1 Changes in version 0.2.3.22-rc - 2012-09-11
2 Tor 0.2.3.22-rc fixes another opportunity for a remotely triggerable
6 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
7 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
8 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
11 - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
12 version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
16 Changes in version 0.2.2.39 - 2012-09-11
17 Tor 0.2.2.39 fixes two more opportunities for remotely triggerable
21 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
22 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
23 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
24 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
25 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
26 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
27 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
31 Changes in version 0.2.4.2-alpha - 2012-09-10
32 Tor 0.2.4.2-alpha enables port forwarding for pluggable transports,
33 raises the default rate limiting even more, and makes the bootstrapping
34 log messages less noisy.
37 - Automatically forward the TCP ports of pluggable transport
38 proxies using tor-fw-helper if PortForwarding is enabled. Implements
42 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst values from 5MB/10MB
43 to 1GB/1GB. The previous defaults were intended to be "basically
44 infinite", but it turns out they're now limiting our 100mbit+
45 relays and bridges. Fixes bug 6605; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha (the
46 last time we raised it).
49 - Detect when we're running with a version of OpenSSL other than the
50 one we compiled with. This has occasionally given people hard-to-
52 - Log fewer lines at level "notice" about our OpenSSL and Libevent
53 versions and capabilities when everything is going right. Resolves
55 - Directory authorities no long accept descriptors for any version of
56 Tor before 0.2.2.35, or for any 0.2.3 release before 0.2.3.10-alpha.
57 These versions are insecure, unsupported, or both. Implements
61 - Rename the (internal-use-only) UsingTestingNetworkDefaults option
62 to start with a triple-underscore so the controller won't touch it.
63 Patch by Meejah. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
64 - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
65 version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
67 - Rename the (testing-use-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option
68 so it doesn't start with _. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
69 - Don't follow the NULL pointer if microdescriptor generation fails.
70 (This does not appear to be triggerable, but it's best to be safe.)
71 Found by "f. tp.". Fixes bug 6797; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
72 - Fix mis-declared dependencies on src/common/crypto.c and
73 src/or/tor_main.c that could break out-of-tree builds under some
74 circumstances. Fixes bug 6778; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
75 - Avoid a warning when building common_sha1.i out of tree. Fixes bug
76 6778; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
77 - Fix a harmless (in this case) build warning for implicitly
78 converting a strlen() to an int. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
81 - Now that all versions before 0.2.2.x are disallowed, we no longer
82 need to work around their missing features. Thus we can remove a
83 bunch of compatibility code.
86 - Tweak tor-fw-helper to accept an arbitrary amount of arbitrary
87 TCP ports to forward. In the past it only accepted two ports:
88 the ORPort and the DirPort.
91 Changes in version 0.2.4.1-alpha - 2012-09-05
92 Tor 0.2.4.1-alpha lets bridges publish their pluggable transports to
93 bridgedb; lets relays use IPv6 addresses and directory authorities
94 advertise them; and switches to a cleaner build interface.
96 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to
97 be bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
98 stay with 0.2.3.x for now.
100 o Major features (bridges):
101 - Bridges now report the pluggable transports they support to the
102 bridge authority, so it can pass the supported transports on to
103 bridgedb and/or eventually do reachability testing. Implements
106 o Major features (IPv6):
107 - Bridge authorities now accept IPv6 bridge addresses and include
108 them in network status documents. Implements ticket 5534.
109 - Clients who set "ClientUseIPv6 1" may connect to entry nodes over
110 IPv6. Set "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort 1" to make this even more likely
111 to happen. Implements ticket 5535.
112 - All kind of relays, not just bridges, can now advertise an IPv6
113 OR port. Implements ticket 6362.
114 - Directory authorities vote on IPv6 OR ports using the new consensus
115 method 14. Implements ticket 6363.
117 o Major features (build):
118 - Switch to a nonrecursive Makefile structure. Now instead of each
119 Makefile.am invoking other Makefile.am's, there is a master
120 Makefile.am that includes the others. This change makes our build
121 process slightly more maintainable, and improves parallelism for
122 building with make -j. Original patch by Stewart Smith; various
123 fixes by Jim Meyering.
124 - Where available, we now use automake's "silent" make rules by
125 default, so that warnings are easier to spot. You can get the old
126 behavior with "make V=1". Patch by Stewart Smith for ticket 6522.
128 o Minor features (code security and spec conformance):
129 - Clear keys and key-derived material left on the stack in
130 rendservice.c and rendclient.c. Check return value of
131 crypto_pk_write_private_key_to_string() in end_service_load_keys().
132 These fixes should make us more forward-secure against cold-boot
133 attacks and the like. Fixes bug 2385.
134 - Reject EXTEND cells sent to nonexistent streams. According to the
135 spec, an EXTEND cell sent to _any_ nonzero stream ID is invalid, but
136 we were only checking for stream IDs that were currently in use.
137 Found while hunting for more instances of bug 6271. Bugfix on
138 0.0.2pre8, which introduced incremental circuit construction.
140 o Minor features (streamlining);
141 - No longer include the "opt" prefix when generating routerinfos
142 or v2 directories: it has been needless since Tor 0.1.2. Closes
144 - Remove some now-needless code that tried to aggressively flush
145 OR connections as data was added to them. Since 0.2.0.1-alpha, our
146 cell queue logic has saved us from the failure mode that this code
147 was supposed to prevent. Removing this code will limit the number
148 of baroque control flow paths through Tor's network logic. Reported
149 pseudonymously on IRC. Fixes bug 6468; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
151 o Minor features (controller):
152 - Add a "GETINFO signal/names" control port command. Implements
154 - Provide default values for all options via "GETINFO config/defaults".
155 Implements ticket 4971.
157 o Minor features (IPv6):
158 - New config option "AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity 1" that directory
159 authorities should set if they have IPv6 connectivity and want to
160 do reachability tests for IPv6 relays. Implements feature 5974.
161 - A relay with an IPv6 OR port now sends that address in NETINFO
162 cells (in addition to its other address). Implements ticket 6364.
164 o Minor features (log messages):
165 - Omit the first heartbeat log message, because it never has anything
166 useful to say, and it clutters up the bootstrapping messages.
167 Resolves ticket 6758.
168 - Don't log about reloading the microdescriptor cache at startup. Our
169 bootstrap warnings are supposed to tell the user when there's a
170 problem, and our bootstrap notices say when there isn't. Resolves
171 ticket 6759; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
172 - Don't log "I learned some more directory information" when we're
173 reading cached directory information. Reserve it for when new
174 directory information arrives in response to a fetch. Resolves
176 - Prevent rounding error in path bias counts when scaling
177 them down, and use the correct scale factor default. Also demote
178 some path bias related log messages down a level and make others
179 less scary sounding. Fixes bug 6647. Bugfix against 0.2.3.17-beta.
180 - We no longer warn so much when generating manpages from their
183 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
184 - Enhance our internal sscanf replacement so that we can eliminate
185 the last remaining uses of the system sscanf. (Though those uses
186 of sscanf were safe, sscanf itself is generally error prone, so
187 we want to eliminate when we can.) Fixes ticket 4195 and Coverity
189 - Move ipv6_preferred from routerinfo_t to node_t. Addresses bug 4620.
190 - Move last_reachable and testing_since from routerinfo_t to node_t.
191 Implements ticket 5529.
192 - Add replaycache_t structure, functions and unit tests, then refactor
193 rend_service_introduce() to be more clear to read, improve, debug,
194 and test. Resolves bug 6177.
195 - Finally remove support for malloc_good_size and malloc_usable_size.
196 We had hoped that these functions would let us eke a little more
197 memory out of our malloc implementation. Unfortunately, the only
198 implementations that provided these functions are also ones that
199 are already efficient about not overallocation: they never got us
200 more than 7 or so bytes per allocation. Removing them saves us a
201 little code complexity and a nontrivial amount of build complexity.
204 - Tor maintainers now require Automake version 1.9 or later to build
205 Tor from the Git repository. (Automake is not required when building
206 from a source distribution.)
209 Changes in version 0.2.3.21-rc - 2012-09-05
210 Tor 0.2.3.21-rc is the fourth release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
211 series. It fixes a trio of potential security bugs, fixes a bug where
212 we were leaving some of the fast relays out of the microdescriptor
213 consensus, resumes interpreting "ORPort 0" and "DirPort 0" correctly,
214 and cleans up other smaller issues.
216 o Major bugfixes (security):
217 - Tear down the circuit if we get an unexpected SENDME cell. Clients
218 could use this trick to make their circuits receive cells faster
219 than our flow control would have allowed, or to gum up the network,
220 or possibly to do targeted memory denial-of-service attacks on
221 entry nodes. Fixes bug 6252. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor --
222 from July 2002, before the release of Tor 0.0.0. We had committed
223 this patch previously, but we had to revert it because of bug 6271.
224 Now that 6271 is fixed, this patch appears to work.
225 - Reject any attempt to extend to an internal address. Without
226 this fix, a router could be used to probe addresses on an internal
227 network to see whether they were accepting connections. Fixes bug
228 6710; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
229 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
230 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
231 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
232 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
236 - Remove the upper bound on microdescriptor length. We were hitting
237 the limit for routers with complex exit policies or family
238 declarations, causing clients to not use them. Fixes the first
239 piece of bug 6404; fix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
240 - Detect "ORPort 0" as meaning, uniformly, that we're not running
241 as a relay. Previously, some of our code would treat the presence
242 of any ORPort line as meaning that we should act like a relay,
243 even though our new listener code would correctly not open any
244 ORPorts for ORPort 0. Similar bugs in other Port options are also
245 fixed. Fixes the first half of bug 6507; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
248 - Avoid a pair of double-free and use-after-mark bugs that can
249 occur with certain timings in canceled and re-received DNS
250 requests. Fixes bug 6472; bugfix on 0.0.7rc1.
251 - Fix build and 64-bit compile warnings from --enable-openbsd-malloc.
252 Fixes bug 6379. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
253 - Allow one-hop directory fetching circuits the full "circuit build
254 timeout" period, rather than just half of it, before failing them
255 and marking the relay down. This fix should help reduce cases where
256 clients declare relays (or worse, bridges) unreachable because
257 the TLS handshake takes a few seconds to complete. Fixes bug 6743;
258 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha, where we changed the timeout from a static
260 - Authorities no longer include any router in their microdescriptor
261 consensuses for which they couldn't generate or agree on a
262 microdescriptor. Fixes the second piece of bug 6404; fix on
264 - Detect and reject attempts to specify both "FooPort" and
265 "FooPort 0" in the same configuration domain. (It's still okay
266 to have a FooPort in your configuration file, and use "FooPort 0"
267 on the command line to disable it.) Fixes the second half of bug
268 6507; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
269 - Make wildcarded addresses (that is, ones beginning with "*.") work
270 when provided via the controller's MapAddress command. Previously,
271 they were accepted, but we never actually noticed that they were
272 wildcards. Fixes bug 6244; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
273 - Avoid crashing on a malformed state file where EntryGuardPathBias
274 precedes EntryGuard. Fix for bug 6774; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
275 - Add a (probably redundant) memory clear between iterations of
276 the router status voting loop, to prevent future coding errors
277 where data might leak between iterations of the loop. Resolves
280 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
281 - Downgrade "set buildtimeout to low value" messages to "info"
282 severity; they were never an actual problem, there was never
283 anything reasonable to do about them, and they tended to spam logs
284 from time to time. Fixes bug 6251; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
285 - Downgrade path-bias warning messages to "info". We'll try to get
286 them working better in 0.2.4. Add internal circuit construction
287 state to protect against the noisy warn message "Unexpectedly high
288 circuit_successes". Also add some additional rate-limited notice
289 messages to help determine the root cause of the warn. Fixes bug
290 6475. Bugfix against 0.2.3.17-beta.
291 - Move log message when unable to find a microdesc in a routerstatus
292 entry to parse time. Previously we'd spam this warning every time
293 we tried to figure out which microdescriptors to download. Fixes
294 the third piece of bug 6404; fix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
297 - Consider new, removed or changed IPv6 OR ports a non-cosmetic
298 change when the authority is deciding whether to accept a newly
299 uploaded descriptor. Implements ticket 6423.
300 - Add missing documentation for consensus and microdesc files.
301 Resolves ticket 6732.
304 Changes in version 0.2.2.38 - 2012-08-12
305 Tor 0.2.2.38 fixes a remotely triggerable crash bug, and fixes a timing
306 attack that could in theory leak path information.
309 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
310 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
311 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
312 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
313 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
314 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
315 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
316 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
317 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
318 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
319 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
320 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
321 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
322 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
325 Changes in version 0.2.3.20-rc - 2012-08-05
326 Tor 0.2.3.20-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
327 series. It fixes a pair of code security bugs and a potential anonymity
328 issue, updates our RPM spec files, and cleans up other smaller issues.
331 - Avoid read-from-freed-memory and double-free bugs that could occur
332 when a DNS request fails while launching it. Fixes bug 6480;
333 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
334 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
335 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
336 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
337 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
338 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
339 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
340 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
341 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
342 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
343 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
344 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
345 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
346 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
347 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
350 - Try to make the warning when giving an obsolete SOCKSListenAddress
351 a little more useful.
352 - Terminate active server managed proxies if Tor stops being a
353 relay. Addresses parts of bug 6274; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
354 - Provide a better error message about possible OSX Asciidoc failure
355 reasons. Fixes bug 6436.
356 - Warn when Tor is configured to use accounting in a way that can
357 link a hidden service to some other hidden service or public
358 address. Resolves ticket 6490.
361 - Check return value of fputs() when writing authority certificate
362 file. Fixes Coverity issue 709056; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
363 - Ignore ServerTransportPlugin lines when Tor is not configured as
364 a relay. Fixes bug 6274; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
365 - When disabling guards for having too high a proportion of failed
366 circuits, make sure to look at each guard. Fixes bug 6397; bugfix
370 - Update our default RPM spec files to work with mock and rpmbuild
371 on RHEL/Fedora. They have an updated set of dependencies and
372 conflicts, a fix for an ancient typo when creating the "_tor"
373 user, and better instructions. Thanks to Ondrej Mikle for the
374 patch series. Fixes bug 6043.
377 - Make it possible to set the TestingTorNetwork configuration
378 option using AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority
379 as an alternative to setting DirServer. Addresses ticket 6377.
382 - Clarify the documentation for the Alternate*Authority options.
384 - Fix some typos in the manpages. Patch from A. Costa. Fixes bug 6500.
386 o Code simplification and refactoring:
387 - Do not use SMARTLIST_FOREACH for any loop whose body exceeds
388 10 lines. Also, don't nest them. Doing so in the past has
389 led to hard-to-debug code. The new style is to use the
390 SMARTLIST_FOREACH_{BEGIN,END} pair. Addresses issue 6400.
393 Changes in version 0.2.3.19-rc - 2012-07-06
394 Tor 0.2.3.19-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
395 series. It fixes the compile on Windows, reverts to a GeoIP database
396 that isn't as broken, and fixes a flow control bug that has been around
397 since the beginning of Tor.
400 - Fix a bug handling SENDME cells on nonexistent streams that could
401 result in bizarre window values. Report and patch contributed
402 pseudonymously. Fixes part of bug 6271. This bug was introduced
403 before the first Tor release, in svn commit r152.
404 - Revert to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database. In the
405 June 2012 database, Maxmind marked many Tor relays as country "A1",
406 which will cause risky behavior for clients that set EntryNodes
407 or ExitNodes. Addresses bug 6334; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
408 - Instead of ENOBUFS on Windows, say WSAENOBUFS. Fixes compilation
409 on Windows. Fixes bug 6296; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
412 - Fix wrong TCP port range in parse_port_range(). Fixes bug 6218;
413 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
416 Changes in version 0.2.3.18-rc - 2012-06-28
417 Tor 0.2.3.18-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
418 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
419 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
422 - Allow wildcarded mapaddress targets to be specified on the
423 controlport. Partially fixes bug 6244; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
424 - Make our linker option detection code more robust against linkers
425 such as on FreeBSD 8, where a bad combination of options completes
426 successfully but makes an unrunnable binary. Fixes bug 6173;
427 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
429 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
430 - Avoid a false positive in the util/threads unit test by increasing
431 the maximum timeout time. Fixes bug 6227; bugfix on 0.2.0.4-alpha.
432 - Replace "Sending publish request" log messages with "Launching
433 upload", so that they no longer confusingly imply that we're
434 sending something to a directory we might not even be connected
435 to yet. Fixes bug 3311; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
436 - Make sure to set *socket_error in all error cases in
437 connection_connect(), so it can't produce a warning about
438 errno being zero from errno_to_orconn_end_reason(). Bugfix on
439 0.2.1.1-alpha; resolves ticket 6028.
440 - Downgrade "Got a certificate, but we already have it" log messages
441 from warning to info, except when we're a dirauth. Fixes bug 5238;
442 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
443 - When checking for requested signatures on the latest consensus
444 before serving it to a client, make sure to check the right
445 consensus flavor. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
446 - Downgrade "eventdns rejected address" message to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN.
447 Fixes bug 5932; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
449 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
450 - Make format_helper_exit_status() avoid unnecessary space padding
451 and stop confusing log_from_pipe(). Fixes ticket 5557; bugfix
453 - Downgrade a message about cleaning the microdescriptor cache to
454 "info" from "notice". Fixes bug 6238; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
455 - Log a BUG message at severity INFO if we have a networkstatus with
456 a missing entry for some microdescriptor. Continues on a patch
458 - Improve the log message when a managed proxy fails to launch. Fixes
459 bug 5099; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
460 - Don't do DNS lookups when parsing corrupted managed proxy protocol
461 messages. Fixes bug 6226; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
462 - When formatting wildcarded address mappings for the controller,
463 be sure to include "*." as appropriate. Partially fixes bug 6244;
464 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
465 - Avoid a warning caused by using strcspn() from glibc with clang 3.0.
466 Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
467 - Stop logging messages about running with circuit timeout learning
468 enabled at severity LD_BUG. Fixes bug 6169; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
469 - Disable a spurious warning about reading on a marked and flushing
470 connection. We shouldn't be doing that, but apparently we
471 sometimes do. Fixes bug 6203; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
472 - Fix a bug that stopped AllowDotExit from working on addresses
473 that had an entry in the DNS cache. Fixes bug 6211; bugfix on
476 o Code simplification, refactoring, unit tests:
477 - Move tor_gettimeofday_cached() into compat_libevent.c, and use
478 Libevent's notion of cached time when possible.
479 - Remove duplicate code for invoking getrlimit() from control.c.
480 - Add a unit test for the environment_variable_names_equal function.
483 - Document the --defaults-torrc option, and the new (in 0.2.3)
484 semantics for overriding, extending, and clearing lists of
485 options. Closes bug 4748.
488 Changes in version 0.2.3.17-beta - 2012-06-15
489 Tor 0.2.3.17-beta enables compiler and linker hardening by default,
490 gets our TLS handshake back on track for being able to blend in with
491 Firefox, fixes a big bug in 0.2.3.16-alpha that broke Tor's interaction
492 with Vidalia, and otherwise continues to get us closer to a release
496 - Enable gcc and ld hardening by default. Resolves ticket 5210.
497 - Update TLS cipher list to match Firefox 8 and later. Resolves
499 - Implement the client side of proposal 198: remove support for
500 clients falsely claiming to support standard ciphersuites that
501 they can actually provide. As of modern OpenSSL versions, it's not
502 necessary to fake any standard ciphersuite, and doing so prevents
503 us from using better ciphersuites in the future, since servers
504 can't know whether an advertised ciphersuite is really supported or
505 not. Some hosts -- notably, ones with very old versions of OpenSSL
506 or where OpenSSL has been built with ECC disabled -- will stand
507 out because of this change; TBB users should not be affected.
510 - Change the default value for DynamicDHGroups (introduced in
511 0.2.3.9-alpha) to 0. This feature can make Tor relays less
512 identifiable by their use of the mod_ssl DH group, but at
513 the cost of some usability (#4721) and bridge tracing (#6087)
514 regressions. Resolves ticket 5598.
515 - Send a CRLF at the end of each STATUS_* control protocol event. This
516 bug tickled a bug in Vidalia which would make it freeze. Fixes
517 bug 6094; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
520 - Disable writing on marked-for-close connections when they are
521 blocked on bandwidth, to prevent busy-looping in Libevent. Fixes
522 bug 5263; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13, where we first added a special
523 case for flushing marked connections.
524 - Detect SSL handshake even when the initial attempt to write the
525 server hello fails. Fixes bug 4592; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
526 - Change the AllowDotExit rules so they should actually work.
527 We now enforce AllowDotExit only immediately after receiving an
528 address via SOCKS or DNSPort: other sources are free to provide
529 .exit addresses after the resolution occurs. Fixes bug 3940;
530 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
531 - Fix a (harmless) integer overflow in cell statistics reported by
532 some fast relays. Fixes bug 5849; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
533 - Make sure circuitbuild.c checks LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in all the
534 right places and never depends on the consensus parameters or
535 computes adaptive timeouts when it is disabled. Fixes bug 5049;
536 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
537 - When building Tor on Windows with -DUNICODE (not default), ensure
538 that error messages, filenames, and DNS server names are always
539 NUL-terminated when we convert them to a single-byte encoding.
540 Fixes bug 5909; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
541 - Make Tor build correctly again with -DUNICODE -D_UNICODE defined.
542 Fixes bug 6097; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
543 - Fix an edge case where TestingTorNetwork is set but the authorities
544 and relays all have an uptime of zero, where the private Tor network
545 could briefly lack support for hidden services. Fixes bug 3886;
546 bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
547 - Correct the manpage's descriptions for the default values of
548 DirReqStatistics and ExtraInfoStatistics. Fixes bug 2865; bugfix
550 - Fix the documentation for the --hush and --quiet command line
551 options, which changed their behavior back in 0.2.3.3-alpha.
552 - Fix compilation warning with clang 3.1. Fixes bug 6141; bugfix on
556 - Rate-limit the "Weighted bandwidth is 0.000000" message, and add
557 more information to it, so that we can track it down in case it
558 returns again. Mitigates bug 5235.
559 - Check CircuitBuildTimeout and LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in
560 options_validate(); warn if LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled and
561 CircuitBuildTimeout is set unreasonably low. Resolves ticket 5452.
562 - Warn the user when HTTPProxy, but no other proxy type, is
563 configured. This can cause surprising behavior: it doesn't send
564 all of Tor's traffic over the HTTPProxy -- it sends unencrypted
565 directory traffic only. Resolves ticket 4663.
566 - Issue a notice if a guard completes less than 40% of your circuits.
567 Threshold is configurable by torrc option PathBiasNoticeRate and
568 consensus parameter pb_noticepct. There is additional, off-by-
569 default code to disable guards which fail too many circuits.
570 Addresses ticket 5458.
571 - Update to the June 6 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
573 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
574 - Remove validate_pluggable_transports_config(): its warning
575 message is now handled by connection_or_connect().
578 Changes in version 0.2.2.37 - 2012-06-06
579 Tor 0.2.2.37 introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
580 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
584 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
585 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
586 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
587 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
588 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
589 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
590 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
591 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
592 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
593 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
594 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
597 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
598 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
601 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
602 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
605 Changes in version 0.2.3.16-alpha - 2012-06-05
606 Tor 0.2.3.16-alpha introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
607 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
608 currently). It also fixes a variety of smaller bugs and other cleanups
609 that get us closer to a release candidate.
611 o Major bugfixes (general):
612 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
613 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
614 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
615 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
616 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
617 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
618 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
619 - Pass correct OR address to managed proxies (like obfsproxy),
620 even when ORListenAddress is used. Fixes bug 4865; bugfix on
622 - The advertised platform of a router now includes only its operating
623 system's name (e.g., "Linux", "Darwin", "Windows 7"), and not its
624 service pack level (for Windows) or its CPU architecture (for Unix).
625 We also no longer include the "git-XYZ" tag in the version. Resolves
628 o Major bugfixes (clients):
629 - If we are unable to find any exit that supports our predicted ports,
630 stop calling them predicted, so that we don't loop and build
631 hopeless circuits indefinitely. Fixes bug 3296; bugfix on 0.0.9pre6,
632 which introduced predicted ports.
633 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
634 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
635 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
636 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
637 - Check at each new consensus whether our entry guards were picked
638 long enough ago that we should rotate them. Previously, we only
639 did this check at startup, which could lead to us holding a guard
640 indefinitely. Fixes bug 5380; bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc.
641 - When fetching a bridge descriptor from a bridge authority,
642 always do so anonymously, whether we have been able to open
643 circuits or not. Partial fix for bug 1938; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
644 This behavior makes it *safer* to use UpdateBridgesFromAuthority,
645 but we'll need to wait for bug 6010 before it's actually usable.
647 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
648 - When computing weight parameters, behave more robustly in the
649 presence of a bad bwweightscale value. Previously, the authorities
650 would crash if they agreed on a sufficiently broken weight_scale
651 value: now, they use a reasonable default and carry on. Partial
652 fix for 5786; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
653 - Check more thoroughly to prevent a rogue authority from
654 double-voting on any consensus directory parameter. Previously,
655 authorities would crash in this case if the total number of
656 votes for any parameter exceeded the number of active voters,
657 but would let it pass otherwise. Partial fix for bug 5786; bugfix
661 - Rate-limit log messages when asked to connect anonymously to
662 a private address. When these hit, they tended to hit fast and
663 often. Also, don't bother trying to connect to addresses that we
664 are sure will resolve to 127.0.0.1: getting 127.0.0.1 in a directory
665 reply makes us think we have been lied to, even when the address the
666 client tried to connect to was "localhost." Resolves ticket 2822.
667 - Allow packagers to insert an extra string in server descriptor
668 platform lines by setting the preprocessor variable TOR_BUILD_TAG.
669 Resolves the rest of ticket 2988.
670 - Raise the threshold of server descriptors needed (75%) and exit
671 server descriptors needed (50%) before we will declare ourselves
672 bootstrapped. This will make clients start building circuits a
673 little later, but makes the initially constructed circuits less
674 skewed and less in conflict with further directory fetches. Fixes
676 - Close any connection that sends unrecognized junk before the
677 handshake. Solves an issue noted in bug 4369.
678 - Improve log messages about managed transports. Resolves ticket 5070.
679 - Tag a bridge's descriptor as "never to be sent unencrypted".
680 This shouldn't matter, since bridges don't open non-anonymous
681 connections to the bridge authority and don't allow unencrypted
682 directory connections from clients, but we might as well make
683 sure. Closes bug 5139.
684 - Expose our view of whether we have gone dormant to the controller,
685 via a new "GETINFO dormant" value. Torbutton and other controllers
686 can use this to avoid doing periodic requests through Tor while
687 it's dormant (bug 4718). Fixes bug 5954.
688 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
689 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
690 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
692 o Minor bugfixes (already included in 0.2.2.36):
693 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
694 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
695 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
696 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
697 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
698 Esteban Manchado Velázques.
699 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
700 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
701 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
702 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
703 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
704 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
705 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
706 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
707 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
708 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
709 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
710 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
711 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
713 o Minor bugfixes (coding cleanup, on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
714 - Prevent a null-pointer dereference when receiving a data cell
715 for a nonexistent stream when the circuit in question has an
716 empty deliver window. We don't believe this is triggerable,
717 since we don't currently allow deliver windows to become empty,
718 but the logic is tricky enough that it's better to make the code
719 robust. Fixes bug 5541; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
720 - Fix a memory leak when trying to launch a DNS request when the
721 network is disabled or the nameservers are unconfigurable. Fixes
722 bug 5916; bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha (for the unconfigurable
723 nameserver case) and on 0.2.3.9-alpha (for the DisableNetwork case).
724 - Don't hold a Windows file handle open for every file mapping;
725 the file mapping handle is sufficient. Fixes bug 5951; bugfix on
727 - Avoid O(n^2) performance characteristics when parsing a large
728 extrainfo cache. Fixes bug 5828; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
729 - Format more doubles with %f, not %lf. Patch from grarpamp to make
730 Tor build correctly on older BSDs again. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on
732 - Make our replacement implementation of strtok_r() compatible with
733 the standard behavior of strtok_r(). Patch by nils. Fixes bug 5091;
734 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
735 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed
736 SETCIRCUITPURPOSE command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796;
737 bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
738 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
739 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
740 - Defensively refactor rend_mid_rendezvous() so that protocol
741 violations and length checks happen in the beginning. Fixes
743 - Set _WIN32_WINNT to 0x0501 consistently throughout the code, so
744 that IPv6 stuff will compile on MSVC, and compilation issues
745 will be easier to track down. Fixes bug 5861.
747 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
748 - Exit nodes now correctly report EADDRINUSE and EADDRNOTAVAIL as
749 resource exhaustion, so that clients can adjust their load to
750 try other exits. Fixes bug 4710; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc, which
751 started using END_STREAM_REASON_RESOURCELIMIT.
752 - Don't check for whether the address we're using for outbound
753 connections has changed until after the outbound connection has
754 completed. On Windows, getsockname() doesn't succeed until the
755 connection is finished. Fixes bug 5374; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
756 - If the configuration tries to set MyFamily on a bridge, refuse to
757 do so, and warn about the security implications. Fixes bug 4657;
758 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
759 - If the client fails to set a reasonable set of ciphersuites
760 during its v2 handshake renegotiation, allow the renegotiation to
761 continue nevertheless (i.e. send all the required certificates).
762 Fixes bug 4591; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
763 - When we receive a SIGHUP and the controller __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP
764 option is set to 0 (which Vidalia version 0.2.16 now does when
765 a SAVECONF attempt fails), perform other actions that SIGHUP
766 usually causes (like reopening the logs). Fixes bug 5095; bugfix
768 - If we fail to write a microdescriptor to the disk cache, do not
769 continue replacing the old microdescriptor file. Fixes bug 2954;
770 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
771 - Exit nodes don't need to fetch certificates for authorities that
772 they don't recognize; only directory authorities, bridges,
773 and caches need to do that. Fixes part of bug 2297; bugfix on
775 - Correctly handle checking the permissions on the parent
776 directory of a control socket in the root directory. Bug found
777 by Esteban Manchado Velázquez. Fixes bug 5089; bugfix on Tor
779 - When told to add a bridge with the same digest as a preexisting
780 bridge but a different addr:port, change the addr:port as
781 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
782 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
783 - End AUTHCHALLENGE error messages (in the control protocol) with
784 a CRLF. Fixes bug 5760; bugfix on 0.2.2.36 and 0.2.3.13-alpha.
786 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
787 - Turn an assertion (that the number of handshakes received as a
788 server is not < 1) into a warning. Fixes bug 4873; bugfix on
790 - Format IPv4 addresses correctly in ADDRMAP events. (Previously,
791 we had reversed them when the answer was cached.) Fixes bug
792 5723; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
793 - Work correctly on Linux systems with accept4 support advertised in
794 their headers, but without accept4 support in the kernel. Fix
795 by murb. Fixes bug 5762; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
796 - When told to add a bridge with the same addr:port as a preexisting
797 bridge but a different transport, change the transport as
798 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
799 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
800 - Avoid a "double-reply" warning when replying to a SOCKS request
801 with a parse error. Patch from Fabian Keil. Fixes bug 4108;
802 bugfix on 0.2.3.4-alpha.
803 - Fix a bug where a bridge authority crashes if it has seen no
804 directory requests when it's time to write statistics to disk.
805 Fixes bug 5891; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Also fixes bug 5508 in
807 - Don't try to open non-control listeners when DisableNetwork is set.
808 Previously, we'd open all listeners, then immediately close them.
809 Fixes bug 5604; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
810 - Don't abort the managed proxy protocol if the managed proxy
811 sends us an unrecognized line; ignore it instead. Fixes bug
812 5910; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
813 - Fix a compile warning in crypto.c when compiling with clang 3.1.
814 Fixes bug 5969, bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
815 - Fix a compilation issue on GNU Hurd, which doesn't have PATH_MAX.
816 Fixes bug 5355; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
817 - Remove bogus definition of "_WIN32" from src/win32/orconfig.h, to
818 unbreak the MSVC build. Fixes bug 5858; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
819 - Resolve numerous small warnings and build issues with MSVC. Resolves
822 o Documentation fixes:
823 - Improve the manual's documentation for the NT Service command-line
824 options. Addresses ticket 3964.
825 - Clarify SessionGroup documentation slightly; resolves ticket 5437.
826 - Document the changes to the ORPort and DirPort options, and the
827 fact that {OR/Dir}ListenAddress is now unnecessary (and
828 therefore deprecated). Resolves ticket 5597.
831 - Remove the torrc.bridge file: we don't use it for anything, and
832 it had become badly desynchronized from torrc.sample. Resolves
836 Changes in version 0.2.2.36 - 2012-05-24
837 Tor 0.2.2.36 updates the addresses for two of the eight directory
838 authorities, fixes some potential anonymity and security issues,
839 and fixes several crash bugs.
841 Tor 0.2.1.x has reached its end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many
842 known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should upgrade. If
843 you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete, stop using
844 those packages and upgrade anyway.
846 o Directory authority changes:
847 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
848 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
852 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
853 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
854 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
855 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
856 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
857 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
858 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
859 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
860 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
861 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
862 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
863 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
864 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
865 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
866 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
867 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
868 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
869 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
870 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
871 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
872 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
873 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
874 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
875 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
876 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
877 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
878 this attack. Fixes bug 5185; implements proposal 193.
881 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
882 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
883 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
884 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
886 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
887 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
889 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
890 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
891 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
892 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
893 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
894 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
895 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
896 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
899 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
900 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
901 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
902 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
903 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
904 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
905 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
906 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
907 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
908 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
909 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
910 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
911 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
912 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
913 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
914 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
915 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
916 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
917 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
918 Esteban Manchado Velázques.
919 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
920 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
921 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
922 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
923 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
924 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
925 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
926 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
927 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
928 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
929 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
930 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
931 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
932 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
933 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
934 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
935 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
936 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
937 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
938 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
939 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed SETCIRCUITPURPOSE
940 command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
941 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
942 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
943 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
944 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
946 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
947 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
948 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
949 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
950 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
951 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
952 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
953 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
954 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
955 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
956 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
957 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
958 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
959 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
960 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
963 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
964 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
965 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
966 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
968 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
971 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
972 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
973 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
974 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
975 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
976 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
977 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
980 Changes in version 0.2.3.15-alpha - 2012-04-30
981 Tor 0.2.3.15-alpha fixes a variety of smaller bugs, including making
982 the development branch build on Windows again.
984 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
985 - Make sure that there are no unhandled pending TLS errors before
986 reading from a TLS stream. We had checks in 0.1.0.3-rc, but
987 lost them in 0.1.0.5-rc when we refactored read_to_buf_tls().
988 Bugfix on 0.1.0.5-rc; fixes bug 4528.
989 - Fix an assert that directory authorities could trigger on sighup
990 during some configuration state transitions. We now don't treat
991 it as a fatal error when the new descriptor we just generated in
992 init_keys() isn't accepted. Fixes bug 4438; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
993 - After we pick a directory mirror, we would refuse to use it if
994 it's in our ExcludeExitNodes list, resulting in mysterious failures
995 to bootstrap for people who just wanted to avoid exiting from
996 certain locations. Fixes bug 5623; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
997 - When building with --enable-static-tor on OpenBSD, do not
998 erroneously attempt to link -lrt. Fixes bug 5103.
1000 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
1001 - When Tor is built with kernel headers from a recent (last few
1002 years) Linux kernel, do not fail to run on older (pre-2.6.28
1003 Linux kernels). Fixes bug 5112; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
1004 - Fix cross-compilation issues with mingw. Bugfixes on 0.2.3.6-alpha
1006 - Fix compilation with miniupnpc version 1.6; patch from
1007 Anthony G. Basile. Fixes bug 5434; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
1008 - Fix compilation with MSVC, which had defined MS_WINDOWS. Bugfix
1009 on 0.2.3.13-alpha; found and fixed by Gisle Vanem.
1010 - Fix compilation on platforms without unistd.h, or where environ
1011 is defined in stdlib.h. Fixes bug 5704; bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
1014 - Directory authorities are now a little more lenient at accepting
1015 older router descriptors, or newer router descriptors that don't
1016 make big changes. This should help ameliorate past and future
1017 issues where routers think they have uploaded valid descriptors,
1018 but the authorities don't think so. Fix for ticket 2479.
1019 - Make the code that clients use to detect an address change be
1020 IPv6-aware, so that it won't fill clients' logs with error
1021 messages when trying to get the IPv4 address of an IPv6
1022 connection. Implements ticket 5537.
1025 - Remove the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays option;
1026 authorities needed to use it for a while to keep the network working
1027 as people upgraded to 0.2.1.31, 0.2.2.34, or 0.2.3.6-alpha, but
1028 that was six months ago. As of now, it should no longer be needed
1032 Changes in version 0.2.3.14-alpha - 2012-04-23
1033 Tor 0.2.3.14-alpha fixes yet more bugs to get us closer to a release
1034 candidate. It also dramatically speeds up AES: fast relays should
1035 consider switching to the newer OpenSSL library.
1037 o Directory authority changes:
1038 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
1042 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
1043 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
1044 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
1045 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
1047 - If authorities are unable to get a v2 consensus document from other
1048 directory authorities, they no longer fall back to fetching
1049 them from regular directory caches. Fixes bug 5635; bugfix on
1050 0.2.2.26-beta, where routers stopped downloading v2 consensus
1052 - When we start a Tor client with a normal consensus already cached,
1053 be willing to download a microdescriptor consensus. Fixes bug 4011;
1054 fix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
1056 o Major features (performance):
1057 - When built to use OpenSSL 1.0.1, and built for an x86 or x86_64
1058 instruction set, take advantage of OpenSSL's AESNI, bitsliced, or
1059 vectorized AES implementations as appropriate. These can be much,
1060 much faster than other AES implementations.
1062 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.2.x and earlier):
1063 - Don't launch more than 10 service-side introduction-point circuits
1064 for a hidden service in five minutes. Previously, we would consider
1065 launching more introduction-point circuits if at least one second
1066 had passed without any introduction-point circuits failing. Fixes
1067 bug 4607; bugfix on 0.0.7pre1.
1068 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
1069 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
1070 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
1071 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
1072 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
1073 - Enforce correct return behavior of tor_vsscanf() when the '%%'
1074 pattern is used. Fixes bug 5558. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13.
1075 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
1076 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
1077 - Don't log that we have "decided to publish new relay descriptor"
1078 unless we are actually publishing a descriptor. Fixes bug 3942;
1079 bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
1081 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.3.x):
1082 - Fix a bug where a bridge authority crashes (on a failed assert)
1083 if it has seen no directory requests when it's time to write
1084 statistics to disk. Fixes bug 5508. Bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
1085 - Fix bug stomping on ORPort option NoListen and ignoring option
1086 NoAdvertise. Fixes bug 5151; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
1087 - In the testsuite, provide a large enough buffer in the tor_sscanf
1088 unit test. Otherwise we'd overrun that buffer and crash during
1089 the unit tests. Found by weasel. Fixes bug 5449; bugfix on
1091 - Make sure we create the keys directory if it doesn't exist and we're
1092 about to store the dynamic Diffie-Hellman parameters. Fixes bug
1093 5572; bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
1094 - Fix a small memory leak when trying to decode incorrect base16
1095 authenticator during SAFECOOKIE authentication. Found by
1096 Coverity Scan. Fixes CID 507. Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
1099 - Add more information to a log statement that might help track down
1100 bug 4091. If you're seeing "Bug: tor_addr_is_internal() called with a
1101 non-IP address" messages (or any Bug messages, for that matter!),
1102 please let us know about it.
1103 - Relays now understand an IPv6 address when they get one from a
1104 directory server. Resolves ticket 4875.
1105 - Resolve IPv6 addresses in bridge and entry statistics to country
1106 code "??" which means we at least count them. Resolves ticket 5053;
1107 improves on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
1108 - Update to the April 3 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
1109 - Begin a doc/state-contents.txt file to explain the contents of
1110 the Tor state file. Fixes bug 2987.
1112 o Default torrc changes:
1113 - Stop listing "socksport 9050" in torrc.sample. We open a socks
1114 port on 9050 by default anyway, so this should not change anything
1116 - Stop mentioning the deprecated *ListenAddress options in
1117 torrc.sample. Fixes bug 5438.
1118 - Document unit of bandwidth related options in sample torrc.
1122 - The "torify" script no longer supports the "tsocks" socksifier
1123 tool, since tsocks doesn't support DNS and UDP right for Tor.
1124 Everyone should be using torsocks instead. Fixes bugs 3530 and
1125 5180. Based on a patch by "ugh".
1128 - Change the symmetric cipher interface so that creating and
1129 initializing a stream cipher are no longer separate functions.
1130 - Remove all internal support for unpadded RSA. We never used it, and
1131 it would be a bad idea to start.
1134 Changes in version 0.2.3.13-alpha - 2012-03-26
1135 Tor 0.2.3.13-alpha fixes a variety of stability and correctness bugs
1136 in managed pluggable transports, as well as providing other cleanups
1137 that get us closer to a release candidate.
1139 o Directory authority changes:
1140 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
1143 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
1144 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
1145 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
1146 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
1147 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
1148 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
1149 this attack. Fixes bug 5185, implements proposal 193.
1150 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
1151 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
1152 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
1153 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
1154 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
1155 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
1156 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
1157 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
1158 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
1160 o Major bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.3.x):
1161 - Avoid an assert when managed proxies like obfsproxy are configured,
1162 and we receive HUP signals or setconf attempts too rapidly. This
1163 situation happens most commonly when Vidalia tries to attach to
1164 Tor or tries to configure the Tor it's attached to. Fixes bug 5084;
1165 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
1166 - Fix a relay-side pluggable transports bug where managed proxies were
1167 unreachable from the Internet, because Tor asked them to bind on
1168 localhost. Fixes bug 4725; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
1169 - Stop discarding command-line arguments when TestingTorNetwork
1170 is set. Discovered by Kevin Bauer. Fixes bug 5373; bugfix on
1171 0.2.3.9-alpha, where task 4552 added support for two layers of
1173 - Resume allowing the unit tests to run in gdb. This was accidentally
1174 made impossible when the DisableDebuggerAttachment option was
1175 introduced. Fixes bug 5448; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
1176 - Resume building with nat-pmp support. Fixes bug 4955; bugfix on
1177 0.2.3.11-alpha. Reported by Anthony G. Basile.
1179 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
1180 - Ensure we don't cannibalize circuits that are longer than three hops
1181 already, so we don't end up making circuits with 5 or more
1182 hops. Patch contributed by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 5231; bugfix on
1183 0.1.0.1-rc which introduced cannibalization.
1184 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
1185 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
1186 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
1187 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
1188 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
1189 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
1190 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
1191 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
1192 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
1193 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
1194 - Directory caches no longer refuse to clean out descriptors because
1195 of missing v2 networkstatus documents, unless they're configured
1196 to retrieve v2 networkstatus documents. Fixes bug 4838; bugfix on
1197 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch by Daniel Bryg.
1198 - Update to the latest version of the tinytest unit testing framework.
1199 This includes a couple of bugfixes that can be relevant for
1200 running forked unit tests on Windows, and removes all reserved
1203 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
1204 - On a failed pipe() call, don't leak file descriptors. Fixes bug
1205 4296; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
1206 - Spec conformance: on a v3 handshake, do not send a NETINFO cell
1207 until after we have received a CERTS cell. Fixes bug 4361; bugfix
1208 on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by "frosty".
1209 - When binding to an IPv6 address, set the IPV6_V6ONLY socket
1210 option, so that the IP stack doesn't decide to use it for IPv4
1211 too. Fixes bug 4760; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
1212 - Ensure that variables set in Tor's environment cannot override
1213 environment variables that Tor passes to a managed
1214 pluggable-transport proxy. Previously, Tor would pass every
1215 variable in its environment to managed proxies along with the new
1216 ones, in such a way that on many operating systems, the inherited
1217 environment variables would override those which Tor tried to
1218 explicitly set. Bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha for most Unixoid systems;
1219 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha for Windows.
1222 - A wide variety of new unit tests by Esteban Manchado Velázquez.
1223 - Shorten links in the tor-exit-notice file. Patch by Christian Kujau.
1224 - Update to the March 6 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
1227 Changes in version 0.2.3.12-alpha - 2012-02-13
1228 Tor 0.2.3.12-alpha lets fast exit relays scale better, allows clients
1229 to use bridges that run Tor 0.2.2.x, and resolves several big bugs
1230 when Tor is configured to use a pluggable transport like obfsproxy.
1233 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
1234 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
1236 - Set the SO_REUSEADDR socket option before we call bind() on outgoing
1237 connections. This change should allow busy exit relays to stop
1238 running out of available sockets as quickly. Fixes bug 4950;
1239 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
1240 - Allow 0.2.3.x clients to use 0.2.2.x bridges. Previously the client
1241 would ask the bridge for microdescriptors, which are only supported
1242 in 0.2.3.x, and then fail to bootstrap when it didn't get the
1243 answers it wanted. Fixes bug 4013; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
1244 - Properly set up obfsproxy's environment when in managed mode. The
1245 Tor Browser Bundle needs LD_LIBRARY_PATH to be passed to obfsproxy,
1246 and when you run your Tor as a daemon, there's no HOME. Fixes bugs
1247 5076 and 5082; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
1250 - Use the dead_strip option when building Tor on OS X. This reduces
1251 binary size by almost 19% when linking openssl and libevent
1252 statically, which we do for Tor Browser Bundle.
1253 - Fix broken URLs in the sample torrc file, and tell readers about
1254 the OutboundBindAddress, ExitPolicyRejectPrivate, and
1255 PublishServerDescriptor options. Addresses bug 4652.
1256 - Update to the February 7 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
1259 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
1260 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
1261 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
1262 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
1263 - Don't put "TOR_PT_EXTENDED_SERVER_PORT=127.0.0.1:4200" in a
1264 managed pluggable transport server proxy's environment.
1265 Previously, we would put it there, even though Tor doesn't
1266 implement an 'extended server port' yet, and even though Tor
1267 almost certainly isn't listening at that address. For now, we set
1268 it to an empty string to avoid crashing older obfsproxies. Bugfix
1270 - Log the heartbeat message every HeartbeatPeriod seconds, not every
1271 HeartbeatPeriod + 1 seconds. Fixes bug 4942; bugfix on
1272 0.2.3.1-alpha. Bug reported by Scott Bennett.
1273 - Calculate absolute paths correctly on Windows. Fixes bug 4973;
1274 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
1275 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
1276 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
1277 - Use the correct CVE number for CVE-2011-4576 in our comments and
1278 log messages. Found by "fermenthor". Resolves bug 5066; bugfix on
1281 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
1282 - Use the _WIN32 macro throughout our code to detect Windows.
1283 (Previously we had used the obsolete 'WIN32' and the idiosyncratic
1287 Changes in version 0.2.3.11-alpha - 2012-01-22
1288 Tor 0.2.3.11-alpha marks feature-freeze for the 0.2.3 tree. It deploys
1289 the last step of the plan to limit maximum circuit length, includes
1290 a wide variety of hidden service performance and correctness fixes,
1291 works around an OpenSSL security flaw if your distro is too stubborn
1292 to upgrade, and fixes a bunch of smaller issues.
1295 - Now that Tor 0.2.0.x is completely deprecated, enable the final
1296 part of "Proposal 110: Avoiding infinite length circuits" by
1297 refusing all circuit-extend requests that do not use a relay_early
1298 cell. This change helps Tor resist a class of denial-of-service
1299 attacks by limiting the maximum circuit length.
1300 - Adjust the number of introduction points that a hidden service
1301 will try to maintain based on how long its introduction points
1302 remain in use and how many introductions they handle. Fixes
1304 - Try to use system facilities for enumerating local interface
1305 addresses, before falling back to our old approach (which was
1306 binding a UDP socket, and calling getsockname() on it). That
1307 approach was scaring OS X users whose draconian firewall
1308 software warned about binding to UDP sockets, regardless of
1309 whether packets were sent. Now we try to use getifaddrs(),
1310 SIOCGIFCONF, or GetAdaptersAddresses(), depending on what the
1311 system supports. Resolves ticket 1827.
1313 o Major security workaround:
1314 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
1315 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
1316 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
1317 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
1318 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
1319 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
1320 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
1321 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
1322 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
1323 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
1324 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
1327 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
1328 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
1329 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
1330 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
1331 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
1332 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
1333 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
1334 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha and 0.2.3.1-alpha.
1335 - Do not use OpenSSL 1.0.0's counter mode: it has a critical bug
1336 that was fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.0a. We test for the counter mode
1337 bug at runtime, not compile time, because some distributions hack
1338 their OpenSSL to mis-report its version. Fixes bug 4779; bugfix
1339 on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Found by Pascal.
1341 o Minor features (controller):
1342 - Use absolute path names when reporting the torrc filename in the
1343 control protocol, so a controller can more easily find the torrc
1344 file. Resolves bug 1101.
1345 - Extend the control protocol to report flags that control a circuit's
1346 path selection in CIRC events and in replies to 'GETINFO
1347 circuit-status'. Implements part of ticket 2411.
1348 - Extend the control protocol to report the hidden service address
1349 and current state of a hidden-service-related circuit in CIRC
1350 events and in replies to 'GETINFO circuit-status'. Implements part
1352 - When reporting the path to the cookie file to the controller,
1353 give an absolute path. Resolves ticket 4881.
1354 - Allow controllers to request an event notification whenever a
1355 circuit is cannibalized or its purpose is changed. Implements
1356 part of ticket 3457.
1357 - Include the creation time of a circuit in CIRC and CIRC2
1358 control-port events and the list produced by the 'GETINFO
1359 circuit-status' control-port command.
1361 o Minor features (directory authorities):
1362 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
1363 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
1364 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
1365 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
1367 - Authority operators can now vote for all relays in a given
1368 set of countries to be BadDir/BadExit/Invalid/Rejected.
1369 - Provide two consensus parameters (FastFlagMinThreshold and
1370 FastFlagMaxThreshold) to control the range of allowable bandwidths
1371 for the Fast directory flag. These allow authorities to run
1372 experiments on appropriate requirements for being a "Fast" node.
1373 The AuthDirFastGuarantee config value still applies. Implements
1375 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
1376 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
1378 o Minor features (other):
1379 - Don't disable the DirPort when we cannot exceed our AccountingMax
1380 limit during this interval because the effective bandwidthrate is
1381 low enough. This is useful in a situation where AccountMax is only
1382 used as an additional safeguard or to provide statistics.
1383 - Prepend an informative header to generated dynamic_dh_params files.
1384 - If EntryNodes are given, but UseEntryGuards is set to 0, warn that
1385 EntryNodes will have no effect. Resolves issue 2571.
1386 - Log more useful messages when we fail to disable debugger
1388 - Log which authority we're missing votes from when we go to fetch
1389 them from the other auths.
1390 - Log (at debug level) whenever a circuit's purpose is changed.
1391 - Add missing documentation for the MaxClientCircuitsPending,
1392 UseMicrodescriptors, UserspaceIOCPBuffers, and
1393 _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents options, all introduced during
1395 - Update to the January 3 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
1397 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
1398 - Don't close hidden service client circuits which have almost
1399 finished connecting to their destination when they reach
1400 the normal circuit-build timeout. Previously, we would close
1401 introduction circuits which are waiting for an acknowledgement
1402 from the introduction point, and rendezvous circuits which have
1403 been specified in an INTRODUCE1 cell sent to a hidden service,
1404 after the normal CBT. Now, we mark them as 'timed out', and launch
1405 another rendezvous attempt in parallel. This behavior change can
1406 be disabled using the new CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout
1407 option. Fixes part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
1408 - Don't close hidden-service-side rendezvous circuits when they
1409 reach the normal circuit-build timeout. This behaviour change can
1410 be disabled using the new
1411 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout option. Fixes the
1412 remaining part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
1413 - Make sure we never mark the wrong rendezvous circuit as having
1414 had its introduction cell acknowleged by the introduction-point
1415 relay. Previously, when we received an INTRODUCE_ACK cell on a
1416 client-side hidden-service introduction circuit, we might have
1417 marked a rendezvous circuit other than the one we specified in
1418 the INTRODUCE1 cell as INTRO_ACKED, which would have produced
1419 a warning message and interfered with the hidden service
1420 connection-establishment process. Fixes bug 4759; bugfix on
1421 0.2.3.3-alpha, when we added the stream-isolation feature which
1422 might cause Tor to open multiple rendezvous circuits for the same
1424 - Don't trigger an assertion failure when we mark a new client-side
1425 hidden-service introduction circuit for close during the process
1426 of creating it. Fixes bug 4796; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported
1429 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
1430 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
1431 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta and
1433 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
1434 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
1435 - Fix the log message describing how we work around discovering
1436 that our version is the ill-fated OpenSSL 0.9.8l. Fixes bug
1437 4837; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
1438 - When logging about a disallowed .exit name, do not also call it
1439 an "invalid onion address". Fixes bug 3325; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
1441 o Minor bugfixes (build fixes):
1442 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
1443 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
1444 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
1445 - During configure, search for library containing cos function as
1446 libm lives in libcore on some platforms (BeOS/Haiku). Linking
1447 against libm was hard-coded before. Fixes the first part of bug
1448 4727; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin Hebnes
1450 - Detect attempts to build Tor on (as yet hypothetical) versions
1451 of Windows where sizeof(intptr_t) != sizeof(SOCKET). Partial
1452 fix for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
1453 - Preprocessor directives should not be put inside the arguments
1454 of a macro. This would break compilation with GCC releases prior
1455 to version 3.3. We would never recommend such an old GCC version,
1456 but it is apparently required for binary compatibility on some
1457 platforms (namely, certain builds of Haiku). Fixes the other part
1458 of bug 4727; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin
1461 o Minor bugfixes (other):
1462 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
1463 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
1464 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
1465 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
1466 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
1467 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
1468 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
1469 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
1470 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un". This was
1471 erroneously listed as fixed in 0.2.3.9-alpha, but the fix had
1472 accidentally been reverted.
1473 - Fix our implementation of crypto_random_hostname() so it can't
1474 overflow on ridiculously large inputs. (No Tor version has ever
1475 provided this kind of bad inputs, but let's be correct in depth.)
1476 Fixes bug 4413; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Fix by Stephen Palmateer.
1477 - Find more places in the code that should have been testing for
1478 invalid sockets using the SOCKET_OK macro. Required for a fix
1479 for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
1480 - Fix an assertion failure when, while running with bufferevents, a
1481 connection finishes connecting after it is marked for close, but
1482 before it is closed. Fixes bug 4697; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
1483 - test_util_spawn_background_ok() hardcoded the expected value
1484 for ENOENT to 2. This isn't portable as error numbers are
1485 platform specific, and particularly the hurd has ENOENT at
1486 0x40000002. Construct expected string at runtime, using the correct
1487 value for ENOENT. Fixes bug 4733; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
1488 - Reject attempts to disable DisableDebuggerAttachment while Tor is
1489 running. Fixes bug 4650; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
1490 - Use an appropriate-width type for sockets in tor-fw-helper on
1491 win64. Fixes bug 1983 at last. Bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
1494 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
1495 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
1496 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
1497 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
1498 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
1499 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
1500 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
1502 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
1503 - Use OpenSSL's built-in SSL_state_string_long() instead of our
1504 own homebrewed ssl_state_to_string() replacement. Patch from
1505 Emile Snyder. Fixes bug 4653.
1506 - Use macros to indicate OpenSSL versions, so we don't need to worry
1507 about accidental hexadecimal bit shifts.
1508 - Remove some workaround code for OpenSSL 0.9.6 (which is no longer
1510 - Convert more instances of tor_snprintf+tor_strdup into tor_asprintf.
1511 - Use the smartlist_add_asprintf() alias more consistently.
1512 - Use a TOR_INVALID_SOCKET macro when initializing a socket to an
1513 invalid value, rather than just -1.
1514 - Rename a handful of old identifiers, mostly related to crypto
1515 structures and crypto functions. By convention, our "create an
1516 object" functions are called "type_new()", our "free an object"
1517 functions are called "type_free()", and our types indicate that
1518 they are types only with a final "_t". But a handful of older
1519 types and functions broke these rules, with function names like
1520 "type_create" or "subsystem_op_type", or with type names like
1524 Changes in version 0.2.3.10-alpha - 2011-12-16
1525 Tor 0.2.3.10-alpha fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in
1526 Tor's buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
1528 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
1529 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
1530 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
1531 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
1532 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
1533 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
1534 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
1535 (which Tor does not do by default).
1537 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
1538 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
1539 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
1540 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
1541 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
1543 This release also contains a few minor bugfixes for issues discovered
1547 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
1548 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
1549 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
1550 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
1553 - If we can't attach streams to a rendezvous circuit when we
1554 finish connecting to a hidden service, clear the rendezvous
1555 circuit's stream-isolation state and try to attach streams
1556 again. Previously, we cleared rendezvous circuits' isolation
1557 state either too early (if they were freshly built) or not at all
1558 (if they had been built earlier and were cannibalized). Bugfix on
1559 0.2.3.3-alpha; fixes bug 4655.
1560 - Fix compilation of the libnatpmp helper on non-Windows. Bugfix on
1561 0.2.3.9-alpha; fixes bug 4691. Reported by Anthony G. Basile.
1562 - Fix an assertion failure when a relay with accounting enabled
1563 starts up while dormant. Fixes bug 4702; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
1566 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
1569 Changes in version 0.2.2.35 - 2011-12-16
1570 Tor 0.2.2.35 fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in Tor's
1571 buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
1573 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
1574 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
1575 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
1576 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
1577 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
1578 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
1579 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
1580 (which Tor does not do by default).
1582 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
1583 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
1584 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
1585 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
1586 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
1588 Tor 0.2.2.35 also fixes several bugs in previous versions, including
1589 crash bugs for unusual configurations, and a long-term bug that
1590 would prevent Tor from starting on Windows machines with draconian
1593 With this release, we remind everyone that 0.2.0.x has reached its
1594 formal end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many known flaws, and
1595 nobody should be using them. You should upgrade -- ideally to the
1596 0.2.2.x series. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are
1597 obsolete, stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
1599 The Tor 0.2.1.x series is also approaching its end-of-life: it will no
1600 longer receive support after some time in early 2012.
1603 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
1604 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
1605 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
1606 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
1607 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
1608 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
1609 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
1610 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
1612 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
1613 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
1614 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
1615 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
1616 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
1617 close based on processing a cell on it.
1618 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
1619 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
1620 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
1621 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
1622 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
1623 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
1624 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
1625 - Don't crash when we're running as a relay and don't have a GeoIP
1626 file. Bugfix on 0.2.2.34; fixes bug 4340. This backports a fix
1627 we've had in the 0.2.3.x branch already.
1628 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
1629 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
1630 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
1631 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
1632 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34.
1635 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
1636 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
1637 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
1638 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
1639 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
1640 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
1641 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
1643 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
1644 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
1645 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
1646 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
1647 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
1648 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
1649 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
1650 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
1651 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
1652 - Fix a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
1653 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
1654 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
1655 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
1656 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
1657 - Backport fixes for a pair of compilation warnings on Windows.
1658 Fixes bug 4521; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta and on 0.2.2.29-beta.
1659 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str on an address of
1660 unknown type, we would have done a strdup on an uninitialized
1661 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
1662 Reported by "troll_un".
1663 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
1664 tor_addr_lookup. Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
1665 Reported by "troll_un".
1666 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
1667 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
1668 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
1669 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
1672 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
1673 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
1674 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
1675 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
1676 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
1677 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
1678 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
1679 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
1680 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
1681 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
1682 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
1684 o Packaging changes:
1685 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
1686 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
1689 Changes in version 0.2.1.32 - 2011-12-16
1690 Tor 0.2.1.32 backports important security and privacy fixes for
1691 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
1692 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
1693 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
1695 The Tor 0.2.1.x series will reach formal end-of-life some time in
1696 early 2012; we will stop releasing patches for it then.
1698 o Major bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
1699 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
1700 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
1701 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
1702 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
1703 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
1704 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
1705 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
1706 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
1709 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
1712 Changes in version 0.2.3.9-alpha - 2011-12-08
1713 Tor 0.2.3.9-alpha introduces initial IPv6 support for bridges, adds
1714 a "DisableNetwork" security feature that bundles can use to avoid
1715 touching the network until bridges are configured, moves forward on
1716 the pluggable transport design, fixes a flaw in the hidden service
1717 design that unnecessarily prevented clients with wrong clocks from
1718 reaching hidden services, and fixes a wide variety of other issues.
1721 - Clients can now connect to private bridges over IPv6. Bridges
1722 still need at least one IPv4 address in order to connect to
1723 other relays. Note that we don't yet handle the case where the
1724 user has two bridge lines for the same bridge (one IPv4, one
1725 IPv6). Implements parts of proposal 186.
1726 - New "DisableNetwork" config option to prevent Tor from launching any
1727 connections or accepting any connections except on a control port.
1728 Bundles and controllers can set this option before letting Tor talk
1729 to the rest of the network, for example to prevent any connections
1730 to a non-bridge address. Packages like Orbot can also use this
1731 option to instruct Tor to save power when the network is off.
1732 - Clients and bridges can now be configured to use a separate
1733 "transport" proxy. This approach makes the censorship arms race
1734 easier by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation plugins. It
1735 implements the "managed proxy" part of proposal 180 (ticket 3472).
1736 - When using OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, use OpenSSL's counter mode
1737 implementation. It makes AES_CTR about 7% faster than our old one
1738 (which was about 10% faster than the one OpenSSL used to provide).
1739 Resolves ticket 4526.
1740 - Add a "tor2web mode" for clients that want to connect to hidden
1741 services non-anonymously (and possibly more quickly). As a safety
1742 measure to try to keep users from turning this on without knowing
1743 what they are doing, tor2web mode must be explicitly enabled at
1744 compile time, and a copy of Tor compiled to run in tor2web mode
1745 cannot be used as a normal Tor client. Implements feature 2553.
1746 - Add experimental support for running on Windows with IOCP and no
1747 kernel-space socket buffers. This feature is controlled by a new
1748 "UserspaceIOCPBuffers" config option (off by default), which has
1749 no effect unless Tor has been built with support for bufferevents,
1750 is running on Windows, and has enabled IOCP. This may, in the long
1751 run, help solve or mitigate bug 98.
1752 - Use a more secure consensus parameter voting algorithm. Now at
1753 least three directory authorities or a majority of them must
1754 vote on a given parameter before it will be included in the
1755 consensus. Implements proposal 178.
1758 - Hidden services now ignore the timestamps on INTRODUCE2 cells.
1759 They used to check that the timestamp was within 30 minutes
1760 of their system clock, so they could cap the size of their
1761 replay-detection cache, but that approach unnecessarily refused
1762 service to clients with wrong clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha, when
1763 the v3 intro-point protocol (the first one which sent a timestamp
1764 field in the INTRODUCE2 cell) was introduced; fixes bug 3460.
1765 - Only use the EVP interface when AES acceleration is enabled,
1766 to avoid a 5-7% performance regression. Resolves issue 4525;
1767 bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
1769 o Privacy/anonymity features (bridge detection):
1770 - Make bridge SSL certificates a bit more stealthy by using random
1771 serial numbers, in the same fashion as OpenSSL when generating
1772 self-signed certificates. Implements ticket 4584.
1773 - Introduce a new config option "DynamicDHGroups", enabled by
1774 default, which provides each bridge with a unique prime DH modulus
1775 to be used during SSL handshakes. This option attempts to help
1776 against censors who might use the Apache DH modulus as a static
1777 identifier for bridges. Addresses ticket 4548.
1779 o Minor features (new/different config options):
1780 - New configuration option "DisableDebuggerAttachment" (on by default)
1781 to prevent basic debugging attachment attempts by other processes.
1782 Supports Mac OS X and Gnu/Linux. Resolves ticket 3313.
1783 - Allow MapAddress directives to specify matches against super-domains,
1784 as in "MapAddress *.torproject.org *.torproject.org.torserver.exit".
1785 Implements issue 933.
1786 - Slightly change behavior of "list" options (that is, config
1787 options that can appear more than once) when they appear both in
1788 torrc and on the command line. Previously, the command-line options
1789 would be appended to the ones from torrc. Now, the command-line
1790 options override the torrc options entirely. This new behavior
1791 allows the user to override list options (like exit policies and
1792 ports to listen on) from the command line, rather than simply
1793 appending to the list.
1794 - You can get the old (appending) command-line behavior for "list"
1795 options by prefixing the option name with a "+".
1796 - You can remove all the values for a "list" option from the command
1797 line without adding any new ones by prefixing the option name
1799 - Add experimental support for a "defaults" torrc file to be parsed
1800 before the regular torrc. Torrc options override the defaults file's
1801 options in the same way that the command line overrides the torrc.
1802 The SAVECONF controller command saves only those options which
1803 differ between the current configuration and the defaults file. HUP
1804 reloads both files. (Note: This is an experimental feature; its
1805 behavior will probably be refined in future 0.2.3.x-alpha versions
1806 to better meet packagers' needs.) Implements task 4552.
1809 - Try to make the introductory warning message that Tor prints on
1810 startup more useful for actually finding help and information.
1811 Resolves ticket 2474.
1812 - Running "make version" now displays the version of Tor that
1813 we're about to build. Idea from katmagic; resolves issue 4400.
1814 - Expire old or over-used hidden service introduction points.
1815 Required by fix for bug 3460.
1816 - Move the replay-detection cache for the RSA-encrypted parts of
1817 INTRODUCE2 cells to the introduction point data structures.
1818 Previously, we would use one replay-detection cache per hidden
1819 service. Required by fix for bug 3460.
1820 - Reduce the lifetime of elements of hidden services' Diffie-Hellman
1821 public key replay-detection cache from 60 minutes to 5 minutes. This
1822 replay-detection cache is now used only to detect multiple
1823 INTRODUCE2 cells specifying the same rendezvous point, so we can
1824 avoid launching multiple simultaneous attempts to connect to it.
1826 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.2.x and earlier):
1827 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
1828 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
1830 - Fix a minor formatting issue in one of tor-gencert's error messages.
1832 - Prevent a false positive from the check-spaces script, by disabling
1833 the "whitespace between function name and (" check for functions
1835 - Fix a log message suggesting that people contact a non-existent
1836 email address. Fixes bug 3448.
1837 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
1838 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
1839 - Report a real bootstrap problem to the controller on router
1840 identity mismatch. Previously we just said "foo", which probably
1841 made a lot of sense at the time. Fixes bug 4169; bugfix on
1843 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str() on an address of
1844 unknown type, we would have done a strdup() on an uninitialized
1845 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
1846 Reported by "troll_un".
1847 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
1848 tor_addr_lookup(). Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
1849 Reported by "troll_un".
1850 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
1851 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
1852 - Initialize conn->addr to a valid state in spawn_cpuworker(). Fixes
1853 bug 4532; found by "troll_un".
1855 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.3.x):
1856 - Fix a compile warning in tor_inet_pton(). Bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha;
1858 - Don't send two ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cells when opening a new
1859 circuit for use as a hidden service client's rendezvous point.
1860 Fixes bugs 4641 and 4171; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Diagnosed
1861 with help from wanoskarnet.
1862 - Restore behavior of overriding SocksPort, ORPort, and similar
1863 options from the command line. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
1866 - Properly handle the case where the build-tree is not the same
1867 as the source tree when generating src/common/common_sha1.i,
1868 src/or/micro-revision.i, and src/or/or_sha1.i. Fixes bug 3953;
1869 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
1871 o Code simplifications, cleanups, and refactorings:
1872 - Remove the pure attribute from all functions that used it
1873 previously. In many cases we assigned it incorrectly, because the
1874 functions might assert or call impure functions, and we don't have
1875 evidence that keeping the pure attribute is worthwhile. Implements
1876 changes suggested in ticket 4421.
1877 - Remove some dead code spotted by coverity. Fixes cid 432.
1878 Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha, closes bug 4637.
1881 Changes in version 0.2.3.8-alpha - 2011-11-22
1882 Tor 0.2.3.8-alpha fixes some crash and assert bugs, including a
1883 socketpair-related bug that has been bothering Windows users. It adds
1884 support to serve microdescriptors to controllers, so Vidalia's network
1885 map can resume listing relays (once Vidalia implements its side),
1886 and adds better support for hardware AES acceleration. Finally, it
1887 starts the process of adjusting the bandwidth cutoff for getting the
1888 "Fast" flag from 20KB to (currently) 32KB -- preliminary results show
1889 that tiny relays harm performance more than they help network capacity.
1892 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
1893 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
1894 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
1895 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
1897 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
1898 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
1899 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
1900 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
1901 - Remove the artificially low cutoff of 20KB to guarantee the Fast
1902 flag. In the past few years the average relay speed has picked
1903 up, and while the "top 7/8 of the network get the Fast flag" and
1904 "all relays with 20KB or more of capacity get the Fast flag" rules
1905 used to have the same result, now the top 7/8 of the network has
1906 a capacity more like 32KB. Bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc. Fixes bug 4489.
1907 - Fix a rare assertion failure when checking whether a v0 hidden
1908 service descriptor has any usable introduction points left, and
1909 we don't have enough information to build a circuit to the first
1910 intro point named in the descriptor. The HS client code in
1911 0.2.3.x no longer uses v0 HS descriptors, but this assertion can
1912 trigger on (and crash) v0 HS authorities. Fixes bug 4411.
1913 Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha; diagnosed by frosty_un.
1914 - Make bridge authorities not crash when they are asked for their own
1915 descriptor. Bugfix on 0.2.3.7-alpha, reported by Lucky Green.
1916 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
1917 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
1918 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
1919 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
1920 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34 and 0.2.3.7-alpha.
1923 - Allow Tor controllers like Vidalia to obtain the microdescriptor
1924 for a relay by identity digest or nickname. Previously,
1925 microdescriptors were only available by their own digests, so a
1926 controller would have to ask for and parse the whole microdescriptor
1927 consensus in order to look up a single relay's microdesc. Fixes
1928 bug 3832; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
1929 - Use OpenSSL's EVP interface for AES encryption, so that all AES
1930 operations can use hardware acceleration (if present). Resolves
1933 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
1934 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
1935 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
1936 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
1937 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
1938 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
1939 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
1940 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
1941 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
1942 - Allow manual 'authenticate' commands to the controller interface
1943 from netcat (nc) as well as telnet. We were rejecting them because
1944 they didn't come with the expected whitespace at the end of the
1945 command. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 2893.
1946 - Fix some (not actually triggerable) buffer size checks in usage of
1947 tor_inet_ntop. Fixes bug 4434; bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch
1949 - Fix parsing of some corner-cases with tor_inet_pton(). Fixes
1950 bug 4515; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fix by Anders Sundman.
1951 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
1952 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
1953 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
1954 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
1955 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
1956 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
1957 - Rename the bench_{aes,dmap} functions to test_*, so that tinytest
1958 can pick them up when the tests aren't disabled. Bugfix on
1959 0.2.2.4-alpha which introduced tinytest.
1960 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
1961 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
1962 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
1963 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
1964 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
1965 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
1967 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
1968 - Make util unit tests build correctly with MSVC. Bugfix on
1969 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Gisle Vanem.
1970 - Successfully detect AUTH_CHALLENGE cells with no recognized
1971 authentication type listed. Fixes bug 4367; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
1973 - If a relay receives an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell it can't answer,
1974 it should still send a NETINFO cell to allow the connection to
1975 become open. Fixes bug 4368; fix on 0.2.3.6-alpha; bug found by
1977 - Log less loudly when we get an invalid authentication certificate
1978 from a source other than a directory authority: it's not unusual
1979 to see invalid certs because of clock skew. Fixes bug 4370; bugfix
1981 - Tolerate servers with more clock skew in their authentication
1982 certificates than previously. Fixes bug 4371; bugfix on
1984 - Fix a couple of compile warnings on Windows. Fixes bug 4469; bugfix
1985 on 0.2.3.4-alpha and 0.2.3.6-alpha.
1988 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
1989 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
1990 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
1991 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
1992 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
1993 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
1994 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
1995 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
1996 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
1997 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
1998 - When we fail to initialize Libevent, retry with IOCP disabled so we
1999 don't need to turn on multi-threading support in Libevent, which in
2000 turn requires a working socketpair(). This is a workaround for bug
2001 4457, which affects Libevent versions from 2.0.1-alpha through
2003 - Detect when we try to build on a platform that doesn't define
2004 AF_UNSPEC to 0. We don't work there, so refuse to compile.
2005 - Update to the November 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
2007 o Packaging changes:
2008 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
2009 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
2011 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
2012 - Remove some redundant #include directives throughout the code.
2013 Patch from Andrea Gelmini.
2014 - Unconditionally use OpenSSL's AES implementation instead of our
2015 old built-in one. OpenSSL's AES has been better for a while, and
2016 relatively few servers should still be on any version of OpenSSL
2017 that doesn't have good optimized assembly AES.
2018 - Use the name "CERTS" consistently to refer to the new cell type;
2019 we were calling it CERT in some places and CERTS in others.
2022 - Numerous new unit tests for functions in util.c and address.c by
2024 - The long-disabled benchmark tests are now split into their own
2025 ./src/test/bench binary.
2026 - The benchmark tests can now use more accurate timers than
2027 gettimeofday() when such timers are available.
2030 Changes in version 0.2.3.7-alpha - 2011-10-30
2031 Tor 0.2.3.7-alpha fixes a crash bug in 0.2.3.6-alpha introduced by
2032 the new v3 handshake. It also resolves yet another bridge address
2036 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
2037 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
2038 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
2039 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
2040 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
2041 close based on processing a cell on it.
2042 - Fix a double-free bug that would occur when we received an invalid
2043 certificate in a CERT cell in the new v3 handshake. Fixes bug 4343;
2044 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
2045 - Bridges no longer include their address in NETINFO cells on outgoing
2046 OR connections, to allow them to blend in better with clients.
2047 Removes another avenue for enumerating bridges. Reported by
2048 "troll_un". Fixes bug 4348; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha, when NETINFO
2049 cells were introduced.
2052 - Fixed a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
2053 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
2056 Changes in version 0.2.3.6-alpha - 2011-10-26
2057 Tor 0.2.3.6-alpha includes the fix from 0.2.2.34 for a critical
2058 anonymity vulnerability where an attacker can deanonymize Tor
2059 users. Everybody should upgrade.
2061 This release also features support for a new v3 connection handshake
2062 protocol, and fixes to make hidden service connections more robust.
2065 - Implement a new handshake protocol (v3) for authenticating Tors to
2066 each other over TLS. It should be more resistant to fingerprinting
2067 than previous protocols, and should require less TLS hacking for
2068 future Tor implementations. Implements proposal 176.
2069 - Allow variable-length padding cells to disguise the length of
2070 Tor's TLS records. Implements part of proposal 184.
2072 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
2073 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
2074 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
2075 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
2076 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
2077 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
2078 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
2079 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
2080 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
2081 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
2082 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
2083 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
2084 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
2085 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
2086 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
2087 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
2088 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
2089 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
2092 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
2093 - Improve hidden service robustness: when an attempt to connect to
2094 a hidden service ends, be willing to refetch its hidden service
2095 descriptors from each of the HSDir relays responsible for them
2096 immediately. Previously, we would not consider refetching the
2097 service's descriptors from each HSDir for 15 minutes after the last
2098 fetch, which was inconvenient if the hidden service was not running
2099 during the first attempt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 3335.
2100 - When one of a hidden service's introduction points appears to be
2101 unreachable, stop trying it. Previously, we would keep trying
2102 to build circuits to the introduction point until we lost the
2103 descriptor, usually because the user gave up and restarted Tor.
2104 Partly fixes bug 3825.
2105 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
2106 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
2107 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
2108 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
2109 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
2110 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
2111 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
2113 o Major bugfixes (other):
2114 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
2115 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
2116 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
2117 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
2118 Found by "frosty_un".
2119 - Don't update the AccountingSoftLimitHitAt state file entry whenever
2120 tor gets started. This prevents a wrong average bandwidth
2121 estimate, which would cause relays to always start a new accounting
2122 interval at the earliest possible moment. Fixes bug 2003; bugfix
2123 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Reported by BryonEldridge, who also helped
2124 immensely in tracking this bug down.
2125 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
2126 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
2129 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
2130 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
2131 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
2132 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
2133 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
2134 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
2135 - Rephrase the log message emitted if the TestSocks check is
2136 successful. Patch from Fabian Keil; fixes bug 4094.
2137 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
2138 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
2139 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
2140 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
2141 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
2142 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
2143 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
2144 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
2145 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
2146 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
2147 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
2148 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
2149 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
2151 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
2152 - Fix a bug in configure.in that kept it from building a configure
2153 script with autoconf versions earlier than 2.61. Fixes bug 2430;
2154 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
2155 - Don't warn users that they are exposing a client port to the
2156 Internet if they have specified an RFC1918 address. Previously,
2157 we would warn if the user had specified any non-loopback
2158 address. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Fixes bug 4018; reported by Tas.
2159 - Fix memory leaks in the failing cases of the new SocksPort and
2160 ControlPort code. Found by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha;
2161 fixes coverity CIDs 485, 486, and 487.
2164 - When a hidden service's introduction point times out, consider
2165 trying it again during the next attempt to connect to the
2166 HS. Previously, we would not try it again unless a newly fetched
2167 descriptor contained it. Required by fixes for bugs 1297 and 3825.
2168 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
2169 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
2170 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
2171 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
2172 - The Bridge Authority now writes statistics on how many bridge
2173 descriptors it gave out in total, and how many unique descriptors
2174 it gave out. It also lists how often the most and least commonly
2175 fetched descriptors were given out, as well as the median and
2176 25th/75th percentile. Implements tickets 4200 and 4294.
2177 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
2179 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
2180 - Remove some old code to remember statistics about which descriptors
2181 we've served as a directory mirror. The feature wasn't used and
2182 is outdated now that microdescriptors are around.
2183 - Rename Tor functions that turn strings into addresses, so that
2184 "parse" indicates that no hostname resolution occurs, and
2185 "lookup" indicates that hostname resolution may occur. This
2186 should help prevent mistakes in the future. Fixes bug 3512.
2189 Changes in version 0.2.2.34 - 2011-10-26
2190 Tor 0.2.2.34 fixes a critical anonymity vulnerability where an attacker
2191 can deanonymize Tor users. Everybody should upgrade.
2193 The attack relies on four components: 1) Clients reuse their TLS cert
2194 when talking to different relays, so relays can recognize a user by
2195 the identity key in her cert. 2) An attacker who knows the client's
2196 identity key can probe each guard relay to see if that identity key
2197 is connected to that guard relay right now. 3) A variety of active
2198 attacks in the literature (starting from "Low-Cost Traffic Analysis
2199 of Tor" by Murdoch and Danezis in 2005) allow a malicious website to
2200 discover the guard relays that a Tor user visiting the website is using.
2201 4) Clients typically pick three guards at random, so the set of guards
2202 for a given user could well be a unique fingerprint for her. This
2203 release fixes components #1 and #2, which is enough to block the attack;
2204 the other two remain as open research problems. Special thanks to
2205 "frosty_un" for reporting the issue to us!
2207 Clients should upgrade so they are no longer recognizable by the TLS
2208 certs they present. Relays should upgrade so they no longer allow a
2209 remote attacker to probe them to test whether unpatched clients are
2210 currently connected to them.
2212 This release also fixes several vulnerabilities that allow an attacker
2213 to enumerate bridge relays. Some bridge enumeration attacks still
2214 remain; see for example proposal 188.
2216 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
2217 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
2218 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
2219 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
2220 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
2221 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
2222 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
2223 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
2224 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
2225 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
2226 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
2227 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
2228 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
2229 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
2230 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
2231 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
2232 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
2233 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
2236 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (bridge enumeration):
2237 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
2238 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
2239 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
2240 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
2241 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
2242 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
2243 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
2244 when bridges were introduced.
2245 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
2246 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
2247 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
2248 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
2249 Found by "frosty_un".
2252 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
2253 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
2255 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
2256 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
2257 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
2258 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
2259 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
2260 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
2261 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
2264 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
2265 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
2266 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
2267 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
2268 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
2269 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
2270 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
2271 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
2272 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
2273 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
2274 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
2275 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
2276 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
2277 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
2278 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
2279 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
2280 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
2281 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
2283 o Minor bugfixes (log messages and documentation):
2284 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
2285 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
2286 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
2287 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
2288 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
2289 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
2290 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
2291 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
2292 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
2293 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
2294 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
2297 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
2298 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
2299 Backported from 0.2.3.1-alpha; implements ticket 3951.
2300 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
2303 Changes in version 0.2.1.31 - 2011-10-26
2304 Tor 0.2.1.31 backports important security and privacy fixes for
2305 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
2306 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
2307 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
2309 o Security fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
2310 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
2311 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
2312 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
2313 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
2314 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
2315 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
2316 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
2317 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
2318 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
2320 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
2321 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
2322 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
2323 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
2324 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
2325 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
2326 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
2327 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
2328 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
2329 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
2330 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
2331 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
2332 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
2333 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
2334 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
2335 Found by "frosty_un".
2336 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
2337 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
2338 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
2339 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
2340 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
2341 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
2342 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
2343 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
2344 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
2345 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
2346 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
2347 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
2348 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
2349 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
2350 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
2351 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
2352 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
2353 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
2354 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
2356 o Minor bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
2357 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
2358 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
2359 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
2360 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
2361 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
2362 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
2363 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
2365 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
2366 enabled. Fixes bug 1526.
2367 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
2368 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
2369 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
2370 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
2371 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
2372 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
2373 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
2374 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
2375 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
2376 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
2378 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
2379 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
2380 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
2381 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
2382 - Require that introduction point keys and onion keys have public
2383 exponent 65537. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
2384 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
2385 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
2386 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
2388 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
2390 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
2391 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
2392 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
2393 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
2394 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
2395 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
2396 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
2397 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
2399 o Minor bugfixes (only in 0.2.1.x):
2400 - Resume using micro-version numbers in 0.2.1.x: our Debian packages
2401 rely on them. Bugfix on 0.2.1.30.
2402 - Use git revisions instead of svn revisions when generating our
2403 micro-version numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
2405 o Minor features (also included in 0.2.2.x):
2406 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
2407 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
2408 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
2409 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
2412 Changes in version 0.2.3.5-alpha - 2011-09-28
2413 Tor 0.2.3.5-alpha fixes two bugs that make it possible to enumerate
2414 bridge relays; fixes an assertion error that many users started hitting
2415 today; and adds the ability to refill token buckets more often than
2416 once per second, allowing significant performance improvements.
2419 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
2420 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
2421 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
2422 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
2423 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
2424 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
2425 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
2426 when bridges were introduced.
2429 - Fix an "Assertion md->held_by_node == 1 failed" error that could
2430 occur when the same microdescriptor was referenced by two node_t
2431 objects at once. Fix for bug 4118; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.1-alpha.
2433 o Major features (networking):
2434 - Add a new TokenBucketRefillInterval option to refill token buckets
2435 more frequently than once per second. This should improve network
2436 performance, alleviate queueing problems, and make traffic less
2437 bursty. Implements proposal 183; closes ticket 3630. Design by
2438 Florian Tschorsch and Björn Scheuermann; implementation by
2442 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
2443 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
2444 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
2446 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
2447 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
2448 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
2449 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
2450 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
2452 o Minor features (diagnostics):
2453 - When the system call to create a listener socket fails, log the
2454 error message explaining why. This may help diagnose bug 4027.
2457 Changes in version 0.2.3.4-alpha - 2011-09-13
2458 Tor 0.2.3.4-alpha includes the fixes from 0.2.2.33, including a slight
2459 tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run
2460 this new version reachable from Iran again. It also fixes a few new
2461 bugs in 0.2.3.x, and teaches relays to recognize when they're not
2462 listed in the network consensus and republish.
2464 o Major bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
2465 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
2466 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
2467 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
2469 o Minor features (security, also part of 0.2.2.33):
2470 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
2471 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
2472 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
2473 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
2474 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
2475 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
2476 that these attacks is infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
2477 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
2478 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
2479 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
2481 o Minor features (also part of 0.2.2.33):
2482 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
2483 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
2484 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
2485 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
2486 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
2487 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
2488 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
2489 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
2490 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
2492 o Minor bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
2493 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
2494 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
2495 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
2496 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
2497 fixes part of bug 2442.
2498 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
2499 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
2500 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
2502 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
2503 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
2504 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
2505 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
2506 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
2508 o Build fixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
2509 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
2510 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
2511 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
2512 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
2515 - Fix a bug where the SocksPort option (for example) would get
2516 ignored and replaced by the default if a SocksListenAddress
2517 option was set. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha; fixes bug 3936. Fix by
2521 - Relays now try regenerating and uploading their descriptor more
2522 frequently if they are not listed in the consensus, or if the
2523 version of their descriptor listed in the consensus is too
2524 old. This fix should prevent situations where a server declines
2525 to re-publish itself because it has done so too recently, even
2526 though the authorities decided not to list its recent-enough
2527 descriptor. Fix for bug 3327.
2530 - Relays now include a reason for regenerating their descriptors
2531 in an HTTP header when uploading to the authorities. This will
2532 make it easier to debug descriptor-upload issues in the future.
2533 - When starting as root and then changing our UID via the User
2534 control option, and we have a ControlSocket configured, make sure
2535 that the ControlSocket is owned by the same account that Tor will
2536 run under. Implements ticket 3421; fix by Jérémy Bobbio.
2539 - Abort if tor_vasprintf fails in connection_printf_to_buf (a
2540 utility function used in the control-port code). This shouldn't
2541 ever happen unless Tor is completely out of memory, but if it did
2542 happen and Tor somehow recovered from it, Tor could have sent a log
2543 message to a control port in the middle of a reply to a controller
2544 command. Fixes part of bug 3428; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
2545 - Make 'FetchUselessDescriptors' cause all descriptor types and
2546 all consensus types (including microdescriptors) to get fetched.
2547 Fixes bug 3851; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
2550 - Make a new "entry connection" struct as an internal subtype of "edge
2551 connection", to simplify the code and make exit connections smaller.
2554 Changes in version 0.2.2.33 - 2011-09-13
2555 Tor 0.2.2.33 fixes several bugs, and includes a slight tweak to Tor's
2556 TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run this new version
2557 reachable from Iran again.
2560 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
2561 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
2562 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
2564 o Minor features (security):
2565 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
2566 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
2567 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
2568 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
2569 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
2570 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
2571 that these attacks are infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
2572 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
2573 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
2574 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
2577 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
2578 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
2579 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
2580 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
2581 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
2582 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
2583 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
2584 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
2585 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
2587 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
2588 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
2589 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
2590 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
2591 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
2593 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
2594 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
2595 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
2596 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
2597 fixes part of bug 2442.
2598 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
2599 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
2600 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
2602 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
2603 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
2604 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
2605 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
2606 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
2609 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
2610 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
2611 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
2612 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
2613 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
2614 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
2617 Changes in version 0.2.3.3-alpha - 2011-09-01
2618 Tor 0.2.3.3-alpha adds a new "stream isolation" feature to improve Tor's
2619 security, and provides client-side support for the microdescriptor
2620 and optimistic data features introduced earlier in the 0.2.3.x
2621 series. It also includes numerous critical bugfixes in the (optional)
2622 bufferevent-based networking backend.
2624 o Major features (stream isolation):
2625 - You can now configure Tor so that streams from different
2626 applications are isolated on different circuits, to prevent an
2627 attacker who sees your streams as they leave an exit node from
2628 linking your sessions to one another. To do this, choose some way
2629 to distinguish the applications: have them connect to different
2630 SocksPorts, or have one of them use SOCKS4 while the other uses
2631 SOCKS5, or have them pass different authentication strings to the
2632 SOCKS proxy. Then, use the new SocksPort syntax to configure the
2633 degree of isolation you need. This implements Proposal 171.
2634 - There's a new syntax for specifying multiple client ports (such as
2635 SOCKSPort, TransPort, DNSPort, NATDPort): you can now just declare
2636 multiple *Port entries with full addr:port syntax on each.
2637 The old *ListenAddress format is still supported, but you can't
2638 mix it with the new *Port syntax.
2640 o Major features (other):
2641 - Enable microdescriptor fetching by default for clients. This allows
2642 clients to download a much smaller amount of directory information.
2643 To disable it (and go back to the old-style consensus and
2644 descriptors), set "UseMicrodescriptors 0" in your torrc file.
2645 - Tor's firewall-helper feature, introduced in 0.2.3.1-alpha (see the
2646 "PortForwarding" config option), now supports Windows.
2647 - When using an exit relay running 0.2.3.x, clients can now
2648 "optimistically" send data before the exit relay reports that
2649 the stream has opened. This saves a round trip when starting
2650 connections where the client speaks first (such as web browsing).
2651 This behavior is controlled by a consensus parameter (currently
2652 disabled). To turn it on or off manually, use the "OptimisticData"
2653 torrc option. Implements proposal 181; code by Ian Goldberg.
2655 o Major bugfixes (bufferevents, fixes on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
2656 - When using IOCP on Windows, we need to enable Libevent windows
2658 - The IOCP backend now works even when the user has not specified
2659 the (internal, debugging-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option.
2660 Fixes part of bug 3752.
2661 - Correctly record the bytes we've read and written when using
2662 bufferevents, so that we can include them in our bandwidth history
2663 and advertised bandwidth. Fixes bug 3803.
2664 - Apply rate-limiting only at the bottom of a chain of filtering
2665 bufferevents. This prevents us from filling up internal read
2666 buffers and violating rate-limits when filtering bufferevents
2667 are enabled. Fixes part of bug 3804.
2668 - Add high-watermarks to the output buffers for filtered
2669 bufferevents. This prevents us from filling up internal write
2670 buffers and wasting CPU cycles when filtering bufferevents are
2671 enabled. Fixes part of bug 3804.
2672 - Correctly notice when data has been written from a bufferevent
2673 without flushing it completely. Fixes bug 3805.
2674 - Fix a bug where server-side tunneled bufferevent-based directory
2675 streams would get closed prematurely. Fixes bug 3814.
2676 - Fix a use-after-free error with per-connection rate-limiting
2677 buckets. Fixes bug 3888.
2679 o Major bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
2680 - If we're configured to write our ControlPorts to disk, only write
2681 them after switching UID and creating the data directory. This way,
2682 we don't fail when starting up with a nonexistent DataDirectory
2683 and a ControlPortWriteToFile setting based on that directory. Fixes
2684 bug 3747; bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.26-beta.
2687 - Added a new CONF_CHANGED event so that controllers can be notified
2688 of any configuration changes made by other controllers, or by the
2689 user. Implements ticket 1692.
2690 - Use evbuffer_copyout() in inspect_evbuffer(). This fixes a memory
2691 leak when using bufferevents, and lets Libevent worry about how to
2692 best copy data out of a buffer.
2693 - Replace files in stats/ rather than appending to them. Now that we
2694 include statistics in extra-info descriptors, it makes no sense to
2695 keep old statistics forever. Implements ticket 2930.
2697 o Minor features (build compatibility):
2698 - Limited, experimental support for building with nmake and MSVC.
2699 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
2700 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
2702 o Minor features (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
2703 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
2705 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x-alpha):
2706 - Fix a spurious warning when parsing SOCKS requests with
2707 bufferevents enabled. Fixes bug 3615; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
2708 - Get rid of a harmless warning that could happen on relays running
2709 with bufferevents. The warning was caused by someone doing an http
2710 request to a relay's orport. Also don't warn for a few related
2711 non-errors. Fixes bug 3700; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
2713 o Minor bugfixes (on 2.2.x and earlier):
2714 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
2715 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
2716 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
2717 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
2719 - The "--quiet" and "--hush" options now apply not only to Tor's
2720 behavior before logs are configured, but also to Tor's behavior in
2721 the absense of configured logs. Fixes bug 3550; bugfix on
2724 o Minor bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
2725 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
2726 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
2727 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
2728 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
2729 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
2730 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
2731 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
2732 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
2733 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
2734 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
2735 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
2736 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
2737 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
2738 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
2739 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
2740 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
2741 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
2742 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
2745 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
2746 - Rewrite the listener-selection logic so that parsing which ports
2747 we want to listen on is now separate from binding to the ports
2751 - Building Tor with bufferevent support now requires Libevent
2752 2.0.13-stable or later. Previous versions of Libevent had bugs in
2753 SSL-related bufferevents and related issues that would make Tor
2754 work badly with bufferevents. Requiring 2.0.13-stable also allows
2755 Tor with bufferevents to take advantage of Libevent APIs
2756 introduced after 2.0.8-rc.
2759 Changes in version 0.2.2.32 - 2011-08-27
2760 The Tor 0.2.2 release series is dedicated to the memory of Andreas
2761 Pfitzmann (1958-2010), a pioneer in anonymity and privacy research,
2762 a founder of the PETS community, a leader in our field, a mentor,
2763 and a friend. He left us with these words: "I had the possibility
2764 to contribute to this world that is not as it should be. I hope I
2765 could help in some areas to make the world a better place, and that
2766 I could also encourage other people to be engaged in improving the
2767 world. Please, stay engaged. This world needs you, your love, your
2768 initiative -- now I cannot be part of that anymore."
2770 Tor 0.2.2.32, the first stable release in the 0.2.2 branch, is finally
2771 ready. More than two years in the making, this release features improved
2772 client performance and hidden service reliability, better compatibility
2773 for Android, correct behavior for bridges that listen on more than
2774 one address, more extensible and flexible directory object handling,
2775 better reporting of network statistics, improved code security, and
2776 many many other features and bugfixes.
2779 Changes in version 0.2.2.31-rc - 2011-08-17
2780 Tor 0.2.2.31-rc is the second and hopefully final release candidate
2781 for the Tor 0.2.2.x series.
2784 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
2785 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
2786 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
2787 - If we're configured to write our ControlPorts to disk, only write
2788 them after switching UID and creating the data directory. This way,
2789 we don't fail when starting up with a nonexistent DataDirectory
2790 and a ControlPortWriteToFile setting based on that directory. Fixes
2791 bug 3747; bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.26-beta.
2794 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
2797 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
2798 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
2799 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
2800 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
2801 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
2802 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
2803 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
2804 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
2805 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
2806 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
2807 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
2808 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
2809 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
2810 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
2811 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
2812 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
2813 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
2814 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
2818 Changes in version 0.2.3.2-alpha - 2011-07-18
2819 Tor 0.2.3.2-alpha introduces two new experimental features:
2820 microdescriptors and pluggable transports. It also continues cleaning
2821 up a variety of recently introduced features.
2824 - Clients can now use microdescriptors instead of regular descriptors
2825 to build circuits. Microdescriptors are authority-generated
2826 summaries of regular descriptors' contents, designed to change
2827 very rarely (see proposal 158 for details). This feature is
2828 designed to save bandwidth, especially for clients on slow internet
2829 connections. It's off by default for now, since nearly no caches
2830 support it, but it will be on-by-default for clients in a future
2831 version. You can use the UseMicrodescriptors option to turn it on.
2832 - Tor clients using bridges can now be configured to use a separate
2833 'transport' proxy for each bridge. This approach helps to resist
2834 censorship by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation
2835 plugins. It implements part of proposal 180. Implements ticket 2841.
2836 - While we're trying to bootstrap, record how many TLS connections
2837 fail in each state, and report which states saw the most failures
2838 in response to any bootstrap failures. This feature may speed up
2839 diagnosis of censorship events. Implements ticket 3116.
2841 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
2842 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes (as with
2843 'EntryNodes {cc}' or 'EntryNodes 1.1.1.1/16'), choose only a
2844 random subset to be guards, and choose them in random
2845 order. Fixes bug 2798.
2846 - Tor could crash when remembering a consensus in a non-used consensus
2847 flavor without having a current consensus set. Fixes bug 3361.
2848 - Comparing an unknown address to a microdescriptor's shortened exit
2849 policy would always give a "rejected" result. Fixes bug 3599.
2850 - Using microdescriptors as a client no longer prevents Tor from
2851 uploading and downloading hidden service descriptors. Fixes
2855 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
2856 - Accept attempts to include a password authenticator in the
2857 handshake, as supported by SOCKS5. This handles SOCKS clients that
2858 don't know how to omit a password when authenticating. Resolves
2860 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes, and there are
2861 enough of them listed as Guard so that we don't need to consider
2862 the non-guard entries, prefer the ones listed with the Guard flag.
2863 - Check for and recover from inconsistency in the microdescriptor
2864 cache. This will make it harder for us to accidentally free a
2865 microdescriptor without removing it from the appropriate data
2866 structures. Fixes issue 3135; issue noted by "wanoskarnet".
2867 - Log SSL state transitions at log level DEBUG, log domain
2868 HANDSHAKE. This can be useful for debugging censorship events.
2869 Implements ticket 3264.
2870 - Add port 6523 (Gobby) to LongLivedPorts. Patch by intrigeri;
2871 implements ticket 3439.
2873 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
2874 - Do not free all general-purpose regular descriptors just
2875 because microdescriptor use is enabled. Fixes bug 3113.
2876 - Correctly link libevent_openssl when --enable-static-libevent
2877 is passed to configure. Fixes bug 3118.
2878 - Bridges should not complain during their heartbeat log messages that
2879 they are unlisted in the consensus: that's more or less the point
2880 of being a bridge. Fixes bug 3183.
2881 - Report a SIGNAL event to controllers when acting on a delayed
2882 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Previously, we would report a SIGNAL
2883 event to the controller if we acted on a SIGNAL NEWNYM command
2884 immediately, and otherwise not report a SIGNAL event for the
2885 command at all. Fixes bug 3349.
2886 - Fix a crash when handling the SIGNAL controller command or
2887 reporting ERR-level status events with bufferevents enabled. Found
2888 by Robert Ransom. Fixes bug 3367.
2889 - Always ship the tor-fw-helper manpage in our release tarballs.
2890 Fixes bug 3389. Reported by Stephen Walker.
2891 - Fix a class of double-mark-for-close bugs when bufferevents
2892 are enabled. Fixes bug 3403.
2893 - Update tor-fw-helper to support libnatpmp-20110618. Fixes bug 3434.
2894 - Add SIGNAL to the list returned by the 'GETINFO events/names'
2895 control-port command. Fixes part of bug 3465.
2896 - Prevent using negative indices during unit test runs when read_all()
2897 fails. Spotted by coverity.
2898 - Fix a rare memory leak when checking the nodelist without it being
2899 present. Found by coverity.
2900 - Only try to download a microdescriptor-flavored consensus from
2901 a directory cache that provides them.
2903 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
2904 - Assert that hidden-service-related operations are not performed
2905 using single-hop circuits. Previously, Tor would assert that
2906 client-side streams are not attached to single-hop circuits,
2907 but not that other sensitive operations on the client and service
2908 side are not performed using single-hop circuits. Fixes bug 3332;
2910 - Don't publish a new relay descriptor when we reload our onion key,
2911 unless the onion key has actually changed. Fixes bug 3263 and
2912 resolves another cause of bug 1810. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
2913 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
2914 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
2915 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
2916 - Make 'tor --digests' list hashes of all Tor source files. Bugfix
2917 on 0.2.2.4-alpha; fixes bug 3427.
2919 o Code simplification and refactoring:
2920 - Use tor_sscanf() in place of scanf() in more places through the
2921 code. This makes us a little more locale-independent, and
2922 should help shut up code-analysis tools that can't tell
2923 a safe sscanf string from a dangerous one.
2924 - Use tt_assert(), not tor_assert(), for checking for test failures.
2925 This makes the unit tests more able to go on in the event that
2927 - Split connection_about_to_close() into separate functions for each
2931 - On Windows, we now define the _WIN32_WINNT macros only if they
2932 are not already defined. This lets the person building Tor decide,
2933 if they want, to require a later version of Windows.
2936 Changes in version 0.2.2.30-rc - 2011-07-07
2937 Tor 0.2.2.30-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.2.x
2938 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
2939 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
2942 - Send a SUCCEEDED stream event to the controller when a reverse
2943 resolve succeeded. Fixes bug 3536; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1. Issue
2944 discovered by katmagic.
2945 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
2946 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
2947 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
2948 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
2949 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
2950 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
2951 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
2952 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
2953 - Add BUILDTIMEOUT_SET to the list returned by the 'GETINFO
2954 events/names' control-port command. Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha;
2955 fixes part of bug 3465.
2956 - Fix a memory leak when receiving a descriptor for a hidden
2957 service we didn't ask for. Found by Coverity; CID #30. Bugfix
2961 - Update to the July 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
2964 Changes in version 0.2.2.29-beta - 2011-06-20
2965 Tor 0.2.2.29-beta reverts an accidental behavior change for users who
2966 have bridge lines in their torrc but don't want to use them; gets
2967 us closer to having the control socket feature working on Debian;
2968 and fixes a variety of smaller bugs.
2971 - Revert the UseBridges option to its behavior before 0.2.2.28-beta.
2972 When we changed the default behavior to "use bridges if any
2973 are listed in the torrc", we surprised users who had bridges
2974 in their torrc files but who didn't actually want to use them.
2975 Partial resolution for bug 3354.
2978 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
2979 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
2980 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
2981 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
2982 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
2983 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
2986 - Fix a bug when using ControlSocketsGroupWritable with User. The
2987 directory's group would be checked against the current group, not
2988 the configured group. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio. Fixes bug 3393;
2989 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
2990 - Make connection_printf_to_buf()'s behaviour sane. Its callers
2991 expect it to emit a CRLF iff the format string ends with CRLF;
2992 it actually emitted a CRLF iff (a) the format string ended with
2993 CRLF or (b) the resulting string was over 1023 characters long or
2994 (c) the format string did not end with CRLF *and* the resulting
2995 string was 1021 characters long or longer. Bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha;
2996 fixes part of bug 3407.
2997 - Make send_control_event_impl()'s behaviour sane. Its callers
2998 expect it to always emit a CRLF at the end of the string; it
2999 might have emitted extra control characters as well. Bugfix on
3000 0.1.1.9-alpha; fixes another part of bug 3407.
3001 - Make crypto_rand_int() check the value of its input correctly.
3002 Previously, it accepted values up to UINT_MAX, but could return a
3003 negative number if given a value above INT_MAX+1. Found by George
3004 Kadianakis. Fixes bug 3306; bugfix on 0.2.2pre14.
3005 - Avoid a segfault when reading a malformed circuit build state
3006 with more than INT_MAX entries. Found by wanoskarnet. Bugfix on
3008 - When asked about a DNS record type we don't support via a
3009 client DNSPort, reply with NOTIMPL rather than an empty
3010 reply. Patch by intrigeri. Fixes bug 3369; bugfix on 2.0.1-alpha.
3011 - Fix a rare memory leak during stats writing. Found by coverity.
3014 - Update to the June 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
3016 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
3017 - Remove some dead code as indicated by coverity.
3018 - Remove a few dead assignments during router parsing. Found by
3020 - Add some forgotten return value checks during unit tests. Found
3022 - Don't use 1-bit wide signed bit fields. Found by coverity.
3025 Changes in version 0.2.2.28-beta - 2011-06-04
3026 Tor 0.2.2.28-beta makes great progress towards a new stable release: we
3027 fixed a big bug in whether relays stay in the consensus consistently,
3028 we moved closer to handling bridges and hidden services correctly,
3029 and we started the process of better handling the dreaded "my Vidalia
3030 died, and now my Tor demands a password when I try to reconnect to it"
3034 - Don't decide to make a new descriptor when receiving a HUP signal.
3035 This bug has caused a lot of 0.2.2.x relays to disappear from the
3036 consensus periodically. Fixes the most common case of triggering
3037 bug 1810; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
3038 - Actually allow nameservers with IPv6 addresses. Fixes bug 2574.
3039 - Don't try to build descriptors if "ORPort auto" is set and we
3040 don't know our actual ORPort yet. Fix for bug 3216; bugfix on
3042 - Resolve a crash that occurred when setting BridgeRelay to 1 with
3043 accounting enabled. Fixes bug 3228; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
3044 - Apply circuit timeouts to opened hidden-service-related circuits
3045 based on the correct start time. Previously, we would apply the
3046 circuit build timeout based on time since the circuit's creation;
3047 it was supposed to be applied based on time since the circuit
3048 entered its current state. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes part of bug 1297.
3049 - Use the same circuit timeout for client-side introduction
3050 circuits as for other four-hop circuits, rather than the timeout
3051 for single-hop directory-fetch circuits; the shorter timeout may
3052 have been appropriate with the static circuit build timeout in
3053 0.2.1.x and earlier, but caused many hidden service access attempts
3054 to fail with the adaptive CBT introduced in 0.2.2.2-alpha. Bugfix
3055 on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes another part of bug 1297.
3056 - In ticket 2511 we fixed a case where you could use an unconfigured
3057 bridge if you had configured it as a bridge the last time you ran
3058 Tor. Now fix another edge case: if you had configured it as a bridge
3059 but then switched to a different bridge via the controller, you
3060 would still be willing to use the old one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha;
3064 - Add an __OwningControllerProcess configuration option and a
3065 TAKEOWNERSHIP control-port command. Now a Tor controller can ensure
3066 that when it exits, Tor will shut down. Implements feature 3049.
3067 - If "UseBridges 1" is set and no bridges are configured, Tor will
3068 now refuse to build any circuits until some bridges are set.
3069 If "UseBridges auto" is set, Tor will use bridges if they are
3070 configured and we are not running as a server, but otherwise will
3071 make circuits as usual. The new default is "auto". Patch by anonym,
3072 so the Tails LiveCD can stop automatically revealing you as a Tor
3076 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
3077 - Remove a trailing asterisk from "exit-policy/default" in the
3078 output of the control port command "GETINFO info/names". Bugfix
3080 - Use a wide type to hold sockets when built for 64-bit Windows builds.
3082 - Warn when the user configures two HiddenServiceDir lines that point
3083 to the same directory. Bugfix on 0.0.6 (the version introducing
3084 HiddenServiceDir); fixes bug 3289.
3085 - Remove dead code from rend_cache_lookup_v2_desc_as_dir. Fixes
3086 part of bug 2748; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
3087 - Log malformed requests for rendezvous descriptors as protocol
3088 warnings, not warnings. Also, use a more informative log message
3089 in case someone sees it at log level warning without prior
3090 info-level messages. Fixes the other part of bug 2748; bugfix
3092 - Clear the table recording the time of the last request for each
3093 hidden service descriptor from each HS directory on SIGNAL NEWNYM.
3094 Previously, we would clear our HS descriptor cache on SIGNAL
3095 NEWNYM, but if we had previously retrieved a descriptor (or tried
3096 to) from every directory responsible for it, we would refuse to
3097 fetch it again for up to 15 minutes. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha;
3099 - Fix a log message that said "bits" while displaying a value in
3100 bytes. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 3318; bugfix on
3102 - When checking for 1024-bit keys, check for 1024 bits, not 128
3103 bytes. This allows Tor to correctly discard keys of length 1017
3104 through 1023. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
3107 - Relays now log the reason for publishing a new relay descriptor,
3108 so we have a better chance of hunting down instances of bug 1810.
3109 Resolves ticket 3252.
3110 - Revise most log messages that refer to nodes by nickname to
3111 instead use the "$key=nickname at address" format. This should be
3112 more useful, especially since nicknames are less and less likely
3113 to be unique. Resolves ticket 3045.
3114 - Log (at info level) when purging pieces of hidden-service-client
3115 state because of SIGNAL NEWNYM.
3118 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
3119 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
3122 Changes in version 0.2.2.27-beta - 2011-05-18
3123 Tor 0.2.2.27-beta fixes a bridge-related stability bug in the previous
3124 release, and also adds a few more general bugfixes.
3127 - Fix a crash bug when changing bridges in a running Tor process.
3128 Fixes bug 3213; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
3129 - When the controller configures a new bridge, don't wait 10 to 60
3130 seconds before trying to fetch its descriptor. Bugfix on
3131 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 3198 (suggested by 2355).
3134 - Require that onion keys have exponent 65537 in microdescriptors too.
3135 Fixes more of bug 3207; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
3136 - Tor used to limit HttpProxyAuthenticator values to 48 characters.
3137 Changed the limit to 512 characters by removing base64 newlines.
3138 Fixes bug 2752. Fix by Michael Yakubovich.
3139 - When a client starts or stops using bridges, never use a circuit
3140 that was built before the configuration change. This behavior could
3141 put at risk a user who uses bridges to ensure that her traffic
3142 only goes to the chosen addresses. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes
3146 Changes in version 0.2.2.26-beta - 2011-05-17
3147 Tor 0.2.2.26-beta fixes a variety of potential privacy problems. It
3148 also introduces a new "socksport auto" approach that should make it
3149 easier to run multiple Tors on the same system, and does a lot of
3150 cleanup to get us closer to a release candidate.
3152 o Security/privacy fixes:
3153 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
3154 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
3155 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
3156 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
3157 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
3158 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
3159 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
3160 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
3161 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
3162 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
3163 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
3164 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
3165 - On SIGHUP, do not clear out all TrackHostExits mappings, client
3166 DNS cache entries, and virtual address mappings: that's what
3167 NEWNYM is for. Fixes bug 1345; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
3170 - The options SocksPort, ControlPort, and so on now all accept a
3171 value "auto" that opens a socket on an OS-selected port. A
3172 new ControlPortWriteToFile option tells Tor to write its
3173 actual control port or ports to a chosen file. If the option
3174 ControlPortFileGroupReadable is set, the file is created as
3175 group-readable. Now users can run two Tor clients on the same
3176 system without needing to manually mess with parameters. Resolves
3177 part of ticket 3076.
3178 - Set SO_REUSEADDR on all sockets, not just listeners. This should
3179 help busy exit nodes avoid running out of useable ports just
3180 because all the ports have been used in the near past. Resolves
3184 - New "GETINFO net/listeners/(type)" controller command to return
3185 a list of addresses and ports that are bound for listeners for a
3186 given connection type. This is useful when the user has configured
3187 "SocksPort auto" and the controller needs to know which port got
3188 chosen. Resolves another part of ticket 3076.
3189 - Add a new ControlSocketsGroupWritable configuration option: when
3190 it is turned on, ControlSockets are group-writeable by the default
3191 group of the current user. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio; implements
3193 - Tor now refuses to create a ControlSocket in a directory that is
3194 world-readable (or group-readable if ControlSocketsGroupWritable
3195 is 0). This is necessary because some operating systems do not
3196 enforce permissions on an AF_UNIX sockets. Permissions on the
3197 directory holding the socket, however, seems to work everywhere.
3198 - Rate-limit a warning about failures to download v2 networkstatus
3199 documents. Resolves part of bug 1352.
3200 - Backport code from 0.2.3.x that allows directory authorities to
3201 clean their microdescriptor caches. Needed to resolve bug 2230.
3202 - When an HTTPS proxy reports "403 Forbidden", we now explain
3203 what it means rather than calling it an unexpected status code.
3204 Closes bug 2503. Patch from Michael Yakubovich.
3205 - Update to the May 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
3208 - Authorities now clean their microdesc cache periodically and when
3209 reading from disk initially, not only when adding new descriptors.
3210 This prevents a bug where we could lose microdescriptors. Bugfix
3211 on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 2230.
3212 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
3213 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
3214 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
3216 - Avoid a bug that would keep us from replacing a microdescriptor
3217 cache on Windows. (We would try to replace the file while still
3218 holding it open. That's fine on Unix, but Windows doesn't let us
3219 do that.) Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; bug found by wanoskarnet.
3220 - Add missing explanations for the authority-related torrc options
3221 RephistTrackTime, BridgePassword, and V3AuthUseLegacyKey in the
3222 man page. Resolves issue 2379.
3223 - As an authority, do not upload our own vote or signature set to
3224 ourself. It would tell us nothing new, and as of 0.2.2.24-alpha,
3225 it would get flagged as a duplicate. Resolves bug 3026.
3226 - Accept hidden service descriptors if we think we might be a hidden
3227 service directory, regardless of what our consensus says. This
3228 helps robustness, since clients and hidden services can sometimes
3229 have a more up-to-date view of the network consensus than we do,
3230 and if they think that the directory authorities list us a HSDir,
3231 we might actually be one. Related to bug 2732; bugfix on
3233 - When a controller changes TrackHostExits, remove mappings for
3234 hosts that should no longer have their exits tracked. Bugfix on
3236 - When a controller changes VirtualAddrNetwork, remove any mappings
3237 for hosts that were automapped to the old network. Bugfix on
3239 - When a controller changes one of the AutomapHosts* options, remove
3240 any mappings for hosts that should no longer be automapped. Bugfix
3242 - Do not reset the bridge descriptor download status every time we
3243 re-parse our configuration or get a configuration change. Fixes
3244 bug 3019; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
3246 o Minor bugfixes (code cleanup):
3247 - When loading the microdesc journal, remember its current size.
3248 In 0.2.2, this helps prevent the microdesc journal from growing
3249 without limit on authorities (who are the only ones to use it in
3250 0.2.2). Fixes a part of bug 2230; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
3251 Fix posted by "cypherpunks."
3252 - The microdesc journal is supposed to get rebuilt only if it is
3253 at least _half_ the length of the store, not _twice_ the length
3254 of the store. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes part of bug 2230.
3255 - Fix a potential null-pointer dereference while computing a
3256 consensus. Bugfix on tor-0.2.0.3-alpha, found with the help of
3258 - Avoid a possible null-pointer dereference when rebuilding the mdesc
3259 cache without actually having any descriptors to cache. Bugfix on
3260 0.2.2.6-alpha. Issue discovered using clang's static analyzer.
3261 - If we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3 legacy keypair,
3262 warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead. Bugfix on
3263 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
3264 - Resolve an untriggerable issue in smartlist_string_num_isin(),
3265 where if the function had ever in the future been used to check
3266 for the presence of a too-large number, it would have given an
3267 incorrect result. (Fortunately, we only used it for 16-bit
3268 values.) Fixes bug 3175; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
3269 - Require that introduction point keys and onion handshake keys
3270 have a public exponent of 65537. Starts to fix bug 3207; bugfix
3274 - Caches no longer download and serve v2 networkstatus documents
3275 unless FetchV2Networkstatus flag is set: these documents haven't
3276 haven't been used by clients or relays since 0.2.0.x. Resolves
3280 Changes in version 0.2.3.1-alpha - 2011-05-05
3281 Tor 0.2.3.1-alpha adds some new experimental features, including support
3282 for an improved network IO backend, IOCP networking on Windows,
3283 microdescriptor caching, "fast-start" support for streams, and automatic
3284 home router configuration. There are also numerous internal improvements
3285 to try to make the code easier for developers to work with.
3287 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to be
3288 bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
3289 stay with 0.2.2.x for now.
3292 - Tor can now optionally build with the "bufferevents" buffered IO
3293 backend provided by Libevent 2. To use this feature, make sure you
3294 have the latest possible version of Libevent, and pass the
3295 --enable-bufferevents flag to configure when building Tor from
3296 source. This feature will make our networking code more flexible,
3297 let us stack layers on each other, and let us use more efficient
3298 zero-copy transports where available.
3299 - As an experimental feature, Tor can use IOCP for networking on Windows.
3300 Once this code is tuned and optimized, it promises much better
3301 performance than the select-based backend we've used in the past. To
3302 try this feature, you must build Tor with Libevent 2, configure Tor
3303 with the "bufferevents" buffered IO backend, and add "DisableIOCP 0" to
3304 your torrc. There are known bugs here: only try this if you can help
3305 debug it as it breaks.
3306 - The EntryNodes option can now include country codes like {de} or IP
3307 addresses or network masks. Previously we had disallowed these options
3308 because we didn't have an efficient way to keep the list up to
3309 date. Fixes bug 1982, but see bug 2798 for an unresolved issue here.
3310 - Exit nodes now accept and queue data on not-yet-connected streams.
3311 Previously, the client wasn't allowed to send data until the stream was
3312 connected, which slowed down all connections. This change will enable
3313 clients to perform a "fast-start" on streams and send data without
3314 having to wait for a confirmation that the stream has opened. (Patch
3315 from Ian Goldberg; implements the server side of Proposal 174.)
3316 - Tor now has initial support for automatic port mapping on the many
3317 home routers that support NAT-PMP or UPnP. (Not yet supported on
3318 Windows). To build the support code, you'll need to have libnatpnp
3319 library and/or the libminiupnpc library, and you'll need to enable the
3320 feature specifically by passing "--enable-upnp" and/or
3321 "--enable-natpnp" to configure. To turn it on, use the new
3322 PortForwarding option.
3323 - Caches now download, cache, and serve multiple "flavors" of the
3324 consensus, including a flavor that describes microdescriptors.
3325 - Caches now download, cache, and serve microdescriptors -- small
3326 summaries of router descriptors that are authenticated by all of the
3327 directory authorities. Once enough caches are running this code,
3328 clients will be able to save significant amounts of directory bandwidth
3329 by downloading microdescriptors instead of router descriptors.
3332 - Make logging resolution configurable with a new LogTimeGranularity
3333 option, and change the default from 1 millisecond to 1 second.
3334 Implements enhancement 1668.
3335 - We log which torrc file we're using on startup. Implements ticket
3337 - Ordinarily, Tor does not count traffic from private addresses (like
3338 127.0.0.1 or 10.0.0.1) when calculating rate limits or accounting.
3339 There is now a new option, CountPrivateBandwidth, to disable this
3340 behavior. Patch from Daniel Cagara.
3341 - New --enable-static-tor configure option for building Tor as
3342 statically as possible. Idea, general hackery and thoughts from
3343 Alexei Czeskis, John Gilmore, Jacob Appelbaum. Implements ticket
3345 - If you set the NumCPUs option to 0, Tor will now try to detect how
3346 many CPUs you have. This is the new default behavior.
3347 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
3348 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
3349 - Relays that set "ConnDirectionStatistics 1" write statistics on the
3350 bidirectional use of connections to disk every 24 hours.
3351 - Add a GeoIP file digest to the extra-info descriptor. Implements
3353 - The NodeFamily option -- which let you declare that you want to
3354 consider nodes to be part of a family whether they list themselves
3355 that way or not -- now allows IP address ranges and country codes.
3356 - Add a new 'Heartbeat' log message type to periodically log a message
3357 describing Tor's status at level Notice. This feature is meant for
3358 operators who log at notice, and want to make sure that their Tor
3359 server is still working. Implementation by George Kadianakis.
3361 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.25-alpha):
3362 - When loading the microdesc journal, remember its current size.
3363 In 0.2.2, this helps prevent the microdesc journal from growing
3364 without limit on authorities (who are the only ones to use it in
3365 0.2.2). Fixes a part of bug 2230; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
3366 Fix posted by "cypherpunks."
3367 - The microdesc journal is supposed to get rebuilt only if it is
3368 at least _half_ the length of the store, not _twice_ the length
3369 of the store. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes part of bug 2230.
3370 - If as an authority we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3
3371 legacy keypair, warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead.
3372 Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
3373 - Authorities now clean their microdesc cache periodically and when
3374 reading from disk initially, not only when adding new descriptors.
3375 This prevents a bug where we could lose microdescriptors. Bugfix
3378 o Minor features (controller):
3379 - Add a new SIGNAL event to the controller interface so that
3380 controllers can be notified when Tor handles a signal. Resolves
3381 issue 1955. Patch by John Brooks.
3382 - Add a new GETINFO option to get total bytes read and written. Patch
3383 from pipe, revised by atagar. Resolves ticket 2345.
3384 - Implement some GETINFO controller fields to provide information about
3385 the Tor process's pid, euid, username, and resource limits.
3388 - Our build system requires automake 1.6 or later to create the
3389 Makefile.in files. Previously, you could have used 1.4.
3390 This only affects developers and people building Tor from git;
3391 people who build Tor from the source distribution without changing
3392 the Makefile.am files should be fine.
3393 - Our autogen.sh script uses autoreconf to launch autoconf, automake, and
3394 so on. This is more robust against some of the failure modes
3395 associated with running the autotools pieces on their own.
3397 o Minor packaging issues:
3398 - On OpenSUSE, create the /var/run/tor directory on startup if it is not
3399 already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
3401 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
3402 - A major revision to our internal node-selecting and listing logic.
3403 Tor already had at least two major ways to look at the question of
3404 "which Tor servers do we know about": a list of router descriptors,
3405 and a list of entries in the current consensus. With
3406 microdescriptors, we're adding a third. Having so many systems
3407 without an abstraction layer over them was hurting the codebase.
3408 Now, we have a new "node_t" abstraction that presents a consistent
3409 interface to a client's view of a Tor node, and holds (nearly) all
3410 of the mutable state formerly in routerinfo_t and routerstatus_t.
3411 - The helper programs tor-gencert, tor-resolve, and tor-checkkey
3412 no longer link against Libevent: they never used it, but
3413 our library structure used to force them to link it.
3416 - Remove some old code to work around even older versions of Tor that
3417 used forked processes to handle DNS requests. Such versions of Tor
3418 are no longer in use as servers.
3420 o Documentation fixes:
3421 - Correct a broken faq link in the INSTALL file. Fixes bug 2307.
3422 - Add missing documentation for the authority-related torrc options
3423 RephistTrackTime, BridgePassword, and V3AuthUseLegacyKey. Resolves
3427 Changes in version 0.2.2.25-alpha - 2011-04-29
3428 Tor 0.2.2.25-alpha fixes many bugs: hidden service clients are more
3429 robust, routers no longer overreport their bandwidth, Win7 should crash
3430 a little less, and NEWNYM (as used by Vidalia's "new identity" button)
3431 now prevents hidden service-related activity from being linkable. It
3432 provides more information to Vidalia so you can see if your bridge is
3433 working. Also, 0.2.2.25-alpha revamps the Entry/Exit/ExcludeNodes and
3434 StrictNodes configuration options to make them more reliable, more
3435 understandable, and more regularly applied. If you use those options,
3436 please see the revised documentation for them in the manual page.
3439 - Relays were publishing grossly inflated bandwidth values because
3440 they were writing their state files wrong--now they write the
3441 correct value. Also, resume reading bandwidth history from the
3442 state file correctly. Fixes bug 2704; bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
3443 - Improve hidden service robustness: When we find that we have
3444 extended a hidden service's introduction circuit to a relay not
3445 listed as an introduction point in the HS descriptor we currently
3446 have, retry with an introduction point from the current
3447 descriptor. Previously we would just give up. Fixes bugs 1024 and
3448 1930; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
3449 - Clients now stop trying to use an exit node associated with a given
3450 destination by TrackHostExits if they fail to reach that exit node.
3451 Fixes bug 2999. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
3452 - Fix crash bug on platforms where gmtime and localtime can return
3453 NULL. Windows 7 users were running into this one. Fixes part of bug
3454 2077. Bugfix on all versions of Tor. Found by boboper.
3456 o Security and stability fixes:
3457 - Don't double-free a parsable, but invalid, microdescriptor, even if
3458 it is followed in the blob we're parsing by an unparsable
3459 microdescriptor. Fixes an issue reported in a comment on bug 2954.
3460 Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fix by "cypherpunks".
3461 - If the Nickname configuration option isn't given, Tor would pick a
3462 nickname based on the local hostname as the nickname for a relay.
3463 Because nicknames are not very important in today's Tor and the
3464 "Unnamed" nickname has been implemented, this is now problematic
3465 behavior: It leaks information about the hostname without being
3466 useful at all. Fixes bug 2979; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, which
3467 introduced the Unnamed nickname. Reported by tagnaq.
3468 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
3469 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
3470 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
3471 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
3472 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
3475 - Export GeoIP information on bridge usage to controllers even if we
3476 have not yet been running for 24 hours. Now Vidalia bridge operators
3477 can get more accurate and immediate feedback about their
3478 contributions to the network.
3480 o Major features and bugfixes (node selection):
3481 - Revise and reconcile the meaning of the ExitNodes, EntryNodes,
3482 ExcludeEntryNodes, ExcludeExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, and StrictNodes
3483 options. Previously, we had been ambiguous in describing what
3484 counted as an "exit" node, and what operations exactly "StrictNodes
3485 0" would permit. This created confusion when people saw nodes built
3486 through unexpected circuits, and made it hard to tell real bugs from
3487 surprises. Now the intended behavior is:
3488 . "Exit", in the context of ExitNodes and ExcludeExitNodes, means
3489 a node that delivers user traffic outside the Tor network.
3490 . "Entry", in the context of EntryNodes, means a node used as the
3491 first hop of a multihop circuit. It doesn't include direct
3492 connections to directory servers.
3493 . "ExcludeNodes" applies to all nodes.
3494 . "StrictNodes" changes the behavior of ExcludeNodes only. When
3495 StrictNodes is set, Tor should avoid all nodes listed in
3496 ExcludeNodes, even when it will make user requests fail. When
3497 StrictNodes is *not* set, then Tor should follow ExcludeNodes
3498 whenever it can, except when it must use an excluded node to
3499 perform self-tests, connect to a hidden service, provide a
3500 hidden service, fulfill a .exit request, upload directory
3501 information, or fetch directory information.
3502 Collectively, the changes to implement the behavior fix bug 1090.
3503 - ExcludeNodes now takes precedence over EntryNodes and ExitNodes: if
3504 a node is listed in both, it's treated as excluded.
3505 - ExcludeNodes now applies to directory nodes -- as a preference if
3506 StrictNodes is 0, or an absolute requirement if StrictNodes is 1.
3507 Don't exclude all the directory authorities and set StrictNodes to 1
3508 unless you really want your Tor to break.
3509 - ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes now override exit enclaving.
3510 - ExcludeExitNodes now overrides .exit requests.
3511 - We don't use bridges listed in ExcludeNodes.
3512 - When StrictNodes is 1:
3513 . We now apply ExcludeNodes to hidden service introduction points
3514 and to rendezvous points selected by hidden service users. This
3515 can make your hidden service less reliable: use it with caution!
3516 . If we have used ExcludeNodes on ourself, do not try relay
3517 reachability self-tests.
3518 . If we have excluded all the directory authorities, we will not
3519 even try to upload our descriptor if we're a relay.
3520 . Do not honor .exit requests to an excluded node.
3521 - Remove a misfeature that caused us to ignore the Fast/Stable flags
3522 when ExitNodes is set. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
3523 - When the set of permitted nodes changes, we now remove any mappings
3524 introduced via TrackExitHosts to now-excluded nodes. Bugfix on
3526 - We never cannibalize a circuit that had excluded nodes on it, even
3527 if StrictNodes is 0. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
3528 - Revert a change where we would be laxer about attaching streams to
3529 circuits than when building the circuits. This was meant to prevent
3530 a set of bugs where streams were never attachable, but our improved
3531 code here should make this unnecessary. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
3532 - Keep track of how many times we launch a new circuit to handle a
3533 given stream. Too many launches could indicate an inconsistency
3534 between our "launch a circuit to handle this stream" logic and our
3535 "attach this stream to one of the available circuits" logic.
3536 - Improve log messages related to excluded nodes.
3539 - Fix a spurious warning when moving from a short month to a long
3540 month on relays with month-based BandwidthAccounting. Bugfix on
3541 0.2.2.17-alpha; fixes bug 3020.
3542 - When a client finds that an origin circuit has run out of 16-bit
3543 stream IDs, we now mark it as unusable for new streams. Previously,
3544 we would try to close the entire circuit. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
3545 - Add a forgotten cast that caused a compile warning on OS X 10.6.
3546 Bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
3547 - Be more careful about reporting the correct error from a failed
3548 connect() system call. Under some circumstances, it was possible to
3549 look at an incorrect value for errno when sending the end reason.
3550 Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
3551 - Correctly handle an "impossible" overflow cases in connection byte
3552 counting, where we write or read more than 4GB on an edge connection
3553 in a single second. Bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
3554 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
3555 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
3557 - Clients and hidden services now use HSDir-flagged relays for hidden
3558 service descriptor downloads and uploads even if the relays have no
3559 DirPort set and the client has disabled TunnelDirConns. This will
3560 eventually allow us to give the HSDir flag to relays with no
3561 DirPort. Fixes bug 2722; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
3562 - Downgrade "no current certificates known for authority" message from
3563 Notice to Info. Fixes bug 2899; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
3564 - Make the SIGNAL DUMP control-port command work on FreeBSD. Fixes bug
3565 2917. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
3566 - Only limit the lengths of single HS descriptors, even when multiple
3567 HS descriptors are published to an HSDir relay in a single POST
3568 operation. Fixes bug 2948; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by hsdir.
3569 - Write the current time into the LastWritten line in our state file,
3570 rather than the time from the previous write attempt. Also, stop
3571 trying to use a time of -1 in our log statements. Fixes bug 3039;
3572 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
3573 - Be more consistent in our treatment of file system paths. "~" should
3574 get expanded to the user's home directory in the Log config option.
3575 Fixes bug 2971; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha, which introduced the
3576 feature for the -f and --DataDirectory options.
3579 - Make sure every relay writes a state file at least every 12 hours.
3580 Previously, a relay could go for weeks without writing its state
3581 file, and on a crash could lose its bandwidth history, capacity
3582 estimates, client country statistics, and so on. Addresses bug 3012.
3583 - Send END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE in response to EHOSTUNREACH errors.
3584 Clients before 0.2.1.27 didn't handle NOROUTE correctly, but such
3585 clients are already deprecated because of security bugs.
3586 - Don't allow v0 hidden service authorities to act as clients.
3587 Required by fix for bug 3000.
3588 - Ignore SIGNAL NEWNYM commands on relay-only Tor instances. Required
3589 by fix for bug 3000.
3590 - Ensure that no empty [dirreq-](read|write)-history lines are added
3591 to an extrainfo document. Implements ticket 2497.
3593 o Code simplification and refactoring:
3594 - Remove workaround code to handle directory responses from servers
3595 that had bug 539 (they would send HTTP status 503 responses _and_
3596 send a body too). Since only server versions before
3597 0.2.0.16-alpha/0.1.2.19 were affected, there is no longer reason to
3598 keep the workaround in place.
3599 - Remove the old 'fuzzy time' logic. It was supposed to be used for
3600 handling calculations where we have a known amount of clock skew and
3601 an allowed amount of unknown skew. But we only used it in three
3602 places, and we never adjusted the known/unknown skew values. This is
3603 still something we might want to do someday, but if we do, we'll
3604 want to do it differently.
3605 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
3606 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
3607 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
3608 - Use GetTempDir to find the proper temporary directory location on
3609 Windows when generating temporary files for the unit tests. Patch by
3613 Changes in version 0.2.2.24-alpha - 2011-04-08
3614 Tor 0.2.2.24-alpha fixes a variety of bugs, including a big bug that
3615 prevented Tor clients from effectively using "multihomed" bridges,
3616 that is, bridges that listen on multiple ports or IP addresses so users
3617 can continue to use some of their addresses even if others get blocked.
3620 - Fix a bug where bridge users who configure the non-canonical
3621 address of a bridge automatically switch to its canonical
3622 address. If a bridge listens at more than one address, it should be
3623 able to advertise those addresses independently and any non-blocked
3624 addresses should continue to work. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.x. Fixes
3626 - If you configured Tor to use bridge A, and then quit and
3627 configured Tor to use bridge B instead, it would happily continue
3628 to use bridge A if it's still reachable. While this behavior is
3629 a feature if your goal is connectivity, in some scenarios it's a
3630 dangerous bug. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 2511.
3631 - Directory authorities now use data collected from their own
3632 uptime observations when choosing whether to assign the HSDir flag
3633 to relays, instead of trusting the uptime value the relay reports in
3634 its descriptor. This change helps prevent an attack where a small
3635 set of nodes with frequently-changing identity keys can blackhole
3636 a hidden service. (Only authorities need upgrade; others will be
3637 fine once they do.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 2709.
3640 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
3641 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
3642 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
3643 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
3644 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
3645 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
3646 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
3648 - Make directory authorities more accurate at recording when
3649 relays that have failed several reachability tests became
3650 unreachable, so we can provide more accuracy at assigning Stable,
3651 Guard, HSDir, etc flags. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Resolves bug 2716.
3652 - Fix an issue that prevented static linking of libevent on
3653 some platforms (notably Linux). Fixes bug 2698; bugfix on
3654 versions 0.2.1.23/0.2.2.8-alpha (the versions introducing
3655 the --with-static-libevent configure option).
3656 - We now ask the other side of a stream (the client or the exit)
3657 for more data on that stream when the amount of queued data on
3658 that stream dips low enough. Previously, we wouldn't ask the
3659 other side for more data until either it sent us more data (which
3660 it wasn't supposed to do if it had exhausted its window!) or we
3661 had completely flushed all our queued data. This flow control fix
3662 should improve throughput. Fixes bug 2756; bugfix on the earliest
3663 released versions of Tor (svn commit r152).
3664 - Avoid a double-mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
3665 transparent proxy connection. (We thought we had fixed this in
3666 0.2.2.23-alpha, but it turns out our fix was checking the wrong
3667 connection.) Fixes bug 2757; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha (the original
3668 bug) and 0.2.2.23-alpha (the incorrect fix).
3669 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
3670 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
3673 - Directory authorities now log the source of a rejected POSTed v3
3675 - Make compilation with clang possible when using
3676 --enable-gcc-warnings by removing two warning options that clang
3677 hasn't implemented yet and by fixing a few warnings. Implements
3679 - When expiring circuits, use microsecond timers rather than
3680 one-second timers. This can avoid an unpleasant situation where a
3681 circuit is launched near the end of one second and expired right
3682 near the beginning of the next, and prevent fluctuations in circuit
3684 - Use computed circuit-build timeouts to decide when to launch
3685 parallel introduction circuits for hidden services. (Previously,
3686 we would retry after 15 seconds.)
3687 - Update to the April 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
3690 - Create the /var/run/tor directory on startup on OpenSUSE if it is
3691 not already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
3693 o Documentation changes:
3694 - Modernize the doxygen configuration file slightly. Fixes bug 2707.
3695 - Resolve all doxygen warnings except those for missing documentation.
3697 - Add doxygen documentation for more functions, fields, and types.
3700 Changes in version 0.2.2.23-alpha - 2011-03-08
3701 Tor 0.2.2.23-alpha lets relays record their bandwidth history so when
3702 they restart they don't lose their bandwidth capacity estimate. This
3703 release also fixes a diverse set of user-facing bugs, ranging from
3704 relays overrunning their rate limiting to clients falsely warning about
3705 clock skew to bridge descriptor leaks by our bridge directory authority.
3708 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
3709 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
3710 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
3711 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
3712 the rest of bug 1074.
3713 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
3714 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
3715 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
3716 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
3717 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
3718 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
3719 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
3720 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
3721 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
3722 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
3723 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
3724 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
3725 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
3726 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
3729 - Relays now save observed peak bandwidth throughput rates to their
3730 state file (along with total usage, which was already saved)
3731 so that they can determine their correct estimated bandwidth on
3732 restart. Resolves bug 1863, where Tor relays would reset their
3733 estimated bandwidth to 0 after restarting.
3734 - Directory authorities now take changes in router IP address and
3735 ORPort into account when determining router stability. Previously,
3736 if a router changed its IP or ORPort, the authorities would not
3737 treat it as having any downtime for the purposes of stability
3738 calculation, whereas clients would experience downtime since the
3739 change could take a while to propagate to them. Resolves issue 1035.
3740 - Enable Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) and Data Execution
3741 Prevention (DEP) by default on Windows to make it harder for
3742 attackers to exploit vulnerabilities. Patch from John Brooks.
3744 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
3745 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
3746 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
3747 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
3748 - Avoid a double mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
3749 transparent proxy connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Fixes
3751 - Correctly detect failure to allocate an OpenSSL BIO. Fixes bug 2378;
3752 found by "cypherpunks". This bug was introduced before the first
3753 Tor release, in svn commit r110.
3754 - Country codes aren't supported in EntryNodes until 0.2.3.x, so
3755 don't mention them in the manpage. Fixes bug 2450; issue
3756 spotted by keb and G-Lo.
3757 - Fix a bug in bandwidth history state parsing that could have been
3758 triggered if a future version of Tor ever changed the timing
3759 granularity at which bandwidth history is measured. Bugfix on
3761 - When a relay decides that its DNS is too broken for it to serve
3762 as an exit server, it advertised itself as a non-exit, but
3763 continued to act as an exit. This could create accidental
3764 partitioning opportunities for users. Instead, if a relay is
3765 going to advertise reject *:* as its exit policy, it should
3766 really act with exit policy "reject *:*". Fixes bug 2366.
3767 Bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha. Bugfix by user "postman" on trac.
3768 - In the special case where you configure a public exit relay as your
3769 bridge, Tor would be willing to use that exit relay as the last
3770 hop in your circuit as well. Now we fail that circuit instead.
3771 Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 2403. Reported by "piebeer".
3772 - Fix a bug with our locking implementation on Windows that couldn't
3773 correctly detect when a file was already locked. Fixes bug 2504,
3774 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
3775 - Fix IPv6-related connect() failures on some platforms (BSD, OS X).
3776 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes first part of bug 2660. Patch by
3778 - Set target port in get_interface_address6() correctly. Bugfix
3779 on 0.1.1.4-alpha and 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes second part of bug 2660.
3780 - Directory authorities are now more robust to hops back in time
3781 when calculating router stability. Previously, if a run of uptime
3782 or downtime appeared to be negative, the calculation could give
3783 incorrect results. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha; noticed when fixing
3785 - Fix an assert that got triggered when using the TestingTorNetwork
3786 configuration option and then issuing a GETINFO config-text control
3787 command. Fixes bug 2250; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
3789 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
3790 - Clients should not weight BadExit nodes as Exits in their node
3791 selection. Similarly, directory authorities should not count BadExit
3792 bandwidth as Exit bandwidth when computing bandwidth-weights.
3793 Bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 2203.
3794 - Correctly clear our dir_read/dir_write history when there is an
3795 error parsing any bw history value from the state file. Bugfix on
3797 - Resolve a bug in verifying signatures of directory objects
3798 with digests longer than SHA1. Bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha.
3799 Fixes bug 2409. Found by "piebeer".
3800 - Bridge authorities no longer crash on SIGHUP when they try to
3801 publish their relay descriptor to themselves. Fixes bug 2572. Bugfix
3805 - Log less aggressively about circuit timeout changes, and improve
3806 some other circuit timeout messages. Resolves bug 2004.
3807 - Log a little more clearly about the times at which we're no longer
3808 accepting new connections. Resolves bug 2181.
3809 - Reject attempts at the client side to open connections to private
3810 IP addresses (like 127.0.0.1, 10.0.0.1, and so on) with
3811 a randomly chosen exit node. Attempts to do so are always
3812 ill-defined, generally prevented by exit policies, and usually
3813 in error. This will also help to detect loops in transparent
3814 proxy configurations. You can disable this feature by setting
3815 "ClientRejectInternalAddresses 0" in your torrc.
3816 - Always treat failure to allocate an RSA key as an unrecoverable
3818 - Update to the March 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
3820 o Minor features (log subsystem):
3821 - Add documentation for configuring logging at different severities in
3822 different log domains. We've had this feature since 0.2.1.1-alpha,
3823 but for some reason it never made it into the manpage. Fixes
3825 - Make it simpler to specify "All log domains except for A and B".
3826 Previously you needed to say "[*,~A,~B]". Now you can just say
3828 - Add a "LogMessageDomains 1" option to include the domains of log
3829 messages along with the messages. Without this, there's no way
3830 to use log domains without reading the source or doing a lot
3833 o Packaging changes:
3834 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
3835 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
3836 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
3839 Changes in version 0.2.1.30 - 2011-02-23
3840 Tor 0.2.1.30 fixes a variety of less critical bugs. The main other
3841 change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays
3842 and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
3843 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
3844 buys us time until we roll out a better solution.
3847 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
3848 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
3849 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
3850 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
3851 the rest of bug 1074.
3852 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
3853 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
3855 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
3856 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
3857 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
3858 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
3859 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
3860 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
3861 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
3864 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
3866 - Update to the February 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
3869 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
3870 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
3871 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28. Found by "doorss".
3872 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
3873 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
3874 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
3875 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
3876 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
3877 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
3878 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
3879 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
3881 o Packaging changes:
3882 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
3883 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
3884 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
3885 - Do not include Git version tags as though they are SVN tags when
3886 generating a tarball from inside a repository that has switched
3887 between branches. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
3890 Changes in version 0.2.2.22-alpha - 2011-01-25
3891 Tor 0.2.2.22-alpha fixes a few more less-critical security issues. The
3892 main other change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes
3893 relays and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
3894 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
3895 will buy us a bit more time until we roll out a better solution.
3898 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
3899 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
3901 - Don't assert when changing from bridge to relay or vice versa
3902 via the controller. The assert happened because we didn't properly
3903 initialize our keys in this case. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha; fixes
3904 bug 2433. Reported by bastik.
3907 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
3909 - Provide a log message stating which geoip file we're parsing
3910 instead of just stating that we're parsing the geoip file.
3911 Implements ticket 2432.
3914 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
3915 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
3916 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28 / 0.2.2.20-alpha. Found by "doorss".
3919 Changes in version 0.2.2.21-alpha - 2011-01-15
3920 Tor 0.2.2.21-alpha includes all the patches from Tor 0.2.1.29, which
3921 continues our recent code security audit work. The main fix resolves
3922 a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote code
3923 execution (CVE-2011-0427). Other fixes address a variety of assert
3924 and crash bugs, most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
3926 o Major bugfixes (security), also included in 0.2.1.29:
3927 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
3928 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
3929 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
3931 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
3932 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
3933 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
3934 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
3935 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
3936 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
3937 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
3938 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
3940 o Major bugfixes (crashes), also included in 0.2.1.29:
3941 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
3942 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
3943 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
3944 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
3945 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
3946 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
3947 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
3948 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
3949 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
3950 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
3951 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
3952 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
3953 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
3956 o Minor bugfixes (other), also included in 0.2.1.29:
3957 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
3958 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
3959 bug reported by doorss.
3960 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
3961 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
3962 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
3963 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
3964 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
3966 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
3967 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
3968 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
3969 - Correctly handle wrapping around when we run out of virtual
3970 address space. Found by cypherpunks; bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
3972 o Minor features, also included in 0.2.1.29:
3973 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
3974 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
3976 o Build changes, also included in 0.2.1.29:
3977 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
3978 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
3979 Automake 1.7 or later.
3980 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
3981 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
3982 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
3983 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
3985 o Major bugfixes, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
3986 - Prevent crash/heap corruption when the cbtnummodes consensus
3987 parameter is set to 0 or large values. Fixes bug 2317; bugfix
3990 o Major features, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
3991 - Introduce minimum/maximum values that clients will believe
3992 from the consensus. Now we'll have a better chance to avoid crashes
3993 or worse when a consensus param has a weird value.
3995 o Minor features, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
3996 - Make sure to disable DirPort if running as a bridge. DirPorts aren't
3997 used on bridges, and it makes bridge scanning somewhat easier.
3998 - If writing the state file to disk fails, wait up to an hour before
3999 retrying again, rather than trying again each second. Fixes bug
4000 2346; bugfix on Tor 0.1.1.3-alpha.
4001 - Make Libevent log messages get delivered to controllers later,
4002 and not from inside the Libevent log handler. This prevents unsafe
4003 reentrant Libevent calls while still letting the log messages
4005 - Detect platforms that brokenly use a signed size_t, and refuse to
4006 build there. Found and analyzed by doorss and rransom.
4007 - Fix a bunch of compile warnings revealed by mingw with gcc 4.5.
4010 o Minor bugfixes, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
4011 - Handle SOCKS messages longer than 128 bytes long correctly, rather
4012 than waiting forever for them to finish. Fixes bug 2330; bugfix
4013 on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Found by doorss.
4014 - Add assertions to check for overflow in arguments to
4015 base32_encode() and base32_decode(); fix a signed-unsigned
4016 comparison there too. These bugs are not actually reachable in Tor,
4017 but it's good to prevent future errors too. Found by doorss.
4018 - Correctly detect failures to create DNS requests when using Libevent
4019 versions before v2. (Before Libevent 2, we used our own evdns
4020 implementation. Its return values for Libevent's evdns_resolve_*()
4021 functions are not consistent with those from Libevent.) Fixes bug
4022 2363; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Found by "lodger".
4024 o Documentation, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
4025 - Document the default socks host and port (127.0.0.1:9050) for
4029 Changes in version 0.2.1.29 - 2011-01-15
4030 Tor 0.2.1.29 continues our recent code security audit work. The main
4031 fix resolves a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote
4032 code execution. Other fixes address a variety of assert and crash bugs,
4033 most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
4035 o Major bugfixes (security):
4036 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
4037 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
4038 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
4040 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
4041 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
4042 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
4043 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
4044 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
4045 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
4046 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
4047 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
4049 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
4050 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
4051 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
4052 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
4053 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
4054 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
4055 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
4056 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
4057 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
4058 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
4059 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
4060 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
4061 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
4062 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
4065 o Minor bugfixes (other):
4066 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
4067 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
4068 bug reported by doorss.
4069 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
4070 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
4071 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
4072 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
4073 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
4075 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
4076 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
4077 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
4078 - Correctly handle wrapping around to when we run out of virtual
4079 address space. Found by cypherpunks, bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
4080 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
4081 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
4082 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
4083 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
4086 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
4087 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
4090 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
4091 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
4092 Automake 1.7 or later.
4095 Changes in version 0.2.2.20-alpha - 2010-12-17
4096 Tor 0.2.2.20-alpha does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
4097 exploitable bugs. We also fix a variety of other significant bugs,
4098 change the IP address for one of our directory authorities, and update
4099 the minimum version that Tor relays must run to join the network.
4102 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
4103 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
4104 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
4105 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
4106 - Fix a bug that could break accounting on 64-bit systems with large
4107 time_t values, making them hibernate for impossibly long intervals.
4108 Fixes bug 2146. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre6; fix by boboper.
4109 - Fix a logic error in directory_fetches_from_authorities() that
4110 would cause all _non_-exits refusing single-hop-like circuits
4111 to fetch from authorities, when we wanted to have _exits_ fetch
4112 from authorities. Fixes more of 2097. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha;
4114 - Fix a stream fairness bug that would cause newer streams on a given
4115 circuit to get preference when reading bytes from the origin or
4116 destination. Fixes bug 2210. Fix by Mashael AlSabah. This bug was
4117 introduced before the first Tor release, in svn revision r152.
4119 o Directory authority changes:
4120 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
4123 - Avoid crashes when AccountingMax is set on clients. Fixes bug 2235.
4124 Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha. Diagnosed by boboper.
4125 - Fix an off-by-one error in calculating some controller command
4126 argument lengths. Fortunately, this mistake is harmless since
4127 the controller code does redundant NUL termination too. Found by
4128 boboper. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
4129 - Do not dereference NULL if a bridge fails to build its
4130 extra-info descriptor. Found by an anonymous commenter on
4131 Trac. Bugfix on 0.2.2.19-alpha.
4134 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
4135 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any versions of
4136 Tor between 0.2.1.3-alpha and 0.2.1.18 inclusive; they have
4137 known bugs that keep RELAY_EARLY cells from working on rendezvous
4138 circuits. Followup to fix for bug 2081.
4139 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any version of Tor
4140 older than 0.2.0.26-rc. That version is the earliest that fetches
4141 current directory information correctly. Fixes bug 2156.
4142 - Report only the top 10 ports in exit-port stats in order not to
4143 exceed the maximum extra-info descriptor length of 50 KB. Implements
4147 Changes in version 0.2.1.28 - 2010-12-17
4148 Tor 0.2.1.28 does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
4149 exploitable bugs. We also took this opportunity to change the IP address
4150 for one of our directory authorities, and to update the geoip database
4154 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
4155 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
4156 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
4157 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
4159 o Directory authority changes:
4160 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
4163 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
4166 Changes in version 0.2.1.27 - 2010-11-23
4167 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
4168 Tor 0.2.1.27 makes relays work with openssl 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b. We
4169 also took this opportunity to fix several crash bugs, integrate a new
4170 directory authority, and update the bundled GeoIP database.
4173 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
4174 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
4175 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
4176 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
4177 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
4178 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
4179 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
4180 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
4181 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
4182 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
4183 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
4184 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
4185 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
4186 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
4187 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
4188 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
4189 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
4190 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
4191 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
4192 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
4193 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
4194 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
4195 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
4198 - Move to the November 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather
4199 than the June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that
4200 count how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we'll
4201 have more accurate data, especially for many African countries.
4203 o New directory authorities:
4204 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
4208 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in directory caches or
4209 bridge users when using a very short voting interval on a testing
4210 network. Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on
4212 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
4213 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
4214 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
4215 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
4216 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
4217 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
4219 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
4220 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
4221 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
4224 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
4225 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
4226 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
4227 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
4228 it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
4229 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
4230 Patch from mingw-san.
4233 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
4234 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
4235 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
4236 - Stop shipping the old doc/website/ directory in the tarball. We
4237 changed the website format in late 2010, and what we shipped in
4238 0.2.1.26 really wasn't that useful anyway.
4241 Changes in version 0.2.2.19-alpha - 2010-11-22
4242 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
4243 Tor 0.2.2.19-alpha makes relays work with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b.
4246 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
4247 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
4248 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
4249 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
4250 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
4253 - Try harder not to exceed the maximum length of 50 KB when writing
4254 statistics to extra-info descriptors. This bug was triggered by very
4255 fast relays reporting exit-port, entry, and dirreq statistics.
4256 Reported by Olaf Selke. Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. Fixes bug 2183.
4257 - Publish a router descriptor even if generating an extra-info
4258 descriptor fails. Previously we would not publish a router
4259 descriptor without an extra-info descriptor; this can cause fast
4260 exit relays collecting exit-port statistics to drop from the
4261 consensus. Bugfix on 0.1.2.9-rc; fixes bug 2195.
4264 Changes in version 0.2.2.18-alpha - 2010-11-16
4265 Tor 0.2.2.18-alpha fixes several crash bugs that have been nagging
4266 us lately, makes unpublished bridge relays able to detect their IP
4267 address, and fixes a wide variety of other bugs to get us much closer
4268 to a stable release.
4271 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
4272 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
4273 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
4274 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
4275 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
4276 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
4277 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
4278 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
4279 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
4280 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
4281 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
4282 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
4283 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
4284 - Maintain separate TLS contexts and certificates for incoming and
4285 outgoing connections in bridge relays. Previously we would use the
4286 same TLS contexts and certs for incoming and outgoing connections.
4287 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses bug 988.
4288 - Maintain separate identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS
4289 contexts in bridge relays. Previously we would use the same
4290 identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS contexts. Bugfix on
4291 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses the other half of bug 988.
4292 - Avoid an assertion failure when we as an authority receive a
4293 duplicate upload of a router descriptor that we already have,
4294 but which we previously considered an obsolete descriptor.
4295 Fixes another case of bug 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
4296 - Avoid a crash bug triggered by looking at a dangling pointer while
4297 setting the network status consensus. Found by Robert Ransom.
4298 Bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Fixes bug 2097.
4299 - Fix a logic error where servers that _didn't_ act as exits would
4300 try to keep their server lists more aggressively up to date than
4301 exits, when it was supposed to be the other way around. Bugfix
4304 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.1.x and earlier):
4305 - When we're trying to guess whether we know our IP address as
4306 a relay, we would log various ways that we failed to guess
4307 our address, but never log that we ended up guessing it
4308 successfully. Now add a log line to help confused and anxious
4309 relay operators. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1534.
4310 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
4311 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
4312 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
4313 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
4314 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
4315 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
4316 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
4317 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
4318 - Correctly describe errors that occur when generating a TLS object.
4319 Previously we would attribute them to a failure while generating a
4320 TLS context. Patch by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc; fixes
4322 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
4323 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
4324 - Fix warnings that newer versions of autoconf produced during
4325 ./autogen.sh. These warnings appear to be harmless in our case,
4326 but they were extremely verbose. Fixes bug 2020.
4328 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.2.x):
4329 - Enable protection of small arrays whenever we build with gcc
4330 hardening features, not only when also building with warnings
4331 enabled. Fixes bug 2031; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha. Reported by keb.
4334 - Make hidden services work better in private Tor networks by not
4335 requiring any uptime to join the hidden service descriptor
4336 DHT. Implements ticket 2088.
4337 - Rate-limit the "your application is giving Tor only an IP address"
4338 warning. Addresses bug 2000; bugfix on 0.0.8pre2.
4339 - When AllowSingleHopExits is set, print a warning to explain to the
4340 relay operator why most clients are avoiding her relay.
4341 - Update to the November 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
4343 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
4344 - When we fixed bug 1038 we had to put in a restriction not to send
4345 RELAY_EARLY cells on rend circuits. This was necessary as long
4346 as relays using Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18-alpha were
4347 active. Now remove this obsolete check. Resolves bug 2081.
4348 - Some options used different conventions for uppercasing of acronyms
4349 when comparing manpage and source. Fix those in favor of the
4350 manpage, as it makes sense to capitalize acronyms.
4351 - Remove the torrc.complete file. It hasn't been kept up to date
4352 and users will have better luck checking out the manpage.
4353 - Remove the obsolete "NoPublish" option; it has been flagged
4354 as obsolete and has produced a warning since 0.1.1.18-rc.
4355 - Remove everything related to building the expert bundle for OS X.
4356 It has confused many users, doesn't work right on OS X 10.6,
4357 and is hard to get rid of once installed. Resolves bug 1274.
4360 Changes in version 0.2.2.17-alpha - 2010-09-30
4361 Tor 0.2.2.17-alpha introduces a feature to make it harder for clients
4362 to use one-hop circuits (which can put the exit relays at higher risk,
4363 plus unbalance the network); fixes a big bug in bandwidth accounting
4364 for relays that want to limit their monthly bandwidth use; fixes a
4365 big pile of bugs in how clients tolerate temporary network failure;
4366 and makes our adaptive circuit build timeout feature (which improves
4367 client performance if your network is fast while not breaking things
4368 if your network is slow) better handle bad networks.
4371 - Exit relays now try harder to block exit attempts from unknown
4372 relays, to make it harder for people to use them as one-hop proxies
4373 a la tortunnel. Controlled by the refuseunknownexits consensus
4374 parameter (currently enabled), or you can override it on your
4375 relay with the RefuseUnknownExits torrc option. Resolves bug 1751.
4377 o Major bugfixes (0.2.1.x and earlier):
4378 - Fix a bug in bandwidth accounting that could make us use twice
4379 the intended bandwidth when our interval start changes due to
4380 daylight saving time. Now we tolerate skew in stored vs computed
4381 interval starts: if the start of the period changes by no more than
4382 50% of the period's duration, we remember bytes that we transferred
4383 in the old period. Fixes bug 1511; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
4384 - Always search the Windows system directory for system DLLs, and
4385 nowhere else. Bugfix on 0.1.1.23; fixes bug 1954.
4386 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
4387 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
4388 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
4389 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
4390 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
4392 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
4393 - Fix compilation on Windows. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha; related to
4395 - Fix a segfault that could happen when operating a bridge relay with
4396 no GeoIP database set. Fixes bug 1964; bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha.
4397 - The consensus bandwidth-weights (used by clients to choose fast
4398 relays) entered an unexpected edge case in September where
4399 Exits were much scarcer than Guards, resulting in bad weight
4400 recommendations. Now we compute them using new constraints that
4401 should succeed in all cases. Also alter directory authorities to
4402 not include the bandwidth-weights line if they fail to produce
4403 valid values. Fixes bug 1952; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
4404 - When weighting bridges during path selection, we used to trust
4405 the bandwidths they provided in their descriptor, only capping them
4406 at 10MB/s. This turned out to be problematic for two reasons:
4407 Bridges could claim to handle a lot more traffic then they
4408 actually would, thus making more clients pick them and have a
4409 pretty effective DoS attack. The other issue is that new bridges
4410 that might not have a good estimate for their bw capacity yet
4411 would not get used at all unless no other bridges are available
4412 to a client. Fixes bug 1912; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
4414 o Major bugfixes (on the circuit build timeout feature, 0.2.2.x):
4415 - Ignore cannibalized circuits when recording circuit build times.
4416 This should provide for a minor performance improvement for hidden
4417 service users using 0.2.2.14-alpha, and should remove two spurious
4418 notice log messages. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1740.
4419 - Simplify the logic that causes us to decide if the network is
4420 unavailable for purposes of recording circuit build times. If we
4421 receive no cells whatsoever for the entire duration of a circuit's
4422 full measured lifetime, the network is probably down. Also ignore
4423 one-hop directory fetching circuit timeouts when calculating our
4424 circuit build times. These changes should hopefully reduce the
4425 cases where we see ridiculous circuit build timeouts for people
4426 with spotty wireless connections. Fixes part of bug 1772; bugfix
4428 - Prevent the circuit build timeout from becoming larger than
4429 the maximum build time we have ever seen. Also, prevent the time
4430 period for measurement circuits from becoming larger than twice that
4431 value. Fixes the other part of bug 1772; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
4434 - When we run out of directory information such that we can't build
4435 circuits, but then get enough that we can build circuits, log when
4436 we actually construct a circuit, so the user has a better chance of
4437 knowing what's going on. Fixes bug 1362.
4438 - Be more generous with how much bandwidth we'd use up (with
4439 accounting enabled) before entering "soft hibernation". Previously,
4440 we'd refuse new connections and circuits once we'd used up 95% of
4441 our allotment. Now, we use up 95% of our allotment, AND make sure
4442 that we have no more than 500MB (or 3 hours of expected traffic,
4443 whichever is lower) remaining before we enter soft hibernation.
4444 - If we've configured EntryNodes and our network goes away and/or all
4445 our entrynodes get marked down, optimistically retry them all when
4446 a new socks application request appears. Fixes bug 1882.
4447 - Add some more defensive programming for architectures that can't
4448 handle unaligned integer accesses. We don't know of any actual bugs
4449 right now, but that's the best time to fix them. Fixes bug 1943.
4450 - Support line continuations in the torrc config file. If a line
4451 ends with a single backslash character, the newline is ignored, and
4452 the configuration value is treated as continuing on the next line.
4455 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
4456 - For bandwidth accounting, calculate our expected bandwidth rate
4457 based on the time during which we were active and not in
4458 soft-hibernation during the last interval. Previously, we were
4459 also considering the time spent in soft-hibernation. If this
4460 was a long time, we would wind up underestimating our bandwidth
4461 by a lot, and skewing our wakeup time towards the start of the
4462 accounting interval. Fixes bug 1789. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
4464 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
4465 - Resume generating CIRC FAILED REASON=TIMEOUT control port messages,
4466 which were disabled by the circuit build timeout changes in
4467 0.2.2.14-alpha. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1739.
4468 - Make sure we don't warn about missing bandwidth weights when
4469 choosing bridges or other relays not in the consensus. Bugfix on
4470 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 1805.
4471 - In our logs, do not double-report signatures from unrecognized
4472 authorities both as "from unknown authority" and "not
4473 present". Fixes bug 1956, bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
4476 Changes in version 0.2.2.16-alpha - 2010-09-17
4477 Tor 0.2.2.16-alpha fixes a variety of old stream fairness bugs (most
4478 evident at exit relays), and also continues to resolve all the little
4479 bugs that have been filling up trac lately.
4481 o Major bugfixes (stream-level fairness):
4482 - When receiving a circuit-level SENDME for a blocked circuit, try
4483 to package cells fairly from all the streams that had previously
4484 been blocked on that circuit. Previously, we had started with the
4485 oldest stream, and allowed each stream to potentially exhaust
4486 the circuit's package window. This gave older streams on any
4487 given circuit priority over newer ones. Fixes bug 1937. Detected
4488 originally by Camilo Viecco. This bug was introduced before the
4489 first Tor release, in svn commit r152: it is the new winner of
4490 the longest-lived bug prize.
4491 - When the exit relay got a circuit-level sendme cell, it started
4492 reading on the exit streams, even if had 500 cells queued in the
4493 circuit queue already, so the circuit queue just grew and grew in
4494 some cases. We fix this by not re-enabling reading on receipt of a
4495 sendme cell when the cell queue is blocked. Fixes bug 1653. Bugfix
4496 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Detected by Mashael AlSabah. Original patch by
4498 - Newly created streams were allowed to read cells onto circuits,
4499 even if the circuit's cell queue was blocked and waiting to drain.
4500 This created potential unfairness, as older streams would be
4501 blocked, but newer streams would gladly fill the queue completely.
4502 We add code to detect this situation and prevent any stream from
4503 getting more than one free cell. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Partially
4507 - Update to the September 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
4508 - Warn when CookieAuthFileGroupReadable is set but CookieAuthFile is
4509 not. This would lead to a cookie that is still not group readable.
4510 Closes bug 1843. Suggested by katmagic.
4511 - When logging a rate-limited warning, we now mention how many messages
4512 got suppressed since the last warning.
4513 - Add new "perconnbwrate" and "perconnbwburst" consensus params to
4514 do individual connection-level rate limiting of clients. The torrc
4515 config options with the same names trump the consensus params, if
4516 both are present. Replaces the old "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst"
4517 consensus params which were broken from 0.2.2.7-alpha through
4518 0.2.2.14-alpha. Closes bug 1947.
4519 - When a router changes IP address or port, authorities now launch
4520 a new reachability test for it. Implements ticket 1899.
4521 - Make the formerly ugly "2 unknown, 7 missing key, 0 good, 0 bad,
4522 2 no signature, 4 required" messages about consensus signatures
4523 easier to read, and make sure they get logged at the same severity
4524 as the messages explaining which keys are which. Fixes bug 1290.
4525 - Don't warn when we have a consensus that we can't verify because
4526 of missing certificates, unless those certificates are ones
4527 that we have been trying and failing to download. Fixes bug 1145.
4528 - If you configure your bridge with a known identity fingerprint,
4529 and the bridge authority is unreachable (as it is in at least
4530 one country now), fall back to directly requesting the descriptor
4531 from the bridge. Finishes the feature started in 0.2.0.10-alpha;
4533 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
4534 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
4535 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
4537 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
4538 - Authorities will now attempt to download consensuses if their
4539 own efforts to make a live consensus have failed. This change
4540 means authorities that restart will fetch a valid consensus, and
4541 it means authorities that didn't agree with the current consensus
4542 will still fetch and serve it if it has enough signatures. Bugfix
4543 on 0.2.0.9-alpha; fixes bug 1300.
4544 - Ensure DNS requests launched by "RESOLVE" commands from the
4545 controller respect the __LeaveStreamsUnattached setconf options. The
4546 same goes for requests launched via DNSPort or transparent
4547 proxying. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1525.
4548 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
4549 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
4550 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
4551 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
4553 - Rate-limit "Failed to hand off onionskin" warnings.
4554 - Never relay a cell for a circuit we have already destroyed.
4555 Between marking a circuit as closeable and finally closing it,
4556 it may have been possible for a few queued cells to get relayed,
4557 even though they would have been immediately dropped by the next
4558 OR in the circuit. Fixes bug 1184; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
4559 - Never queue a cell for a circuit that's already been marked
4561 - Never vote for a server as "Running" if we have a descriptor for
4562 it claiming to be hibernating, and that descriptor was published
4563 more recently than our last contact with the server. Bugfix on
4564 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 911.
4565 - Squash a compile warning on OpenBSD. Reported by Tas; fixes
4568 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
4569 - Fix a regression introduced in 0.2.2.7-alpha that marked relays
4570 down if a directory fetch fails and you've configured either
4571 bridges or EntryNodes. The intent was to mark the relay as down
4572 _unless_ you're using bridges or EntryNodes, since if you are
4573 then you could quickly run out of entry points.
4574 - Fix the Windows directory-listing code. A bug introduced in
4575 0.2.2.14-alpha could make Windows directory servers forget to load
4576 some of their cached v2 networkstatus files.
4577 - Really allow clients to use relays as bridges. Fixes bug 1776;
4578 bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha.
4579 - Demote a warn to info that happens when the CellStatistics option
4580 was just enabled. Bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha; fixes bug 1921.
4581 Reported by Moritz Bartl.
4582 - On Windows, build correctly either with or without Unicode support.
4583 This is necessary so that Tor can support fringe platforms like
4584 Windows 98 (which has no Unicode), or Windows CE (which has no
4585 non-Unicode). Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1797.
4588 - Add a unit test for cross-platform directory-listing code.
4591 Changes in version 0.2.2.15-alpha - 2010-08-18
4592 Tor 0.2.2.15-alpha fixes a big bug in hidden service availability,
4593 fixes a variety of other bugs that were preventing performance
4594 experiments from moving forward, fixes several bothersome memory leaks,
4595 and generally closes a lot of smaller bugs that have been filling up
4599 - Stop assigning the HSDir flag to relays that disable their
4600 DirPort (and thus will refuse to answer directory requests). This
4601 fix should dramatically improve the reachability of hidden services:
4602 hidden services and hidden service clients pick six HSDir relays
4603 to store and retrieve the hidden service descriptor, and currently
4604 about half of the HSDir relays will refuse to work. Bugfix on
4605 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes part of bug 1693.
4606 - The PerConnBWRate and Burst config options, along with the
4607 bwconnrate and bwconnburst consensus params, initialized each conn's
4608 token bucket values only when the connection is established. Now we
4609 update them if the config options change, and update them every time
4610 we get a new consensus. Otherwise we can encounter an ugly edge
4611 case where we initialize an OR conn to client-level bandwidth,
4612 but then later the relay joins the consensus and we leave it
4613 throttled. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha; fixes bug 1830.
4614 - Fix a regression that caused Tor to rebind its ports if it receives
4615 SIGHUP while hibernating. Bugfix in 0.1.1.6-alpha; closes bug 919.
4618 - Lower the maximum weighted-fractional-uptime cutoff to 98%. This
4619 should give us approximately 40-50% more Guard-flagged nodes,
4620 improving the anonymity the Tor network can provide and also
4621 decreasing the dropoff in throughput that relays experience when
4622 they first get the Guard flag.
4623 - Allow enabling or disabling the *Statistics config options while
4627 - Update to the August 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
4628 - Have the controller interface give a more useful message than
4629 "Internal Error" in response to failed GETINFO requests.
4630 - Warn when the same option is provided more than once in a torrc
4631 file, on the command line, or in a single SETCONF statement, and
4632 the option is one that only accepts a single line. Closes bug 1384.
4633 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
4634 Patch from mingw-san.
4635 - Add support for the country code "{??}" in torrc options like
4636 ExcludeNodes, to indicate all routers of unknown country. Closes
4638 - Relays report the number of bytes spent on answering directory
4639 requests in extra-info descriptors similar to {read,write}-history.
4640 Implements enhancement 1790.
4642 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
4643 - Complain if PublishServerDescriptor is given multiple arguments that
4644 include 0 or 1. This configuration will be rejected in the future.
4645 Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; closes bug 1107.
4646 - Disallow BridgeRelay 1 and ORPort 0 at once in the configuration.
4647 Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha; closes bug 928.
4648 - Change "Application request when we're believed to be offline."
4649 notice to "Application request when we haven't used client
4650 functionality lately.", to clarify that it's not an error. Bugfix
4651 on 0.0.9.3; fixes bug 1222.
4652 - Fix a bug in the controller interface where "GETINFO ns/asdaskljkl"
4653 would return "551 Internal error" rather than "552 Unrecognized key
4654 ns/asdaskljkl". Bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
4655 - Users can't configure a regular relay to be their bridge. It didn't
4656 work because when Tor fetched the bridge descriptor, it found
4657 that it already had it, and didn't realize that the purpose of the
4658 descriptor had changed. Now we replace routers with a purpose other
4659 than bridge with bridge descriptors when fetching them. Bugfix on
4660 0.1.1.9-alpha. Bug 1776 not yet fixed because now we immediately
4661 refetch the descriptor with router purpose 'general', disabling
4663 - Fix a rare bug in rend_fn unit tests: we would fail a test when
4664 a randomly generated port is 0. Diagnosed by Matt Edman. Bugfix
4665 on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1808.
4666 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
4667 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
4668 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
4669 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
4670 it. Also update the spec to reflect this new reason. Bugfix on
4671 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
4672 - Delay geoip stats collection by bridges for 6 hours, not 2 hours,
4673 when we switch from being a public relay to a bridge. Otherwise
4674 there will still be clients that see the relay in their consensus,
4675 and the stats will end up wrong. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug
4677 - Instead of giving an assertion failure on an internal mismatch
4678 on estimated freelist size, just log a BUG warning and try later.
4679 Mitigates but does not fix bug 1125.
4680 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in caches or bridge users
4681 when using a very short voting interval on a testing network.
4682 Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
4684 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
4685 - Alter directory authorities to always consider Exit-flagged nodes
4686 as potential Guard nodes in their votes. The actual decision to
4687 use Exits as Guards is done in the consensus bandwidth weights.
4688 Fixes bug 1294; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
4689 - When the controller is reporting the purpose of circuits that
4690 didn't finish building before the circuit build timeout, it was
4691 printing UNKNOWN_13. Now print EXPIRED. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
4692 - Our libevent version parsing code couldn't handle versions like
4693 1.4.14b-stable and incorrectly warned the user about using an
4694 old and broken version of libevent. Treat 1.4.14b-stable like
4695 1.4.14-stable when parsing the version. Fixes bug 1731; bugfix
4697 - Don't use substitution references like $(VAR:MOD) when
4698 $(asciidoc_files) is empty -- make(1) on NetBSD transforms
4699 '$(:x)' to 'x' rather than the empty string. This bites us in
4700 doc/ when configured with --disable-asciidoc. Bugfix on
4701 0.2.2.9-alpha; fixes bug 1773.
4702 - Remove a spurious hidden service server-side log notice about
4703 "Ancient non-dirty circuits". Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes
4705 - Fix compilation with --with-dmalloc set. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha;
4707 - Correctly report written bytes on linked connections. Found while
4708 implementing 1790. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
4709 - Fix three memory leaks: one in circuit_build_times_parse_state(),
4710 one in dirvote_add_signatures_to_pending_consensus(), and one every
4711 time we parse a v3 network consensus. Bugfixes on 0.2.2.14-alpha,
4712 0.2.2.6-alpha, and 0.2.2.10-alpha respectively; fixes bug 1831.
4714 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
4715 - Take a first step towards making or.h smaller by splitting out
4716 function definitions for all source files in src/or/. Leave
4717 structures and defines in or.h for now.
4718 - Remove a bunch of unused function declarations as well as a block of
4719 #if 0'd code from the unit tests. Closes bug 1824.
4720 - New unit tests for exit-port history statistics; refactored exit
4721 statistics code to be more easily tested.
4722 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
4723 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
4724 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
4727 Changes in version 0.2.2.14-alpha - 2010-07-12
4728 Tor 0.2.2.14-alpha greatly improves client-side handling of
4729 circuit build timeouts, which are used to estimate speed and improve
4730 performance. We also move to a much better GeoIP database, port Tor to
4731 Windows CE, introduce new compile flags that improve code security,
4732 add an eighth v3 directory authority, and address a lot of more
4736 - Tor directory authorities no longer crash when started with a
4737 cached-microdesc-consensus file in their data directory. Bugfix
4738 on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 1532.
4739 - Treat an unset $HOME like an empty $HOME rather than triggering an
4740 assert. Bugfix on 0.0.8pre1; fixes bug 1522.
4741 - Ignore negative and large circuit build timeout values that can
4742 happen during a suspend or hibernate. These values caused various
4743 asserts to fire. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1245.
4744 - Alter calculation of Pareto distribution parameter 'Xm' for
4745 Circuit Build Timeout learning to use the weighted average of the
4746 top N=3 modes (because we have three entry guards). Considering
4747 multiple modes should improve the timeout calculation in some cases,
4748 and prevent extremely high timeout values. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha;
4750 - Alter calculation of Pareto distribution parameter 'Alpha' to use a
4751 right censored distribution model. This approach improves over the
4752 synthetic timeout generation approach that was producing insanely
4753 high timeout values. Now we calculate build timeouts using truncated
4754 times. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bugs 1245 and 1335.
4755 - Do not close circuits that are under construction when they reach
4756 the circuit build timeout. Instead, leave them building (but do not
4757 use them) for up until the time corresponding to the 95th percentile
4758 on the Pareto CDF or 60 seconds, whichever is greater. This is done
4759 to provide better data for the new Pareto model. This percentile
4760 can be controlled by the consensus.
4763 - Move to the June 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather than the
4764 June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that count
4765 how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we have
4766 more accurate data for many African countries.
4767 - Port Tor to build and run correctly on Windows CE systems, using
4768 the wcecompat library. Contributed by Valerio Lupi.
4769 - New "--enable-gcc-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
4770 to turn on gcc compile time hardening options. It ensures
4771 that signed ints have defined behavior (-fwrapv), enables
4772 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 (requiring -O2), adds stack smashing protection
4773 with canaries (-fstack-protector-all), turns on ASLR protection if
4774 supported by the kernel (-fPIE, -pie), and adds additional security
4775 related warnings. Verified to work on Mac OS X and Debian Lenny.
4776 - New "--enable-linker-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
4777 to turn on ELF specific hardening features (relro, now). This does
4778 not work with Mac OS X or any other non-ELF binary format.
4780 o New directory authorities:
4781 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
4785 - New config option "WarnUnsafeSocks 0" disables the warning that
4786 occurs whenever Tor receives a socks handshake using a version of
4787 the socks protocol that can only provide an IP address (rather
4788 than a hostname). Setups that do DNS locally over Tor are fine,
4789 and we shouldn't spam the logs in that case.
4790 - Convert the HACKING file to asciidoc, and add a few new sections
4791 to it, explaining how we use Git, how we make changelogs, and
4792 what should go in a patch.
4793 - Add a TIMEOUT_RATE keyword to the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port
4794 event, to give information on the current rate of circuit timeouts
4795 over our stored history.
4796 - Add ability to disable circuit build time learning via consensus
4797 parameter and via a LearnCircuitBuildTimeout config option. Also
4798 automatically disable circuit build time calculation if we are
4799 either a AuthoritativeDirectory, or if we fail to write our state
4800 file. Fixes bug 1296.
4801 - More gracefully handle corrupt state files, removing asserts
4802 in favor of saving a backup and resetting state.
4803 - Rename the "log.h" header to "torlog.h" so as to conflict with fewer
4807 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
4809 - When a2x fails, mention that the user could disable manpages instead
4810 of trying to fix their asciidoc installation.
4811 - Where available, use Libevent 2.0's periodic timers so that our
4812 once-per-second cleanup code gets called even more closely to
4813 once per second than it would otherwise. Fixes bug 943.
4814 - If you run a bridge that listens on multiple IP addresses, and
4815 some user configures a bridge address that uses a different IP
4816 address than your bridge writes in its router descriptor, and the
4817 user doesn't specify an identity key, their Tor would discard the
4818 descriptor because "it isn't one of our configured bridges", and
4819 fail to bootstrap. Now believe the descriptor and bootstrap anyway.
4820 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
4821 - If OpenSSL fails to make a duplicate of a private or public key, log
4822 an error message and try to exit cleanly. May help with debugging
4823 if bug 1209 ever remanifests.
4824 - Save a couple bytes in memory allocation every time we escape
4825 certain characters in a string. Patch from Florian Zumbiehl.
4826 - Make it explicit that we don't cannibalize one-hop circuits. This
4827 happens in the wild, but doesn't turn out to be a problem because
4828 we fortunately don't use those circuits. Many thanks to outofwords
4829 for the initial analysis and to swissknife who confirmed that
4830 two-hop circuits are actually created.
4831 - Make directory mirrors report non-zero dirreq-v[23]-shares again.
4832 Fixes bug 1564; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
4833 - Eliminate a case where a circuit build time warning was displayed
4834 after network connectivity resumed. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
4837 Changes in version 0.2.1.26 - 2010-05-02
4838 Tor 0.2.1.26 addresses the recent connection and memory overload
4839 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
4840 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
4841 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
4843 This release also fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL libraries
4844 that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
4847 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
4848 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
4849 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
4850 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
4851 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
4852 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
4853 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
4854 their directory fetches over TLS).
4855 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
4856 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
4857 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
4858 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
4859 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
4860 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
4861 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
4862 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
4865 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
4866 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
4870 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
4871 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
4872 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
4873 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
4874 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
4875 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
4876 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
4879 Changes in version 0.2.2.13-alpha - 2010-04-24
4880 Tor 0.2.2.13-alpha addresses the recent connection and memory overload
4881 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
4882 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
4883 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
4886 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
4887 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
4888 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
4889 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
4890 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
4891 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
4892 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
4893 their directory fetches over TLS).
4896 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
4897 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
4899 - Directory authorities now do an immediate reachability check as soon
4900 as they hear about a new relay. This change should slightly reduce
4901 the time between setting up a relay and getting listed as running
4902 in the consensus. It should also improve the time between setting
4903 up a bridge and seeing use by bridge users.
4904 - Directory authorities no longer launch a TLS connection to every
4905 relay as they startup. Now that we have 2k+ descriptors cached,
4906 the resulting network hiccup is becoming a burden. Besides,
4907 authorities already avoid voting about Running for the first half
4908 hour of their uptime.
4911 Changes in version 0.2.2.12-alpha - 2010-04-20
4912 Tor 0.2.2.12-alpha fixes a critical bug in how directory authorities
4913 handle and vote on descriptors. It was causing relays to drop out of
4917 - Many relays have been falling out of the consensus lately because
4918 not enough authorities know about their descriptor for them to get
4919 a majority of votes. When we deprecated the v2 directory protocol,
4920 we got rid of the only way that v3 authorities can hear from each
4921 other about other descriptors. Now authorities examine every v3
4922 vote for new descriptors, and fetch them from that authority. Bugfix
4924 - Fix two typos in tor_vasprintf() that broke the compile on Windows,
4925 and a warning in or.h related to bandwidth_weight_rule_t that
4926 prevented clean compile on OS X. Fixes bug 1363; bugfix on
4928 - Fix a segfault on relays when DirReqStatistics is enabled
4929 and 24 hours pass. Bug found by keb. Fixes bug 1365; bugfix on
4933 - Demote a confusing TLS warning that relay operators might get when
4934 someone tries to talk to their OrPort. It is neither the operator's
4935 fault nor can they do anything about it. Fixes bug 1364; bugfix
4939 Changes in version 0.2.2.11-alpha - 2010-04-15
4940 Tor 0.2.2.11-alpha fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL
4941 libraries that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
4944 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
4945 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
4946 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
4947 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
4948 - Fix a parsing error that made every possible value of
4949 CircPriorityHalflifeMsec get treated as "1 msec". Bugfix
4950 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Rename CircPriorityHalflifeMsec to
4951 CircuitPriorityHalflifeMsec, so authorities can tell newer relays
4952 about the option without breaking older ones.
4953 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
4954 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
4955 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
4956 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
4959 - Experiment with a more aggressive approach to preventing clients
4960 from making one-hop exit streams. Exit relays who want to try it
4961 out can set "RefuseUnknownExits 1" in their torrc, and then look
4962 for "Attempt by %s to open a stream" log messages. Let us know
4964 - Add support for statically linking zlib by specifying
4965 --enable-static-zlib, to go with our support for statically linking
4966 openssl and libevent. Resolves bug 1358.
4969 - Fix a segfault that happens whenever a Tor client that is using
4970 libevent2's bufferevents gets a hup signal. Bugfix on 0.2.2.5-alpha;
4972 - When we cleaned up the contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file, we left
4973 out the first line. Fixes bug 1295.
4974 - When building the manpage from a tarball, we required asciidoc, but
4975 the asciidoc -> roff/html conversion was already done for the
4976 tarball. Make 'make' complain only when we need asciidoc (either
4977 because we're compiling directly from git, or because we altered
4978 the asciidoc manpage in the tarball). Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
4979 - When none of the directory authorities vote on any params, Tor
4980 segfaulted when trying to make the consensus from the votes. We
4981 didn't trigger the bug in practice, because authorities do include
4982 params in their votes. Bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 1322.
4985 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
4986 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
4987 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
4988 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
4989 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
4990 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
4991 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
4994 Changes in version 0.2.2.10-alpha - 2010-03-07
4995 Tor 0.2.2.10-alpha fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.2.9-alpha that
4996 could prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also
4997 starts the groundwork for another client-side performance boost, since
4998 currently we're not making efficient use of relays that have both the
4999 Guard flag and the Exit flag.
5002 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
5003 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
5004 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
5005 0.2.2.9-alpha; fixes bug 1269.
5007 o Major features (performance):
5008 - Directory authorities now compute consensus weightings that instruct
5009 clients how to weight relays flagged as Guard, Exit, Guard+Exit,
5010 and no flag. Clients that use these weightings will distribute
5011 network load more evenly across these different relay types. The
5012 weightings are in the consensus so we can change them globally in
5013 the future. Extra thanks to "outofwords" for finding some nasty
5014 security bugs in the first implementation of this feature.
5016 o Minor features (performance):
5017 - Always perform router selections using weighted relay bandwidth,
5018 even if we don't need a high capacity circuit at the time. Non-fast
5019 circuits now only differ from fast ones in that they can use relays
5020 not marked with the Fast flag. This "feature" could turn out to
5021 be a horrible bug; we should investigate more before it goes into
5025 - Allow disabling building of the manpages. Skipping the manpage
5026 speeds up the build considerably.
5028 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
5029 - Fix a memleak in the EXTENDCIRCUIT logic. Spotted by coverity.
5030 Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
5031 - Disallow values larger than INT32_MAX for PerConnBWRate|Burst
5032 config option. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
5033 - Ship the asciidoc-helper file in the tarball, so that people can
5034 build from source if they want to, and touching the .1.txt files
5035 doesn't break the build. Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
5037 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x or earlier):
5038 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
5039 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
5041 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
5042 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
5043 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
5044 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
5046 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
5047 - Fix some urls in the exit notice file and make it XHTML1.1 strict
5048 compliant. Based on a patch from Christian Kujau.
5049 - Don't use sed in asciidoc-helper anymore.
5050 - Make the build process fail if asciidoc cannot be found and
5051 building with asciidoc isn't disabled.
5054 Changes in version 0.2.2.9-alpha - 2010-02-22
5055 Tor 0.2.2.9-alpha makes Tor work again on the latest OS X, updates the
5056 location of a directory authority, and cleans up a bunch of small bugs.
5058 o Directory authority changes:
5059 - Change IP address for dannenberg (v3 directory authority), and
5060 remove moria2 (obsolete v1, v2 directory authority and v0 hidden
5061 service directory authority) from the list.
5064 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
5065 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
5066 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
5067 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
5068 libraries in a security patch.
5069 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
5070 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
5071 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
5072 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
5074 - Authorities could be tricked into giving out the Exit flag to relays
5075 that didn't allow exiting to any ports. This bug could screw
5076 with load balancing and stats. Bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha; fixes bug
5077 1238. Bug discovered by Martin Kowalczyk.
5078 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
5079 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
5080 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
5083 - Fix static compilation by listing the openssl libraries in the right
5084 order. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.8-alpha; fixes bug 1237.
5085 - Resume handling .exit hostnames in a special way: originally we
5086 stripped the .exit part and used the requested exit relay. In
5087 0.2.2.1-alpha we stopped treating them in any special way, meaning
5088 if you use a .exit address then Tor will pass it on to the exit
5089 relay. Now we reject the .exit stream outright, since that behavior
5090 might be more expected by the user. Found and diagnosed by Scott
5091 Bennett and Downie on or-talk.
5092 - Don't spam the controller with events when we have no file
5093 descriptors available. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. (Rate-limiting
5094 for log messages was already solved from bug 748.)
5095 - Avoid a bogus overlapped memcpy in tor_addr_copy(). Reported by
5097 - Make the DNSPort option work with libevent 2.x. Don't alter the
5098 behaviour for libevent 1.x. Fixes bug 1143. Found by SwissTorExit.
5099 - Emit a GUARD DROPPED controller event for a case we missed.
5100 - Make more fields in the controller protocol case-insensitive, since
5101 control-spec.txt said they were.
5102 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
5103 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
5104 - Fix a spec conformance issue: the network-status-version token
5105 must be the first token in a v3 consensus or vote. Discovered by
5106 parakeep. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
5108 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
5109 - Generate our manpage and HTML documentation using Asciidoc. This
5110 change should make it easier to maintain the documentation, and
5112 - Remove the --enable-iphone option. According to reports from Marco
5113 Bonetti, Tor builds fine without any special tweaking on recent
5114 iPhone SDK versions.
5115 - Removed some unnecessary files from the source distribution. The
5116 AUTHORS file has now been merged into the people page on the
5117 website. The roadmaps and design doc can now be found in the
5118 projects directory in svn.
5119 - Enabled various circuit build timeout constants to be controlled
5120 by consensus parameters. Also set better defaults for these
5121 parameters based on experimentation on broadband and simulated
5125 - The 'EXTENDCIRCUIT' control port command can now be used with
5126 a circ id of 0 and no path. This feature will cause Tor to build
5127 a new 'fast' general purpose circuit using its own path selection
5129 - Added a BUILDTIMEOUT_SET controller event to describe changes
5130 to the circuit build timeout.
5131 - Future-proof the controller protocol a bit by ignoring keyword
5132 arguments we do not recognize.
5133 - Expand homedirs passed to tor-checkkey. This should silence a
5134 coverity complaint about passing a user-supplied string into
5135 open() without checking it.
5138 Changes in version 0.2.1.25 - 2010-03-16
5139 Tor 0.2.1.25 fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.1.23 that could
5140 prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also fixes
5141 several minor potential security bugs.
5144 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
5145 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
5146 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
5147 0.2.1.23; fixes bug 1269.
5148 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
5149 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
5150 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
5153 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
5154 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
5156 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
5157 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
5158 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
5159 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
5163 Changes in version 0.2.1.24 - 2010-02-21
5164 Tor 0.2.1.24 makes Tor work again on the latest OS X -- this time
5168 - Work correctly out-of-the-box with even more vendor-patched versions
5169 of OpenSSL. In particular, make it so Debian and OS X don't need
5170 customized patches to run/build.
5173 Changes in version 0.2.1.23 - 2010-02-13
5174 Tor 0.2.1.23 fixes a huge client-side performance bug, makes Tor work
5175 again on the latest OS X, and updates the location of a directory
5178 o Major bugfixes (performance):
5179 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
5180 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
5181 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
5182 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
5183 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
5184 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
5185 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
5188 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
5189 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
5190 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
5191 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
5192 libraries in a security patch.
5193 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
5194 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
5195 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
5196 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
5199 o Directory authority changes:
5200 - Change IP address for dannenberg (v3 directory authority), and
5201 remove moria2 (obsolete v1, v2 directory authority and v0 hidden
5202 service directory authority) from the list.
5205 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
5206 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
5209 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
5210 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
5211 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
5212 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
5213 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
5216 Changes in version 0.2.2.8-alpha - 2010-01-26
5217 Tor 0.2.2.8-alpha fixes a crash bug in 0.2.2.7-alpha that has been
5218 causing bridge relays to disappear. If you're running a bridge,
5222 - Fix a memory corruption bug on bridges that occured during the
5223 inclusion of stats data in extra-info descriptors. Also fix the
5224 interface for geoip_get_bridge_stats* to prevent similar bugs in
5225 the future. Diagnosis by Tas, patch by Karsten and Sebastian.
5226 Fixes bug 1208; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
5229 - Ignore OutboundBindAddress when connecting to localhost.
5230 Connections to localhost need to come _from_ localhost, or else
5231 local servers (like DNS and outgoing HTTP/SOCKS proxies) will often
5235 Changes in version 0.2.2.7-alpha - 2010-01-19
5236 Tor 0.2.2.7-alpha fixes a huge client-side performance bug, as well
5237 as laying the groundwork for further relay-side performance fixes. It
5238 also starts cleaning up client behavior with respect to the EntryNodes,
5239 ExitNodes, and StrictNodes config options.
5241 This release also rotates two directory authority keys, due to a
5242 security breach of some of the Torproject servers.
5244 o Directory authority changes:
5245 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
5248 o Major features (performance):
5249 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
5250 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
5251 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
5252 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
5253 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
5254 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
5255 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
5256 - When choosing which cells to relay first, relays can now favor
5257 circuits that have been quiet recently, to provide lower latency
5258 for low-volume circuits. By default, relays enable or disable this
5259 feature based on a setting in the consensus. You can override
5260 this default by using the new "CircuitPriorityHalflife" config
5261 option. Design and code by Ian Goldberg, Can Tang, and Chris
5263 - Add separate per-conn write limiting to go with the per-conn read
5264 limiting. We added a global write limit in Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha,
5265 but never per-conn write limits.
5266 - New consensus params "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst" to let us
5267 rate-limit client connections as they enter the network. It's
5268 controlled in the consensus so we can turn it on and off for
5269 experiments. It's starting out off. Based on proposal 163.
5271 o Major features (relay selection options):
5272 - Switch to a StrictNodes config option, rather than the previous
5273 "StrictEntryNodes" / "StrictExitNodes" separation that was missing a
5274 "StrictExcludeNodes" option.
5275 - If EntryNodes, ExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, or ExcludeExitNodes
5276 change during a config reload, mark and discard all our origin
5277 circuits. This fix should address edge cases where we change the
5278 config options and but then choose a circuit that we created before
5280 - If EntryNodes or ExitNodes are set, be more willing to use an
5281 unsuitable (e.g. slow or unstable) circuit. The user asked for it,
5283 - Make EntryNodes config option much more aggressive even when
5284 StrictNodes is not set. Before it would prepend your requested
5285 entrynodes to your list of guard nodes, but feel free to use others
5286 after that. Now it chooses only from your EntryNodes if any of
5287 those are available, and only falls back to others if a) they're
5288 all down and b) StrictNodes is not set.
5289 - Now we refresh your entry guards from EntryNodes at each consensus
5290 fetch -- rather than just at startup and then they slowly rot as
5291 the network changes.
5294 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
5295 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
5296 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
5299 - Log a notice when we get a new control connection. Now it's easier
5300 for security-conscious users to recognize when a local application
5301 is knocking on their controller door. Suggested by bug 1196.
5302 - New config option "CircuitStreamTimeout" to override our internal
5303 timeout schedule for how many seconds until we detach a stream from
5304 a circuit and try a new circuit. If your network is particularly
5305 slow, you might want to set this to a number like 60.
5306 - New controller command "getinfo config-text". It returns the
5307 contents that Tor would write if you send it a SAVECONF command,
5308 so the controller can write the file to disk itself.
5309 - New options for SafeLogging to allow scrubbing only log messages
5310 generated while acting as a relay.
5311 - Ship the bridges spec file in the tarball too.
5312 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
5313 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
5314 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
5315 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
5316 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
5318 o Minor bugfixes (compiling):
5319 - Fix compilation on OS X 10.3, which has a stub mlockall() but
5320 hides it. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
5321 - Fix compilation on Solaris by removing support for the
5322 DisableAllSwap config option. Solaris doesn't have an rlimit for
5323 mlockall, so we cannot use it safely. Fixes bug 1198; bugfix on
5326 o Minor bugfixes (crashes):
5327 - Do not segfault when writing buffer stats when we haven't observed
5328 a single circuit to report about. Found by Fabian Lanze. Bugfix on
5330 - If we're in the pathological case where there's no exit bandwidth
5331 but there is non-exit bandwidth, or no guard bandwidth but there
5332 is non-guard bandwidth, don't crash during path selection. Bugfix
5334 - Fix an impossible-to-actually-trigger buffer overflow in relay
5335 descriptor generation. Bugfix on 0.1.0.15.
5337 o Minor bugfixes (privacy):
5338 - Fix an instance where a Tor directory mirror might accidentally
5339 log the IP address of a misbehaving Tor client. Bugfix on
5341 - Don't list Windows capabilities in relay descriptors. We never made
5342 use of them, and maybe it's a bad idea to publish them. Bugfix
5345 o Minor bugfixes (other):
5346 - Resolve an edge case in path weighting that could make us misweight
5347 our relay selection. Fixes bug 1203; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
5348 - Fix statistics on client numbers by country as seen by bridges that
5349 were broken in 0.2.2.1-alpha. Also switch to reporting full 24-hour
5350 intervals instead of variable 12-to-48-hour intervals.
5351 - After we free an internal connection structure, overwrite it
5352 with a different memory value than we use for overwriting a freed
5353 internal circuit structure. Should help with debugging. Suggested
5355 - Update our OpenSSL 0.9.8l fix so that it works with OpenSSL 0.9.8m
5359 - Remove the HSAuthorityRecordStats option that version 0 hidden
5360 service authorities could have used to track statistics of overall
5361 hidden service usage.
5364 Changes in version 0.2.1.22 - 2010-01-19
5365 Tor 0.2.1.22 fixes a critical privacy problem in bridge directory
5366 authorities -- it would tell you its whole history of bridge descriptors
5367 if you make the right directory request. This stable update also
5368 rotates two of the seven v3 directory authority keys and locations.
5370 o Directory authority changes:
5371 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
5375 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
5376 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
5377 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
5380 Changes in version 0.2.1.21 - 2009-12-21
5381 Tor 0.2.1.21 fixes an incompatibility with the most recent OpenSSL
5382 library. If you use Tor on Linux / Unix and you're getting SSL
5383 renegotiation errors, upgrading should help. We also recommend an
5384 upgrade if you're an exit relay.
5387 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
5388 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
5389 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, of course, but OpenSSL
5390 0.9.8l won't work unless we say we are.
5391 - Avoid crashing if the client is trying to upload many bytes and the
5392 circuit gets torn down at the same time, or if the flip side
5393 happens on the exit relay. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1150.
5396 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
5397 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
5398 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
5399 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
5400 - Fix a couple of very-hard-to-trigger memory leaks, and one hard-to-
5401 trigger platform-specific option misparsing case found by Coverity
5403 - Fix a compilation warning on Fedora 12 by removing an impossible-to-
5404 trigger assert. Fixes bug 1173.
5407 Changes in version 0.2.2.6-alpha - 2009-11-19
5408 Tor 0.2.2.6-alpha lays the groundwork for many upcoming features:
5409 support for the new lower-footprint "microdescriptor" directory design,
5410 future-proofing our consensus format against new hash functions or
5411 other changes, and an Android port. It also makes Tor compatible with
5412 the upcoming OpenSSL 0.9.8l release, and fixes a variety of bugs.
5415 - Directory authorities can now create, vote on, and serve multiple
5416 parallel formats of directory data as part of their voting process.
5417 Partially implements Proposal 162: "Publish the consensus in
5419 - Directory authorities can now agree on and publish small summaries
5420 of router information that clients can use in place of regular
5421 server descriptors. This transition will eventually allow clients
5422 to use far less bandwidth for downloading information about the
5423 network. Begins the implementation of Proposal 158: "Clients
5424 download consensus + microdescriptors".
5425 - The directory voting system is now extensible to use multiple hash
5426 algorithms for signatures and resource selection. Newer formats
5427 are signed with SHA256, with a possibility for moving to a better
5428 hash algorithm in the future.
5429 - New DisableAllSwap option. If set to 1, Tor will attempt to lock all
5430 current and future memory pages via mlockall(). On supported
5431 platforms (modern Linux and probably BSD but not Windows or OS X),
5432 this should effectively disable any and all attempts to page out
5433 memory. This option requires that you start your Tor as root --
5434 if you use DisableAllSwap, please consider using the User option
5435 to properly reduce the privileges of your Tor.
5436 - Numerous changes, bugfixes, and workarounds from Nathan Freitas
5437 to help Tor build correctly for Android phones.
5440 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
5441 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
5442 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, but OpenSSL 0.9.8l
5443 won't work unless we say we are.
5446 - Fix a crash bug when trying to initialize the evdns module in
5447 Libevent 2. Bugfix on 0.2.1.16-rc.
5448 - Stop logging at severity 'warn' when some other Tor client tries
5449 to establish a circuit with us using weak DH keys. It's a protocol
5450 violation, but that doesn't mean ordinary users need to hear about
5451 it. Fixes the bug part of bug 1114. Bugfix on 0.1.0.13.
5452 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
5453 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
5454 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
5455 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
5456 - Fix numerous small code-flaws found by Coverity Scan Rung 3.
5457 - If all authorities restart at once right before a consensus vote,
5458 nobody will vote about "Running", and clients will get a consensus
5459 with no usable relays. Instead, authorities refuse to build a
5460 consensus if this happens. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1066.
5461 - If your relay can't keep up with the number of incoming create
5462 cells, it would log one warning per failure into your logs. Limit
5463 warnings to 1 per minute. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre10; fixes bug 1042.
5464 - Bridges now use "reject *:*" as their default exit policy. Bugfix
5465 on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1113.
5466 - Fix a memory leak on directory authorities during voting that was
5467 introduced in 0.2.2.1-alpha. Found via valgrind.
5470 Changes in version 0.2.1.20 - 2009-10-15
5471 Tor 0.2.1.20 fixes a crash bug when you're accessing many hidden
5472 services at once, prepares for more performance improvements, and
5473 fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
5475 The Windows and OS X bundles also include a more recent Vidalia,
5476 and switch from Privoxy to Polipo.
5478 The OS X installers are now drag and drop. It's best to un-install
5479 Tor/Vidalia and then install this new bundle, rather than upgrade. If
5480 you want to upgrade, you'll need to update the paths for Tor and Polipo
5481 in the Vidalia Settings window.
5484 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
5485 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
5486 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
5487 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
5488 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
5490 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
5491 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
5493 - Avoid segfault in rare cases when finishing an introduction circuit
5494 as a client and finding out that we don't have an introduction key
5495 for it. Fixes bug 1073. Reported by Aaron Swartz.
5498 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
5499 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
5500 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
5502 o New directory authorities:
5503 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
5505 - Move moria1 and tonga to alternate IP addresses.
5508 - Fix a signed/unsigned compile warning in 0.2.1.19.
5509 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
5511 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
5512 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
5513 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
5514 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
5515 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
5516 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
5517 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
5518 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
5519 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
5520 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
5521 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
5522 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
5523 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
5524 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
5525 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
5526 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
5527 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
5529 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
5530 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
5531 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090. Bugfix on
5533 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
5534 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
5538 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
5539 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
5540 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
5541 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
5542 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
5545 Changes in version 0.2.2.5-alpha - 2009-10-11
5546 Tor 0.2.2.5-alpha fixes a few compile problems in 0.2.2.4-alpha.
5549 - Make the tarball compile again. Oops. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
5551 o Directory authorities:
5552 - Temporarily (just for this release) move dizum to an alternate
5556 Changes in version 0.2.2.4-alpha - 2009-10-10
5557 Tor 0.2.2.4-alpha fixes more crash bugs in 0.2.2.2-alpha. It also
5558 introduces a new unit test framework, shifts directry authority
5559 addresses around to reduce the impact from recent blocking events,
5560 and fixes a few smaller bugs.
5563 - Fix several more asserts in the circuit_build_times code, for
5564 example one that causes Tor to fail to start once we have
5565 accumulated 5000 build times in the state file. Bugfixes on
5566 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1108.
5568 o New directory authorities:
5569 - Move moria1 and Tonga to alternate IP addresses.
5572 - Log SSL state transitions at debug level during handshake, and
5573 include SSL states in error messages. This may help debug future
5574 SSL handshake issues.
5575 - Add a new "Handshake" log domain for activities that happen
5576 during the TLS handshake.
5577 - Revert to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file. The September one
5578 seems to have removed most US IP addresses.
5579 - Directory authorities now reject Tor relays with versions less than
5580 0.1.2.14. This step cuts out four relays from the current network,
5581 none of which are very big.
5584 - Fix a couple of smaller issues with gathering statistics. Bugfixes
5586 - Fix two memory leaks in the error case of
5587 circuit_build_times_parse_state(). Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
5588 - Don't count one-hop circuits when we're estimating how long it
5589 takes circuits to build on average. Otherwise we'll set our circuit
5590 build timeout lower than we should. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
5591 - Directory authorities no longer change their opinion of, or vote on,
5592 whether a router is Running, unless they have themselves been
5593 online long enough to have some idea. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
5596 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
5597 - Revise our unit tests to use the "tinytest" framework, so we
5598 can run tests in their own processes, have smarter setup/teardown
5599 code, and so on. The unit test code has moved to its own
5600 subdirectory, and has been split into multiple modules.
5603 Changes in version 0.2.2.3-alpha - 2009-09-23
5604 Tor 0.2.2.3-alpha fixes a few crash bugs in 0.2.2.2-alpha.
5607 - Fix an overzealous assert in our new circuit build timeout code.
5608 Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1103.
5611 - If the networkstatus consensus tells us that we should use a
5612 negative circuit package window, ignore it. Otherwise we'll
5613 believe it and then trigger an assert. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
5616 Changes in version 0.2.2.2-alpha - 2009-09-21
5617 Tor 0.2.2.2-alpha introduces our latest performance improvement for
5618 clients: Tor tracks the average time it takes to build a circuit, and
5619 avoids using circuits that take too long to build. For fast connections,
5620 this feature can cut your expected latency in half. For slow or flaky
5621 connections, it could ruin your Tor experience. Let us know if it does!
5624 - Tor now tracks how long it takes to build client-side circuits
5625 over time, and adapts its timeout to local network performance.
5626 Since a circuit that takes a long time to build will also provide
5627 bad performance, we get significant latency improvements by
5628 discarding the slowest 20% of circuits. Specifically, Tor creates
5629 circuits more aggressively than usual until it has enough data
5630 points for a good timeout estimate. Implements proposal 151.
5631 We are especially looking for reports (good and bad) from users with
5632 both EDGE and broadband connections that can move from broadband
5633 to EDGE and find out if the build-time data in the .tor/state gets
5634 reset without loss of Tor usability. You should also see a notice
5635 log message telling you that Tor has reset its timeout.
5636 - Directory authorities can now vote on arbitary integer values as
5637 part of the consensus process. This is designed to help set
5638 network-wide parameters. Implements proposal 167.
5639 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
5640 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
5641 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
5644 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
5645 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
5649 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
5650 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
5651 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
5652 - Fix parsing for memory or time units given without a space between
5653 the number and the unit. Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1076.
5654 - A networkstatus vote must contain exactly one signature. Spec
5655 conformance issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
5656 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
5657 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
5658 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
5659 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
5660 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
5661 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
5662 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
5663 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
5664 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
5665 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
5666 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
5667 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
5668 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
5669 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
5671 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
5672 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
5673 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090, but more problems
5674 remain. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
5675 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
5676 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
5678 - Make our 'torify' script more portable; if we have only one of
5679 'torsocks' or 'tsocks' installed, don't complain to the user;
5680 and explain our warning about tsocks better.
5683 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
5684 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
5685 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
5686 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
5687 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
5688 - Update to the "September 4 2009" ip-to-country file.
5691 Changes in version 0.2.2.1-alpha - 2009-08-26
5692 Tor 0.2.2.1-alpha disables ".exit" address notation by default, allows
5693 Tor clients to bootstrap on networks where only port 80 is reachable,
5694 makes it more straightforward to support hardware crypto accelerators,
5695 and starts the groundwork for gathering stats safely at relays.
5698 - Start the process of disabling ".exit" address notation, since it
5699 can be used for a variety of esoteric application-level attacks
5700 on users. To reenable it, set "AllowDotExit 1" in your torrc. Fix
5703 o New directory authorities:
5704 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
5708 - New AccelName and AccelDir options add support for dynamic OpenSSL
5709 hardware crypto acceleration engines.
5710 - Tor now supports tunneling all of its outgoing connections over
5711 a SOCKS proxy, using the SOCKS4Proxy and/or SOCKS5Proxy
5712 configuration options. Code by Christopher Davis.
5715 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
5716 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
5717 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
5718 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
5719 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
5722 o New options for gathering stats safely:
5723 - Directory mirrors that set "DirReqStatistics 1" write statistics
5724 about directory requests to disk every 24 hours. As compared to the
5725 --enable-geoip-stats flag in 0.2.1.x, there are a few improvements:
5726 1) stats are written to disk exactly every 24 hours; 2) estimated
5727 shares of v2 and v3 requests are determined as mean values, not at
5728 the end of a measurement period; 3) unresolved requests are listed
5729 with country code '??'; 4) directories also measure download times.
5730 - Exit nodes that set "ExitPortStatistics 1" write statistics on the
5731 number of exit streams and transferred bytes per port to disk every
5733 - Relays that set "CellStatistics 1" write statistics on how long
5734 cells spend in their circuit queues to disk every 24 hours.
5735 - Entry nodes that set "EntryStatistics 1" write statistics on the
5736 rough number and origins of connecting clients to disk every 24
5738 - Relays that write any of the above statistics to disk and set
5739 "ExtraInfoStatistics 1" include the past 24 hours of statistics in
5740 their extra-info documents.
5743 - New --digests command-line switch to output the digests of the
5744 source files Tor was built with.
5745 - The "torify" script now uses torsocks where available.
5746 - The memarea code now uses a sentinel value at the end of each area
5747 to make sure nothing writes beyond the end of an area. This might
5748 help debug some conceivable causes of bug 930.
5749 - Time and memory units in the configuration file can now be set to
5750 fractional units. For example, "2.5 GB" is now a valid value for
5752 - Certain Tor clients (such as those behind check.torproject.org) may
5753 want to fetch the consensus in an extra early manner. To enable this
5754 a user may now set FetchDirInfoExtraEarly to 1. This also depends on
5755 setting FetchDirInfoEarly to 1. Previous behavior will stay the same
5756 as only certain clients who must have this information sooner should
5758 - Instead of adding the svn revision to the Tor version string, report
5759 the git commit (when we're building from a git checkout).
5762 - If any of the v3 certs we download are unparseable, we should
5763 actually notice the failure so we don't retry indefinitely. Bugfix
5764 on 0.2.0.x; reported by "rotator".
5765 - If the cached cert file is unparseable, warn but don't exit.
5766 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
5768 - When Tor fails to parse a descriptor of any kind, dump it to disk.
5769 Might help diagnosing bug 1051.
5771 o Deprecated and removed features:
5772 - The controller no longer accepts the old obsolete "addr-mappings/"
5773 or "unregistered-servers-" GETINFO values.
5774 - Hidden services no longer publish version 0 descriptors, and clients
5775 do not request or use version 0 descriptors. However, the old hidden
5776 service authorities still accept and serve version 0 descriptors
5777 when contacted by older hidden services/clients.
5778 - The EXTENDED_EVENTS and VERBOSE_NAMES controller features are now
5779 always on; using them is necessary for correct forward-compatible
5781 - Remove support for .noconnect style addresses. Nobody was using
5782 them, and they provided another avenue for detecting Tor users
5783 via application-level web tricks.
5785 o Packaging changes:
5786 - Upgrade Vidalia from 0.1.15 to 0.2.3 in the Windows and OS X
5787 installer bundles. See
5788 https://trac.vidalia-project.net/browser/vidalia/tags/vidalia-0.2.3/CHANGELOG
5789 for details of what's new in Vidalia 0.2.3.
5790 - Windows Vidalia Bundle: update Privoxy from 3.0.6 to 3.0.14-beta.
5791 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: move to Polipo 1.0.4 with Tor specific
5792 configuration file, rather than the old Privoxy.
5793 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: Vidalia, Tor, and Polipo are compiled as
5794 x86-only for better compatibility with OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard.
5795 - OS X Tor Expert Bundle: Tor is compiled as x86-only for
5796 better compatibility with OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard.
5797 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: The multi-package installer is now replaced
5798 by a simple drag and drop to the /Applications folder. This change
5799 occurred with the upgrade to Vidalia 0.2.3.
5802 Changes in version 0.2.1.19 - 2009-07-28
5803 Tor 0.2.1.19 fixes a major bug with accessing and providing hidden
5804 services on Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18.
5807 - Make accessing hidden services on 0.2.1.x work right again.
5808 Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha; workaround for bug 1038. Diagnosis and
5809 part of patch provided by "optimist".
5812 - When a relay/bridge is writing out its identity key fingerprint to
5813 the "fingerprint" file and to its logs, write it without spaces. Now
5814 it will look like the fingerprints in our bridges documentation,
5815 and confuse fewer users.
5818 - Relays no longer publish a new server descriptor if they change
5819 their MaxAdvertisedBandwidth config option but it doesn't end up
5820 changing their advertised bandwidth numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.28-rc;
5821 fixes bug 1026. Patch from Sebastian.
5822 - Avoid leaking memory every time we get a create cell but we have
5823 so many already queued that we refuse it. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha;
5824 fixes bug 1034. Reported by BarkerJr.
5827 Changes in version 0.2.1.18 - 2009-07-24
5828 Tor 0.2.1.18 lays the foundations for performance improvements,
5829 adds status events to help users diagnose bootstrap problems, adds
5830 optional authentication/authorization for hidden services, fixes a
5831 variety of potential anonymity problems, and includes a huge pile of
5832 other features and bug fixes.
5835 - Add LIBS=-lrt to Makefile.am so the Tor RPMs use a static libevent.
5838 Changes in version 0.2.1.17-rc - 2009-07-07
5839 Tor 0.2.1.17-rc marks the fourth -- and hopefully last -- release
5840 candidate for the 0.2.1.x series. It lays the groundwork for further
5841 client performance improvements, and also fixes a big bug with directory
5842 authorities that were causing them to assign Guard and Stable flags
5845 The Windows bundles also finally include the geoip database that we
5846 thought we'd been shipping since 0.2.0.x (oops), and the OS X bundles
5847 should actually install Torbutton rather than giving you a cryptic
5848 failure message (oops).
5851 - Clients now use the bandwidth values in the consensus, rather than
5852 the bandwidth values in each relay descriptor. This approach opens
5853 the door to more accurate bandwidth estimates once the directory
5854 authorities start doing active measurements. Implements more of
5858 - When Tor clients restart after 1-5 days, they discard all their
5859 cached descriptors as too old, but they still use the cached
5860 consensus document. This approach is good for robustness, but
5861 bad for performance: since they don't know any bandwidths, they
5862 end up choosing at random rather than weighting their choice by
5863 speed. Fixed by the above feature of putting bandwidths in the
5864 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
5865 - Directory authorities were neglecting to mark relays down in their
5866 internal histories if the relays fall off the routerlist without
5867 ever being found unreachable. So there were relays in the histories
5868 that haven't been seen for eight months, and are listed as being
5869 up for eight months. This wreaked havoc on the "median wfu"
5870 and "median mtbf" calculations, in turn making Guard and Stable
5871 flags very wrong, hurting network performance. Fixes bugs 696 and
5872 969. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
5875 - Serve the DirPortFrontPage page even when we have been approaching
5876 our quotas recently. Fixes bug 1013; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
5877 - The control port would close the connection before flushing long
5878 replies, such as the network consensus, if a QUIT command was issued
5879 before the reply had completed. Now, the control port flushes all
5880 pending replies before closing the connection. Also fixed a spurious
5881 warning when a QUIT command is issued after a malformed or rejected
5882 AUTHENTICATE command, but before the connection was closed. Patch
5883 by Marcus Griep. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; fixes bugs 1015 and 1016.
5884 - When we can't find an intro key for a v2 hidden service descriptor,
5885 fall back to the v0 hidden service descriptor and log a bug message.
5886 Workaround for bug 1024.
5887 - Fix a log message that did not respect the SafeLogging option.
5891 - If we're a relay and we change our IP address, be more verbose
5892 about the reason that made us change. Should help track down
5893 further bugs for relays on dynamic IP addresses.
5896 Changes in version 0.2.0.35 - 2009-06-24
5898 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
5899 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
5900 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
5901 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
5902 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
5905 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
5906 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
5907 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
5908 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
5909 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
5910 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
5911 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
5912 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
5913 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
5914 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
5917 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
5918 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
5919 0.2.0.33; fixes bug 672.
5920 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
5921 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
5922 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
5923 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
5924 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
5927 Changes in version 0.2.1.16-rc - 2009-06-20
5928 Tor 0.2.1.16-rc speeds up performance for fast exit relays, and fixes
5929 a bunch of minor bugs.
5932 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
5933 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
5934 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
5936 o Major performance improvements (on 0.2.0.x):
5937 - Disable and refactor some debugging checks that forced a linear scan
5938 over the whole server-side DNS cache. These accounted for over 50%
5939 of CPU time on a relatively busy exit node's gprof profile. Found
5941 - Disable some debugging checks that appeared in exit node profile
5945 - Update to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
5946 - Do not have tor-resolve automatically refuse all .onion addresses;
5947 if AutomapHostsOnResolve is set in your torrc, this will work fine.
5949 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
5950 - Log correct error messages for DNS-related network errors on
5952 - Fix a race condition that could cause crashes or memory corruption
5953 when running as a server with a controller listening for log
5955 - Avoid crashing when we have a policy specified in a DirPolicy or
5956 SocksPolicy or ReachableAddresses option with ports set on it,
5957 and we re-load the policy. May fix bug 996.
5958 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
5959 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
5960 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
5961 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
5962 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
5964 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
5965 - Don't warn users about low port and hibernation mix when they
5966 provide a *ListenAddress directive to fix that. Bugfix on
5968 - When switching back and forth between bridge mode, do not start
5969 gathering GeoIP data until two hours have passed.
5970 - Do not complain that the user has requested an excluded node as
5971 an exit when the node is not really an exit. This could happen
5972 because the circuit was for testing, or an introduction point.
5976 Changes in version 0.2.1.15-rc - 2009-05-25
5977 Tor 0.2.1.15-rc marks the second release candidate for the 0.2.1.x
5978 series. It fixes a major bug on fast exit relays, as well as a variety
5981 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
5982 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
5983 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
5984 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
5986 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
5987 - Actually return -1 in the error case for read_bandwidth_usage().
5988 Harmless bug, since we currently don't care about the return value
5989 anywhere. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
5990 - Provide a more useful log message if bug 977 (related to buffer
5991 freelists) ever reappears, and do not crash right away.
5992 - Fix an assertion failure on 64-bit platforms when we allocated
5993 memory right up to the end of a memarea, then realigned the memory
5994 one step beyond the end. Fixes a possible cause of bug 930.
5995 - Protect the count of open sockets with a mutex, so we can't
5996 corrupt it when two threads are closing or opening sockets at once.
5997 Fix for bug 939. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
5998 - Don't allow a bridge to publish its router descriptor to a
5999 non-bridge directory authority. Fixes part of bug 932.
6000 - When we change to or from being a bridge, reset our counts of
6001 client usage by country. Fixes bug 932.
6002 - Fix a bug that made stream bandwidth get misreported to the
6004 - Stop using malloc_usable_size() to use more area than we had
6005 actually allocated: it was safe, but made valgrind really unhappy.
6006 - Fix a memory leak when v3 directory authorities load their keys
6007 and cert from disk. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
6009 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
6010 - Fix use of freed memory when deciding to mark a non-addable
6011 descriptor as never-downloadable. Bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
6014 Changes in version 0.2.1.14-rc - 2009-04-12
6015 Tor 0.2.1.14-rc marks the first release candidate for the 0.2.1.x
6016 series. It begins fixing some major performance problems, and also
6017 finally addresses the bug that was causing relays on dynamic IP
6018 addresses to fall out of the directory.
6021 - Clients replace entry guards that were chosen more than a few months
6022 ago. This change should significantly improve client performance,
6023 especially once more people upgrade, since relays that have been
6024 a guard for a long time are currently overloaded.
6026 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0):
6027 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
6028 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
6029 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
6030 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
6031 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
6032 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
6033 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
6034 - Relays were falling out of the networkstatus consensus for
6035 part of a day if they changed their local config but the
6036 authorities discarded their new descriptor as "not sufficiently
6037 different". Now directory authorities accept a descriptor as changed
6038 if bandwidthrate or bandwidthburst changed. Partial fix for bug 962;
6040 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
6041 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
6044 - When generating circuit events with verbose nicknames for
6045 controllers, try harder to look up nicknames for routers on a
6046 circuit. (Previously, we would look in the router descriptors we had
6047 for nicknames, but not in the consensus.) Partial fix for bug 941.
6048 - If the bridge config line doesn't specify a port, assume 443.
6049 This makes bridge lines a bit smaller and easier for users to
6051 - Raise the minimum bandwidth to be a relay from 20000 bytes to 20480
6052 bytes (aka 20KB/s), to match our documentation. Also update
6053 directory authorities so they always assign the Fast flag to relays
6054 with 20KB/s of capacity. Now people running relays won't suddenly
6055 find themselves not seeing any use, if the network gets faster
6057 - Update to the "April 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
6060 - Avoid trying to print raw memory to the logs when we decide to
6061 give up on downloading a given relay descriptor. Bugfix on
6063 - In tor-resolve, when the Tor client to use is specified by
6064 <hostname>:<port>, actually use the specified port rather than
6065 defaulting to 9050. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
6066 - Make directory usage recording work again. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
6067 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
6068 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
6070 - Avoid double-free on list of successfully uploaded hidden
6071 service discriptors. Fix for bug 948. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
6072 - Change memarea_strndup() implementation to work even when
6073 duplicating a string at the end of a page. This bug was
6074 harmless for now, but could have meant crashes later. Fix by
6075 lark. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
6076 - Limit uploaded directory documents to be 16M rather than 500K.
6077 The directory authorities were refusing v3 consensus votes from
6078 other authorities, since the votes are now 504K. Fixes bug 959;
6079 bugfix on 0.0.2pre17 (where we raised it from 50K to 500K ;).
6080 - Directory authorities should never send a 503 "busy" response to
6081 requests for votes or keys. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha; exposed by
6085 Changes in version 0.2.1.13-alpha - 2009-03-09
6086 Tor 0.2.1.13-alpha includes another big pile of minor bugfixes and
6087 cleanups. We're finally getting close to a release candidate.
6090 - Correctly update the list of which countries we exclude as
6091 exits, when the GeoIP file is loaded or reloaded. Diagnosed by
6092 lark. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
6094 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x and earlier):
6095 - Automatically detect MacOSX versions earlier than 10.4.0, and
6096 disable kqueue from inside Tor when running with these versions.
6097 We previously did this from the startup script, but that was no
6098 help to people who didn't use the startup script. Resolves bug 863.
6099 - When we had picked an exit node for a connection, but marked it as
6100 "optional", and it turned out we had no onion key for the exit,
6101 stop wanting that exit and try again. This situation may not
6102 be possible now, but will probably become feasible with proposal
6103 158. Spotted by rovv. Fixes another case of bug 752.
6104 - Clients no longer cache certificates for authorities they do not
6105 recognize. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
6106 - When we can't transmit a DNS request due to a network error, retry
6107 it after a while, and eventually transmit a failing response to
6108 the RESOLVED cell. Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
6109 - If the controller claimed responsibility for a stream, but that
6110 stream never finished making its connection, it would live
6111 forever in circuit_wait state. Now we close it after SocksTimeout
6112 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; reported by Mike Perry.
6113 - Drop begin cells to a hidden service if they come from the middle
6114 of a circuit. Patch from lark.
6115 - When we erroneously receive two EXTEND cells for the same circuit
6116 ID on the same connection, drop the second. Patch from lark.
6117 - Fix a crash that occurs on exit nodes when a nameserver request
6118 timed out. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; our CLEAR debugging code had
6119 been suppressing the bug since 0.1.2.10-alpha. Partial fix for
6121 - Do not assume that a stack-allocated character array will be
6122 64-bit aligned on platforms that demand that uint64_t access is
6123 aligned. Possible fix for bug 604.
6124 - Parse dates and IPv4 addresses in a locale- and libc-independent
6125 manner, to avoid platform-dependent behavior on malformed input.
6126 - Build correctly when configured to build outside the main source
6127 path. Patch from Michael Gold.
6128 - We were already rejecting relay begin cells with destination port
6129 of 0. Now also reject extend cells with destination port or address
6130 of 0. Suggested by lark.
6132 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
6133 - Don't re-extend introduction circuits if we ran out of RELAY_EARLY
6134 cells. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Fixes more of bug 878.
6135 - If we're an exit node, scrub the IP address to which we are exiting
6136 in the logs. Bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
6139 - On Linux, use the prctl call to re-enable core dumps when the user
6141 - New controller event NEWCONSENSUS that lists the networkstatus
6142 lines for every recommended relay. Now controllers like Torflow
6143 can keep up-to-date on which relays they should be using.
6144 - Update to the "February 26 2009" ip-to-country file.
6147 Changes in version 0.2.0.34 - 2009-02-08
6148 Tor 0.2.0.34 features several more security-related fixes. You should
6149 upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or a
6150 directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
6151 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit).
6153 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.1.2.x. Those Tor versions
6154 have many known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should
6155 upgrade. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete,
6156 stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
6159 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
6160 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
6161 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
6162 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
6163 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
6164 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.0.33.
6165 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
6166 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
6169 - Fix compilation on systems where time_t is a 64-bit integer.
6170 Patch from Matthias Drochner.
6171 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
6172 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
6175 Changes in version 0.2.1.12-alpha - 2009-02-08
6176 Tor 0.2.1.12-alpha features several more security-related fixes. You
6177 should upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or
6178 a directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
6179 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit). It also
6180 includes a big pile of minor bugfixes and cleanups.
6183 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
6184 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
6185 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
6186 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
6187 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
6188 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
6191 - Let controllers actually ask for the "clients_seen" event for
6192 getting usage summaries on bridge relays. Bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha;
6193 reported by Matt Edman.
6194 - Fix a compile warning on OSX Panther. Fixes bug 913; bugfix against
6196 - Fix a bug in address parsing that was preventing bridges or hidden
6197 service targets from being at IPv6 addresses.
6198 - Solve a bug that kept hardware crypto acceleration from getting
6199 enabled when accounting was turned on. Fixes bug 907. Bugfix on
6201 - Remove a bash-ism from configure.in to build properly on non-Linux
6202 platforms. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
6203 - Fix code so authorities _actually_ send back X-Descriptor-Not-New
6204 headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
6205 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
6206 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
6207 - Fix another interesting corner-case of bug 891 spotted by rovv:
6208 Previously, if two hosts had different amounts of clock drift, and
6209 one of them created a new connection with just the wrong timing,
6210 the other might decide to deprecate the new connection erroneously.
6211 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha.
6212 - Resolve a very rare crash bug that could occur when the user forced
6213 a nameserver reconfiguration during the middle of a nameserver
6214 probe. Fixes bug 526. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
6215 - Support changing value of ServerDNSRandomizeCase during SIGHUP.
6216 Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
6217 - If we're using bridges and our network goes away, be more willing
6218 to forgive our bridges and try again when we get an application
6219 request. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
6222 - Support platforms where time_t is 64 bits long. (Congratulations,
6223 NetBSD!) Patch from Matthias Drochner.
6224 - Add a 'getinfo status/clients-seen' controller command, in case
6225 controllers want to hear clients_seen events but connect late.
6228 - Disable GCC's strict alias optimization by default, to avoid the
6229 likelihood of its introducing subtle bugs whenever our code violates
6230 the letter of C99's alias rules.
6233 Changes in version 0.2.0.33 - 2009-01-21
6234 Tor 0.2.0.33 fixes a variety of bugs that were making relays less
6235 useful to users. It also finally fixes a bug where a relay or client
6236 that's been off for many days would take a long time to bootstrap.
6238 This update also fixes an important security-related bug reported by
6239 Ilja van Sprundel. You should upgrade. (We'll send out more details
6240 about the bug once people have had some time to upgrade.)
6243 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
6244 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
6247 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
6248 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
6249 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
6250 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
6251 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha;
6253 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
6254 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
6255 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
6256 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
6257 identify a connection.
6258 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
6259 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
6260 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
6261 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
6262 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
6263 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
6264 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
6265 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
6266 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
6267 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
6269 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
6270 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could be
6271 useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in practice
6272 it just means we spend many minutes trying directory mirrors that
6273 are long gone from the network. Also discard router descriptors as
6274 we load them if they are more than five days old, since the onion
6275 key is probably wrong by now. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
6278 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
6279 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
6281 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
6282 - Compile without warnings on solaris.
6283 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
6284 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
6285 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
6286 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880.
6287 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
6288 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
6290 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
6291 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, we retry failed
6292 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
6293 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
6294 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
6295 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
6296 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
6297 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
6298 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
6299 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
6300 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
6301 Fixes one case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
6302 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
6303 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
6304 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
6305 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
6306 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
6307 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
6308 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous descriptor to
6309 the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor with the same ID.
6310 Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
6311 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
6312 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
6313 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
6314 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
6315 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
6316 840. Patch from rovv.
6317 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
6318 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
6319 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
6321 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
6322 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
6323 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
6324 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
6325 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
6326 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
6327 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
6329 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
6330 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP. Bugfix on
6331 0.0.6pre1. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
6334 - Report the case where all signatures in a detached set are rejected
6335 differently than the case where there is an error handling the
6337 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
6338 descriptors, print out a more useful error message rather than
6339 triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
6340 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
6341 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
6342 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
6343 ServerDNSRamdomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
6344 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
6345 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
6347 - Check DNS replies for more matching fields to better resist DNS
6349 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
6350 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed, or
6354 Changes in version 0.2.1.11-alpha - 2009-01-20
6355 Tor 0.2.1.11-alpha finishes fixing the "if your Tor is off for a
6356 week it will take a long time to bootstrap again" bug. It also fixes
6357 an important security-related bug reported by Ilja van Sprundel. You
6358 should upgrade. (We'll send out more details about the bug once people
6359 have had some time to upgrade.)
6362 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
6363 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
6366 - Discard router descriptors as we load them if they are more than
6367 five days old. Otherwise if Tor is off for a long time and then
6368 starts with cached descriptors, it will try to use the onion
6369 keys in those obsolete descriptors when building circuits. Bugfix
6370 on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
6373 - Try to make sure that the version of Libevent we're running with
6374 is binary-compatible with the one we built with. May address bug
6376 - Make setting ServerDNSRandomizeCase to 0 actually work. Bugfix
6377 for bug 905. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
6378 - Add a new --enable-local-appdata configuration switch to change
6379 the default location of the datadir on win32 from APPDATA to
6380 LOCAL_APPDATA. In the future, we should migrate to LOCAL_APPDATA
6381 entirely. Patch from coderman.
6384 - Make outbound DNS packets respect the OutboundBindAddress setting.
6385 Fixes the bug part of bug 798. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
6386 - When our circuit fails at the first hop (e.g. we get a destroy
6387 cell back), avoid using that OR connection anymore, and also
6388 tell all the one-hop directory requests waiting for it that they
6389 should fail. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
6390 - In the torify(1) manpage, mention that tsocks will leak your
6394 Changes in version 0.2.1.10-alpha - 2009-01-06
6395 Tor 0.2.1.10-alpha fixes two major bugs in bridge relays (one that
6396 would make the bridge relay not so useful if it had DirPort set to 0,
6397 and one that could let an attacker learn a little bit of information
6398 about the bridge's users), and a bug that would cause your Tor relay
6399 to ignore a circuit create request it can't decrypt (rather than reply
6400 with an error). It also fixes a wide variety of other bugs.
6403 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
6404 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could
6405 be useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in
6406 practice it just means we spend many minutes trying directory
6407 mirrors that are long gone from the network. Helps bug 887 a bit;
6409 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
6410 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
6411 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
6412 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
6413 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
6414 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
6415 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
6416 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
6417 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
6418 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
6422 - New controller event "clients_seen" to report a geoip-based summary
6423 of which countries we've seen clients from recently. Now controllers
6424 like Vidalia can show bridge operators that they're actually making
6426 - Build correctly against versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later built
6427 without support for deprecated functions.
6428 - Update to the "December 19 2008" ip-to-country file.
6430 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
6431 - Authorities now vote for the Stable flag for any router whose
6432 weighted MTBF is at least 5 days, regardless of the mean MTBF.
6433 - Do not remove routers as too old if we do not have any consensus
6434 document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
6435 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
6436 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
6437 - When an exit relay resolves a stream address to a local IP address,
6438 do not just keep retrying that same exit relay over and
6439 over. Instead, just close the stream. Addresses bug 872. Bugfix
6440 on 0.2.0.32. Patch from rovv.
6441 - If a hidden service sends us an END cell, do not consider
6442 retrying the connection; just close it. Patch from rovv.
6443 - When we made bridge authorities stop serving bridge descriptors over
6444 unencrypted links, we also broke DirPort reachability testing for
6445 bridges. So bridges with a non-zero DirPort were printing spurious
6446 warns to their logs. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Fixes bug 709.
6447 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
6448 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
6449 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
6450 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
6451 - Squeeze 2-5% out of client performance (according to oprofile) by
6452 improving the implementation of some policy-manipulation functions.
6454 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
6455 - Make get_interface_address() function work properly again; stop
6456 guessing the wrong parts of our address as our address.
6457 - Do not cannibalize a circuit if we're out of RELAY_EARLY cells to
6458 send on that circuit. Otherwise we might violate the proposal-110
6459 limit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Partial fix for bug 878. Diagnosis
6461 - When we're sending non-EXTEND cells to the first hop in a circuit,
6462 for example to use an encrypted directory connection, we don't need
6463 to use RELAY_EARLY cells: the first hop knows what kind of cell
6464 it is, and nobody else can even see the cell type. Conserving
6465 RELAY_EARLY cells makes it easier to cannibalize circuits like
6467 - Stop logging nameserver addresses in reverse order.
6468 - If we are retrying a directory download slowly over and over, do
6469 not automatically give up after the 254th failure. Bugfix on
6471 - Resume reporting accurate "stream end" reasons to the local control
6472 port. They were lost in the changes for Proposal 148. Bugfix on
6475 o Deprecated and removed features:
6476 - The old "tor --version --version" command, which would print out
6477 the subversion "Id" of most of the source files, is now removed. It
6478 turned out to be less useful than we'd expected, and harder to
6481 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
6482 - Change our header file guard macros to be less likely to conflict
6483 with system headers. Adam Langley noticed that we were conflicting
6484 with log.h on Android.
6485 - Tool-assisted documentation cleanup. Nearly every function or
6486 static variable in Tor should have its own documentation now.
6489 Changes in version 0.2.1.9-alpha - 2008-12-25
6490 Tor 0.2.1.9-alpha fixes many more bugs, some of them security-related.
6492 o New directory authorities:
6493 - gabelmoo (the authority run by Karsten Loesing) now has a new
6497 - Never use a connection with a mismatched address to extend a
6498 circuit, unless that connection is canonical. A canonical
6499 connection is one whose address is authenticated by the router's
6500 identity key, either in a NETINFO cell or in a router descriptor.
6501 - Avoid a possible memory corruption bug when receiving hidden service
6502 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
6505 - Fix a logic error that would automatically reject all but the first
6506 configured DNS server. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Possible fix for
6507 part of bug 813/868. Bug spotted by coderman.
6508 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
6509 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
6510 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
6511 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
6512 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in 0.1.2.1-alpha;
6514 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
6515 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, retry failed
6516 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
6517 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
6520 - Give a better error message when an overzealous init script says
6521 "sudo -u username tor --user username". Makes Bug 882 easier for
6523 - When a directory authority gives us a new guess for our IP address,
6524 log which authority we used. Hopefully this will help us debug
6525 the recent complaints about bad IP address guesses.
6526 - Detect svn revision properly when we're using git-svn.
6527 - Try not to open more than one descriptor-downloading connection
6528 to an authority at once. This should reduce load on directory
6529 authorities. Fixes bug 366.
6530 - Add cross-certification to newly generated certificates, so that
6531 a signing key is enough information to look up a certificate.
6532 Partial implementation of proposal 157.
6533 - Start serving certificates by <identity digest, signing key digest>
6534 pairs. Partial implementation of proposal 157.
6535 - Clients now never report any stream end reason except 'MISC'.
6536 Implements proposal 148.
6537 - On platforms with a maximum syslog string length, truncate syslog
6538 messages to that length ourselves, rather than relying on the
6539 system to do it for us.
6540 - Optimize out calls to time(NULL) that occur for every IO operation,
6541 or for every cell. On systems where time() is a slow syscall,
6542 this fix will be slightly helpful.
6543 - Exit servers can now answer resolve requests for ip6.arpa addresses.
6544 - When we download a descriptor that we then immediately (as
6545 a directory authority) reject, do not retry downloading it right
6546 away. Should save some bandwidth on authorities. Fix for bug
6547 888. Patch by Sebastian Hahn.
6548 - When a download gets us zero good descriptors, do not notify
6549 Tor that new directory information has arrived.
6550 - Avoid some nasty corner cases in the logic for marking connections
6551 as too old or obsolete or noncanonical for circuits. Partial
6554 o Minor features (controller):
6555 - New CONSENSUS_ARRIVED event to note when a new consensus has
6556 been fetched and validated.
6557 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
6558 descriptors file, print out a more useful error message rather
6559 than triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
6560 - Add an internal-use-only __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP option for
6561 controllers to prevent SIGHUP from reloading the
6562 configuration. Fixes bug 856.
6565 - Resume using the correct "REASON=" stream when telling the
6566 controller why we closed a stream. Bugfix in 0.2.1.1-alpha.
6567 - When a canonical connection appears later in our internal list
6568 than a noncanonical one for a given OR ID, always use the
6569 canonical one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 805.
6571 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
6572 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
6573 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
6574 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
6575 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
6576 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
6577 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
6578 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
6579 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
6581 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
6582 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP (bugfix on
6583 0.0.6pre1); also, do not stall hidden services because we're
6584 throwing away introduction points; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Spotted
6585 by John Brooks. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
6586 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous
6587 descriptor to the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor
6588 with the same ID. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
6590 o Deprecated and removed features:
6591 - RedirectExits has been removed. It was deprecated since
6593 - Finally remove deprecated "EXTENDED_FORMAT" controller feature. It
6594 has been called EXTENDED_EVENTS since 0.1.2.4-alpha.
6595 - Cell pools are now always enabled; --disable-cell-pools is ignored.
6597 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
6598 - Rename the confusing or_is_obsolete field to the more appropriate
6599 is_bad_for_new_circs, and move it to or_connection_t where it
6601 - Move edge-only flags from connection_t to edge_connection_t: not
6602 only is this better coding, but on machines of plausible alignment,
6603 it should save 4-8 bytes per connection_t. "Every little bit helps."
6604 - Rename ServerDNSAllowBrokenResolvConf to ServerDNSAllowBrokenConfig
6605 for consistency; keep old option working for backward compatibility.
6606 - Simplify the code for finding connections to use for a circuit.
6609 Changes in version 0.2.1.8-alpha - 2008-12-08
6610 Tor 0.2.1.8-alpha fixes some crash bugs in earlier alpha releases,
6611 builds better on unusual platforms like Solaris and old OS X, and
6612 fixes a variety of other issues.
6615 - New DirPortFrontPage option that takes an html file and publishes
6616 it as "/" on the DirPort. Now relay operators can provide a
6617 disclaimer without needing to set up a separate webserver. There's
6618 a sample disclaimer in contrib/tor-exit-notice.html.
6621 - When the client is choosing entry guards, now it selects at most
6622 one guard from a given relay family. Otherwise we could end up with
6623 all of our entry points into the network run by the same operator.
6624 Suggested by Camilo Viecco. Fix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
6627 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
6628 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
6629 - Fix a possible segfault when establishing an exit connection. Bugfix
6633 - Get file locking working on win32. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Fixes
6635 - Made Tor a little less aggressive about deleting expired
6636 certificates. Partial fix for bug 854.
6637 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
6638 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fix for bug 862.
6639 - Fix a crash bug when changing EntryNodes from the controller. Bugfix
6640 on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Fix for bug 867. Patched by Sebastian.
6641 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
6643 - If one win32 nameserver fails to get added, continue adding the
6644 rest, and don't automatically fail.
6645 - Use fcntl() for locking when flock() is not available. Should fix
6646 compilation on Solaris. Should fix Bug 873. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
6647 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
6648 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
6650 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
6651 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
6652 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
6653 - Do not use C's stdio library for writing to log files. This will
6654 improve logging performance by a minute amount, and will stop
6655 leaking fds when our disk is full. Fixes bug 861.
6656 - Stop erroneous use of O_APPEND in cases where we did not in fact
6657 want to re-seek to the end of a file before every last write().
6658 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
6659 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880. Bugfix
6661 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
6665 - Directory mirrors no longer fetch the v1 directory or
6666 running-routers files. They are obsolete, and nobody asks for them
6667 anymore. This is the first step to making v1 authorities obsolete.
6669 o Minor features (controller):
6670 - Return circuit purposes in response to GETINFO circuit-status. Fixes
6674 Changes in version 0.2.0.32 - 2008-11-20
6675 Tor 0.2.0.32 fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
6676 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
6677 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
6678 services, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
6679 variety of other issues.
6682 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
6683 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
6684 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
6685 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
6686 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
6687 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
6688 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848 and 857.
6689 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
6690 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
6691 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
6692 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
6693 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
6696 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
6697 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
6699 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
6700 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
6701 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
6702 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
6703 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
6704 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
6705 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
6706 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
6707 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
6708 requests failed, because the router descriptor has not been
6709 downloaded yet. In these cases, do not attempt to upload the
6710 rendezvous descriptor, but wait until the router descriptor is
6711 downloaded and retry. Likewise, do not attempt to fetch a rendezvous
6712 descriptor from a hidden service directory for which the router
6713 descriptor has not yet been downloaded. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
6717 - Fix several infrequent memory leaks spotted by Coverity.
6718 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
6719 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
6720 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
6721 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
6722 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
6723 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
6724 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
6725 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
6726 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
6727 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
6728 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
6729 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
6730 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
6731 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch from by rovv.
6732 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
6733 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
6734 list. It has been gone for many months.
6735 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
6736 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fixes bug 862.
6737 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
6740 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
6741 - Make DNS resolved events into "CLOSED", not "FAILED". Bugfix on
6742 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves bug 807.
6745 Changes in version 0.2.1.7-alpha - 2008-11-08
6746 Tor 0.2.1.7-alpha fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
6747 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
6748 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
6749 services, adds better defense against DNS poisoning attacks on exit
6750 relays, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
6751 variety of other issues.
6754 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
6755 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
6756 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
6757 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
6758 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
6759 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
6760 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
6761 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
6762 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
6763 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
6764 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
6765 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848.
6766 - Do not use or believe expired v3 authority certificates. Patch
6767 from Karsten. Bugfix in 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 851.
6770 - Now NodeFamily and MyFamily config options allow spaces in
6771 identity fingerprints, so it's easier to paste them in.
6772 Suggested by Lucky Green.
6773 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
6774 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
6775 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
6776 ServerDNSRandomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
6777 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
6778 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
6780 - Preserve case in replies to DNSPort requests in order to support
6781 the 0x20 hack for resisting DNS poisoning attacks.
6783 o Hidden service performance improvements:
6784 - When the client launches an introduction circuit, retry with a
6785 new circuit after 30 seconds rather than 60 seconds.
6786 - Launch a second client-side introduction circuit in parallel
6787 after a delay of 15 seconds (based on work by Christian Wilms).
6788 - Hidden services start out building five intro circuits rather
6789 than three, and when the first three finish they publish a service
6790 descriptor using those. Now we publish our service descriptor much
6791 faster after restart.
6794 - Minor fix in the warning messages when you're having problems
6795 bootstrapping; also, be more forgiving of bootstrap problems when
6796 we're still making incremental progress on a given bootstrap phase.
6797 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
6798 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
6799 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
6800 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
6801 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
6802 840. Patch from rovv.
6803 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
6804 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
6805 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
6806 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
6807 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
6808 Fixes another case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
6809 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
6810 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
6811 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
6813 - Avoid using a negative right-shift when comparing 32-bit
6814 addresses. Possible fix for bug 845 and bug 811.
6815 - Make the assert_circuit_ok() function work correctly on circuits that
6816 have already been marked for close.
6817 - Fix read-off-the-end-of-string error in unit tests when decoding
6818 introduction points.
6819 - Fix uninitialized size field for memory area allocation: may improve
6820 memory performance during directory parsing.
6821 - Treat duplicate certificate fetches as failures, so that we do
6822 not try to re-fetch an expired certificate over and over and over.
6823 - Do not say we're fetching a certificate when we'll in fact skip it
6824 because of a pending download.
6827 Changes in version 0.2.1.6-alpha - 2008-09-30
6828 Tor 0.2.1.6-alpha further improves performance and robustness of
6829 hidden services, starts work on supporting per-country relay selection,
6830 and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
6833 - Implement proposal 121: make it possible to build hidden services
6834 that only certain clients are allowed to connect to. This is
6835 enforced at several points, so that unauthorized clients are unable
6836 to send INTRODUCE cells to the service, or even (depending on the
6837 type of authentication) to learn introduction points. This feature
6838 raises the bar for certain kinds of active attacks against hidden
6839 services. Code by Karsten Loesing.
6840 - Relays now store and serve v2 hidden service descriptors by default,
6841 i.e., the new default value for HidServDirectoryV2 is 1. This is
6842 the last step in proposal 114, which aims to make hidden service
6843 lookups more reliable.
6844 - Start work to allow node restrictions to include country codes. The
6845 syntax to exclude nodes in a country with country code XX is
6846 "ExcludeNodes {XX}". Patch from Robert Hogan. It still needs some
6847 refinement to decide what config options should take priority if
6848 you ask to both use a particular node and exclude it.
6849 - Allow ExitNodes list to include IP ranges and country codes, just
6850 like the Exclude*Nodes lists. Patch from Robert Hogan.
6853 - Fix a bug when parsing ports in tor_addr_port_parse() that caused
6854 Tor to fail to start if you had it configured to use a bridge
6855 relay. Fixes bug 809. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
6856 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
6857 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
6858 requests failed, because the router descriptor had not been
6859 downloaded yet. In these cases, we now wait until the router
6860 descriptor is downloaded, and then retry. Likewise, clients
6861 now skip over a hidden service directory if they don't yet have
6862 its router descriptor, rather than futilely requesting it and
6863 putting mysterious complaints in the logs. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
6865 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
6866 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
6867 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
6868 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
6869 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
6870 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
6871 - DNS replies need to have names matching their requests, but
6872 these names should be in the questions section, not necessarily
6873 in the answers section. Fixes bug 823. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
6876 - Update to the "September 1 2008" ip-to-country file.
6877 - Allow ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy again. We had
6878 rejected them in 0.1.0.15, because back in 2005 they were commonly
6879 misconfigured and ended up as spam targets. We hear they are better
6880 locked down these days.
6881 - Use a lockfile to make sure that two Tor processes are not
6882 simultaneously running with the same datadir.
6883 - Serve the latest v3 networkstatus consensus via the control
6884 port. Use "getinfo dir/status-vote/current/consensus" to fetch it.
6885 - Better logging about stability/reliability calculations on directory
6887 - Drop the requirement to have an open dir port for storing and
6888 serving v2 hidden service descriptors.
6889 - Directory authorities now serve a /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL to
6890 help debug WFU and MTBF calculations.
6891 - Implement most of Proposal 152: allow specialized servers to permit
6892 single-hop circuits, and clients to use those servers to build
6893 single-hop circuits when using a specialized controller. Patch
6894 from Josh Albrecht. Resolves feature request 768.
6895 - Add a -p option to tor-resolve for specifying the SOCKS port: some
6896 people find host:port too confusing.
6897 - Make TrackHostExit mappings expire a while after their last use, not
6898 after their creation. Patch from Robert Hogan.
6899 - Provide circuit purposes along with circuit events to the controller.
6902 - Fix compile on OpenBSD 4.4-current. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
6904 - Fixed some memory leaks -- some quite frequent, some almost
6905 impossible to trigger -- based on results from Coverity.
6906 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
6907 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
6908 - Fix an assertion bug in parsing policy-related options; possible fix
6910 - Catch and report a few more bootstrapping failure cases when Tor
6911 fails to establish a TCP connection. Cleanup on 0.2.1.x.
6912 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
6913 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
6914 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
6915 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
6916 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
6917 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
6918 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
6919 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
6920 - If we are not using BEGIN_DIR cells, don't attempt to contact hidden
6921 service directories if they have no advertised dir port. Bugfix
6923 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
6924 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
6925 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
6926 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch by rovv.
6927 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
6928 - Avoid a "0 divided by 0" calculation when calculating router uptime
6929 at directory authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
6930 - Make DNS resolved controller events into "CLOSED", not
6931 "FAILED". Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves
6933 - Fix a bug where an unreachable relay would establish enough
6934 reachability testing circuits to do a bandwidth test -- if
6935 we already have a connection to the middle hop of the testing
6936 circuit, then it could establish the last hop by using the existing
6937 connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, exposed when we made testing
6938 circuits no longer use entry guards in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
6939 - If we have correct permissions on $datadir, we complain to stdout
6940 and fail to start. But dangerous permissions on
6941 $datadir/cached-status/ would cause us to open a log and complain
6942 there. Now complain to stdout and fail to start in both cases. Fixes
6943 bug 820, reported by seeess.
6944 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
6945 list. It has been gone for many months.
6947 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
6948 - Revise the connection_new functions so that a more typesafe variant
6949 exists. This will work better with Coverity, and let us find any
6950 actual mistakes we're making here.
6951 - Refactor unit testing logic so that dmalloc can be used sensibly
6952 with unit tests to check for memory leaks.
6953 - Move all hidden-service related fields from connection and circuit
6954 structure to substructures: this way they won't eat so much memory.
6957 Changes in version 0.2.0.31 - 2008-09-03
6958 Tor 0.2.0.31 addresses two potential anonymity issues, starts to fix
6959 a big bug we're seeing where in rare cases traffic from one Tor stream
6960 gets mixed into another stream, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
6963 - Make sure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
6964 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
6965 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc.
6966 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
6967 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
6968 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
6970 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
6971 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
6972 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
6973 pointed out by rovv.
6976 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
6977 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
6978 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
6979 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
6980 - Pick size of default geoip filename string correctly on windows.
6981 Fixes bug 806. Bugfix on 0.2.0.30.
6982 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
6983 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
6984 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
6985 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
6986 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
6987 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open
6988 /dev/pf before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from
6989 Christopher Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
6990 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
6991 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
6992 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
6993 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
6994 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit is
6995 getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly. Bugfix on
6996 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
6999 Changes in version 0.2.1.5-alpha - 2008-08-31
7000 Tor 0.2.1.5-alpha moves us closer to handling IPv6 destinations, puts
7001 in a lot of the infrastructure for adding authorization to hidden
7002 services, lays the groundwork for having clients read their load
7003 balancing information out of the networkstatus consensus rather than
7004 the individual router descriptors, addresses two potential anonymity
7005 issues, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
7008 - Convert many internal address representations to optionally hold
7010 - Generate and accept IPv6 addresses in many protocol elements.
7011 - Make resolver code handle nameservers located at ipv6 addresses.
7012 - Begin implementation of proposal 121 ("Client authorization for
7013 hidden services"): configure hidden services with client
7014 authorization, publish descriptors for them, and configure
7015 authorization data for hidden services at clients. The next
7016 step is to actually access hidden services that perform client
7018 - More progress toward proposal 141: Network status consensus
7019 documents and votes now contain bandwidth information for each
7020 router and a summary of that router's exit policy. Eventually this
7021 will be used by clients so that they do not have to download every
7022 known descriptor before building circuits.
7024 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x and before):
7025 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
7026 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
7027 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
7028 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
7029 identify a connection.
7030 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
7031 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
7032 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
7034 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
7035 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
7036 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
7037 pointed out by rovv.
7040 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
7041 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
7042 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
7043 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open /dev/pf
7044 before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from Christopher
7045 Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
7046 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
7047 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
7048 - Add a missing safe_str() call for a debug log message.
7049 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
7050 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
7051 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
7052 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
7053 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
7054 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
7057 - Rate-limit too-many-sockets messages: when they happen, they happen
7058 a lot. Resolves bug 748.
7059 - Resist DNS poisoning a little better by making sure that names in
7060 answer sections match.
7061 - Print the SOCKS5 error message string as well as the error code
7062 when a tor-resolve request fails. Patch from Jacob.
7065 Changes in version 0.2.1.4-alpha - 2008-08-04
7066 Tor 0.2.1.4-alpha fixes a pair of crash bugs in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
7069 - The address part of exit policies was not correctly written
7070 to router descriptors. This generated router descriptors that failed
7071 their self-checks. Noticed by phobos, fixed by Karsten. Bugfix
7073 - Tor triggered a false assert when extending a circuit to a relay
7074 but we already have a connection open to that relay. Noticed by
7075 phobos, fixed by Karsten. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
7078 - Fix a hidden service logging bug: in some edge cases, the router
7079 descriptor of a previously picked introduction point becomes
7080 obsolete and we need to give up on it rather than continually
7081 complaining that it has become obsolete. Observed by xiando. Bugfix
7085 - Take out the TestVia config option, since it was a workaround for
7086 a bug that was fixed in Tor 0.1.1.21.
7089 Changes in version 0.2.1.3-alpha - 2008-08-03
7090 Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha implements most of the pieces to prevent
7091 infinite-length circuit attacks (see proposal 110); fixes a bug that
7092 might cause exit relays to corrupt streams they send back; allows
7093 address patterns (e.g. 255.128.0.0/16) to appear in ExcludeNodes and
7094 ExcludeExitNodes config options; and fixes a big pile of bugs.
7096 o Bootstrapping bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x-alpha):
7097 - Send a bootstrap problem "warn" event on the first problem if the
7098 reason is NO_ROUTE (that is, our network is down).
7101 - Implement most of proposal 110: The first K cells to be sent
7102 along a circuit are marked as special "early" cells; only K "early"
7103 cells will be allowed. Once this code is universal, we can block
7104 certain kinds of DOS attack by requiring that EXTEND commands must
7105 be sent using an "early" cell.
7108 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
7109 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
7110 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
7111 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
7112 - Ensure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
7113 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
7114 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779; fixes a bug on 0.1.0.4-rc.
7117 - When relays do their initial bandwidth measurement, don't limit
7118 to just our entry guards for the test circuits. Otherwise we tend
7119 to have multiple test circuits going through a single entry guard,
7120 which makes our bandwidth test less accurate. Fixes part of bug 654;
7121 patch contributed by Josh Albrecht.
7122 - Add an ExcludeExitNodes option so users can list a set of nodes
7123 that should be be excluded from the exit node position, but
7124 allowed elsewhere. Implements proposal 151.
7125 - Allow address patterns (e.g., 255.128.0.0/16) to appear in
7126 ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes lists.
7127 - Change the implementation of ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes to
7128 be more efficient. Formerly it was quadratic in the number of
7129 servers; now it should be linear. Fixes bug 509.
7130 - Save 16-22 bytes per open circuit by moving the n_addr, n_port,
7131 and n_conn_id_digest fields into a separate structure that's
7132 only needed when the circuit has not yet attached to an n_conn.
7135 - Change the contrib/tor.logrotate script so it makes the new
7136 logs as "_tor:_tor" rather than the default, which is generally
7137 "root:wheel". Fixes bug 676, reported by Serge Koksharov.
7138 - Stop using __attribute__((nonnull)) with GCC: it can give us useful
7139 warnings (occasionally), but it can also cause the compiler to
7140 eliminate error-checking code. Suggested by Peter Gutmann.
7141 - When a hidden service is giving up on an introduction point candidate
7142 that was not included in the last published rendezvous descriptor,
7143 don't reschedule publication of the next descriptor. Fixes bug 763.
7145 - Mark RendNodes, RendExcludeNodes, HiddenServiceNodes, and
7146 HiddenServiceExcludeNodes as obsolete: they never worked properly,
7147 and nobody claims to be using them. Fixes bug 754. Bugfix on
7148 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch from Christian Wilms.
7149 - Fix a small alignment and memory-wasting bug on buffer chunks.
7152 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
7153 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit
7154 is getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly.
7155 Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
7158 - Remove all backward-compatibility code to support relays running
7159 versions of Tor so old that they no longer work at all on the
7163 Changes in version 0.2.0.30 - 2008-07-15
7165 - Stop using __attribute__((nonnull)) with GCC: it can give us useful
7166 warnings (occasionally), but it can also cause the compiler to
7167 eliminate error-checking code. Suggested by Peter Gutmann.
7170 Changes in version 0.2.0.29-rc - 2008-07-08
7171 Tor 0.2.0.29-rc fixes two big bugs with using bridges, fixes more
7172 hidden-service performance bugs, and fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
7175 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their keys,
7176 you would only launch a request for the descriptor of the first one
7177 on your list. (Tor considered launching requests for the others, but
7178 found that it already had a connection on the way for $0000...0000
7179 so it didn't open another.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
7180 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their keys, and the
7181 connection to one of the bridges failed, you would cancel all
7182 pending bridge connections. (After all, they all have the same
7183 digest.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
7184 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
7185 and Tor had built circuits preemptively for such purposes, we
7186 were ignoring all the preemptive circuits and launching a new one
7187 instead. Bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
7188 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
7189 and Tor *did* manage to reuse one of the preemptively built
7190 circuits, it didn't correctly remember which one it used,
7191 so it asked for another one soon after, until there were no
7192 more preemptive circuits, at which point it launched one from
7193 scratch. Bugfix on 0.0.9.x.
7194 - Make directory servers include the X-Your-Address-Is: http header in
7195 their responses even for begin_dir conns. Now clients who only
7196 ever use begin_dir connections still have a way to learn their IP
7197 address. Fixes bug 737; bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc. Reported by goldy.
7200 - Fix a macro/CPP interaction that was confusing some compilers:
7201 some GCCs don't like #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments.
7203 - Fix macro collision between OpenSSL 0.9.8h and Windows headers.
7204 Fixes bug 704; fix from Steven Murdoch.
7205 - When opening /dev/null in finish_daemonize(), do not pass the
7206 O_CREAT flag. Fortify was complaining, and correctly so. Fixes
7207 bug 742; fix from Michael Scherer. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre19.
7208 - Correctly detect transparent proxy support on Linux hosts that
7209 require in.h to be included before netfilter_ipv4.h. Patch
7211 - Disallow session resumption attempts during the renegotiation
7212 stage of the v2 handshake protocol. Clients should never be trying
7213 session resumption at this point, but apparently some did, in
7214 ways that caused the handshake to fail. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Bug
7215 found by Geoff Goodell.
7218 Changes in version 0.2.1.2-alpha - 2008-06-20
7219 Tor 0.2.1.2-alpha includes a new "TestingTorNetwork" config option to
7220 make it easier to set up your own private Tor network; fixes several
7221 big bugs with using more than one bridge relay; fixes a big bug with
7222 offering hidden services quickly after Tor starts; and uses a better
7223 API for reporting potential bootstrapping problems to the controller.
7226 - New TestingTorNetwork config option to allow adjustment of
7227 previously constant values that, while reasonable, could slow
7228 bootstrapping. Implements proposal 135. Patch from Karsten.
7231 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their digests,
7232 you would only learn a request for the descriptor of the first one
7233 on your list. (Tor considered launching requests for the others, but
7234 found that it already had a connection on the way for $0000...0000
7235 so it didn't open another.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
7236 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their digests,
7237 and the connection to one of the bridges failed, you would cancel
7238 all pending bridge connections. (After all, they all have the
7239 same digest.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
7240 - When establishing a hidden service, introduction points that
7241 originate from cannibalized circuits are completely ignored and not
7242 included in rendezvous service descriptors. This might be another
7243 reason for delay in making a hidden service available. Bugfix
7244 from long ago (0.0.9.x?)
7247 - Allow OpenSSL to use dynamic locks if it wants.
7248 - When building a consensus, do not include routers that are down.
7249 This will cut down 30% to 40% on consensus size. Implements
7251 - In directory authorities' approved-routers files, allow
7252 fingerprints with or without space.
7253 - Add a "GETINFO /status/bootstrap-phase" controller option, so the
7254 controller can query our current bootstrap state in case it attaches
7255 partway through and wants to catch up.
7256 - Send an initial "Starting" bootstrap status event, so we have a
7257 state to start out in.
7260 - Asking for a conditional consensus at .../consensus/<fingerprints>
7261 would crash a dirserver if it did not already have a
7262 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
7263 - Clean up some macro/CPP interactions: some GCC versions don't like
7264 #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments. Fixes bug 707. Bugfix on
7267 o Bootstrapping bugfixes (on 0.2.1.1-alpha):
7268 - Directory authorities shouldn't complain about bootstrapping
7269 problems just because they do a lot of reachability testing and
7270 some of the connection attempts fail.
7271 - Start sending "count" and "recommendation" key/value pairs in
7272 bootstrap problem status events, so the controller can hear about
7273 problems even before Tor decides they're worth reporting for sure.
7274 - If you're using bridges, generate "bootstrap problem" warnings
7275 as soon as you run out of working bridges, rather than waiting
7276 for ten failures -- which will never happen if you have less than
7278 - If we close our OR connection because there's been a circuit
7279 pending on it for too long, we were telling our bootstrap status
7280 events "REASON=NONE". Now tell them "REASON=TIMEOUT".
7283 Changes in version 0.2.1.1-alpha - 2008-06-13
7284 Tor 0.2.1.1-alpha fixes a lot of memory fragmentation problems that
7285 were making the Tor process bloat especially on Linux; makes our TLS
7286 handshake blend in better; sends "bootstrap phase" status events to
7287 the controller, so it can keep the user informed of progress (and
7288 problems) fetching directory information and establishing circuits;
7289 and adds a variety of smaller features.
7292 - More work on making our TLS handshake blend in: modify the list
7293 of ciphers advertised by OpenSSL in client mode to even more
7294 closely resemble a common web browser. We cheat a little so that
7295 we can advertise ciphers that the locally installed OpenSSL doesn't
7297 - Start sending "bootstrap phase" status events to the controller,
7298 so it can keep the user informed of progress fetching directory
7299 information and establishing circuits. Also inform the controller
7300 if we think we're stuck at a particular bootstrap phase. Implements
7302 - Resume using OpenSSL's RAND_poll() for better (and more portable)
7303 cross-platform entropy collection again. We used to use it, then
7304 stopped using it because of a bug that could crash systems that
7305 called RAND_poll when they had a lot of fds open. It looks like the
7306 bug got fixed in late 2006. Our new behavior is to call RAND_poll()
7307 at startup, and to call RAND_poll() when we reseed later only if
7308 we have a non-buggy OpenSSL version.
7311 - When we choose to abandon a new entry guard because we think our
7312 older ones might be better, close any circuits pending on that
7313 new entry guard connection. This fix should make us recover much
7314 faster when our network is down and then comes back. Bugfix on
7315 0.1.2.8-beta; found by lodger.
7317 o Memory fixes and improvements:
7318 - Add a malloc_good_size implementation to OpenBSD_malloc_linux.c,
7319 to avoid unused RAM in buffer chunks and memory pools.
7320 - Speed up parsing and cut down on memory fragmentation by using
7321 stack-style allocations for parsing directory objects. Previously,
7322 this accounted for over 40% of allocations from within Tor's code
7323 on a typical directory cache.
7324 - Use a Bloom filter rather than a digest-based set to track which
7325 descriptors we need to keep around when we're cleaning out old
7326 router descriptors. This speeds up the computation significantly,
7327 and may reduce fragmentation.
7328 - Reduce the default smartlist size from 32 to 16; it turns out that
7329 most smartlists hold around 8-12 elements tops.
7330 - Make dumpstats() log the fullness and size of openssl-internal
7332 - If the user has applied the experimental SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS
7333 patch to their OpenSSL, turn it on to save memory on servers. This
7334 patch will (with any luck) get included in a mainline distribution
7336 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
7337 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed,
7341 - Stop reloading the router list from disk for no reason when we
7342 run out of reachable directory mirrors. Once upon a time reloading
7343 it would set the 'is_running' flag back to 1 for them. It hasn't
7344 done that for a long time.
7345 - In very rare situations new hidden service descriptors were
7346 published earlier than 30 seconds after the last change to the
7347 service. (We currently think that a hidden service descriptor
7348 that's been stable for 30 seconds is worth publishing.)
7351 - Allow separate log levels to be configured for different logging
7352 domains. For example, this allows one to log all notices, warnings,
7353 or errors, plus all memory management messages of level debug or
7354 higher, with: Log [MM] debug-err [*] notice-err file /var/log/tor.
7355 - Add a couple of extra warnings to --enable-gcc-warnings for GCC 4.3,
7356 and stop using a warning that had become unfixably verbose under
7358 - New --hush command-line option similar to --quiet. While --quiet
7359 disables all logging to the console on startup, --hush limits the
7360 output to messages of warning and error severity.
7361 - Servers support a new URL scheme for consensus downloads that
7362 allows the client to specify which authorities are trusted.
7363 The server then only sends the consensus if the client will trust
7364 it. Otherwise a 404 error is sent back. Clients use this
7365 new scheme when the server supports it (meaning it's running
7366 0.2.1.1-alpha or later). Implements proposal 134.
7367 - New configure/torrc options (--enable-geoip-stats,
7368 DirRecordUsageByCountry) to record how many IPs we've served
7369 directory info to in each country code, how many status documents
7370 total we've sent to each country code, and what share of the total
7371 directory requests we should expect to see.
7372 - Use the TLS1 hostname extension to more closely resemble browser
7374 - Lots of new unit tests.
7375 - Add a macro to implement the common pattern of iterating through
7376 two parallel lists in lockstep.
7379 Changes in version 0.2.0.28-rc - 2008-06-13
7380 Tor 0.2.0.28-rc fixes an anonymity-related bug, fixes a hidden-service
7381 performance bug, and fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
7384 - Fix a bug where, when we were choosing the 'end stream reason' to
7385 put in our relay end cell that we send to the exit relay, Tor
7386 clients on Windows were sometimes sending the wrong 'reason'. The
7387 anonymity problem is that exit relays may be able to guess whether
7388 the client is running Windows, thus helping partition the anonymity
7389 set. Down the road we should stop sending reasons to exit relays,
7390 or otherwise prevent future versions of this bug.
7393 - While setting up a hidden service, some valid introduction circuits
7394 were overlooked and abandoned. This might be the reason for
7395 the long delay in making a hidden service available. Bugfix on
7399 - Update to the "June 9 2008" ip-to-country file.
7400 - Run 'make test' as part of 'make dist', so we stop releasing so
7401 many development snapshots that fail their unit tests.
7404 - When we're checking if we have enough dir info for each relay
7405 to begin establishing circuits, make sure that we actually have
7406 the descriptor listed in the consensus, not just any descriptor.
7408 - Bridge relays no longer print "xx=0" in their extrainfo document
7409 for every single country code in the geoip db. Bugfix on
7411 - Only warn when we fail to load the geoip file if we were planning to
7412 include geoip stats in our extrainfo document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.27-rc.
7413 - If we change our MaxAdvertisedBandwidth and then reload torrc,
7414 Tor won't realize it should publish a new relay descriptor. Fixes
7415 bug 688, reported by mfr. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
7416 - When we haven't had any application requests lately, don't bother
7417 logging that we have expired a bunch of descriptors. Bugfix
7419 - Make relay cells written on a connection count as non-padding when
7420 tracking how long a connection has been in use. Bugfix on
7421 0.2.0.1-alpha. Spotted by lodger.
7422 - Fix unit tests in 0.2.0.27-rc.
7423 - Fix compile on Windows.
7426 Changes in version 0.2.0.27-rc - 2008-06-03
7427 Tor 0.2.0.27-rc adds a few features we left out of the earlier
7428 release candidates. In particular, we now include an IP-to-country
7429 GeoIP database, so controllers can easily look up what country a
7430 given relay is in, and so bridge relays can give us some sanitized
7431 summaries about which countries are making use of bridges. (See proposal
7432 126-geoip-fetching.txt for details.)
7435 - Include an IP-to-country GeoIP file in the tarball, so bridge
7436 relays can report sanitized summaries of the usage they're seeing.
7439 - Add a "PURPOSE=" argument to "STREAM NEW" events, as suggested by
7440 Robert Hogan. Fixes the first part of bug 681.
7441 - Make bridge authorities never serve extrainfo docs.
7442 - Add support to detect Libevent versions in the 1.4.x series
7444 - Fix build on gcc 4.3 with --enable-gcc-warnings set.
7445 - Include a new contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file that exit relay
7446 operators can put on their website to help reduce abuse queries.
7449 - When tunneling an encrypted directory connection, and its first
7450 circuit fails, do not leave it unattached and ask the controller
7451 to deal. Fixes the second part of bug 681.
7452 - Make bridge authorities correctly expire old extrainfo documents
7456 Changes in version 0.2.0.26-rc - 2008-05-13
7457 Tor 0.2.0.26-rc fixes a major security vulnerability caused by a bug
7458 in Debian's OpenSSL packages. All users running any 0.2.0.x version
7459 should upgrade, whether they're running Debian or not.
7461 o Major security fixes:
7462 - Use new V3 directory authority keys on the tor26, gabelmoo, and
7463 moria1 V3 directory authorities. The old keys were generated with
7464 a vulnerable version of Debian's OpenSSL package, and must be
7465 considered compromised. Other authorities' keys were not generated
7466 with an affected version of OpenSSL.
7469 - List authority signatures as "unrecognized" based on DirServer
7470 lines, not on cert cache. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
7473 - Add a new V3AuthUseLegacyKey option to make it easier for
7474 authorities to change their identity keys if they have to.
7477 Changes in version 0.2.0.25-rc - 2008-04-23
7478 Tor 0.2.0.25-rc makes Tor work again on OS X and certain BSDs.
7481 - Remember to initialize threading before initializing logging.
7482 Otherwise, many BSD-family implementations will crash hard on
7483 startup. Fixes bug 671. Bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc.
7486 - Authorities correctly free policies on bad servers on
7487 exit. Fixes bug 672. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
7490 Changes in version 0.2.0.24-rc - 2008-04-22
7491 Tor 0.2.0.24-rc adds dizum (run by Alex de Joode) as the new sixth
7492 v3 directory authority, makes relays with dynamic IP addresses and no
7493 DirPort notice more quickly when their IP address changes, fixes a few
7494 rare crashes and memory leaks, and fixes a few other miscellaneous bugs.
7496 o New directory authorities:
7497 - Take lefkada out of the list of v3 directory authorities, since
7498 it has been down for months.
7499 - Set up dizum (run by Alex de Joode) as the new sixth v3 directory
7503 - Detect address changes more quickly on non-directory mirror
7504 relays. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 652.
7506 o Minor features (security):
7507 - Reject requests for reverse-dns lookup of names that are in
7508 a private address space. Patch from lodger.
7509 - Non-exit relays no longer allow DNS requests. Fixes bug 619. Patch
7512 o Minor bugfixes (crashes):
7513 - Avoid a rare assert that can trigger when Tor doesn't have much
7514 directory information yet and it tries to fetch a v2 hidden
7515 service descriptor. Fixes bug 651, reported by nwf.
7516 - Initialize log mutex before initializing dmalloc. Otherwise,
7517 running with dmalloc would crash. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha.
7518 - Use recursive pthread mutexes in order to avoid deadlock when
7519 logging debug-level messages to a controller. Bug spotted by nwf,
7520 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
7522 o Minor bugfixes (resource management):
7523 - Keep address policies from leaking memory: start their refcount
7524 at 1, not 2. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
7525 - Free authority certificates on exit, so they don't look like memory
7526 leaks. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha.
7527 - Free static hashtables for policy maps and for TLS connections on
7528 shutdown, so they don't look like memory leaks. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
7529 - Avoid allocating extra space when computing consensuses on 64-bit
7530 platforms. Bug spotted by aakova.
7532 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
7533 - Do not read the configuration file when we've only been told to
7534 generate a password hash. Fixes bug 643. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5. Fix
7535 based on patch from Sebastian Hahn.
7536 - Exit relays that are used as a client can now reach themselves
7537 using the .exit notation, rather than just launching an infinite
7538 pile of circuits. Fixes bug 641. Reported by Sebastian Hahn.
7539 - When attempting to open a logfile fails, tell us why.
7540 - Fix a dumb bug that was preventing us from knowing that we should
7541 preemptively build circuits to handle expected directory requests.
7542 Fixes bug 660. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
7543 - Warn less verbosely about clock skew from netinfo cells from
7544 untrusted sources. Fixes bug 663.
7545 - Make controller stream events for DNS requests more consistent,
7546 by adding "new stream" events for DNS requests, and removing
7547 spurious "stream closed" events" for cached reverse resolves.
7548 Patch from mwenge. Fixes bug 646.
7549 - Correctly notify one-hop connections when a circuit build has
7550 failed. Possible fix for bug 669. Found by lodger.
7553 Changes in version 0.2.0.23-rc - 2008-03-24
7554 Tor 0.2.0.23-rc is the fourth release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
7555 makes bootstrapping faster if the first directory mirror you contact
7556 is down. The bundles also include the new Vidalia 0.1.2 release.
7559 - When a tunneled directory request is made to a directory server
7560 that's down, notice after 30 seconds rather than 120 seconds. Also,
7561 fail any begindir streams that are pending on it, so they can
7562 retry elsewhere. This was causing multi-minute delays on bootstrap.
7565 Changes in version 0.2.0.22-rc - 2008-03-18
7566 Tor 0.2.0.22-rc is the third release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
7567 enables encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays, fixes
7568 some broken TLS behavior we added in 0.2.0.20-rc, and resolves many
7569 other bugs. The bundles also include Vidalia 0.1.1 and Torbutton 1.1.17.
7572 - Enable encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays,
7573 so censor tools that block Tor directory connections based on their
7574 plaintext patterns will no longer work. This means Tor works in
7575 certain censored countries by default again.
7578 - Make sure servers always request certificates from clients during
7579 TLS renegotiation. Reported by lodger; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
7580 - Do not enter a CPU-eating loop when a connection is closed in
7581 the middle of client-side TLS renegotiation. Fixes bug 622. Bug
7582 diagnosed by lodger; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
7583 - Fix assertion failure that could occur when a blocked circuit
7584 became unblocked, and it had pending client DNS requests. Bugfix
7585 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 632.
7587 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
7588 - Generate "STATUS_SERVER" events rather than misspelled
7589 "STATUS_SEVER" events. Caught by mwenge.
7590 - When counting the number of bytes written on a TLS connection,
7591 look at the BIO actually used for writing to the network, not
7592 at the BIO used (sometimes) to buffer data for the network.
7593 Looking at different BIOs could result in write counts on the
7594 order of ULONG_MAX. Fixes bug 614.
7595 - On Windows, correctly detect errors when listing the contents of
7596 a directory. Fix from lodger.
7598 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
7599 - Downgrade "sslv3 alert handshake failure" message to INFO.
7600 - If we set RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst very high but
7601 left BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst at the default, we would be
7602 silently limited by those defaults. Now raise them to match the
7603 RelayBandwidth* values.
7604 - Fix the SVK version detection logic to work correctly on a branch.
7605 - Make --enable-openbsd-malloc work correctly on Linux with alpha
7606 CPUs. Fixes bug 625.
7607 - Logging functions now check that the passed severity is sane.
7608 - Use proper log levels in the testsuite call of
7609 get_interface_address6().
7610 - When using a nonstandard malloc, do not use the platform values for
7611 HAVE_MALLOC_GOOD_SIZE or HAVE_MALLOC_USABLE_SIZE.
7612 - Make the openbsd malloc code use 8k pages on alpha CPUs and
7614 - Detect mismatched page sizes when using --enable-openbsd-malloc.
7615 - Avoid double-marked-for-close warning when certain kinds of invalid
7616 .in-addr.arpa addresses are passed to the DNSPort. Part of a fix
7617 for bug 617. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
7618 - Make sure that the "NULL-means-reject *:*" convention is followed by
7619 all the policy manipulation functions, avoiding some possible crash
7620 bugs. Bug found by lodger. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
7621 - Fix the implementation of ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses so that it
7622 actually works, and doesn't warn about every single reverse lookup.
7623 Fixes the other part of bug 617. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
7626 - Only log guard node status when guard node status has changed.
7627 - Downgrade the 3 most common "INFO" messages to "DEBUG". This will
7628 make "INFO" 75% less verbose.
7631 Changes in version 0.2.0.21-rc - 2008-03-02
7632 Tor 0.2.0.21-rc is the second release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
7633 makes Tor work well with Vidalia again, fixes a rare assert bug,
7634 and fixes a pair of more minor bugs. The bundles also include Vidalia
7635 0.1.0 and Torbutton 1.1.16.
7638 - The control port should declare that it requires password auth
7639 when HashedControlSessionPassword is set too. Patch from Matt Edman;
7640 bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Fixes bug 615.
7641 - Downgrade assert in connection_buckets_decrement() to a log message.
7642 This may help us solve bug 614, and in any case will make its
7643 symptoms less severe. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Reported by fredzupy.
7644 - We were sometimes miscounting the number of bytes read from the
7645 network, causing our rate limiting to not be followed exactly.
7646 Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by lodger.
7649 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 0.9.8 and 0.9.8a. All other supported
7650 OpenSSL versions should have been working fine. Diagnosis and patch
7651 from lodger, Karsten Loesing, and Sebastian Hahn. Fixes bug 616.
7652 Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
7655 Changes in version 0.2.0.20-rc - 2008-02-24
7656 Tor 0.2.0.20-rc is the first release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
7657 makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS handshake, makes
7658 hidden services work better again, helps relays bootstrap if they don't
7659 know their IP address, adds optional support for linking in openbsd's
7660 allocator or tcmalloc, allows really fast relays to scale past 15000
7661 sockets, and fixes a bunch of minor bugs reported by Veracode.
7664 - Enable the revised TLS handshake based on the one designed by
7665 Steven Murdoch in proposal 124, as revised in proposal 130. It
7666 includes version negotiation for OR connections as described in
7667 proposal 105. The new handshake is meant to be harder for censors
7668 to fingerprint, and it adds the ability to detect certain kinds of
7669 man-in-the-middle traffic analysis attacks. The version negotiation
7670 feature will allow us to improve Tor's link protocol more safely
7672 - Choose which bridge to use proportional to its advertised bandwidth,
7673 rather than uniformly at random. This should speed up Tor for
7674 bridge users. Also do this for people who set StrictEntryNodes.
7675 - When a TrackHostExits-chosen exit fails too many times in a row,
7676 stop using it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 437.
7679 - Resolved problems with (re-)fetching hidden service descriptors.
7680 Patch from Karsten Loesing; fixes problems with 0.2.0.18-alpha
7682 - If we only ever used Tor for hidden service lookups or posts, we
7683 would stop building circuits and start refusing connections after
7684 24 hours, since we falsely believed that Tor was dormant. Reported
7685 by nwf; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
7686 - Servers that don't know their own IP address should go to the
7687 authorities for their first directory fetch, even if their DirPort
7688 is off or if they don't know they're reachable yet. This will help
7689 them bootstrap better. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 609.
7690 - When counting the number of open sockets, count not only the number
7691 of sockets we have received from the socket() call, but also
7692 the number we've gotten from accept() and socketpair(). This bug
7693 made us fail to count all sockets that we were using for incoming
7694 connections. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
7695 - Fix code used to find strings within buffers, when those strings
7696 are not in the first chunk of the buffer. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
7697 - Fix potential segfault when parsing HTTP headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
7698 - Add a new __HashedControlSessionPassword option for controllers
7699 to use for one-off session password hashes that shouldn't get
7700 saved to disk by SAVECONF --- Vidalia users were accumulating a
7701 pile of HashedControlPassword lines in their torrc files, one for
7702 each time they had restarted Tor and then clicked Save. Make Tor
7703 automatically convert "HashedControlPassword" to this new option but
7704 only when it's given on the command line. Partial fix for bug 586.
7706 o Minor features (performance):
7707 - Tune parameters for cell pool allocation to minimize amount of
7709 - Add OpenBSD malloc code from phk as an optional malloc
7710 replacement on Linux: some glibc libraries do very poorly
7711 with Tor's memory allocation patterns. Pass
7712 --enable-openbsd-malloc to get the replacement malloc code.
7713 - Add a --with-tcmalloc option to the configure script to link
7714 against tcmalloc (if present). Does not yet search for
7715 non-system include paths.
7716 - Stop imposing an arbitrary maximum on the number of file descriptors
7717 used for busy servers. Bug reported by Olaf Selke; patch from
7720 o Minor features (other):
7721 - When SafeLogging is disabled, log addresses along with all TLS
7723 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings, check for whether Apple's
7724 warning "-Wshorten-64-to-32" is available.
7725 - Add a --passphrase-fd argument to the tor-gencert command for
7728 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks and code problems):
7729 - We were leaking a file descriptor if Tor started with a zero-length
7730 cached-descriptors file. Patch by freddy77; bugfix on 0.1.2.
7731 - Detect size overflow in zlib code. Reported by Justin Ferguson and
7733 - We were comparing the raw BridgePassword entry with a base64'ed
7734 version of it, when handling a "/tor/networkstatus-bridges"
7735 directory request. Now compare correctly. Noticed by Veracode.
7736 - Recover from bad tracked-since value in MTBF-history file.
7738 - Alter the code that tries to recover from unhandled write
7739 errors, to not try to flush onto a socket that's given us
7740 unhandled errors. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
7741 - Make Unix controlsockets work correctly on OpenBSD. Patch from
7742 tup. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
7744 o Minor bugfixes (other):
7745 - If we have an extra-info document for our server, always make
7746 it available on the control port, even if we haven't gotten
7747 a copy of it from an authority yet. Patch from mwenge.
7748 - Log the correct memory chunk sizes for empty RAM chunks in mempool.c.
7749 - Directory mirrors no longer include a guess at the client's IP
7750 address if the connection appears to be coming from the same /24
7751 network; it was producing too many wrong guesses.
7752 - Make the new hidden service code respect the SafeLogging setting.
7753 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Patch from Karsten.
7754 - When starting as an authority, do not overwrite all certificates
7755 cached from other authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 606.
7756 - If we're trying to flush the last bytes on a connection (for
7757 example, when answering a directory request), reset the
7758 time-to-give-up timeout every time we manage to write something
7759 on the socket. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
7760 - Change the behavior of "getinfo status/good-server-descriptor"
7761 so it doesn't return failure when any authority disappears.
7762 - Even though the man page said that "TrackHostExits ." should
7763 work, nobody had ever implemented it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x.
7764 - Report TLS "zero return" case as a "clean close" and "IO error"
7765 as a "close". Stop calling closes "unexpected closes": existing
7766 Tors don't use SSL_close(), so having a connection close without
7767 the TLS shutdown handshake is hardly unexpected.
7768 - Send NAMESERVER_STATUS messages for a single failed nameserver
7771 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
7772 - Remove the tor_strpartition function: its logic was confused,
7773 and it was only used for one thing that could be implemented far
7777 Changes in version 0.2.0.19-alpha - 2008-02-09
7778 Tor 0.2.0.19-alpha makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS
7779 handshake, makes path selection for relays more secure and IP address
7780 guessing more robust, and generally fixes a lot of bugs in preparation
7781 for calling the 0.2.0 branch stable.
7784 - Do not include recognizeable strings in the commonname part of
7785 Tor's x509 certificates.
7788 - If we're a relay, avoid picking ourselves as an introduction point,
7789 a rendezvous point, or as the final hop for internal circuits. Bug
7790 reported by taranis and lodger. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
7791 - Patch from "Andrew S. Lists" to catch when we contact a directory
7792 mirror at IP address X and he says we look like we're coming from
7793 IP address X. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
7795 o Minor features (security):
7796 - Be more paranoid about overwriting sensitive memory on free(),
7797 as a defensive programming tactic to ensure forward secrecy.
7799 o Minor features (directory authority):
7800 - Actually validate the options passed to AuthDirReject,
7801 AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, and AuthDirBadExit.
7802 - Reject router descriptors with out-of-range bandwidthcapacity or
7803 bandwidthburst values.
7805 o Minor features (controller):
7806 - Reject controller commands over 1MB in length. This keeps rogue
7807 processes from running us out of memory.
7809 o Minor features (misc):
7810 - Give more descriptive well-formedness errors for out-of-range
7811 hidden service descriptor/protocol versions.
7812 - Make memory debugging information describe more about history
7813 of cell allocation, so we can help reduce our memory use.
7815 o Deprecated features (controller):
7816 - The status/version/num-versioning and status/version/num-concurring
7817 GETINFO options are no longer useful in the v3 directory protocol:
7818 treat them as deprecated, and warn when they're used.
7821 - When our consensus networkstatus has been expired for a while, stop
7822 being willing to build circuits using it. Fixes bug 401. Bugfix
7824 - Directory caches now fetch certificates from all authorities
7825 listed in a networkstatus consensus, even when they do not
7826 recognize them. Fixes bug 571. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
7827 - When connecting to a bridge without specifying its key, insert
7828 the connection into the identity-to-connection map as soon as
7829 a key is learned. Fixes bug 574. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
7830 - Detect versions of OS X where malloc_good_size() is present in the
7831 library but never actually declared. Resolves bug 587. Bugfix
7833 - Stop incorrectly truncating zlib responses to directory authority
7834 signature download requests. Fixes bug 593. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
7835 - Stop recommending that every server operator send mail to tor-ops.
7836 Resolves bug 597. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
7837 - Don't trigger an assert if we start a directory authority with a
7838 private IP address (like 127.0.0.1).
7839 - Avoid possible failures when generating a directory with routers
7840 with over-long versions strings, or too many flags set. Bugfix
7842 - If an attempt to launch a DNS resolve request over the control
7843 port fails because we have overrun the limit on the number of
7844 connections, tell the controller that the request has failed.
7845 - Avoid using too little bandwidth when our clock skips a few
7846 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
7847 - Fix shell error when warning about missing packages in configure
7848 script, on Fedora or Red Hat machines. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
7849 - Do not become confused when receiving a spurious VERSIONS-like
7850 cell from a confused v1 client. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
7851 - Re-fetch v2 (as well as v0) rendezvous descriptors when all
7852 introduction points for a hidden service have failed. Patch from
7853 Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
7855 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
7856 - Remove some needless generality from cpuworker code, for improved
7858 - Stop overloading the circuit_t.onionskin field for both "onionskin
7859 from a CREATE cell that we are waiting for a cpuworker to be
7860 assigned" and "onionskin from an EXTEND cell that we are going to
7861 send to an OR as soon as we are connected". Might help with bug 600.
7862 - Add an in-place version of aes_crypt() so that we can avoid doing a
7863 needless memcpy() call on each cell payload.
7866 Changes in version 0.2.0.18-alpha - 2008-01-25
7867 Tor 0.2.0.18-alpha adds a sixth v3 directory authority run by CCC,
7868 fixes a big memory leak in 0.2.0.17-alpha, and adds new config options
7869 that can warn or reject connections to ports generally associated with
7870 vulnerable-plaintext protocols.
7872 o New directory authorities:
7873 - Set up dannenberg (run by CCC) as the sixth v3 directory
7877 - Fix a major memory leak when attempting to use the v2 TLS
7878 handshake code. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; fixes bug 589.
7879 - We accidentally enabled the under-development v2 TLS handshake
7880 code, which was causing log entries like "TLS error while
7881 renegotiating handshake". Disable it again. Resolves bug 590.
7882 - We were computing the wrong Content-Length: header for directory
7883 responses that need to be compressed on the fly, causing clients
7884 asking for those items to always fail. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; partially
7888 - Avoid going directly to the directory authorities even if you're a
7889 relay, if you haven't found yourself reachable yet or if you've
7890 decided not to advertise your dirport yet. Addresses bug 556.
7891 - If we've gone 12 hours since our last bandwidth check, and we
7892 estimate we have less than 50KB bandwidth capacity but we could
7893 handle more, do another bandwidth test.
7894 - New config options WarnPlaintextPorts and RejectPlaintextPorts so
7895 Tor can warn and/or refuse connections to ports commonly used with
7896 vulnerable-plaintext protocols. Currently we warn on ports 23,
7897 109, 110, and 143, but we don't reject any.
7900 - When we setconf ClientOnly to 1, close any current OR and Dir
7901 listeners. Reported by mwenge.
7902 - When we get a consensus that's been signed by more people than
7903 we expect, don't log about it; it's not a big deal. Reported
7907 - Don't answer "/tor/networkstatus-bridges" directory requests if
7908 the request isn't encrypted.
7909 - Make "ClientOnly 1" config option disable directory ports too.
7910 - Patches from Karsten Loesing to make v2 hidden services more
7911 robust: work even when there aren't enough HSDir relays available;
7912 retry when a v2 rend desc fetch fails; but don't retry if we
7913 already have a usable v0 rend desc.
7916 Changes in version 0.2.0.17-alpha - 2008-01-17
7917 Tor 0.2.0.17-alpha makes the tarball build cleanly again (whoops).
7920 - Make the tor-gencert man page get included correctly in the tarball.
7923 Changes in version 0.2.0.16-alpha - 2008-01-17
7924 Tor 0.2.0.16-alpha adds a fifth v3 directory authority run by Karsten
7925 Loesing, and generally cleans up a lot of features and minor bugs.
7927 o New directory authorities:
7928 - Set up gabelmoo (run by Karsten Loesing) as the fifth v3 directory
7931 o Major performance improvements:
7932 - Switch our old ring buffer implementation for one more like that
7933 used by free Unix kernels. The wasted space in a buffer with 1mb
7934 of data will now be more like 8k than 1mb. The new implementation
7935 also avoids realloc();realloc(); patterns that can contribute to
7936 memory fragmentation.
7939 - Configuration files now accept C-style strings as values. This
7940 helps encode characters not allowed in the current configuration
7941 file format, such as newline or #. Addresses bug 557.
7942 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
7943 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out
7944 there that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such
7945 bodies when they receive them.
7946 - When we're not serving v2 directory information, there is no reason
7947 to actually keep any around. Remove the obsolete files and directory
7948 on startup if they are very old and we aren't going to serve them.
7950 o Minor performance improvements:
7951 - Reference-count and share copies of address policy entries; only 5%
7952 of them were actually distinct.
7953 - Never walk through the list of logs if we know that no log is
7954 interested in a given message.
7957 - When an authority has not signed a consensus, do not try to
7958 download a nonexistent "certificate with key 00000000". Bugfix
7959 on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 569.
7960 - Fix a rare assert error when we're closing one of our threads:
7961 use a mutex to protect the list of logs, so we never write to the
7962 list as it's being freed. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Fixes the very rare
7963 bug 575, which is kind of the revenge of bug 222.
7964 - Patch from Karsten Loesing to complain less at both the client
7965 and the relay when a relay used to have the HSDir flag but doesn't
7966 anymore, and we try to upload a hidden service descriptor.
7967 - Stop leaking one cert per TLS context. Fixes bug 582. Bugfix on
7969 - Do not try to download missing certificates until we have tried
7970 to check our fallback consensus. Fixes bug 583.
7971 - Make bridges round reported GeoIP stats info up to the nearest
7972 estimate, not down. Now we can distinguish between "0 people from
7973 this country" and "1 person from this country".
7974 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.
7975 - Avoid possible segfault if key generation fails in
7976 crypto_pk_hybrid_encrypt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.
7977 - Avoid segfault in the case where a badly behaved v2 versioning
7978 directory sends a signed networkstatus with missing client-versions.
7980 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
7981 router_get_by_hexdigest(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.
7982 - Correct bad index on array access in parse_http_time(). Bugfix
7984 - Fix possible bug in vote generation when server versions are present
7985 but client versions are not.
7986 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
7987 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
7989 - Avoid bogus crash-prone, leak-prone tor_realloc when we're
7990 compressing large objects and find ourselves with more than 4k
7991 left over. Bugfix on 0.2.0.
7992 - Fix a small memory leak when setting up a hidden service.
7993 - Fix a few memory leaks that could in theory happen under bizarre
7995 - Fix an assert if we post a general-purpose descriptor via the
7996 control port but that descriptor isn't mentioned in our current
7997 network consensus. Bug reported by Jon McLachlan; bugfix on
8000 o Minor features (controller):
8001 - Get NS events working again. Patch from tup.
8002 - The GETCONF command now escapes and quotes configuration values
8003 that don't otherwise fit into the torrc file.
8004 - The SETCONF command now handles quoted values correctly.
8006 o Minor features (directory authorities):
8007 - New configuration options to override default maximum number of
8008 servers allowed on a single IP address. This is important for
8009 running a test network on a single host.
8010 - Actually implement the -s option to tor-gencert.
8011 - Add a manual page for tor-gencert.
8013 o Minor features (bridges):
8014 - Bridge authorities no longer serve bridge descriptors over
8015 unencrypted connections.
8017 o Minor features (other):
8018 - Add hidden services and DNSPorts to the list of things that make
8019 Tor accept that it has running ports. Change starting Tor with no
8020 ports from a fatal error to a warning; we might change it back if
8021 this turns out to confuse anybody. Fixes bug 579.
8024 Changes in version 0.1.2.19 - 2008-01-17
8025 Tor 0.1.2.19 fixes a huge memory leak on exit relays, makes the default
8026 exit policy a little bit more conservative so it's safer to run an
8027 exit relay on a home system, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
8030 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
8031 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
8032 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
8033 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
8037 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
8038 buckets to become negative. Fixes bug 544.
8039 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
8040 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry.
8041 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
8042 service descriptor database even when DirPort is zero.
8043 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
8044 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
8045 crashing or mis-answering these requests.
8046 - When we decide to send a 503 response to a request for servers, do
8047 not then also send the server descriptors: this defeats the whole
8048 purpose. Fixes bug 539.
8051 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
8052 rebuild our server descriptor.
8053 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
8054 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about
8055 unknown routers in a config option. (Patch from mwenge.)
8056 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
8057 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
8058 nonstandard integer types.
8059 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
8060 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
8061 - If we were having problems getting a particular descriptor from the
8062 directory caches, and then we learned about a new descriptor for
8063 that router, we weren't resetting our failure count. Reported
8065 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
8066 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out there
8067 that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such bodies
8068 when they receive them.
8069 - Run correctly on systems where rlim_t is larger than unsigned long.
8070 This includes some 64-bit systems.
8071 - Run correctly on platforms (like some versions of OS X 10.5) where
8072 the real limit for number of open files is OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max
8073 from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES).
8074 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure.
8075 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
8076 router_get_by_hexdigest().
8077 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
8078 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
8082 Changes in version 0.2.0.15-alpha - 2007-12-25
8083 Tor 0.2.0.14-alpha and 0.2.0.15-alpha fix a bunch of bugs with the
8084 features added in 0.2.0.13-alpha.
8087 - Fix several remotely triggerable asserts based on DirPort requests
8088 for a v2 or v3 networkstatus object before we were prepared. This
8089 was particularly bad for 0.2.0.13 and later bridge relays, who
8090 would never have a v2 networkstatus and would thus always crash
8091 when used. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.x.
8092 - Estimate the v3 networkstatus size more accurately, rather than
8093 estimating it at zero bytes and giving it artificially high priority
8094 compared to other directory requests. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
8097 - Fix configure.in logic for cross-compilation.
8098 - When we load a bridge descriptor from the cache, and it was
8099 previously unreachable, mark it as retriable so we won't just
8100 ignore it. Also, try fetching a new copy immediately. Bugfixes
8102 - The bridge GeoIP stats were counting other relays, for example
8103 self-reachability and authority-reachability tests.
8106 - Support compilation to target iPhone; patch from cjacker huang.
8107 To build for iPhone, pass the --enable-iphone option to configure.
8110 Changes in version 0.2.0.14-alpha - 2007-12-23
8112 - Fix a crash on startup if you install Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha fresh
8113 without a datadirectory from a previous Tor install. Reported
8115 - Fix a crash when we fetch a descriptor that turns out to be
8116 unexpected (it used to be in our networkstatus when we started
8117 fetching it, but it isn't in our current networkstatus), and we
8118 aren't using bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
8119 - Fix a crash when accessing hidden services: it would work the first
8120 time you use a given introduction point for your service, but
8121 on subsequent requests we'd be using garbage memory. Fixed by
8122 Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
8123 - Fix a crash when we load a bridge descriptor from disk but we don't
8124 currently have a Bridge line for it in our torrc. Bugfix on
8128 - If bridge authorities set BridgePassword, they will serve a
8129 snapshot of known bridge routerstatuses from their DirPort to
8130 anybody who knows that password. Unset by default.
8133 - Make the unit tests build again.
8134 - Make "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" actually work.
8135 - Make PublishServerDescriptor default to 1, so the default doesn't
8136 have to change as we invent new directory protocol versions.
8137 - Fix test for rlim_t on OSX 10.3: sys/resource.h doesn't want to
8138 be included unless sys/time.h is already included. Fixes
8139 bug 553. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
8140 - If we receive a general-purpose descriptor and then receive an
8141 identical bridge-purpose descriptor soon after, don't discard
8142 the next one as a duplicate.
8145 - If BridgeRelay is set to 1, then the default for
8146 PublishServerDescriptor is now "bridge" rather than "v2,v3".
8147 - If the user sets RelayBandwidthRate but doesn't set
8148 RelayBandwidthBurst, then make them equal rather than erroring out.
8151 Changes in version 0.2.0.13-alpha - 2007-12-21
8152 Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha adds a fourth v3 directory authority run by Geoff
8153 Goodell, fixes many more bugs, and adds a lot of infrastructure for
8156 o New directory authorities:
8157 - Set up lefkada (run by Geoff Goodell) as the fourth v3 directory
8161 - Only update guard status (usable / not usable) once we have
8162 enough directory information. This was causing us to always pick
8163 two new guards on startup (bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha), and it was
8164 causing us to discard all our guards on startup if we hadn't been
8165 running for a few weeks (bugfix on 0.1.2.x). Fixes bug 448.
8166 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
8167 service descriptor databases even when DirPort is zero. Bugfix
8169 - We were ignoring our RelayBandwidthRate for the first 30 seconds
8170 after opening a circuit -- even a relayed circuit. Bugfix on
8172 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
8173 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
8174 crashing or mis-answering these types of requests.
8175 - Relays were publishing their server descriptor to v1 and v2
8176 directory authorities, but they didn't try publishing to v3-only
8177 authorities. Fix this; and also stop publishing to v1 authorities.
8179 - When we were reading router descriptors from cache, we were ignoring
8180 the annotations -- so for example we were reading in bridge-purpose
8181 descriptors as general-purpose descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
8182 - When we decided to send a 503 response to a request for servers, we
8183 were then also sending the server descriptors: this defeats the
8184 whole purpose. Fixes bug 539; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
8187 - Bridge relays now behave like clients with respect to time
8188 intervals for downloading new consensus documents -- otherwise they
8189 stand out. Bridge users now wait until the end of the interval,
8190 so their bridge relay will be sure to have a new consensus document.
8191 - Three new config options (AlternateDirAuthority,
8192 AlternateBridgeAuthority, and AlternateHSAuthority) that let the
8193 user selectively replace the default directory authorities by type,
8194 rather than the all-or-nothing replacement that DirServer offers.
8195 - Tor can now be configured to read a GeoIP file from disk in one
8196 of two formats. This can be used by controllers to map IP addresses
8197 to countries. Eventually, it may support exit-by-country.
8198 - When possible, bridge relays remember which countries users
8199 are coming from, and report aggregate information in their
8200 extra-info documents, so that the bridge authorities can learn
8201 where Tor is blocked.
8202 - Bridge directory authorities now do reachability testing on the
8203 bridges they know. They provide router status summaries to the
8204 controller via "getinfo ns/purpose/bridge", and also dump summaries
8205 to a file periodically.
8206 - Stop fetching directory info so aggressively if your DirPort is
8207 on but your ORPort is off; stop fetching v2 dir info entirely.
8208 You can override these choices with the new FetchDirInfoEarly
8212 - The fix in 0.2.0.12-alpha cleared the "hsdir" flag in v3 network
8213 consensus documents when there are too many relays at a single
8214 IP address. Now clear it in v2 network status documents too, and
8215 also clear it in routerinfo_t when the relay is no longer listed
8216 in the relevant networkstatus document.
8217 - Don't crash if we get an unexpected value for the
8218 PublishServerDescriptor config option. Reported by Matt Edman;
8219 bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
8220 - Our new v2 hidden service descriptor format allows descriptors
8221 that have no introduction points. But Tor crashed when we tried
8222 to build a descriptor with no intro points (and it would have
8223 crashed if we had tried to parse one). Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; patch
8225 - Fix building with dmalloc 5.5.2 with glibc.
8226 - Reject uploaded descriptors and extrainfo documents if they're
8227 huge. Otherwise we'll cache them all over the network and it'll
8228 clog everything up. Reported by Aljosha Judmayer.
8229 - Check for presence of s6_addr16 and s6_addr32 fields in in6_addr
8230 via autoconf. Should fix compile on solaris. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
8231 - When the DANGEROUS_VERSION controller status event told us we're
8232 running an obsolete version, it used the string "OLD" to describe
8233 it. Yet the "getinfo" interface used the string "OBSOLETE". Now use
8234 "OBSOLETE" in both cases. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
8235 - If we can't expand our list of entry guards (e.g. because we're
8236 using bridges or we have StrictEntryNodes set), don't mark relays
8237 down when they fail a directory request. Otherwise we're too quick
8238 to mark all our entry points down. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
8239 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
8240 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about unknown
8241 routers in a config option. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. (Patch from mwenge.)
8242 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
8243 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
8244 nonstandard integer types. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
8245 - Fix compilation with --disable-threads set. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
8246 - Don't crash on name lookup when we have no current consensus. Fixes
8247 bug 538; bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
8248 - Only Tors that want to mirror the v2 directory info should
8249 create the "cached-status" directory in their datadir. (All Tors
8250 used to create it.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
8251 - Directory authorities should only automatically download Extra Info
8252 documents if they're v1, v2, or v3 authorities. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
8255 - On the USR1 signal, when dmalloc is in use, log the top 10 memory
8256 consumers. (We already do this on HUP.)
8257 - Authorities and caches fetch the v2 networkstatus documents
8258 less often, now that v3 is encouraged.
8259 - Add a new config option BridgeRelay that specifies you want to
8260 be a bridge relay. Right now the only difference is that it makes
8261 you answer begin_dir requests, and it makes you cache dir info,
8262 even if your DirPort isn't on.
8263 - Add "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" so controllers can
8264 ask about source, timestamp of arrival, purpose, etc. We need
8265 something like this to help Vidalia not do GeoIP lookups on bridge
8267 - Allow multiple HashedControlPassword config lines, to support
8268 multiple controller passwords.
8269 - Authorities now decide whether they're authoritative for a given
8270 router based on the router's purpose.
8271 - New config options AuthDirBadDir and AuthDirListBadDirs for
8272 authorities to mark certain relays as "bad directories" in the
8273 networkstatus documents. Also supports the "!baddir" directive in
8274 the approved-routers file.
8277 Changes in version 0.2.0.12-alpha - 2007-11-16
8278 This twelfth development snapshot fixes some more build problems as
8279 well as a few minor bugs.
8282 - Make it build on OpenBSD again. Patch from tup.
8283 - Substitute BINDIR and LOCALSTATEDIR in scripts. Fixes
8284 package-building for Red Hat, OS X, etc.
8286 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
8287 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
8288 rebuild our server descriptor.
8290 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
8291 - When we're lacking a consensus, don't try to perform rendezvous
8292 operations. Reported by Karsten Loesing.
8293 - Fix a small memory leak whenever we decide against using a
8294 newly picked entry guard. Reported by Mike Perry.
8295 - When authorities detected more than two relays running on the same
8296 IP address, they were clearing all the status flags but forgetting
8297 to clear the "hsdir" flag. So clients were being told that a
8298 given relay was the right choice for a v2 hsdir lookup, yet they
8299 never had its descriptor because it was marked as 'not running'
8301 - If we're trying to fetch a bridge descriptor and there's no way
8302 the bridge authority could help us (for example, we don't know
8303 a digest, or there is no bridge authority), don't be so eager to
8304 fall back to asking the bridge authority.
8305 - If we're using bridges or have strictentrynodes set, and our
8306 chosen exit is in the same family as all our bridges/entry guards,
8307 then be flexible about families.
8310 - When we negotiate a v2 link-layer connection (not yet implemented),
8311 accept RELAY_EARLY cells and turn them into RELAY cells if we've
8312 negotiated a v1 connection for their next step. Initial code for
8316 Changes in version 0.2.0.11-alpha - 2007-11-12
8317 This eleventh development snapshot fixes some build problems with
8318 the previous snapshot. It also includes a more secure-by-default exit
8319 policy for relays, fixes an enormous memory leak for exit relays, and
8320 fixes another bug where servers were falling out of the directory list.
8323 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
8324 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
8325 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
8326 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
8327 on network address. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
8330 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
8331 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry; bugfix
8333 - On authorities, never downgrade to old router descriptors simply
8334 because they're listed in the consensus. This created a catch-22
8335 where we wouldn't list a new descriptor because there was an
8336 old one in the consensus, and we couldn't get the new one in the
8337 consensus because we wouldn't list it. Possible fix for bug 548.
8338 Also, this might cause bug 543 to appear on authorities; if so,
8339 we'll need a band-aid for that. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
8341 o Packaging fixes on 0.2.0.10-alpha:
8342 - We were including instructions about what to do with the
8343 src/config/fallback-consensus file, but we weren't actually
8344 including it in the tarball. Disable all of that for now.
8347 - Allow people to say PreferTunnelledDirConns rather than
8348 PreferTunneledDirConns, for those alternate-spellers out there.
8351 - Don't reevaluate all the information from our consensus document
8352 just because we've downloaded a v2 networkstatus that we intend
8353 to cache. Fixes bug 545; bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
8356 Changes in version 0.2.0.10-alpha - 2007-11-10
8357 This tenth development snapshot adds a third v3 directory authority
8358 run by Mike Perry, adds most of Karsten Loesing's new hidden service
8359 descriptor format, fixes a bad crash bug and new bridge bugs introduced
8360 in 0.2.0.9-alpha, fixes many bugs with the v3 directory implementation,
8361 fixes some minor memory leaks in previous 0.2.0.x snapshots, and
8362 addresses many more minor issues.
8364 o New directory authorities:
8365 - Set up ides (run by Mike Perry) as the third v3 directory authority.
8368 - Allow tunnelled directory connections to ask for an encrypted
8369 "begin_dir" connection or an anonymized "uses a full Tor circuit"
8370 connection independently. Now we can make anonymized begin_dir
8371 connections for (e.g.) more secure hidden service posting and
8373 - More progress on proposal 114: code from Karsten Loesing to
8374 implement new hidden service descriptor format.
8375 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst to 5MB/10MB, to
8376 accommodate the growing number of servers that use the default
8377 and are reaching it.
8378 - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which nodes
8379 to advertise as Guards: they must be in the top 7/8 in terms of
8380 how long we have known about them, and above the median of those
8381 nodes in terms of weighted fractional uptime.
8382 - Make "not enough dir info yet" warnings describe *why* Tor feels
8383 it doesn't have enough directory info yet.
8386 - Stop servers from crashing if they set a Family option (or
8387 maybe in other situations too). Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported
8389 - Make bridge users work again -- the move to v3 directories in
8390 0.2.0.9-alpha had introduced a number of bugs that made bridges
8391 no longer work for clients.
8392 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
8393 buckets to become negative. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 544.
8395 o Major bugfixes (v3 dir, bugfixes on 0.2.0.9-alpha):
8396 - When the consensus lists a router descriptor that we previously were
8397 mirroring, but that we considered non-canonical, reload the
8398 descriptor as canonical. This fixes bug 543 where Tor servers
8399 would start complaining after a few days that they don't have
8400 enough directory information to build a circuit.
8401 - Consider replacing the current consensus when certificates arrive
8402 that make the pending consensus valid. Previously, we were only
8403 considering replacement when the new certs _didn't_ help.
8404 - Fix an assert error on startup if we didn't already have the
8405 consensus and certs cached in our datadirectory: we were caching
8406 the consensus in consensus_waiting_for_certs but then free'ing it
8408 - Avoid sending a request for "keys/fp" (for which we'll get a 400 Bad
8409 Request) if we need more v3 certs but we've already got pending
8410 requests for all of them.
8411 - Correctly back off from failing certificate downloads. Fixes
8413 - Authorities don't vote on the Running flag if they have been running
8414 for less than 30 minutes themselves. Fixes bug 547, where a newly
8415 started authority would vote that everyone was down.
8418 - Drop support for OpenSSL version 0.9.6. Just about nobody was using
8419 it, it had no AES, and it hasn't seen any security patches since
8423 - Clients now hold circuitless TLS connections open for 1.5 times
8424 MaxCircuitDirtiness (15 minutes), since it is likely that they'll
8425 rebuild a new circuit over them within that timeframe. Previously,
8426 they held them open only for KeepalivePeriod (5 minutes).
8427 - Use "If-Modified-Since" to avoid retrieving consensus
8428 networkstatuses that we already have.
8429 - When we have no consensus, check FallbackNetworkstatusFile (defaults
8430 to $PREFIX/share/tor/fallback-consensus) for a consensus. This way
8431 we start knowing some directory caches.
8432 - When we receive a consensus from the future, warn about skew.
8433 - Improve skew reporting: try to give the user a better log message
8434 about how skewed they are, and how much this matters.
8435 - When we have a certificate for an authority, believe that
8436 certificate's claims about the authority's IP address.
8437 - New --quiet command-line option to suppress the default console log.
8438 Good in combination with --hash-password.
8439 - Authorities send back an X-Descriptor-Not-New header in response to
8440 an accepted-but-discarded descriptor upload. Partially implements
8442 - Make the log message for "tls error. breaking." more useful.
8443 - Better log messages about certificate downloads, to attempt to
8444 track down the second incarnation of bug 546.
8446 o Minor features (bridges):
8447 - If bridge users set UpdateBridgesFromAuthority, but the digest
8448 they ask for is a 404 from the bridge authority, they now fall
8449 back to trying the bridge directly.
8450 - Bridges now use begin_dir to publish their server descriptor to
8451 the bridge authority, even when they haven't set TunnelDirConns.
8453 o Minor features (controller):
8454 - When reporting clock skew, and we know that the clock is _at least
8455 as skewed_ as some value, but we don't know the actual value,
8456 report the value as a "minimum skew."
8459 - Update linux-tor-prio.sh script to allow QoS based on the uid of
8460 the Tor process. Patch from Marco Bonetti with tweaks from Mike
8464 - Refuse to start if both ORPort and UseBridges are set. Bugfix
8465 on 0.2.0.x, suggested by Matt Edman.
8466 - Don't stop fetching descriptors when FetchUselessDescriptors is
8467 set, even if we stop asking for circuits. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x;
8468 reported by tup and ioerror.
8469 - Better log message on vote from unknown authority.
8470 - Don't log "Launching 0 request for 0 router" message.
8472 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
8473 - Stop leaking memory every time we parse a v3 certificate. Bugfix
8475 - Stop leaking memory every time we load a v3 certificate. Bugfix
8476 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 536.
8477 - Stop leaking a cached networkstatus on exit. Bugfix on
8479 - Stop leaking voter information every time we free a consensus.
8480 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
8481 - Stop leaking signed data every time we check a voter signature.
8482 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
8483 - Stop leaking a signature every time we fail to parse a consensus or
8484 a vote. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
8485 - Stop leaking v2_download_status_map on shutdown. Bugfix on
8487 - Stop leaking conn->nickname every time we make a connection to a
8488 Tor relay without knowing its expected identity digest (e.g. when
8489 using bridges). Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
8491 - Minor bugfixes (portability):
8492 - Run correctly on platforms where rlim_t is larger than unsigned
8493 long, and/or where the real limit for number of open files is
8494 OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES). In
8495 particular, these may be needed for OS X 10.5.
8498 Changes in version 0.1.2.18 - 2007-10-28
8499 Tor 0.1.2.18 fixes many problems including crash bugs, problems with
8500 hidden service introduction that were causing huge delays, and a big
8501 bug that was causing some servers to disappear from the network status
8502 lists for a few hours each day.
8504 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
8505 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
8506 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
8507 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451:
8508 "connection_stop_writing: Assertion conn->write_event failed"
8509 Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
8510 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
8511 rend_process_relay_cell().
8513 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
8514 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
8515 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
8516 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
8517 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
8518 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
8519 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. These
8520 changes could speed up hidden service connections dramatically.
8522 o Major bugfixes (other):
8523 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we get a
8524 HUP signal. This led (in a roundabout way) to some servers getting
8525 dropped from the networkstatus lists for a few hours each day.
8526 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
8527 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
8528 circuit cannibalization).
8529 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
8530 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
8531 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
8532 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
8533 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
8534 consensus. Fixes bug 529.
8537 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
8538 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. Resolves
8540 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
8541 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is
8542 absent. Resolves bug 467.
8543 - Fix a user-triggerable segfault in expand_filename(). (There isn't
8544 a way to trigger this remotely.)
8545 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
8546 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
8547 were reporting the dir port.)
8548 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
8549 command. Bugfix on 0.1.2.17.
8550 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
8551 the future. Fixes bug 434.
8552 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
8554 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
8555 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
8556 the onion key from getting rotated.
8557 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
8558 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
8559 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
8560 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff
8561 is fishy. Resolves bug 463.
8562 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
8563 option. Patch from Robert Hogan.
8564 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
8565 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
8568 Changes in version 0.2.0.9-alpha - 2007-10-24
8569 This ninth development snapshot switches clients to the new v3 directory
8570 system; allows servers to be listed in the network status even when they
8571 have the same nickname as a registered server; and fixes many other
8572 bugs including a big one that was causing some servers to disappear
8573 from the network status lists for a few hours each day.
8575 o Major features (directory system):
8576 - Clients now download v3 consensus networkstatus documents instead
8577 of v2 networkstatus documents. Clients and caches now base their
8578 opinions about routers on these consensus documents. Clients only
8579 download router descriptors listed in the consensus.
8580 - Authorities now list servers who have the same nickname as
8581 a different named server, but list them with a new flag,
8582 "Unnamed". Now we can list servers that happen to pick the same
8583 nickname as a server that registered two years ago and then
8584 disappeared. Partially implements proposal 122.
8585 - If the consensus lists a router as "Unnamed", the name is assigned
8586 to a different router: do not identify the router by that name.
8587 Partially implements proposal 122.
8588 - Authorities can now come to a consensus on which method to use to
8589 compute the consensus. This gives us forward compatibility.
8592 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we HUP or
8593 when we find our DirPort to be reachable but won't actually publish
8594 it. New descriptors without any real changes are dropped by the
8595 authorities, and can screw up our "publish every 18 hours" schedule.
8597 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
8598 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
8599 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
8600 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
8601 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
8602 consensus. Fixes bug 529; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
8603 - Fix awful behavior in DownloadExtraInfo option where we'd fetch
8604 extrainfo documents and then discard them immediately for not
8605 matching the latest router. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
8607 o Minor features (v3 directory protocol):
8608 - Allow tor-gencert to generate a new certificate without replacing
8610 - Allow certificates to include an address.
8611 - When we change our directory-cache settings, reschedule all voting
8612 and download operations.
8613 - Reattempt certificate downloads immediately on failure, as long as
8614 we haven't failed a threshold number of times yet.
8615 - Delay retrying consensus downloads while we're downloading
8616 certificates to verify the one we just got. Also, count getting a
8617 consensus that we already have (or one that isn't valid) as a failure,
8618 and count failing to get the certificates after 20 minutes as a
8620 - Build circuits and download descriptors even if our consensus is a
8621 little expired. (This feature will go away once authorities are
8624 o Minor features (router descriptor cache):
8625 - If we find a cached-routers file that's been sitting around for more
8626 than 28 days unmodified, then most likely it's a leftover from
8627 when we upgraded to 0.2.0.8-alpha. Remove it. It has no good
8629 - When we (as a cache) download a descriptor because it was listed
8630 in a consensus, remember when the consensus was supposed to expire,
8631 and don't expire the descriptor until then.
8633 o Minor features (performance):
8634 - Call routerlist_remove_old_routers() much less often. This should
8635 speed startup, especially on directory caches.
8636 - Don't try to launch new descriptor downloads quite so often when we
8637 already have enough directory information to build circuits.
8638 - Base64 decoding was actually showing up on our profile when parsing
8639 the initial descriptor file; switch to an in-process all-at-once
8640 implementation that's about 3.5x times faster than calling out to
8643 o Minor features (compilation):
8644 - Detect non-ASCII platforms (if any still exist) and refuse to
8645 build there: some of our code assumes that 'A' is 65 and so on.
8647 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory authorities, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x):
8648 - Make the "next period" votes into "current period" votes immediately
8649 after publishing the consensus; avoid a heisenbug that made them
8650 stick around indefinitely.
8651 - When we discard a vote as a duplicate, do not report this as
8653 - Treat missing v3 keys or certificates as an error when running as a
8654 v3 directory authority.
8655 - When we're configured to be a v3 authority, but we're only listed
8656 as a non-v3 authority in our DirServer line for ourself, correct
8658 - If an authority doesn't have a qualified hostname, just put
8659 its address in the vote. This fixes the problem where we referred to
8660 "moria on moria:9031."
8661 - Distinguish between detached signatures for the wrong period, and
8662 detached signatures for a divergent vote.
8663 - Fix a small memory leak when computing a consensus.
8664 - When there's no concensus, we were forming a vote every 30
8665 minutes, but writing the "valid-after" line in our vote based
8666 on our configured V3AuthVotingInterval: so unless the intervals
8667 matched up, we immediately rejected our own vote because it didn't
8668 start at the voting interval that caused us to construct a vote.
8670 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory protocol, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x):
8671 - Delete unverified-consensus when the real consensus is set.
8672 - Consider retrying a consensus networkstatus fetch immediately
8673 after one fails: don't wait 60 seconds to notice.
8674 - When fetching a consensus as a cache, wait until a newer consensus
8675 should exist before trying to replace the current one.
8676 - Use a more forgiving schedule for retrying failed consensus
8677 downloads than for other types.
8679 o Minor bugfixes (other directory issues):
8680 - Correct the implementation of "download votes by digest." Bugfix on
8682 - Authorities no longer send back "400 you're unreachable please fix
8683 it" errors to Tor servers that aren't online all the time. We're
8684 supposed to tolerate these servers now. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
8686 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
8687 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
8688 option. Patch from Robert Hogan; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
8689 - Respond to INT and TERM SIGNAL commands before we execute the
8690 signal, in case the signal shuts us down. We had a patch in
8691 0.1.2.1-alpha that tried to do this by queueing the response on
8692 the connection's buffer before shutting down, but that really
8693 isn't the same thing at all. Bug located by Matt Edman.
8695 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
8696 - Correctly check for bad options to the "PublishServerDescriptor"
8697 config option. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; reported by Matt Edman.
8698 - Stop leaking memory on failing case of base32_decode, and make
8699 it accept upper-case letters. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
8700 - Don't try to download extrainfo documents when we're trying to
8701 fetch enough directory info to build a circuit: having enough
8702 info should get priority. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
8703 - Don't complain that "your server has not managed to confirm that its
8704 ports are reachable" if we haven't been able to build any circuits
8705 yet. Bug found by spending four hours without a v3 consensus. Bugfix
8707 - Detect the reason for failing to mmap a descriptor file we just
8708 wrote, and give a more useful log message. Fixes bug 533. Bugfix
8711 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
8712 - Remove support for the old bw_accounting file: we've been storing
8713 bandwidth accounting information in the state file since
8714 0.1.2.5-alpha. This may result in bandwidth accounting errors
8715 if you try to upgrade from 0.1.1.x or earlier, or if you try to
8716 downgrade to 0.1.1.x or earlier.
8717 - New convenience code to locate a file within the DataDirectory.
8718 - Move non-authority functionality out of dirvote.c.
8719 - Refactor the arguments for router_pick_{directory_|trusteddir}server
8720 so that they all take the same named flags.
8723 - Include the "tor-ctrl.sh" bash script by Stefan Behte to provide
8724 Unix users an easy way to script their Tor process (e.g. by
8725 adjusting bandwidth based on the time of the day).
8728 Changes in version 0.2.0.8-alpha - 2007-10-12
8729 This eighth development snapshot fixes a crash bug that's been bothering
8730 us since February 2007, lets bridge authorities store a list of bridge
8731 descriptors they've seen, gets v3 directory voting closer to working,
8732 starts caching v3 directory consensus documents on directory mirrors,
8733 and fixes a variety of smaller issues including some minor memory leaks.
8735 o Major features (router descriptor cache):
8736 - Store routers in a file called cached-descriptors instead of in
8737 cached-routers. Initialize cached-descriptors from cached-routers
8738 if the old format is around. The new format allows us to store
8739 annotations along with descriptors.
8740 - Use annotations to record the time we received each descriptor, its
8741 source, and its purpose.
8742 - Disable the SETROUTERPURPOSE controller command: it is now
8744 - Controllers should now specify cache=no or cache=yes when using
8745 the +POSTDESCRIPTOR command.
8746 - Bridge authorities now write bridge descriptors to disk, meaning
8747 we can export them to other programs and begin distributing them
8750 o Major features (directory authorities):
8751 - When a v3 authority is missing votes or signatures, it now tries
8753 - Directory authorities track weighted fractional uptime as well as
8754 weighted mean-time-between failures. WFU is suitable for deciding
8755 whether a node is "usually up", while MTBF is suitable for deciding
8756 whether a node is "likely to stay up." We need both, because
8757 "usually up" is a good requirement for guards, while "likely to
8758 stay up" is a good requirement for long-lived connections.
8760 o Major features (v3 directory system):
8761 - Caches now download v3 network status documents as needed,
8762 and download the descriptors listed in them.
8763 - All hosts now attempt to download and keep fresh v3 authority
8764 certificates, and re-attempt after failures.
8765 - More internal-consistency checks for vote parsing.
8767 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
8768 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
8769 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
8770 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451. Bugfix on
8773 o Major bugfixes (performance):
8774 - Fix really bad O(n^2) performance when parsing a long list of
8775 routers: Instead of searching the entire list for an "extra-info "
8776 string which usually wasn't there, once for every routerinfo
8777 we read, just scan lines forward until we find one we like.
8779 - When we add data to a write buffer in response to the data on that
8780 write buffer getting low because of a flush, do not consider the
8781 newly added data as a candidate for immediate flushing, but rather
8782 make it wait until the next round of writing. Otherwise, we flush
8783 and refill recursively, and a single greedy TLS connection can
8784 eat all of our bandwidth. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
8786 o Minor features (v3 authority system):
8787 - Add more ways for tools to download the votes that lead to the
8789 - Send a 503 when low on bandwidth and a vote, consensus, or
8790 certificate is requested.
8791 - If-modified-since is now implemented properly for all kinds of
8792 certificate requests.
8794 o Minor bugfixes (network statuses):
8795 - Tweak the implementation of proposal 109 slightly: allow at most
8796 two Tor servers on the same IP address, except if it's the location
8797 of a directory authority, in which case allow five. Bugfix on
8800 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
8801 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
8802 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
8803 were reporting the dir port.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
8805 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory system):
8806 - Fix logic to look up a cert by its signing key digest. Bugfix on
8808 - Only change the reply to a vote to "OK" if it's not already
8809 set. This gets rid of annoying "400 OK" log messages, which may
8810 have been masking some deeper issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
8811 - When we get a valid consensus, recompute the voting schedule.
8812 - Base the valid-after time of a vote on the consensus voting
8813 schedule, not on our preferred schedule.
8814 - Make the return values and messages from signature uploads and
8815 downloads more sensible.
8816 - Fix a memory leak when serving votes and consensus documents, and
8817 another when serving certificates.
8819 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
8820 - Use a slightly simpler string hashing algorithm (copying Python's
8821 instead of Java's) and optimize our digest hashing algorithm to take
8822 advantage of 64-bit platforms and to remove some possibly-costly
8824 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we parse guards from our state
8825 file. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
8826 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we write out a file. Bugfix on
8828 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
8829 command. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
8831 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
8832 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
8833 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
8834 - Stop calling tor_strlower() on uninitialized memory in some cases.
8835 Bugfix in 0.2.0.7-alpha.
8837 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
8838 - Treat some 403 responses from directory servers as INFO rather than
8839 WARN-severity events.
8840 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
8841 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff is
8842 fishy. Resolves bug 463.
8844 o Minor bugfixes (anonymity):
8845 - Never report that we've used more bandwidth than we're willing to
8846 relay: it leaks how much non-relay traffic we're using. Resolves
8848 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
8849 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
8850 circuit cannibalization).
8852 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
8853 - Make a bunch of functions static. Remove some dead code.
8854 - Pull out about a third of the really big routerlist.c; put it in a
8855 new module, networkstatus.c.
8856 - Merge the extra fields in local_routerstatus_t back into
8857 routerstatus_t: we used to need one routerstatus_t for each
8858 authority's opinion, plus a local_routerstatus_t for the locally
8859 computed consensus opinion. To save space, we put the locally
8860 modified fields into local_routerstatus_t, and only the common
8861 stuff into routerstatus_t. But once v3 directories are in use,
8862 clients and caches will no longer need to hold authority opinions;
8863 thus, the rationale for keeping the types separate is now gone.
8864 - Make the code used to reschedule and reattempt downloads more
8866 - Turn all 'Are we a directory server/mirror?' logic into a call to
8868 - Remove the code to generate the oldest (v1) directory format.
8869 The code has been disabled since 0.2.0.5-alpha.
8872 Changes in version 0.2.0.7-alpha - 2007-09-21
8873 This seventh development snapshot makes bridges work again, makes bridge
8874 authorities work for the first time, fixes two huge performance flaws
8875 in hidden services, and fixes a variety of minor issues.
8877 o New directory authorities:
8878 - Set up moria1 and tor26 as the first v3 directory authorities. See
8879 doc/spec/dir-spec.txt for details on the new directory design.
8881 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
8882 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
8883 rend_process_relay_cell(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
8885 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
8886 - Fix a bug that made servers send a "404 Not found" in response to
8887 attempts to fetch their server descriptor. This caused Tor servers
8888 to take many minutes to establish reachability for their DirPort,
8889 and it totally crippled bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
8890 - Make "UpdateBridgesFromAuthority" torrc option work: when bridge
8891 users configure that and specify a bridge with an identity
8892 fingerprint, now they will lookup the bridge descriptor at the
8893 default bridge authority via a one-hop tunnel, but once circuits
8894 are established they will switch to a three-hop tunnel for later
8895 connections to the bridge authority. Bugfix in 0.2.0.3-alpha.
8897 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
8898 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
8899 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
8900 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
8901 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
8902 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
8903 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. Both
8904 are bugfixes on 0.1.2.x, and they could speed up hidden service
8905 connections dramatically. Thanks to Karsten Loesing.
8907 o Minor features (security):
8908 - As a client, do not believe any server that tells us that an
8909 address maps to an internal address space.
8910 - Make it possible to enable HashedControlPassword and
8911 CookieAuthentication at the same time.
8913 o Minor features (guard nodes):
8914 - Tag every guard node in our state file with the version that
8915 we believe added it, or with our own version if we add it. This way,
8916 if a user temporarily runs an old version of Tor and then switches
8917 back to a new one, she doesn't automatically lose her guards.
8919 o Minor features (speed):
8920 - When implementing AES counter mode, update only the portions of the
8921 counter buffer that need to change, and don't keep separate
8922 network-order and host-order counters when they are the same (i.e.,
8923 on big-endian hosts.)
8925 o Minor features (controller):
8926 - Accept LF instead of CRLF on controller, since some software has a
8927 hard time generating real Internet newlines.
8928 - Add GETINFO values for the server status events
8929 "REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED" and "GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR". Patch from
8933 - Routers no longer include bandwidth-history lines in their
8934 descriptors; this information is already available in extra-info
8935 documents, and including it in router descriptors took up 60%
8936 (!) of compressed router descriptor downloads. Completes
8937 implementation of proposal 104.
8938 - Remove the contrib scripts ExerciseServer.py, PathDemo.py,
8939 and TorControl.py, as they use the old v0 controller protocol,
8940 and are obsoleted by TorFlow anyway.
8941 - Drop support for v1 rendezvous descriptors, since we never used
8942 them anyway, and the code has probably rotted by now. Based on
8943 patch from Karsten Loesing.
8944 - On OSX, stop warning the user that kqueue support in libevent is
8945 "experimental", since it seems to have worked fine for ages.
8948 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
8949 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is absent. Fixes
8950 bug 467. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
8951 - Fix a user-triggerable (but not remotely-triggerable) segfault
8952 in expand_filename(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
8953 - Fix a memory leak when freeing incomplete requests from DNSPort.
8954 Found by Niels Provos with valgrind. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
8955 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
8956 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. (Resolves
8957 bug 499.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
8958 - Servers used to decline to publish their DirPort if their
8959 BandwidthRate, RelayBandwidthRate, or MaxAdvertisedBandwidth
8960 were below a threshold. Now they only look at BandwidthRate and
8961 RelayBandwidthRate. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
8962 - Remove an optimization in the AES counter-mode code that assumed
8963 that the counter never exceeded 2^68. When the counter can be set
8964 arbitrarily as an IV (as it is by Karsten's new hidden services
8965 code), this assumption no longer holds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
8966 - Resume listing "AUTHORITY" flag for authorities in network status.
8967 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; reported by Alex de Joode.
8969 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
8970 - Revamp file-writing logic so we don't need to have the entire
8971 contents of a file in memory at once before we write to disk. Tor,
8973 - Turn "descriptor store" into a full-fledged type.
8974 - Move all NT services code into a separate source file.
8975 - Unify all code that computes medians, percentile elements, etc.
8976 - Get rid of a needless malloc when parsing address policies.
8979 Changes in version 0.1.2.17 - 2007-08-30
8980 Tor 0.1.2.17 features a new Vidalia version in the Windows and OS
8981 X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for the
8982 ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
8983 security risks. Everybody who uses Vidalia (or another controller)
8986 In addition, this Tor update fixes major load balancing problems with
8987 path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many people
8990 o Major bugfixes (security):
8991 - We removed support for the old (v0) control protocol. It has been
8992 deprecated since Tor 0.1.1.1-alpha, and keeping it secure has
8993 become more of a headache than it's worth.
8995 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
8996 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
8997 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
8999 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
9000 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
9001 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
9002 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
9003 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
9004 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
9006 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
9007 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
9008 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
9009 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
9010 circuit every 15 seconds. Fixes bug 454; reported by lodger.
9012 o Minor features (controller):
9013 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
9014 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
9015 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
9016 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
9018 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
9019 - Save on most routerlist_assert_ok() calls in routerlist.c, thus
9020 greatly speeding up loading cached-routers from disk on startup.
9021 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
9022 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and now
9023 its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice powers of
9024 two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values slightly over
9025 powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
9027 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
9028 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
9029 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
9030 Based on patch from Mike Perry.
9031 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
9032 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
9033 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
9034 if we ran off the end of the list.
9035 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
9036 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
9037 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
9038 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
9039 every time we change any piece of our config.
9040 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
9041 encourage people using them to stop.
9042 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. Original patch
9044 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
9045 servers to choose a circuit.
9046 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
9047 unparseable piece of it.
9050 Changes in version 0.2.0.6-alpha - 2007-08-26
9051 This sixth development snapshot features a new Vidalia version in the
9052 Windows and OS X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for
9053 the ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
9056 In addition, this snapshot fixes major load balancing problems
9057 with path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many
9058 people have upgraded. The directory authorities also use a new
9059 mean-time-between-failure approach to tracking which servers are stable,
9060 rather than just looking at the most recent uptime.
9062 o New directory authorities:
9063 - Set up Tonga as the default bridge directory authority.
9066 - Directory authorities now track servers by weighted
9067 mean-times-between-failures. When we have 4 or more days of data,
9068 use measured MTBF rather than declared uptime to decide whether
9069 to call a router Stable. Implements proposal 108.
9071 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
9072 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
9073 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
9075 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
9076 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
9077 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
9078 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
9079 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
9080 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
9082 o Major bugfixes (descriptor parsing):
9083 - Handle unexpected whitespace better in malformed descriptors. Bug
9084 found using Benedikt Boss's new Tor fuzzer! Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
9087 - There is now an ugly, temporary "desc/all-recent-extrainfo-hack"
9088 GETINFO for Torstat to use until it can switch to using extrainfos.
9089 - Optionally (if built with -DEXPORTMALLINFO) export the output
9090 of mallinfo via http, as tor/mallinfo.txt. Only accessible
9094 - Do not intermix bridge routers with controller-added
9095 routers. (Bugfix on 0.2.0.x)
9096 - Do not fail with an assert when accept() returns an unexpected
9097 address family. Addresses but does not wholly fix bug 483. (Bugfix
9099 - Let directory authorities startup even when they can't generate
9100 a descriptor immediately, e.g. because they don't know their
9102 - Stop putting the authentication cookie in a file called "0"
9103 in your working directory if you don't specify anything for the
9104 new CookieAuthFile option. Reported by Matt Edman.
9105 - Make it possible to read the PROTOCOLINFO response in a way that
9106 conforms to our control-spec. Reported by Matt Edman.
9107 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
9108 servers to choose a circuit. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
9109 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
9110 unparseable piece of it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
9111 - Unmap the extrainfo cache file on exit.
9114 Changes in version 0.2.0.5-alpha - 2007-08-19
9115 This fifth development snapshot fixes compilation on Windows again;
9116 fixes an obnoxious client-side bug that slowed things down and put
9117 extra load on the network; gets us closer to using the v3 directory
9118 voting scheme; makes it easier for Tor controllers to use cookie-based
9119 authentication; and fixes a variety of other bugs.
9122 - Version 1 directories are no longer generated in full. Instead,
9123 authorities generate and serve "stub" v1 directories that list
9124 no servers. This will stop Tor versions 0.1.0.x and earlier from
9125 working, but (for security reasons) nobody should be running those
9128 o Major bugfixes (compilation, 0.2.0.x):
9129 - Try to fix Win32 compilation again: improve checking for IPv6 types.
9130 - Try to fix MSVC compilation: build correctly on platforms that do
9131 not define s6_addr16 or s6_addr32.
9132 - Fix compile on platforms without getaddrinfo: bug found by Li-Hui
9135 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
9136 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
9137 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
9138 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
9139 circuit every 15 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; fixes bug 454;
9142 o Minor features (directory servers):
9143 - When somebody requests a list of statuses or servers, and we have
9144 none of those, return a 404 rather than an empty 200.
9146 o Minor features (directory voting):
9147 - Store v3 consensus status consensuses on disk, and reload them
9150 o Minor features (security):
9151 - Warn about unsafe ControlPort configurations.
9152 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
9153 encourage people using them to stop.
9155 o Minor features (controller):
9156 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
9157 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
9158 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
9159 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
9160 - New config option CookieAuthFile to choose a new location for the
9161 cookie authentication file, and config option
9162 CookieAuthFileGroupReadable to make it group-readable.
9164 o Minor features (unit testing):
9165 - Add command-line arguments to unit-test executable so that we can
9166 invoke any chosen test from the command line rather than having
9167 to run the whole test suite at once; and so that we can turn on
9168 logging for the unit tests.
9170 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
9171 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
9172 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
9173 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
9174 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
9175 every time we change any piece of our config.
9176 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
9177 the future. Fixes bug 434.
9178 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
9180 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
9181 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
9182 the onion key from getting rotated.
9183 - Clean up torrc sample config file.
9184 - Do not automatically run configure from autogen.sh. This
9185 non-standard behavior tended to annoy people who have built other
9188 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
9189 - Fix a bug with AutomapHostsOnResolve that would always cause
9190 the second request to fail. Bug reported by Kate. Bugfix on
9192 - Fix a bug in ADDRMAP controller replies that would sometimes
9193 try to print a NULL. Patch from tup.
9194 - Read v3 directory authority keys from the right location.
9195 - Numerous bugfixes to directory voting code.
9198 Changes in version 0.1.2.16 - 2007-08-01
9199 Tor 0.1.2.16 fixes a critical security vulnerability that allows a
9200 remote attacker in certain situations to rewrite the user's torrc
9201 configuration file. This can completely compromise anonymity of users
9202 in most configurations, including those running the Vidalia bundles,
9203 TorK, etc. Or worse.
9205 o Major security fixes:
9206 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
9207 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
9210 Changes in version 0.2.0.4-alpha - 2007-08-01
9211 This fourth development snapshot fixes a critical security vulnerability
9212 for most users, specifically those running Vidalia, TorK, etc. Everybody
9213 should upgrade to either 0.1.2.16 or 0.2.0.4-alpha.
9215 o Major security fixes:
9216 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
9217 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
9219 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
9220 - Fix win32 compilation: apparently IN_ADDR and IN6_ADDR are already
9223 o Minor features (performance):
9224 - Be even more aggressive about releasing RAM from small
9225 empty buffers. Thanks to our free-list code, this shouldn't be too
9226 performance-intensive.
9227 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
9228 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and
9229 now its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice
9230 powers of two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values
9231 slightly over powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
9232 - Log malloc statistics from mallinfo() on platforms where it
9236 Changes in version 0.2.0.3-alpha - 2007-07-29
9237 This third development snapshot introduces new experimental
9238 blocking-resistance features and a preliminary version of the v3
9239 directory voting design, and includes many other smaller features
9243 - The first pieces of our "bridge" design for blocking-resistance
9244 are implemented. People can run bridge directory authorities;
9245 people can run bridges; and people can configure their Tor clients
9246 with a set of bridges to use as the first hop into the Tor network.
9247 See http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/Jul-2007/msg00249.html for
9249 - Create listener connections before we setuid to the configured
9250 User and Group. Now non-Windows users can choose port values
9251 under 1024, start Tor as root, and have Tor bind those ports
9252 before it changes to another UID. (Windows users could already
9254 - Added a new ConstrainedSockets config option to set SO_SNDBUF and
9255 SO_RCVBUF on TCP sockets. Hopefully useful for Tor servers running
9256 on "vserver" accounts. (Patch from coderman.)
9257 - Be even more aggressive about separating local traffic from relayed
9258 traffic when RelayBandwidthRate is set. (Refines proposal 111.)
9260 o Major features (experimental):
9261 - First cut of code for "v3 dir voting": directory authorities will
9262 vote on a common network status document rather than each publishing
9263 their own opinion. This code needs more testing and more corner-case
9264 handling before it's ready for use.
9267 - Directory authorities now call routers Fast if their bandwidth is
9268 at least 100KB/s, and consider their bandwidth adequate to be a
9269 Guard if it is at least 250KB/s, no matter the medians. This fix
9270 complements proposal 107. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
9271 - Directory authorities now never mark more than 3 servers per IP as
9272 Valid and Running. (Implements proposal 109, by Kevin Bauer and
9274 - Minor change to organizationName and commonName generation
9275 procedures in TLS certificates during Tor handshakes, to invalidate
9276 some earlier censorware approaches. This is not a long-term
9277 solution, but applying it will give us a bit of time to look into
9278 the epidemiology of countermeasures as they spread.
9280 o Major bugfixes (directory):
9281 - Rewrite directory tokenization code to never run off the end of
9282 a string. Fixes bug 455. Patch from croup. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
9284 o Minor features (controller):
9285 - Add a SOURCE_ADDR field to STREAM NEW events so that controllers can
9286 match requests to applications. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
9287 - Report address and port correctly on connections to DNSPort. (Patch
9289 - Add a RESOLVE command to launch hostname lookups. (Original patch
9291 - Add GETINFO status/enough-dir-info to let controllers tell whether
9292 Tor has downloaded sufficient directory information. (Patch
9294 - You can now use the ControlSocket option to tell Tor to listen for
9295 controller connections on Unix domain sockets on systems that
9296 support them. (Patch from Peter Palfrader.)
9297 - STREAM NEW events are generated for DNSPort requests and for
9298 tunneled directory connections. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
9299 - New "GETINFO address-mappings/*" command to get address mappings
9300 with expiry information. "addr-mappings/*" is now deprecated.
9303 o Minor features (misc):
9304 - Merge in some (as-yet-unused) IPv6 address manipulation code. (Patch
9306 - The tor-gencert tool for v3 directory authorities now creates all
9307 files as readable to the file creator only, and write-protects
9308 the authority identity key.
9309 - When dumping memory usage, list bytes used in buffer memory
9311 - When running with dmalloc, dump more stats on hup and on exit.
9312 - Directory authorities now fail quickly and (relatively) harmlessly
9313 if they generate a network status document that is somehow
9316 o Traffic load balancing improvements:
9317 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
9318 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
9319 (Based on patch from Mike Perry.)
9320 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
9321 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
9322 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
9323 if we ran off the end of the list. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
9325 o Performance improvements:
9326 - Be more aggressive with freeing buffer RAM or putting it on the
9328 - Use Critical Sections rather than Mutexes for synchronizing threads
9329 on win32; Mutexes are heavier-weight, and designed for synchronizing
9332 o Deprecated and removed features:
9333 - RedirectExits is now deprecated.
9334 - Stop allowing address masks that do not correspond to bit prefixes.
9335 We have warned about these for a really long time; now it's time
9336 to reject them. (Patch from croup.)
9338 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
9339 - Fix another crash bug related to extra-info caching. (Bug found by
9340 Peter Palfrader.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
9341 - Directories no longer return a "304 not modified" when they don't
9342 have the networkstatus the client asked for. Also fix a memory
9343 leak when returning 304 not modified. [Bugfixes on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
9344 - We had accidentally labelled 0.1.2.x directory servers as not
9345 suitable for begin_dir requests, and had labelled no directory
9346 servers as suitable for uploading extra-info documents. [Bugfix
9349 o Minor bugfixes (dns):
9350 - Fix a crash when DNSPort is set more than once. (Patch from Robert
9351 Hogan.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
9352 - Add DNSPort connections to the global connection list, so that we
9353 can time them out correctly. (Bug found by Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix
9355 - Fix a dangling reference that could lead to a crash when DNSPort is
9356 changed or closed (Patch from Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix on
9359 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
9360 - Provide DNS expiry times in GMT, not in local time. For backward
9361 compatibility, ADDRMAP events only provide GMT expiry in an extended
9362 field. "GETINFO address-mappings" always does the right thing.
9363 - Use CRLF line endings properly in NS events.
9364 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. (Original patch
9365 from tup.) [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x-alpha]
9366 - Do not include spaces in SOURCE_ADDR fields in STREAM
9367 events. Resolves bug 472. [Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha]
9370 Changes in version 0.1.2.15 - 2007-07-17
9371 Tor 0.1.2.15 fixes several crash bugs, fixes some anonymity-related
9372 problems, fixes compilation on BSD, and fixes a variety of other
9373 bugs. Everybody should upgrade.
9375 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
9376 - Fix compile on FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD. Oops.
9378 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
9379 - Try even harder not to dereference the first character after
9380 an mmap(). Reported by lodger.
9381 - Fix a crash bug in directory authorities when we re-number the
9382 routerlist while inserting a new router.
9383 - When the cached-routers file is an even multiple of the page size,
9384 don't run off the end and crash. (Fixes bug 455; based on idea
9386 - Fix eventdns.c behavior on Solaris: It is critical to include
9387 orconfig.h _before_ sys/types.h, so that we can get the expected
9388 definition of _FILE_OFFSET_BITS.
9390 o Major bugfixes (security):
9391 - Fix a possible buffer overrun when using BSD natd support. Bug
9393 - When sending destroy cells from a circuit's origin, don't include
9394 the reason for tearing down the circuit. The spec says we didn't,
9395 and now we actually don't. Reported by lodger.
9396 - Keep streamids from different exits on a circuit separate. This
9397 bug may have allowed other routers on a given circuit to inject
9398 cells into streams. Reported by lodger; fixes bug 446.
9399 - If there's a never-before-connected-to guard node in our list,
9400 never choose any guards past it. This way we don't expand our
9401 guard list unless we need to.
9403 o Minor bugfixes (guard nodes):
9404 - Weight guard selection by bandwidth, so that low-bandwidth nodes
9405 don't get overused as guards.
9407 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
9408 - Correctly count the number of authorities that recommend each
9409 version. Previously, we were under-counting by 1.
9410 - Fix a potential crash bug when we load many server descriptors at
9411 once and some of them make others of them obsolete. Fixes bug 458.
9413 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
9414 - Stop tearing down the whole circuit when the user asks for a
9415 connection to a port that the hidden service didn't configure.
9418 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
9419 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
9420 cached-routers while Tor was running. Reported by janbar.
9421 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by
9422 bandwidth. Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact
9423 unlikely. Patch from lodger.
9424 - Backport a couple of memory leak fixes.
9425 - Backport miscellaneous cosmetic bugfixes.
9428 Changes in version 0.2.0.2-alpha - 2007-06-02
9429 o Major bugfixes on 0.2.0.1-alpha:
9430 - Fix an assertion failure related to servers without extra-info digests.
9431 Resolves bugs 441 and 442.
9433 o Minor features (directory):
9434 - Support "If-Modified-Since" when answering HTTP requests for
9435 directories, running-routers documents, and network-status documents.
9436 (There's no need to support it for router descriptors, since those
9437 are downloaded by descriptor digest.)
9439 o Minor build issues:
9440 - Clear up some MIPSPro compiler warnings.
9441 - When building from a tarball on a machine that happens to have SVK
9442 installed, report the micro-revision as whatever version existed
9443 in the tarball, not as "x".
9446 Changes in version 0.2.0.1-alpha - 2007-06-01
9447 This early development snapshot provides new features for people running
9448 Tor as both a client and a server (check out the new RelayBandwidth
9449 config options); lets Tor run as a DNS proxy; and generally moves us
9450 forward on a lot of fronts.
9452 o Major features, server usability:
9453 - New config options RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst:
9454 a separate set of token buckets for relayed traffic. Right now
9455 relayed traffic is defined as answers to directory requests, and
9456 OR connections that don't have any local circuits on them.
9458 o Major features, client usability:
9459 - A client-side DNS proxy feature to replace the need for
9460 dns-proxy-tor: Just set "DNSPort 9999", and Tor will now listen
9461 for DNS requests on port 9999, use the Tor network to resolve them
9462 anonymously, and send the reply back like a regular DNS server.
9463 The code still only implements a subset of DNS.
9464 - Make PreferTunneledDirConns and TunnelDirConns work even when
9465 we have no cached directory info. This means Tor clients can now
9466 do all of their connections protected by TLS.
9468 o Major features, performance and efficiency:
9469 - Directory authorities accept and serve "extra info" documents for
9470 routers. These documents contain fields from router descriptors
9471 that aren't usually needed, and that use a lot of excess
9472 bandwidth. Once these fields are removed from router descriptors,
9473 the bandwidth savings should be about 60%. [Partially implements
9475 - Servers upload extra-info documents to any authority that accepts
9476 them. Authorities (and caches that have been configured to download
9477 extra-info documents) download them as needed. [Partially implements
9479 - Change the way that Tor buffers data that it is waiting to write.
9480 Instead of queueing data cells in an enormous ring buffer for each
9481 client->OR or OR->OR connection, we now queue cells on a separate
9482 queue for each circuit. This lets us use less slack memory, and
9483 will eventually let us be smarter about prioritizing different kinds
9485 - Use memory pools to allocate cells with better speed and memory
9486 efficiency, especially on platforms where malloc() is inefficient.
9487 - Stop reading on edge connections when their corresponding circuit
9488 buffers are full; start again as the circuits empty out.
9490 o Major features, other:
9491 - Add an HSAuthorityRecordStats option that hidden service authorities
9492 can use to track statistics of overall hidden service usage without
9493 logging information that would be very useful to an attacker.
9494 - Start work implementing multi-level keys for directory authorities:
9495 Add a standalone tool to generate key certificates. (Proposal 103.)
9498 - Directory authorities now call routers Stable if they have an
9499 uptime of at least 30 days, even if that's not the median uptime
9500 in the network. Implements proposal 107, suggested by Kevin Bauer
9503 o Minor fixes (resource management):
9504 - Count the number of open sockets separately from the number
9505 of active connection_t objects. This will let us avoid underusing
9506 our allocated connection limit.
9507 - We no longer use socket pairs to link an edge connection to an
9508 anonymous directory connection or a DirPort test connection.
9509 Instead, we track the link internally and transfer the data
9510 in-process. This saves two sockets per "linked" connection (at the
9511 client and at the server), and avoids the nasty Windows socketpair()
9513 - Keep unused 4k and 16k buffers on free lists, rather than wasting 8k
9514 for every single inactive connection_t. Free items from the
9515 4k/16k-buffer free lists when they haven't been used for a while.
9517 o Minor features (build):
9518 - Make autoconf search for libevent, openssl, and zlib consistently.
9519 - Update deprecated macros in configure.in.
9520 - When warning about missing headers, tell the user to let us
9521 know if the compile succeeds anyway, so we can downgrade the
9523 - Include the current subversion revision as part of the version
9524 string: either fetch it directly if we're in an SVN checkout, do
9525 some magic to guess it if we're in an SVK checkout, or use
9526 the last-detected version if we're building from a .tar.gz.
9527 Use this version consistently in log messages.
9529 o Minor features (logging):
9530 - Always prepend "Bug: " to any log message about a bug.
9531 - Put a platform string (e.g. "Linux i686") in the startup log
9532 message, so when people paste just their logs, we know if it's
9533 OpenBSD or Windows or what.
9534 - When logging memory usage, break down memory used in buffers by
9537 o Minor features (directory system):
9538 - New config option V2AuthoritativeDirectory that all directory
9539 authorities should set. This will let future authorities choose
9540 not to serve V2 directory information.
9541 - Directory authorities allow multiple router descriptors and/or extra
9542 info documents to be uploaded in a single go. This will make
9543 implementing proposal 104 simpler.
9545 o Minor features (controller):
9546 - Add a new config option __DisablePredictedCircuits designed for
9547 use by the controller, when we don't want Tor to build any circuits
9549 - Let the controller specify HOP=%d as an argument to ATTACHSTREAM,
9550 so we can exit from the middle of the circuit.
9551 - Implement "getinfo status/circuit-established".
9552 - Implement "getinfo status/version/..." so a controller can tell
9553 whether the current version is recommended, and whether any versions
9554 are good, and how many authorities agree. (Patch from shibz.)
9556 o Minor features (hidden services):
9557 - Allow multiple HiddenServicePort directives with the same virtual
9558 port; when they occur, the user is sent round-robin to one
9559 of the target ports chosen at random. Partially fixes bug 393 by
9560 adding limited ad-hoc round-robining.
9562 o Minor features (other):
9564 - Add a new AutomapHostsOnResolve option: when it is enabled, any
9565 resolve request for hosts matching a given pattern causes Tor to
9566 generate an internal virtual address mapping for that host. This
9567 allows DNSPort to work sensibly with hidden service users. By
9568 default, .exit and .onion addresses are remapped; the list of
9569 patterns can be reconfigured with AutomapHostsSuffixes.
9570 - Add an "-F" option to tor-resolve to force a resolve for a .onion
9571 address. Thanks to the AutomapHostsOnResolve option, this is no
9572 longer a completely silly thing to do.
9573 - If Tor is invoked from something that isn't a shell (e.g. Vidalia),
9574 now we expand "-f ~/.tor/torrc" correctly. Suggested by Matt Edman.
9575 - Treat "2gb" when given in torrc for a bandwidth as meaning 2gb,
9576 minus 1 byte: the actual maximum declared bandwidth.
9579 - Removed support for the old binary "version 0" controller protocol.
9580 This has been deprecated since 0.1.1, and warnings have been issued
9581 since 0.1.2. When we encounter a v0 control message, we now send
9582 back an error and close the connection.
9583 - Remove the old "dns worker" server DNS code: it hasn't been default
9584 since 0.1.2.2-alpha, and all the servers seem to be using the new
9587 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
9588 - Even though Windows is equally happy with / and \ as path separators,
9589 try to use \ consistently on Windows and / consistently on Unix: it
9590 makes the log messages nicer.
9591 - Correctly report platform name on Windows 95 OSR2 and Windows 98 SE.
9592 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
9593 partial results on small file reads.
9595 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
9596 - Correctly enforce that elements of directory objects do not appear
9597 more often than they are allowed to appear.
9598 - When we are reporting the DirServer line we just parsed, we were
9599 logging the second stanza of the key fingerprint, not the first.
9601 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
9602 - When we hit an EOF on a log (probably because we're shutting down),
9603 don't try to remove the log from the list: just mark it as
9604 unusable. (Bulletproofs against bug 222.)
9606 o Minor bugfixes (other):
9607 - In the exitlist script, only consider the most recently published
9608 server descriptor for each server. Also, when the user requests
9609 a list of servers that _reject_ connections to a given address,
9610 explicitly exclude the IPs that also have servers that accept
9611 connections to that address. (Resolves bug 405.)
9612 - Stop allowing hibernating servers to be "stable" or "fast".
9613 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
9614 cached-routers while Tor was running. (Reported by janbar)
9615 - Make the NodeFamilies config option work. (Reported by
9616 lodger -- it has never actually worked, even though we added it
9618 - Check return values from pthread_mutex functions.
9619 - Don't save non-general-purpose router descriptors to the disk cache,
9620 because we have no way of remembering what their purpose was when
9622 - Add even more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
9623 - Build without verbose warnings even on (not-yet-released) gcc 4.2.
9624 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by bandwidth.
9625 Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact unlikely.
9627 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
9628 - Make 'getinfo fingerprint' return a 551 error if we're not a
9629 server, so we match what the control spec claims we do. Reported
9631 - Fix a typo in an error message when extendcircuit fails that
9632 caused us to not follow the \r\n-based delimiter protocol. Reported
9635 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
9636 - Stop passing around circuit_t and crypt_path_t pointers that are
9637 implicit in other procedure arguments.
9638 - Drop the old code to choke directory connections when the
9639 corresponding OR connections got full: thanks to the cell queue
9640 feature, OR conns don't get full any more.
9641 - Make dns_resolve() handle attaching connections to circuits
9642 properly, so the caller doesn't have to.
9643 - Rename wants_to_read and wants_to_write to read/write_blocked_on_bw.
9644 - Keep the connection array as a dynamic smartlist_t, rather than as
9645 a fixed-sized array. This is important, as the number of connections
9646 is becoming increasingly decoupled from the number of sockets.
9649 Changes in version 0.1.2.14 - 2007-05-25
9650 Tor 0.1.2.14 changes the addresses of two directory authorities (this
9651 change especially affects those who serve or use hidden services),
9652 and fixes several other crash- and security-related bugs.
9654 o Directory authority changes:
9655 - Two directory authorities (moria1 and moria2) just moved to new
9656 IP addresses. This change will particularly affect those who serve
9657 or use hidden services.
9659 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
9660 - If a directory server runs out of space in the connection table
9661 as it's processing a begin_dir request, it will free the exit stream
9662 but leave it attached to the circuit, leading to unpredictable
9663 behavior. (Reported by seeess, fixes bug 425.)
9664 - Fix a bug in dirserv_remove_invalid() that would cause authorities
9665 to corrupt memory under some really unlikely scenarios.
9666 - Tighten router parsing rules. (Bugs reported by Benedikt Boss.)
9667 - Avoid segfaults when reading from mmaped descriptor file. (Reported
9670 o Major bugfixes (security):
9671 - When choosing an entry guard for a circuit, avoid using guards
9672 that are in the same family as the chosen exit -- not just guards
9673 that are exactly the chosen exit. (Reported by lodger.)
9675 o Major bugfixes (resource management):
9676 - If a directory authority is down, skip it when deciding where to get
9677 networkstatus objects or descriptors. Otherwise we keep asking
9678 every 10 seconds forever. Fixes bug 384.
9679 - Count it as a failure if we fetch a valid network-status but we
9680 don't want to keep it. Otherwise we'll keep fetching it and keep
9681 not wanting to keep it. Fixes part of bug 422.
9682 - If all of our dirservers have given us bad or no networkstatuses
9683 lately, then stop hammering them once per minute even when we
9684 think they're failed. Fixes another part of bug 422.
9687 - Actually set the purpose correctly for descriptors inserted with
9689 - When we have k non-v2 authorities in our DirServer config,
9690 we ignored the last k authorities in the list when updating our
9692 - Correctly back-off from requesting router descriptors that we are
9693 having a hard time downloading.
9694 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
9695 partial results on small file reads.
9696 - Don't rebuild the entire router store every time we get 32K of
9697 routers: rebuild it when the journal gets very large, or when
9698 the gaps in the store get very large.
9701 - When routers publish SVN revisions in their router descriptors,
9702 authorities now include those versions correctly in networkstatus
9704 - Warn when using a version of libevent before 1.3b to run a server on
9705 OSX or BSD: these versions interact badly with userspace threads.
9708 Changes in version 0.1.2.13 - 2007-04-24
9709 This release features some major anonymity fixes, such as safer path
9710 selection; better client performance; faster bootstrapping, better
9711 address detection, and better DNS support for servers; write limiting as
9712 well as read limiting to make servers easier to run; and a huge pile of
9713 other features and bug fixes. The bundles also ship with Vidalia 0.0.11.
9715 Tor 0.1.2.13 is released in memory of Rob Levin (1955-2006), aka lilo
9716 of the Freenode IRC network, remembering his patience and vision for
9717 free speech on the Internet.
9720 - Fix a memory leak when we ask for "all" networkstatuses and we
9721 get one we don't recognize.
9722 - Add more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
9723 - Disable kqueue on OS X 10.3 and earlier, to fix bug 371.
9726 Changes in version 0.1.2.12-rc - 2007-03-16
9728 - Fix an infinite loop introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha when we serve
9729 directory information requested inside Tor connections (i.e. via
9730 begin_dir cells). It only triggered when the same connection was
9731 serving other data at the same time. Reported by seeess.
9734 - When creating a circuit via the controller, send a 'launched'
9735 event when we're done, so we follow the spec better.
9738 Changes in version 0.1.2.11-rc - 2007-03-15
9739 o Minor bugfixes (controller), reported by daejees:
9740 - Correct the control spec to match how the code actually responds
9741 to 'getinfo addr-mappings/*'.
9742 - The control spec described a GUARDS event, but the code
9743 implemented a GUARD event. Standardize on GUARD, but let people
9747 Changes in version 0.1.2.10-rc - 2007-03-07
9748 o Major bugfixes (Windows):
9749 - Do not load the NT services library functions (which may not exist)
9750 just to detect if we're a service trying to shut down. Now we run
9751 on Win98 and friends again.
9753 o Minor bugfixes (other):
9754 - Clarify a couple of log messages.
9755 - Fix a misleading socks5 error number.
9758 Changes in version 0.1.2.9-rc - 2007-03-02
9759 o Major bugfixes (Windows):
9760 - On MinGW, use "%I64u" to printf/scanf 64-bit integers, instead
9761 of the usual GCC "%llu". This prevents a bug when saving 64-bit
9762 int configuration values: the high-order 32 bits would get
9763 truncated. In particular, we were being bitten by the default
9764 MaxAdvertisedBandwidth of 128 TB turning into 0. (Fixes bug 400
9765 and maybe also bug 397.)
9767 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
9768 - Use OpenSSL's AES implementation on platforms where it's faster.
9769 This could save us as much as 10% CPU usage.
9771 o Minor bugfixes (server):
9772 - Do not rotate onion key immediately after setting it for the first
9775 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
9776 - Stop calling servers that have been hibernating for a long time
9777 "stable". Also, stop letting hibernating or obsolete servers affect
9778 uptime and bandwidth cutoffs.
9779 - Stop listing hibernating servers in the v1 directory.
9781 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
9782 - Upload hidden service descriptors slightly less often, to reduce
9783 load on authorities.
9785 o Minor bugfixes (other):
9786 - Fix an assert that could trigger if a controller quickly set then
9787 cleared EntryNodes. Bug found by Udo van den Heuvel.
9788 - On architectures where sizeof(int)>4, still clamp declarable bandwidth
9790 - Fix a potential race condition in the rpm installer. Found by
9792 - Try to fix eventdns warnings once and for all: do not treat a dns rcode
9793 of 2 as indicating that the server is completely bad; it sometimes
9794 means that the server is just bad for the request in question. (may fix
9795 the last of bug 326.)
9796 - Disable encrypted directory connections when we don't have a server
9797 descriptor for the destination. We'll get this working again in
9801 Changes in version 0.1.2.8-beta - 2007-02-26
9802 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
9803 - Stop crashing when the controller asks us to resetconf more than
9804 one config option at once. (Vidalia 0.0.11 does this.)
9805 - Fix a crash that happened on Win98 when we're given command-line
9806 arguments: don't try to load NT service functions from advapi32.dll
9807 except when we need them. (Bug introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha;
9809 - Fix a longstanding obscure crash bug that could occur when
9810 we run out of DNS worker processes. (Resolves bug 390.)
9812 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
9813 - Correctly detect whether hidden service descriptor downloads are
9814 in-progress. (Suggested by Karsten Loesing; fixes bug 399.)
9816 o Major bugfixes (accounting):
9817 - When we start during an accounting interval before it's time to wake
9818 up, remember to wake up at the correct time. (May fix bug 342.)
9820 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
9821 - Give the controller END_STREAM_REASON_DESTROY events _before_ we
9822 clear the corresponding on_circuit variable, and remember later
9823 that we don't need to send a redundant CLOSED event. Resolves part
9825 - Report events where a resolve succeeded or where we got a socks
9826 protocol error correctly, rather than calling both of them
9828 - Change reported stream target addresses to IP consistently when
9829 we finally get the IP from an exit node.
9830 - Send log messages to the controller even if they happen to be very
9833 o Minor bugfixes (other):
9834 - Display correct results when reporting which versions are
9835 recommended, and how recommended they are. (Resolves bug 383.)
9836 - Improve our estimates for directory bandwidth to be less random:
9837 guess that an unrecognized directory will have the average bandwidth
9838 from all known directories, not that it will have the average
9839 bandwidth from those directories earlier than it on the list.
9840 - If we start a server with ClientOnly 1, then set ClientOnly to 0
9841 and hup, stop triggering an assert based on an empty onion_key.
9842 - On platforms with no working mmap() equivalent, don't warn the
9843 user when cached-routers doesn't exist.
9844 - Warn the user when mmap() [or its equivalent] fails for some reason
9845 other than file-not-found.
9846 - Don't warn the user when cached-routers.new doesn't exist: that's
9847 perfectly fine when starting up for the first time.
9848 - When EntryNodes are configured, rebuild the guard list to contain,
9849 in order: the EntryNodes that were guards before; the rest of the
9850 EntryNodes; the nodes that were guards before.
9851 - Mask out all signals in sub-threads; only the libevent signal
9852 handler should be processing them. This should prevent some crashes
9853 on some machines using pthreads. (Patch from coderman.)
9854 - Fix switched arguments on memset in the implementation of
9855 tor_munmap() for systems with no mmap() call.
9856 - When Tor receives a router descriptor that it asked for, but
9857 no longer wants (because it has received fresh networkstatuses
9858 in the meantime), do not warn the user. Cache the descriptor if
9859 we're a cache; drop it if we aren't.
9860 - Make earlier entry guards _really_ get retried when the network
9862 - On a malformed DNS reply, always give an error to the corresponding
9864 - Build with recent libevents on platforms that do not define the
9865 nonstandard types "u_int8_t" and friends.
9867 o Minor features (controller):
9868 - Warn the user when an application uses the obsolete binary v0
9869 control protocol. We're planning to remove support for it during
9870 the next development series, so it's good to give people some
9872 - Add STREAM_BW events to report per-entry-stream bandwidth
9873 use. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
9874 - Rate-limit SIGNEWNYM signals in response to controllers that
9875 impolitely generate them for every single stream. (Patch from
9876 mwenge; closes bug 394.)
9877 - Make REMAP stream events have a SOURCE (cache or exit), and
9878 make them generated in every case where we get a successful
9879 connected or resolved cell.
9881 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
9882 - Call router_have_min_dir_info half as often. (This is showing up in
9883 some profiles, but not others.)
9884 - When using GCC, make log_debug never get called at all, and its
9885 arguments never get evaluated, when no debug logs are configured.
9886 (This is showing up in some profiles, but not others.)
9889 - Remove some never-implemented options. Mark PathlenCoinWeight as
9891 - Implement proposal 106: Stop requiring clients to have well-formed
9892 certificates; stop checking nicknames in certificates. (Clients
9893 have certificates so that they can look like Tor servers, but in
9894 the future we might want to allow them to look like regular TLS
9895 clients instead. Nicknames in certificates serve no purpose other
9896 than making our protocol easier to recognize on the wire.)
9897 - Revise messages on handshake failure again to be even more clear about
9898 which are incoming connections and which are outgoing.
9899 - Discard any v1 directory info that's over 1 month old (for
9900 directories) or over 1 week old (for running-routers lists).
9901 - Do not warn when individual nodes in the configuration's EntryNodes,
9902 ExitNodes, etc are down: warn only when all possible nodes
9903 are down. (Fixes bug 348.)
9904 - Always remove expired routers and networkstatus docs before checking
9905 whether we have enough information to build circuits. (Fixes
9907 - Put a lower-bound on MaxAdvertisedBandwidth.
9910 Changes in version 0.1.2.7-alpha - 2007-02-06
9911 o Major bugfixes (rate limiting):
9912 - Servers decline directory requests much more aggressively when
9913 they're low on bandwidth. Otherwise they end up queueing more and
9914 more directory responses, which can't be good for latency.
9915 - But never refuse directory requests from local addresses.
9916 - Fix a memory leak when sending a 503 response for a networkstatus
9918 - Be willing to read or write on local connections (e.g. controller
9919 connections) even when the global rate limiting buckets are empty.
9920 - If our system clock jumps back in time, don't publish a negative
9921 uptime in the descriptor. Also, don't let the global rate limiting
9922 buckets go absurdly negative.
9923 - Flush local controller connection buffers periodically as we're
9924 writing to them, so we avoid queueing 4+ megabytes of data before
9927 o Major bugfixes (NT services):
9928 - Install as NT_AUTHORITY\LocalService rather than as SYSTEM; add a
9929 command-line flag so that admins can override the default by saying
9930 "tor --service install --user "SomeUser"". This will not affect
9931 existing installed services. Also, warn the user that the service
9932 will look for its configuration file in the service user's
9933 %appdata% directory. (We can't do the 'hardwire the user's appdata
9934 directory' trick any more, since we may not have read access to that
9937 o Major bugfixes (other):
9938 - Previously, we would cache up to 16 old networkstatus documents
9939 indefinitely, if they came from nontrusted authorities. Now we
9940 discard them if they are more than 10 days old.
9941 - Fix a crash bug in the presence of DNS hijacking (reported by Andrew
9943 - Detect and reject malformed DNS responses containing circular
9945 - If exits are rare enough that we're not marking exits as guards,
9946 ignore exit bandwidth when we're deciding the required bandwidth
9948 - When we're handling a directory connection tunneled over Tor,
9949 don't fill up internal memory buffers with all the data we want
9950 to tunnel; instead, only add it if the OR connection that will
9951 eventually receive it has some room for it. (This can lead to
9952 slowdowns in tunneled dir connections; a better solution will have
9955 o Minor bugfixes (dns):
9956 - Add some defensive programming to eventdns.c in an attempt to catch
9957 possible memory-stomping bugs.
9958 - Detect and reject DNS replies containing IPv4 or IPv6 records with
9959 an incorrect number of bytes. (Previously, we would ignore the
9961 - Fix as-yet-unused reverse IPv6 lookup code so it sends nybbles
9962 in the correct order, and doesn't crash.
9963 - Free memory held in recently-completed DNS lookup attempts on exit.
9964 This was not a memory leak, but may have been hiding memory leaks.
9965 - Handle TTL values correctly on reverse DNS lookups.
9966 - Treat failure to parse resolv.conf as an error.
9968 o Minor bugfixes (other):
9969 - Fix crash with "tor --list-fingerprint" (reported by seeess).
9970 - When computing clock skew from directory HTTP headers, consider what
9971 time it was when we finished asking for the directory, not what
9973 - Expire socks connections if they spend too long waiting for the
9974 handshake to finish. Previously we would let them sit around for
9975 days, if the connecting application didn't close them either.
9976 - And if the socks handshake hasn't started, don't send a
9977 "DNS resolve socks failed" handshake reply; just close it.
9978 - Stop using C functions that OpenBSD's linker doesn't like.
9979 - Don't launch requests for descriptors unless we have networkstatuses
9980 from at least half of the authorities. This delays the first
9981 download slightly under pathological circumstances, but can prevent
9982 us from downloading a bunch of descriptors we don't need.
9983 - Do not log IPs with TLS failures for incoming TLS
9984 connections. (Fixes bug 382.)
9985 - If the user asks to use invalid exit nodes, be willing to use
9987 - Stop using the reserved ac_cv namespace in our configure script.
9988 - Call stat() slightly less often; use fstat() when possible.
9989 - Refactor the way we handle pending circuits when an OR connection
9990 completes or fails, in an attempt to fix a rare crash bug.
9991 - Only rewrite a conn's address based on X-Forwarded-For: headers
9992 if it's a parseable public IP address; and stop adding extra quotes
9993 to the resulting address.
9996 - Weight directory requests by advertised bandwidth. Now we can
9997 let servers enable write limiting but still allow most clients to
9998 succeed at their directory requests. (We still ignore weights when
9999 choosing a directory authority; I hope this is a feature.)
10002 - Create a new file ReleaseNotes which was the old ChangeLog. The
10003 new ChangeLog file now includes the summaries for all development
10005 - Check for addresses with invalid characters at the exit as well
10006 as at the client, and warn less verbosely when they fail. You can
10007 override this by setting ServerDNSAllowNonRFC953Addresses to 1.
10008 - Adapt a patch from goodell to let the contrib/exitlist script
10009 take arguments rather than require direct editing.
10010 - Inform the server operator when we decide not to advertise a
10011 DirPort due to AccountingMax enabled or a low BandwidthRate. It
10012 was confusing Zax, so now we're hopefully more helpful.
10013 - Bring us one step closer to being able to establish an encrypted
10014 directory tunnel without knowing a descriptor first. Still not
10015 ready yet. As part of the change, now assume we can use a
10016 create_fast cell if we don't know anything about a router.
10017 - Allow exit nodes to use nameservers running on ports other than 53.
10018 - Servers now cache reverse DNS replies.
10019 - Add an --ignore-missing-torrc command-line option so that we can
10020 get the "use sensible defaults if the configuration file doesn't
10021 exist" behavior even when specifying a torrc location on the command
10024 o Minor features (controller):
10025 - Track reasons for OR connection failure; make these reasons
10026 available via the controller interface. (Patch from Mike Perry.)
10027 - Add a SOCKS_BAD_HOSTNAME client status event so controllers
10028 can learn when clients are sending malformed hostnames to Tor.
10029 - Clean up documentation for controller status events.
10030 - Add a REMAP status to stream events to note that a stream's
10031 address has changed because of a cached address or a MapAddress
10035 Changes in version 0.1.2.6-alpha - 2007-01-09
10037 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if a single TLS
10038 connection handles more than 4 gigs in either direction, we crash.
10039 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if we're an
10040 advertised exit node, somebody might try to exit from us when
10041 we're bootstrapping and before we've built our descriptor yet.
10042 Refuse the connection rather than crashing.
10045 - Warn if we (as a server) find that we've resolved an address that we
10046 weren't planning to resolve.
10047 - Warn that using select() on any libevent version before 1.1 will be
10048 unnecessarily slow (even for select()).
10049 - Flush ERR-level controller status events just like we currently
10050 flush ERR-level log events, so that a Tor shutdown doesn't prevent
10051 the controller from learning about current events.
10053 o Minor features (more controller status events):
10054 - Implement EXTERNAL_ADDRESS server status event so controllers can
10055 learn when our address changes.
10056 - Implement BAD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR server status event so controllers
10057 can learn when directories reject our descriptor.
10058 - Implement SOCKS_UNKNOWN_PROTOCOL client status event so controllers
10059 can learn when a client application is speaking a non-socks protocol
10061 - Implement DANGEROUS_SOCKS client status event so controllers
10062 can learn when a client application is leaking DNS addresses.
10063 - Implement BUG general status event so controllers can learn when
10064 Tor is unhappy about its internal invariants.
10065 - Implement CLOCK_SKEW general status event so controllers can learn
10066 when Tor thinks the system clock is set incorrectly.
10067 - Implement GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR and ACCEPTED_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR
10068 server status events so controllers can learn when their descriptors
10069 are accepted by a directory.
10070 - Implement CHECKING_REACHABILITY and REACHABILITY_{SUCCEEDED|FAILED}
10071 server status events so controllers can learn about Tor's progress in
10072 deciding whether it's reachable from the outside.
10073 - Implement BAD_LIBEVENT general status event so controllers can learn
10074 when we have a version/method combination in libevent that needs to
10076 - Implement NAMESERVER_STATUS, NAMESERVER_ALL_DOWN, DNS_HIJACKED,
10077 and DNS_USELESS server status events so controllers can learn
10078 about changes to DNS server status.
10080 o Minor features (directory):
10081 - Authorities no longer recommend exits as guards if this would shift
10082 too much load to the exit nodes.
10085 Changes in version 0.1.2.5-alpha - 2007-01-06
10087 - Enable write limiting as well as read limiting. Now we sacrifice
10088 capacity if we're pushing out lots of directory traffic, rather
10089 than overrunning the user's intended bandwidth limits.
10090 - Include TLS overhead when counting bandwidth usage; previously, we
10091 would count only the bytes sent over TLS, but not the bytes used
10093 - Support running the Tor service with a torrc not in the same
10094 directory as tor.exe and default to using the torrc located in
10095 the %appdata%\Tor\ of the user who installed the service. Patch
10097 - Servers now check for the case when common DNS requests are going to
10098 wildcarded addresses (i.e. all getting the same answer), and change
10099 their exit policy to reject *:* if it's happening.
10100 - Implement BEGIN_DIR cells, so we can connect to the directory
10101 server via TLS to do encrypted directory requests rather than
10102 plaintext. Enable via the TunnelDirConns and PreferTunneledDirConns
10103 config options if you like.
10105 o Minor features (config and docs):
10106 - Start using the state file to store bandwidth accounting data:
10107 the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. We'll keep generating it
10108 for a while for people who are still using 0.1.2.4-alpha.
10109 - Try to batch changes to the state file so that we do as few
10110 disk writes as possible while still storing important things in
10112 - The state file and the bw_accounting file get saved less often when
10113 the AvoidDiskWrites config option is set.
10114 - Make PIDFile work on Windows (untested).
10115 - Add internal descriptions for a bunch of configuration options:
10116 accessible via controller interface and in comments in saved
10118 - Reject *:563 (NNTPS) in the default exit policy. We already reject
10119 NNTP by default, so this seems like a sensible addition.
10120 - Clients now reject hostnames with invalid characters. This should
10121 avoid some inadvertent info leaks. Add an option
10122 AllowNonRFC953Hostnames to disable this behavior, in case somebody
10123 is running a private network with hosts called @, !, and #.
10124 - Add a maintainer script to tell us which options are missing
10125 documentation: "make check-docs".
10126 - Add a new address-spec.txt document to describe our special-case
10127 addresses: .exit, .onion, and .noconnnect.
10129 o Minor features (DNS):
10130 - Ongoing work on eventdns infrastructure: now it has dns server
10131 and ipv6 support. One day Tor will make use of it.
10132 - Add client-side caching for reverse DNS lookups.
10133 - Add support to tor-resolve tool for reverse lookups and SOCKS5.
10134 - When we change nameservers or IP addresses, reset and re-launch
10135 our tests for DNS hijacking.
10137 o Minor features (directory):
10138 - Authorities now specify server versions in networkstatus. This adds
10139 about 2% to the size of compressed networkstatus docs, and allows
10140 clients to tell which servers support BEGIN_DIR and which don't.
10141 The implementation is forward-compatible with a proposed future
10142 protocol version scheme not tied to Tor versions.
10143 - DirServer configuration lines now have an orport= option so
10144 clients can open encrypted tunnels to the authorities without
10145 having downloaded their descriptors yet. Enabled for moria1,
10146 moria2, tor26, and lefkada now in the default configuration.
10147 - Directory servers are more willing to send a 503 "busy" if they
10148 are near their write limit, especially for v1 directory requests.
10149 Now they can use their limited bandwidth for actual Tor traffic.
10150 - Clients track responses with status 503 from dirservers. After a
10151 dirserver has given us a 503, we try not to use it until an hour has
10152 gone by, or until we have no dirservers that haven't given us a 503.
10153 - When we get a 503 from a directory, and we're not a server, we don't
10154 count the failure against the total number of failures allowed
10155 for the thing we're trying to download.
10156 - Report X-Your-Address-Is correctly from tunneled directory
10157 connections; don't report X-Your-Address-Is when it's an internal
10158 address; and never believe reported remote addresses when they're
10160 - Protect against an unlikely DoS attack on directory servers.
10161 - Add a BadDirectory flag to network status docs so that authorities
10162 can (eventually) tell clients about caches they believe to be
10165 o Minor features (controller):
10166 - Have GETINFO dir/status/* work on hosts with DirPort disabled.
10167 - Reimplement GETINFO so that info/names stays in sync with the
10169 - Implement "GETINFO fingerprint".
10170 - Implement "SETEVENTS GUARD" so controllers can get updates on
10171 entry guard status as it changes.
10173 o Minor features (clean up obsolete pieces):
10174 - Remove some options that have been deprecated since at least
10175 0.1.0.x: AccountingMaxKB, LogFile, DebugLogFile, LogLevel, and
10176 SysLog. Use AccountingMax instead of AccountingMaxKB, and use Log
10177 to set log options.
10178 - We no longer look for identity and onion keys in "identity.key" and
10179 "onion.key" -- these were replaced by secret_id_key and
10180 secret_onion_key in 0.0.8pre1.
10181 - We no longer require unrecognized directory entries to be
10184 o Major bugfixes (security):
10185 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
10186 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
10187 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
10188 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
10190 - When generating bandwidth history, round down to the nearest
10191 1k. When storing accounting data, round up to the nearest 1k.
10192 - When we're running as a server, remember when we last rotated onion
10193 keys, so that we will rotate keys once they're a week old even if
10194 we never stay up for a week ourselves.
10196 o Major bugfixes (other):
10197 - Fix a longstanding bug in eventdns that prevented the count of
10198 timed-out resolves from ever being reset. This bug caused us to
10199 give up on a nameserver the third time it timed out, and try it
10200 10 seconds later... and to give up on it every time it timed out
10202 - Take out the '5 second' timeout from the connection retry
10203 schedule. Now the first connect attempt will wait a full 10
10204 seconds before switching to a new circuit. Perhaps this will help
10205 a lot. Based on observations from Mike Perry.
10206 - Fix a bug on the Windows implementation of tor_mmap_file() that
10207 would prevent the cached-routers file from ever loading. Reported
10211 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
10212 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
10213 unlisted router. Reported by seeess.
10214 - Avoid a double-free when parsing malformed DirServer lines.
10215 - Fix a bug when a BSD-style PF socket is first used. Patch from
10217 - Fix a bug in 0.1.2.2-alpha that prevented clients from asking
10218 to resolve an address at a given exit node even when they ask for
10220 - Servers no longer ever list themselves in their "family" line,
10221 even if configured to do so. This makes it easier to configure
10222 family lists conveniently.
10223 - When running as a server, don't fall back to 127.0.0.1 when no
10224 nameservers are configured in /etc/resolv.conf; instead, make the
10225 user fix resolv.conf or specify nameservers explicitly. (Resolves
10227 - Stop accepting certain malformed ports in configured exit policies.
10228 - Don't re-write the fingerprint file every restart, unless it has
10230 - Stop warning when a single nameserver fails: only warn when _all_ of
10231 our nameservers have failed. Also, when we only have one nameserver,
10232 raise the threshold for deciding that the nameserver is dead.
10233 - Directory authorities now only decide that routers are reachable
10234 if their identity keys are as expected.
10235 - When the user uses bad syntax in the Log config line, stop
10236 suggesting other bad syntax as a replacement.
10237 - Correctly detect ipv6 DNS capability on OpenBSD.
10239 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
10240 - Report the circuit number correctly in STREAM CLOSED events. Bug
10241 reported by Mike Perry.
10242 - Do not report bizarre values for results of accounting GETINFOs
10243 when the last second's write or read exceeds the allotted bandwidth.
10244 - Report "unrecognized key" rather than an empty string when the
10245 controller tries to fetch a networkstatus that doesn't exist.
10248 Changes in version 0.1.1.26 - 2006-12-14
10249 o Security bugfixes:
10250 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
10251 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
10252 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
10253 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
10257 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
10258 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
10259 unlisted router (reported by seeess).
10262 Changes in version 0.1.2.4-alpha - 2006-12-03
10264 - Add support for using natd; this allows FreeBSDs earlier than
10265 5.1.2 to have ipfw send connections through Tor without using
10266 SOCKS. (Patch from Zajcev Evgeny with tweaks from tup.)
10269 - Make all connections to addresses of the form ".noconnect"
10270 immediately get closed. This lets application/controller combos
10271 successfully test whether they're talking to the same Tor by
10272 watching for STREAM events.
10273 - Make cross.sh cross-compilation script work even when autogen.sh
10274 hasn't been run. (Patch from Michael Mohr.)
10275 - Statistics dumped by -USR2 now include a breakdown of public key
10276 operations, for profiling.
10279 - Fix a major leak when directory authorities parse their
10280 approved-routers list, a minor memory leak when we fail to pick
10281 an exit node, and a few rare leaks on errors.
10282 - Handle TransPort connections even when the server sends data before
10283 the client sends data. Previously, the connection would just hang
10284 until the client sent data. (Patch from tup based on patch from
10286 - Avoid assert failure when our cached-routers file is empty on
10290 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
10291 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
10292 - Have directory authorities allow larger amounts of drift in uptime
10293 without replacing the server descriptor: previously, a server that
10294 restarted every 30 minutes could have 48 "interesting" descriptors
10296 - Start linking to the Tor specification and Tor reference manual
10297 correctly in the Windows installer.
10298 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
10299 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
10300 - Resume building on Irix64, and fix a lot of warnings from its
10301 MIPSpro C compiler.
10302 - Don't corrupt last_guessed_ip in router_new_address_suggestion()
10303 when we're running as a client.
10306 Changes in version 0.1.1.25 - 2006-11-04
10308 - When a client asks us to resolve (rather than connect to)
10309 an address, and we have a cached answer, give them the cached
10310 answer. Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
10311 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we predict
10312 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
10313 its circuits on demand.
10314 - If none of our live entry guards have a high uptime, but we
10315 require a guard with a high uptime, try adding a new guard before
10316 we give up on the requirement. This patch should make long-lived
10317 connections more stable on average.
10318 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
10319 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
10320 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
10322 o Security bugfixes:
10323 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
10324 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
10327 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
10329 - Avoid possibility of controller-triggered crash when misusing
10330 certain commands from a v0 controller on platforms that do not
10331 handle printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
10332 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
10333 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
10334 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
10335 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
10336 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
10339 Changes in version 0.1.2.3-alpha - 2006-10-29
10341 - Prepare for servers to publish descriptors less often: never
10342 discard a descriptor simply for being too old until either it is
10343 recommended by no authorities, or until we get a better one for
10344 the same router. Make caches consider retaining old recommended
10345 routers for even longer.
10346 - If most authorities set a BadExit flag for a server, clients
10347 don't think of it as a general-purpose exit. Clients only consider
10348 authorities that advertise themselves as listing bad exits.
10349 - Directory servers now provide 'Pragma: no-cache' and 'Expires'
10350 headers for content, so that we can work better in the presence of
10351 caching HTTP proxies.
10352 - Allow authorities to list nodes as bad exits by fingerprint or by
10355 o Minor features, controller:
10356 - Add a REASON field to CIRC events; for backward compatibility, this
10357 field is sent only to controllers that have enabled the extended
10358 event format. Also, add additional reason codes to explain why
10359 a given circuit has been destroyed or truncated. (Patches from
10361 - Add a REMOTE_REASON field to extended CIRC events to tell the
10362 controller about why a remote OR told us to close a circuit.
10363 - Stream events also now have REASON and REMOTE_REASON fields,
10364 working much like those for circuit events.
10365 - There's now a GETINFO ns/... field so that controllers can ask Tor
10366 about the current status of a router.
10367 - A new event type "NS" to inform a controller when our opinion of
10368 a router's status has changed.
10369 - Add a GETINFO events/names and GETINFO features/names so controllers
10370 can tell which events and features are supported.
10371 - A new CLEARDNSCACHE signal to allow controllers to clear the
10372 client-side DNS cache without expiring circuits.
10374 o Security bugfixes:
10375 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
10376 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
10379 - Avoid sending junk to controllers or segfaulting when a controller
10380 uses EVENT_NEW_DESC with verbose nicknames.
10381 - Stop triggering asserts if the controller tries to extend hidden
10382 service circuits (reported by mwenge).
10383 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
10384 - When the controller does a "GETINFO network-status", tell it
10385 about even those routers whose descriptors are very old, and use
10386 long nicknames where appropriate.
10387 - Change NT service functions to be loaded on demand. This lets us
10388 build with MinGW without breaking Tor for Windows 98 users.
10389 - Do DirPort reachability tests less often, since a single test
10390 chews through many circuits before giving up.
10391 - In the hidden service example in torrc.sample, stop recommending
10392 esoteric and discouraged hidden service options.
10393 - When stopping an NT service, wait up to 10 sec for it to actually
10394 stop. Patch from Matt Edman; resolves bug 295.
10395 - Fix handling of verbose nicknames with ORCONN controller events:
10396 make them show up exactly when requested, rather than exactly when
10398 - When reporting verbose nicknames in entry_guards_getinfo(), avoid
10399 printing a duplicate "$" in the keys we send (reported by mwenge).
10400 - Correctly set maximum connection limit on Cygwin. (This time
10402 - Try to detect Windows correctly when cross-compiling.
10403 - Detect the size of the routers file correctly even if it is
10404 corrupted (on systems without mmap) or not page-aligned (on systems
10405 with mmap). This bug was harmless.
10406 - Sometimes we didn't bother sending a RELAY_END cell when an attempt
10407 to open a stream fails; now we do in more cases. This should
10408 make clients able to find a good exit faster in some cases, since
10409 unhandleable requests will now get an error rather than timing out.
10410 - Resolve two memory leaks when rebuilding the on-disk router cache
10411 (reported by fookoowa).
10412 - Clean up minor code warnings suggested by the MIPSpro C compiler,
10413 and reported by some Centos users.
10414 - Controller signals now work on non-Unix platforms that don't define
10415 SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 the way we expect.
10416 - Patch from Michael Mohr to contrib/cross.sh, so it checks more
10417 values before failing, and always enables eventdns.
10418 - Libevent-1.2 exports, but does not define in its headers, strlcpy.
10419 Try to fix this in configure.in by checking for most functions
10420 before we check for libevent.
10423 Changes in version 0.1.2.2-alpha - 2006-10-07
10425 - Make our async eventdns library on-by-default for Tor servers,
10426 and plan to deprecate the separate dnsworker threads.
10427 - Add server-side support for "reverse" DNS lookups (using PTR
10428 records so clients can determine the canonical hostname for a given
10429 IPv4 address). Only supported by servers using eventdns; servers
10430 now announce in their descriptors whether they support eventdns.
10431 - Specify and implement client-side SOCKS5 interface for reverse DNS
10432 lookups (see doc/socks-extensions.txt).
10433 - Add a BEGIN_DIR relay cell type for an easier in-protocol way to
10434 connect to directory servers through Tor. Previously, clients needed
10435 to find Tor exits to make private connections to directory servers.
10436 - Avoid choosing Exit nodes for entry or middle hops when the
10437 total bandwidth available from non-Exit nodes is much higher than
10438 the total bandwidth available from Exit nodes.
10439 - Workaround for name servers (like Earthlink's) that hijack failing
10440 DNS requests and replace the no-such-server answer with a "helpful"
10441 redirect to an advertising-driven search portal. Also work around
10442 DNS hijackers who "helpfully" decline to hijack known-invalid
10443 RFC2606 addresses. Config option "ServerDNSDetectHijacking 0"
10444 lets you turn it off.
10445 - Send out a burst of long-range padding cells once we've established
10446 that we're reachable. Spread them over 4 circuits, so hopefully
10447 a few will be fast. This exercises our bandwidth and bootstraps
10448 us into the directory more quickly.
10450 o New/improved config options:
10451 - Add new config option "ResolvConf" to let the server operator
10452 choose an alternate resolve.conf file when using eventdns.
10453 - Add an "EnforceDistinctSubnets" option to control our "exclude
10454 servers on the same /16" behavior. It's still on by default; this
10455 is mostly for people who want to operate private test networks with
10456 all the machines on the same subnet.
10457 - If one of our entry guards is on the ExcludeNodes list, or the
10458 directory authorities don't think it's a good guard, treat it as
10459 if it were unlisted: stop using it as a guard, and throw it off
10460 the guards list if it stays that way for a long time.
10461 - Allow directory authorities to be marked separately as authorities
10462 for the v1 directory protocol, the v2 directory protocol, and
10463 as hidden service directories, to make it easier to retire old
10464 authorities. V1 authorities should set "HSAuthoritativeDir 1"
10465 to continue being hidden service authorities too.
10466 - Remove 8888 as a LongLivedPort, and add 6697 (IRCS).
10468 o Minor features, controller:
10469 - Fix CIRC controller events so that controllers can learn the
10470 identity digests of non-Named servers used in circuit paths.
10471 - Let controllers ask for more useful identifiers for servers. Instead
10472 of learning identity digests for un-Named servers and nicknames
10473 for Named servers, the new identifiers include digest, nickname,
10474 and indication of Named status. Off by default; see control-spec.txt
10475 for more information.
10476 - Add a "getinfo address" controller command so it can display Tor's
10477 best guess to the user.
10478 - New controller event to alert the controller when our server
10479 descriptor has changed.
10480 - Give more meaningful errors on controller authentication failure.
10482 o Minor features, other:
10483 - When asked to resolve a hostname, don't use non-exit servers unless
10484 requested to do so. This allows servers with broken DNS to be
10485 useful to the network.
10486 - Divide eventdns log messages into warn and info messages.
10487 - Reserve the nickname "Unnamed" for routers that can't pick
10488 a hostname: any router can call itself Unnamed; directory
10489 authorities will never allocate Unnamed to any particular router;
10490 clients won't believe that any router is the canonical Unnamed.
10491 - Only include function names in log messages for info/debug messages.
10492 For notice/warn/err, the content of the message should be clear on
10493 its own, and printing the function name only confuses users.
10494 - Avoid some false positives during reachability testing: don't try
10495 to test via a server that's on the same /24 as us.
10496 - If we fail to build a circuit to an intended enclave, and it's
10497 not mandatory that we use that enclave, stop wanting it.
10498 - When eventdns is enabled, allow multithreaded builds on NetBSD and
10499 OpenBSD. (We had previously disabled threads on these platforms
10500 because they didn't have working thread-safe resolver functions.)
10502 o Major bugfixes, anonymity/security:
10503 - If a client asked for a server by name, and there's a named server
10504 in our network-status but we don't have its descriptor yet, we
10505 could return an unnamed server instead.
10506 - Fix NetBSD bug that could allow someone to force uninitialized RAM
10507 to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This only affects NetBSD
10508 and other platforms that do not bounds-check tolower().
10509 - Reject (most) attempts to use Tor circuits with length one. (If
10510 many people start using Tor as a one-hop proxy, exit nodes become
10511 a more attractive target for compromise.)
10512 - Just because your DirPort is open doesn't mean people should be
10513 able to remotely teach you about hidden service descriptors. Now
10514 only accept rendezvous posts if you've got HSAuthoritativeDir set.
10516 o Major bugfixes, other:
10517 - Don't crash on race condition in dns.c: tor_assert(!resolve->expire)
10518 - When a client asks the server to resolve (not connect to)
10519 an address, and it has a cached answer, give them the cached answer.
10520 Previously, the server would give them no answer at all.
10521 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
10522 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
10523 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we anticipated
10524 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
10525 its circuits on demand.
10526 - Avoid crashing when we mmap a router cache file of size 0.
10527 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
10528 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
10529 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
10531 o Minor bugfixes, correctness:
10532 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
10533 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
10534 we don't recognize.
10535 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
10537 - Avoid controller-triggered crash when misusing certain commands
10538 from a v0 controller on platforms that do not handle
10539 printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
10540 - Don't crash when a controller sends a third argument to an
10541 "extendcircuit" request.
10542 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
10543 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
10544 - Avoid crash when telling controller stream-status and a stream
10546 - Patch from Adam Langley to fix assert() in eventdns.c.
10547 - Fix a debug log message in eventdns to say "X resolved to Y"
10548 instead of "X resolved to X".
10549 - Make eventdns give strings for DNS errors, not just error numbers.
10550 - Track unreachable entry guards correctly: don't conflate
10551 'unreachable by us right now' with 'listed as down by the directory
10552 authorities'. With the old code, if a guard was unreachable by
10553 us but listed as running, it would clog our guard list forever.
10554 - Behave correctly in case we ever have a network with more than
10555 2GB/s total advertised capacity.
10556 - Make TrackExitHosts case-insensitive, and fix the behavior of
10557 ".suffix" TrackExitHosts items to avoid matching in the middle of
10559 - Finally fix the openssl warnings from newer gccs that believe that
10560 ignoring a return value is okay, but casting a return value and
10561 then ignoring it is a sign of madness.
10562 - Prevent the contrib/exitlist script from printing the same
10563 result more than once.
10564 - Patch from Steve Hildrey: Generate network status correctly on
10565 non-versioning dirservers.
10566 - Don't listen to the X-Your-Address-Is hint if you did the lookup
10567 via Tor; otherwise you'll think you're the exit node's IP address.
10569 o Minor bugfixes, performance:
10570 - Two small performance improvements on parsing descriptors.
10571 - Major performance improvement on inserting descriptors: change
10572 algorithm from O(n^2) to O(n).
10573 - Make the common memory allocation path faster on machines where
10574 malloc(0) returns a pointer.
10575 - Start remembering X-Your-Address-Is directory hints even if you're
10576 a client, so you can become a server more smoothly.
10577 - Avoid duplicate entries on MyFamily line in server descriptor.
10579 o Packaging, features:
10580 - Remove architecture from OS X builds. The official builds are
10581 now universal binaries.
10582 - The Debian package now uses --verify-config when (re)starting,
10583 to distinguish configuration errors from other errors.
10584 - Update RPMs to require libevent 1.1b.
10586 o Packaging, bugfixes:
10587 - Patches so Tor builds with MinGW on Windows.
10588 - Patches so Tor might run on Cygwin again.
10589 - Resume building on non-gcc compilers and ancient gcc. Resume
10590 building with the -O0 compile flag. Resume building cleanly on
10592 - Run correctly on OS X platforms with case-sensitive filesystems.
10593 - Correct includes for net/if.h and net/pfvar.h on OpenBSD (from Tup).
10594 - Add autoconf checks so Tor can build on Solaris x86 again.
10597 - Documented (and renamed) ServerDNSSearchDomains and
10598 ServerDNSResolvConfFile options.
10599 - Be clearer that the *ListenAddress directives can be repeated
10603 Changes in version 0.1.1.24 - 2006-09-29
10605 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
10606 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
10607 - Fix major performance regression from 0.1.0.x: instead of checking
10608 whether we have enough directory information every time we want to
10609 do something, only check when the directory information has changed.
10610 This should improve client CPU usage by 25-50%.
10611 - Don't crash if, after a server has been running for a while,
10612 it can't resolve its hostname.
10615 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
10616 - Don't crash when the controller receives a third argument to an
10617 "extendcircuit" request.
10618 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
10619 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
10620 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
10621 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
10623 - Fix security bug on NetBSD that could allow someone to force
10624 uninitialized RAM to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This
10625 only affects NetBSD and other platforms that do not bounds-check
10627 - Warn user when using libevent 1.1a or earlier with win32 or kqueue
10628 methods: these are known to be buggy.
10629 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
10630 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
10631 we don't recognize.
10634 Changes in version 0.1.2.1-alpha - 2006-08-27
10636 - Add "eventdns" async dns library from Adam Langley, tweaked to
10637 build on OSX and Windows. Only enabled if you pass the
10638 --enable-eventdns argument to configure.
10639 - Allow servers with no hostname or IP address to learn their
10640 IP address by asking the directory authorities. This code only
10641 kicks in when you would normally have exited with a "no address"
10642 error. Nothing's authenticated, so use with care.
10643 - Rather than waiting a fixed amount of time between retrying
10644 application connections, we wait only 5 seconds for the first,
10645 10 seconds for the second, and 15 seconds for each retry after
10646 that. Hopefully this will improve the expected user experience.
10647 - Patch from Tup to add support for transparent AP connections:
10648 this basically bundles the functionality of trans-proxy-tor
10649 into the Tor mainline. Now hosts with compliant pf/netfilter
10650 implementations can redirect TCP connections straight to Tor
10651 without diverting through SOCKS. Needs docs.
10652 - Busy directory servers save lots of memory by spooling server
10653 descriptors, v1 directories, and v2 networkstatus docs to buffers
10654 as needed rather than en masse. Also mmap the cached-routers
10655 files, so we don't need to keep the whole thing in memory too.
10656 - Automatically avoid picking more than one node from the same
10657 /16 network when constructing a circuit.
10658 - Revise and clean up the torrc.sample that we ship with; add
10659 a section for BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst.
10662 - Split circuit_t into origin_circuit_t and or_circuit_t, and
10663 split connection_t into edge, or, dir, control, and base structs.
10664 These will save quite a bit of memory on busy servers, and they'll
10665 also help us track down bugs in the code and bugs in the spec.
10666 - Experimentally re-enable kqueue on OSX when using libevent 1.1b
10667 or later. Log when we are doing this, so we can diagnose it when
10668 it fails. (Also, recommend libevent 1.1b for kqueue and
10669 win32 methods; deprecate libevent 1.0b harder; make libevent
10670 recommendation system saner.)
10671 - Start being able to build universal binaries on OS X (thanks
10673 - Export the default exit policy via the control port, so controllers
10674 don't need to guess what it is / will be later.
10675 - Add a man page entry for ProtocolWarnings.
10676 - Add TestVia config option to the man page.
10677 - Remove even more protocol-related warnings from Tor server logs,
10678 such as bad TLS handshakes and malformed begin cells.
10679 - Stop fetching descriptors if you're not a dir mirror and you
10680 haven't tried to establish any circuits lately. [This currently
10681 causes some dangerous behavior, because when you start up again
10682 you'll use your ancient server descriptors.]
10683 - New DirPort behavior: if you have your dirport set, you download
10684 descriptors aggressively like a directory mirror, whether or not
10685 your ORPort is set.
10686 - Get rid of the router_retry_connections notion. Now routers
10687 no longer try to rebuild long-term connections to directory
10688 authorities, and directory authorities no longer try to rebuild
10689 long-term connections to all servers. We still don't hang up
10690 connections in these two cases though -- we need to look at it
10691 more carefully to avoid flapping, and we likely need to wait til
10692 0.1.1.x is obsolete.
10693 - Drop compatibility with obsolete Tors that permit create cells
10694 to have the wrong circ_id_type.
10695 - Re-enable per-connection rate limiting. Get rid of the "OP
10696 bandwidth" concept. Lay groundwork for "bandwidth classes" --
10697 separate global buckets that apply depending on what sort of conn
10699 - Start publishing one minute or so after we find our ORPort
10700 to be reachable. This will help reduce the number of descriptors
10701 we have for ourselves floating around, since it's quite likely
10702 other things (e.g. DirPort) will change during that minute too.
10703 - Fork the v1 directory protocol into its own spec document,
10704 and mark dir-spec.txt as the currently correct (v2) spec.
10707 - When we find our DirPort to be reachable, publish a new descriptor
10708 so we'll tell the world (reported by pnx).
10709 - Publish a new descriptor after we hup/reload. This is important
10710 if our config has changed such that we'll want to start advertising
10711 our DirPort now, etc.
10712 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
10713 - When we have a state file we cannot parse, tell the user and
10714 move it aside. Now we avoid situations where the user starts
10715 Tor in 1904, Tor writes a state file with that timestamp in it,
10716 the user fixes her clock, and Tor refuses to start.
10717 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
10718 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
10720 - "tor --verify-config" now exits with -1(255) or 0 depending on
10721 whether the config options are bad or good.
10722 - Resolve bug 321 when using dnsworkers: append a period to every
10723 address we resolve at the exit node, so that we do not accidentally
10724 pick up local addresses, and so that failing searches are retried
10725 in the resolver search domains. (This is already solved for
10726 eventdns.) (This breaks Blossom servers for now.)
10727 - If we are using an exit enclave and we can't connect, e.g. because
10728 its webserver is misconfigured to not listen on localhost, then
10729 back off and try connecting from somewhere else before we fail.
10732 - Start compiling on MinGW on Windows (patches from Mike Chiussi).
10733 - Start compiling on MSVC6 on Windows (patches from Frediano Ziglio).
10734 - Fix bug 314: Tor clients issued "unsafe socks" warnings even
10735 when the IP address is mapped through MapAddress to a hostname.
10736 - Start passing "ipv4" hints to getaddrinfo(), so servers don't do
10737 useless IPv6 DNS resolves.
10738 - Patch suggested by Karsten Loesing: respond to SIGNAL command
10739 before we execute the signal, in case the signal shuts us down.
10740 - Clean up AllowInvalidNodes man page entry.
10741 - Claim a commonname of Tor, rather than TOR, in TLS handshakes.
10742 - Add more asserts to track down an assert error on a windows Tor
10743 server with connection_add being called with socket == -1.
10744 - Handle reporting OR_CONN_EVENT_NEW events to the controller.
10745 - Fix misleading log messages: an entry guard that is "unlisted",
10746 as well as not known to be "down" (because we've never heard
10747 of it), is not therefore "up".
10748 - Remove code to special-case "-cvs" ending, since it has not
10749 actually mattered since 0.0.9.
10750 - Make our socks5 handling more robust to broken socks clients:
10751 throw out everything waiting on the buffer in between socks
10752 handshake phases, since they can't possibly (so the theory
10753 goes) have predicted what we plan to respond to them.
10756 Changes in version 0.1.1.23 - 2006-07-30
10758 - Fast Tor servers, especially exit nodes, were triggering asserts
10759 due to a bug in handling the list of pending DNS resolves. Some
10760 bugs still remain here; we're hunting them.
10761 - Entry guards could crash clients by sending unexpected input.
10762 - More fixes on reachability testing: if you find yourself reachable,
10763 then don't ever make any client requests (so you stop predicting
10764 circuits), then hup or have your clock jump, then later your IP
10765 changes, you won't think circuits are working, so you won't try to
10766 test reachability, so you won't publish.
10769 - Avoid a crash if the controller does a resetconf firewallports
10770 and then a setconf fascistfirewall=1.
10771 - Avoid an integer underflow when the dir authority decides whether
10772 a router is stable: we might wrongly label it stable, and compute
10773 a slightly wrong median stability, when a descriptor is published
10775 - Fix a place where we might trigger an assert if we can't build our
10776 own server descriptor yet.
10779 Changes in version 0.1.1.22 - 2006-07-05
10781 - Fix a big bug that was causing servers to not find themselves
10782 reachable if they changed IP addresses. Since only 0.1.1.22+
10783 servers can do reachability testing correctly, now we automatically
10784 make sure to test via one of these.
10785 - Fix to allow clients and mirrors to learn directory info from
10786 descriptor downloads that get cut off partway through.
10787 - Directory authorities had a bug in deciding if a newly published
10788 descriptor was novel enough to make everybody want a copy -- a few
10789 servers seem to be publishing new descriptors many times a minute.
10791 - Fix a rare bug that was causing some servers to complain about
10792 "closing wedged cpuworkers" and skip some circuit create requests.
10793 - Make the Exit flag in directory status documents actually work.
10796 Changes in version 0.1.1.21 - 2006-06-10
10797 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.1.20:
10798 - Fix a rare crash on Tor servers that have enabled hibernation.
10799 - Fix a seg fault on startup for Tor networks that use only one
10800 directory authority.
10801 - Fix an assert from a race condition that occurs on Tor servers
10802 while exiting, where various threads are trying to log that they're
10803 exiting, and delete the logs, at the same time.
10804 - Make our unit tests pass again on certain obscure platforms.
10807 - Add support for building SUSE RPM packages.
10808 - Speed up initial bootstrapping for clients: if we are making our
10809 first ever connection to any entry guard, then don't mark it down
10811 - When only one Tor server in the network is labelled as a guard,
10812 and we've already picked him, we would cycle endlessly picking him
10813 again, being unhappy about it, etc. Now we specifically exclude
10814 current guards when picking a new guard.
10815 - Servers send create cells more reliably after the TLS connection
10816 is established: we were sometimes forgetting to send half of them
10817 when we had more than one pending.
10818 - If we get a create cell that asks us to extend somewhere, but the
10819 Tor server there doesn't match the expected digest, we now send
10820 a destroy cell back, rather than silently doing nothing.
10821 - Make options->RedirectExit work again.
10822 - Make cookie authentication for the controller work again.
10823 - Stop being picky about unusual characters in the arguments to
10824 mapaddress. It's none of our business.
10825 - Add a new config option "TestVia" that lets you specify preferred
10826 middle hops to use for test circuits. Perhaps this will let me
10827 debug the reachability problems better.
10829 o Log / documentation fixes:
10830 - If we're a server and some peer has a broken TLS certificate, don't
10831 log about it unless ProtocolWarnings is set, i.e., we want to hear
10832 about protocol violations by others.
10833 - Fix spelling of VirtualAddrNetwork in man page.
10834 - Add a better explanation at the top of the autogenerated torrc file
10835 about what happened to our old torrc.
10838 Changes in version 0.1.1.20 - 2006-05-23
10840 - Downgrade a log severity where servers complain that they're
10842 - Avoid a compile warning on FreeBSD.
10843 - Remove string size limit on NEWDESC messages; solve bug 291.
10844 - Correct the RunAsDaemon entry in the man page; ignore RunAsDaemon
10845 more thoroughly when we're running on windows.
10848 Changes in version 0.1.1.19-rc - 2006-05-03
10850 - Regenerate our local descriptor if it's dirty and we try to use
10851 it locally (e.g. if it changes during reachability detection).
10852 - If we setconf our ORPort to 0, we continued to listen on the
10853 old ORPort and receive connections.
10854 - Avoid a second warning about machine/limits.h on Debian
10856 - Be willing to add our own routerinfo into the routerlist.
10857 Now authorities will include themselves in their directories
10858 and network-statuses.
10859 - Stop trying to upload rendezvous descriptors to every
10860 directory authority: only try the v1 authorities.
10861 - Servers no longer complain when they think they're not
10862 registered with the directory authorities. There were too many
10864 - Backport dist-rpm changes so rpms can be built without errors.
10867 - Implement an option, VirtualAddrMask, to set which addresses
10868 get handed out in response to mapaddress requests. This works
10869 around a bug in tsocks where 127.0.0.0/8 is never socksified.
10872 Changes in version 0.1.1.18-rc - 2006-04-10
10874 - Work harder to download live network-statuses from all the
10875 directory authorities we know about. Improve the threshold
10876 decision logic so we're more robust to edge cases.
10877 - When fetching rendezvous descriptors, we were willing to ask
10878 v2 authorities too, which would always return 404.
10881 - Stop listing down or invalid nodes in the v1 directory. This will
10882 reduce its bulk by about 1/3, and reduce load on directory
10884 - When deciding whether a router is Fast or Guard-worthy, consider
10885 his advertised BandwidthRate and not just the BandwidthCapacity.
10886 - No longer ship INSTALL and README files -- they are useless now.
10887 - Force rpmbuild to behave and honor target_cpu.
10888 - Avoid warnings about machine/limits.h on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.
10889 - Start to include translated versions of the tor-doc-*.html
10890 files, along with the screenshots. Still needs more work.
10891 - Start sending back 512 and 451 errors if mapaddress fails,
10892 rather than not sending anything back at all.
10893 - When we fail to bind or listen on an incoming or outgoing
10894 socket, we should close it before failing. otherwise we just
10895 leak it. (thanks to weasel for finding.)
10896 - Allow "getinfo dir/status/foo" to work, as long as your DirPort
10897 is enabled. (This is a hack, and will be fixed in 0.1.2.x.)
10898 - Make NoPublish (even though deprecated) work again.
10899 - Fix a minor security flaw where a versioning auth dirserver
10900 could list a recommended version many times in a row to make
10901 clients more convinced that it's recommended.
10902 - Fix crash bug if there are two unregistered servers running
10903 with the same nickname, one of them is down, and you ask for
10904 them by nickname in your EntryNodes or ExitNodes. Also, try
10905 to pick the one that's running rather than an arbitrary one.
10906 - Fix an infinite loop we could hit if we go offline for too long.
10907 - Complain when we hit WSAENOBUFS on recv() or write() too.
10908 Perhaps this will help us hunt the bug.
10909 - If you're not a versioning dirserver, don't put the string
10910 "client-versions \nserver-versions \n" in your network-status.
10911 - Lower the minimum required number of file descriptors to 1000,
10912 so we can have some overhead for Valgrind on Linux, where the
10913 default ulimit -n is 1024.
10916 - Add tor.dizum.com as the fifth authoritative directory server.
10917 - Add a new config option FetchUselessDescriptors, off by default,
10918 for when you plan to run "exitlist" on your client and you want
10919 to know about even the non-running descriptors.
10922 Changes in version 0.1.1.17-rc - 2006-03-28
10924 - Clients and servers since 0.1.1.10-alpha have been expiring
10925 connections whenever they are idle for 5 minutes and they *do*
10926 have circuits on them. Oops. With this new version, clients will
10927 discard their previous entry guard choices and avoid choosing
10928 entry guards running these flawed versions.
10929 - Fix memory leak when uncompressing concatenated zlib streams. This
10930 was causing substantial leaks over time on Tor servers.
10931 - The v1 directory was including servers as much as 48 hours old,
10932 because that's how the new routerlist->routers works. Now only
10933 include them if they're 20 hours old or less.
10936 - Resume building on irix64, netbsd 2.0, etc.
10937 - On non-gcc compilers (e.g. solaris), use "-g -O" instead of
10939 - Stop writing the "router.desc" file, ever. Nothing uses it anymore,
10940 and it is confusing some users.
10941 - Mirrors stop caching the v1 directory so often.
10942 - Make the max number of old descriptors that a cache will hold
10943 rise with the number of directory authorities, so we can scale.
10944 - Change our win32 uname() hack to be more forgiving about what
10945 win32 versions it thinks it's found.
10948 - Add lefkada.eecs.harvard.edu as a fourth authoritative directory
10950 - When the controller's *setconf commands fail, collect an error
10951 message in a string and hand it back to the controller.
10952 - Make the v2 dir's "Fast" flag based on relative capacity, just
10953 like "Stable" is based on median uptime. Name everything in the
10954 top 7/8 Fast, and only the top 1/2 gets to be a Guard.
10955 - Log server fingerprint on startup, so new server operators don't
10956 have to go hunting around their filesystem for it.
10957 - Return a robots.txt on our dirport to discourage google indexing.
10958 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/status/foo so it can ask
10959 directly rather than connecting to the dir port. Only works when
10960 dirport is set for now.
10962 o New config options rather than constants in the code:
10963 - SocksTimeout: How long do we let a socks connection wait
10964 unattached before we fail it?
10965 - CircuitBuildTimeout: Cull non-open circuits that were born
10966 at least this many seconds ago.
10967 - CircuitIdleTimeout: Cull open clean circuits that were born
10968 at least this many seconds ago.
10971 Changes in version 0.1.1.16-rc - 2006-03-18
10972 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.15-rc:
10973 - Fix assert when the controller asks to attachstream a connect-wait
10974 or resolve-wait stream.
10975 - Now do address rewriting when the controller asks us to attach
10976 to a particular circuit too. This will let Blossom specify
10977 "moria2.exit" without having to learn what moria2's IP address is.
10978 - Make the "tor --verify-config" command-line work again, so people
10979 can automatically check if their torrc will parse.
10980 - Authoritative dirservers no longer require an open connection from
10981 a server to consider him "reachable". We need this change because
10982 when we add new auth dirservers, old servers won't know not to
10984 - Let Tor build on Sun CC again.
10985 - Fix an off-by-one buffer size in dirserv.c that magically never
10986 hit our three authorities but broke sjmurdoch's own tor network.
10987 - If we as a directory mirror don't know of any v1 directory
10988 authorities, then don't try to cache any v1 directories.
10989 - Stop warning about unknown servers in our family when they are
10990 given as hex digests.
10991 - Stop complaining as quickly to the server operator that he
10992 hasn't registered his nickname/key binding.
10993 - Various cleanups so we can add new V2 Auth Dirservers.
10994 - Change "AllowUnverifiedNodes" to "AllowInvalidNodes", to
10995 reflect the updated flags in our v2 dir protocol.
10996 - Resume allowing non-printable characters for exit streams (both
10997 for connecting and for resolving). Now we tolerate applications
10998 that don't follow the RFCs. But continue to block malformed names
11001 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
11002 - Fix assert bug in close_logs(): when we close and delete logs,
11003 remove them all from the global "logfiles" list.
11004 - Fix minor integer overflow in calculating when we expect to use up
11005 our bandwidth allocation before hibernating.
11006 - Fix a couple of bugs in OpenSSL detection. Also, deal better when
11007 there are multiple SSLs installed with different versions.
11008 - When we try to be a server and Address is not explicitly set and
11009 our hostname resolves to a private IP address, try to use an
11010 interface address if it has a public address. Now Windows machines
11011 that think of themselves as localhost can work by default.
11014 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/server/foo so it can ask
11015 directly rather than connecting to the dir port.
11016 - Let the controller tell us about certain router descriptors
11017 that it doesn't want Tor to use in circuits. Implement
11018 SETROUTERPURPOSE and modify +POSTDESCRIPTOR to do this.
11019 - New config option SafeSocks to reject all application connections
11020 using unsafe socks protocols. Defaults to off.
11023 Changes in version 0.1.1.15-rc - 2006-03-11
11024 o Bugfixes and cleanups:
11025 - When we're printing strings from the network, don't try to print
11026 non-printable characters. This protects us against shell escape
11027 sequence exploits, and also against attacks to fool humans into
11028 misreading their logs.
11029 - Fix a bug where Tor would fail to establish any connections if you
11030 left it off for 24 hours and then started it: we were happy with
11031 the obsolete network statuses, but they all referred to router
11032 descriptors that were too old to fetch, so we ended up with no
11033 valid router descriptors.
11034 - Fix a seg fault in the controller's "getinfo orconn-status"
11035 command while listing status on incoming handshaking connections.
11036 Introduce a status name "NEW" for these connections.
11037 - If we get a linelist or linelist_s config option from the torrc
11038 (e.g. ExitPolicy) and it has no value, warn and skip rather than
11039 silently resetting it to its default.
11040 - Don't abandon entry guards until they've been down or gone for
11042 - Cleaner and quieter log messages.
11045 - New controller signal NEWNYM that makes new application requests
11046 use clean circuits.
11047 - Add a new circuit purpose 'controller' to let the controller ask
11048 for a circuit that Tor won't try to use. Extend the EXTENDCIRCUIT
11049 controller command to let you specify the purpose if you're
11050 starting a new circuit. Add a new SETCIRCUITPURPOSE controller
11051 command to let you change a circuit's purpose after it's been
11053 - Accept "private:*" in routerdesc exit policies; not generated yet
11054 because older Tors do not understand it.
11055 - Add BSD-style contributed startup script "rc.subr" from Peter
11059 Changes in version 0.1.1.14-alpha - 2006-02-20
11060 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
11061 - Don't die if we ask for a stdout or stderr log (even implicitly)
11062 and we're set to RunAsDaemon -- just warn.
11063 - We still had a few bugs in the OR connection rotation code that
11064 caused directory servers to slowly aggregate connections to other
11065 fast Tor servers. This time for sure!
11066 - Make log entries on Win32 include the name of the function again.
11067 - We were treating a pair of exit policies if they were equal even
11068 if one said accept and the other said reject -- causing us to
11069 not always publish a new descriptor since we thought nothing
11071 - Retry pending server downloads as well as pending networkstatus
11072 downloads when we unexpectedly get a socks request.
11073 - We were ignoring the IS_FAST flag in the directory status,
11074 meaning we were willing to pick trivial-bandwidth nodes for "fast"
11076 - If the controller's SAVECONF command fails (e.g. due to file
11077 permissions), let the controller know that it failed.
11080 - If we're trying to be a Tor server and running Windows 95/98/ME
11081 as a server, explain that we'll likely crash.
11082 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
11083 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
11084 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
11085 without getting overloaded.
11086 - Compress exit policies even more -- look for duplicate lines
11088 - Clients now honor the "guard" flag in the router status when
11089 picking entry guards, rather than looking at is_fast or is_stable.
11090 - Retain unrecognized lines in $DATADIR/state file, so that we can
11091 be forward-compatible.
11092 - Generate 18.0.0.0/8 address policy format in descs when we can;
11093 warn when the mask is not reducible to a bit-prefix.
11094 - Let the user set ControlListenAddress in the torrc. This can be
11095 dangerous, but there are some cases (like a secured LAN) where it
11097 - Split ReachableAddresses into ReachableDirAddresses and
11098 ReachableORAddresses, so we can restrict Dir conns to port 80
11099 and OR conns to port 443.
11100 - Now we can target arch and OS in rpm builds (contributed by
11101 Phobos). Also make the resulting dist-rpm filename match the
11103 - New config options to help controllers: FetchServerDescriptors
11104 and FetchHidServDescriptors for whether to fetch server
11105 info and hidserv info or let the controller do it, and
11106 PublishServerDescriptor and PublishHidServDescriptors.
11107 - Also let the controller set the __AllDirActionsPrivate config
11108 option if you want all directory fetches/publishes to happen via
11109 Tor (it assumes your controller bootstraps your circuits).
11112 Changes in version 0.1.0.17 - 2006-02-17
11113 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
11114 - When servers with a non-zero DirPort came out of hibernation,
11115 sometimes they would trigger an assert.
11117 o Other important bugfixes:
11118 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
11119 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
11120 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
11121 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
11123 o Backported features:
11124 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
11125 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
11126 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
11127 without getting overloaded.
11128 - Whenever you get a 503 in response to a directory fetch, try
11129 once more. This will become important once servers start sending
11130 503's whenever they feel busy.
11131 - Fetch a new directory every 120 minutes, not every 40 minutes.
11132 Now that we have hundreds of thousands of users running the old
11133 directory algorithm, it's starting to hurt a lot.
11134 - Bump up the period for forcing a hidden service descriptor upload
11135 from 20 minutes to 1 hour.
11138 Changes in version 0.1.1.13-alpha - 2006-02-09
11139 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
11140 - When you tried to setconf ORPort via the controller, Tor would
11141 crash. So people using TorCP to become a server were sad.
11142 - Solve (I hope) the stack-smashing bug that we were seeing on fast
11143 servers. The problem appears to be something do with OpenSSL's
11144 random number generation, or how we call it, or something. Let me
11145 know if the crashes continue.
11146 - Turn crypto hardware acceleration off by default, until we find
11147 somebody smart who can test it for us. (It appears to produce
11148 seg faults in at least some cases.)
11149 - Fix a rare assert error when we've tried all intro points for
11150 a hidden service and we try fetching the service descriptor again:
11151 "Assertion conn->state != AP_CONN_STATE_RENDDESC_WAIT failed"
11154 - Fix a major load balance bug: we were round-robining in 16 KB
11155 chunks, and servers with bandwidthrate of 20 KB, while downloading
11156 a 600 KB directory, would starve their other connections. Now we
11157 try to be a bit more fair.
11158 - Dir authorities and mirrors were never expiring the newest
11159 descriptor for each server, causing memory and directory bloat.
11160 - Fix memory-bloating and connection-bloating bug on servers: We
11161 were never closing any connection that had ever had a circuit on
11162 it, because we were checking conn->n_circuits == 0, yet we had a
11163 bug that let it go negative.
11164 - Make Tor work using squid as your http proxy again -- squid
11165 returns an error if you ask for a URL that's too long, and it uses
11166 a really generic error message. Plus, many people are behind a
11167 transparent squid so they don't even realize it.
11168 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
11169 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
11170 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
11171 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
11172 - Add a new config option ExitPolicyRejectPrivate which defaults to
11173 1. This means all exit policies will begin with rejecting private
11174 addresses, unless the server operator explicitly turns it off.
11177 - Clients no longer download descriptors for non-running
11179 - Before we add new directory authorities, we should make it
11180 clear that only v1 authorities should receive/publish hidden
11181 service descriptors.
11184 - As soon as we've fetched some more directory info, immediately
11185 try to download more server descriptors. This way we don't have
11186 a 10 second pause during initial bootstrapping.
11187 - Remove even more loud log messages that the server operator can't
11189 - When we're running an obsolete or un-recommended version, make
11190 the log message more clear about what the problem is and what
11191 versions *are* still recommended.
11192 - Provide a more useful warn message when our onion queue gets full:
11193 the CPU is too slow or the exit policy is too liberal.
11194 - Don't warn when we receive a 503 from a dirserver/cache -- this
11195 will pave the way for them being able to refuse if they're busy.
11196 - When we fail to bind a listener, try to provide a more useful
11197 log message: e.g., "Is Tor already running?"
11198 - Adjust tor-spec to parameterize cell and key lengths. Now Ian
11199 Goldberg can prove things about our handshake protocol more
11201 - MaxConn has been obsolete for a while now. Document the ConnLimit
11202 config option, which is a *minimum* number of file descriptors
11203 that must be available else Tor refuses to start.
11204 - Apply Matt Ghali's --with-syslog-facility patch to ./configure
11205 if you log to syslog and want something other than LOG_DAEMON.
11206 - Make dirservers generate a separate "guard" flag to mean,
11207 "would make a good entry guard". Make clients parse it and vote
11208 on it. Not used by clients yet.
11209 - Implement --with-libevent-dir option to ./configure. Also, improve
11210 search techniques to find libevent, and use those for openssl too.
11211 - Bump the default bandwidthrate to 3 MB, and burst to 6 MB
11212 - Only start testing reachability once we've established a
11213 circuit. This will make startup on dirservers less noisy.
11214 - Don't try to upload hidden service descriptors until we have
11215 established a circuit.
11216 - Fix the controller's "attachstream 0" command to treat conn like
11217 it just connected, doing address remapping, handling .exit and
11218 .onion idioms, and so on. Now we're more uniform in making sure
11219 that the controller hears about new and closing connections.
11222 Changes in version 0.1.1.12-alpha - 2006-01-11
11223 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
11224 - The fix to close duplicate server connections was closing all
11225 Tor client connections if they didn't establish a circuit
11226 quickly enough. Oops.
11227 - Fix minor memory issue (double-free) that happened on exit.
11229 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
11230 - Tor didn't warn when it failed to open a log file.
11233 Changes in version 0.1.1.11-alpha - 2006-01-10
11234 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
11235 - Include all the assert/crash fixes from 0.1.0.16.
11236 - If you start Tor and then quit very quickly, there were some
11237 races that tried to free things that weren't allocated yet.
11238 - Fix a rare memory stomp if you're running hidden services.
11239 - Fix segfault when specifying DirServer in config without nickname.
11240 - Fix a seg fault when you finish connecting to a server but at
11241 that moment you dump his server descriptor.
11242 - Extendcircuit and Attachstream controller commands would
11243 assert/crash if you don't give them enough arguments.
11244 - Fix an assert error when we're out of space in the connection_list
11245 and we try to post a hidden service descriptor (reported by weasel).
11246 - If you specify a relative torrc path and you set RunAsDaemon in
11247 your torrc, then it chdir()'s to the new directory. If you HUP,
11248 it tries to load the new torrc location, fails, and exits.
11249 The fix: no longer allow a relative path to torrc using -f.
11252 - Implement "entry guards": automatically choose a handful of entry
11253 nodes and stick with them for all circuits. Only pick new guards
11254 when the ones you have are unsuitable, and if the old guards
11255 become suitable again, switch back. This will increase security
11256 dramatically against certain end-point attacks. The EntryNodes
11257 config option now provides some hints about which entry guards you
11258 want to use most; and StrictEntryNodes means to only use those.
11259 - New directory logic: download by descriptor digest, not by
11260 fingerprint. Caches try to download all listed digests from
11261 authorities; clients try to download "best" digests from caches.
11262 This avoids partitioning and isolating attacks better.
11263 - Make the "stable" router flag in network-status be the median of
11264 the uptimes of running valid servers, and make clients pay
11265 attention to the network-status flags. Thus the cutoff adapts
11266 to the stability of the network as a whole, making IRC, IM, etc
11267 connections more reliable.
11270 - Tor servers with dynamic IP addresses were needing to wait 18
11271 hours before they could start doing reachability testing using
11272 the new IP address and ports. This is because they were using
11273 the internal descriptor to learn what to test, yet they were only
11274 rebuilding the descriptor once they decided they were reachable.
11275 - Tor 0.1.1.9 and 0.1.1.10 had a serious bug that caused clients
11276 to download certain server descriptors, throw them away, and then
11277 fetch them again after 30 minutes. Now mirrors throw away these
11278 server descriptors so clients can't get them.
11279 - We were leaving duplicate connections to other ORs open for a week,
11280 rather than closing them once we detect a duplicate. This only
11281 really affected authdirservers, but it affected them a lot.
11282 - Spread the authdirservers' reachability testing over the entire
11283 testing interval, so we don't try to do 500 TLS's at once every
11287 - If the network is down, and we try to connect to a conn because
11288 we have a circuit in mind, and we timeout (30 seconds) because the
11289 network never answers, we were expiring the circuit, but we weren't
11290 obsoleting the connection or telling the entry_guards functions.
11291 - Some Tor servers process billions of cells per day. These statistics
11292 need to be uint64_t's.
11293 - Check for integer overflows in more places, when adding elements
11294 to smartlists. This could possibly prevent a buffer overflow
11295 on malicious huge inputs. I don't see any, but I haven't looked
11297 - ReachableAddresses kept growing new "reject *:*" lines on every
11299 - When you "setconf log" via the controller, it should remove all
11300 logs. We were automatically adding back in a "log notice stdout".
11301 - Newly bootstrapped Tor networks couldn't establish hidden service
11302 circuits until they had nodes with high uptime. Be more tolerant.
11303 - We were marking servers down when they could not answer every piece
11304 of the directory request we sent them. This was far too harsh.
11305 - Fix the torify (tsocks) config file to not use Tor for localhost
11307 - Directory authorities now go to the proper authority when asking for
11308 a networkstatus, even when they want a compressed one.
11309 - Fix a harmless bug that was causing Tor servers to log
11310 "Got an end because of misc error, but we're not an AP. Closing."
11311 - Authorities were treating their own descriptor changes as cosmetic,
11312 meaning the descriptor available in the network-status and the
11313 descriptor that clients downloaded were different.
11314 - The OS X installer was adding a symlink for tor_resolve but
11315 the binary was called tor-resolve (reported by Thomas Hardly).
11316 - Workaround a problem with some http proxies where they refuse GET
11317 requests that specify "Content-Length: 0" (reported by Adrian).
11318 - Fix wrong log message when you add a "HiddenServiceNodes" config
11319 line without any HiddenServiceDir line (reported by Chris Thomas).
11322 - Write the TorVersion into the state file so we have a prayer of
11323 keeping forward and backward compatibility.
11324 - Revive the FascistFirewall config option rather than eliminating it:
11325 now it's a synonym for ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443.
11326 - Clients choose directory servers from the network status lists,
11327 not from their internal list of router descriptors. Now they can
11328 go to caches directly rather than needing to go to authorities
11330 - Directory authorities ignore router descriptors that have only
11331 cosmetic differences: do this for 0.1.0.x servers now too.
11332 - Add a new flag to network-status indicating whether the server
11333 can answer v2 directory requests too.
11334 - Authdirs now stop whining so loudly about bad descriptors that
11335 they fetch from other dirservers. So when there's a log complaint,
11336 it's for sure from a freshly uploaded descriptor.
11337 - Reduce memory requirements in our structs by changing the order
11339 - There used to be two ways to specify your listening ports in a
11340 server descriptor: on the "router" line and with a separate "ports"
11341 line. Remove support for the "ports" line.
11342 - New config option "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" for auth dirservers as
11343 a panic button: if we get flooded with unusable servers we can
11344 revert to only listing servers in the approved-routers file.
11345 - Auth dir servers can now mark a fingerprint as "!reject" or
11346 "!invalid" in the approved-routers file (as its nickname), to
11347 refuse descriptors outright or include them but marked as invalid.
11348 - Servers store bandwidth history across restarts/crashes.
11349 - Add reasons to DESTROY and RELAY_TRUNCATED cells, so clients can
11350 get a better idea of why their circuits failed. Not used yet.
11351 - Directory mirrors now cache up to 16 unrecognized network-status
11352 docs. Now we can add new authdirservers and they'll be cached too.
11353 - When picking a random directory, prefer non-authorities if any
11355 - New controller option "getinfo desc/all-recent" to fetch the
11356 latest server descriptor for every router that Tor knows about.
11359 Changes in version 0.1.0.16 - 2006-01-02
11360 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
11361 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
11362 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
11363 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
11364 - It turns out sparc64 platforms crash on unaligned memory access
11365 too -- so detect and avoid this.
11366 - Handle truncated compressed data correctly (by detecting it and
11368 - Fix possible-but-unlikely free(NULL) in control.c.
11369 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
11370 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
11371 - Avoid potential infinite recursion when building a descriptor. (We
11372 don't know that it ever happened, but better to fix it anyway.)
11373 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
11374 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
11375 - Fix a memory stomping race bug when closing the joining point of two
11376 rendezvous circuits.
11377 - Fix an assert in time parsing found by Steven Murdoch.
11379 o Other bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
11380 - When we're doing reachability testing, provide more useful log
11381 messages so the operator knows what to expect.
11382 - Do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we are suppressing
11383 advertising it because of hibernation.
11384 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed -ldl.
11385 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
11386 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
11387 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
11388 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
11389 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
11390 - Give a more helpful log message when you try to change ORPort via
11391 the controller: you should upgrade Tor if you want that to work.
11392 - We were failing to parse Tor versions that start with "Tor ".
11393 - Tolerate faulty streams better: when a stream fails for reason
11394 exitpolicy, stop assuming that the router is lying about his exit
11395 policy. When a stream fails for reason misc, allow it to retry just
11396 as if it was resolvefailed. When a stream has failed three times,
11397 reset its failure count so we can try again and get all three tries.
11400 Changes in version 0.1.1.10-alpha - 2005-12-11
11401 o Correctness bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
11402 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
11403 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
11404 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
11405 - Stop doing the complex voodoo overkill checking for insecure
11406 Diffie-Hellman keys. Just check if it's in [2,p-2] and be happy.
11407 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
11408 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
11409 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
11410 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
11411 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
11412 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
11413 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
11414 - Recover better from TCP connections to Tor servers that are
11415 broken but don't tell you (it happens!); and rotate TLS
11416 connections once a week.
11417 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
11418 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
11419 - Fix a scary-looking but apparently harmless bug where circuits
11420 would sometimes start out in state CIRCUIT_STATE_OR_WAIT at
11421 servers, and never switch to state CIRCUIT_STATE_OPEN.
11422 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed to
11424 - Give a useful message when people run Tor as the wrong user,
11425 rather than telling them to start chowning random directories.
11426 - We were failing to inform the controller about new .onion streams.
11428 o Security bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
11429 - Refuse server descriptors if the fingerprint line doesn't match
11430 the included identity key. Tor doesn't care, but other apps (and
11431 humans) might actually be trusting the fingerprint line.
11432 - We used to kill the circuit when we receive a relay command we
11433 don't recognize. Now we just drop it.
11434 - Start obeying our firewall options more rigorously:
11435 . If we can't get to a dirserver directly, try going via Tor.
11436 . Don't ever try to connect (as a client) to a place our
11437 firewall options forbid.
11438 . If we specify a proxy and also firewall options, obey the
11439 firewall options even when we're using the proxy: some proxies
11440 can only proxy to certain destinations.
11441 - Fix a bug found by Lasse Overlier: when we were making internal
11442 circuits (intended to be cannibalized later for rendezvous and
11443 introduction circuits), we were picking them so that they had
11444 useful exit nodes. There was no need for this, and it actually
11445 aids some statistical attacks.
11446 - Start treating internal circuits and exit circuits separately.
11447 It's important to keep them separate because internal circuits
11448 have their last hops picked like middle hops, rather than like
11449 exit hops. So exiting on them will break the user's expectations.
11451 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
11452 - Take out the mis-feature where we tried to detect IP address
11453 flapping for people with DynDNS, and chose not to upload a new
11454 server descriptor sometimes.
11455 - Try to be compatible with OpenSSL 0.9.6 again.
11456 - Log fix: when the controller is logging about .onion addresses,
11457 sometimes it didn't include the ".onion" part of the address.
11458 - Don't try to modify options->DirServers internally -- if the
11459 user didn't specify any, just add the default ones directly to
11460 the trusted dirserver list. This fixes a bug where people running
11461 controllers would use SETCONF on some totally unrelated config
11462 option, and Tor would start yelling at them about changing their
11464 - Let the controller's redirectstream command specify a port, in
11465 case the controller wants to change that too.
11466 - When we requested a pile of server descriptors, we sometimes
11467 accidentally launched a duplicate request for the first one.
11468 - Bugfix for trackhostexits: write down the fingerprint of the
11469 chosen exit, not its nickname, because the chosen exit might not
11471 - When parsing foo.exit, if foo is unknown, and we are leaving
11472 circuits unattached, set the chosen_exit field and leave the
11473 address empty. This matters because controllers got confused
11475 - Directory authorities no longer try to download server
11476 descriptors that they know they will reject.
11478 o Features and updates:
11479 - Replace balanced trees with hash tables: this should make stuff
11480 significantly faster.
11481 - Resume using the AES counter-mode implementation that we ship,
11482 rather than OpenSSL's. Ours is significantly faster.
11483 - Many other CPU and memory improvements.
11484 - Add a new config option FastFirstHopPK (on by default) so clients
11485 do a trivial crypto handshake for their first hop, since TLS has
11486 already taken care of confidentiality and authentication.
11487 - Add a new config option TestSocks so people can see if their
11488 applications are using socks4, socks4a, socks5-with-ip, or
11489 socks5-with-hostname. This way they don't have to keep mucking
11490 with tcpdump and wondering if something got cached somewhere.
11491 - Warn when listening on a public address for socks. I suspect a
11492 lot of people are setting themselves up as open socks proxies,
11493 and they have no idea that jerks on the Internet are using them,
11494 since they simply proxy the traffic into the Tor network.
11495 - Add "private:*" as an alias in configuration for policies. Now
11496 you can simplify your exit policy rather than needing to list
11497 every single internal or nonroutable network space.
11498 - Add a new controller event type that allows controllers to get
11499 all server descriptors that were uploaded to a router in its role
11500 as authoritative dirserver.
11501 - Start shipping socks-extensions.txt, tor-doc-unix.html,
11502 tor-doc-server.html, and stylesheet.css in the tarball.
11503 - Stop shipping tor-doc.html in the tarball.
11506 Changes in version 0.1.1.9-alpha - 2005-11-15
11507 o Usability improvements:
11508 - Start calling it FooListenAddress rather than FooBindAddress,
11509 since few of our users know what it means to bind an address
11511 - Reduce clutter in server logs. We're going to try to make
11512 them actually usable now. New config option ProtocolWarnings that
11513 lets you hear about how _other Tors_ are breaking the protocol. Off
11515 - Divide log messages into logging domains. Once we put some sort
11516 of interface on this, it will let people looking at more verbose
11517 log levels specify the topics they want to hear more about.
11518 - Make directory servers return better http 404 error messages
11519 instead of a generic "Servers unavailable".
11520 - Check for even more Windows version flags when writing the platform
11521 string in server descriptors, and note any we don't recognize.
11522 - Clean up more of the OpenSSL memory when exiting, so we can detect
11523 memory leaks better.
11524 - Make directory authorities be non-versioning, non-naming by
11525 default. Now we can add new directory servers without requiring
11526 their operators to pay close attention.
11527 - When logging via syslog, include the pid whenever we provide
11528 a log entry. Suggested by Todd Fries.
11530 o Performance improvements:
11531 - Directory servers now silently throw away new descriptors that
11532 haven't changed much if the timestamps are similar. We do this to
11533 tolerate older Tor servers that upload a new descriptor every 15
11534 minutes. (It seemed like a good idea at the time.)
11535 - Inline bottleneck smartlist functions; use fast versions by default.
11536 - Add a "Map from digest to void*" abstraction digestmap_t so we
11537 can do less hex encoding/decoding. Use it in router_get_by_digest()
11538 to resolve a performance bottleneck.
11539 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress to extract as much as possible from
11540 truncated compressed data. Try to extract as many
11541 descriptors as possible from truncated http responses (when
11542 DIR_PURPOSE_FETCH_ROUTERDESC).
11543 - Make circ->onionskin a pointer, not a static array. moria2 was using
11544 125000 circuit_t's after it had been up for a few weeks, which
11545 translates to 20+ megs of wasted space.
11546 - The private half of our EDH handshake keys are now chosen out
11547 of 320 bits, not 1024 bits. (Suggested by Ian Goldberg.)
11549 o Security improvements:
11550 - Start making directory caches retain old routerinfos, so soon
11551 clients can start asking by digest of descriptor rather than by
11552 fingerprint of server.
11553 - Add half our entropy from RAND_poll in OpenSSL. This knows how
11554 to use egd (if present), openbsd weirdness (if present), vms/os2
11555 weirdness (if we ever port there), and more in the future.
11557 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
11558 - Do round-robin writes of at most 16 kB per write. This might be
11559 more fair on loaded Tor servers, and it might resolve our Windows
11560 crash bug. It might also slow things down.
11561 - Our TLS handshakes were generating a single public/private
11562 keypair for the TLS context, rather than making a new one for
11563 each new connections. Oops. (But we were still rotating them
11564 periodically, so it's not so bad.)
11565 - When we were cannibalizing a circuit with a particular exit
11566 node in mind, we weren't checking to see if that exit node was
11567 already present earlier in the circuit. Oops.
11568 - When a Tor server's IP changes (e.g. from a dyndns address),
11569 upload a new descriptor so clients will learn too.
11570 - Really busy servers were keeping enough circuits open on stable
11571 connections that they were wrapping around the circuit_id
11572 space. (It's only two bytes.) This exposed a bug where we would
11573 feel free to reuse a circuit_id even if it still exists but has
11574 been marked for close. Try to fix this bug. Some bug remains.
11575 - If we would close a stream early (e.g. it asks for a .exit that
11576 we know would refuse it) but the LeaveStreamsUnattached config
11577 option is set by the controller, then don't close it.
11579 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.8-alpha:
11580 - Fix a big pile of memory leaks, some of them serious.
11581 - Do not try to download a routerdesc if we would immediately reject
11583 - Resume inserting a newline between all router descriptors when
11584 generating (old style) signed directories, since our spec says
11586 - When providing content-type application/octet-stream for
11587 server descriptors using .z, we were leaving out the
11588 content-encoding header. Oops. (Everything tolerated this just
11589 fine, but that doesn't mean we need to be part of the problem.)
11590 - Fix a potential seg fault in getconf and getinfo using version 1
11591 of the controller protocol.
11592 - Avoid crash: do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we
11593 are suppressing it because of hibernation.
11594 - Make --hash-password not crash on exit.
11597 Changes in version 0.1.1.8-alpha - 2005-10-07
11598 o New features (major):
11599 - Clients don't download or use the directory anymore. Now they
11600 download and use network-statuses from the trusted dirservers,
11601 and fetch individual server descriptors as needed from mirrors.
11602 See dir-spec.txt for all the gory details.
11603 - Be more conservative about whether to advertise our DirPort.
11604 The main change is to not advertise if we're running at capacity
11605 and either a) we could hibernate or b) our capacity is low and
11606 we're using a default DirPort.
11607 - Use OpenSSL's AES when OpenSSL has version 0.9.7 or later.
11609 o New features (minor):
11610 - Try to be smart about when to retry network-status and
11611 server-descriptor fetches. Still needs some tuning.
11612 - Stop parsing, storing, or using running-routers output (but
11613 mirrors still cache and serve it).
11614 - Consider a threshold of versioning dirservers (dirservers who have
11615 an opinion about which Tor versions are still recommended) before
11616 deciding whether to warn the user that he's obsolete.
11617 - Dirservers can now reject/invalidate by key and IP, with the
11618 config options "AuthDirInvalid" and "AuthDirReject". This is
11619 useful since currently we automatically list servers as running
11620 and usable even if we know they're jerks.
11621 - Provide dire warnings to any users who set DirServer; move it out
11622 of torrc.sample and into torrc.complete.
11623 - Add MyFamily to torrc.sample in the server section.
11624 - Add nicknames to the DirServer line, so we can refer to them
11625 without requiring all our users to memorize their IP addresses.
11626 - When we get an EOF or a timeout on a directory connection, note
11627 how many bytes of serverdesc we are dropping. This will help
11628 us determine whether it is smart to parse incomplete serverdesc
11630 - Add a new function to "change pseudonyms" -- that is, to stop
11631 using any currently-dirty circuits for new streams, so we don't
11632 link new actions to old actions. Currently it's only called on
11633 HUP (or SIGNAL RELOAD).
11634 - On sighup, if UseHelperNodes changed to 1, use new circuits.
11635 - Start using RAND_bytes rather than RAND_pseudo_bytes from
11636 OpenSSL. Also, reseed our entropy every hour, not just at
11637 startup. And entropy in 512-bit chunks, not 160-bit chunks.
11639 o Fixes on 0.1.1.7-alpha:
11640 - Nobody ever implemented EVENT_ADDRMAP for control protocol
11641 version 0, so don't let version 0 controllers ask for it.
11642 - If you requested something with too many newlines via the
11643 v1 controller protocol, you could crash tor.
11644 - Fix a number of memory leaks, including some pretty serious ones.
11645 - Re-enable DirPort testing again, so Tor servers will be willing
11646 to advertise their DirPort if it's reachable.
11647 - On TLS handshake, only check the other router's nickname against
11648 its expected nickname if is_named is set.
11650 o Fixes forward-ported from 0.1.0.15:
11651 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
11652 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
11653 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
11654 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
11656 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
11657 - For the OS X package's modified privoxy config file, comment
11658 out the "logfile" line so we don't log everything passed
11660 - We were whining about using socks4 or socks5-with-local-lookup
11661 even when it's an IP in the "virtual" range we designed exactly
11663 - We were leaking some memory every time the client changes IPs.
11664 - Never call free() on tor_malloc()d memory. This will help us
11665 use dmalloc to detect memory leaks.
11666 - Check for named servers when looking them up by nickname;
11667 warn when we'recalling a non-named server by its nickname;
11668 don't warn twice about the same name.
11669 - Try to list MyFamily elements by key, not by nickname, and warn
11670 if we've not heard of the server.
11671 - Make windows platform detection (uname equivalent) smarter.
11672 - It turns out sparc64 doesn't like unaligned access either.
11675 Changes in version 0.1.0.15 - 2005-09-23
11676 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
11677 - Reject ports 465 and 587 (spam targets) in default exit policy.
11678 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
11679 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
11680 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
11681 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
11682 - Don't try to print a null string when your server finds itself to
11683 be unreachable and the Address config option is empty.
11684 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
11685 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
11686 - Fix a minor memory leak in smartlist_string_remove().
11687 - We were only allowing ourselves to upload a server descriptor at
11688 most every 20 minutes, even if it changed earlier than that.
11689 - Clean up log entries that pointed to old URLs.
11692 Changes in version 0.1.1.7-alpha - 2005-09-14
11693 o Fixes on 0.1.1.6-alpha:
11694 - Exit servers were crashing when people asked them to make a
11695 connection to an address not in their exit policy.
11696 - Looking up a non-existent stream for a v1 control connection would
11698 - Fix a seg fault if we ask a dirserver for a descriptor by
11699 fingerprint but he doesn't know about him.
11700 - SETCONF was appending items to linelists, not clearing them.
11701 - SETCONF SocksBindAddress killed Tor if it fails to bind. Now back
11702 out and refuse the setconf if it would fail.
11703 - Downgrade the dirserver log messages when whining about
11707 - Add Peter Palfrader's check-tor script to tor/contrib/
11708 It lets you easily check whether a given server (referenced by
11709 nickname) is reachable by you.
11710 - Numerous changes to move towards client-side v2 directories. Not
11713 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
11714 - If the user gave tor an odd number of command-line arguments,
11715 we were silently ignoring the last one. Now we complain and fail.
11716 [This wins the oldest-bug prize -- this bug has been present since
11717 November 2002, as released in Tor 0.0.0.]
11718 - Do not use unaligned memory access on alpha, mips, or mipsel.
11719 It *works*, but is very slow, so we treat them as if it doesn't.
11720 - Retry directory requests if we fail to get an answer we like
11721 from a given dirserver (we were retrying before, but only if
11722 we fail to connect).
11723 - When writing the RecommendedVersions line, sort them first.
11724 - When the client asked for a rendezvous port that the hidden
11725 service didn't want to provide, we were sending an IP address
11726 back along with the end cell. Fortunately, it was zero. But stop
11728 - Correct "your server is reachable" log entries to indicate that
11729 it was self-testing that told us so.
11732 Changes in version 0.1.1.6-alpha - 2005-09-09
11733 o Fixes on 0.1.1.5-alpha:
11734 - We broke fascistfirewall in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
11735 - Fix segfault in unit tests in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
11736 - Fix bug with tor_memmem finding a match at the end of the string.
11737 - Make unit tests run without segfaulting.
11738 - Resolve some solaris x86 compile warnings.
11739 - Handle duplicate lines in approved-routers files without warning.
11740 - Fix bug where as soon as a server refused any requests due to his
11741 exit policy (e.g. when we ask for localhost and he tells us that's
11742 127.0.0.1 and he won't do it), we decided he wasn't obeying his
11743 exit policy using him for any exits.
11744 - Only do openssl hardware accelerator stuff if openssl version is
11747 o New controller features/fixes:
11748 - Add a "RESETCONF" command so you can set config options like
11749 AllowUnverifiedNodes and LongLivedPorts to "". Also, if you give
11750 a config option in the torrc with no value, then it clears it
11751 entirely (rather than setting it to its default).
11752 - Add a "GETINFO config-file" to tell us where torrc is.
11753 - Avoid sending blank lines when GETINFO replies should be empty.
11754 - Add a QUIT command for the controller (for using it manually).
11755 - Fix a bug in SAVECONF that was adding default dirservers and
11756 other redundant entries to the torrc file.
11758 o Start on the new directory design:
11759 - Generate, publish, cache, serve new network-status format.
11760 - Publish individual descriptors (by fingerprint, by "all", and by
11762 - Publish client and server recommended versions separately.
11763 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress() to handle multiple concatenated
11764 compressed strings. Serve compressed groups of router
11765 descriptors. The compression logic here could be more
11767 - Distinguish v1 authorities (all currently trusted directories)
11768 from v2 authorities (all trusted directories).
11769 - Change DirServers config line to note which dirs are v1 authorities.
11770 - Add configuration option "V1AuthoritativeDirectory 1" which
11771 moria1, moria2, and tor26 should set.
11772 - Remove option when getting directory cache to see whether they
11773 support running-routers; they all do now. Replace it with one
11774 to see whether caches support v2 stuff.
11777 - Dirservers now do their own external reachability testing of each
11778 Tor server, and only list them as running if they've been found to
11779 be reachable. We also send back warnings to the server's logs if
11780 it uploads a descriptor that we already believe is unreachable.
11781 - Implement exit enclaves: if we know an IP address for the
11782 destination, and there's a running Tor server at that address
11783 which allows exit to the destination, then extend the circuit to
11784 that exit first. This provides end-to-end encryption and end-to-end
11785 authentication. Also, if the user wants a .exit address or enclave,
11786 use 4 hops rather than 3, and cannibalize a general circ for it
11788 - Permit transitioning from ORPort=0 to ORPort!=0, and back, from the
11789 controller. Also, rotate dns and cpu workers if the controller
11790 changes options that will affect them; and initialize the dns
11791 worker cache tree whether or not we start out as a server.
11792 - Only upload a new server descriptor when options change, 18
11793 hours have passed, uptime is reset, or bandwidth changes a lot.
11794 - Check [X-]Forwarded-For headers in HTTP requests when generating
11795 log messages. This lets people run dirservers (and caches) behind
11796 Apache but still know which IP addresses are causing warnings.
11798 o Config option changes:
11799 - Replace (Fascist)Firewall* config options with a new
11800 ReachableAddresses option that understands address policies.
11801 For example, "ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443"
11802 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
11803 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
11804 - Make MonthlyAccountingStart config option truly obsolete now.
11806 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
11807 - Reject ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy, since
11808 people have started using them for spam too.
11809 - It turns out we couldn't bootstrap a network since we added
11810 reachability detection in 0.1.0.1-rc. Good thing the Tor network
11811 has never gone down. Add an AssumeReachable config option to let
11812 servers and dirservers bootstrap. When we're trying to build a
11813 high-uptime or high-bandwidth circuit but there aren't enough
11814 suitable servers, try being less picky rather than simply failing.
11815 - Our logic to decide if the OR we connected to was the right guy
11816 was brittle and maybe open to a mitm for unverified routers.
11817 - We weren't cannibalizing circuits correctly for
11818 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_C_ESTABLISH_REND and
11819 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_S_ESTABLISH_INTRO, so we were being forced to
11820 build those from scratch. This should make hidden services faster.
11821 - Predict required circuits better, with an eye toward making hidden
11822 services faster on the service end.
11823 - Retry streams if the exit node sends back a 'misc' failure. This
11824 should result in fewer random failures. Also, after failing
11825 from resolve failed or misc, reset the num failures, so we give
11826 it a fair shake next time we try.
11827 - Clean up the rendezvous warn log msgs, and downgrade some to info.
11828 - Reduce severity on logs about dns worker spawning and culling.
11829 - When we're shutting down and we do something like try to post a
11830 server descriptor or rendezvous descriptor, don't complain that
11831 we seem to be unreachable. Of course we are, we're shutting down.
11832 - Add TTLs to RESOLVED, CONNECTED, and END_REASON_EXITPOLICY cells.
11833 We don't use them yet, but maybe one day our DNS resolver will be
11834 able to discover them.
11835 - Make ContactInfo mandatory for authoritative directory servers.
11836 - Require server descriptors to list IPv4 addresses -- hostnames
11837 are no longer allowed. This also fixes some potential security
11838 problems with people providing hostnames as their address and then
11839 preferentially resolving them to partition users.
11840 - Change log line for unreachability to explicitly suggest /etc/hosts
11841 as the culprit. Also make it clearer what IP address and ports we're
11842 testing for reachability.
11843 - Put quotes around user-supplied strings when logging so users are
11844 more likely to realize if they add bad characters (like quotes)
11846 - Let auth dir servers start without specifying an Address config
11848 - Make unit tests (and other invocations that aren't the real Tor)
11849 run without launching listeners, creating subdirectories, and so on.
11852 Changes in version 0.1.1.5-alpha - 2005-08-08
11853 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.14.
11855 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
11856 - If you write "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1 6668" in your
11857 torrc rather than "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1:6668",
11858 it would silently using ignore the 6668.
11861 Changes in version 0.1.0.14 - 2005-08-08
11862 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
11863 - Fix the other half of the bug with crypto handshakes
11865 - Fix an assert trigger if you send a 'signal term' via the
11866 controller when it's listening for 'event info' messages.
11869 Changes in version 0.1.1.4-alpha - 2005-08-04
11870 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.13.
11873 - Improve tor_gettimeofday() granularity on windows.
11874 - Make clients regenerate their keys when their IP address changes.
11875 - Implement some more GETINFO goodness: expose helper nodes, config
11876 options, getinfo keys.
11879 Changes in version 0.1.0.13 - 2005-08-04
11880 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
11881 - Fix a critical bug in the security of our crypto handshakes.
11882 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
11883 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
11884 - Fix Windows installer to ship Tor license (thanks to Aphex for
11885 pointing out this oversight) and put a link to the doc directory
11887 - Explicitly set no-unaligned-access for sparc: it turns out the
11888 new gcc's let you compile broken code, but that doesn't make it
11892 Changes in version 0.1.1.3-alpha - 2005-07-23
11893 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
11894 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "post descriptor"
11896 - Fix several bugs in handling the controller's "extend circuit"
11898 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "stream status" event.
11899 - Fix an assert failure if we have a controller listening for
11900 circuit events and we go offline.
11901 - Re-allow hidden service descriptors to publish 0 intro points.
11902 - Fix a crash when generating your hidden service descriptor if
11903 you don't have enough intro points already.
11905 o New features on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
11906 - New controller function "getinfo accounting", to ask how
11907 many bytes we've used in this time period.
11908 - Experimental support for helper nodes: a lot of the risk from
11909 a small static adversary comes because users pick new random
11910 nodes every time they rebuild a circuit. Now users will try to
11911 stick to the same small set of entry nodes if they can. Not
11912 enabled by default yet.
11914 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.12:
11915 - If you're an auth dir server, always publish your dirport,
11916 even if you haven't yet found yourself to be reachable.
11917 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
11918 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
11921 Changes in version 0.1.0.12 - 2005-07-18
11922 o New directory servers:
11923 - tor26 has changed IP address.
11925 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
11926 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
11927 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
11928 pthreads libraries.
11929 - Don't trigger an assert if an authoritative directory server
11930 claims its dirport is 0.
11931 - Fix bug with removing Tor as an NT service: some people were
11932 getting "The service did not return an error." Thanks to Matt
11936 Changes in version 0.1.1.2-alpha - 2005-07-15
11937 o New directory servers:
11938 - tor26 has changed IP address.
11940 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, crashes/leaks:
11941 - Port the servers-not-obeying-their-exit-policies fix from
11943 - Fix an fd leak in start_daemon().
11944 - On Windows, you can't always reopen a port right after you've
11945 closed it. So change retry_listeners() to only close and re-open
11946 ports that have changed.
11947 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
11949 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, usability:
11950 - When tor_socketpair() fails in Windows, give a reasonable
11951 Windows-style errno back.
11952 - Let people type "tor --install" as well as "tor -install" when
11954 want to make it an NT service.
11955 - NT service patch from Matt Edman to improve error messages.
11956 - When the controller asks for a config option with an abbreviated
11957 name, give the full name in our response.
11958 - Correct the man page entry on TrackHostExitsExpire.
11959 - Looks like we were never delivering deflated (i.e. compressed)
11960 running-routers lists, even when asked. Oops.
11961 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
11962 pthreads libraries.
11964 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
11965 - Fix a seg fault with autodetecting which controller version is
11969 - New hidden service descriptor format: put a version in it, and
11970 let people specify introduction/rendezvous points that aren't
11971 in "the directory" (which is subjective anyway).
11972 - Allow the DEBUG controller event to work again. Mark certain log
11973 entries as "don't tell this to controllers", so we avoid cycles.
11976 Changes in version 0.1.0.11 - 2005-06-30
11977 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
11978 - Fix major security bug: servers were disregarding their
11979 exit policies if clients behaved unexpectedly.
11980 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
11981 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
11982 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
11983 - The MAPADDRESS control command was broken.
11986 Changes in version 0.1.1.1-alpha - 2005-06-29
11988 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
11989 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
11990 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
11991 - Fix a possible way to DoS dirservers.
11992 - When we complain that your exit policy implicitly allows local or
11993 private address spaces, name them explicitly so operators can
11995 - Make the log message less scary when all the dirservers are
11996 temporarily unreachable.
11997 - We were printing the number of idle dns workers incorrectly when
12001 - Revised controller protocol (version 1) that uses ascii rather
12002 than binary. Add supporting libraries in python and java so you
12003 can use the controller from your applications without caring how
12004 our protocol works.
12005 - Spiffy new support for crypto hardware accelerators. Can somebody
12009 Changes in version 0.0.9.10 - 2005-06-16
12010 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (backported from 0.1.0.10):
12011 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
12012 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
12013 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
12017 Changes in version 0.1.0.10 - 2005-06-14
12018 o Allow a few EINVALs from libevent before dying. Warn on kqueue with
12019 libevent before 1.1a.
12022 Changes in version 0.1.0.9-rc - 2005-06-09
12024 - Reset buf->highwater every time buf_shrink() is called, not just on
12025 a successful shrink. This was causing significant memory bloat.
12026 - Fix buffer overflow when checking hashed passwords.
12027 - Security fix: if seeding the RNG on Win32 fails, quit.
12028 - Allow seeding the RNG on Win32 even when you're not running as
12030 - Disable threading on Solaris too. Something is wonky with it,
12031 cpuworkers, and reentrant libs.
12032 - Reenable the part of the code that tries to flush as soon as an
12033 OR outbuf has a full TLS record available. Perhaps this will make
12034 OR outbufs not grow as huge except in rare cases, thus saving lots
12035 of CPU time plus memory.
12036 - Reject malformed .onion addresses rather then passing them on as
12037 normal web requests.
12038 - Adapt patch from Adam Langley: fix possible memory leak in
12039 tor_lookup_hostname().
12040 - Initialize libevent later in the startup process, so the logs are
12041 already established by the time we start logging libevent warns.
12042 - Use correct errno on win32 if libevent fails.
12043 - Check and warn about known-bad/slow libevent versions.
12044 - Pay more attention to the ClientOnly config option.
12045 - Have torctl.in/tor.sh.in check for location of su binary (needed
12047 - Correct/add man page entries for LongLivedPorts, ExitPolicy,
12048 KeepalivePeriod, ClientOnly, NoPublish, HttpProxy, HttpsProxy,
12049 HttpProxyAuthenticator
12050 - Stop warning about sigpipes in the logs. We're going to
12051 pretend that getting these occassionally is normal and fine.
12052 - Resolve OS X installer bugs: stop claiming to be 0.0.9.2 in
12054 installer screens; and don't put stuff into StartupItems unless
12055 the user asks you to.
12056 - Require servers that use the default dirservers to have public IP
12057 addresses. We have too many servers that are configured with private
12058 IPs and their admins never notice the log entries complaining that
12059 their descriptors are being rejected.
12060 - Add OSX uninstall instructions. An actual uninstall script will
12064 Changes in version 0.1.0.8-rc - 2005-05-23
12066 - It turns out that kqueue on OS X 10.3.9 was causing kernel
12067 panics. Disable kqueue on all OS X Tors.
12068 - Fix RPM: remove duplicate line accidentally added to the rpm
12070 - Disable threads on openbsd too, since its gethostaddr is not
12072 - Tolerate libevent 0.8 since it still works, even though it's
12074 - Enable building on Red Hat 9.0 again.
12075 - Allow the middle hop of the testing circuit to be running any
12076 version, now that most of them have the bugfix to let them connect
12077 to unknown servers. This will allow reachability testing to work
12078 even when 0.0.9.7-0.0.9.9 become obsolete.
12079 - Handle relay cells with rh.length too large. This prevents
12080 a potential attack that could read arbitrary memory (maybe even
12081 keys) from the exit server's process.
12082 - We screwed up the dirport reachability testing when we don't yet
12083 have a cached version of the directory. Hopefully now fixed.
12084 - Clean up router_load_single_router() (used by the controller),
12085 so it doesn't seg fault on error.
12086 - Fix a minor memory leak when somebody establishes an introduction
12087 point at your Tor server.
12088 - If a socks connection ends because read fails, don't warn that
12089 you're not sending a socks reply back.
12092 - Add HttpProxyAuthenticator config option too, that works like
12093 the HttpsProxyAuthenticator config option.
12094 - Encode hashed controller passwords in hex instead of base64,
12095 to make it easier to write controllers.
12098 Changes in version 0.1.0.7-rc - 2005-05-17
12100 - Fix a bug in the OS X package installer that prevented it from
12101 installing on Tiger.
12102 - Fix a script bug in the OS X package installer that made it
12103 complain during installation.
12104 - Find libevent even if it's hiding in /usr/local/ and your
12105 CFLAGS and LDFLAGS don't tell you to look there.
12106 - Be able to link with libevent as a shared library (the default
12107 after 1.0d), even if it's hiding in /usr/local/lib and even
12108 if you haven't added /usr/local/lib to your /etc/ld.so.conf,
12109 assuming you're running gcc. Otherwise fail and give a useful
12111 - Fix a bug in the RPM packager: set home directory for _tor to
12112 something more reasonable when first installing.
12113 - Free a minor amount of memory that is still reachable on exit.
12116 Changes in version 0.1.0.6-rc - 2005-05-14
12118 - Implement --disable-threads configure option. Disable threads on
12119 netbsd by default, because it appears to have no reentrant resolver
12121 - Apple's OS X 10.4.0 ships with a broken kqueue. The new libevent
12122 release (1.1) detects and disables kqueue if it's broken.
12123 - Append default exit policy before checking for implicit internal
12124 addresses. Now we don't log a bunch of complaints on startup
12125 when using the default exit policy.
12126 - Some people were putting "Address " in their torrc, and they had
12127 a buggy resolver that resolved " " to 0.0.0.0. Oops.
12128 - If DataDir is ~/.tor, and that expands to /.tor, then default to
12129 LOCALSTATEDIR/tor instead.
12130 - Fix fragmented-message bug in TorControl.py.
12131 - Resolve a minor bug which would prevent unreachable dirports
12132 from getting suppressed in the published descriptor.
12133 - When the controller gave us a new descriptor, we weren't resolving
12134 it immediately, so Tor would think its address was 0.0.0.0 until
12135 we fetched a new directory.
12136 - Fix an uppercase/lowercase case error in suppressing a bogus
12137 libevent warning on some Linuxes.
12140 - Begin scrubbing sensitive strings from logs by default. Turn off
12141 the config option SafeLogging if you need to do debugging.
12142 - Switch to a new buffer management algorithm, which tries to avoid
12143 reallocing and copying quite as much. In first tests it looks like
12144 it uses *more* memory on average, but less cpu.
12145 - First cut at support for "create-fast" cells. Clients can use
12146 these when extending to their first hop, since the TLS already
12147 provides forward secrecy and authentication. Not enabled on
12149 - When dirservers refuse a router descriptor, we now log its
12150 contactinfo, platform, and the poster's IP address.
12151 - Call tor_free_all instead of connections_free_all after forking, to
12152 save memory on systems that need to fork.
12153 - Whine at you if you're a server and you don't set your contactinfo.
12154 - Implement --verify-config command-line option to check if your torrc
12155 is valid without actually launching Tor.
12156 - Rewrite address "serifos.exit" to "localhost.serifos.exit"
12157 rather than just rejecting it.
12160 Changes in version 0.1.0.5-rc - 2005-04-27
12162 - Stop trying to print a null pointer if an OR conn fails because
12163 we didn't like its cert.
12165 - Switch our internal buffers implementation to use a ring buffer,
12166 to hopefully improve performance for fast servers a lot.
12167 - Add HttpsProxyAuthenticator support (basic auth only), based
12168 on patch from Adam Langley.
12169 - Bump the default BandwidthRate from 1 MB to 2 MB, to accommodate
12170 the fast servers that have been joining lately.
12171 - Give hidden service accesses extra time on the first attempt,
12172 since 60 seconds is often only barely enough. This might improve
12174 - Improve performance for dirservers: stop re-parsing the whole
12175 directory every time you regenerate it.
12176 - Add more debugging info to help us find the weird dns freebsd
12177 pthreads bug; cleaner debug messages to help track future issues.
12180 Changes in version 0.0.9.9 - 2005-04-23
12181 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
12182 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
12183 Tor server triggers an assert. This release contains a minimal
12184 backport from the broader fix that we put into 0.1.0.4-rc.
12187 Changes in version 0.1.0.4-rc - 2005-04-23
12189 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
12190 Tor server triggers an assert. Stop asserting, and start handling
12191 TLS errors better in other situations too.
12192 - When the controller asks us to tell it about all the debug-level
12193 logs, it turns out we were generating debug-level logs while
12194 telling it about them, which turns into a bad loop. Now keep
12195 track of whether you're sending a debug log to the controller,
12196 and don't log when you are.
12197 - Fix the "postdescriptor" feature of the controller interface: on
12198 non-complete success, only say "done" once.
12200 - Clients are now willing to load balance over up to 2mB, not 1mB,
12201 of advertised bandwidth capacity.
12202 - Add a NoPublish config option, so you can be a server (e.g. for
12203 testing running Tor servers in other Tor networks) without
12204 publishing your descriptor to the primary dirservers.
12207 Changes in version 0.1.0.3-rc - 2005-04-08
12208 o Improvements on 0.1.0.2-rc:
12209 - Client now retries when streams end early for 'hibernating' or
12210 'resource limit' reasons, rather than failing them.
12211 - More automated handling for dirserver operators:
12212 - Automatically approve nodes running 0.1.0.2-rc or later,
12213 now that the the reachability detection stuff is working.
12214 - Now we allow two unverified servers with the same nickname
12215 but different keys. But if a nickname is verified, only that
12216 nickname+key are allowed.
12217 - If you're an authdirserver connecting to an address:port,
12218 and it's not the OR you were expecting, forget about that
12219 descriptor. If he *was* the one you were expecting, then forget
12220 about all other descriptors for that address:port.
12221 - Allow servers to publish descriptors from 12 hours in the future.
12222 Corollary: only whine about clock skew from the dirserver if
12223 he's a trusted dirserver (since now even verified servers could
12224 have quite wrong clocks).
12225 - Adjust maximum skew and age for rendezvous descriptors: let skew
12226 be 48 hours rather than 90 minutes.
12227 - Efficiency improvements:
12228 - Keep a big splay tree of (circid,orconn)->circuit mappings to make
12229 it much faster to look up a circuit for each relay cell.
12230 - Remove most calls to assert_all_pending_dns_resolves_ok(),
12231 since they're eating our cpu on exit nodes.
12232 - Stop wasting time doing a case insensitive comparison for every
12233 dns name every time we do any lookup. Canonicalize the names to
12234 lowercase and be done with it.
12235 - Start sending 'truncated' cells back rather than destroy cells,
12236 if the circuit closes in front of you. This means we won't have
12237 to abandon partially built circuits.
12238 - Only warn once per nickname from add_nickname_list_to_smartlist
12239 per failure, so an entrynode or exitnode choice that's down won't
12241 - Put a note in the torrc about abuse potential with the default
12243 - Revise control spec and implementation to allow all log messages to
12244 be sent to controller with their severities intact (suggested by
12245 Matt Edman). Update TorControl to handle new log event types.
12246 - Provide better explanation messages when controller's POSTDESCRIPTOR
12248 - Stop putting nodename in the Platform string in server descriptors.
12249 It doesn't actually help, and it is confusing/upsetting some people.
12251 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.2-rc:
12252 - We were printing the host mask wrong in exit policies in server
12253 descriptors. This isn't a critical bug though, since we were still
12254 obeying the exit policy internally.
12255 - Fix Tor when compiled with libevent but without pthreads: move
12256 connection_unregister() from _connection_free() to
12258 - Fix an assert trigger (already fixed in 0.0.9.x): when we have
12259 the rare mysterious case of accepting a conn on 0.0.0.0:0, then
12260 when we look through the connection array, we'll find any of the
12261 cpu/dnsworkers. This is no good.
12263 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.8:
12264 - Fix possible bug on threading platforms (e.g. win32) which was
12265 leaking a file descriptor whenever a cpuworker or dnsworker died.
12266 - When using preferred entry or exit nodes, ignore whether the
12267 circuit wants uptime or capacity. They asked for the nodes, they
12269 - chdir() to your datadirectory at the *end* of the daemonize process,
12270 not the beginning. This was a problem because the first time you
12271 run tor, if your datadir isn't there, and you have runasdaemon set
12272 to 1, it will try to chdir to it before it tries to create it. Oops.
12273 - Handle changed router status correctly when dirserver reloads
12274 fingerprint file. We used to be dropping all unverified descriptors
12275 right then. The bug was hidden because we would immediately
12276 fetch a directory from another dirserver, which would include the
12277 descriptors we just dropped.
12278 - When we're connecting to an OR and he's got a different nickname/key
12279 than we were expecting, only complain loudly if we're an OP or a
12280 dirserver. Complaining loudly to the OR admins just confuses them.
12281 - Tie MAX_DIR_SIZE to MAX_BUF_SIZE, so now directory sizes won't get
12282 artificially capped at 500kB.
12285 Changes in version 0.0.9.8 - 2005-04-07
12286 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
12287 - We have a bug that I haven't found yet. Sometimes, very rarely,
12288 cpuworkers get stuck in the 'busy' state, even though the cpuworker
12289 thinks of itself as idle. This meant that no new circuits ever got
12290 established. Here's a workaround to kill any cpuworker that's been
12291 busy for more than 100 seconds.
12294 Changes in version 0.1.0.2-rc - 2005-04-01
12295 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.1-rc:
12296 - Fixes on reachability detection:
12297 - Don't check for reachability while hibernating.
12298 - If ORPort is reachable but DirPort isn't, still publish the
12299 descriptor, but zero out DirPort until it's found reachable.
12300 - When building testing circs for ORPort testing, use only
12301 high-bandwidth nodes, so fewer circuits fail.
12302 - Complain about unreachable ORPort separately from unreachable
12303 DirPort, so the user knows what's going on.
12304 - Make sure we only conclude ORPort reachability if we didn't
12305 initiate the conn. Otherwise we could falsely conclude that
12306 we're reachable just because we connected to the guy earlier
12307 and he used that same pipe to extend to us.
12308 - Authdirservers shouldn't do ORPort reachability detection,
12309 since they're in clique mode, so it will be rare to find a
12310 server not already connected to them.
12311 - When building testing circuits, always pick middle hops running
12312 Tor 0.0.9.7, so we avoid the "can't extend to unknown routers"
12313 bug. (This is a kludge; it will go away when 0.0.9.x becomes
12315 - When we decide we're reachable, actually publish our descriptor
12317 - Fix bug in redirectstream in the controller.
12318 - Fix the state descriptor strings so logs don't claim edge streams
12319 are in a different state than they actually are.
12320 - Use recent libevent features when possible (this only really affects
12321 win32 and osx right now, because the new libevent with these
12322 features hasn't been released yet). Add code to suppress spurious
12324 - Prevent possible segfault in connection_close_unattached_ap().
12325 - Fix newlines on torrc in win32.
12326 - Improve error msgs when tor-resolve fails.
12328 o Improvements on 0.0.9.x:
12329 - New experimental script tor/contrib/ExerciseServer.py (needs more
12330 work) that uses the controller interface to build circuits and
12331 fetch pages over them. This will help us bootstrap servers that
12332 have lots of capacity but haven't noticed it yet.
12333 - New experimental script tor/contrib/PathDemo.py (needs more work)
12334 that uses the controller interface to let you choose whole paths
12336 "<hostname>.<path,separated by dots>.<length of path>.path"
12337 - When we've connected to an OR and handshaked but didn't like
12338 the result, we were closing the conn without sending destroy
12339 cells back for pending circuits. Now send those destroys.
12342 Changes in version 0.0.9.7 - 2005-04-01
12343 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
12344 - Fix another race crash bug (thanks to Glenn Fink for reporting).
12345 - Compare identity to identity, not to nickname, when extending to
12346 a router not already in the directory. This was preventing us from
12347 extending to unknown routers. Oops.
12348 - Make sure to create OS X Tor user in <500 range, so we aren't
12349 creating actual system users.
12350 - Note where connection-that-hasn't-sent-end was marked, and fix
12351 a few really loud instances of this harmless bug (it's fixed more
12355 Changes in version 0.1.0.1-rc - 2005-03-28
12357 - Add reachability testing. Your Tor server will automatically try
12358 to see if its ORPort and DirPort are reachable from the outside,
12359 and it won't upload its descriptor until it decides they are.
12360 - Handle unavailable hidden services better. Handle slow or busy
12361 hidden services better.
12362 - Add support for CONNECTing through https proxies, with "HttpsProxy"
12364 - New exit policy: accept most low-numbered ports, rather than
12365 rejecting most low-numbered ports.
12366 - More Tor controller support (still experimental). See
12367 http://tor.eff.org/doc/control-spec.txt for all the new features,
12368 including signals to emulate unix signals from any platform;
12369 redirectstream; extendcircuit; mapaddress; getinfo; postdescriptor;
12370 closestream; closecircuit; etc.
12371 - Make nt services work and start on startup on win32 (based on
12372 patch by Matt Edman).
12373 - Add a new AddressMap config directive to rewrite incoming socks
12374 addresses. This lets you, for example, declare an implicit
12375 required exit node for certain sites.
12376 - Add a new TrackHostExits config directive to trigger addressmaps
12377 for certain incoming socks addresses -- for sites that break when
12378 your exit keeps changing (based on patch by Mike Perry).
12379 - Redo the client-side dns cache so it's just an addressmap too.
12380 - Notice when our IP changes, and reset stats/uptime/reachability.
12381 - When an application is using socks5, give him the whole variety of
12382 potential socks5 responses (connect refused, host unreachable, etc),
12383 rather than just "success" or "failure".
12384 - A more sane version numbering system. See
12385 http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/version-spec.txt for details.
12386 - New contributed script "exitlist": a simple python script to
12387 parse directories and find Tor nodes that exit to listed
12389 - New contributed script "privoxy-tor-toggle" to toggle whether
12390 Privoxy uses Tor. Seems to be configured for Debian by default.
12391 - Report HTTP reasons to client when getting a response from directory
12392 servers -- so you can actually know what went wrong.
12393 - New config option MaxAdvertisedBandwidth which lets you advertise
12394 a low bandwidthrate (to not attract as many circuits) while still
12395 allowing a higher bandwidthrate in reality.
12397 o Robustness/stability fixes:
12398 - Make Tor use Niels Provos's libevent instead of its current
12399 poll-but-sometimes-select mess. This will let us use faster async
12400 cores (like epoll, kpoll, and /dev/poll), and hopefully work better
12402 - pthread support now too. This was forced because when we forked,
12403 we ended up wasting a lot of duplicate ram over time. Also switch
12404 to foo_r versions of some library calls to allow reentry and
12406 - Better handling for heterogeneous / unreliable nodes:
12407 - Annotate circuits w/ whether they aim to contain high uptime nodes
12408 and/or high capacity nodes. When building circuits, choose
12410 - This means that every single node in an intro rend circuit,
12411 not just the last one, will have a minimum uptime.
12412 - New config option LongLivedPorts to indicate application streams
12413 that will want high uptime circuits.
12414 - Servers reset uptime when a dir fetch entirely fails. This
12415 hopefully reflects stability of the server's network connectivity.
12416 - If somebody starts his tor server in Jan 2004 and then fixes his
12417 clock, don't make his published uptime be a year.
12418 - Reset published uptime when you wake up from hibernation.
12419 - Introduce a notion of 'internal' circs, which are chosen without
12420 regard to the exit policy of the last hop. Intro and rendezvous
12421 circs must be internal circs, to avoid leaking information. Resolve
12422 and connect streams can use internal circs if they want.
12423 - New circuit pooling algorithm: make sure to have enough circs around
12424 to satisfy any predicted ports, and also make sure to have 2 internal
12425 circs around if we've required internal circs lately (and with high
12426 uptime if we've seen that lately too).
12427 - Split NewCircuitPeriod option into NewCircuitPeriod (30 secs),
12428 which describes how often we retry making new circuits if current
12429 ones are dirty, and MaxCircuitDirtiness (10 mins), which describes
12430 how long we're willing to make use of an already-dirty circuit.
12431 - Cannibalize GENERAL circs to be C_REND, C_INTRO, S_INTRO, and S_REND
12432 circ as necessary, if there are any completed ones lying around
12433 when we try to launch one.
12434 - Make hidden services try to establish a rendezvous for 30 seconds,
12435 rather than for n (where n=3) attempts to build a circuit.
12436 - Change SHUTDOWN_WAIT_LENGTH from a fixed 30 secs to a config option
12437 "ShutdownWaitLength".
12438 - Try to be more zealous about calling connection_edge_end when
12439 things go bad with edge conns in connection.c.
12440 - Revise tor-spec to add more/better stream end reasons.
12441 - Revise all calls to connection_edge_end to avoid sending "misc",
12442 and to take errno into account where possible.
12445 - Fix a race condition that can trigger an assert, when we have a
12446 pending create cell and an OR connection fails right then.
12447 - Fix several double-mark-for-close bugs, e.g. where we were finding
12448 a conn for a cell even if that conn is already marked for close.
12449 - Make sequence of log messages when starting on win32 with no config
12450 file more reasonable.
12451 - When choosing an exit node for a new non-internal circ, don't take
12452 into account whether it'll be useful for any pending x.onion
12453 addresses -- it won't.
12454 - Turn addr_policy_compare from a tristate to a quadstate; this should
12455 help address our "Ah, you allow 1.2.3.4:80. You are a good choice
12456 for google.com" problem.
12457 - Make "platform" string in descriptor more accurate for Win32 servers,
12458 so it's not just "unknown platform".
12459 - Fix an edge case in parsing config options (thanks weasel).
12460 If they say "--" on the commandline, it's not an option.
12461 - Reject odd-looking addresses at the client (e.g. addresses that
12462 contain a colon), rather than having the server drop them because
12464 - tor-resolve requests were ignoring .exit if there was a working circuit
12465 they could use instead.
12466 - REUSEADDR on normal platforms means you can rebind to the port
12467 right after somebody else has let it go. But REUSEADDR on win32
12468 means to let you bind to the port _even when somebody else
12469 already has it bound_! So, don't do that on Win32.
12470 - Change version parsing logic: a version is "obsolete" if it is not
12471 recommended and (1) there is a newer recommended version in the
12472 same series, or (2) there are no recommended versions in the same
12473 series, but there are some recommended versions in a newer series.
12474 A version is "new" if it is newer than any recommended version in
12476 - Stop most cases of hanging up on a socks connection without sending
12480 - Require BandwidthRate to be at least 20kB/s for servers.
12481 - When a dirserver causes you to give a warn, mention which dirserver
12483 - New config option DirAllowPrivateAddresses for authdirservers.
12484 Now by default they refuse router descriptors that have non-IP or
12485 private-IP addresses.
12486 - Stop publishing socksport in the directory, since it's not
12487 actually meant to be public. For compatibility, publish a 0 there
12489 - Change DirFetchPeriod/StatusFetchPeriod to have a special "Be
12490 smart" value, that is low for servers and high for clients.
12491 - If our clock jumps forward by 100 seconds or more, assume something
12492 has gone wrong with our network and abandon all not-yet-used circs.
12493 - Warn when exit policy implicitly allows local addresses.
12494 - If we get an incredibly skewed timestamp from a dirserver mirror
12495 that isn't a verified OR, don't warn -- it's probably him that's
12497 - Since we ship our own Privoxy on OS X, tweak it so it doesn't write
12498 cookies to disk and doesn't log each web request to disk. (Thanks
12499 to Brett Carrington for pointing this out.)
12500 - When a client asks us for a dir mirror and we don't have one,
12501 launch an attempt to get a fresh one.
12502 - If we're hibernating and we get a SIGINT, exit immediately.
12503 - Add --with-dmalloc ./configure option, to track memory leaks.
12504 - And try to free all memory on closing, so we can detect what
12506 - Cache local dns resolves correctly even when they're .exit
12508 - Give a better warning when some other server advertises an
12509 ORPort that is actually an apache running ssl.
12510 - Add "opt hibernating 1" to server descriptor to make it clearer
12511 whether the server is hibernating.
12514 Changes in version 0.0.9.6 - 2005-03-24
12515 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (crashes and asserts):
12516 - Add new end stream reasons to maintainance branch. Fix bug where
12517 reason (8) could trigger an assert. Prevent bug from recurring.
12518 - Apparently win32 stat wants paths to not end with a slash.
12519 - Fix assert triggers in assert_cpath_layer_ok(), where we were
12520 blowing away the circuit that conn->cpath_layer points to, then
12521 checking to see if the circ is well-formed. Backport check to make
12522 sure we dont use the cpath on a closed connection.
12523 - Prevent circuit_resume_edge_reading_helper() from trying to package
12524 inbufs for marked-for-close streams.
12525 - Don't crash on hup if your options->address has become unresolvable.
12526 - Some systems (like OS X) sometimes accept() a connection and tell
12527 you the remote host is 0.0.0.0:0. If this happens, due to some
12528 other mis-features, we get confused; so refuse the conn for now.
12530 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (other):
12531 - Fix harmless but scary "Unrecognized content encoding" warn message.
12532 - Add new stream error reason: TORPROTOCOL reason means "you are not
12533 speaking a version of Tor I understand; say bye-bye to your stream."
12534 - Be willing to cache directories from up to ROUTER_MAX_AGE seconds
12535 into the future, now that we are more tolerant of skew. This
12536 resolves a bug where a Tor server would refuse to cache a directory
12537 because all the directories it gets are too far in the future;
12538 yet the Tor server never logs any complaints about clock skew.
12539 - Mac packaging magic: make man pages useable, and do not overwrite
12540 existing torrc files.
12541 - Make OS X log happily to /var/log/tor/tor.log
12544 Changes in version 0.0.9.5 - 2005-02-22
12545 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
12546 - Fix an assert race at exit nodes when resolve requests fail.
12547 - Stop picking unverified dir mirrors--it only leads to misery.
12548 - Patch from Matt Edman to make NT services work better. Service
12549 support is still not compiled into the executable by default.
12550 - Patch from Dmitri Bely so the Tor service runs better under
12551 the win32 SYSTEM account.
12552 - Make tor-resolve actually work (?) on Win32.
12553 - Fix a sign bug when getrlimit claims to have 4+ billion
12554 file descriptors available.
12555 - Stop refusing to start when bandwidthburst == bandwidthrate.
12556 - When create cells have been on the onion queue more than five
12557 seconds, just send back a destroy and take them off the list.
12560 Changes in version 0.0.9.4 - 2005-02-03
12561 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
12562 - Fix an assert bug that took down most of our servers: when
12563 a server claims to have 1 GB of bandwidthburst, don't
12565 - Don't crash as badly if we have spawned the max allowed number
12566 of dnsworkers, or we're out of file descriptors.
12567 - Block more file-sharing ports in the default exit policy.
12568 - MaxConn is now automatically set to the hard limit of max
12569 file descriptors we're allowed (ulimit -n), minus a few for
12571 - Give a clearer message when servers need to raise their
12572 ulimit -n when they start running out of file descriptors.
12573 - SGI Compatibility patches from Jan Schaumann.
12574 - Tolerate a corrupt cached directory better.
12575 - When a dirserver hasn't approved your server, list which one.
12576 - Go into soft hibernation after 95% of the bandwidth is used,
12577 not 99%. This is especially important for daily hibernators who
12578 have a small accounting max. Hopefully it will result in fewer
12579 cut connections when the hard hibernation starts.
12580 - Load-balance better when using servers that claim more than
12581 800kB/s of capacity.
12582 - Make NT services work (experimental, only used if compiled in).
12585 Changes in version 0.0.9.3 - 2005-01-21
12586 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
12587 - Backport the cpu use fixes from main branch, so busy servers won't
12588 need as much processor time.
12589 - Work better when we go offline and then come back, or when we
12590 run Tor at boot before the network is up. We do this by
12591 optimistically trying to fetch a new directory whenever an
12592 application request comes in and we think we're offline -- the
12593 human is hopefully a good measure of when the network is back.
12594 - Backport some minimal hidserv bugfixes: keep rend circuits open as
12595 long as you keep using them; actually publish hidserv descriptors
12596 shortly after they change, rather than waiting 20-40 minutes.
12597 - Enable Mac startup script by default.
12598 - Fix duplicate dns_cancel_pending_resolve reported by Giorgos Pallas.
12599 - When you update AllowUnverifiedNodes or FirewallPorts via the
12600 controller's setconf feature, we were always appending, never
12602 - When you update HiddenServiceDir via setconf, it was screwing up
12603 the order of reading the lines, making it fail.
12604 - Do not rewrite a cached directory back to the cache; otherwise we
12605 will think it is recent and not fetch a newer one on startup.
12606 - Workaround for webservers that lie about Content-Encoding: Tor
12607 now tries to autodetect compressed directories and compression
12608 itself. This lets us Proxypass dir fetches through apache.
12611 Changes in version 0.0.9.2 - 2005-01-04
12612 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (crashes and asserts):
12613 - Fix an assert on startup when the disk is full and you're logging
12615 - If you do socks4 with an IP of 0.0.0.x but *don't* provide a socks4a
12616 style address, then we'd crash.
12617 - Fix an assert trigger when the running-routers string we get from
12618 a dirserver is broken.
12619 - Make worker threads start and run on win32. Now win32 servers
12621 - Bandaid (not actually fix, but now it doesn't crash) an assert
12622 where the dns worker dies mysteriously and the main Tor process
12623 doesn't remember anything about the address it was resolving.
12625 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (Win32):
12626 - Workaround for brain-damaged __FILE__ handling on MSVC: keep Nick's
12627 name out of the warning/assert messages.
12628 - Fix a superficial "unhandled error on read" bug on win32.
12629 - The win32 installer no longer requires a click-through for our
12630 license, since our Free Software license grants rights but does not
12632 - Win32: When connecting to a dirserver fails, try another one
12633 immediately. (This was already working for non-win32 Tors.)
12634 - Stop trying to parse $HOME on win32 when hunting for default
12636 - Make tor-resolve.c work on win32 by calling network_init().
12638 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (other):
12639 - Make 0.0.9.x build on Solaris again.
12640 - Due to a fencepost error, we were blowing away the \n when reporting
12641 confvalue items in the controller. So asking for multiple config
12642 values at once couldn't work.
12643 - When listing circuits that are pending on an opening OR connection,
12644 if we're an OR we were listing circuits that *end* at us as
12645 being pending on every listener, dns/cpu worker, etc. Stop that.
12646 - Dirservers were failing to create 'running-routers' or 'directory'
12647 strings if we had more than some threshold of routers. Fix them so
12648 they can handle any number of routers.
12649 - Fix a superficial "Duplicate mark for close" bug.
12650 - Stop checking for clock skew for OR connections, even for servers.
12651 - Fix a fencepost error that was chopping off the last letter of any
12652 nickname that is the maximum allowed nickname length.
12653 - Update URLs in log messages so they point to the new website.
12654 - Fix a potential problem in mangling server private keys while
12655 writing to disk (not triggered yet, as far as we know).
12656 - Include the licenses for other free software we include in Tor,
12657 now that we're shipping binary distributions more regularly.
12660 Changes in version 0.0.9.1 - 2004-12-15
12661 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
12662 - Make hibernation actually work.
12663 - Make HashedControlPassword config option work.
12664 - When we're reporting event circuit status to a controller,
12665 don't use the stream status code.
12668 Changes in version 0.0.9 - 2004-12-12
12670 - Clean up manpage and torrc.sample file.
12671 - Clean up severities and text of log warnings.
12673 - Make servers trigger an assert when they enter hibernation.
12676 Changes in version 0.0.9rc7 - 2004-12-08
12677 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc:
12678 - Fix a stack-trashing crash when an exit node begins hibernating.
12679 - Avoid looking at unallocated memory while considering which
12680 ports we need to build circuits to cover.
12681 - Stop a sigpipe: when an 'end' cell races with eof from the app,
12682 we shouldn't hold-open-until-flush if the eof arrived first.
12683 - Fix a bug with init_cookie_authentication() in the controller.
12684 - When recommending new-format log lines, if the upper bound is
12685 LOG_ERR, leave it implicit.
12687 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
12688 - Fix a whole slew of memory leaks.
12689 - Fix isspace() and friends so they still make Solaris happy
12690 but also so they don't trigger asserts on win32.
12691 - Fix parse_iso_time on platforms without strptime (eg win32).
12692 - win32: tolerate extra "readable" events better.
12693 - win32: when being multithreaded, leave parent fdarray open.
12694 - Make unit tests work on win32.
12697 Changes in version 0.0.9rc6 - 2004-12-06
12698 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
12699 - Clean up some more integer underflow opportunities (not exploitable
12701 - While hibernating, hup should not regrow our listeners.
12702 - Send an end to the streams we close when we hibernate, rather
12703 than just chopping them off.
12704 - React to eof immediately on non-open edge connections.
12706 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
12707 - Calculate timeout for waiting for a connected cell from the time
12708 we sent the begin cell, not from the time the stream started. If
12709 it took a long time to establish the circuit, we would time out
12710 right after sending the begin cell.
12711 - Fix router_compare_addr_to_addr_policy: it was not treating a port
12712 of * as always matching, so we were picking reject *:* nodes as
12713 exit nodes too. Oops.
12716 - New circuit building strategy: keep a list of ports that we've
12717 used in the past 6 hours, and always try to have 2 circuits open
12718 or on the way that will handle each such port. Seed us with port
12719 80 so web users won't complain that Tor is "slow to start up".
12720 - Make kill -USR1 dump more useful stats about circuits.
12721 - When warning about retrying or giving up, print the address, so
12722 the user knows which one it's talking about.
12723 - If you haven't used a clean circuit in an hour, throw it away,
12724 just to be on the safe side. (This means after 6 hours a totally
12725 unused Tor client will have no circuits open.)
12728 Changes in version 0.0.9rc5 - 2004-12-01
12729 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
12730 - Disallow NDEBUG. We don't ever want anybody to turn off debug.
12731 - Let resolve conns retry/expire also, rather than sticking around
12733 - If we are using select, make sure we stay within FD_SETSIZE.
12735 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
12736 - Fix integer underflow in tor_vsnprintf() that may be exploitable,
12737 but doesn't seem to be currently; thanks to Ilja van Sprundel for
12739 - If anybody set DirFetchPostPeriod, give them StatusFetchPeriod
12740 instead. Impose minima and maxima for all *Period options; impose
12741 even tighter maxima for fetching if we are a caching dirserver.
12742 Clip rather than rejecting.
12743 - Fetch cached running-routers from servers that serve it (that is,
12744 authdirservers and servers running 0.0.9rc5-cvs or later.)
12747 - Accept *:706 (silc) in default exit policy.
12748 - Implement new versioning format for post 0.1.
12749 - Support "foo.nickname.exit" addresses, to let Alice request the
12750 address "foo" as viewed by exit node "nickname". Based on a patch
12752 - Make tor --version --version dump the cvs Id of every file.
12755 Changes in version 0.0.9rc4 - 2004-11-28
12756 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
12757 - Make windows sockets actually non-blocking (oops), and handle
12758 win32 socket errors better.
12760 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
12761 - Actually catch the -USR2 signal.
12764 Changes in version 0.0.9rc3 - 2004-11-25
12765 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
12766 - Flush the log file descriptor after we print "Tor opening log file",
12767 so we don't see those messages days later.
12769 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
12770 - Make tor-resolve work again.
12771 - Avoid infinite loop in tor-resolve if tor hangs up on it.
12772 - Fix an assert trigger for clients/servers handling resolves.
12775 Changes in version 0.0.9rc2 - 2004-11-24
12776 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
12777 - I broke socks5 support while fixing the eof bug.
12778 - Allow unitless bandwidths and intervals; they default to bytes
12780 - New servers don't start out hibernating; they are active until
12781 they run out of bytes, so they have a better estimate of how
12782 long it takes, and so their operators can know they're working.
12785 Changes in version 0.0.9rc1 - 2004-11-23
12786 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
12787 - Finally fix a bug that's been plaguing us for a year:
12788 With high load, circuit package window was reaching 0. Whenever
12789 we got a circuit-level sendme, we were reading a lot on each
12790 socket, but only writing out a bit. So we would eventually reach
12791 eof. This would be noticed and acted on even when there were still
12792 bytes sitting in the inbuf.
12793 - When poll() is interrupted, we shouldn't believe the revents values.
12795 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre6:
12796 - Fix hibernate bug that caused pre6 to be broken.
12797 - Don't keep rephist info for routers that haven't had activity for
12798 24 hours. (This matters now that clients have keys, since we track
12800 - Never call close_temp_logs while validating log options.
12801 - Fix backslash-escaping on tor.sh.in and torctl.in.
12804 - Implement weekly/monthly/daily accounting: now you specify your
12805 hibernation properties by
12806 AccountingMax N bytes|KB|MB|GB|TB
12807 AccountingStart day|week|month [day] HH:MM
12808 Defaults to "month 1 0:00".
12809 - Let bandwidth and interval config options be specified as 5 bytes,
12810 kb, kilobytes, etc; and as seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks.
12811 - kill -USR2 now moves all logs to loglevel debug (kill -HUP to
12812 get back to normal.)
12813 - If your requested entry or exit node has advertised bandwidth 0,
12815 - Be more greedy about filling up relay cells -- we try reading again
12816 once we've processed the stuff we read, in case enough has arrived
12817 to fill the last cell completely.
12818 - Apply NT service patch from Osamu Fujino. Still needs more work.
12821 Changes in version 0.0.9pre6 - 2004-11-15
12822 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
12823 - Fix assert failure on malformed socks4a requests.
12824 - Use identity comparison, not nickname comparison, to choose which
12825 half of circuit-ID-space each side gets to use. This is needed
12826 because sometimes we think of a router as a nickname, and sometimes
12827 as a hex ID, and we can't predict what the other side will do.
12828 - Catch and ignore SIGXFSZ signals when log files exceed 2GB; our
12829 write() call will fail and we handle it there.
12830 - Add a FAST_SMARTLIST define to optionally inline smartlist_get
12831 and smartlist_len, which are two major profiling offenders.
12833 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre5:
12834 - Fix a bug in read_all that was corrupting config files on windows.
12835 - When we're raising the max number of open file descriptors to
12836 'unlimited', don't log that we just raised it to '-1'.
12837 - Include event code with events, as required by control-spec.txt.
12838 - Don't give a fingerprint when clients do --list-fingerprint:
12839 it's misleading, because it will never be the same again.
12840 - Stop using strlcpy in tor_strndup, since it was slowing us
12842 - Remove warn on startup about missing cached-directory file.
12843 - Make kill -USR1 work again.
12844 - Hibernate if we start tor during the "wait for wakeup-time" phase
12845 of an accounting interval. Log our hibernation plans better.
12846 - Authoritative dirservers now also cache their directory, so they
12847 have it on start-up.
12850 - Fetch running-routers; cache running-routers; compress
12851 running-routers; serve compressed running-routers.z
12852 - Add NSI installer script contributed by J Doe.
12853 - Commit VC6 and VC7 workspace/project files.
12854 - Commit a tor.spec for making RPM files, with help from jbash.
12855 - Add contrib/torctl.in contributed by Glenn Fink.
12856 - Implement the control-spec's SAVECONF command, to write your
12857 configuration to torrc.
12858 - Get cookie authentication for the controller closer to working.
12859 - Include control-spec.txt in the tarball.
12860 - When set_conf changes our server descriptor, upload a new copy.
12861 But don't upload it too often if there are frequent changes.
12862 - Document authentication config in man page, and document signals
12864 - Clean up confusing parts of man page and torrc.sample.
12865 - Make expand_filename handle ~ and ~username.
12866 - Use autoconf to enable largefile support where necessary. Use
12867 ftello where available, since ftell can fail at 2GB.
12868 - Distinguish between TOR_TLS_CLOSE and TOR_TLS_ERROR, so we can
12869 log more informatively.
12870 - Give a slightly more useful output for "tor -h".
12871 - Refuse application socks connections to port 0.
12872 - Check clock skew for verified servers, but allow unverified
12873 servers and clients to have any clock skew.
12874 - Break DirFetchPostPeriod into:
12875 - DirFetchPeriod for fetching full directory,
12876 - StatusFetchPeriod for fetching running-routers,
12877 - DirPostPeriod for posting server descriptor,
12878 - RendPostPeriod for posting hidden service descriptors.
12879 - Make sure the hidden service descriptors are at a random offset
12880 from each other, to hinder linkability.
12883 Changes in version 0.0.9pre5 - 2004-11-09
12884 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre4:
12885 - Fix a seg fault in unit tests (doesn't affect main program).
12886 - Fix an assert bug where a hidden service provider would fail if
12887 the first hop of his rendezvous circuit was down.
12888 - Hidden service operators now correctly handle version 1 style
12889 INTRODUCE1 cells (nobody generates them still, so not a critical
12891 - If do_hup fails, actually notice.
12892 - Handle more errnos from accept() without closing the listener.
12893 Some OpenBSD machines were closing their listeners because
12894 they ran out of file descriptors.
12895 - Send resolve cells to exit routers that are running a new
12896 enough version of the resolve code to work right.
12897 - Better handling of winsock includes on non-MSV win32 compilers.
12898 - Some people had wrapped their tor client/server in a script
12899 that would restart it whenever it died. This did not play well
12900 with our "shut down if your version is obsolete" code. Now people
12901 don't fetch a new directory if their local cached version is
12903 - Make our autogen.sh work on ksh as well as bash.
12906 - Hibernation: New config option "AccountingMaxKB" lets you
12907 set how many KBytes per month you want to allow your server to
12908 consume. Rather than spreading those bytes out evenly over the
12909 month, we instead hibernate for some of the month and pop up
12910 at a deterministic time, work until the bytes are consumed, then
12911 hibernate again. Config option "MonthlyAccountingStart" lets you
12912 specify which day of the month your billing cycle starts on.
12913 - Control interface: a separate program can now talk to your
12914 client/server over a socket, and get/set config options, receive
12915 notifications of circuits and streams starting/finishing/dying,
12916 bandwidth used, etc. The next step is to get some GUIs working.
12917 Let us know if you want to help out. See doc/control-spec.txt .
12918 - Ship a contrib/tor-control.py as an example script to interact
12919 with the control port.
12920 - "tor --hash-password zzyxz" will output a salted password for
12921 use in authenticating to the control interface.
12922 - New log format in config:
12923 "Log minsev[-maxsev] stdout|stderr|syslog" or
12924 "Log minsev[-maxsev] file /var/foo"
12927 - DirPolicy config option, to let people reject incoming addresses
12928 from their dirserver.
12929 - "tor --list-fingerprint" will list your identity key fingerprint
12931 - Add "pass" target for RedirectExit, to make it easier to break
12932 out of a sequence of RedirectExit rules.
12933 - Clients now generate a TLS cert too, in preparation for having
12934 them act more like real nodes.
12935 - Ship src/win32/ in the tarball, so people can use it to build.
12936 - Make old win32 fall back to CWD if SHGetSpecialFolderLocation
12938 - New "router-status" line in directory, to better bind each verified
12939 nickname to its identity key.
12940 - Deprecate unofficial config option abbreviations, and abbreviations
12941 not on the command line.
12942 - Add a pure-C tor-resolve implementation.
12943 - Use getrlimit and friends to ensure we can reach MaxConn (currently
12944 1024) file descriptors.
12946 o Code security improvements, inspired by Ilja:
12947 - Replace sprintf with snprintf. (I think they were all safe, but
12949 - Replace strcpy/strncpy with strlcpy in more places.
12950 - Avoid strcat; use snprintf or strlcat instead.
12951 - snprintf wrapper with consistent (though not C99) overflow behavior.
12954 Changes in version 0.0.9pre4 - 2004-10-17
12955 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre3:
12956 - If the server doesn't specify an exit policy, use the real default
12957 exit policy, not reject *:*.
12958 - Ignore fascistfirewall when uploading/downloading hidden service
12959 descriptors, since we go through Tor for those; and when using
12960 an HttpProxy, since we assume it can reach them all.
12961 - When looking for an authoritative dirserver, use only the ones
12962 configured at boot. Don't bother looking in the directory.
12963 - The rest of the fix for get_default_conf_file() on older win32.
12964 - Make 'Routerfile' config option obsolete.
12967 - New 'MyFamily nick1,...' config option for a server to
12968 specify other servers that shouldn't be used in the same circuit
12969 with it. Only believed if nick1 also specifies us.
12970 - New 'NodeFamily nick1,nick2,...' config option for a client to
12971 specify nodes that it doesn't want to use in the same circuit.
12972 - New 'Redirectexit pattern address:port' config option for a
12973 server to redirect exit connections, e.g. to a local squid.
12976 Changes in version 0.0.9pre3 - 2004-10-13
12977 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
12978 - Better torrc example lines for dirbindaddress and orbindaddress.
12979 - Improved bounds checking on parsed ints (e.g. config options and
12980 the ones we find in directories.)
12981 - Better handling of size_t vs int, so we're more robust on 64
12983 - Fix the rest of the bug where a newly started OR would appear
12984 as unverified even after we've added his fingerprint and hupped
12986 - Fix a bug from 0.0.7: when read() failed on a stream, we would
12987 close it without sending back an end. So 'connection refused'
12988 would simply be ignored and the user would get no response.
12990 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre2:
12991 - Serving the cached-on-disk directory to people is bad. We now
12992 provide no directory until we've fetched a fresh one.
12993 - Workaround for bug on windows where cached-directories get crlf
12995 - Make get_default_conf_file() work on older windows too.
12996 - If we write a *:* exit policy line in the descriptor, don't write
12997 any more exit policy lines.
13000 - Use only 0.0.9pre1 and later servers for resolve cells.
13001 - Make the dirservers file obsolete.
13002 - Include a dir-signing-key token in directories to tell the
13003 parsing entity which key is being used to sign.
13004 - Remove the built-in bulky default dirservers string.
13005 - New config option "Dirserver %s:%d [fingerprint]", which can be
13006 repeated as many times as needed. If no dirservers specified,
13007 default to moria1,moria2,tor26.
13008 - Make moria2 advertise a dirport of 80, so people behind firewalls
13009 will be able to get a directory.
13010 - Http proxy support
13011 - Dirservers translate requests for http://%s:%d/x to /x
13012 - You can specify "HttpProxy %s[:%d]" and all dir fetches will
13013 be routed through this host.
13014 - Clients ask for /tor/x rather than /x for new enough dirservers.
13015 This way we can one day coexist peacefully with apache.
13016 - Clients specify a "Host: %s%d" http header, to be compatible
13017 with more proxies, and so running squid on an exit node can work.
13020 Changes in version 0.0.8.1 - 2004-10-13
13022 - Fix a seg fault that can be triggered remotely for Tor
13023 clients/servers with an open dirport.
13024 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
13025 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
13026 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
13027 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
13028 intermittent connections.
13029 - Fix a bug in parsing opt keywords with objects.
13030 - Fix a stale pointer assert bug when a stream detaches and
13032 - Fix a string format vulnerability (probably not exploitable)
13033 in reporting stats locally.
13034 - Fix an assert trigger: sometimes launching circuits can fail
13035 immediately, e.g. because too many circuits have failed recently.
13036 - Fix a compile warning on 64 bit platforms.
13039 Changes in version 0.0.9pre2 - 2004-10-03
13041 - Make fetching a cached directory work for 64-bit platforms too.
13042 - Make zlib.h a required header, not an optional header.
13045 Changes in version 0.0.9pre1 - 2004-10-01
13047 - Stop using separate defaults for no-config-file and
13048 empty-config-file. Now you have to explicitly turn off SocksPort,
13049 if you don't want it open.
13050 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
13051 - Improve man page to mention more of the 0.0.8 features.
13052 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
13053 intermittent connections.
13054 - Change our file IO stuff (especially wrt OpenSSL) so win32 is
13056 - Fix more dns related bugs: send back resolve_failed and end cells
13057 more reliably when the resolve fails, rather than closing the
13058 circuit and then trying to send the cell. Also attach dummy resolve
13059 connections to a circuit *before* calling dns_resolve(), to fix
13060 a bug where cached answers would never be sent in RESOLVED cells.
13061 - When we run out of disk space, or other log writing error, don't
13062 crash. Just stop logging to that log and continue.
13063 - We were starting to daemonize before we opened our logs, so if
13064 there were any problems opening logs, we would complain to stderr,
13065 which wouldn't work, and then mysteriously exit.
13066 - Fix a rare bug where sometimes a verified OR would connect to us
13067 before he'd uploaded his descriptor, which would cause us to
13068 assign conn->nickname as though he's unverified. Now we look through
13069 the fingerprint list to see if he's there.
13070 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
13071 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
13074 - Clients can ask dirservers for /dir.z to get a compressed version
13075 of the directory. Only works for servers running 0.0.9, of course.
13076 - Make clients cache directories and use them to seed their router
13077 lists at startup. This means clients have a datadir again.
13078 - Configuration infrastructure support for warning on obsolete
13080 - Respond to content-encoding headers by trying to uncompress as
13082 - Reply with a deflated directory when a client asks for "dir.z".
13083 We could use allow-encodings instead, but allow-encodings isn't
13084 specified in HTTP 1.0.
13085 - Raise the max dns workers from 50 to 100.
13086 - Discourage people from setting their dirfetchpostperiod more often
13087 than once per minute.
13088 - Protect dirservers from overzealous descriptor uploading -- wait
13089 10 seconds after directory gets dirty, before regenerating.
13092 Changes in version 0.0.8 - 2004-08-25
13093 o Port it to SunOS 5.9 / Athena
13096 Changes in version 0.0.8rc2 - 2004-08-20
13097 o Make it compile on cygwin again.
13098 o When picking unverified routers, skip those with low uptime and/or
13099 low bandwidth, depending on what properties you care about.
13102 Changes in version 0.0.8rc1 - 2004-08-18
13103 o Changes from 0.0.7.3:
13105 - Fix assert triggers: if the other side returns an address 0.0.0.0,
13106 don't put it into the client dns cache.
13107 - If a begin failed due to exit policy, but we believe the IP address
13108 should have been allowed, switch that router to exitpolicy reject *:*
13109 until we get our next directory.
13111 - Clients choose nodes proportional to advertised bandwidth.
13112 - Avoid using nodes with low uptime as introduction points.
13113 - Handle servers with dynamic IP addresses: don't replace
13114 options->Address with the resolved one at startup, and
13115 detect our address right before we make a routerinfo each time.
13116 - 'FascistFirewall' option to pick dirservers and ORs on specific
13117 ports; plus 'FirewallPorts' config option to tell FascistFirewall
13118 which ports are open. (Defaults to 80,443)
13119 - Be more aggressive about trying to make circuits when the network
13120 has changed (e.g. when you unsuspend your laptop).
13121 - Check for time skew on http headers; report date in response to
13123 - If the entrynode config line has only one node, don't pick it as
13125 - Add strict{entry|exit}nodes config options. If set to 1, then
13126 we refuse to build circuits that don't include the specified entry
13128 - OutboundBindAddress config option, to bind to a specific
13129 IP address for outgoing connect()s.
13130 - End truncated log entries (e.g. directories) with "[truncated]".
13132 o Patches to 0.0.8preX:
13134 - Patches to compile and run on win32 again (maybe)?
13135 - Fix crash when looking for ~/.torrc with no $HOME set.
13136 - Fix a race bug in the unit tests.
13137 - Handle verified/unverified name collisions better when new
13138 routerinfo's arrive in a directory.
13139 - Sometimes routers were getting entered into the stats before
13140 we'd assigned their identity_digest. Oops.
13141 - Only pick and establish intro points after we've gotten a
13144 - AllowUnverifiedNodes config option to let circuits choose no-name
13145 routers in entry,middle,exit,introduction,rendezvous positions.
13146 Allow middle and rendezvous positions by default.
13147 - Add a man page for tor-resolve.
13150 Changes in version 0.0.7.3 - 2004-08-12
13151 o Stop dnsworkers from triggering an assert failure when you
13152 ask them to resolve the host "".
13155 Changes in version 0.0.8pre3 - 2004-08-09
13156 o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
13157 - Allow multiple ORs with same nickname in routerlist -- now when
13158 people give us one identity key for a nickname, then later
13159 another, we don't constantly complain until the first expires.
13160 - Remember used bandwidth (both in and out), and publish 15-minute
13161 snapshots for the past day into our descriptor.
13162 - You can now fetch $DIRURL/running-routers to get just the
13163 running-routers line, not the whole descriptor list. (But
13164 clients don't use this yet.)
13165 - When people mistakenly use Tor as an http proxy, point them
13166 at the tor-doc.html rather than the INSTALL.
13167 - Remove our mostly unused -- and broken -- hex_encode()
13168 function. Use base16_encode() instead. (Thanks to Timo Lindfors
13169 for pointing out this bug.)
13170 - Rotate onion keys every 12 hours, not every 2 hours, so we have
13171 fewer problems with people using the wrong key.
13172 - Change the default exit policy to reject the default edonkey,
13173 kazaa, gnutella ports.
13174 - Add replace_file() to util.[ch] to handle win32's rename().
13176 o Changes from 0.0.8preX:
13177 - Fix two bugs in saving onion keys to disk when rotating, so
13178 hopefully we'll get fewer people using old onion keys.
13179 - Fix an assert error that was making SocksPolicy not work.
13180 - Be willing to expire routers that have an open dirport -- it's
13181 just the authoritative dirservers we want to not forget.
13182 - Reject tor-resolve requests for .onion addresses early, so we
13183 don't build a whole rendezvous circuit and then fail.
13184 - When you're warning a server that he's unverified, don't cry
13185 wolf unpredictably.
13186 - Fix a race condition: don't try to extend onto a connection
13187 that's still handshaking.
13188 - For servers in clique mode, require the conn to be open before
13189 you'll choose it for your path.
13190 - Fix some cosmetic bugs about duplicate mark-for-close, lack of
13191 end relay cell, etc.
13192 - Measure bandwidth capacity over the last 24 hours, not just 12
13193 - Bugfix: authoritative dirservers were making and signing a new
13194 directory for each client, rather than reusing the cached one.
13197 Changes in version 0.0.8pre2 - 2004-08-04
13198 o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
13200 - Check directory signature _before_ you decide whether you're
13201 you're running an obsolete version and should exit.
13202 - Check directory signature _before_ you parse the running-routers
13203 list to decide who's running or verified.
13204 - Bugfixes and features:
13205 - Check return value of fclose while writing to disk, so we don't
13206 end up with broken files when servers run out of disk space.
13207 - Log a warning if the user uses an unsafe socks variant, so people
13208 are more likely to learn about privoxy or socat.
13209 - Dirservers now include RFC1123-style dates in the HTTP headers,
13210 which one day we will use to better detect clock skew.
13212 o Changes from 0.0.8pre1:
13213 - Make it compile without warnings again on win32.
13214 - Log a warning if you're running an unverified server, to let you
13215 know you might want to get it verified.
13216 - Only pick a default nickname if you plan to be a server.
13219 Changes in version 0.0.8pre1 - 2004-07-23
13221 - Made our unit tests compile again on OpenBSD 3.5, and tor
13222 itself compile again on OpenBSD on a sparc64.
13223 - We were neglecting milliseconds when logging on win32, so
13224 everything appeared to happen at the beginning of each second.
13226 o Protocol changes:
13227 - 'Extend' relay cell payloads now include the digest of the
13228 intended next hop's identity key. Now we can verify that we're
13229 extending to the right router, and also extend to routers we
13230 hadn't heard of before.
13233 - Tor nodes can now act as relays (with an advertised ORPort)
13234 without being manually verified by the dirserver operators.
13235 - Uploaded descriptors of unverified routers are now accepted
13236 by the dirservers, and included in the directory.
13237 - Verified routers are listed by nickname in the running-routers
13238 list; unverified routers are listed as "$<fingerprint>".
13239 - We now use hash-of-identity-key in most places rather than
13240 nickname or addr:port, for improved security/flexibility.
13241 - To avoid Sybil attacks, paths still use only verified servers.
13242 But now we have a chance to play around with hybrid approaches.
13243 - Nodes track bandwidth usage to estimate capacity (not used yet).
13244 - ClientOnly option for nodes that never want to become servers.
13245 - Directory caching.
13246 - "AuthoritativeDir 1" option for the official dirservers.
13247 - Now other nodes (clients and servers) will cache the latest
13248 directory they've pulled down.
13249 - They can enable their DirPort to serve it to others.
13250 - Clients will pull down a directory from any node with an open
13251 DirPort, and check the signature/timestamp correctly.
13252 - Authoritative dirservers now fetch directories from other
13253 authdirservers, to stay better synced.
13254 - Running-routers list tells who's down also, along with noting
13255 if they're verified (listed by nickname) or unverified (listed
13257 - Allow dirservers to serve running-router list separately.
13258 This isn't used yet.
13259 - ORs connect-on-demand to other ORs
13260 - If you get an extend cell to an OR you're not connected to,
13261 connect, handshake, and forward the create cell.
13262 - The authoritative dirservers stay connected to everybody,
13263 and everybody stays connected to 0.0.7 servers, but otherwise
13264 clients/servers expire unused connections after 5 minutes.
13265 - When servers get a sigint, they delay 30 seconds (refusing new
13266 connections) then exit. A second sigint causes immediate exit.
13267 - File and name management:
13268 - Look for .torrc if no CONFDIR "torrc" is found.
13269 - If no datadir is defined, then choose, make, and secure ~/.tor
13271 - If torrc not found, exitpolicy reject *:*.
13272 - Expands ~/ in filenames to $HOME/ (but doesn't yet expand ~arma).
13273 - If no nickname is defined, derive default from hostname.
13274 - Rename secret key files, e.g. identity.key -> secret_id_key,
13275 to discourage people from mailing their identity key to tor-ops.
13276 - Refuse to build a circuit before the directory has arrived --
13277 it won't work anyway, since you won't know the right onion keys
13279 - Try other dirservers immediately if the one you try is down. This
13280 should tolerate down dirservers better now.
13281 - Parse tor version numbers so we can do an is-newer-than check
13282 rather than an is-in-the-list check.
13283 - New socks command 'resolve', to let us shim gethostbyname()
13285 - A 'tor_resolve' script to access the socks resolve functionality.
13286 - A new socks-extensions.txt doc file to describe our
13287 interpretation and extensions to the socks protocols.
13288 - Add a ContactInfo option, which gets published in descriptor.
13289 - Publish OR uptime in descriptor (and thus in directory) too.
13290 - Write tor version at the top of each log file
13291 - New docs in the tarball:
13293 - Document that you should proxy your SSL traffic too.
13296 Changes in version 0.0.7.2 - 2004-07-07
13297 o A better fix for the 0.0.0.0 problem, that will hopefully
13298 eliminate the remaining related assertion failures.
13301 Changes in version 0.0.7.1 - 2004-07-04
13302 o When an address resolves to 0.0.0.0, treat it as a failed resolve,
13303 since internally we use 0.0.0.0 to signify "not yet resolved".
13306 Changes in version 0.0.7 - 2004-06-07
13307 o Updated the man page to reflect the new features.
13310 Changes in version 0.0.7rc2 - 2004-06-06
13311 o Changes from 0.0.7rc1:
13312 - Make it build on Win32 again.
13313 o Changes from 0.0.6.2:
13314 - Rotate dnsworkers and cpuworkers on SIGHUP, so they get new config
13318 Changes in version 0.0.7rc1 - 2004-06-02
13320 - On sighup, we were adding another log without removing the first
13321 one. So log messages would get duplicated n times for n sighups.
13322 - Several cases of using a connection after we'd freed it. The
13323 problem was that connections that are pending resolve are in both
13324 the pending_resolve tree, and also the circuit's resolving_streams
13325 list. When you want to remove one, you must remove it from both.
13326 - Fix a double-mark-for-close where an end cell arrived for a
13327 resolving stream, and then the resolve failed.
13328 - Check directory signatures based on name of signer, not on whom
13329 we got the directory from. This will let us cache directories more
13332 - Crank up some of our constants to handle more users.
13335 Changes in version 0.0.7pre1 - 2004-06-02
13336 o Fixes for crashes and other obnoxious bugs:
13337 - Fix an epipe bug: sometimes when directory connections failed
13338 to connect, we would give them a chance to flush before closing
13340 - When we detached from a circuit because of resolvefailed, we
13341 would immediately try the same circuit twice more, and then
13342 give up on the resolve thinking we'd tried three different
13344 - Limit the number of intro circuits we'll attempt to build for a
13345 hidden service per 15-minute period.
13346 - Check recommended-software string *early*, before actually parsing
13347 the directory. Thus we can detect an obsolete version and exit,
13348 even if the new directory format doesn't parse.
13349 o Fixes for security bugs:
13350 - Remember which nodes are dirservers when you startup, and if a
13351 random OR enables his dirport, don't automatically assume he's
13352 a trusted dirserver.
13354 - Directory connections were asking the wrong poll socket to
13355 start writing, and not asking themselves to start writing.
13356 - When we detached from a circuit because we sent a begin but
13357 didn't get a connected, we would use it again the first time;
13358 but after that we would correctly switch to a different one.
13359 - Stop warning when the first onion decrypt attempt fails; they
13360 will sometimes legitimately fail now that we rotate keys.
13361 - Override unaligned-access-ok check when $host_cpu is ia64 or
13362 arm. Apparently they allow it but the kernel whines.
13363 - Dirservers try to reconnect periodically too, in case connections
13365 - Fix some memory leaks in directory servers.
13366 - Allow backslash in Win32 filenames.
13367 - Made Tor build complain-free on FreeBSD, hopefully without
13368 breaking other BSD builds. We'll see.
13370 - Doxygen markup on all functions and global variables.
13371 - Make directory functions update routerlist, not replace it. So
13372 now directory disagreements are not so critical a problem.
13373 - Remove the upper limit on number of descriptors in a dirserver's
13374 directory (not that we were anywhere close).
13375 - Allow multiple logfiles at different severity ranges.
13376 - Allow *BindAddress to specify ":port" rather than setting *Port
13377 separately. Allow multiple instances of each BindAddress config
13378 option, so you can bind to multiple interfaces if you want.
13379 - Allow multiple exit policy lines, which are processed in order.
13380 Now we don't need that huge line with all the commas in it.
13381 - Enable accept/reject policies on SOCKS connections, so you can bind
13382 to 0.0.0.0 but still control who can use your OP.
13385 Changes in version 0.0.6.2 - 2004-05-16
13386 o Our integrity-checking digest was checking only the most recent cell,
13387 not the previous cells like we'd thought.
13388 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
13391 Changes in version 0.0.6.1 - 2004-05-06
13392 o Fix two bugs in our AES counter-mode implementation (this affected
13393 onion-level stream encryption, but not TLS-level). It turns
13394 out we were doing something much more akin to a 16-character
13395 polyalphabetic cipher. Oops.
13396 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
13397 o Retire moria3 as a directory server, and add tor26 as a directory
13401 Changes in version 0.0.6 - 2004-05-02
13402 [version bump only]
13405 Changes in version 0.0.6rc4 - 2004-05-01
13406 o Update the built-in dirservers list to use the new directory format
13407 o Fix a rare seg fault: if a node offering a hidden service attempts
13408 to build a circuit to Alice's rendezvous point and fails before it
13409 reaches the last hop, it retries with a different circuit, but
13411 o Handle windows socket errors correctly.
13414 Changes in version 0.0.6rc3 - 2004-04-28
13415 o Don't expire non-general excess circuits (if we had enough
13416 circuits open, we were expiring rendezvous circuits -- even
13417 when they had a stream attached. oops.)
13418 o Fetch randomness from /dev/urandom better (not via fopen/fread)
13419 o Better debugging for tls errors
13420 o Some versions of openssl have an SSL_pending function that erroneously
13421 returns bytes when there is a non-application record pending.
13422 o Set Content-Type on the directory and hidserv descriptor.
13423 o Remove IVs from cipher code, since AES-ctr has none.
13424 o Win32 fixes. Tor now compiles on win32 with no warnings/errors.
13425 o We were using an array of length zero in a few places.
13426 o win32's gethostbyname can't resolve an IP to an IP.
13427 o win32's close can't close a socket.
13430 Changes in version 0.0.6rc2 - 2004-04-26
13431 o Fix a bug where we were closing tls connections intermittently.
13432 It turns out openssl keeps its errors around -- so if an error
13433 happens, and you don't ask about it, and then another openssl
13434 operation happens and succeeds, and you ask if there was an error,
13435 it tells you about the first error. Fun fun.
13436 o Fix a bug that's been lurking since 27 may 03 (!)
13437 When passing back a destroy cell, we would use the wrong circ id.
13438 'Mostly harmless', but still worth fixing.
13439 o Since we don't support truncateds much, don't bother sending them;
13440 just close the circ.
13441 o check for <machine/limits.h> so we build on NetBSD again (I hope).
13442 o don't crash if a conn that sent a begin has suddenly lost its circuit
13443 (this was quite rare).
13446 Changes in version 0.0.6rc1 - 2004-04-25
13447 o We now rotate link (tls context) keys and onion keys.
13448 o CREATE cells now include oaep padding, so you can tell
13449 if you decrypted them correctly.
13450 o Add bandwidthburst to server descriptor.
13451 o Directories now say which dirserver signed them.
13452 o Use a tor_assert macro that logs failed assertions too.
13455 Changes in version 0.0.6pre5 - 2004-04-18
13456 o changes from 0.0.6pre4:
13457 - make tor build on broken freebsd 5.2 installs
13458 - fix a failed assert when you try an intro point, get a nack, and try
13459 a second one and it works.
13460 - when alice uses a port that the hidden service doesn't accept,
13461 it now sends back an end cell (denied by exit policy). otherwise
13462 alice would just have to wait to time out.
13463 - fix another rare bug: when we had tried all the intro
13464 points for a hidden service, we fetched the descriptor
13465 again, but we left our introcirc thinking it had already
13466 sent an intro, so it kept waiting for a response...
13467 - bugfix: when you sleep your hidden-service laptop, as soon
13468 as it wakes up it tries to upload a service descriptor, but
13469 socketpair fails for some reason (localhost not up yet?).
13470 now we simply give up on that upload, and we'll try again later.
13471 i'd still like to find the bug though.
13472 - if an intro circ waiting for an ack dies before getting one, then
13474 - we were reusing stale service descriptors and refetching usable
13478 Changes in version 0.0.6pre4 - 2004-04-14
13479 o changes from 0.0.6pre3:
13480 - when bob fails to connect to the rendezvous point, and his
13481 circ didn't fail because of the rendezvous point itself, then
13482 he retries a couple of times
13483 - we expire introduction and rendezvous circs more thoroughly
13484 (sometimes they were hanging around forever)
13485 - we expire unattached rendezvous streams that have been around
13486 too long (they were sticking around forever).
13487 - fix a measly fencepost error that was crashing everybody with
13491 Changes in version 0.0.6pre3 - 2004-04-14
13492 o changes from 0.0.6pre2:
13493 - make hup work again
13494 - fix some memory leaks for dirservers
13495 - allow more skew in rendezvous descriptor timestamps, to help
13496 handle people like blanu who don't know what time it is
13497 - normal circs are 3 hops, but some rend/intro circs are 4, if
13498 the initiator doesn't get to choose the last hop
13499 - send acks for introductions, so alice can know whether to try
13501 - bob publishes intro points more correctly
13502 o changes from 0.0.5:
13503 - fix an assert trigger that's been plaguing us since the days
13504 of 0.0.2prexx (thanks weasel!)
13505 - retry stream correctly when we fail to connect because of
13506 exit-policy-reject (should try another) or can't-resolve-address
13507 (also should try another, because dns on random internet servers
13509 - when we hup a dirserver and we've *removed* a server from the
13510 approved-routers list, now we remove that server from the
13511 in-memory directories too
13514 Changes in version 0.0.6pre2 - 2004-04-08
13515 o We fixed our base32 implementation. Now it works on all architectures.
13518 Changes in version 0.0.6pre1 - 2004-04-08
13520 - Hidden services and rendezvous points are implemented. Go to
13521 http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/ for an index of currently available
13522 hidden services. (This only works via a socks4a proxy such as
13523 Privoxy, and currently it's quite slow.)
13526 Changes in version 0.0.5 - 2004-03-30
13527 [version bump only]
13530 Changes in version 0.0.5rc3 - 2004-03-29
13531 o Install torrc as torrc.sample -- we no longer clobber your
13533 o Re-enable recommendedversion checking (we broke it in rc2, oops)
13534 o Add in a 'notice' log level for things the operator should hear
13535 but that aren't warnings
13538 Changes in version 0.0.5rc2 - 2004-03-29
13539 o Hold socks connection open until reply is flushed (if possible)
13540 o Make exit nodes resolve IPs to IPs immediately, rather than asking
13541 the dns farm to do it.
13542 o Fix c99 aliasing warnings in rephist.c
13543 o Don't include server descriptors that are older than 24 hours in the
13545 o Give socks 'reject' replies their whole 15s to attempt to flush,
13546 rather than seeing the 60s timeout and assuming the flush had failed.
13547 o Clean automake droppings from the cvs repository
13550 Changes in version 0.0.5rc1 - 2004-03-28
13551 o Fix mangled-state bug in directory fetching (was causing sigpipes).
13552 o Only build circuits after we've fetched the directory: clients were
13553 using only the directory servers before they'd fetched a directory.
13554 This also means longer startup time; so it goes.
13555 o Fix an assert trigger where an OP would fail to handshake, and we'd
13556 expect it to have a nickname.
13557 o Work around a tsocks bug: do a socks reject when AP connection dies
13558 early, else tsocks goes into an infinite loop.
13561 Changes in version 0.0.4 - 2004-03-26
13562 o When connecting to a dirserver or OR and the network is down,
13566 Changes in version 0.0.3 - 2004-03-26
13567 o Warn and fail if server chose a nickname with illegal characters
13568 o Port to Solaris and Sparc:
13569 - include missing header fcntl.h
13570 - have autoconf find -lsocket -lnsl automatically
13571 - deal with hardware word alignment
13572 - make uname() work (solaris has a different return convention)
13573 - switch from using signal() to sigaction()
13574 o Preliminary work on reputation system:
13575 - Keep statistics on success/fail of connect attempts; they're published
13576 by kill -USR1 currently.
13577 - Add a RunTesting option to try to learn link state by creating test
13578 circuits, even when SocksPort is off.
13579 - Remove unused open circuits when there are too many.
13582 Changes in version 0.0.2 - 2004-03-19
13583 - Include strlcpy and strlcat for safer string ops
13584 - define INADDR_NONE so we compile (but still not run) on solaris
13587 Changes in version 0.0.2pre27 - 2004-03-14
13589 - Allow internal tor networks (we were rejecting internal IPs,
13590 now we allow them if they're set explicitly).
13591 - And fix a few endian issues.
13594 Changes in version 0.0.2pre26 - 2004-03-14
13596 - If a stream times out after 15s without a connected cell, don't
13597 try that circuit again: try a new one.
13598 - Retry streams at most 4 times. Then give up.
13599 - When a dirserver gets a descriptor from an unknown router, it
13600 logs its fingerprint (so the dirserver operator can choose to
13601 accept it even without mail from the server operator).
13602 - Inform unapproved servers when we reject their descriptors.
13603 - Make tor build on Windows again. It works as a client, who knows
13605 - Clearer instructions in the torrc for how to set up a server.
13606 - Be more efficient about reading fd's when our global token bucket
13607 (used for rate limiting) becomes empty.
13609 - Stop asserting that computers always go forward in time. It's
13611 - When we sent a cell (e.g. destroy) and then marked an OR connection
13612 expired, we might close it before finishing a flush if the other
13613 side isn't reading right then.
13614 - Don't allow dirservers to start if they haven't defined
13615 RecommendedVersions
13616 - We were caching transient dns failures. Oops.
13617 - Prevent servers from publishing an internal IP as their address.
13618 - Address a strcat vulnerability in circuit.c
13621 Changes in version 0.0.2pre25 - 2004-03-04
13623 - Put the OR's IP in its router descriptor, not its fqdn. That way
13624 we'll stop being stalled by gethostbyname for nodes with flaky dns,
13627 - If the user typed in an address that didn't resolve, the server
13631 Changes in version 0.0.2pre24 - 2004-03-03
13633 - Fix an assertion failure in dns.c, where we were trying to dequeue
13634 a pending dns resolve even if it wasn't pending
13635 - Fix a spurious socks5 warning about still trying to write after the
13636 connection is finished.
13637 - Hold certain marked_for_close connections open until they're finished
13638 flushing, rather than losing bytes by closing them too early.
13639 - Correctly report the reason for ending a stream
13640 - Remove some duplicate calls to connection_mark_for_close
13641 - Put switch_id and start_daemon earlier in the boot sequence, so it
13642 will actually try to chdir() to options.DataDirectory
13643 - Make 'make test' exit(1) if a test fails; fix some unit tests
13644 - Make tor fail when you use a config option it doesn't know about,
13645 rather than warn and continue.
13646 - Make --version work
13647 - Bugfixes on the rpm spec file and tor.sh, so it's more up to date
13650 Changes in version 0.0.2pre23 - 2004-02-29
13652 - Print a statement when the first circ is finished, so the user
13653 knows it's working.
13654 - If a relay cell is unrecognized at the end of the circuit,
13655 send back a destroy. (So attacks to mutate cells are more
13657 - New config option 'excludenodes' to avoid certain nodes for circuits.
13658 - When it daemonizes, it chdir's to the DataDirectory rather than "/",
13659 so you can collect coredumps there.
13661 - Fix a bug in tls flushing where sometimes data got wedged and
13662 didn't flush until more data got sent. Hopefully this bug was
13663 a big factor in the random delays we were seeing.
13664 - Make 'connected' cells include the resolved IP, so the client
13665 dns cache actually gets populated.
13666 - Disallow changing from ORPort=0 to ORPort>0 on hup.
13667 - When we time-out on a stream and detach from the circuit, send an
13668 end cell down it first.
13669 - Only warn about an unknown router (in exitnodes, entrynodes,
13670 excludenodes) after we've fetched a directory.
13673 Changes in version 0.0.2pre22 - 2004-02-26
13675 - Servers publish less revealing uname information in descriptors.
13676 - More memory tracking and assertions, to crash more usefully when
13678 - If the default torrc isn't there, just use some default defaults.
13679 Plus provide an internal dirservers file if they don't have one.
13680 - When the user tries to use Tor as an http proxy, give them an http
13681 501 failure explaining that we're a socks proxy.
13682 - Dump a new router.desc on hup, to help confused people who change
13683 their exit policies and then wonder why router.desc doesn't reflect
13685 - Clean up the generic tor.sh init script that we ship with.
13687 - If the exit stream is pending on the resolve, and a destroy arrives,
13688 then the stream wasn't getting removed from the pending list. I
13689 think this was the one causing recent server crashes.
13690 - Use a more robust poll on OSX 10.3, since their poll is flaky.
13691 - When it couldn't resolve any dirservers, it was useless from then on.
13692 Now it reloads the RouterFile (or default dirservers) if it has no
13694 - Move the 'tor' binary back to /usr/local/bin/ -- it turns out
13695 many users don't even *have* a /usr/local/sbin/.
13698 Changes in version 0.0.2pre21 - 2004-02-18
13700 - There's a ChangeLog file that actually reflects the changelog.
13701 - There's a 'torify' wrapper script, with an accompanying
13702 tor-tsocks.conf, that simplifies the process of using tsocks for
13703 tor. It even has a man page.
13704 - The tor binary gets installed to sbin rather than bin now.
13705 - Retry streams where the connected cell hasn't arrived in 15 seconds
13706 - Clean up exit policy handling -- get the default out of the torrc,
13707 so we can update it without forcing each server operator to fix
13709 - Allow imaps and pop3s in default exit policy
13711 - Prevent picking middleman nodes as the last node in the circuit
13714 Changes in version 0.0.2pre20 - 2004-01-30
13716 - We now have a deb package, and it's in debian unstable. Go to
13717 it, apt-getters. :)
13718 - I've split the TotalBandwidth option into BandwidthRate (how many
13719 bytes per second you want to allow, long-term) and
13720 BandwidthBurst (how many bytes you will allow at once before the cap
13721 kicks in). This better token bucket approach lets you, say, set
13722 BandwidthRate to 10KB/s and BandwidthBurst to 10MB, allowing good
13723 performance while not exceeding your monthly bandwidth quota.
13724 - Push out a tls record's worth of data once you've got it, rather
13725 than waiting until you've read everything waiting to be read. This
13726 may improve performance by pipelining better. We'll see.
13727 - Add an AP_CONN_STATE_CONNECTING state, to allow streams to detach
13728 from failed circuits (if they haven't been connected yet) and attach
13730 - Expire old streams that haven't managed to connect. Some day we'll
13731 have them reattach to new circuits instead.
13734 - Fix several memory leaks that were causing servers to become bloated
13736 - Fix a few very rare assert triggers. A few more remain.
13737 - Setuid to User _before_ complaining about running as root.
13740 Changes in version 0.0.2pre19 - 2004-01-07
13742 - Fix deadlock condition in dns farm. We were telling a child to die by
13743 closing the parent's file descriptor to him. But newer children were
13744 inheriting the open file descriptor from the parent, and since they
13745 weren't closing it, the socket never closed, so the child never read
13746 eof, so he never knew to exit. Similarly, dns workers were holding
13747 open other sockets, leading to all sorts of chaos.
13748 - New cleaner daemon() code for forking and backgrounding.
13749 - If you log to a file, it now prints an entry at the top of the
13750 logfile so you know it's working.
13751 - The onionskin challenge length was 30 bytes longer than necessary.
13752 - Started to patch up the spec so it's not quite so out of date.
13755 Changes in version 0.0.2pre18 - 2004-01-02
13757 - Fix endian issues with the 'integrity' field in the relay header.
13758 - Fix a potential bug where connections in state
13759 AP_CONN_STATE_CIRCUIT_WAIT might unexpectedly ask to write.
13762 Changes in version 0.0.2pre17 - 2003-12-30
13764 - Made --debuglogfile (or any second log file, actually) work.
13765 - Resolved an edge case in get_unique_circ_id_by_conn where a smart
13766 adversary could force us into an infinite loop.
13769 - Each onionskin handshake now includes a hash of the computed key,
13770 to prove the server's identity and help perfect forward secrecy.
13771 - Changed cell size from 256 to 512 bytes (working toward compatibility
13773 - Changed cell length to 2 bytes, and moved it to the relay header.
13774 - Implemented end-to-end integrity checking for the payloads of
13776 - Separated streamid from 'recognized' (otherwise circuits will get
13777 messed up when we try to have streams exit from the middle). We
13778 use the integrity-checking to confirm that a cell is addressed to
13780 - Randomize the initial circid and streamid values, so an adversary who
13781 breaks into a node can't learn how many circuits or streams have
13785 Changes in version 0.0.2pre16 - 2003-12-14
13787 - Fixed a bug that made HUP trigger an assert
13788 - Fixed a bug where a circuit that immediately failed wasn't being
13789 counted as a failed circuit in counting retries.
13792 - Now we close the circuit when we get a truncated cell: otherwise we're
13793 open to an anonymity attack where a bad node in the path truncates
13794 the circuit and then we open streams at him.
13795 - Add port ranges to exit policies
13796 - Add a conservative default exit policy
13797 - Warn if you're running tor as root
13798 - on HUP, retry OR connections and close/rebind listeners
13799 - options.EntryNodes: try these nodes first when picking the first node
13800 - options.ExitNodes: if your best choices happen to include any of
13801 your preferred exit nodes, you choose among just those preferred
13803 - options.ExcludedNodes: nodes that are never picked in path building
13806 Changes in version 0.0.2pre15 - 2003-12-03
13807 o Robustness and bugfixes:
13808 - Sometimes clients would cache incorrect DNS resolves, which would
13809 really screw things up.
13810 - An OP that goes offline would slowly leak all its sockets and stop
13812 - A wide variety of bugfixes in exit node selection, exit policy
13813 handling, and processing pending streams when a new circuit is
13815 - Pick nodes for a path only from those the directory says are up
13816 - Choose randomly from all running dirservers, not always the first one
13817 - Increase allowed http header size for directory fetch.
13818 - Stop writing to stderr (if we're daemonized it will be closed).
13819 - Enable -g always, so cores will be more useful to me.
13820 - Switch "-lcrypto -lssl" to "-lssl -lcrypto" for broken distributions.
13823 - Wrote a man page. It lists commonly used options.
13826 - Change default loglevel to warn.
13827 - Make PidFile default to null rather than littering in your CWD.
13828 - OnionRouter config option is now obsolete. Instead it just checks
13830 - Moved to a single unified torrc file for both clients and servers.
13833 Changes in version 0.0.2pre14 - 2003-11-29
13834 o Robustness and bugfixes:
13835 - Force the admin to make the DataDirectory himself
13836 - to get ownership/permissions right
13837 - so clients no longer make a DataDirectory and then never use it
13838 - fix bug where a client who was offline for 45 minutes would never
13839 pull down a directory again
13840 - fix (or at least hide really well) the dns assert bug that was
13841 causing server crashes
13842 - warnings and improved robustness wrt clockskew for certs
13843 - use the native daemon(3) to daemonize, when available
13844 - exit if bind() fails
13845 - exit if neither socksport nor orport is defined
13846 - include our own tor_timegm (Win32 doesn't have its own)
13847 - bugfix for win32 with lots of connections
13848 - fix minor bias in PRNG
13849 - make dirserver more robust to corrupt cached directory
13852 - Wrote the design document (woo)
13854 o Circuit building and exit policies:
13855 - Circuits no longer try to use nodes that the directory has told them
13857 - Exit policies now support bitmasks (18.0.0.0/255.0.0.0) and
13858 bitcounts (18.0.0.0/8).
13859 - Make AP connections standby for a circuit if no suitable circuit
13860 exists, rather than failing
13861 - Circuits choose exit node based on addr/port, exit policies, and
13862 which AP connections are standing by
13863 - Bump min pathlen from 2 to 3
13864 - Relay end cells have a payload to describe why the stream ended.
13865 - If the stream failed because of exit policy, try again with a new
13867 - Clients have a dns cache to remember resolved addresses.
13868 - Notice more quickly when we have no working circuits
13871 - APPort is now called SocksPort
13872 - SocksBindAddress, ORBindAddress, DirBindAddress let you configure
13874 - RecommendedVersions is now a config variable rather than
13875 hardcoded (for dirservers)
13876 - Reloads config on HUP
13877 - Usage info on -h or --help
13878 - If you set User and Group config vars, it'll setu/gid to them.
13881 Changes in version 0.0.2pre13 - 2003-10-19
13882 o General stability:
13883 - SSL_write no longer fails when it returns WANTWRITE and the number
13884 of bytes in the buf has changed by the next SSL_write call.
13885 - Fix segfault fetching directory when network is down
13886 - Fix a variety of minor memory leaks
13887 - Dirservers reload the fingerprints file on HUP, so I don't have
13888 to take down the network when I approve a new router
13889 - Default server config file has explicit Address line to specify fqdn
13892 - Buffers grow and shrink as needed (Cut process size from 20M to 2M)
13893 - Make listener connections not ever alloc bufs
13895 o Autoconf improvements:
13896 - don't clobber an external CFLAGS in ./configure
13897 - Make install now works
13898 - create var/lib/tor on make install
13899 - autocreate a tor.sh initscript to help distribs
13900 - autocreate the torrc and sample-server-torrc with correct paths
13902 o Log files and Daemonizing now work:
13903 - If --DebugLogFile is specified, log to it at -l debug
13904 - If --LogFile is specified, use it instead of commandline
13905 - If --RunAsDaemon is set, tor forks and backgrounds on startup