on start-up.
34501 - Fetch running-routers; cache running-routers; compress
34502 running-routers; serve compressed running-routers.z
34503 - Add NSI installer script contributed by J Doe.
34504 - Commit VC6 and VC7 workspace/project files.
34505 - Commit a tor.spec for making RPM files, with help from jbash.
34506 - Add contrib/torctl.in contributed by Glenn Fink.
34507 - Implement the control-spec's SAVECONF command, to write your
34508 configuration to torrc.
34509 - Get cookie authentication for the controller closer to working.
34510 - Include control-spec.txt in the tarball.
34511 - When set_conf changes our server descriptor, upload a new copy.
34512 But don't upload it too often if there are frequent changes.
34513 - Document authentication config in man page, and document signals
34515 - Clean up confusing parts of man page and torrc.sample.
34516 - Make expand_filename handle ~ and ~username.
34517 - Use autoconf to enable largefile support where necessary. Use
34518 ftello where available, since ftell can fail at 2GB.
34519 - Distinguish between TOR_TLS_CLOSE and TOR_TLS_ERROR, so we can
34520 log more informatively.
34521 - Give a slightly more useful output for "tor -h".
34522 - Refuse application socks connections to port 0.
34523 - Check clock skew for verified servers, but allow unverified
34524 servers and clients to have any clock skew.
34525 - Break DirFetchPostPeriod into:
34526 - DirFetchPeriod for fetching full directory,
34527 - StatusFetchPeriod for fetching running-routers,
34528 - DirPostPeriod for posting server descriptor,
34529 - RendPostPeriod for posting hidden service descriptors.
34530 - Make sure the hidden service descriptors are at a random offset
34531 from each other, to hinder linkability.
34534 Changes in version 0.0.9pre5 - 2004-11-09
34535 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre4:
34536 - Fix a seg fault in unit tests (doesn't affect main program).
34537 - Fix an assert bug where a hidden service provider would fail if
34538 the first hop of his rendezvous circuit was down.
34539 - Hidden service operators now correctly handle version 1 style
34540 INTRODUCE1 cells (nobody generates them still, so not a critical
34542 - If do_hup fails, actually notice.
34543 - Handle more errnos from accept() without closing the listener.
34544 Some OpenBSD machines were closing their listeners because
34545 they ran out of file descriptors.
34546 - Send resolve cells to exit routers that are running a new
34547 enough version of the resolve code to work right.
34548 - Better handling of winsock includes on non-MSV win32 compilers.
34549 - Some people had wrapped their tor client/server in a script
34550 that would restart it whenever it died. This did not play well
34551 with our "shut down if your version is obsolete" code. Now people
34552 don't fetch a new directory if their local cached version is
34554 - Make our autogen.sh work on ksh as well as bash.
34557 - Hibernation: New config option "AccountingMaxKB" lets you
34558 set how many KBytes per month you want to allow your server to
34559 consume. Rather than spreading those bytes out evenly over the
34560 month, we instead hibernate for some of the month and pop up
34561 at a deterministic time, work until the bytes are consumed, then
34562 hibernate again. Config option "MonthlyAccountingStart" lets you
34563 specify which day of the month your billing cycle starts on.
34564 - Control interface: a separate program can now talk to your
34565 client/server over a socket, and get/set config options, receive
34566 notifications of circuits and streams starting/finishing/dying,
34567 bandwidth used, etc. The next step is to get some GUIs working.
34568 Let us know if you want to help out. See doc/control-spec.txt .
34569 - Ship a contrib/tor-control.py as an example script to interact
34570 with the control port.
34571 - "tor --hash-password zzyxz" will output a salted password for
34572 use in authenticating to the control interface.
34573 - New log format in config:
34574 "Log minsev[-maxsev] stdout|stderr|syslog" or
34575 "Log minsev[-maxsev] file /var/foo"
34578 - DirPolicy config option, to let people reject incoming addresses
34579 from their dirserver.
34580 - "tor --list-fingerprint" will list your identity key fingerprint
34582 - Add "pass" target for RedirectExit, to make it easier to break
34583 out of a sequence of RedirectExit rules.
34584 - Clients now generate a TLS cert too, in preparation for having
34585 them act more like real nodes.
34586 - Ship src/win32/ in the tarball, so people can use it to build.
34587 - Make old win32 fall back to CWD if SHGetSpecialFolderLocation
34589 - New "router-status" line in directory, to better bind each verified
34590 nickname to its identity key.
34591 - Deprecate unofficial config option abbreviations, and abbreviations
34592 not on the command line.
34593 - Add a pure-C tor-resolve implementation.
34594 - Use getrlimit and friends to ensure we can reach MaxConn (currently
34595 1024) file descriptors.
34597 o Code security improvements, inspired by Ilja:
34598 - Replace sprintf with snprintf. (I think they were all safe, but
34600 - Replace strcpy/strncpy with strlcpy in more places.
34601 - Avoid strcat; use snprintf or strlcat instead.
34602 - snprintf wrapper with consistent (though not C99) overflow behavior.
34605 Changes in version 0.0.9pre4 - 2004-10-17
34606 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre3:
34607 - If the server doesn't specify an exit policy, use the real default
34608 exit policy, not reject *:*.
34609 - Ignore fascistfirewall when uploading/downloading hidden service
34610 descriptors, since we go through Tor for those; and when using
34611 an HttpProxy, since we assume it can reach them all.
34612 - When looking for an authoritative dirserver, use only the ones
34613 configured at boot. Don't bother looking in the directory.
34614 - The rest of the fix for get_default_conf_file() on older win32.
34615 - Make 'Routerfile' config option obsolete.
34618 - New 'MyFamily nick1,...' config option for a server to
34619 specify other servers that shouldn't be used in the same circuit
34620 with it. Only believed if nick1 also specifies us.
34621 - New 'NodeFamily nick1,nick2,...' config option for a client to
34622 specify nodes that it doesn't want to use in the same circuit.
34623 - New 'Redirectexit pattern address:port' config option for a
34624 server to redirect exit connections, e.g. to a local squid.
34627 Changes in version 0.0.9pre3 - 2004-10-13
34628 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
34629 - Better torrc example lines for dirbindaddress and orbindaddress.
34630 - Improved bounds checking on parsed ints (e.g. config options and
34631 the ones we find in directories.)
34632 - Better handling of size_t vs int, so we're more robust on 64
34634 - Fix the rest of the bug where a newly started OR would appear
34635 as unverified even after we've added his fingerprint and hupped
34637 - Fix a bug from 0.0.7: when read() failed on a stream, we would
34638 close it without sending back an end. So 'connection refused'
34639 would simply be ignored and the user would get no response.
34641 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre2:
34642 - Serving the cached-on-disk directory to people is bad. We now
34643 provide no directory until we've fetched a fresh one.
34644 - Workaround for bug on windows where cached-directories get crlf
34646 - Make get_default_conf_file() work on older windows too.
34647 - If we write a *:* exit policy line in the descriptor, don't write
34648 any more exit policy lines.
34651 - Use only 0.0.9pre1 and later servers for resolve cells.
34652 - Make the dirservers file obsolete.
34653 - Include a dir-signing-key token in directories to tell the
34654 parsing entity which key is being used to sign.
34655 - Remove the built-in bulky default dirservers string.
34656 - New config option "Dirserver %s:%d [fingerprint]", which can be
34657 repeated as many times as needed. If no dirservers specified,
34658 default to moria1,moria2,tor26.
34659 - Make moria2 advertise a dirport of 80, so people behind firewalls
34660 will be able to get a directory.
34661 - Http proxy support
34662 - Dirservers translate requests for http://%s:%d/x to /x
34663 - You can specify "HttpProxy %s[:%d]" and all dir fetches will
34664 be routed through this host.
34665 - Clients ask for /tor/x rather than /x for new enough dirservers.
34666 This way we can one day coexist peacefully with apache.
34667 - Clients specify a "Host: %s%d" http header, to be compatible
34668 with more proxies, and so running squid on an exit node can work.
34671 Changes in version 0.0.8.1 - 2004-10-13
34673 - Fix a seg fault that can be triggered remotely for Tor
34674 clients/servers with an open dirport.
34675 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
34676 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
34677 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
34678 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
34679 intermittent connections.
34680 - Fix a bug in parsing opt keywords with objects.
34681 - Fix a stale pointer assert bug when a stream detaches and
34683 - Fix a string format vulnerability (probably not exploitable)
34684 in reporting stats locally.
34685 - Fix an assert trigger: sometimes launching circuits can fail
34686 immediately, e.g. because too many circuits have failed recently.
34687 - Fix a compile warning on 64 bit platforms.
34690 Changes in version 0.0.9pre2 - 2004-10-03
34692 - Make fetching a cached directory work for 64-bit platforms too.
34693 - Make zlib.h a required header, not an optional header.
34696 Changes in version 0.0.9pre1 - 2004-10-01
34698 - Stop using separate defaults for no-config-file and
34699 empty-config-file. Now you have to explicitly turn off SocksPort,
34700 if you don't want it open.
34701 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
34702 - Improve man page to mention more of the 0.0.8 features.
34703 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
34704 intermittent connections.
34705 - Change our file IO stuff (especially wrt OpenSSL) so win32 is
34707 - Fix more dns related bugs: send back resolve_failed and end cells
34708 more reliably when the resolve fails, rather than closing the
34709 circuit and then trying to send the cell. Also attach dummy resolve
34710 connections to a circuit *before* calling dns_resolve(), to fix
34711 a bug where cached answers would never be sent in RESOLVED cells.
34712 - When we run out of disk space, or other log writing error, don't
34713 crash. Just stop logging to that log and continue.
34714 - We were starting to daemonize before we opened our logs, so if
34715 there were any problems opening logs, we would complain to stderr,
34716 which wouldn't work, and then mysteriously exit.
34717 - Fix a rare bug where sometimes a verified OR would connect to us
34718 before he'd uploaded his descriptor, which would cause us to
34719 assign conn->nickname as though he's unverified. Now we look through
34720 the fingerprint list to see if he's there.
34721 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
34722 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
34725 - Clients can ask dirservers for /dir.z to get a compressed version
34726 of the directory. Only works for servers running 0.0.9, of course.
34727 - Make clients cache directories and use them to seed their router
34728 lists at startup. This means clients have a datadir again.
34729 - Configuration infrastructure support for warning on obsolete
34731 - Respond to content-encoding headers by trying to uncompress as
34733 - Reply with a deflated directory when a client asks for "dir.z".
34734 We could use allow-encodings instead, but allow-encodings isn't
34735 specified in HTTP 1.0.
34736 - Raise the max dns workers from 50 to 100.
34737 - Discourage people from setting their dirfetchpostperiod more often
34738 than once per minute.
34739 - Protect dirservers from overzealous descriptor uploading -- wait
34740 10 seconds after directory gets dirty, before regenerating.
34743 Changes in version 0.0.8 - 2004-08-25
34744 o Port it to SunOS 5.9 / Athena
34747 Changes in version 0.0.8rc2 - 2004-08-20
34748 o Make it compile on cygwin again.
34749 o When picking unverified routers, skip those with low uptime and/or
34750 low bandwidth, depending on what properties you care about.
34753 Changes in version 0.0.8rc1 - 2004-08-18
34754 o Changes from 0.0.7.3:
34756 - Fix assert triggers: if the other side returns an address 0.0.0.0,
34757 don't put it into the client dns cache.
34758 - If a begin failed due to exit policy, but we believe the IP address
34759 should have been allowed, switch that router to exitpolicy reject *:*
34760 until we get our next directory.
34762 - Clients choose nodes proportional to advertised bandwidth.
34763 - Avoid using nodes with low uptime as introduction points.
34764 - Handle servers with dynamic IP addresses: don't replace
34765 options->Address with the resolved one at startup, and
34766 detect our address right before we make a routerinfo each time.
34767 - 'FascistFirewall' option to pick dirservers and ORs on specific
34768 ports; plus 'FirewallPorts' config option to tell FascistFirewall
34769 which ports are open. (Defaults to 80,443)
34770 - Be more aggressive about trying to make circuits when the network
34771 has changed (e.g. when you unsuspend your laptop).
34772 - Check for time skew on http headers; report date in response to
34774 - If the entrynode config line has only one node, don't pick it as
34776 - Add strict{entry|exit}nodes config options. If set to 1, then
34777 we refuse to build circuits that don't include the specified entry
34779 - OutboundBindAddress config option, to bind to a specific
34780 IP address for outgoing connect()s.
34781 - End truncated log entries (e.g. directories) with "[truncated]".
34783 o Patches to 0.0.8preX:
34785 - Patches to compile and run on win32 again (maybe)?
34786 - Fix crash when looking for ~/.torrc with no $HOME set.
34787 - Fix a race bug in the unit tests.
34788 - Handle verified/unverified name collisions better when new
34789 routerinfo's arrive in a directory.
34790 - Sometimes routers were getting entered into the stats before
34791 we'd assigned their identity_digest. Oops.
34792 - Only pick and establish intro points after we've gotten a
34795 - AllowUnverifiedNodes config option to let circuits choose no-name
34796 routers in entry,middle,exit,introduction,rendezvous positions.
34797 Allow middle and rendezvous positions by default.
34798 - Add a man page for tor-resolve.
34801 Changes in version 0.0.7.3 - 2004-08-12
34802 o Stop dnsworkers from triggering an assert failure when you
34803 ask them to resolve the host "".
34806 Changes in version 0.0.8pre3 - 2004-08-09
34807 o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
34808 - Allow multiple ORs with same nickname in routerlist -- now when
34809 people give us one identity key for a nickname, then later
34810 another, we don't constantly complain until the first expires.
34811 - Remember used bandwidth (both in and out), and publish 15-minute
34812 snapshots for the past day into our descriptor.
34813 - You can now fetch $DIRURL/running-routers to get just the
34814 running-routers line, not the whole descriptor list. (But
34815 clients don't use this yet.)
34816 - When people mistakenly use Tor as an http proxy, point them
34817 at the tor-doc.html rather than the INSTALL.
34818 - Remove our mostly unused -- and broken -- hex_encode()
34819 function. Use base16_encode() instead. (Thanks to Timo Lindfors
34820 for pointing out this bug.)
34821 - Rotate onion keys every 12 hours, not every 2 hours, so we have
34822 fewer problems with people using the wrong key.
34823 - Change the default exit policy to reject the default edonkey,
34824 kazaa, gnutella ports.
34825 - Add replace_file() to util.[ch] to handle win32's rename().
34827 o Changes from 0.0.8preX:
34828 - Fix two bugs in saving onion keys to disk when rotating, so
34829 hopefully we'll get fewer people using old onion keys.
34830 - Fix an assert error that was making SocksPolicy not work.
34831 - Be willing to expire routers that have an open dirport -- it's
34832 just the authoritative dirservers we want to not forget.
34833 - Reject tor-resolve requests for .onion addresses early, so we
34834 don't build a whole rendezvous circuit and then fail.
34835 - When you're warning a server that he's unverified, don't cry
34836 wolf unpredictably.
34837 - Fix a race condition: don't try to extend onto a connection
34838 that's still handshaking.
34839 - For servers in clique mode, require the conn to be open before
34840 you'll choose it for your path.
34841 - Fix some cosmetic bugs about duplicate mark-for-close, lack of
34842 end relay cell, etc.
34843 - Measure bandwidth capacity over the last 24 hours, not just 12
34844 - Bugfix: authoritative dirservers were making and signing a new
34845 directory for each client, rather than reusing the cached one.
34848 Changes in version 0.0.8pre2 - 2004-08-04
34849 o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
34851 - Check directory signature _before_ you decide whether you're
34852 you're running an obsolete version and should exit.
34853 - Check directory signature _before_ you parse the running-routers
34854 list to decide who's running or verified.
34855 - Bugfixes and features:
34856 - Check return value of fclose while writing to disk, so we don't
34857 end up with broken files when servers run out of disk space.
34858 - Log a warning if the user uses an unsafe socks variant, so people
34859 are more likely to learn about privoxy or socat.
34860 - Dirservers now include RFC1123-style dates in the HTTP headers,
34861 which one day we will use to better detect clock skew.
34863 o Changes from 0.0.8pre1:
34864 - Make it compile without warnings again on win32.
34865 - Log a warning if you're running an unverified server, to let you
34866 know you might want to get it verified.
34867 - Only pick a default nickname if you plan to be a server.
34870 Changes in version 0.0.8pre1 - 2004-07-23
34872 - Made our unit tests compile again on OpenBSD 3.5, and tor
34873 itself compile again on OpenBSD on a sparc64.
34874 - We were neglecting milliseconds when logging on win32, so
34875 everything appeared to happen at the beginning of each second.
34877 o Protocol changes:
34878 - 'Extend' relay cell payloads now include the digest of the
34879 intended next hop's identity key. Now we can verify that we're
34880 extending to the right router, and also extend to routers we
34881 hadn't heard of before.
34884 - Tor nodes can now act as relays (with an advertised ORPort)
34885 without being manually verified by the dirserver operators.
34886 - Uploaded descriptors of unverified routers are now accepted
34887 by the dirservers, and included in the directory.
34888 - Verified routers are listed by nickname in the running-routers
34889 list; unverified routers are listed as "$<fingerprint>".
34890 - We now use hash-of-identity-key in most places rather than
34891 nickname or addr:port, for improved security/flexibility.
34892 - To avoid Sybil attacks, paths still use only verified servers.
34893 But now we have a chance to play around with hybrid approaches.
34894 - Nodes track bandwidth usage to estimate capacity (not used yet).
34895 - ClientOnly option for nodes that never want to become servers.
34896 - Directory caching.
34897 - "AuthoritativeDir 1" option for the official dirservers.
34898 - Now other nodes (clients and servers) will cache the latest
34899 directory they've pulled down.
34900 - They can enable their DirPort to serve it to others.
34901 - Clients will pull down a directory from any node with an open
34902 DirPort, and check the signature/timestamp correctly.
34903 - Authoritative dirservers now fetch directories from other
34904 authdirservers, to stay better synced.
34905 - Running-routers list tells who's down also, along with noting
34906 if they're verified (listed by nickname) or unverified (listed
34908 - Allow dirservers to serve running-router list separately.
34909 This isn't used yet.
34910 - ORs connect-on-demand to other ORs
34911 - If you get an extend cell to an OR you're not connected to,
34912 connect, handshake, and forward the create cell.
34913 - The authoritative dirservers stay connected to everybody,
34914 and everybody stays connected to 0.0.7 servers, but otherwise
34915 clients/servers expire unused connections after 5 minutes.
34916 - When servers get a sigint, they delay 30 seconds (refusing new
34917 connections) then exit. A second sigint causes immediate exit.
34918 - File and name management:
34919 - Look for .torrc if no CONFDIR "torrc" is found.
34920 - If no datadir is defined, then choose, make, and secure ~/.tor
34922 - If torrc not found, exitpolicy reject *:*.
34923 - Expands ~/ in filenames to $HOME/ (but doesn't yet expand ~arma).
34924 - If no nickname is defined, derive default from hostname.
34925 - Rename secret key files, e.g. identity.key -> secret_id_key,
34926 to discourage people from mailing their identity key to tor-ops.
34927 - Refuse to build a circuit before the directory has arrived --
34928 it won't work anyway, since you won't know the right onion keys
34930 - Try other dirservers immediately if the one you try is down. This
34931 should tolerate down dirservers better now.
34932 - Parse tor version numbers so we can do an is-newer-than check
34933 rather than an is-in-the-list check.
34934 - New socks command 'resolve', to let us shim gethostbyname()
34936 - A 'tor_resolve' script to access the socks resolve functionality.
34937 - A new socks-extensions.txt doc file to describe our
34938 interpretation and extensions to the socks protocols.
34939 - Add a ContactInfo option, which gets published in descriptor.
34940 - Publish OR uptime in descriptor (and thus in directory) too.
34941 - Write tor version at the top of each log file
34942 - New docs in the tarball:
34944 - Document that you should proxy your SSL traffic too.
34947 Changes in version 0.0.7.2 - 2004-07-07
34948 o A better fix for the 0.0.0.0 problem, that will hopefully
34949 eliminate the remaining related assertion failures.
34952 Changes in version 0.0.7.1 - 2004-07-04
34953 o When an address resolves to 0.0.0.0, treat it as a failed resolve,
34954 since internally we use 0.0.0.0 to signify "not yet resolved".
34957 Changes in version 0.0.7 - 2004-06-07
34958 o Updated the man page to reflect the new features.
34961 Changes in version 0.0.7rc2 - 2004-06-06
34962 o Changes from 0.0.7rc1:
34963 - Make it build on Win32 again.
34964 o Changes from 0.0.6.2:
34965 - Rotate dnsworkers and cpuworkers on SIGHUP, so they get new config
34969 Changes in version 0.0.7rc1 - 2004-06-02
34971 - On sighup, we were adding another log without removing the first
34972 one. So log messages would get duplicated n times for n sighups.
34973 - Several cases of using a connection after we'd freed it. The
34974 problem was that connections that are pending resolve are in both
34975 the pending_resolve tree, and also the circuit's resolving_streams
34976 list. When you want to remove one, you must remove it from both.
34977 - Fix a double-mark-for-close where an end cell arrived for a
34978 resolving stream, and then the resolve failed.
34979 - Check directory signatures based on name of signer, not on whom
34980 we got the directory from. This will let us cache directories more
34983 - Crank up some of our constants to handle more users.
34986 Changes in version 0.0.7pre1 - 2004-06-02
34987 o Fixes for crashes and other obnoxious bugs:
34988 - Fix an epipe bug: sometimes when directory connections failed
34989 to connect, we would give them a chance to flush before closing
34991 - When we detached from a circuit because of resolvefailed, we
34992 would immediately try the same circuit twice more, and then
34993 give up on the resolve thinking we'd tried three different
34995 - Limit the number of intro circuits we'll attempt to build for a
34996 hidden service per 15-minute period.
34997 - Check recommended-software string *early*, before actually parsing
34998 the directory. Thus we can detect an obsolete version and exit,
34999 even if the new directory format doesn't parse.
35000 o Fixes for security bugs:
35001 - Remember which nodes are dirservers when you startup, and if a
35002 random OR enables his dirport, don't automatically assume he's
35003 a trusted dirserver.
35005 - Directory connections were asking the wrong poll socket to
35006 start writing, and not asking themselves to start writing.
35007 - When we detached from a circuit because we sent a begin but
35008 didn't get a connected, we would use it again the first time;
35009 but after that we would correctly switch to a different one.
35010 - Stop warning when the first onion decrypt attempt fails; they
35011 will sometimes legitimately fail now that we rotate keys.
35012 - Override unaligned-access-ok check when $host_cpu is ia64 or
35013 arm. Apparently they allow it but the kernel whines.
35014 - Dirservers try to reconnect periodically too, in case connections
35016 - Fix some memory leaks in directory servers.
35017 - Allow backslash in Win32 filenames.
35018 - Made Tor build complain-free on FreeBSD, hopefully without
35019 breaking other BSD builds. We'll see.
35021 - Doxygen markup on all functions and global variables.
35022 - Make directory functions update routerlist, not replace it. So
35023 now directory disagreements are not so critical a problem.
35024 - Remove the upper limit on number of descriptors in a dirserver's
35025 directory (not that we were anywhere close).
35026 - Allow multiple logfiles at different severity ranges.
35027 - Allow *BindAddress to specify ":port" rather than setting *Port
35028 separately. Allow multiple instances of each BindAddress config
35029 option, so you can bind to multiple interfaces if you want.
35030 - Allow multiple exit policy lines, which are processed in order.
35031 Now we don't need that huge line with all the commas in it.
35032 - Enable accept/reject policies on SOCKS connections, so you can bind
35033 to 0.0.0.0 but still control who can use your OP.
35036 Changes in version 0.0.6.2 - 2004-05-16
35037 o Our integrity-checking digest was checking only the most recent cell,
35038 not the previous cells like we'd thought.
35039 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
35042 Changes in version 0.0.6.1 - 2004-05-06
35043 o Fix two bugs in our AES counter-mode implementation (this affected
35044 onion-level stream encryption, but not TLS-level). It turns
35045 out we were doing something much more akin to a 16-character
35046 polyalphabetic cipher. Oops.
35047 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
35048 o Retire moria3 as a directory server, and add tor26 as a directory
35052 Changes in version 0.0.6 - 2004-05-02
35053 [version bump only]
35056 Changes in version 0.0.6rc4 - 2004-05-01
35057 o Update the built-in dirservers list to use the new directory format
35058 o Fix a rare seg fault: if a node offering a hidden service attempts
35059 to build a circuit to Alice's rendezvous point and fails before it
35060 reaches the last hop, it retries with a different circuit, but
35062 o Handle windows socket errors correctly.
35065 Changes in version 0.0.6rc3 - 2004-04-28
35066 o Don't expire non-general excess circuits (if we had enough
35067 circuits open, we were expiring rendezvous circuits -- even
35068 when they had a stream attached. oops.)
35069 o Fetch randomness from /dev/urandom better (not via fopen/fread)
35070 o Better debugging for tls errors
35071 o Some versions of openssl have an SSL_pending function that erroneously
35072 returns bytes when there is a non-application record pending.
35073 o Set Content-Type on the directory and hidserv descriptor.
35074 o Remove IVs from cipher code, since AES-ctr has none.
35075 o Win32 fixes. Tor now compiles on win32 with no warnings/errors.
35076 o We were using an array of length zero in a few places.
35077 o win32's gethostbyname can't resolve an IP to an IP.
35078 o win32's close can't close a socket.
35081 Changes in version 0.0.6rc2 - 2004-04-26
35082 o Fix a bug where we were closing tls connections intermittently.
35083 It turns out openssl keeps its errors around -- so if an error
35084 happens, and you don't ask about it, and then another openssl
35085 operation happens and succeeds, and you ask if there was an error,
35086 it tells you about the first error. Fun fun.
35087 o Fix a bug that's been lurking since 27 may 03 (!)
35088 When passing back a destroy cell, we would use the wrong circ id.
35089 'Mostly harmless', but still worth fixing.
35090 o Since we don't support truncateds much, don't bother sending them;
35091 just close the circ.
35092 o check for <machine/limits.h> so we build on NetBSD again (I hope).
35093 o don't crash if a conn that sent a begin has suddenly lost its circuit
35094 (this was quite rare).
35097 Changes in version 0.0.6rc1 - 2004-04-25
35098 o We now rotate link (tls context) keys and onion keys.
35099 o CREATE cells now include oaep padding, so you can tell
35100 if you decrypted them correctly.
35101 o Add bandwidthburst to server descriptor.
35102 o Directories now say which dirserver signed them.
35103 o Use a tor_assert macro that logs failed assertions too.
35106 Changes in version 0.0.6pre5 - 2004-04-18
35107 o changes from 0.0.6pre4:
35108 - make tor build on broken freebsd 5.2 installs
35109 - fix a failed assert when you try an intro point, get a nack, and try
35110 a second one and it works.
35111 - when alice uses a port that the hidden service doesn't accept,
35112 it now sends back an end cell (denied by exit policy). otherwise
35113 alice would just have to wait to time out.
35114 - fix another rare bug: when we had tried all the intro
35115 points for a hidden service, we fetched the descriptor
35116 again, but we left our introcirc thinking it had already
35117 sent an intro, so it kept waiting for a response...
35118 - bugfix: when you sleep your hidden-service laptop, as soon
35119 as it wakes up it tries to upload a service descriptor, but
35120 socketpair fails for some reason (localhost not up yet?).
35121 now we simply give up on that upload, and we'll try again later.
35122 i'd still like to find the bug though.
35123 - if an intro circ waiting for an ack dies before getting one, then
35125 - we were reusing stale service descriptors and refetching usable
35129 Changes in version 0.0.6pre4 - 2004-04-14
35130 o changes from 0.0.6pre3:
35131 - when bob fails to connect to the rendezvous point, and his
35132 circ didn't fail because of the rendezvous point itself, then
35133 he retries a couple of times
35134 - we expire introduction and rendezvous circs more thoroughly
35135 (sometimes they were hanging around forever)
35136 - we expire unattached rendezvous streams that have been around
35137 too long (they were sticking around forever).
35138 - fix a measly fencepost error that was crashing everybody with
35142 Changes in version 0.0.6pre3 - 2004-04-14
35143 o changes from 0.0.6pre2:
35144 - make hup work again
35145 - fix some memory leaks for dirservers
35146 - allow more skew in rendezvous descriptor timestamps, to help
35147 handle people like blanu who don't know what time it is
35148 - normal circs are 3 hops, but some rend/intro circs are 4, if
35149 the initiator doesn't get to choose the last hop
35150 - send acks for introductions, so alice can know whether to try
35152 - bob publishes intro points more correctly
35153 o changes from 0.0.5:
35154 - fix an assert trigger that's been plaguing us since the days
35155 of 0.0.2prexx (thanks weasel!)
35156 - retry stream correctly when we fail to connect because of
35157 exit-policy-reject (should try another) or can't-resolve-address
35158 (also should try another, because dns on random internet servers
35160 - when we hup a dirserver and we've *removed* a server from the
35161 approved-routers list, now we remove that server from the
35162 in-memory directories too
35165 Changes in version 0.0.6pre2 - 2004-04-08
35166 o We fixed our base32 implementation. Now it works on all architectures.
35169 Changes in version 0.0.6pre1 - 2004-04-08
35171 - Hidden services and rendezvous points are implemented. Go to
35172 http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/ for an index of currently available
35173 hidden services. (This only works via a socks4a proxy such as
35174 Privoxy, and currently it's quite slow.)
35177 Changes in version 0.0.5 - 2004-03-30
35178 [version bump only]
35181 Changes in version 0.0.5rc3 - 2004-03-29
35182 o Install torrc as torrc.sample -- we no longer clobber your
35184 o Re-enable recommendedversion checking (we broke it in rc2, oops)
35185 o Add in a 'notice' log level for things the operator should hear
35186 but that aren't warnings
35189 Changes in version 0.0.5rc2 - 2004-03-29
35190 o Hold socks connection open until reply is flushed (if possible)
35191 o Make exit nodes resolve IPs to IPs immediately, rather than asking
35192 the dns farm to do it.
35193 o Fix c99 aliasing warnings in rephist.c
35194 o Don't include server descriptors that are older than 24 hours in the
35196 o Give socks 'reject' replies their whole 15s to attempt to flush,
35197 rather than seeing the 60s timeout and assuming the flush had failed.
35198 o Clean automake droppings from the cvs repository
35201 Changes in version 0.0.5rc1 - 2004-03-28
35202 o Fix mangled-state bug in directory fetching (was causing sigpipes).
35203 o Only build circuits after we've fetched the directory: clients were
35204 using only the directory servers before they'd fetched a directory.
35205 This also means longer startup time; so it goes.
35206 o Fix an assert trigger where an OP would fail to handshake, and we'd
35207 expect it to have a nickname.
35208 o Work around a tsocks bug: do a socks reject when AP connection dies
35209 early, else tsocks goes into an infinite loop.
35212 Changes in version 0.0.4 - 2004-03-26
35213 o When connecting to a dirserver or OR and the network is down,
35217 Changes in version 0.0.3 - 2004-03-26
35218 o Warn and fail if server chose a nickname with illegal characters
35219 o Port to Solaris and Sparc:
35220 - include missing header fcntl.h
35221 - have autoconf find -lsocket -lnsl automatically
35222 - deal with hardware word alignment
35223 - make uname() work (solaris has a different return convention)
35224 - switch from using signal() to sigaction()
35225 o Preliminary work on reputation system:
35226 - Keep statistics on success/fail of connect attempts; they're published
35227 by kill -USR1 currently.
35228 - Add a RunTesting option to try to learn link state by creating test
35229 circuits, even when SocksPort is off.
35230 - Remove unused open circuits when there are too many.
35233 Changes in version 0.0.2 - 2004-03-19
35234 - Include strlcpy and strlcat for safer string ops
35235 - define INADDR_NONE so we compile (but still not run) on solaris
35238 Changes in version 0.0.2pre27 - 2004-03-14
35240 - Allow internal tor networks (we were rejecting internal IPs,
35241 now we allow them if they're set explicitly).
35242 - And fix a few endian issues.
35245 Changes in version 0.0.2pre26 - 2004-03-14
35247 - If a stream times out after 15s without a connected cell, don't
35248 try that circuit again: try a new one.
35249 - Retry streams at most 4 times. Then give up.
35250 - When a dirserver gets a descriptor from an unknown router, it
35251 logs its fingerprint (so the dirserver operator can choose to
35252 accept it even without mail from the server operator).
35253 - Inform unapproved servers when we reject their descriptors.
35254 - Make tor build on Windows again. It works as a client, who knows
35256 - Clearer instructions in the torrc for how to set up a server.
35257 - Be more efficient about reading fd's when our global token bucket
35258 (used for rate limiting) becomes empty.
35260 - Stop asserting that computers always go forward in time. It's
35262 - When we sent a cell (e.g. destroy) and then marked an OR connection
35263 expired, we might close it before finishing a flush if the other
35264 side isn't reading right then.
35265 - Don't allow dirservers to start if they haven't defined
35266 RecommendedVersions
35267 - We were caching transient dns failures. Oops.
35268 - Prevent servers from publishing an internal IP as their address.
35269 - Address a strcat vulnerability in circuit.c
35272 Changes in version 0.0.2pre25 - 2004-03-04
35274 - Put the OR's IP in its router descriptor, not its fqdn. That way
35275 we'll stop being stalled by gethostbyname for nodes with flaky dns,
35278 - If the user typed in an address that didn't resolve, the server
35282 Changes in version 0.0.2pre24 - 2004-03-03
35284 - Fix an assertion failure in dns.c, where we were trying to dequeue
35285 a pending dns resolve even if it wasn't pending
35286 - Fix a spurious socks5 warning about still trying to write after the
35287 connection is finished.
35288 - Hold certain marked_for_close connections open until they're finished
35289 flushing, rather than losing bytes by closing them too early.
35290 - Correctly report the reason for ending a stream
35291 - Remove some duplicate calls to connection_mark_for_close
35292 - Put switch_id and start_daemon earlier in the boot sequence, so it
35293 will actually try to chdir() to options.DataDirectory
35294 - Make 'make test' exit(1) if a test fails; fix some unit tests
35295 - Make tor fail when you use a config option it doesn't know about,
35296 rather than warn and continue.
35297 - Make --version work
35298 - Bugfixes on the rpm spec file and tor.sh, so it's more up to date
35301 Changes in version 0.0.2pre23 - 2004-02-29
35303 - Print a statement when the first circ is finished, so the user
35304 knows it's working.
35305 - If a relay cell is unrecognized at the end of the circuit,
35306 send back a destroy. (So attacks to mutate cells are more
35308 - New config option 'excludenodes' to avoid certain nodes for circuits.
35309 - When it daemonizes, it chdir's to the DataDirectory rather than "/",
35310 so you can collect coredumps there.
35312 - Fix a bug in tls flushing where sometimes data got wedged and
35313 didn't flush until more data got sent. Hopefully this bug was
35314 a big factor in the random delays we were seeing.
35315 - Make 'connected' cells include the resolved IP, so the client
35316 dns cache actually gets populated.
35317 - Disallow changing from ORPort=0 to ORPort>0 on hup.
35318 - When we time-out on a stream and detach from the circuit, send an
35319 end cell down it first.
35320 - Only warn about an unknown router (in exitnodes, entrynodes,
35321 excludenodes) after we've fetched a directory.
35324 Changes in version 0.0.2pre22 - 2004-02-26
35326 - Servers publish less revealing uname information in descriptors.
35327 - More memory tracking and assertions, to crash more usefully when
35329 - If the default torrc isn't there, just use some default defaults.
35330 Plus provide an internal dirservers file if they don't have one.
35331 - When the user tries to use Tor as an http proxy, give them an http
35332 501 failure explaining that we're a socks proxy.
35333 - Dump a new router.desc on hup, to help confused people who change
35334 their exit policies and then wonder why router.desc doesn't reflect
35336 - Clean up the generic tor.sh init script that we ship with.
35338 - If the exit stream is pending on the resolve, and a destroy arrives,
35339 then the stream wasn't getting removed from the pending list. I
35340 think this was the one causing recent server crashes.
35341 - Use a more robust poll on OSX 10.3, since their poll is flaky.
35342 - When it couldn't resolve any dirservers, it was useless from then on.
35343 Now it reloads the RouterFile (or default dirservers) if it has no
35345 - Move the 'tor' binary back to /usr/local/bin/ -- it turns out
35346 many users don't even *have* a /usr/local/sbin/.
35349 Changes in version 0.0.2pre21 - 2004-02-18
35351 - There's a ChangeLog file that actually reflects the changelog.
35352 - There's a 'torify' wrapper script, with an accompanying
35353 tor-tsocks.conf, that simplifies the process of using tsocks for
35354 tor. It even has a man page.
35355 - The tor binary gets installed to sbin rather than bin now.
35356 - Retry streams where the connected cell hasn't arrived in 15 seconds
35357 - Clean up exit policy handling -- get the default out of the torrc,
35358 so we can update it without forcing each server operator to fix
35360 - Allow imaps and pop3s in default exit policy
35362 - Prevent picking middleman nodes as the last node in the circuit
35365 Changes in version 0.0.2pre20 - 2004-01-30
35367 - We now have a deb package, and it's in debian unstable. Go to
35368 it, apt-getters. :)
35369 - I've split the TotalBandwidth option into BandwidthRate (how many
35370 bytes per second you want to allow, long-term) and
35371 BandwidthBurst (how many bytes you will allow at once before the cap
35372 kicks in). This better token bucket approach lets you, say, set
35373 BandwidthRate to 10KB/s and BandwidthBurst to 10MB, allowing good
35374 performance while not exceeding your monthly bandwidth quota.
35375 - Push out a tls record's worth of data once you've got it, rather
35376 than waiting until you've read everything waiting to be read. This
35377 may improve performance by pipelining better. We'll see.
35378 - Add an AP_CONN_STATE_CONNECTING state, to allow streams to detach
35379 from failed circuits (if they haven't been connected yet) and attach
35381 - Expire old streams that haven't managed to connect. Some day we'll
35382 have them reattach to new circuits instead.
35385 - Fix several memory leaks that were causing servers to become bloated
35387 - Fix a few very rare assert triggers. A few more remain.
35388 - Setuid to User _before_ complaining about running as root.
35391 Changes in version 0.0.2pre19 - 2004-01-07
35393 - Fix deadlock condition in dns farm. We were telling a child to die by
35394 closing the parent's file descriptor to him. But newer children were
35395 inheriting the open file descriptor from the parent, and since they
35396 weren't closing it, the socket never closed, so the child never read
35397 eof, so he never knew to exit. Similarly, dns workers were holding
35398 open other sockets, leading to all sorts of chaos.
35399 - New cleaner daemon() code for forking and backgrounding.
35400 - If you log to a file, it now prints an entry at the top of the
35401 logfile so you know it's working.
35402 - The onionskin challenge length was 30 bytes longer than necessary.
35403 - Started to patch up the spec so it's not quite so out of date.
35406 Changes in version 0.0.2pre18 - 2004-01-02
35408 - Fix endian issues with the 'integrity' field in the relay header.
35409 - Fix a potential bug where connections in state
35410 AP_CONN_STATE_CIRCUIT_WAIT might unexpectedly ask to write.
35413 Changes in version 0.0.2pre17 - 2003-12-30
35415 - Made --debuglogfile (or any second log file, actually) work.
35416 - Resolved an edge case in get_unique_circ_id_by_conn where a smart
35417 adversary could force us into an infinite loop.
35420 - Each onionskin handshake now includes a hash of the computed key,
35421 to prove the server's identity and help perfect forward secrecy.
35422 - Changed cell size from 256 to 512 bytes (working toward compatibility
35424 - Changed cell length to 2 bytes, and moved it to the relay header.
35425 - Implemented end-to-end integrity checking for the payloads of
35427 - Separated streamid from 'recognized' (otherwise circuits will get
35428 messed up when we try to have streams exit from the middle). We
35429 use the integrity-checking to confirm that a cell is addressed to
35431 - Randomize the initial circid and streamid values, so an adversary who
35432 breaks into a node can't learn how many circuits or streams have
35436 Changes in version 0.0.2pre16 - 2003-12-14
35438 - Fixed a bug that made HUP trigger an assert
35439 - Fixed a bug where a circuit that immediately failed wasn't being
35440 counted as a failed circuit in counting retries.
35443 - Now we close the circuit when we get a truncated cell: otherwise we're
35444 open to an anonymity attack where a bad node in the path truncates
35445 the circuit and then we open streams at him.
35446 - Add port ranges to exit policies
35447 - Add a conservative default exit policy
35448 - Warn if you're running tor as root
35449 - on HUP, retry OR connections and close/rebind listeners
35450 - options.EntryNodes: try these nodes first when picking the first node
35451 - options.ExitNodes: if your best choices happen to include any of
35452 your preferred exit nodes, you choose among just those preferred
35454 - options.ExcludedNodes: nodes that are never picked in path building
35457 Changes in version 0.0.2pre15 - 2003-12-03
35458 o Robustness and bugfixes:
35459 - Sometimes clients would cache incorrect DNS resolves, which would
35460 really screw things up.
35461 - An OP that goes offline would slowly leak all its sockets and stop
35463 - A wide variety of bugfixes in exit node selection, exit policy
35464 handling, and processing pending streams when a new circuit is
35466 - Pick nodes for a path only from those the directory says are up
35467 - Choose randomly from all running dirservers, not always the first one
35468 - Increase allowed http header size for directory fetch.
35469 - Stop writing to stderr (if we're daemonized it will be closed).
35470 - Enable -g always, so cores will be more useful to me.
35471 - Switch "-lcrypto -lssl" to "-lssl -lcrypto" for broken distributions.
35474 - Wrote a man page. It lists commonly used options.
35477 - Change default loglevel to warn.
35478 - Make PidFile default to null rather than littering in your CWD.
35479 - OnionRouter config option is now obsolete. Instead it just checks
35481 - Moved to a single unified torrc file for both clients and servers.
35484 Changes in version 0.0.2pre14 - 2003-11-29
35485 o Robustness and bugfixes:
35486 - Force the admin to make the DataDirectory himself
35487 - to get ownership/permissions right
35488 - so clients no longer make a DataDirectory and then never use it
35489 - fix bug where a client who was offline for 45 minutes would never
35490 pull down a directory again
35491 - fix (or at least hide really well) the dns assert bug that was
35492 causing server crashes
35493 - warnings and improved robustness wrt clockskew for certs
35494 - use the native daemon(3) to daemonize, when available
35495 - exit if bind() fails
35496 - exit if neither socksport nor orport is defined
35497 - include our own tor_timegm (Win32 doesn't have its own)
35498 - bugfix for win32 with lots of connections
35499 - fix minor bias in PRNG
35500 - make dirserver more robust to corrupt cached directory
35503 - Wrote the design document (woo)
35505 o Circuit building and exit policies:
35506 - Circuits no longer try to use nodes that the directory has told them
35508 - Exit policies now support bitmasks (18.0.0.0/255.0.0.0) and
35509 bitcounts (18.0.0.0/8).
35510 - Make AP connections standby for a circuit if no suitable circuit
35511 exists, rather than failing
35512 - Circuits choose exit node based on addr/port, exit policies, and
35513 which AP connections are standing by
35514 - Bump min pathlen from 2 to 3
35515 - Relay end cells have a payload to describe why the stream ended.
35516 - If the stream failed because of exit policy, try again with a new
35518 - Clients have a dns cache to remember resolved addresses.
35519 - Notice more quickly when we have no working circuits
35522 - APPort is now called SocksPort
35523 - SocksBindAddress, ORBindAddress, DirBindAddress let you configure
35525 - RecommendedVersions is now a config variable rather than
35526 hardcoded (for dirservers)
35527 - Reloads config on HUP
35528 - Usage info on -h or --help
35529 - If you set User and Group config vars, it'll setu/gid to them.
35532 Changes in version 0.0.2pre13 - 2003-10-19
35533 o General stability:
35534 - SSL_write no longer fails when it returns WANTWRITE and the number
35535 of bytes in the buf has changed by the next SSL_write call.
35536 - Fix segfault fetching directory when network is down
35537 - Fix a variety of minor memory leaks
35538 - Dirservers reload the fingerprints file on HUP, so I don't have
35539 to take down the network when I approve a new router
35540 - Default server config file has explicit Address line to specify fqdn
35543 - Buffers grow and shrink as needed (Cut process size from 20M to 2M)
35544 - Make listener connections not ever alloc bufs
35546 o Autoconf improvements:
35547 - don't clobber an external CFLAGS in ./configure
35548 - Make install now works
35549 - create var/lib/tor on make install
35550 - autocreate a tor.sh initscript to help distribs
35551 - autocreate the torrc and sample-server-torrc with correct paths
35553 o Log files and Daemonizing now work:
35554 - If --DebugLogFile is specified, log to it at -l debug
35555 - If --LogFile is specified, use it instead of commandline
35556 - If --RunAsDaemon is set, tor forks and backgrounds on startup