1 Changes in version 0.2.5.2 - 2013-01-??
3 o Major bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.20):
4 - Do not allow OpenSSL engines to replace the PRNG, even when
5 HardwareAccel is set. The only default builtin PRNG engine uses
6 the Intel RDRAND instruction to replace the entire PRNG, and
7 ignores all attempts to seed it with more entropy. That's
8 cryptographically stupid: the right response to a new alleged
9 entropy source is never to discard all previously used entropy
10 sources. Fixes bug 10402; works around behavior introduced in
11 OpenSSL 1.0.0. Diagnosis and investigation thanks to "coderman"
13 - Fix assertion failure when AutomapHostsOnResolve yields an IPv6
14 address. Fixes bug 10465; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
15 - Avoid launching spurious extra circuits when a stream is pending.
16 This fixes a bug where any circuit that _wasn't_ unusable for new
17 streams would be treated as if it were, causing extra circuits to
18 be launched. Fixes bug 10456; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
20 o Major bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
21 - No longer stop reading or writing on cpuworker connections when
22 our rate limiting buckets go empty. Now we should handle circuit
23 handshake requests more promptly. Resolves bug 9731.
24 - Stop trying to bootstrap all our directory information from
25 only our first guard. Discovered while fixing bug 9946; bugfix
28 o Minor bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.20):
29 - Avoid a crash bug when starting with a corrupted microdescriptor
30 cache file. Fixes bug 10406; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
31 - If we fail to dump a previously cached microdescriptor to disk, avoid
32 freeing duplicate data later on. Fixes bug 10423; bugfix on
33 0.2.4.13-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom".
35 o Minor bugfixes on 0.2.4.x (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
36 - Correctly log long IPv6 exit policies, instead of truncating them
37 or reporting an error. Fixes bug 9596; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
38 - Our default TLS ecdhe groups were backwards: we meant to be using
39 P224 for relays (for performance win) and P256 for bridges (since
40 it is more common in the wild). Instead we had it backwards. After
41 reconsideration, we decided that the default should be P256 on all
42 hosts, since its security is probably better, and since P224 is
43 reportedly used quite little in the wild. Found by "skruffy" on
44 IRC. Fix for bug 9780; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
45 - Free directory authority certificate download statuses on exit
46 rather than leaking them. Fixes bug 9644; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
48 o Minor bugfixes on 0.2.3.x (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
49 - If the guard we choose first doesn't answer, we would try the
50 second guard, but once we connected to the second guard we would
51 abandon it and retry the first one, slowing down bootstrapping.
52 The fix is to treat all our initially chosen guards as acceptable
53 to use. Fixes bug 9946; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
54 - Fix an assertion failure that would occur when disabling the
55 ORPort setting on a running Tor process while accounting was
56 enabled. Fixes bug 6979; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
57 - When examining the list of network interfaces to find our address,
58 do not consider non-running or disabled network interfaces. Fixes
59 bug 9904; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. Patch from "hantwister".
60 - Avoid an off-by-one error when checking buffer boundaries when
61 formatting the exit status of a pluggable transport helper.
62 This is probably not an exploitable bug, but better safe than
63 sorry. Fixes bug 9928; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc. Bug found by
67 - When closing a channel that has already been open, do not close
68 pending circuits that were waiting to connect to the same relay.
69 Fixes bug 9880; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Thanks to skruffy for
72 o Minor features (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
73 - Improve the circuit queue out-of-memory handler. Previously, when
74 we ran low on memory, we'd close whichever circuits had the most
75 queued cells. Now, we close those that have the *oldest* queued
76 cells, on the theory that those are most responsible for us
77 running low on memory. Based on analysis from a forthcoming paper
78 by Jansen, Tschorsch, Johnson, and Scheuermann. Fixes bug 9093.
79 - Generate bootstrapping status update events correctly when fetching
80 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 9927.
81 - Update to the October 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
83 o Documentation fixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
84 - Clarify the usage and risks of setting the ContactInfo torrc line
85 for your relay or bridge. Resolves ticket 9854.
86 - Add anchors to the manpage so we can link to the html version of
87 the documentation for specific options. Resolves ticket 9866.
88 - Replace remaining references to DirServer in man page and
89 log entries. Resolves ticket 10124.
92 Changes in version 0.2.4.20 - 2013-12-22
93 Tor 0.2.4.20 fixes potentially poor random number generation for users
94 who 1) use OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, 2) set "HardwareAccel 1" in their
95 torrc file, 3) have "Sandy Bridge" or "Ivy Bridge" Intel processors,
96 and 4) have no state file in their DataDirectory (as would happen on
97 first start). Users who generated relay or hidden service identity
98 keys in such a situation should discard them and generate new ones.
100 This release also fixes a logic error that caused Tor clients to build
101 many more preemptive circuits than they actually need.
104 - Do not allow OpenSSL engines to replace the PRNG, even when
105 HardwareAccel is set. The only default builtin PRNG engine uses
106 the Intel RDRAND instruction to replace the entire PRNG, and
107 ignores all attempts to seed it with more entropy. That's
108 cryptographically stupid: the right response to a new alleged
109 entropy source is never to discard all previously used entropy
110 sources. Fixes bug 10402; works around behavior introduced in
111 OpenSSL 1.0.0. Diagnosis and investigation thanks to "coderman"
113 - Fix assertion failure when AutomapHostsOnResolve yields an IPv6
114 address. Fixes bug 10465; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
115 - Avoid launching spurious extra circuits when a stream is pending.
116 This fixes a bug where any circuit that _wasn't_ unusable for new
117 streams would be treated as if it were, causing extra circuits to
118 be launched. Fixes bug 10456; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
121 - Avoid a crash bug when starting with a corrupted microdescriptor
122 cache file. Fixes bug 10406; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
123 - If we fail to dump a previously cached microdescriptor to disk, avoid
124 freeing duplicate data later on. Fixes bug 10423; bugfix on
125 0.2.4.13-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom".
128 Changes in version 0.2.4.19 - 2013-12-11
129 The Tor 0.2.4 release series is dedicated to the memory of Aaron Swartz
130 (1986-2013). Aaron worked on diverse projects including helping to guide
131 Creative Commons, playing a key role in stopping SOPA/PIPA, bringing
132 transparency to the U.S government's PACER documents, and contributing
133 design and development for Tor and Tor2Web. Aaron was one of the latest
134 martyrs in our collective fight for civil liberties and human rights,
135 and his death is all the more painful because he was one of us.
137 Tor 0.2.4.19, the first stable release in the 0.2.4 branch, features
138 a new circuit handshake and link encryption that use ECC to provide
139 better security and efficiency; makes relays better manage circuit
140 creation requests; uses "directory guards" to reduce client enumeration
141 risks; makes bridges collect and report statistics about the pluggable
142 transports they support; cleans up and improves our geoip database;
143 gets much closer to IPv6 support for clients, bridges, and relays; makes
144 directory authorities use measured bandwidths rather than advertised
145 ones when computing flags and thresholds; disables client-side DNS
146 caching to reduce tracking risks; and fixes a big bug in bridge
147 reachability testing. This release introduces two new design
148 abstractions in the code: a new "channel" abstraction between circuits
149 and or_connections to allow for implementing alternate relay-to-relay
150 transports, and a new "circuitmux" abstraction storing the queue of
151 circuits for a channel. The release also includes many stability,
152 security, and privacy fixes.
155 Changes in version 0.2.4.18-rc - 2013-11-16
156 Tor 0.2.4.18-rc is the fourth release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
157 series. It takes a variety of fixes from the 0.2.5.x branch to improve
158 stability, performance, and better handling of edge cases.
161 - Re-enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 when built with OpenSSL 1.0.1e or later.
162 Resolves ticket 6055. (OpenSSL before 1.0.1 didn't have TLS 1.1 or
163 1.2, and OpenSSL from 1.0.1 through 1.0.1d had bugs that prevented
164 renegotiation from working with TLS 1.1 or 1.2, so we had disabled
165 them to solve bug 6033.)
168 - No longer stop reading or writing on cpuworker connections when
169 our rate limiting buckets go empty. Now we should handle circuit
170 handshake requests more promptly. Resolves bug 9731.
171 - If we are unable to save a microdescriptor to the journal, do not
172 drop it from memory and then reattempt downloading it. Fixes bug
173 9645; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
174 - Stop trying to bootstrap all our directory information from
175 only our first guard. Discovered while fixing bug 9946; bugfix
177 - The new channel code sometimes lost track of in-progress circuits,
178 causing long-running clients to stop building new circuits. The
179 fix is to always call circuit_n_chan_done(chan, 0) from
180 channel_closed(). Fixes bug 9776; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
182 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.4.x):
183 - Correctly log long IPv6 exit policies, instead of truncating them
184 or reporting an error. Fixes bug 9596; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
185 - Our default TLS ecdhe groups were backwards: we meant to be using
186 P224 for relays (for performance win) and P256 for bridges (since
187 it is more common in the wild). Instead we had it backwards. After
188 reconsideration, we decided that the default should be P256 on all
189 hosts, since its security is probably better, and since P224 is
190 reportedly used quite little in the wild. Found by "skruffy" on
191 IRC. Fix for bug 9780; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
192 - Free directory authority certificate download statuses on exit
193 rather than leaking them. Fixes bug 9644; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
195 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x and earlier):
196 - If the guard we choose first doesn't answer, we would try the
197 second guard, but once we connected to the second guard we would
198 abandon it and retry the first one, slowing down bootstrapping.
199 The fix is to treat all our initially chosen guards as acceptable
200 to use. Fixes bug 9946; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
201 - Fix an assertion failure that would occur when disabling the
202 ORPort setting on a running Tor process while accounting was
203 enabled. Fixes bug 6979; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
204 - When examining the list of network interfaces to find our address,
205 do not consider non-running or disabled network interfaces. Fixes
206 bug 9904; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. Patch from "hantwister".
207 - Avoid an off-by-one error when checking buffer boundaries when
208 formatting the exit status of a pluggable transport helper.
209 This is probably not an exploitable bug, but better safe than
210 sorry. Fixes bug 9928; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc. Bug found by
213 o Minor features (protecting client timestamps):
214 - Clients no longer send timestamps in their NETINFO cells. These were
215 not used for anything, and they provided one small way for clients
216 to be distinguished from each other as they moved from network to
217 network or behind NAT. Implements part of proposal 222.
218 - Clients now round timestamps in INTRODUCE cells down to the nearest
219 10 minutes. If a new Support022HiddenServices option is set to 0, or
220 if it's set to "auto" and the feature is disabled in the consensus,
221 the timestamp is sent as 0 instead. Implements part of proposal 222.
222 - Stop sending timestamps in AUTHENTICATE cells. This is not such
223 a big deal from a security point of view, but it achieves no actual
224 good purpose, and isn't needed. Implements part of proposal 222.
225 - Reduce down accuracy of timestamps in hidden service descriptors.
226 Implements part of proposal 222.
228 o Minor features (other):
229 - Improve the circuit queue out-of-memory handler. Previously, when
230 we ran low on memory, we'd close whichever circuits had the most
231 queued cells. Now, we close those that have the *oldest* queued
232 cells, on the theory that those are most responsible for us
233 running low on memory. Based on analysis from a forthcoming paper
234 by Jansen, Tschorsch, Johnson, and Scheuermann. Fixes bug 9093.
235 - Generate bootstrapping status update events correctly when fetching
236 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 9927.
237 - Update to the October 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
239 o Documentation fixes:
240 - Clarify the usage and risks of setting the ContactInfo torrc line
241 for your relay or bridge. Resolves ticket 9854.
242 - Add anchors to the manpage so we can link to the html version of
243 the documentation for specific options. Resolves ticket 9866.
244 - Replace remaining references to DirServer in man page and
245 log entries. Resolves ticket 10124.
248 Changes in version 0.2.5.1-alpha - 2013-10-02
249 Tor 0.2.5.1-alpha introduces experimental support for syscall sandboxing
250 on Linux, allows bridges that offer pluggable transports to report usage
251 statistics, fixes many issues to make testing easier, and provides
252 a pile of minor features and bugfixes that have been waiting for a
253 release of the new branch.
255 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to
256 be bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
257 stay with 0.2.4.x for now.
259 o Major features (security):
260 - Use the seccomp2 syscall filtering facility on Linux to limit
261 which system calls Tor can invoke. This is an experimental,
262 Linux-only feature to provide defense-in-depth against unknown
263 attacks. To try turning it on, set "Sandbox 1" in your torrc
264 file. Please be ready to report bugs. We hope to add support
265 for better sandboxing in the future, including more fine-grained
266 filters, better division of responsibility, and support for more
267 platforms. This work has been done by Cristian-Matei Toader for
268 Google Summer of Code.
269 - Re-enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 when built with OpenSSL 1.0.1e or later.
270 Resolves ticket 6055. (OpenSSL before 1.0.1 didn't have TLS 1.1 or
271 1.2, and OpenSSL from 1.0.1 through 1.0.1d had bugs that prevented
272 renegotiation from working with TLS 1.1 or 1.2, so we had disabled
273 them to solve bug 6033.)
275 o Major features (other):
276 - Add support for passing arguments to managed pluggable transport
277 proxies. Implements ticket 3594.
278 - Bridges now track GeoIP information and the number of their users
279 even when pluggable transports are in use, and report usage
280 statistics in their extra-info descriptors. Resolves tickets 4773
282 - Make testing Tor networks bootstrap better: lower directory fetch
283 retry schedules and maximum interval without directory requests,
284 and raise maximum download tries. Implements ticket 6752.
285 - Add make target 'test-network' to run tests on a Chutney network.
286 Implements ticket 8530.
287 - The ntor handshake is now on-by-default, no matter what the
288 directory authorities recommend. Implements ticket 8561.
291 - Instead of writing destroy cells directly to outgoing connection
292 buffers, queue them and intersperse them with other outgoing cells.
293 This can prevent a set of resource starvation conditions where too
294 many pending destroy cells prevent data cells from actually getting
295 delivered. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed". Fixes bug 7912;
296 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
297 - If we are unable to save a microdescriptor to the journal, do not
298 drop it from memory and then reattempt downloading it. Fixes bug
299 9645; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
300 - The new channel code sometimes lost track of in-progress circuits,
301 causing long-running clients to stop building new circuits. The
302 fix is to always call circuit_n_chan_done(chan, 0) from
303 channel_closed(). Fixes bug 9776; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
306 - Tor now builds each source file in two modes: a mode that avoids
307 exposing identifiers needlessly, and another mode that exposes
308 more identifiers for testing. This lets the compiler do better at
309 optimizing the production code, while enabling us to take more
310 radical measures to let the unit tests test things.
311 - The production builds no longer include functions used only in
312 the unit tests; all functions exposed from a module only for
313 unit-testing are now static in production builds.
314 - Add an --enable-coverage configuration option to make the unit
315 tests (and a new src/or/tor-cov target) to build with gcov test
319 - We now have rudimentary function mocking support that our unit
320 tests can use to test functions in isolation. Function mocking
321 lets the tests temporarily replace a function's dependencies with
322 stub functions, so that the tests can check the function without
323 invoking the other functions it calls.
324 - Add more unit tests for the <circid,channel>->circuit map, and
325 the destroy-cell-tracking code to fix bug 7912.
326 - Unit tests for failing cases of the TAP onion handshake.
327 - More unit tests for address-manipulation functions.
329 o Minor features (protecting client timestamps):
330 - Clients no longer send timestamps in their NETINFO cells. These were
331 not used for anything, and they provided one small way for clients
332 to be distinguished from each other as they moved from network to
333 network or behind NAT. Implements part of proposal 222.
334 - Clients now round timestamps in INTRODUCE cells down to the nearest
335 10 minutes. If a new Support022HiddenServices option is set to 0, or
336 if it's set to "auto" and the feature is disabled in the consensus,
337 the timestamp is sent as 0 instead. Implements part of proposal 222.
338 - Stop sending timestamps in AUTHENTICATE cells. This is not such
339 a big deal from a security point of view, but it achieves no actual
340 good purpose, and isn't needed. Implements part of proposal 222.
341 - Reduce down accuracy of timestamps in hidden service descriptors.
342 Implements part of proposal 222.
344 o Minor features (config options):
345 - Config (torrc) lines now handle fingerprints which are missing
346 their initial '$'. Resolves ticket 4341; improvement over 0.0.9pre5.
347 - Support a --dump-config option to print some or all of the
348 configured options. Mainly useful for debugging the command-line
349 option parsing code. Helps resolve ticket 4647.
350 - Raise awareness of safer logging: notify user of potentially
351 unsafe config options, like logging more verbosely than severity
352 "notice" or setting SafeLogging to 0. Resolves ticket 5584.
353 - Add a new configuration option TestingV3AuthVotingStartOffset
354 that bootstraps a network faster by changing the timing for
355 consensus votes. Addresses ticket 8532.
356 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportOptions" that allows
357 bridge operators to pass configuration parameters to their
358 pluggable transports. Resolves ticket 8929.
359 - The config (torrc) file now accepts bandwidth and space limits in
360 bits as well as bytes. (Anywhere that you can say "2 Kilobytes",
361 you can now say "16 kilobits", and so on.) Resolves ticket 9214.
364 o Minor features (build):
365 - Add support for `--library-versions` flag. Implements ticket 6384.
366 - Return the "unexpected sendme" warnings to a warn severity, but make
367 them rate limited, to help diagnose ticket 8093.
368 - Detect a missing asciidoc, and warn the user about it, during
369 configure rather than at build time. Fixes issue 6506. Patch from
372 o Minor features (other):
373 - Use the SOCK_NONBLOCK socket type, if supported, to open nonblocking
374 sockets in a single system call. Implements ticket 5129.
375 - Log current accounting state (bytes sent and received + remaining
376 time for the current accounting period) in the relay's heartbeat
377 message. Implements ticket 5526; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
378 - Implement the TRANSPORT_LAUNCHED control port event that
379 notifies controllers about new launched pluggable
380 transports. Resolves ticket 5609.
381 - If we're using the pure-C 32-bit curve25519_donna implementation
382 of curve25519, build it with the -fomit-frame-pointer option to
383 make it go faster on register-starved hosts. This improves our
384 handshake performance by about 6% on i386 hosts without nacl.
386 - Update to the September 4 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
389 - Set the listen() backlog limit to the largest actually supported
390 on the system, not to the value in a header file. Fixes bug 9716;
391 bugfix on every released Tor.
392 - No longer accept malformed http headers when parsing urls from
393 headers. Now we reply with Bad Request ("400"). Fixes bug 2767;
395 - In munge_extrainfo_into_routerinfo(), check the return value of
396 memchr(). This would have been a serious issue if we ever passed
397 it a non-extrainfo. Fixes bug 8791; bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Patch
399 - On the chance that somebody manages to build Tor on a
400 platform where time_t is unsigned, correct the way that
401 microdesc_add_to_cache() handles negative time arguments.
402 Fixes bug 8042; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
403 - Reject relative control socket paths and emit a warning. Previously,
404 single-component control socket paths would be rejected, but Tor
405 would not log why it could not validate the config. Fixes bug 9258;
406 bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
408 o Minor bugfixes (command line):
409 - Use a single command-line parser for parsing torrc options on the
410 command line and for finding special command-line options to avoid
411 inconsistent behavior for torrc option arguments that have the same
412 names as command-line options. Fixes bugs 4647 and 9578; bugfix on
414 - No longer allow 'tor --hash-password' with no arguments. Fixes bug
415 9573; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
417 o Minor fixes (build, auxiliary programs):
418 - Stop preprocessing the "torify" script with autoconf, since
419 it no longer refers to LOCALSTATEDIR. Fixes bug 5505; patch
421 - The tor-fw-helper program now follows the standard convention and
422 exits with status code "0" on success. Fixes bug 9030; bugfix on
423 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Arlo Breault.
424 - Corrected ./configure advice for what openssl dev package you should
425 install on Debian. Fixes bug 9207; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
427 o Minor code improvements:
428 - Remove constants and tests for PKCS1 padding; it's insecure and
429 shouldn't be used for anything new. Fixes bug 8792; patch
431 - Remove instances of strcpy() from the unit tests. They weren't
432 hurting anything, since they were only in the unit tests, but it's
433 embarassing to have strcpy() in the code at all, and some analysis
434 tools don't like it. Fixes bug 8790; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha and
435 0.2.3.8-alpha. Patch from Arlo Breault.
438 - Remove migration code from when we renamed the "cached-routers"
439 file to "cached-descriptors" back in 0.2.0.8-alpha. This
440 incidentally resolves ticket 6502 by cleaning up the related code
441 a bit. Patch from Akshay Hebbar.
443 o Code simplification and refactoring:
444 - Extract the common duplicated code for creating a subdirectory
445 of the data directory and writing to a file in it. Fixes ticket
446 4282; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
447 - Since OpenSSL 0.9.7, the i2d_*() functions support allocating output
448 buffer. Avoid calling twice: i2d_RSAPublicKey(), i2d_DHparams(),
449 i2d_X509(), and i2d_PublicKey(). Resolves ticket 5170.
450 - Add a set of accessor functions for the circuit timeout data
451 structure. Fixes ticket 6153; patch from "piet".
452 - Clean up exit paths from connection_listener_new(). Closes ticket
453 8789. Patch from Arlo Breault.
454 - Since we rely on OpenSSL 0.9.8 now, we can use EVP_PKEY_cmp()
455 and drop our own custom pkey_eq() implementation. Fixes bug 9043.
456 - Use a doubly-linked list to implement the global circuit list.
457 Resolves ticket 9108. Patch from Marek Majkowski.
458 - Remove contrib/id_to_fp.c since it wasn't used anywhere.
461 Changes in version 0.2.4.17-rc - 2013-09-05
462 Tor 0.2.4.17-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
463 series. It adds an emergency step to help us tolerate the massive
464 influx of users: 0.2.4 clients using the new (faster and safer) "NTor"
465 circuit-level handshakes now effectively jump the queue compared to
466 the 0.2.3 clients using "TAP" handshakes. This release also fixes a
467 big bug hindering bridge reachability tests.
470 - Relays now process the new "NTor" circuit-level handshake requests
471 with higher priority than the old "TAP" circuit-level handshake
472 requests. We still process some TAP requests to not totally starve
473 0.2.3 clients when NTor becomes popular. A new consensus parameter
474 "NumNTorsPerTAP" lets us tune the balance later if we need to.
475 Implements ticket 9574.
478 - If the circuit build timeout logic is disabled (via the consensus,
479 or because we are an authority), then don't build testing circuits.
480 Fixes bug 9657; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
481 - Bridges now send AUTH_CHALLENGE cells during their v3 handshakes;
482 previously they did not, which prevented them from receiving
483 successful connections from relays for self-test or bandwidth
484 testing. Also, when a relay is extending a circuit to a bridge,
485 it needs to send a NETINFO cell, even when the bridge hasn't sent
486 an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell. Fixes bug 9546; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
487 - If the time to download the next old-style networkstatus is in
488 the future, do not decline to consider whether to download the
489 next microdescriptor networkstatus. Fixes bug 9564; bugfix on
493 - Avoid double-closing the listener socket in our socketpair()
494 replacement (used on Windows) in the case where the addresses on
495 our opened sockets don't match what we expected. Fixes bug 9400;
496 bugfix on 0.0.2pre7. Found by Coverity.
498 o Minor fixes (config options):
499 - Avoid overflows when the user sets MaxCircuitDirtiness to a
500 ridiculously high value, by imposing a (ridiculously high) 30-day
501 maximum on MaxCircuitDirtiness.
502 - Fix the documentation of HeartbeatPeriod to say that the heartbeat
503 message is logged at notice, not at info.
504 - Warn and fail if a server is configured not to advertise any
505 ORPorts at all. (We need *something* to put in our descriptor,
506 or we just won't work.)
509 - Track how many "TAP" and "NTor" circuit handshake requests we get,
510 and how many we complete, and log it every hour to help relay
511 operators follow trends in network load. Addresses ticket 9658.
512 - Update to the August 7 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
515 Changes in version 0.2.4.16-rc - 2013-08-10
516 Tor 0.2.4.16-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
517 series. It fixes several crash bugs in the 0.2.4 branch.
520 - Fix a bug in the voting algorithm that could yield incorrect results
521 when a non-naming authority declared too many flags. Fixes bug 9200;
522 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
523 - Fix an uninitialized read that could in some cases lead to a remote
524 crash while parsing INTRODUCE2 cells. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
525 Anybody running a hidden service on the experimental 0.2.4.x
526 branch should upgrade. (This is, so far as we know, unrelated to
528 - Avoid an assertion failure when processing DNS replies without the
529 answer types we expected. Fixes bug 9337; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
530 - Avoid a crash when using --hash-password. Fixes bug 9295; bugfix on
531 0.2.4.15-rc. Found by stem integration tests.
534 - Fix an invalid memory read that occured when a pluggable
535 transport proxy failed its configuration protocol.
536 Fixes bug 9288; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
537 - When evaluating whether to use a connection that we haven't
538 decided is canonical using a recent link protocol version,
539 decide that it's canonical only if it used address _does_
540 match the desired address. Fixes bug 9309; bugfix on
541 0.2.4.4-alpha. Reported by skruffy.
542 - Make the default behavior of NumDirectoryGuards be to track
543 NumEntryGuards. Now a user who changes only NumEntryGuards will get
544 the behavior she expects. Fixes bug 9354; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
545 - Fix a spurious compilation warning with some older versions of
546 GCC on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 9254; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
549 - Update to the July 3 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
552 Changes in version 0.2.4.15-rc - 2013-07-01
553 Tor 0.2.4.15-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
554 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
555 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
558 - When receiving a new configuration file via the control port's
559 LOADCONF command, do not treat the defaults file as absent.
560 Fixes bug 9122; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
563 - Issue a warning when running with the bufferevents backend enabled.
564 It's still not stable, and people should know that they're likely
565 to hit unexpected problems. Closes ticket 9147.
568 Changes in version 0.2.4.14-alpha - 2013-06-18
569 Tor 0.2.4.14-alpha fixes a pair of client guard enumeration problems
570 present in 0.2.4.13-alpha.
573 - When we have too much memory queued in circuits (according to a new
574 MaxMemInCellQueues option), close the circuits consuming the most
575 memory. This prevents us from running out of memory as a relay if
576 circuits fill up faster than they can be drained. Fixes bug 9063;
577 bugfix on the 54th commit of Tor. This bug is a further fix beyond
578 bug 6252, whose fix was merged into 0.2.3.21-rc.
580 This change also fixes an earlier approach taken in 0.2.4.13-alpha,
581 where we tried to solve this issue simply by imposing an upper limit
582 on the number of queued cells for a single circuit. That approach
583 proved to be problematic, since there are ways to provoke clients to
584 send a number of cells in excess of any such reasonable limit. Fixes
585 bug 9072; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
587 - Limit hidden service descriptors to at most ten introduction
588 points, to slow one kind of guard enumeration. Fixes bug 9002;
589 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
592 Changes in version 0.2.4.13-alpha - 2013-06-14
593 Tor 0.2.4.13-alpha fixes a variety of potential remote crash
594 vulnerabilities, makes socks5 username/password circuit isolation
595 actually actually work (this time for sure!), and cleans up a bunch
596 of other issues in preparation for a release candidate.
598 o Major bugfixes (robustness):
599 - Close any circuit that has too many cells queued on it. Fixes
600 bug 9063; bugfix on the 54th commit of Tor. This bug is a further
601 fix beyond bug 6252, whose fix was merged into 0.2.3.21-rc.
602 - Prevent the get_freelists() function from running off the end of
603 the list of freelists if it somehow gets an unrecognized
604 allocation. Fixes bug 8844; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by
606 - Avoid an assertion failure on OpenBSD (and perhaps other BSDs)
607 when an exit connection with optimistic data succeeds immediately
608 rather than returning EINPROGRESS. Fixes bug 9017; bugfix on
610 - Fix a directory authority crash bug when building a consensus
611 using an older consensus as its basis. Fixes bug 8833. Bugfix
615 - Avoid a memory leak where we would leak a consensus body when we
616 find that a consensus which we couldn't previously verify due to
617 missing certificates is now verifiable. Fixes bug 8719; bugfix
619 - We used to always request authority certificates by identity digest,
620 meaning we'd get the newest one even when we wanted one with a
621 different signing key. Then we would complain about being given
622 a certificate we already had, and never get the one we really
623 wanted. Now we use the "fp-sk/" resource as well as the "fp/"
624 resource to request the one we want. Fixes bug 5595; bugfix on
626 - Follow the socks5 protocol when offering username/password
627 authentication. The fix for bug 8117 exposed this bug, and it
628 turns out real-world applications like Pidgin do care. Bugfix on
629 0.2.3.2-alpha; fixes bug 8879.
630 - Prevent failures on Windows Vista and later when rebuilding the
631 microdescriptor cache. Diagnosed by Robert Ransom. Fixes bug 8822;
632 bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
635 - Fix an impossible buffer overrun in the AES unit tests. Fixes
636 bug 8845; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Found by eugenis.
637 - If for some reason we fail to write a microdescriptor while
638 rebuilding the cache, do not let the annotations from that
639 microdescriptor linger in the cache file, and do not let the
640 microdescriptor stay recorded as present in its old location.
641 Fixes bug 9047; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
642 - Fix a memory leak that would occur whenever a configuration
643 option changed. Fixes bug 8718; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
644 - Paste the description for PathBias parameters from the man
645 page into or.h, so the code documents them too. Fixes bug 7982;
646 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta and 0.2.4.8-alpha.
647 - Relays now treat a changed IPv6 ORPort as sufficient reason to
648 publish an updated descriptor. Fixes bug 6026; bugfix on
650 - When launching a resolve request on behalf of an AF_UNIX control
651 socket, omit the address field of the new entry connection, used in
652 subsequent controller events, rather than letting tor_dup_addr()
653 set it to "<unknown address type>". Fixes bug 8639; bugfix on
656 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
657 - Fix a scaling issue in the path bias accounting code that
658 resulted in "Bug:" log messages from either
659 pathbias_scale_close_rates() or pathbias_count_build_success().
660 This represents a bugfix on a previous bugfix: the original fix
661 attempted in 0.2.4.10-alpha was incomplete. Fixes bug 8235; bugfix
663 - Give a less useless error message when the user asks for an IPv4
664 address on an IPv6-only port, or vice versa. Fixes bug 8846; bugfix
668 - Downgrade "unexpected SENDME" warnings to protocol-warn for 0.2.4.x,
669 to tolerate bug 8093 for now.
670 - Add an "ignoring-advertised-bws" boolean to the flag-threshold lines
671 in directory authority votes to describe whether they have enough
672 measured bandwidths to ignore advertised (relay descriptor)
673 bandwidth claims. Resolves ticket 8711.
674 - Update to the June 5 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
676 o Removed documentation:
677 - Remove some of the older contents of doc/ as obsolete; move others
678 to torspec.git. Fixes bug 8965.
680 o Code simplification and refactoring:
681 - Avoid using character buffers when constructing most directory
682 objects: this approach was unwieldy and error-prone. Instead,
683 build smartlists of strings, and concatenate them when done.
686 Changes in version 0.2.4.12-alpha - 2013-04-18
687 Tor 0.2.4.12-alpha moves Tor forward on several fronts: it starts the
688 process for lengthening the guard rotation period, makes directory
689 authority opinions in the consensus a bit less gameable, makes socks5
690 username/password circuit isolation actually work, and fixes a wide
691 variety of other issues.
694 - Raise the default time that a client keeps an entry guard from
695 "1-2 months" to "2-3 months", as suggested by Tariq Elahi's WPES
696 2012 paper. (We would make it even longer, but we need better client
697 load balancing first.) Also, make the guard lifetime controllable
698 via a new GuardLifetime torrc option and a GuardLifetime consensus
699 parameter. Start of a fix for bug 8240; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
700 - Directory authorities now prefer using measured bandwidths to
701 advertised ones when computing flags and thresholds. Resolves
703 - Directory authorities that have more than a threshold number
704 of relays with measured bandwidths now treat relays with unmeasured
705 bandwidths as having bandwidth 0. Resolves ticket 8435.
707 o Major bugfixes (assert / resource use):
708 - Avoid a bug where our response to TLS renegotiation under certain
709 network conditions could lead to a busy-loop, with 100% CPU
710 consumption. Fixes bug 5650; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
711 - Avoid an assertion when we discover that we'd like to write a cell
712 onto a closing connection: just discard the cell. Fixes another
713 case of bug 7350; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
715 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
716 - When we mark a circuit as unusable for new circuits, have it
717 continue to be unusable for new circuits even if MaxCircuitDirtiness
718 is increased too much at the wrong time, or the system clock jumps
719 backwards. Fixes bug 6174; bugfix on 0.0.2pre26.
720 - If ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses ("do not believe DNS queries
721 which have resolved to internal addresses") is set, apply that
722 rule to IPv6 as well. Fixes bug 8475; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
723 - When an exit relay rejects a stream with reason "exit policy", but
724 we only know an exit policy summary (e.g. from the microdesc
725 consensus) for it, do not mark the relay as useless for all exiting.
726 Instead, mark just the circuit as unsuitable for that particular
727 address. Fixes part of bug 7582; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
728 - Allow applications to get proper stream isolation with
729 IsolateSOCKSAuth. Many SOCKS5 clients that want to offer
730 username/password authentication also offer "no authentication". Tor
731 had previously preferred "no authentication", so the applications
732 never actually sent Tor their auth details. Now Tor selects
733 username/password authentication if it's offered. You can disable
734 this behavior on a per-SOCKSPort basis via PreferSOCKSNoAuth. Fixes
735 bug 8117; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
737 o Major bugfixes (other):
738 - When unable to find any working directory nodes to use as a
739 directory guard, give up rather than adding the same non-working
740 nodes to the directory guard list over and over. Fixes bug 8231;
741 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
744 - Reject as invalid most directory objects containing a NUL.
745 Belt-and-suspender fix for bug 8037.
746 - In our testsuite, create temporary directories with a bit more
747 entropy in their name to make name collisions less likely. Fixes
749 - Add CACHED keyword to ADDRMAP events in the control protocol
750 to indicate whether a DNS result will be cached or not. Resolves
752 - Update to the April 3 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
754 o Minor features (build):
755 - Detect and reject attempts to build Tor with threading support
756 when OpenSSL has been compiled without threading support.
758 - Clarify that when autoconf is checking for nacl, it is checking
759 specifically for nacl with a fast curve25519 implementation.
761 - Warn if building on a platform with an unsigned time_t: there
762 are too many places where Tor currently assumes that time_t can
763 hold negative values. We'd like to fix them all, but probably
766 o Minor bugfixes (build):
767 - Fix some bugs in tor-fw-helper-natpmp when trying to build and
768 run it on Windows. More bugs likely remain. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
769 Fixes bug 7280; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
770 - Add the old src/or/micro-revision.i filename to CLEANFILES.
771 On the off chance that somebody has one, it will go away as soon
772 as they run "make clean". Fix for bug 7143; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
773 - Build Tor correctly on 32-bit platforms where the compiler can build
774 but not run code using the "uint128_t" construction. Fixes bug 8587;
775 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
776 - Fix compilation warning with some versions of clang that would
777 prefer the -Wswitch-enum compiler flag to warn about switch
778 statements with missing enum values, even if those switch
779 statements have a "default:" statement. Fixes bug 8598; bugfix
782 o Minor bugfixes (protocol):
783 - Fix the handling of a TRUNCATE cell when it arrives while the
784 circuit extension is in progress. Fixes bug 7947; bugfix on 0.0.7.1.
785 - Fix a misframing issue when reading the version numbers in a
786 VERSIONS cell. Previously we would recognize [00 01 00 02] as
787 'version 1, version 2, and version 0x100', when it should have
788 only included versions 1 and 2. Fixes bug 8059; bugfix on
789 0.2.0.10-alpha. Reported pseudonymously.
790 - Make the format and order of STREAM events for DNS lookups
791 consistent among the various ways to launch DNS lookups. Fixes
792 bug 8203; bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc. Patch by "Desoxy."
793 - Correct our check for which versions of Tor support the EXTEND2
794 cell. We had been willing to send it to Tor 0.2.4.7-alpha and
795 later, when support was really added in version 0.2.4.8-alpha.
796 Fixes bug 8464; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
798 o Minor bugfixes (other):
799 - Correctly store microdescriptors and extrainfo descriptors with
800 an internal NUL byte. Fixes bug 8037; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
801 Bug reported by "cypherpunks".
802 - Increase the width of the field used to remember a connection's
803 link protocol version to two bytes. Harmless for now, since the
804 only currently recognized versions are one byte long. Reported
805 pseudonymously. Fixes bug 8062; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
806 - If the state file's path bias counts are invalid (presumably from a
807 buggy Tor prior to 0.2.4.10-alpha), make them correct. Also add
808 additional checks and log messages to the scaling of Path Bias
809 counts, in case there still are remaining issues with scaling.
810 Should help resolve bug 8235.
811 - Eliminate several instances where we use "Nickname=ID" to refer to
812 nodes in logs. Use "Nickname (ID)" instead. (Elsewhere, we still use
813 "$ID=Nickname", which is also acceptable.) Fixes bug 7065. Bugfix
814 on 0.2.3.21-rc, 0.2.4.5-alpha, 0.2.4.8-alpha, and 0.2.4.10-alpha.
816 o Minor bugfixes (syscalls):
817 - Always check the return values of functions fcntl() and
818 setsockopt(). We don't believe these are ever actually failing in
819 practice, but better safe than sorry. Also, checking these return
820 values should please analysis tools like Coverity. Patch from
821 'flupzor'. Fixes bug 8206; bugfix on all versions of Tor.
822 - Use direct writes rather than stdio when building microdescriptor
823 caches, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031, or at least make it
826 o Minor bugfixes (config):
827 - When rejecting a configuration because we were unable to parse a
828 quoted string, log an actual error message. Fixes bug 7950; bugfix
830 - Behave correctly when the user disables LearnCircuitBuildTimeout
831 but doesn't tell us what they would like the timeout to be. Fixes
832 bug 6304; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
833 - When autodetecting the number of CPUs, use the number of available
834 CPUs in preference to the number of configured CPUs. Inform the
835 user if this reduces the number of available CPUs. Fixes bug 8002;
836 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
837 - Make it an error when you set EntryNodes but disable UseGuardNodes,
838 since it will (surprisingly to some users) ignore EntryNodes. Fixes
839 bug 8180; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
840 - Allow TestingTorNetworks to override the 4096-byte minimum for
841 the Fast threshold. Otherwise they can't bootstrap until they've
842 observed more traffic. Fixes bug 8508; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
843 - Fix some logic errors when the user manually overrides the
844 PathsNeededToBuildCircuits option in torrc. Fixes bug 8599; bugfix
847 o Minor bugfixes (log messages to help diagnose bugs):
848 - If we fail to free a microdescriptor because of bug 7164, log
849 the filename and line number from which we tried to free it.
850 - Add another diagnostic to the heartbeat message: track and log
851 overhead that TLS is adding to the data we write. If this is
852 high, we are sending too little data to SSL_write at a time.
853 Diagnostic for bug 7707.
854 - Add more detail to a log message about relaxed timeouts, to help
856 - Warn more aggressively when flushing microdescriptors to a
857 microdescriptor cache fails, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031,
858 or at least make it more diagnosable.
859 - Improve debugging output to help track down bug 8185 ("Bug:
860 outgoing relay cell has n_chan==NULL. Dropping.")
861 - Log the purpose of a path-bias testing circuit correctly.
862 Improves a log message from bug 8477; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
864 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.4.x log messages that were too noisy):
865 - Don't attempt to relax the timeout of already opened 1-hop circuits.
866 They might never timeout. This should eliminate some/all cases of
867 the relaxed timeout log message.
868 - Use circuit creation time for network liveness evaluation. This
869 should eliminate warning log messages about liveness caused
870 by changes in timeout evaluation. Fixes bug 6572; bugfix on
872 - Reduce a path bias length check from notice to info. The message
873 is triggered when creating controller circuits. Fixes bug 8196;
874 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
875 - Fix a path state issue that triggered a notice during relay startup.
876 Fixes bug 8320; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
877 - Reduce occurrences of warns about circuit purpose in
878 connection_ap_expire_building(). Fixes bug 8477; bugfix on
881 o Minor bugfixes (pre-0.2.4.x log messages that were too noisy):
882 - If we encounter a write failure on a SOCKS connection before we
883 finish our SOCKS handshake, don't warn that we closed the
884 connection before we could send a SOCKS reply. Fixes bug 8427;
885 bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
886 - Correctly recognize that [::1] is a loopback address. Fixes
887 bug 8377; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
888 - Fix a directory authority warn caused when we have a large amount
889 of badexit bandwidth. Fixes bug 8419; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
890 - Don't log inappropriate heartbeat messages when hibernating: a
891 hibernating node is _expected_ to drop out of the consensus,
892 decide it isn't bootstrapped, and so forth. Fixes bug 7302;
893 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
894 - Don't complain about bootstrapping problems while hibernating.
895 These complaints reflect a general code problem, but not one
896 with any problematic effects (no connections are actually
897 opened). Fixes part of bug 7302; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
899 o Documentation fixes:
900 - Update tor-fw-helper.1.txt and tor-fw-helper.c to make option
901 names match. Fixes bug 7768.
902 - Make the torify manpage no longer refer to tsocks; torify hasn't
903 supported tsocks since 0.2.3.14-alpha.
904 - Make the tor manpage no longer reference tsocks.
905 - Fix the GeoIPExcludeUnknown documentation to refer to
906 ExcludeExitNodes rather than the currently nonexistent
907 ExcludeEntryNodes. Spotted by "hamahangi" on tor-talk.
910 - The tor-tsocks.conf is no longer distributed or installed. We
911 recommend that tsocks users use torsocks instead. Resolves
915 Changes in version 0.2.4.11-alpha - 2013-03-11
916 Tor 0.2.4.11-alpha makes relay measurement by directory authorities
917 more robust, makes hidden service authentication work again, and
918 resolves a DPI fingerprint for Tor's SSL transport.
920 o Major features (directory authorities):
921 - Directory authorities now support a new consensus method (17)
922 where they cap the published bandwidth of servers for which
923 insufficient bandwidth measurements exist. Fixes part of bug 2286.
924 - Directory authorities that set "DisableV2DirectoryInfo_ 1" no longer
925 serve any v2 directory information. Now we can test disabling the
926 old deprecated v2 directory format, and see whether doing so has
927 any effect on network load. Begins to fix bug 6783.
928 - Directory authorities now include inside each vote a statement of
929 the performance thresholds they used when assigning flags.
930 Implements ticket 8151.
932 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
933 - Stop marking every relay as having been down for one hour every
934 time we restart a directory authority. These artificial downtimes
935 were messing with our Stable and Guard flag calculations. Fixes
936 bug 8218 (introduced by the fix for 1035). Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
938 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
939 - Allow hidden service authentication to succeed again. When we
940 refactored the hidden service introduction code back
941 in 0.2.4.1-alpha, we didn't update the code that checks
942 whether authentication information is present, causing all
943 authentication checks to return "false". Fix for bug 8207; bugfix
944 on 0.2.4.1-alpha. Found by Coverity; this is CID 718615.
946 o Minor features (relays, bridges):
947 - Make bridge relays check once a minute for whether their IP
948 address has changed, rather than only every 15 minutes. Resolves
950 - Refactor resolve_my_address() so it returns the method by which we
951 decided our public IP address (explicitly configured, resolved from
952 explicit hostname, guessed from interfaces, learned by gethostname).
953 Now we can provide more helpful log messages when a relay guesses
954 its IP address incorrectly (e.g. due to unexpected lines in
955 /etc/hosts). Resolves ticket 2267.
956 - Teach bridge-using clients to avoid 0.2.2 bridges when making
957 microdescriptor-related dir requests, and only fall back to normal
958 descriptors if none of their bridges can handle microdescriptors
959 (as opposed to the fix in ticket 4013, which caused them to fall
960 back to normal descriptors if *any* of their bridges preferred
961 them). Resolves ticket 4994.
962 - Randomize the lifetime of our SSL link certificate, so censors can't
963 use the static value for filtering Tor flows. Resolves ticket 8443;
964 related to ticket 4014 which was included in 0.2.2.33.
966 o Minor features (portability):
967 - Tweak the curve25519-donna*.c implementations to tolerate systems
968 that lack stdint.h. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
969 - Use Ville Laurikari's implementation of AX_CHECK_SIGN() to determine
970 the signs of types during autoconf. This is better than our old
971 approach, which didn't work when cross-compiling.
972 - Detect the sign of enum values, rather than assuming that MSC is the
973 only compiler where enum types are all signed. Fixes bug 7727;
974 bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
976 o Minor features (other):
977 - Say "KBytes" rather than "KB" in the man page (for various values
978 of K), to further reduce confusion about whether Tor counts in
979 units of memory or fractions of units of memory. Resolves ticket 7054.
980 - Clear the high bit on curve25519 public keys before passing them to
981 our backend, in case we ever wind up using a backend that doesn't do
982 so itself. If we used such a backend, and *didn't* clear the high bit,
983 we could wind up in a situation where users with such backends would
984 be distinguishable from users without. Fixes bug 8121; bugfix on
986 - Update to the March 6 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
988 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
989 - When we receive a RELAY_END cell with the reason DONE, or with no
990 reason, before receiving a RELAY_CONNECTED cell, report the SOCKS
991 status as "connection refused". Previously we reported these cases
992 as success but then immediately closed the connection. Fixes bug
993 7902; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
994 - Downgrade an assertion in connection_ap_expire_beginning to an
995 LD_BUG message. The fix for bug 8024 should prevent this message
996 from displaying, but just in case, a warn that we can diagnose
997 is better than more assert crashes. Fixes bug 8065; bugfix on
999 - Lower path use bias thresholds to .80 for notice and .60 for warn.
1000 Also make the rate limiting flags for the path use bias log messages
1001 independent from the original path bias flags. Fixes bug 8161;
1002 bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
1004 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
1005 - Stop trying to resolve our hostname so often (e.g. every time we
1006 think about doing a directory fetch). Now we reuse the cached
1007 answer in some cases. Fixes bugs 1992 (bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc)
1008 and 2410 (bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha).
1009 - Stop sending a stray "(null)" in some cases for the server status
1010 "EXTERNAL_ADDRESS" controller event. Resolves bug 8200; bugfix
1012 - When choosing which stream on a formerly stalled circuit to wake
1013 first, make better use of the platform's weak RNG. Previously,
1014 we had been using the % ("modulo") operator to try to generate a
1015 1/N chance of picking each stream, but this behaves badly with
1016 many platforms' choice of weak RNG. Fixes bug 7801; bugfix on
1018 - Use our own weak RNG when we need a weak RNG. Windows's rand() and
1019 Irix's random() only return 15 bits; Solaris's random() returns more
1020 bits but its RAND_MAX says it only returns 15, and so on. Motivated
1021 by the fix for bug 7801; bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha.
1023 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
1024 - Directory authorities now use less space when formatting identical
1025 microdescriptor lines in directory votes. Fixes bug 8158; bugfix
1028 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks spotted by Coverity -- bug 7816):
1029 - Avoid leaking memory if we fail to compute a consensus signature
1030 or we generate a consensus we can't parse. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
1031 - Fix a memory leak when receiving headers from an HTTPS proxy. Bugfix
1033 - Fix a memory leak during safe-cookie controller authentication.
1034 Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
1035 - Avoid memory leak of IPv6 policy content if we fail to format it into
1036 a router descriptor. Bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
1038 o Minor bugfixes (other code correctness issues):
1039 - Avoid a crash if we fail to generate an extrainfo descriptor.
1040 Fixes bug 8208; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Found by Coverity;
1042 - When detecting the largest possible file descriptor (in order to
1043 close all file descriptors when launching a new program), actually
1044 use _SC_OPEN_MAX. The old code for doing this was very, very broken.
1045 Fixes bug 8209; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Found by Coverity; this
1047 - Fix a copy-and-paste error when adding a missing A1 to a routerset
1048 because of GeoIPExcludeUnknown. Fix for Coverity CID 980650.
1049 Bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
1050 - Fix an impossible-to-trigger integer overflow when estimating how
1051 long our onionskin queue would take. (This overflow would require us
1052 to accept 4 million onionskins before processing 100 of them.) Fixes
1053 bug 8210; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
1055 o Code simplification and refactoring:
1056 - Add a wrapper function for the common "log a message with a
1060 Changes in version 0.2.4.10-alpha - 2013-02-04
1061 Tor 0.2.4.10-alpha adds defenses at the directory authority level from
1062 certain attacks that flood the network with relays; changes the queue
1063 for circuit create requests from a sized-based limit to a time-based
1064 limit; resumes building with MSVC on Windows; and fixes a wide variety
1067 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
1068 - When computing directory thresholds, ignore any rejected-as-sybil
1069 nodes during the computation so that they can't influence Fast,
1070 Guard, etc. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
1072 - When marking a node as a likely sybil, reset its uptime metrics
1073 to zero, so that it cannot time towards getting marked as Guard,
1074 Stable, or HSDir. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
1078 - When a TLS write is partially successful but incomplete, remember
1079 that the flushed part has been flushed, and notice that bytes were
1080 actually written. Reported and fixed pseudonymously. Fixes bug
1081 7708; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.5-rc.
1082 - Reject bogus create and relay cells with 0 circuit ID or 0 stream
1083 ID: these could be used to create unexpected streams and circuits
1084 which would count as "present" to some parts of Tor but "absent"
1085 to others, leading to zombie circuits and streams or to a bandwidth
1086 denial-of-service. Fixes bug 7889; bugfix on every released version
1087 of Tor. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
1088 - Rename all macros in our local copy of queue.h to begin with "TOR_".
1089 This change seems the only good way to permanently prevent conflicts
1090 with queue.h on various operating systems. Fixes bug 8107; bugfix
1093 o Major features (relay):
1094 - Instead of limiting the number of queued onionskins (aka circuit
1095 create requests) to a fixed, hard-to-configure number, we limit
1096 the size of the queue based on how many we expect to be able to
1097 process in a given amount of time. We estimate the time it will
1098 take to process an onionskin based on average processing time
1099 of previous onionskins. Closes ticket 7291. You'll never have to
1100 configure MaxOnionsPending again.
1102 o Major features (portability):
1103 - Resume building correctly with MSVC and Makefile.nmake. This patch
1104 resolves numerous bugs and fixes reported by ultramage, including
1105 7305, 7308, 7309, 7310, 7312, 7313, 7315, 7316, and 7669.
1106 - Make the ntor and curve25519 code build correctly with MSVC.
1107 Fix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
1110 - When directory authorities are computing thresholds for flags,
1111 never let the threshold for the Fast flag fall below 4096
1112 bytes. Also, do not consider nodes with extremely low bandwidths
1113 when deciding thresholds for various directory flags. This change
1114 should raise our threshold for Fast relays, possibly in turn
1115 improving overall network performance; see ticket 1854. Resolves
1117 - The Tor client now ignores sub-domain components of a .onion
1118 address. This change makes HTTP "virtual" hosting
1119 possible: http://foo.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ and
1120 http://bar.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ can be two different websites
1121 hosted on the same hidden service. Implements proposal 204.
1122 - We compute the overhead from passing onionskins back and forth to
1123 cpuworkers, and report it when dumping statistics in response to
1124 SIGUSR1. Supports ticket 7291.
1126 o Minor features (path selection):
1127 - When deciding whether we have enough descriptors to build circuits,
1128 instead of looking at raw relay counts, look at which fraction
1129 of (bandwidth-weighted) paths we're able to build. This approach
1130 keeps clients from building circuits if their paths are likely to
1131 stand out statistically. The default fraction of paths needed is
1132 taken from the consensus directory; you can override it with the
1133 new PathsNeededToBuildCircuits option. Fixes ticket 5956.
1134 - When any country code is listed in ExcludeNodes or ExcludeExitNodes,
1135 and we have GeoIP information, also exclude all nodes with unknown
1136 countries "??" and "A1". This behavior is controlled by the
1137 new GeoIPExcludeUnknown option: you can make such nodes always
1138 excluded with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 1", and disable the feature
1139 with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 0". Setting "GeoIPExcludeUnknown auto"
1140 gets you the default behavior. Implements feature 7706.
1141 - Path Use Bias: Perform separate accounting for successful circuit
1142 use. Keep separate statistics on stream attempt rates versus stream
1143 success rates for each guard. Provide configurable thresholds to
1144 determine when to emit log messages or disable use of guards that
1145 fail too many stream attempts. Resolves ticket 7802.
1147 o Minor features (log messages):
1148 - When learning a fingerprint for a bridge, log its corresponding
1149 transport type. Implements ticket 7896.
1150 - Improve the log message when "Bug/attack: unexpected sendme cell
1151 from client" occurs, to help us track bug 8093.
1154 - Remove a couple of extraneous semicolons that were upsetting the
1155 cparser library. Patch by Christian Grothoff. Fixes bug 7115;
1156 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
1157 - Remove a source of rounding error during path bias count scaling;
1158 don't count cannibalized circuits as used for path bias until we
1159 actually try to use them; and fix a circuit_package_relay_cell()
1160 warning message about n_chan==NULL. Fixes bug 7802.
1161 - Detect nacl when its headers are in a nacl/ subdirectory. Also,
1162 actually link against nacl when we're configured to use it. Fixes
1163 bug 7972; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
1164 - Compile correctly with the --disable-curve25519 option. Fixes
1165 bug 8153; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
1167 o Build improvements:
1168 - Do not report status verbosely from autogen.sh unless the -v flag
1169 is specified. Fixes issue 4664. Patch from Onizuka.
1170 - Replace all calls to snprintf() outside of src/ext with
1171 tor_snprintf(). Also remove the #define to replace snprintf with
1172 _snprintf on Windows; they have different semantics, and all of
1173 our callers should be using tor_snprintf() anyway. Fixes bug 7304.
1174 - Try to detect if we are ever building on a platform where
1175 memset(...,0,...) does not set the value of a double to 0.0. Such
1176 platforms are permitted by the C standard, though in practice
1177 they're pretty rare (since IEEE 754 is nigh-ubiquitous). We don't
1178 currently support them, but it's better to detect them and fail
1179 than to perform erroneously.
1182 - Stop exporting estimates of v2 and v3 directory traffic shares
1183 in extrainfo documents. They were unneeded and sometimes inaccurate.
1184 Also stop exporting any v2 directory request statistics. Resolves
1186 - Drop support for detecting and warning about versions of Libevent
1187 before 1.3e. Nothing reasonable ships with them any longer;
1188 warning the user about them shouldn't be needed. Resolves ticket
1191 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
1192 - Rename "isin" functions to "contains", for grammar. Resolves
1194 - Rename Tor's logging function log() to tor_log(), to avoid conflicts
1195 with the natural logarithm function from the system libm. Resolves
1199 Changes in version 0.2.4.9-alpha - 2013-01-15
1200 Tor 0.2.4.9-alpha provides a quick fix to make the new ntor handshake
1204 - Fix backward compatibility logic when receiving an embedded ntor
1205 handshake tunneled in a CREATE cell. This clears up the "Bug:
1206 couldn't format CREATED cell" warning. Fixes bug 7959; bugfix
1210 Changes in version 0.2.4.8-alpha - 2013-01-14
1211 Tor 0.2.4.8-alpha introduces directory guards to reduce user enumeration
1212 risks, adds a new stronger and faster circuit handshake, and offers
1213 stronger and faster link encryption when both sides support it.
1216 - Preliminary support for directory guards (proposal 207): when
1217 possible, clients now use their entry guards for non-anonymous
1218 directory requests. This can help prevent client enumeration. Note
1219 that this behavior only works when we have a usable consensus
1220 directory, and when options about what to download are more or less
1221 standard. In the future we should re-bootstrap from our guards,
1222 rather than re-bootstrapping from the preconfigured list of
1223 directory sources that ships with Tor. Resolves ticket 6526.
1224 - Tor relays and clients now support a better CREATE/EXTEND cell
1225 format, allowing the sender to specify multiple address, identity,
1226 and handshake types. Implements Robert Ransom's proposal 200;
1229 o Major features (new circuit handshake):
1230 - Tor now supports a new circuit extension handshake designed by Ian
1231 Goldberg, Douglas Stebila, and Berkant Ustaoglu. Our original
1232 circuit extension handshake, later called "TAP", was a bit slow
1233 (especially on the relay side), had a fragile security proof, and
1234 used weaker keys than we'd now prefer. The new circuit handshake
1235 uses Dan Bernstein's "curve25519" elliptic-curve Diffie-Hellman
1236 function, making it significantly more secure than the older
1237 handshake, and significantly faster. Tor can use one of two built-in
1238 pure-C curve25519-donna implementations by Adam Langley, or it
1239 can link against the "nacl" library for a tuned version if present.
1241 The built-in version is very fast for 64-bit systems when building
1242 with GCC. The built-in 32-bit version is still faster than the
1243 old TAP protocol, but using libnacl is better on most such hosts.
1245 Clients don't currently use this protocol by default, since
1246 comparatively few clients support it so far. To try it, set
1247 UseNTorHandshake to 1.
1249 Implements proposal 216; closes ticket 7202.
1251 o Major features (better link encryption):
1252 - Relays can now enable the ECDHE TLS ciphersuites when available
1253 and appropriate. These ciphersuites let us negotiate forward-secure
1254 TLS secret keys more safely and more efficiently than with our
1255 previous use of Diffie-Hellman modulo a 1024-bit prime. By default,
1256 public relays prefer the (faster) P224 group, and bridges prefer
1257 the (more common) P256 group; you can override this with the
1260 Enabling these ciphers was a little tricky, since for a long time,
1261 clients had been claiming to support them without actually doing
1262 so, in order to foil fingerprinting. But with the client-side
1263 implementation of proposal 198 in 0.2.3.17-beta, clients can now
1264 match the ciphers from recent Firefox versions *and* list the
1265 ciphers they actually mean, so relays can believe such clients
1266 when they advertise ECDHE support in their TLS ClientHello messages.
1268 This feature requires clients running 0.2.3.17-beta or later,
1269 and requires both sides to be running OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later
1270 with ECC support. OpenSSL 1.0.1, with the compile-time option
1271 "enable-ec_nistp_64_gcc_128", is highly recommended.
1273 Implements the relay side of proposal 198; closes ticket 7200.
1276 - Avoid crashing when, as a relay without IPv6-exit support, a
1277 client insists on getting an IPv6 address or nothing. Fixes bug
1278 7814; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
1281 - Improve circuit build timeout handling for hidden services.
1282 In particular: adjust build timeouts more accurately depending
1283 upon the number of hop-RTTs that a particular circuit type
1284 undergoes. Additionally, launch intro circuits in parallel
1285 if they timeout, and take the first one to reply as valid.
1286 - Work correctly on Unix systems where EAGAIN and EWOULDBLOCK are
1287 separate error codes; or at least, don't break for that reason.
1288 Fixes bug 7935. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
1289 - Update to the January 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
1291 o Minor features (testing):
1292 - Add benchmarks for DH (1024-bit multiplicative group) and ECDH
1293 (P-256) Diffie-Hellman handshakes to src/or/bench.
1294 - Add benchmark functions to test onion handshake performance.
1296 o Minor features (path bias detection):
1297 - Alter the Path Bias log messages to be more descriptive in terms
1298 of reporting timeouts and other statistics.
1299 - Create three levels of Path Bias log messages, as opposed to just
1300 two. These are configurable via consensus as well as via the torrc
1301 options PathBiasNoticeRate, PathBiasWarnRate, PathBiasExtremeRate.
1302 The default values are 0.70, 0.50, and 0.30 respectively.
1303 - Separate the log message levels from the decision to drop guards,
1304 which also is available via torrc option PathBiasDropGuards.
1305 PathBiasDropGuards still defaults to 0 (off).
1306 - Deprecate PathBiasDisableRate in favor of PathBiasDropGuards
1307 in combination with PathBiasExtremeRate.
1308 - Increase the default values for PathBiasScaleThreshold and
1309 PathBiasCircThreshold from (200, 20) to (300, 150).
1310 - Add in circuit usage accounting to path bias. If we try to use a
1311 built circuit but fail for any reason, it counts as path bias.
1312 Certain classes of circuits where the adversary gets to pick your
1313 destination node are exempt from this accounting. Usage accounting
1314 can be specifically disabled via consensus parameter or torrc.
1315 - Convert all internal path bias state to double-precision floating
1316 point, to avoid roundoff error and other issues.
1317 - Only record path bias information for circuits that have completed
1318 *two* hops. Assuming end-to-end tagging is the attack vector, this
1319 makes us more resilient to ambient circuit failure without any
1320 detection capability loss.
1322 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
1323 - Rate-limit the "No circuits are opened. Relaxed timeout for a
1324 circuit with channel state open..." message to once per hour to
1325 keep it from filling the notice logs. Mitigates bug 7799 but does
1326 not fix the underlying cause. Bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
1327 - Avoid spurious warnings when configuring multiple client ports of
1328 which only some are nonlocal. Previously, we had claimed that some
1329 were nonlocal when in fact they weren't. Fixes bug 7836; bugfix on
1332 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
1333 - Get rid of a couple of harmless clang warnings, where we compared
1334 enums to ints. These warnings are newly introduced in clang 3.2.
1335 - Split the onion.c file into separate modules for the onion queue
1336 and the different handshakes it supports.
1337 - Remove the marshalling/unmarshalling code for sending requests to
1338 cpuworkers over a socket, and instead just send structs. The
1339 recipient will always be the same Tor binary as the sender, so
1340 any encoding is overkill.
1343 Changes in version 0.2.4.7-alpha - 2012-12-24
1344 Tor 0.2.4.7-alpha introduces a new approach to providing fallback
1345 directory mirrors for more robust bootstrapping; fixes more issues where
1346 clients with changing network conditions refuse to make any circuits;
1347 adds initial support for exiting to IPv6 addresses; resumes being able
1348 to update our GeoIP database, and includes the geoip6 file this time;
1349 turns off the client-side DNS cache by default due to privacy risks;
1350 and fixes a variety of other issues.
1352 o Major features (client resilience):
1353 - Add a new "FallbackDir" torrc option to use when we can't use
1354 a directory mirror from the consensus (either because we lack a
1355 consensus, or because they're all down). Currently, all authorities
1356 are fallbacks by default, and there are no other default fallbacks,
1357 but that will change. This option will allow us to give clients a
1358 longer list of servers to try to get a consensus from when first
1359 connecting to the Tor network, and thereby reduce load on the
1360 directory authorities. Implements proposal 206, "Preconfigured
1361 directory sources for bootstrapping". We also removed the old
1362 "FallbackNetworkstatus" option, since we never got it working well
1363 enough to use it. Closes bug 572.
1364 - If we have no circuits open, use a relaxed timeout (the
1365 95-percentile cutoff) until a circuit succeeds. This heuristic
1366 should allow Tor to succeed at building circuits even when the
1367 network connection drastically changes. Should help with bug 3443.
1369 o Major features (IPv6):
1370 - Relays can now exit to IPv6 addresses: make sure that you have IPv6
1371 connectivity, then set the IPv6Exit flag to 1. Also make sure your
1372 exit policy reads as you would like: the address * applies to all
1373 address families, whereas *4 is IPv4 address only, and *6 is IPv6
1374 addresses only. On the client side, you'll need to wait until the
1375 authorities have upgraded, wait for enough exits to support IPv6,
1376 apply the "IPv6Traffic" flag to a SocksPort, and use Socks5. Closes
1377 ticket 5547, implements proposal 117 as revised in proposal 208.
1379 We DO NOT recommend that clients with actual anonymity needs start
1380 using IPv6 over Tor yet, since not enough exits support it yet.
1382 o Major features (geoip database):
1383 - Maxmind began labelling Tor relays as being in country "A1",
1384 which breaks by-country node selection inside Tor. Now we use a
1385 script to replace "A1" ("Anonymous Proxy") entries in our geoip
1386 file with real country codes. This script fixes about 90% of "A1"
1387 entries automatically and uses manual country code assignments to
1388 fix the remaining 10%. See src/config/README.geoip for details.
1389 Fixes bug 6266. Also update to the December 5 2012 Maxmind GeoLite
1390 Country database, as modified above.
1392 o Major bugfixes (client-side DNS):
1393 - Turn off the client-side DNS cache by default. Updating and using
1394 the DNS cache is now configurable on a per-client-port
1395 level. SOCKSPort, DNSPort, etc lines may now contain
1396 {No,}Cache{IPv4,IPv6,}DNS lines to indicate that we shouldn't
1397 cache these types of DNS answers when we receive them from an
1398 exit node in response to an application request on this port, and
1399 {No,}UseCached{IPv4,IPv6,DNS} lines to indicate that if we have
1400 cached DNS answers of these types, we shouldn't use them. It's
1401 potentially risky to use cached DNS answers at the client, since
1402 doing so can indicate to one exit what answers we've gotten
1403 for DNS lookups in the past. With IPv6, this becomes especially
1404 problematic. Using cached DNS answers for requests on the same
1405 circuit would present less linkability risk, since all traffic
1406 on a circuit is already linkable, but it would also provide
1407 little performance benefit: the exit node caches DNS replies
1408 too. Implements a simplified version of Proposal 205. Implements
1411 o Major bugfixes (other):
1412 - Alter circuit build timeout measurement to start at the point
1413 where we begin the CREATE/CREATE_FAST step (as opposed to circuit
1414 initialization). This should make our timeout measurements more
1415 uniform. Previously, we were sometimes including ORconn setup time
1416 in our circuit build time measurements. Should resolve bug 3443.
1417 - Fix an assertion that could trigger in hibernate_go_dormant() when
1418 closing an or_connection_t: call channel_mark_for_close() rather
1419 than connection_mark_for_close(). Fixes bug 7267. Bugfix on
1421 - Include the geoip6 IPv6 GeoIP database in the tarball. Fixes bug
1422 7655; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
1425 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportListenAddr" to let bridge
1426 operators select the address where their pluggable transports will
1427 listen for connections. Resolves ticket 7013.
1428 - Allow an optional $ before the node identity digest in the
1429 controller command GETINFO ns/id/<identity>, for consistency with
1430 md/id/<identity> and desc/id/<identity>. Resolves ticket 7059.
1431 - Log packaged cell fullness as part of the heartbeat message.
1432 Diagnosis to try to determine the extent of bug 7743.
1434 o Minor features (IPv6):
1435 - AutomapHostsOnResolve now supports IPv6 addresses. By default, we
1436 prefer to hand out virtual IPv6 addresses, since there are more of
1437 them and we can't run out. To override this behavior and make IPv4
1438 addresses preferred, set NoPreferIPv6Automap on whatever SOCKSPort
1439 or DNSPort you're using for resolving. Implements ticket 7571.
1440 - AutomapHostsOnResolve responses are now randomized, to avoid
1441 annoying situations where Tor is restarted and applications
1442 connect to the wrong addresses.
1443 - Never try more than 1000 times to pick a new virtual address when
1444 AutomapHostsOnResolve is set. That's good enough so long as we
1445 aren't close to handing out our entire virtual address space;
1446 if you're getting there, it's best to switch to IPv6 virtual
1450 - The ADDRMAP command can no longer generate an ill-formed error
1451 code on a failed MAPADDRESS. It now says "internal" rather than
1452 an English sentence fragment with spaces in the middle. Bugfix on
1454 - Fix log messages and comments to avoid saying "GMT" when we mean
1455 "UTC". Fixes bug 6113.
1456 - Compile on win64 using mingw64. Fixes bug 7260; patches from
1458 - Fix a crash when debugging unit tests on Windows: deallocate a
1459 shared library with FreeLibrary, not CloseHandle. Fixes bug 7306;
1460 bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Reported by "ultramage".
1463 - The DirServer option is now DirAuthority, for consistency with
1464 current naming patterns. You can still use the old DirServer form.
1466 o Code simplification and refactoring:
1467 - Move the client-side address-map/virtual-address/DNS-cache code
1468 out of connection_edge.c into a new addressmap.c module.
1469 - Remove unused code for parsing v1 directories and "running routers"
1470 documents. Fixes bug 6887.
1473 Changes in version 0.2.3.25 - 2012-11-19
1474 The Tor 0.2.3 release series is dedicated to the memory of Len "rabbi"
1475 Sassaman (1980-2011), a long-time cypherpunk, anonymity researcher,
1476 Mixmaster maintainer, Pynchon Gate co-designer, CodeCon organizer,
1477 programmer, and friend. Unstinting in his dedication to the cause of
1478 freedom, he inspired and helped many of us as we began our work on
1479 anonymity, and inspires us still. Please honor his memory by writing
1480 software to protect people's freedoms, and by helping others to do so.
1482 Tor 0.2.3.25, the first stable release in the 0.2.3 branch, features
1483 significantly reduced directory overhead (via microdescriptors),
1484 enormous crypto performance improvements for fast relays on new
1485 enough hardware, a new v3 TLS handshake protocol that can better
1486 resist fingerprinting, support for protocol obfuscation plugins (aka
1487 pluggable transports), better scalability for hidden services, IPv6
1488 support for bridges, performance improvements like allowing clients
1489 to skip the first round-trip on the circuit ("optimistic data") and
1490 refilling token buckets more often, a new "stream isolation" design
1491 to isolate different applications on different circuits, and many
1492 stability, security, and privacy fixes.
1495 - Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so
1496 that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory,
1497 the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler
1498 was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the
1499 memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program,
1500 hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that
1501 by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler
1502 is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use
1503 a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352.
1504 Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov.
1507 - Fix a harmless bug when opting against publishing a relay descriptor
1508 because DisableNetwork is set. Fixes bug 7464; bugfix on
1512 Changes in version 0.2.4.6-alpha - 2012-11-13
1513 Tor 0.2.4.6-alpha fixes an assert bug that has been plaguing relays,
1514 makes our defense-in-depth memory wiping more reliable, and begins to
1515 count IPv6 addresses in bridge statistics,
1518 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur when closing a connection
1519 with a spliced rendezvous circuit. Fix for bug 7212; bugfix on
1521 - Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so
1522 that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory,
1523 the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler
1524 was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the
1525 memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program,
1526 hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that
1527 by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler
1528 is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use
1529 a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352.
1530 Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov.
1533 - Add GeoIP database for IPv6 addresses. The new config option
1535 - Bridge statistics now count bridge clients connecting over IPv6:
1536 bridge statistics files now list "bridge-ip-versions" and
1537 extra-info documents list "geoip6-db-digest". The control protocol
1538 "CLIENTS_SEEN" and "ip-to-country" queries now support IPv6. Initial
1539 implementation by "shkoo", addressing ticket 5055.
1542 - Warn when we are binding low ports when hibernation is enabled;
1543 previously we had warned when we were _advertising_ low ports with
1544 hibernation enabled. Fixes bug 7285; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
1545 - Fix a harmless bug when opting against publishing a relay descriptor
1546 because DisableNetwork is set. Fixes bug 7464; bugfix on
1548 - Add warning message when a managed proxy dies during configuration.
1549 Fixes bug 7195; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
1550 - Fix a linking error when building tor-fw-helper without miniupnp.
1551 Fixes bug 7235; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha. Fix by Anthony G. Basile.
1552 - Check for closing an or_connection_t without going through correct
1553 channel functions; emit a warning and then call
1554 connection_or_close_for_error() so we don't assert as in bugs 7212
1556 - Compile correctly on compilers without C99 designated initializer
1557 support. Fixes bug 7286; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
1558 - Avoid a possible assert that can occur when channel_send_destroy() is
1559 called on a channel in CHANNEL_STATE_CLOSING, CHANNEL_STATE_CLOSED,
1560 or CHANNEL_STATE_ERROR when the Tor process is resumed after being
1561 blocked for a long interval. Fixes bug 7350; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
1562 - Fix a memory leak on failing cases of channel_tls_process_certs_cell.
1563 Fixes bug 7422; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
1565 o Code simplification and refactoring:
1566 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h, so that we don't
1567 need to hand-roll our own pointer and list structures whenever we
1568 need them. (We can't rely on a sys/queue.h, since some operating
1569 systems don't have them, and the ones that do have them don't all
1570 present the same extensions.)
1573 Changes in version 0.2.4.5-alpha - 2012-10-25
1574 Tor 0.2.4.5-alpha comes hard at the heels of 0.2.4.4-alpha, to fix
1575 two important security vulnerabilities that could lead to remotely
1576 triggerable relay crashes, fix a major bug that was preventing clients
1577 from choosing suitable exit nodes, and refactor some of our code.
1579 o Major bugfixes (security, also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
1580 - Fix a group of remotely triggerable assertion failures related to
1581 incorrect link protocol negotiation. Found, diagnosed, and fixed
1582 by "some guy from France". Fix for CVE-2012-2250; bugfix on
1584 - Fix a denial of service attack by which any directory authority
1585 could crash all the others, or by which a single v2 directory
1586 authority could crash everybody downloading v2 directory
1587 information. Fixes bug 7191; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
1589 o Major bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
1590 - When parsing exit policy summaries from microdescriptors, we had
1591 previously been ignoring the last character in each one, so that
1592 "accept 80,443,8080" would be treated by clients as indicating
1593 a node that allows access to ports 80, 443, and 808. That would
1594 lead to clients attempting connections that could never work,
1595 and ignoring exit nodes that would support their connections. Now
1596 clients parse these exit policy summaries correctly. Fixes bug 7192;
1597 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
1599 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
1600 - Clients now consider the ClientRejectInternalAddresses config option
1601 when using a microdescriptor consensus stanza to decide whether
1602 an exit relay would allow exiting to an internal address. Fixes
1603 bug 7190; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
1606 - Only disable TLS session ticket support when running as a TLS
1607 server. Now clients will blend better with regular Firefox
1608 connections. Fixes bug 7189; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.23-rc.
1610 o Code simplification and refactoring:
1611 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h (originally by
1613 - Move the entry node code from circuitbuild.c to its own file.
1614 - Move the circuit build timeout tracking code from circuitbuild.c
1618 Changes in version 0.2.3.24-rc - 2012-10-25
1619 Tor 0.2.3.24-rc fixes two important security vulnerabilities that
1620 could lead to remotely triggerable relay crashes, and fixes
1621 a major bug that was preventing clients from choosing suitable exit
1624 o Major bugfixes (security):
1625 - Fix a group of remotely triggerable assertion failures related to
1626 incorrect link protocol negotiation. Found, diagnosed, and fixed
1627 by "some guy from France". Fix for CVE-2012-2250; bugfix on
1629 - Fix a denial of service attack by which any directory authority
1630 could crash all the others, or by which a single v2 directory
1631 authority could crash everybody downloading v2 directory
1632 information. Fixes bug 7191; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
1635 - When parsing exit policy summaries from microdescriptors, we had
1636 previously been ignoring the last character in each one, so that
1637 "accept 80,443,8080" would be treated by clients as indicating
1638 a node that allows access to ports 80, 443, and 808. That would
1639 lead to clients attempting connections that could never work,
1640 and ignoring exit nodes that would support their connections. Now
1641 clients parse these exit policy summaries correctly. Fixes bug 7192;
1642 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
1645 - Clients now consider the ClientRejectInternalAddresses config option
1646 when using a microdescriptor consensus stanza to decide whether
1647 an exit relay would allow exiting to an internal address. Fixes
1648 bug 7190; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
1651 Changes in version 0.2.4.4-alpha - 2012-10-20
1652 Tor 0.2.4.4-alpha adds a new v3 directory authority, fixes a privacy
1653 vulnerability introduced by a change in OpenSSL, fixes a remotely
1654 triggerable assert, and adds new channel_t and circuitmux_t abstractions
1655 that will make it easier to test new connection transport and cell
1656 scheduling algorithms.
1658 o New directory authorities (also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
1659 - Add Faravahar (run by Sina Rabbani) as the ninth v3 directory
1660 authority. Closes ticket 5749.
1662 o Major bugfixes (security/privacy, also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
1663 - Disable TLS session tickets. OpenSSL's implementation was giving
1664 our TLS session keys the lifetime of our TLS context objects, when
1665 perfect forward secrecy would want us to discard anything that
1666 could decrypt a link connection as soon as the link connection
1667 was closed. Fixes bug 7139; bugfix on all versions of Tor linked
1668 against OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later. Found by Florent Daignière.
1669 - Discard extraneous renegotiation attempts once the V3 link
1670 protocol has been initiated. Failure to do so left us open to
1671 a remotely triggerable assertion failure. Fixes CVE-2012-2249;
1672 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "some guy from France".
1674 o Internal abstraction features:
1675 - Introduce new channel_t abstraction between circuits and
1676 or_connection_t to allow for implementing alternate OR-to-OR
1677 transports. A channel_t is an abstract object which can either be a
1678 cell-bearing channel, which is responsible for authenticating and
1679 handshaking with the remote OR and transmitting cells to and from
1680 it, or a listening channel, which spawns new cell-bearing channels
1681 at the request of remote ORs. Implements part of ticket 6465.
1682 - Also new is the channel_tls_t subclass of channel_t, adapting it
1683 to the existing or_connection_t code. The V2/V3 protocol handshaking
1684 code which formerly resided in command.c has been moved below the
1685 channel_t abstraction layer and may be found in channeltls.c now.
1686 Implements the rest of ticket 6465.
1687 - Introduce new circuitmux_t storing the queue of circuits for
1688 a channel; this encapsulates and abstracts the queue logic and
1689 circuit selection policy, and allows the latter to be overridden
1690 easily by switching out a policy object. The existing EWMA behavior
1691 is now implemented as a circuitmux_policy_t. Resolves ticket 6816.
1693 o Required libraries:
1694 - Tor now requires OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later is
1695 strongly recommended.
1698 - Warn users who run hidden services on a Tor client with
1699 UseEntryGuards disabled that their hidden services will be
1700 vulnerable to http://freehaven.net/anonbib/#hs-attack06 (the
1701 attack which motivated Tor to support entry guards in the first
1702 place). Resolves ticket 6889.
1703 - Tor now builds correctly on Bitrig, an OpenBSD fork. Patch from
1704 dhill. Resolves ticket 6982.
1705 - Option OutboundBindAddress can be specified multiple times and
1706 accepts IPv6 addresses. Resolves ticket 6876.
1708 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
1709 - Don't serve or accept v2 hidden service descriptors over a
1710 relay's DirPort. It's never correct to do so, and disabling it
1711 might make it more annoying to exploit any bugs that turn up in the
1712 descriptor-parsing code. Fixes bug 7149.
1713 - Fix two cases in src/or/transports.c where we were calling
1714 fmt_addr() twice in a parameter list. Bug found by David
1715 Fifield. Fixes bug 7014; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
1716 - Fix memory leaks whenever we logged any message about the "path
1717 bias" detection. Fixes bug 7022; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc.
1718 - When relays refuse a "create" cell because their queue of pending
1719 create cells is too big (typically because their cpu can't keep up
1720 with the arrival rate), send back reason "resource limit" rather
1721 than reason "internal", so network measurement scripts can get a
1722 more accurate picture. Fixes bug 7037; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
1725 - Command-line option "--version" implies "--quiet". Fixes bug 6997.
1726 - Free some more still-in-use memory at exit, to make hunting for
1727 memory leaks easier. Resolves bug 7029.
1728 - When a Tor client gets a "truncated" relay cell, the first byte of
1729 its payload specifies why the circuit was truncated. We were
1730 ignoring this 'reason' byte when tearing down the circuit, resulting
1731 in the controller not being told why the circuit closed. Now we
1732 pass the reason from the truncated cell to the controller. Bugfix
1733 on 0.1.2.3-alpha; fixes bug 7039.
1734 - Downgrade "Failed to hand off onionskin" messages to "debug"
1735 severity, since they're typically redundant with the "Your computer
1736 is too slow" messages. Fixes bug 7038; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
1737 - Make clients running with IPv6 bridges connect over IPv6 again,
1738 even without setting new config options ClientUseIPv6 and
1739 ClientPreferIPv6ORPort. Fixes bug 6757; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
1740 - Use square brackets around IPv6 addresses in numerous places
1741 that needed them, including log messages, HTTPS CONNECT proxy
1742 requests, TransportProxy statefile entries, and pluggable transport
1743 extra-info lines. Fixes bug 7011; patch by David Fifield.
1745 o Code refactoring and cleanup:
1746 - Source files taken from other packages now reside in src/ext;
1747 previously they were scattered around the rest of Tor.
1748 - Avoid use of reserved identifiers in our C code. The C standard
1749 doesn't like us declaring anything that starts with an
1750 underscore, so let's knock it off before we get in trouble. Fix
1751 for bug 1031; bugfix on the first Tor commit.
1754 Changes in version 0.2.3.23-rc - 2012-10-20
1755 Tor 0.2.3.23-rc adds a new v3 directory authority, fixes a privacy
1756 vulnerability introduced by a change in OpenSSL, and fixes a variety
1757 of smaller bugs in preparation for the release.
1759 o New directory authorities:
1760 - Add Faravahar (run by Sina Rabbani) as the ninth v3 directory
1761 authority. Closes ticket 5749.
1763 o Major bugfixes (security/privacy):
1764 - Disable TLS session tickets. OpenSSL's implementation was giving
1765 our TLS session keys the lifetime of our TLS context objects, when
1766 perfect forward secrecy would want us to discard anything that
1767 could decrypt a link connection as soon as the link connection
1768 was closed. Fixes bug 7139; bugfix on all versions of Tor linked
1769 against OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later. Found by Florent Daignière.
1770 - Discard extraneous renegotiation attempts once the V3 link
1771 protocol has been initiated. Failure to do so left us open to
1772 a remotely triggerable assertion failure. Fixes CVE-2012-2249;
1773 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "some guy from France".
1776 - Fix a possible crash bug when checking for deactivated circuits
1777 in connection_or_flush_from_first_active_circuit(). Fixes bug 6341;
1778 bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Bug report and fix received pseudonymously.
1780 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
1781 - Fix two cases in src/or/transports.c where we were calling
1782 fmt_addr() twice in a parameter list. Bug found by David
1783 Fifield. Fixes bug 7014; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
1784 - Convert an assert in the pathbias code to a log message. The assert
1785 appears to only be triggerable by Tor2Web mode. Fixes bug 6866;
1786 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
1787 - Fix memory leaks whenever we logged any message about the "path
1788 bias" detection. Fixes bug 7022; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc.
1790 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
1791 - Don't serve or accept v2 hidden service descriptors over a relay's
1792 DirPort. It's never correct to do so, and disabling it might
1793 make it more annoying to exploit any bugs that turn up in the
1794 descriptor-parsing code. Fixes bug 7149.
1795 - When relays refuse a "create" cell because their queue of pending
1796 create cells is too big (typically because their cpu can't keep up
1797 with the arrival rate), send back reason "resource limit" rather
1798 than reason "internal", so network measurement scripts can get a
1799 more accurate picture. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha; fixes bug 7037.
1800 - Correct file sizes when reading binary files on Cygwin, to avoid
1801 a bug where Tor would fail to read its state file. Fixes bug 6844;
1802 bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
1803 - Avoid undefined behaviour when parsing the list of supported
1804 rendezvous/introduction protocols in a hidden service descriptor.
1805 Previously, Tor would have confused (as-yet-unused) protocol version
1806 numbers greater than 32 with lower ones on many platforms. Fixes
1807 bug 6827; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Found by George Kadianakis.
1809 o Documentation fixes:
1810 - Clarify that hidden services are TCP only. Fixes bug 6024.
1813 Changes in version 0.2.4.3-alpha - 2012-09-22
1814 Tor 0.2.4.3-alpha fixes another opportunity for a remotely triggerable
1815 assertion, resumes letting relays test reachability of their DirPort,
1816 and cleans up a bunch of smaller bugs.
1819 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
1820 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
1821 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
1824 - Fix a possible crash bug when checking for deactivated circuits
1825 in connection_or_flush_from_first_active_circuit(). Fixes bug 6341;
1826 bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Bug report and fix received pseudonymously.
1827 - Allow routers to detect that their own DirPorts are running. When
1828 we removed support for versions_supports_begindir, we also
1829 accidentally removed the mechanism we used to self-test our
1830 DirPort. Diagnosed with help from kargig. Fixes bugs 6814 and 6815;
1831 bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
1833 o Security features:
1834 - Switch to a completely time-invariant approach for picking nodes
1835 weighted by bandwidth. Our old approach would run through the
1836 part of the loop after it had made its choice slightly slower
1837 than it ran through the part of the loop before it had made its
1838 choice. Addresses ticket 6538.
1839 - Disable the use of Guard nodes when in Tor2WebMode. Guard usage
1840 by tor2web clients allows hidden services to identify tor2web
1841 clients through their repeated selection of the same rendezvous
1842 and introduction point circuit endpoints (their guards). Resolves
1846 - Enable Tor to read configuration, state, and key information from
1847 a FIFO. Previously Tor would only read from files with a positive
1848 stat.st_size. Code from meejah; fixes bug 6044.
1851 - Correct file sizes when reading binary files on Cygwin, to avoid
1852 a bug where Tor would fail to read its state file. Fixes bug 6844;
1853 bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
1854 - Correctly handle votes with more than 31 flags. Fixes bug 6853;
1855 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
1856 - When complaining about a client port on a public address, log
1857 which address we're complaining about. Fixes bug 4020; bugfix on
1858 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Tom Fitzhenry.
1859 - Convert an assert in the pathbias code to a log message. The assert
1860 appears to only be triggerable by Tor2Web mode. Fixes bug 6866;
1861 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
1862 - Our new buildsystem was overzealous about rebuilding manpages: it
1863 would rebuild them all whenever any one of them changed. Now our
1864 dependency checking should be correct. Fixes bug 6843; bugfix on
1866 - Don't do reachability testing over IPv6 unless AuthDirPublishIPv6
1867 is set. Fixes bug 6880. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
1868 - Correct log printout about which address family is preferred
1869 when connecting to a bridge with both an IPv4 and IPv6 OR port.
1870 Fixes bug 6884; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
1872 o Minor bugfixes (code cleanliness):
1873 - Fix round_to_power_of_2() so it doesn't invoke undefined behavior
1874 with large values. This situation was untriggered, but nevertheless
1875 incorrect. Fixes bug 6831; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
1876 - Reject consensus votes with more than 64 known-flags. We aren't even
1877 close to that limit yet, and our code doesn't handle it correctly.
1878 Fixes bug 6833; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
1879 - Avoid undefined behaviour when parsing the list of supported
1880 rendezvous/introduction protocols in a hidden service descriptor.
1881 Previously, Tor would have confused (as-yet-unused) protocol version
1882 numbers greater than 32 with lower ones on many platforms. Fixes
1883 bug 6827; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Found by George Kadianakis.
1884 - Fix handling of rendezvous client authorization types over 8.
1885 Fixes bug 6861; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
1886 - Fix building with older versions of GCC (2.95, for one) that don't
1887 like preprocessor directives inside macro arguments. Found by
1888 grarpamp. Fixes bug 6842; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
1889 - Switch weighted node selection rule from using a list of doubles
1890 to using a list of int64_t. This change should make the process
1891 slightly easier to debug and maintain. Needed to finish ticket 6538.
1893 o Code simplification and refactoring:
1894 - Move the generic "config" code into a new file, and have "config.c"
1895 hold only torrc- and state-related code. Resolves ticket 6823.
1896 - Move the core of our "choose a weighted element at random" logic
1897 into its own function, and give it unit tests. Now the logic is
1898 testable, and a little less fragile too.
1899 - Removed the testing_since field of node_t, which hasn't been used
1900 for anything since 0.2.0.9-alpha.
1902 o Documentation fixes:
1903 - Clarify that hidden services are TCP only. Fixes bug 6024.
1904 - Resolve a typo in torrc.sample.in. Fixes bug 6819; bugfix on
1908 Changes in version 0.2.3.22-rc - 2012-09-11
1909 Tor 0.2.3.22-rc fixes another opportunity for a remotely triggerable
1913 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
1914 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
1915 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
1918 - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
1919 version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
1923 Changes in version 0.2.2.39 - 2012-09-11
1924 Tor 0.2.2.39 fixes two more opportunities for remotely triggerable
1928 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
1929 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
1930 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
1931 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
1932 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
1933 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
1934 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
1938 Changes in version 0.2.4.2-alpha - 2012-09-10
1939 Tor 0.2.4.2-alpha enables port forwarding for pluggable transports,
1940 raises the default rate limiting even more, and makes the bootstrapping
1941 log messages less noisy.
1944 - Automatically forward the TCP ports of pluggable transport
1945 proxies using tor-fw-helper if PortForwarding is enabled. Implements
1949 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst values from 5MB/10MB
1950 to 1GB/1GB. The previous defaults were intended to be "basically
1951 infinite", but it turns out they're now limiting our 100mbit+
1952 relays and bridges. Fixes bug 6605; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha (the
1953 last time we raised it).
1956 - Detect when we're running with a version of OpenSSL other than the
1957 one we compiled with. This has occasionally given people hard-to-
1959 - Log fewer lines at level "notice" about our OpenSSL and Libevent
1960 versions and capabilities when everything is going right. Resolves
1961 part of ticket 6736.
1962 - Directory authorities no long accept descriptors for any version of
1963 Tor before 0.2.2.35, or for any 0.2.3 release before 0.2.3.10-alpha.
1964 These versions are insecure, unsupported, or both. Implements
1968 - Rename the (internal-use-only) UsingTestingNetworkDefaults option
1969 to start with a triple-underscore so the controller won't touch it.
1970 Patch by Meejah. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
1971 - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
1972 version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
1974 - Rename the (testing-use-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option
1975 so it doesn't start with _. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
1976 - Don't follow the NULL pointer if microdescriptor generation fails.
1977 (This does not appear to be triggerable, but it's best to be safe.)
1978 Found by "f. tp.". Fixes bug 6797; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
1979 - Fix mis-declared dependencies on src/common/crypto.c and
1980 src/or/tor_main.c that could break out-of-tree builds under some
1981 circumstances. Fixes bug 6778; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
1982 - Avoid a warning when building common_sha1.i out of tree. Fixes bug
1983 6778; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
1984 - Fix a harmless (in this case) build warning for implicitly
1985 converting a strlen() to an int. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
1988 - Now that all versions before 0.2.2.x are disallowed, we no longer
1989 need to work around their missing features. Thus we can remove a
1990 bunch of compatibility code.
1993 - Tweak tor-fw-helper to accept an arbitrary amount of arbitrary
1994 TCP ports to forward. In the past it only accepted two ports:
1995 the ORPort and the DirPort.
1998 Changes in version 0.2.4.1-alpha - 2012-09-05
1999 Tor 0.2.4.1-alpha lets bridges publish their pluggable transports to
2000 bridgedb; lets relays use IPv6 addresses and directory authorities
2001 advertise them; and switches to a cleaner build interface.
2003 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to
2004 be bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
2005 stay with 0.2.3.x for now.
2007 o Major features (bridges):
2008 - Bridges now report the pluggable transports they support to the
2009 bridge authority, so it can pass the supported transports on to
2010 bridgedb and/or eventually do reachability testing. Implements
2013 o Major features (IPv6):
2014 - Bridge authorities now accept IPv6 bridge addresses and include
2015 them in network status documents. Implements ticket 5534.
2016 - Clients who set "ClientUseIPv6 1" may connect to entry nodes over
2017 IPv6. Set "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort 1" to make this even more likely
2018 to happen. Implements ticket 5535.
2019 - All kind of relays, not just bridges, can now advertise an IPv6
2020 OR port. Implements ticket 6362.
2021 - Directory authorities vote on IPv6 OR ports using the new consensus
2022 method 14. Implements ticket 6363.
2024 o Major features (build):
2025 - Switch to a nonrecursive Makefile structure. Now instead of each
2026 Makefile.am invoking other Makefile.am's, there is a master
2027 Makefile.am that includes the others. This change makes our build
2028 process slightly more maintainable, and improves parallelism for
2029 building with make -j. Original patch by Stewart Smith; various
2030 fixes by Jim Meyering.
2031 - Where available, we now use automake's "silent" make rules by
2032 default, so that warnings are easier to spot. You can get the old
2033 behavior with "make V=1". Patch by Stewart Smith for ticket 6522.
2035 o Minor features (code security and spec conformance):
2036 - Clear keys and key-derived material left on the stack in
2037 rendservice.c and rendclient.c. Check return value of
2038 crypto_pk_write_private_key_to_string() in rend_service_load_keys().
2039 These fixes should make us more forward-secure against cold-boot
2040 attacks and the like. Fixes bug 2385.
2041 - Reject EXTEND cells sent to nonexistent streams. According to the
2042 spec, an EXTEND cell sent to _any_ nonzero stream ID is invalid, but
2043 we were only checking for stream IDs that were currently in use.
2044 Found while hunting for more instances of bug 6271. Bugfix on
2045 0.0.2pre8, which introduced incremental circuit construction.
2047 o Minor features (streamlining);
2048 - No longer include the "opt" prefix when generating routerinfos
2049 or v2 directories: it has been needless since Tor 0.1.2. Closes
2051 - Remove some now-needless code that tried to aggressively flush
2052 OR connections as data was added to them. Since 0.2.0.1-alpha, our
2053 cell queue logic has saved us from the failure mode that this code
2054 was supposed to prevent. Removing this code will limit the number
2055 of baroque control flow paths through Tor's network logic. Reported
2056 pseudonymously on IRC. Fixes bug 6468; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
2058 o Minor features (controller):
2059 - Add a "GETINFO signal/names" control port command. Implements
2061 - Provide default values for all options via "GETINFO config/defaults".
2062 Implements ticket 4971.
2064 o Minor features (IPv6):
2065 - New config option "AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity 1" that directory
2066 authorities should set if they have IPv6 connectivity and want to
2067 do reachability tests for IPv6 relays. Implements feature 5974.
2068 - A relay with an IPv6 OR port now sends that address in NETINFO
2069 cells (in addition to its other address). Implements ticket 6364.
2071 o Minor features (log messages):
2072 - Omit the first heartbeat log message, because it never has anything
2073 useful to say, and it clutters up the bootstrapping messages.
2074 Resolves ticket 6758.
2075 - Don't log about reloading the microdescriptor cache at startup. Our
2076 bootstrap warnings are supposed to tell the user when there's a
2077 problem, and our bootstrap notices say when there isn't. Resolves
2078 ticket 6759; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
2079 - Don't log "I learned some more directory information" when we're
2080 reading cached directory information. Reserve it for when new
2081 directory information arrives in response to a fetch. Resolves
2083 - Prevent rounding error in path bias counts when scaling
2084 them down, and use the correct scale factor default. Also demote
2085 some path bias related log messages down a level and make others
2086 less scary sounding. Fixes bug 6647. Bugfix against 0.2.3.17-beta.
2087 - We no longer warn so much when generating manpages from their
2090 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
2091 - Enhance our internal sscanf replacement so that we can eliminate
2092 the last remaining uses of the system sscanf. (Though those uses
2093 of sscanf were safe, sscanf itself is generally error prone, so
2094 we want to eliminate when we can.) Fixes ticket 4195 and Coverity
2096 - Move ipv6_preferred from routerinfo_t to node_t. Addresses bug 4620.
2097 - Move last_reachable and testing_since from routerinfo_t to node_t.
2098 Implements ticket 5529.
2099 - Add replaycache_t structure, functions and unit tests, then refactor
2100 rend_service_introduce() to be more clear to read, improve, debug,
2101 and test. Resolves bug 6177.
2102 - Finally remove support for malloc_good_size and malloc_usable_size.
2103 We had hoped that these functions would let us eke a little more
2104 memory out of our malloc implementation. Unfortunately, the only
2105 implementations that provided these functions are also ones that
2106 are already efficient about not overallocation: they never got us
2107 more than 7 or so bytes per allocation. Removing them saves us a
2108 little code complexity and a nontrivial amount of build complexity.
2111 - Tor maintainers now require Automake version 1.9 or later to build
2112 Tor from the Git repository. (Automake is not required when building
2113 from a source distribution.)
2116 Changes in version 0.2.3.21-rc - 2012-09-05
2117 Tor 0.2.3.21-rc is the fourth release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
2118 series. It fixes a trio of potential security bugs, fixes a bug where
2119 we were leaving some of the fast relays out of the microdescriptor
2120 consensus, resumes interpreting "ORPort 0" and "DirPort 0" correctly,
2121 and cleans up other smaller issues.
2123 o Major bugfixes (security):
2124 - Tear down the circuit if we get an unexpected SENDME cell. Clients
2125 could use this trick to make their circuits receive cells faster
2126 than our flow control would have allowed, or to gum up the network,
2127 or possibly to do targeted memory denial-of-service attacks on
2128 entry nodes. Fixes bug 6252. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor --
2129 from July 2002, before the release of Tor 0.0.0. We had committed
2130 this patch previously, but we had to revert it because of bug 6271.
2131 Now that 6271 is fixed, this patch appears to work.
2132 - Reject any attempt to extend to an internal address. Without
2133 this fix, a router could be used to probe addresses on an internal
2134 network to see whether they were accepting connections. Fixes bug
2135 6710; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
2136 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
2137 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
2138 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
2139 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
2143 - Remove the upper bound on microdescriptor length. We were hitting
2144 the limit for routers with complex exit policies or family
2145 declarations, causing clients to not use them. Fixes the first
2146 piece of bug 6404; fix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
2147 - Detect "ORPort 0" as meaning, uniformly, that we're not running
2148 as a relay. Previously, some of our code would treat the presence
2149 of any ORPort line as meaning that we should act like a relay,
2150 even though our new listener code would correctly not open any
2151 ORPorts for ORPort 0. Similar bugs in other Port options are also
2152 fixed. Fixes the first half of bug 6507; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
2155 - Avoid a pair of double-free and use-after-mark bugs that can
2156 occur with certain timings in canceled and re-received DNS
2157 requests. Fixes bug 6472; bugfix on 0.0.7rc1.
2158 - Fix build and 64-bit compile warnings from --enable-openbsd-malloc.
2159 Fixes bug 6379. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
2160 - Allow one-hop directory fetching circuits the full "circuit build
2161 timeout" period, rather than just half of it, before failing them
2162 and marking the relay down. This fix should help reduce cases where
2163 clients declare relays (or worse, bridges) unreachable because
2164 the TLS handshake takes a few seconds to complete. Fixes bug 6743;
2165 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha, where we changed the timeout from a static
2167 - Authorities no longer include any router in their microdescriptor
2168 consensuses for which they couldn't generate or agree on a
2169 microdescriptor. Fixes the second piece of bug 6404; fix on
2171 - Detect and reject attempts to specify both "FooPort" and
2172 "FooPort 0" in the same configuration domain. (It's still okay
2173 to have a FooPort in your configuration file, and use "FooPort 0"
2174 on the command line to disable it.) Fixes the second half of bug
2175 6507; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
2176 - Make wildcarded addresses (that is, ones beginning with "*.") work
2177 when provided via the controller's MapAddress command. Previously,
2178 they were accepted, but we never actually noticed that they were
2179 wildcards. Fixes bug 6244; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
2180 - Avoid crashing on a malformed state file where EntryGuardPathBias
2181 precedes EntryGuard. Fix for bug 6774; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
2182 - Add a (probably redundant) memory clear between iterations of
2183 the router status voting loop, to prevent future coding errors
2184 where data might leak between iterations of the loop. Resolves
2187 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
2188 - Downgrade "set buildtimeout to low value" messages to "info"
2189 severity; they were never an actual problem, there was never
2190 anything reasonable to do about them, and they tended to spam logs
2191 from time to time. Fixes bug 6251; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
2192 - Downgrade path-bias warning messages to "info". We'll try to get
2193 them working better in 0.2.4. Add internal circuit construction
2194 state to protect against the noisy warn message "Unexpectedly high
2195 circuit_successes". Also add some additional rate-limited notice
2196 messages to help determine the root cause of the warn. Fixes bug
2197 6475. Bugfix against 0.2.3.17-beta.
2198 - Move log message when unable to find a microdesc in a routerstatus
2199 entry to parse time. Previously we'd spam this warning every time
2200 we tried to figure out which microdescriptors to download. Fixes
2201 the third piece of bug 6404; fix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
2204 - Consider new, removed or changed IPv6 OR ports a non-cosmetic
2205 change when the authority is deciding whether to accept a newly
2206 uploaded descriptor. Implements ticket 6423.
2207 - Add missing documentation for consensus and microdesc files.
2208 Resolves ticket 6732.
2211 Changes in version 0.2.2.38 - 2012-08-12
2212 Tor 0.2.2.38 fixes a remotely triggerable crash bug, and fixes a timing
2213 attack that could in theory leak path information.
2216 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
2217 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
2218 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
2219 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
2220 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
2221 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
2222 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
2223 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
2224 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
2225 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
2226 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
2227 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
2228 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
2229 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
2232 Changes in version 0.2.3.20-rc - 2012-08-05
2233 Tor 0.2.3.20-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
2234 series. It fixes a pair of code security bugs and a potential anonymity
2235 issue, updates our RPM spec files, and cleans up other smaller issues.
2238 - Avoid read-from-freed-memory and double-free bugs that could occur
2239 when a DNS request fails while launching it. Fixes bug 6480;
2240 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
2241 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
2242 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
2243 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
2244 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
2245 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
2246 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
2247 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
2248 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
2249 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
2250 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
2251 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
2252 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
2253 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
2254 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
2257 - Try to make the warning when giving an obsolete SOCKSListenAddress
2258 a little more useful.
2259 - Terminate active server managed proxies if Tor stops being a
2260 relay. Addresses parts of bug 6274; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
2261 - Provide a better error message about possible OSX Asciidoc failure
2262 reasons. Fixes bug 6436.
2263 - Warn when Tor is configured to use accounting in a way that can
2264 link a hidden service to some other hidden service or public
2265 address. Resolves ticket 6490.
2268 - Check return value of fputs() when writing authority certificate
2269 file. Fixes Coverity issue 709056; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
2270 - Ignore ServerTransportPlugin lines when Tor is not configured as
2271 a relay. Fixes bug 6274; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
2272 - When disabling guards for having too high a proportion of failed
2273 circuits, make sure to look at each guard. Fixes bug 6397; bugfix
2277 - Update our default RPM spec files to work with mock and rpmbuild
2278 on RHEL/Fedora. They have an updated set of dependencies and
2279 conflicts, a fix for an ancient typo when creating the "_tor"
2280 user, and better instructions. Thanks to Ondrej Mikle for the
2281 patch series. Fixes bug 6043.
2284 - Make it possible to set the TestingTorNetwork configuration
2285 option using AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority
2286 as an alternative to setting DirServer. Addresses ticket 6377.
2289 - Clarify the documentation for the Alternate*Authority options.
2291 - Fix some typos in the manpages. Patch from A. Costa. Fixes bug 6500.
2293 o Code simplification and refactoring:
2294 - Do not use SMARTLIST_FOREACH for any loop whose body exceeds
2295 10 lines. Also, don't nest them. Doing so in the past has
2296 led to hard-to-debug code. The new style is to use the
2297 SMARTLIST_FOREACH_{BEGIN,END} pair. Addresses issue 6400.
2300 Changes in version 0.2.3.19-rc - 2012-07-06
2301 Tor 0.2.3.19-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
2302 series. It fixes the compile on Windows, reverts to a GeoIP database
2303 that isn't as broken, and fixes a flow control bug that has been around
2304 since the beginning of Tor.
2307 - Fix a bug handling SENDME cells on nonexistent streams that could
2308 result in bizarre window values. Report and patch contributed
2309 pseudonymously. Fixes part of bug 6271. This bug was introduced
2310 before the first Tor release, in svn commit r152.
2311 - Revert to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database. In the
2312 June 2012 database, Maxmind marked many Tor relays as country "A1",
2313 which will cause risky behavior for clients that set EntryNodes
2314 or ExitNodes. Addresses bug 6334; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
2315 - Instead of ENOBUFS on Windows, say WSAENOBUFS. Fixes compilation
2316 on Windows. Fixes bug 6296; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
2319 - Fix wrong TCP port range in parse_port_range(). Fixes bug 6218;
2320 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
2323 Changes in version 0.2.3.18-rc - 2012-06-28
2324 Tor 0.2.3.18-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
2325 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
2326 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
2329 - Allow wildcarded mapaddress targets to be specified on the
2330 controlport. Partially fixes bug 6244; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
2331 - Make our linker option detection code more robust against linkers
2332 such as on FreeBSD 8, where a bad combination of options completes
2333 successfully but makes an unrunnable binary. Fixes bug 6173;
2334 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
2336 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
2337 - Avoid a false positive in the util/threads unit test by increasing
2338 the maximum timeout time. Fixes bug 6227; bugfix on 0.2.0.4-alpha.
2339 - Replace "Sending publish request" log messages with "Launching
2340 upload", so that they no longer confusingly imply that we're
2341 sending something to a directory we might not even be connected
2342 to yet. Fixes bug 3311; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
2343 - Make sure to set *socket_error in all error cases in
2344 connection_connect(), so it can't produce a warning about
2345 errno being zero from errno_to_orconn_end_reason(). Bugfix on
2346 0.2.1.1-alpha; resolves ticket 6028.
2347 - Downgrade "Got a certificate, but we already have it" log messages
2348 from warning to info, except when we're a dirauth. Fixes bug 5238;
2349 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
2350 - When checking for requested signatures on the latest consensus
2351 before serving it to a client, make sure to check the right
2352 consensus flavor. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
2353 - Downgrade "eventdns rejected address" message to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN.
2354 Fixes bug 5932; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
2356 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
2357 - Make format_helper_exit_status() avoid unnecessary space padding
2358 and stop confusing log_from_pipe(). Fixes ticket 5557; bugfix
2360 - Downgrade a message about cleaning the microdescriptor cache to
2361 "info" from "notice". Fixes bug 6238; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
2362 - Log a BUG message at severity INFO if we have a networkstatus with
2363 a missing entry for some microdescriptor. Continues on a patch
2365 - Improve the log message when a managed proxy fails to launch. Fixes
2366 bug 5099; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
2367 - Don't do DNS lookups when parsing corrupted managed proxy protocol
2368 messages. Fixes bug 6226; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
2369 - When formatting wildcarded address mappings for the controller,
2370 be sure to include "*." as appropriate. Partially fixes bug 6244;
2371 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
2372 - Avoid a warning caused by using strcspn() from glibc with clang 3.0.
2373 Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
2374 - Stop logging messages about running with circuit timeout learning
2375 enabled at severity LD_BUG. Fixes bug 6169; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
2376 - Disable a spurious warning about reading on a marked and flushing
2377 connection. We shouldn't be doing that, but apparently we
2378 sometimes do. Fixes bug 6203; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
2379 - Fix a bug that stopped AllowDotExit from working on addresses
2380 that had an entry in the DNS cache. Fixes bug 6211; bugfix on
2383 o Code simplification, refactoring, unit tests:
2384 - Move tor_gettimeofday_cached() into compat_libevent.c, and use
2385 Libevent's notion of cached time when possible.
2386 - Remove duplicate code for invoking getrlimit() from control.c.
2387 - Add a unit test for the environment_variable_names_equal function.
2390 - Document the --defaults-torrc option, and the new (in 0.2.3)
2391 semantics for overriding, extending, and clearing lists of
2392 options. Closes bug 4748.
2395 Changes in version 0.2.3.17-beta - 2012-06-15
2396 Tor 0.2.3.17-beta enables compiler and linker hardening by default,
2397 gets our TLS handshake back on track for being able to blend in with
2398 Firefox, fixes a big bug in 0.2.3.16-alpha that broke Tor's interaction
2399 with Vidalia, and otherwise continues to get us closer to a release
2403 - Enable gcc and ld hardening by default. Resolves ticket 5210.
2404 - Update TLS cipher list to match Firefox 8 and later. Resolves
2406 - Implement the client side of proposal 198: remove support for
2407 clients falsely claiming to support standard ciphersuites that
2408 they can actually provide. As of modern OpenSSL versions, it's not
2409 necessary to fake any standard ciphersuite, and doing so prevents
2410 us from using better ciphersuites in the future, since servers
2411 can't know whether an advertised ciphersuite is really supported or
2412 not. Some hosts -- notably, ones with very old versions of OpenSSL
2413 or where OpenSSL has been built with ECC disabled -- will stand
2414 out because of this change; TBB users should not be affected.
2417 - Change the default value for DynamicDHGroups (introduced in
2418 0.2.3.9-alpha) to 0. This feature can make Tor relays less
2419 identifiable by their use of the mod_ssl DH group, but at
2420 the cost of some usability (#4721) and bridge tracing (#6087)
2421 regressions. Resolves ticket 5598.
2422 - Send a CRLF at the end of each STATUS_* control protocol event. This
2423 bug tickled a bug in Vidalia which would make it freeze. Fixes
2424 bug 6094; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
2427 - Disable writing on marked-for-close connections when they are
2428 blocked on bandwidth, to prevent busy-looping in Libevent. Fixes
2429 bug 5263; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13, where we first added a special
2430 case for flushing marked connections.
2431 - Detect SSL handshake even when the initial attempt to write the
2432 server hello fails. Fixes bug 4592; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
2433 - Change the AllowDotExit rules so they should actually work.
2434 We now enforce AllowDotExit only immediately after receiving an
2435 address via SOCKS or DNSPort: other sources are free to provide
2436 .exit addresses after the resolution occurs. Fixes bug 3940;
2437 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
2438 - Fix a (harmless) integer overflow in cell statistics reported by
2439 some fast relays. Fixes bug 5849; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
2440 - Make sure circuitbuild.c checks LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in all the
2441 right places and never depends on the consensus parameters or
2442 computes adaptive timeouts when it is disabled. Fixes bug 5049;
2443 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
2444 - When building Tor on Windows with -DUNICODE (not default), ensure
2445 that error messages, filenames, and DNS server names are always
2446 NUL-terminated when we convert them to a single-byte encoding.
2447 Fixes bug 5909; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
2448 - Make Tor build correctly again with -DUNICODE -D_UNICODE defined.
2449 Fixes bug 6097; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
2450 - Fix an edge case where TestingTorNetwork is set but the authorities
2451 and relays all have an uptime of zero, where the private Tor network
2452 could briefly lack support for hidden services. Fixes bug 3886;
2453 bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
2454 - Correct the manpage's descriptions for the default values of
2455 DirReqStatistics and ExtraInfoStatistics. Fixes bug 2865; bugfix
2457 - Fix the documentation for the --hush and --quiet command line
2458 options, which changed their behavior back in 0.2.3.3-alpha.
2459 - Fix compilation warning with clang 3.1. Fixes bug 6141; bugfix on
2463 - Rate-limit the "Weighted bandwidth is 0.000000" message, and add
2464 more information to it, so that we can track it down in case it
2465 returns again. Mitigates bug 5235.
2466 - Check CircuitBuildTimeout and LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in
2467 options_validate(); warn if LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled and
2468 CircuitBuildTimeout is set unreasonably low. Resolves ticket 5452.
2469 - Warn the user when HTTPProxy, but no other proxy type, is
2470 configured. This can cause surprising behavior: it doesn't send
2471 all of Tor's traffic over the HTTPProxy -- it sends unencrypted
2472 directory traffic only. Resolves ticket 4663.
2473 - Issue a notice if a guard completes less than 40% of your circuits.
2474 Threshold is configurable by torrc option PathBiasNoticeRate and
2475 consensus parameter pb_noticepct. There is additional, off-by-
2476 default code to disable guards which fail too many circuits.
2477 Addresses ticket 5458.
2478 - Update to the June 6 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
2480 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
2481 - Remove validate_pluggable_transports_config(): its warning
2482 message is now handled by connection_or_connect().
2485 Changes in version 0.2.2.37 - 2012-06-06
2486 Tor 0.2.2.37 introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
2487 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
2491 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
2492 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
2493 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
2494 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
2495 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
2496 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
2497 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
2498 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
2499 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
2500 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
2501 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
2504 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
2505 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
2508 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
2509 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
2512 Changes in version 0.2.3.16-alpha - 2012-06-05
2513 Tor 0.2.3.16-alpha introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
2514 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
2515 currently). It also fixes a variety of smaller bugs and other cleanups
2516 that get us closer to a release candidate.
2518 o Major bugfixes (general):
2519 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
2520 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
2521 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
2522 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
2523 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
2524 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
2525 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
2526 - Pass correct OR address to managed proxies (like obfsproxy),
2527 even when ORListenAddress is used. Fixes bug 4865; bugfix on
2529 - The advertised platform of a router now includes only its operating
2530 system's name (e.g., "Linux", "Darwin", "Windows 7"), and not its
2531 service pack level (for Windows) or its CPU architecture (for Unix).
2532 We also no longer include the "git-XYZ" tag in the version. Resolves
2535 o Major bugfixes (clients):
2536 - If we are unable to find any exit that supports our predicted ports,
2537 stop calling them predicted, so that we don't loop and build
2538 hopeless circuits indefinitely. Fixes bug 3296; bugfix on 0.0.9pre6,
2539 which introduced predicted ports.
2540 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
2541 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
2542 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
2543 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
2544 - Check at each new consensus whether our entry guards were picked
2545 long enough ago that we should rotate them. Previously, we only
2546 did this check at startup, which could lead to us holding a guard
2547 indefinitely. Fixes bug 5380; bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc.
2548 - When fetching a bridge descriptor from a bridge authority,
2549 always do so anonymously, whether we have been able to open
2550 circuits or not. Partial fix for bug 1938; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
2551 This behavior makes it *safer* to use UpdateBridgesFromAuthority,
2552 but we'll need to wait for bug 6010 before it's actually usable.
2554 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
2555 - When computing weight parameters, behave more robustly in the
2556 presence of a bad bwweightscale value. Previously, the authorities
2557 would crash if they agreed on a sufficiently broken weight_scale
2558 value: now, they use a reasonable default and carry on. Partial
2559 fix for 5786; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
2560 - Check more thoroughly to prevent a rogue authority from
2561 double-voting on any consensus directory parameter. Previously,
2562 authorities would crash in this case if the total number of
2563 votes for any parameter exceeded the number of active voters,
2564 but would let it pass otherwise. Partial fix for bug 5786; bugfix
2568 - Rate-limit log messages when asked to connect anonymously to
2569 a private address. When these hit, they tended to hit fast and
2570 often. Also, don't bother trying to connect to addresses that we
2571 are sure will resolve to 127.0.0.1: getting 127.0.0.1 in a directory
2572 reply makes us think we have been lied to, even when the address the
2573 client tried to connect to was "localhost." Resolves ticket 2822.
2574 - Allow packagers to insert an extra string in server descriptor
2575 platform lines by setting the preprocessor variable TOR_BUILD_TAG.
2576 Resolves the rest of ticket 2988.
2577 - Raise the threshold of server descriptors needed (75%) and exit
2578 server descriptors needed (50%) before we will declare ourselves
2579 bootstrapped. This will make clients start building circuits a
2580 little later, but makes the initially constructed circuits less
2581 skewed and less in conflict with further directory fetches. Fixes
2583 - Close any connection that sends unrecognized junk before the
2584 handshake. Solves an issue noted in bug 4369.
2585 - Improve log messages about managed transports. Resolves ticket 5070.
2586 - Tag a bridge's descriptor as "never to be sent unencrypted".
2587 This shouldn't matter, since bridges don't open non-anonymous
2588 connections to the bridge authority and don't allow unencrypted
2589 directory connections from clients, but we might as well make
2590 sure. Closes bug 5139.
2591 - Expose our view of whether we have gone dormant to the controller,
2592 via a new "GETINFO dormant" value. Torbutton and other controllers
2593 can use this to avoid doing periodic requests through Tor while
2594 it's dormant (bug 4718). Fixes bug 5954.
2595 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
2596 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
2597 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
2599 o Minor bugfixes (already included in 0.2.2.36):
2600 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
2601 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
2602 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
2603 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
2604 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
2605 Esteban Manchado Velázques.
2606 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
2607 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
2608 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
2609 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
2610 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
2611 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
2612 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
2613 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
2614 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
2615 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
2616 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
2617 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
2618 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
2620 o Minor bugfixes (coding cleanup, on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
2621 - Prevent a null-pointer dereference when receiving a data cell
2622 for a nonexistent stream when the circuit in question has an
2623 empty deliver window. We don't believe this is triggerable,
2624 since we don't currently allow deliver windows to become empty,
2625 but the logic is tricky enough that it's better to make the code
2626 robust. Fixes bug 5541; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
2627 - Fix a memory leak when trying to launch a DNS request when the
2628 network is disabled or the nameservers are unconfigurable. Fixes
2629 bug 5916; bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha (for the unconfigurable
2630 nameserver case) and on 0.2.3.9-alpha (for the DisableNetwork case).
2631 - Don't hold a Windows file handle open for every file mapping;
2632 the file mapping handle is sufficient. Fixes bug 5951; bugfix on
2634 - Avoid O(n^2) performance characteristics when parsing a large
2635 extrainfo cache. Fixes bug 5828; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
2636 - Format more doubles with %f, not %lf. Patch from grarpamp to make
2637 Tor build correctly on older BSDs again. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on
2639 - Make our replacement implementation of strtok_r() compatible with
2640 the standard behavior of strtok_r(). Patch by nils. Fixes bug 5091;
2641 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
2642 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed
2643 SETCIRCUITPURPOSE command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796;
2644 bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
2645 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
2646 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
2647 - Defensively refactor rend_mid_rendezvous() so that protocol
2648 violations and length checks happen in the beginning. Fixes
2650 - Set _WIN32_WINNT to 0x0501 consistently throughout the code, so
2651 that IPv6 stuff will compile on MSVC, and compilation issues
2652 will be easier to track down. Fixes bug 5861.
2654 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
2655 - Exit nodes now correctly report EADDRINUSE and EADDRNOTAVAIL as
2656 resource exhaustion, so that clients can adjust their load to
2657 try other exits. Fixes bug 4710; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc, which
2658 started using END_STREAM_REASON_RESOURCELIMIT.
2659 - Don't check for whether the address we're using for outbound
2660 connections has changed until after the outbound connection has
2661 completed. On Windows, getsockname() doesn't succeed until the
2662 connection is finished. Fixes bug 5374; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
2663 - If the configuration tries to set MyFamily on a bridge, refuse to
2664 do so, and warn about the security implications. Fixes bug 4657;
2665 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
2666 - If the client fails to set a reasonable set of ciphersuites
2667 during its v2 handshake renegotiation, allow the renegotiation to
2668 continue nevertheless (i.e. send all the required certificates).
2669 Fixes bug 4591; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
2670 - When we receive a SIGHUP and the controller __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP
2671 option is set to 0 (which Vidalia version 0.2.16 now does when
2672 a SAVECONF attempt fails), perform other actions that SIGHUP
2673 usually causes (like reopening the logs). Fixes bug 5095; bugfix
2675 - If we fail to write a microdescriptor to the disk cache, do not
2676 continue replacing the old microdescriptor file. Fixes bug 2954;
2677 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
2678 - Exit nodes don't need to fetch certificates for authorities that
2679 they don't recognize; only directory authorities, bridges,
2680 and caches need to do that. Fixes part of bug 2297; bugfix on
2682 - Correctly handle checking the permissions on the parent
2683 directory of a control socket in the root directory. Bug found
2684 by Esteban Manchado Velázquez. Fixes bug 5089; bugfix on Tor
2686 - When told to add a bridge with the same digest as a preexisting
2687 bridge but a different addr:port, change the addr:port as
2688 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
2689 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
2690 - End AUTHCHALLENGE error messages (in the control protocol) with
2691 a CRLF. Fixes bug 5760; bugfix on 0.2.2.36 and 0.2.3.13-alpha.
2693 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
2694 - Turn an assertion (that the number of handshakes received as a
2695 server is not < 1) into a warning. Fixes bug 4873; bugfix on
2697 - Format IPv4 addresses correctly in ADDRMAP events. (Previously,
2698 we had reversed them when the answer was cached.) Fixes bug
2699 5723; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
2700 - Work correctly on Linux systems with accept4 support advertised in
2701 their headers, but without accept4 support in the kernel. Fix
2702 by murb. Fixes bug 5762; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
2703 - When told to add a bridge with the same addr:port as a preexisting
2704 bridge but a different transport, change the transport as
2705 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
2706 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
2707 - Avoid a "double-reply" warning when replying to a SOCKS request
2708 with a parse error. Patch from Fabian Keil. Fixes bug 4108;
2709 bugfix on 0.2.3.4-alpha.
2710 - Fix a bug where a bridge authority crashes if it has seen no
2711 directory requests when it's time to write statistics to disk.
2712 Fixes bug 5891; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Also fixes bug 5508 in
2714 - Don't try to open non-control listeners when DisableNetwork is set.
2715 Previously, we'd open all listeners, then immediately close them.
2716 Fixes bug 5604; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
2717 - Don't abort the managed proxy protocol if the managed proxy
2718 sends us an unrecognized line; ignore it instead. Fixes bug
2719 5910; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
2720 - Fix a compile warning in crypto.c when compiling with clang 3.1.
2721 Fixes bug 5969, bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
2722 - Fix a compilation issue on GNU Hurd, which doesn't have PATH_MAX.
2723 Fixes bug 5355; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
2724 - Remove bogus definition of "_WIN32" from src/win32/orconfig.h, to
2725 unbreak the MSVC build. Fixes bug 5858; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
2726 - Resolve numerous small warnings and build issues with MSVC. Resolves
2729 o Documentation fixes:
2730 - Improve the manual's documentation for the NT Service command-line
2731 options. Addresses ticket 3964.
2732 - Clarify SessionGroup documentation slightly; resolves ticket 5437.
2733 - Document the changes to the ORPort and DirPort options, and the
2734 fact that {OR/Dir}ListenAddress is now unnecessary (and
2735 therefore deprecated). Resolves ticket 5597.
2738 - Remove the torrc.bridge file: we don't use it for anything, and
2739 it had become badly desynchronized from torrc.sample. Resolves
2743 Changes in version 0.2.2.36 - 2012-05-24
2744 Tor 0.2.2.36 updates the addresses for two of the eight directory
2745 authorities, fixes some potential anonymity and security issues,
2746 and fixes several crash bugs.
2748 Tor 0.2.1.x has reached its end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many
2749 known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should upgrade. If
2750 you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete, stop using
2751 those packages and upgrade anyway.
2753 o Directory authority changes:
2754 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
2755 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
2759 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
2760 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
2761 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
2762 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
2763 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
2764 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
2765 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
2766 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
2767 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
2768 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
2769 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
2770 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
2771 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
2772 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
2773 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
2774 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
2775 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
2776 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
2777 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
2778 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
2779 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
2780 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
2781 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
2782 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
2783 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
2784 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
2785 this attack. Fixes bug 5185; implements proposal 193.
2788 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
2789 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
2790 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
2791 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
2793 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
2794 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
2796 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
2797 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
2798 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
2799 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
2800 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
2801 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
2802 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
2803 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
2806 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
2807 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
2808 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
2809 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
2810 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
2811 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
2812 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
2813 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
2814 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
2815 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
2816 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
2817 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
2818 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
2819 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
2820 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
2821 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
2822 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
2823 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
2824 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
2825 Esteban Manchado Velázques.
2826 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
2827 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
2828 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
2829 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
2830 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
2831 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
2832 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
2833 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
2834 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
2835 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
2836 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
2837 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
2838 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
2839 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
2840 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
2841 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
2842 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
2843 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
2844 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
2845 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
2846 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed SETCIRCUITPURPOSE
2847 command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
2848 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
2849 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
2850 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
2851 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
2853 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
2854 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
2855 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
2856 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
2857 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
2858 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
2859 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
2860 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
2861 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
2862 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
2863 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
2864 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
2865 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
2866 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
2867 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
2870 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
2871 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
2872 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
2873 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
2875 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
2878 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
2879 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
2880 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
2881 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
2882 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
2883 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
2884 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
2887 Changes in version 0.2.3.15-alpha - 2012-04-30
2888 Tor 0.2.3.15-alpha fixes a variety of smaller bugs, including making
2889 the development branch build on Windows again.
2891 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
2892 - Make sure that there are no unhandled pending TLS errors before
2893 reading from a TLS stream. We had checks in 0.1.0.3-rc, but
2894 lost them in 0.1.0.5-rc when we refactored read_to_buf_tls().
2895 Bugfix on 0.1.0.5-rc; fixes bug 4528.
2896 - Fix an assert that directory authorities could trigger on sighup
2897 during some configuration state transitions. We now don't treat
2898 it as a fatal error when the new descriptor we just generated in
2899 init_keys() isn't accepted. Fixes bug 4438; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
2900 - After we pick a directory mirror, we would refuse to use it if
2901 it's in our ExcludeExitNodes list, resulting in mysterious failures
2902 to bootstrap for people who just wanted to avoid exiting from
2903 certain locations. Fixes bug 5623; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
2904 - When building with --enable-static-tor on OpenBSD, do not
2905 erroneously attempt to link -lrt. Fixes bug 5103.
2907 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
2908 - When Tor is built with kernel headers from a recent (last few
2909 years) Linux kernel, do not fail to run on older (pre-2.6.28
2910 Linux kernels). Fixes bug 5112; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
2911 - Fix cross-compilation issues with mingw. Bugfixes on 0.2.3.6-alpha
2913 - Fix compilation with miniupnpc version 1.6; patch from
2914 Anthony G. Basile. Fixes bug 5434; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
2915 - Fix compilation with MSVC, which had defined MS_WINDOWS. Bugfix
2916 on 0.2.3.13-alpha; found and fixed by Gisle Vanem.
2917 - Fix compilation on platforms without unistd.h, or where environ
2918 is defined in stdlib.h. Fixes bug 5704; bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
2921 - Directory authorities are now a little more lenient at accepting
2922 older router descriptors, or newer router descriptors that don't
2923 make big changes. This should help ameliorate past and future
2924 issues where routers think they have uploaded valid descriptors,
2925 but the authorities don't think so. Fix for ticket 2479.
2926 - Make the code that clients use to detect an address change be
2927 IPv6-aware, so that it won't fill clients' logs with error
2928 messages when trying to get the IPv4 address of an IPv6
2929 connection. Implements ticket 5537.
2932 - Remove the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays option;
2933 authorities needed to use it for a while to keep the network working
2934 as people upgraded to 0.2.1.31, 0.2.2.34, or 0.2.3.6-alpha, but
2935 that was six months ago. As of now, it should no longer be needed
2939 Changes in version 0.2.3.14-alpha - 2012-04-23
2940 Tor 0.2.3.14-alpha fixes yet more bugs to get us closer to a release
2941 candidate. It also dramatically speeds up AES: fast relays should
2942 consider switching to the newer OpenSSL library.
2944 o Directory authority changes:
2945 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
2949 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
2950 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
2951 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
2952 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
2954 - If authorities are unable to get a v2 consensus document from other
2955 directory authorities, they no longer fall back to fetching
2956 them from regular directory caches. Fixes bug 5635; bugfix on
2957 0.2.2.26-beta, where routers stopped downloading v2 consensus
2959 - When we start a Tor client with a normal consensus already cached,
2960 be willing to download a microdescriptor consensus. Fixes bug 4011;
2961 fix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
2963 o Major features (performance):
2964 - When built to use OpenSSL 1.0.1, and built for an x86 or x86_64
2965 instruction set, take advantage of OpenSSL's AESNI, bitsliced, or
2966 vectorized AES implementations as appropriate. These can be much,
2967 much faster than other AES implementations.
2969 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.2.x and earlier):
2970 - Don't launch more than 10 service-side introduction-point circuits
2971 for a hidden service in five minutes. Previously, we would consider
2972 launching more introduction-point circuits if at least one second
2973 had passed without any introduction-point circuits failing. Fixes
2974 bug 4607; bugfix on 0.0.7pre1.
2975 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
2976 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
2977 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
2978 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
2979 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
2980 - Enforce correct return behavior of tor_vsscanf() when the '%%'
2981 pattern is used. Fixes bug 5558. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13.
2982 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
2983 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
2984 - Don't log that we have "decided to publish new relay descriptor"
2985 unless we are actually publishing a descriptor. Fixes bug 3942;
2986 bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
2988 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.3.x):
2989 - Fix a bug where a bridge authority crashes (on a failed assert)
2990 if it has seen no directory requests when it's time to write
2991 statistics to disk. Fixes bug 5508. Bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
2992 - Fix bug stomping on ORPort option NoListen and ignoring option
2993 NoAdvertise. Fixes bug 5151; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
2994 - In the testsuite, provide a large enough buffer in the tor_sscanf
2995 unit test. Otherwise we'd overrun that buffer and crash during
2996 the unit tests. Found by weasel. Fixes bug 5449; bugfix on
2998 - Make sure we create the keys directory if it doesn't exist and we're
2999 about to store the dynamic Diffie-Hellman parameters. Fixes bug
3000 5572; bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
3001 - Fix a small memory leak when trying to decode incorrect base16
3002 authenticator during SAFECOOKIE authentication. Found by
3003 Coverity Scan. Fixes CID 507. Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
3006 - Add more information to a log statement that might help track down
3007 bug 4091. If you're seeing "Bug: tor_addr_is_internal() called with a
3008 non-IP address" messages (or any Bug messages, for that matter!),
3009 please let us know about it.
3010 - Relays now understand an IPv6 address when they get one from a
3011 directory server. Resolves ticket 4875.
3012 - Resolve IPv6 addresses in bridge and entry statistics to country
3013 code "??" which means we at least count them. Resolves ticket 5053;
3014 improves on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
3015 - Update to the April 3 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
3016 - Begin a doc/state-contents.txt file to explain the contents of
3017 the Tor state file. Fixes bug 2987.
3019 o Default torrc changes:
3020 - Stop listing "socksport 9050" in torrc.sample. We open a socks
3021 port on 9050 by default anyway, so this should not change anything
3023 - Stop mentioning the deprecated *ListenAddress options in
3024 torrc.sample. Fixes bug 5438.
3025 - Document unit of bandwidth related options in sample torrc.
3029 - The "torify" script no longer supports the "tsocks" socksifier
3030 tool, since tsocks doesn't support DNS and UDP right for Tor.
3031 Everyone should be using torsocks instead. Fixes bugs 3530 and
3032 5180. Based on a patch by "ugh".
3035 - Change the symmetric cipher interface so that creating and
3036 initializing a stream cipher are no longer separate functions.
3037 - Remove all internal support for unpadded RSA. We never used it, and
3038 it would be a bad idea to start.
3041 Changes in version 0.2.3.13-alpha - 2012-03-26
3042 Tor 0.2.3.13-alpha fixes a variety of stability and correctness bugs
3043 in managed pluggable transports, as well as providing other cleanups
3044 that get us closer to a release candidate.
3046 o Directory authority changes:
3047 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
3050 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
3051 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
3052 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
3053 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
3054 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
3055 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
3056 this attack. Fixes bug 5185, implements proposal 193.
3057 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
3058 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
3059 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
3060 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
3061 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
3062 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
3063 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
3064 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
3065 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
3067 o Major bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.3.x):
3068 - Avoid an assert when managed proxies like obfsproxy are configured,
3069 and we receive HUP signals or setconf attempts too rapidly. This
3070 situation happens most commonly when Vidalia tries to attach to
3071 Tor or tries to configure the Tor it's attached to. Fixes bug 5084;
3072 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
3073 - Fix a relay-side pluggable transports bug where managed proxies were
3074 unreachable from the Internet, because Tor asked them to bind on
3075 localhost. Fixes bug 4725; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
3076 - Stop discarding command-line arguments when TestingTorNetwork
3077 is set. Discovered by Kevin Bauer. Fixes bug 5373; bugfix on
3078 0.2.3.9-alpha, where task 4552 added support for two layers of
3080 - Resume allowing the unit tests to run in gdb. This was accidentally
3081 made impossible when the DisableDebuggerAttachment option was
3082 introduced. Fixes bug 5448; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
3083 - Resume building with nat-pmp support. Fixes bug 4955; bugfix on
3084 0.2.3.11-alpha. Reported by Anthony G. Basile.
3086 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
3087 - Ensure we don't cannibalize circuits that are longer than three hops
3088 already, so we don't end up making circuits with 5 or more
3089 hops. Patch contributed by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 5231; bugfix on
3090 0.1.0.1-rc which introduced cannibalization.
3091 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
3092 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
3093 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
3094 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
3095 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
3096 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
3097 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
3098 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
3099 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
3100 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
3101 - Directory caches no longer refuse to clean out descriptors because
3102 of missing v2 networkstatus documents, unless they're configured
3103 to retrieve v2 networkstatus documents. Fixes bug 4838; bugfix on
3104 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch by Daniel Bryg.
3105 - Update to the latest version of the tinytest unit testing framework.
3106 This includes a couple of bugfixes that can be relevant for
3107 running forked unit tests on Windows, and removes all reserved
3110 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
3111 - On a failed pipe() call, don't leak file descriptors. Fixes bug
3112 4296; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
3113 - Spec conformance: on a v3 handshake, do not send a NETINFO cell
3114 until after we have received a CERTS cell. Fixes bug 4361; bugfix
3115 on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by "frosty".
3116 - When binding to an IPv6 address, set the IPV6_V6ONLY socket
3117 option, so that the IP stack doesn't decide to use it for IPv4
3118 too. Fixes bug 4760; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
3119 - Ensure that variables set in Tor's environment cannot override
3120 environment variables that Tor passes to a managed
3121 pluggable-transport proxy. Previously, Tor would pass every
3122 variable in its environment to managed proxies along with the new
3123 ones, in such a way that on many operating systems, the inherited
3124 environment variables would override those which Tor tried to
3125 explicitly set. Bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha for most Unixoid systems;
3126 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha for Windows.
3129 - A wide variety of new unit tests by Esteban Manchado Velázquez.
3130 - Shorten links in the tor-exit-notice file. Patch by Christian Kujau.
3131 - Update to the March 6 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
3134 Changes in version 0.2.3.12-alpha - 2012-02-13
3135 Tor 0.2.3.12-alpha lets fast exit relays scale better, allows clients
3136 to use bridges that run Tor 0.2.2.x, and resolves several big bugs
3137 when Tor is configured to use a pluggable transport like obfsproxy.
3140 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
3141 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
3143 - Set the SO_REUSEADDR socket option before we call bind() on outgoing
3144 connections. This change should allow busy exit relays to stop
3145 running out of available sockets as quickly. Fixes bug 4950;
3146 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
3147 - Allow 0.2.3.x clients to use 0.2.2.x bridges. Previously the client
3148 would ask the bridge for microdescriptors, which are only supported
3149 in 0.2.3.x, and then fail to bootstrap when it didn't get the
3150 answers it wanted. Fixes bug 4013; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
3151 - Properly set up obfsproxy's environment when in managed mode. The
3152 Tor Browser Bundle needs LD_LIBRARY_PATH to be passed to obfsproxy,
3153 and when you run your Tor as a daemon, there's no HOME. Fixes bugs
3154 5076 and 5082; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
3157 - Use the dead_strip option when building Tor on OS X. This reduces
3158 binary size by almost 19% when linking openssl and libevent
3159 statically, which we do for Tor Browser Bundle.
3160 - Fix broken URLs in the sample torrc file, and tell readers about
3161 the OutboundBindAddress, ExitPolicyRejectPrivate, and
3162 PublishServerDescriptor options. Addresses bug 4652.
3163 - Update to the February 7 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
3166 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
3167 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
3168 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
3169 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
3170 - Don't put "TOR_PT_EXTENDED_SERVER_PORT=127.0.0.1:4200" in a
3171 managed pluggable transport server proxy's environment.
3172 Previously, we would put it there, even though Tor doesn't
3173 implement an 'extended server port' yet, and even though Tor
3174 almost certainly isn't listening at that address. For now, we set
3175 it to an empty string to avoid crashing older obfsproxies. Bugfix
3177 - Log the heartbeat message every HeartbeatPeriod seconds, not every
3178 HeartbeatPeriod + 1 seconds. Fixes bug 4942; bugfix on
3179 0.2.3.1-alpha. Bug reported by Scott Bennett.
3180 - Calculate absolute paths correctly on Windows. Fixes bug 4973;
3181 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
3182 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
3183 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
3184 - Use the correct CVE number for CVE-2011-4576 in our comments and
3185 log messages. Found by "fermenthor". Resolves bug 5066; bugfix on
3188 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
3189 - Use the _WIN32 macro throughout our code to detect Windows.
3190 (Previously we had used the obsolete 'WIN32' and the idiosyncratic
3194 Changes in version 0.2.3.11-alpha - 2012-01-22
3195 Tor 0.2.3.11-alpha marks feature-freeze for the 0.2.3 tree. It deploys
3196 the last step of the plan to limit maximum circuit length, includes
3197 a wide variety of hidden service performance and correctness fixes,
3198 works around an OpenSSL security flaw if your distro is too stubborn
3199 to upgrade, and fixes a bunch of smaller issues.
3202 - Now that Tor 0.2.0.x is completely deprecated, enable the final
3203 part of "Proposal 110: Avoiding infinite length circuits" by
3204 refusing all circuit-extend requests that do not use a relay_early
3205 cell. This change helps Tor resist a class of denial-of-service
3206 attacks by limiting the maximum circuit length.
3207 - Adjust the number of introduction points that a hidden service
3208 will try to maintain based on how long its introduction points
3209 remain in use and how many introductions they handle. Fixes
3211 - Try to use system facilities for enumerating local interface
3212 addresses, before falling back to our old approach (which was
3213 binding a UDP socket, and calling getsockname() on it). That
3214 approach was scaring OS X users whose draconian firewall
3215 software warned about binding to UDP sockets, regardless of
3216 whether packets were sent. Now we try to use getifaddrs(),
3217 SIOCGIFCONF, or GetAdaptersAddresses(), depending on what the
3218 system supports. Resolves ticket 1827.
3220 o Major security workaround:
3221 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
3222 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
3223 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
3224 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
3225 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
3226 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
3227 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
3228 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
3229 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
3230 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
3231 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
3234 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
3235 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
3236 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
3237 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
3238 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
3239 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
3240 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
3241 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha and 0.2.3.1-alpha.
3242 - Do not use OpenSSL 1.0.0's counter mode: it has a critical bug
3243 that was fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.0a. We test for the counter mode
3244 bug at runtime, not compile time, because some distributions hack
3245 their OpenSSL to mis-report its version. Fixes bug 4779; bugfix
3246 on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Found by Pascal.
3248 o Minor features (controller):
3249 - Use absolute path names when reporting the torrc filename in the
3250 control protocol, so a controller can more easily find the torrc
3251 file. Resolves bug 1101.
3252 - Extend the control protocol to report flags that control a circuit's
3253 path selection in CIRC events and in replies to 'GETINFO
3254 circuit-status'. Implements part of ticket 2411.
3255 - Extend the control protocol to report the hidden service address
3256 and current state of a hidden-service-related circuit in CIRC
3257 events and in replies to 'GETINFO circuit-status'. Implements part
3259 - When reporting the path to the cookie file to the controller,
3260 give an absolute path. Resolves ticket 4881.
3261 - Allow controllers to request an event notification whenever a
3262 circuit is cannibalized or its purpose is changed. Implements
3263 part of ticket 3457.
3264 - Include the creation time of a circuit in CIRC and CIRC2
3265 control-port events and the list produced by the 'GETINFO
3266 circuit-status' control-port command.
3268 o Minor features (directory authorities):
3269 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
3270 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
3271 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
3272 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
3274 - Authority operators can now vote for all relays in a given
3275 set of countries to be BadDir/BadExit/Invalid/Rejected.
3276 - Provide two consensus parameters (FastFlagMinThreshold and
3277 FastFlagMaxThreshold) to control the range of allowable bandwidths
3278 for the Fast directory flag. These allow authorities to run
3279 experiments on appropriate requirements for being a "Fast" node.
3280 The AuthDirFastGuarantee config value still applies. Implements
3282 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
3283 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
3285 o Minor features (other):
3286 - Don't disable the DirPort when we cannot exceed our AccountingMax
3287 limit during this interval because the effective bandwidthrate is
3288 low enough. This is useful in a situation where AccountMax is only
3289 used as an additional safeguard or to provide statistics.
3290 - Prepend an informative header to generated dynamic_dh_params files.
3291 - If EntryNodes are given, but UseEntryGuards is set to 0, warn that
3292 EntryNodes will have no effect. Resolves issue 2571.
3293 - Log more useful messages when we fail to disable debugger
3295 - Log which authority we're missing votes from when we go to fetch
3296 them from the other auths.
3297 - Log (at debug level) whenever a circuit's purpose is changed.
3298 - Add missing documentation for the MaxClientCircuitsPending,
3299 UseMicrodescriptors, UserspaceIOCPBuffers, and
3300 _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents options, all introduced during
3302 - Update to the January 3 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
3304 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
3305 - Don't close hidden service client circuits which have almost
3306 finished connecting to their destination when they reach
3307 the normal circuit-build timeout. Previously, we would close
3308 introduction circuits which are waiting for an acknowledgement
3309 from the introduction point, and rendezvous circuits which have
3310 been specified in an INTRODUCE1 cell sent to a hidden service,
3311 after the normal CBT. Now, we mark them as 'timed out', and launch
3312 another rendezvous attempt in parallel. This behavior change can
3313 be disabled using the new CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout
3314 option. Fixes part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
3315 - Don't close hidden-service-side rendezvous circuits when they
3316 reach the normal circuit-build timeout. This behaviour change can
3317 be disabled using the new
3318 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout option. Fixes the
3319 remaining part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
3320 - Make sure we never mark the wrong rendezvous circuit as having
3321 had its introduction cell acknowleged by the introduction-point
3322 relay. Previously, when we received an INTRODUCE_ACK cell on a
3323 client-side hidden-service introduction circuit, we might have
3324 marked a rendezvous circuit other than the one we specified in
3325 the INTRODUCE1 cell as INTRO_ACKED, which would have produced
3326 a warning message and interfered with the hidden service
3327 connection-establishment process. Fixes bug 4759; bugfix on
3328 0.2.3.3-alpha, when we added the stream-isolation feature which
3329 might cause Tor to open multiple rendezvous circuits for the same
3331 - Don't trigger an assertion failure when we mark a new client-side
3332 hidden-service introduction circuit for close during the process
3333 of creating it. Fixes bug 4796; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported
3336 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
3337 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
3338 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta and
3340 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
3341 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
3342 - Fix the log message describing how we work around discovering
3343 that our version is the ill-fated OpenSSL 0.9.8l. Fixes bug
3344 4837; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
3345 - When logging about a disallowed .exit name, do not also call it
3346 an "invalid onion address". Fixes bug 3325; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
3348 o Minor bugfixes (build fixes):
3349 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
3350 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
3351 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
3352 - During configure, search for library containing cos function as
3353 libm lives in libcore on some platforms (BeOS/Haiku). Linking
3354 against libm was hard-coded before. Fixes the first part of bug
3355 4727; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin Hebnes
3357 - Detect attempts to build Tor on (as yet hypothetical) versions
3358 of Windows where sizeof(intptr_t) != sizeof(SOCKET). Partial
3359 fix for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
3360 - Preprocessor directives should not be put inside the arguments
3361 of a macro. This would break compilation with GCC releases prior
3362 to version 3.3. We would never recommend such an old GCC version,
3363 but it is apparently required for binary compatibility on some
3364 platforms (namely, certain builds of Haiku). Fixes the other part
3365 of bug 4727; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin
3368 o Minor bugfixes (other):
3369 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
3370 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
3371 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
3372 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
3373 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
3374 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
3375 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
3376 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
3377 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un". This was
3378 erroneously listed as fixed in 0.2.3.9-alpha, but the fix had
3379 accidentally been reverted.
3380 - Fix our implementation of crypto_random_hostname() so it can't
3381 overflow on ridiculously large inputs. (No Tor version has ever
3382 provided this kind of bad inputs, but let's be correct in depth.)
3383 Fixes bug 4413; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Fix by Stephen Palmateer.
3384 - Find more places in the code that should have been testing for
3385 invalid sockets using the SOCKET_OK macro. Required for a fix
3386 for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
3387 - Fix an assertion failure when, while running with bufferevents, a
3388 connection finishes connecting after it is marked for close, but
3389 before it is closed. Fixes bug 4697; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
3390 - test_util_spawn_background_ok() hardcoded the expected value
3391 for ENOENT to 2. This isn't portable as error numbers are
3392 platform specific, and particularly the hurd has ENOENT at
3393 0x40000002. Construct expected string at runtime, using the correct
3394 value for ENOENT. Fixes bug 4733; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
3395 - Reject attempts to disable DisableDebuggerAttachment while Tor is
3396 running. Fixes bug 4650; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
3397 - Use an appropriate-width type for sockets in tor-fw-helper on
3398 win64. Fixes bug 1983 at last. Bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
3401 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
3402 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
3403 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
3404 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
3405 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
3406 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
3407 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
3409 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
3410 - Use OpenSSL's built-in SSL_state_string_long() instead of our
3411 own homebrewed ssl_state_to_string() replacement. Patch from
3412 Emile Snyder. Fixes bug 4653.
3413 - Use macros to indicate OpenSSL versions, so we don't need to worry
3414 about accidental hexadecimal bit shifts.
3415 - Remove some workaround code for OpenSSL 0.9.6 (which is no longer
3417 - Convert more instances of tor_snprintf+tor_strdup into tor_asprintf.
3418 - Use the smartlist_add_asprintf() alias more consistently.
3419 - Use a TOR_INVALID_SOCKET macro when initializing a socket to an
3420 invalid value, rather than just -1.
3421 - Rename a handful of old identifiers, mostly related to crypto
3422 structures and crypto functions. By convention, our "create an
3423 object" functions are called "type_new()", our "free an object"
3424 functions are called "type_free()", and our types indicate that
3425 they are types only with a final "_t". But a handful of older
3426 types and functions broke these rules, with function names like
3427 "type_create" or "subsystem_op_type", or with type names like
3431 Changes in version 0.2.3.10-alpha - 2011-12-16
3432 Tor 0.2.3.10-alpha fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in
3433 Tor's buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
3435 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
3436 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
3437 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
3438 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
3439 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
3440 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
3441 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
3442 (which Tor does not do by default).
3444 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
3445 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
3446 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
3447 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
3448 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
3450 This release also contains a few minor bugfixes for issues discovered
3454 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
3455 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
3456 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
3457 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
3460 - If we can't attach streams to a rendezvous circuit when we
3461 finish connecting to a hidden service, clear the rendezvous
3462 circuit's stream-isolation state and try to attach streams
3463 again. Previously, we cleared rendezvous circuits' isolation
3464 state either too early (if they were freshly built) or not at all
3465 (if they had been built earlier and were cannibalized). Bugfix on
3466 0.2.3.3-alpha; fixes bug 4655.
3467 - Fix compilation of the libnatpmp helper on non-Windows. Bugfix on
3468 0.2.3.9-alpha; fixes bug 4691. Reported by Anthony G. Basile.
3469 - Fix an assertion failure when a relay with accounting enabled
3470 starts up while dormant. Fixes bug 4702; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
3473 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
3476 Changes in version 0.2.2.35 - 2011-12-16
3477 Tor 0.2.2.35 fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in Tor's
3478 buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
3480 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
3481 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
3482 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
3483 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
3484 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
3485 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
3486 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
3487 (which Tor does not do by default).
3489 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
3490 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
3491 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
3492 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
3493 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
3495 Tor 0.2.2.35 also fixes several bugs in previous versions, including
3496 crash bugs for unusual configurations, and a long-term bug that
3497 would prevent Tor from starting on Windows machines with draconian
3500 With this release, we remind everyone that 0.2.0.x has reached its
3501 formal end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many known flaws, and
3502 nobody should be using them. You should upgrade -- ideally to the
3503 0.2.2.x series. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are
3504 obsolete, stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
3506 The Tor 0.2.1.x series is also approaching its end-of-life: it will no
3507 longer receive support after some time in early 2012.
3510 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
3511 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
3512 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
3513 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
3514 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
3515 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
3516 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
3517 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
3519 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
3520 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
3521 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
3522 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
3523 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
3524 close based on processing a cell on it.
3525 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
3526 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
3527 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
3528 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
3529 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
3530 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
3531 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
3532 - Don't crash when we're running as a relay and don't have a GeoIP
3533 file. Bugfix on 0.2.2.34; fixes bug 4340. This backports a fix
3534 we've had in the 0.2.3.x branch already.
3535 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
3536 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
3537 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
3538 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
3539 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34.
3542 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
3543 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
3544 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
3545 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
3546 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
3547 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
3548 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
3550 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
3551 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
3552 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
3553 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
3554 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
3555 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
3556 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
3557 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
3558 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
3559 - Fix a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
3560 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
3561 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
3562 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
3563 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
3564 - Backport fixes for a pair of compilation warnings on Windows.
3565 Fixes bug 4521; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta and on 0.2.2.29-beta.
3566 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str on an address of
3567 unknown type, we would have done a strdup on an uninitialized
3568 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
3569 Reported by "troll_un".
3570 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
3571 tor_addr_lookup. Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
3572 Reported by "troll_un".
3573 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
3574 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
3575 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
3576 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
3579 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
3580 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
3581 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
3582 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
3583 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
3584 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
3585 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
3586 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
3587 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
3588 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
3589 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
3591 o Packaging changes:
3592 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
3593 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
3596 Changes in version 0.2.1.32 - 2011-12-16
3597 Tor 0.2.1.32 backports important security and privacy fixes for
3598 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
3599 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
3600 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
3602 The Tor 0.2.1.x series will reach formal end-of-life some time in
3603 early 2012; we will stop releasing patches for it then.
3605 o Major bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
3606 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
3607 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
3608 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
3609 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
3610 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
3611 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
3612 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
3613 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
3616 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
3619 Changes in version 0.2.3.9-alpha - 2011-12-08
3620 Tor 0.2.3.9-alpha introduces initial IPv6 support for bridges, adds
3621 a "DisableNetwork" security feature that bundles can use to avoid
3622 touching the network until bridges are configured, moves forward on
3623 the pluggable transport design, fixes a flaw in the hidden service
3624 design that unnecessarily prevented clients with wrong clocks from
3625 reaching hidden services, and fixes a wide variety of other issues.
3628 - Clients can now connect to private bridges over IPv6. Bridges
3629 still need at least one IPv4 address in order to connect to
3630 other relays. Note that we don't yet handle the case where the
3631 user has two bridge lines for the same bridge (one IPv4, one
3632 IPv6). Implements parts of proposal 186.
3633 - New "DisableNetwork" config option to prevent Tor from launching any
3634 connections or accepting any connections except on a control port.
3635 Bundles and controllers can set this option before letting Tor talk
3636 to the rest of the network, for example to prevent any connections
3637 to a non-bridge address. Packages like Orbot can also use this
3638 option to instruct Tor to save power when the network is off.
3639 - Clients and bridges can now be configured to use a separate
3640 "transport" proxy. This approach makes the censorship arms race
3641 easier by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation plugins. It
3642 implements the "managed proxy" part of proposal 180 (ticket 3472).
3643 - When using OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, use OpenSSL's counter mode
3644 implementation. It makes AES_CTR about 7% faster than our old one
3645 (which was about 10% faster than the one OpenSSL used to provide).
3646 Resolves ticket 4526.
3647 - Add a "tor2web mode" for clients that want to connect to hidden
3648 services non-anonymously (and possibly more quickly). As a safety
3649 measure to try to keep users from turning this on without knowing
3650 what they are doing, tor2web mode must be explicitly enabled at
3651 compile time, and a copy of Tor compiled to run in tor2web mode
3652 cannot be used as a normal Tor client. Implements feature 2553.
3653 - Add experimental support for running on Windows with IOCP and no
3654 kernel-space socket buffers. This feature is controlled by a new
3655 "UserspaceIOCPBuffers" config option (off by default), which has
3656 no effect unless Tor has been built with support for bufferevents,
3657 is running on Windows, and has enabled IOCP. This may, in the long
3658 run, help solve or mitigate bug 98.
3659 - Use a more secure consensus parameter voting algorithm. Now at
3660 least three directory authorities or a majority of them must
3661 vote on a given parameter before it will be included in the
3662 consensus. Implements proposal 178.
3665 - Hidden services now ignore the timestamps on INTRODUCE2 cells.
3666 They used to check that the timestamp was within 30 minutes
3667 of their system clock, so they could cap the size of their
3668 replay-detection cache, but that approach unnecessarily refused
3669 service to clients with wrong clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha, when
3670 the v3 intro-point protocol (the first one which sent a timestamp
3671 field in the INTRODUCE2 cell) was introduced; fixes bug 3460.
3672 - Only use the EVP interface when AES acceleration is enabled,
3673 to avoid a 5-7% performance regression. Resolves issue 4525;
3674 bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
3676 o Privacy/anonymity features (bridge detection):
3677 - Make bridge SSL certificates a bit more stealthy by using random
3678 serial numbers, in the same fashion as OpenSSL when generating
3679 self-signed certificates. Implements ticket 4584.
3680 - Introduce a new config option "DynamicDHGroups", enabled by
3681 default, which provides each bridge with a unique prime DH modulus
3682 to be used during SSL handshakes. This option attempts to help
3683 against censors who might use the Apache DH modulus as a static
3684 identifier for bridges. Addresses ticket 4548.
3686 o Minor features (new/different config options):
3687 - New configuration option "DisableDebuggerAttachment" (on by default)
3688 to prevent basic debugging attachment attempts by other processes.
3689 Supports Mac OS X and Gnu/Linux. Resolves ticket 3313.
3690 - Allow MapAddress directives to specify matches against super-domains,
3691 as in "MapAddress *.torproject.org *.torproject.org.torserver.exit".
3692 Implements issue 933.
3693 - Slightly change behavior of "list" options (that is, config
3694 options that can appear more than once) when they appear both in
3695 torrc and on the command line. Previously, the command-line options
3696 would be appended to the ones from torrc. Now, the command-line
3697 options override the torrc options entirely. This new behavior
3698 allows the user to override list options (like exit policies and
3699 ports to listen on) from the command line, rather than simply
3700 appending to the list.
3701 - You can get the old (appending) command-line behavior for "list"
3702 options by prefixing the option name with a "+".
3703 - You can remove all the values for a "list" option from the command
3704 line without adding any new ones by prefixing the option name
3706 - Add experimental support for a "defaults" torrc file to be parsed
3707 before the regular torrc. Torrc options override the defaults file's
3708 options in the same way that the command line overrides the torrc.
3709 The SAVECONF controller command saves only those options which
3710 differ between the current configuration and the defaults file. HUP
3711 reloads both files. (Note: This is an experimental feature; its
3712 behavior will probably be refined in future 0.2.3.x-alpha versions
3713 to better meet packagers' needs.) Implements task 4552.
3716 - Try to make the introductory warning message that Tor prints on
3717 startup more useful for actually finding help and information.
3718 Resolves ticket 2474.
3719 - Running "make version" now displays the version of Tor that
3720 we're about to build. Idea from katmagic; resolves issue 4400.
3721 - Expire old or over-used hidden service introduction points.
3722 Required by fix for bug 3460.
3723 - Move the replay-detection cache for the RSA-encrypted parts of
3724 INTRODUCE2 cells to the introduction point data structures.
3725 Previously, we would use one replay-detection cache per hidden
3726 service. Required by fix for bug 3460.
3727 - Reduce the lifetime of elements of hidden services' Diffie-Hellman
3728 public key replay-detection cache from 60 minutes to 5 minutes. This
3729 replay-detection cache is now used only to detect multiple
3730 INTRODUCE2 cells specifying the same rendezvous point, so we can
3731 avoid launching multiple simultaneous attempts to connect to it.
3733 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.2.x and earlier):
3734 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
3735 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
3737 - Fix a minor formatting issue in one of tor-gencert's error messages.
3739 - Prevent a false positive from the check-spaces script, by disabling
3740 the "whitespace between function name and (" check for functions
3742 - Fix a log message suggesting that people contact a non-existent
3743 email address. Fixes bug 3448.
3744 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
3745 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
3746 - Report a real bootstrap problem to the controller on router
3747 identity mismatch. Previously we just said "foo", which probably
3748 made a lot of sense at the time. Fixes bug 4169; bugfix on
3750 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str() on an address of
3751 unknown type, we would have done a strdup() on an uninitialized
3752 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
3753 Reported by "troll_un".
3754 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
3755 tor_addr_lookup(). Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
3756 Reported by "troll_un".
3757 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
3758 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
3759 - Initialize conn->addr to a valid state in spawn_cpuworker(). Fixes
3760 bug 4532; found by "troll_un".
3762 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.3.x):
3763 - Fix a compile warning in tor_inet_pton(). Bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha;
3765 - Don't send two ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cells when opening a new
3766 circuit for use as a hidden service client's rendezvous point.
3767 Fixes bugs 4641 and 4171; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Diagnosed
3768 with help from wanoskarnet.
3769 - Restore behavior of overriding SocksPort, ORPort, and similar
3770 options from the command line. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
3773 - Properly handle the case where the build-tree is not the same
3774 as the source tree when generating src/common/common_sha1.i,
3775 src/or/micro-revision.i, and src/or/or_sha1.i. Fixes bug 3953;
3776 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
3778 o Code simplifications, cleanups, and refactorings:
3779 - Remove the pure attribute from all functions that used it
3780 previously. In many cases we assigned it incorrectly, because the
3781 functions might assert or call impure functions, and we don't have
3782 evidence that keeping the pure attribute is worthwhile. Implements
3783 changes suggested in ticket 4421.
3784 - Remove some dead code spotted by coverity. Fixes cid 432.
3785 Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha, closes bug 4637.
3788 Changes in version 0.2.3.8-alpha - 2011-11-22
3789 Tor 0.2.3.8-alpha fixes some crash and assert bugs, including a
3790 socketpair-related bug that has been bothering Windows users. It adds
3791 support to serve microdescriptors to controllers, so Vidalia's network
3792 map can resume listing relays (once Vidalia implements its side),
3793 and adds better support for hardware AES acceleration. Finally, it
3794 starts the process of adjusting the bandwidth cutoff for getting the
3795 "Fast" flag from 20KB to (currently) 32KB -- preliminary results show
3796 that tiny relays harm performance more than they help network capacity.
3799 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
3800 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
3801 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
3802 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
3804 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
3805 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
3806 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
3807 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
3808 - Remove the artificially low cutoff of 20KB to guarantee the Fast
3809 flag. In the past few years the average relay speed has picked
3810 up, and while the "top 7/8 of the network get the Fast flag" and
3811 "all relays with 20KB or more of capacity get the Fast flag" rules
3812 used to have the same result, now the top 7/8 of the network has
3813 a capacity more like 32KB. Bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc. Fixes bug 4489.
3814 - Fix a rare assertion failure when checking whether a v0 hidden
3815 service descriptor has any usable introduction points left, and
3816 we don't have enough information to build a circuit to the first
3817 intro point named in the descriptor. The HS client code in
3818 0.2.3.x no longer uses v0 HS descriptors, but this assertion can
3819 trigger on (and crash) v0 HS authorities. Fixes bug 4411.
3820 Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha; diagnosed by frosty_un.
3821 - Make bridge authorities not crash when they are asked for their own
3822 descriptor. Bugfix on 0.2.3.7-alpha, reported by Lucky Green.
3823 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
3824 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
3825 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
3826 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
3827 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34 and 0.2.3.7-alpha.
3830 - Allow Tor controllers like Vidalia to obtain the microdescriptor
3831 for a relay by identity digest or nickname. Previously,
3832 microdescriptors were only available by their own digests, so a
3833 controller would have to ask for and parse the whole microdescriptor
3834 consensus in order to look up a single relay's microdesc. Fixes
3835 bug 3832; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
3836 - Use OpenSSL's EVP interface for AES encryption, so that all AES
3837 operations can use hardware acceleration (if present). Resolves
3840 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
3841 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
3842 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
3843 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
3844 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
3845 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
3846 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
3847 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
3848 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
3849 - Allow manual 'authenticate' commands to the controller interface
3850 from netcat (nc) as well as telnet. We were rejecting them because
3851 they didn't come with the expected whitespace at the end of the
3852 command. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 2893.
3853 - Fix some (not actually triggerable) buffer size checks in usage of
3854 tor_inet_ntop. Fixes bug 4434; bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch
3856 - Fix parsing of some corner-cases with tor_inet_pton(). Fixes
3857 bug 4515; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fix by Anders Sundman.
3858 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
3859 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
3860 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
3861 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
3862 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
3863 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
3864 - Rename the bench_{aes,dmap} functions to test_*, so that tinytest
3865 can pick them up when the tests aren't disabled. Bugfix on
3866 0.2.2.4-alpha which introduced tinytest.
3867 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
3868 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
3869 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
3870 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
3871 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
3872 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
3874 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
3875 - Make util unit tests build correctly with MSVC. Bugfix on
3876 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Gisle Vanem.
3877 - Successfully detect AUTH_CHALLENGE cells with no recognized
3878 authentication type listed. Fixes bug 4367; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
3880 - If a relay receives an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell it can't answer,
3881 it should still send a NETINFO cell to allow the connection to
3882 become open. Fixes bug 4368; fix on 0.2.3.6-alpha; bug found by
3884 - Log less loudly when we get an invalid authentication certificate
3885 from a source other than a directory authority: it's not unusual
3886 to see invalid certs because of clock skew. Fixes bug 4370; bugfix
3888 - Tolerate servers with more clock skew in their authentication
3889 certificates than previously. Fixes bug 4371; bugfix on
3891 - Fix a couple of compile warnings on Windows. Fixes bug 4469; bugfix
3892 on 0.2.3.4-alpha and 0.2.3.6-alpha.
3895 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
3896 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
3897 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
3898 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
3899 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
3900 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
3901 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
3902 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
3903 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
3904 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
3905 - When we fail to initialize Libevent, retry with IOCP disabled so we
3906 don't need to turn on multi-threading support in Libevent, which in
3907 turn requires a working socketpair(). This is a workaround for bug
3908 4457, which affects Libevent versions from 2.0.1-alpha through
3910 - Detect when we try to build on a platform that doesn't define
3911 AF_UNSPEC to 0. We don't work there, so refuse to compile.
3912 - Update to the November 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
3914 o Packaging changes:
3915 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
3916 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
3918 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
3919 - Remove some redundant #include directives throughout the code.
3920 Patch from Andrea Gelmini.
3921 - Unconditionally use OpenSSL's AES implementation instead of our
3922 old built-in one. OpenSSL's AES has been better for a while, and
3923 relatively few servers should still be on any version of OpenSSL
3924 that doesn't have good optimized assembly AES.
3925 - Use the name "CERTS" consistently to refer to the new cell type;
3926 we were calling it CERT in some places and CERTS in others.
3929 - Numerous new unit tests for functions in util.c and address.c by
3931 - The long-disabled benchmark tests are now split into their own
3932 ./src/test/bench binary.
3933 - The benchmark tests can now use more accurate timers than
3934 gettimeofday() when such timers are available.
3937 Changes in version 0.2.3.7-alpha - 2011-10-30
3938 Tor 0.2.3.7-alpha fixes a crash bug in 0.2.3.6-alpha introduced by
3939 the new v3 handshake. It also resolves yet another bridge address
3943 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
3944 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
3945 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
3946 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
3947 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
3948 close based on processing a cell on it.
3949 - Fix a double-free bug that would occur when we received an invalid
3950 certificate in a CERT cell in the new v3 handshake. Fixes bug 4343;
3951 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
3952 - Bridges no longer include their address in NETINFO cells on outgoing
3953 OR connections, to allow them to blend in better with clients.
3954 Removes another avenue for enumerating bridges. Reported by
3955 "troll_un". Fixes bug 4348; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha, when NETINFO
3956 cells were introduced.
3959 - Fixed a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
3960 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
3963 Changes in version 0.2.3.6-alpha - 2011-10-26
3964 Tor 0.2.3.6-alpha includes the fix from 0.2.2.34 for a critical
3965 anonymity vulnerability where an attacker can deanonymize Tor
3966 users. Everybody should upgrade.
3968 This release also features support for a new v3 connection handshake
3969 protocol, and fixes to make hidden service connections more robust.
3972 - Implement a new handshake protocol (v3) for authenticating Tors to
3973 each other over TLS. It should be more resistant to fingerprinting
3974 than previous protocols, and should require less TLS hacking for
3975 future Tor implementations. Implements proposal 176.
3976 - Allow variable-length padding cells to disguise the length of
3977 Tor's TLS records. Implements part of proposal 184.
3979 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
3980 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
3981 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
3982 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
3983 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
3984 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
3985 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
3986 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
3987 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
3988 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
3989 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
3990 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
3991 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
3992 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
3993 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
3994 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
3995 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
3996 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
3999 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
4000 - Improve hidden service robustness: when an attempt to connect to
4001 a hidden service ends, be willing to refetch its hidden service
4002 descriptors from each of the HSDir relays responsible for them
4003 immediately. Previously, we would not consider refetching the
4004 service's descriptors from each HSDir for 15 minutes after the last
4005 fetch, which was inconvenient if the hidden service was not running
4006 during the first attempt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 3335.
4007 - When one of a hidden service's introduction points appears to be
4008 unreachable, stop trying it. Previously, we would keep trying
4009 to build circuits to the introduction point until we lost the
4010 descriptor, usually because the user gave up and restarted Tor.
4011 Partly fixes bug 3825.
4012 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
4013 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
4014 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
4015 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
4016 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
4017 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
4018 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
4020 o Major bugfixes (other):
4021 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
4022 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
4023 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
4024 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
4025 Found by "frosty_un".
4026 - Don't update the AccountingSoftLimitHitAt state file entry whenever
4027 tor gets started. This prevents a wrong average bandwidth
4028 estimate, which would cause relays to always start a new accounting
4029 interval at the earliest possible moment. Fixes bug 2003; bugfix
4030 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Reported by BryonEldridge, who also helped
4031 immensely in tracking this bug down.
4032 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
4033 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
4036 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
4037 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
4038 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
4039 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
4040 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
4041 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
4042 - Rephrase the log message emitted if the TestSocks check is
4043 successful. Patch from Fabian Keil; fixes bug 4094.
4044 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
4045 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
4046 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
4047 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
4048 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
4049 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
4050 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
4051 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
4052 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
4053 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
4054 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
4055 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
4056 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
4058 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
4059 - Fix a bug in configure.in that kept it from building a configure
4060 script with autoconf versions earlier than 2.61. Fixes bug 2430;
4061 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
4062 - Don't warn users that they are exposing a client port to the
4063 Internet if they have specified an RFC1918 address. Previously,
4064 we would warn if the user had specified any non-loopback
4065 address. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Fixes bug 4018; reported by Tas.
4066 - Fix memory leaks in the failing cases of the new SocksPort and
4067 ControlPort code. Found by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha;
4068 fixes coverity CIDs 485, 486, and 487.
4071 - When a hidden service's introduction point times out, consider
4072 trying it again during the next attempt to connect to the
4073 HS. Previously, we would not try it again unless a newly fetched
4074 descriptor contained it. Required by fixes for bugs 1297 and 3825.
4075 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
4076 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
4077 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
4078 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
4079 - The Bridge Authority now writes statistics on how many bridge
4080 descriptors it gave out in total, and how many unique descriptors
4081 it gave out. It also lists how often the most and least commonly
4082 fetched descriptors were given out, as well as the median and
4083 25th/75th percentile. Implements tickets 4200 and 4294.
4084 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
4086 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
4087 - Remove some old code to remember statistics about which descriptors
4088 we've served as a directory mirror. The feature wasn't used and
4089 is outdated now that microdescriptors are around.
4090 - Rename Tor functions that turn strings into addresses, so that
4091 "parse" indicates that no hostname resolution occurs, and
4092 "lookup" indicates that hostname resolution may occur. This
4093 should help prevent mistakes in the future. Fixes bug 3512.
4096 Changes in version 0.2.2.34 - 2011-10-26
4097 Tor 0.2.2.34 fixes a critical anonymity vulnerability where an attacker
4098 can deanonymize Tor users. Everybody should upgrade.
4100 The attack relies on four components: 1) Clients reuse their TLS cert
4101 when talking to different relays, so relays can recognize a user by
4102 the identity key in her cert. 2) An attacker who knows the client's
4103 identity key can probe each guard relay to see if that identity key
4104 is connected to that guard relay right now. 3) A variety of active
4105 attacks in the literature (starting from "Low-Cost Traffic Analysis
4106 of Tor" by Murdoch and Danezis in 2005) allow a malicious website to
4107 discover the guard relays that a Tor user visiting the website is using.
4108 4) Clients typically pick three guards at random, so the set of guards
4109 for a given user could well be a unique fingerprint for her. This
4110 release fixes components #1 and #2, which is enough to block the attack;
4111 the other two remain as open research problems. Special thanks to
4112 "frosty_un" for reporting the issue to us!
4114 Clients should upgrade so they are no longer recognizable by the TLS
4115 certs they present. Relays should upgrade so they no longer allow a
4116 remote attacker to probe them to test whether unpatched clients are
4117 currently connected to them.
4119 This release also fixes several vulnerabilities that allow an attacker
4120 to enumerate bridge relays. Some bridge enumeration attacks still
4121 remain; see for example proposal 188.
4123 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
4124 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
4125 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
4126 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
4127 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
4128 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
4129 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
4130 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
4131 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
4132 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
4133 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
4134 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
4135 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
4136 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
4137 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
4138 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
4139 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
4140 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
4143 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (bridge enumeration):
4144 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
4145 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
4146 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
4147 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
4148 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
4149 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
4150 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
4151 when bridges were introduced.
4152 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
4153 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
4154 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
4155 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
4156 Found by "frosty_un".
4159 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
4160 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
4162 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
4163 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
4164 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
4165 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
4166 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
4167 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
4168 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
4171 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
4172 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
4173 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
4174 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
4175 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
4176 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
4177 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
4178 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
4179 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
4180 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
4181 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
4182 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
4183 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
4184 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
4185 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
4186 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
4187 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
4188 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
4190 o Minor bugfixes (log messages and documentation):
4191 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
4192 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
4193 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
4194 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
4195 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
4196 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
4197 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
4198 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
4199 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
4200 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
4201 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
4204 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
4205 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
4206 Backported from 0.2.3.1-alpha; implements ticket 3951.
4207 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
4210 Changes in version 0.2.1.31 - 2011-10-26
4211 Tor 0.2.1.31 backports important security and privacy fixes for
4212 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
4213 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
4214 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
4216 o Security fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
4217 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
4218 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
4219 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
4220 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
4221 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
4222 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
4223 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
4224 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
4225 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
4227 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
4228 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
4229 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
4230 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
4231 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
4232 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
4233 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
4234 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
4235 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
4236 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
4237 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
4238 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
4239 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
4240 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
4241 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
4242 Found by "frosty_un".
4243 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
4244 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
4245 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
4246 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
4247 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
4248 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
4249 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
4250 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
4251 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
4252 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
4253 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
4254 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
4255 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
4256 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
4257 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
4258 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
4259 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
4260 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
4261 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
4263 o Minor bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
4264 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
4265 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
4266 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
4267 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
4268 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
4269 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
4270 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
4272 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
4273 enabled. Fixes bug 1526.
4274 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
4275 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
4276 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
4277 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
4278 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
4279 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
4280 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
4281 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
4282 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
4283 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
4285 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
4286 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
4287 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
4288 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
4289 - Require that introduction point keys and onion keys have public
4290 exponent 65537. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
4291 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
4292 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
4293 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
4295 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
4297 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
4298 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
4299 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
4300 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
4301 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
4302 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
4303 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
4304 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
4306 o Minor bugfixes (only in 0.2.1.x):
4307 - Resume using micro-version numbers in 0.2.1.x: our Debian packages
4308 rely on them. Bugfix on 0.2.1.30.
4309 - Use git revisions instead of svn revisions when generating our
4310 micro-version numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
4312 o Minor features (also included in 0.2.2.x):
4313 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
4314 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
4315 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
4316 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
4319 Changes in version 0.2.3.5-alpha - 2011-09-28
4320 Tor 0.2.3.5-alpha fixes two bugs that make it possible to enumerate
4321 bridge relays; fixes an assertion error that many users started hitting
4322 today; and adds the ability to refill token buckets more often than
4323 once per second, allowing significant performance improvements.
4326 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
4327 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
4328 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
4329 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
4330 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
4331 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
4332 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
4333 when bridges were introduced.
4336 - Fix an "Assertion md->held_by_node == 1 failed" error that could
4337 occur when the same microdescriptor was referenced by two node_t
4338 objects at once. Fix for bug 4118; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.1-alpha.
4340 o Major features (networking):
4341 - Add a new TokenBucketRefillInterval option to refill token buckets
4342 more frequently than once per second. This should improve network
4343 performance, alleviate queueing problems, and make traffic less
4344 bursty. Implements proposal 183; closes ticket 3630. Design by
4345 Florian Tschorsch and Björn Scheuermann; implementation by
4349 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
4350 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
4351 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
4353 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
4354 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
4355 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
4356 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
4357 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
4359 o Minor features (diagnostics):
4360 - When the system call to create a listener socket fails, log the
4361 error message explaining why. This may help diagnose bug 4027.
4364 Changes in version 0.2.3.4-alpha - 2011-09-13
4365 Tor 0.2.3.4-alpha includes the fixes from 0.2.2.33, including a slight
4366 tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run
4367 this new version reachable from Iran again. It also fixes a few new
4368 bugs in 0.2.3.x, and teaches relays to recognize when they're not
4369 listed in the network consensus and republish.
4371 o Major bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
4372 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
4373 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
4374 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
4376 o Minor features (security, also part of 0.2.2.33):
4377 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
4378 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
4379 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
4380 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
4381 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
4382 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
4383 that these attacks are infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
4384 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
4385 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
4386 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
4388 o Minor features (also part of 0.2.2.33):
4389 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
4390 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
4391 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
4392 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
4393 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
4394 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
4395 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
4396 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
4397 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
4399 o Minor bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
4400 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
4401 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
4402 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
4403 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
4404 fixes part of bug 2442.
4405 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
4406 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
4407 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
4409 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
4410 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
4411 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
4412 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
4413 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
4415 o Build fixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
4416 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
4417 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
4418 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
4419 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
4422 - Fix a bug where the SocksPort option (for example) would get
4423 ignored and replaced by the default if a SocksListenAddress
4424 option was set. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha; fixes bug 3936. Fix by
4428 - Relays now try regenerating and uploading their descriptor more
4429 frequently if they are not listed in the consensus, or if the
4430 version of their descriptor listed in the consensus is too
4431 old. This fix should prevent situations where a server declines
4432 to re-publish itself because it has done so too recently, even
4433 though the authorities decided not to list its recent-enough
4434 descriptor. Fix for bug 3327.
4437 - Relays now include a reason for regenerating their descriptors
4438 in an HTTP header when uploading to the authorities. This will
4439 make it easier to debug descriptor-upload issues in the future.
4440 - When starting as root and then changing our UID via the User
4441 control option, and we have a ControlSocket configured, make sure
4442 that the ControlSocket is owned by the same account that Tor will
4443 run under. Implements ticket 3421; fix by Jérémy Bobbio.
4446 - Abort if tor_vasprintf fails in connection_printf_to_buf (a
4447 utility function used in the control-port code). This shouldn't
4448 ever happen unless Tor is completely out of memory, but if it did
4449 happen and Tor somehow recovered from it, Tor could have sent a log
4450 message to a control port in the middle of a reply to a controller
4451 command. Fixes part of bug 3428; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
4452 - Make 'FetchUselessDescriptors' cause all descriptor types and
4453 all consensus types (including microdescriptors) to get fetched.
4454 Fixes bug 3851; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
4457 - Make a new "entry connection" struct as an internal subtype of "edge
4458 connection", to simplify the code and make exit connections smaller.
4461 Changes in version 0.2.2.33 - 2011-09-13
4462 Tor 0.2.2.33 fixes several bugs, and includes a slight tweak to Tor's
4463 TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run this new version
4464 reachable from Iran again.
4467 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
4468 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
4469 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
4471 o Minor features (security):
4472 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
4473 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
4474 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
4475 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
4476 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
4477 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
4478 that these attacks are infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
4479 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
4480 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
4481 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
4484 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
4485 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
4486 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
4487 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
4488 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
4489 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
4490 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
4491 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
4492 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
4494 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
4495 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
4496 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
4497 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
4498 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
4500 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
4501 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
4502 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
4503 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
4504 fixes part of bug 2442.
4505 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
4506 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
4507 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
4509 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
4510 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
4511 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
4512 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
4513 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
4516 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
4517 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
4518 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
4519 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
4520 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
4521 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
4524 Changes in version 0.2.3.3-alpha - 2011-09-01
4525 Tor 0.2.3.3-alpha adds a new "stream isolation" feature to improve Tor's
4526 security, and provides client-side support for the microdescriptor
4527 and optimistic data features introduced earlier in the 0.2.3.x
4528 series. It also includes numerous critical bugfixes in the (optional)
4529 bufferevent-based networking backend.
4531 o Major features (stream isolation):
4532 - You can now configure Tor so that streams from different
4533 applications are isolated on different circuits, to prevent an
4534 attacker who sees your streams as they leave an exit node from
4535 linking your sessions to one another. To do this, choose some way
4536 to distinguish the applications: have them connect to different
4537 SocksPorts, or have one of them use SOCKS4 while the other uses
4538 SOCKS5, or have them pass different authentication strings to the
4539 SOCKS proxy. Then, use the new SocksPort syntax to configure the
4540 degree of isolation you need. This implements Proposal 171.
4541 - There's a new syntax for specifying multiple client ports (such as
4542 SOCKSPort, TransPort, DNSPort, NATDPort): you can now just declare
4543 multiple *Port entries with full addr:port syntax on each.
4544 The old *ListenAddress format is still supported, but you can't
4545 mix it with the new *Port syntax.
4547 o Major features (other):
4548 - Enable microdescriptor fetching by default for clients. This allows
4549 clients to download a much smaller amount of directory information.
4550 To disable it (and go back to the old-style consensus and
4551 descriptors), set "UseMicrodescriptors 0" in your torrc file.
4552 - Tor's firewall-helper feature, introduced in 0.2.3.1-alpha (see the
4553 "PortForwarding" config option), now supports Windows.
4554 - When using an exit relay running 0.2.3.x, clients can now
4555 "optimistically" send data before the exit relay reports that
4556 the stream has opened. This saves a round trip when starting
4557 connections where the client speaks first (such as web browsing).
4558 This behavior is controlled by a consensus parameter (currently
4559 disabled). To turn it on or off manually, use the "OptimisticData"
4560 torrc option. Implements proposal 181; code by Ian Goldberg.
4562 o Major bugfixes (bufferevents, fixes on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
4563 - When using IOCP on Windows, we need to enable Libevent windows
4565 - The IOCP backend now works even when the user has not specified
4566 the (internal, debugging-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option.
4567 Fixes part of bug 3752.
4568 - Correctly record the bytes we've read and written when using
4569 bufferevents, so that we can include them in our bandwidth history
4570 and advertised bandwidth. Fixes bug 3803.
4571 - Apply rate-limiting only at the bottom of a chain of filtering
4572 bufferevents. This prevents us from filling up internal read
4573 buffers and violating rate-limits when filtering bufferevents
4574 are enabled. Fixes part of bug 3804.
4575 - Add high-watermarks to the output buffers for filtered
4576 bufferevents. This prevents us from filling up internal write
4577 buffers and wasting CPU cycles when filtering bufferevents are
4578 enabled. Fixes part of bug 3804.
4579 - Correctly notice when data has been written from a bufferevent
4580 without flushing it completely. Fixes bug 3805.
4581 - Fix a bug where server-side tunneled bufferevent-based directory
4582 streams would get closed prematurely. Fixes bug 3814.
4583 - Fix a use-after-free error with per-connection rate-limiting
4584 buckets. Fixes bug 3888.
4586 o Major bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
4587 - If we're configured to write our ControlPorts to disk, only write
4588 them after switching UID and creating the data directory. This way,
4589 we don't fail when starting up with a nonexistent DataDirectory
4590 and a ControlPortWriteToFile setting based on that directory. Fixes
4591 bug 3747; bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.26-beta.
4594 - Added a new CONF_CHANGED event so that controllers can be notified
4595 of any configuration changes made by other controllers, or by the
4596 user. Implements ticket 1692.
4597 - Use evbuffer_copyout() in inspect_evbuffer(). This fixes a memory
4598 leak when using bufferevents, and lets Libevent worry about how to
4599 best copy data out of a buffer.
4600 - Replace files in stats/ rather than appending to them. Now that we
4601 include statistics in extra-info descriptors, it makes no sense to
4602 keep old statistics forever. Implements ticket 2930.
4604 o Minor features (build compatibility):
4605 - Limited, experimental support for building with nmake and MSVC.
4606 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
4607 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
4609 o Minor features (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
4610 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
4612 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x-alpha):
4613 - Fix a spurious warning when parsing SOCKS requests with
4614 bufferevents enabled. Fixes bug 3615; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
4615 - Get rid of a harmless warning that could happen on relays running
4616 with bufferevents. The warning was caused by someone doing an http
4617 request to a relay's orport. Also don't warn for a few related
4618 non-errors. Fixes bug 3700; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
4620 o Minor bugfixes (on 2.2.x and earlier):
4621 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
4622 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
4623 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
4624 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
4626 - The "--quiet" and "--hush" options now apply not only to Tor's
4627 behavior before logs are configured, but also to Tor's behavior in
4628 the absense of configured logs. Fixes bug 3550; bugfix on
4631 o Minor bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
4632 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
4633 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
4634 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
4635 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
4636 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
4637 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
4638 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
4639 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
4640 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
4641 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
4642 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
4643 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
4644 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
4645 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
4646 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
4647 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
4648 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
4649 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
4652 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
4653 - Rewrite the listener-selection logic so that parsing which ports
4654 we want to listen on is now separate from binding to the ports
4658 - Building Tor with bufferevent support now requires Libevent
4659 2.0.13-stable or later. Previous versions of Libevent had bugs in
4660 SSL-related bufferevents and related issues that would make Tor
4661 work badly with bufferevents. Requiring 2.0.13-stable also allows
4662 Tor with bufferevents to take advantage of Libevent APIs
4663 introduced after 2.0.8-rc.
4666 Changes in version 0.2.2.32 - 2011-08-27
4667 The Tor 0.2.2 release series is dedicated to the memory of Andreas
4668 Pfitzmann (1958-2010), a pioneer in anonymity and privacy research,
4669 a founder of the PETS community, a leader in our field, a mentor,
4670 and a friend. He left us with these words: "I had the possibility
4671 to contribute to this world that is not as it should be. I hope I
4672 could help in some areas to make the world a better place, and that
4673 I could also encourage other people to be engaged in improving the
4674 world. Please, stay engaged. This world needs you, your love, your
4675 initiative -- now I cannot be part of that anymore."
4677 Tor 0.2.2.32, the first stable release in the 0.2.2 branch, is finally
4678 ready. More than two years in the making, this release features improved
4679 client performance and hidden service reliability, better compatibility
4680 for Android, correct behavior for bridges that listen on more than
4681 one address, more extensible and flexible directory object handling,
4682 better reporting of network statistics, improved code security, and
4683 many many other features and bugfixes.
4686 Changes in version 0.2.2.31-rc - 2011-08-17
4687 Tor 0.2.2.31-rc is the second and hopefully final release candidate
4688 for the Tor 0.2.2.x series.
4691 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
4692 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
4693 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
4694 - If we're configured to write our ControlPorts to disk, only write
4695 them after switching UID and creating the data directory. This way,
4696 we don't fail when starting up with a nonexistent DataDirectory
4697 and a ControlPortWriteToFile setting based on that directory. Fixes
4698 bug 3747; bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.26-beta.
4701 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
4704 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
4705 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
4706 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
4707 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
4708 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
4709 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
4710 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
4711 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
4712 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
4713 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
4714 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
4715 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
4716 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
4717 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
4718 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
4719 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
4720 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
4721 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
4725 Changes in version 0.2.3.2-alpha - 2011-07-18
4726 Tor 0.2.3.2-alpha introduces two new experimental features:
4727 microdescriptors and pluggable transports. It also continues cleaning
4728 up a variety of recently introduced features.
4731 - Clients can now use microdescriptors instead of regular descriptors
4732 to build circuits. Microdescriptors are authority-generated
4733 summaries of regular descriptors' contents, designed to change
4734 very rarely (see proposal 158 for details). This feature is
4735 designed to save bandwidth, especially for clients on slow internet
4736 connections. It's off by default for now, since nearly no caches
4737 support it, but it will be on-by-default for clients in a future
4738 version. You can use the UseMicrodescriptors option to turn it on.
4739 - Tor clients using bridges can now be configured to use a separate
4740 'transport' proxy for each bridge. This approach helps to resist
4741 censorship by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation
4742 plugins. It implements part of proposal 180. Implements ticket 2841.
4743 - While we're trying to bootstrap, record how many TLS connections
4744 fail in each state, and report which states saw the most failures
4745 in response to any bootstrap failures. This feature may speed up
4746 diagnosis of censorship events. Implements ticket 3116.
4748 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
4749 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes (as with
4750 'EntryNodes {cc}' or 'EntryNodes 1.1.1.1/16'), choose only a
4751 random subset to be guards, and choose them in random
4752 order. Fixes bug 2798.
4753 - Tor could crash when remembering a consensus in a non-used consensus
4754 flavor without having a current consensus set. Fixes bug 3361.
4755 - Comparing an unknown address to a microdescriptor's shortened exit
4756 policy would always give a "rejected" result. Fixes bug 3599.
4757 - Using microdescriptors as a client no longer prevents Tor from
4758 uploading and downloading hidden service descriptors. Fixes
4762 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
4763 - Accept attempts to include a password authenticator in the
4764 handshake, as supported by SOCKS5. This handles SOCKS clients that
4765 don't know how to omit a password when authenticating. Resolves
4767 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes, and there are
4768 enough of them listed as Guard so that we don't need to consider
4769 the non-guard entries, prefer the ones listed with the Guard flag.
4770 - Check for and recover from inconsistency in the microdescriptor
4771 cache. This will make it harder for us to accidentally free a
4772 microdescriptor without removing it from the appropriate data
4773 structures. Fixes issue 3135; issue noted by "wanoskarnet".
4774 - Log SSL state transitions at log level DEBUG, log domain
4775 HANDSHAKE. This can be useful for debugging censorship events.
4776 Implements ticket 3264.
4777 - Add port 6523 (Gobby) to LongLivedPorts. Patch by intrigeri;
4778 implements ticket 3439.
4780 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
4781 - Do not free all general-purpose regular descriptors just
4782 because microdescriptor use is enabled. Fixes bug 3113.
4783 - Correctly link libevent_openssl when --enable-static-libevent
4784 is passed to configure. Fixes bug 3118.
4785 - Bridges should not complain during their heartbeat log messages that
4786 they are unlisted in the consensus: that's more or less the point
4787 of being a bridge. Fixes bug 3183.
4788 - Report a SIGNAL event to controllers when acting on a delayed
4789 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Previously, we would report a SIGNAL
4790 event to the controller if we acted on a SIGNAL NEWNYM command
4791 immediately, and otherwise not report a SIGNAL event for the
4792 command at all. Fixes bug 3349.
4793 - Fix a crash when handling the SIGNAL controller command or
4794 reporting ERR-level status events with bufferevents enabled. Found
4795 by Robert Ransom. Fixes bug 3367.
4796 - Always ship the tor-fw-helper manpage in our release tarballs.
4797 Fixes bug 3389. Reported by Stephen Walker.
4798 - Fix a class of double-mark-for-close bugs when bufferevents
4799 are enabled. Fixes bug 3403.
4800 - Update tor-fw-helper to support libnatpmp-20110618. Fixes bug 3434.
4801 - Add SIGNAL to the list returned by the 'GETINFO events/names'
4802 control-port command. Fixes part of bug 3465.
4803 - Prevent using negative indices during unit test runs when read_all()
4804 fails. Spotted by coverity.
4805 - Fix a rare memory leak when checking the nodelist without it being
4806 present. Found by coverity.
4807 - Only try to download a microdescriptor-flavored consensus from
4808 a directory cache that provides them.
4810 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
4811 - Assert that hidden-service-related operations are not performed
4812 using single-hop circuits. Previously, Tor would assert that
4813 client-side streams are not attached to single-hop circuits,
4814 but not that other sensitive operations on the client and service
4815 side are not performed using single-hop circuits. Fixes bug 3332;
4817 - Don't publish a new relay descriptor when we reload our onion key,
4818 unless the onion key has actually changed. Fixes bug 3263 and
4819 resolves another cause of bug 1810. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
4820 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
4821 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
4822 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
4823 - Make 'tor --digests' list hashes of all Tor source files. Bugfix
4824 on 0.2.2.4-alpha; fixes bug 3427.
4826 o Code simplification and refactoring:
4827 - Use tor_sscanf() in place of scanf() in more places through the
4828 code. This makes us a little more locale-independent, and
4829 should help shut up code-analysis tools that can't tell
4830 a safe sscanf string from a dangerous one.
4831 - Use tt_assert(), not tor_assert(), for checking for test failures.
4832 This makes the unit tests more able to go on in the event that
4834 - Split connection_about_to_close() into separate functions for each
4838 - On Windows, we now define the _WIN32_WINNT macros only if they
4839 are not already defined. This lets the person building Tor decide,
4840 if they want, to require a later version of Windows.
4843 Changes in version 0.2.2.30-rc - 2011-07-07
4844 Tor 0.2.2.30-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.2.x
4845 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
4846 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
4849 - Send a SUCCEEDED stream event to the controller when a reverse
4850 resolve succeeded. Fixes bug 3536; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1. Issue
4851 discovered by katmagic.
4852 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
4853 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
4854 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
4855 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
4856 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
4857 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
4858 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
4859 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
4860 - Add BUILDTIMEOUT_SET to the list returned by the 'GETINFO
4861 events/names' control-port command. Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha;
4862 fixes part of bug 3465.
4863 - Fix a memory leak when receiving a descriptor for a hidden
4864 service we didn't ask for. Found by Coverity; CID #30. Bugfix
4868 - Update to the July 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
4871 Changes in version 0.2.2.29-beta - 2011-06-20
4872 Tor 0.2.2.29-beta reverts an accidental behavior change for users who
4873 have bridge lines in their torrc but don't want to use them; gets
4874 us closer to having the control socket feature working on Debian;
4875 and fixes a variety of smaller bugs.
4878 - Revert the UseBridges option to its behavior before 0.2.2.28-beta.
4879 When we changed the default behavior to "use bridges if any
4880 are listed in the torrc", we surprised users who had bridges
4881 in their torrc files but who didn't actually want to use them.
4882 Partial resolution for bug 3354.
4885 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
4886 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
4887 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
4888 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
4889 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
4890 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
4893 - Fix a bug when using ControlSocketsGroupWritable with User. The
4894 directory's group would be checked against the current group, not
4895 the configured group. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio. Fixes bug 3393;
4896 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
4897 - Make connection_printf_to_buf()'s behaviour sane. Its callers
4898 expect it to emit a CRLF iff the format string ends with CRLF;
4899 it actually emitted a CRLF iff (a) the format string ended with
4900 CRLF or (b) the resulting string was over 1023 characters long or
4901 (c) the format string did not end with CRLF *and* the resulting
4902 string was 1021 characters long or longer. Bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha;
4903 fixes part of bug 3407.
4904 - Make send_control_event_impl()'s behaviour sane. Its callers
4905 expect it to always emit a CRLF at the end of the string; it
4906 might have emitted extra control characters as well. Bugfix on
4907 0.1.1.9-alpha; fixes another part of bug 3407.
4908 - Make crypto_rand_int() check the value of its input correctly.
4909 Previously, it accepted values up to UINT_MAX, but could return a
4910 negative number if given a value above INT_MAX+1. Found by George
4911 Kadianakis. Fixes bug 3306; bugfix on 0.2.2pre14.
4912 - Avoid a segfault when reading a malformed circuit build state
4913 with more than INT_MAX entries. Found by wanoskarnet. Bugfix on
4915 - When asked about a DNS record type we don't support via a
4916 client DNSPort, reply with NOTIMPL rather than an empty
4917 reply. Patch by intrigeri. Fixes bug 3369; bugfix on 2.0.1-alpha.
4918 - Fix a rare memory leak during stats writing. Found by coverity.
4921 - Update to the June 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
4923 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
4924 - Remove some dead code as indicated by coverity.
4925 - Remove a few dead assignments during router parsing. Found by
4927 - Add some forgotten return value checks during unit tests. Found
4929 - Don't use 1-bit wide signed bit fields. Found by coverity.
4932 Changes in version 0.2.2.28-beta - 2011-06-04
4933 Tor 0.2.2.28-beta makes great progress towards a new stable release: we
4934 fixed a big bug in whether relays stay in the consensus consistently,
4935 we moved closer to handling bridges and hidden services correctly,
4936 and we started the process of better handling the dreaded "my Vidalia
4937 died, and now my Tor demands a password when I try to reconnect to it"
4941 - Don't decide to make a new descriptor when receiving a HUP signal.
4942 This bug has caused a lot of 0.2.2.x relays to disappear from the
4943 consensus periodically. Fixes the most common case of triggering
4944 bug 1810; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
4945 - Actually allow nameservers with IPv6 addresses. Fixes bug 2574.
4946 - Don't try to build descriptors if "ORPort auto" is set and we
4947 don't know our actual ORPort yet. Fix for bug 3216; bugfix on
4949 - Resolve a crash that occurred when setting BridgeRelay to 1 with
4950 accounting enabled. Fixes bug 3228; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
4951 - Apply circuit timeouts to opened hidden-service-related circuits
4952 based on the correct start time. Previously, we would apply the
4953 circuit build timeout based on time since the circuit's creation;
4954 it was supposed to be applied based on time since the circuit
4955 entered its current state. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes part of bug 1297.
4956 - Use the same circuit timeout for client-side introduction
4957 circuits as for other four-hop circuits, rather than the timeout
4958 for single-hop directory-fetch circuits; the shorter timeout may
4959 have been appropriate with the static circuit build timeout in
4960 0.2.1.x and earlier, but caused many hidden service access attempts
4961 to fail with the adaptive CBT introduced in 0.2.2.2-alpha. Bugfix
4962 on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes another part of bug 1297.
4963 - In ticket 2511 we fixed a case where you could use an unconfigured
4964 bridge if you had configured it as a bridge the last time you ran
4965 Tor. Now fix another edge case: if you had configured it as a bridge
4966 but then switched to a different bridge via the controller, you
4967 would still be willing to use the old one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha;
4971 - Add an __OwningControllerProcess configuration option and a
4972 TAKEOWNERSHIP control-port command. Now a Tor controller can ensure
4973 that when it exits, Tor will shut down. Implements feature 3049.
4974 - If "UseBridges 1" is set and no bridges are configured, Tor will
4975 now refuse to build any circuits until some bridges are set.
4976 If "UseBridges auto" is set, Tor will use bridges if they are
4977 configured and we are not running as a server, but otherwise will
4978 make circuits as usual. The new default is "auto". Patch by anonym,
4979 so the Tails LiveCD can stop automatically revealing you as a Tor
4983 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
4984 - Remove a trailing asterisk from "exit-policy/default" in the
4985 output of the control port command "GETINFO info/names". Bugfix
4987 - Use a wide type to hold sockets when built for 64-bit Windows builds.
4989 - Warn when the user configures two HiddenServiceDir lines that point
4990 to the same directory. Bugfix on 0.0.6 (the version introducing
4991 HiddenServiceDir); fixes bug 3289.
4992 - Remove dead code from rend_cache_lookup_v2_desc_as_dir. Fixes
4993 part of bug 2748; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
4994 - Log malformed requests for rendezvous descriptors as protocol
4995 warnings, not warnings. Also, use a more informative log message
4996 in case someone sees it at log level warning without prior
4997 info-level messages. Fixes the other part of bug 2748; bugfix
4999 - Clear the table recording the time of the last request for each
5000 hidden service descriptor from each HS directory on SIGNAL NEWNYM.
5001 Previously, we would clear our HS descriptor cache on SIGNAL
5002 NEWNYM, but if we had previously retrieved a descriptor (or tried
5003 to) from every directory responsible for it, we would refuse to
5004 fetch it again for up to 15 minutes. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha;
5006 - Fix a log message that said "bits" while displaying a value in
5007 bytes. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 3318; bugfix on
5009 - When checking for 1024-bit keys, check for 1024 bits, not 128
5010 bytes. This allows Tor to correctly discard keys of length 1017
5011 through 1023. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
5014 - Relays now log the reason for publishing a new relay descriptor,
5015 so we have a better chance of hunting down instances of bug 1810.
5016 Resolves ticket 3252.
5017 - Revise most log messages that refer to nodes by nickname to
5018 instead use the "$key=nickname at address" format. This should be
5019 more useful, especially since nicknames are less and less likely
5020 to be unique. Resolves ticket 3045.
5021 - Log (at info level) when purging pieces of hidden-service-client
5022 state because of SIGNAL NEWNYM.
5025 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
5026 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
5029 Changes in version 0.2.2.27-beta - 2011-05-18
5030 Tor 0.2.2.27-beta fixes a bridge-related stability bug in the previous
5031 release, and also adds a few more general bugfixes.
5034 - Fix a crash bug when changing bridges in a running Tor process.
5035 Fixes bug 3213; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
5036 - When the controller configures a new bridge, don't wait 10 to 60
5037 seconds before trying to fetch its descriptor. Bugfix on
5038 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 3198 (suggested by 2355).
5041 - Require that onion keys have exponent 65537 in microdescriptors too.
5042 Fixes more of bug 3207; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
5043 - Tor used to limit HttpProxyAuthenticator values to 48 characters.
5044 Changed the limit to 512 characters by removing base64 newlines.
5045 Fixes bug 2752. Fix by Michael Yakubovich.
5046 - When a client starts or stops using bridges, never use a circuit
5047 that was built before the configuration change. This behavior could
5048 put at risk a user who uses bridges to ensure that her traffic
5049 only goes to the chosen addresses. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes
5053 Changes in version 0.2.2.26-beta - 2011-05-17
5054 Tor 0.2.2.26-beta fixes a variety of potential privacy problems. It
5055 also introduces a new "socksport auto" approach that should make it
5056 easier to run multiple Tors on the same system, and does a lot of
5057 cleanup to get us closer to a release candidate.
5059 o Security/privacy fixes:
5060 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
5061 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
5062 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
5063 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
5064 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
5065 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
5066 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
5067 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
5068 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
5069 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
5070 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
5071 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
5072 - On SIGHUP, do not clear out all TrackHostExits mappings, client
5073 DNS cache entries, and virtual address mappings: that's what
5074 NEWNYM is for. Fixes bug 1345; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
5077 - The options SocksPort, ControlPort, and so on now all accept a
5078 value "auto" that opens a socket on an OS-selected port. A
5079 new ControlPortWriteToFile option tells Tor to write its
5080 actual control port or ports to a chosen file. If the option
5081 ControlPortFileGroupReadable is set, the file is created as
5082 group-readable. Now users can run two Tor clients on the same
5083 system without needing to manually mess with parameters. Resolves
5084 part of ticket 3076.
5085 - Set SO_REUSEADDR on all sockets, not just listeners. This should
5086 help busy exit nodes avoid running out of useable ports just
5087 because all the ports have been used in the near past. Resolves
5091 - New "GETINFO net/listeners/(type)" controller command to return
5092 a list of addresses and ports that are bound for listeners for a
5093 given connection type. This is useful when the user has configured
5094 "SocksPort auto" and the controller needs to know which port got
5095 chosen. Resolves another part of ticket 3076.
5096 - Add a new ControlSocketsGroupWritable configuration option: when
5097 it is turned on, ControlSockets are group-writeable by the default
5098 group of the current user. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio; implements
5100 - Tor now refuses to create a ControlSocket in a directory that is
5101 world-readable (or group-readable if ControlSocketsGroupWritable
5102 is 0). This is necessary because some operating systems do not
5103 enforce permissions on an AF_UNIX sockets. Permissions on the
5104 directory holding the socket, however, seems to work everywhere.
5105 - Rate-limit a warning about failures to download v2 networkstatus
5106 documents. Resolves part of bug 1352.
5107 - Backport code from 0.2.3.x that allows directory authorities to
5108 clean their microdescriptor caches. Needed to resolve bug 2230.
5109 - When an HTTPS proxy reports "403 Forbidden", we now explain
5110 what it means rather than calling it an unexpected status code.
5111 Closes bug 2503. Patch from Michael Yakubovich.
5112 - Update to the May 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
5115 - Authorities now clean their microdesc cache periodically and when
5116 reading from disk initially, not only when adding new descriptors.
5117 This prevents a bug where we could lose microdescriptors. Bugfix
5118 on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 2230.
5119 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
5120 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
5121 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
5123 - Avoid a bug that would keep us from replacing a microdescriptor
5124 cache on Windows. (We would try to replace the file while still
5125 holding it open. That's fine on Unix, but Windows doesn't let us
5126 do that.) Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; bug found by wanoskarnet.
5127 - Add missing explanations for the authority-related torrc options
5128 RephistTrackTime, BridgePassword, and V3AuthUseLegacyKey in the
5129 man page. Resolves issue 2379.
5130 - As an authority, do not upload our own vote or signature set to
5131 ourself. It would tell us nothing new, and as of 0.2.2.24-alpha,
5132 it would get flagged as a duplicate. Resolves bug 3026.
5133 - Accept hidden service descriptors if we think we might be a hidden
5134 service directory, regardless of what our consensus says. This
5135 helps robustness, since clients and hidden services can sometimes
5136 have a more up-to-date view of the network consensus than we do,
5137 and if they think that the directory authorities list us a HSDir,
5138 we might actually be one. Related to bug 2732; bugfix on
5140 - When a controller changes TrackHostExits, remove mappings for
5141 hosts that should no longer have their exits tracked. Bugfix on
5143 - When a controller changes VirtualAddrNetwork, remove any mappings
5144 for hosts that were automapped to the old network. Bugfix on
5146 - When a controller changes one of the AutomapHosts* options, remove
5147 any mappings for hosts that should no longer be automapped. Bugfix
5149 - Do not reset the bridge descriptor download status every time we
5150 re-parse our configuration or get a configuration change. Fixes
5151 bug 3019; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
5153 o Minor bugfixes (code cleanup):
5154 - When loading the microdesc journal, remember its current size.
5155 In 0.2.2, this helps prevent the microdesc journal from growing
5156 without limit on authorities (who are the only ones to use it in
5157 0.2.2). Fixes a part of bug 2230; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
5158 Fix posted by "cypherpunks."
5159 - The microdesc journal is supposed to get rebuilt only if it is
5160 at least _half_ the length of the store, not _twice_ the length
5161 of the store. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes part of bug 2230.
5162 - Fix a potential null-pointer dereference while computing a
5163 consensus. Bugfix on tor-0.2.0.3-alpha, found with the help of
5165 - Avoid a possible null-pointer dereference when rebuilding the mdesc
5166 cache without actually having any descriptors to cache. Bugfix on
5167 0.2.2.6-alpha. Issue discovered using clang's static analyzer.
5168 - If we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3 legacy keypair,
5169 warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead. Bugfix on
5170 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
5171 - Resolve an untriggerable issue in smartlist_string_num_isin(),
5172 where if the function had ever in the future been used to check
5173 for the presence of a too-large number, it would have given an
5174 incorrect result. (Fortunately, we only used it for 16-bit
5175 values.) Fixes bug 3175; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
5176 - Require that introduction point keys and onion handshake keys
5177 have a public exponent of 65537. Starts to fix bug 3207; bugfix
5181 - Caches no longer download and serve v2 networkstatus documents
5182 unless FetchV2Networkstatus flag is set: these documents haven't
5183 haven't been used by clients or relays since 0.2.0.x. Resolves
5187 Changes in version 0.2.3.1-alpha - 2011-05-05
5188 Tor 0.2.3.1-alpha adds some new experimental features, including support
5189 for an improved network IO backend, IOCP networking on Windows,
5190 microdescriptor caching, "fast-start" support for streams, and automatic
5191 home router configuration. There are also numerous internal improvements
5192 to try to make the code easier for developers to work with.
5194 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to be
5195 bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
5196 stay with 0.2.2.x for now.
5199 - Tor can now optionally build with the "bufferevents" buffered IO
5200 backend provided by Libevent 2. To use this feature, make sure you
5201 have the latest possible version of Libevent, and pass the
5202 --enable-bufferevents flag to configure when building Tor from
5203 source. This feature will make our networking code more flexible,
5204 let us stack layers on each other, and let us use more efficient
5205 zero-copy transports where available.
5206 - As an experimental feature, Tor can use IOCP for networking on Windows.
5207 Once this code is tuned and optimized, it promises much better
5208 performance than the select-based backend we've used in the past. To
5209 try this feature, you must build Tor with Libevent 2, configure Tor
5210 with the "bufferevents" buffered IO backend, and add "DisableIOCP 0" to
5211 your torrc. There are known bugs here: only try this if you can help
5212 debug it as it breaks.
5213 - The EntryNodes option can now include country codes like {de} or IP
5214 addresses or network masks. Previously we had disallowed these options
5215 because we didn't have an efficient way to keep the list up to
5216 date. Fixes bug 1982, but see bug 2798 for an unresolved issue here.
5217 - Exit nodes now accept and queue data on not-yet-connected streams.
5218 Previously, the client wasn't allowed to send data until the stream was
5219 connected, which slowed down all connections. This change will enable
5220 clients to perform a "fast-start" on streams and send data without
5221 having to wait for a confirmation that the stream has opened. (Patch
5222 from Ian Goldberg; implements the server side of Proposal 174.)
5223 - Tor now has initial support for automatic port mapping on the many
5224 home routers that support NAT-PMP or UPnP. (Not yet supported on
5225 Windows). To build the support code, you'll need to have libnatpnp
5226 library and/or the libminiupnpc library, and you'll need to enable the
5227 feature specifically by passing "--enable-upnp" and/or
5228 "--enable-natpnp" to configure. To turn it on, use the new
5229 PortForwarding option.
5230 - Caches now download, cache, and serve multiple "flavors" of the
5231 consensus, including a flavor that describes microdescriptors.
5232 - Caches now download, cache, and serve microdescriptors -- small
5233 summaries of router descriptors that are authenticated by all of the
5234 directory authorities. Once enough caches are running this code,
5235 clients will be able to save significant amounts of directory bandwidth
5236 by downloading microdescriptors instead of router descriptors.
5239 - Make logging resolution configurable with a new LogTimeGranularity
5240 option, and change the default from 1 millisecond to 1 second.
5241 Implements enhancement 1668.
5242 - We log which torrc file we're using on startup. Implements ticket
5244 - Ordinarily, Tor does not count traffic from private addresses (like
5245 127.0.0.1 or 10.0.0.1) when calculating rate limits or accounting.
5246 There is now a new option, CountPrivateBandwidth, to disable this
5247 behavior. Patch from Daniel Cagara.
5248 - New --enable-static-tor configure option for building Tor as
5249 statically as possible. Idea, general hackery and thoughts from
5250 Alexei Czeskis, John Gilmore, Jacob Appelbaum. Implements ticket
5252 - If you set the NumCPUs option to 0, Tor will now try to detect how
5253 many CPUs you have. This is the new default behavior.
5254 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
5255 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
5256 - Relays that set "ConnDirectionStatistics 1" write statistics on the
5257 bidirectional use of connections to disk every 24 hours.
5258 - Add a GeoIP file digest to the extra-info descriptor. Implements
5260 - The NodeFamily option -- which let you declare that you want to
5261 consider nodes to be part of a family whether they list themselves
5262 that way or not -- now allows IP address ranges and country codes.
5263 - Add a new 'Heartbeat' log message type to periodically log a message
5264 describing Tor's status at level Notice. This feature is meant for
5265 operators who log at notice, and want to make sure that their Tor
5266 server is still working. Implementation by George Kadianakis.
5268 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.25-alpha):
5269 - When loading the microdesc journal, remember its current size.
5270 In 0.2.2, this helps prevent the microdesc journal from growing
5271 without limit on authorities (who are the only ones to use it in
5272 0.2.2). Fixes a part of bug 2230; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
5273 Fix posted by "cypherpunks."
5274 - The microdesc journal is supposed to get rebuilt only if it is
5275 at least _half_ the length of the store, not _twice_ the length
5276 of the store. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes part of bug 2230.
5277 - If as an authority we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3
5278 legacy keypair, warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead.
5279 Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
5280 - Authorities now clean their microdesc cache periodically and when
5281 reading from disk initially, not only when adding new descriptors.
5282 This prevents a bug where we could lose microdescriptors. Bugfix
5285 o Minor features (controller):
5286 - Add a new SIGNAL event to the controller interface so that
5287 controllers can be notified when Tor handles a signal. Resolves
5288 issue 1955. Patch by John Brooks.
5289 - Add a new GETINFO option to get total bytes read and written. Patch
5290 from pipe, revised by atagar. Resolves ticket 2345.
5291 - Implement some GETINFO controller fields to provide information about
5292 the Tor process's pid, euid, username, and resource limits.
5295 - Our build system requires automake 1.6 or later to create the
5296 Makefile.in files. Previously, you could have used 1.4.
5297 This only affects developers and people building Tor from git;
5298 people who build Tor from the source distribution without changing
5299 the Makefile.am files should be fine.
5300 - Our autogen.sh script uses autoreconf to launch autoconf, automake, and
5301 so on. This is more robust against some of the failure modes
5302 associated with running the autotools pieces on their own.
5304 o Minor packaging issues:
5305 - On OpenSUSE, create the /var/run/tor directory on startup if it is not
5306 already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
5308 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
5309 - A major revision to our internal node-selecting and listing logic.
5310 Tor already had at least two major ways to look at the question of
5311 "which Tor servers do we know about": a list of router descriptors,
5312 and a list of entries in the current consensus. With
5313 microdescriptors, we're adding a third. Having so many systems
5314 without an abstraction layer over them was hurting the codebase.
5315 Now, we have a new "node_t" abstraction that presents a consistent
5316 interface to a client's view of a Tor node, and holds (nearly) all
5317 of the mutable state formerly in routerinfo_t and routerstatus_t.
5318 - The helper programs tor-gencert, tor-resolve, and tor-checkkey
5319 no longer link against Libevent: they never used it, but
5320 our library structure used to force them to link it.
5323 - Remove some old code to work around even older versions of Tor that
5324 used forked processes to handle DNS requests. Such versions of Tor
5325 are no longer in use as servers.
5327 o Documentation fixes:
5328 - Correct a broken faq link in the INSTALL file. Fixes bug 2307.
5329 - Add missing documentation for the authority-related torrc options
5330 RephistTrackTime, BridgePassword, and V3AuthUseLegacyKey. Resolves
5334 Changes in version 0.2.2.25-alpha - 2011-04-29
5335 Tor 0.2.2.25-alpha fixes many bugs: hidden service clients are more
5336 robust, routers no longer overreport their bandwidth, Win7 should crash
5337 a little less, and NEWNYM (as used by Vidalia's "new identity" button)
5338 now prevents hidden service-related activity from being linkable. It
5339 provides more information to Vidalia so you can see if your bridge is
5340 working. Also, 0.2.2.25-alpha revamps the Entry/Exit/ExcludeNodes and
5341 StrictNodes configuration options to make them more reliable, more
5342 understandable, and more regularly applied. If you use those options,
5343 please see the revised documentation for them in the manual page.
5346 - Relays were publishing grossly inflated bandwidth values because
5347 they were writing their state files wrong--now they write the
5348 correct value. Also, resume reading bandwidth history from the
5349 state file correctly. Fixes bug 2704; bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
5350 - Improve hidden service robustness: When we find that we have
5351 extended a hidden service's introduction circuit to a relay not
5352 listed as an introduction point in the HS descriptor we currently
5353 have, retry with an introduction point from the current
5354 descriptor. Previously we would just give up. Fixes bugs 1024 and
5355 1930; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
5356 - Clients now stop trying to use an exit node associated with a given
5357 destination by TrackHostExits if they fail to reach that exit node.
5358 Fixes bug 2999. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
5359 - Fix crash bug on platforms where gmtime and localtime can return
5360 NULL. Windows 7 users were running into this one. Fixes part of bug
5361 2077. Bugfix on all versions of Tor. Found by boboper.
5363 o Security and stability fixes:
5364 - Don't double-free a parsable, but invalid, microdescriptor, even if
5365 it is followed in the blob we're parsing by an unparsable
5366 microdescriptor. Fixes an issue reported in a comment on bug 2954.
5367 Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fix by "cypherpunks".
5368 - If the Nickname configuration option isn't given, Tor would pick a
5369 nickname based on the local hostname as the nickname for a relay.
5370 Because nicknames are not very important in today's Tor and the
5371 "Unnamed" nickname has been implemented, this is now problematic
5372 behavior: It leaks information about the hostname without being
5373 useful at all. Fixes bug 2979; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, which
5374 introduced the Unnamed nickname. Reported by tagnaq.
5375 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
5376 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
5377 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
5378 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
5379 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
5382 - Export GeoIP information on bridge usage to controllers even if we
5383 have not yet been running for 24 hours. Now Vidalia bridge operators
5384 can get more accurate and immediate feedback about their
5385 contributions to the network.
5387 o Major features and bugfixes (node selection):
5388 - Revise and reconcile the meaning of the ExitNodes, EntryNodes,
5389 ExcludeEntryNodes, ExcludeExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, and StrictNodes
5390 options. Previously, we had been ambiguous in describing what
5391 counted as an "exit" node, and what operations exactly "StrictNodes
5392 0" would permit. This created confusion when people saw nodes built
5393 through unexpected circuits, and made it hard to tell real bugs from
5394 surprises. Now the intended behavior is:
5395 . "Exit", in the context of ExitNodes and ExcludeExitNodes, means
5396 a node that delivers user traffic outside the Tor network.
5397 . "Entry", in the context of EntryNodes, means a node used as the
5398 first hop of a multihop circuit. It doesn't include direct
5399 connections to directory servers.
5400 . "ExcludeNodes" applies to all nodes.
5401 . "StrictNodes" changes the behavior of ExcludeNodes only. When
5402 StrictNodes is set, Tor should avoid all nodes listed in
5403 ExcludeNodes, even when it will make user requests fail. When
5404 StrictNodes is *not* set, then Tor should follow ExcludeNodes
5405 whenever it can, except when it must use an excluded node to
5406 perform self-tests, connect to a hidden service, provide a
5407 hidden service, fulfill a .exit request, upload directory
5408 information, or fetch directory information.
5409 Collectively, the changes to implement the behavior fix bug 1090.
5410 - ExcludeNodes now takes precedence over EntryNodes and ExitNodes: if
5411 a node is listed in both, it's treated as excluded.
5412 - ExcludeNodes now applies to directory nodes -- as a preference if
5413 StrictNodes is 0, or an absolute requirement if StrictNodes is 1.
5414 Don't exclude all the directory authorities and set StrictNodes to 1
5415 unless you really want your Tor to break.
5416 - ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes now override exit enclaving.
5417 - ExcludeExitNodes now overrides .exit requests.
5418 - We don't use bridges listed in ExcludeNodes.
5419 - When StrictNodes is 1:
5420 . We now apply ExcludeNodes to hidden service introduction points
5421 and to rendezvous points selected by hidden service users. This
5422 can make your hidden service less reliable: use it with caution!
5423 . If we have used ExcludeNodes on ourself, do not try relay
5424 reachability self-tests.
5425 . If we have excluded all the directory authorities, we will not
5426 even try to upload our descriptor if we're a relay.
5427 . Do not honor .exit requests to an excluded node.
5428 - Remove a misfeature that caused us to ignore the Fast/Stable flags
5429 when ExitNodes is set. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
5430 - When the set of permitted nodes changes, we now remove any mappings
5431 introduced via TrackExitHosts to now-excluded nodes. Bugfix on
5433 - We never cannibalize a circuit that had excluded nodes on it, even
5434 if StrictNodes is 0. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
5435 - Revert a change where we would be laxer about attaching streams to
5436 circuits than when building the circuits. This was meant to prevent
5437 a set of bugs where streams were never attachable, but our improved
5438 code here should make this unnecessary. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
5439 - Keep track of how many times we launch a new circuit to handle a
5440 given stream. Too many launches could indicate an inconsistency
5441 between our "launch a circuit to handle this stream" logic and our
5442 "attach this stream to one of the available circuits" logic.
5443 - Improve log messages related to excluded nodes.
5446 - Fix a spurious warning when moving from a short month to a long
5447 month on relays with month-based BandwidthAccounting. Bugfix on
5448 0.2.2.17-alpha; fixes bug 3020.
5449 - When a client finds that an origin circuit has run out of 16-bit
5450 stream IDs, we now mark it as unusable for new streams. Previously,
5451 we would try to close the entire circuit. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
5452 - Add a forgotten cast that caused a compile warning on OS X 10.6.
5453 Bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
5454 - Be more careful about reporting the correct error from a failed
5455 connect() system call. Under some circumstances, it was possible to
5456 look at an incorrect value for errno when sending the end reason.
5457 Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
5458 - Correctly handle an "impossible" overflow cases in connection byte
5459 counting, where we write or read more than 4GB on an edge connection
5460 in a single second. Bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
5461 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
5462 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
5464 - Clients and hidden services now use HSDir-flagged relays for hidden
5465 service descriptor downloads and uploads even if the relays have no
5466 DirPort set and the client has disabled TunnelDirConns. This will
5467 eventually allow us to give the HSDir flag to relays with no
5468 DirPort. Fixes bug 2722; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
5469 - Downgrade "no current certificates known for authority" message from
5470 Notice to Info. Fixes bug 2899; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
5471 - Make the SIGNAL DUMP control-port command work on FreeBSD. Fixes bug
5472 2917. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
5473 - Only limit the lengths of single HS descriptors, even when multiple
5474 HS descriptors are published to an HSDir relay in a single POST
5475 operation. Fixes bug 2948; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by hsdir.
5476 - Write the current time into the LastWritten line in our state file,
5477 rather than the time from the previous write attempt. Also, stop
5478 trying to use a time of -1 in our log statements. Fixes bug 3039;
5479 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
5480 - Be more consistent in our treatment of file system paths. "~" should
5481 get expanded to the user's home directory in the Log config option.
5482 Fixes bug 2971; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha, which introduced the
5483 feature for the -f and --DataDirectory options.
5486 - Make sure every relay writes a state file at least every 12 hours.
5487 Previously, a relay could go for weeks without writing its state
5488 file, and on a crash could lose its bandwidth history, capacity
5489 estimates, client country statistics, and so on. Addresses bug 3012.
5490 - Send END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE in response to EHOSTUNREACH errors.
5491 Clients before 0.2.1.27 didn't handle NOROUTE correctly, but such
5492 clients are already deprecated because of security bugs.
5493 - Don't allow v0 hidden service authorities to act as clients.
5494 Required by fix for bug 3000.
5495 - Ignore SIGNAL NEWNYM commands on relay-only Tor instances. Required
5496 by fix for bug 3000.
5497 - Ensure that no empty [dirreq-](read|write)-history lines are added
5498 to an extrainfo document. Implements ticket 2497.
5500 o Code simplification and refactoring:
5501 - Remove workaround code to handle directory responses from servers
5502 that had bug 539 (they would send HTTP status 503 responses _and_
5503 send a body too). Since only server versions before
5504 0.2.0.16-alpha/0.1.2.19 were affected, there is no longer reason to
5505 keep the workaround in place.
5506 - Remove the old 'fuzzy time' logic. It was supposed to be used for
5507 handling calculations where we have a known amount of clock skew and
5508 an allowed amount of unknown skew. But we only used it in three
5509 places, and we never adjusted the known/unknown skew values. This is
5510 still something we might want to do someday, but if we do, we'll
5511 want to do it differently.
5512 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
5513 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
5514 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
5515 - Use GetTempDir to find the proper temporary directory location on
5516 Windows when generating temporary files for the unit tests. Patch by
5520 Changes in version 0.2.2.24-alpha - 2011-04-08
5521 Tor 0.2.2.24-alpha fixes a variety of bugs, including a big bug that
5522 prevented Tor clients from effectively using "multihomed" bridges,
5523 that is, bridges that listen on multiple ports or IP addresses so users
5524 can continue to use some of their addresses even if others get blocked.
5527 - Fix a bug where bridge users who configure the non-canonical
5528 address of a bridge automatically switch to its canonical
5529 address. If a bridge listens at more than one address, it should be
5530 able to advertise those addresses independently and any non-blocked
5531 addresses should continue to work. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.x. Fixes
5533 - If you configured Tor to use bridge A, and then quit and
5534 configured Tor to use bridge B instead, it would happily continue
5535 to use bridge A if it's still reachable. While this behavior is
5536 a feature if your goal is connectivity, in some scenarios it's a
5537 dangerous bug. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 2511.
5538 - Directory authorities now use data collected from their own
5539 uptime observations when choosing whether to assign the HSDir flag
5540 to relays, instead of trusting the uptime value the relay reports in
5541 its descriptor. This change helps prevent an attack where a small
5542 set of nodes with frequently-changing identity keys can blackhole
5543 a hidden service. (Only authorities need upgrade; others will be
5544 fine once they do.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 2709.
5547 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
5548 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
5549 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
5550 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
5551 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
5552 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
5553 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
5555 - Make directory authorities more accurate at recording when
5556 relays that have failed several reachability tests became
5557 unreachable, so we can provide more accuracy at assigning Stable,
5558 Guard, HSDir, etc flags. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Resolves bug 2716.
5559 - Fix an issue that prevented static linking of libevent on
5560 some platforms (notably Linux). Fixes bug 2698; bugfix on
5561 versions 0.2.1.23/0.2.2.8-alpha (the versions introducing
5562 the --with-static-libevent configure option).
5563 - We now ask the other side of a stream (the client or the exit)
5564 for more data on that stream when the amount of queued data on
5565 that stream dips low enough. Previously, we wouldn't ask the
5566 other side for more data until either it sent us more data (which
5567 it wasn't supposed to do if it had exhausted its window!) or we
5568 had completely flushed all our queued data. This flow control fix
5569 should improve throughput. Fixes bug 2756; bugfix on the earliest
5570 released versions of Tor (svn commit r152).
5571 - Avoid a double-mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
5572 transparent proxy connection. (We thought we had fixed this in
5573 0.2.2.23-alpha, but it turns out our fix was checking the wrong
5574 connection.) Fixes bug 2757; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha (the original
5575 bug) and 0.2.2.23-alpha (the incorrect fix).
5576 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
5577 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
5580 - Directory authorities now log the source of a rejected POSTed v3
5582 - Make compilation with clang possible when using
5583 --enable-gcc-warnings by removing two warning options that clang
5584 hasn't implemented yet and by fixing a few warnings. Implements
5586 - When expiring circuits, use microsecond timers rather than
5587 one-second timers. This can avoid an unpleasant situation where a
5588 circuit is launched near the end of one second and expired right
5589 near the beginning of the next, and prevent fluctuations in circuit
5591 - Use computed circuit-build timeouts to decide when to launch
5592 parallel introduction circuits for hidden services. (Previously,
5593 we would retry after 15 seconds.)
5594 - Update to the April 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
5597 - Create the /var/run/tor directory on startup on OpenSUSE if it is
5598 not already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
5600 o Documentation changes:
5601 - Modernize the doxygen configuration file slightly. Fixes bug 2707.
5602 - Resolve all doxygen warnings except those for missing documentation.
5604 - Add doxygen documentation for more functions, fields, and types.
5607 Changes in version 0.2.2.23-alpha - 2011-03-08
5608 Tor 0.2.2.23-alpha lets relays record their bandwidth history so when
5609 they restart they don't lose their bandwidth capacity estimate. This
5610 release also fixes a diverse set of user-facing bugs, ranging from
5611 relays overrunning their rate limiting to clients falsely warning about
5612 clock skew to bridge descriptor leaks by our bridge directory authority.
5615 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
5616 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
5617 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
5618 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
5619 the rest of bug 1074.
5620 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
5621 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
5622 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
5623 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
5624 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
5625 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
5626 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
5627 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
5628 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
5629 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
5630 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
5631 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
5632 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
5633 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
5636 - Relays now save observed peak bandwidth throughput rates to their
5637 state file (along with total usage, which was already saved)
5638 so that they can determine their correct estimated bandwidth on
5639 restart. Resolves bug 1863, where Tor relays would reset their
5640 estimated bandwidth to 0 after restarting.
5641 - Directory authorities now take changes in router IP address and
5642 ORPort into account when determining router stability. Previously,
5643 if a router changed its IP or ORPort, the authorities would not
5644 treat it as having any downtime for the purposes of stability
5645 calculation, whereas clients would experience downtime since the
5646 change could take a while to propagate to them. Resolves issue 1035.
5647 - Enable Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) and Data Execution
5648 Prevention (DEP) by default on Windows to make it harder for
5649 attackers to exploit vulnerabilities. Patch from John Brooks.
5651 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
5652 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
5653 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
5654 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
5655 - Avoid a double mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
5656 transparent proxy connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Fixes
5658 - Correctly detect failure to allocate an OpenSSL BIO. Fixes bug 2378;
5659 found by "cypherpunks". This bug was introduced before the first
5660 Tor release, in svn commit r110.
5661 - Country codes aren't supported in EntryNodes until 0.2.3.x, so
5662 don't mention them in the manpage. Fixes bug 2450; issue
5663 spotted by keb and G-Lo.
5664 - Fix a bug in bandwidth history state parsing that could have been
5665 triggered if a future version of Tor ever changed the timing
5666 granularity at which bandwidth history is measured. Bugfix on
5668 - When a relay decides that its DNS is too broken for it to serve
5669 as an exit server, it advertised itself as a non-exit, but
5670 continued to act as an exit. This could create accidental
5671 partitioning opportunities for users. Instead, if a relay is
5672 going to advertise reject *:* as its exit policy, it should
5673 really act with exit policy "reject *:*". Fixes bug 2366.
5674 Bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha. Bugfix by user "postman" on trac.
5675 - In the special case where you configure a public exit relay as your
5676 bridge, Tor would be willing to use that exit relay as the last
5677 hop in your circuit as well. Now we fail that circuit instead.
5678 Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 2403. Reported by "piebeer".
5679 - Fix a bug with our locking implementation on Windows that couldn't
5680 correctly detect when a file was already locked. Fixes bug 2504,
5681 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
5682 - Fix IPv6-related connect() failures on some platforms (BSD, OS X).
5683 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes first part of bug 2660. Patch by
5685 - Set target port in get_interface_address6() correctly. Bugfix
5686 on 0.1.1.4-alpha and 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes second part of bug 2660.
5687 - Directory authorities are now more robust to hops back in time
5688 when calculating router stability. Previously, if a run of uptime
5689 or downtime appeared to be negative, the calculation could give
5690 incorrect results. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha; noticed when fixing
5692 - Fix an assert that got triggered when using the TestingTorNetwork
5693 configuration option and then issuing a GETINFO config-text control
5694 command. Fixes bug 2250; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
5696 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
5697 - Clients should not weight BadExit nodes as Exits in their node
5698 selection. Similarly, directory authorities should not count BadExit
5699 bandwidth as Exit bandwidth when computing bandwidth-weights.
5700 Bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 2203.
5701 - Correctly clear our dir_read/dir_write history when there is an
5702 error parsing any bw history value from the state file. Bugfix on
5704 - Resolve a bug in verifying signatures of directory objects
5705 with digests longer than SHA1. Bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha.
5706 Fixes bug 2409. Found by "piebeer".
5707 - Bridge authorities no longer crash on SIGHUP when they try to
5708 publish their relay descriptor to themselves. Fixes bug 2572. Bugfix
5712 - Log less aggressively about circuit timeout changes, and improve
5713 some other circuit timeout messages. Resolves bug 2004.
5714 - Log a little more clearly about the times at which we're no longer
5715 accepting new connections. Resolves bug 2181.
5716 - Reject attempts at the client side to open connections to private
5717 IP addresses (like 127.0.0.1, 10.0.0.1, and so on) with
5718 a randomly chosen exit node. Attempts to do so are always
5719 ill-defined, generally prevented by exit policies, and usually
5720 in error. This will also help to detect loops in transparent
5721 proxy configurations. You can disable this feature by setting
5722 "ClientRejectInternalAddresses 0" in your torrc.
5723 - Always treat failure to allocate an RSA key as an unrecoverable
5725 - Update to the March 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
5727 o Minor features (log subsystem):
5728 - Add documentation for configuring logging at different severities in
5729 different log domains. We've had this feature since 0.2.1.1-alpha,
5730 but for some reason it never made it into the manpage. Fixes
5732 - Make it simpler to specify "All log domains except for A and B".
5733 Previously you needed to say "[*,~A,~B]". Now you can just say
5735 - Add a "LogMessageDomains 1" option to include the domains of log
5736 messages along with the messages. Without this, there's no way
5737 to use log domains without reading the source or doing a lot
5740 o Packaging changes:
5741 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
5742 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
5743 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
5746 Changes in version 0.2.1.30 - 2011-02-23
5747 Tor 0.2.1.30 fixes a variety of less critical bugs. The main other
5748 change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays
5749 and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
5750 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
5751 buys us time until we roll out a better solution.
5754 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
5755 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
5756 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
5757 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
5758 the rest of bug 1074.
5759 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
5760 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
5762 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
5763 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
5764 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
5765 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
5766 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
5767 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
5768 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
5771 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
5773 - Update to the February 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
5776 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
5777 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
5778 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28. Found by "doorss".
5779 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
5780 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
5781 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
5782 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
5783 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
5784 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
5785 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
5786 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
5788 o Packaging changes:
5789 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
5790 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
5791 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
5792 - Do not include Git version tags as though they are SVN tags when
5793 generating a tarball from inside a repository that has switched
5794 between branches. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
5797 Changes in version 0.2.2.22-alpha - 2011-01-25
5798 Tor 0.2.2.22-alpha fixes a few more less-critical security issues. The
5799 main other change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes
5800 relays and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
5801 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
5802 will buy us a bit more time until we roll out a better solution.
5805 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
5806 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
5808 - Don't assert when changing from bridge to relay or vice versa
5809 via the controller. The assert happened because we didn't properly
5810 initialize our keys in this case. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha; fixes
5811 bug 2433. Reported by bastik.
5814 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
5816 - Provide a log message stating which geoip file we're parsing
5817 instead of just stating that we're parsing the geoip file.
5818 Implements ticket 2432.
5821 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
5822 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
5823 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28 / 0.2.2.20-alpha. Found by "doorss".
5826 Changes in version 0.2.2.21-alpha - 2011-01-15
5827 Tor 0.2.2.21-alpha includes all the patches from Tor 0.2.1.29, which
5828 continues our recent code security audit work. The main fix resolves
5829 a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote code
5830 execution (CVE-2011-0427). Other fixes address a variety of assert
5831 and crash bugs, most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
5833 o Major bugfixes (security), also included in 0.2.1.29:
5834 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
5835 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
5836 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
5838 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
5839 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
5840 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
5841 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
5842 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
5843 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
5844 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
5845 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
5847 o Major bugfixes (crashes), also included in 0.2.1.29:
5848 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
5849 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
5850 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
5851 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
5852 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
5853 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
5854 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
5855 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
5856 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
5857 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
5858 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
5859 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
5860 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
5863 o Minor bugfixes (other), also included in 0.2.1.29:
5864 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
5865 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
5866 bug reported by doorss.
5867 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
5868 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
5869 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
5870 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
5871 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
5873 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
5874 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
5875 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
5876 - Correctly handle wrapping around when we run out of virtual
5877 address space. Found by cypherpunks; bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
5879 o Minor features, also included in 0.2.1.29:
5880 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
5881 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
5883 o Build changes, also included in 0.2.1.29:
5884 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
5885 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
5886 Automake 1.7 or later.
5887 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
5888 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
5889 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
5890 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
5892 o Major bugfixes, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
5893 - Prevent crash/heap corruption when the cbtnummodes consensus
5894 parameter is set to 0 or large values. Fixes bug 2317; bugfix
5897 o Major features, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
5898 - Introduce minimum/maximum values that clients will believe
5899 from the consensus. Now we'll have a better chance to avoid crashes
5900 or worse when a consensus param has a weird value.
5902 o Minor features, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
5903 - Make sure to disable DirPort if running as a bridge. DirPorts aren't
5904 used on bridges, and it makes bridge scanning somewhat easier.
5905 - If writing the state file to disk fails, wait up to an hour before
5906 retrying again, rather than trying again each second. Fixes bug
5907 2346; bugfix on Tor 0.1.1.3-alpha.
5908 - Make Libevent log messages get delivered to controllers later,
5909 and not from inside the Libevent log handler. This prevents unsafe
5910 reentrant Libevent calls while still letting the log messages
5912 - Detect platforms that brokenly use a signed size_t, and refuse to
5913 build there. Found and analyzed by doorss and rransom.
5914 - Fix a bunch of compile warnings revealed by mingw with gcc 4.5.
5917 o Minor bugfixes, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
5918 - Handle SOCKS messages longer than 128 bytes long correctly, rather
5919 than waiting forever for them to finish. Fixes bug 2330; bugfix
5920 on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Found by doorss.
5921 - Add assertions to check for overflow in arguments to
5922 base32_encode() and base32_decode(); fix a signed-unsigned
5923 comparison there too. These bugs are not actually reachable in Tor,
5924 but it's good to prevent future errors too. Found by doorss.
5925 - Correctly detect failures to create DNS requests when using Libevent
5926 versions before v2. (Before Libevent 2, we used our own evdns
5927 implementation. Its return values for Libevent's evdns_resolve_*()
5928 functions are not consistent with those from Libevent.) Fixes bug
5929 2363; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Found by "lodger".
5931 o Documentation, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
5932 - Document the default socks host and port (127.0.0.1:9050) for
5936 Changes in version 0.2.1.29 - 2011-01-15
5937 Tor 0.2.1.29 continues our recent code security audit work. The main
5938 fix resolves a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote
5939 code execution. Other fixes address a variety of assert and crash bugs,
5940 most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
5942 o Major bugfixes (security):
5943 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
5944 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
5945 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
5947 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
5948 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
5949 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
5950 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
5951 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
5952 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
5953 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
5954 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
5956 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
5957 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
5958 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
5959 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
5960 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
5961 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
5962 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
5963 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
5964 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
5965 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
5966 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
5967 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
5968 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
5969 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
5972 o Minor bugfixes (other):
5973 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
5974 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
5975 bug reported by doorss.
5976 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
5977 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
5978 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
5979 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
5980 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
5982 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
5983 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
5984 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
5985 - Correctly handle wrapping around to when we run out of virtual
5986 address space. Found by cypherpunks, bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
5987 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
5988 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
5989 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
5990 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
5993 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
5994 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
5997 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
5998 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
5999 Automake 1.7 or later.
6002 Changes in version 0.2.2.20-alpha - 2010-12-17
6003 Tor 0.2.2.20-alpha does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
6004 exploitable bugs. We also fix a variety of other significant bugs,
6005 change the IP address for one of our directory authorities, and update
6006 the minimum version that Tor relays must run to join the network.
6009 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
6010 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
6011 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
6012 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
6013 - Fix a bug that could break accounting on 64-bit systems with large
6014 time_t values, making them hibernate for impossibly long intervals.
6015 Fixes bug 2146. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre6; fix by boboper.
6016 - Fix a logic error in directory_fetches_from_authorities() that
6017 would cause all _non_-exits refusing single-hop-like circuits
6018 to fetch from authorities, when we wanted to have _exits_ fetch
6019 from authorities. Fixes more of 2097. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha;
6021 - Fix a stream fairness bug that would cause newer streams on a given
6022 circuit to get preference when reading bytes from the origin or
6023 destination. Fixes bug 2210. Fix by Mashael AlSabah. This bug was
6024 introduced before the first Tor release, in svn revision r152.
6026 o Directory authority changes:
6027 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
6030 - Avoid crashes when AccountingMax is set on clients. Fixes bug 2235.
6031 Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha. Diagnosed by boboper.
6032 - Fix an off-by-one error in calculating some controller command
6033 argument lengths. Fortunately, this mistake is harmless since
6034 the controller code does redundant NUL termination too. Found by
6035 boboper. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
6036 - Do not dereference NULL if a bridge fails to build its
6037 extra-info descriptor. Found by an anonymous commenter on
6038 Trac. Bugfix on 0.2.2.19-alpha.
6041 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
6042 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any versions of
6043 Tor between 0.2.1.3-alpha and 0.2.1.18 inclusive; they have
6044 known bugs that keep RELAY_EARLY cells from working on rendezvous
6045 circuits. Followup to fix for bug 2081.
6046 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any version of Tor
6047 older than 0.2.0.26-rc. That version is the earliest that fetches
6048 current directory information correctly. Fixes bug 2156.
6049 - Report only the top 10 ports in exit-port stats in order not to
6050 exceed the maximum extra-info descriptor length of 50 KB. Implements
6054 Changes in version 0.2.1.28 - 2010-12-17
6055 Tor 0.2.1.28 does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
6056 exploitable bugs. We also took this opportunity to change the IP address
6057 for one of our directory authorities, and to update the geoip database
6061 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
6062 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
6063 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
6064 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
6066 o Directory authority changes:
6067 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
6070 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
6073 Changes in version 0.2.1.27 - 2010-11-23
6074 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
6075 Tor 0.2.1.27 makes relays work with openssl 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b. We
6076 also took this opportunity to fix several crash bugs, integrate a new
6077 directory authority, and update the bundled GeoIP database.
6080 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
6081 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
6082 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
6083 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
6084 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
6085 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
6086 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
6087 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
6088 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
6089 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
6090 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
6091 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
6092 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
6093 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
6094 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
6095 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
6096 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
6097 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
6098 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
6099 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
6100 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
6101 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
6102 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
6105 - Move to the November 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather
6106 than the June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that
6107 count how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we'll
6108 have more accurate data, especially for many African countries.
6110 o New directory authorities:
6111 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
6115 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in directory caches or
6116 bridge users when using a very short voting interval on a testing
6117 network. Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on
6119 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
6120 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
6121 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
6122 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
6123 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
6124 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
6126 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
6127 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
6128 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
6131 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
6132 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
6133 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
6134 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
6135 it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
6136 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
6137 Patch from mingw-san.
6140 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
6141 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
6142 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
6143 - Stop shipping the old doc/website/ directory in the tarball. We
6144 changed the website format in late 2010, and what we shipped in
6145 0.2.1.26 really wasn't that useful anyway.
6148 Changes in version 0.2.2.19-alpha - 2010-11-22
6149 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
6150 Tor 0.2.2.19-alpha makes relays work with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b.
6153 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
6154 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
6155 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
6156 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
6157 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
6160 - Try harder not to exceed the maximum length of 50 KB when writing
6161 statistics to extra-info descriptors. This bug was triggered by very
6162 fast relays reporting exit-port, entry, and dirreq statistics.
6163 Reported by Olaf Selke. Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. Fixes bug 2183.
6164 - Publish a router descriptor even if generating an extra-info
6165 descriptor fails. Previously we would not publish a router
6166 descriptor without an extra-info descriptor; this can cause fast
6167 exit relays collecting exit-port statistics to drop from the
6168 consensus. Bugfix on 0.1.2.9-rc; fixes bug 2195.
6171 Changes in version 0.2.2.18-alpha - 2010-11-16
6172 Tor 0.2.2.18-alpha fixes several crash bugs that have been nagging
6173 us lately, makes unpublished bridge relays able to detect their IP
6174 address, and fixes a wide variety of other bugs to get us much closer
6175 to a stable release.
6178 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
6179 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
6180 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
6181 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
6182 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
6183 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
6184 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
6185 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
6186 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
6187 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
6188 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
6189 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
6190 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
6191 - Maintain separate TLS contexts and certificates for incoming and
6192 outgoing connections in bridge relays. Previously we would use the
6193 same TLS contexts and certs for incoming and outgoing connections.
6194 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses bug 988.
6195 - Maintain separate identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS
6196 contexts in bridge relays. Previously we would use the same
6197 identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS contexts. Bugfix on
6198 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses the other half of bug 988.
6199 - Avoid an assertion failure when we as an authority receive a
6200 duplicate upload of a router descriptor that we already have,
6201 but which we previously considered an obsolete descriptor.
6202 Fixes another case of bug 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
6203 - Avoid a crash bug triggered by looking at a dangling pointer while
6204 setting the network status consensus. Found by Robert Ransom.
6205 Bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Fixes bug 2097.
6206 - Fix a logic error where servers that _didn't_ act as exits would
6207 try to keep their server lists more aggressively up to date than
6208 exits, when it was supposed to be the other way around. Bugfix
6211 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.1.x and earlier):
6212 - When we're trying to guess whether we know our IP address as
6213 a relay, we would log various ways that we failed to guess
6214 our address, but never log that we ended up guessing it
6215 successfully. Now add a log line to help confused and anxious
6216 relay operators. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1534.
6217 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
6218 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
6219 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
6220 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
6221 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
6222 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
6223 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
6224 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
6225 - Correctly describe errors that occur when generating a TLS object.
6226 Previously we would attribute them to a failure while generating a
6227 TLS context. Patch by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc; fixes
6229 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
6230 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
6231 - Fix warnings that newer versions of autoconf produced during
6232 ./autogen.sh. These warnings appear to be harmless in our case,
6233 but they were extremely verbose. Fixes bug 2020.
6235 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.2.x):
6236 - Enable protection of small arrays whenever we build with gcc
6237 hardening features, not only when also building with warnings
6238 enabled. Fixes bug 2031; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha. Reported by keb.
6241 - Make hidden services work better in private Tor networks by not
6242 requiring any uptime to join the hidden service descriptor
6243 DHT. Implements ticket 2088.
6244 - Rate-limit the "your application is giving Tor only an IP address"
6245 warning. Addresses bug 2000; bugfix on 0.0.8pre2.
6246 - When AllowSingleHopExits is set, print a warning to explain to the
6247 relay operator why most clients are avoiding her relay.
6248 - Update to the November 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
6250 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
6251 - When we fixed bug 1038 we had to put in a restriction not to send
6252 RELAY_EARLY cells on rend circuits. This was necessary as long
6253 as relays using Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18-alpha were
6254 active. Now remove this obsolete check. Resolves bug 2081.
6255 - Some options used different conventions for uppercasing of acronyms
6256 when comparing manpage and source. Fix those in favor of the
6257 manpage, as it makes sense to capitalize acronyms.
6258 - Remove the torrc.complete file. It hasn't been kept up to date
6259 and users will have better luck checking out the manpage.
6260 - Remove the obsolete "NoPublish" option; it has been flagged
6261 as obsolete and has produced a warning since 0.1.1.18-rc.
6262 - Remove everything related to building the expert bundle for OS X.
6263 It has confused many users, doesn't work right on OS X 10.6,
6264 and is hard to get rid of once installed. Resolves bug 1274.
6267 Changes in version 0.2.2.17-alpha - 2010-09-30
6268 Tor 0.2.2.17-alpha introduces a feature to make it harder for clients
6269 to use one-hop circuits (which can put the exit relays at higher risk,
6270 plus unbalance the network); fixes a big bug in bandwidth accounting
6271 for relays that want to limit their monthly bandwidth use; fixes a
6272 big pile of bugs in how clients tolerate temporary network failure;
6273 and makes our adaptive circuit build timeout feature (which improves
6274 client performance if your network is fast while not breaking things
6275 if your network is slow) better handle bad networks.
6278 - Exit relays now try harder to block exit attempts from unknown
6279 relays, to make it harder for people to use them as one-hop proxies
6280 a la tortunnel. Controlled by the refuseunknownexits consensus
6281 parameter (currently enabled), or you can override it on your
6282 relay with the RefuseUnknownExits torrc option. Resolves bug 1751.
6284 o Major bugfixes (0.2.1.x and earlier):
6285 - Fix a bug in bandwidth accounting that could make us use twice
6286 the intended bandwidth when our interval start changes due to
6287 daylight saving time. Now we tolerate skew in stored vs computed
6288 interval starts: if the start of the period changes by no more than
6289 50% of the period's duration, we remember bytes that we transferred
6290 in the old period. Fixes bug 1511; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
6291 - Always search the Windows system directory for system DLLs, and
6292 nowhere else. Bugfix on 0.1.1.23; fixes bug 1954.
6293 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
6294 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
6295 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
6296 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
6297 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
6299 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
6300 - Fix compilation on Windows. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha; related to
6302 - Fix a segfault that could happen when operating a bridge relay with
6303 no GeoIP database set. Fixes bug 1964; bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha.
6304 - The consensus bandwidth-weights (used by clients to choose fast
6305 relays) entered an unexpected edge case in September where
6306 Exits were much scarcer than Guards, resulting in bad weight
6307 recommendations. Now we compute them using new constraints that
6308 should succeed in all cases. Also alter directory authorities to
6309 not include the bandwidth-weights line if they fail to produce
6310 valid values. Fixes bug 1952; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
6311 - When weighting bridges during path selection, we used to trust
6312 the bandwidths they provided in their descriptor, only capping them
6313 at 10MB/s. This turned out to be problematic for two reasons:
6314 Bridges could claim to handle a lot more traffic then they
6315 actually would, thus making more clients pick them and have a
6316 pretty effective DoS attack. The other issue is that new bridges
6317 that might not have a good estimate for their bw capacity yet
6318 would not get used at all unless no other bridges are available
6319 to a client. Fixes bug 1912; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
6321 o Major bugfixes (on the circuit build timeout feature, 0.2.2.x):
6322 - Ignore cannibalized circuits when recording circuit build times.
6323 This should provide for a minor performance improvement for hidden
6324 service users using 0.2.2.14-alpha, and should remove two spurious
6325 notice log messages. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1740.
6326 - Simplify the logic that causes us to decide if the network is
6327 unavailable for purposes of recording circuit build times. If we
6328 receive no cells whatsoever for the entire duration of a circuit's
6329 full measured lifetime, the network is probably down. Also ignore
6330 one-hop directory fetching circuit timeouts when calculating our
6331 circuit build times. These changes should hopefully reduce the
6332 cases where we see ridiculous circuit build timeouts for people
6333 with spotty wireless connections. Fixes part of bug 1772; bugfix
6335 - Prevent the circuit build timeout from becoming larger than
6336 the maximum build time we have ever seen. Also, prevent the time
6337 period for measurement circuits from becoming larger than twice that
6338 value. Fixes the other part of bug 1772; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
6341 - When we run out of directory information such that we can't build
6342 circuits, but then get enough that we can build circuits, log when
6343 we actually construct a circuit, so the user has a better chance of
6344 knowing what's going on. Fixes bug 1362.
6345 - Be more generous with how much bandwidth we'd use up (with
6346 accounting enabled) before entering "soft hibernation". Previously,
6347 we'd refuse new connections and circuits once we'd used up 95% of
6348 our allotment. Now, we use up 95% of our allotment, AND make sure
6349 that we have no more than 500MB (or 3 hours of expected traffic,
6350 whichever is lower) remaining before we enter soft hibernation.
6351 - If we've configured EntryNodes and our network goes away and/or all
6352 our entrynodes get marked down, optimistically retry them all when
6353 a new socks application request appears. Fixes bug 1882.
6354 - Add some more defensive programming for architectures that can't
6355 handle unaligned integer accesses. We don't know of any actual bugs
6356 right now, but that's the best time to fix them. Fixes bug 1943.
6357 - Support line continuations in the torrc config file. If a line
6358 ends with a single backslash character, the newline is ignored, and
6359 the configuration value is treated as continuing on the next line.
6362 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
6363 - For bandwidth accounting, calculate our expected bandwidth rate
6364 based on the time during which we were active and not in
6365 soft-hibernation during the last interval. Previously, we were
6366 also considering the time spent in soft-hibernation. If this
6367 was a long time, we would wind up underestimating our bandwidth
6368 by a lot, and skewing our wakeup time towards the start of the
6369 accounting interval. Fixes bug 1789. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
6371 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
6372 - Resume generating CIRC FAILED REASON=TIMEOUT control port messages,
6373 which were disabled by the circuit build timeout changes in
6374 0.2.2.14-alpha. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1739.
6375 - Make sure we don't warn about missing bandwidth weights when
6376 choosing bridges or other relays not in the consensus. Bugfix on
6377 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 1805.
6378 - In our logs, do not double-report signatures from unrecognized
6379 authorities both as "from unknown authority" and "not
6380 present". Fixes bug 1956, bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
6383 Changes in version 0.2.2.16-alpha - 2010-09-17
6384 Tor 0.2.2.16-alpha fixes a variety of old stream fairness bugs (most
6385 evident at exit relays), and also continues to resolve all the little
6386 bugs that have been filling up trac lately.
6388 o Major bugfixes (stream-level fairness):
6389 - When receiving a circuit-level SENDME for a blocked circuit, try
6390 to package cells fairly from all the streams that had previously
6391 been blocked on that circuit. Previously, we had started with the
6392 oldest stream, and allowed each stream to potentially exhaust
6393 the circuit's package window. This gave older streams on any
6394 given circuit priority over newer ones. Fixes bug 1937. Detected
6395 originally by Camilo Viecco. This bug was introduced before the
6396 first Tor release, in svn commit r152: it is the new winner of
6397 the longest-lived bug prize.
6398 - When the exit relay got a circuit-level sendme cell, it started
6399 reading on the exit streams, even if had 500 cells queued in the
6400 circuit queue already, so the circuit queue just grew and grew in
6401 some cases. We fix this by not re-enabling reading on receipt of a
6402 sendme cell when the cell queue is blocked. Fixes bug 1653. Bugfix
6403 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Detected by Mashael AlSabah. Original patch by
6405 - Newly created streams were allowed to read cells onto circuits,
6406 even if the circuit's cell queue was blocked and waiting to drain.
6407 This created potential unfairness, as older streams would be
6408 blocked, but newer streams would gladly fill the queue completely.
6409 We add code to detect this situation and prevent any stream from
6410 getting more than one free cell. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Partially
6414 - Update to the September 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
6415 - Warn when CookieAuthFileGroupReadable is set but CookieAuthFile is
6416 not. This would lead to a cookie that is still not group readable.
6417 Closes bug 1843. Suggested by katmagic.
6418 - When logging a rate-limited warning, we now mention how many messages
6419 got suppressed since the last warning.
6420 - Add new "perconnbwrate" and "perconnbwburst" consensus params to
6421 do individual connection-level rate limiting of clients. The torrc
6422 config options with the same names trump the consensus params, if
6423 both are present. Replaces the old "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst"
6424 consensus params which were broken from 0.2.2.7-alpha through
6425 0.2.2.14-alpha. Closes bug 1947.
6426 - When a router changes IP address or port, authorities now launch
6427 a new reachability test for it. Implements ticket 1899.
6428 - Make the formerly ugly "2 unknown, 7 missing key, 0 good, 0 bad,
6429 2 no signature, 4 required" messages about consensus signatures
6430 easier to read, and make sure they get logged at the same severity
6431 as the messages explaining which keys are which. Fixes bug 1290.
6432 - Don't warn when we have a consensus that we can't verify because
6433 of missing certificates, unless those certificates are ones
6434 that we have been trying and failing to download. Fixes bug 1145.
6435 - If you configure your bridge with a known identity fingerprint,
6436 and the bridge authority is unreachable (as it is in at least
6437 one country now), fall back to directly requesting the descriptor
6438 from the bridge. Finishes the feature started in 0.2.0.10-alpha;
6440 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
6441 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
6442 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
6444 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
6445 - Authorities will now attempt to download consensuses if their
6446 own efforts to make a live consensus have failed. This change
6447 means authorities that restart will fetch a valid consensus, and
6448 it means authorities that didn't agree with the current consensus
6449 will still fetch and serve it if it has enough signatures. Bugfix
6450 on 0.2.0.9-alpha; fixes bug 1300.
6451 - Ensure DNS requests launched by "RESOLVE" commands from the
6452 controller respect the __LeaveStreamsUnattached setconf options. The
6453 same goes for requests launched via DNSPort or transparent
6454 proxying. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1525.
6455 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
6456 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
6457 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
6458 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
6460 - Rate-limit "Failed to hand off onionskin" warnings.
6461 - Never relay a cell for a circuit we have already destroyed.
6462 Between marking a circuit as closeable and finally closing it,
6463 it may have been possible for a few queued cells to get relayed,
6464 even though they would have been immediately dropped by the next
6465 OR in the circuit. Fixes bug 1184; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
6466 - Never queue a cell for a circuit that's already been marked
6468 - Never vote for a server as "Running" if we have a descriptor for
6469 it claiming to be hibernating, and that descriptor was published
6470 more recently than our last contact with the server. Bugfix on
6471 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 911.
6472 - Squash a compile warning on OpenBSD. Reported by Tas; fixes
6475 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
6476 - Fix a regression introduced in 0.2.2.7-alpha that marked relays
6477 down if a directory fetch fails and you've configured either
6478 bridges or EntryNodes. The intent was to mark the relay as down
6479 _unless_ you're using bridges or EntryNodes, since if you are
6480 then you could quickly run out of entry points.
6481 - Fix the Windows directory-listing code. A bug introduced in
6482 0.2.2.14-alpha could make Windows directory servers forget to load
6483 some of their cached v2 networkstatus files.
6484 - Really allow clients to use relays as bridges. Fixes bug 1776;
6485 bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha.
6486 - Demote a warn to info that happens when the CellStatistics option
6487 was just enabled. Bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha; fixes bug 1921.
6488 Reported by Moritz Bartl.
6489 - On Windows, build correctly either with or without Unicode support.
6490 This is necessary so that Tor can support fringe platforms like
6491 Windows 98 (which has no Unicode), or Windows CE (which has no
6492 non-Unicode). Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1797.
6495 - Add a unit test for cross-platform directory-listing code.
6498 Changes in version 0.2.2.15-alpha - 2010-08-18
6499 Tor 0.2.2.15-alpha fixes a big bug in hidden service availability,
6500 fixes a variety of other bugs that were preventing performance
6501 experiments from moving forward, fixes several bothersome memory leaks,
6502 and generally closes a lot of smaller bugs that have been filling up
6506 - Stop assigning the HSDir flag to relays that disable their
6507 DirPort (and thus will refuse to answer directory requests). This
6508 fix should dramatically improve the reachability of hidden services:
6509 hidden services and hidden service clients pick six HSDir relays
6510 to store and retrieve the hidden service descriptor, and currently
6511 about half of the HSDir relays will refuse to work. Bugfix on
6512 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes part of bug 1693.
6513 - The PerConnBWRate and Burst config options, along with the
6514 bwconnrate and bwconnburst consensus params, initialized each conn's
6515 token bucket values only when the connection is established. Now we
6516 update them if the config options change, and update them every time
6517 we get a new consensus. Otherwise we can encounter an ugly edge
6518 case where we initialize an OR conn to client-level bandwidth,
6519 but then later the relay joins the consensus and we leave it
6520 throttled. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha; fixes bug 1830.
6521 - Fix a regression that caused Tor to rebind its ports if it receives
6522 SIGHUP while hibernating. Bugfix in 0.1.1.6-alpha; closes bug 919.
6525 - Lower the maximum weighted-fractional-uptime cutoff to 98%. This
6526 should give us approximately 40-50% more Guard-flagged nodes,
6527 improving the anonymity the Tor network can provide and also
6528 decreasing the dropoff in throughput that relays experience when
6529 they first get the Guard flag.
6530 - Allow enabling or disabling the *Statistics config options while
6534 - Update to the August 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
6535 - Have the controller interface give a more useful message than
6536 "Internal Error" in response to failed GETINFO requests.
6537 - Warn when the same option is provided more than once in a torrc
6538 file, on the command line, or in a single SETCONF statement, and
6539 the option is one that only accepts a single line. Closes bug 1384.
6540 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
6541 Patch from mingw-san.
6542 - Add support for the country code "{??}" in torrc options like
6543 ExcludeNodes, to indicate all routers of unknown country. Closes
6545 - Relays report the number of bytes spent on answering directory
6546 requests in extra-info descriptors similar to {read,write}-history.
6547 Implements enhancement 1790.
6549 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
6550 - Complain if PublishServerDescriptor is given multiple arguments that
6551 include 0 or 1. This configuration will be rejected in the future.
6552 Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; closes bug 1107.
6553 - Disallow BridgeRelay 1 and ORPort 0 at once in the configuration.
6554 Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha; closes bug 928.
6555 - Change "Application request when we're believed to be offline."
6556 notice to "Application request when we haven't used client
6557 functionality lately.", to clarify that it's not an error. Bugfix
6558 on 0.0.9.3; fixes bug 1222.
6559 - Fix a bug in the controller interface where "GETINFO ns/asdaskljkl"
6560 would return "551 Internal error" rather than "552 Unrecognized key
6561 ns/asdaskljkl". Bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
6562 - Users can't configure a regular relay to be their bridge. It didn't
6563 work because when Tor fetched the bridge descriptor, it found
6564 that it already had it, and didn't realize that the purpose of the
6565 descriptor had changed. Now we replace routers with a purpose other
6566 than bridge with bridge descriptors when fetching them. Bugfix on
6567 0.1.1.9-alpha. Bug 1776 not yet fixed because now we immediately
6568 refetch the descriptor with router purpose 'general', disabling
6570 - Fix a rare bug in rend_fn unit tests: we would fail a test when
6571 a randomly generated port is 0. Diagnosed by Matt Edman. Bugfix
6572 on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1808.
6573 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
6574 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
6575 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
6576 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
6577 it. Also update the spec to reflect this new reason. Bugfix on
6578 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
6579 - Delay geoip stats collection by bridges for 6 hours, not 2 hours,
6580 when we switch from being a public relay to a bridge. Otherwise
6581 there will still be clients that see the relay in their consensus,
6582 and the stats will end up wrong. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug
6584 - Instead of giving an assertion failure on an internal mismatch
6585 on estimated freelist size, just log a BUG warning and try later.
6586 Mitigates but does not fix bug 1125.
6587 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in caches or bridge users
6588 when using a very short voting interval on a testing network.
6589 Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
6591 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
6592 - Alter directory authorities to always consider Exit-flagged nodes
6593 as potential Guard nodes in their votes. The actual decision to
6594 use Exits as Guards is done in the consensus bandwidth weights.
6595 Fixes bug 1294; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
6596 - When the controller is reporting the purpose of circuits that
6597 didn't finish building before the circuit build timeout, it was
6598 printing UNKNOWN_13. Now print EXPIRED. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
6599 - Our libevent version parsing code couldn't handle versions like
6600 1.4.14b-stable and incorrectly warned the user about using an
6601 old and broken version of libevent. Treat 1.4.14b-stable like
6602 1.4.14-stable when parsing the version. Fixes bug 1731; bugfix
6604 - Don't use substitution references like $(VAR:MOD) when
6605 $(asciidoc_files) is empty -- make(1) on NetBSD transforms
6606 '$(:x)' to 'x' rather than the empty string. This bites us in
6607 doc/ when configured with --disable-asciidoc. Bugfix on
6608 0.2.2.9-alpha; fixes bug 1773.
6609 - Remove a spurious hidden service server-side log notice about
6610 "Ancient non-dirty circuits". Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes
6612 - Fix compilation with --with-dmalloc set. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha;
6614 - Correctly report written bytes on linked connections. Found while
6615 implementing 1790. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
6616 - Fix three memory leaks: one in circuit_build_times_parse_state(),
6617 one in dirvote_add_signatures_to_pending_consensus(), and one every
6618 time we parse a v3 network consensus. Bugfixes on 0.2.2.14-alpha,
6619 0.2.2.6-alpha, and 0.2.2.10-alpha respectively; fixes bug 1831.
6621 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
6622 - Take a first step towards making or.h smaller by splitting out
6623 function definitions for all source files in src/or/. Leave
6624 structures and defines in or.h for now.
6625 - Remove a bunch of unused function declarations as well as a block of
6626 #if 0'd code from the unit tests. Closes bug 1824.
6627 - New unit tests for exit-port history statistics; refactored exit
6628 statistics code to be more easily tested.
6629 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
6630 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
6631 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
6634 Changes in version 0.2.2.14-alpha - 2010-07-12
6635 Tor 0.2.2.14-alpha greatly improves client-side handling of
6636 circuit build timeouts, which are used to estimate speed and improve
6637 performance. We also move to a much better GeoIP database, port Tor to
6638 Windows CE, introduce new compile flags that improve code security,
6639 add an eighth v3 directory authority, and address a lot of more
6643 - Tor directory authorities no longer crash when started with a
6644 cached-microdesc-consensus file in their data directory. Bugfix
6645 on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 1532.
6646 - Treat an unset $HOME like an empty $HOME rather than triggering an
6647 assert. Bugfix on 0.0.8pre1; fixes bug 1522.
6648 - Ignore negative and large circuit build timeout values that can
6649 happen during a suspend or hibernate. These values caused various
6650 asserts to fire. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1245.
6651 - Alter calculation of Pareto distribution parameter 'Xm' for
6652 Circuit Build Timeout learning to use the weighted average of the
6653 top N=3 modes (because we have three entry guards). Considering
6654 multiple modes should improve the timeout calculation in some cases,
6655 and prevent extremely high timeout values. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha;
6657 - Alter calculation of Pareto distribution parameter 'Alpha' to use a
6658 right censored distribution model. This approach improves over the
6659 synthetic timeout generation approach that was producing insanely
6660 high timeout values. Now we calculate build timeouts using truncated
6661 times. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bugs 1245 and 1335.
6662 - Do not close circuits that are under construction when they reach
6663 the circuit build timeout. Instead, leave them building (but do not
6664 use them) for up until the time corresponding to the 95th percentile
6665 on the Pareto CDF or 60 seconds, whichever is greater. This is done
6666 to provide better data for the new Pareto model. This percentile
6667 can be controlled by the consensus.
6670 - Move to the June 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather than the
6671 June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that count
6672 how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we have
6673 more accurate data for many African countries.
6674 - Port Tor to build and run correctly on Windows CE systems, using
6675 the wcecompat library. Contributed by Valerio Lupi.
6676 - New "--enable-gcc-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
6677 to turn on gcc compile time hardening options. It ensures
6678 that signed ints have defined behavior (-fwrapv), enables
6679 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 (requiring -O2), adds stack smashing protection
6680 with canaries (-fstack-protector-all), turns on ASLR protection if
6681 supported by the kernel (-fPIE, -pie), and adds additional security
6682 related warnings. Verified to work on Mac OS X and Debian Lenny.
6683 - New "--enable-linker-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
6684 to turn on ELF specific hardening features (relro, now). This does
6685 not work with Mac OS X or any other non-ELF binary format.
6687 o New directory authorities:
6688 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
6692 - New config option "WarnUnsafeSocks 0" disables the warning that
6693 occurs whenever Tor receives a socks handshake using a version of
6694 the socks protocol that can only provide an IP address (rather
6695 than a hostname). Setups that do DNS locally over Tor are fine,
6696 and we shouldn't spam the logs in that case.
6697 - Convert the HACKING file to asciidoc, and add a few new sections
6698 to it, explaining how we use Git, how we make changelogs, and
6699 what should go in a patch.
6700 - Add a TIMEOUT_RATE keyword to the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port
6701 event, to give information on the current rate of circuit timeouts
6702 over our stored history.
6703 - Add ability to disable circuit build time learning via consensus
6704 parameter and via a LearnCircuitBuildTimeout config option. Also
6705 automatically disable circuit build time calculation if we are
6706 either a AuthoritativeDirectory, or if we fail to write our state
6707 file. Fixes bug 1296.
6708 - More gracefully handle corrupt state files, removing asserts
6709 in favor of saving a backup and resetting state.
6710 - Rename the "log.h" header to "torlog.h" so as to conflict with fewer
6714 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
6716 - When a2x fails, mention that the user could disable manpages instead
6717 of trying to fix their asciidoc installation.
6718 - Where available, use Libevent 2.0's periodic timers so that our
6719 once-per-second cleanup code gets called even more closely to
6720 once per second than it would otherwise. Fixes bug 943.
6721 - If you run a bridge that listens on multiple IP addresses, and
6722 some user configures a bridge address that uses a different IP
6723 address than your bridge writes in its router descriptor, and the
6724 user doesn't specify an identity key, their Tor would discard the
6725 descriptor because "it isn't one of our configured bridges", and
6726 fail to bootstrap. Now believe the descriptor and bootstrap anyway.
6727 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
6728 - If OpenSSL fails to make a duplicate of a private or public key, log
6729 an error message and try to exit cleanly. May help with debugging
6730 if bug 1209 ever remanifests.
6731 - Save a couple bytes in memory allocation every time we escape
6732 certain characters in a string. Patch from Florian Zumbiehl.
6733 - Make it explicit that we don't cannibalize one-hop circuits. This
6734 happens in the wild, but doesn't turn out to be a problem because
6735 we fortunately don't use those circuits. Many thanks to outofwords
6736 for the initial analysis and to swissknife who confirmed that
6737 two-hop circuits are actually created.
6738 - Make directory mirrors report non-zero dirreq-v[23]-shares again.
6739 Fixes bug 1564; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
6740 - Eliminate a case where a circuit build time warning was displayed
6741 after network connectivity resumed. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
6744 Changes in version 0.2.1.26 - 2010-05-02
6745 Tor 0.2.1.26 addresses the recent connection and memory overload
6746 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
6747 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
6748 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
6750 This release also fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL libraries
6751 that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
6754 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
6755 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
6756 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
6757 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
6758 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
6759 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
6760 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
6761 their directory fetches over TLS).
6762 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
6763 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
6764 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
6765 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
6766 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
6767 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
6768 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
6769 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
6772 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
6773 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
6777 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
6778 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
6779 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
6780 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
6781 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
6782 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
6783 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
6786 Changes in version 0.2.2.13-alpha - 2010-04-24
6787 Tor 0.2.2.13-alpha addresses the recent connection and memory overload
6788 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
6789 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
6790 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
6793 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
6794 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
6795 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
6796 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
6797 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
6798 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
6799 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
6800 their directory fetches over TLS).
6803 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
6804 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
6806 - Directory authorities now do an immediate reachability check as soon
6807 as they hear about a new relay. This change should slightly reduce
6808 the time between setting up a relay and getting listed as running
6809 in the consensus. It should also improve the time between setting
6810 up a bridge and seeing use by bridge users.
6811 - Directory authorities no longer launch a TLS connection to every
6812 relay as they startup. Now that we have 2k+ descriptors cached,
6813 the resulting network hiccup is becoming a burden. Besides,
6814 authorities already avoid voting about Running for the first half
6815 hour of their uptime.
6818 Changes in version 0.2.2.12-alpha - 2010-04-20
6819 Tor 0.2.2.12-alpha fixes a critical bug in how directory authorities
6820 handle and vote on descriptors. It was causing relays to drop out of
6824 - Many relays have been falling out of the consensus lately because
6825 not enough authorities know about their descriptor for them to get
6826 a majority of votes. When we deprecated the v2 directory protocol,
6827 we got rid of the only way that v3 authorities can hear from each
6828 other about other descriptors. Now authorities examine every v3
6829 vote for new descriptors, and fetch them from that authority. Bugfix
6831 - Fix two typos in tor_vasprintf() that broke the compile on Windows,
6832 and a warning in or.h related to bandwidth_weight_rule_t that
6833 prevented clean compile on OS X. Fixes bug 1363; bugfix on
6835 - Fix a segfault on relays when DirReqStatistics is enabled
6836 and 24 hours pass. Bug found by keb. Fixes bug 1365; bugfix on
6840 - Demote a confusing TLS warning that relay operators might get when
6841 someone tries to talk to their OrPort. It is neither the operator's
6842 fault nor can they do anything about it. Fixes bug 1364; bugfix
6846 Changes in version 0.2.2.11-alpha - 2010-04-15
6847 Tor 0.2.2.11-alpha fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL
6848 libraries that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
6851 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
6852 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
6853 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
6854 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
6855 - Fix a parsing error that made every possible value of
6856 CircPriorityHalflifeMsec get treated as "1 msec". Bugfix
6857 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Rename CircPriorityHalflifeMsec to
6858 CircuitPriorityHalflifeMsec, so authorities can tell newer relays
6859 about the option without breaking older ones.
6860 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
6861 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
6862 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
6863 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
6866 - Experiment with a more aggressive approach to preventing clients
6867 from making one-hop exit streams. Exit relays who want to try it
6868 out can set "RefuseUnknownExits 1" in their torrc, and then look
6869 for "Attempt by %s to open a stream" log messages. Let us know
6871 - Add support for statically linking zlib by specifying
6872 --enable-static-zlib, to go with our support for statically linking
6873 openssl and libevent. Resolves bug 1358.
6876 - Fix a segfault that happens whenever a Tor client that is using
6877 libevent2's bufferevents gets a hup signal. Bugfix on 0.2.2.5-alpha;
6879 - When we cleaned up the contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file, we left
6880 out the first line. Fixes bug 1295.
6881 - When building the manpage from a tarball, we required asciidoc, but
6882 the asciidoc -> roff/html conversion was already done for the
6883 tarball. Make 'make' complain only when we need asciidoc (either
6884 because we're compiling directly from git, or because we altered
6885 the asciidoc manpage in the tarball). Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
6886 - When none of the directory authorities vote on any params, Tor
6887 segfaulted when trying to make the consensus from the votes. We
6888 didn't trigger the bug in practice, because authorities do include
6889 params in their votes. Bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 1322.
6892 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
6893 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
6894 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
6895 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
6896 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
6897 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
6898 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
6901 Changes in version 0.2.2.10-alpha - 2010-03-07
6902 Tor 0.2.2.10-alpha fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.2.9-alpha that
6903 could prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also
6904 starts the groundwork for another client-side performance boost, since
6905 currently we're not making efficient use of relays that have both the
6906 Guard flag and the Exit flag.
6909 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
6910 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
6911 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
6912 0.2.2.9-alpha; fixes bug 1269.
6914 o Major features (performance):
6915 - Directory authorities now compute consensus weightings that instruct
6916 clients how to weight relays flagged as Guard, Exit, Guard+Exit,
6917 and no flag. Clients that use these weightings will distribute
6918 network load more evenly across these different relay types. The
6919 weightings are in the consensus so we can change them globally in
6920 the future. Extra thanks to "outofwords" for finding some nasty
6921 security bugs in the first implementation of this feature.
6923 o Minor features (performance):
6924 - Always perform router selections using weighted relay bandwidth,
6925 even if we don't need a high capacity circuit at the time. Non-fast
6926 circuits now only differ from fast ones in that they can use relays
6927 not marked with the Fast flag. This "feature" could turn out to
6928 be a horrible bug; we should investigate more before it goes into
6932 - Allow disabling building of the manpages. Skipping the manpage
6933 speeds up the build considerably.
6935 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
6936 - Fix a memleak in the EXTENDCIRCUIT logic. Spotted by coverity.
6937 Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
6938 - Disallow values larger than INT32_MAX for PerConnBWRate|Burst
6939 config option. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
6940 - Ship the asciidoc-helper file in the tarball, so that people can
6941 build from source if they want to, and touching the .1.txt files
6942 doesn't break the build. Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
6944 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x or earlier):
6945 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
6946 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
6948 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
6949 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
6950 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
6951 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
6953 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
6954 - Fix some urls in the exit notice file and make it XHTML1.1 strict
6955 compliant. Based on a patch from Christian Kujau.
6956 - Don't use sed in asciidoc-helper anymore.
6957 - Make the build process fail if asciidoc cannot be found and
6958 building with asciidoc isn't disabled.
6961 Changes in version 0.2.2.9-alpha - 2010-02-22
6962 Tor 0.2.2.9-alpha makes Tor work again on the latest OS X, updates the
6963 location of a directory authority, and cleans up a bunch of small bugs.
6965 o Directory authority changes:
6966 - Change IP address for dannenberg (v3 directory authority), and
6967 remove moria2 (obsolete v1, v2 directory authority and v0 hidden
6968 service directory authority) from the list.
6971 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
6972 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
6973 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
6974 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
6975 libraries in a security patch.
6976 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
6977 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
6978 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
6979 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
6981 - Authorities could be tricked into giving out the Exit flag to relays
6982 that didn't allow exiting to any ports. This bug could screw
6983 with load balancing and stats. Bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha; fixes bug
6984 1238. Bug discovered by Martin Kowalczyk.
6985 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
6986 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
6987 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
6990 - Fix static compilation by listing the openssl libraries in the right
6991 order. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.8-alpha; fixes bug 1237.
6992 - Resume handling .exit hostnames in a special way: originally we
6993 stripped the .exit part and used the requested exit relay. In
6994 0.2.2.1-alpha we stopped treating them in any special way, meaning
6995 if you use a .exit address then Tor will pass it on to the exit
6996 relay. Now we reject the .exit stream outright, since that behavior
6997 might be more expected by the user. Found and diagnosed by Scott
6998 Bennett and Downie on or-talk.
6999 - Don't spam the controller with events when we have no file
7000 descriptors available. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. (Rate-limiting
7001 for log messages was already solved from bug 748.)
7002 - Avoid a bogus overlapped memcpy in tor_addr_copy(). Reported by
7004 - Make the DNSPort option work with libevent 2.x. Don't alter the
7005 behaviour for libevent 1.x. Fixes bug 1143. Found by SwissTorExit.
7006 - Emit a GUARD DROPPED controller event for a case we missed.
7007 - Make more fields in the controller protocol case-insensitive, since
7008 control-spec.txt said they were.
7009 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
7010 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
7011 - Fix a spec conformance issue: the network-status-version token
7012 must be the first token in a v3 consensus or vote. Discovered by
7013 parakeep. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
7015 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
7016 - Generate our manpage and HTML documentation using Asciidoc. This
7017 change should make it easier to maintain the documentation, and
7019 - Remove the --enable-iphone option. According to reports from Marco
7020 Bonetti, Tor builds fine without any special tweaking on recent
7021 iPhone SDK versions.
7022 - Removed some unnecessary files from the source distribution. The
7023 AUTHORS file has now been merged into the people page on the
7024 website. The roadmaps and design doc can now be found in the
7025 projects directory in svn.
7026 - Enabled various circuit build timeout constants to be controlled
7027 by consensus parameters. Also set better defaults for these
7028 parameters based on experimentation on broadband and simulated
7032 - The 'EXTENDCIRCUIT' control port command can now be used with
7033 a circ id of 0 and no path. This feature will cause Tor to build
7034 a new 'fast' general purpose circuit using its own path selection
7036 - Added a BUILDTIMEOUT_SET controller event to describe changes
7037 to the circuit build timeout.
7038 - Future-proof the controller protocol a bit by ignoring keyword
7039 arguments we do not recognize.
7040 - Expand homedirs passed to tor-checkkey. This should silence a
7041 coverity complaint about passing a user-supplied string into
7042 open() without checking it.
7045 Changes in version 0.2.1.25 - 2010-03-16
7046 Tor 0.2.1.25 fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.1.23 that could
7047 prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also fixes
7048 several minor potential security bugs.
7051 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
7052 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
7053 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
7054 0.2.1.23; fixes bug 1269.
7055 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
7056 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
7057 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
7060 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
7061 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
7063 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
7064 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
7065 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
7066 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
7070 Changes in version 0.2.1.24 - 2010-02-21
7071 Tor 0.2.1.24 makes Tor work again on the latest OS X -- this time
7075 - Work correctly out-of-the-box with even more vendor-patched versions
7076 of OpenSSL. In particular, make it so Debian and OS X don't need
7077 customized patches to run/build.
7080 Changes in version 0.2.1.23 - 2010-02-13
7081 Tor 0.2.1.23 fixes a huge client-side performance bug, makes Tor work
7082 again on the latest OS X, and updates the location of a directory
7085 o Major bugfixes (performance):
7086 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
7087 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
7088 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
7089 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
7090 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
7091 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
7092 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
7095 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
7096 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
7097 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
7098 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
7099 libraries in a security patch.
7100 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
7101 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
7102 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
7103 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
7106 o Directory authority changes:
7107 - Change IP address for dannenberg (v3 directory authority), and
7108 remove moria2 (obsolete v1, v2 directory authority and v0 hidden
7109 service directory authority) from the list.
7112 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
7113 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
7116 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
7117 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
7118 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
7119 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
7120 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
7123 Changes in version 0.2.2.8-alpha - 2010-01-26
7124 Tor 0.2.2.8-alpha fixes a crash bug in 0.2.2.7-alpha that has been
7125 causing bridge relays to disappear. If you're running a bridge,
7129 - Fix a memory corruption bug on bridges that occured during the
7130 inclusion of stats data in extra-info descriptors. Also fix the
7131 interface for geoip_get_bridge_stats* to prevent similar bugs in
7132 the future. Diagnosis by Tas, patch by Karsten and Sebastian.
7133 Fixes bug 1208; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
7136 - Ignore OutboundBindAddress when connecting to localhost.
7137 Connections to localhost need to come _from_ localhost, or else
7138 local servers (like DNS and outgoing HTTP/SOCKS proxies) will often
7142 Changes in version 0.2.2.7-alpha - 2010-01-19
7143 Tor 0.2.2.7-alpha fixes a huge client-side performance bug, as well
7144 as laying the groundwork for further relay-side performance fixes. It
7145 also starts cleaning up client behavior with respect to the EntryNodes,
7146 ExitNodes, and StrictNodes config options.
7148 This release also rotates two directory authority keys, due to a
7149 security breach of some of the Torproject servers.
7151 o Directory authority changes:
7152 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
7155 o Major features (performance):
7156 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
7157 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
7158 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
7159 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
7160 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
7161 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
7162 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
7163 - When choosing which cells to relay first, relays can now favor
7164 circuits that have been quiet recently, to provide lower latency
7165 for low-volume circuits. By default, relays enable or disable this
7166 feature based on a setting in the consensus. You can override
7167 this default by using the new "CircuitPriorityHalflife" config
7168 option. Design and code by Ian Goldberg, Can Tang, and Chris
7170 - Add separate per-conn write limiting to go with the per-conn read
7171 limiting. We added a global write limit in Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha,
7172 but never per-conn write limits.
7173 - New consensus params "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst" to let us
7174 rate-limit client connections as they enter the network. It's
7175 controlled in the consensus so we can turn it on and off for
7176 experiments. It's starting out off. Based on proposal 163.
7178 o Major features (relay selection options):
7179 - Switch to a StrictNodes config option, rather than the previous
7180 "StrictEntryNodes" / "StrictExitNodes" separation that was missing a
7181 "StrictExcludeNodes" option.
7182 - If EntryNodes, ExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, or ExcludeExitNodes
7183 change during a config reload, mark and discard all our origin
7184 circuits. This fix should address edge cases where we change the
7185 config options and but then choose a circuit that we created before
7187 - If EntryNodes or ExitNodes are set, be more willing to use an
7188 unsuitable (e.g. slow or unstable) circuit. The user asked for it,
7190 - Make EntryNodes config option much more aggressive even when
7191 StrictNodes is not set. Before it would prepend your requested
7192 entrynodes to your list of guard nodes, but feel free to use others
7193 after that. Now it chooses only from your EntryNodes if any of
7194 those are available, and only falls back to others if a) they're
7195 all down and b) StrictNodes is not set.
7196 - Now we refresh your entry guards from EntryNodes at each consensus
7197 fetch -- rather than just at startup and then they slowly rot as
7198 the network changes.
7201 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
7202 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
7203 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
7206 - Log a notice when we get a new control connection. Now it's easier
7207 for security-conscious users to recognize when a local application
7208 is knocking on their controller door. Suggested by bug 1196.
7209 - New config option "CircuitStreamTimeout" to override our internal
7210 timeout schedule for how many seconds until we detach a stream from
7211 a circuit and try a new circuit. If your network is particularly
7212 slow, you might want to set this to a number like 60.
7213 - New controller command "getinfo config-text". It returns the
7214 contents that Tor would write if you send it a SAVECONF command,
7215 so the controller can write the file to disk itself.
7216 - New options for SafeLogging to allow scrubbing only log messages
7217 generated while acting as a relay.
7218 - Ship the bridges spec file in the tarball too.
7219 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
7220 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
7221 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
7222 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
7223 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
7225 o Minor bugfixes (compiling):
7226 - Fix compilation on OS X 10.3, which has a stub mlockall() but
7227 hides it. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
7228 - Fix compilation on Solaris by removing support for the
7229 DisableAllSwap config option. Solaris doesn't have an rlimit for
7230 mlockall, so we cannot use it safely. Fixes bug 1198; bugfix on
7233 o Minor bugfixes (crashes):
7234 - Do not segfault when writing buffer stats when we haven't observed
7235 a single circuit to report about. Found by Fabian Lanze. Bugfix on
7237 - If we're in the pathological case where there's no exit bandwidth
7238 but there is non-exit bandwidth, or no guard bandwidth but there
7239 is non-guard bandwidth, don't crash during path selection. Bugfix
7241 - Fix an impossible-to-actually-trigger buffer overflow in relay
7242 descriptor generation. Bugfix on 0.1.0.15.
7244 o Minor bugfixes (privacy):
7245 - Fix an instance where a Tor directory mirror might accidentally
7246 log the IP address of a misbehaving Tor client. Bugfix on
7248 - Don't list Windows capabilities in relay descriptors. We never made
7249 use of them, and maybe it's a bad idea to publish them. Bugfix
7252 o Minor bugfixes (other):
7253 - Resolve an edge case in path weighting that could make us misweight
7254 our relay selection. Fixes bug 1203; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
7255 - Fix statistics on client numbers by country as seen by bridges that
7256 were broken in 0.2.2.1-alpha. Also switch to reporting full 24-hour
7257 intervals instead of variable 12-to-48-hour intervals.
7258 - After we free an internal connection structure, overwrite it
7259 with a different memory value than we use for overwriting a freed
7260 internal circuit structure. Should help with debugging. Suggested
7262 - Update our OpenSSL 0.9.8l fix so that it works with OpenSSL 0.9.8m
7266 - Remove the HSAuthorityRecordStats option that version 0 hidden
7267 service authorities could have used to track statistics of overall
7268 hidden service usage.
7271 Changes in version 0.2.1.22 - 2010-01-19
7272 Tor 0.2.1.22 fixes a critical privacy problem in bridge directory
7273 authorities -- it would tell you its whole history of bridge descriptors
7274 if you make the right directory request. This stable update also
7275 rotates two of the seven v3 directory authority keys and locations.
7277 o Directory authority changes:
7278 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
7282 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
7283 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
7284 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
7287 Changes in version 0.2.1.21 - 2009-12-21
7288 Tor 0.2.1.21 fixes an incompatibility with the most recent OpenSSL
7289 library. If you use Tor on Linux / Unix and you're getting SSL
7290 renegotiation errors, upgrading should help. We also recommend an
7291 upgrade if you're an exit relay.
7294 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
7295 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
7296 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, of course, but OpenSSL
7297 0.9.8l won't work unless we say we are.
7298 - Avoid crashing if the client is trying to upload many bytes and the
7299 circuit gets torn down at the same time, or if the flip side
7300 happens on the exit relay. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1150.
7303 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
7304 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
7305 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
7306 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
7307 - Fix a couple of very-hard-to-trigger memory leaks, and one hard-to-
7308 trigger platform-specific option misparsing case found by Coverity
7310 - Fix a compilation warning on Fedora 12 by removing an impossible-to-
7311 trigger assert. Fixes bug 1173.
7314 Changes in version 0.2.2.6-alpha - 2009-11-19
7315 Tor 0.2.2.6-alpha lays the groundwork for many upcoming features:
7316 support for the new lower-footprint "microdescriptor" directory design,
7317 future-proofing our consensus format against new hash functions or
7318 other changes, and an Android port. It also makes Tor compatible with
7319 the upcoming OpenSSL 0.9.8l release, and fixes a variety of bugs.
7322 - Directory authorities can now create, vote on, and serve multiple
7323 parallel formats of directory data as part of their voting process.
7324 Partially implements Proposal 162: "Publish the consensus in
7326 - Directory authorities can now agree on and publish small summaries
7327 of router information that clients can use in place of regular
7328 server descriptors. This transition will eventually allow clients
7329 to use far less bandwidth for downloading information about the
7330 network. Begins the implementation of Proposal 158: "Clients
7331 download consensus + microdescriptors".
7332 - The directory voting system is now extensible to use multiple hash
7333 algorithms for signatures and resource selection. Newer formats
7334 are signed with SHA256, with a possibility for moving to a better
7335 hash algorithm in the future.
7336 - New DisableAllSwap option. If set to 1, Tor will attempt to lock all
7337 current and future memory pages via mlockall(). On supported
7338 platforms (modern Linux and probably BSD but not Windows or OS X),
7339 this should effectively disable any and all attempts to page out
7340 memory. This option requires that you start your Tor as root --
7341 if you use DisableAllSwap, please consider using the User option
7342 to properly reduce the privileges of your Tor.
7343 - Numerous changes, bugfixes, and workarounds from Nathan Freitas
7344 to help Tor build correctly for Android phones.
7347 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
7348 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
7349 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, but OpenSSL 0.9.8l
7350 won't work unless we say we are.
7353 - Fix a crash bug when trying to initialize the evdns module in
7354 Libevent 2. Bugfix on 0.2.1.16-rc.
7355 - Stop logging at severity 'warn' when some other Tor client tries
7356 to establish a circuit with us using weak DH keys. It's a protocol
7357 violation, but that doesn't mean ordinary users need to hear about
7358 it. Fixes the bug part of bug 1114. Bugfix on 0.1.0.13.
7359 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
7360 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
7361 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
7362 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
7363 - Fix numerous small code-flaws found by Coverity Scan Rung 3.
7364 - If all authorities restart at once right before a consensus vote,
7365 nobody will vote about "Running", and clients will get a consensus
7366 with no usable relays. Instead, authorities refuse to build a
7367 consensus if this happens. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1066.
7368 - If your relay can't keep up with the number of incoming create
7369 cells, it would log one warning per failure into your logs. Limit
7370 warnings to 1 per minute. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre10; fixes bug 1042.
7371 - Bridges now use "reject *:*" as their default exit policy. Bugfix
7372 on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1113.
7373 - Fix a memory leak on directory authorities during voting that was
7374 introduced in 0.2.2.1-alpha. Found via valgrind.
7377 Changes in version 0.2.1.20 - 2009-10-15
7378 Tor 0.2.1.20 fixes a crash bug when you're accessing many hidden
7379 services at once, prepares for more performance improvements, and
7380 fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
7382 The Windows and OS X bundles also include a more recent Vidalia,
7383 and switch from Privoxy to Polipo.
7385 The OS X installers are now drag and drop. It's best to un-install
7386 Tor/Vidalia and then install this new bundle, rather than upgrade. If
7387 you want to upgrade, you'll need to update the paths for Tor and Polipo
7388 in the Vidalia Settings window.
7391 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
7392 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
7393 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
7394 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
7395 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
7397 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
7398 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
7400 - Avoid segfault in rare cases when finishing an introduction circuit
7401 as a client and finding out that we don't have an introduction key
7402 for it. Fixes bug 1073. Reported by Aaron Swartz.
7405 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
7406 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
7407 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
7409 o New directory authorities:
7410 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
7412 - Move moria1 and tonga to alternate IP addresses.
7415 - Fix a signed/unsigned compile warning in 0.2.1.19.
7416 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
7418 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
7419 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
7420 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
7421 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
7422 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
7423 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
7424 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
7425 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
7426 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
7427 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
7428 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
7429 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
7430 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
7431 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
7432 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
7433 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
7434 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
7436 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
7437 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
7438 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090. Bugfix on
7440 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
7441 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
7445 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
7446 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
7447 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
7448 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
7449 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
7452 Changes in version 0.2.2.5-alpha - 2009-10-11
7453 Tor 0.2.2.5-alpha fixes a few compile problems in 0.2.2.4-alpha.
7456 - Make the tarball compile again. Oops. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
7458 o Directory authorities:
7459 - Temporarily (just for this release) move dizum to an alternate
7463 Changes in version 0.2.2.4-alpha - 2009-10-10
7464 Tor 0.2.2.4-alpha fixes more crash bugs in 0.2.2.2-alpha. It also
7465 introduces a new unit test framework, shifts directry authority
7466 addresses around to reduce the impact from recent blocking events,
7467 and fixes a few smaller bugs.
7470 - Fix several more asserts in the circuit_build_times code, for
7471 example one that causes Tor to fail to start once we have
7472 accumulated 5000 build times in the state file. Bugfixes on
7473 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1108.
7475 o New directory authorities:
7476 - Move moria1 and Tonga to alternate IP addresses.
7479 - Log SSL state transitions at debug level during handshake, and
7480 include SSL states in error messages. This may help debug future
7481 SSL handshake issues.
7482 - Add a new "Handshake" log domain for activities that happen
7483 during the TLS handshake.
7484 - Revert to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file. The September one
7485 seems to have removed most US IP addresses.
7486 - Directory authorities now reject Tor relays with versions less than
7487 0.1.2.14. This step cuts out four relays from the current network,
7488 none of which are very big.
7491 - Fix a couple of smaller issues with gathering statistics. Bugfixes
7493 - Fix two memory leaks in the error case of
7494 circuit_build_times_parse_state(). Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
7495 - Don't count one-hop circuits when we're estimating how long it
7496 takes circuits to build on average. Otherwise we'll set our circuit
7497 build timeout lower than we should. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
7498 - Directory authorities no longer change their opinion of, or vote on,
7499 whether a router is Running, unless they have themselves been
7500 online long enough to have some idea. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
7503 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
7504 - Revise our unit tests to use the "tinytest" framework, so we
7505 can run tests in their own processes, have smarter setup/teardown
7506 code, and so on. The unit test code has moved to its own
7507 subdirectory, and has been split into multiple modules.
7510 Changes in version 0.2.2.3-alpha - 2009-09-23
7511 Tor 0.2.2.3-alpha fixes a few crash bugs in 0.2.2.2-alpha.
7514 - Fix an overzealous assert in our new circuit build timeout code.
7515 Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1103.
7518 - If the networkstatus consensus tells us that we should use a
7519 negative circuit package window, ignore it. Otherwise we'll
7520 believe it and then trigger an assert. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
7523 Changes in version 0.2.2.2-alpha - 2009-09-21
7524 Tor 0.2.2.2-alpha introduces our latest performance improvement for
7525 clients: Tor tracks the average time it takes to build a circuit, and
7526 avoids using circuits that take too long to build. For fast connections,
7527 this feature can cut your expected latency in half. For slow or flaky
7528 connections, it could ruin your Tor experience. Let us know if it does!
7531 - Tor now tracks how long it takes to build client-side circuits
7532 over time, and adapts its timeout to local network performance.
7533 Since a circuit that takes a long time to build will also provide
7534 bad performance, we get significant latency improvements by
7535 discarding the slowest 20% of circuits. Specifically, Tor creates
7536 circuits more aggressively than usual until it has enough data
7537 points for a good timeout estimate. Implements proposal 151.
7538 We are especially looking for reports (good and bad) from users with
7539 both EDGE and broadband connections that can move from broadband
7540 to EDGE and find out if the build-time data in the .tor/state gets
7541 reset without loss of Tor usability. You should also see a notice
7542 log message telling you that Tor has reset its timeout.
7543 - Directory authorities can now vote on arbitary integer values as
7544 part of the consensus process. This is designed to help set
7545 network-wide parameters. Implements proposal 167.
7546 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
7547 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
7548 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
7551 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
7552 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
7556 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
7557 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
7558 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
7559 - Fix parsing for memory or time units given without a space between
7560 the number and the unit. Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1076.
7561 - A networkstatus vote must contain exactly one signature. Spec
7562 conformance issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
7563 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
7564 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
7565 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
7566 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
7567 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
7568 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
7569 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
7570 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
7571 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
7572 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
7573 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
7574 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
7575 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
7576 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
7578 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
7579 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
7580 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090, but more problems
7581 remain. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
7582 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
7583 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
7585 - Make our 'torify' script more portable; if we have only one of
7586 'torsocks' or 'tsocks' installed, don't complain to the user;
7587 and explain our warning about tsocks better.
7590 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
7591 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
7592 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
7593 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
7594 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
7595 - Update to the "September 4 2009" ip-to-country file.
7598 Changes in version 0.2.2.1-alpha - 2009-08-26
7599 Tor 0.2.2.1-alpha disables ".exit" address notation by default, allows
7600 Tor clients to bootstrap on networks where only port 80 is reachable,
7601 makes it more straightforward to support hardware crypto accelerators,
7602 and starts the groundwork for gathering stats safely at relays.
7605 - Start the process of disabling ".exit" address notation, since it
7606 can be used for a variety of esoteric application-level attacks
7607 on users. To reenable it, set "AllowDotExit 1" in your torrc. Fix
7610 o New directory authorities:
7611 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
7615 - New AccelName and AccelDir options add support for dynamic OpenSSL
7616 hardware crypto acceleration engines.
7617 - Tor now supports tunneling all of its outgoing connections over
7618 a SOCKS proxy, using the SOCKS4Proxy and/or SOCKS5Proxy
7619 configuration options. Code by Christopher Davis.
7622 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
7623 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
7624 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
7625 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
7626 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
7629 o New options for gathering stats safely:
7630 - Directory mirrors that set "DirReqStatistics 1" write statistics
7631 about directory requests to disk every 24 hours. As compared to the
7632 --enable-geoip-stats flag in 0.2.1.x, there are a few improvements:
7633 1) stats are written to disk exactly every 24 hours; 2) estimated
7634 shares of v2 and v3 requests are determined as mean values, not at
7635 the end of a measurement period; 3) unresolved requests are listed
7636 with country code '??'; 4) directories also measure download times.
7637 - Exit nodes that set "ExitPortStatistics 1" write statistics on the
7638 number of exit streams and transferred bytes per port to disk every
7640 - Relays that set "CellStatistics 1" write statistics on how long
7641 cells spend in their circuit queues to disk every 24 hours.
7642 - Entry nodes that set "EntryStatistics 1" write statistics on the
7643 rough number and origins of connecting clients to disk every 24
7645 - Relays that write any of the above statistics to disk and set
7646 "ExtraInfoStatistics 1" include the past 24 hours of statistics in
7647 their extra-info documents.
7650 - New --digests command-line switch to output the digests of the
7651 source files Tor was built with.
7652 - The "torify" script now uses torsocks where available.
7653 - The memarea code now uses a sentinel value at the end of each area
7654 to make sure nothing writes beyond the end of an area. This might
7655 help debug some conceivable causes of bug 930.
7656 - Time and memory units in the configuration file can now be set to
7657 fractional units. For example, "2.5 GB" is now a valid value for
7659 - Certain Tor clients (such as those behind check.torproject.org) may
7660 want to fetch the consensus in an extra early manner. To enable this
7661 a user may now set FetchDirInfoExtraEarly to 1. This also depends on
7662 setting FetchDirInfoEarly to 1. Previous behavior will stay the same
7663 as only certain clients who must have this information sooner should
7665 - Instead of adding the svn revision to the Tor version string, report
7666 the git commit (when we're building from a git checkout).
7669 - If any of the v3 certs we download are unparseable, we should
7670 actually notice the failure so we don't retry indefinitely. Bugfix
7671 on 0.2.0.x; reported by "rotator".
7672 - If the cached cert file is unparseable, warn but don't exit.
7673 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
7675 - When Tor fails to parse a descriptor of any kind, dump it to disk.
7676 Might help diagnosing bug 1051.
7678 o Deprecated and removed features:
7679 - The controller no longer accepts the old obsolete "addr-mappings/"
7680 or "unregistered-servers-" GETINFO values.
7681 - Hidden services no longer publish version 0 descriptors, and clients
7682 do not request or use version 0 descriptors. However, the old hidden
7683 service authorities still accept and serve version 0 descriptors
7684 when contacted by older hidden services/clients.
7685 - The EXTENDED_EVENTS and VERBOSE_NAMES controller features are now
7686 always on; using them is necessary for correct forward-compatible
7688 - Remove support for .noconnect style addresses. Nobody was using
7689 them, and they provided another avenue for detecting Tor users
7690 via application-level web tricks.
7692 o Packaging changes:
7693 - Upgrade Vidalia from 0.1.15 to 0.2.3 in the Windows and OS X
7694 installer bundles. See
7695 https://trac.vidalia-project.net/browser/vidalia/tags/vidalia-0.2.3/CHANGELOG
7696 for details of what's new in Vidalia 0.2.3.
7697 - Windows Vidalia Bundle: update Privoxy from 3.0.6 to 3.0.14-beta.
7698 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: move to Polipo 1.0.4 with Tor specific
7699 configuration file, rather than the old Privoxy.
7700 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: Vidalia, Tor, and Polipo are compiled as
7701 x86-only for better compatibility with OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard.
7702 - OS X Tor Expert Bundle: Tor is compiled as x86-only for
7703 better compatibility with OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard.
7704 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: The multi-package installer is now replaced
7705 by a simple drag and drop to the /Applications folder. This change
7706 occurred with the upgrade to Vidalia 0.2.3.
7709 Changes in version 0.2.1.19 - 2009-07-28
7710 Tor 0.2.1.19 fixes a major bug with accessing and providing hidden
7711 services on Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18.
7714 - Make accessing hidden services on 0.2.1.x work right again.
7715 Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha; workaround for bug 1038. Diagnosis and
7716 part of patch provided by "optimist".
7719 - When a relay/bridge is writing out its identity key fingerprint to
7720 the "fingerprint" file and to its logs, write it without spaces. Now
7721 it will look like the fingerprints in our bridges documentation,
7722 and confuse fewer users.
7725 - Relays no longer publish a new server descriptor if they change
7726 their MaxAdvertisedBandwidth config option but it doesn't end up
7727 changing their advertised bandwidth numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.28-rc;
7728 fixes bug 1026. Patch from Sebastian.
7729 - Avoid leaking memory every time we get a create cell but we have
7730 so many already queued that we refuse it. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha;
7731 fixes bug 1034. Reported by BarkerJr.
7734 Changes in version 0.2.1.18 - 2009-07-24
7735 Tor 0.2.1.18 lays the foundations for performance improvements,
7736 adds status events to help users diagnose bootstrap problems, adds
7737 optional authentication/authorization for hidden services, fixes a
7738 variety of potential anonymity problems, and includes a huge pile of
7739 other features and bug fixes.
7742 - Add LIBS=-lrt to Makefile.am so the Tor RPMs use a static libevent.
7745 Changes in version 0.2.1.17-rc - 2009-07-07
7746 Tor 0.2.1.17-rc marks the fourth -- and hopefully last -- release
7747 candidate for the 0.2.1.x series. It lays the groundwork for further
7748 client performance improvements, and also fixes a big bug with directory
7749 authorities that were causing them to assign Guard and Stable flags
7752 The Windows bundles also finally include the geoip database that we
7753 thought we'd been shipping since 0.2.0.x (oops), and the OS X bundles
7754 should actually install Torbutton rather than giving you a cryptic
7755 failure message (oops).
7758 - Clients now use the bandwidth values in the consensus, rather than
7759 the bandwidth values in each relay descriptor. This approach opens
7760 the door to more accurate bandwidth estimates once the directory
7761 authorities start doing active measurements. Implements more of
7765 - When Tor clients restart after 1-5 days, they discard all their
7766 cached descriptors as too old, but they still use the cached
7767 consensus document. This approach is good for robustness, but
7768 bad for performance: since they don't know any bandwidths, they
7769 end up choosing at random rather than weighting their choice by
7770 speed. Fixed by the above feature of putting bandwidths in the
7771 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
7772 - Directory authorities were neglecting to mark relays down in their
7773 internal histories if the relays fall off the routerlist without
7774 ever being found unreachable. So there were relays in the histories
7775 that haven't been seen for eight months, and are listed as being
7776 up for eight months. This wreaked havoc on the "median wfu"
7777 and "median mtbf" calculations, in turn making Guard and Stable
7778 flags very wrong, hurting network performance. Fixes bugs 696 and
7779 969. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
7782 - Serve the DirPortFrontPage page even when we have been approaching
7783 our quotas recently. Fixes bug 1013; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
7784 - The control port would close the connection before flushing long
7785 replies, such as the network consensus, if a QUIT command was issued
7786 before the reply had completed. Now, the control port flushes all
7787 pending replies before closing the connection. Also fixed a spurious
7788 warning when a QUIT command is issued after a malformed or rejected
7789 AUTHENTICATE command, but before the connection was closed. Patch
7790 by Marcus Griep. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; fixes bugs 1015 and 1016.
7791 - When we can't find an intro key for a v2 hidden service descriptor,
7792 fall back to the v0 hidden service descriptor and log a bug message.
7793 Workaround for bug 1024.
7794 - Fix a log message that did not respect the SafeLogging option.
7798 - If we're a relay and we change our IP address, be more verbose
7799 about the reason that made us change. Should help track down
7800 further bugs for relays on dynamic IP addresses.
7803 Changes in version 0.2.0.35 - 2009-06-24
7805 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
7806 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
7807 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
7808 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
7809 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
7812 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
7813 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
7814 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
7815 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
7816 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
7817 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
7818 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
7819 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
7820 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
7821 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
7824 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
7825 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
7826 0.2.0.33; fixes bug 672.
7827 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
7828 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
7829 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
7830 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
7831 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
7834 Changes in version 0.2.1.16-rc - 2009-06-20
7835 Tor 0.2.1.16-rc speeds up performance for fast exit relays, and fixes
7836 a bunch of minor bugs.
7839 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
7840 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
7841 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
7843 o Major performance improvements (on 0.2.0.x):
7844 - Disable and refactor some debugging checks that forced a linear scan
7845 over the whole server-side DNS cache. These accounted for over 50%
7846 of CPU time on a relatively busy exit node's gprof profile. Found
7848 - Disable some debugging checks that appeared in exit node profile
7852 - Update to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
7853 - Do not have tor-resolve automatically refuse all .onion addresses;
7854 if AutomapHostsOnResolve is set in your torrc, this will work fine.
7856 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
7857 - Log correct error messages for DNS-related network errors on
7859 - Fix a race condition that could cause crashes or memory corruption
7860 when running as a server with a controller listening for log
7862 - Avoid crashing when we have a policy specified in a DirPolicy or
7863 SocksPolicy or ReachableAddresses option with ports set on it,
7864 and we re-load the policy. May fix bug 996.
7865 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
7866 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
7867 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
7868 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
7869 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
7871 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
7872 - Don't warn users about low port and hibernation mix when they
7873 provide a *ListenAddress directive to fix that. Bugfix on
7875 - When switching back and forth between bridge mode, do not start
7876 gathering GeoIP data until two hours have passed.
7877 - Do not complain that the user has requested an excluded node as
7878 an exit when the node is not really an exit. This could happen
7879 because the circuit was for testing, or an introduction point.
7883 Changes in version 0.2.1.15-rc - 2009-05-25
7884 Tor 0.2.1.15-rc marks the second release candidate for the 0.2.1.x
7885 series. It fixes a major bug on fast exit relays, as well as a variety
7888 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
7889 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
7890 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
7891 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
7893 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
7894 - Actually return -1 in the error case for read_bandwidth_usage().
7895 Harmless bug, since we currently don't care about the return value
7896 anywhere. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
7897 - Provide a more useful log message if bug 977 (related to buffer
7898 freelists) ever reappears, and do not crash right away.
7899 - Fix an assertion failure on 64-bit platforms when we allocated
7900 memory right up to the end of a memarea, then realigned the memory
7901 one step beyond the end. Fixes a possible cause of bug 930.
7902 - Protect the count of open sockets with a mutex, so we can't
7903 corrupt it when two threads are closing or opening sockets at once.
7904 Fix for bug 939. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
7905 - Don't allow a bridge to publish its router descriptor to a
7906 non-bridge directory authority. Fixes part of bug 932.
7907 - When we change to or from being a bridge, reset our counts of
7908 client usage by country. Fixes bug 932.
7909 - Fix a bug that made stream bandwidth get misreported to the
7911 - Stop using malloc_usable_size() to use more area than we had
7912 actually allocated: it was safe, but made valgrind really unhappy.
7913 - Fix a memory leak when v3 directory authorities load their keys
7914 and cert from disk. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
7916 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
7917 - Fix use of freed memory when deciding to mark a non-addable
7918 descriptor as never-downloadable. Bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
7921 Changes in version 0.2.1.14-rc - 2009-04-12
7922 Tor 0.2.1.14-rc marks the first release candidate for the 0.2.1.x
7923 series. It begins fixing some major performance problems, and also
7924 finally addresses the bug that was causing relays on dynamic IP
7925 addresses to fall out of the directory.
7928 - Clients replace entry guards that were chosen more than a few months
7929 ago. This change should significantly improve client performance,
7930 especially once more people upgrade, since relays that have been
7931 a guard for a long time are currently overloaded.
7933 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0):
7934 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
7935 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
7936 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
7937 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
7938 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
7939 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
7940 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
7941 - Relays were falling out of the networkstatus consensus for
7942 part of a day if they changed their local config but the
7943 authorities discarded their new descriptor as "not sufficiently
7944 different". Now directory authorities accept a descriptor as changed
7945 if bandwidthrate or bandwidthburst changed. Partial fix for bug 962;
7947 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
7948 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
7951 - When generating circuit events with verbose nicknames for
7952 controllers, try harder to look up nicknames for routers on a
7953 circuit. (Previously, we would look in the router descriptors we had
7954 for nicknames, but not in the consensus.) Partial fix for bug 941.
7955 - If the bridge config line doesn't specify a port, assume 443.
7956 This makes bridge lines a bit smaller and easier for users to
7958 - Raise the minimum bandwidth to be a relay from 20000 bytes to 20480
7959 bytes (aka 20KB/s), to match our documentation. Also update
7960 directory authorities so they always assign the Fast flag to relays
7961 with 20KB/s of capacity. Now people running relays won't suddenly
7962 find themselves not seeing any use, if the network gets faster
7964 - Update to the "April 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
7967 - Avoid trying to print raw memory to the logs when we decide to
7968 give up on downloading a given relay descriptor. Bugfix on
7970 - In tor-resolve, when the Tor client to use is specified by
7971 <hostname>:<port>, actually use the specified port rather than
7972 defaulting to 9050. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
7973 - Make directory usage recording work again. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
7974 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
7975 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
7977 - Avoid double-free on list of successfully uploaded hidden
7978 service discriptors. Fix for bug 948. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
7979 - Change memarea_strndup() implementation to work even when
7980 duplicating a string at the end of a page. This bug was
7981 harmless for now, but could have meant crashes later. Fix by
7982 lark. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
7983 - Limit uploaded directory documents to be 16M rather than 500K.
7984 The directory authorities were refusing v3 consensus votes from
7985 other authorities, since the votes are now 504K. Fixes bug 959;
7986 bugfix on 0.0.2pre17 (where we raised it from 50K to 500K ;).
7987 - Directory authorities should never send a 503 "busy" response to
7988 requests for votes or keys. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha; exposed by
7992 Changes in version 0.2.1.13-alpha - 2009-03-09
7993 Tor 0.2.1.13-alpha includes another big pile of minor bugfixes and
7994 cleanups. We're finally getting close to a release candidate.
7997 - Correctly update the list of which countries we exclude as
7998 exits, when the GeoIP file is loaded or reloaded. Diagnosed by
7999 lark. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
8001 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x and earlier):
8002 - Automatically detect MacOSX versions earlier than 10.4.0, and
8003 disable kqueue from inside Tor when running with these versions.
8004 We previously did this from the startup script, but that was no
8005 help to people who didn't use the startup script. Resolves bug 863.
8006 - When we had picked an exit node for a connection, but marked it as
8007 "optional", and it turned out we had no onion key for the exit,
8008 stop wanting that exit and try again. This situation may not
8009 be possible now, but will probably become feasible with proposal
8010 158. Spotted by rovv. Fixes another case of bug 752.
8011 - Clients no longer cache certificates for authorities they do not
8012 recognize. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
8013 - When we can't transmit a DNS request due to a network error, retry
8014 it after a while, and eventually transmit a failing response to
8015 the RESOLVED cell. Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
8016 - If the controller claimed responsibility for a stream, but that
8017 stream never finished making its connection, it would live
8018 forever in circuit_wait state. Now we close it after SocksTimeout
8019 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; reported by Mike Perry.
8020 - Drop begin cells to a hidden service if they come from the middle
8021 of a circuit. Patch from lark.
8022 - When we erroneously receive two EXTEND cells for the same circuit
8023 ID on the same connection, drop the second. Patch from lark.
8024 - Fix a crash that occurs on exit nodes when a nameserver request
8025 timed out. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; our CLEAR debugging code had
8026 been suppressing the bug since 0.1.2.10-alpha. Partial fix for
8028 - Do not assume that a stack-allocated character array will be
8029 64-bit aligned on platforms that demand that uint64_t access is
8030 aligned. Possible fix for bug 604.
8031 - Parse dates and IPv4 addresses in a locale- and libc-independent
8032 manner, to avoid platform-dependent behavior on malformed input.
8033 - Build correctly when configured to build outside the main source
8034 path. Patch from Michael Gold.
8035 - We were already rejecting relay begin cells with destination port
8036 of 0. Now also reject extend cells with destination port or address
8037 of 0. Suggested by lark.
8039 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
8040 - Don't re-extend introduction circuits if we ran out of RELAY_EARLY
8041 cells. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Fixes more of bug 878.
8042 - If we're an exit node, scrub the IP address to which we are exiting
8043 in the logs. Bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
8046 - On Linux, use the prctl call to re-enable core dumps when the user
8048 - New controller event NEWCONSENSUS that lists the networkstatus
8049 lines for every recommended relay. Now controllers like Torflow
8050 can keep up-to-date on which relays they should be using.
8051 - Update to the "February 26 2009" ip-to-country file.
8054 Changes in version 0.2.0.34 - 2009-02-08
8055 Tor 0.2.0.34 features several more security-related fixes. You should
8056 upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or a
8057 directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
8058 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit).
8060 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.1.2.x. Those Tor versions
8061 have many known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should
8062 upgrade. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete,
8063 stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
8066 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
8067 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
8068 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
8069 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
8070 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
8071 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.0.33.
8072 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
8073 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
8076 - Fix compilation on systems where time_t is a 64-bit integer.
8077 Patch from Matthias Drochner.
8078 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
8079 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
8082 Changes in version 0.2.1.12-alpha - 2009-02-08
8083 Tor 0.2.1.12-alpha features several more security-related fixes. You
8084 should upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or
8085 a directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
8086 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit). It also
8087 includes a big pile of minor bugfixes and cleanups.
8090 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
8091 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
8092 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
8093 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
8094 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
8095 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
8098 - Let controllers actually ask for the "clients_seen" event for
8099 getting usage summaries on bridge relays. Bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha;
8100 reported by Matt Edman.
8101 - Fix a compile warning on OSX Panther. Fixes bug 913; bugfix against
8103 - Fix a bug in address parsing that was preventing bridges or hidden
8104 service targets from being at IPv6 addresses.
8105 - Solve a bug that kept hardware crypto acceleration from getting
8106 enabled when accounting was turned on. Fixes bug 907. Bugfix on
8108 - Remove a bash-ism from configure.in to build properly on non-Linux
8109 platforms. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
8110 - Fix code so authorities _actually_ send back X-Descriptor-Not-New
8111 headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
8112 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
8113 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
8114 - Fix another interesting corner-case of bug 891 spotted by rovv:
8115 Previously, if two hosts had different amounts of clock drift, and
8116 one of them created a new connection with just the wrong timing,
8117 the other might decide to deprecate the new connection erroneously.
8118 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha.
8119 - Resolve a very rare crash bug that could occur when the user forced
8120 a nameserver reconfiguration during the middle of a nameserver
8121 probe. Fixes bug 526. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
8122 - Support changing value of ServerDNSRandomizeCase during SIGHUP.
8123 Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
8124 - If we're using bridges and our network goes away, be more willing
8125 to forgive our bridges and try again when we get an application
8126 request. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
8129 - Support platforms where time_t is 64 bits long. (Congratulations,
8130 NetBSD!) Patch from Matthias Drochner.
8131 - Add a 'getinfo status/clients-seen' controller command, in case
8132 controllers want to hear clients_seen events but connect late.
8135 - Disable GCC's strict alias optimization by default, to avoid the
8136 likelihood of its introducing subtle bugs whenever our code violates
8137 the letter of C99's alias rules.
8140 Changes in version 0.2.0.33 - 2009-01-21
8141 Tor 0.2.0.33 fixes a variety of bugs that were making relays less
8142 useful to users. It also finally fixes a bug where a relay or client
8143 that's been off for many days would take a long time to bootstrap.
8145 This update also fixes an important security-related bug reported by
8146 Ilja van Sprundel. You should upgrade. (We'll send out more details
8147 about the bug once people have had some time to upgrade.)
8150 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
8151 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
8154 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
8155 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
8156 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
8157 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
8158 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha;
8160 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
8161 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
8162 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
8163 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
8164 identify a connection.
8165 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
8166 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
8167 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
8168 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
8169 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
8170 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
8171 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
8172 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
8173 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
8174 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
8176 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
8177 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could be
8178 useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in practice
8179 it just means we spend many minutes trying directory mirrors that
8180 are long gone from the network. Also discard router descriptors as
8181 we load them if they are more than five days old, since the onion
8182 key is probably wrong by now. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
8185 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
8186 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
8188 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
8189 - Compile without warnings on solaris.
8190 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
8191 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
8192 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
8193 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880.
8194 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
8195 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
8197 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
8198 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, we retry failed
8199 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
8200 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
8201 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
8202 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
8203 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
8204 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
8205 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
8206 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
8207 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
8208 Fixes one case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
8209 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
8210 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
8211 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
8212 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
8213 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
8214 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
8215 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous descriptor to
8216 the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor with the same ID.
8217 Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
8218 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
8219 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
8220 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
8221 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
8222 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
8223 840. Patch from rovv.
8224 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
8225 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
8226 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
8228 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
8229 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
8230 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
8231 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
8232 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
8233 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
8234 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
8236 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
8237 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP. Bugfix on
8238 0.0.6pre1. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
8241 - Report the case where all signatures in a detached set are rejected
8242 differently than the case where there is an error handling the
8244 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
8245 descriptors, print out a more useful error message rather than
8246 triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
8247 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
8248 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
8249 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
8250 ServerDNSRamdomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
8251 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
8252 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
8254 - Check DNS replies for more matching fields to better resist DNS
8256 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
8257 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed, or
8261 Changes in version 0.2.1.11-alpha - 2009-01-20
8262 Tor 0.2.1.11-alpha finishes fixing the "if your Tor is off for a
8263 week it will take a long time to bootstrap again" bug. It also fixes
8264 an important security-related bug reported by Ilja van Sprundel. You
8265 should upgrade. (We'll send out more details about the bug once people
8266 have had some time to upgrade.)
8269 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
8270 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
8273 - Discard router descriptors as we load them if they are more than
8274 five days old. Otherwise if Tor is off for a long time and then
8275 starts with cached descriptors, it will try to use the onion
8276 keys in those obsolete descriptors when building circuits. Bugfix
8277 on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
8280 - Try to make sure that the version of Libevent we're running with
8281 is binary-compatible with the one we built with. May address bug
8283 - Make setting ServerDNSRandomizeCase to 0 actually work. Bugfix
8284 for bug 905. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
8285 - Add a new --enable-local-appdata configuration switch to change
8286 the default location of the datadir on win32 from APPDATA to
8287 LOCAL_APPDATA. In the future, we should migrate to LOCAL_APPDATA
8288 entirely. Patch from coderman.
8291 - Make outbound DNS packets respect the OutboundBindAddress setting.
8292 Fixes the bug part of bug 798. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
8293 - When our circuit fails at the first hop (e.g. we get a destroy
8294 cell back), avoid using that OR connection anymore, and also
8295 tell all the one-hop directory requests waiting for it that they
8296 should fail. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
8297 - In the torify(1) manpage, mention that tsocks will leak your
8301 Changes in version 0.2.1.10-alpha - 2009-01-06
8302 Tor 0.2.1.10-alpha fixes two major bugs in bridge relays (one that
8303 would make the bridge relay not so useful if it had DirPort set to 0,
8304 and one that could let an attacker learn a little bit of information
8305 about the bridge's users), and a bug that would cause your Tor relay
8306 to ignore a circuit create request it can't decrypt (rather than reply
8307 with an error). It also fixes a wide variety of other bugs.
8310 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
8311 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could
8312 be useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in
8313 practice it just means we spend many minutes trying directory
8314 mirrors that are long gone from the network. Helps bug 887 a bit;
8316 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
8317 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
8318 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
8319 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
8320 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
8321 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
8322 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
8323 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
8324 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
8325 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
8329 - New controller event "clients_seen" to report a geoip-based summary
8330 of which countries we've seen clients from recently. Now controllers
8331 like Vidalia can show bridge operators that they're actually making
8333 - Build correctly against versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later built
8334 without support for deprecated functions.
8335 - Update to the "December 19 2008" ip-to-country file.
8337 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
8338 - Authorities now vote for the Stable flag for any router whose
8339 weighted MTBF is at least 5 days, regardless of the mean MTBF.
8340 - Do not remove routers as too old if we do not have any consensus
8341 document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
8342 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
8343 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
8344 - When an exit relay resolves a stream address to a local IP address,
8345 do not just keep retrying that same exit relay over and
8346 over. Instead, just close the stream. Addresses bug 872. Bugfix
8347 on 0.2.0.32. Patch from rovv.
8348 - If a hidden service sends us an END cell, do not consider
8349 retrying the connection; just close it. Patch from rovv.
8350 - When we made bridge authorities stop serving bridge descriptors over
8351 unencrypted links, we also broke DirPort reachability testing for
8352 bridges. So bridges with a non-zero DirPort were printing spurious
8353 warns to their logs. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Fixes bug 709.
8354 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
8355 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
8356 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
8357 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
8358 - Squeeze 2-5% out of client performance (according to oprofile) by
8359 improving the implementation of some policy-manipulation functions.
8361 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
8362 - Make get_interface_address() function work properly again; stop
8363 guessing the wrong parts of our address as our address.
8364 - Do not cannibalize a circuit if we're out of RELAY_EARLY cells to
8365 send on that circuit. Otherwise we might violate the proposal-110
8366 limit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Partial fix for bug 878. Diagnosis
8368 - When we're sending non-EXTEND cells to the first hop in a circuit,
8369 for example to use an encrypted directory connection, we don't need
8370 to use RELAY_EARLY cells: the first hop knows what kind of cell
8371 it is, and nobody else can even see the cell type. Conserving
8372 RELAY_EARLY cells makes it easier to cannibalize circuits like
8374 - Stop logging nameserver addresses in reverse order.
8375 - If we are retrying a directory download slowly over and over, do
8376 not automatically give up after the 254th failure. Bugfix on
8378 - Resume reporting accurate "stream end" reasons to the local control
8379 port. They were lost in the changes for Proposal 148. Bugfix on
8382 o Deprecated and removed features:
8383 - The old "tor --version --version" command, which would print out
8384 the subversion "Id" of most of the source files, is now removed. It
8385 turned out to be less useful than we'd expected, and harder to
8388 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
8389 - Change our header file guard macros to be less likely to conflict
8390 with system headers. Adam Langley noticed that we were conflicting
8391 with log.h on Android.
8392 - Tool-assisted documentation cleanup. Nearly every function or
8393 static variable in Tor should have its own documentation now.
8396 Changes in version 0.2.1.9-alpha - 2008-12-25
8397 Tor 0.2.1.9-alpha fixes many more bugs, some of them security-related.
8399 o New directory authorities:
8400 - gabelmoo (the authority run by Karsten Loesing) now has a new
8404 - Never use a connection with a mismatched address to extend a
8405 circuit, unless that connection is canonical. A canonical
8406 connection is one whose address is authenticated by the router's
8407 identity key, either in a NETINFO cell or in a router descriptor.
8408 - Avoid a possible memory corruption bug when receiving hidden service
8409 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
8412 - Fix a logic error that would automatically reject all but the first
8413 configured DNS server. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Possible fix for
8414 part of bug 813/868. Bug spotted by coderman.
8415 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
8416 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
8417 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
8418 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
8419 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in 0.1.2.1-alpha;
8421 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
8422 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, retry failed
8423 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
8424 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
8427 - Give a better error message when an overzealous init script says
8428 "sudo -u username tor --user username". Makes Bug 882 easier for
8430 - When a directory authority gives us a new guess for our IP address,
8431 log which authority we used. Hopefully this will help us debug
8432 the recent complaints about bad IP address guesses.
8433 - Detect svn revision properly when we're using git-svn.
8434 - Try not to open more than one descriptor-downloading connection
8435 to an authority at once. This should reduce load on directory
8436 authorities. Fixes bug 366.
8437 - Add cross-certification to newly generated certificates, so that
8438 a signing key is enough information to look up a certificate.
8439 Partial implementation of proposal 157.
8440 - Start serving certificates by <identity digest, signing key digest>
8441 pairs. Partial implementation of proposal 157.
8442 - Clients now never report any stream end reason except 'MISC'.
8443 Implements proposal 148.
8444 - On platforms with a maximum syslog string length, truncate syslog
8445 messages to that length ourselves, rather than relying on the
8446 system to do it for us.
8447 - Optimize out calls to time(NULL) that occur for every IO operation,
8448 or for every cell. On systems where time() is a slow syscall,
8449 this fix will be slightly helpful.
8450 - Exit servers can now answer resolve requests for ip6.arpa addresses.
8451 - When we download a descriptor that we then immediately (as
8452 a directory authority) reject, do not retry downloading it right
8453 away. Should save some bandwidth on authorities. Fix for bug
8454 888. Patch by Sebastian Hahn.
8455 - When a download gets us zero good descriptors, do not notify
8456 Tor that new directory information has arrived.
8457 - Avoid some nasty corner cases in the logic for marking connections
8458 as too old or obsolete or noncanonical for circuits. Partial
8461 o Minor features (controller):
8462 - New CONSENSUS_ARRIVED event to note when a new consensus has
8463 been fetched and validated.
8464 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
8465 descriptors file, print out a more useful error message rather
8466 than triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
8467 - Add an internal-use-only __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP option for
8468 controllers to prevent SIGHUP from reloading the
8469 configuration. Fixes bug 856.
8472 - Resume using the correct "REASON=" stream when telling the
8473 controller why we closed a stream. Bugfix in 0.2.1.1-alpha.
8474 - When a canonical connection appears later in our internal list
8475 than a noncanonical one for a given OR ID, always use the
8476 canonical one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 805.
8478 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
8479 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
8480 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
8481 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
8482 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
8483 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
8484 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
8485 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
8486 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
8488 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
8489 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP (bugfix on
8490 0.0.6pre1); also, do not stall hidden services because we're
8491 throwing away introduction points; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Spotted
8492 by John Brooks. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
8493 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous
8494 descriptor to the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor
8495 with the same ID. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
8497 o Deprecated and removed features:
8498 - RedirectExits has been removed. It was deprecated since
8500 - Finally remove deprecated "EXTENDED_FORMAT" controller feature. It
8501 has been called EXTENDED_EVENTS since 0.1.2.4-alpha.
8502 - Cell pools are now always enabled; --disable-cell-pools is ignored.
8504 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
8505 - Rename the confusing or_is_obsolete field to the more appropriate
8506 is_bad_for_new_circs, and move it to or_connection_t where it
8508 - Move edge-only flags from connection_t to edge_connection_t: not
8509 only is this better coding, but on machines of plausible alignment,
8510 it should save 4-8 bytes per connection_t. "Every little bit helps."
8511 - Rename ServerDNSAllowBrokenResolvConf to ServerDNSAllowBrokenConfig
8512 for consistency; keep old option working for backward compatibility.
8513 - Simplify the code for finding connections to use for a circuit.
8516 Changes in version 0.2.1.8-alpha - 2008-12-08
8517 Tor 0.2.1.8-alpha fixes some crash bugs in earlier alpha releases,
8518 builds better on unusual platforms like Solaris and old OS X, and
8519 fixes a variety of other issues.
8522 - New DirPortFrontPage option that takes an html file and publishes
8523 it as "/" on the DirPort. Now relay operators can provide a
8524 disclaimer without needing to set up a separate webserver. There's
8525 a sample disclaimer in contrib/tor-exit-notice.html.
8528 - When the client is choosing entry guards, now it selects at most
8529 one guard from a given relay family. Otherwise we could end up with
8530 all of our entry points into the network run by the same operator.
8531 Suggested by Camilo Viecco. Fix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
8534 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
8535 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
8536 - Fix a possible segfault when establishing an exit connection. Bugfix
8540 - Get file locking working on win32. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Fixes
8542 - Made Tor a little less aggressive about deleting expired
8543 certificates. Partial fix for bug 854.
8544 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
8545 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fix for bug 862.
8546 - Fix a crash bug when changing EntryNodes from the controller. Bugfix
8547 on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Fix for bug 867. Patched by Sebastian.
8548 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
8550 - If one win32 nameserver fails to get added, continue adding the
8551 rest, and don't automatically fail.
8552 - Use fcntl() for locking when flock() is not available. Should fix
8553 compilation on Solaris. Should fix Bug 873. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
8554 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
8555 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
8557 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
8558 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
8559 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
8560 - Do not use C's stdio library for writing to log files. This will
8561 improve logging performance by a minute amount, and will stop
8562 leaking fds when our disk is full. Fixes bug 861.
8563 - Stop erroneous use of O_APPEND in cases where we did not in fact
8564 want to re-seek to the end of a file before every last write().
8565 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
8566 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880. Bugfix
8568 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
8572 - Directory mirrors no longer fetch the v1 directory or
8573 running-routers files. They are obsolete, and nobody asks for them
8574 anymore. This is the first step to making v1 authorities obsolete.
8576 o Minor features (controller):
8577 - Return circuit purposes in response to GETINFO circuit-status. Fixes
8581 Changes in version 0.2.0.32 - 2008-11-20
8582 Tor 0.2.0.32 fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
8583 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
8584 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
8585 services, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
8586 variety of other issues.
8589 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
8590 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
8591 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
8592 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
8593 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
8594 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
8595 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848 and 857.
8596 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
8597 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
8598 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
8599 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
8600 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
8603 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
8604 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
8606 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
8607 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
8608 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
8609 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
8610 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
8611 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
8612 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
8613 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
8614 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
8615 requests failed, because the router descriptor has not been
8616 downloaded yet. In these cases, do not attempt to upload the
8617 rendezvous descriptor, but wait until the router descriptor is
8618 downloaded and retry. Likewise, do not attempt to fetch a rendezvous
8619 descriptor from a hidden service directory for which the router
8620 descriptor has not yet been downloaded. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
8624 - Fix several infrequent memory leaks spotted by Coverity.
8625 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
8626 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
8627 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
8628 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
8629 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
8630 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
8631 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
8632 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
8633 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
8634 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
8635 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
8636 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
8637 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
8638 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch from by rovv.
8639 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
8640 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
8641 list. It has been gone for many months.
8642 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
8643 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fixes bug 862.
8644 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
8647 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
8648 - Make DNS resolved events into "CLOSED", not "FAILED". Bugfix on
8649 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves bug 807.
8652 Changes in version 0.2.1.7-alpha - 2008-11-08
8653 Tor 0.2.1.7-alpha fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
8654 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
8655 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
8656 services, adds better defense against DNS poisoning attacks on exit
8657 relays, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
8658 variety of other issues.
8661 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
8662 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
8663 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
8664 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
8665 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
8666 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
8667 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
8668 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
8669 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
8670 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
8671 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
8672 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848.
8673 - Do not use or believe expired v3 authority certificates. Patch
8674 from Karsten. Bugfix in 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 851.
8677 - Now NodeFamily and MyFamily config options allow spaces in
8678 identity fingerprints, so it's easier to paste them in.
8679 Suggested by Lucky Green.
8680 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
8681 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
8682 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
8683 ServerDNSRandomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
8684 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
8685 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
8687 - Preserve case in replies to DNSPort requests in order to support
8688 the 0x20 hack for resisting DNS poisoning attacks.
8690 o Hidden service performance improvements:
8691 - When the client launches an introduction circuit, retry with a
8692 new circuit after 30 seconds rather than 60 seconds.
8693 - Launch a second client-side introduction circuit in parallel
8694 after a delay of 15 seconds (based on work by Christian Wilms).
8695 - Hidden services start out building five intro circuits rather
8696 than three, and when the first three finish they publish a service
8697 descriptor using those. Now we publish our service descriptor much
8698 faster after restart.
8701 - Minor fix in the warning messages when you're having problems
8702 bootstrapping; also, be more forgiving of bootstrap problems when
8703 we're still making incremental progress on a given bootstrap phase.
8704 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
8705 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
8706 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
8707 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
8708 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
8709 840. Patch from rovv.
8710 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
8711 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
8712 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
8713 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
8714 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
8715 Fixes another case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
8716 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
8717 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
8718 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
8720 - Avoid using a negative right-shift when comparing 32-bit
8721 addresses. Possible fix for bug 845 and bug 811.
8722 - Make the assert_circuit_ok() function work correctly on circuits that
8723 have already been marked for close.
8724 - Fix read-off-the-end-of-string error in unit tests when decoding
8725 introduction points.
8726 - Fix uninitialized size field for memory area allocation: may improve
8727 memory performance during directory parsing.
8728 - Treat duplicate certificate fetches as failures, so that we do
8729 not try to re-fetch an expired certificate over and over and over.
8730 - Do not say we're fetching a certificate when we'll in fact skip it
8731 because of a pending download.
8734 Changes in version 0.2.1.6-alpha - 2008-09-30
8735 Tor 0.2.1.6-alpha further improves performance and robustness of
8736 hidden services, starts work on supporting per-country relay selection,
8737 and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
8740 - Implement proposal 121: make it possible to build hidden services
8741 that only certain clients are allowed to connect to. This is
8742 enforced at several points, so that unauthorized clients are unable
8743 to send INTRODUCE cells to the service, or even (depending on the
8744 type of authentication) to learn introduction points. This feature
8745 raises the bar for certain kinds of active attacks against hidden
8746 services. Code by Karsten Loesing.
8747 - Relays now store and serve v2 hidden service descriptors by default,
8748 i.e., the new default value for HidServDirectoryV2 is 1. This is
8749 the last step in proposal 114, which aims to make hidden service
8750 lookups more reliable.
8751 - Start work to allow node restrictions to include country codes. The
8752 syntax to exclude nodes in a country with country code XX is
8753 "ExcludeNodes {XX}". Patch from Robert Hogan. It still needs some
8754 refinement to decide what config options should take priority if
8755 you ask to both use a particular node and exclude it.
8756 - Allow ExitNodes list to include IP ranges and country codes, just
8757 like the Exclude*Nodes lists. Patch from Robert Hogan.
8760 - Fix a bug when parsing ports in tor_addr_port_parse() that caused
8761 Tor to fail to start if you had it configured to use a bridge
8762 relay. Fixes bug 809. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
8763 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
8764 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
8765 requests failed, because the router descriptor had not been
8766 downloaded yet. In these cases, we now wait until the router
8767 descriptor is downloaded, and then retry. Likewise, clients
8768 now skip over a hidden service directory if they don't yet have
8769 its router descriptor, rather than futilely requesting it and
8770 putting mysterious complaints in the logs. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
8772 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
8773 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
8774 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
8775 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
8776 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
8777 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
8778 - DNS replies need to have names matching their requests, but
8779 these names should be in the questions section, not necessarily
8780 in the answers section. Fixes bug 823. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
8783 - Update to the "September 1 2008" ip-to-country file.
8784 - Allow ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy again. We had
8785 rejected them in 0.1.0.15, because back in 2005 they were commonly
8786 misconfigured and ended up as spam targets. We hear they are better
8787 locked down these days.
8788 - Use a lockfile to make sure that two Tor processes are not
8789 simultaneously running with the same datadir.
8790 - Serve the latest v3 networkstatus consensus via the control
8791 port. Use "getinfo dir/status-vote/current/consensus" to fetch it.
8792 - Better logging about stability/reliability calculations on directory
8794 - Drop the requirement to have an open dir port for storing and
8795 serving v2 hidden service descriptors.
8796 - Directory authorities now serve a /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL to
8797 help debug WFU and MTBF calculations.
8798 - Implement most of Proposal 152: allow specialized servers to permit
8799 single-hop circuits, and clients to use those servers to build
8800 single-hop circuits when using a specialized controller. Patch
8801 from Josh Albrecht. Resolves feature request 768.
8802 - Add a -p option to tor-resolve for specifying the SOCKS port: some
8803 people find host:port too confusing.
8804 - Make TrackHostExit mappings expire a while after their last use, not
8805 after their creation. Patch from Robert Hogan.
8806 - Provide circuit purposes along with circuit events to the controller.
8809 - Fix compile on OpenBSD 4.4-current. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
8811 - Fixed some memory leaks -- some quite frequent, some almost
8812 impossible to trigger -- based on results from Coverity.
8813 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
8814 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
8815 - Fix an assertion bug in parsing policy-related options; possible fix
8817 - Catch and report a few more bootstrapping failure cases when Tor
8818 fails to establish a TCP connection. Cleanup on 0.2.1.x.
8819 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
8820 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
8821 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
8822 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
8823 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
8824 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
8825 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
8826 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
8827 - If we are not using BEGIN_DIR cells, don't attempt to contact hidden
8828 service directories if they have no advertised dir port. Bugfix
8830 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
8831 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
8832 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
8833 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch by rovv.
8834 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
8835 - Avoid a "0 divided by 0" calculation when calculating router uptime
8836 at directory authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
8837 - Make DNS resolved controller events into "CLOSED", not
8838 "FAILED". Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves
8840 - Fix a bug where an unreachable relay would establish enough
8841 reachability testing circuits to do a bandwidth test -- if
8842 we already have a connection to the middle hop of the testing
8843 circuit, then it could establish the last hop by using the existing
8844 connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, exposed when we made testing
8845 circuits no longer use entry guards in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
8846 - If we have correct permissions on $datadir, we complain to stdout
8847 and fail to start. But dangerous permissions on
8848 $datadir/cached-status/ would cause us to open a log and complain
8849 there. Now complain to stdout and fail to start in both cases. Fixes
8850 bug 820, reported by seeess.
8851 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
8852 list. It has been gone for many months.
8854 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
8855 - Revise the connection_new functions so that a more typesafe variant
8856 exists. This will work better with Coverity, and let us find any
8857 actual mistakes we're making here.
8858 - Refactor unit testing logic so that dmalloc can be used sensibly
8859 with unit tests to check for memory leaks.
8860 - Move all hidden-service related fields from connection and circuit
8861 structure to substructures: this way they won't eat so much memory.
8864 Changes in version 0.2.0.31 - 2008-09-03
8865 Tor 0.2.0.31 addresses two potential anonymity issues, starts to fix
8866 a big bug we're seeing where in rare cases traffic from one Tor stream
8867 gets mixed into another stream, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
8870 - Make sure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
8871 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
8872 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc.
8873 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
8874 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
8875 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
8877 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
8878 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
8879 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
8880 pointed out by rovv.
8883 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
8884 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
8885 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
8886 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
8887 - Pick size of default geoip filename string correctly on windows.
8888 Fixes bug 806. Bugfix on 0.2.0.30.
8889 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
8890 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
8891 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
8892 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
8893 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
8894 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open
8895 /dev/pf before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from
8896 Christopher Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
8897 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
8898 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
8899 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
8900 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
8901 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit is
8902 getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly. Bugfix on
8903 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
8906 Changes in version 0.2.1.5-alpha - 2008-08-31
8907 Tor 0.2.1.5-alpha moves us closer to handling IPv6 destinations, puts
8908 in a lot of the infrastructure for adding authorization to hidden
8909 services, lays the groundwork for having clients read their load
8910 balancing information out of the networkstatus consensus rather than
8911 the individual router descriptors, addresses two potential anonymity
8912 issues, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
8915 - Convert many internal address representations to optionally hold
8917 - Generate and accept IPv6 addresses in many protocol elements.
8918 - Make resolver code handle nameservers located at ipv6 addresses.
8919 - Begin implementation of proposal 121 ("Client authorization for
8920 hidden services"): configure hidden services with client
8921 authorization, publish descriptors for them, and configure
8922 authorization data for hidden services at clients. The next
8923 step is to actually access hidden services that perform client
8925 - More progress toward proposal 141: Network status consensus
8926 documents and votes now contain bandwidth information for each
8927 router and a summary of that router's exit policy. Eventually this
8928 will be used by clients so that they do not have to download every
8929 known descriptor before building circuits.
8931 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x and before):
8932 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
8933 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
8934 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
8935 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
8936 identify a connection.
8937 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
8938 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
8939 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
8941 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
8942 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
8943 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
8944 pointed out by rovv.
8947 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
8948 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
8949 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
8950 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open /dev/pf
8951 before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from Christopher
8952 Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
8953 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
8954 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
8955 - Add a missing safe_str() call for a debug log message.
8956 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
8957 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
8958 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
8959 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
8960 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
8961 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
8964 - Rate-limit too-many-sockets messages: when they happen, they happen
8965 a lot. Resolves bug 748.
8966 - Resist DNS poisoning a little better by making sure that names in
8967 answer sections match.
8968 - Print the SOCKS5 error message string as well as the error code
8969 when a tor-resolve request fails. Patch from Jacob.
8972 Changes in version 0.2.1.4-alpha - 2008-08-04
8973 Tor 0.2.1.4-alpha fixes a pair of crash bugs in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
8976 - The address part of exit policies was not correctly written
8977 to router descriptors. This generated router descriptors that failed
8978 their self-checks. Noticed by phobos, fixed by Karsten. Bugfix
8980 - Tor triggered a false assert when extending a circuit to a relay
8981 but we already have a connection open to that relay. Noticed by
8982 phobos, fixed by Karsten. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
8985 - Fix a hidden service logging bug: in some edge cases, the router
8986 descriptor of a previously picked introduction point becomes
8987 obsolete and we need to give up on it rather than continually
8988 complaining that it has become obsolete. Observed by xiando. Bugfix
8992 - Take out the TestVia config option, since it was a workaround for
8993 a bug that was fixed in Tor 0.1.1.21.
8996 Changes in version 0.2.1.3-alpha - 2008-08-03
8997 Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha implements most of the pieces to prevent
8998 infinite-length circuit attacks (see proposal 110); fixes a bug that
8999 might cause exit relays to corrupt streams they send back; allows
9000 address patterns (e.g. 255.128.0.0/16) to appear in ExcludeNodes and
9001 ExcludeExitNodes config options; and fixes a big pile of bugs.
9003 o Bootstrapping bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x-alpha):
9004 - Send a bootstrap problem "warn" event on the first problem if the
9005 reason is NO_ROUTE (that is, our network is down).
9008 - Implement most of proposal 110: The first K cells to be sent
9009 along a circuit are marked as special "early" cells; only K "early"
9010 cells will be allowed. Once this code is universal, we can block
9011 certain kinds of DOS attack by requiring that EXTEND commands must
9012 be sent using an "early" cell.
9015 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
9016 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
9017 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
9018 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
9019 - Ensure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
9020 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
9021 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779; fixes a bug on 0.1.0.4-rc.
9024 - When relays do their initial bandwidth measurement, don't limit
9025 to just our entry guards for the test circuits. Otherwise we tend
9026 to have multiple test circuits going through a single entry guard,
9027 which makes our bandwidth test less accurate. Fixes part of bug 654;
9028 patch contributed by Josh Albrecht.
9029 - Add an ExcludeExitNodes option so users can list a set of nodes
9030 that should be be excluded from the exit node position, but
9031 allowed elsewhere. Implements proposal 151.
9032 - Allow address patterns (e.g., 255.128.0.0/16) to appear in
9033 ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes lists.
9034 - Change the implementation of ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes to
9035 be more efficient. Formerly it was quadratic in the number of
9036 servers; now it should be linear. Fixes bug 509.
9037 - Save 16-22 bytes per open circuit by moving the n_addr, n_port,
9038 and n_conn_id_digest fields into a separate structure that's
9039 only needed when the circuit has not yet attached to an n_conn.
9042 - Change the contrib/tor.logrotate script so it makes the new
9043 logs as "_tor:_tor" rather than the default, which is generally
9044 "root:wheel". Fixes bug 676, reported by Serge Koksharov.
9045 - Stop using __attribute__((nonnull)) with GCC: it can give us useful
9046 warnings (occasionally), but it can also cause the compiler to
9047 eliminate error-checking code. Suggested by Peter Gutmann.
9048 - When a hidden service is giving up on an introduction point candidate
9049 that was not included in the last published rendezvous descriptor,
9050 don't reschedule publication of the next descriptor. Fixes bug 763.
9052 - Mark RendNodes, RendExcludeNodes, HiddenServiceNodes, and
9053 HiddenServiceExcludeNodes as obsolete: they never worked properly,
9054 and nobody claims to be using them. Fixes bug 754. Bugfix on
9055 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch from Christian Wilms.
9056 - Fix a small alignment and memory-wasting bug on buffer chunks.
9059 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
9060 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit
9061 is getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly.
9062 Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
9065 - Remove all backward-compatibility code to support relays running
9066 versions of Tor so old that they no longer work at all on the
9070 Changes in version 0.2.0.30 - 2008-07-15
9072 - Stop using __attribute__((nonnull)) with GCC: it can give us useful
9073 warnings (occasionally), but it can also cause the compiler to
9074 eliminate error-checking code. Suggested by Peter Gutmann.
9077 Changes in version 0.2.0.29-rc - 2008-07-08
9078 Tor 0.2.0.29-rc fixes two big bugs with using bridges, fixes more
9079 hidden-service performance bugs, and fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
9082 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their keys,
9083 you would only launch a request for the descriptor of the first one
9084 on your list. (Tor considered launching requests for the others, but
9085 found that it already had a connection on the way for $0000...0000
9086 so it didn't open another.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
9087 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their keys, and the
9088 connection to one of the bridges failed, you would cancel all
9089 pending bridge connections. (After all, they all have the same
9090 digest.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
9091 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
9092 and Tor had built circuits preemptively for such purposes, we
9093 were ignoring all the preemptive circuits and launching a new one
9094 instead. Bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
9095 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
9096 and Tor *did* manage to reuse one of the preemptively built
9097 circuits, it didn't correctly remember which one it used,
9098 so it asked for another one soon after, until there were no
9099 more preemptive circuits, at which point it launched one from
9100 scratch. Bugfix on 0.0.9.x.
9101 - Make directory servers include the X-Your-Address-Is: http header in
9102 their responses even for begin_dir conns. Now clients who only
9103 ever use begin_dir connections still have a way to learn their IP
9104 address. Fixes bug 737; bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc. Reported by goldy.
9107 - Fix a macro/CPP interaction that was confusing some compilers:
9108 some GCCs don't like #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments.
9110 - Fix macro collision between OpenSSL 0.9.8h and Windows headers.
9111 Fixes bug 704; fix from Steven Murdoch.
9112 - When opening /dev/null in finish_daemonize(), do not pass the
9113 O_CREAT flag. Fortify was complaining, and correctly so. Fixes
9114 bug 742; fix from Michael Scherer. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre19.
9115 - Correctly detect transparent proxy support on Linux hosts that
9116 require in.h to be included before netfilter_ipv4.h. Patch
9118 - Disallow session resumption attempts during the renegotiation
9119 stage of the v2 handshake protocol. Clients should never be trying
9120 session resumption at this point, but apparently some did, in
9121 ways that caused the handshake to fail. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Bug
9122 found by Geoff Goodell.
9125 Changes in version 0.2.1.2-alpha - 2008-06-20
9126 Tor 0.2.1.2-alpha includes a new "TestingTorNetwork" config option to
9127 make it easier to set up your own private Tor network; fixes several
9128 big bugs with using more than one bridge relay; fixes a big bug with
9129 offering hidden services quickly after Tor starts; and uses a better
9130 API for reporting potential bootstrapping problems to the controller.
9133 - New TestingTorNetwork config option to allow adjustment of
9134 previously constant values that, while reasonable, could slow
9135 bootstrapping. Implements proposal 135. Patch from Karsten.
9138 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their digests,
9139 you would only learn a request for the descriptor of the first one
9140 on your list. (Tor considered launching requests for the others, but
9141 found that it already had a connection on the way for $0000...0000
9142 so it didn't open another.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
9143 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their digests,
9144 and the connection to one of the bridges failed, you would cancel
9145 all pending bridge connections. (After all, they all have the
9146 same digest.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
9147 - When establishing a hidden service, introduction points that
9148 originate from cannibalized circuits are completely ignored and not
9149 included in rendezvous service descriptors. This might be another
9150 reason for delay in making a hidden service available. Bugfix
9151 from long ago (0.0.9.x?)
9154 - Allow OpenSSL to use dynamic locks if it wants.
9155 - When building a consensus, do not include routers that are down.
9156 This will cut down 30% to 40% on consensus size. Implements
9158 - In directory authorities' approved-routers files, allow
9159 fingerprints with or without space.
9160 - Add a "GETINFO /status/bootstrap-phase" controller option, so the
9161 controller can query our current bootstrap state in case it attaches
9162 partway through and wants to catch up.
9163 - Send an initial "Starting" bootstrap status event, so we have a
9164 state to start out in.
9167 - Asking for a conditional consensus at .../consensus/<fingerprints>
9168 would crash a dirserver if it did not already have a
9169 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
9170 - Clean up some macro/CPP interactions: some GCC versions don't like
9171 #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments. Fixes bug 707. Bugfix on
9174 o Bootstrapping bugfixes (on 0.2.1.1-alpha):
9175 - Directory authorities shouldn't complain about bootstrapping
9176 problems just because they do a lot of reachability testing and
9177 some of the connection attempts fail.
9178 - Start sending "count" and "recommendation" key/value pairs in
9179 bootstrap problem status events, so the controller can hear about
9180 problems even before Tor decides they're worth reporting for sure.
9181 - If you're using bridges, generate "bootstrap problem" warnings
9182 as soon as you run out of working bridges, rather than waiting
9183 for ten failures -- which will never happen if you have less than
9185 - If we close our OR connection because there's been a circuit
9186 pending on it for too long, we were telling our bootstrap status
9187 events "REASON=NONE". Now tell them "REASON=TIMEOUT".
9190 Changes in version 0.2.1.1-alpha - 2008-06-13
9191 Tor 0.2.1.1-alpha fixes a lot of memory fragmentation problems that
9192 were making the Tor process bloat especially on Linux; makes our TLS
9193 handshake blend in better; sends "bootstrap phase" status events to
9194 the controller, so it can keep the user informed of progress (and
9195 problems) fetching directory information and establishing circuits;
9196 and adds a variety of smaller features.
9199 - More work on making our TLS handshake blend in: modify the list
9200 of ciphers advertised by OpenSSL in client mode to even more
9201 closely resemble a common web browser. We cheat a little so that
9202 we can advertise ciphers that the locally installed OpenSSL doesn't
9204 - Start sending "bootstrap phase" status events to the controller,
9205 so it can keep the user informed of progress fetching directory
9206 information and establishing circuits. Also inform the controller
9207 if we think we're stuck at a particular bootstrap phase. Implements
9209 - Resume using OpenSSL's RAND_poll() for better (and more portable)
9210 cross-platform entropy collection again. We used to use it, then
9211 stopped using it because of a bug that could crash systems that
9212 called RAND_poll when they had a lot of fds open. It looks like the
9213 bug got fixed in late 2006. Our new behavior is to call RAND_poll()
9214 at startup, and to call RAND_poll() when we reseed later only if
9215 we have a non-buggy OpenSSL version.
9218 - When we choose to abandon a new entry guard because we think our
9219 older ones might be better, close any circuits pending on that
9220 new entry guard connection. This fix should make us recover much
9221 faster when our network is down and then comes back. Bugfix on
9222 0.1.2.8-beta; found by lodger.
9224 o Memory fixes and improvements:
9225 - Add a malloc_good_size implementation to OpenBSD_malloc_linux.c,
9226 to avoid unused RAM in buffer chunks and memory pools.
9227 - Speed up parsing and cut down on memory fragmentation by using
9228 stack-style allocations for parsing directory objects. Previously,
9229 this accounted for over 40% of allocations from within Tor's code
9230 on a typical directory cache.
9231 - Use a Bloom filter rather than a digest-based set to track which
9232 descriptors we need to keep around when we're cleaning out old
9233 router descriptors. This speeds up the computation significantly,
9234 and may reduce fragmentation.
9235 - Reduce the default smartlist size from 32 to 16; it turns out that
9236 most smartlists hold around 8-12 elements tops.
9237 - Make dumpstats() log the fullness and size of openssl-internal
9239 - If the user has applied the experimental SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS
9240 patch to their OpenSSL, turn it on to save memory on servers. This
9241 patch will (with any luck) get included in a mainline distribution
9243 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
9244 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed,
9248 - Stop reloading the router list from disk for no reason when we
9249 run out of reachable directory mirrors. Once upon a time reloading
9250 it would set the 'is_running' flag back to 1 for them. It hasn't
9251 done that for a long time.
9252 - In very rare situations new hidden service descriptors were
9253 published earlier than 30 seconds after the last change to the
9254 service. (We currently think that a hidden service descriptor
9255 that's been stable for 30 seconds is worth publishing.)
9258 - Allow separate log levels to be configured for different logging
9259 domains. For example, this allows one to log all notices, warnings,
9260 or errors, plus all memory management messages of level debug or
9261 higher, with: Log [MM] debug-err [*] notice-err file /var/log/tor.
9262 - Add a couple of extra warnings to --enable-gcc-warnings for GCC 4.3,
9263 and stop using a warning that had become unfixably verbose under
9265 - New --hush command-line option similar to --quiet. While --quiet
9266 disables all logging to the console on startup, --hush limits the
9267 output to messages of warning and error severity.
9268 - Servers support a new URL scheme for consensus downloads that
9269 allows the client to specify which authorities are trusted.
9270 The server then only sends the consensus if the client will trust
9271 it. Otherwise a 404 error is sent back. Clients use this
9272 new scheme when the server supports it (meaning it's running
9273 0.2.1.1-alpha or later). Implements proposal 134.
9274 - New configure/torrc options (--enable-geoip-stats,
9275 DirRecordUsageByCountry) to record how many IPs we've served
9276 directory info to in each country code, how many status documents
9277 total we've sent to each country code, and what share of the total
9278 directory requests we should expect to see.
9279 - Use the TLS1 hostname extension to more closely resemble browser
9281 - Lots of new unit tests.
9282 - Add a macro to implement the common pattern of iterating through
9283 two parallel lists in lockstep.
9286 Changes in version 0.2.0.28-rc - 2008-06-13
9287 Tor 0.2.0.28-rc fixes an anonymity-related bug, fixes a hidden-service
9288 performance bug, and fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
9291 - Fix a bug where, when we were choosing the 'end stream reason' to
9292 put in our relay end cell that we send to the exit relay, Tor
9293 clients on Windows were sometimes sending the wrong 'reason'. The
9294 anonymity problem is that exit relays may be able to guess whether
9295 the client is running Windows, thus helping partition the anonymity
9296 set. Down the road we should stop sending reasons to exit relays,
9297 or otherwise prevent future versions of this bug.
9300 - While setting up a hidden service, some valid introduction circuits
9301 were overlooked and abandoned. This might be the reason for
9302 the long delay in making a hidden service available. Bugfix on
9306 - Update to the "June 9 2008" ip-to-country file.
9307 - Run 'make test' as part of 'make dist', so we stop releasing so
9308 many development snapshots that fail their unit tests.
9311 - When we're checking if we have enough dir info for each relay
9312 to begin establishing circuits, make sure that we actually have
9313 the descriptor listed in the consensus, not just any descriptor.
9315 - Bridge relays no longer print "xx=0" in their extrainfo document
9316 for every single country code in the geoip db. Bugfix on
9318 - Only warn when we fail to load the geoip file if we were planning to
9319 include geoip stats in our extrainfo document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.27-rc.
9320 - If we change our MaxAdvertisedBandwidth and then reload torrc,
9321 Tor won't realize it should publish a new relay descriptor. Fixes
9322 bug 688, reported by mfr. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
9323 - When we haven't had any application requests lately, don't bother
9324 logging that we have expired a bunch of descriptors. Bugfix
9326 - Make relay cells written on a connection count as non-padding when
9327 tracking how long a connection has been in use. Bugfix on
9328 0.2.0.1-alpha. Spotted by lodger.
9329 - Fix unit tests in 0.2.0.27-rc.
9330 - Fix compile on Windows.
9333 Changes in version 0.2.0.27-rc - 2008-06-03
9334 Tor 0.2.0.27-rc adds a few features we left out of the earlier
9335 release candidates. In particular, we now include an IP-to-country
9336 GeoIP database, so controllers can easily look up what country a
9337 given relay is in, and so bridge relays can give us some sanitized
9338 summaries about which countries are making use of bridges. (See proposal
9339 126-geoip-fetching.txt for details.)
9342 - Include an IP-to-country GeoIP file in the tarball, so bridge
9343 relays can report sanitized summaries of the usage they're seeing.
9346 - Add a "PURPOSE=" argument to "STREAM NEW" events, as suggested by
9347 Robert Hogan. Fixes the first part of bug 681.
9348 - Make bridge authorities never serve extrainfo docs.
9349 - Add support to detect Libevent versions in the 1.4.x series
9351 - Fix build on gcc 4.3 with --enable-gcc-warnings set.
9352 - Include a new contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file that exit relay
9353 operators can put on their website to help reduce abuse queries.
9356 - When tunneling an encrypted directory connection, and its first
9357 circuit fails, do not leave it unattached and ask the controller
9358 to deal. Fixes the second part of bug 681.
9359 - Make bridge authorities correctly expire old extrainfo documents
9363 Changes in version 0.2.0.26-rc - 2008-05-13
9364 Tor 0.2.0.26-rc fixes a major security vulnerability caused by a bug
9365 in Debian's OpenSSL packages. All users running any 0.2.0.x version
9366 should upgrade, whether they're running Debian or not.
9368 o Major security fixes:
9369 - Use new V3 directory authority keys on the tor26, gabelmoo, and
9370 moria1 V3 directory authorities. The old keys were generated with
9371 a vulnerable version of Debian's OpenSSL package, and must be
9372 considered compromised. Other authorities' keys were not generated
9373 with an affected version of OpenSSL.
9376 - List authority signatures as "unrecognized" based on DirServer
9377 lines, not on cert cache. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
9380 - Add a new V3AuthUseLegacyKey option to make it easier for
9381 authorities to change their identity keys if they have to.
9384 Changes in version 0.2.0.25-rc - 2008-04-23
9385 Tor 0.2.0.25-rc makes Tor work again on OS X and certain BSDs.
9388 - Remember to initialize threading before initializing logging.
9389 Otherwise, many BSD-family implementations will crash hard on
9390 startup. Fixes bug 671. Bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc.
9393 - Authorities correctly free policies on bad servers on
9394 exit. Fixes bug 672. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
9397 Changes in version 0.2.0.24-rc - 2008-04-22
9398 Tor 0.2.0.24-rc adds dizum (run by Alex de Joode) as the new sixth
9399 v3 directory authority, makes relays with dynamic IP addresses and no
9400 DirPort notice more quickly when their IP address changes, fixes a few
9401 rare crashes and memory leaks, and fixes a few other miscellaneous bugs.
9403 o New directory authorities:
9404 - Take lefkada out of the list of v3 directory authorities, since
9405 it has been down for months.
9406 - Set up dizum (run by Alex de Joode) as the new sixth v3 directory
9410 - Detect address changes more quickly on non-directory mirror
9411 relays. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 652.
9413 o Minor features (security):
9414 - Reject requests for reverse-dns lookup of names that are in
9415 a private address space. Patch from lodger.
9416 - Non-exit relays no longer allow DNS requests. Fixes bug 619. Patch
9419 o Minor bugfixes (crashes):
9420 - Avoid a rare assert that can trigger when Tor doesn't have much
9421 directory information yet and it tries to fetch a v2 hidden
9422 service descriptor. Fixes bug 651, reported by nwf.
9423 - Initialize log mutex before initializing dmalloc. Otherwise,
9424 running with dmalloc would crash. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha.
9425 - Use recursive pthread mutexes in order to avoid deadlock when
9426 logging debug-level messages to a controller. Bug spotted by nwf,
9427 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
9429 o Minor bugfixes (resource management):
9430 - Keep address policies from leaking memory: start their refcount
9431 at 1, not 2. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
9432 - Free authority certificates on exit, so they don't look like memory
9433 leaks. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha.
9434 - Free static hashtables for policy maps and for TLS connections on
9435 shutdown, so they don't look like memory leaks. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
9436 - Avoid allocating extra space when computing consensuses on 64-bit
9437 platforms. Bug spotted by aakova.
9439 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
9440 - Do not read the configuration file when we've only been told to
9441 generate a password hash. Fixes bug 643. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5. Fix
9442 based on patch from Sebastian Hahn.
9443 - Exit relays that are used as a client can now reach themselves
9444 using the .exit notation, rather than just launching an infinite
9445 pile of circuits. Fixes bug 641. Reported by Sebastian Hahn.
9446 - When attempting to open a logfile fails, tell us why.
9447 - Fix a dumb bug that was preventing us from knowing that we should
9448 preemptively build circuits to handle expected directory requests.
9449 Fixes bug 660. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
9450 - Warn less verbosely about clock skew from netinfo cells from
9451 untrusted sources. Fixes bug 663.
9452 - Make controller stream events for DNS requests more consistent,
9453 by adding "new stream" events for DNS requests, and removing
9454 spurious "stream closed" events" for cached reverse resolves.
9455 Patch from mwenge. Fixes bug 646.
9456 - Correctly notify one-hop connections when a circuit build has
9457 failed. Possible fix for bug 669. Found by lodger.
9460 Changes in version 0.2.0.23-rc - 2008-03-24
9461 Tor 0.2.0.23-rc is the fourth release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
9462 makes bootstrapping faster if the first directory mirror you contact
9463 is down. The bundles also include the new Vidalia 0.1.2 release.
9466 - When a tunneled directory request is made to a directory server
9467 that's down, notice after 30 seconds rather than 120 seconds. Also,
9468 fail any begindir streams that are pending on it, so they can
9469 retry elsewhere. This was causing multi-minute delays on bootstrap.
9472 Changes in version 0.2.0.22-rc - 2008-03-18
9473 Tor 0.2.0.22-rc is the third release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
9474 enables encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays, fixes
9475 some broken TLS behavior we added in 0.2.0.20-rc, and resolves many
9476 other bugs. The bundles also include Vidalia 0.1.1 and Torbutton 1.1.17.
9479 - Enable encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays,
9480 so censor tools that block Tor directory connections based on their
9481 plaintext patterns will no longer work. This means Tor works in
9482 certain censored countries by default again.
9485 - Make sure servers always request certificates from clients during
9486 TLS renegotiation. Reported by lodger; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
9487 - Do not enter a CPU-eating loop when a connection is closed in
9488 the middle of client-side TLS renegotiation. Fixes bug 622. Bug
9489 diagnosed by lodger; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
9490 - Fix assertion failure that could occur when a blocked circuit
9491 became unblocked, and it had pending client DNS requests. Bugfix
9492 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 632.
9494 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
9495 - Generate "STATUS_SERVER" events rather than misspelled
9496 "STATUS_SEVER" events. Caught by mwenge.
9497 - When counting the number of bytes written on a TLS connection,
9498 look at the BIO actually used for writing to the network, not
9499 at the BIO used (sometimes) to buffer data for the network.
9500 Looking at different BIOs could result in write counts on the
9501 order of ULONG_MAX. Fixes bug 614.
9502 - On Windows, correctly detect errors when listing the contents of
9503 a directory. Fix from lodger.
9505 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
9506 - Downgrade "sslv3 alert handshake failure" message to INFO.
9507 - If we set RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst very high but
9508 left BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst at the default, we would be
9509 silently limited by those defaults. Now raise them to match the
9510 RelayBandwidth* values.
9511 - Fix the SVK version detection logic to work correctly on a branch.
9512 - Make --enable-openbsd-malloc work correctly on Linux with alpha
9513 CPUs. Fixes bug 625.
9514 - Logging functions now check that the passed severity is sane.
9515 - Use proper log levels in the testsuite call of
9516 get_interface_address6().
9517 - When using a nonstandard malloc, do not use the platform values for
9518 HAVE_MALLOC_GOOD_SIZE or HAVE_MALLOC_USABLE_SIZE.
9519 - Make the openbsd malloc code use 8k pages on alpha CPUs and
9521 - Detect mismatched page sizes when using --enable-openbsd-malloc.
9522 - Avoid double-marked-for-close warning when certain kinds of invalid
9523 .in-addr.arpa addresses are passed to the DNSPort. Part of a fix
9524 for bug 617. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
9525 - Make sure that the "NULL-means-reject *:*" convention is followed by
9526 all the policy manipulation functions, avoiding some possible crash
9527 bugs. Bug found by lodger. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
9528 - Fix the implementation of ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses so that it
9529 actually works, and doesn't warn about every single reverse lookup.
9530 Fixes the other part of bug 617. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
9533 - Only log guard node status when guard node status has changed.
9534 - Downgrade the 3 most common "INFO" messages to "DEBUG". This will
9535 make "INFO" 75% less verbose.
9538 Changes in version 0.2.0.21-rc - 2008-03-02
9539 Tor 0.2.0.21-rc is the second release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
9540 makes Tor work well with Vidalia again, fixes a rare assert bug,
9541 and fixes a pair of more minor bugs. The bundles also include Vidalia
9542 0.1.0 and Torbutton 1.1.16.
9545 - The control port should declare that it requires password auth
9546 when HashedControlSessionPassword is set too. Patch from Matt Edman;
9547 bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Fixes bug 615.
9548 - Downgrade assert in connection_buckets_decrement() to a log message.
9549 This may help us solve bug 614, and in any case will make its
9550 symptoms less severe. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Reported by fredzupy.
9551 - We were sometimes miscounting the number of bytes read from the
9552 network, causing our rate limiting to not be followed exactly.
9553 Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by lodger.
9556 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 0.9.8 and 0.9.8a. All other supported
9557 OpenSSL versions should have been working fine. Diagnosis and patch
9558 from lodger, Karsten Loesing, and Sebastian Hahn. Fixes bug 616.
9559 Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
9562 Changes in version 0.2.0.20-rc - 2008-02-24
9563 Tor 0.2.0.20-rc is the first release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
9564 makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS handshake, makes
9565 hidden services work better again, helps relays bootstrap if they don't
9566 know their IP address, adds optional support for linking in openbsd's
9567 allocator or tcmalloc, allows really fast relays to scale past 15000
9568 sockets, and fixes a bunch of minor bugs reported by Veracode.
9571 - Enable the revised TLS handshake based on the one designed by
9572 Steven Murdoch in proposal 124, as revised in proposal 130. It
9573 includes version negotiation for OR connections as described in
9574 proposal 105. The new handshake is meant to be harder for censors
9575 to fingerprint, and it adds the ability to detect certain kinds of
9576 man-in-the-middle traffic analysis attacks. The version negotiation
9577 feature will allow us to improve Tor's link protocol more safely
9579 - Choose which bridge to use proportional to its advertised bandwidth,
9580 rather than uniformly at random. This should speed up Tor for
9581 bridge users. Also do this for people who set StrictEntryNodes.
9582 - When a TrackHostExits-chosen exit fails too many times in a row,
9583 stop using it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 437.
9586 - Resolved problems with (re-)fetching hidden service descriptors.
9587 Patch from Karsten Loesing; fixes problems with 0.2.0.18-alpha
9589 - If we only ever used Tor for hidden service lookups or posts, we
9590 would stop building circuits and start refusing connections after
9591 24 hours, since we falsely believed that Tor was dormant. Reported
9592 by nwf; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
9593 - Servers that don't know their own IP address should go to the
9594 authorities for their first directory fetch, even if their DirPort
9595 is off or if they don't know they're reachable yet. This will help
9596 them bootstrap better. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 609.
9597 - When counting the number of open sockets, count not only the number
9598 of sockets we have received from the socket() call, but also
9599 the number we've gotten from accept() and socketpair(). This bug
9600 made us fail to count all sockets that we were using for incoming
9601 connections. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
9602 - Fix code used to find strings within buffers, when those strings
9603 are not in the first chunk of the buffer. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
9604 - Fix potential segfault when parsing HTTP headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
9605 - Add a new __HashedControlSessionPassword option for controllers
9606 to use for one-off session password hashes that shouldn't get
9607 saved to disk by SAVECONF --- Vidalia users were accumulating a
9608 pile of HashedControlPassword lines in their torrc files, one for
9609 each time they had restarted Tor and then clicked Save. Make Tor
9610 automatically convert "HashedControlPassword" to this new option but
9611 only when it's given on the command line. Partial fix for bug 586.
9613 o Minor features (performance):
9614 - Tune parameters for cell pool allocation to minimize amount of
9616 - Add OpenBSD malloc code from phk as an optional malloc
9617 replacement on Linux: some glibc libraries do very poorly
9618 with Tor's memory allocation patterns. Pass
9619 --enable-openbsd-malloc to get the replacement malloc code.
9620 - Add a --with-tcmalloc option to the configure script to link
9621 against tcmalloc (if present). Does not yet search for
9622 non-system include paths.
9623 - Stop imposing an arbitrary maximum on the number of file descriptors
9624 used for busy servers. Bug reported by Olaf Selke; patch from
9627 o Minor features (other):
9628 - When SafeLogging is disabled, log addresses along with all TLS
9630 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings, check for whether Apple's
9631 warning "-Wshorten-64-to-32" is available.
9632 - Add a --passphrase-fd argument to the tor-gencert command for
9635 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks and code problems):
9636 - We were leaking a file descriptor if Tor started with a zero-length
9637 cached-descriptors file. Patch by freddy77; bugfix on 0.1.2.
9638 - Detect size overflow in zlib code. Reported by Justin Ferguson and
9640 - We were comparing the raw BridgePassword entry with a base64'ed
9641 version of it, when handling a "/tor/networkstatus-bridges"
9642 directory request. Now compare correctly. Noticed by Veracode.
9643 - Recover from bad tracked-since value in MTBF-history file.
9645 - Alter the code that tries to recover from unhandled write
9646 errors, to not try to flush onto a socket that's given us
9647 unhandled errors. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
9648 - Make Unix controlsockets work correctly on OpenBSD. Patch from
9649 tup. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
9651 o Minor bugfixes (other):
9652 - If we have an extra-info document for our server, always make
9653 it available on the control port, even if we haven't gotten
9654 a copy of it from an authority yet. Patch from mwenge.
9655 - Log the correct memory chunk sizes for empty RAM chunks in mempool.c.
9656 - Directory mirrors no longer include a guess at the client's IP
9657 address if the connection appears to be coming from the same /24
9658 network; it was producing too many wrong guesses.
9659 - Make the new hidden service code respect the SafeLogging setting.
9660 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Patch from Karsten.
9661 - When starting as an authority, do not overwrite all certificates
9662 cached from other authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 606.
9663 - If we're trying to flush the last bytes on a connection (for
9664 example, when answering a directory request), reset the
9665 time-to-give-up timeout every time we manage to write something
9666 on the socket. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
9667 - Change the behavior of "getinfo status/good-server-descriptor"
9668 so it doesn't return failure when any authority disappears.
9669 - Even though the man page said that "TrackHostExits ." should
9670 work, nobody had ever implemented it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x.
9671 - Report TLS "zero return" case as a "clean close" and "IO error"
9672 as a "close". Stop calling closes "unexpected closes": existing
9673 Tors don't use SSL_close(), so having a connection close without
9674 the TLS shutdown handshake is hardly unexpected.
9675 - Send NAMESERVER_STATUS messages for a single failed nameserver
9678 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
9679 - Remove the tor_strpartition function: its logic was confused,
9680 and it was only used for one thing that could be implemented far
9684 Changes in version 0.2.0.19-alpha - 2008-02-09
9685 Tor 0.2.0.19-alpha makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS
9686 handshake, makes path selection for relays more secure and IP address
9687 guessing more robust, and generally fixes a lot of bugs in preparation
9688 for calling the 0.2.0 branch stable.
9691 - Do not include recognizeable strings in the commonname part of
9692 Tor's x509 certificates.
9695 - If we're a relay, avoid picking ourselves as an introduction point,
9696 a rendezvous point, or as the final hop for internal circuits. Bug
9697 reported by taranis and lodger. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
9698 - Patch from "Andrew S. Lists" to catch when we contact a directory
9699 mirror at IP address X and he says we look like we're coming from
9700 IP address X. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
9702 o Minor features (security):
9703 - Be more paranoid about overwriting sensitive memory on free(),
9704 as a defensive programming tactic to ensure forward secrecy.
9706 o Minor features (directory authority):
9707 - Actually validate the options passed to AuthDirReject,
9708 AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, and AuthDirBadExit.
9709 - Reject router descriptors with out-of-range bandwidthcapacity or
9710 bandwidthburst values.
9712 o Minor features (controller):
9713 - Reject controller commands over 1MB in length. This keeps rogue
9714 processes from running us out of memory.
9716 o Minor features (misc):
9717 - Give more descriptive well-formedness errors for out-of-range
9718 hidden service descriptor/protocol versions.
9719 - Make memory debugging information describe more about history
9720 of cell allocation, so we can help reduce our memory use.
9722 o Deprecated features (controller):
9723 - The status/version/num-versioning and status/version/num-concurring
9724 GETINFO options are no longer useful in the v3 directory protocol:
9725 treat them as deprecated, and warn when they're used.
9728 - When our consensus networkstatus has been expired for a while, stop
9729 being willing to build circuits using it. Fixes bug 401. Bugfix
9731 - Directory caches now fetch certificates from all authorities
9732 listed in a networkstatus consensus, even when they do not
9733 recognize them. Fixes bug 571. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
9734 - When connecting to a bridge without specifying its key, insert
9735 the connection into the identity-to-connection map as soon as
9736 a key is learned. Fixes bug 574. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
9737 - Detect versions of OS X where malloc_good_size() is present in the
9738 library but never actually declared. Resolves bug 587. Bugfix
9740 - Stop incorrectly truncating zlib responses to directory authority
9741 signature download requests. Fixes bug 593. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
9742 - Stop recommending that every server operator send mail to tor-ops.
9743 Resolves bug 597. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
9744 - Don't trigger an assert if we start a directory authority with a
9745 private IP address (like 127.0.0.1).
9746 - Avoid possible failures when generating a directory with routers
9747 with over-long versions strings, or too many flags set. Bugfix
9749 - If an attempt to launch a DNS resolve request over the control
9750 port fails because we have overrun the limit on the number of
9751 connections, tell the controller that the request has failed.
9752 - Avoid using too little bandwidth when our clock skips a few
9753 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
9754 - Fix shell error when warning about missing packages in configure
9755 script, on Fedora or Red Hat machines. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
9756 - Do not become confused when receiving a spurious VERSIONS-like
9757 cell from a confused v1 client. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
9758 - Re-fetch v2 (as well as v0) rendezvous descriptors when all
9759 introduction points for a hidden service have failed. Patch from
9760 Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
9762 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
9763 - Remove some needless generality from cpuworker code, for improved
9765 - Stop overloading the circuit_t.onionskin field for both "onionskin
9766 from a CREATE cell that we are waiting for a cpuworker to be
9767 assigned" and "onionskin from an EXTEND cell that we are going to
9768 send to an OR as soon as we are connected". Might help with bug 600.
9769 - Add an in-place version of aes_crypt() so that we can avoid doing a
9770 needless memcpy() call on each cell payload.
9773 Changes in version 0.2.0.18-alpha - 2008-01-25
9774 Tor 0.2.0.18-alpha adds a sixth v3 directory authority run by CCC,
9775 fixes a big memory leak in 0.2.0.17-alpha, and adds new config options
9776 that can warn or reject connections to ports generally associated with
9777 vulnerable-plaintext protocols.
9779 o New directory authorities:
9780 - Set up dannenberg (run by CCC) as the sixth v3 directory
9784 - Fix a major memory leak when attempting to use the v2 TLS
9785 handshake code. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; fixes bug 589.
9786 - We accidentally enabled the under-development v2 TLS handshake
9787 code, which was causing log entries like "TLS error while
9788 renegotiating handshake". Disable it again. Resolves bug 590.
9789 - We were computing the wrong Content-Length: header for directory
9790 responses that need to be compressed on the fly, causing clients
9791 asking for those items to always fail. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; partially
9795 - Avoid going directly to the directory authorities even if you're a
9796 relay, if you haven't found yourself reachable yet or if you've
9797 decided not to advertise your dirport yet. Addresses bug 556.
9798 - If we've gone 12 hours since our last bandwidth check, and we
9799 estimate we have less than 50KB bandwidth capacity but we could
9800 handle more, do another bandwidth test.
9801 - New config options WarnPlaintextPorts and RejectPlaintextPorts so
9802 Tor can warn and/or refuse connections to ports commonly used with
9803 vulnerable-plaintext protocols. Currently we warn on ports 23,
9804 109, 110, and 143, but we don't reject any.
9807 - When we setconf ClientOnly to 1, close any current OR and Dir
9808 listeners. Reported by mwenge.
9809 - When we get a consensus that's been signed by more people than
9810 we expect, don't log about it; it's not a big deal. Reported
9814 - Don't answer "/tor/networkstatus-bridges" directory requests if
9815 the request isn't encrypted.
9816 - Make "ClientOnly 1" config option disable directory ports too.
9817 - Patches from Karsten Loesing to make v2 hidden services more
9818 robust: work even when there aren't enough HSDir relays available;
9819 retry when a v2 rend desc fetch fails; but don't retry if we
9820 already have a usable v0 rend desc.
9823 Changes in version 0.2.0.17-alpha - 2008-01-17
9824 Tor 0.2.0.17-alpha makes the tarball build cleanly again (whoops).
9827 - Make the tor-gencert man page get included correctly in the tarball.
9830 Changes in version 0.2.0.16-alpha - 2008-01-17
9831 Tor 0.2.0.16-alpha adds a fifth v3 directory authority run by Karsten
9832 Loesing, and generally cleans up a lot of features and minor bugs.
9834 o New directory authorities:
9835 - Set up gabelmoo (run by Karsten Loesing) as the fifth v3 directory
9838 o Major performance improvements:
9839 - Switch our old ring buffer implementation for one more like that
9840 used by free Unix kernels. The wasted space in a buffer with 1mb
9841 of data will now be more like 8k than 1mb. The new implementation
9842 also avoids realloc();realloc(); patterns that can contribute to
9843 memory fragmentation.
9846 - Configuration files now accept C-style strings as values. This
9847 helps encode characters not allowed in the current configuration
9848 file format, such as newline or #. Addresses bug 557.
9849 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
9850 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out
9851 there that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such
9852 bodies when they receive them.
9853 - When we're not serving v2 directory information, there is no reason
9854 to actually keep any around. Remove the obsolete files and directory
9855 on startup if they are very old and we aren't going to serve them.
9857 o Minor performance improvements:
9858 - Reference-count and share copies of address policy entries; only 5%
9859 of them were actually distinct.
9860 - Never walk through the list of logs if we know that no log is
9861 interested in a given message.
9864 - When an authority has not signed a consensus, do not try to
9865 download a nonexistent "certificate with key 00000000". Bugfix
9866 on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 569.
9867 - Fix a rare assert error when we're closing one of our threads:
9868 use a mutex to protect the list of logs, so we never write to the
9869 list as it's being freed. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Fixes the very rare
9870 bug 575, which is kind of the revenge of bug 222.
9871 - Patch from Karsten Loesing to complain less at both the client
9872 and the relay when a relay used to have the HSDir flag but doesn't
9873 anymore, and we try to upload a hidden service descriptor.
9874 - Stop leaking one cert per TLS context. Fixes bug 582. Bugfix on
9876 - Do not try to download missing certificates until we have tried
9877 to check our fallback consensus. Fixes bug 583.
9878 - Make bridges round reported GeoIP stats info up to the nearest
9879 estimate, not down. Now we can distinguish between "0 people from
9880 this country" and "1 person from this country".
9881 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.
9882 - Avoid possible segfault if key generation fails in
9883 crypto_pk_hybrid_encrypt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.
9884 - Avoid segfault in the case where a badly behaved v2 versioning
9885 directory sends a signed networkstatus with missing client-versions.
9887 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
9888 router_get_by_hexdigest(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.
9889 - Correct bad index on array access in parse_http_time(). Bugfix
9891 - Fix possible bug in vote generation when server versions are present
9892 but client versions are not.
9893 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
9894 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
9896 - Avoid bogus crash-prone, leak-prone tor_realloc when we're
9897 compressing large objects and find ourselves with more than 4k
9898 left over. Bugfix on 0.2.0.
9899 - Fix a small memory leak when setting up a hidden service.
9900 - Fix a few memory leaks that could in theory happen under bizarre
9902 - Fix an assert if we post a general-purpose descriptor via the
9903 control port but that descriptor isn't mentioned in our current
9904 network consensus. Bug reported by Jon McLachlan; bugfix on
9907 o Minor features (controller):
9908 - Get NS events working again. Patch from tup.
9909 - The GETCONF command now escapes and quotes configuration values
9910 that don't otherwise fit into the torrc file.
9911 - The SETCONF command now handles quoted values correctly.
9913 o Minor features (directory authorities):
9914 - New configuration options to override default maximum number of
9915 servers allowed on a single IP address. This is important for
9916 running a test network on a single host.
9917 - Actually implement the -s option to tor-gencert.
9918 - Add a manual page for tor-gencert.
9920 o Minor features (bridges):
9921 - Bridge authorities no longer serve bridge descriptors over
9922 unencrypted connections.
9924 o Minor features (other):
9925 - Add hidden services and DNSPorts to the list of things that make
9926 Tor accept that it has running ports. Change starting Tor with no
9927 ports from a fatal error to a warning; we might change it back if
9928 this turns out to confuse anybody. Fixes bug 579.
9931 Changes in version 0.1.2.19 - 2008-01-17
9932 Tor 0.1.2.19 fixes a huge memory leak on exit relays, makes the default
9933 exit policy a little bit more conservative so it's safer to run an
9934 exit relay on a home system, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
9937 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
9938 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
9939 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
9940 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
9944 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
9945 buckets to become negative. Fixes bug 544.
9946 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
9947 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry.
9948 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
9949 service descriptor database even when DirPort is zero.
9950 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
9951 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
9952 crashing or mis-answering these requests.
9953 - When we decide to send a 503 response to a request for servers, do
9954 not then also send the server descriptors: this defeats the whole
9955 purpose. Fixes bug 539.
9958 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
9959 rebuild our server descriptor.
9960 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
9961 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about
9962 unknown routers in a config option. (Patch from mwenge.)
9963 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
9964 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
9965 nonstandard integer types.
9966 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
9967 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
9968 - If we were having problems getting a particular descriptor from the
9969 directory caches, and then we learned about a new descriptor for
9970 that router, we weren't resetting our failure count. Reported
9972 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
9973 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out there
9974 that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such bodies
9975 when they receive them.
9976 - Run correctly on systems where rlim_t is larger than unsigned long.
9977 This includes some 64-bit systems.
9978 - Run correctly on platforms (like some versions of OS X 10.5) where
9979 the real limit for number of open files is OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max
9980 from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES).
9981 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure.
9982 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
9983 router_get_by_hexdigest().
9984 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
9985 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
9989 Changes in version 0.2.0.15-alpha - 2007-12-25
9990 Tor 0.2.0.14-alpha and 0.2.0.15-alpha fix a bunch of bugs with the
9991 features added in 0.2.0.13-alpha.
9994 - Fix several remotely triggerable asserts based on DirPort requests
9995 for a v2 or v3 networkstatus object before we were prepared. This
9996 was particularly bad for 0.2.0.13 and later bridge relays, who
9997 would never have a v2 networkstatus and would thus always crash
9998 when used. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.x.
9999 - Estimate the v3 networkstatus size more accurately, rather than
10000 estimating it at zero bytes and giving it artificially high priority
10001 compared to other directory requests. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
10004 - Fix configure.in logic for cross-compilation.
10005 - When we load a bridge descriptor from the cache, and it was
10006 previously unreachable, mark it as retriable so we won't just
10007 ignore it. Also, try fetching a new copy immediately. Bugfixes
10009 - The bridge GeoIP stats were counting other relays, for example
10010 self-reachability and authority-reachability tests.
10013 - Support compilation to target iPhone; patch from cjacker huang.
10014 To build for iPhone, pass the --enable-iphone option to configure.
10017 Changes in version 0.2.0.14-alpha - 2007-12-23
10019 - Fix a crash on startup if you install Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha fresh
10020 without a datadirectory from a previous Tor install. Reported
10022 - Fix a crash when we fetch a descriptor that turns out to be
10023 unexpected (it used to be in our networkstatus when we started
10024 fetching it, but it isn't in our current networkstatus), and we
10025 aren't using bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
10026 - Fix a crash when accessing hidden services: it would work the first
10027 time you use a given introduction point for your service, but
10028 on subsequent requests we'd be using garbage memory. Fixed by
10029 Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
10030 - Fix a crash when we load a bridge descriptor from disk but we don't
10031 currently have a Bridge line for it in our torrc. Bugfix on
10035 - If bridge authorities set BridgePassword, they will serve a
10036 snapshot of known bridge routerstatuses from their DirPort to
10037 anybody who knows that password. Unset by default.
10040 - Make the unit tests build again.
10041 - Make "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" actually work.
10042 - Make PublishServerDescriptor default to 1, so the default doesn't
10043 have to change as we invent new directory protocol versions.
10044 - Fix test for rlim_t on OSX 10.3: sys/resource.h doesn't want to
10045 be included unless sys/time.h is already included. Fixes
10046 bug 553. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
10047 - If we receive a general-purpose descriptor and then receive an
10048 identical bridge-purpose descriptor soon after, don't discard
10049 the next one as a duplicate.
10052 - If BridgeRelay is set to 1, then the default for
10053 PublishServerDescriptor is now "bridge" rather than "v2,v3".
10054 - If the user sets RelayBandwidthRate but doesn't set
10055 RelayBandwidthBurst, then make them equal rather than erroring out.
10058 Changes in version 0.2.0.13-alpha - 2007-12-21
10059 Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha adds a fourth v3 directory authority run by Geoff
10060 Goodell, fixes many more bugs, and adds a lot of infrastructure for
10063 o New directory authorities:
10064 - Set up lefkada (run by Geoff Goodell) as the fourth v3 directory
10068 - Only update guard status (usable / not usable) once we have
10069 enough directory information. This was causing us to always pick
10070 two new guards on startup (bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha), and it was
10071 causing us to discard all our guards on startup if we hadn't been
10072 running for a few weeks (bugfix on 0.1.2.x). Fixes bug 448.
10073 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
10074 service descriptor databases even when DirPort is zero. Bugfix
10076 - We were ignoring our RelayBandwidthRate for the first 30 seconds
10077 after opening a circuit -- even a relayed circuit. Bugfix on
10079 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
10080 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
10081 crashing or mis-answering these types of requests.
10082 - Relays were publishing their server descriptor to v1 and v2
10083 directory authorities, but they didn't try publishing to v3-only
10084 authorities. Fix this; and also stop publishing to v1 authorities.
10086 - When we were reading router descriptors from cache, we were ignoring
10087 the annotations -- so for example we were reading in bridge-purpose
10088 descriptors as general-purpose descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
10089 - When we decided to send a 503 response to a request for servers, we
10090 were then also sending the server descriptors: this defeats the
10091 whole purpose. Fixes bug 539; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
10094 - Bridge relays now behave like clients with respect to time
10095 intervals for downloading new consensus documents -- otherwise they
10096 stand out. Bridge users now wait until the end of the interval,
10097 so their bridge relay will be sure to have a new consensus document.
10098 - Three new config options (AlternateDirAuthority,
10099 AlternateBridgeAuthority, and AlternateHSAuthority) that let the
10100 user selectively replace the default directory authorities by type,
10101 rather than the all-or-nothing replacement that DirServer offers.
10102 - Tor can now be configured to read a GeoIP file from disk in one
10103 of two formats. This can be used by controllers to map IP addresses
10104 to countries. Eventually, it may support exit-by-country.
10105 - When possible, bridge relays remember which countries users
10106 are coming from, and report aggregate information in their
10107 extra-info documents, so that the bridge authorities can learn
10108 where Tor is blocked.
10109 - Bridge directory authorities now do reachability testing on the
10110 bridges they know. They provide router status summaries to the
10111 controller via "getinfo ns/purpose/bridge", and also dump summaries
10112 to a file periodically.
10113 - Stop fetching directory info so aggressively if your DirPort is
10114 on but your ORPort is off; stop fetching v2 dir info entirely.
10115 You can override these choices with the new FetchDirInfoEarly
10119 - The fix in 0.2.0.12-alpha cleared the "hsdir" flag in v3 network
10120 consensus documents when there are too many relays at a single
10121 IP address. Now clear it in v2 network status documents too, and
10122 also clear it in routerinfo_t when the relay is no longer listed
10123 in the relevant networkstatus document.
10124 - Don't crash if we get an unexpected value for the
10125 PublishServerDescriptor config option. Reported by Matt Edman;
10126 bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
10127 - Our new v2 hidden service descriptor format allows descriptors
10128 that have no introduction points. But Tor crashed when we tried
10129 to build a descriptor with no intro points (and it would have
10130 crashed if we had tried to parse one). Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; patch
10131 by Karsten Loesing.
10132 - Fix building with dmalloc 5.5.2 with glibc.
10133 - Reject uploaded descriptors and extrainfo documents if they're
10134 huge. Otherwise we'll cache them all over the network and it'll
10135 clog everything up. Reported by Aljosha Judmayer.
10136 - Check for presence of s6_addr16 and s6_addr32 fields in in6_addr
10137 via autoconf. Should fix compile on solaris. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
10138 - When the DANGEROUS_VERSION controller status event told us we're
10139 running an obsolete version, it used the string "OLD" to describe
10140 it. Yet the "getinfo" interface used the string "OBSOLETE". Now use
10141 "OBSOLETE" in both cases. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
10142 - If we can't expand our list of entry guards (e.g. because we're
10143 using bridges or we have StrictEntryNodes set), don't mark relays
10144 down when they fail a directory request. Otherwise we're too quick
10145 to mark all our entry points down. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
10146 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
10147 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about unknown
10148 routers in a config option. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. (Patch from mwenge.)
10149 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
10150 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
10151 nonstandard integer types. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
10152 - Fix compilation with --disable-threads set. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
10153 - Don't crash on name lookup when we have no current consensus. Fixes
10154 bug 538; bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
10155 - Only Tors that want to mirror the v2 directory info should
10156 create the "cached-status" directory in their datadir. (All Tors
10157 used to create it.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
10158 - Directory authorities should only automatically download Extra Info
10159 documents if they're v1, v2, or v3 authorities. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
10162 - On the USR1 signal, when dmalloc is in use, log the top 10 memory
10163 consumers. (We already do this on HUP.)
10164 - Authorities and caches fetch the v2 networkstatus documents
10165 less often, now that v3 is encouraged.
10166 - Add a new config option BridgeRelay that specifies you want to
10167 be a bridge relay. Right now the only difference is that it makes
10168 you answer begin_dir requests, and it makes you cache dir info,
10169 even if your DirPort isn't on.
10170 - Add "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" so controllers can
10171 ask about source, timestamp of arrival, purpose, etc. We need
10172 something like this to help Vidalia not do GeoIP lookups on bridge
10174 - Allow multiple HashedControlPassword config lines, to support
10175 multiple controller passwords.
10176 - Authorities now decide whether they're authoritative for a given
10177 router based on the router's purpose.
10178 - New config options AuthDirBadDir and AuthDirListBadDirs for
10179 authorities to mark certain relays as "bad directories" in the
10180 networkstatus documents. Also supports the "!baddir" directive in
10181 the approved-routers file.
10184 Changes in version 0.2.0.12-alpha - 2007-11-16
10185 This twelfth development snapshot fixes some more build problems as
10186 well as a few minor bugs.
10189 - Make it build on OpenBSD again. Patch from tup.
10190 - Substitute BINDIR and LOCALSTATEDIR in scripts. Fixes
10191 package-building for Red Hat, OS X, etc.
10193 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
10194 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
10195 rebuild our server descriptor.
10197 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
10198 - When we're lacking a consensus, don't try to perform rendezvous
10199 operations. Reported by Karsten Loesing.
10200 - Fix a small memory leak whenever we decide against using a
10201 newly picked entry guard. Reported by Mike Perry.
10202 - When authorities detected more than two relays running on the same
10203 IP address, they were clearing all the status flags but forgetting
10204 to clear the "hsdir" flag. So clients were being told that a
10205 given relay was the right choice for a v2 hsdir lookup, yet they
10206 never had its descriptor because it was marked as 'not running'
10208 - If we're trying to fetch a bridge descriptor and there's no way
10209 the bridge authority could help us (for example, we don't know
10210 a digest, or there is no bridge authority), don't be so eager to
10211 fall back to asking the bridge authority.
10212 - If we're using bridges or have strictentrynodes set, and our
10213 chosen exit is in the same family as all our bridges/entry guards,
10214 then be flexible about families.
10217 - When we negotiate a v2 link-layer connection (not yet implemented),
10218 accept RELAY_EARLY cells and turn them into RELAY cells if we've
10219 negotiated a v1 connection for their next step. Initial code for
10223 Changes in version 0.2.0.11-alpha - 2007-11-12
10224 This eleventh development snapshot fixes some build problems with
10225 the previous snapshot. It also includes a more secure-by-default exit
10226 policy for relays, fixes an enormous memory leak for exit relays, and
10227 fixes another bug where servers were falling out of the directory list.
10230 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
10231 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
10232 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
10233 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
10234 on network address. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
10237 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
10238 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry; bugfix
10240 - On authorities, never downgrade to old router descriptors simply
10241 because they're listed in the consensus. This created a catch-22
10242 where we wouldn't list a new descriptor because there was an
10243 old one in the consensus, and we couldn't get the new one in the
10244 consensus because we wouldn't list it. Possible fix for bug 548.
10245 Also, this might cause bug 543 to appear on authorities; if so,
10246 we'll need a band-aid for that. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
10248 o Packaging fixes on 0.2.0.10-alpha:
10249 - We were including instructions about what to do with the
10250 src/config/fallback-consensus file, but we weren't actually
10251 including it in the tarball. Disable all of that for now.
10254 - Allow people to say PreferTunnelledDirConns rather than
10255 PreferTunneledDirConns, for those alternate-spellers out there.
10258 - Don't reevaluate all the information from our consensus document
10259 just because we've downloaded a v2 networkstatus that we intend
10260 to cache. Fixes bug 545; bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
10263 Changes in version 0.2.0.10-alpha - 2007-11-10
10264 This tenth development snapshot adds a third v3 directory authority
10265 run by Mike Perry, adds most of Karsten Loesing's new hidden service
10266 descriptor format, fixes a bad crash bug and new bridge bugs introduced
10267 in 0.2.0.9-alpha, fixes many bugs with the v3 directory implementation,
10268 fixes some minor memory leaks in previous 0.2.0.x snapshots, and
10269 addresses many more minor issues.
10271 o New directory authorities:
10272 - Set up ides (run by Mike Perry) as the third v3 directory authority.
10275 - Allow tunnelled directory connections to ask for an encrypted
10276 "begin_dir" connection or an anonymized "uses a full Tor circuit"
10277 connection independently. Now we can make anonymized begin_dir
10278 connections for (e.g.) more secure hidden service posting and
10280 - More progress on proposal 114: code from Karsten Loesing to
10281 implement new hidden service descriptor format.
10282 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst to 5MB/10MB, to
10283 accommodate the growing number of servers that use the default
10284 and are reaching it.
10285 - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which nodes
10286 to advertise as Guards: they must be in the top 7/8 in terms of
10287 how long we have known about them, and above the median of those
10288 nodes in terms of weighted fractional uptime.
10289 - Make "not enough dir info yet" warnings describe *why* Tor feels
10290 it doesn't have enough directory info yet.
10293 - Stop servers from crashing if they set a Family option (or
10294 maybe in other situations too). Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported
10296 - Make bridge users work again -- the move to v3 directories in
10297 0.2.0.9-alpha had introduced a number of bugs that made bridges
10298 no longer work for clients.
10299 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
10300 buckets to become negative. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 544.
10302 o Major bugfixes (v3 dir, bugfixes on 0.2.0.9-alpha):
10303 - When the consensus lists a router descriptor that we previously were
10304 mirroring, but that we considered non-canonical, reload the
10305 descriptor as canonical. This fixes bug 543 where Tor servers
10306 would start complaining after a few days that they don't have
10307 enough directory information to build a circuit.
10308 - Consider replacing the current consensus when certificates arrive
10309 that make the pending consensus valid. Previously, we were only
10310 considering replacement when the new certs _didn't_ help.
10311 - Fix an assert error on startup if we didn't already have the
10312 consensus and certs cached in our datadirectory: we were caching
10313 the consensus in consensus_waiting_for_certs but then free'ing it
10315 - Avoid sending a request for "keys/fp" (for which we'll get a 400 Bad
10316 Request) if we need more v3 certs but we've already got pending
10317 requests for all of them.
10318 - Correctly back off from failing certificate downloads. Fixes
10320 - Authorities don't vote on the Running flag if they have been running
10321 for less than 30 minutes themselves. Fixes bug 547, where a newly
10322 started authority would vote that everyone was down.
10324 o New requirements:
10325 - Drop support for OpenSSL version 0.9.6. Just about nobody was using
10326 it, it had no AES, and it hasn't seen any security patches since
10330 - Clients now hold circuitless TLS connections open for 1.5 times
10331 MaxCircuitDirtiness (15 minutes), since it is likely that they'll
10332 rebuild a new circuit over them within that timeframe. Previously,
10333 they held them open only for KeepalivePeriod (5 minutes).
10334 - Use "If-Modified-Since" to avoid retrieving consensus
10335 networkstatuses that we already have.
10336 - When we have no consensus, check FallbackNetworkstatusFile (defaults
10337 to $PREFIX/share/tor/fallback-consensus) for a consensus. This way
10338 we start knowing some directory caches.
10339 - When we receive a consensus from the future, warn about skew.
10340 - Improve skew reporting: try to give the user a better log message
10341 about how skewed they are, and how much this matters.
10342 - When we have a certificate for an authority, believe that
10343 certificate's claims about the authority's IP address.
10344 - New --quiet command-line option to suppress the default console log.
10345 Good in combination with --hash-password.
10346 - Authorities send back an X-Descriptor-Not-New header in response to
10347 an accepted-but-discarded descriptor upload. Partially implements
10349 - Make the log message for "tls error. breaking." more useful.
10350 - Better log messages about certificate downloads, to attempt to
10351 track down the second incarnation of bug 546.
10353 o Minor features (bridges):
10354 - If bridge users set UpdateBridgesFromAuthority, but the digest
10355 they ask for is a 404 from the bridge authority, they now fall
10356 back to trying the bridge directly.
10357 - Bridges now use begin_dir to publish their server descriptor to
10358 the bridge authority, even when they haven't set TunnelDirConns.
10360 o Minor features (controller):
10361 - When reporting clock skew, and we know that the clock is _at least
10362 as skewed_ as some value, but we don't know the actual value,
10363 report the value as a "minimum skew."
10366 - Update linux-tor-prio.sh script to allow QoS based on the uid of
10367 the Tor process. Patch from Marco Bonetti with tweaks from Mike
10371 - Refuse to start if both ORPort and UseBridges are set. Bugfix
10372 on 0.2.0.x, suggested by Matt Edman.
10373 - Don't stop fetching descriptors when FetchUselessDescriptors is
10374 set, even if we stop asking for circuits. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x;
10375 reported by tup and ioerror.
10376 - Better log message on vote from unknown authority.
10377 - Don't log "Launching 0 request for 0 router" message.
10379 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
10380 - Stop leaking memory every time we parse a v3 certificate. Bugfix
10382 - Stop leaking memory every time we load a v3 certificate. Bugfix
10383 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 536.
10384 - Stop leaking a cached networkstatus on exit. Bugfix on
10386 - Stop leaking voter information every time we free a consensus.
10387 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
10388 - Stop leaking signed data every time we check a voter signature.
10389 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
10390 - Stop leaking a signature every time we fail to parse a consensus or
10391 a vote. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
10392 - Stop leaking v2_download_status_map on shutdown. Bugfix on
10394 - Stop leaking conn->nickname every time we make a connection to a
10395 Tor relay without knowing its expected identity digest (e.g. when
10396 using bridges). Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
10398 - Minor bugfixes (portability):
10399 - Run correctly on platforms where rlim_t is larger than unsigned
10400 long, and/or where the real limit for number of open files is
10401 OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES). In
10402 particular, these may be needed for OS X 10.5.
10405 Changes in version 0.1.2.18 - 2007-10-28
10406 Tor 0.1.2.18 fixes many problems including crash bugs, problems with
10407 hidden service introduction that were causing huge delays, and a big
10408 bug that was causing some servers to disappear from the network status
10409 lists for a few hours each day.
10411 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
10412 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
10413 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
10414 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451:
10415 "connection_stop_writing: Assertion conn->write_event failed"
10416 Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
10417 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
10418 rend_process_relay_cell().
10420 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
10421 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
10422 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
10423 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
10424 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
10425 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
10426 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. These
10427 changes could speed up hidden service connections dramatically.
10429 o Major bugfixes (other):
10430 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we get a
10431 HUP signal. This led (in a roundabout way) to some servers getting
10432 dropped from the networkstatus lists for a few hours each day.
10433 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
10434 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
10435 circuit cannibalization).
10436 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
10437 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
10438 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
10439 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
10440 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
10441 consensus. Fixes bug 529.
10444 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
10445 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. Resolves
10447 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
10448 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is
10449 absent. Resolves bug 467.
10450 - Fix a user-triggerable segfault in expand_filename(). (There isn't
10451 a way to trigger this remotely.)
10452 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
10453 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
10454 were reporting the dir port.)
10455 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
10456 command. Bugfix on 0.1.2.17.
10457 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
10458 the future. Fixes bug 434.
10459 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
10461 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
10462 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
10463 the onion key from getting rotated.
10464 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
10465 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
10466 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
10467 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff
10468 is fishy. Resolves bug 463.
10469 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
10470 option. Patch from Robert Hogan.
10471 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
10472 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
10475 Changes in version 0.2.0.9-alpha - 2007-10-24
10476 This ninth development snapshot switches clients to the new v3 directory
10477 system; allows servers to be listed in the network status even when they
10478 have the same nickname as a registered server; and fixes many other
10479 bugs including a big one that was causing some servers to disappear
10480 from the network status lists for a few hours each day.
10482 o Major features (directory system):
10483 - Clients now download v3 consensus networkstatus documents instead
10484 of v2 networkstatus documents. Clients and caches now base their
10485 opinions about routers on these consensus documents. Clients only
10486 download router descriptors listed in the consensus.
10487 - Authorities now list servers who have the same nickname as
10488 a different named server, but list them with a new flag,
10489 "Unnamed". Now we can list servers that happen to pick the same
10490 nickname as a server that registered two years ago and then
10491 disappeared. Partially implements proposal 122.
10492 - If the consensus lists a router as "Unnamed", the name is assigned
10493 to a different router: do not identify the router by that name.
10494 Partially implements proposal 122.
10495 - Authorities can now come to a consensus on which method to use to
10496 compute the consensus. This gives us forward compatibility.
10499 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we HUP or
10500 when we find our DirPort to be reachable but won't actually publish
10501 it. New descriptors without any real changes are dropped by the
10502 authorities, and can screw up our "publish every 18 hours" schedule.
10504 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
10505 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
10506 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
10507 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
10508 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
10509 consensus. Fixes bug 529; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
10510 - Fix awful behavior in DownloadExtraInfo option where we'd fetch
10511 extrainfo documents and then discard them immediately for not
10512 matching the latest router. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
10514 o Minor features (v3 directory protocol):
10515 - Allow tor-gencert to generate a new certificate without replacing
10517 - Allow certificates to include an address.
10518 - When we change our directory-cache settings, reschedule all voting
10519 and download operations.
10520 - Reattempt certificate downloads immediately on failure, as long as
10521 we haven't failed a threshold number of times yet.
10522 - Delay retrying consensus downloads while we're downloading
10523 certificates to verify the one we just got. Also, count getting a
10524 consensus that we already have (or one that isn't valid) as a failure,
10525 and count failing to get the certificates after 20 minutes as a
10527 - Build circuits and download descriptors even if our consensus is a
10528 little expired. (This feature will go away once authorities are
10531 o Minor features (router descriptor cache):
10532 - If we find a cached-routers file that's been sitting around for more
10533 than 28 days unmodified, then most likely it's a leftover from
10534 when we upgraded to 0.2.0.8-alpha. Remove it. It has no good
10536 - When we (as a cache) download a descriptor because it was listed
10537 in a consensus, remember when the consensus was supposed to expire,
10538 and don't expire the descriptor until then.
10540 o Minor features (performance):
10541 - Call routerlist_remove_old_routers() much less often. This should
10542 speed startup, especially on directory caches.
10543 - Don't try to launch new descriptor downloads quite so often when we
10544 already have enough directory information to build circuits.
10545 - Base64 decoding was actually showing up on our profile when parsing
10546 the initial descriptor file; switch to an in-process all-at-once
10547 implementation that's about 3.5x times faster than calling out to
10550 o Minor features (compilation):
10551 - Detect non-ASCII platforms (if any still exist) and refuse to
10552 build there: some of our code assumes that 'A' is 65 and so on.
10554 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory authorities, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x):
10555 - Make the "next period" votes into "current period" votes immediately
10556 after publishing the consensus; avoid a heisenbug that made them
10557 stick around indefinitely.
10558 - When we discard a vote as a duplicate, do not report this as
10560 - Treat missing v3 keys or certificates as an error when running as a
10561 v3 directory authority.
10562 - When we're configured to be a v3 authority, but we're only listed
10563 as a non-v3 authority in our DirServer line for ourself, correct
10565 - If an authority doesn't have a qualified hostname, just put
10566 its address in the vote. This fixes the problem where we referred to
10567 "moria on moria:9031."
10568 - Distinguish between detached signatures for the wrong period, and
10569 detached signatures for a divergent vote.
10570 - Fix a small memory leak when computing a consensus.
10571 - When there's no concensus, we were forming a vote every 30
10572 minutes, but writing the "valid-after" line in our vote based
10573 on our configured V3AuthVotingInterval: so unless the intervals
10574 matched up, we immediately rejected our own vote because it didn't
10575 start at the voting interval that caused us to construct a vote.
10577 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory protocol, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x):
10578 - Delete unverified-consensus when the real consensus is set.
10579 - Consider retrying a consensus networkstatus fetch immediately
10580 after one fails: don't wait 60 seconds to notice.
10581 - When fetching a consensus as a cache, wait until a newer consensus
10582 should exist before trying to replace the current one.
10583 - Use a more forgiving schedule for retrying failed consensus
10584 downloads than for other types.
10586 o Minor bugfixes (other directory issues):
10587 - Correct the implementation of "download votes by digest." Bugfix on
10589 - Authorities no longer send back "400 you're unreachable please fix
10590 it" errors to Tor servers that aren't online all the time. We're
10591 supposed to tolerate these servers now. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
10593 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
10594 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
10595 option. Patch from Robert Hogan; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
10596 - Respond to INT and TERM SIGNAL commands before we execute the
10597 signal, in case the signal shuts us down. We had a patch in
10598 0.1.2.1-alpha that tried to do this by queueing the response on
10599 the connection's buffer before shutting down, but that really
10600 isn't the same thing at all. Bug located by Matt Edman.
10602 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
10603 - Correctly check for bad options to the "PublishServerDescriptor"
10604 config option. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; reported by Matt Edman.
10605 - Stop leaking memory on failing case of base32_decode, and make
10606 it accept upper-case letters. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
10607 - Don't try to download extrainfo documents when we're trying to
10608 fetch enough directory info to build a circuit: having enough
10609 info should get priority. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
10610 - Don't complain that "your server has not managed to confirm that its
10611 ports are reachable" if we haven't been able to build any circuits
10612 yet. Bug found by spending four hours without a v3 consensus. Bugfix
10614 - Detect the reason for failing to mmap a descriptor file we just
10615 wrote, and give a more useful log message. Fixes bug 533. Bugfix
10618 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
10619 - Remove support for the old bw_accounting file: we've been storing
10620 bandwidth accounting information in the state file since
10621 0.1.2.5-alpha. This may result in bandwidth accounting errors
10622 if you try to upgrade from 0.1.1.x or earlier, or if you try to
10623 downgrade to 0.1.1.x or earlier.
10624 - New convenience code to locate a file within the DataDirectory.
10625 - Move non-authority functionality out of dirvote.c.
10626 - Refactor the arguments for router_pick_{directory_|trusteddir}server
10627 so that they all take the same named flags.
10630 - Include the "tor-ctrl.sh" bash script by Stefan Behte to provide
10631 Unix users an easy way to script their Tor process (e.g. by
10632 adjusting bandwidth based on the time of the day).
10635 Changes in version 0.2.0.8-alpha - 2007-10-12
10636 This eighth development snapshot fixes a crash bug that's been bothering
10637 us since February 2007, lets bridge authorities store a list of bridge
10638 descriptors they've seen, gets v3 directory voting closer to working,
10639 starts caching v3 directory consensus documents on directory mirrors,
10640 and fixes a variety of smaller issues including some minor memory leaks.
10642 o Major features (router descriptor cache):
10643 - Store routers in a file called cached-descriptors instead of in
10644 cached-routers. Initialize cached-descriptors from cached-routers
10645 if the old format is around. The new format allows us to store
10646 annotations along with descriptors.
10647 - Use annotations to record the time we received each descriptor, its
10648 source, and its purpose.
10649 - Disable the SETROUTERPURPOSE controller command: it is now
10651 - Controllers should now specify cache=no or cache=yes when using
10652 the +POSTDESCRIPTOR command.
10653 - Bridge authorities now write bridge descriptors to disk, meaning
10654 we can export them to other programs and begin distributing them
10657 o Major features (directory authorities):
10658 - When a v3 authority is missing votes or signatures, it now tries
10660 - Directory authorities track weighted fractional uptime as well as
10661 weighted mean-time-between failures. WFU is suitable for deciding
10662 whether a node is "usually up", while MTBF is suitable for deciding
10663 whether a node is "likely to stay up." We need both, because
10664 "usually up" is a good requirement for guards, while "likely to
10665 stay up" is a good requirement for long-lived connections.
10667 o Major features (v3 directory system):
10668 - Caches now download v3 network status documents as needed,
10669 and download the descriptors listed in them.
10670 - All hosts now attempt to download and keep fresh v3 authority
10671 certificates, and re-attempt after failures.
10672 - More internal-consistency checks for vote parsing.
10674 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
10675 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
10676 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
10677 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451. Bugfix on
10680 o Major bugfixes (performance):
10681 - Fix really bad O(n^2) performance when parsing a long list of
10682 routers: Instead of searching the entire list for an "extra-info "
10683 string which usually wasn't there, once for every routerinfo
10684 we read, just scan lines forward until we find one we like.
10686 - When we add data to a write buffer in response to the data on that
10687 write buffer getting low because of a flush, do not consider the
10688 newly added data as a candidate for immediate flushing, but rather
10689 make it wait until the next round of writing. Otherwise, we flush
10690 and refill recursively, and a single greedy TLS connection can
10691 eat all of our bandwidth. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
10693 o Minor features (v3 authority system):
10694 - Add more ways for tools to download the votes that lead to the
10696 - Send a 503 when low on bandwidth and a vote, consensus, or
10697 certificate is requested.
10698 - If-modified-since is now implemented properly for all kinds of
10699 certificate requests.
10701 o Minor bugfixes (network statuses):
10702 - Tweak the implementation of proposal 109 slightly: allow at most
10703 two Tor servers on the same IP address, except if it's the location
10704 of a directory authority, in which case allow five. Bugfix on
10707 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
10708 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
10709 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
10710 were reporting the dir port.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
10712 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory system):
10713 - Fix logic to look up a cert by its signing key digest. Bugfix on
10715 - Only change the reply to a vote to "OK" if it's not already
10716 set. This gets rid of annoying "400 OK" log messages, which may
10717 have been masking some deeper issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
10718 - When we get a valid consensus, recompute the voting schedule.
10719 - Base the valid-after time of a vote on the consensus voting
10720 schedule, not on our preferred schedule.
10721 - Make the return values and messages from signature uploads and
10722 downloads more sensible.
10723 - Fix a memory leak when serving votes and consensus documents, and
10724 another when serving certificates.
10726 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
10727 - Use a slightly simpler string hashing algorithm (copying Python's
10728 instead of Java's) and optimize our digest hashing algorithm to take
10729 advantage of 64-bit platforms and to remove some possibly-costly
10731 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we parse guards from our state
10732 file. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
10733 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we write out a file. Bugfix on
10735 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
10736 command. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
10738 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
10739 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
10740 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
10741 - Stop calling tor_strlower() on uninitialized memory in some cases.
10742 Bugfix in 0.2.0.7-alpha.
10744 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
10745 - Treat some 403 responses from directory servers as INFO rather than
10746 WARN-severity events.
10747 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
10748 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff is
10749 fishy. Resolves bug 463.
10751 o Minor bugfixes (anonymity):
10752 - Never report that we've used more bandwidth than we're willing to
10753 relay: it leaks how much non-relay traffic we're using. Resolves
10755 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
10756 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
10757 circuit cannibalization).
10759 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
10760 - Make a bunch of functions static. Remove some dead code.
10761 - Pull out about a third of the really big routerlist.c; put it in a
10762 new module, networkstatus.c.
10763 - Merge the extra fields in local_routerstatus_t back into
10764 routerstatus_t: we used to need one routerstatus_t for each
10765 authority's opinion, plus a local_routerstatus_t for the locally
10766 computed consensus opinion. To save space, we put the locally
10767 modified fields into local_routerstatus_t, and only the common
10768 stuff into routerstatus_t. But once v3 directories are in use,
10769 clients and caches will no longer need to hold authority opinions;
10770 thus, the rationale for keeping the types separate is now gone.
10771 - Make the code used to reschedule and reattempt downloads more
10773 - Turn all 'Are we a directory server/mirror?' logic into a call to
10775 - Remove the code to generate the oldest (v1) directory format.
10776 The code has been disabled since 0.2.0.5-alpha.
10779 Changes in version 0.2.0.7-alpha - 2007-09-21
10780 This seventh development snapshot makes bridges work again, makes bridge
10781 authorities work for the first time, fixes two huge performance flaws
10782 in hidden services, and fixes a variety of minor issues.
10784 o New directory authorities:
10785 - Set up moria1 and tor26 as the first v3 directory authorities. See
10786 doc/spec/dir-spec.txt for details on the new directory design.
10788 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
10789 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
10790 rend_process_relay_cell(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
10792 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
10793 - Fix a bug that made servers send a "404 Not found" in response to
10794 attempts to fetch their server descriptor. This caused Tor servers
10795 to take many minutes to establish reachability for their DirPort,
10796 and it totally crippled bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
10797 - Make "UpdateBridgesFromAuthority" torrc option work: when bridge
10798 users configure that and specify a bridge with an identity
10799 fingerprint, now they will lookup the bridge descriptor at the
10800 default bridge authority via a one-hop tunnel, but once circuits
10801 are established they will switch to a three-hop tunnel for later
10802 connections to the bridge authority. Bugfix in 0.2.0.3-alpha.
10804 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
10805 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
10806 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
10807 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
10808 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
10809 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
10810 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. Both
10811 are bugfixes on 0.1.2.x, and they could speed up hidden service
10812 connections dramatically. Thanks to Karsten Loesing.
10814 o Minor features (security):
10815 - As a client, do not believe any server that tells us that an
10816 address maps to an internal address space.
10817 - Make it possible to enable HashedControlPassword and
10818 CookieAuthentication at the same time.
10820 o Minor features (guard nodes):
10821 - Tag every guard node in our state file with the version that
10822 we believe added it, or with our own version if we add it. This way,
10823 if a user temporarily runs an old version of Tor and then switches
10824 back to a new one, she doesn't automatically lose her guards.
10826 o Minor features (speed):
10827 - When implementing AES counter mode, update only the portions of the
10828 counter buffer that need to change, and don't keep separate
10829 network-order and host-order counters when they are the same (i.e.,
10830 on big-endian hosts.)
10832 o Minor features (controller):
10833 - Accept LF instead of CRLF on controller, since some software has a
10834 hard time generating real Internet newlines.
10835 - Add GETINFO values for the server status events
10836 "REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED" and "GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR". Patch from
10839 o Removed features:
10840 - Routers no longer include bandwidth-history lines in their
10841 descriptors; this information is already available in extra-info
10842 documents, and including it in router descriptors took up 60%
10843 (!) of compressed router descriptor downloads. Completes
10844 implementation of proposal 104.
10845 - Remove the contrib scripts ExerciseServer.py, PathDemo.py,
10846 and TorControl.py, as they use the old v0 controller protocol,
10847 and are obsoleted by TorFlow anyway.
10848 - Drop support for v1 rendezvous descriptors, since we never used
10849 them anyway, and the code has probably rotted by now. Based on
10850 patch from Karsten Loesing.
10851 - On OSX, stop warning the user that kqueue support in libevent is
10852 "experimental", since it seems to have worked fine for ages.
10855 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
10856 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is absent. Fixes
10857 bug 467. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
10858 - Fix a user-triggerable (but not remotely-triggerable) segfault
10859 in expand_filename(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
10860 - Fix a memory leak when freeing incomplete requests from DNSPort.
10861 Found by Niels Provos with valgrind. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
10862 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
10863 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. (Resolves
10864 bug 499.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
10865 - Servers used to decline to publish their DirPort if their
10866 BandwidthRate, RelayBandwidthRate, or MaxAdvertisedBandwidth
10867 were below a threshold. Now they only look at BandwidthRate and
10868 RelayBandwidthRate. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
10869 - Remove an optimization in the AES counter-mode code that assumed
10870 that the counter never exceeded 2^68. When the counter can be set
10871 arbitrarily as an IV (as it is by Karsten's new hidden services
10872 code), this assumption no longer holds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
10873 - Resume listing "AUTHORITY" flag for authorities in network status.
10874 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; reported by Alex de Joode.
10876 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
10877 - Revamp file-writing logic so we don't need to have the entire
10878 contents of a file in memory at once before we write to disk. Tor,
10880 - Turn "descriptor store" into a full-fledged type.
10881 - Move all NT services code into a separate source file.
10882 - Unify all code that computes medians, percentile elements, etc.
10883 - Get rid of a needless malloc when parsing address policies.
10886 Changes in version 0.1.2.17 - 2007-08-30
10887 Tor 0.1.2.17 features a new Vidalia version in the Windows and OS
10888 X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for the
10889 ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
10890 security risks. Everybody who uses Vidalia (or another controller)
10893 In addition, this Tor update fixes major load balancing problems with
10894 path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many people
10897 o Major bugfixes (security):
10898 - We removed support for the old (v0) control protocol. It has been
10899 deprecated since Tor 0.1.1.1-alpha, and keeping it secure has
10900 become more of a headache than it's worth.
10902 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
10903 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
10904 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
10906 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
10907 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
10908 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
10909 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
10910 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
10911 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
10913 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
10914 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
10915 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
10916 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
10917 circuit every 15 seconds. Fixes bug 454; reported by lodger.
10919 o Minor features (controller):
10920 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
10921 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
10922 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
10923 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
10925 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
10926 - Save on most routerlist_assert_ok() calls in routerlist.c, thus
10927 greatly speeding up loading cached-routers from disk on startup.
10928 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
10929 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and now
10930 its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice powers of
10931 two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values slightly over
10932 powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
10934 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
10935 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
10936 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
10937 Based on patch from Mike Perry.
10938 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
10939 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
10940 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
10941 if we ran off the end of the list.
10942 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
10943 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
10944 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
10945 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
10946 every time we change any piece of our config.
10947 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
10948 encourage people using them to stop.
10949 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. Original patch
10951 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
10952 servers to choose a circuit.
10953 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
10954 unparseable piece of it.
10957 Changes in version 0.2.0.6-alpha - 2007-08-26
10958 This sixth development snapshot features a new Vidalia version in the
10959 Windows and OS X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for
10960 the ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
10963 In addition, this snapshot fixes major load balancing problems
10964 with path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many
10965 people have upgraded. The directory authorities also use a new
10966 mean-time-between-failure approach to tracking which servers are stable,
10967 rather than just looking at the most recent uptime.
10969 o New directory authorities:
10970 - Set up Tonga as the default bridge directory authority.
10973 - Directory authorities now track servers by weighted
10974 mean-times-between-failures. When we have 4 or more days of data,
10975 use measured MTBF rather than declared uptime to decide whether
10976 to call a router Stable. Implements proposal 108.
10978 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
10979 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
10980 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
10982 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
10983 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
10984 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
10985 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
10986 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
10987 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
10989 o Major bugfixes (descriptor parsing):
10990 - Handle unexpected whitespace better in malformed descriptors. Bug
10991 found using Benedikt Boss's new Tor fuzzer! Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
10994 - There is now an ugly, temporary "desc/all-recent-extrainfo-hack"
10995 GETINFO for Torstat to use until it can switch to using extrainfos.
10996 - Optionally (if built with -DEXPORTMALLINFO) export the output
10997 of mallinfo via http, as tor/mallinfo.txt. Only accessible
11001 - Do not intermix bridge routers with controller-added
11002 routers. (Bugfix on 0.2.0.x)
11003 - Do not fail with an assert when accept() returns an unexpected
11004 address family. Addresses but does not wholly fix bug 483. (Bugfix
11006 - Let directory authorities startup even when they can't generate
11007 a descriptor immediately, e.g. because they don't know their
11009 - Stop putting the authentication cookie in a file called "0"
11010 in your working directory if you don't specify anything for the
11011 new CookieAuthFile option. Reported by Matt Edman.
11012 - Make it possible to read the PROTOCOLINFO response in a way that
11013 conforms to our control-spec. Reported by Matt Edman.
11014 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
11015 servers to choose a circuit. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
11016 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
11017 unparseable piece of it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
11018 - Unmap the extrainfo cache file on exit.
11021 Changes in version 0.2.0.5-alpha - 2007-08-19
11022 This fifth development snapshot fixes compilation on Windows again;
11023 fixes an obnoxious client-side bug that slowed things down and put
11024 extra load on the network; gets us closer to using the v3 directory
11025 voting scheme; makes it easier for Tor controllers to use cookie-based
11026 authentication; and fixes a variety of other bugs.
11028 o Removed features:
11029 - Version 1 directories are no longer generated in full. Instead,
11030 authorities generate and serve "stub" v1 directories that list
11031 no servers. This will stop Tor versions 0.1.0.x and earlier from
11032 working, but (for security reasons) nobody should be running those
11035 o Major bugfixes (compilation, 0.2.0.x):
11036 - Try to fix Win32 compilation again: improve checking for IPv6 types.
11037 - Try to fix MSVC compilation: build correctly on platforms that do
11038 not define s6_addr16 or s6_addr32.
11039 - Fix compile on platforms without getaddrinfo: bug found by Li-Hui
11042 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
11043 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
11044 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
11045 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
11046 circuit every 15 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; fixes bug 454;
11047 reported by lodger.
11049 o Minor features (directory servers):
11050 - When somebody requests a list of statuses or servers, and we have
11051 none of those, return a 404 rather than an empty 200.
11053 o Minor features (directory voting):
11054 - Store v3 consensus status consensuses on disk, and reload them
11057 o Minor features (security):
11058 - Warn about unsafe ControlPort configurations.
11059 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
11060 encourage people using them to stop.
11062 o Minor features (controller):
11063 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
11064 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
11065 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
11066 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
11067 - New config option CookieAuthFile to choose a new location for the
11068 cookie authentication file, and config option
11069 CookieAuthFileGroupReadable to make it group-readable.
11071 o Minor features (unit testing):
11072 - Add command-line arguments to unit-test executable so that we can
11073 invoke any chosen test from the command line rather than having
11074 to run the whole test suite at once; and so that we can turn on
11075 logging for the unit tests.
11077 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
11078 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
11079 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
11080 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
11081 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
11082 every time we change any piece of our config.
11083 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
11084 the future. Fixes bug 434.
11085 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
11087 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
11088 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
11089 the onion key from getting rotated.
11090 - Clean up torrc sample config file.
11091 - Do not automatically run configure from autogen.sh. This
11092 non-standard behavior tended to annoy people who have built other
11095 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
11096 - Fix a bug with AutomapHostsOnResolve that would always cause
11097 the second request to fail. Bug reported by Kate. Bugfix on
11099 - Fix a bug in ADDRMAP controller replies that would sometimes
11100 try to print a NULL. Patch from tup.
11101 - Read v3 directory authority keys from the right location.
11102 - Numerous bugfixes to directory voting code.
11105 Changes in version 0.1.2.16 - 2007-08-01
11106 Tor 0.1.2.16 fixes a critical security vulnerability that allows a
11107 remote attacker in certain situations to rewrite the user's torrc
11108 configuration file. This can completely compromise anonymity of users
11109 in most configurations, including those running the Vidalia bundles,
11110 TorK, etc. Or worse.
11112 o Major security fixes:
11113 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
11114 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
11117 Changes in version 0.2.0.4-alpha - 2007-08-01
11118 This fourth development snapshot fixes a critical security vulnerability
11119 for most users, specifically those running Vidalia, TorK, etc. Everybody
11120 should upgrade to either 0.1.2.16 or 0.2.0.4-alpha.
11122 o Major security fixes:
11123 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
11124 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
11126 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
11127 - Fix win32 compilation: apparently IN_ADDR and IN6_ADDR are already
11130 o Minor features (performance):
11131 - Be even more aggressive about releasing RAM from small
11132 empty buffers. Thanks to our free-list code, this shouldn't be too
11133 performance-intensive.
11134 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
11135 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and
11136 now its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice
11137 powers of two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values
11138 slightly over powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
11139 - Log malloc statistics from mallinfo() on platforms where it
11143 Changes in version 0.2.0.3-alpha - 2007-07-29
11144 This third development snapshot introduces new experimental
11145 blocking-resistance features and a preliminary version of the v3
11146 directory voting design, and includes many other smaller features
11150 - The first pieces of our "bridge" design for blocking-resistance
11151 are implemented. People can run bridge directory authorities;
11152 people can run bridges; and people can configure their Tor clients
11153 with a set of bridges to use as the first hop into the Tor network.
11154 See http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/Jul-2007/msg00249.html for
11156 - Create listener connections before we setuid to the configured
11157 User and Group. Now non-Windows users can choose port values
11158 under 1024, start Tor as root, and have Tor bind those ports
11159 before it changes to another UID. (Windows users could already
11161 - Added a new ConstrainedSockets config option to set SO_SNDBUF and
11162 SO_RCVBUF on TCP sockets. Hopefully useful for Tor servers running
11163 on "vserver" accounts. (Patch from coderman.)
11164 - Be even more aggressive about separating local traffic from relayed
11165 traffic when RelayBandwidthRate is set. (Refines proposal 111.)
11167 o Major features (experimental):
11168 - First cut of code for "v3 dir voting": directory authorities will
11169 vote on a common network status document rather than each publishing
11170 their own opinion. This code needs more testing and more corner-case
11171 handling before it's ready for use.
11174 - Directory authorities now call routers Fast if their bandwidth is
11175 at least 100KB/s, and consider their bandwidth adequate to be a
11176 Guard if it is at least 250KB/s, no matter the medians. This fix
11177 complements proposal 107. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
11178 - Directory authorities now never mark more than 3 servers per IP as
11179 Valid and Running. (Implements proposal 109, by Kevin Bauer and
11181 - Minor change to organizationName and commonName generation
11182 procedures in TLS certificates during Tor handshakes, to invalidate
11183 some earlier censorware approaches. This is not a long-term
11184 solution, but applying it will give us a bit of time to look into
11185 the epidemiology of countermeasures as they spread.
11187 o Major bugfixes (directory):
11188 - Rewrite directory tokenization code to never run off the end of
11189 a string. Fixes bug 455. Patch from croup. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
11191 o Minor features (controller):
11192 - Add a SOURCE_ADDR field to STREAM NEW events so that controllers can
11193 match requests to applications. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
11194 - Report address and port correctly on connections to DNSPort. (Patch
11195 from Robert Hogan.)
11196 - Add a RESOLVE command to launch hostname lookups. (Original patch
11197 from Robert Hogan.)
11198 - Add GETINFO status/enough-dir-info to let controllers tell whether
11199 Tor has downloaded sufficient directory information. (Patch
11201 - You can now use the ControlSocket option to tell Tor to listen for
11202 controller connections on Unix domain sockets on systems that
11203 support them. (Patch from Peter Palfrader.)
11204 - STREAM NEW events are generated for DNSPort requests and for
11205 tunneled directory connections. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
11206 - New "GETINFO address-mappings/*" command to get address mappings
11207 with expiry information. "addr-mappings/*" is now deprecated.
11210 o Minor features (misc):
11211 - Merge in some (as-yet-unused) IPv6 address manipulation code. (Patch
11213 - The tor-gencert tool for v3 directory authorities now creates all
11214 files as readable to the file creator only, and write-protects
11215 the authority identity key.
11216 - When dumping memory usage, list bytes used in buffer memory
11218 - When running with dmalloc, dump more stats on hup and on exit.
11219 - Directory authorities now fail quickly and (relatively) harmlessly
11220 if they generate a network status document that is somehow
11223 o Traffic load balancing improvements:
11224 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
11225 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
11226 (Based on patch from Mike Perry.)
11227 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
11228 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
11229 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
11230 if we ran off the end of the list. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
11232 o Performance improvements:
11233 - Be more aggressive with freeing buffer RAM or putting it on the
11235 - Use Critical Sections rather than Mutexes for synchronizing threads
11236 on win32; Mutexes are heavier-weight, and designed for synchronizing
11239 o Deprecated and removed features:
11240 - RedirectExits is now deprecated.
11241 - Stop allowing address masks that do not correspond to bit prefixes.
11242 We have warned about these for a really long time; now it's time
11243 to reject them. (Patch from croup.)
11245 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
11246 - Fix another crash bug related to extra-info caching. (Bug found by
11247 Peter Palfrader.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
11248 - Directories no longer return a "304 not modified" when they don't
11249 have the networkstatus the client asked for. Also fix a memory
11250 leak when returning 304 not modified. [Bugfixes on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
11251 - We had accidentally labelled 0.1.2.x directory servers as not
11252 suitable for begin_dir requests, and had labelled no directory
11253 servers as suitable for uploading extra-info documents. [Bugfix
11256 o Minor bugfixes (dns):
11257 - Fix a crash when DNSPort is set more than once. (Patch from Robert
11258 Hogan.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
11259 - Add DNSPort connections to the global connection list, so that we
11260 can time them out correctly. (Bug found by Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix
11262 - Fix a dangling reference that could lead to a crash when DNSPort is
11263 changed or closed (Patch from Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix on
11266 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
11267 - Provide DNS expiry times in GMT, not in local time. For backward
11268 compatibility, ADDRMAP events only provide GMT expiry in an extended
11269 field. "GETINFO address-mappings" always does the right thing.
11270 - Use CRLF line endings properly in NS events.
11271 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. (Original patch
11272 from tup.) [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x-alpha]
11273 - Do not include spaces in SOURCE_ADDR fields in STREAM
11274 events. Resolves bug 472. [Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha]
11277 Changes in version 0.1.2.15 - 2007-07-17
11278 Tor 0.1.2.15 fixes several crash bugs, fixes some anonymity-related
11279 problems, fixes compilation on BSD, and fixes a variety of other
11280 bugs. Everybody should upgrade.
11282 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
11283 - Fix compile on FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD. Oops.
11285 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
11286 - Try even harder not to dereference the first character after
11287 an mmap(). Reported by lodger.
11288 - Fix a crash bug in directory authorities when we re-number the
11289 routerlist while inserting a new router.
11290 - When the cached-routers file is an even multiple of the page size,
11291 don't run off the end and crash. (Fixes bug 455; based on idea
11293 - Fix eventdns.c behavior on Solaris: It is critical to include
11294 orconfig.h _before_ sys/types.h, so that we can get the expected
11295 definition of _FILE_OFFSET_BITS.
11297 o Major bugfixes (security):
11298 - Fix a possible buffer overrun when using BSD natd support. Bug
11300 - When sending destroy cells from a circuit's origin, don't include
11301 the reason for tearing down the circuit. The spec says we didn't,
11302 and now we actually don't. Reported by lodger.
11303 - Keep streamids from different exits on a circuit separate. This
11304 bug may have allowed other routers on a given circuit to inject
11305 cells into streams. Reported by lodger; fixes bug 446.
11306 - If there's a never-before-connected-to guard node in our list,
11307 never choose any guards past it. This way we don't expand our
11308 guard list unless we need to.
11310 o Minor bugfixes (guard nodes):
11311 - Weight guard selection by bandwidth, so that low-bandwidth nodes
11312 don't get overused as guards.
11314 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
11315 - Correctly count the number of authorities that recommend each
11316 version. Previously, we were under-counting by 1.
11317 - Fix a potential crash bug when we load many server descriptors at
11318 once and some of them make others of them obsolete. Fixes bug 458.
11320 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
11321 - Stop tearing down the whole circuit when the user asks for a
11322 connection to a port that the hidden service didn't configure.
11325 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
11326 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
11327 cached-routers while Tor was running. Reported by janbar.
11328 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by
11329 bandwidth. Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact
11330 unlikely. Patch from lodger.
11331 - Backport a couple of memory leak fixes.
11332 - Backport miscellaneous cosmetic bugfixes.
11335 Changes in version 0.2.0.2-alpha - 2007-06-02
11336 o Major bugfixes on 0.2.0.1-alpha:
11337 - Fix an assertion failure related to servers without extra-info digests.
11338 Resolves bugs 441 and 442.
11340 o Minor features (directory):
11341 - Support "If-Modified-Since" when answering HTTP requests for
11342 directories, running-routers documents, and network-status documents.
11343 (There's no need to support it for router descriptors, since those
11344 are downloaded by descriptor digest.)
11346 o Minor build issues:
11347 - Clear up some MIPSPro compiler warnings.
11348 - When building from a tarball on a machine that happens to have SVK
11349 installed, report the micro-revision as whatever version existed
11350 in the tarball, not as "x".
11353 Changes in version 0.2.0.1-alpha - 2007-06-01
11354 This early development snapshot provides new features for people running
11355 Tor as both a client and a server (check out the new RelayBandwidth
11356 config options); lets Tor run as a DNS proxy; and generally moves us
11357 forward on a lot of fronts.
11359 o Major features, server usability:
11360 - New config options RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst:
11361 a separate set of token buckets for relayed traffic. Right now
11362 relayed traffic is defined as answers to directory requests, and
11363 OR connections that don't have any local circuits on them.
11365 o Major features, client usability:
11366 - A client-side DNS proxy feature to replace the need for
11367 dns-proxy-tor: Just set "DNSPort 9999", and Tor will now listen
11368 for DNS requests on port 9999, use the Tor network to resolve them
11369 anonymously, and send the reply back like a regular DNS server.
11370 The code still only implements a subset of DNS.
11371 - Make PreferTunneledDirConns and TunnelDirConns work even when
11372 we have no cached directory info. This means Tor clients can now
11373 do all of their connections protected by TLS.
11375 o Major features, performance and efficiency:
11376 - Directory authorities accept and serve "extra info" documents for
11377 routers. These documents contain fields from router descriptors
11378 that aren't usually needed, and that use a lot of excess
11379 bandwidth. Once these fields are removed from router descriptors,
11380 the bandwidth savings should be about 60%. [Partially implements
11382 - Servers upload extra-info documents to any authority that accepts
11383 them. Authorities (and caches that have been configured to download
11384 extra-info documents) download them as needed. [Partially implements
11386 - Change the way that Tor buffers data that it is waiting to write.
11387 Instead of queueing data cells in an enormous ring buffer for each
11388 client->OR or OR->OR connection, we now queue cells on a separate
11389 queue for each circuit. This lets us use less slack memory, and
11390 will eventually let us be smarter about prioritizing different kinds
11392 - Use memory pools to allocate cells with better speed and memory
11393 efficiency, especially on platforms where malloc() is inefficient.
11394 - Stop reading on edge connections when their corresponding circuit
11395 buffers are full; start again as the circuits empty out.
11397 o Major features, other:
11398 - Add an HSAuthorityRecordStats option that hidden service authorities
11399 can use to track statistics of overall hidden service usage without
11400 logging information that would be very useful to an attacker.
11401 - Start work implementing multi-level keys for directory authorities:
11402 Add a standalone tool to generate key certificates. (Proposal 103.)
11405 - Directory authorities now call routers Stable if they have an
11406 uptime of at least 30 days, even if that's not the median uptime
11407 in the network. Implements proposal 107, suggested by Kevin Bauer
11410 o Minor fixes (resource management):
11411 - Count the number of open sockets separately from the number
11412 of active connection_t objects. This will let us avoid underusing
11413 our allocated connection limit.
11414 - We no longer use socket pairs to link an edge connection to an
11415 anonymous directory connection or a DirPort test connection.
11416 Instead, we track the link internally and transfer the data
11417 in-process. This saves two sockets per "linked" connection (at the
11418 client and at the server), and avoids the nasty Windows socketpair()
11420 - Keep unused 4k and 16k buffers on free lists, rather than wasting 8k
11421 for every single inactive connection_t. Free items from the
11422 4k/16k-buffer free lists when they haven't been used for a while.
11424 o Minor features (build):
11425 - Make autoconf search for libevent, openssl, and zlib consistently.
11426 - Update deprecated macros in configure.in.
11427 - When warning about missing headers, tell the user to let us
11428 know if the compile succeeds anyway, so we can downgrade the
11430 - Include the current subversion revision as part of the version
11431 string: either fetch it directly if we're in an SVN checkout, do
11432 some magic to guess it if we're in an SVK checkout, or use
11433 the last-detected version if we're building from a .tar.gz.
11434 Use this version consistently in log messages.
11436 o Minor features (logging):
11437 - Always prepend "Bug: " to any log message about a bug.
11438 - Put a platform string (e.g. "Linux i686") in the startup log
11439 message, so when people paste just their logs, we know if it's
11440 OpenBSD or Windows or what.
11441 - When logging memory usage, break down memory used in buffers by
11444 o Minor features (directory system):
11445 - New config option V2AuthoritativeDirectory that all directory
11446 authorities should set. This will let future authorities choose
11447 not to serve V2 directory information.
11448 - Directory authorities allow multiple router descriptors and/or extra
11449 info documents to be uploaded in a single go. This will make
11450 implementing proposal 104 simpler.
11452 o Minor features (controller):
11453 - Add a new config option __DisablePredictedCircuits designed for
11454 use by the controller, when we don't want Tor to build any circuits
11456 - Let the controller specify HOP=%d as an argument to ATTACHSTREAM,
11457 so we can exit from the middle of the circuit.
11458 - Implement "getinfo status/circuit-established".
11459 - Implement "getinfo status/version/..." so a controller can tell
11460 whether the current version is recommended, and whether any versions
11461 are good, and how many authorities agree. (Patch from shibz.)
11463 o Minor features (hidden services):
11464 - Allow multiple HiddenServicePort directives with the same virtual
11465 port; when they occur, the user is sent round-robin to one
11466 of the target ports chosen at random. Partially fixes bug 393 by
11467 adding limited ad-hoc round-robining.
11469 o Minor features (other):
11471 - Add a new AutomapHostsOnResolve option: when it is enabled, any
11472 resolve request for hosts matching a given pattern causes Tor to
11473 generate an internal virtual address mapping for that host. This
11474 allows DNSPort to work sensibly with hidden service users. By
11475 default, .exit and .onion addresses are remapped; the list of
11476 patterns can be reconfigured with AutomapHostsSuffixes.
11477 - Add an "-F" option to tor-resolve to force a resolve for a .onion
11478 address. Thanks to the AutomapHostsOnResolve option, this is no
11479 longer a completely silly thing to do.
11480 - If Tor is invoked from something that isn't a shell (e.g. Vidalia),
11481 now we expand "-f ~/.tor/torrc" correctly. Suggested by Matt Edman.
11482 - Treat "2gb" when given in torrc for a bandwidth as meaning 2gb,
11483 minus 1 byte: the actual maximum declared bandwidth.
11485 o Removed features:
11486 - Removed support for the old binary "version 0" controller protocol.
11487 This has been deprecated since 0.1.1, and warnings have been issued
11488 since 0.1.2. When we encounter a v0 control message, we now send
11489 back an error and close the connection.
11490 - Remove the old "dns worker" server DNS code: it hasn't been default
11491 since 0.1.2.2-alpha, and all the servers seem to be using the new
11494 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
11495 - Even though Windows is equally happy with / and \ as path separators,
11496 try to use \ consistently on Windows and / consistently on Unix: it
11497 makes the log messages nicer.
11498 - Correctly report platform name on Windows 95 OSR2 and Windows 98 SE.
11499 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
11500 partial results on small file reads.
11502 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
11503 - Correctly enforce that elements of directory objects do not appear
11504 more often than they are allowed to appear.
11505 - When we are reporting the DirServer line we just parsed, we were
11506 logging the second stanza of the key fingerprint, not the first.
11508 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
11509 - When we hit an EOF on a log (probably because we're shutting down),
11510 don't try to remove the log from the list: just mark it as
11511 unusable. (Bulletproofs against bug 222.)
11513 o Minor bugfixes (other):
11514 - In the exitlist script, only consider the most recently published
11515 server descriptor for each server. Also, when the user requests
11516 a list of servers that _reject_ connections to a given address,
11517 explicitly exclude the IPs that also have servers that accept
11518 connections to that address. (Resolves bug 405.)
11519 - Stop allowing hibernating servers to be "stable" or "fast".
11520 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
11521 cached-routers while Tor was running. (Reported by janbar)
11522 - Make the NodeFamilies config option work. (Reported by
11523 lodger -- it has never actually worked, even though we added it
11525 - Check return values from pthread_mutex functions.
11526 - Don't save non-general-purpose router descriptors to the disk cache,
11527 because we have no way of remembering what their purpose was when
11529 - Add even more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
11530 - Build without verbose warnings even on (not-yet-released) gcc 4.2.
11531 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by bandwidth.
11532 Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact unlikely.
11534 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
11535 - Make 'getinfo fingerprint' return a 551 error if we're not a
11536 server, so we match what the control spec claims we do. Reported
11538 - Fix a typo in an error message when extendcircuit fails that
11539 caused us to not follow the \r\n-based delimiter protocol. Reported
11542 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
11543 - Stop passing around circuit_t and crypt_path_t pointers that are
11544 implicit in other procedure arguments.
11545 - Drop the old code to choke directory connections when the
11546 corresponding OR connections got full: thanks to the cell queue
11547 feature, OR conns don't get full any more.
11548 - Make dns_resolve() handle attaching connections to circuits
11549 properly, so the caller doesn't have to.
11550 - Rename wants_to_read and wants_to_write to read/write_blocked_on_bw.
11551 - Keep the connection array as a dynamic smartlist_t, rather than as
11552 a fixed-sized array. This is important, as the number of connections
11553 is becoming increasingly decoupled from the number of sockets.
11556 Changes in version 0.1.2.14 - 2007-05-25
11557 Tor 0.1.2.14 changes the addresses of two directory authorities (this
11558 change especially affects those who serve or use hidden services),
11559 and fixes several other crash- and security-related bugs.
11561 o Directory authority changes:
11562 - Two directory authorities (moria1 and moria2) just moved to new
11563 IP addresses. This change will particularly affect those who serve
11564 or use hidden services.
11566 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
11567 - If a directory server runs out of space in the connection table
11568 as it's processing a begin_dir request, it will free the exit stream
11569 but leave it attached to the circuit, leading to unpredictable
11570 behavior. (Reported by seeess, fixes bug 425.)
11571 - Fix a bug in dirserv_remove_invalid() that would cause authorities
11572 to corrupt memory under some really unlikely scenarios.
11573 - Tighten router parsing rules. (Bugs reported by Benedikt Boss.)
11574 - Avoid segfaults when reading from mmaped descriptor file. (Reported
11577 o Major bugfixes (security):
11578 - When choosing an entry guard for a circuit, avoid using guards
11579 that are in the same family as the chosen exit -- not just guards
11580 that are exactly the chosen exit. (Reported by lodger.)
11582 o Major bugfixes (resource management):
11583 - If a directory authority is down, skip it when deciding where to get
11584 networkstatus objects or descriptors. Otherwise we keep asking
11585 every 10 seconds forever. Fixes bug 384.
11586 - Count it as a failure if we fetch a valid network-status but we
11587 don't want to keep it. Otherwise we'll keep fetching it and keep
11588 not wanting to keep it. Fixes part of bug 422.
11589 - If all of our dirservers have given us bad or no networkstatuses
11590 lately, then stop hammering them once per minute even when we
11591 think they're failed. Fixes another part of bug 422.
11594 - Actually set the purpose correctly for descriptors inserted with
11595 purpose=controller.
11596 - When we have k non-v2 authorities in our DirServer config,
11597 we ignored the last k authorities in the list when updating our
11599 - Correctly back-off from requesting router descriptors that we are
11600 having a hard time downloading.
11601 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
11602 partial results on small file reads.
11603 - Don't rebuild the entire router store every time we get 32K of
11604 routers: rebuild it when the journal gets very large, or when
11605 the gaps in the store get very large.
11608 - When routers publish SVN revisions in their router descriptors,
11609 authorities now include those versions correctly in networkstatus
11611 - Warn when using a version of libevent before 1.3b to run a server on
11612 OSX or BSD: these versions interact badly with userspace threads.
11615 Changes in version 0.1.2.13 - 2007-04-24
11616 This release features some major anonymity fixes, such as safer path
11617 selection; better client performance; faster bootstrapping, better
11618 address detection, and better DNS support for servers; write limiting as
11619 well as read limiting to make servers easier to run; and a huge pile of
11620 other features and bug fixes. The bundles also ship with Vidalia 0.0.11.
11622 Tor 0.1.2.13 is released in memory of Rob Levin (1955-2006), aka lilo
11623 of the Freenode IRC network, remembering his patience and vision for
11624 free speech on the Internet.
11627 - Fix a memory leak when we ask for "all" networkstatuses and we
11628 get one we don't recognize.
11629 - Add more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
11630 - Disable kqueue on OS X 10.3 and earlier, to fix bug 371.
11633 Changes in version 0.1.2.12-rc - 2007-03-16
11635 - Fix an infinite loop introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha when we serve
11636 directory information requested inside Tor connections (i.e. via
11637 begin_dir cells). It only triggered when the same connection was
11638 serving other data at the same time. Reported by seeess.
11641 - When creating a circuit via the controller, send a 'launched'
11642 event when we're done, so we follow the spec better.
11645 Changes in version 0.1.2.11-rc - 2007-03-15
11646 o Minor bugfixes (controller), reported by daejees:
11647 - Correct the control spec to match how the code actually responds
11648 to 'getinfo addr-mappings/*'.
11649 - The control spec described a GUARDS event, but the code
11650 implemented a GUARD event. Standardize on GUARD, but let people
11651 ask for GUARDS too.
11654 Changes in version 0.1.2.10-rc - 2007-03-07
11655 o Major bugfixes (Windows):
11656 - Do not load the NT services library functions (which may not exist)
11657 just to detect if we're a service trying to shut down. Now we run
11658 on Win98 and friends again.
11660 o Minor bugfixes (other):
11661 - Clarify a couple of log messages.
11662 - Fix a misleading socks5 error number.
11665 Changes in version 0.1.2.9-rc - 2007-03-02
11666 o Major bugfixes (Windows):
11667 - On MinGW, use "%I64u" to printf/scanf 64-bit integers, instead
11668 of the usual GCC "%llu". This prevents a bug when saving 64-bit
11669 int configuration values: the high-order 32 bits would get
11670 truncated. In particular, we were being bitten by the default
11671 MaxAdvertisedBandwidth of 128 TB turning into 0. (Fixes bug 400
11672 and maybe also bug 397.)
11674 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
11675 - Use OpenSSL's AES implementation on platforms where it's faster.
11676 This could save us as much as 10% CPU usage.
11678 o Minor bugfixes (server):
11679 - Do not rotate onion key immediately after setting it for the first
11682 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
11683 - Stop calling servers that have been hibernating for a long time
11684 "stable". Also, stop letting hibernating or obsolete servers affect
11685 uptime and bandwidth cutoffs.
11686 - Stop listing hibernating servers in the v1 directory.
11688 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
11689 - Upload hidden service descriptors slightly less often, to reduce
11690 load on authorities.
11692 o Minor bugfixes (other):
11693 - Fix an assert that could trigger if a controller quickly set then
11694 cleared EntryNodes. Bug found by Udo van den Heuvel.
11695 - On architectures where sizeof(int)>4, still clamp declarable bandwidth
11697 - Fix a potential race condition in the rpm installer. Found by
11699 - Try to fix eventdns warnings once and for all: do not treat a dns rcode
11700 of 2 as indicating that the server is completely bad; it sometimes
11701 means that the server is just bad for the request in question. (may fix
11702 the last of bug 326.)
11703 - Disable encrypted directory connections when we don't have a server
11704 descriptor for the destination. We'll get this working again in
11708 Changes in version 0.1.2.8-beta - 2007-02-26
11709 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
11710 - Stop crashing when the controller asks us to resetconf more than
11711 one config option at once. (Vidalia 0.0.11 does this.)
11712 - Fix a crash that happened on Win98 when we're given command-line
11713 arguments: don't try to load NT service functions from advapi32.dll
11714 except when we need them. (Bug introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha;
11716 - Fix a longstanding obscure crash bug that could occur when
11717 we run out of DNS worker processes. (Resolves bug 390.)
11719 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
11720 - Correctly detect whether hidden service descriptor downloads are
11721 in-progress. (Suggested by Karsten Loesing; fixes bug 399.)
11723 o Major bugfixes (accounting):
11724 - When we start during an accounting interval before it's time to wake
11725 up, remember to wake up at the correct time. (May fix bug 342.)
11727 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
11728 - Give the controller END_STREAM_REASON_DESTROY events _before_ we
11729 clear the corresponding on_circuit variable, and remember later
11730 that we don't need to send a redundant CLOSED event. Resolves part
11732 - Report events where a resolve succeeded or where we got a socks
11733 protocol error correctly, rather than calling both of them
11735 - Change reported stream target addresses to IP consistently when
11736 we finally get the IP from an exit node.
11737 - Send log messages to the controller even if they happen to be very
11740 o Minor bugfixes (other):
11741 - Display correct results when reporting which versions are
11742 recommended, and how recommended they are. (Resolves bug 383.)
11743 - Improve our estimates for directory bandwidth to be less random:
11744 guess that an unrecognized directory will have the average bandwidth
11745 from all known directories, not that it will have the average
11746 bandwidth from those directories earlier than it on the list.
11747 - If we start a server with ClientOnly 1, then set ClientOnly to 0
11748 and hup, stop triggering an assert based on an empty onion_key.
11749 - On platforms with no working mmap() equivalent, don't warn the
11750 user when cached-routers doesn't exist.
11751 - Warn the user when mmap() [or its equivalent] fails for some reason
11752 other than file-not-found.
11753 - Don't warn the user when cached-routers.new doesn't exist: that's
11754 perfectly fine when starting up for the first time.
11755 - When EntryNodes are configured, rebuild the guard list to contain,
11756 in order: the EntryNodes that were guards before; the rest of the
11757 EntryNodes; the nodes that were guards before.
11758 - Mask out all signals in sub-threads; only the libevent signal
11759 handler should be processing them. This should prevent some crashes
11760 on some machines using pthreads. (Patch from coderman.)
11761 - Fix switched arguments on memset in the implementation of
11762 tor_munmap() for systems with no mmap() call.
11763 - When Tor receives a router descriptor that it asked for, but
11764 no longer wants (because it has received fresh networkstatuses
11765 in the meantime), do not warn the user. Cache the descriptor if
11766 we're a cache; drop it if we aren't.
11767 - Make earlier entry guards _really_ get retried when the network
11769 - On a malformed DNS reply, always give an error to the corresponding
11771 - Build with recent libevents on platforms that do not define the
11772 nonstandard types "u_int8_t" and friends.
11774 o Minor features (controller):
11775 - Warn the user when an application uses the obsolete binary v0
11776 control protocol. We're planning to remove support for it during
11777 the next development series, so it's good to give people some
11779 - Add STREAM_BW events to report per-entry-stream bandwidth
11780 use. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
11781 - Rate-limit SIGNEWNYM signals in response to controllers that
11782 impolitely generate them for every single stream. (Patch from
11783 mwenge; closes bug 394.)
11784 - Make REMAP stream events have a SOURCE (cache or exit), and
11785 make them generated in every case where we get a successful
11786 connected or resolved cell.
11788 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
11789 - Call router_have_min_dir_info half as often. (This is showing up in
11790 some profiles, but not others.)
11791 - When using GCC, make log_debug never get called at all, and its
11792 arguments never get evaluated, when no debug logs are configured.
11793 (This is showing up in some profiles, but not others.)
11796 - Remove some never-implemented options. Mark PathlenCoinWeight as
11798 - Implement proposal 106: Stop requiring clients to have well-formed
11799 certificates; stop checking nicknames in certificates. (Clients
11800 have certificates so that they can look like Tor servers, but in
11801 the future we might want to allow them to look like regular TLS
11802 clients instead. Nicknames in certificates serve no purpose other
11803 than making our protocol easier to recognize on the wire.)
11804 - Revise messages on handshake failure again to be even more clear about
11805 which are incoming connections and which are outgoing.
11806 - Discard any v1 directory info that's over 1 month old (for
11807 directories) or over 1 week old (for running-routers lists).
11808 - Do not warn when individual nodes in the configuration's EntryNodes,
11809 ExitNodes, etc are down: warn only when all possible nodes
11810 are down. (Fixes bug 348.)
11811 - Always remove expired routers and networkstatus docs before checking
11812 whether we have enough information to build circuits. (Fixes
11814 - Put a lower-bound on MaxAdvertisedBandwidth.
11817 Changes in version 0.1.2.7-alpha - 2007-02-06
11818 o Major bugfixes (rate limiting):
11819 - Servers decline directory requests much more aggressively when
11820 they're low on bandwidth. Otherwise they end up queueing more and
11821 more directory responses, which can't be good for latency.
11822 - But never refuse directory requests from local addresses.
11823 - Fix a memory leak when sending a 503 response for a networkstatus
11825 - Be willing to read or write on local connections (e.g. controller
11826 connections) even when the global rate limiting buckets are empty.
11827 - If our system clock jumps back in time, don't publish a negative
11828 uptime in the descriptor. Also, don't let the global rate limiting
11829 buckets go absurdly negative.
11830 - Flush local controller connection buffers periodically as we're
11831 writing to them, so we avoid queueing 4+ megabytes of data before
11834 o Major bugfixes (NT services):
11835 - Install as NT_AUTHORITY\LocalService rather than as SYSTEM; add a
11836 command-line flag so that admins can override the default by saying
11837 "tor --service install --user "SomeUser"". This will not affect
11838 existing installed services. Also, warn the user that the service
11839 will look for its configuration file in the service user's
11840 %appdata% directory. (We can't do the 'hardwire the user's appdata
11841 directory' trick any more, since we may not have read access to that
11844 o Major bugfixes (other):
11845 - Previously, we would cache up to 16 old networkstatus documents
11846 indefinitely, if they came from nontrusted authorities. Now we
11847 discard them if they are more than 10 days old.
11848 - Fix a crash bug in the presence of DNS hijacking (reported by Andrew
11850 - Detect and reject malformed DNS responses containing circular
11852 - If exits are rare enough that we're not marking exits as guards,
11853 ignore exit bandwidth when we're deciding the required bandwidth
11855 - When we're handling a directory connection tunneled over Tor,
11856 don't fill up internal memory buffers with all the data we want
11857 to tunnel; instead, only add it if the OR connection that will
11858 eventually receive it has some room for it. (This can lead to
11859 slowdowns in tunneled dir connections; a better solution will have
11860 to wait for 0.2.0.)
11862 o Minor bugfixes (dns):
11863 - Add some defensive programming to eventdns.c in an attempt to catch
11864 possible memory-stomping bugs.
11865 - Detect and reject DNS replies containing IPv4 or IPv6 records with
11866 an incorrect number of bytes. (Previously, we would ignore the
11868 - Fix as-yet-unused reverse IPv6 lookup code so it sends nybbles
11869 in the correct order, and doesn't crash.
11870 - Free memory held in recently-completed DNS lookup attempts on exit.
11871 This was not a memory leak, but may have been hiding memory leaks.
11872 - Handle TTL values correctly on reverse DNS lookups.
11873 - Treat failure to parse resolv.conf as an error.
11875 o Minor bugfixes (other):
11876 - Fix crash with "tor --list-fingerprint" (reported by seeess).
11877 - When computing clock skew from directory HTTP headers, consider what
11878 time it was when we finished asking for the directory, not what
11880 - Expire socks connections if they spend too long waiting for the
11881 handshake to finish. Previously we would let them sit around for
11882 days, if the connecting application didn't close them either.
11883 - And if the socks handshake hasn't started, don't send a
11884 "DNS resolve socks failed" handshake reply; just close it.
11885 - Stop using C functions that OpenBSD's linker doesn't like.
11886 - Don't launch requests for descriptors unless we have networkstatuses
11887 from at least half of the authorities. This delays the first
11888 download slightly under pathological circumstances, but can prevent
11889 us from downloading a bunch of descriptors we don't need.
11890 - Do not log IPs with TLS failures for incoming TLS
11891 connections. (Fixes bug 382.)
11892 - If the user asks to use invalid exit nodes, be willing to use
11894 - Stop using the reserved ac_cv namespace in our configure script.
11895 - Call stat() slightly less often; use fstat() when possible.
11896 - Refactor the way we handle pending circuits when an OR connection
11897 completes or fails, in an attempt to fix a rare crash bug.
11898 - Only rewrite a conn's address based on X-Forwarded-For: headers
11899 if it's a parseable public IP address; and stop adding extra quotes
11900 to the resulting address.
11903 - Weight directory requests by advertised bandwidth. Now we can
11904 let servers enable write limiting but still allow most clients to
11905 succeed at their directory requests. (We still ignore weights when
11906 choosing a directory authority; I hope this is a feature.)
11909 - Create a new file ReleaseNotes which was the old ChangeLog. The
11910 new ChangeLog file now includes the summaries for all development
11912 - Check for addresses with invalid characters at the exit as well
11913 as at the client, and warn less verbosely when they fail. You can
11914 override this by setting ServerDNSAllowNonRFC953Addresses to 1.
11915 - Adapt a patch from goodell to let the contrib/exitlist script
11916 take arguments rather than require direct editing.
11917 - Inform the server operator when we decide not to advertise a
11918 DirPort due to AccountingMax enabled or a low BandwidthRate. It
11919 was confusing Zax, so now we're hopefully more helpful.
11920 - Bring us one step closer to being able to establish an encrypted
11921 directory tunnel without knowing a descriptor first. Still not
11922 ready yet. As part of the change, now assume we can use a
11923 create_fast cell if we don't know anything about a router.
11924 - Allow exit nodes to use nameservers running on ports other than 53.
11925 - Servers now cache reverse DNS replies.
11926 - Add an --ignore-missing-torrc command-line option so that we can
11927 get the "use sensible defaults if the configuration file doesn't
11928 exist" behavior even when specifying a torrc location on the command
11931 o Minor features (controller):
11932 - Track reasons for OR connection failure; make these reasons
11933 available via the controller interface. (Patch from Mike Perry.)
11934 - Add a SOCKS_BAD_HOSTNAME client status event so controllers
11935 can learn when clients are sending malformed hostnames to Tor.
11936 - Clean up documentation for controller status events.
11937 - Add a REMAP status to stream events to note that a stream's
11938 address has changed because of a cached address or a MapAddress
11942 Changes in version 0.1.2.6-alpha - 2007-01-09
11944 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if a single TLS
11945 connection handles more than 4 gigs in either direction, we crash.
11946 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if we're an
11947 advertised exit node, somebody might try to exit from us when
11948 we're bootstrapping and before we've built our descriptor yet.
11949 Refuse the connection rather than crashing.
11952 - Warn if we (as a server) find that we've resolved an address that we
11953 weren't planning to resolve.
11954 - Warn that using select() on any libevent version before 1.1 will be
11955 unnecessarily slow (even for select()).
11956 - Flush ERR-level controller status events just like we currently
11957 flush ERR-level log events, so that a Tor shutdown doesn't prevent
11958 the controller from learning about current events.
11960 o Minor features (more controller status events):
11961 - Implement EXTERNAL_ADDRESS server status event so controllers can
11962 learn when our address changes.
11963 - Implement BAD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR server status event so controllers
11964 can learn when directories reject our descriptor.
11965 - Implement SOCKS_UNKNOWN_PROTOCOL client status event so controllers
11966 can learn when a client application is speaking a non-socks protocol
11968 - Implement DANGEROUS_SOCKS client status event so controllers
11969 can learn when a client application is leaking DNS addresses.
11970 - Implement BUG general status event so controllers can learn when
11971 Tor is unhappy about its internal invariants.
11972 - Implement CLOCK_SKEW general status event so controllers can learn
11973 when Tor thinks the system clock is set incorrectly.
11974 - Implement GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR and ACCEPTED_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR
11975 server status events so controllers can learn when their descriptors
11976 are accepted by a directory.
11977 - Implement CHECKING_REACHABILITY and REACHABILITY_{SUCCEEDED|FAILED}
11978 server status events so controllers can learn about Tor's progress in
11979 deciding whether it's reachable from the outside.
11980 - Implement BAD_LIBEVENT general status event so controllers can learn
11981 when we have a version/method combination in libevent that needs to
11983 - Implement NAMESERVER_STATUS, NAMESERVER_ALL_DOWN, DNS_HIJACKED,
11984 and DNS_USELESS server status events so controllers can learn
11985 about changes to DNS server status.
11987 o Minor features (directory):
11988 - Authorities no longer recommend exits as guards if this would shift
11989 too much load to the exit nodes.
11992 Changes in version 0.1.2.5-alpha - 2007-01-06
11994 - Enable write limiting as well as read limiting. Now we sacrifice
11995 capacity if we're pushing out lots of directory traffic, rather
11996 than overrunning the user's intended bandwidth limits.
11997 - Include TLS overhead when counting bandwidth usage; previously, we
11998 would count only the bytes sent over TLS, but not the bytes used
12000 - Support running the Tor service with a torrc not in the same
12001 directory as tor.exe and default to using the torrc located in
12002 the %appdata%\Tor\ of the user who installed the service. Patch
12004 - Servers now check for the case when common DNS requests are going to
12005 wildcarded addresses (i.e. all getting the same answer), and change
12006 their exit policy to reject *:* if it's happening.
12007 - Implement BEGIN_DIR cells, so we can connect to the directory
12008 server via TLS to do encrypted directory requests rather than
12009 plaintext. Enable via the TunnelDirConns and PreferTunneledDirConns
12010 config options if you like.
12012 o Minor features (config and docs):
12013 - Start using the state file to store bandwidth accounting data:
12014 the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. We'll keep generating it
12015 for a while for people who are still using 0.1.2.4-alpha.
12016 - Try to batch changes to the state file so that we do as few
12017 disk writes as possible while still storing important things in
12019 - The state file and the bw_accounting file get saved less often when
12020 the AvoidDiskWrites config option is set.
12021 - Make PIDFile work on Windows (untested).
12022 - Add internal descriptions for a bunch of configuration options:
12023 accessible via controller interface and in comments in saved
12025 - Reject *:563 (NNTPS) in the default exit policy. We already reject
12026 NNTP by default, so this seems like a sensible addition.
12027 - Clients now reject hostnames with invalid characters. This should
12028 avoid some inadvertent info leaks. Add an option
12029 AllowNonRFC953Hostnames to disable this behavior, in case somebody
12030 is running a private network with hosts called @, !, and #.
12031 - Add a maintainer script to tell us which options are missing
12032 documentation: "make check-docs".
12033 - Add a new address-spec.txt document to describe our special-case
12034 addresses: .exit, .onion, and .noconnnect.
12036 o Minor features (DNS):
12037 - Ongoing work on eventdns infrastructure: now it has dns server
12038 and ipv6 support. One day Tor will make use of it.
12039 - Add client-side caching for reverse DNS lookups.
12040 - Add support to tor-resolve tool for reverse lookups and SOCKS5.
12041 - When we change nameservers or IP addresses, reset and re-launch
12042 our tests for DNS hijacking.
12044 o Minor features (directory):
12045 - Authorities now specify server versions in networkstatus. This adds
12046 about 2% to the size of compressed networkstatus docs, and allows
12047 clients to tell which servers support BEGIN_DIR and which don't.
12048 The implementation is forward-compatible with a proposed future
12049 protocol version scheme not tied to Tor versions.
12050 - DirServer configuration lines now have an orport= option so
12051 clients can open encrypted tunnels to the authorities without
12052 having downloaded their descriptors yet. Enabled for moria1,
12053 moria2, tor26, and lefkada now in the default configuration.
12054 - Directory servers are more willing to send a 503 "busy" if they
12055 are near their write limit, especially for v1 directory requests.
12056 Now they can use their limited bandwidth for actual Tor traffic.
12057 - Clients track responses with status 503 from dirservers. After a
12058 dirserver has given us a 503, we try not to use it until an hour has
12059 gone by, or until we have no dirservers that haven't given us a 503.
12060 - When we get a 503 from a directory, and we're not a server, we don't
12061 count the failure against the total number of failures allowed
12062 for the thing we're trying to download.
12063 - Report X-Your-Address-Is correctly from tunneled directory
12064 connections; don't report X-Your-Address-Is when it's an internal
12065 address; and never believe reported remote addresses when they're
12067 - Protect against an unlikely DoS attack on directory servers.
12068 - Add a BadDirectory flag to network status docs so that authorities
12069 can (eventually) tell clients about caches they believe to be
12072 o Minor features (controller):
12073 - Have GETINFO dir/status/* work on hosts with DirPort disabled.
12074 - Reimplement GETINFO so that info/names stays in sync with the
12076 - Implement "GETINFO fingerprint".
12077 - Implement "SETEVENTS GUARD" so controllers can get updates on
12078 entry guard status as it changes.
12080 o Minor features (clean up obsolete pieces):
12081 - Remove some options that have been deprecated since at least
12082 0.1.0.x: AccountingMaxKB, LogFile, DebugLogFile, LogLevel, and
12083 SysLog. Use AccountingMax instead of AccountingMaxKB, and use Log
12084 to set log options.
12085 - We no longer look for identity and onion keys in "identity.key" and
12086 "onion.key" -- these were replaced by secret_id_key and
12087 secret_onion_key in 0.0.8pre1.
12088 - We no longer require unrecognized directory entries to be
12091 o Major bugfixes (security):
12092 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
12093 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
12094 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
12095 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
12097 - When generating bandwidth history, round down to the nearest
12098 1k. When storing accounting data, round up to the nearest 1k.
12099 - When we're running as a server, remember when we last rotated onion
12100 keys, so that we will rotate keys once they're a week old even if
12101 we never stay up for a week ourselves.
12103 o Major bugfixes (other):
12104 - Fix a longstanding bug in eventdns that prevented the count of
12105 timed-out resolves from ever being reset. This bug caused us to
12106 give up on a nameserver the third time it timed out, and try it
12107 10 seconds later... and to give up on it every time it timed out
12109 - Take out the '5 second' timeout from the connection retry
12110 schedule. Now the first connect attempt will wait a full 10
12111 seconds before switching to a new circuit. Perhaps this will help
12112 a lot. Based on observations from Mike Perry.
12113 - Fix a bug on the Windows implementation of tor_mmap_file() that
12114 would prevent the cached-routers file from ever loading. Reported
12118 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
12119 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
12120 unlisted router. Reported by seeess.
12121 - Avoid a double-free when parsing malformed DirServer lines.
12122 - Fix a bug when a BSD-style PF socket is first used. Patch from
12124 - Fix a bug in 0.1.2.2-alpha that prevented clients from asking
12125 to resolve an address at a given exit node even when they ask for
12127 - Servers no longer ever list themselves in their "family" line,
12128 even if configured to do so. This makes it easier to configure
12129 family lists conveniently.
12130 - When running as a server, don't fall back to 127.0.0.1 when no
12131 nameservers are configured in /etc/resolv.conf; instead, make the
12132 user fix resolv.conf or specify nameservers explicitly. (Resolves
12134 - Stop accepting certain malformed ports in configured exit policies.
12135 - Don't re-write the fingerprint file every restart, unless it has
12137 - Stop warning when a single nameserver fails: only warn when _all_ of
12138 our nameservers have failed. Also, when we only have one nameserver,
12139 raise the threshold for deciding that the nameserver is dead.
12140 - Directory authorities now only decide that routers are reachable
12141 if their identity keys are as expected.
12142 - When the user uses bad syntax in the Log config line, stop
12143 suggesting other bad syntax as a replacement.
12144 - Correctly detect ipv6 DNS capability on OpenBSD.
12146 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
12147 - Report the circuit number correctly in STREAM CLOSED events. Bug
12148 reported by Mike Perry.
12149 - Do not report bizarre values for results of accounting GETINFOs
12150 when the last second's write or read exceeds the allotted bandwidth.
12151 - Report "unrecognized key" rather than an empty string when the
12152 controller tries to fetch a networkstatus that doesn't exist.
12155 Changes in version 0.1.1.26 - 2006-12-14
12156 o Security bugfixes:
12157 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
12158 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
12159 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
12160 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
12164 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
12165 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
12166 unlisted router (reported by seeess).
12169 Changes in version 0.1.2.4-alpha - 2006-12-03
12171 - Add support for using natd; this allows FreeBSDs earlier than
12172 5.1.2 to have ipfw send connections through Tor without using
12173 SOCKS. (Patch from Zajcev Evgeny with tweaks from tup.)
12176 - Make all connections to addresses of the form ".noconnect"
12177 immediately get closed. This lets application/controller combos
12178 successfully test whether they're talking to the same Tor by
12179 watching for STREAM events.
12180 - Make cross.sh cross-compilation script work even when autogen.sh
12181 hasn't been run. (Patch from Michael Mohr.)
12182 - Statistics dumped by -USR2 now include a breakdown of public key
12183 operations, for profiling.
12186 - Fix a major leak when directory authorities parse their
12187 approved-routers list, a minor memory leak when we fail to pick
12188 an exit node, and a few rare leaks on errors.
12189 - Handle TransPort connections even when the server sends data before
12190 the client sends data. Previously, the connection would just hang
12191 until the client sent data. (Patch from tup based on patch from
12193 - Avoid assert failure when our cached-routers file is empty on
12197 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
12198 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
12199 - Have directory authorities allow larger amounts of drift in uptime
12200 without replacing the server descriptor: previously, a server that
12201 restarted every 30 minutes could have 48 "interesting" descriptors
12203 - Start linking to the Tor specification and Tor reference manual
12204 correctly in the Windows installer.
12205 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
12206 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
12207 - Resume building on Irix64, and fix a lot of warnings from its
12208 MIPSpro C compiler.
12209 - Don't corrupt last_guessed_ip in router_new_address_suggestion()
12210 when we're running as a client.
12213 Changes in version 0.1.1.25 - 2006-11-04
12215 - When a client asks us to resolve (rather than connect to)
12216 an address, and we have a cached answer, give them the cached
12217 answer. Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
12218 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we predict
12219 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
12220 its circuits on demand.
12221 - If none of our live entry guards have a high uptime, but we
12222 require a guard with a high uptime, try adding a new guard before
12223 we give up on the requirement. This patch should make long-lived
12224 connections more stable on average.
12225 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
12226 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
12227 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
12229 o Security bugfixes:
12230 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
12231 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
12234 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
12236 - Avoid possibility of controller-triggered crash when misusing
12237 certain commands from a v0 controller on platforms that do not
12238 handle printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
12239 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
12240 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
12241 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
12242 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
12243 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
12246 Changes in version 0.1.2.3-alpha - 2006-10-29
12248 - Prepare for servers to publish descriptors less often: never
12249 discard a descriptor simply for being too old until either it is
12250 recommended by no authorities, or until we get a better one for
12251 the same router. Make caches consider retaining old recommended
12252 routers for even longer.
12253 - If most authorities set a BadExit flag for a server, clients
12254 don't think of it as a general-purpose exit. Clients only consider
12255 authorities that advertise themselves as listing bad exits.
12256 - Directory servers now provide 'Pragma: no-cache' and 'Expires'
12257 headers for content, so that we can work better in the presence of
12258 caching HTTP proxies.
12259 - Allow authorities to list nodes as bad exits by fingerprint or by
12262 o Minor features, controller:
12263 - Add a REASON field to CIRC events; for backward compatibility, this
12264 field is sent only to controllers that have enabled the extended
12265 event format. Also, add additional reason codes to explain why
12266 a given circuit has been destroyed or truncated. (Patches from
12268 - Add a REMOTE_REASON field to extended CIRC events to tell the
12269 controller about why a remote OR told us to close a circuit.
12270 - Stream events also now have REASON and REMOTE_REASON fields,
12271 working much like those for circuit events.
12272 - There's now a GETINFO ns/... field so that controllers can ask Tor
12273 about the current status of a router.
12274 - A new event type "NS" to inform a controller when our opinion of
12275 a router's status has changed.
12276 - Add a GETINFO events/names and GETINFO features/names so controllers
12277 can tell which events and features are supported.
12278 - A new CLEARDNSCACHE signal to allow controllers to clear the
12279 client-side DNS cache without expiring circuits.
12281 o Security bugfixes:
12282 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
12283 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
12286 - Avoid sending junk to controllers or segfaulting when a controller
12287 uses EVENT_NEW_DESC with verbose nicknames.
12288 - Stop triggering asserts if the controller tries to extend hidden
12289 service circuits (reported by mwenge).
12290 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
12291 - When the controller does a "GETINFO network-status", tell it
12292 about even those routers whose descriptors are very old, and use
12293 long nicknames where appropriate.
12294 - Change NT service functions to be loaded on demand. This lets us
12295 build with MinGW without breaking Tor for Windows 98 users.
12296 - Do DirPort reachability tests less often, since a single test
12297 chews through many circuits before giving up.
12298 - In the hidden service example in torrc.sample, stop recommending
12299 esoteric and discouraged hidden service options.
12300 - When stopping an NT service, wait up to 10 sec for it to actually
12301 stop. Patch from Matt Edman; resolves bug 295.
12302 - Fix handling of verbose nicknames with ORCONN controller events:
12303 make them show up exactly when requested, rather than exactly when
12305 - When reporting verbose nicknames in entry_guards_getinfo(), avoid
12306 printing a duplicate "$" in the keys we send (reported by mwenge).
12307 - Correctly set maximum connection limit on Cygwin. (This time
12309 - Try to detect Windows correctly when cross-compiling.
12310 - Detect the size of the routers file correctly even if it is
12311 corrupted (on systems without mmap) or not page-aligned (on systems
12312 with mmap). This bug was harmless.
12313 - Sometimes we didn't bother sending a RELAY_END cell when an attempt
12314 to open a stream fails; now we do in more cases. This should
12315 make clients able to find a good exit faster in some cases, since
12316 unhandleable requests will now get an error rather than timing out.
12317 - Resolve two memory leaks when rebuilding the on-disk router cache
12318 (reported by fookoowa).
12319 - Clean up minor code warnings suggested by the MIPSpro C compiler,
12320 and reported by some Centos users.
12321 - Controller signals now work on non-Unix platforms that don't define
12322 SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 the way we expect.
12323 - Patch from Michael Mohr to contrib/cross.sh, so it checks more
12324 values before failing, and always enables eventdns.
12325 - Libevent-1.2 exports, but does not define in its headers, strlcpy.
12326 Try to fix this in configure.in by checking for most functions
12327 before we check for libevent.
12330 Changes in version 0.1.2.2-alpha - 2006-10-07
12332 - Make our async eventdns library on-by-default for Tor servers,
12333 and plan to deprecate the separate dnsworker threads.
12334 - Add server-side support for "reverse" DNS lookups (using PTR
12335 records so clients can determine the canonical hostname for a given
12336 IPv4 address). Only supported by servers using eventdns; servers
12337 now announce in their descriptors whether they support eventdns.
12338 - Specify and implement client-side SOCKS5 interface for reverse DNS
12339 lookups (see doc/socks-extensions.txt).
12340 - Add a BEGIN_DIR relay cell type for an easier in-protocol way to
12341 connect to directory servers through Tor. Previously, clients needed
12342 to find Tor exits to make private connections to directory servers.
12343 - Avoid choosing Exit nodes for entry or middle hops when the
12344 total bandwidth available from non-Exit nodes is much higher than
12345 the total bandwidth available from Exit nodes.
12346 - Workaround for name servers (like Earthlink's) that hijack failing
12347 DNS requests and replace the no-such-server answer with a "helpful"
12348 redirect to an advertising-driven search portal. Also work around
12349 DNS hijackers who "helpfully" decline to hijack known-invalid
12350 RFC2606 addresses. Config option "ServerDNSDetectHijacking 0"
12351 lets you turn it off.
12352 - Send out a burst of long-range padding cells once we've established
12353 that we're reachable. Spread them over 4 circuits, so hopefully
12354 a few will be fast. This exercises our bandwidth and bootstraps
12355 us into the directory more quickly.
12357 o New/improved config options:
12358 - Add new config option "ResolvConf" to let the server operator
12359 choose an alternate resolve.conf file when using eventdns.
12360 - Add an "EnforceDistinctSubnets" option to control our "exclude
12361 servers on the same /16" behavior. It's still on by default; this
12362 is mostly for people who want to operate private test networks with
12363 all the machines on the same subnet.
12364 - If one of our entry guards is on the ExcludeNodes list, or the
12365 directory authorities don't think it's a good guard, treat it as
12366 if it were unlisted: stop using it as a guard, and throw it off
12367 the guards list if it stays that way for a long time.
12368 - Allow directory authorities to be marked separately as authorities
12369 for the v1 directory protocol, the v2 directory protocol, and
12370 as hidden service directories, to make it easier to retire old
12371 authorities. V1 authorities should set "HSAuthoritativeDir 1"
12372 to continue being hidden service authorities too.
12373 - Remove 8888 as a LongLivedPort, and add 6697 (IRCS).
12375 o Minor features, controller:
12376 - Fix CIRC controller events so that controllers can learn the
12377 identity digests of non-Named servers used in circuit paths.
12378 - Let controllers ask for more useful identifiers for servers. Instead
12379 of learning identity digests for un-Named servers and nicknames
12380 for Named servers, the new identifiers include digest, nickname,
12381 and indication of Named status. Off by default; see control-spec.txt
12382 for more information.
12383 - Add a "getinfo address" controller command so it can display Tor's
12384 best guess to the user.
12385 - New controller event to alert the controller when our server
12386 descriptor has changed.
12387 - Give more meaningful errors on controller authentication failure.
12389 o Minor features, other:
12390 - When asked to resolve a hostname, don't use non-exit servers unless
12391 requested to do so. This allows servers with broken DNS to be
12392 useful to the network.
12393 - Divide eventdns log messages into warn and info messages.
12394 - Reserve the nickname "Unnamed" for routers that can't pick
12395 a hostname: any router can call itself Unnamed; directory
12396 authorities will never allocate Unnamed to any particular router;
12397 clients won't believe that any router is the canonical Unnamed.
12398 - Only include function names in log messages for info/debug messages.
12399 For notice/warn/err, the content of the message should be clear on
12400 its own, and printing the function name only confuses users.
12401 - Avoid some false positives during reachability testing: don't try
12402 to test via a server that's on the same /24 as us.
12403 - If we fail to build a circuit to an intended enclave, and it's
12404 not mandatory that we use that enclave, stop wanting it.
12405 - When eventdns is enabled, allow multithreaded builds on NetBSD and
12406 OpenBSD. (We had previously disabled threads on these platforms
12407 because they didn't have working thread-safe resolver functions.)
12409 o Major bugfixes, anonymity/security:
12410 - If a client asked for a server by name, and there's a named server
12411 in our network-status but we don't have its descriptor yet, we
12412 could return an unnamed server instead.
12413 - Fix NetBSD bug that could allow someone to force uninitialized RAM
12414 to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This only affects NetBSD
12415 and other platforms that do not bounds-check tolower().
12416 - Reject (most) attempts to use Tor circuits with length one. (If
12417 many people start using Tor as a one-hop proxy, exit nodes become
12418 a more attractive target for compromise.)
12419 - Just because your DirPort is open doesn't mean people should be
12420 able to remotely teach you about hidden service descriptors. Now
12421 only accept rendezvous posts if you've got HSAuthoritativeDir set.
12423 o Major bugfixes, other:
12424 - Don't crash on race condition in dns.c: tor_assert(!resolve->expire)
12425 - When a client asks the server to resolve (not connect to)
12426 an address, and it has a cached answer, give them the cached answer.
12427 Previously, the server would give them no answer at all.
12428 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
12429 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
12430 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we anticipated
12431 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
12432 its circuits on demand.
12433 - Avoid crashing when we mmap a router cache file of size 0.
12434 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
12435 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
12436 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
12438 o Minor bugfixes, correctness:
12439 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
12440 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
12441 we don't recognize.
12442 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
12444 - Avoid controller-triggered crash when misusing certain commands
12445 from a v0 controller on platforms that do not handle
12446 printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
12447 - Don't crash when a controller sends a third argument to an
12448 "extendcircuit" request.
12449 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
12450 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
12451 - Avoid crash when telling controller stream-status and a stream
12453 - Patch from Adam Langley to fix assert() in eventdns.c.
12454 - Fix a debug log message in eventdns to say "X resolved to Y"
12455 instead of "X resolved to X".
12456 - Make eventdns give strings for DNS errors, not just error numbers.
12457 - Track unreachable entry guards correctly: don't conflate
12458 'unreachable by us right now' with 'listed as down by the directory
12459 authorities'. With the old code, if a guard was unreachable by
12460 us but listed as running, it would clog our guard list forever.
12461 - Behave correctly in case we ever have a network with more than
12462 2GB/s total advertised capacity.
12463 - Make TrackExitHosts case-insensitive, and fix the behavior of
12464 ".suffix" TrackExitHosts items to avoid matching in the middle of
12466 - Finally fix the openssl warnings from newer gccs that believe that
12467 ignoring a return value is okay, but casting a return value and
12468 then ignoring it is a sign of madness.
12469 - Prevent the contrib/exitlist script from printing the same
12470 result more than once.
12471 - Patch from Steve Hildrey: Generate network status correctly on
12472 non-versioning dirservers.
12473 - Don't listen to the X-Your-Address-Is hint if you did the lookup
12474 via Tor; otherwise you'll think you're the exit node's IP address.
12476 o Minor bugfixes, performance:
12477 - Two small performance improvements on parsing descriptors.
12478 - Major performance improvement on inserting descriptors: change
12479 algorithm from O(n^2) to O(n).
12480 - Make the common memory allocation path faster on machines where
12481 malloc(0) returns a pointer.
12482 - Start remembering X-Your-Address-Is directory hints even if you're
12483 a client, so you can become a server more smoothly.
12484 - Avoid duplicate entries on MyFamily line in server descriptor.
12486 o Packaging, features:
12487 - Remove architecture from OS X builds. The official builds are
12488 now universal binaries.
12489 - The Debian package now uses --verify-config when (re)starting,
12490 to distinguish configuration errors from other errors.
12491 - Update RPMs to require libevent 1.1b.
12493 o Packaging, bugfixes:
12494 - Patches so Tor builds with MinGW on Windows.
12495 - Patches so Tor might run on Cygwin again.
12496 - Resume building on non-gcc compilers and ancient gcc. Resume
12497 building with the -O0 compile flag. Resume building cleanly on
12499 - Run correctly on OS X platforms with case-sensitive filesystems.
12500 - Correct includes for net/if.h and net/pfvar.h on OpenBSD (from Tup).
12501 - Add autoconf checks so Tor can build on Solaris x86 again.
12504 - Documented (and renamed) ServerDNSSearchDomains and
12505 ServerDNSResolvConfFile options.
12506 - Be clearer that the *ListenAddress directives can be repeated
12510 Changes in version 0.1.1.24 - 2006-09-29
12512 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
12513 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
12514 - Fix major performance regression from 0.1.0.x: instead of checking
12515 whether we have enough directory information every time we want to
12516 do something, only check when the directory information has changed.
12517 This should improve client CPU usage by 25-50%.
12518 - Don't crash if, after a server has been running for a while,
12519 it can't resolve its hostname.
12522 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
12523 - Don't crash when the controller receives a third argument to an
12524 "extendcircuit" request.
12525 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
12526 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
12527 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
12528 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
12530 - Fix security bug on NetBSD that could allow someone to force
12531 uninitialized RAM to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This
12532 only affects NetBSD and other platforms that do not bounds-check
12534 - Warn user when using libevent 1.1a or earlier with win32 or kqueue
12535 methods: these are known to be buggy.
12536 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
12537 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
12538 we don't recognize.
12541 Changes in version 0.1.2.1-alpha - 2006-08-27
12543 - Add "eventdns" async dns library from Adam Langley, tweaked to
12544 build on OSX and Windows. Only enabled if you pass the
12545 --enable-eventdns argument to configure.
12546 - Allow servers with no hostname or IP address to learn their
12547 IP address by asking the directory authorities. This code only
12548 kicks in when you would normally have exited with a "no address"
12549 error. Nothing's authenticated, so use with care.
12550 - Rather than waiting a fixed amount of time between retrying
12551 application connections, we wait only 5 seconds for the first,
12552 10 seconds for the second, and 15 seconds for each retry after
12553 that. Hopefully this will improve the expected user experience.
12554 - Patch from Tup to add support for transparent AP connections:
12555 this basically bundles the functionality of trans-proxy-tor
12556 into the Tor mainline. Now hosts with compliant pf/netfilter
12557 implementations can redirect TCP connections straight to Tor
12558 without diverting through SOCKS. Needs docs.
12559 - Busy directory servers save lots of memory by spooling server
12560 descriptors, v1 directories, and v2 networkstatus docs to buffers
12561 as needed rather than en masse. Also mmap the cached-routers
12562 files, so we don't need to keep the whole thing in memory too.
12563 - Automatically avoid picking more than one node from the same
12564 /16 network when constructing a circuit.
12565 - Revise and clean up the torrc.sample that we ship with; add
12566 a section for BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst.
12569 - Split circuit_t into origin_circuit_t and or_circuit_t, and
12570 split connection_t into edge, or, dir, control, and base structs.
12571 These will save quite a bit of memory on busy servers, and they'll
12572 also help us track down bugs in the code and bugs in the spec.
12573 - Experimentally re-enable kqueue on OSX when using libevent 1.1b
12574 or later. Log when we are doing this, so we can diagnose it when
12575 it fails. (Also, recommend libevent 1.1b for kqueue and
12576 win32 methods; deprecate libevent 1.0b harder; make libevent
12577 recommendation system saner.)
12578 - Start being able to build universal binaries on OS X (thanks
12580 - Export the default exit policy via the control port, so controllers
12581 don't need to guess what it is / will be later.
12582 - Add a man page entry for ProtocolWarnings.
12583 - Add TestVia config option to the man page.
12584 - Remove even more protocol-related warnings from Tor server logs,
12585 such as bad TLS handshakes and malformed begin cells.
12586 - Stop fetching descriptors if you're not a dir mirror and you
12587 haven't tried to establish any circuits lately. [This currently
12588 causes some dangerous behavior, because when you start up again
12589 you'll use your ancient server descriptors.]
12590 - New DirPort behavior: if you have your dirport set, you download
12591 descriptors aggressively like a directory mirror, whether or not
12592 your ORPort is set.
12593 - Get rid of the router_retry_connections notion. Now routers
12594 no longer try to rebuild long-term connections to directory
12595 authorities, and directory authorities no longer try to rebuild
12596 long-term connections to all servers. We still don't hang up
12597 connections in these two cases though -- we need to look at it
12598 more carefully to avoid flapping, and we likely need to wait til
12599 0.1.1.x is obsolete.
12600 - Drop compatibility with obsolete Tors that permit create cells
12601 to have the wrong circ_id_type.
12602 - Re-enable per-connection rate limiting. Get rid of the "OP
12603 bandwidth" concept. Lay groundwork for "bandwidth classes" --
12604 separate global buckets that apply depending on what sort of conn
12606 - Start publishing one minute or so after we find our ORPort
12607 to be reachable. This will help reduce the number of descriptors
12608 we have for ourselves floating around, since it's quite likely
12609 other things (e.g. DirPort) will change during that minute too.
12610 - Fork the v1 directory protocol into its own spec document,
12611 and mark dir-spec.txt as the currently correct (v2) spec.
12614 - When we find our DirPort to be reachable, publish a new descriptor
12615 so we'll tell the world (reported by pnx).
12616 - Publish a new descriptor after we hup/reload. This is important
12617 if our config has changed such that we'll want to start advertising
12618 our DirPort now, etc.
12619 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
12620 - When we have a state file we cannot parse, tell the user and
12621 move it aside. Now we avoid situations where the user starts
12622 Tor in 1904, Tor writes a state file with that timestamp in it,
12623 the user fixes her clock, and Tor refuses to start.
12624 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
12625 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
12627 - "tor --verify-config" now exits with -1(255) or 0 depending on
12628 whether the config options are bad or good.
12629 - Resolve bug 321 when using dnsworkers: append a period to every
12630 address we resolve at the exit node, so that we do not accidentally
12631 pick up local addresses, and so that failing searches are retried
12632 in the resolver search domains. (This is already solved for
12633 eventdns.) (This breaks Blossom servers for now.)
12634 - If we are using an exit enclave and we can't connect, e.g. because
12635 its webserver is misconfigured to not listen on localhost, then
12636 back off and try connecting from somewhere else before we fail.
12639 - Start compiling on MinGW on Windows (patches from Mike Chiussi).
12640 - Start compiling on MSVC6 on Windows (patches from Frediano Ziglio).
12641 - Fix bug 314: Tor clients issued "unsafe socks" warnings even
12642 when the IP address is mapped through MapAddress to a hostname.
12643 - Start passing "ipv4" hints to getaddrinfo(), so servers don't do
12644 useless IPv6 DNS resolves.
12645 - Patch suggested by Karsten Loesing: respond to SIGNAL command
12646 before we execute the signal, in case the signal shuts us down.
12647 - Clean up AllowInvalidNodes man page entry.
12648 - Claim a commonname of Tor, rather than TOR, in TLS handshakes.
12649 - Add more asserts to track down an assert error on a windows Tor
12650 server with connection_add being called with socket == -1.
12651 - Handle reporting OR_CONN_EVENT_NEW events to the controller.
12652 - Fix misleading log messages: an entry guard that is "unlisted",
12653 as well as not known to be "down" (because we've never heard
12654 of it), is not therefore "up".
12655 - Remove code to special-case "-cvs" ending, since it has not
12656 actually mattered since 0.0.9.
12657 - Make our socks5 handling more robust to broken socks clients:
12658 throw out everything waiting on the buffer in between socks
12659 handshake phases, since they can't possibly (so the theory
12660 goes) have predicted what we plan to respond to them.
12663 Changes in version 0.1.1.23 - 2006-07-30
12665 - Fast Tor servers, especially exit nodes, were triggering asserts
12666 due to a bug in handling the list of pending DNS resolves. Some
12667 bugs still remain here; we're hunting them.
12668 - Entry guards could crash clients by sending unexpected input.
12669 - More fixes on reachability testing: if you find yourself reachable,
12670 then don't ever make any client requests (so you stop predicting
12671 circuits), then hup or have your clock jump, then later your IP
12672 changes, you won't think circuits are working, so you won't try to
12673 test reachability, so you won't publish.
12676 - Avoid a crash if the controller does a resetconf firewallports
12677 and then a setconf fascistfirewall=1.
12678 - Avoid an integer underflow when the dir authority decides whether
12679 a router is stable: we might wrongly label it stable, and compute
12680 a slightly wrong median stability, when a descriptor is published
12682 - Fix a place where we might trigger an assert if we can't build our
12683 own server descriptor yet.
12686 Changes in version 0.1.1.22 - 2006-07-05
12688 - Fix a big bug that was causing servers to not find themselves
12689 reachable if they changed IP addresses. Since only 0.1.1.22+
12690 servers can do reachability testing correctly, now we automatically
12691 make sure to test via one of these.
12692 - Fix to allow clients and mirrors to learn directory info from
12693 descriptor downloads that get cut off partway through.
12694 - Directory authorities had a bug in deciding if a newly published
12695 descriptor was novel enough to make everybody want a copy -- a few
12696 servers seem to be publishing new descriptors many times a minute.
12698 - Fix a rare bug that was causing some servers to complain about
12699 "closing wedged cpuworkers" and skip some circuit create requests.
12700 - Make the Exit flag in directory status documents actually work.
12703 Changes in version 0.1.1.21 - 2006-06-10
12704 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.1.20:
12705 - Fix a rare crash on Tor servers that have enabled hibernation.
12706 - Fix a seg fault on startup for Tor networks that use only one
12707 directory authority.
12708 - Fix an assert from a race condition that occurs on Tor servers
12709 while exiting, where various threads are trying to log that they're
12710 exiting, and delete the logs, at the same time.
12711 - Make our unit tests pass again on certain obscure platforms.
12714 - Add support for building SUSE RPM packages.
12715 - Speed up initial bootstrapping for clients: if we are making our
12716 first ever connection to any entry guard, then don't mark it down
12718 - When only one Tor server in the network is labelled as a guard,
12719 and we've already picked him, we would cycle endlessly picking him
12720 again, being unhappy about it, etc. Now we specifically exclude
12721 current guards when picking a new guard.
12722 - Servers send create cells more reliably after the TLS connection
12723 is established: we were sometimes forgetting to send half of them
12724 when we had more than one pending.
12725 - If we get a create cell that asks us to extend somewhere, but the
12726 Tor server there doesn't match the expected digest, we now send
12727 a destroy cell back, rather than silently doing nothing.
12728 - Make options->RedirectExit work again.
12729 - Make cookie authentication for the controller work again.
12730 - Stop being picky about unusual characters in the arguments to
12731 mapaddress. It's none of our business.
12732 - Add a new config option "TestVia" that lets you specify preferred
12733 middle hops to use for test circuits. Perhaps this will let me
12734 debug the reachability problems better.
12736 o Log / documentation fixes:
12737 - If we're a server and some peer has a broken TLS certificate, don't
12738 log about it unless ProtocolWarnings is set, i.e., we want to hear
12739 about protocol violations by others.
12740 - Fix spelling of VirtualAddrNetwork in man page.
12741 - Add a better explanation at the top of the autogenerated torrc file
12742 about what happened to our old torrc.
12745 Changes in version 0.1.1.20 - 2006-05-23
12747 - Downgrade a log severity where servers complain that they're
12749 - Avoid a compile warning on FreeBSD.
12750 - Remove string size limit on NEWDESC messages; solve bug 291.
12751 - Correct the RunAsDaemon entry in the man page; ignore RunAsDaemon
12752 more thoroughly when we're running on windows.
12755 Changes in version 0.1.1.19-rc - 2006-05-03
12757 - Regenerate our local descriptor if it's dirty and we try to use
12758 it locally (e.g. if it changes during reachability detection).
12759 - If we setconf our ORPort to 0, we continued to listen on the
12760 old ORPort and receive connections.
12761 - Avoid a second warning about machine/limits.h on Debian
12763 - Be willing to add our own routerinfo into the routerlist.
12764 Now authorities will include themselves in their directories
12765 and network-statuses.
12766 - Stop trying to upload rendezvous descriptors to every
12767 directory authority: only try the v1 authorities.
12768 - Servers no longer complain when they think they're not
12769 registered with the directory authorities. There were too many
12771 - Backport dist-rpm changes so rpms can be built without errors.
12774 - Implement an option, VirtualAddrMask, to set which addresses
12775 get handed out in response to mapaddress requests. This works
12776 around a bug in tsocks where 127.0.0.0/8 is never socksified.
12779 Changes in version 0.1.1.18-rc - 2006-04-10
12781 - Work harder to download live network-statuses from all the
12782 directory authorities we know about. Improve the threshold
12783 decision logic so we're more robust to edge cases.
12784 - When fetching rendezvous descriptors, we were willing to ask
12785 v2 authorities too, which would always return 404.
12788 - Stop listing down or invalid nodes in the v1 directory. This will
12789 reduce its bulk by about 1/3, and reduce load on directory
12791 - When deciding whether a router is Fast or Guard-worthy, consider
12792 his advertised BandwidthRate and not just the BandwidthCapacity.
12793 - No longer ship INSTALL and README files -- they are useless now.
12794 - Force rpmbuild to behave and honor target_cpu.
12795 - Avoid warnings about machine/limits.h on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.
12796 - Start to include translated versions of the tor-doc-*.html
12797 files, along with the screenshots. Still needs more work.
12798 - Start sending back 512 and 451 errors if mapaddress fails,
12799 rather than not sending anything back at all.
12800 - When we fail to bind or listen on an incoming or outgoing
12801 socket, we should close it before failing. otherwise we just
12802 leak it. (thanks to weasel for finding.)
12803 - Allow "getinfo dir/status/foo" to work, as long as your DirPort
12804 is enabled. (This is a hack, and will be fixed in 0.1.2.x.)
12805 - Make NoPublish (even though deprecated) work again.
12806 - Fix a minor security flaw where a versioning auth dirserver
12807 could list a recommended version many times in a row to make
12808 clients more convinced that it's recommended.
12809 - Fix crash bug if there are two unregistered servers running
12810 with the same nickname, one of them is down, and you ask for
12811 them by nickname in your EntryNodes or ExitNodes. Also, try
12812 to pick the one that's running rather than an arbitrary one.
12813 - Fix an infinite loop we could hit if we go offline for too long.
12814 - Complain when we hit WSAENOBUFS on recv() or write() too.
12815 Perhaps this will help us hunt the bug.
12816 - If you're not a versioning dirserver, don't put the string
12817 "client-versions \nserver-versions \n" in your network-status.
12818 - Lower the minimum required number of file descriptors to 1000,
12819 so we can have some overhead for Valgrind on Linux, where the
12820 default ulimit -n is 1024.
12823 - Add tor.dizum.com as the fifth authoritative directory server.
12824 - Add a new config option FetchUselessDescriptors, off by default,
12825 for when you plan to run "exitlist" on your client and you want
12826 to know about even the non-running descriptors.
12829 Changes in version 0.1.1.17-rc - 2006-03-28
12831 - Clients and servers since 0.1.1.10-alpha have been expiring
12832 connections whenever they are idle for 5 minutes and they *do*
12833 have circuits on them. Oops. With this new version, clients will
12834 discard their previous entry guard choices and avoid choosing
12835 entry guards running these flawed versions.
12836 - Fix memory leak when uncompressing concatenated zlib streams. This
12837 was causing substantial leaks over time on Tor servers.
12838 - The v1 directory was including servers as much as 48 hours old,
12839 because that's how the new routerlist->routers works. Now only
12840 include them if they're 20 hours old or less.
12843 - Resume building on irix64, netbsd 2.0, etc.
12844 - On non-gcc compilers (e.g. solaris), use "-g -O" instead of
12846 - Stop writing the "router.desc" file, ever. Nothing uses it anymore,
12847 and it is confusing some users.
12848 - Mirrors stop caching the v1 directory so often.
12849 - Make the max number of old descriptors that a cache will hold
12850 rise with the number of directory authorities, so we can scale.
12851 - Change our win32 uname() hack to be more forgiving about what
12852 win32 versions it thinks it's found.
12855 - Add lefkada.eecs.harvard.edu as a fourth authoritative directory
12857 - When the controller's *setconf commands fail, collect an error
12858 message in a string and hand it back to the controller.
12859 - Make the v2 dir's "Fast" flag based on relative capacity, just
12860 like "Stable" is based on median uptime. Name everything in the
12861 top 7/8 Fast, and only the top 1/2 gets to be a Guard.
12862 - Log server fingerprint on startup, so new server operators don't
12863 have to go hunting around their filesystem for it.
12864 - Return a robots.txt on our dirport to discourage google indexing.
12865 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/status/foo so it can ask
12866 directly rather than connecting to the dir port. Only works when
12867 dirport is set for now.
12869 o New config options rather than constants in the code:
12870 - SocksTimeout: How long do we let a socks connection wait
12871 unattached before we fail it?
12872 - CircuitBuildTimeout: Cull non-open circuits that were born
12873 at least this many seconds ago.
12874 - CircuitIdleTimeout: Cull open clean circuits that were born
12875 at least this many seconds ago.
12878 Changes in version 0.1.1.16-rc - 2006-03-18
12879 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.15-rc:
12880 - Fix assert when the controller asks to attachstream a connect-wait
12881 or resolve-wait stream.
12882 - Now do address rewriting when the controller asks us to attach
12883 to a particular circuit too. This will let Blossom specify
12884 "moria2.exit" without having to learn what moria2's IP address is.
12885 - Make the "tor --verify-config" command-line work again, so people
12886 can automatically check if their torrc will parse.
12887 - Authoritative dirservers no longer require an open connection from
12888 a server to consider him "reachable". We need this change because
12889 when we add new auth dirservers, old servers won't know not to
12891 - Let Tor build on Sun CC again.
12892 - Fix an off-by-one buffer size in dirserv.c that magically never
12893 hit our three authorities but broke sjmurdoch's own tor network.
12894 - If we as a directory mirror don't know of any v1 directory
12895 authorities, then don't try to cache any v1 directories.
12896 - Stop warning about unknown servers in our family when they are
12897 given as hex digests.
12898 - Stop complaining as quickly to the server operator that he
12899 hasn't registered his nickname/key binding.
12900 - Various cleanups so we can add new V2 Auth Dirservers.
12901 - Change "AllowUnverifiedNodes" to "AllowInvalidNodes", to
12902 reflect the updated flags in our v2 dir protocol.
12903 - Resume allowing non-printable characters for exit streams (both
12904 for connecting and for resolving). Now we tolerate applications
12905 that don't follow the RFCs. But continue to block malformed names
12908 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
12909 - Fix assert bug in close_logs(): when we close and delete logs,
12910 remove them all from the global "logfiles" list.
12911 - Fix minor integer overflow in calculating when we expect to use up
12912 our bandwidth allocation before hibernating.
12913 - Fix a couple of bugs in OpenSSL detection. Also, deal better when
12914 there are multiple SSLs installed with different versions.
12915 - When we try to be a server and Address is not explicitly set and
12916 our hostname resolves to a private IP address, try to use an
12917 interface address if it has a public address. Now Windows machines
12918 that think of themselves as localhost can work by default.
12921 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/server/foo so it can ask
12922 directly rather than connecting to the dir port.
12923 - Let the controller tell us about certain router descriptors
12924 that it doesn't want Tor to use in circuits. Implement
12925 SETROUTERPURPOSE and modify +POSTDESCRIPTOR to do this.
12926 - New config option SafeSocks to reject all application connections
12927 using unsafe socks protocols. Defaults to off.
12930 Changes in version 0.1.1.15-rc - 2006-03-11
12931 o Bugfixes and cleanups:
12932 - When we're printing strings from the network, don't try to print
12933 non-printable characters. This protects us against shell escape
12934 sequence exploits, and also against attacks to fool humans into
12935 misreading their logs.
12936 - Fix a bug where Tor would fail to establish any connections if you
12937 left it off for 24 hours and then started it: we were happy with
12938 the obsolete network statuses, but they all referred to router
12939 descriptors that were too old to fetch, so we ended up with no
12940 valid router descriptors.
12941 - Fix a seg fault in the controller's "getinfo orconn-status"
12942 command while listing status on incoming handshaking connections.
12943 Introduce a status name "NEW" for these connections.
12944 - If we get a linelist or linelist_s config option from the torrc
12945 (e.g. ExitPolicy) and it has no value, warn and skip rather than
12946 silently resetting it to its default.
12947 - Don't abandon entry guards until they've been down or gone for
12949 - Cleaner and quieter log messages.
12952 - New controller signal NEWNYM that makes new application requests
12953 use clean circuits.
12954 - Add a new circuit purpose 'controller' to let the controller ask
12955 for a circuit that Tor won't try to use. Extend the EXTENDCIRCUIT
12956 controller command to let you specify the purpose if you're
12957 starting a new circuit. Add a new SETCIRCUITPURPOSE controller
12958 command to let you change a circuit's purpose after it's been
12960 - Accept "private:*" in routerdesc exit policies; not generated yet
12961 because older Tors do not understand it.
12962 - Add BSD-style contributed startup script "rc.subr" from Peter
12966 Changes in version 0.1.1.14-alpha - 2006-02-20
12967 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
12968 - Don't die if we ask for a stdout or stderr log (even implicitly)
12969 and we're set to RunAsDaemon -- just warn.
12970 - We still had a few bugs in the OR connection rotation code that
12971 caused directory servers to slowly aggregate connections to other
12972 fast Tor servers. This time for sure!
12973 - Make log entries on Win32 include the name of the function again.
12974 - We were treating a pair of exit policies if they were equal even
12975 if one said accept and the other said reject -- causing us to
12976 not always publish a new descriptor since we thought nothing
12978 - Retry pending server downloads as well as pending networkstatus
12979 downloads when we unexpectedly get a socks request.
12980 - We were ignoring the IS_FAST flag in the directory status,
12981 meaning we were willing to pick trivial-bandwidth nodes for "fast"
12983 - If the controller's SAVECONF command fails (e.g. due to file
12984 permissions), let the controller know that it failed.
12987 - If we're trying to be a Tor server and running Windows 95/98/ME
12988 as a server, explain that we'll likely crash.
12989 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
12990 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
12991 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
12992 without getting overloaded.
12993 - Compress exit policies even more -- look for duplicate lines
12995 - Clients now honor the "guard" flag in the router status when
12996 picking entry guards, rather than looking at is_fast or is_stable.
12997 - Retain unrecognized lines in $DATADIR/state file, so that we can
12998 be forward-compatible.
12999 - Generate 18.0.0.0/8 address policy format in descs when we can;
13000 warn when the mask is not reducible to a bit-prefix.
13001 - Let the user set ControlListenAddress in the torrc. This can be
13002 dangerous, but there are some cases (like a secured LAN) where it
13004 - Split ReachableAddresses into ReachableDirAddresses and
13005 ReachableORAddresses, so we can restrict Dir conns to port 80
13006 and OR conns to port 443.
13007 - Now we can target arch and OS in rpm builds (contributed by
13008 Phobos). Also make the resulting dist-rpm filename match the
13010 - New config options to help controllers: FetchServerDescriptors
13011 and FetchHidServDescriptors for whether to fetch server
13012 info and hidserv info or let the controller do it, and
13013 PublishServerDescriptor and PublishHidServDescriptors.
13014 - Also let the controller set the __AllDirActionsPrivate config
13015 option if you want all directory fetches/publishes to happen via
13016 Tor (it assumes your controller bootstraps your circuits).
13019 Changes in version 0.1.0.17 - 2006-02-17
13020 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
13021 - When servers with a non-zero DirPort came out of hibernation,
13022 sometimes they would trigger an assert.
13024 o Other important bugfixes:
13025 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
13026 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
13027 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
13028 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
13030 o Backported features:
13031 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
13032 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
13033 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
13034 without getting overloaded.
13035 - Whenever you get a 503 in response to a directory fetch, try
13036 once more. This will become important once servers start sending
13037 503's whenever they feel busy.
13038 - Fetch a new directory every 120 minutes, not every 40 minutes.
13039 Now that we have hundreds of thousands of users running the old
13040 directory algorithm, it's starting to hurt a lot.
13041 - Bump up the period for forcing a hidden service descriptor upload
13042 from 20 minutes to 1 hour.
13045 Changes in version 0.1.1.13-alpha - 2006-02-09
13046 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
13047 - When you tried to setconf ORPort via the controller, Tor would
13048 crash. So people using TorCP to become a server were sad.
13049 - Solve (I hope) the stack-smashing bug that we were seeing on fast
13050 servers. The problem appears to be something do with OpenSSL's
13051 random number generation, or how we call it, or something. Let me
13052 know if the crashes continue.
13053 - Turn crypto hardware acceleration off by default, until we find
13054 somebody smart who can test it for us. (It appears to produce
13055 seg faults in at least some cases.)
13056 - Fix a rare assert error when we've tried all intro points for
13057 a hidden service and we try fetching the service descriptor again:
13058 "Assertion conn->state != AP_CONN_STATE_RENDDESC_WAIT failed"
13061 - Fix a major load balance bug: we were round-robining in 16 KB
13062 chunks, and servers with bandwidthrate of 20 KB, while downloading
13063 a 600 KB directory, would starve their other connections. Now we
13064 try to be a bit more fair.
13065 - Dir authorities and mirrors were never expiring the newest
13066 descriptor for each server, causing memory and directory bloat.
13067 - Fix memory-bloating and connection-bloating bug on servers: We
13068 were never closing any connection that had ever had a circuit on
13069 it, because we were checking conn->n_circuits == 0, yet we had a
13070 bug that let it go negative.
13071 - Make Tor work using squid as your http proxy again -- squid
13072 returns an error if you ask for a URL that's too long, and it uses
13073 a really generic error message. Plus, many people are behind a
13074 transparent squid so they don't even realize it.
13075 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
13076 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
13077 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
13078 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
13079 - Add a new config option ExitPolicyRejectPrivate which defaults to
13080 1. This means all exit policies will begin with rejecting private
13081 addresses, unless the server operator explicitly turns it off.
13084 - Clients no longer download descriptors for non-running
13086 - Before we add new directory authorities, we should make it
13087 clear that only v1 authorities should receive/publish hidden
13088 service descriptors.
13091 - As soon as we've fetched some more directory info, immediately
13092 try to download more server descriptors. This way we don't have
13093 a 10 second pause during initial bootstrapping.
13094 - Remove even more loud log messages that the server operator can't
13096 - When we're running an obsolete or un-recommended version, make
13097 the log message more clear about what the problem is and what
13098 versions *are* still recommended.
13099 - Provide a more useful warn message when our onion queue gets full:
13100 the CPU is too slow or the exit policy is too liberal.
13101 - Don't warn when we receive a 503 from a dirserver/cache -- this
13102 will pave the way for them being able to refuse if they're busy.
13103 - When we fail to bind a listener, try to provide a more useful
13104 log message: e.g., "Is Tor already running?"
13105 - Adjust tor-spec to parameterize cell and key lengths. Now Ian
13106 Goldberg can prove things about our handshake protocol more
13108 - MaxConn has been obsolete for a while now. Document the ConnLimit
13109 config option, which is a *minimum* number of file descriptors
13110 that must be available else Tor refuses to start.
13111 - Apply Matt Ghali's --with-syslog-facility patch to ./configure
13112 if you log to syslog and want something other than LOG_DAEMON.
13113 - Make dirservers generate a separate "guard" flag to mean,
13114 "would make a good entry guard". Make clients parse it and vote
13115 on it. Not used by clients yet.
13116 - Implement --with-libevent-dir option to ./configure. Also, improve
13117 search techniques to find libevent, and use those for openssl too.
13118 - Bump the default bandwidthrate to 3 MB, and burst to 6 MB
13119 - Only start testing reachability once we've established a
13120 circuit. This will make startup on dirservers less noisy.
13121 - Don't try to upload hidden service descriptors until we have
13122 established a circuit.
13123 - Fix the controller's "attachstream 0" command to treat conn like
13124 it just connected, doing address remapping, handling .exit and
13125 .onion idioms, and so on. Now we're more uniform in making sure
13126 that the controller hears about new and closing connections.
13129 Changes in version 0.1.1.12-alpha - 2006-01-11
13130 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
13131 - The fix to close duplicate server connections was closing all
13132 Tor client connections if they didn't establish a circuit
13133 quickly enough. Oops.
13134 - Fix minor memory issue (double-free) that happened on exit.
13136 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
13137 - Tor didn't warn when it failed to open a log file.
13140 Changes in version 0.1.1.11-alpha - 2006-01-10
13141 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
13142 - Include all the assert/crash fixes from 0.1.0.16.
13143 - If you start Tor and then quit very quickly, there were some
13144 races that tried to free things that weren't allocated yet.
13145 - Fix a rare memory stomp if you're running hidden services.
13146 - Fix segfault when specifying DirServer in config without nickname.
13147 - Fix a seg fault when you finish connecting to a server but at
13148 that moment you dump his server descriptor.
13149 - Extendcircuit and Attachstream controller commands would
13150 assert/crash if you don't give them enough arguments.
13151 - Fix an assert error when we're out of space in the connection_list
13152 and we try to post a hidden service descriptor (reported by weasel).
13153 - If you specify a relative torrc path and you set RunAsDaemon in
13154 your torrc, then it chdir()'s to the new directory. If you HUP,
13155 it tries to load the new torrc location, fails, and exits.
13156 The fix: no longer allow a relative path to torrc using -f.
13159 - Implement "entry guards": automatically choose a handful of entry
13160 nodes and stick with them for all circuits. Only pick new guards
13161 when the ones you have are unsuitable, and if the old guards
13162 become suitable again, switch back. This will increase security
13163 dramatically against certain end-point attacks. The EntryNodes
13164 config option now provides some hints about which entry guards you
13165 want to use most; and StrictEntryNodes means to only use those.
13166 - New directory logic: download by descriptor digest, not by
13167 fingerprint. Caches try to download all listed digests from
13168 authorities; clients try to download "best" digests from caches.
13169 This avoids partitioning and isolating attacks better.
13170 - Make the "stable" router flag in network-status be the median of
13171 the uptimes of running valid servers, and make clients pay
13172 attention to the network-status flags. Thus the cutoff adapts
13173 to the stability of the network as a whole, making IRC, IM, etc
13174 connections more reliable.
13177 - Tor servers with dynamic IP addresses were needing to wait 18
13178 hours before they could start doing reachability testing using
13179 the new IP address and ports. This is because they were using
13180 the internal descriptor to learn what to test, yet they were only
13181 rebuilding the descriptor once they decided they were reachable.
13182 - Tor 0.1.1.9 and 0.1.1.10 had a serious bug that caused clients
13183 to download certain server descriptors, throw them away, and then
13184 fetch them again after 30 minutes. Now mirrors throw away these
13185 server descriptors so clients can't get them.
13186 - We were leaving duplicate connections to other ORs open for a week,
13187 rather than closing them once we detect a duplicate. This only
13188 really affected authdirservers, but it affected them a lot.
13189 - Spread the authdirservers' reachability testing over the entire
13190 testing interval, so we don't try to do 500 TLS's at once every
13194 - If the network is down, and we try to connect to a conn because
13195 we have a circuit in mind, and we timeout (30 seconds) because the
13196 network never answers, we were expiring the circuit, but we weren't
13197 obsoleting the connection or telling the entry_guards functions.
13198 - Some Tor servers process billions of cells per day. These statistics
13199 need to be uint64_t's.
13200 - Check for integer overflows in more places, when adding elements
13201 to smartlists. This could possibly prevent a buffer overflow
13202 on malicious huge inputs. I don't see any, but I haven't looked
13204 - ReachableAddresses kept growing new "reject *:*" lines on every
13206 - When you "setconf log" via the controller, it should remove all
13207 logs. We were automatically adding back in a "log notice stdout".
13208 - Newly bootstrapped Tor networks couldn't establish hidden service
13209 circuits until they had nodes with high uptime. Be more tolerant.
13210 - We were marking servers down when they could not answer every piece
13211 of the directory request we sent them. This was far too harsh.
13212 - Fix the torify (tsocks) config file to not use Tor for localhost
13214 - Directory authorities now go to the proper authority when asking for
13215 a networkstatus, even when they want a compressed one.
13216 - Fix a harmless bug that was causing Tor servers to log
13217 "Got an end because of misc error, but we're not an AP. Closing."
13218 - Authorities were treating their own descriptor changes as cosmetic,
13219 meaning the descriptor available in the network-status and the
13220 descriptor that clients downloaded were different.
13221 - The OS X installer was adding a symlink for tor_resolve but
13222 the binary was called tor-resolve (reported by Thomas Hardly).
13223 - Workaround a problem with some http proxies where they refuse GET
13224 requests that specify "Content-Length: 0" (reported by Adrian).
13225 - Fix wrong log message when you add a "HiddenServiceNodes" config
13226 line without any HiddenServiceDir line (reported by Chris Thomas).
13229 - Write the TorVersion into the state file so we have a prayer of
13230 keeping forward and backward compatibility.
13231 - Revive the FascistFirewall config option rather than eliminating it:
13232 now it's a synonym for ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443.
13233 - Clients choose directory servers from the network status lists,
13234 not from their internal list of router descriptors. Now they can
13235 go to caches directly rather than needing to go to authorities
13237 - Directory authorities ignore router descriptors that have only
13238 cosmetic differences: do this for 0.1.0.x servers now too.
13239 - Add a new flag to network-status indicating whether the server
13240 can answer v2 directory requests too.
13241 - Authdirs now stop whining so loudly about bad descriptors that
13242 they fetch from other dirservers. So when there's a log complaint,
13243 it's for sure from a freshly uploaded descriptor.
13244 - Reduce memory requirements in our structs by changing the order
13246 - There used to be two ways to specify your listening ports in a
13247 server descriptor: on the "router" line and with a separate "ports"
13248 line. Remove support for the "ports" line.
13249 - New config option "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" for auth dirservers as
13250 a panic button: if we get flooded with unusable servers we can
13251 revert to only listing servers in the approved-routers file.
13252 - Auth dir servers can now mark a fingerprint as "!reject" or
13253 "!invalid" in the approved-routers file (as its nickname), to
13254 refuse descriptors outright or include them but marked as invalid.
13255 - Servers store bandwidth history across restarts/crashes.
13256 - Add reasons to DESTROY and RELAY_TRUNCATED cells, so clients can
13257 get a better idea of why their circuits failed. Not used yet.
13258 - Directory mirrors now cache up to 16 unrecognized network-status
13259 docs. Now we can add new authdirservers and they'll be cached too.
13260 - When picking a random directory, prefer non-authorities if any
13262 - New controller option "getinfo desc/all-recent" to fetch the
13263 latest server descriptor for every router that Tor knows about.
13266 Changes in version 0.1.0.16 - 2006-01-02
13267 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
13268 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
13269 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
13270 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
13271 - It turns out sparc64 platforms crash on unaligned memory access
13272 too -- so detect and avoid this.
13273 - Handle truncated compressed data correctly (by detecting it and
13275 - Fix possible-but-unlikely free(NULL) in control.c.
13276 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
13277 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
13278 - Avoid potential infinite recursion when building a descriptor. (We
13279 don't know that it ever happened, but better to fix it anyway.)
13280 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
13281 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
13282 - Fix a memory stomping race bug when closing the joining point of two
13283 rendezvous circuits.
13284 - Fix an assert in time parsing found by Steven Murdoch.
13286 o Other bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
13287 - When we're doing reachability testing, provide more useful log
13288 messages so the operator knows what to expect.
13289 - Do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we are suppressing
13290 advertising it because of hibernation.
13291 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed -ldl.
13292 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
13293 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
13294 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
13295 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
13296 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
13297 - Give a more helpful log message when you try to change ORPort via
13298 the controller: you should upgrade Tor if you want that to work.
13299 - We were failing to parse Tor versions that start with "Tor ".
13300 - Tolerate faulty streams better: when a stream fails for reason
13301 exitpolicy, stop assuming that the router is lying about his exit
13302 policy. When a stream fails for reason misc, allow it to retry just
13303 as if it was resolvefailed. When a stream has failed three times,
13304 reset its failure count so we can try again and get all three tries.
13307 Changes in version 0.1.1.10-alpha - 2005-12-11
13308 o Correctness bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
13309 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
13310 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
13311 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
13312 - Stop doing the complex voodoo overkill checking for insecure
13313 Diffie-Hellman keys. Just check if it's in [2,p-2] and be happy.
13314 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
13315 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
13316 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
13317 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
13318 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
13319 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
13320 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
13321 - Recover better from TCP connections to Tor servers that are
13322 broken but don't tell you (it happens!); and rotate TLS
13323 connections once a week.
13324 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
13325 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
13326 - Fix a scary-looking but apparently harmless bug where circuits
13327 would sometimes start out in state CIRCUIT_STATE_OR_WAIT at
13328 servers, and never switch to state CIRCUIT_STATE_OPEN.
13329 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed to
13331 - Give a useful message when people run Tor as the wrong user,
13332 rather than telling them to start chowning random directories.
13333 - We were failing to inform the controller about new .onion streams.
13335 o Security bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
13336 - Refuse server descriptors if the fingerprint line doesn't match
13337 the included identity key. Tor doesn't care, but other apps (and
13338 humans) might actually be trusting the fingerprint line.
13339 - We used to kill the circuit when we receive a relay command we
13340 don't recognize. Now we just drop it.
13341 - Start obeying our firewall options more rigorously:
13342 . If we can't get to a dirserver directly, try going via Tor.
13343 . Don't ever try to connect (as a client) to a place our
13344 firewall options forbid.
13345 . If we specify a proxy and also firewall options, obey the
13346 firewall options even when we're using the proxy: some proxies
13347 can only proxy to certain destinations.
13348 - Fix a bug found by Lasse Overlier: when we were making internal
13349 circuits (intended to be cannibalized later for rendezvous and
13350 introduction circuits), we were picking them so that they had
13351 useful exit nodes. There was no need for this, and it actually
13352 aids some statistical attacks.
13353 - Start treating internal circuits and exit circuits separately.
13354 It's important to keep them separate because internal circuits
13355 have their last hops picked like middle hops, rather than like
13356 exit hops. So exiting on them will break the user's expectations.
13358 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
13359 - Take out the mis-feature where we tried to detect IP address
13360 flapping for people with DynDNS, and chose not to upload a new
13361 server descriptor sometimes.
13362 - Try to be compatible with OpenSSL 0.9.6 again.
13363 - Log fix: when the controller is logging about .onion addresses,
13364 sometimes it didn't include the ".onion" part of the address.
13365 - Don't try to modify options->DirServers internally -- if the
13366 user didn't specify any, just add the default ones directly to
13367 the trusted dirserver list. This fixes a bug where people running
13368 controllers would use SETCONF on some totally unrelated config
13369 option, and Tor would start yelling at them about changing their
13371 - Let the controller's redirectstream command specify a port, in
13372 case the controller wants to change that too.
13373 - When we requested a pile of server descriptors, we sometimes
13374 accidentally launched a duplicate request for the first one.
13375 - Bugfix for trackhostexits: write down the fingerprint of the
13376 chosen exit, not its nickname, because the chosen exit might not
13378 - When parsing foo.exit, if foo is unknown, and we are leaving
13379 circuits unattached, set the chosen_exit field and leave the
13380 address empty. This matters because controllers got confused
13382 - Directory authorities no longer try to download server
13383 descriptors that they know they will reject.
13385 o Features and updates:
13386 - Replace balanced trees with hash tables: this should make stuff
13387 significantly faster.
13388 - Resume using the AES counter-mode implementation that we ship,
13389 rather than OpenSSL's. Ours is significantly faster.
13390 - Many other CPU and memory improvements.
13391 - Add a new config option FastFirstHopPK (on by default) so clients
13392 do a trivial crypto handshake for their first hop, since TLS has
13393 already taken care of confidentiality and authentication.
13394 - Add a new config option TestSocks so people can see if their
13395 applications are using socks4, socks4a, socks5-with-ip, or
13396 socks5-with-hostname. This way they don't have to keep mucking
13397 with tcpdump and wondering if something got cached somewhere.
13398 - Warn when listening on a public address for socks. I suspect a
13399 lot of people are setting themselves up as open socks proxies,
13400 and they have no idea that jerks on the Internet are using them,
13401 since they simply proxy the traffic into the Tor network.
13402 - Add "private:*" as an alias in configuration for policies. Now
13403 you can simplify your exit policy rather than needing to list
13404 every single internal or nonroutable network space.
13405 - Add a new controller event type that allows controllers to get
13406 all server descriptors that were uploaded to a router in its role
13407 as authoritative dirserver.
13408 - Start shipping socks-extensions.txt, tor-doc-unix.html,
13409 tor-doc-server.html, and stylesheet.css in the tarball.
13410 - Stop shipping tor-doc.html in the tarball.
13413 Changes in version 0.1.1.9-alpha - 2005-11-15
13414 o Usability improvements:
13415 - Start calling it FooListenAddress rather than FooBindAddress,
13416 since few of our users know what it means to bind an address
13418 - Reduce clutter in server logs. We're going to try to make
13419 them actually usable now. New config option ProtocolWarnings that
13420 lets you hear about how _other Tors_ are breaking the protocol. Off
13422 - Divide log messages into logging domains. Once we put some sort
13423 of interface on this, it will let people looking at more verbose
13424 log levels specify the topics they want to hear more about.
13425 - Make directory servers return better http 404 error messages
13426 instead of a generic "Servers unavailable".
13427 - Check for even more Windows version flags when writing the platform
13428 string in server descriptors, and note any we don't recognize.
13429 - Clean up more of the OpenSSL memory when exiting, so we can detect
13430 memory leaks better.
13431 - Make directory authorities be non-versioning, non-naming by
13432 default. Now we can add new directory servers without requiring
13433 their operators to pay close attention.
13434 - When logging via syslog, include the pid whenever we provide
13435 a log entry. Suggested by Todd Fries.
13437 o Performance improvements:
13438 - Directory servers now silently throw away new descriptors that
13439 haven't changed much if the timestamps are similar. We do this to
13440 tolerate older Tor servers that upload a new descriptor every 15
13441 minutes. (It seemed like a good idea at the time.)
13442 - Inline bottleneck smartlist functions; use fast versions by default.
13443 - Add a "Map from digest to void*" abstraction digestmap_t so we
13444 can do less hex encoding/decoding. Use it in router_get_by_digest()
13445 to resolve a performance bottleneck.
13446 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress to extract as much as possible from
13447 truncated compressed data. Try to extract as many
13448 descriptors as possible from truncated http responses (when
13449 DIR_PURPOSE_FETCH_ROUTERDESC).
13450 - Make circ->onionskin a pointer, not a static array. moria2 was using
13451 125000 circuit_t's after it had been up for a few weeks, which
13452 translates to 20+ megs of wasted space.
13453 - The private half of our EDH handshake keys are now chosen out
13454 of 320 bits, not 1024 bits. (Suggested by Ian Goldberg.)
13456 o Security improvements:
13457 - Start making directory caches retain old routerinfos, so soon
13458 clients can start asking by digest of descriptor rather than by
13459 fingerprint of server.
13460 - Add half our entropy from RAND_poll in OpenSSL. This knows how
13461 to use egd (if present), openbsd weirdness (if present), vms/os2
13462 weirdness (if we ever port there), and more in the future.
13464 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
13465 - Do round-robin writes of at most 16 kB per write. This might be
13466 more fair on loaded Tor servers, and it might resolve our Windows
13467 crash bug. It might also slow things down.
13468 - Our TLS handshakes were generating a single public/private
13469 keypair for the TLS context, rather than making a new one for
13470 each new connections. Oops. (But we were still rotating them
13471 periodically, so it's not so bad.)
13472 - When we were cannibalizing a circuit with a particular exit
13473 node in mind, we weren't checking to see if that exit node was
13474 already present earlier in the circuit. Oops.
13475 - When a Tor server's IP changes (e.g. from a dyndns address),
13476 upload a new descriptor so clients will learn too.
13477 - Really busy servers were keeping enough circuits open on stable
13478 connections that they were wrapping around the circuit_id
13479 space. (It's only two bytes.) This exposed a bug where we would
13480 feel free to reuse a circuit_id even if it still exists but has
13481 been marked for close. Try to fix this bug. Some bug remains.
13482 - If we would close a stream early (e.g. it asks for a .exit that
13483 we know would refuse it) but the LeaveStreamsUnattached config
13484 option is set by the controller, then don't close it.
13486 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.8-alpha:
13487 - Fix a big pile of memory leaks, some of them serious.
13488 - Do not try to download a routerdesc if we would immediately reject
13490 - Resume inserting a newline between all router descriptors when
13491 generating (old style) signed directories, since our spec says
13493 - When providing content-type application/octet-stream for
13494 server descriptors using .z, we were leaving out the
13495 content-encoding header. Oops. (Everything tolerated this just
13496 fine, but that doesn't mean we need to be part of the problem.)
13497 - Fix a potential seg fault in getconf and getinfo using version 1
13498 of the controller protocol.
13499 - Avoid crash: do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we
13500 are suppressing it because of hibernation.
13501 - Make --hash-password not crash on exit.
13504 Changes in version 0.1.1.8-alpha - 2005-10-07
13505 o New features (major):
13506 - Clients don't download or use the directory anymore. Now they
13507 download and use network-statuses from the trusted dirservers,
13508 and fetch individual server descriptors as needed from mirrors.
13509 See dir-spec.txt for all the gory details.
13510 - Be more conservative about whether to advertise our DirPort.
13511 The main change is to not advertise if we're running at capacity
13512 and either a) we could hibernate or b) our capacity is low and
13513 we're using a default DirPort.
13514 - Use OpenSSL's AES when OpenSSL has version 0.9.7 or later.
13516 o New features (minor):
13517 - Try to be smart about when to retry network-status and
13518 server-descriptor fetches. Still needs some tuning.
13519 - Stop parsing, storing, or using running-routers output (but
13520 mirrors still cache and serve it).
13521 - Consider a threshold of versioning dirservers (dirservers who have
13522 an opinion about which Tor versions are still recommended) before
13523 deciding whether to warn the user that he's obsolete.
13524 - Dirservers can now reject/invalidate by key and IP, with the
13525 config options "AuthDirInvalid" and "AuthDirReject". This is
13526 useful since currently we automatically list servers as running
13527 and usable even if we know they're jerks.
13528 - Provide dire warnings to any users who set DirServer; move it out
13529 of torrc.sample and into torrc.complete.
13530 - Add MyFamily to torrc.sample in the server section.
13531 - Add nicknames to the DirServer line, so we can refer to them
13532 without requiring all our users to memorize their IP addresses.
13533 - When we get an EOF or a timeout on a directory connection, note
13534 how many bytes of serverdesc we are dropping. This will help
13535 us determine whether it is smart to parse incomplete serverdesc
13537 - Add a new function to "change pseudonyms" -- that is, to stop
13538 using any currently-dirty circuits for new streams, so we don't
13539 link new actions to old actions. Currently it's only called on
13540 HUP (or SIGNAL RELOAD).
13541 - On sighup, if UseHelperNodes changed to 1, use new circuits.
13542 - Start using RAND_bytes rather than RAND_pseudo_bytes from
13543 OpenSSL. Also, reseed our entropy every hour, not just at
13544 startup. And entropy in 512-bit chunks, not 160-bit chunks.
13546 o Fixes on 0.1.1.7-alpha:
13547 - Nobody ever implemented EVENT_ADDRMAP for control protocol
13548 version 0, so don't let version 0 controllers ask for it.
13549 - If you requested something with too many newlines via the
13550 v1 controller protocol, you could crash tor.
13551 - Fix a number of memory leaks, including some pretty serious ones.
13552 - Re-enable DirPort testing again, so Tor servers will be willing
13553 to advertise their DirPort if it's reachable.
13554 - On TLS handshake, only check the other router's nickname against
13555 its expected nickname if is_named is set.
13557 o Fixes forward-ported from 0.1.0.15:
13558 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
13559 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
13560 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
13561 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
13563 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
13564 - For the OS X package's modified privoxy config file, comment
13565 out the "logfile" line so we don't log everything passed
13567 - We were whining about using socks4 or socks5-with-local-lookup
13568 even when it's an IP in the "virtual" range we designed exactly
13570 - We were leaking some memory every time the client changes IPs.
13571 - Never call free() on tor_malloc()d memory. This will help us
13572 use dmalloc to detect memory leaks.
13573 - Check for named servers when looking them up by nickname;
13574 warn when we'recalling a non-named server by its nickname;
13575 don't warn twice about the same name.
13576 - Try to list MyFamily elements by key, not by nickname, and warn
13577 if we've not heard of the server.
13578 - Make windows platform detection (uname equivalent) smarter.
13579 - It turns out sparc64 doesn't like unaligned access either.
13582 Changes in version 0.1.0.15 - 2005-09-23
13583 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
13584 - Reject ports 465 and 587 (spam targets) in default exit policy.
13585 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
13586 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
13587 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
13588 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
13589 - Don't try to print a null string when your server finds itself to
13590 be unreachable and the Address config option is empty.
13591 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
13592 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
13593 - Fix a minor memory leak in smartlist_string_remove().
13594 - We were only allowing ourselves to upload a server descriptor at
13595 most every 20 minutes, even if it changed earlier than that.
13596 - Clean up log entries that pointed to old URLs.
13599 Changes in version 0.1.1.7-alpha - 2005-09-14
13600 o Fixes on 0.1.1.6-alpha:
13601 - Exit servers were crashing when people asked them to make a
13602 connection to an address not in their exit policy.
13603 - Looking up a non-existent stream for a v1 control connection would
13605 - Fix a seg fault if we ask a dirserver for a descriptor by
13606 fingerprint but he doesn't know about him.
13607 - SETCONF was appending items to linelists, not clearing them.
13608 - SETCONF SocksBindAddress killed Tor if it fails to bind. Now back
13609 out and refuse the setconf if it would fail.
13610 - Downgrade the dirserver log messages when whining about
13614 - Add Peter Palfrader's check-tor script to tor/contrib/
13615 It lets you easily check whether a given server (referenced by
13616 nickname) is reachable by you.
13617 - Numerous changes to move towards client-side v2 directories. Not
13620 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
13621 - If the user gave tor an odd number of command-line arguments,
13622 we were silently ignoring the last one. Now we complain and fail.
13623 [This wins the oldest-bug prize -- this bug has been present since
13624 November 2002, as released in Tor 0.0.0.]
13625 - Do not use unaligned memory access on alpha, mips, or mipsel.
13626 It *works*, but is very slow, so we treat them as if it doesn't.
13627 - Retry directory requests if we fail to get an answer we like
13628 from a given dirserver (we were retrying before, but only if
13629 we fail to connect).
13630 - When writing the RecommendedVersions line, sort them first.
13631 - When the client asked for a rendezvous port that the hidden
13632 service didn't want to provide, we were sending an IP address
13633 back along with the end cell. Fortunately, it was zero. But stop
13635 - Correct "your server is reachable" log entries to indicate that
13636 it was self-testing that told us so.
13639 Changes in version 0.1.1.6-alpha - 2005-09-09
13640 o Fixes on 0.1.1.5-alpha:
13641 - We broke fascistfirewall in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
13642 - Fix segfault in unit tests in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
13643 - Fix bug with tor_memmem finding a match at the end of the string.
13644 - Make unit tests run without segfaulting.
13645 - Resolve some solaris x86 compile warnings.
13646 - Handle duplicate lines in approved-routers files without warning.
13647 - Fix bug where as soon as a server refused any requests due to his
13648 exit policy (e.g. when we ask for localhost and he tells us that's
13649 127.0.0.1 and he won't do it), we decided he wasn't obeying his
13650 exit policy using him for any exits.
13651 - Only do openssl hardware accelerator stuff if openssl version is
13654 o New controller features/fixes:
13655 - Add a "RESETCONF" command so you can set config options like
13656 AllowUnverifiedNodes and LongLivedPorts to "". Also, if you give
13657 a config option in the torrc with no value, then it clears it
13658 entirely (rather than setting it to its default).
13659 - Add a "GETINFO config-file" to tell us where torrc is.
13660 - Avoid sending blank lines when GETINFO replies should be empty.
13661 - Add a QUIT command for the controller (for using it manually).
13662 - Fix a bug in SAVECONF that was adding default dirservers and
13663 other redundant entries to the torrc file.
13665 o Start on the new directory design:
13666 - Generate, publish, cache, serve new network-status format.
13667 - Publish individual descriptors (by fingerprint, by "all", and by
13669 - Publish client and server recommended versions separately.
13670 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress() to handle multiple concatenated
13671 compressed strings. Serve compressed groups of router
13672 descriptors. The compression logic here could be more
13674 - Distinguish v1 authorities (all currently trusted directories)
13675 from v2 authorities (all trusted directories).
13676 - Change DirServers config line to note which dirs are v1 authorities.
13677 - Add configuration option "V1AuthoritativeDirectory 1" which
13678 moria1, moria2, and tor26 should set.
13679 - Remove option when getting directory cache to see whether they
13680 support running-routers; they all do now. Replace it with one
13681 to see whether caches support v2 stuff.
13684 - Dirservers now do their own external reachability testing of each
13685 Tor server, and only list them as running if they've been found to
13686 be reachable. We also send back warnings to the server's logs if
13687 it uploads a descriptor that we already believe is unreachable.
13688 - Implement exit enclaves: if we know an IP address for the
13689 destination, and there's a running Tor server at that address
13690 which allows exit to the destination, then extend the circuit to
13691 that exit first. This provides end-to-end encryption and end-to-end
13692 authentication. Also, if the user wants a .exit address or enclave,
13693 use 4 hops rather than 3, and cannibalize a general circ for it
13695 - Permit transitioning from ORPort=0 to ORPort!=0, and back, from the
13696 controller. Also, rotate dns and cpu workers if the controller
13697 changes options that will affect them; and initialize the dns
13698 worker cache tree whether or not we start out as a server.
13699 - Only upload a new server descriptor when options change, 18
13700 hours have passed, uptime is reset, or bandwidth changes a lot.
13701 - Check [X-]Forwarded-For headers in HTTP requests when generating
13702 log messages. This lets people run dirservers (and caches) behind
13703 Apache but still know which IP addresses are causing warnings.
13705 o Config option changes:
13706 - Replace (Fascist)Firewall* config options with a new
13707 ReachableAddresses option that understands address policies.
13708 For example, "ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443"
13709 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
13710 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
13711 - Make MonthlyAccountingStart config option truly obsolete now.
13713 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
13714 - Reject ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy, since
13715 people have started using them for spam too.
13716 - It turns out we couldn't bootstrap a network since we added
13717 reachability detection in 0.1.0.1-rc. Good thing the Tor network
13718 has never gone down. Add an AssumeReachable config option to let
13719 servers and dirservers bootstrap. When we're trying to build a
13720 high-uptime or high-bandwidth circuit but there aren't enough
13721 suitable servers, try being less picky rather than simply failing.
13722 - Our logic to decide if the OR we connected to was the right guy
13723 was brittle and maybe open to a mitm for unverified routers.
13724 - We weren't cannibalizing circuits correctly for
13725 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_C_ESTABLISH_REND and
13726 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_S_ESTABLISH_INTRO, so we were being forced to
13727 build those from scratch. This should make hidden services faster.
13728 - Predict required circuits better, with an eye toward making hidden
13729 services faster on the service end.
13730 - Retry streams if the exit node sends back a 'misc' failure. This
13731 should result in fewer random failures. Also, after failing
13732 from resolve failed or misc, reset the num failures, so we give
13733 it a fair shake next time we try.
13734 - Clean up the rendezvous warn log msgs, and downgrade some to info.
13735 - Reduce severity on logs about dns worker spawning and culling.
13736 - When we're shutting down and we do something like try to post a
13737 server descriptor or rendezvous descriptor, don't complain that
13738 we seem to be unreachable. Of course we are, we're shutting down.
13739 - Add TTLs to RESOLVED, CONNECTED, and END_REASON_EXITPOLICY cells.
13740 We don't use them yet, but maybe one day our DNS resolver will be
13741 able to discover them.
13742 - Make ContactInfo mandatory for authoritative directory servers.
13743 - Require server descriptors to list IPv4 addresses -- hostnames
13744 are no longer allowed. This also fixes some potential security
13745 problems with people providing hostnames as their address and then
13746 preferentially resolving them to partition users.
13747 - Change log line for unreachability to explicitly suggest /etc/hosts
13748 as the culprit. Also make it clearer what IP address and ports we're
13749 testing for reachability.
13750 - Put quotes around user-supplied strings when logging so users are
13751 more likely to realize if they add bad characters (like quotes)
13753 - Let auth dir servers start without specifying an Address config
13755 - Make unit tests (and other invocations that aren't the real Tor)
13756 run without launching listeners, creating subdirectories, and so on.
13759 Changes in version 0.1.1.5-alpha - 2005-08-08
13760 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.14.
13762 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
13763 - If you write "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1 6668" in your
13764 torrc rather than "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1:6668",
13765 it would silently using ignore the 6668.
13768 Changes in version 0.1.0.14 - 2005-08-08
13769 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
13770 - Fix the other half of the bug with crypto handshakes
13772 - Fix an assert trigger if you send a 'signal term' via the
13773 controller when it's listening for 'event info' messages.
13776 Changes in version 0.1.1.4-alpha - 2005-08-04
13777 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.13.
13780 - Improve tor_gettimeofday() granularity on windows.
13781 - Make clients regenerate their keys when their IP address changes.
13782 - Implement some more GETINFO goodness: expose helper nodes, config
13783 options, getinfo keys.
13786 Changes in version 0.1.0.13 - 2005-08-04
13787 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
13788 - Fix a critical bug in the security of our crypto handshakes.
13789 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
13790 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
13791 - Fix Windows installer to ship Tor license (thanks to Aphex for
13792 pointing out this oversight) and put a link to the doc directory
13794 - Explicitly set no-unaligned-access for sparc: it turns out the
13795 new gcc's let you compile broken code, but that doesn't make it
13799 Changes in version 0.1.1.3-alpha - 2005-07-23
13800 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
13801 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "post descriptor"
13803 - Fix several bugs in handling the controller's "extend circuit"
13805 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "stream status" event.
13806 - Fix an assert failure if we have a controller listening for
13807 circuit events and we go offline.
13808 - Re-allow hidden service descriptors to publish 0 intro points.
13809 - Fix a crash when generating your hidden service descriptor if
13810 you don't have enough intro points already.
13812 o New features on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
13813 - New controller function "getinfo accounting", to ask how
13814 many bytes we've used in this time period.
13815 - Experimental support for helper nodes: a lot of the risk from
13816 a small static adversary comes because users pick new random
13817 nodes every time they rebuild a circuit. Now users will try to
13818 stick to the same small set of entry nodes if they can. Not
13819 enabled by default yet.
13821 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.12:
13822 - If you're an auth dir server, always publish your dirport,
13823 even if you haven't yet found yourself to be reachable.
13824 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
13825 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
13828 Changes in version 0.1.0.12 - 2005-07-18
13829 o New directory servers:
13830 - tor26 has changed IP address.
13832 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
13833 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
13834 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
13835 pthreads libraries.
13836 - Don't trigger an assert if an authoritative directory server
13837 claims its dirport is 0.
13838 - Fix bug with removing Tor as an NT service: some people were
13839 getting "The service did not return an error." Thanks to Matt
13843 Changes in version 0.1.1.2-alpha - 2005-07-15
13844 o New directory servers:
13845 - tor26 has changed IP address.
13847 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, crashes/leaks:
13848 - Port the servers-not-obeying-their-exit-policies fix from
13850 - Fix an fd leak in start_daemon().
13851 - On Windows, you can't always reopen a port right after you've
13852 closed it. So change retry_listeners() to only close and re-open
13853 ports that have changed.
13854 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
13856 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, usability:
13857 - When tor_socketpair() fails in Windows, give a reasonable
13858 Windows-style errno back.
13859 - Let people type "tor --install" as well as "tor -install" when
13861 want to make it an NT service.
13862 - NT service patch from Matt Edman to improve error messages.
13863 - When the controller asks for a config option with an abbreviated
13864 name, give the full name in our response.
13865 - Correct the man page entry on TrackHostExitsExpire.
13866 - Looks like we were never delivering deflated (i.e. compressed)
13867 running-routers lists, even when asked. Oops.
13868 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
13869 pthreads libraries.
13871 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
13872 - Fix a seg fault with autodetecting which controller version is
13876 - New hidden service descriptor format: put a version in it, and
13877 let people specify introduction/rendezvous points that aren't
13878 in "the directory" (which is subjective anyway).
13879 - Allow the DEBUG controller event to work again. Mark certain log
13880 entries as "don't tell this to controllers", so we avoid cycles.
13883 Changes in version 0.1.0.11 - 2005-06-30
13884 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
13885 - Fix major security bug: servers were disregarding their
13886 exit policies if clients behaved unexpectedly.
13887 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
13888 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
13889 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
13890 - The MAPADDRESS control command was broken.
13893 Changes in version 0.1.1.1-alpha - 2005-06-29
13895 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
13896 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
13897 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
13898 - Fix a possible way to DoS dirservers.
13899 - When we complain that your exit policy implicitly allows local or
13900 private address spaces, name them explicitly so operators can
13902 - Make the log message less scary when all the dirservers are
13903 temporarily unreachable.
13904 - We were printing the number of idle dns workers incorrectly when
13908 - Revised controller protocol (version 1) that uses ascii rather
13909 than binary. Add supporting libraries in python and java so you
13910 can use the controller from your applications without caring how
13911 our protocol works.
13912 - Spiffy new support for crypto hardware accelerators. Can somebody
13916 Changes in version 0.0.9.10 - 2005-06-16
13917 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (backported from 0.1.0.10):
13918 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
13919 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
13920 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
13924 Changes in version 0.1.0.10 - 2005-06-14
13925 o Allow a few EINVALs from libevent before dying. Warn on kqueue with
13926 libevent before 1.1a.
13929 Changes in version 0.1.0.9-rc - 2005-06-09
13931 - Reset buf->highwater every time buf_shrink() is called, not just on
13932 a successful shrink. This was causing significant memory bloat.
13933 - Fix buffer overflow when checking hashed passwords.
13934 - Security fix: if seeding the RNG on Win32 fails, quit.
13935 - Allow seeding the RNG on Win32 even when you're not running as
13937 - Disable threading on Solaris too. Something is wonky with it,
13938 cpuworkers, and reentrant libs.
13939 - Reenable the part of the code that tries to flush as soon as an
13940 OR outbuf has a full TLS record available. Perhaps this will make
13941 OR outbufs not grow as huge except in rare cases, thus saving lots
13942 of CPU time plus memory.
13943 - Reject malformed .onion addresses rather then passing them on as
13944 normal web requests.
13945 - Adapt patch from Adam Langley: fix possible memory leak in
13946 tor_lookup_hostname().
13947 - Initialize libevent later in the startup process, so the logs are
13948 already established by the time we start logging libevent warns.
13949 - Use correct errno on win32 if libevent fails.
13950 - Check and warn about known-bad/slow libevent versions.
13951 - Pay more attention to the ClientOnly config option.
13952 - Have torctl.in/tor.sh.in check for location of su binary (needed
13954 - Correct/add man page entries for LongLivedPorts, ExitPolicy,
13955 KeepalivePeriod, ClientOnly, NoPublish, HttpProxy, HttpsProxy,
13956 HttpProxyAuthenticator
13957 - Stop warning about sigpipes in the logs. We're going to
13958 pretend that getting these occassionally is normal and fine.
13959 - Resolve OS X installer bugs: stop claiming to be 0.0.9.2 in
13961 installer screens; and don't put stuff into StartupItems unless
13962 the user asks you to.
13963 - Require servers that use the default dirservers to have public IP
13964 addresses. We have too many servers that are configured with private
13965 IPs and their admins never notice the log entries complaining that
13966 their descriptors are being rejected.
13967 - Add OSX uninstall instructions. An actual uninstall script will
13971 Changes in version 0.1.0.8-rc - 2005-05-23
13973 - It turns out that kqueue on OS X 10.3.9 was causing kernel
13974 panics. Disable kqueue on all OS X Tors.
13975 - Fix RPM: remove duplicate line accidentally added to the rpm
13977 - Disable threads on openbsd too, since its gethostaddr is not
13979 - Tolerate libevent 0.8 since it still works, even though it's
13981 - Enable building on Red Hat 9.0 again.
13982 - Allow the middle hop of the testing circuit to be running any
13983 version, now that most of them have the bugfix to let them connect
13984 to unknown servers. This will allow reachability testing to work
13985 even when 0.0.9.7-0.0.9.9 become obsolete.
13986 - Handle relay cells with rh.length too large. This prevents
13987 a potential attack that could read arbitrary memory (maybe even
13988 keys) from the exit server's process.
13989 - We screwed up the dirport reachability testing when we don't yet
13990 have a cached version of the directory. Hopefully now fixed.
13991 - Clean up router_load_single_router() (used by the controller),
13992 so it doesn't seg fault on error.
13993 - Fix a minor memory leak when somebody establishes an introduction
13994 point at your Tor server.
13995 - If a socks connection ends because read fails, don't warn that
13996 you're not sending a socks reply back.
13999 - Add HttpProxyAuthenticator config option too, that works like
14000 the HttpsProxyAuthenticator config option.
14001 - Encode hashed controller passwords in hex instead of base64,
14002 to make it easier to write controllers.
14005 Changes in version 0.1.0.7-rc - 2005-05-17
14007 - Fix a bug in the OS X package installer that prevented it from
14008 installing on Tiger.
14009 - Fix a script bug in the OS X package installer that made it
14010 complain during installation.
14011 - Find libevent even if it's hiding in /usr/local/ and your
14012 CFLAGS and LDFLAGS don't tell you to look there.
14013 - Be able to link with libevent as a shared library (the default
14014 after 1.0d), even if it's hiding in /usr/local/lib and even
14015 if you haven't added /usr/local/lib to your /etc/ld.so.conf,
14016 assuming you're running gcc. Otherwise fail and give a useful
14018 - Fix a bug in the RPM packager: set home directory for _tor to
14019 something more reasonable when first installing.
14020 - Free a minor amount of memory that is still reachable on exit.
14023 Changes in version 0.1.0.6-rc - 2005-05-14
14025 - Implement --disable-threads configure option. Disable threads on
14026 netbsd by default, because it appears to have no reentrant resolver
14028 - Apple's OS X 10.4.0 ships with a broken kqueue. The new libevent
14029 release (1.1) detects and disables kqueue if it's broken.
14030 - Append default exit policy before checking for implicit internal
14031 addresses. Now we don't log a bunch of complaints on startup
14032 when using the default exit policy.
14033 - Some people were putting "Address " in their torrc, and they had
14034 a buggy resolver that resolved " " to 0.0.0.0. Oops.
14035 - If DataDir is ~/.tor, and that expands to /.tor, then default to
14036 LOCALSTATEDIR/tor instead.
14037 - Fix fragmented-message bug in TorControl.py.
14038 - Resolve a minor bug which would prevent unreachable dirports
14039 from getting suppressed in the published descriptor.
14040 - When the controller gave us a new descriptor, we weren't resolving
14041 it immediately, so Tor would think its address was 0.0.0.0 until
14042 we fetched a new directory.
14043 - Fix an uppercase/lowercase case error in suppressing a bogus
14044 libevent warning on some Linuxes.
14047 - Begin scrubbing sensitive strings from logs by default. Turn off
14048 the config option SafeLogging if you need to do debugging.
14049 - Switch to a new buffer management algorithm, which tries to avoid
14050 reallocing and copying quite as much. In first tests it looks like
14051 it uses *more* memory on average, but less cpu.
14052 - First cut at support for "create-fast" cells. Clients can use
14053 these when extending to their first hop, since the TLS already
14054 provides forward secrecy and authentication. Not enabled on
14056 - When dirservers refuse a router descriptor, we now log its
14057 contactinfo, platform, and the poster's IP address.
14058 - Call tor_free_all instead of connections_free_all after forking, to
14059 save memory on systems that need to fork.
14060 - Whine at you if you're a server and you don't set your contactinfo.
14061 - Implement --verify-config command-line option to check if your torrc
14062 is valid without actually launching Tor.
14063 - Rewrite address "serifos.exit" to "localhost.serifos.exit"
14064 rather than just rejecting it.
14067 Changes in version 0.1.0.5-rc - 2005-04-27
14069 - Stop trying to print a null pointer if an OR conn fails because
14070 we didn't like its cert.
14072 - Switch our internal buffers implementation to use a ring buffer,
14073 to hopefully improve performance for fast servers a lot.
14074 - Add HttpsProxyAuthenticator support (basic auth only), based
14075 on patch from Adam Langley.
14076 - Bump the default BandwidthRate from 1 MB to 2 MB, to accommodate
14077 the fast servers that have been joining lately.
14078 - Give hidden service accesses extra time on the first attempt,
14079 since 60 seconds is often only barely enough. This might improve
14081 - Improve performance for dirservers: stop re-parsing the whole
14082 directory every time you regenerate it.
14083 - Add more debugging info to help us find the weird dns freebsd
14084 pthreads bug; cleaner debug messages to help track future issues.
14087 Changes in version 0.0.9.9 - 2005-04-23
14088 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
14089 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
14090 Tor server triggers an assert. This release contains a minimal
14091 backport from the broader fix that we put into 0.1.0.4-rc.
14094 Changes in version 0.1.0.4-rc - 2005-04-23
14096 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
14097 Tor server triggers an assert. Stop asserting, and start handling
14098 TLS errors better in other situations too.
14099 - When the controller asks us to tell it about all the debug-level
14100 logs, it turns out we were generating debug-level logs while
14101 telling it about them, which turns into a bad loop. Now keep
14102 track of whether you're sending a debug log to the controller,
14103 and don't log when you are.
14104 - Fix the "postdescriptor" feature of the controller interface: on
14105 non-complete success, only say "done" once.
14107 - Clients are now willing to load balance over up to 2mB, not 1mB,
14108 of advertised bandwidth capacity.
14109 - Add a NoPublish config option, so you can be a server (e.g. for
14110 testing running Tor servers in other Tor networks) without
14111 publishing your descriptor to the primary dirservers.
14114 Changes in version 0.1.0.3-rc - 2005-04-08
14115 o Improvements on 0.1.0.2-rc:
14116 - Client now retries when streams end early for 'hibernating' or
14117 'resource limit' reasons, rather than failing them.
14118 - More automated handling for dirserver operators:
14119 - Automatically approve nodes running 0.1.0.2-rc or later,
14120 now that the the reachability detection stuff is working.
14121 - Now we allow two unverified servers with the same nickname
14122 but different keys. But if a nickname is verified, only that
14123 nickname+key are allowed.
14124 - If you're an authdirserver connecting to an address:port,
14125 and it's not the OR you were expecting, forget about that
14126 descriptor. If he *was* the one you were expecting, then forget
14127 about all other descriptors for that address:port.
14128 - Allow servers to publish descriptors from 12 hours in the future.
14129 Corollary: only whine about clock skew from the dirserver if
14130 he's a trusted dirserver (since now even verified servers could
14131 have quite wrong clocks).
14132 - Adjust maximum skew and age for rendezvous descriptors: let skew
14133 be 48 hours rather than 90 minutes.
14134 - Efficiency improvements:
14135 - Keep a big splay tree of (circid,orconn)->circuit mappings to make
14136 it much faster to look up a circuit for each relay cell.
14137 - Remove most calls to assert_all_pending_dns_resolves_ok(),
14138 since they're eating our cpu on exit nodes.
14139 - Stop wasting time doing a case insensitive comparison for every
14140 dns name every time we do any lookup. Canonicalize the names to
14141 lowercase and be done with it.
14142 - Start sending 'truncated' cells back rather than destroy cells,
14143 if the circuit closes in front of you. This means we won't have
14144 to abandon partially built circuits.
14145 - Only warn once per nickname from add_nickname_list_to_smartlist
14146 per failure, so an entrynode or exitnode choice that's down won't
14148 - Put a note in the torrc about abuse potential with the default
14150 - Revise control spec and implementation to allow all log messages to
14151 be sent to controller with their severities intact (suggested by
14152 Matt Edman). Update TorControl to handle new log event types.
14153 - Provide better explanation messages when controller's POSTDESCRIPTOR
14155 - Stop putting nodename in the Platform string in server descriptors.
14156 It doesn't actually help, and it is confusing/upsetting some people.
14158 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.2-rc:
14159 - We were printing the host mask wrong in exit policies in server
14160 descriptors. This isn't a critical bug though, since we were still
14161 obeying the exit policy internally.
14162 - Fix Tor when compiled with libevent but without pthreads: move
14163 connection_unregister() from _connection_free() to
14165 - Fix an assert trigger (already fixed in 0.0.9.x): when we have
14166 the rare mysterious case of accepting a conn on 0.0.0.0:0, then
14167 when we look through the connection array, we'll find any of the
14168 cpu/dnsworkers. This is no good.
14170 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.8:
14171 - Fix possible bug on threading platforms (e.g. win32) which was
14172 leaking a file descriptor whenever a cpuworker or dnsworker died.
14173 - When using preferred entry or exit nodes, ignore whether the
14174 circuit wants uptime or capacity. They asked for the nodes, they
14176 - chdir() to your datadirectory at the *end* of the daemonize process,
14177 not the beginning. This was a problem because the first time you
14178 run tor, if your datadir isn't there, and you have runasdaemon set
14179 to 1, it will try to chdir to it before it tries to create it. Oops.
14180 - Handle changed router status correctly when dirserver reloads
14181 fingerprint file. We used to be dropping all unverified descriptors
14182 right then. The bug was hidden because we would immediately
14183 fetch a directory from another dirserver, which would include the
14184 descriptors we just dropped.
14185 - When we're connecting to an OR and he's got a different nickname/key
14186 than we were expecting, only complain loudly if we're an OP or a
14187 dirserver. Complaining loudly to the OR admins just confuses them.
14188 - Tie MAX_DIR_SIZE to MAX_BUF_SIZE, so now directory sizes won't get
14189 artificially capped at 500kB.
14192 Changes in version 0.0.9.8 - 2005-04-07
14193 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
14194 - We have a bug that I haven't found yet. Sometimes, very rarely,
14195 cpuworkers get stuck in the 'busy' state, even though the cpuworker
14196 thinks of itself as idle. This meant that no new circuits ever got
14197 established. Here's a workaround to kill any cpuworker that's been
14198 busy for more than 100 seconds.
14201 Changes in version 0.1.0.2-rc - 2005-04-01
14202 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.1-rc:
14203 - Fixes on reachability detection:
14204 - Don't check for reachability while hibernating.
14205 - If ORPort is reachable but DirPort isn't, still publish the
14206 descriptor, but zero out DirPort until it's found reachable.
14207 - When building testing circs for ORPort testing, use only
14208 high-bandwidth nodes, so fewer circuits fail.
14209 - Complain about unreachable ORPort separately from unreachable
14210 DirPort, so the user knows what's going on.
14211 - Make sure we only conclude ORPort reachability if we didn't
14212 initiate the conn. Otherwise we could falsely conclude that
14213 we're reachable just because we connected to the guy earlier
14214 and he used that same pipe to extend to us.
14215 - Authdirservers shouldn't do ORPort reachability detection,
14216 since they're in clique mode, so it will be rare to find a
14217 server not already connected to them.
14218 - When building testing circuits, always pick middle hops running
14219 Tor 0.0.9.7, so we avoid the "can't extend to unknown routers"
14220 bug. (This is a kludge; it will go away when 0.0.9.x becomes
14222 - When we decide we're reachable, actually publish our descriptor
14224 - Fix bug in redirectstream in the controller.
14225 - Fix the state descriptor strings so logs don't claim edge streams
14226 are in a different state than they actually are.
14227 - Use recent libevent features when possible (this only really affects
14228 win32 and osx right now, because the new libevent with these
14229 features hasn't been released yet). Add code to suppress spurious
14231 - Prevent possible segfault in connection_close_unattached_ap().
14232 - Fix newlines on torrc in win32.
14233 - Improve error msgs when tor-resolve fails.
14235 o Improvements on 0.0.9.x:
14236 - New experimental script tor/contrib/ExerciseServer.py (needs more
14237 work) that uses the controller interface to build circuits and
14238 fetch pages over them. This will help us bootstrap servers that
14239 have lots of capacity but haven't noticed it yet.
14240 - New experimental script tor/contrib/PathDemo.py (needs more work)
14241 that uses the controller interface to let you choose whole paths
14243 "<hostname>.<path,separated by dots>.<length of path>.path"
14244 - When we've connected to an OR and handshaked but didn't like
14245 the result, we were closing the conn without sending destroy
14246 cells back for pending circuits. Now send those destroys.
14249 Changes in version 0.0.9.7 - 2005-04-01
14250 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
14251 - Fix another race crash bug (thanks to Glenn Fink for reporting).
14252 - Compare identity to identity, not to nickname, when extending to
14253 a router not already in the directory. This was preventing us from
14254 extending to unknown routers. Oops.
14255 - Make sure to create OS X Tor user in <500 range, so we aren't
14256 creating actual system users.
14257 - Note where connection-that-hasn't-sent-end was marked, and fix
14258 a few really loud instances of this harmless bug (it's fixed more
14262 Changes in version 0.1.0.1-rc - 2005-03-28
14264 - Add reachability testing. Your Tor server will automatically try
14265 to see if its ORPort and DirPort are reachable from the outside,
14266 and it won't upload its descriptor until it decides they are.
14267 - Handle unavailable hidden services better. Handle slow or busy
14268 hidden services better.
14269 - Add support for CONNECTing through https proxies, with "HttpsProxy"
14271 - New exit policy: accept most low-numbered ports, rather than
14272 rejecting most low-numbered ports.
14273 - More Tor controller support (still experimental). See
14274 http://tor.eff.org/doc/control-spec.txt for all the new features,
14275 including signals to emulate unix signals from any platform;
14276 redirectstream; extendcircuit; mapaddress; getinfo; postdescriptor;
14277 closestream; closecircuit; etc.
14278 - Make nt services work and start on startup on win32 (based on
14279 patch by Matt Edman).
14280 - Add a new AddressMap config directive to rewrite incoming socks
14281 addresses. This lets you, for example, declare an implicit
14282 required exit node for certain sites.
14283 - Add a new TrackHostExits config directive to trigger addressmaps
14284 for certain incoming socks addresses -- for sites that break when
14285 your exit keeps changing (based on patch by Mike Perry).
14286 - Redo the client-side dns cache so it's just an addressmap too.
14287 - Notice when our IP changes, and reset stats/uptime/reachability.
14288 - When an application is using socks5, give him the whole variety of
14289 potential socks5 responses (connect refused, host unreachable, etc),
14290 rather than just "success" or "failure".
14291 - A more sane version numbering system. See
14292 http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/version-spec.txt for details.
14293 - New contributed script "exitlist": a simple python script to
14294 parse directories and find Tor nodes that exit to listed
14296 - New contributed script "privoxy-tor-toggle" to toggle whether
14297 Privoxy uses Tor. Seems to be configured for Debian by default.
14298 - Report HTTP reasons to client when getting a response from directory
14299 servers -- so you can actually know what went wrong.
14300 - New config option MaxAdvertisedBandwidth which lets you advertise
14301 a low bandwidthrate (to not attract as many circuits) while still
14302 allowing a higher bandwidthrate in reality.
14304 o Robustness/stability fixes:
14305 - Make Tor use Niels Provos's libevent instead of its current
14306 poll-but-sometimes-select mess. This will let us use faster async
14307 cores (like epoll, kpoll, and /dev/poll), and hopefully work better
14309 - pthread support now too. This was forced because when we forked,
14310 we ended up wasting a lot of duplicate ram over time. Also switch
14311 to foo_r versions of some library calls to allow reentry and
14313 - Better handling for heterogeneous / unreliable nodes:
14314 - Annotate circuits w/ whether they aim to contain high uptime nodes
14315 and/or high capacity nodes. When building circuits, choose
14317 - This means that every single node in an intro rend circuit,
14318 not just the last one, will have a minimum uptime.
14319 - New config option LongLivedPorts to indicate application streams
14320 that will want high uptime circuits.
14321 - Servers reset uptime when a dir fetch entirely fails. This
14322 hopefully reflects stability of the server's network connectivity.
14323 - If somebody starts his tor server in Jan 2004 and then fixes his
14324 clock, don't make his published uptime be a year.
14325 - Reset published uptime when you wake up from hibernation.
14326 - Introduce a notion of 'internal' circs, which are chosen without
14327 regard to the exit policy of the last hop. Intro and rendezvous
14328 circs must be internal circs, to avoid leaking information. Resolve
14329 and connect streams can use internal circs if they want.
14330 - New circuit pooling algorithm: make sure to have enough circs around
14331 to satisfy any predicted ports, and also make sure to have 2 internal
14332 circs around if we've required internal circs lately (and with high
14333 uptime if we've seen that lately too).
14334 - Split NewCircuitPeriod option into NewCircuitPeriod (30 secs),
14335 which describes how often we retry making new circuits if current
14336 ones are dirty, and MaxCircuitDirtiness (10 mins), which describes
14337 how long we're willing to make use of an already-dirty circuit.
14338 - Cannibalize GENERAL circs to be C_REND, C_INTRO, S_INTRO, and S_REND
14339 circ as necessary, if there are any completed ones lying around
14340 when we try to launch one.
14341 - Make hidden services try to establish a rendezvous for 30 seconds,
14342 rather than for n (where n=3) attempts to build a circuit.
14343 - Change SHUTDOWN_WAIT_LENGTH from a fixed 30 secs to a config option
14344 "ShutdownWaitLength".
14345 - Try to be more zealous about calling connection_edge_end when
14346 things go bad with edge conns in connection.c.
14347 - Revise tor-spec to add more/better stream end reasons.
14348 - Revise all calls to connection_edge_end to avoid sending "misc",
14349 and to take errno into account where possible.
14352 - Fix a race condition that can trigger an assert, when we have a
14353 pending create cell and an OR connection fails right then.
14354 - Fix several double-mark-for-close bugs, e.g. where we were finding
14355 a conn for a cell even if that conn is already marked for close.
14356 - Make sequence of log messages when starting on win32 with no config
14357 file more reasonable.
14358 - When choosing an exit node for a new non-internal circ, don't take
14359 into account whether it'll be useful for any pending x.onion
14360 addresses -- it won't.
14361 - Turn addr_policy_compare from a tristate to a quadstate; this should
14362 help address our "Ah, you allow 1.2.3.4:80. You are a good choice
14363 for google.com" problem.
14364 - Make "platform" string in descriptor more accurate for Win32 servers,
14365 so it's not just "unknown platform".
14366 - Fix an edge case in parsing config options (thanks weasel).
14367 If they say "--" on the commandline, it's not an option.
14368 - Reject odd-looking addresses at the client (e.g. addresses that
14369 contain a colon), rather than having the server drop them because
14371 - tor-resolve requests were ignoring .exit if there was a working circuit
14372 they could use instead.
14373 - REUSEADDR on normal platforms means you can rebind to the port
14374 right after somebody else has let it go. But REUSEADDR on win32
14375 means to let you bind to the port _even when somebody else
14376 already has it bound_! So, don't do that on Win32.
14377 - Change version parsing logic: a version is "obsolete" if it is not
14378 recommended and (1) there is a newer recommended version in the
14379 same series, or (2) there are no recommended versions in the same
14380 series, but there are some recommended versions in a newer series.
14381 A version is "new" if it is newer than any recommended version in
14383 - Stop most cases of hanging up on a socks connection without sending
14387 - Require BandwidthRate to be at least 20kB/s for servers.
14388 - When a dirserver causes you to give a warn, mention which dirserver
14390 - New config option DirAllowPrivateAddresses for authdirservers.
14391 Now by default they refuse router descriptors that have non-IP or
14392 private-IP addresses.
14393 - Stop publishing socksport in the directory, since it's not
14394 actually meant to be public. For compatibility, publish a 0 there
14396 - Change DirFetchPeriod/StatusFetchPeriod to have a special "Be
14397 smart" value, that is low for servers and high for clients.
14398 - If our clock jumps forward by 100 seconds or more, assume something
14399 has gone wrong with our network and abandon all not-yet-used circs.
14400 - Warn when exit policy implicitly allows local addresses.
14401 - If we get an incredibly skewed timestamp from a dirserver mirror
14402 that isn't a verified OR, don't warn -- it's probably him that's
14404 - Since we ship our own Privoxy on OS X, tweak it so it doesn't write
14405 cookies to disk and doesn't log each web request to disk. (Thanks
14406 to Brett Carrington for pointing this out.)
14407 - When a client asks us for a dir mirror and we don't have one,
14408 launch an attempt to get a fresh one.
14409 - If we're hibernating and we get a SIGINT, exit immediately.
14410 - Add --with-dmalloc ./configure option, to track memory leaks.
14411 - And try to free all memory on closing, so we can detect what
14413 - Cache local dns resolves correctly even when they're .exit
14415 - Give a better warning when some other server advertises an
14416 ORPort that is actually an apache running ssl.
14417 - Add "opt hibernating 1" to server descriptor to make it clearer
14418 whether the server is hibernating.
14421 Changes in version 0.0.9.6 - 2005-03-24
14422 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (crashes and asserts):
14423 - Add new end stream reasons to maintainance branch. Fix bug where
14424 reason (8) could trigger an assert. Prevent bug from recurring.
14425 - Apparently win32 stat wants paths to not end with a slash.
14426 - Fix assert triggers in assert_cpath_layer_ok(), where we were
14427 blowing away the circuit that conn->cpath_layer points to, then
14428 checking to see if the circ is well-formed. Backport check to make
14429 sure we dont use the cpath on a closed connection.
14430 - Prevent circuit_resume_edge_reading_helper() from trying to package
14431 inbufs for marked-for-close streams.
14432 - Don't crash on hup if your options->address has become unresolvable.
14433 - Some systems (like OS X) sometimes accept() a connection and tell
14434 you the remote host is 0.0.0.0:0. If this happens, due to some
14435 other mis-features, we get confused; so refuse the conn for now.
14437 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (other):
14438 - Fix harmless but scary "Unrecognized content encoding" warn message.
14439 - Add new stream error reason: TORPROTOCOL reason means "you are not
14440 speaking a version of Tor I understand; say bye-bye to your stream."
14441 - Be willing to cache directories from up to ROUTER_MAX_AGE seconds
14442 into the future, now that we are more tolerant of skew. This
14443 resolves a bug where a Tor server would refuse to cache a directory
14444 because all the directories it gets are too far in the future;
14445 yet the Tor server never logs any complaints about clock skew.
14446 - Mac packaging magic: make man pages useable, and do not overwrite
14447 existing torrc files.
14448 - Make OS X log happily to /var/log/tor/tor.log
14451 Changes in version 0.0.9.5 - 2005-02-22
14452 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
14453 - Fix an assert race at exit nodes when resolve requests fail.
14454 - Stop picking unverified dir mirrors--it only leads to misery.
14455 - Patch from Matt Edman to make NT services work better. Service
14456 support is still not compiled into the executable by default.
14457 - Patch from Dmitri Bely so the Tor service runs better under
14458 the win32 SYSTEM account.
14459 - Make tor-resolve actually work (?) on Win32.
14460 - Fix a sign bug when getrlimit claims to have 4+ billion
14461 file descriptors available.
14462 - Stop refusing to start when bandwidthburst == bandwidthrate.
14463 - When create cells have been on the onion queue more than five
14464 seconds, just send back a destroy and take them off the list.
14467 Changes in version 0.0.9.4 - 2005-02-03
14468 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
14469 - Fix an assert bug that took down most of our servers: when
14470 a server claims to have 1 GB of bandwidthburst, don't
14472 - Don't crash as badly if we have spawned the max allowed number
14473 of dnsworkers, or we're out of file descriptors.
14474 - Block more file-sharing ports in the default exit policy.
14475 - MaxConn is now automatically set to the hard limit of max
14476 file descriptors we're allowed (ulimit -n), minus a few for
14478 - Give a clearer message when servers need to raise their
14479 ulimit -n when they start running out of file descriptors.
14480 - SGI Compatibility patches from Jan Schaumann.
14481 - Tolerate a corrupt cached directory better.
14482 - When a dirserver hasn't approved your server, list which one.
14483 - Go into soft hibernation after 95% of the bandwidth is used,
14484 not 99%. This is especially important for daily hibernators who
14485 have a small accounting max. Hopefully it will result in fewer
14486 cut connections when the hard hibernation starts.
14487 - Load-balance better when using servers that claim more than
14488 800kB/s of capacity.
14489 - Make NT services work (experimental, only used if compiled in).
14492 Changes in version 0.0.9.3 - 2005-01-21
14493 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
14494 - Backport the cpu use fixes from main branch, so busy servers won't
14495 need as much processor time.
14496 - Work better when we go offline and then come back, or when we
14497 run Tor at boot before the network is up. We do this by
14498 optimistically trying to fetch a new directory whenever an
14499 application request comes in and we think we're offline -- the
14500 human is hopefully a good measure of when the network is back.
14501 - Backport some minimal hidserv bugfixes: keep rend circuits open as
14502 long as you keep using them; actually publish hidserv descriptors
14503 shortly after they change, rather than waiting 20-40 minutes.
14504 - Enable Mac startup script by default.
14505 - Fix duplicate dns_cancel_pending_resolve reported by Giorgos Pallas.
14506 - When you update AllowUnverifiedNodes or FirewallPorts via the
14507 controller's setconf feature, we were always appending, never
14509 - When you update HiddenServiceDir via setconf, it was screwing up
14510 the order of reading the lines, making it fail.
14511 - Do not rewrite a cached directory back to the cache; otherwise we
14512 will think it is recent and not fetch a newer one on startup.
14513 - Workaround for webservers that lie about Content-Encoding: Tor
14514 now tries to autodetect compressed directories and compression
14515 itself. This lets us Proxypass dir fetches through apache.
14518 Changes in version 0.0.9.2 - 2005-01-04
14519 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (crashes and asserts):
14520 - Fix an assert on startup when the disk is full and you're logging
14522 - If you do socks4 with an IP of 0.0.0.x but *don't* provide a socks4a
14523 style address, then we'd crash.
14524 - Fix an assert trigger when the running-routers string we get from
14525 a dirserver is broken.
14526 - Make worker threads start and run on win32. Now win32 servers
14528 - Bandaid (not actually fix, but now it doesn't crash) an assert
14529 where the dns worker dies mysteriously and the main Tor process
14530 doesn't remember anything about the address it was resolving.
14532 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (Win32):
14533 - Workaround for brain-damaged __FILE__ handling on MSVC: keep Nick's
14534 name out of the warning/assert messages.
14535 - Fix a superficial "unhandled error on read" bug on win32.
14536 - The win32 installer no longer requires a click-through for our
14537 license, since our Free Software license grants rights but does not
14539 - Win32: When connecting to a dirserver fails, try another one
14540 immediately. (This was already working for non-win32 Tors.)
14541 - Stop trying to parse $HOME on win32 when hunting for default
14543 - Make tor-resolve.c work on win32 by calling network_init().
14545 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (other):
14546 - Make 0.0.9.x build on Solaris again.
14547 - Due to a fencepost error, we were blowing away the \n when reporting
14548 confvalue items in the controller. So asking for multiple config
14549 values at once couldn't work.
14550 - When listing circuits that are pending on an opening OR connection,
14551 if we're an OR we were listing circuits that *end* at us as
14552 being pending on every listener, dns/cpu worker, etc. Stop that.
14553 - Dirservers were failing to create 'running-routers' or 'directory'
14554 strings if we had more than some threshold of routers. Fix them so
14555 they can handle any number of routers.
14556 - Fix a superficial "Duplicate mark for close" bug.
14557 - Stop checking for clock skew for OR connections, even for servers.
14558 - Fix a fencepost error that was chopping off the last letter of any
14559 nickname that is the maximum allowed nickname length.
14560 - Update URLs in log messages so they point to the new website.
14561 - Fix a potential problem in mangling server private keys while
14562 writing to disk (not triggered yet, as far as we know).
14563 - Include the licenses for other free software we include in Tor,
14564 now that we're shipping binary distributions more regularly.
14567 Changes in version 0.0.9.1 - 2004-12-15
14568 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
14569 - Make hibernation actually work.
14570 - Make HashedControlPassword config option work.
14571 - When we're reporting event circuit status to a controller,
14572 don't use the stream status code.
14575 Changes in version 0.0.9 - 2004-12-12
14577 - Clean up manpage and torrc.sample file.
14578 - Clean up severities and text of log warnings.
14580 - Make servers trigger an assert when they enter hibernation.
14583 Changes in version 0.0.9rc7 - 2004-12-08
14584 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc:
14585 - Fix a stack-trashing crash when an exit node begins hibernating.
14586 - Avoid looking at unallocated memory while considering which
14587 ports we need to build circuits to cover.
14588 - Stop a sigpipe: when an 'end' cell races with eof from the app,
14589 we shouldn't hold-open-until-flush if the eof arrived first.
14590 - Fix a bug with init_cookie_authentication() in the controller.
14591 - When recommending new-format log lines, if the upper bound is
14592 LOG_ERR, leave it implicit.
14594 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
14595 - Fix a whole slew of memory leaks.
14596 - Fix isspace() and friends so they still make Solaris happy
14597 but also so they don't trigger asserts on win32.
14598 - Fix parse_iso_time on platforms without strptime (eg win32).
14599 - win32: tolerate extra "readable" events better.
14600 - win32: when being multithreaded, leave parent fdarray open.
14601 - Make unit tests work on win32.
14604 Changes in version 0.0.9rc6 - 2004-12-06
14605 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
14606 - Clean up some more integer underflow opportunities (not exploitable
14608 - While hibernating, hup should not regrow our listeners.
14609 - Send an end to the streams we close when we hibernate, rather
14610 than just chopping them off.
14611 - React to eof immediately on non-open edge connections.
14613 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
14614 - Calculate timeout for waiting for a connected cell from the time
14615 we sent the begin cell, not from the time the stream started. If
14616 it took a long time to establish the circuit, we would time out
14617 right after sending the begin cell.
14618 - Fix router_compare_addr_to_addr_policy: it was not treating a port
14619 of * as always matching, so we were picking reject *:* nodes as
14620 exit nodes too. Oops.
14623 - New circuit building strategy: keep a list of ports that we've
14624 used in the past 6 hours, and always try to have 2 circuits open
14625 or on the way that will handle each such port. Seed us with port
14626 80 so web users won't complain that Tor is "slow to start up".
14627 - Make kill -USR1 dump more useful stats about circuits.
14628 - When warning about retrying or giving up, print the address, so
14629 the user knows which one it's talking about.
14630 - If you haven't used a clean circuit in an hour, throw it away,
14631 just to be on the safe side. (This means after 6 hours a totally
14632 unused Tor client will have no circuits open.)
14635 Changes in version 0.0.9rc5 - 2004-12-01
14636 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
14637 - Disallow NDEBUG. We don't ever want anybody to turn off debug.
14638 - Let resolve conns retry/expire also, rather than sticking around
14640 - If we are using select, make sure we stay within FD_SETSIZE.
14642 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
14643 - Fix integer underflow in tor_vsnprintf() that may be exploitable,
14644 but doesn't seem to be currently; thanks to Ilja van Sprundel for
14646 - If anybody set DirFetchPostPeriod, give them StatusFetchPeriod
14647 instead. Impose minima and maxima for all *Period options; impose
14648 even tighter maxima for fetching if we are a caching dirserver.
14649 Clip rather than rejecting.
14650 - Fetch cached running-routers from servers that serve it (that is,
14651 authdirservers and servers running 0.0.9rc5-cvs or later.)
14654 - Accept *:706 (silc) in default exit policy.
14655 - Implement new versioning format for post 0.1.
14656 - Support "foo.nickname.exit" addresses, to let Alice request the
14657 address "foo" as viewed by exit node "nickname". Based on a patch
14659 - Make tor --version --version dump the cvs Id of every file.
14662 Changes in version 0.0.9rc4 - 2004-11-28
14663 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
14664 - Make windows sockets actually non-blocking (oops), and handle
14665 win32 socket errors better.
14667 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
14668 - Actually catch the -USR2 signal.
14671 Changes in version 0.0.9rc3 - 2004-11-25
14672 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
14673 - Flush the log file descriptor after we print "Tor opening log file",
14674 so we don't see those messages days later.
14676 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
14677 - Make tor-resolve work again.
14678 - Avoid infinite loop in tor-resolve if tor hangs up on it.
14679 - Fix an assert trigger for clients/servers handling resolves.
14682 Changes in version 0.0.9rc2 - 2004-11-24
14683 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
14684 - I broke socks5 support while fixing the eof bug.
14685 - Allow unitless bandwidths and intervals; they default to bytes
14687 - New servers don't start out hibernating; they are active until
14688 they run out of bytes, so they have a better estimate of how
14689 long it takes, and so their operators can know they're working.
14692 Changes in version 0.0.9rc1 - 2004-11-23
14693 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
14694 - Finally fix a bug that's been plaguing us for a year:
14695 With high load, circuit package window was reaching 0. Whenever
14696 we got a circuit-level sendme, we were reading a lot on each
14697 socket, but only writing out a bit. So we would eventually reach
14698 eof. This would be noticed and acted on even when there were still
14699 bytes sitting in the inbuf.
14700 - When poll() is interrupted, we shouldn't believe the revents values.
14702 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre6:
14703 - Fix hibernate bug that caused pre6 to be broken.
14704 - Don't keep rephist info for routers that haven't had activity for
14705 24 hours. (This matters now that clients have keys, since we track
14707 - Never call close_temp_logs while validating log options.
14708 - Fix backslash-escaping on tor.sh.in and torctl.in.
14711 - Implement weekly/monthly/daily accounting: now you specify your
14712 hibernation properties by
14713 AccountingMax N bytes|KB|MB|GB|TB
14714 AccountingStart day|week|month [day] HH:MM
14715 Defaults to "month 1 0:00".
14716 - Let bandwidth and interval config options be specified as 5 bytes,
14717 kb, kilobytes, etc; and as seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks.
14718 - kill -USR2 now moves all logs to loglevel debug (kill -HUP to
14719 get back to normal.)
14720 - If your requested entry or exit node has advertised bandwidth 0,
14722 - Be more greedy about filling up relay cells -- we try reading again
14723 once we've processed the stuff we read, in case enough has arrived
14724 to fill the last cell completely.
14725 - Apply NT service patch from Osamu Fujino. Still needs more work.
14728 Changes in version 0.0.9pre6 - 2004-11-15
14729 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
14730 - Fix assert failure on malformed socks4a requests.
14731 - Use identity comparison, not nickname comparison, to choose which
14732 half of circuit-ID-space each side gets to use. This is needed
14733 because sometimes we think of a router as a nickname, and sometimes
14734 as a hex ID, and we can't predict what the other side will do.
14735 - Catch and ignore SIGXFSZ signals when log files exceed 2GB; our
14736 write() call will fail and we handle it there.
14737 - Add a FAST_SMARTLIST define to optionally inline smartlist_get
14738 and smartlist_len, which are two major profiling offenders.
14740 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre5:
14741 - Fix a bug in read_all that was corrupting config files on windows.
14742 - When we're raising the max number of open file descriptors to
14743 'unlimited', don't log that we just raised it to '-1'.
14744 - Include event code with events, as required by control-spec.txt.
14745 - Don't give a fingerprint when clients do --list-fingerprint:
14746 it's misleading, because it will never be the same again.
14747 - Stop using strlcpy in tor_strndup, since it was slowing us
14749 - Remove warn on startup about missing cached-directory file.
14750 - Make kill -USR1 work again.
14751 - Hibernate if we start tor during the "wait for wakeup-time" phase
14752 of an accounting interval. Log our hibernation plans better.
14753 - Authoritative dirservers now also cache their directory, so they
14754 have it on start-up.
14757 - Fetch running-routers; cache running-routers; compress
14758 running-routers; serve compressed running-routers.z
14759 - Add NSI installer script contributed by J Doe.
14760 - Commit VC6 and VC7 workspace/project files.
14761 - Commit a tor.spec for making RPM files, with help from jbash.
14762 - Add contrib/torctl.in contributed by Glenn Fink.
14763 - Implement the control-spec's SAVECONF command, to write your
14764 configuration to torrc.
14765 - Get cookie authentication for the controller closer to working.
14766 - Include control-spec.txt in the tarball.
14767 - When set_conf changes our server descriptor, upload a new copy.
14768 But don't upload it too often if there are frequent changes.
14769 - Document authentication config in man page, and document signals
14771 - Clean up confusing parts of man page and torrc.sample.
14772 - Make expand_filename handle ~ and ~username.
14773 - Use autoconf to enable largefile support where necessary. Use
14774 ftello where available, since ftell can fail at 2GB.
14775 - Distinguish between TOR_TLS_CLOSE and TOR_TLS_ERROR, so we can
14776 log more informatively.
14777 - Give a slightly more useful output for "tor -h".
14778 - Refuse application socks connections to port 0.
14779 - Check clock skew for verified servers, but allow unverified
14780 servers and clients to have any clock skew.
14781 - Break DirFetchPostPeriod into:
14782 - DirFetchPeriod for fetching full directory,
14783 - StatusFetchPeriod for fetching running-routers,
14784 - DirPostPeriod for posting server descriptor,
14785 - RendPostPeriod for posting hidden service descriptors.
14786 - Make sure the hidden service descriptors are at a random offset
14787 from each other, to hinder linkability.
14790 Changes in version 0.0.9pre5 - 2004-11-09
14791 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre4:
14792 - Fix a seg fault in unit tests (doesn't affect main program).
14793 - Fix an assert bug where a hidden service provider would fail if
14794 the first hop of his rendezvous circuit was down.
14795 - Hidden service operators now correctly handle version 1 style
14796 INTRODUCE1 cells (nobody generates them still, so not a critical
14798 - If do_hup fails, actually notice.
14799 - Handle more errnos from accept() without closing the listener.
14800 Some OpenBSD machines were closing their listeners because
14801 they ran out of file descriptors.
14802 - Send resolve cells to exit routers that are running a new
14803 enough version of the resolve code to work right.
14804 - Better handling of winsock includes on non-MSV win32 compilers.
14805 - Some people had wrapped their tor client/server in a script
14806 that would restart it whenever it died. This did not play well
14807 with our "shut down if your version is obsolete" code. Now people
14808 don't fetch a new directory if their local cached version is
14810 - Make our autogen.sh work on ksh as well as bash.
14813 - Hibernation: New config option "AccountingMaxKB" lets you
14814 set how many KBytes per month you want to allow your server to
14815 consume. Rather than spreading those bytes out evenly over the
14816 month, we instead hibernate for some of the month and pop up
14817 at a deterministic time, work until the bytes are consumed, then
14818 hibernate again. Config option "MonthlyAccountingStart" lets you
14819 specify which day of the month your billing cycle starts on.
14820 - Control interface: a separate program can now talk to your
14821 client/server over a socket, and get/set config options, receive
14822 notifications of circuits and streams starting/finishing/dying,
14823 bandwidth used, etc. The next step is to get some GUIs working.
14824 Let us know if you want to help out. See doc/control-spec.txt .
14825 - Ship a contrib/tor-control.py as an example script to interact
14826 with the control port.
14827 - "tor --hash-password zzyxz" will output a salted password for
14828 use in authenticating to the control interface.
14829 - New log format in config:
14830 "Log minsev[-maxsev] stdout|stderr|syslog" or
14831 "Log minsev[-maxsev] file /var/foo"
14834 - DirPolicy config option, to let people reject incoming addresses
14835 from their dirserver.
14836 - "tor --list-fingerprint" will list your identity key fingerprint
14838 - Add "pass" target for RedirectExit, to make it easier to break
14839 out of a sequence of RedirectExit rules.
14840 - Clients now generate a TLS cert too, in preparation for having
14841 them act more like real nodes.
14842 - Ship src/win32/ in the tarball, so people can use it to build.
14843 - Make old win32 fall back to CWD if SHGetSpecialFolderLocation
14845 - New "router-status" line in directory, to better bind each verified
14846 nickname to its identity key.
14847 - Deprecate unofficial config option abbreviations, and abbreviations
14848 not on the command line.
14849 - Add a pure-C tor-resolve implementation.
14850 - Use getrlimit and friends to ensure we can reach MaxConn (currently
14851 1024) file descriptors.
14853 o Code security improvements, inspired by Ilja:
14854 - Replace sprintf with snprintf. (I think they were all safe, but
14856 - Replace strcpy/strncpy with strlcpy in more places.
14857 - Avoid strcat; use snprintf or strlcat instead.
14858 - snprintf wrapper with consistent (though not C99) overflow behavior.
14861 Changes in version 0.0.9pre4 - 2004-10-17
14862 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre3:
14863 - If the server doesn't specify an exit policy, use the real default
14864 exit policy, not reject *:*.
14865 - Ignore fascistfirewall when uploading/downloading hidden service
14866 descriptors, since we go through Tor for those; and when using
14867 an HttpProxy, since we assume it can reach them all.
14868 - When looking for an authoritative dirserver, use only the ones
14869 configured at boot. Don't bother looking in the directory.
14870 - The rest of the fix for get_default_conf_file() on older win32.
14871 - Make 'Routerfile' config option obsolete.
14874 - New 'MyFamily nick1,...' config option for a server to
14875 specify other servers that shouldn't be used in the same circuit
14876 with it. Only believed if nick1 also specifies us.
14877 - New 'NodeFamily nick1,nick2,...' config option for a client to
14878 specify nodes that it doesn't want to use in the same circuit.
14879 - New 'Redirectexit pattern address:port' config option for a
14880 server to redirect exit connections, e.g. to a local squid.
14883 Changes in version 0.0.9pre3 - 2004-10-13
14884 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
14885 - Better torrc example lines for dirbindaddress and orbindaddress.
14886 - Improved bounds checking on parsed ints (e.g. config options and
14887 the ones we find in directories.)
14888 - Better handling of size_t vs int, so we're more robust on 64
14890 - Fix the rest of the bug where a newly started OR would appear
14891 as unverified even after we've added his fingerprint and hupped
14893 - Fix a bug from 0.0.7: when read() failed on a stream, we would
14894 close it without sending back an end. So 'connection refused'
14895 would simply be ignored and the user would get no response.
14897 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre2:
14898 - Serving the cached-on-disk directory to people is bad. We now
14899 provide no directory until we've fetched a fresh one.
14900 - Workaround for bug on windows where cached-directories get crlf
14902 - Make get_default_conf_file() work on older windows too.
14903 - If we write a *:* exit policy line in the descriptor, don't write
14904 any more exit policy lines.
14907 - Use only 0.0.9pre1 and later servers for resolve cells.
14908 - Make the dirservers file obsolete.
14909 - Include a dir-signing-key token in directories to tell the
14910 parsing entity which key is being used to sign.
14911 - Remove the built-in bulky default dirservers string.
14912 - New config option "Dirserver %s:%d [fingerprint]", which can be
14913 repeated as many times as needed. If no dirservers specified,
14914 default to moria1,moria2,tor26.
14915 - Make moria2 advertise a dirport of 80, so people behind firewalls
14916 will be able to get a directory.
14917 - Http proxy support
14918 - Dirservers translate requests for http://%s:%d/x to /x
14919 - You can specify "HttpProxy %s[:%d]" and all dir fetches will
14920 be routed through this host.
14921 - Clients ask for /tor/x rather than /x for new enough dirservers.
14922 This way we can one day coexist peacefully with apache.
14923 - Clients specify a "Host: %s%d" http header, to be compatible
14924 with more proxies, and so running squid on an exit node can work.
14927 Changes in version 0.0.8.1 - 2004-10-13
14929 - Fix a seg fault that can be triggered remotely for Tor
14930 clients/servers with an open dirport.
14931 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
14932 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
14933 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
14934 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
14935 intermittent connections.
14936 - Fix a bug in parsing opt keywords with objects.
14937 - Fix a stale pointer assert bug when a stream detaches and
14939 - Fix a string format vulnerability (probably not exploitable)
14940 in reporting stats locally.
14941 - Fix an assert trigger: sometimes launching circuits can fail
14942 immediately, e.g. because too many circuits have failed recently.
14943 - Fix a compile warning on 64 bit platforms.
14946 Changes in version 0.0.9pre2 - 2004-10-03
14948 - Make fetching a cached directory work for 64-bit platforms too.
14949 - Make zlib.h a required header, not an optional header.
14952 Changes in version 0.0.9pre1 - 2004-10-01
14954 - Stop using separate defaults for no-config-file and
14955 empty-config-file. Now you have to explicitly turn off SocksPort,
14956 if you don't want it open.
14957 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
14958 - Improve man page to mention more of the 0.0.8 features.
14959 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
14960 intermittent connections.
14961 - Change our file IO stuff (especially wrt OpenSSL) so win32 is
14963 - Fix more dns related bugs: send back resolve_failed and end cells
14964 more reliably when the resolve fails, rather than closing the
14965 circuit and then trying to send the cell. Also attach dummy resolve
14966 connections to a circuit *before* calling dns_resolve(), to fix
14967 a bug where cached answers would never be sent in RESOLVED cells.
14968 - When we run out of disk space, or other log writing error, don't
14969 crash. Just stop logging to that log and continue.
14970 - We were starting to daemonize before we opened our logs, so if
14971 there were any problems opening logs, we would complain to stderr,
14972 which wouldn't work, and then mysteriously exit.
14973 - Fix a rare bug where sometimes a verified OR would connect to us
14974 before he'd uploaded his descriptor, which would cause us to
14975 assign conn->nickname as though he's unverified. Now we look through
14976 the fingerprint list to see if he's there.
14977 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
14978 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
14981 - Clients can ask dirservers for /dir.z to get a compressed version
14982 of the directory. Only works for servers running 0.0.9, of course.
14983 - Make clients cache directories and use them to seed their router
14984 lists at startup. This means clients have a datadir again.
14985 - Configuration infrastructure support for warning on obsolete
14987 - Respond to content-encoding headers by trying to uncompress as
14989 - Reply with a deflated directory when a client asks for "dir.z".
14990 We could use allow-encodings instead, but allow-encodings isn't
14991 specified in HTTP 1.0.
14992 - Raise the max dns workers from 50 to 100.
14993 - Discourage people from setting their dirfetchpostperiod more often
14994 than once per minute.
14995 - Protect dirservers from overzealous descriptor uploading -- wait
14996 10 seconds after directory gets dirty, before regenerating.
14999 Changes in version 0.0.8 - 2004-08-25
15000 o Port it to SunOS 5.9 / Athena
15003 Changes in version 0.0.8rc2 - 2004-08-20
15004 o Make it compile on cygwin again.
15005 o When picking unverified routers, skip those with low uptime and/or
15006 low bandwidth, depending on what properties you care about.
15009 Changes in version 0.0.8rc1 - 2004-08-18
15010 o Changes from 0.0.7.3:
15012 - Fix assert triggers: if the other side returns an address 0.0.0.0,
15013 don't put it into the client dns cache.
15014 - If a begin failed due to exit policy, but we believe the IP address
15015 should have been allowed, switch that router to exitpolicy reject *:*
15016 until we get our next directory.
15018 - Clients choose nodes proportional to advertised bandwidth.
15019 - Avoid using nodes with low uptime as introduction points.
15020 - Handle servers with dynamic IP addresses: don't replace
15021 options->Address with the resolved one at startup, and
15022 detect our address right before we make a routerinfo each time.
15023 - 'FascistFirewall' option to pick dirservers and ORs on specific
15024 ports; plus 'FirewallPorts' config option to tell FascistFirewall
15025 which ports are open. (Defaults to 80,443)
15026 - Be more aggressive about trying to make circuits when the network
15027 has changed (e.g. when you unsuspend your laptop).
15028 - Check for time skew on http headers; report date in response to
15030 - If the entrynode config line has only one node, don't pick it as
15032 - Add strict{entry|exit}nodes config options. If set to 1, then
15033 we refuse to build circuits that don't include the specified entry
15035 - OutboundBindAddress config option, to bind to a specific
15036 IP address for outgoing connect()s.
15037 - End truncated log entries (e.g. directories) with "[truncated]".
15039 o Patches to 0.0.8preX:
15041 - Patches to compile and run on win32 again (maybe)?
15042 - Fix crash when looking for ~/.torrc with no $HOME set.
15043 - Fix a race bug in the unit tests.
15044 - Handle verified/unverified name collisions better when new
15045 routerinfo's arrive in a directory.
15046 - Sometimes routers were getting entered into the stats before
15047 we'd assigned their identity_digest. Oops.
15048 - Only pick and establish intro points after we've gotten a
15051 - AllowUnverifiedNodes config option to let circuits choose no-name
15052 routers in entry,middle,exit,introduction,rendezvous positions.
15053 Allow middle and rendezvous positions by default.
15054 - Add a man page for tor-resolve.
15057 Changes in version 0.0.7.3 - 2004-08-12
15058 o Stop dnsworkers from triggering an assert failure when you
15059 ask them to resolve the host "".
15062 Changes in version 0.0.8pre3 - 2004-08-09
15063 o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
15064 - Allow multiple ORs with same nickname in routerlist -- now when
15065 people give us one identity key for a nickname, then later
15066 another, we don't constantly complain until the first expires.
15067 - Remember used bandwidth (both in and out), and publish 15-minute
15068 snapshots for the past day into our descriptor.
15069 - You can now fetch $DIRURL/running-routers to get just the
15070 running-routers line, not the whole descriptor list. (But
15071 clients don't use this yet.)
15072 - When people mistakenly use Tor as an http proxy, point them
15073 at the tor-doc.html rather than the INSTALL.
15074 - Remove our mostly unused -- and broken -- hex_encode()
15075 function. Use base16_encode() instead. (Thanks to Timo Lindfors
15076 for pointing out this bug.)
15077 - Rotate onion keys every 12 hours, not every 2 hours, so we have
15078 fewer problems with people using the wrong key.
15079 - Change the default exit policy to reject the default edonkey,
15080 kazaa, gnutella ports.
15081 - Add replace_file() to util.[ch] to handle win32's rename().
15083 o Changes from 0.0.8preX:
15084 - Fix two bugs in saving onion keys to disk when rotating, so
15085 hopefully we'll get fewer people using old onion keys.
15086 - Fix an assert error that was making SocksPolicy not work.
15087 - Be willing to expire routers that have an open dirport -- it's
15088 just the authoritative dirservers we want to not forget.
15089 - Reject tor-resolve requests for .onion addresses early, so we
15090 don't build a whole rendezvous circuit and then fail.
15091 - When you're warning a server that he's unverified, don't cry
15092 wolf unpredictably.
15093 - Fix a race condition: don't try to extend onto a connection
15094 that's still handshaking.
15095 - For servers in clique mode, require the conn to be open before
15096 you'll choose it for your path.
15097 - Fix some cosmetic bugs about duplicate mark-for-close, lack of
15098 end relay cell, etc.
15099 - Measure bandwidth capacity over the last 24 hours, not just 12
15100 - Bugfix: authoritative dirservers were making and signing a new
15101 directory for each client, rather than reusing the cached one.
15104 Changes in version 0.0.8pre2 - 2004-08-04
15105 o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
15107 - Check directory signature _before_ you decide whether you're
15108 you're running an obsolete version and should exit.
15109 - Check directory signature _before_ you parse the running-routers
15110 list to decide who's running or verified.
15111 - Bugfixes and features:
15112 - Check return value of fclose while writing to disk, so we don't
15113 end up with broken files when servers run out of disk space.
15114 - Log a warning if the user uses an unsafe socks variant, so people
15115 are more likely to learn about privoxy or socat.
15116 - Dirservers now include RFC1123-style dates in the HTTP headers,
15117 which one day we will use to better detect clock skew.
15119 o Changes from 0.0.8pre1:
15120 - Make it compile without warnings again on win32.
15121 - Log a warning if you're running an unverified server, to let you
15122 know you might want to get it verified.
15123 - Only pick a default nickname if you plan to be a server.
15126 Changes in version 0.0.8pre1 - 2004-07-23
15128 - Made our unit tests compile again on OpenBSD 3.5, and tor
15129 itself compile again on OpenBSD on a sparc64.
15130 - We were neglecting milliseconds when logging on win32, so
15131 everything appeared to happen at the beginning of each second.
15133 o Protocol changes:
15134 - 'Extend' relay cell payloads now include the digest of the
15135 intended next hop's identity key. Now we can verify that we're
15136 extending to the right router, and also extend to routers we
15137 hadn't heard of before.
15140 - Tor nodes can now act as relays (with an advertised ORPort)
15141 without being manually verified by the dirserver operators.
15142 - Uploaded descriptors of unverified routers are now accepted
15143 by the dirservers, and included in the directory.
15144 - Verified routers are listed by nickname in the running-routers
15145 list; unverified routers are listed as "$<fingerprint>".
15146 - We now use hash-of-identity-key in most places rather than
15147 nickname or addr:port, for improved security/flexibility.
15148 - To avoid Sybil attacks, paths still use only verified servers.
15149 But now we have a chance to play around with hybrid approaches.
15150 - Nodes track bandwidth usage to estimate capacity (not used yet).
15151 - ClientOnly option for nodes that never want to become servers.
15152 - Directory caching.
15153 - "AuthoritativeDir 1" option for the official dirservers.
15154 - Now other nodes (clients and servers) will cache the latest
15155 directory they've pulled down.
15156 - They can enable their DirPort to serve it to others.
15157 - Clients will pull down a directory from any node with an open
15158 DirPort, and check the signature/timestamp correctly.
15159 - Authoritative dirservers now fetch directories from other
15160 authdirservers, to stay better synced.
15161 - Running-routers list tells who's down also, along with noting
15162 if they're verified (listed by nickname) or unverified (listed
15164 - Allow dirservers to serve running-router list separately.
15165 This isn't used yet.
15166 - ORs connect-on-demand to other ORs
15167 - If you get an extend cell to an OR you're not connected to,
15168 connect, handshake, and forward the create cell.
15169 - The authoritative dirservers stay connected to everybody,
15170 and everybody stays connected to 0.0.7 servers, but otherwise
15171 clients/servers expire unused connections after 5 minutes.
15172 - When servers get a sigint, they delay 30 seconds (refusing new
15173 connections) then exit. A second sigint causes immediate exit.
15174 - File and name management:
15175 - Look for .torrc if no CONFDIR "torrc" is found.
15176 - If no datadir is defined, then choose, make, and secure ~/.tor
15178 - If torrc not found, exitpolicy reject *:*.
15179 - Expands ~/ in filenames to $HOME/ (but doesn't yet expand ~arma).
15180 - If no nickname is defined, derive default from hostname.
15181 - Rename secret key files, e.g. identity.key -> secret_id_key,
15182 to discourage people from mailing their identity key to tor-ops.
15183 - Refuse to build a circuit before the directory has arrived --
15184 it won't work anyway, since you won't know the right onion keys
15186 - Try other dirservers immediately if the one you try is down. This
15187 should tolerate down dirservers better now.
15188 - Parse tor version numbers so we can do an is-newer-than check
15189 rather than an is-in-the-list check.
15190 - New socks command 'resolve', to let us shim gethostbyname()
15192 - A 'tor_resolve' script to access the socks resolve functionality.
15193 - A new socks-extensions.txt doc file to describe our
15194 interpretation and extensions to the socks protocols.
15195 - Add a ContactInfo option, which gets published in descriptor.
15196 - Publish OR uptime in descriptor (and thus in directory) too.
15197 - Write tor version at the top of each log file
15198 - New docs in the tarball:
15200 - Document that you should proxy your SSL traffic too.
15203 Changes in version 0.0.7.2 - 2004-07-07
15204 o A better fix for the 0.0.0.0 problem, that will hopefully
15205 eliminate the remaining related assertion failures.
15208 Changes in version 0.0.7.1 - 2004-07-04
15209 o When an address resolves to 0.0.0.0, treat it as a failed resolve,
15210 since internally we use 0.0.0.0 to signify "not yet resolved".
15213 Changes in version 0.0.7 - 2004-06-07
15214 o Updated the man page to reflect the new features.
15217 Changes in version 0.0.7rc2 - 2004-06-06
15218 o Changes from 0.0.7rc1:
15219 - Make it build on Win32 again.
15220 o Changes from 0.0.6.2:
15221 - Rotate dnsworkers and cpuworkers on SIGHUP, so they get new config
15225 Changes in version 0.0.7rc1 - 2004-06-02
15227 - On sighup, we were adding another log without removing the first
15228 one. So log messages would get duplicated n times for n sighups.
15229 - Several cases of using a connection after we'd freed it. The
15230 problem was that connections that are pending resolve are in both
15231 the pending_resolve tree, and also the circuit's resolving_streams
15232 list. When you want to remove one, you must remove it from both.
15233 - Fix a double-mark-for-close where an end cell arrived for a
15234 resolving stream, and then the resolve failed.
15235 - Check directory signatures based on name of signer, not on whom
15236 we got the directory from. This will let us cache directories more
15239 - Crank up some of our constants to handle more users.
15242 Changes in version 0.0.7pre1 - 2004-06-02
15243 o Fixes for crashes and other obnoxious bugs:
15244 - Fix an epipe bug: sometimes when directory connections failed
15245 to connect, we would give them a chance to flush before closing
15247 - When we detached from a circuit because of resolvefailed, we
15248 would immediately try the same circuit twice more, and then
15249 give up on the resolve thinking we'd tried three different
15251 - Limit the number of intro circuits we'll attempt to build for a
15252 hidden service per 15-minute period.
15253 - Check recommended-software string *early*, before actually parsing
15254 the directory. Thus we can detect an obsolete version and exit,
15255 even if the new directory format doesn't parse.
15256 o Fixes for security bugs:
15257 - Remember which nodes are dirservers when you startup, and if a
15258 random OR enables his dirport, don't automatically assume he's
15259 a trusted dirserver.
15261 - Directory connections were asking the wrong poll socket to
15262 start writing, and not asking themselves to start writing.
15263 - When we detached from a circuit because we sent a begin but
15264 didn't get a connected, we would use it again the first time;
15265 but after that we would correctly switch to a different one.
15266 - Stop warning when the first onion decrypt attempt fails; they
15267 will sometimes legitimately fail now that we rotate keys.
15268 - Override unaligned-access-ok check when $host_cpu is ia64 or
15269 arm. Apparently they allow it but the kernel whines.
15270 - Dirservers try to reconnect periodically too, in case connections
15272 - Fix some memory leaks in directory servers.
15273 - Allow backslash in Win32 filenames.
15274 - Made Tor build complain-free on FreeBSD, hopefully without
15275 breaking other BSD builds. We'll see.
15277 - Doxygen markup on all functions and global variables.
15278 - Make directory functions update routerlist, not replace it. So
15279 now directory disagreements are not so critical a problem.
15280 - Remove the upper limit on number of descriptors in a dirserver's
15281 directory (not that we were anywhere close).
15282 - Allow multiple logfiles at different severity ranges.
15283 - Allow *BindAddress to specify ":port" rather than setting *Port
15284 separately. Allow multiple instances of each BindAddress config
15285 option, so you can bind to multiple interfaces if you want.
15286 - Allow multiple exit policy lines, which are processed in order.
15287 Now we don't need that huge line with all the commas in it.
15288 - Enable accept/reject policies on SOCKS connections, so you can bind
15289 to 0.0.0.0 but still control who can use your OP.
15292 Changes in version 0.0.6.2 - 2004-05-16
15293 o Our integrity-checking digest was checking only the most recent cell,
15294 not the previous cells like we'd thought.
15295 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
15298 Changes in version 0.0.6.1 - 2004-05-06
15299 o Fix two bugs in our AES counter-mode implementation (this affected
15300 onion-level stream encryption, but not TLS-level). It turns
15301 out we were doing something much more akin to a 16-character
15302 polyalphabetic cipher. Oops.
15303 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
15304 o Retire moria3 as a directory server, and add tor26 as a directory
15308 Changes in version 0.0.6 - 2004-05-02
15309 [version bump only]
15312 Changes in version 0.0.6rc4 - 2004-05-01
15313 o Update the built-in dirservers list to use the new directory format
15314 o Fix a rare seg fault: if a node offering a hidden service attempts
15315 to build a circuit to Alice's rendezvous point and fails before it
15316 reaches the last hop, it retries with a different circuit, but
15318 o Handle windows socket errors correctly.
15321 Changes in version 0.0.6rc3 - 2004-04-28
15322 o Don't expire non-general excess circuits (if we had enough
15323 circuits open, we were expiring rendezvous circuits -- even
15324 when they had a stream attached. oops.)
15325 o Fetch randomness from /dev/urandom better (not via fopen/fread)
15326 o Better debugging for tls errors
15327 o Some versions of openssl have an SSL_pending function that erroneously
15328 returns bytes when there is a non-application record pending.
15329 o Set Content-Type on the directory and hidserv descriptor.
15330 o Remove IVs from cipher code, since AES-ctr has none.
15331 o Win32 fixes. Tor now compiles on win32 with no warnings/errors.
15332 o We were using an array of length zero in a few places.
15333 o win32's gethostbyname can't resolve an IP to an IP.
15334 o win32's close can't close a socket.
15337 Changes in version 0.0.6rc2 - 2004-04-26
15338 o Fix a bug where we were closing tls connections intermittently.
15339 It turns out openssl keeps its errors around -- so if an error
15340 happens, and you don't ask about it, and then another openssl
15341 operation happens and succeeds, and you ask if there was an error,
15342 it tells you about the first error. Fun fun.
15343 o Fix a bug that's been lurking since 27 may 03 (!)
15344 When passing back a destroy cell, we would use the wrong circ id.
15345 'Mostly harmless', but still worth fixing.
15346 o Since we don't support truncateds much, don't bother sending them;
15347 just close the circ.
15348 o check for <machine/limits.h> so we build on NetBSD again (I hope).
15349 o don't crash if a conn that sent a begin has suddenly lost its circuit
15350 (this was quite rare).
15353 Changes in version 0.0.6rc1 - 2004-04-25
15354 o We now rotate link (tls context) keys and onion keys.
15355 o CREATE cells now include oaep padding, so you can tell
15356 if you decrypted them correctly.
15357 o Add bandwidthburst to server descriptor.
15358 o Directories now say which dirserver signed them.
15359 o Use a tor_assert macro that logs failed assertions too.
15362 Changes in version 0.0.6pre5 - 2004-04-18
15363 o changes from 0.0.6pre4:
15364 - make tor build on broken freebsd 5.2 installs
15365 - fix a failed assert when you try an intro point, get a nack, and try
15366 a second one and it works.
15367 - when alice uses a port that the hidden service doesn't accept,
15368 it now sends back an end cell (denied by exit policy). otherwise
15369 alice would just have to wait to time out.
15370 - fix another rare bug: when we had tried all the intro
15371 points for a hidden service, we fetched the descriptor
15372 again, but we left our introcirc thinking it had already
15373 sent an intro, so it kept waiting for a response...
15374 - bugfix: when you sleep your hidden-service laptop, as soon
15375 as it wakes up it tries to upload a service descriptor, but
15376 socketpair fails for some reason (localhost not up yet?).
15377 now we simply give up on that upload, and we'll try again later.
15378 i'd still like to find the bug though.
15379 - if an intro circ waiting for an ack dies before getting one, then
15381 - we were reusing stale service descriptors and refetching usable
15385 Changes in version 0.0.6pre4 - 2004-04-14
15386 o changes from 0.0.6pre3:
15387 - when bob fails to connect to the rendezvous point, and his
15388 circ didn't fail because of the rendezvous point itself, then
15389 he retries a couple of times
15390 - we expire introduction and rendezvous circs more thoroughly
15391 (sometimes they were hanging around forever)
15392 - we expire unattached rendezvous streams that have been around
15393 too long (they were sticking around forever).
15394 - fix a measly fencepost error that was crashing everybody with
15398 Changes in version 0.0.6pre3 - 2004-04-14
15399 o changes from 0.0.6pre2:
15400 - make hup work again
15401 - fix some memory leaks for dirservers
15402 - allow more skew in rendezvous descriptor timestamps, to help
15403 handle people like blanu who don't know what time it is
15404 - normal circs are 3 hops, but some rend/intro circs are 4, if
15405 the initiator doesn't get to choose the last hop
15406 - send acks for introductions, so alice can know whether to try
15408 - bob publishes intro points more correctly
15409 o changes from 0.0.5:
15410 - fix an assert trigger that's been plaguing us since the days
15411 of 0.0.2prexx (thanks weasel!)
15412 - retry stream correctly when we fail to connect because of
15413 exit-policy-reject (should try another) or can't-resolve-address
15414 (also should try another, because dns on random internet servers
15416 - when we hup a dirserver and we've *removed* a server from the
15417 approved-routers list, now we remove that server from the
15418 in-memory directories too
15421 Changes in version 0.0.6pre2 - 2004-04-08
15422 o We fixed our base32 implementation. Now it works on all architectures.
15425 Changes in version 0.0.6pre1 - 2004-04-08
15427 - Hidden services and rendezvous points are implemented. Go to
15428 http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/ for an index of currently available
15429 hidden services. (This only works via a socks4a proxy such as
15430 Privoxy, and currently it's quite slow.)
15433 Changes in version 0.0.5 - 2004-03-30
15434 [version bump only]
15437 Changes in version 0.0.5rc3 - 2004-03-29
15438 o Install torrc as torrc.sample -- we no longer clobber your
15440 o Re-enable recommendedversion checking (we broke it in rc2, oops)
15441 o Add in a 'notice' log level for things the operator should hear
15442 but that aren't warnings
15445 Changes in version 0.0.5rc2 - 2004-03-29
15446 o Hold socks connection open until reply is flushed (if possible)
15447 o Make exit nodes resolve IPs to IPs immediately, rather than asking
15448 the dns farm to do it.
15449 o Fix c99 aliasing warnings in rephist.c
15450 o Don't include server descriptors that are older than 24 hours in the
15452 o Give socks 'reject' replies their whole 15s to attempt to flush,
15453 rather than seeing the 60s timeout and assuming the flush had failed.
15454 o Clean automake droppings from the cvs repository
15457 Changes in version 0.0.5rc1 - 2004-03-28
15458 o Fix mangled-state bug in directory fetching (was causing sigpipes).
15459 o Only build circuits after we've fetched the directory: clients were
15460 using only the directory servers before they'd fetched a directory.
15461 This also means longer startup time; so it goes.
15462 o Fix an assert trigger where an OP would fail to handshake, and we'd
15463 expect it to have a nickname.
15464 o Work around a tsocks bug: do a socks reject when AP connection dies
15465 early, else tsocks goes into an infinite loop.
15468 Changes in version 0.0.4 - 2004-03-26
15469 o When connecting to a dirserver or OR and the network is down,
15473 Changes in version 0.0.3 - 2004-03-26
15474 o Warn and fail if server chose a nickname with illegal characters
15475 o Port to Solaris and Sparc:
15476 - include missing header fcntl.h
15477 - have autoconf find -lsocket -lnsl automatically
15478 - deal with hardware word alignment
15479 - make uname() work (solaris has a different return convention)
15480 - switch from using signal() to sigaction()
15481 o Preliminary work on reputation system:
15482 - Keep statistics on success/fail of connect attempts; they're published
15483 by kill -USR1 currently.
15484 - Add a RunTesting option to try to learn link state by creating test
15485 circuits, even when SocksPort is off.
15486 - Remove unused open circuits when there are too many.
15489 Changes in version 0.0.2 - 2004-03-19
15490 - Include strlcpy and strlcat for safer string ops
15491 - define INADDR_NONE so we compile (but still not run) on solaris
15494 Changes in version 0.0.2pre27 - 2004-03-14
15496 - Allow internal tor networks (we were rejecting internal IPs,
15497 now we allow them if they're set explicitly).
15498 - And fix a few endian issues.
15501 Changes in version 0.0.2pre26 - 2004-03-14
15503 - If a stream times out after 15s without a connected cell, don't
15504 try that circuit again: try a new one.
15505 - Retry streams at most 4 times. Then give up.
15506 - When a dirserver gets a descriptor from an unknown router, it
15507 logs its fingerprint (so the dirserver operator can choose to
15508 accept it even without mail from the server operator).
15509 - Inform unapproved servers when we reject their descriptors.
15510 - Make tor build on Windows again. It works as a client, who knows
15512 - Clearer instructions in the torrc for how to set up a server.
15513 - Be more efficient about reading fd's when our global token bucket
15514 (used for rate limiting) becomes empty.
15516 - Stop asserting that computers always go forward in time. It's
15518 - When we sent a cell (e.g. destroy) and then marked an OR connection
15519 expired, we might close it before finishing a flush if the other
15520 side isn't reading right then.
15521 - Don't allow dirservers to start if they haven't defined
15522 RecommendedVersions
15523 - We were caching transient dns failures. Oops.
15524 - Prevent servers from publishing an internal IP as their address.
15525 - Address a strcat vulnerability in circuit.c
15528 Changes in version 0.0.2pre25 - 2004-03-04
15530 - Put the OR's IP in its router descriptor, not its fqdn. That way
15531 we'll stop being stalled by gethostbyname for nodes with flaky dns,
15534 - If the user typed in an address that didn't resolve, the server
15538 Changes in version 0.0.2pre24 - 2004-03-03
15540 - Fix an assertion failure in dns.c, where we were trying to dequeue
15541 a pending dns resolve even if it wasn't pending
15542 - Fix a spurious socks5 warning about still trying to write after the
15543 connection is finished.
15544 - Hold certain marked_for_close connections open until they're finished
15545 flushing, rather than losing bytes by closing them too early.
15546 - Correctly report the reason for ending a stream
15547 - Remove some duplicate calls to connection_mark_for_close
15548 - Put switch_id and start_daemon earlier in the boot sequence, so it
15549 will actually try to chdir() to options.DataDirectory
15550 - Make 'make test' exit(1) if a test fails; fix some unit tests
15551 - Make tor fail when you use a config option it doesn't know about,
15552 rather than warn and continue.
15553 - Make --version work
15554 - Bugfixes on the rpm spec file and tor.sh, so it's more up to date
15557 Changes in version 0.0.2pre23 - 2004-02-29
15559 - Print a statement when the first circ is finished, so the user
15560 knows it's working.
15561 - If a relay cell is unrecognized at the end of the circuit,
15562 send back a destroy. (So attacks to mutate cells are more
15564 - New config option 'excludenodes' to avoid certain nodes for circuits.
15565 - When it daemonizes, it chdir's to the DataDirectory rather than "/",
15566 so you can collect coredumps there.
15568 - Fix a bug in tls flushing where sometimes data got wedged and
15569 didn't flush until more data got sent. Hopefully this bug was
15570 a big factor in the random delays we were seeing.
15571 - Make 'connected' cells include the resolved IP, so the client
15572 dns cache actually gets populated.
15573 - Disallow changing from ORPort=0 to ORPort>0 on hup.
15574 - When we time-out on a stream and detach from the circuit, send an
15575 end cell down it first.
15576 - Only warn about an unknown router (in exitnodes, entrynodes,
15577 excludenodes) after we've fetched a directory.
15580 Changes in version 0.0.2pre22 - 2004-02-26
15582 - Servers publish less revealing uname information in descriptors.
15583 - More memory tracking and assertions, to crash more usefully when
15585 - If the default torrc isn't there, just use some default defaults.
15586 Plus provide an internal dirservers file if they don't have one.
15587 - When the user tries to use Tor as an http proxy, give them an http
15588 501 failure explaining that we're a socks proxy.
15589 - Dump a new router.desc on hup, to help confused people who change
15590 their exit policies and then wonder why router.desc doesn't reflect
15592 - Clean up the generic tor.sh init script that we ship with.
15594 - If the exit stream is pending on the resolve, and a destroy arrives,
15595 then the stream wasn't getting removed from the pending list. I
15596 think this was the one causing recent server crashes.
15597 - Use a more robust poll on OSX 10.3, since their poll is flaky.
15598 - When it couldn't resolve any dirservers, it was useless from then on.
15599 Now it reloads the RouterFile (or default dirservers) if it has no
15601 - Move the 'tor' binary back to /usr/local/bin/ -- it turns out
15602 many users don't even *have* a /usr/local/sbin/.
15605 Changes in version 0.0.2pre21 - 2004-02-18
15607 - There's a ChangeLog file that actually reflects the changelog.
15608 - There's a 'torify' wrapper script, with an accompanying
15609 tor-tsocks.conf, that simplifies the process of using tsocks for
15610 tor. It even has a man page.
15611 - The tor binary gets installed to sbin rather than bin now.
15612 - Retry streams where the connected cell hasn't arrived in 15 seconds
15613 - Clean up exit policy handling -- get the default out of the torrc,
15614 so we can update it without forcing each server operator to fix
15616 - Allow imaps and pop3s in default exit policy
15618 - Prevent picking middleman nodes as the last node in the circuit
15621 Changes in version 0.0.2pre20 - 2004-01-30
15623 - We now have a deb package, and it's in debian unstable. Go to
15624 it, apt-getters. :)
15625 - I've split the TotalBandwidth option into BandwidthRate (how many
15626 bytes per second you want to allow, long-term) and
15627 BandwidthBurst (how many bytes you will allow at once before the cap
15628 kicks in). This better token bucket approach lets you, say, set
15629 BandwidthRate to 10KB/s and BandwidthBurst to 10MB, allowing good
15630 performance while not exceeding your monthly bandwidth quota.
15631 - Push out a tls record's worth of data once you've got it, rather
15632 than waiting until you've read everything waiting to be read. This
15633 may improve performance by pipelining better. We'll see.
15634 - Add an AP_CONN_STATE_CONNECTING state, to allow streams to detach
15635 from failed circuits (if they haven't been connected yet) and attach
15637 - Expire old streams that haven't managed to connect. Some day we'll
15638 have them reattach to new circuits instead.
15641 - Fix several memory leaks that were causing servers to become bloated
15643 - Fix a few very rare assert triggers. A few more remain.
15644 - Setuid to User _before_ complaining about running as root.
15647 Changes in version 0.0.2pre19 - 2004-01-07
15649 - Fix deadlock condition in dns farm. We were telling a child to die by
15650 closing the parent's file descriptor to him. But newer children were
15651 inheriting the open file descriptor from the parent, and since they
15652 weren't closing it, the socket never closed, so the child never read
15653 eof, so he never knew to exit. Similarly, dns workers were holding
15654 open other sockets, leading to all sorts of chaos.
15655 - New cleaner daemon() code for forking and backgrounding.
15656 - If you log to a file, it now prints an entry at the top of the
15657 logfile so you know it's working.
15658 - The onionskin challenge length was 30 bytes longer than necessary.
15659 - Started to patch up the spec so it's not quite so out of date.
15662 Changes in version 0.0.2pre18 - 2004-01-02
15664 - Fix endian issues with the 'integrity' field in the relay header.
15665 - Fix a potential bug where connections in state
15666 AP_CONN_STATE_CIRCUIT_WAIT might unexpectedly ask to write.
15669 Changes in version 0.0.2pre17 - 2003-12-30
15671 - Made --debuglogfile (or any second log file, actually) work.
15672 - Resolved an edge case in get_unique_circ_id_by_conn where a smart
15673 adversary could force us into an infinite loop.
15676 - Each onionskin handshake now includes a hash of the computed key,
15677 to prove the server's identity and help perfect forward secrecy.
15678 - Changed cell size from 256 to 512 bytes (working toward compatibility
15680 - Changed cell length to 2 bytes, and moved it to the relay header.
15681 - Implemented end-to-end integrity checking for the payloads of
15683 - Separated streamid from 'recognized' (otherwise circuits will get
15684 messed up when we try to have streams exit from the middle). We
15685 use the integrity-checking to confirm that a cell is addressed to
15687 - Randomize the initial circid and streamid values, so an adversary who
15688 breaks into a node can't learn how many circuits or streams have
15692 Changes in version 0.0.2pre16 - 2003-12-14
15694 - Fixed a bug that made HUP trigger an assert
15695 - Fixed a bug where a circuit that immediately failed wasn't being
15696 counted as a failed circuit in counting retries.
15699 - Now we close the circuit when we get a truncated cell: otherwise we're
15700 open to an anonymity attack where a bad node in the path truncates
15701 the circuit and then we open streams at him.
15702 - Add port ranges to exit policies
15703 - Add a conservative default exit policy
15704 - Warn if you're running tor as root
15705 - on HUP, retry OR connections and close/rebind listeners
15706 - options.EntryNodes: try these nodes first when picking the first node
15707 - options.ExitNodes: if your best choices happen to include any of
15708 your preferred exit nodes, you choose among just those preferred
15710 - options.ExcludedNodes: nodes that are never picked in path building
15713 Changes in version 0.0.2pre15 - 2003-12-03
15714 o Robustness and bugfixes:
15715 - Sometimes clients would cache incorrect DNS resolves, which would
15716 really screw things up.
15717 - An OP that goes offline would slowly leak all its sockets and stop
15719 - A wide variety of bugfixes in exit node selection, exit policy
15720 handling, and processing pending streams when a new circuit is
15722 - Pick nodes for a path only from those the directory says are up
15723 - Choose randomly from all running dirservers, not always the first one
15724 - Increase allowed http header size for directory fetch.
15725 - Stop writing to stderr (if we're daemonized it will be closed).
15726 - Enable -g always, so cores will be more useful to me.
15727 - Switch "-lcrypto -lssl" to "-lssl -lcrypto" for broken distributions.
15730 - Wrote a man page. It lists commonly used options.
15733 - Change default loglevel to warn.
15734 - Make PidFile default to null rather than littering in your CWD.
15735 - OnionRouter config option is now obsolete. Instead it just checks
15737 - Moved to a single unified torrc file for both clients and servers.
15740 Changes in version 0.0.2pre14 - 2003-11-29
15741 o Robustness and bugfixes:
15742 - Force the admin to make the DataDirectory himself
15743 - to get ownership/permissions right
15744 - so clients no longer make a DataDirectory and then never use it
15745 - fix bug where a client who was offline for 45 minutes would never
15746 pull down a directory again
15747 - fix (or at least hide really well) the dns assert bug that was
15748 causing server crashes
15749 - warnings and improved robustness wrt clockskew for certs
15750 - use the native daemon(3) to daemonize, when available
15751 - exit if bind() fails
15752 - exit if neither socksport nor orport is defined
15753 - include our own tor_timegm (Win32 doesn't have its own)
15754 - bugfix for win32 with lots of connections
15755 - fix minor bias in PRNG
15756 - make dirserver more robust to corrupt cached directory
15759 - Wrote the design document (woo)
15761 o Circuit building and exit policies:
15762 - Circuits no longer try to use nodes that the directory has told them
15764 - Exit policies now support bitmasks (18.0.0.0/255.0.0.0) and
15765 bitcounts (18.0.0.0/8).
15766 - Make AP connections standby for a circuit if no suitable circuit
15767 exists, rather than failing
15768 - Circuits choose exit node based on addr/port, exit policies, and
15769 which AP connections are standing by
15770 - Bump min pathlen from 2 to 3
15771 - Relay end cells have a payload to describe why the stream ended.
15772 - If the stream failed because of exit policy, try again with a new
15774 - Clients have a dns cache to remember resolved addresses.
15775 - Notice more quickly when we have no working circuits
15778 - APPort is now called SocksPort
15779 - SocksBindAddress, ORBindAddress, DirBindAddress let you configure
15781 - RecommendedVersions is now a config variable rather than
15782 hardcoded (for dirservers)
15783 - Reloads config on HUP
15784 - Usage info on -h or --help
15785 - If you set User and Group config vars, it'll setu/gid to them.
15788 Changes in version 0.0.2pre13 - 2003-10-19
15789 o General stability:
15790 - SSL_write no longer fails when it returns WANTWRITE and the number
15791 of bytes in the buf has changed by the next SSL_write call.
15792 - Fix segfault fetching directory when network is down
15793 - Fix a variety of minor memory leaks
15794 - Dirservers reload the fingerprints file on HUP, so I don't have
15795 to take down the network when I approve a new router
15796 - Default server config file has explicit Address line to specify fqdn
15799 - Buffers grow and shrink as needed (Cut process size from 20M to 2M)
15800 - Make listener connections not ever alloc bufs
15802 o Autoconf improvements:
15803 - don't clobber an external CFLAGS in ./configure
15804 - Make install now works
15805 - create var/lib/tor on make install
15806 - autocreate a tor.sh initscript to help distribs
15807 - autocreate the torrc and sample-server-torrc with correct paths
15809 o Log files and Daemonizing now work:
15810 - If --DebugLogFile is specified, log to it at -l debug
15811 - If --LogFile is specified, use it instead of commandline
15812 - If --RunAsDaemon is set, tor forks and backgrounds on startup