1 This document summarizes new features and bugfixes in each stable
2 release of Tor. If you want to see more detailed descriptions of the
3 changes in each development snapshot, see the ChangeLog file.
6 Changes in version 0.4.4.5 - 2020-09-15
7 Tor 0.4.4.5 is the first stable release in the 0.4.4.x series. This
8 series improves our guard selection algorithms, adds v3 onion balance
9 support, improves the amount of code that can be disabled when running
10 without relay support, and includes numerous small bugfixes and
11 enhancements. It also lays the ground for some IPv6 features that
12 we'll be developing more in the next (0.4.5) series.
14 Per our support policy, we support each stable release series for nine
15 months after its first stable release, or three months after the first
16 stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. This means
17 that 0.4.4.x will be supported until around June 2021--or later, if
18 0.4.5.x is later than anticipated.
20 Note also that support for 0.4.2.x has just ended; support for 0.4.3
21 will continue until Feb 15, 2021. We still plan to continue supporting
22 0.3.5.x, our long-term stable series, until Feb 2022.
24 Below are the changes since 0.4.3.6-rc. For a complete list of changes
25 since 0.4.4.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
27 o Major features (Proposal 310, performance + security):
28 - Implements Proposal 310, "Bandaid on guard selection". Proposal
29 310 solves load-balancing issues with older versions of the guard
30 selection algorithm, and improves its security. Under this new
31 algorithm, a newly selected guard never becomes Primary unless all
32 previously sampled guards are unreachable. Implements
33 recommendation from 32088. (Proposal 310 is linked to the CLAPS
34 project researching optimal client location-aware path selections.
35 This project is a collaboration between the UCLouvain Crypto Group,
36 the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, and Princeton University.)
38 o Major features (fallback directory list):
39 - Replace the 148 fallback directories originally included in Tor
40 0.4.1.4-rc (of which around 105 are still functional) with a list
41 of 144 fallbacks generated in July 2020. Closes ticket 40061.
43 o Major features (IPv6, relay):
44 - Consider IPv6-only EXTEND2 cells valid on relays. Log a protocol
45 warning if the IPv4 or IPv6 address is an internal address, and
46 internal addresses are not allowed. But continue to use the other
47 address, if it is valid. Closes ticket 33817.
48 - If a relay can extend over IPv4 and IPv6, and both addresses are
49 provided, it chooses between them uniformly at random. Closes
51 - Re-use existing IPv6 connections for circuit extends. Closes
53 - Relays may extend circuits over IPv6, if the relay has an IPv6
54 ORPort, and the client supplies the other relay's IPv6 ORPort in
55 the EXTEND2 cell. IPv6 extends will be used by the relay IPv6
56 ORPort self-tests in 33222. Closes ticket 33817.
58 o Major features (v3 onion services):
59 - Allow v3 onion services to act as OnionBalance backend instances,
60 by using the HiddenServiceOnionBalanceInstance torrc option.
63 o Major bugfixes (NSS):
64 - When running with NSS enabled, make sure that NSS knows to expect
65 nonblocking sockets. Previously, we set our TCP sockets as
66 nonblocking, but did not tell NSS, which in turn could lead to
67 unexpected blocking behavior. Fixes bug 40035; bugfix
70 o Major bugfixes (onion services, DoS):
71 - Correct handling of parameters for the onion service DoS defense.
72 Previously, the consensus parameters for the onion service DoS
73 defenses were overwriting the parameters set by the service
74 operator using HiddenServiceEnableIntroDoSDefense. Fixes bug
75 40109; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
77 o Major bugfixes (stats, onion services):
78 - Fix a bug where we were undercounting the Tor network's total
79 onion service traffic, by ignoring any traffic originating from
80 clients. Now we count traffic from both clients and services.
81 Fixes bug 40117; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
83 o Minor features (security):
84 - Channels using obsolete versions of the Tor link protocol are no
85 longer allowed to circumvent address-canonicity checks. (This is
86 only a minor issue, since such channels have no way to set ed25519
87 keys, and therefore should always be rejected for circuits that
88 specify ed25519 identities.) Closes ticket 40081.
90 o Minor features (bootstrap reporting):
91 - Report more detailed reasons for bootstrap failure when the
92 failure happens due to a TLS error. Previously we would just call
93 these errors "MISC" when they happened during read, and "DONE"
94 when they happened during any other TLS operation. Closes
97 o Minor features (client-only compilation):
98 - Disable more code related to the ext_orport protocol when
99 compiling without support for relay mode. Closes ticket 33368.
100 - Disable more of our self-testing code when support for relay mode
101 is disabled. Closes ticket 33370.
102 - Most server-side DNS code is now disabled when building without
103 support for relay mode. Closes ticket 33366.
105 o Minor features (code safety):
106 - Check for failures of tor_inet_ntop() and tor_inet_ntoa()
107 functions in DNS and IP address processing code, and adjust
108 codepaths to make them less likely to crash entire Tor instances.
109 Resolves issue 33788.
111 o Minor features (continuous integration):
112 - Run unit-test and integration test (Stem, Chutney) jobs with
113 ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL macro being enabled on Travis and Appveyor.
114 Resolves ticket 32143.
116 o Minor features (control port):
117 - If a ClientName was specified in ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_ADD for an
118 onion service, display it when we use ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_VIEW.
119 Closes ticket 40089. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
120 - Return a descriptive error message from the 'GETINFO status/fresh-
121 relay-descs' command on the control port. Previously, we returned
122 a generic error of "Error generating descriptor". Closes ticket
123 32873. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
125 o Minor features (defense in depth):
126 - Wipe more data from connection address fields before returning
127 them to the memory heap. Closes ticket 6198.
129 o Minor features (denial-of-service memory limiter):
130 - Allow the user to configure even lower values for the
131 MaxMemInQueues parameter. Relays now enforce a minimum of 64 MB,
132 when previously the minimum was 256 MB. On clients, there is no
133 minimum. Relays and clients will both warn if the value is set so
134 low that Tor is likely to stop working. Closes ticket 24308.
136 o Minor features (developer tooling):
137 - Add a script to help check the alphabetical ordering of option
138 names in the manual page. Closes ticket 33339.
139 - Refrain from listing all .a files that are generated by the Tor
140 build in .gitignore. Add a single wildcard *.a entry that covers
141 all of them for present and future. Closes ticket 33642.
142 - Add a script ("git-install-tools.sh") to install git hooks and
143 helper scripts. Closes ticket 33451.
145 o Minor features (directory authority):
146 - Authorities now recommend the protocol versions that are supported
147 by Tor 0.3.5 and later. (Earlier versions of Tor have been
148 deprecated since January of this year.) This recommendation will
149 cause older clients and relays to give a warning on startup, or
150 when they download a consensus directory. Closes ticket 32696.
152 o Minor features (directory authority, shared random):
153 - Refactor more authority-only parts of the shared-random scheduling
154 code to reside in the dirauth module, and to be disabled when
155 compiling with --disable-module-dirauth. Closes ticket 33436.
157 o Minor features (directory):
158 - Remember the number of bytes we have downloaded for each directory
159 purpose while bootstrapping, and while fully bootstrapped. Log
160 this information as part of the heartbeat message. Closes
163 o Minor features (entry guards):
164 - Reinstate support for GUARD NEW/UP/DOWN control port events.
167 o Minor features (IPv6 support):
168 - Adds IPv6 support to tor_addr_is_valid(). Adds tests for the above
169 changes and tor_addr_is_null(). Closes ticket 33679. Patch
171 - Allow clients and relays to send dual-stack and IPv6-only EXTEND2
172 cells. Parse dual-stack and IPv6-only EXTEND2 cells on relays.
175 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox, portability):
176 - Allow Tor to build on platforms where it doesn't know how to
177 report which syscall caused the linux seccomp2 sandbox to fail.
178 This change should make the sandbox code more portable to less
179 common Linux architectures. Closes ticket 34382.
180 - Permit the unlinkat() syscall, which some Libc implementations use
181 to implement unlink(). Closes ticket 33346.
183 o Minor features (logging):
184 - When trying to find our own address, add debug-level logging to
185 report the sources of candidate addresses. Closes ticket 32888.
187 o Minor features (onion service client, SOCKS5):
188 - Add 3 new SocksPort ExtendedErrors (F2, F3, F7) that reports back
189 new type of onion service connection failures. The semantics of
190 these error codes are documented in proposal 309. Closes
193 o Minor features (onion service v3):
194 - If a service cannot upload its descriptor(s), log why at INFO
195 level. Closes ticket 33400; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
197 o Minor features (python scripts):
198 - Stop assuming that /usr/bin/python exists. Instead of using a
199 hardcoded path in scripts that still use Python 2, use
200 /usr/bin/env, similarly to the scripts that use Python 3. Fixes
201 bug 33192; bugfix on 0.4.2.
203 o Minor features (testing, architecture):
204 - Our test scripts now double-check that subsystem initialization
205 order is consistent with the inter-module dependencies established
206 by our .may_include files. Implements ticket 31634.
207 - Initialize all subsystems at the beginning of our unit test
208 harness, to avoid crashes due to uninitialized subsystems. Follow-
209 up from ticket 33316.
210 - Our "make check" target now runs the unit tests in 8 parallel
211 chunks. Doing this speeds up hardened CI builds by more than a
212 factor of two. Closes ticket 40098.
214 o Minor features (v3 onion services):
215 - Add v3 onion service status to the dumpstats() call which is
216 triggered by a SIGUSR1 signal. Previously, we only did v2 onion
217 services. Closes ticket 24844. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
219 o Minor features (windows):
220 - Add support for console control signals like Ctrl+C in Windows.
221 Closes ticket 34211. Patch from Damon Harris (TheDcoder).
223 o Minor bugfixes (control port, onion service):
224 - Consistently use 'address' in "Invalid v3 address" response to
225 ONION_CLIENT_AUTH commands. Previously, we would sometimes say
226 'addr'. Fixes bug 40005; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
228 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, buffers):
229 - Fix a correctness bug that could cause an assertion failure if we
230 ever tried using the buf_move_all() function with an empty input
231 buffer. As far as we know, no released versions of Tor do this.
232 Fixes bug 40076; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
234 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
235 - Directory authorities now reject votes that arrive too late. In
236 particular, once an authority has started fetching missing votes,
237 it no longer accepts new votes posted by other authorities. This
238 change helps prevent a consensus split, where only some authorities
239 have the late vote. Fixes bug 4631; bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
241 o Minor bugfixes (git scripts):
242 - Stop executing the checked-out pre-commit hook from the pre-push
243 hook. Instead, execute the copy in the user's git directory. Fixes
244 bug 33284; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
246 o Minor bugfixes (initialization):
247 - Initialize the subsystems in our code in an order more closely
248 corresponding to their dependencies, so that every system is
249 initialized before the ones that (theoretically) depend on it.
250 Fixes bug 33316; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
252 o Minor bugfixes (IPv4, relay):
253 - Check for invalid zero IPv4 addresses and ports when sending and
254 receiving extend cells. Fixes bug 33900; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
256 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, relay):
257 - Consider IPv6 addresses when checking if a connection is
258 canonical. In 17604, relays assumed that a remote relay could
259 consider an IPv6 connection canonical, but did not set the
260 canonical flag on their side of the connection. Fixes bug 33899;
261 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
262 - Log IPv6 addresses on connections where this relay is the
263 responder. Previously, responding relays would replace the remote
264 IPv6 address with the IPv4 address from the consensus. Fixes bug
265 33899; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
267 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
268 - Fix a regression on sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall. The
269 fix for bug 25440 fixed the problem on systems with glibc >= 2.27
270 but broke with versions of glibc. We now choose a rule based on
271 the glibc version. Patch from Daniel Pinto. Fixes bug 27315;
273 - Makes the seccomp sandbox allow the correct syscall for opendir
274 according to the running glibc version. This fixes crashes when
275 reloading torrc with sandbox enabled when running on glibc 2.15 to
276 2.21 and 2.26. Patch from Daniel Pinto. Fixes bug 40020; bugfix
279 o Minor bugfixes (logging, testing):
280 - Make all of tor's assertion macros support the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL
281 and DISABLE_ASSERTS_IN_UNIT_TESTS debugging modes. (IF_BUG_ONCE()
282 used to log a non-fatal warning, regardless of the debugging
283 mode.) Fixes bug 33917; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
284 - Remove surprising empty line in the INFO-level log about circuit
285 build timeout. Fixes bug 33531; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
287 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop):
288 - Better guard against growing a buffer past its maximum 2GB in
289 size. Fixes bug 33131; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc.
291 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3 client):
292 - Remove a BUG() warning that could occur naturally. Fixes bug
293 34087; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
295 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, logging):
296 - Fix a typo in a log message PublishHidServDescriptors is set to 0.
297 Fixes bug 33779; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
299 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3):
300 - Avoid a non-fatal assertion failure in certain edge-cases when
301 opening an intro circuit as a client. Fixes bug 34084; bugfix
304 o Minor bugfixes (protocol versions):
305 - Sort tor's supported protocol version lists, as recommended by the
306 tor directory specification. Fixes bug 33285; bugfix
309 o Minor bugfixes (rate limiting, bridges, pluggable transports):
310 - On a bridge, treat all connections from an ExtORPort as remote by
311 default for the purposes of rate-limiting. Previously, bridges
312 would treat the connection as local unless they explicitly
313 received a "USERADDR" command. ExtORPort connections still count
314 as local if there is a USERADDR command with an explicit local
315 address. Fixes bug 33747; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
317 o Minor bugfixes (refactoring):
318 - Lift circuit_build_times_disabled() out of the
319 circuit_expire_building() loop, to save CPU time when there are
320 many circuits open. Fixes bug 33977; bugfix on 0.3.5.9.
322 o Minor bugfixes (relay, self-testing):
323 - When starting up as a relay, if we haven't been able to verify
324 that we're reachable, only launch reachability tests at most once
325 a minute. Previously, we had been launching tests up to once a
326 second, which was needlessly noisy. Fixes bug 40083; bugfix
329 o Minor bugfixes (relay, usability):
330 - Adjust the rules for when to warn about having too many
331 connections to other relays. Previously we'd tolerate up to 1.5
332 connections per relay on average. Now we tolerate more connections
333 for directory authorities, and raise the number of total
334 connections we need to see before we warn. Fixes bug 33880; bugfix
337 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS, onion service client):
338 - Detect v3 onion service addresses of the wrong length when
339 returning the F6 ExtendedErrors code. Fixes bug 33873; bugfix
342 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
343 - Fix the behavior of the rend_cache/clean_v2_descs_as_dir when run
344 on its own. Previously, it would exit with an error. Fixes bug
345 40099; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
347 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
348 - Remove a BUG() warning that could trigger in certain unlikely
349 edge-cases. Fixes bug 34086; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
350 - Remove a BUG() that was causing a stacktrace when a descriptor
351 changed at an unexpected time. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
354 o Minor bugfixes (windows):
355 - Fix a bug that prevented Tor from starting if its log file grew
356 above 2GB. Fixes bug 31036; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
358 o Code simplification and refactoring:
359 - Define and use a new constant TOR_ADDRPORT_BUF_LEN which is like
360 TOR_ADDR_BUF_LEN but includes enough space for an IP address,
361 brackets, separating colon, and port number. Closes ticket 33956.
362 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
363 - Merge the orconn and ocirc events into the "core" subsystem, which
364 manages or connections and origin circuits. Previously they were
365 isolated in subsystems of their own.
366 - Move LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN to app/config. Resolves a dependency
367 inversion. Closes ticket 33633.
368 - Move the circuit extend code to the relay module. Split the
369 circuit extend function into smaller functions. Closes
371 - Rewrite port_parse_config() to use the default port flags from
372 port_cfg_new(). Closes ticket 32994. Patch by MrSquanchee.
373 - Updated comments in 'scheduler.c' to reflect old code changes, and
374 simplified the scheduler channel state change code. Closes
376 - Refactor configuration parsing to use the new config subsystem
377 code. Closes ticket 33014.
378 - Move a series of functions related to address resolving into their
379 own files. Closes ticket 33789.
382 - Replace most http:// URLs in our code and documentation with
383 https:// URLs. (We have left unchanged the code in src/ext/, and
384 the text in LICENSE.) Closes ticket 31812. Patch from Jeremy Rand.
385 - Document the limitations of using %include on config files with
386 seccomp sandbox enabled. Fixes documentation bug 34133; bugfix on
387 0.3.1.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
390 - Our "check-local" test target no longer tries to use the
391 Coccinelle semantic patching tool parse all the C files. While it
392 is a good idea to try to make sure Coccinelle works on our C
393 before we run a Coccinelle patch, doing so on every test run has
394 proven to be disruptive. You can still run this tool manually with
395 "make check-cocci". Closes ticket 40030.
396 - Remove the ClientAutoIPv6ORPort option. This option attempted to
397 randomly choose between IPv4 and IPv6 for client connections, and
398 wasn't a true implementation of Happy Eyeballs. Often, this option
399 failed on IPv4-only or IPv6-only connections. Closes ticket 32905.
400 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
401 - Stop shipping contrib/dist/rc.subr file, as it is not being used
402 on FreeBSD anymore. Closes issue 31576.
405 - Add a basic IPv6 test to "make test-network". This test only runs
406 when the local machine has an IPv6 stack. Closes ticket 33300.
407 - Add test-network-ipv4 and test-network-ipv6 jobs to the Makefile.
408 These jobs run the IPv4-only and dual-stack chutney flavours from
409 test-network-all. Closes ticket 33280.
410 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
411 - Run the test-network-ipv6 Makefile target in the Travis CI IPv6
412 chutney job. This job runs on macOS, so it's a bit slow. Closes
414 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed. Putting the slowest jobs
415 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
417 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
418 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
419 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
420 - Test v3 onion services to tor's mixed IPv4 chutney network. And
421 add a mixed IPv6 chutney network. These networks are used in the
422 test-network-all, test-network-ipv4, and test-network-ipv6 make
423 targets. Closes ticket 33334.
424 - Use the "bridges+hs-v23" chutney network flavour in "make test-
425 network". This test requires a recent version of chutney (mid-
426 February 2020). Closes ticket 28208.
427 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
428 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
430 o Deprecated features (onion service v2):
431 - Add a deprecation warning for version 2 onion services. Closes
434 o Documentation (manual page):
435 - Add cross reference links and a table of contents to the HTML tor
436 manual page. Closes ticket 33369. Work by Swati Thacker as part of
437 Google Season of Docs.
438 - Alphabetize the Denial of Service Mitigation Options, Directory
439 Authority Server Options, Hidden Service Options, and Testing
440 Network Options sections of the tor(1) manual page. Closes ticket
441 33275. Work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs.
442 - Refrain from mentioning nicknames in manpage section for MyFamily
443 torrc option. Resolves issue 33417.
444 - Updated the options set by TestingTorNetwork in the manual page.
448 Changes in version 0.3.5.11 - 2020-07-09
449 Tor 0.3.5.11 backports fixes from later tor releases, including several
450 usability, portability, and reliability fixes.
452 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
453 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
454 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
455 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
456 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
457 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
458 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
461 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
462 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
463 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
464 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
467 o Major bugfixes (DoS defenses, bridges, pluggable transport, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
468 - Fix a bug that was preventing DoS defenses from running on bridges
469 with a pluggable transport. Previously, the DoS subsystem was not
470 given the transport name of the client connection, thus failed to
471 find the GeoIP cache entry for that client address. Fixes bug
472 33491; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
474 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
475 - The unit tests now support a "TOR_SKIP_TESTCASES" environment
476 variable to specify a list of space-separated test cases that
477 should not be executed. We will use this to disable certain tests
478 that are failing on Appveyor because of mismatched OpenSSL
479 libraries. Part of ticket 33643.
481 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
482 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
483 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
485 o Minor bugfix (relay, configuration, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
486 - Warn if the ContactInfo field is not set, and tell the relay
487 operator that not having a ContactInfo field set might cause their
488 relay to get rejected in the future. Fixes bug 33361; bugfix
491 o Minor bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
492 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
493 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
494 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
497 o Minor bugfixes (compiler compatibility, backport from 0.4.3.5):
498 - Avoid compiler warnings from Clang 10 related to the use of GCC-
499 style "/* falls through */" comments. Both Clang and GCC allow
500 __attribute__((fallthrough)) instead, so that's what we're using
501 now. Fixes bug 34078; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
503 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
504 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
505 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
507 o Minor bugfixes (embedded Tor, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
508 - When starting Tor any time after the first time in a process,
509 register the thread in which it is running as the main thread.
510 Previously, we only did this on Windows, which could lead to bugs
511 like 23081 on non-Windows platforms. Fixes bug 32884; bugfix
514 o Minor bugfixes (key portability, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
515 - When reading PEM-encoded key data, tolerate CRLF line-endings even
516 if we are not running on Windows. Previously, non-Windows hosts
517 would reject these line-endings in certain positions, making
518 certain key files hard to move from one host to another. Fixes bug
519 33032; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
521 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
522 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
523 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
524 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
526 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
527 - Remove a BUG() warning that would cause a stack trace if an onion
528 service descriptor was freed while we were waiting for a
529 rendezvous circuit to complete. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
532 o Testing (CI, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
533 - In our Appveyor Windows CI, copy required DLLs to test and app
534 directories, before running tor's tests. This ensures that tor.exe
535 and test*.exe use the correct version of each DLL. This fix is not
536 required, but we hope it will avoid DLL search issues in future.
537 Fixes bug 33673; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
538 - On Appveyor, skip the crypto/openssl_version test, which is
539 failing because of a mismatched library installation. Fix
543 Changes in version 0.4.2.8 - 2020-07-09
544 Tor 0.4.2.8 backports various fixes from later releases, including
545 several that affect usability and portability.
547 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
548 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
549 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
550 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
551 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
552 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
553 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
556 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
557 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
558 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
559 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
562 o Major bugfixes (DoS defenses, bridges, pluggable transport, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
563 - Fix a bug that was preventing DoS defenses from running on bridges
564 with a pluggable transport. Previously, the DoS subsystem was not
565 given the transport name of the client connection, thus failed to
566 find the GeoIP cache entry for that client address. Fixes bug
567 33491; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
569 o Minor feature (sendme, flow control, backport form 0.4.3.4-rc):
570 - Default to sending SENDME version 1 cells. (Clients are already
571 sending these, because of a consensus parameter telling them to do
572 so: this change only affects what clients would do if the
573 consensus didn't contain a recommendation.) Closes ticket 33623.
575 o Minor features (diagnostic, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
576 - Improve assertions and add some memory-poisoning code to try to
577 track down possible causes of a rare crash (32564) in the EWMA
578 code. Closes ticket 33290.
580 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
581 - The unit tests now support a "TOR_SKIP_TESTCASES" environment
582 variable to specify a list of space-separated test cases that
583 should not be executed. We will use this to disable certain tests
584 that are failing on Appveyor because of mismatched OpenSSL
585 libraries. Part of ticket 33643.
587 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
588 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
589 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
591 o Minor bugfix (relay, configuration, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
592 - Warn if the ContactInfo field is not set, and tell the relay
593 operator that not having a ContactInfo field set might cause their
594 relay to get rejected in the future. Fixes bug 33361; bugfix
597 o Minor bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
598 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
599 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
600 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
603 o Minor bugfixes (compiler compatibility, backport from 0.4.3.5):
604 - Avoid compiler warnings from Clang 10 related to the use of GCC-
605 style "/* falls through */" comments. Both Clang and GCC allow
606 __attribute__((fallthrough)) instead, so that's what we're using
607 now. Fixes bug 34078; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
608 - Fix compilation warnings with GCC 10.0.1. Fixes bug 34077; bugfix
611 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
612 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
613 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
615 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
616 - When receiving "ACTIVE" or "DORMANT" signals on the control port,
617 report them as SIGNAL events. Previously we would log a bug
618 warning. Fixes bug 33104; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
620 o Minor bugfixes (embedded Tor, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
621 - When starting Tor any time after the first time in a process,
622 register the thread in which it is running as the main thread.
623 Previously, we only did this on Windows, which could lead to bugs
624 like 23081 on non-Windows platforms. Fixes bug 32884; bugfix
627 o Minor bugfixes (key portability, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
628 - When reading PEM-encoded key data, tolerate CRLF line-endings even
629 if we are not running on Windows. Previously, non-Windows hosts
630 would reject these line-endings in certain positions, making
631 certain key files hard to move from one host to another. Fixes bug
632 33032; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
634 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-rc):
635 - When logging a bug, do not say "Future instances of this warning
636 will be silenced" unless we are actually going to silence them.
637 Previously we would say this whenever a BUG() check failed in the
638 code. Fixes bug 33095; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
640 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
641 - Flush stderr, stdout, and file logs during shutdown, if supported
642 by the OS. This change helps make sure that any final logs are
643 recorded. Fixes bug 33087; bugfix on 0.4.1.6.
645 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
646 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
647 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
648 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
650 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
651 - Remove a BUG() warning that would cause a stack trace if an onion
652 service descriptor was freed while we were waiting for a
653 rendezvous circuit to complete. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
656 o Testing (CI, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
657 - In our Appveyor Windows CI, copy required DLLs to test and app
658 directories, before running tor's tests. This ensures that tor.exe
659 and test*.exe use the correct version of each DLL. This fix is not
660 required, but we hope it will avoid DLL search issues in future.
661 Fixes bug 33673; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
662 - On Appveyor, skip the crypto/openssl_version test, which is
663 failing because of a mismatched library installation. Fix
667 Changes in version 0.4.3.6 - 2020-07-09
668 Tor 0.4.3.6 backports several bugfixes from later releases, including
669 some affecting usability.
671 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
672 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
673 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
674 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
675 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
676 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
677 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
680 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
681 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
682 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
683 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
686 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
687 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
688 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
690 o Minor bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
691 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
692 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
693 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
696 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
697 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
698 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
700 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, nss, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
701 - Fix a startup crash when tor is compiled with --enable-nss and
702 sandbox support is enabled. Fixes bug 34130; bugfix on
703 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
705 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
706 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
707 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
708 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
710 o Minor bugfixes (manual page, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
711 - Update the man page to reflect that MinUptimeHidServDirectoryV2
712 defaults to 96 hours. Fixes bug 34299; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
714 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
715 - Prevent an assert() that would occur when cleaning the client
716 descriptor cache, and attempting to close circuits for a non-
717 decrypted descriptor (lacking client authorization). Fixes bug
718 33458; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
720 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
721 - Fix a portability error in the configure script, where we were
722 using "==" instead of "=". Fixes bug 34233; bugfix on 0.4.3.5.
724 o Minor bugfixes (relays, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
725 - Stop advertising incorrect IPv6 ORPorts in relay and bridge
726 descriptors, when the IPv6 port was configured as "auto". Fixes
727 bug 32588; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
729 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
730 - Fix several doxygen warnings related to imbalanced groups. Closes
734 Changes in version 0.4.3.5 - 2020-05-15
735 Tor 0.4.3.5 is the first stable release in the 0.4.3.x series. This
736 series adds support for building without relay code enabled, and
737 implements functionality needed for OnionBalance with v3 onion
738 services. It includes significant refactoring of our configuration and
739 controller functionality, and fixes numerous smaller bugs and
742 Per our support policy, we support each stable release series for nine
743 months after its first stable release, or three months after the first
744 stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. This means
745 that 0.4.3.x will be supported until around February 2021--later, if
746 0.4.4.x is later than anticipated.
748 Note also that support for 0.4.1.x is about to end on May 20 of this
749 year; 0.4.2.x will be supported until September 15. We still plan to
750 continue supporting 0.3.5.x, our long-term stable series, until
753 Below are the changes since 0.4.2.6. For a list of only the changes
754 since 0.4.3.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
756 o New system requirements:
757 - When building Tor, you now need to have Python 3 in order to run
758 the integration tests. (Python 2 is officially unsupported
759 upstream, as of 1 Jan 2020.) Closes ticket 32608.
761 o Major features (build system):
762 - The relay code can now be disabled using the --disable-module-relay
763 configure option. When this option is set, we also disable the
764 dirauth module. Closes ticket 32123.
765 - When Tor is compiled --disable-module-relay, we also omit the code
766 used to act as a directory cache. Closes ticket 32487.
768 o Major features (directory authority, ed25519):
769 - Add support for banning a relay's ed25519 keys in the approved-
770 routers file. This will help us migrate away from RSA keys in the
771 future. Previously, only RSA keys could be banned in approved-
772 routers. Resolves ticket 22029. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
774 o Major features (onion services):
775 - New control port commands to manage client-side onion service
776 authorization credentials. The ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_ADD command adds
777 a credential, ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_REMOVE deletes a credential, and
778 ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_VIEW lists the credentials. Closes ticket 30381.
779 - Introduce a new SocksPort flag, ExtendedErrors, to support more
780 detailed error codes in information for applications that support
781 them. Closes ticket 30382; implements proposal 304.
783 o Major features (proxy):
784 - In addition to its current supported proxy types (HTTP CONNECT,
785 SOCKS4, and SOCKS5), Tor can now make its OR connections through a
786 HAProxy server. A new torrc option was added to specify the
787 address/port of the server: TCPProxy <protocol> <host>:<port>.
788 Currently the only supported protocol for the option is haproxy.
789 Closes ticket 31518. Patch done by Suphanat Chunhapanya (haxxpop).
791 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service):
792 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
793 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
794 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
795 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
796 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
797 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
798 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
799 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
801 o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak):
802 - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit
803 padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit.
804 Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls.
805 This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593.
807 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
808 - Directory authorities will now send a 503 (not enough bandwidth)
809 code to clients when under bandwidth pressure. Known relays and
810 other authorities will always be answered regardless of the
811 bandwidth situation. Fixes bug 33029; bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
813 o Major bugfixes (DoS defenses, bridges, pluggable transport):
814 - Fix a bug that was preventing DoS defenses from running on bridges
815 with a pluggable transport. Previously, the DoS subsystem was not
816 given the transport name of the client connection, thus failed to
817 find the GeoIP cache entry for that client address. Fixes bug
818 33491; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
820 o Major bugfixes (networking):
821 - Correctly handle IPv6 addresses in SOCKS5 RESOLVE_PTR requests,
822 and accept strings as well as binary addresses. Fixes bug 32315;
823 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
825 o Major bugfixes (onion service):
826 - Report HS circuit failure back into the HS subsystem so we take
827 appropriate action with regards to the client introduction point
828 failure cache. This improves reachability of onion services, since
829 now clients notice failing introduction circuits properly. Fixes
830 bug 32020; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
832 o Minor feature (heartbeat, onion service):
833 - Add the DoS INTRODUCE2 defenses counter to the heartbeat DoS
834 message. Closes ticket 31371.
836 o Minor feature (sendme, flow control):
837 - Default to sending SENDME version 1 cells. (Clients are already
838 sending these, because of a consensus parameter telling them to do
839 so: this change only affects what clients would do if the
840 consensus didn't contain a recommendation.) Closes ticket 33623.
842 o Minor features (best practices tracker):
843 - Practracker now supports a --regen-overbroad option to regenerate
844 the exceptions file, but only to revise exceptions to be _less_
845 tolerant of best-practices violations. Closes ticket 32372.
847 o Minor features (configuration validation):
848 - Configuration validation can now be done by per-module callbacks,
849 rather than a global validation function. This will let us reduce
850 the size of config.c and some of its more cumbersome functions.
853 o Minor features (configuration):
854 - If a configured hardware crypto accelerator in AccelName is
855 prefixed with "!", Tor now exits when it cannot be found. Closes
857 - We now use flag-driven logic to warn about obsolete configuration
858 fields, so that we can include their names. In 0.4.2, we used a
859 special type, which prevented us from generating good warnings.
860 Implements ticket 32404.
862 o Minor features (configure, build system):
863 - Output a list of enabled/disabled features at the end of the
864 configure process in a pleasing way. Closes ticket 31373.
866 o Minor features (continuous integration):
867 - Run Doxygen Makefile target on Travis, so we can learn about
868 regressions in our internal documentation. Closes ticket 32455.
869 - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks
870 like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed.
873 o Minor features (controller):
874 - Add stream isolation data to STREAM event. Closes ticket 19859.
875 - Implement a new GETINFO command to fetch microdescriptor
876 consensus. Closes ticket 31684.
878 o Minor features (debugging, directory system):
879 - Don't crash when we find a non-guard with a guard-fraction value
880 set. Instead, log a bug warning, in an attempt to figure out how
881 this happened. Diagnostic for ticket 32868.
883 o Minor features (defense in depth):
884 - Add additional checks around tor_vasprintf() usage, in case the
885 function returns an error. Patch by Tobias Stoeckmann. Fixes
888 o Minor features (developer tools):
889 - Remove the 0.2.9.x series branches from git scripts (git-merge-
890 forward.sh, git-pull-all.sh, git-push-all.sh, git-setup-dirs.sh).
892 - Add a check_cocci_parse.sh script that checks that new code is
893 parseable by Coccinelle. Add an exceptions file for unparseable
894 files, and run the script from travis CI. Closes ticket 31919.
895 - Call the check_cocci_parse.sh script from a 'check-cocci' Makefile
896 target. Closes ticket 31919.
897 - Add a rename_c_identifiers.py tool to rename a bunch of C
898 identifiers at once, and generate a well-formed commit message
899 describing the change. This should help with refactoring. Closes
901 - Add some scripts in "scripts/coccinelle" to invoke the Coccinelle
902 semantic patching tool with the correct flags. These flags are
903 fairly easy to forget, and these scripts should help us use
904 Coccinelle more effectively in the future. Closes ticket 31705.
906 o Minor features (diagnostic):
907 - Improve assertions and add some memory-poisoning code to try to
908 track down possible causes of a rare crash (32564) in the EWMA
909 code. Closes ticket 33290.
911 o Minor features (directory authorities):
912 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors from relays running
913 Tor versions from the 0.2.9 and 0.4.0 series. The 0.3.5 series is
914 still allowed. Resolves ticket 32672. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
916 o Minor features (Doxygen):
917 - Update Doxygen configuration file to a more recent template (from
918 1.8.15). Closes ticket 32110.
919 - "make doxygen" now works with out-of-tree builds. Closes
921 - Make sure that doxygen outputs documentation for all of our C
922 files. Previously, some were missing @file declarations, causing
923 them to be ignored. Closes ticket 32307.
924 - Our "make doxygen" target now respects --enable-fatal-warnings by
925 default, and does not warn about items that are missing
926 documentation. To warn about missing documentation, run configure
927 with the "--enable-missing-doc-warnings" flag: doing so suspends
928 fatal warnings for doxygen. Closes ticket 32385.
930 o Minor features (git scripts):
931 - Add TOR_EXTRA_CLONE_ARGS to git-setup-dirs.sh for git clone
932 customisation. Closes ticket 32347.
933 - Add git-setup-dirs.sh, which sets up an upstream git repository
934 and worktrees for tor maintainers. Closes ticket 29603.
935 - Add TOR_EXTRA_REMOTE_* to git-setup-dirs.sh for a custom extra
936 remote. Closes ticket 32347.
937 - Call the check_cocci_parse.sh script from the git commit and push
938 hooks. Closes ticket 31919.
939 - Make git-push-all.sh skip unchanged branches when pushing to
940 upstream. The script already skipped unchanged test branches.
942 - Make git-setup-dirs.sh create a master symlink in the worktree
943 directory. Closes ticket 32347.
944 - Skip unmodified source files when doing some existing git hook
945 checks. Related to ticket 31919.
947 o Minor features (IPv6, client):
948 - Make Tor clients tell dual-stack exits that they prefer IPv6
949 connections. This change is equivalent to setting the PreferIPv6
950 flag on SOCKSPorts (and most other listener ports). Tor Browser
951 has been setting this flag for some time, and we want to remove a
952 client distinguisher at exits. Closes ticket 32637.
954 o Minor features (portability, android):
955 - When building for Android, disable some tests that depend on $HOME
956 and/or pwdb, which Android doesn't have. Closes ticket 32825.
957 Patch from Hans-Christoph Steiner.
959 o Minor features (relay modularity):
960 - Split the relay and server pluggable transport config code into
961 separate files in the relay module. Disable this code when the
962 relay module is disabled. Closes part of ticket 32213.
963 - When the relay module is disabled, reject attempts to set the
964 ORPort, DirPort, DirCache, BridgeRelay, ExtORPort, or
965 ServerTransport* options, rather than ignoring the values of these
966 options. Closes part of ticket 32213.
967 - When the relay module is disabled, change the default config so
968 that DirCache is 0, and ClientOnly is 1. Closes ticket 32410.
970 o Minor features (release tools):
971 - Port our ChangeLog formatting and sorting tools to Python 3.
974 o Minor features (testing):
975 - The unit tests now support a "TOR_SKIP_TESTCASES" environment
976 variable to specify a list of space-separated test cases that
977 should not be executed. We will use this to disable certain tests
978 that are failing on Appveyor because of mismatched OpenSSL
979 libraries. Part of ticket 33643.
980 - Detect some common failure cases for test_parseconf.sh in
981 src/test/conf_failures. Closes ticket 32451.
982 - Allow test_parseconf.sh to test expected log outputs for successful
983 configs, as well as failed configs. Closes ticket 32451.
984 - The test_parseconf.sh script now supports result variants for any
985 combination of the optional libraries lzma, nss, and zstd. Closes
987 - When running the unit tests on Android, create temporary files in
988 a subdirectory of /data/local/tmp. Closes ticket 32172. Based on a
989 patch from Hans-Christoph Steiner.
991 o Minor features (usability):
992 - Include more information when failing to parse a configuration
993 value. This should make it easier to tell what's going wrong when
994 a configuration file doesn't parse. Closes ticket 33460.
996 o Minor bugfix (relay, configuration):
997 - Warn if the ContactInfo field is not set, and tell the relay
998 operator that not having a ContactInfo field set might cause their
999 relay to get rejected in the future. Fixes bug 33361; bugfix
1002 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
1003 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
1004 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
1006 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
1007 - Fix "make autostyle" for out-of-tree builds. Fixes bug 32370;
1008 bugfix on 0.4.1.2-alpha.
1010 o Minor bugfixes (compiler compatibility):
1011 - Avoid compiler warnings from Clang 10 related to the use of GCC-
1012 style "/* falls through */" comments. Both Clang and GCC allow
1013 __attribute__((fallthrough)) instead, so that's what we're using
1014 now. Fixes bug 34078; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
1015 - Fix compilation warnings with GCC 10.0.1. Fixes bug 34077; bugfix
1018 o Minor bugfixes (configuration handling):
1019 - Make control_event_conf_changed() take in a config_line_t instead
1020 of a smartlist of alternating key/value entries. Fixes bug 31531;
1021 bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1022 - Check for multiplication overflow when parsing memory units inside
1023 configuration. Fixes bug 30920; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
1024 - When dumping the configuration, stop adding a trailing space after
1025 the option name when there is no option value. This issue only
1026 affects options that accept an empty value or list. (Most options
1027 reject empty values, or delete the entire line from the dumped
1028 options.) Fixes bug 32352; bugfix on 0.0.9pre6.
1029 - Avoid changing the user's value of HardwareAccel as stored by
1030 SAVECONF, when AccelName is set but HardwareAccel is not. Fixes
1031 bug 32382; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
1032 - When creating a KeyDirectory with the same location as the
1033 DataDirectory (not recommended), respect the DataDirectory's
1034 group-readable setting if one has not been set for the
1035 KeyDirectory. Fixes bug 27992; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
1037 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
1038 - Remove the buggy and unused mirroring job. Fixes bug 33213; bugfix
1041 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
1042 - When receiving "ACTIVE" or "DORMANT" signals on the control port,
1043 report them as SIGNAL events. Previously we would log a bug
1044 warning. Fixes bug 33104; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
1046 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
1047 - In routerstatus_has_changed(), check all the fields that are
1048 output over the control port. Fixes bug 20218; bugfix
1051 o Minor bugfixes (developer tools):
1052 - Allow paths starting with ./ in scripts/add_c_file.py. Fixes bug
1053 31336; bugfix on 0.4.1.2-alpha.
1055 o Minor bugfixes (dirauth module):
1056 - Split the dirauth config code into a separate file in the dirauth
1057 module. Disable this code when the dirauth module is disabled.
1058 Closes ticket 32213.
1059 - When the dirauth module is disabled, reject attempts to set the
1060 AuthoritativeDir option, rather than ignoring the value of the
1061 option. Fixes bug 32213; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
1063 o Minor bugfixes (embedded Tor):
1064 - When starting Tor any time after the first time in a process,
1065 register the thread in which it is running as the main thread.
1066 Previously, we only did this on Windows, which could lead to bugs
1067 like 23081 on non-Windows platforms. Fixes bug 32884; bugfix
1070 o Minor bugfixes (git scripts):
1071 - Avoid sleeping before the last push in git-push-all.sh. Closes
1073 - Forward all unrecognised arguments in git-push-all.sh to git push.
1074 Closes ticket 32216.
1076 o Minor bugfixes (key portability):
1077 - When reading PEM-encoded key data, tolerate CRLF line-endings even
1078 if we are not running on Windows. Previously, non-Windows hosts
1079 would reject these line-endings in certain positions, making
1080 certain key files hard to move from one host to another. Fixes bug
1081 33032; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1083 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
1084 - Stop truncating IPv6 addresses and ports in channel and connection
1085 logs. Fixes bug 33918; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
1086 - Flush stderr, stdout, and file logs during shutdown, if supported
1087 by the OS. This change helps make sure that any final logs are
1088 recorded. Fixes bug 33087; bugfix on 0.4.1.6.
1089 - Stop closing stderr and stdout during shutdown. Closing these file
1090 descriptors can hide sanitiser logs. Fixes bug 33087; bugfix
1092 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
1093 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
1094 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
1095 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
1097 - When logging a bug, do not say "Future instances of this warning
1098 will be silenced" unless we are actually going to silence them.
1099 Previously we would say this whenever a BUG() check failed in the
1100 code. Fixes bug 33095; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
1102 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v2):
1103 - Move a series of v2 onion service warnings to protocol-warning
1104 level because they can all be triggered remotely by a malformed
1105 request. Fixes bug 32706; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
1106 - When sending the INTRO cell for a v2 Onion Service, look at the
1107 failure cache alongside timeout values to check if the intro point
1108 is marked as failed. Previously, we only looked at the relay
1109 timeout values. Fixes bug 25568; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by
1112 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3):
1113 - Remove a BUG() warning that would cause a stack trace if an onion
1114 service descriptor was freed while we were waiting for a
1115 rendezvous circuit to complete. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
1117 - Relax severity of a log message that can appear naturally when
1118 decoding onion service descriptors as a relay. Also add some
1119 diagnostics to debug any future bugs in that area. Fixes bug
1120 31669; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
1121 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
1122 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
1123 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
1125 - Properly handle the client rendezvous circuit timeout. Previously
1126 Tor would sometimes timeout a rendezvous circuit awaiting the
1127 introduction ACK, and find itself unable to re-establish all
1128 circuits because the rendezvous circuit timed out too early. Fixes
1129 bug 32021; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1131 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
1132 - Do not rely on a "circuit established" flag for intro circuits but
1133 instead always query the HS circuit map. This is to avoid sync
1134 issue with that flag and the map. Fixes bug 32094; bugfix
1137 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, all):
1138 - In cancel_descriptor_fetches(), use
1139 connection_list_by_type_purpose() instead of
1140 connection_list_by_type_state(). Fixes bug 32639; bugfix on
1141 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1143 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
1144 - When receiving a message on standard error from a pluggable
1145 transport, log it at info level, rather than as a warning. Fixes
1146 bug 33005; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
1148 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build):
1149 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
1150 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
1151 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1153 o Minor bugfixes (scripts):
1154 - Fix update_versions.py for out-of-tree builds. Fixes bug 32371;
1155 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
1157 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
1158 - Use the same code to find the tor binary in all of our test
1159 scripts. This change makes sure we are always using the coverage
1160 binary when coverage is enabled. Fixes bug 32368; bugfix
1162 - Stop ignoring "tor --dump-config" errors in test_parseconf.sh.
1163 Fixes bug 32468; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
1164 - Our option-validation tests no longer depend on specially
1165 configured non-default, non-passing sets of options. Previously,
1166 the tests had been written to assume that options would _not_ be
1167 set to their defaults, which led to needless complexity and
1168 verbosity. Fixes bug 32175; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
1170 o Minor bugfixes (TLS bug handling):
1171 - When encountering a bug in buf_read_from_tls(), return a "MISC"
1172 error code rather than "WANTWRITE". This change might help avoid
1173 some CPU-wasting loops if the bug is ever triggered. Bug reported
1174 by opara. Fixes bug 32673; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-alpha.
1176 o Deprecated features:
1177 - Deprecate the ClientAutoIPv6ORPort option. This option was not
1178 true "Happy Eyeballs", and often failed on connections that
1179 weren't reliably dual-stack. Closes ticket 32942. Patch by
1183 - Provide a quickstart guide for a Circuit Padding Framework, and
1184 documentation for researchers to implement and study circuit
1185 padding machines. Closes ticket 28804.
1186 - Add documentation in 'HelpfulTools.md' to describe how to build a
1187 tag file. Closes ticket 32779.
1188 - Create a high-level description of the long-term software
1189 architecture goals. Closes ticket 32206.
1190 - Describe the --dump-config command in the manual page. Closes
1192 - Unite coding advice from this_not_that.md in torguts repo into our
1193 coding standards document. Resolves ticket 31853.
1196 - Our Doxygen configuration no longer generates LaTeX output. The
1197 reference manual produced by doing this was over 4000 pages long,
1198 and generally unusable. Closes ticket 32099.
1199 - The option "TestingEstimatedDescriptorPropagationTime" is now
1200 marked as obsolete. It has had no effect since 0.3.0.7, when
1201 clients stopped rejecting consensuses "from the future". Closes
1203 - We no longer support consensus methods before method 28; these
1204 methods were only used by authorities running versions of Tor that
1205 are now at end-of-life. In effect, this means that clients,
1206 relays, and authorities now assume that authorities will be
1207 running version 0.3.5.x or later. Closes ticket 32695.
1210 - Avoid conflicts between the fake sockets in tor's unit tests, and
1211 real file descriptors. Resolves issues running unit tests with
1212 GitHub Actions, where the process that embeds or launches the
1213 tests has already opened a large number of file descriptors. Fixes
1214 bug 33782; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Found and fixed by
1216 - Add more test cases for tor's UTF-8 validation function. Also,
1217 check the arguments passed to the function for consistency. Closes
1219 - Improve test coverage for relay and dirauth config code, focusing
1220 on option validation and normalization. Closes ticket 32213.
1221 - Improve the consistency of test_parseconf.sh output, and run all
1222 the tests, even if one fails. Closes ticket 32213.
1223 - Run the practracker unit tests in the pre-commit git hook. Closes
1226 o Code simplification and refactoring (channel):
1227 - Channel layer had a variable length cell handler that was not used
1228 and thus removed. Closes ticket 32892.
1230 o Code simplification and refactoring (configuration):
1231 - Immutability is now implemented as a flag on individual
1232 configuration options rather than as part of the option-transition
1233 checking code. Closes ticket 32344.
1234 - Instead of keeping a list of configuration options to check for
1235 relative paths, check all the options whose type is "FILENAME".
1236 Solves part of ticket 32339.
1237 - Our default log (which ordinarily sends NOTICE-level messages to
1238 standard output) is now handled in a more logical manner.
1239 Previously, we replaced the configured log options if they were
1240 empty. Now, we interpret an empty set of log options as meaning
1241 "use the default log". Closes ticket 31999.
1242 - Remove some unused arguments from the options_validate() function,
1243 to simplify our code and tests. Closes ticket 32187.
1244 - Simplify the options_validate() code so that it looks at the
1245 default options directly, rather than taking default options as an
1246 argument. This change lets us simplify its interface. Closes
1248 - Use our new configuration architecture to move most authority-
1249 related options to the directory authority module. Closes
1251 - When parsing the command line, handle options that determine our
1252 "quiet level" and our mode of operation (e.g., --dump-config and
1253 so on) all in one table. Closes ticket 32003.
1255 o Code simplification and refactoring (controller):
1256 - Create a new abstraction for formatting control protocol reply
1257 lines based on key-value pairs. Refactor some existing control
1258 protocol code to take advantage of this. Closes ticket 30984.
1259 - Create a helper function that can fetch network status or
1260 microdesc consensuses. Closes ticket 31684.
1262 o Code simplification and refactoring (dirauth modularization):
1263 - Remove the last remaining HAVE_MODULE_DIRAUTH inside a function.
1264 Closes ticket 32163.
1265 - Replace some confusing identifiers in process_descs.c. Closes
1267 - Simplify some relay and dirauth config code. Closes ticket 32213.
1269 o Code simplification and refactoring (mainloop):
1270 - Simplify the ip_address_changed() function by removing redundant
1271 checks. Closes ticket 33091.
1273 o Code simplification and refactoring (misc):
1274 - Make all the structs we declare follow the same naming convention
1275 of ending with "_t". Closes ticket 32415.
1276 - Move and rename some configuration-related code for clarity.
1277 Closes ticket 32304.
1278 - Our include.am files are now broken up by subdirectory.
1279 Previously, src/core/include.am covered all of the subdirectories
1280 in "core", "feature", and "app". Closes ticket 32137.
1281 - Remove underused NS*() macros from test code: they make our tests
1282 more confusing, especially for code-formatting tools. Closes
1285 o Code simplification and refactoring (relay modularization):
1286 - Disable relay_periodic when the relay module is disabled. Closes
1288 - Disable relay_sys when the relay module is disabled. Closes
1291 o Code simplification and refactoring (tool support):
1292 - Add numerous missing dependencies to our include files, so that
1293 they can be included in different reasonable orders and still
1294 compile. Addresses part of ticket 32764.
1295 - Fix some parts of our code that were difficult for Coccinelle to
1296 parse. Related to ticket 31705.
1297 - Fix some small issues in our code that prevented automatic
1298 formatting tools from working. Addresses part of ticket 32764.
1300 o Documentation (manpage):
1301 - Alphabetize the Server and Directory server sections of the tor
1302 manpage. Also split Statistics options into their own section of
1303 the manpage. Closes ticket 33188. Work by Swati Thacker as part of
1304 Google Season of Docs.
1305 - Document the __OwningControllerProcess torrc option and specify
1306 its polling interval. Resolves issue 32971.
1307 - Split "Circuit Timeout" options and "Node Selection" options into
1308 their own sections of the tor manpage. Closes tickets 32928 and
1309 32929. Work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs.
1310 - Alphabetize the Client Options section of the tor manpage. Closes
1312 - Alphabetize the General Options section of the tor manpage. Closes
1314 - In the tor(1) manpage, reword and improve formatting of the
1315 COMMAND-LINE OPTIONS and DESCRIPTION sections. Closes ticket
1316 32277. Based on work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season
1318 - In the tor(1) manpage, reword and improve formatting of the FILES,
1319 SEE ALSO, and BUGS sections. Closes ticket 32176. Based on work by
1320 Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs.
1322 o Testing (Appveyor CI):
1323 - In our Appveyor Windows CI, copy required DLLs to test and app
1324 directories, before running tor's tests. This ensures that tor.exe
1325 and test*.exe use the correct version of each DLL. This fix is not
1326 required, but we hope it will avoid DLL search issues in future.
1327 Fixes bug 33673; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
1328 - On Appveyor, skip the crypto/openssl_version test, which is
1329 failing because of a mismatched library installation. Fix
1332 o Testing (circuit, EWMA):
1333 - Add unit tests for circuitmux and EWMA subsystems. Closes
1336 o Testing (Travis CI):
1337 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
1338 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
1339 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
1341 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
1342 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
1343 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
1344 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
1345 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
1348 Changes in version 0.4.2.7 - 2020-03-18
1349 This is the third stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. It backports
1350 numerous fixes from later releases, including a fix for TROVE-2020-
1351 002, a major denial-of-service vulnerability that affected all
1352 released Tor instances since 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this vulnerability,
1353 an attacker could cause Tor instances to consume a huge amount of CPU,
1354 disrupting their operations for several seconds or minutes. This
1355 attack could be launched by anybody against a relay, or by a directory
1356 cache against any client that had connected to it. The attacker could
1357 launch this attack as much as they wanted, thereby disrupting service
1358 or creating patterns that could aid in traffic analysis. This issue
1359 was found by OSS-Fuzz, and is also tracked as CVE-2020-10592.
1361 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
1362 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
1363 as soon as packages are available.
1365 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
1366 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
1367 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
1368 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
1369 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
1370 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
1371 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
1372 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
1373 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
1375 o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
1376 - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit
1377 padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit.
1378 Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls.
1379 This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593.
1381 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
1382 - Directory authorities will now send a 503 (not enough bandwidth)
1383 code to clients when under bandwidth pressure. Known relays and
1384 other authorities will always be answered regardless of the
1385 bandwidth situation. Fixes bug 33029; bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
1387 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
1388 - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks
1389 like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed.
1390 Closes ticket 33075.
1392 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
1393 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
1394 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
1396 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
1397 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
1398 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
1399 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
1400 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
1403 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
1404 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
1405 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
1406 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
1409 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
1410 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
1411 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
1412 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1414 o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
1415 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
1416 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
1417 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
1419 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
1420 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
1421 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
1422 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
1423 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
1426 Changes in version 0.4.1.9 - 2020-03-18
1427 Tor 0.4.1.9 backports important fixes from later Tor releases,
1428 including a fix for TROVE-2020-002, a major denial-of-service
1429 vulnerability that affected all released Tor instances since
1430 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause Tor
1431 instances to consume a huge amount of CPU, disrupting their operations
1432 for several seconds or minutes. This attack could be launched by
1433 anybody against a relay, or by a directory cache against any client
1434 that had connected to it. The attacker could launch this attack as
1435 much as they wanted, thereby disrupting service or creating patterns
1436 that could aid in traffic analysis. This issue was found by OSS-Fuzz,
1437 and is also tracked as CVE-2020-10592.
1439 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
1440 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
1441 as soon as packages are available.
1443 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
1444 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
1445 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
1446 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
1447 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
1448 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
1449 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
1450 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
1451 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
1453 o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
1454 - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit
1455 padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit.
1456 Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls.
1457 This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593.
1459 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
1460 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
1461 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
1463 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
1464 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
1465 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
1466 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
1467 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
1470 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
1471 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
1472 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
1473 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
1476 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
1477 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
1478 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
1479 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1481 o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
1482 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
1483 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
1484 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
1486 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
1487 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
1488 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
1489 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
1490 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
1493 Changes in version 0.3.5.10 - 2020-03-18
1494 Tor 0.3.5.10 backports many fixes from later Tor releases, including a
1495 fix for TROVE-2020-002, a major denial-of-service vulnerability that
1496 affected all released Tor instances since 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this
1497 vulnerability, an attacker could cause Tor instances to consume a huge
1498 amount of CPU, disrupting their operations for several seconds or
1499 minutes. This attack could be launched by anybody against a relay, or
1500 by a directory cache against any client that had connected to it. The
1501 attacker could launch this attack as much as they wanted, thereby
1502 disrupting service or creating patterns that could aid in traffic
1503 analysis. This issue was found by OSS-Fuzz, and is also tracked
1506 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
1507 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
1508 as soon as packages are available.
1510 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
1511 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
1512 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
1513 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
1514 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
1515 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
1516 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
1517 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
1518 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
1520 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
1521 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
1522 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
1523 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
1524 libseccomp <2.4.0 this lead to some rules having no effect.
1525 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
1526 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
1527 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
1530 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
1531 - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks
1532 like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed.
1533 Closes ticket 33075.
1535 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
1536 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
1537 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
1539 o Minor bugfixes (crash, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
1540 - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or
1541 --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing
1542 if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407;
1543 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
1545 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
1546 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
1547 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
1548 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
1549 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
1552 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
1553 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
1554 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
1555 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
1558 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
1559 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
1560 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
1561 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1563 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
1564 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
1565 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
1566 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
1567 Closes ticket 32629.
1568 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
1569 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
1570 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
1572 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
1573 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
1575 o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
1576 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
1577 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
1578 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
1580 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
1581 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
1582 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
1583 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
1586 Changes in version 0.4.2.6 - 2020-01-30
1587 This is the second stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. It backports
1588 several bugfixes from 0.4.3.1-alpha, including some that had affected
1589 the Linux seccomp2 sandbox or Windows services. If you're running with
1590 one of those configurations, you'll probably want to upgrade;
1591 otherwise, you should be fine with 0.4.2.5.
1593 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
1594 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
1595 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
1596 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
1597 libseccomp <2.4.0 this led to some rules having no effect.
1598 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
1599 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
1600 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
1602 - Fix crash when reloading logging configuration while the
1603 experimental sandbox is enabled. Fixes bug 32841; bugfix on
1604 0.4.1.7. Patch by Peter Gerber.
1606 o Minor bugfixes (correctness checks, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
1607 - Use GCC/Clang's printf-checking feature to make sure that
1608 tor_assertf() arguments are correctly typed. Fixes bug 32765;
1609 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
1611 o Minor bugfixes (logging, crash, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
1612 - Avoid a possible crash when trying to log a (fatal) assertion
1613 failure about mismatched magic numbers in configuration objects.
1614 Fixes bug 32771; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
1616 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
1617 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, do not apply it to the
1618 test_practracker.sh script. Doing so caused a test failure. Fixes
1619 bug 32705; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
1620 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, log a notice to stderr when
1621 skipping practracker checks. Fixes bug 32705; bugfix
1624 o Minor bugfixes (windows service, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
1625 - Initialize the publish/subscribe system when running as a windows
1626 service. Fixes bug 32778; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
1628 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
1629 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
1630 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
1631 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
1632 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
1633 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
1634 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
1635 Closes ticket 32629.
1637 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
1638 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
1641 Changes in version 0.4.1.8 - 2020-01-30
1642 This release backports several bugfixes from later release series,
1643 including some that had affected the Linux seccomp2 sandbox or Windows
1644 services. If you're running with one of those configurations, you'll
1645 probably want to upgrade; otherwise, you should be fine with your
1646 current version of 0.4.1.x.
1648 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
1649 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
1650 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
1651 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
1652 libseccomp <2.4.0 this led to some rules having no effect.
1653 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
1654 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
1655 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
1657 - Fix crash when reloading logging configuration while the
1658 experimental sandbox is enabled. Fixes bug 32841; bugfix on
1659 0.4.1.7. Patch by Peter Gerber.
1661 o Minor bugfixes (crash, backport form 0.4.2.4-rc):
1662 - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or
1663 --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing
1664 if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407;
1665 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
1667 o Minor bugfixes (windows service, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
1668 - Initialize the publish/subscribe system when running as a windows
1669 service. Fixes bug 32778; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
1671 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
1672 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
1673 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
1674 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
1675 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
1676 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
1677 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
1678 Closes ticket 32629.
1680 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
1681 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
1684 Changes in version 0.4.2.5 - 2019-12-09
1685 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. This series
1686 improves reliability and stability, and includes several stability and
1687 correctness improvements for onion services. It also fixes many smaller
1688 bugs present in previous series.
1690 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.2.x series for nine
1691 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.3.x:
1692 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
1693 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
1695 Below are the changes since 0.4.1.4-rc. For a complete list of only
1696 the changes since 0.4.2.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
1698 o Major features (directory authorities):
1699 - Directory authorities now reject relays running all currently
1700 deprecated release series. The currently supported release series
1701 are: 0.2.9, 0.3.5, 0.4.0, 0.4.1, and 0.4.2. Closes ticket 31549.
1703 o Major features (onion service v3, denial of service):
1704 - Add onion service introduction denial of service defenses. Intro
1705 points can now rate-limit client introduction requests, using
1706 parameters that can be sent by the service within the
1707 ESTABLISH_INTRO cell. If the cell extension for this is not used,
1708 the intro point will honor the consensus parameters. Closes
1711 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard):
1712 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
1713 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close.
1714 Previously we could end up in the situation where a subsystem is
1715 notified of a circuit opening, but the circuit is still marked for
1716 close, leading to undesirable behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix
1719 o Major bugfixes (crash, Linux, Android):
1720 - Tolerate systems (including some Android installations) where
1721 madvise and MADV_DONTDUMP are available at build-time, but not at
1722 run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed syscall
1723 and abort. Fixes bug 31570; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
1724 - Tolerate systems (including some Linux installations) where
1725 madvise and/or MADV_DONTFORK are available at build-time, but not
1726 at run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed
1727 syscall and abort. Fixes bug 31696; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
1729 o Major bugfixes (embedded Tor):
1730 - Avoid a possible crash when restarting Tor in embedded mode and
1731 enabling a different set of publish/subscribe messages. Fixes bug
1732 31898; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
1734 o Major bugfixes (relay):
1735 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
1736 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
1737 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
1738 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
1739 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
1740 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
1741 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
1743 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing):
1744 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
1745 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
1746 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
1747 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1749 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services):
1750 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
1751 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
1752 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
1753 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
1756 o Minor feature (onion services, control port):
1757 - The ADD_ONION command's keyword "BEST" now defaults to ED25519-V3
1758 (v3) onion services. Previously it defaulted to RSA1024 (v2).
1759 Closes ticket 29669.
1761 o Minor features (auto-formatting scripts):
1762 - When annotating C macros, never generate a line that our check-
1763 spaces script would reject. Closes ticket 31759.
1764 - When annotating C macros, try to remove cases of double-negation.
1765 Closes ticket 31779.
1767 o Minor features (best practices tracker):
1768 - Our best-practices tracker now integrates with our include-checker
1769 tool to keep track of how many layering violations we have not yet
1770 fixed. We hope to reduce this number over time to improve Tor's
1771 modularity. Closes ticket 31176.
1772 - Add a TOR_PRACTRACKER_OPTIONS variable for passing arguments to
1773 practracker from the environment. We may want this for continuous
1774 integration. Closes ticket 31309.
1775 - Give a warning rather than an error when a practracker exception
1776 is violated by a small amount, add a --list-overbroad option to
1777 practracker that lists exceptions that are stricter than they need
1778 to be, and provide an environment variable for disabling
1779 practracker. Closes ticket 30752.
1780 - Our best-practices tracker now looks at headers as well as C
1781 files. Closes ticket 31175.
1783 o Minor features (build system):
1784 - Make pkg-config use --prefix when cross-compiling, if
1785 PKG_CONFIG_PATH is not set. Closes ticket 32191.
1786 - Add --disable-manpage and --disable-html-manual options to
1787 configure script. This will enable shortening build times by not
1788 building documentation. Resolves issue 19381.
1790 o Minor features (compilation):
1791 - Log a more useful error message when we are compiling and one of
1792 the compile-time hardening options we have selected can be linked
1793 but not executed. Closes ticket 27530.
1795 o Minor features (configuration):
1796 - The configuration code has been extended to allow splitting
1797 configuration data across multiple objects. Previously, all
1798 configuration data needed to be kept in a single object, which
1799 tended to become bloated. Closes ticket 31240.
1801 o Minor features (continuous integration):
1802 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
1803 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
1804 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
1805 - When running CI builds on Travis, put some random data in
1806 ~/.torrc, to make sure no tests are reading the Tor configuration
1807 file from its default location. Resolves issue 30102.
1809 o Minor features (debugging):
1810 - Log a nonfatal assertion failure if we encounter a configuration
1811 line whose command is "CLEAR" but which has a nonempty value. This
1812 should be impossible, according to the rules of our configuration
1813 line parsing. Closes ticket 31529.
1815 o Minor features (geoip):
1816 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
1817 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
1819 o Minor features (git hooks):
1820 - Our pre-commit git hook now checks for a special file before
1821 running practracker, so that practracker only runs on branches
1822 that are based on master. Since the pre-push hook calls the pre-
1823 commit hook, practracker will also only run before pushes of
1824 branches based on master. Closes ticket 30979.
1826 o Minor features (git scripts):
1827 - Add a "--" command-line argument, to separate git-push-all.sh
1828 script arguments from arguments that are passed through to git
1829 push. Closes ticket 31314.
1830 - Add a -r <remote-name> argument to git-push-all.sh, so the script
1831 can push test branches to a personal remote. Closes ticket 31314.
1832 - Add a -t <test-branch-prefix> argument to git-merge-forward.sh and
1833 git-push-all.sh, which makes these scripts create, merge forward,
1834 and push test branches. Closes ticket 31314.
1835 - Add a -u argument to git-merge-forward.sh, so that the script can
1836 re-use existing test branches after a merge failure and fix.
1837 Closes ticket 31314.
1838 - Add a TOR_GIT_PUSH env var, which sets the default git push
1839 command and arguments for git-push-all.sh. Closes ticket 31314.
1840 - Add a TOR_PUSH_DELAY variable to git-push-all.sh, which makes the
1841 script push master and maint branches with a delay between each
1842 branch. These delays trigger the CI jobs in a set order, which
1843 should show the most likely failures first. Also make pushes
1844 atomic by default, and make the script pass any command-line
1845 arguments to git push. Closes ticket 29879.
1846 - Call the shellcheck script from the pre-commit hook. Closes
1848 - Skip pushing test branches that are the same as a remote
1849 maint/release/master branch in git-push-all.sh by default. Add a
1850 -s argument, so git-push-all.sh can push all test branches. Closes
1853 o Minor features (IPv6, logging):
1854 - Log IPv6 addresses as well as IPv4 addresses when describing
1855 routerinfos, routerstatuses, and nodes. Closes ticket 21003.
1857 o Minor features (maintenance scripts):
1858 - Add a Coccinelle script to detect bugs caused by incrementing or
1859 decrementing a variable inside a call to log_debug(). Since
1860 log_debug() is a macro whose arguments are conditionally
1861 evaluated, it is usually an error to do this. One such bug was
1862 30628, in which SENDME cells were miscounted by a decrement
1863 operator inside a log_debug() call. Closes ticket 30743.
1865 o Minor features (onion service v3):
1866 - Do not allow single hop clients to fetch or post an HS descriptor
1867 from an HSDir. Closes ticket 24964.
1869 o Minor features (onion service):
1870 - Disallow single-hop clients at the introduction point. We've
1871 removed Tor2web support a while back and single-hop rendezvous
1872 attempts are blocked at the relays. This change should remove load
1873 off the network from spammy clients. Close ticket 24963.
1875 o Minor features (onion services v3):
1876 - Assist users who try to setup v2 client authorization in v3 onion
1877 services by pointing them to the right documentation. Closes
1880 o Minor features (stem tests):
1881 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
1882 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
1885 o Minor features (testing):
1886 - When running tests that attempt to look up hostnames, replace the
1887 libc name lookup functions with ones that do not actually touch
1888 the network. This way, the tests complete more quickly in the
1889 presence of a slow or missing DNS resolver. Closes ticket 31841.
1890 - Add a script to invoke "tor --dump-config" and "tor
1891 --verify-config" with various configuration options, and see
1892 whether tor's resulting configuration or error messages are what
1893 we expect. Use it for integration testing of our +Option and
1894 /Option flags. Closes ticket 31637.
1895 - Improve test coverage for our existing configuration parsing and
1896 management API. Closes ticket 30893.
1897 - Add integration tests to make sure that practracker gives the
1898 outputs we expect. Closes ticket 31477.
1899 - The practracker self-tests are now run as part of the Tor test
1900 suite. Closes ticket 31304.
1902 o Minor features (testing, continuous integration):
1903 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
1904 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
1905 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
1907 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
1908 Closes ticket 31859.
1909 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
1910 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
1912 o Minor features (token bucket):
1913 - Implement a generic token bucket that uses a single counter, for
1914 use in anti-DoS onion service work. Closes ticket 30687.
1916 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor continuous integration):
1917 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install
1918 step. Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
1920 o Minor bugfixes (best practices tracker):
1921 - Fix a few issues in the best-practices script, including tests,
1922 tab tolerance, error reporting, and directory-exclusion logic.
1923 Fixes bug 29746; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
1924 - When running check-best-practices, only consider files in the src
1925 subdirectory. Previously we had recursively considered all
1926 subdirectories, which made us get confused by the temporary
1927 directories made by "make distcheck". Fixes bug 31578; bugfix
1930 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
1931 - Interpret "--disable-module-dirauth=no" correctly. Fixes bug
1932 32124; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
1933 - Interpret "--with-tcmalloc=no" correctly. Fixes bug 32124; bugfix
1935 - Stop failing when jemalloc is requested, but tcmalloc is not
1936 found. Fixes bug 32124; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1937 - When pkg-config is not installed, or a library that depends on
1938 pkg-config is not found, tell the user what to do to fix the
1939 problem. Fixes bug 31922; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1940 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
1941 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
1943 o Minor bugfixes (chutney, makefiles, documentation):
1944 - "make test-network-all" now shows the warnings from each test-
1945 network.sh run on the console, so developers see new warnings
1946 early. We've also improved the documentation for this feature, and
1947 renamed a Makefile variable so the code is self-documenting. Fixes
1948 bug 30455; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc.
1950 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3):
1951 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
1952 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
1953 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
1954 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
1955 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1957 o Minor bugfixes (code quality):
1958 - Fix "make check-includes" so it runs correctly on out-of-tree
1959 builds. Fixes bug 31335; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1961 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1962 - Add more stub functions to fix compilation on Android with link-
1963 time optimization when --disable-module-dirauth is used.
1964 Previously, these compilation settings would make the compiler
1965 look for functions that didn't exist. Fixes bug 31552; bugfix
1967 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
1968 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
1969 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
1971 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
1972 - Invalid floating-point values in the configuration file are now
1973 treated as errors in the configuration. Previously, they were
1974 ignored and treated as zero. Fixes bug 31475; bugfix on 0.0.1.
1976 o Minor bugfixes (connections):
1977 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
1978 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
1979 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
1981 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
1982 - Fix the MAPADDRESS controller command to accept one or more
1983 arguments. Previously, it required two or more arguments, and
1984 ignored the first. Fixes bug 31772; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
1986 o Minor bugfixes (coverity):
1987 - Add an assertion when parsing a BEGIN cell so that coverity can be
1988 sure that we are not about to dereference a NULL address. Fixes
1989 bug 31026; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. This is CID 1447296.
1990 - In our siphash implementation, when building for coverity, use
1991 memcpy in place of a switch statement, so that coverity can tell
1992 we are not accessing out-of-bounds memory. Fixes bug 31025; bugfix
1993 on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This is tracked as CID 1447293 and 1447295.
1994 - Fix several coverity warnings from our unit tests. Fixes bug
1995 31030; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha, 0.3.2.1-alpha, and 0.4.0.1-alpha.
1997 o Minor bugfixes (crash):
1998 - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or
1999 --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing
2000 if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407;
2001 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2003 o Minor bugfixes (developer tooling):
2004 - Only log git script changes in the post-merge script when the
2005 merge was to the master branch. Fixes bug 31040; bugfix
2008 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
2009 - Return a distinct status when formatting annotations fails. Fixes
2010 bug 30780; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
2012 o Minor bugfixes (error handling):
2013 - Always lock the backtrace buffer before it is used. Fixes bug
2014 31734; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
2015 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
2016 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
2017 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2018 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
2019 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
2020 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2021 - When tor aborts due to an error, close log file descriptors before
2022 aborting. Closing the logs makes some OSes flush log file buffers,
2023 rather than deleting buffered log lines. Fixes bug 31594; bugfix
2026 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6):
2027 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
2028 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
2029 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
2032 o Minor bugfixes (git hooks):
2033 - Remove a duplicate call to practracker from the pre-push hook. The
2034 pre-push hook already calls the pre-commit hook, which calls
2035 practracker. Fixes bug 31462; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2037 o Minor bugfixes (git scripts):
2038 - Stop hard-coding the bash path in the git scripts. Some OSes don't
2039 have bash in /usr/bin, others have an ancient bash at this path.
2040 Fixes bug 30840; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
2041 - Stop hard-coding the tor master branch name and worktree path in
2042 the git scripts. Fixes bug 30841; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
2043 - Allow git-push-all.sh to be run from any directory. Previously,
2044 the script only worked if run from an upstream worktree directory.
2045 Closes ticket 31678.
2047 o Minor bugfixes (guards):
2048 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
2049 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
2050 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
2051 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2053 o Minor bugfixes (ipv6):
2054 - Check for private IPv6 addresses alongside their IPv4 equivalents
2055 when authorities check descriptors. Previously, we only checked
2056 for private IPv4 addresses. Fixes bug 31088; bugfix on
2057 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2058 - When parsing microdescriptors, we should check the IPv6 exit
2059 policy alongside IPv4. Previously, we checked both exit policies
2060 for only router info structures, while microdescriptors were
2061 IPv4-only. Fixes bug 27284; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by
2064 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
2065 - Add a missing check for HAVE_PTHREAD_H, because the backtrace code
2066 uses mutexes. Fixes bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
2067 - Disable backtrace signal handlers when shutting down tor. Fixes
2068 bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
2069 - Rate-limit our the logging message about the obsolete .exit
2070 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
2071 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
2072 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
2073 - When initialising log domain masks, only set known log domains.
2074 Fixes bug 31854; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
2075 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
2076 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
2078 - Fix a code issue that would have broken our parsing of log domains
2079 as soon as we had 33 of them. Fortunately, we still only have 29.
2080 Fixes bug 31451; bugfix on 0.4.1.4-rc.
2082 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations):
2083 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
2084 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
2085 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
2087 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API):
2088 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
2089 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
2090 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
2091 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
2094 o Minor bugfixes (memory management):
2095 - Stop leaking a small amount of memory in nt_service_install(), in
2096 unreachable code. Fixes bug 30799; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Patch
2099 o Minor bugfixes (modules):
2100 - Explain what the optional Directory Authority module is, and what
2101 happens when it is disabled. Fixes bug 31825; bugfix
2104 o Minor bugfixes (multithreading):
2105 - Avoid some undefined behaviour when freeing mutexes. Fixes bug
2106 31736; bugfix on 0.0.7.
2108 o Minor bugfixes (networking, IP addresses):
2109 - When parsing addresses via Tor's internal DNS lookup API, reject
2110 IPv4 addresses in square brackets, and accept IPv6 addresses in
2111 square brackets. This change completes the work started in 23082,
2112 making address parsing consistent between tor's internal DNS
2113 lookup and address parsing APIs. Fixes bug 30721; bugfix
2115 - When parsing addresses via Tor's internal address:port parsing and
2116 DNS lookup APIs, require IPv6 addresses with ports to have square
2117 brackets. But allow IPv6 addresses without ports, whether or not
2118 they have square brackets. Fixes bug 30721; bugfix
2121 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
2122 - When purging the client descriptor cache, close any introduction
2123 point circuits associated with purged cache entries. This avoids
2124 picking those circuits later when connecting to the same
2125 introduction points. Fixes bug 30921; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2127 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
2128 - In the hs_ident_circuit_t data structure, remove the unused field
2129 circuit_type and the respective argument in hs_ident_circuit_new().
2130 This field was set by clients (for introduction) and services (for
2131 introduction and rendezvous) but was never used afterwards. Fixes
2132 bug 31490; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2134 o Minor bugfixes (operator tools):
2135 - Make tor-print-ed-signing-cert(1) print certificate expiration
2136 date in RFC 1123 and UNIX timestamp formats, to make output
2137 machine readable. Fixes bug 31012; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2139 o Minor bugfixes (process management):
2140 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
2141 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
2143 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
2144 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
2145 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
2147 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
2148 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
2149 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
2150 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
2152 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
2153 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
2154 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
2155 - Raise the minimum rustc version to 1.31.0, as checked by configure
2156 and CI. Fixes bug 31442; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
2158 o Minor bugfixes (sendme, code structure):
2159 - Rename the trunnel SENDME file definition from sendme.trunnel to
2160 sendme_cell.trunnel to avoid having twice sendme.{c|h} in the
2161 repository. Fixes bug 30769; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2163 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
2164 - Stop removing the ed25519 signature if the extra info file is too
2165 big. If the signature data was removed, but the keyword was kept,
2166 this could result in an unparseable extra info file. Fixes bug
2167 30958; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
2169 o Minor bugfixes (subsystems):
2170 - Make the subsystem init order match the subsystem module
2171 dependencies. Call windows process security APIs as early as
2172 possible. Initialize logging before network and time, so that
2173 network and time can use logging. Fixes bug 31615; bugfix
2176 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
2177 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
2178 inconsistent timing sources. Fixes bug 31995; bugfix
2180 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
2181 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
2182 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
2183 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2184 - Teach the util/socketpair_ersatz test to work correctly when we
2185 have no network stack configured. Fixes bug 30804; bugfix
2188 o Minor bugfixes (tests, SunOS):
2189 - Avoid a map_anon_nofork test failure due to a signed/unsigned
2190 integer comparison. Fixes bug 31897; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2192 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging):
2193 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
2194 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
2197 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services):
2198 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
2199 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
2200 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
2201 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
2202 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
2204 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
2205 - When cleaning up intro circuits for a v3 onion service, don't
2206 remove circuits that have an established or pending circuit, even
2207 if they ran out of retries. This way, we don't remove a circuit on
2208 its last retry. Fixes bug 31652; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2210 o Minor bugfixes (v3 single onion services):
2211 - Always retry v3 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
2212 a 3-hop path. Previously, v3 single onion services used a 3-hop
2213 path when rend circuits were retried after a remote or delayed
2214 failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug 23818;
2215 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2216 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
2217 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
2218 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
2219 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2221 o Code simplification and refactoring:
2222 - Refactor connection_control_process_inbuf() to reduce the size of
2223 a practracker exception. Closes ticket 31840.
2224 - Refactor the microdescs_parse_from_string() function into smaller
2225 pieces, for better comprehensibility. Closes ticket 31675.
2226 - Use SEVERITY_MASK_IDX() to find the LOG_* mask indexes in the unit
2227 tests and fuzzers, rather than using hard-coded values. Closes
2229 - Interface for function `decrypt_desc_layer` cleaned up. Closes
2233 - Correct the description of "GuardLifetime". Fixes bug 31189;
2234 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
2235 - Make clear in the man page, in both the bandwidth section and the
2236 AccountingMax section, that Tor counts in powers of two, not
2237 powers of ten: 1 GByte is 1024*1024*1024 bytes, not one billion
2238 bytes. Resolves ticket 32106.
2239 - Document the signal-safe logging behaviour in the tor man page.
2240 Also add some comments to the relevant functions. Closes
2242 - Explain why we can't destroy the backtrace buffer mutex. Explain
2243 why we don't need to destroy the log mutex. Closes ticket 31736.
2244 - The Tor source code repository now includes a (somewhat dated)
2245 description of Tor's modular architecture, in doc/HACKING/design.
2246 This is based on the old "tor-guts.git" repository, which we are
2247 adopting and superseding. Closes ticket 31849.
2248 - Improve documentation in circuit padding subsystem. Patch by
2249 Tobias Pulls. Closes ticket 31113.
2250 - Include an example usage for IPv6 ORPort in our sample torrc.
2251 Closes ticket 31320; patch from Ali Raheem.
2252 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
2253 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
2254 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
2257 - No longer include recommended package digests in votes as detailed
2258 in proposal 301. The RecommendedPackages torrc option is
2259 deprecated and will no longer have any effect. "package" lines
2260 will still be considered when computing consensuses for consensus
2261 methods that include them. (This change has no effect on the list
2262 of recommended Tor versions, which is still in use.) Closes
2264 - Remove torctl.in from contrib/dist directory. Resolves
2268 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU
2269 gcc extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition
2270 warnings. Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
2271 Closes ticket 32500.
2272 - Run shellcheck for all non-third-party shell scripts that are
2273 shipped with Tor. Closes ticket 29533.
2274 - When checking shell scripts, ignore any user-created directories.
2275 Closes ticket 30967.
2277 o Code simplification and refactoring (config handling):
2278 - Extract our variable manipulation code from confparse.c to a new
2279 lower-level typedvar.h module. Closes ticket 30864.
2280 - Lower another layer of object management from confparse.c to a
2281 more general tool. Now typed structure members are accessible via
2282 an abstract type. Implements ticket 30914.
2283 - Move our backend logic for working with configuration and state
2284 files into a lower-level library, since it no longer depends on
2285 any tor-specific functionality. Closes ticket 31626.
2286 - Numerous simplifications in configuration-handling logic: remove
2287 duplicated macro definitions, replace magical names with flags,
2288 and refactor "TestingTorNetwork" to use the same default-option
2289 logic as the rest of Tor. Closes ticket 30935.
2290 - Replace our ad-hoc set of flags for configuration variables and
2291 configuration variable types with fine-grained orthogonal flags
2292 corresponding to the actual behavior we want. Closes ticket 31625.
2294 o Code simplification and refactoring (misc):
2295 - Eliminate some uses of lower-level control reply abstractions,
2296 primarily in the onion_helper functions. Closes ticket 30889.
2297 - Rework bootstrap tracking to use the new publish-subscribe
2298 subsystem. Closes ticket 29976.
2299 - Rewrite format_node_description() and router_get_verbose_nickname()
2300 to use strlcpy() and strlcat(). The previous implementation used
2301 memcpy() and pointer arithmetic, which was error-prone. Closes
2302 ticket 31545. This is CID 1452819.
2303 - Split extrainfo_dump_to_string() into smaller functions. Closes
2305 - Use the ptrdiff_t type consistently for expressing variable
2306 offsets and pointer differences. Previously we incorrectly (but
2307 harmlessly) used int and sometimes off_t for these cases. Closes
2309 - Use the subsystems mechanism to manage the main event loop code.
2310 Closes ticket 30806.
2311 - Various simplifications and minor improvements to the circuit
2312 padding machines. Patch by Tobias Pulls. Closes tickets 31112
2315 o Documentation (hard-coded directories):
2316 - Improve the documentation for the DirAuthority and FallbackDir
2317 torrc options. Closes ticket 30955.
2319 o Documentation (tor.1 man page):
2320 - Fix typo in tor.1 man page: the option is "--help", not "-help".
2321 Fixes bug 31008; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
2323 o Testing (continuous integration):
2324 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
2325 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
2326 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
2327 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
2328 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
2329 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
2330 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
2331 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
2332 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
2335 Changes in version 0.4.1.7 - 2019-12-09
2336 This release backports several bugfixes to improve stability and
2337 correctness. Anyone experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.1.6,
2338 including all relays relying on AccountingMax, should upgrade.
2340 o Major features (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
2341 - Directory authorities now reject relays running all currently
2342 deprecated release series. The currently supported release series
2343 are: 0.2.9, 0.3.5, 0.4.0, 0.4.1, and 0.4.2. Closes ticket 31549.
2345 o Major bugfixes (embedded Tor, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
2346 - Avoid a possible crash when restarting Tor in embedded mode and
2347 enabling a different set of publish/subscribe messages. Fixes bug
2348 31898; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2350 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
2351 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
2352 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
2353 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
2354 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
2355 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
2356 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
2357 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
2359 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
2360 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
2361 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
2362 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
2363 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2365 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
2366 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
2367 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
2368 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
2369 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
2372 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
2373 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
2374 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
2375 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
2377 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
2378 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
2379 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
2381 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
2382 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
2383 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
2385 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
2386 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
2387 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
2388 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
2389 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
2390 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2392 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
2393 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
2394 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
2395 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
2397 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
2398 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
2399 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
2400 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2401 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
2402 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
2403 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2404 - When tor aborts due to an error, close log file descriptors before
2405 aborting. Closing the logs makes some OSes flush log file buffers,
2406 rather than deleting buffered log lines. Fixes bug 31594; bugfix
2409 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
2410 - Add a missing check for HAVE_PTHREAD_H, because the backtrace code
2411 uses mutexes. Fixes bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
2412 - Disable backtrace signal handlers when shutting down tor. Fixes
2413 bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
2414 - Rate-limit our the logging message about the obsolete .exit
2415 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
2416 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
2417 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
2419 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
2420 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
2421 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
2422 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
2424 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
2425 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
2426 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
2427 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
2428 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
2431 o Minor bugfixes (multithreading, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
2432 - Avoid some undefined behaviour when freeing mutexes. Fixes bug
2433 31736; bugfix on 0.0.7.
2435 o Minor bugfixes (process management, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
2436 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
2437 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
2439 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
2440 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
2441 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
2443 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
2444 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
2445 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
2446 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
2448 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
2449 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
2450 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
2451 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
2452 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2454 o Minor bugfixes (tests, SunOS, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
2455 - Avoid a map_anon_nofork test failure due to a signed/unsigned
2456 integer comparison. Fixes bug 31897; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2458 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
2459 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
2460 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
2463 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
2464 - Explain why we can't destroy the backtrace buffer mutex. Explain
2465 why we don't need to destroy the log mutex. Closes ticket 31736.
2467 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
2468 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
2469 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
2470 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
2472 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
2473 Closes ticket 31859.
2474 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
2475 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
2477 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
2478 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
2479 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
2480 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
2481 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
2482 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
2483 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
2484 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
2485 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
2486 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
2488 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
2489 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
2490 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
2491 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
2492 Closes ticket 32500.
2495 Changes in version 0.4.0.6 - 2019-12-09
2496 This is the second stable release in the 0.4.0.x series. This release
2497 backports several bugfixes to improve stability and correctness. Anyone
2498 experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.0.5, including all relays
2499 relying on AccountingMax, should upgrade.
2501 Note that, per our support policy, support for the 0.4.0.x series will end
2502 on 2 Feb 2020. Anyone still running 0.4.0.x should plan to upgrade to the
2503 latest stable release, or downgrade to 0.3.5.x, which will get long-term
2504 support until 1 Feb 2022.
2506 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.4.1.5):
2507 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
2510 o Major bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
2511 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
2512 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
2513 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
2514 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
2515 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
2516 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
2517 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
2518 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
2519 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
2520 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
2522 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
2523 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
2524 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
2525 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
2526 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
2527 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
2529 o Major bugfixes (Onion service reachability, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
2530 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
2531 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
2532 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
2533 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
2536 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
2537 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
2538 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
2539 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
2540 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
2542 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
2543 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
2544 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
2545 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
2548 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
2549 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
2550 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
2551 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
2552 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
2553 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
2554 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
2555 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
2557 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
2558 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
2559 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
2560 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
2561 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2563 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
2564 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
2565 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
2566 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
2567 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
2570 o Minor features (compile-time modules, backport from version 0.4.1.1-alpha):
2571 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
2572 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
2574 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
2575 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
2576 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
2579 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
2580 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
2581 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
2583 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
2584 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
2585 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
2586 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
2588 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
2589 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
2590 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
2591 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
2592 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
2594 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
2595 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
2596 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
2598 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
2599 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
2600 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
2603 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
2604 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
2605 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
2607 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
2608 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
2609 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
2611 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
2612 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
2613 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
2615 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
2616 - On relays, properly check that a padding machine is absent before
2617 logging a warning about it being absent. Fixes bug 30649; bugfix
2620 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
2621 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
2622 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
2623 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
2624 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
2625 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2627 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection, backport from 0.4.1.5):
2628 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
2629 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
2630 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
2631 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
2633 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning, backport from 0.4.1.5):
2634 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
2635 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix
2638 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.1.5):
2639 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
2640 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
2642 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
2643 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
2644 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
2645 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
2647 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
2648 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
2649 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
2650 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
2652 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
2653 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
2654 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
2655 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
2657 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
2658 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
2659 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
2660 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
2662 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
2663 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
2664 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
2665 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
2666 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2667 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
2668 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2670 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
2671 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
2672 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
2673 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
2675 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
2676 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
2677 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
2678 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
2680 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
2681 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
2682 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
2685 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
2686 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
2687 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
2688 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2689 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
2690 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
2691 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2693 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
2694 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
2695 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
2696 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
2699 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
2700 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
2701 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
2702 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
2703 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2705 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
2706 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
2707 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
2708 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
2709 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
2711 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
2712 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
2713 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
2716 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
2717 - Rate-limit our the logging message about the obsolete .exit
2718 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
2719 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
2720 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
2722 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
2723 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
2724 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
2725 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
2727 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
2728 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
2729 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
2730 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
2731 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
2734 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
2735 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
2736 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
2739 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
2740 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value
2741 from a download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug
2742 30894; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
2744 o Minor bugfixes (NetBSD, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
2745 - Fix usage of minherit() on NetBSD and other platforms that define
2746 MAP_INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE} instead of INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE}. Fixes bug
2747 30614; bugfix on 0.4.0.2-alpha. Patch from Taylor Campbell.
2749 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
2750 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
2751 implemenation) when failing to load an onion service client
2752 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2754 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
2755 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
2756 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
2757 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
2760 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
2761 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
2762 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
2763 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
2764 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
2765 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
2768 o Minor bugfixes (process management, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
2769 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
2770 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
2772 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
2773 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
2774 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
2776 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
2777 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
2778 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
2779 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
2781 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
2782 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
2783 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
2785 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
2786 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
2787 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
2788 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
2789 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2791 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
2792 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
2793 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
2796 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
2797 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
2798 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
2799 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
2800 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
2801 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
2802 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
2803 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
2804 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
2805 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2807 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
2808 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
2809 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
2810 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
2812 o Testing (backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
2813 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
2814 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
2815 Resolves issue 29702.
2817 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
2818 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
2820 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.5):
2821 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and
2822 tail stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
2823 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary. Closes
2826 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
2827 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
2828 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
2829 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
2831 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
2832 Closes ticket 31859.
2833 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
2834 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
2836 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
2837 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
2838 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
2839 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
2840 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
2841 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
2842 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
2843 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
2844 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
2845 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
2847 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
2848 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
2849 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
2850 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
2851 Closes ticket 32500.
2854 Changes in version 0.3.5.9 - 2019-12-09
2855 Tor 0.3.5.9 backports serveral fixes from later releases, including
2856 several that affect bridge users, relay stability, onion services,
2859 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.4.1.5):
2860 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
2863 o Major bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
2864 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
2865 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
2866 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
2867 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
2868 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
2869 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
2870 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
2871 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
2872 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
2873 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
2875 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
2876 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
2877 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
2878 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
2879 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
2880 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
2882 o Major bugfixes (NSS, relay, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
2883 - When running with NSS, disable TLS 1.2 ciphersuites that use
2884 SHA384 for their PRF. Due to an NSS bug, the TLS key exporters for
2885 these ciphersuites don't work -- which caused relays to fail to
2886 handshake with one another when these ciphersuites were enabled.
2887 Fixes bug 29241; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2889 o Major bugfixes (Onion service reachability, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
2890 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
2891 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
2892 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
2893 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
2896 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
2897 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
2898 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
2899 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
2900 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
2902 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
2903 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
2904 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
2905 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
2908 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
2909 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
2910 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
2911 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
2912 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2914 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
2915 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
2916 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
2917 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
2918 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
2921 o Minor features (address selection, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
2922 - Treat the subnet 100.64.0.0/10 as public for some purposes;
2923 private for others. This subnet is the RFC 6598 (Carrier Grade
2924 NAT) IP range, and is deployed by many ISPs as an alternative to
2925 RFC 1918 that does not break existing internal networks. Tor now
2926 blocks SOCKS and control ports on these addresses and warns users
2927 if client ports or ExtORPorts are listening on a RFC 6598 address.
2928 Closes ticket 28525. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2930 o Minor features (bandwidth authority, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
2931 - Make bandwidth authorities ignore relays that are reported in the
2932 bandwidth file with the flag "vote=0". This change allows us to
2933 report unmeasured relays for diagnostic reasons without including
2934 their bandwidth in the bandwidth authorities' vote. Closes
2937 o Minor features (compile-time modules, backport from version 0.4.1.1-alpha):
2938 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
2939 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
2941 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
2942 - On Travis Rust builds, cleanup Rust registry and refrain from
2943 caching the "target/" directory to speed up builds. Resolves
2946 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.5):
2947 - In Travis, tell timelimit to use stem's backtrace signals, and
2948 launch python directly from timelimit, so python receives the
2949 signals from timelimit, rather than make. Closes ticket 30117.
2951 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
2952 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
2953 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
2956 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
2957 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
2958 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
2960 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
2961 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
2962 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
2963 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
2965 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
2966 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
2967 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
2968 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
2969 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
2971 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
2972 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
2973 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
2975 o Minor features (NSS, diagnostic, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
2976 - Try to log an error from NSS (if there is any) and a more useful
2977 description of our situation if we are using NSS and a call to
2978 SSL_ExportKeyingMaterial() fails. Diagnostic for ticket 29241.
2980 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
2981 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
2982 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
2985 o Minor bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
2986 - Verify in more places that we are not about to create a buffer
2987 with more than INT_MAX bytes, to avoid possible OOB access in the
2988 event of bugs. Fixes bug 30041; bugfix on 0.2.0.16. Found and
2989 fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
2990 - Fix a potential double free bug when reading huge bandwidth files.
2991 The issue is not exploitable in the current Tor network because
2992 the vulnerable code is only reached when directory authorities
2993 read bandwidth files, but bandwidth files come from a trusted
2994 source (usually the authorities themselves). Furthermore, the
2995 issue is only exploitable in rare (non-POSIX) 32-bit architectures,
2996 which are not used by any of the current authorities. Fixes bug
2997 30040; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Bug found and fixed by
3000 o Minor bugfix (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
3001 - Reset coverage state on disk after Travis CI has finished. This
3002 should prevent future coverage merge errors from causing the test
3003 suite for the "process" subsystem to fail. The process subsystem
3004 was introduced in 0.4.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 29036; bugfix
3006 - Terminate test-stem if it takes more than 9.5 minutes to run.
3007 (Travis terminates the job after 10 minutes of no output.)
3008 Diagnostic for 29437. Fixes bug 30011; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
3010 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3011 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
3012 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
3014 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3015 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
3016 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
3018 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
3019 - Fix an unlikely memory leak in consensus_diff_apply(). Fixes bug
3020 29824; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. This is Coverity warning
3023 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
3024 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
3025 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
3027 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
3028 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
3029 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
3030 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
3031 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
3032 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3034 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection, backport from 0.4.1.5):
3035 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
3036 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
3037 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
3038 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
3040 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning, backport from 0.4.1.5):
3041 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
3042 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix
3045 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
3046 - Silence a compiler warning in test-memwipe.c on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
3047 29145; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
3049 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.1.5):
3050 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
3051 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
3053 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3054 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
3055 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
3056 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
3058 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
3059 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
3060 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
3061 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
3063 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
3064 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
3065 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
3066 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
3068 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
3069 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
3070 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
3071 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
3073 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
3074 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
3075 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
3076 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
3077 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3078 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
3079 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3081 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
3082 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
3083 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
3084 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
3086 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
3087 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
3088 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
3089 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
3091 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
3092 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
3093 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
3096 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3097 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
3098 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
3099 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3100 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
3101 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
3102 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3104 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3105 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
3106 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
3107 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
3110 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3111 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
3112 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
3113 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
3114 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3116 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
3117 - Avoid logging that we are relaxing a circuit timeout when that
3118 timeout is fixed. Fixes bug 28698; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
3120 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
3121 - Correct a misleading error message when IPv4Only or IPv6Only is
3122 used but the resolved address can not be interpreted as an address
3123 of the specified IP version. Fixes bug 13221; bugfix on
3124 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
3125 - Log the correct port number for listening sockets when "auto" is
3126 used to let Tor pick the port number. Previously, port 0 was
3127 logged instead of the actual port number. Fixes bug 29144; bugfix
3128 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
3129 - Stop logging a BUG() warning when Tor is waiting for exit
3130 descriptors. Fixes bug 28656; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3132 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
3133 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
3134 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
3135 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
3136 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
3138 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3139 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
3140 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
3143 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3144 - Rate-limit our the logging message about the obsolete .exit
3145 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
3146 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
3147 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
3149 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3150 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
3151 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
3152 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
3154 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3155 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
3156 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
3157 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
3158 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
3161 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
3162 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
3163 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
3166 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
3167 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value
3168 from a download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug
3169 30894; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
3171 o Minor bugfixes (memory management, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
3172 - Refactor the shared random state's memory management so that it
3173 actually takes ownership of the shared random value pointers.
3174 Fixes bug 29706; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
3176 o Minor bugfixes (memory management, testing, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
3177 - Stop leaking parts of the shared random state in the shared-random
3178 unit tests. Fixes bug 29599; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
3180 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
3181 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
3182 implemenation) when failing to load an onion service client
3183 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3185 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
3186 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
3187 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
3188 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
3191 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
3192 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
3193 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
3194 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
3195 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
3196 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
3199 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3200 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
3201 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
3202 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
3204 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.0.5):
3205 - Abort on panic in all build profiles, instead of potentially
3206 unwinding into C code. Fixes bug 27199; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3208 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3209 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
3210 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
3212 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
3213 - Allow connections to single onion services to remain idle without
3214 being disconnected. Previously, relays acting as rendezvous points
3215 for single onion services were mistakenly closing idle rendezvous
3216 circuits after 60 seconds, thinking that they were unused
3217 directory-fetching circuits that had served their purpose. Fixes
3218 bug 29665; bugfix on 0.2.1.26.
3220 o Minor bugfixes (stats, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
3221 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including PaddingStatistics in
3222 relay and bridge extra-info documents. Fixes bug 29017; bugfix
3225 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
3226 - Downgrade some LOG_ERR messages in the address/* tests to
3227 warnings. The LOG_ERR messages were occurring when we had no
3228 configured network. We were failing the unit tests, because we
3229 backported 28668 to 0.3.5.8, but did not backport 29530. Fixes bug
3230 29530; bugfix on 0.3.5.8.
3231 - Fix our gcov wrapper script to look for object files at the
3232 correct locations. Fixes bug 29435; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3234 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
3235 - Backport the 0.3.4 src/test/test-network.sh to 0.2.9. We need a
3236 recent test-network.sh to use new chutney features in CI. Fixes
3237 bug 29703; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
3238 - Fix a test failure on Windows caused by an unexpected "BUG"
3239 warning in our tests for tor_gmtime_r(-1). Fixes bug 29922; bugfix
3242 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3243 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
3244 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
3245 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
3246 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3248 o Minor bugfixes (TLS protocol, backport form 0.4.0.4-rc):
3249 - When classifying a client's selection of TLS ciphers, if the
3250 client ciphers are not yet available, do not cache the result.
3251 Previously, we had cached the unavailability of the cipher list
3252 and never looked again, which in turn led us to assume that the
3253 client only supported the ancient V1 link protocol. This, in turn,
3254 was causing Stem integration tests to stall in some cases. Fixes
3255 bug 30021; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
3257 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3258 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
3259 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
3262 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3263 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
3264 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
3265 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
3266 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
3267 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
3268 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
3269 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
3270 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
3271 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3273 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, CI, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
3274 - Skip the Appveyor 32-bit Windows Server 2016 job, and 64-bit
3275 Windows Server 2012 R2 job. The remaining 2 jobs still provide
3276 coverage of 64/32-bit, and Windows Server 2016/2012 R2. Also set
3277 fast_finish, so failed jobs terminate the build immediately. Fixes
3278 bug 29601; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
3280 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3281 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
3282 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
3283 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
3285 o Testing (backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
3286 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
3287 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
3288 Resolves issue 29702.
3290 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
3291 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
3293 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.5):
3294 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and
3295 tail stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
3296 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary. Closes
3299 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3300 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
3301 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
3302 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
3304 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
3305 Closes ticket 31859.
3306 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
3307 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
3309 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
3310 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
3311 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
3312 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
3313 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
3314 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
3315 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
3316 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
3317 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
3318 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
3320 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
3321 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
3322 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
3323 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
3324 Closes ticket 32500.
3327 Changes in version 0.4.1.6 - 2019-09-19
3328 This release backports several bugfixes to improve stability and
3329 correctness. Anyone experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.1.5,
3330 or experiencing reliability issues with single onion services, should
3333 o Major bugfixes (crash, Linux, Android, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3334 - Tolerate systems (including some Android installations) where
3335 madvise and MADV_DONTDUMP are available at build-time, but not at
3336 run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed syscall
3337 and abort. Fixes bug 31570; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3338 - Tolerate systems (including some Linux installations) where
3339 madvise and/or MADV_DONTFORK are available at build-time, but not
3340 at run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed
3341 syscall and abort. Fixes bug 31696; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3343 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3344 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
3345 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
3348 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3349 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
3350 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
3352 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3353 - Add more stub functions to fix compilation on Android with link-
3354 time optimization when --disable-module-dirauth is used.
3355 Previously, these compilation settings would make the compiler
3356 look for functions that didn't exist. Fixes bug 31552; bugfix
3358 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
3359 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
3360 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
3362 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
3363 - Fix the MAPADDRESS controller command to accept one or more
3364 arguments. Previously, it required two or more arguments, and ignored
3365 the first. Fixes bug 31772; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3367 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3368 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
3369 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
3370 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
3373 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3374 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
3375 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
3376 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
3377 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3379 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3380 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
3381 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
3384 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3385 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
3386 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
3388 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3389 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
3390 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
3391 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
3392 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
3393 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
3395 o Minor bugfixes (v3 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3396 - Always retry v3 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
3397 a 3-hop path. Previously, v3 single onion services used a 3-hop
3398 path when rend circuits were retried after a remote or delayed
3399 failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug 23818;
3400 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3401 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
3402 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
3403 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
3404 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3406 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3407 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
3408 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
3409 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
3412 Changes in version 0.4.1.5 - 2019-08-20
3413 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.1.x series. This series
3414 adds experimental circuit-level padding, authenticated SENDME cells to
3415 defend against certain attacks, and several performance improvements
3416 to save on CPU consumption. It fixes bugs in bootstrapping and v3
3417 onion services. It also includes numerous smaller features and
3418 bugfixes on earlier versions.
3420 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.1.x series for nine
3421 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.2.x:
3422 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
3423 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
3425 Below are the changes since 0.4.0.5. For a list of only the changes
3426 since 0.4.1.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
3428 o Directory authority changes:
3429 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
3432 o Major features (circuit padding):
3433 - Onion service clients now add padding cells at the start of their
3434 INTRODUCE and RENDEZVOUS circuits, to make those circuits' traffic
3435 look more like general purpose Exit traffic. The overhead for this
3436 is 2 extra cells in each direction for RENDEZVOUS circuits, and 1
3437 extra upstream cell and 10 downstream cells for INTRODUCE
3438 circuits. This feature is only enabled when also supported by the
3439 circuit's middle node. (Clients may specify fixed middle nodes
3440 with the MiddleNodes option, and may force-disable this feature
3441 with the CircuitPadding option.) Closes ticket 28634.
3443 o Major features (code organization):
3444 - Tor now includes a generic publish-subscribe message-passing
3445 subsystem that we can use to organize intermodule dependencies. We
3446 hope to use this to reduce dependencies between modules that don't
3447 need to be related, and to generally simplify our codebase. Closes
3450 o Major features (controller protocol):
3451 - Controller commands are now parsed using a generalized parsing
3452 subsystem. Previously, each controller command was responsible for
3453 parsing its own input, which led to strange inconsistencies.
3454 Closes ticket 30091.
3456 o Major features (flow control):
3457 - Implement authenticated SENDMEs as detailed in proposal 289. A
3458 SENDME cell now includes the digest of the traffic that it
3459 acknowledges, so that once an end point receives the SENDME, it
3460 can confirm the other side's knowledge of the previous cells that
3461 were sent, and prevent certain types of denial-of-service attacks.
3462 This behavior is controlled by two new consensus parameters: see
3463 the proposal for more details. Fixes ticket 26288.
3465 o Major features (performance):
3466 - Our node selection algorithm now excludes nodes in linear time.
3467 Previously, the algorithm was quadratic, which could slow down
3468 heavily used onion services. Closes ticket 30307.
3470 o Major features (performance, RNG):
3471 - Tor now constructs a fast secure pseudorandom number generator for
3472 each thread, to use when performance is critical. This PRNG is
3473 based on AES-CTR, using a buffering construction similar to
3474 libottery and the (newer) OpenBSD arc4random() code. It
3475 outperforms OpenSSL 1.1.1a's CSPRNG by roughly a factor of 100 for
3476 small outputs. Although we believe it to be cryptographically
3477 strong, we are only using it when necessary for performance.
3478 Implements tickets 29023 and 29536.
3480 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
3481 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
3482 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
3483 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
3484 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
3485 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
3486 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
3487 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
3488 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
3489 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
3490 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
3492 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard):
3493 - On relays, properly check that a padding machine is absent before
3494 logging a warning about it being absent. Fixes bug 30649; bugfix
3496 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
3497 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
3498 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
3499 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
3500 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
3502 o Major bugfixes (onion service reachability):
3503 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
3504 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
3505 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
3506 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
3509 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3):
3510 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
3511 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
3512 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
3513 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
3515 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
3516 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
3517 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
3518 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
3521 o Minor features (authenticated SENDME):
3522 - Ensure that there is enough randomness on every circuit to prevent
3523 an attacker from successfully predicting the hashes they will need
3524 to include in authenticated SENDME cells. At a random interval, if
3525 we have not sent randomness already, we now leave some extra space
3526 at the end of a cell that we can fill with random bytes. Closes
3529 o Minor features (circuit padding logging):
3530 - Demote noisy client-side warn logs about circuit padding to protocol
3531 warnings. Add additional log messages and circuit ID fields to help
3532 with bug 30992 and any other future issues.
3534 o Minor features (circuit padding):
3535 - We now use a fast PRNG when scheduling circuit padding. Part of
3537 - Allow the padding machine designer to pick the edges of their
3538 histogram instead of trying to compute them automatically using an
3539 exponential formula. Resolves some undefined behavior in the case
3540 of small histograms and allows greater flexibility on machine
3541 design. Closes ticket 29298; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3542 - Allow circuit padding machines to hold a circuit open until they
3543 are done padding it. Closes ticket 28780.
3545 o Minor features (compile-time modules):
3546 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
3547 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
3549 o Minor features (continuous integration):
3550 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
3551 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
3552 - When running coverage builds on Travis, we now set
3553 TOR_TEST_RNG_SEED, to avoid RNG-based coverage differences. Part
3555 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
3556 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
3558 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
3560 o Minor features (controller):
3561 - Add onion service version 3 support to the HSFETCH command.
3562 Previously, only version 2 onion services were supported. Closes
3563 ticket 25417. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3565 o Minor features (debugging):
3566 - Introduce tor_assertf() and tor_assertf_nonfatal() to enable
3567 logging of additional information during assert failure. Now we
3568 can use format strings to include information for trouble
3569 shooting. Resolves ticket 29662.
3571 o Minor features (defense in depth):
3572 - In smartlist_remove_keeporder(), set unused pointers to NULL, in
3573 case a bug causes them to be used later. Closes ticket 30176.
3574 Patch from Tobias Stoeckmann.
3575 - Tor now uses a cryptographically strong PRNG even for decisions
3576 that we do not believe are security-sensitive. Previously, for
3577 performance reasons, we had used a trivially predictable linear
3578 congruential generator algorithm for certain load-balancing and
3579 statistical sampling decisions. Now we use our fast RNG in those
3580 cases. Closes ticket 29542.
3582 o Minor features (developer tools):
3583 - Tor's "practracker" test script now checks for files and functions
3584 that seem too long and complicated. Existing overlong functions
3585 and files are accepted for now, but should eventually be
3586 refactored. Closes ticket 29221.
3587 - Add some scripts used for git maintenance to scripts/git. Closes
3589 - Call practracker from pre-push and pre-commit git hooks to let
3590 developers know if they made any code style violations. Closes
3592 - Add a script to check that each header has a well-formed and
3593 unique guard macro. Closes ticket 29756.
3595 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
3596 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
3597 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
3598 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
3599 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
3601 o Minor features (geoip):
3602 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 10 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
3603 Country database. Closes ticket 30852.
3604 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 13 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
3605 Country database. Closes ticket 30522.
3607 o Minor features (HTTP tunnel):
3608 - Return an informative web page when the HTTPTunnelPort is used as
3609 an HTTP proxy. Closes ticket 27821, patch by "eighthave".
3611 o Minor features (IPv6, v3 onion services):
3612 - Make v3 onion services put IPv6 addresses in service descriptors.
3613 Before this change, service descriptors only contained IPv4
3614 addresses. Implements 26992.
3616 o Minor features (logging):
3617 - Give a more useful assertion failure message if we think we have
3618 minherit() but we fail to make a region non-inheritable. Give a
3619 compile-time warning if our support for minherit() is incomplete.
3620 Closes ticket 30686.
3622 o Minor features (maintenance):
3623 - Add a new "make autostyle" target that developers can use to apply
3624 all automatic Tor style and consistency conversions to the
3625 codebase. Closes ticket 30539.
3627 o Minor features (modularity):
3628 - The "--disable-module-dirauth" compile-time option now disables
3629 even more dirauth-only code. Closes ticket 30345.
3631 o Minor features (performance):
3632 - Use OpenSSL's implementations of SHA3 when available (in OpenSSL
3633 1.1.1 and later), since they tend to be faster than tiny-keccak.
3634 Closes ticket 28837.
3636 o Minor features (testing):
3637 - The circuitpadding tests now use a reproducible RNG implementation,
3638 so that if a test fails, we can learn why. Part of ticket 28878.
3639 - Tor's tests now support an environment variable, TOR_TEST_RNG_SEED,
3640 to set the RNG seed for tests that use a reproducible RNG. Part of
3642 - When running tests in coverage mode, take additional care to make
3643 our coverage deterministic, so that we can accurately track
3644 changes in code coverage. Closes ticket 30519.
3645 - Tor's unit test code now contains helper functions to replace the
3646 PRNG with a deterministic or reproducible version for testing.
3647 Previously, various tests implemented this in various ways.
3648 Implements ticket 29732.
3649 - We now have a script, cov-test-determinism.sh, to identify places
3650 where our unit test coverage has become nondeterministic. Closes
3652 - Check that representative subsets of values of `int` and `unsigned
3653 int` can be represented by `void *`. Resolves issue 29537.
3655 o Minor bugfixes (bridge authority):
3656 - Bridge authorities now set bridges as running or non-running when
3657 about to dump their status to a file. Previously, they set bridges
3658 as running in response to a GETINFO command, but those shouldn't
3659 modify data structures. Fixes bug 24490; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
3660 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3662 o Minor bugfixes (channel padding statistics):
3663 - Channel padding write totals and padding-enabled totals are now
3664 counted properly in relay extrainfo descriptors. Fixes bug 29231;
3665 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3667 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation):
3668 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
3669 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
3671 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
3672 - Add a "CircuitPadding" torrc option to disable circuit padding.
3673 Fixes bug 28693; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3674 - Allow circuit padding machines to specify that they do not
3675 contribute much overhead, and provide consensus flags and torrc
3676 options to force clients to only use these low overhead machines.
3677 Fixes bug 29203; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3678 - Provide a consensus parameter to fully disable circuit padding, to
3679 be used in emergency network overload situations. Fixes bug 30173;
3680 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3681 - The circuit padding subsystem will no longer schedule padding if
3682 dormant mode is enabled. Fixes bug 28636; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3683 - Inspect a circuit-level cell queue before sending padding, to
3684 avoid sending padding while too much data is already queued. Fixes
3685 bug 29204; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3686 - Avoid calling monotime_absolute_usec() in circuit padding machines
3687 that do not use token removal or circuit RTT estimation. Fixes bug
3688 29085; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3690 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection):
3691 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
3692 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
3693 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
3694 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
3696 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, standards compliance):
3697 - Fix a bug that would invoke undefined behavior on certain
3698 operating systems when trying to asprintf() a string exactly
3699 INT_MAX bytes long. We don't believe this is exploitable, but it's
3700 better to fix it anyway. Fixes bug 31001; bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
3701 Found and fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
3703 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning):
3704 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
3705 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix on
3708 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
3709 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
3710 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
3712 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations):
3713 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
3714 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
3715 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
3717 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies):
3718 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
3719 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
3720 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
3722 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
3723 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
3724 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
3725 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
3726 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3727 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
3728 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3730 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
3731 - Teach the controller parser to distinguish an object preceded by
3732 an argument list from one without. Previously, it couldn't
3733 distinguish an argument list from the first line of a multiline
3734 object. Fixes bug 29984; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
3736 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit):
3737 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
3738 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
3739 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
3741 o Minor bugfixes (developer tooling):
3742 - Fix pre-push hook to allow fixup and squash commits when pushing
3743 to non-upstream git remote. Fixes bug 30286; bugfix
3746 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
3747 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
3748 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
3749 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
3750 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
3751 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
3753 - Directory authorities with IPv6 support now always mark themselves
3754 as reachable via IPv6. Fixes bug 24338; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
3755 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3757 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
3758 - Improve the documentation for using MapAddress with ".exit". Fixes
3759 bug 30109; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
3760 - Improve the monotonic time module and function documentation to
3761 explain what "monotonic" actually means, and document some results
3762 that have surprised people. Fixes bug 29640; bugfix
3764 - Use proper formatting when providing an example on quoting options
3765 that contain whitespace. Fixes bug 29635; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
3767 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
3768 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
3769 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
3770 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
3771 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
3772 - Warn operators when the MyFamily option is set but ContactInfo is
3773 missing, as the latter should be set too. Fixes bug 25110; bugfix
3776 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
3777 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
3778 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
3780 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value from a
3781 download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug 30894; bugfix
3784 o Minor bugfixes (NetBSD):
3785 - Fix usage of minherit() on NetBSD and other platforms that define
3786 MAP_INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE} instead of INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE}. Fixes bug
3787 30614; bugfix on 0.4.0.2-alpha. Patch from Taylor Campbell.
3789 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
3790 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
3791 implemenation) when failing to load an onion service client
3792 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3793 - When refusing to launch a controller's HSFETCH request because of
3794 rate-limiting, respond to the controller with a new response,
3795 "QUERY_RATE_LIMITED". Previously, we would log QUERY_NO_HSDIR for
3796 this case. Fixes bug 28269; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Patch by
3798 - When relaunching a circuit to a rendezvous service, mark the
3799 circuit as needing high-uptime routers as appropriate. Fixes bug
3800 17357; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3801 - Stop ignoring IPv6 link specifiers sent to v3 onion services.
3802 (IPv6 support for v3 onion services is still incomplete: see
3803 ticket 23493 for details.) Fixes bug 23588; bugfix on
3804 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3806 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, performance):
3807 - When building circuits to onion services, call tor_addr_parse()
3808 less often. Previously, we called tor_addr_parse() in
3809 circuit_is_acceptable() even if its output wasn't used. This
3810 change should improve performance when building circuits. Fixes
3811 bug 22210; bugfix on 0.2.8.12. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3813 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler):
3814 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
3815 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
3816 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
3819 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
3820 - When checking whether a node is a bridge, use a fast check to make
3821 sure that its identity is set. Previously, we used a constant-time
3822 check, which is not necessary in this case. Fixes bug 30308;
3823 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3825 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
3826 - Tor now sets TOR_PT_EXIT_ON_STDIN_CLOSE=1 for client transports as
3827 well as servers. Fixes bug 25614; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
3829 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
3830 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
3831 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
3832 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
3833 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
3834 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
3837 o Minor bugfixes (probability distributions):
3838 - Refactor and improve parts of the probability distribution code
3839 that made Coverity complain. Fixes bug 29805; bugfix
3842 o Minor bugfixes (python):
3843 - Stop assuming that /usr/bin/python3 exists. For scripts that work
3844 with python2, use /usr/bin/python. Otherwise, use /usr/bin/env
3845 python3. Fixes bug 29913; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
3847 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
3848 - When running as a relay, if IPv6Exit is set to 1 while ExitRelay
3849 is auto, act as if ExitRelay is 1. Previously, we would ignore
3850 IPv6Exit if ExitRelay was 0 or auto. Fixes bug 29613; bugfix on
3851 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3853 o Minor bugfixes (static analysis):
3854 - Fix several spurious Coverity warnings about the unit tests, to
3855 lower our chances of missing real warnings in the future. Fixes
3856 bug 30150; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha and various other Tor versions.
3858 o Minor bugfixes (stats):
3859 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including bandwidth usage
3860 statistics, GeoIPFile hashes, ServerTransportPlugin lines, and
3861 bridge statistics by country in extra-info documents. Fixes bug
3862 29018; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
3864 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
3865 - Call setrlimit() to disable core dumps in test_bt_cl.c. Previously
3866 we used `ulimit -c` in test_bt.sh, which violates POSIX shell
3867 compatibility. Fixes bug 29061; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3868 - Fix some incorrect code in the v3 onion service unit tests. Fixes
3869 bug 29243; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3870 - In the "routerkeys/*" tests, check the return values of mkdir()
3871 for possible failures. Fixes bug 29939; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
3872 Found by Coverity as CID 1444254.
3873 - Split test_utils_general() into several smaller test functions.
3874 This makes it easier to perform resource deallocation on assert
3875 failure, and fixes Coverity warnings CID 1444117 and CID 1444118.
3876 Fixes bug 29823; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
3878 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve):
3879 - Fix a memory leak in tor-resolve that could happen if Tor gave it
3880 a malformed SOCKS response. (Memory leaks in tor-resolve don't
3881 actually matter, but it's good to fix them anyway.) Fixes bug
3882 30151; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3884 o Code simplification and refactoring:
3885 - Abstract out the low-level formatting of replies on the control
3886 port. Implements ticket 30007.
3887 - Add several assertions in an attempt to fix some Coverity
3888 warnings. Closes ticket 30149.
3889 - Introduce a connection_dir_buf_add() helper function that checks
3890 for compress_state of dir_connection_t and automatically writes a
3891 string to directory connection with or without compression.
3892 Resolves issue 28816.
3893 - Make the base32_decode() API return the number of bytes written,
3894 for consistency with base64_decode(). Closes ticket 28913.
3895 - Move most relay-only periodic events out of mainloop.c into the
3896 relay subsystem. Closes ticket 30414.
3897 - Refactor and encapsulate parts of the codebase that manipulate
3898 crypt_path_t objects. Resolves issue 30236.
3899 - Refactor several places in our code that Coverity incorrectly
3900 believed might have memory leaks. Closes ticket 30147.
3901 - Remove redundant return values in crypto_format, and the
3902 associated return value checks elsewhere in the code. Make the
3903 implementations in crypto_format consistent, and remove redundant
3904 code. Resolves ticket 29660.
3905 - Rename tor_mem_is_zero() to fast_mem_is_zero(), to emphasize that
3906 it is not a constant-time function. Closes ticket 30309.
3907 - Replace hs_desc_link_specifier_t with link_specifier_t, and remove
3908 all hs_desc_link_specifier_t-specific code. Fixes bug 22781;
3909 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3910 - Simplify v3 onion service link specifier handling code. Fixes bug
3911 23576; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3912 - Split crypto_digest.c into NSS code, OpenSSL code, and shared
3913 code. Resolves ticket 29108.
3914 - Split control.c into several submodules, in preparation for
3915 distributing its current responsibilities throughout the codebase.
3916 Closes ticket 29894.
3917 - Start to move responsibility for knowing about periodic events to
3918 the appropriate subsystems, so that the mainloop doesn't need to
3919 know all the periodic events in the rest of the codebase.
3920 Implements tickets 30293 and 30294.
3923 - Mention URLs for Travis/Appveyor/Jenkins in ReleasingTor.md.
3924 Closes ticket 30630.
3925 - Document how to find git commits and tags for bug fixes in
3926 CodingStandards.md. Update some file documentation. Closes
3930 - Remove the linux-tor-prio.sh script from contrib/operator-tools
3931 directory. Resolves issue 29434.
3932 - Remove the obsolete OpenSUSE initscript. Resolves issue 30076.
3933 - Remove the obsolete script at contrib/dist/tor.sh.in. Resolves
3937 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
3938 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
3939 Resolves issue 29702.
3941 o Code simplification and refactoring (shell scripts):
3942 - Clean up many of our shell scripts to fix shellcheck warnings.
3943 These include autogen.sh (ticket 26069), test_keygen.sh (ticket
3944 29062), test_switch_id.sh (ticket 29065), test_rebind.sh (ticket
3945 29063), src/test/fuzz/minimize.sh (ticket 30079), test_rust.sh
3946 (ticket 29064), torify (ticket 29070), asciidoc-helper.sh (29926),
3947 fuzz_multi.sh (30077), fuzz_static_testcases.sh (ticket 29059),
3948 nagios-check-tor-authority-cert (ticket 29071),
3949 src/test/fuzz/fixup_filenames.sh (ticket 30078), test-network.sh
3950 (ticket 29060), test_key_expiration.sh (ticket 30002),
3951 zero_length_keys.sh (ticket 29068), and test_workqueue_*.sh
3954 o Testing (chutney):
3955 - In "make test-network-all", test IPv6-only v3 single onion
3956 services, using the chutney network single-onion-v23-ipv6-md.
3957 Closes ticket 27251.
3959 o Testing (continuous integration):
3960 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and tail
3961 stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
3962 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary.
3963 Closes ticket 30694.
3966 Changes in version 0.4.0.5 - 2019-05-02
3967 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.0.x series. It contains
3968 improvements for power management and bootstrap reporting, as well as
3969 preliminary backend support for circuit padding to prevent some kinds
3970 of traffic analysis. It also continues our work in refactoring Tor for
3971 long-term maintainability.
3973 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.0.x series for nine
3974 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.1.x:
3975 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
3976 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
3978 Below are the changes since 0.3.5.7. For a complete list of changes
3979 since 0.4.0.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
3981 o Major features (battery management, client, dormant mode):
3982 - When Tor is running as a client, and it is unused for a long time,
3983 it can now enter a "dormant" state. When Tor is dormant, it avoids
3984 network and CPU activity until it is reawoken either by a user
3985 request or by a controller command. For more information, see the
3986 configuration options starting with "Dormant". Implements tickets
3988 - The client's memory of whether it is "dormant", and how long it
3989 has spent idle, persists across invocations. Implements
3991 - There is a DormantOnFirstStartup option that integrators can use
3992 if they expect that in many cases, Tor will be installed but
3995 o Major features (bootstrap reporting):
3996 - When reporting bootstrap progress, report the first connection
3997 uniformly, regardless of whether it's a connection for building
3998 application circuits. This allows finer-grained reporting of early
3999 progress than previously possible, with the improvements of ticket
4000 27169. Closes tickets 27167 and 27103. Addresses ticket 27308.
4001 - When reporting bootstrap progress, treat connecting to a proxy or
4002 pluggable transport as separate from having successfully used that
4003 proxy or pluggable transport to connect to a relay. Closes tickets
4006 o Major features (circuit padding):
4007 - Implement preliminary support for the circuit padding portion of
4008 Proposal 254. The implementation supports Adaptive Padding (aka
4009 WTF-PAD) state machines for use between experimental clients and
4010 relays. Support is also provided for APE-style state machines that
4011 use probability distributions instead of histograms to specify
4012 inter-packet delay. At the moment, Tor does not provide any
4013 padding state machines that are used in normal operation: for now,
4014 this feature exists solely for experimentation. Closes
4017 o Major features (refactoring):
4018 - Tor now uses an explicit list of its own subsystems when
4019 initializing and shutting down. Previously, these systems were
4020 managed implicitly in various places throughout the codebase.
4021 (There may still be some subsystems using the old system.) Closes
4024 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
4025 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
4026 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
4027 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
4028 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
4029 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
4030 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
4031 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
4033 o Major bugfixes (networking):
4034 - Gracefully handle empty username/password fields in SOCKS5
4035 username/password auth message and allow SOCKS5 handshake to
4036 continue. Previously, we had rejected these handshakes, breaking
4037 certain applications. Fixes bug 29175; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4039 o Major bugfixes (NSS, relay):
4040 - When running with NSS, disable TLS 1.2 ciphersuites that use
4041 SHA384 for their PRF. Due to an NSS bug, the TLS key exporters for
4042 these ciphersuites don't work -- which caused relays to fail to
4043 handshake with one another when these ciphersuites were enabled.
4044 Fixes bug 29241; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4046 o Major bugfixes (windows, startup):
4047 - When reading a consensus file from disk, detect whether it was
4048 written in text mode, and re-read it in text mode if so. Always
4049 write consensus files in binary mode so that we can map them into
4050 memory later. Previously, we had written in text mode, which
4051 confused us when we tried to map the file on windows. Fixes bug
4052 28614; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4054 o Minor features (address selection):
4055 - Treat the subnet 100.64.0.0/10 as public for some purposes;
4056 private for others. This subnet is the RFC 6598 (Carrier Grade
4057 NAT) IP range, and is deployed by many ISPs as an alternative to
4058 RFC 1918 that does not break existing internal networks. Tor now
4059 blocks SOCKS and control ports on these addresses and warns users
4060 if client ports or ExtORPorts are listening on a RFC 6598 address.
4061 Closes ticket 28525. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4063 o Minor features (bandwidth authority):
4064 - Make bandwidth authorities ignore relays that are reported in the
4065 bandwidth file with the flag "vote=0". This change allows us to
4066 report unmeasured relays for diagnostic reasons without including
4067 their bandwidth in the bandwidth authorities' vote. Closes
4069 - When a directory authority is using a bandwidth file to obtain the
4070 bandwidth values that will be included in the next vote, serve
4071 this bandwidth file at /tor/status-vote/next/bandwidth. Closes
4074 o Minor features (bootstrap reporting):
4075 - When reporting bootstrap progress, stop distinguishing between
4076 situations where only internal paths are available and situations
4077 where external paths are available. Previously, Tor would often
4078 erroneously report that it had only internal paths. Closes
4081 o Minor features (compilation):
4082 - Compile correctly when OpenSSL is built with engine support
4083 disabled, or with deprecated APIs disabled. Closes ticket 29026.
4084 Patches from "Mangix".
4086 o Minor features (continuous integration):
4087 - On Travis Rust builds, cleanup Rust registry and refrain from
4088 caching the "target/" directory to speed up builds. Resolves
4090 - Log Python version during each Travis CI job. Resolves
4092 - In Travis, tell timelimit to use stem's backtrace signals, and
4093 launch python directly from timelimit, so python receives the
4094 signals from timelimit, rather than make. Closes ticket 30117.
4096 o Minor features (controller):
4097 - Add a DROPOWNERSHIP command to undo the effects of TAKEOWNERSHIP.
4098 Implements ticket 28843.
4100 o Minor features (developer tooling):
4101 - Check that bugfix versions in changes files look like Tor versions
4102 from the versions spec. Warn when bugfixes claim to be on a future
4103 release. Closes ticket 27761.
4104 - Provide a git pre-commit hook that disallows committing if we have
4105 any failures in our code and changelog formatting checks. It is
4106 now available in scripts/maint/pre-commit.git-hook. Implements
4108 - Provide a git hook script to prevent "fixup!" and "squash!"
4109 commits from ending up in the master branch, as scripts/main/pre-
4110 push.git-hook. Closes ticket 27993.
4112 o Minor features (diagnostic):
4113 - Add more diagnostic log messages in an attempt to solve the issue
4114 of NUL bytes appearing in a microdescriptor cache. Related to
4117 o Minor features (directory authority):
4118 - When a directory authority is using a bandwidth file to obtain
4119 bandwidth values, include the digest of that file in the vote.
4120 Closes ticket 26698.
4121 - Directory authorities support a new consensus algorithm, under
4122 which the family lines in microdescriptors are encoded in a
4123 canonical form. This change makes family lines more compressible
4124 in transit, and on the client. Closes ticket 28266; implements
4127 o Minor features (directory authority, relay):
4128 - Authorities now vote on a "StaleDesc" flag to indicate that a
4129 relay's descriptor is so old that the relay should upload again
4130 soon. Relays treat this flag as a signal to upload a new
4131 descriptor. This flag will eventually let us remove the
4132 'published' date from routerstatus entries, and make our consensus
4133 diffs much smaller. Closes ticket 26770; implements proposal 293.
4135 o Minor features (dormant mode):
4136 - Add a DormantCanceledByStartup option to tell Tor that it should
4137 treat a startup event as cancelling any previous dormant state.
4138 Integrators should use this option with caution: it should only be
4139 used if Tor is being started because of something that the user
4140 did, and not if Tor is being automatically started in the
4141 background. Closes ticket 29357.
4143 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
4144 - Update the fallback whitelist based on operator opt-ins and opt-
4145 outs. Closes ticket 24805, patch by Phoul.
4147 o Minor features (FreeBSD):
4148 - On FreeBSD-based systems, warn relay operators if the
4149 "net.inet.ip.random_id" sysctl (IP ID randomization) is disabled.
4150 Closes ticket 28518.
4152 o Minor features (geoip):
4153 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 2 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
4154 Country database. Closes ticket 29992.
4156 o Minor features (HTTP standards compliance):
4157 - Stop sending the header "Content-type: application/octet-stream"
4158 along with transparently compressed documents: this confused
4159 browsers. Closes ticket 28100.
4161 o Minor features (IPv6):
4162 - We add an option ClientAutoIPv6ORPort, to make clients randomly
4163 prefer a node's IPv4 or IPv6 ORPort. The random preference is set
4164 every time a node is loaded from a new consensus or bridge config.
4165 We expect that this option will enable clients to bootstrap more
4166 quickly without having to determine whether they support IPv4,
4167 IPv6, or both. Closes ticket 27490. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4168 - When using addrs_in_same_network_family(), avoid choosing circuit
4169 paths that pass through the same IPv6 subnet more than once.
4170 Previously, we only checked IPv4 subnets. Closes ticket 24393.
4171 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4173 o Minor features (log messages):
4174 - Improve log message in v3 onion services that could print out
4175 negative revision counters. Closes ticket 27707. Patch
4178 o Minor features (memory usage):
4179 - Save memory by storing microdescriptor family lists with a more
4180 compact representation. Closes ticket 27359.
4181 - Tor clients now use mmap() to read consensus files from disk, so
4182 that they no longer need keep the full text of a consensus in
4183 memory when parsing it or applying a diff. Closes ticket 27244.
4185 o Minor features (NSS, diagnostic):
4186 - Try to log an error from NSS (if there is any) and a more useful
4187 description of our situation if we are using NSS and a call to
4188 SSL_ExportKeyingMaterial() fails. Diagnostic for ticket 29241.
4190 o Minor features (parsing):
4191 - Directory authorities now validate that router descriptors and
4192 ExtraInfo documents are in a valid subset of UTF-8, and reject
4193 them if they are not. Closes ticket 27367.
4195 o Minor features (performance):
4196 - Cache the results of summarize_protocol_flags(), so that we don't
4197 have to parse the same protocol-versions string over and over.
4198 This should save us a huge number of malloc calls on startup, and
4199 may reduce memory fragmentation with some allocators. Closes
4201 - Remove a needless memset() call from get_token_arguments, thereby
4202 speeding up the tokenization of directory objects by about 20%.
4203 Closes ticket 28852.
4204 - Replace parse_short_policy() with a faster implementation, to
4205 improve microdescriptor parsing time. Closes ticket 28853.
4206 - Speed up directory parsing a little by avoiding use of the non-
4207 inlined strcmp_len() function. Closes ticket 28856.
4208 - Speed up microdescriptor parsing by about 30%, to help improve
4209 startup time. Closes ticket 28839.
4211 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
4212 - Add support for emitting STATUS updates to Tor's control port from
4213 a pluggable transport process. Closes ticket 28846.
4214 - Add support for logging to Tor's logging subsystem from a
4215 pluggable transport process. Closes ticket 28180.
4217 o Minor features (process management):
4218 - Add a new process API for handling child processes. This new API
4219 allows Tor to have bi-directional communication with child
4220 processes on both Unix and Windows. Closes ticket 28179.
4221 - Use the subsystem manager to initialize and shut down the process
4222 module. Closes ticket 28847.
4224 o Minor features (relay):
4225 - When listing relay families, list them in canonical form including
4226 the relay's own identity, and try to give a more useful set of
4227 warnings. Part of ticket 28266 and proposal 298.
4229 o Minor features (required protocols):
4230 - Before exiting because of a missing required protocol, Tor will
4231 now check the publication time of the consensus, and not exit
4232 unless the consensus is newer than the Tor program's own release
4233 date. Previously, Tor would not check the consensus publication
4234 time, and so might exit because of a missing protocol that might
4235 no longer be required in a current consensus. Implements proposal
4236 297; closes ticket 27735.
4238 o Minor features (testing):
4239 - Treat all unexpected ERR and BUG messages as test failures. Closes
4241 - Allow a HeartbeatPeriod of less than 30 minutes in testing Tor
4242 networks. Closes ticket 28840. Patch by Rob Jansen.
4243 - Use the approx_time() function when setting the "Expires" header
4244 in directory replies, to make them more testable. Needed for
4247 o Minor bugfixes (security):
4248 - Fix a potential double free bug when reading huge bandwidth files.
4249 The issue is not exploitable in the current Tor network because
4250 the vulnerable code is only reached when directory authorities
4251 read bandwidth files, but bandwidth files come from a trusted
4252 source (usually the authorities themselves). Furthermore, the
4253 issue is only exploitable in rare (non-POSIX) 32-bit architectures,
4254 which are not used by any of the current authorities. Fixes bug
4255 30040; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Bug found and fixed by
4257 - Verify in more places that we are not about to create a buffer
4258 with more than INT_MAX bytes, to avoid possible OOB access in the
4259 event of bugs. Fixes bug 30041; bugfix on 0.2.0.16. Found and
4260 fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
4262 o Minor bugfix (continuous integration):
4263 - Reset coverage state on disk after Travis CI has finished. This
4264 should prevent future coverage merge errors from causing the test
4265 suite for the "process" subsystem to fail. The process subsystem
4266 was introduced in 0.4.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 29036; bugfix
4268 - Terminate test-stem if it takes more than 9.5 minutes to run.
4269 (Travis terminates the job after 10 minutes of no output.)
4270 Diagnostic for 29437. Fixes bug 30011; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
4272 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust):
4273 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
4274 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
4275 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
4277 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
4278 - Fix an unlikely memory leak in consensus_diff_apply(). Fixes bug
4279 29824; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. This is Coverity warning
4282 o Minor bugfixes (client, clock skew):
4283 - Bootstrap successfully even when Tor's clock is behind the clocks
4284 on the authorities. Fixes bug 28591; bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
4285 - Select guards even if the consensus has expired, as long as the
4286 consensus is still reasonably live. Fixes bug 24661; bugfix
4289 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
4290 - Fix compilation warnings in test_circuitpadding.c. Fixes bug
4291 29169; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4292 - Silence a compiler warning in test-memwipe.c on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
4293 29145; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
4294 - Compile correctly on OpenBSD; previously, we were missing some
4295 headers required in order to detect it properly. Fixes bug 28938;
4296 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
4298 o Minor bugfixes (directory clients):
4299 - Mark outdated dirservers when Tor only has a reasonably live
4300 consensus. Fixes bug 28569; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
4302 o Minor bugfixes (directory mirrors):
4303 - Even when a directory mirror's clock is behind the clocks on the
4304 authorities, we now allow the mirror to serve "future"
4305 consensuses. Fixes bug 28654; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
4307 o Minor bugfixes (DNS):
4308 - Gracefully handle an empty or absent resolve.conf file by falling
4309 back to using "localhost" as a DNS server (and hoping it works).
4310 Previously, we would just stop running as an exit. Fixes bug
4311 21900; bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
4313 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
4314 - Describe the contents of the v3 onion service client authorization
4315 files correctly: They hold public keys, not private keys. Fixes
4316 bug 28979; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Spotted by "Felixix".
4318 o Minor bugfixes (guards):
4319 - In count_acceptable_nodes(), the minimum number is now one bridge
4320 or guard node, and two non-guard nodes for a circuit. Previously,
4321 we had added up the sum of all nodes with a descriptor, but that
4322 could cause us to build failing circuits when we had either too
4323 many bridges or not enough guard nodes. Fixes bug 25885; bugfix on
4324 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4326 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
4327 - Fix tor_ersatz_socketpair on IPv6-only systems. Previously, the
4328 IPv6 socket was bound using an address family of AF_INET instead
4329 of AF_INET6. Fixes bug 28995; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from
4332 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox):
4333 - Fix startup crash when experimental sandbox support is enabled.
4334 Fixes bug 29150; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Patch by Peter Gerber.
4336 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
4337 - Correct a misleading error message when IPv4Only or IPv6Only is
4338 used but the resolved address can not be interpreted as an address
4339 of the specified IP version. Fixes bug 13221; bugfix on
4340 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
4341 - Log the correct port number for listening sockets when "auto" is
4342 used to let Tor pick the port number. Previously, port 0 was
4343 logged instead of the actual port number. Fixes bug 29144; bugfix
4344 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
4345 - Stop logging a BUG() warning when Tor is waiting for exit
4346 descriptors. Fixes bug 28656; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4347 - Avoid logging that we are relaxing a circuit timeout when that
4348 timeout is fixed. Fixes bug 28698; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
4349 - Log more information at "warning" level when unable to read a
4350 private key; log more information at "info" level when unable to
4351 read a public key. We had warnings here before, but they were lost
4352 during our NSS work. Fixes bug 29042; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4353 - Rework rep_hist_log_link_protocol_counts() to iterate through all
4354 link protocol versions when logging incoming/outgoing connection
4355 counts. Tor no longer skips version 5, and we won't have to
4356 remember to update this function when new link protocol version is
4357 developed. Fixes bug 28920; bugfix on 0.2.6.10.
4359 o Minor bugfixes (memory management):
4360 - Refactor the shared random state's memory management so that it
4361 actually takes ownership of the shared random value pointers.
4362 Fixes bug 29706; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
4363 - Stop leaking parts of the shared random state in the shared-random
4364 unit tests. Fixes bug 29599; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
4366 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
4367 - The amount of total available physical memory is now determined
4368 using the sysctl identifier HW_PHYSMEM (rather than HW_USERMEM)
4369 when it is defined and a 64-bit variant is not available. Fixes
4370 bug 28981; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
4372 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
4373 - Introduce additional checks into tor_addr_parse() to reject
4374 certain incorrect inputs that previously were not detected. Fixes
4375 bug 23082; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
4377 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client):
4378 - Stop logging a "BUG()" warning and stacktrace when we find a SOCKS
4379 connection waiting for a descriptor that we actually have in the
4380 cache. It turns out that this can actually happen, though it is
4381 rare. Now, tor will recover and retry the descriptor. Fixes bug
4382 28669; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
4384 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
4385 - Avoid crashing if ClientOnionAuthDir (incorrectly) contains more
4386 than one private key for a hidden service. Fixes bug 29040; bugfix
4388 - In hs_cache_store_as_client() log an HSDesc we failed to parse at
4389 "debug" level. Tor used to log it as a warning, which caused very
4390 long log lines to appear for some users. Fixes bug 29135; bugfix
4392 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
4393 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
4394 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
4395 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
4397 o Minor bugfixes (periodic events):
4398 - Refrain from calling routerlist_remove_old_routers() from
4399 check_descriptor_callback(). Instead, create a new hourly periodic
4400 event. Fixes bug 27929; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
4402 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
4403 - Make sure that data is continously read from standard output and
4404 standard error pipes of a pluggable transport child-process, to
4405 avoid deadlocking when a pipe's buffer is full. Fixes bug 26360;
4406 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
4408 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
4409 - Abort on panic in all build profiles, instead of potentially
4410 unwinding into C code. Fixes bug 27199; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4412 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler):
4413 - When re-adding channels to the pending list, check the correct
4414 channel's sched_heap_idx. This issue has had no effect in mainline
4415 Tor, but could have led to bugs down the road in improved versions
4416 of our circuit scheduling code. Fixes bug 29508; bugfix
4419 o Minor bugfixes (shellcheck):
4420 - Look for scripts in their correct locations during "make
4421 shellcheck". Previously we had looked in the wrong place during
4422 out-of-tree builds. Fixes bug 30263; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4424 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services):
4425 - Allow connections to single onion services to remain idle without
4426 being disconnected. Previously, relays acting as rendezvous points
4427 for single onion services were mistakenly closing idle rendezvous
4428 circuits after 60 seconds, thinking that they were unused
4429 directory-fetching circuits that had served their purpose. Fixes
4430 bug 29665; bugfix on 0.2.1.26.
4432 o Minor bugfixes (stats):
4433 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including PaddingStatistics in
4434 relay and bridge extra-info documents. Fixes bug 29017; bugfix
4437 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
4438 - Backport the 0.3.4 src/test/test-network.sh to 0.2.9. We need a
4439 recent test-network.sh to use new chutney features in CI. Fixes
4440 bug 29703; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
4441 - Fix a test failure on Windows caused by an unexpected "BUG"
4442 warning in our tests for tor_gmtime_r(-1). Fixes bug 29922; bugfix
4444 - Downgrade some LOG_ERR messages in the address/* tests to
4445 warnings. The LOG_ERR messages were occurring when we had no
4446 configured network. We were failing the unit tests, because we
4447 backported 28668 to 0.3.5.8, but did not backport 29530. Fixes bug
4448 29530; bugfix on 0.3.5.8.
4449 - Fix our gcov wrapper script to look for object files at the
4450 correct locations. Fixes bug 29435; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4451 - Decrease the false positive rate of stochastic probability
4452 distribution tests. Fixes bug 29693; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4453 - Fix intermittent failures on an adaptive padding test. Fixes one
4454 case of bug 29122; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4455 - Disable an unstable circuit-padding test that was failing
4456 intermittently because of an ill-defined small histogram. Such
4457 histograms will be allowed again after 29298 is implemented. Fixes
4458 a second case of bug 29122; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4459 - Detect and suppress "bug" warnings from the util/time test on
4460 Windows. Fixes bug 29161; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
4461 - Do not log an error-level message if we fail to find an IPv6
4462 network interface from the unit tests. Fixes bug 29160; bugfix
4464 - Instead of relying on hs_free_all() to clean up all onion service
4465 objects in test_build_descriptors(), we now deallocate them one by
4466 one. This lets Coverity know that we are not leaking memory there
4467 and fixes CID 1442277. Fixes bug 28989; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4468 - Check the time in the "Expires" header using approx_time(). Fixes
4469 bug 30001; bugfix on 0.4.0.4-rc.
4471 o Minor bugfixes (TLS protocol):
4472 - When classifying a client's selection of TLS ciphers, if the
4473 client ciphers are not yet available, do not cache the result.
4474 Previously, we had cached the unavailability of the cipher list
4475 and never looked again, which in turn led us to assume that the
4476 client only supported the ancient V1 link protocol. This, in turn,
4477 was causing Stem integration tests to stall in some cases. Fixes
4478 bug 30021; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
4480 o Minor bugfixes (UI):
4481 - Lower log level of unlink() errors during bootstrap. Fixes bug
4482 29930; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4484 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
4485 - Stop saying "Your Guard ..." in pathbias_measure_{use,close}_rate().
4486 Some users took this phrasing to mean that the mentioned guard was
4487 under their control or responsibility, which it is not. Fixes bug
4488 28895; bugfix on Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha.
4490 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, CI):
4491 - Skip the Appveyor 32-bit Windows Server 2016 job, and 64-bit
4492 Windows Server 2012 R2 job. The remaining 2 jobs still provide
4493 coverage of 64/32-bit, and Windows Server 2016/2012 R2. Also set
4494 fast_finish, so failed jobs terminate the build immediately. Fixes
4495 bug 29601; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
4497 o Code simplification and refactoring:
4498 - Introduce a connection_dir_buf_add() helper function that detects
4499 whether compression is in use, and adds a string accordingly.
4500 Resolves issue 28816.
4501 - Refactor handle_get_next_bandwidth() to use
4502 connection_dir_buf_add(). Implements ticket 29897.
4503 - Reimplement NETINFO cell parsing and generation to rely on
4504 trunnel-generated wire format handling code. Closes ticket 27325.
4505 - Remove unnecessary unsafe code from the Rust macro "cstr!". Closes
4507 - Rework SOCKS wire format handling to rely on trunnel-generated
4508 parsing/generation code. Resolves ticket 27620.
4509 - Split out bootstrap progress reporting from control.c into a
4510 separate file. Part of ticket 27402.
4511 - The .may_include files that we use to describe our directory-by-
4512 directory dependency structure now describe a noncircular
4513 dependency graph over the directories that they cover. Our
4514 checkIncludes.py tool now enforces this noncircularity. Closes
4518 - Clarify that Tor performs stream isolation among *Port listeners
4519 by default. Resolves issue 29121.
4520 - In the manpage entry describing MapAddress torrc setting, use
4521 example IP addresses from ranges specified for use in documentation
4522 by RFC 5737. Resolves issue 28623.
4523 - Mention that you cannot add a new onion service if Tor is already
4524 running with Sandbox enabled. Closes ticket 28560.
4525 - Improve ControlPort documentation. Mention that it accepts
4526 address:port pairs, and can be used multiple times. Closes
4528 - Document the exact output of "tor --version". Closes ticket 28889.
4531 - Remove the old check-tor script. Resolves issue 29072.
4532 - Stop responding to the 'GETINFO status/version/num-concurring' and
4533 'GETINFO status/version/num-versioning' control port commands, as
4534 those were deprecated back in 0.2.0.30. Also stop listing them in
4535 output of 'GETINFO info/names'. Resolves ticket 28757.
4536 - The scripts used to generate and maintain the list of fallback
4537 directories have been extracted into a new "fallback-scripts"
4538 repository. Closes ticket 27914.
4541 - Run shellcheck for scripts in the in scripts/ directory. Closes
4543 - Add unit tests for tokenize_string() and get_next_token()
4544 functions. Resolves ticket 27625.
4546 o Code simplification and refactoring (onion service v3):
4547 - Consolidate the authorized client descriptor cookie computation
4548 code from client and service into one function. Closes
4551 o Code simplification and refactoring (shell scripts):
4552 - Cleanup scan-build.sh to silence shellcheck warnings. Closes
4554 - Fix issues that shellcheck found in chutney-git-bisect.sh.
4555 Resolves ticket 28006.
4556 - Fix issues that shellcheck found in updateRustDependencies.sh.
4557 Resolves ticket 28012.
4558 - Fix shellcheck warnings in cov-diff script. Resolves issue 28009.
4559 - Fix shellcheck warnings in run_calltool.sh. Resolves ticket 28011.
4560 - Fix shellcheck warnings in run_trunnel.sh. Resolves issue 28010.
4561 - Fix shellcheck warnings in scripts/test/coverage. Resolves
4565 Changes in version 0.3.5.8 - 2019-02-21
4566 Tor 0.3.5.8 backports several fixes from later releases, including fixes
4567 for an annoying SOCKS-parsing bug that affected users in earlier 0.3.5.x
4570 It also includes a fix for a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor
4571 0.3.2.1-alpha and later. All Tor instances running an affected release
4572 should upgrade to 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
4574 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
4575 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
4576 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
4577 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
4578 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
4579 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
4580 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
4581 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
4583 o Major bugfixes (networking, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
4584 - Gracefully handle empty username/password fields in SOCKS5
4585 username/password auth messsage and allow SOCKS5 handshake to
4586 continue. Previously, we had rejected these handshakes, breaking
4587 certain applications. Fixes bug 29175; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4589 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
4590 - Compile correctly when OpenSSL is built with engine support
4591 disabled, or with deprecated APIs disabled. Closes ticket 29026.
4592 Patches from "Mangix".
4594 o Minor features (geoip):
4595 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
4596 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
4598 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
4599 - Treat all unexpected ERR and BUG messages as test failures. Closes
4602 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
4603 - Stop logging a "BUG()" warning and stacktrace when we find a SOCKS
4604 connection waiting for a descriptor that we actually have in the
4605 cache. It turns out that this can actually happen, though it is
4606 rare. Now, tor will recover and retry the descriptor. Fixes bug
4607 28669; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
4609 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
4610 - Fix tor_ersatz_socketpair on IPv6-only systems. Previously, the
4611 IPv6 socket was bound using an address family of AF_INET instead
4612 of AF_INET6. Fixes bug 28995; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from
4615 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
4616 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
4617 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
4618 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
4620 o Minor bugfixes (client, clock skew, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
4621 - Select guards even if the consensus has expired, as long as the
4622 consensus is still reasonably live. Fixes bug 24661; bugfix
4625 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
4626 - Compile correctly on OpenBSD; previously, we were missing some
4627 headers required in order to detect it properly. Fixes bug 28938;
4628 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
4630 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
4631 - Describe the contents of the v3 onion service client authorization
4632 files correctly: They hold public keys, not private keys. Fixes
4633 bug 28979; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Spotted by "Felixix".
4635 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
4636 - Rework rep_hist_log_link_protocol_counts() to iterate through all
4637 link protocol versions when logging incoming/outgoing connection
4638 counts. Tor no longer skips version 5, and we won't have to
4639 remember to update this function when new link protocol version is
4640 developed. Fixes bug 28920; bugfix on 0.2.6.10.
4642 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
4643 - Log more information at "warning" level when unable to read a
4644 private key; log more information at "info" level when unable to
4645 read a public key. We had warnings here before, but they were lost
4646 during our NSS work. Fixes bug 29042; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4648 o Minor bugfixes (misc, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
4649 - The amount of total available physical memory is now determined
4650 using the sysctl identifier HW_PHYSMEM (rather than HW_USERMEM)
4651 when it is defined and a 64-bit variant is not available. Fixes
4652 bug 28981; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
4654 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
4655 - Avoid crashing if ClientOnionAuthDir (incorrectly) contains more
4656 than one private key for a hidden service. Fixes bug 29040; bugfix
4658 - In hs_cache_store_as_client() log an HSDesc we failed to parse at
4659 "debug" level. Tor used to log it as a warning, which caused very
4660 long log lines to appear for some users. Fixes bug 29135; bugfix
4662 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
4663 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
4664 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
4665 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
4667 o Minor bugfixes (tests, directory clients, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
4668 - Mark outdated dirservers when Tor only has a reasonably live
4669 consensus. Fixes bug 28569; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
4671 o Minor bugfixes (tests, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
4672 - Detect and suppress "bug" warnings from the util/time test on
4673 Windows. Fixes bug 29161; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
4674 - Do not log an error-level message if we fail to find an IPv6
4675 network interface from the unit tests. Fixes bug 29160; bugfix
4678 o Minor bugfixes (usability, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
4679 - Stop saying "Your Guard ..." in pathbias_measure_{use,close}_rate().
4680 Some users took this phrasing to mean that the mentioned guard was
4681 under their control or responsibility, which it is not. Fixes bug
4682 28895; bugfix on Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha.
4685 Changes in version 0.3.4.11 - 2019-02-21
4686 Tor 0.3.4.11 is the third stable release in its series. It includes
4687 a fix for a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor 0.3.2.1-alpha and
4688 later. All Tor instances running an affected release should upgrade to
4689 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
4691 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
4692 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
4693 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
4694 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
4695 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
4696 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
4697 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
4698 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
4700 o Minor features (geoip):
4701 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
4702 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
4704 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
4705 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
4706 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
4707 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
4709 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
4710 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
4711 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
4712 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
4713 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
4716 Changes in version 0.3.3.12 - 2019-02-21
4717 Tor 0.3.3.12 fixes a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor
4718 0.3.2.1-alpha and later. All Tor instances running an affected release
4719 should upgrade to 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
4721 This release marks the end of support for the Tor 0.3.3.x series. We
4722 recommend that users switch to either the Tor 0.3.4 series (supported
4723 until at least 10 June 2019), or the Tor 0.3.5 series, which will
4724 receive long-term support until at least 1 Feb 2022.
4726 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
4727 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
4728 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
4729 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
4730 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
4731 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
4732 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
4733 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
4735 o Minor features (geoip):
4736 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
4737 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
4739 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
4740 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
4741 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
4742 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
4744 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
4745 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
4746 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
4747 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
4748 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
4751 Changes in version 0.3.3.11 - 2019-01-07
4752 Tor 0.3.3.11 backports numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
4753 numerous fixes, including an important fix for anyone using OpenSSL
4754 1.1.1. Anyone running an earlier version of Tor 0.3.3 should upgrade
4755 to this version, or to a later series.
4757 As a reminder, support the Tor 0.3.3 series will end on 22 Feb 2019.
4758 We anticipate that this will be the last release of Tor 0.3.3, unless
4759 some major bug is before then. Some time between now and then, users
4760 should switch to either the Tor 0.3.4 series (supported until at least
4761 10 June 2019), or the Tor 0.3.5 series, which will receive long-term
4762 support until at least 1 Feb 2022.
4764 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
4765 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
4766 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
4767 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
4768 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
4771 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
4772 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
4773 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
4774 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4776 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
4777 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
4778 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
4779 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
4780 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
4781 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
4782 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
4783 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
4785 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
4786 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
4787 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
4788 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
4790 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
4791 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
4792 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
4793 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
4794 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
4796 o Minor features (geoip):
4797 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
4798 Country database. Closes ticket 29012.
4800 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround, backport from 0.3.5.7):
4801 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
4802 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
4803 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
4804 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
4805 Closes ticket 28973.
4807 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.5.7):
4808 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
4809 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
4810 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
4812 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
4813 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
4814 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
4817 o Minor bugfixes (code safety, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
4818 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
4819 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
4821 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
4822 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
4823 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
4824 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
4826 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
4827 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
4828 with a different relay, instead making a BUG() warning. Fixes bug
4829 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4831 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions, backport form 0.3.5.3-alpha):
4832 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
4833 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
4834 were the same, the default setting (0) for
4835 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
4836 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
4839 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
4840 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
4841 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
4844 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
4845 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
4846 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
4847 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
4848 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4850 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
4851 - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
4852 descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
4853 gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
4854 authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4856 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
4857 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
4858 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
4859 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
4860 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
4861 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4863 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel):
4864 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to
4865 an HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix on
4868 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
4869 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
4870 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
4872 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
4873 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
4874 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4876 o Minor bugfixes (protover, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
4877 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
4878 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
4881 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
4882 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
4883 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
4884 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
4885 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
4886 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
4887 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
4888 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4890 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
4891 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
4892 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
4893 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
4895 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
4896 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
4897 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4898 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
4899 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
4900 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4901 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
4902 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
4903 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
4904 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
4906 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
4907 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
4908 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
4909 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
4910 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
4911 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
4913 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
4914 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
4915 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
4916 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
4917 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
4919 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, guard selection, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
4920 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
4921 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
4924 Changes in version 0.3.4.10 - 2019-01-07
4925 Tor 0.3.4.9 is the second stable release in its series; it backports
4926 numerous fixes, including an important fix for relays, and for anyone
4927 using OpenSSL 1.1.1. Anyone running an earlier version of Tor 0.3.4
4930 As a reminder, the Tor 0.3.4 series will be supported until 10 June
4931 2019. Some time between now and then, users should switch to the Tor
4932 0.3.5 series, which will receive long-term support until at least 1
4935 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
4936 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
4937 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
4938 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
4939 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
4942 o Major bugfixes (relay, directory, backport from 0.3.5.7):
4943 - Always reactivate linked connections in the main loop so long as
4944 any linked connection has been active. Previously, connections
4945 serving directory information wouldn't get reactivated after the
4946 first chunk of data was sent (usually 32KB), which would prevent
4947 clients from bootstrapping. Fixes bug 28912; bugfix on
4948 0.3.4.1-alpha. Patch by "cypherpunks3".
4950 o Minor features (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
4951 - Always show the configure and test logs, and upload them as build
4952 artifacts, when building for Windows using Appveyor CI.
4955 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
4956 - For purposes of CIRC_BW-based dropped cell detection, track half-
4957 closed stream ids, and allow their ENDs, SENDMEs, DATA and path
4958 bias check cells to arrive without counting it as dropped until
4959 either the END arrives, or the windows are empty. Closes
4962 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
4963 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
4964 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
4965 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
4966 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
4968 o Minor features (geoip):
4969 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
4970 Country database. Closes ticket 28395.
4972 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround, backport from 0.3.5.7):
4973 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
4974 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
4975 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
4976 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
4977 Closes ticket 28973.
4979 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
4980 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
4981 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
4982 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
4984 o Minor bugfixes (connection, relay, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
4985 - Avoid a logging a BUG() stacktrace when closing connection held
4986 open because the write side is rate limited but not the read side.
4987 Now, the connection read side is simply shut down until Tor is
4988 able to flush the connection and close it. Fixes bug 27750; bugfix
4991 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
4992 - Manually configure the zstd compiler options, when building using
4993 mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. The MSYS2 mingw zstd package does
4994 not come with a pkg-config file. Fixes bug 28454; bugfix
4996 - Stop using an external OpenSSL install, and stop installing MSYS2
4997 packages, when building using mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. Fixes
4998 bug 28399; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5000 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
5001 - Explicitly specify the path to the OpenSSL library and do not
5002 download OpenSSL from Pacman, but instead use the library that is
5003 already provided by AppVeyor. Fixes bug 28574; bugfix on master.
5005 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions, backport form 0.3.5.3-alpha):
5006 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
5007 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
5008 were the same, the default setting (0) for
5009 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
5010 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
5013 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
5014 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
5015 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
5017 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
5018 - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
5019 descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
5020 gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
5021 authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5023 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
5024 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
5025 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
5026 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
5027 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
5028 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5030 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.5.7):
5031 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
5032 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
5033 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
5035 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, guard selection, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
5036 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
5037 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5040 Changes in version 0.3.5.7 - 2019-01-07
5041 Tor 0.3.5.7 is the first stable release in its series; it includes
5042 compilation and portability fixes, and a fix for a severe problem
5043 affecting directory caches.
5045 The Tor 0.3.5 series includes several new features and performance
5046 improvements, including client authorization for v3 onion services,
5047 cleanups to bootstrap reporting, support for improved bandwidth-
5048 measurement tools, experimental support for NSS in place of OpenSSL,
5049 and much more. It also begins a full reorganization of Tor's code
5050 layout, for improved modularity and maintainability in the future.
5051 Finally, there is the usual set of performance improvements and
5052 bugfixes that we try to do in every release series.
5054 There are a couple of changes in the 0.3.5 that may affect
5055 compatibility. First, the default version for newly created onion
5056 services is now v3. Use the HiddenServiceVersion option if you want to
5057 override this. Second, some log messages related to bootstrapping have
5058 changed; if you use stem, you may need to update to the latest version
5059 so it will recognize them.
5061 We have designated 0.3.5 as a "long-term support" (LTS) series: we
5062 will continue to patch major bugs in typical configurations of 0.3.5
5063 until at least 1 Feb 2022. (We do not plan to provide long-term
5064 support for embedding, Rust support, NSS support, running a directory
5065 authority, or unsupported platforms. For these, you will need to stick
5066 with the latest stable release.)
5068 Below are the changes since 0.3.4.9. For a complete list of changes
5069 since 0.3.5.6-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
5071 o Major features (bootstrap):
5072 - Don't report directory progress until after a connection to a
5073 relay or bridge has succeeded. Previously, we'd report 80%
5074 progress based on cached directory information when we couldn't
5075 even connect to the network. Closes ticket 27169.
5077 o Major features (new code layout):
5078 - Nearly all of Tor's source code has been moved around into more
5079 logical places. The "common" directory is now divided into a set
5080 of libraries in "lib", and files in the "or" directory have been
5081 split into "core" (logic absolutely needed for onion routing),
5082 "feature" (independent modules in Tor), and "app" (to configure
5083 and invoke the rest of Tor). See doc/HACKING/CodeStructure.md for
5084 more information. Closes ticket 26481.
5086 This refactoring is not complete: although the libraries have been
5087 refactored to be acyclic, the main body of Tor is still too
5088 interconnected. We will attempt to improve this in the future.
5090 o Major features (onion services v3):
5091 - Implement onion service client authorization at the descriptor
5092 level: only authorized clients can decrypt a service's descriptor
5093 to find out how to contact it. A new torrc option was added to
5094 control this client side: ClientOnionAuthDir <path>. On the
5095 service side, if the "authorized_clients/" directory exists in the
5096 onion service directory path, client configurations are read from
5097 the files within. See the manpage for more details. Closes ticket
5098 27547. Patch done by Suphanat Chunhapanya (haxxpop).
5099 - Improve revision counter generation in next-gen onion services.
5100 Onion services can now scale by hosting multiple instances on
5101 different hosts without synchronization between them, which was
5102 previously impossible because descriptors would get rejected by
5103 HSDirs. Addresses ticket 25552.
5104 - Version 3 onion services can now use the per-service
5105 HiddenServiceExportCircuitID option to differentiate client
5106 circuits. It communicates with the service by using the HAProxy
5107 protocol to assign virtual IP addresses to inbound client
5108 circuits. Closes ticket 4700. Patch by Mahrud Sayrafi.
5110 o Major features (onion services, UI change):
5111 - For a newly created onion service, the default version is now 3.
5112 Tor still supports existing version 2 services, but the operator
5113 now needs to set "HiddenServiceVersion 2" in order to create a new
5114 version 2 service. For existing services, Tor now learns the
5115 version by reading the key file. Closes ticket 27215.
5117 o Major features (portability, cryptography, experimental, TLS):
5118 - Tor now has the option to compile with the NSS library instead of
5119 OpenSSL. This feature is experimental, and we expect that bugs may
5120 remain. It is mainly intended for environments where Tor's
5121 performance is not CPU-bound, and where NSS is already known to be
5122 installed. To try it out, configure Tor with the --enable-nss
5123 flag. Closes tickets 26631, 26815, and 26816.
5125 If you are experimenting with this option and using an old cached
5126 consensus, Tor may fail to start. To solve this, delete your
5127 "cached-consensus" and "cached-microdesc-consensus" files,
5128 (if present), and restart Tor.
5130 o Major features (relay, UI change):
5131 - Relays no longer run as exits by default. If the "ExitRelay"
5132 option is auto (or unset), and no exit policy is specified with
5133 ExitPolicy or ReducedExitPolicy, we now treat ExitRelay as 0.
5134 Previously in this case, we allowed exit traffic and logged a
5135 warning message. Closes ticket 21530. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5136 - Tor now validates that the ContactInfo config option is valid UTF-
5137 8 when parsing torrc. Closes ticket 27428.
5139 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
5140 - Fix compilation on ARM (and other less-used CPUs) when compiling
5141 with OpenSSL before 1.1. Fixes bug 27781; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5143 o Major bugfixes (compilation, rust):
5144 - Rust tests can now build and run successfully with the
5145 --enable-fragile-hardening option enabled. Doing this currently
5146 requires the rust beta channel; it will be possible with stable
5147 rust once Rust version 1.31 is released. Patch from Alex Crichton.
5148 Fixes bugs 27272, 27273, and 27274. Bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5150 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
5151 - Actually check that the address we get from DirAuthority
5152 configuration line is valid IPv4. Explicitly disallow DirAuthority
5153 address to be a DNS hostname. Fixes bug 26488; bugfix
5156 o Major bugfixes (embedding, main loop):
5157 - When DisableNetwork becomes set, actually disable periodic events
5158 that are already enabled. (Previously, we would refrain from
5159 enabling new ones, but we would leave the old ones turned on.)
5160 Fixes bug 28348; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5162 o Major bugfixes (main loop, bootstrap):
5163 - Make sure Tor bootstraps and works properly if only the
5164 ControlPort is set. Prior to this fix, Tor would only bootstrap
5165 when a client port was set (Socks, Trans, NATD, DNS or HTTPTunnel
5166 port). Fixes bug 27849; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5168 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3):
5169 - On an intro point for a version 3 onion service, stop closing
5170 introduction circuits on a NACK. This lets the client decide
5171 whether to reuse the circuit or discard it. Previously, we closed
5172 intro circuits when sending NACKs. Fixes bug 27841; bugfix on
5173 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chaunan.
5175 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability):
5176 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
5177 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
5178 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
5179 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
5182 o Major bugfixes (relay bandwidth statistics):
5183 - When we close relayed circuits, report the data in the circuit
5184 queues as being written in our relay bandwidth stats. This
5185 mitigates guard discovery and other attacks that close circuits
5186 for the explicit purpose of noticing this discrepancy in
5187 statistics. Fixes bug 23512; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
5189 o Major bugfixes (relay):
5190 - When our write bandwidth limit is exhausted, stop writing on the
5191 connection. Previously, we had a typo in the code that would make
5192 us stop reading instead, leading to relay connections being stuck
5193 indefinitely and consuming kernel RAM. Fixes bug 28089; bugfix
5195 - Always reactivate linked connections in the main loop so long as
5196 any linked connection has been active. Previously, connections
5197 serving directory information wouldn't get reactivated after the
5198 first chunk of data was sent (usually 32KB), which would prevent
5199 clients from bootstrapping. Fixes bug 28912; bugfix on
5200 0.3.4.1-alpha. Patch by "cypherpunks3".
5202 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process):
5203 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
5204 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
5205 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5207 o Minor features (admin tools):
5208 - Add a new --key-expiration option to print the expiration date of
5209 the signing cert in an ed25519_signing_cert file. Resolves
5212 o Minor features (build):
5213 - If you pass the "--enable-pic" option to configure, Tor will try
5214 to tell the compiler to build position-independent code suitable
5215 to link into a dynamic library. (The default remains -fPIE, for
5216 code suitable for a relocatable executable.) Closes ticket 23846.
5218 o Minor features (code correctness, testing):
5219 - Tor's build process now includes a "check-includes" make target to
5220 verify that no module of Tor relies on any headers from a higher-
5221 level module. We hope to use this feature over time to help
5222 refactor our codebase. Closes ticket 26447.
5224 o Minor features (code layout):
5225 - We have a new "lowest-level" error-handling API for use by code
5226 invoked from within the logging module. With this interface, the
5227 logging code is no longer at risk of calling into itself if a
5228 failure occurs while it is trying to log something. Closes
5231 o Minor features (compilation):
5232 - When possible, place our warning flags in a separate file, to
5233 avoid flooding verbose build logs. Closes ticket 28924.
5234 - Tor's configure script now supports a --with-malloc= option to
5235 select your malloc implementation. Supported options are
5236 "tcmalloc", "jemalloc", "openbsd" (deprecated), and "system" (the
5237 default). Addresses part of ticket 20424. Based on a patch from
5240 o Minor features (config):
5241 - The "auto" keyword in torrc is now case-insensitive. Closes
5244 o Minor features (continuous integration):
5245 - Add a Travis CI build for --enable-nss on Linux gcc. Closes
5247 - Add new CI job to Travis configuration to run stem-based
5248 integration tests. Closes ticket 27913.
5249 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
5250 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
5251 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
5252 - Report what program produced the mysterious core file that we
5253 occasionally see on Travis CI during make distcheck. Closes
5255 - Don't do a distcheck with --disable-module-dirauth in Travis.
5256 Implements ticket 27252.
5257 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
5258 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
5259 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
5260 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
5261 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
5262 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
5263 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
5264 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
5265 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
5267 o Minor features (continuous integration, Windows):
5268 - Always show the configure and test logs, and upload them as build
5269 artifacts, when building for Windows using Appveyor CI.
5271 - Build tor on Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2016 using
5272 Appveyor's CI. Closes ticket 28318.
5274 o Minor features (controller):
5275 - Emit CIRC_BW events as soon as we detect that we processed an
5276 invalid or otherwise dropped cell on a circuit. This allows
5277 vanguards and other controllers to react more quickly to dropped
5278 cells. Closes ticket 27678.
5279 - For purposes of CIRC_BW-based dropped cell detection, track half-
5280 closed stream ids, and allow their ENDs, SENDMEs, DATA and path
5281 bias check cells to arrive without counting it as dropped until
5282 either the END arrives, or the windows are empty. Closes
5284 - Implement a 'GETINFO md/all' controller command to enable getting
5285 all known microdescriptors. Closes ticket 8323.
5286 - The GETINFO command now support an "uptime" argument, to return
5287 Tor's uptime in seconds. Closes ticket 25132.
5289 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
5290 - Make our OOM handler aware of the DNS cache so that it doesn't
5291 fill up the memory. This check is important for our DoS mitigation
5292 subsystem. Closes ticket 18642. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5294 o Minor features (development):
5295 - Tor's makefile now supports running the "clippy" Rust style tool
5296 on our Rust code. Closes ticket 22156.
5298 o Minor features (directory authority):
5299 - There is no longer an artificial upper limit on the length of
5300 bandwidth lines. Closes ticket 26223.
5301 - When a bandwidth file is used to obtain the bandwidth measurements,
5302 include this bandwidth file headers in the votes. Closes
5304 - Improved support for networks with only a single authority or a
5305 single fallback directory. Patch from Gabriel Somlo. Closes
5308 o Minor features (embedding API):
5309 - The Tor controller API now supports a function to launch Tor with
5310 a preconstructed owning controller FD, so that embedding
5311 applications don't need to manage controller ports and
5312 authentication. Closes ticket 24204.
5313 - The Tor controller API now has a function that returns the name
5314 and version of the backend implementing the API. Closes
5317 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
5318 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
5319 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
5320 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
5321 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
5323 o Minor features (geoip):
5324 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
5325 Country database. Closes ticket 29012.
5327 o Minor features (memory management):
5328 - Get Libevent to use the same memory allocator as Tor, by calling
5329 event_set_mem_functions() during initialization. Resolves
5332 o Minor features (memory usage):
5333 - When not using them, store legacy TAP public onion keys in DER-
5334 encoded format, rather than as expanded public keys. This should
5335 save several megabytes on typical clients. Closes ticket 27246.
5337 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround):
5338 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
5339 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
5340 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
5341 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
5342 Closes ticket 28973.
5344 o Minor features (OpenSSL):
5345 - When possible, use RFC5869 HKDF implementation from OpenSSL rather
5346 than our own. Resolves ticket 19979.
5348 o Minor features (performance):
5349 - Remove about 96% of the work from the function that we run at
5350 startup to test our curve25519_basepoint implementation. Since
5351 this function has yet to find an actual failure, we now only run
5352 it for 8 iterations instead of 200. Based on our profile
5353 information, this change should save around 8% of our startup time
5354 on typical desktops, and may have a similar effect on other
5355 platforms. Closes ticket 28838.
5356 - Stop re-validating our hardcoded Diffie-Hellman parameters on
5357 every startup. Doing this wasted time and cycles, especially on
5358 low-powered devices. Closes ticket 28851.
5360 o Minor features (Rust, code quality):
5361 - Improve rust code quality in the rust protover implementation by
5362 making it more idiomatic. Includes changing an internal API to
5363 take &str instead of &String. Closes ticket 26492.
5365 o Minor features (testing):
5366 - Add scripts/test/chutney-git-bisect.sh, for bisecting using
5367 chutney. Implements ticket 27211.
5369 o Minor features (tor-resolve):
5370 - The tor-resolve utility can now be used with IPv6 SOCKS proxies.
5371 Side-effect of the refactoring for ticket 26526.
5373 o Minor features (UI):
5374 - Log each included configuration file or directory as we read it,
5375 to provide more visibility about where Tor is reading from. Patch
5376 from Unto Sten; closes ticket 27186.
5377 - Lower log level of "Scheduler type KIST has been enabled" to INFO.
5378 Closes ticket 26703.
5380 o Minor bugfixes (32-bit OSX and iOS, timing):
5381 - Fix an integer overflow bug in our optimized 32-bit millisecond-
5382 difference algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Previously, it
5383 would overflow when calculating the difference between two times
5384 more than 47 days apart. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
5386 - Improve the precision of our 32-bit millisecond difference
5387 algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139;
5388 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5389 - Relax the tolerance on the mainloop/update_time_jumps test when
5390 running on 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
5393 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
5394 - Try harder to get descriptors in non-exit test networks, by using
5395 the mid weight for the third hop when there are no exits. Fixes
5396 bug 27237; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
5398 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
5399 - Avoid casting smartlist index to int implicitly, as it may trigger
5400 a warning (-Wshorten-64-to-32). Fixes bug 26282; bugfix on
5401 0.2.3.13-alpha, 0.2.7.1-alpha and 0.2.1.1-alpha.
5402 - Use time_t for all values in
5403 predicted_ports_prediction_time_remaining(). Rework the code that
5404 computes difference between durations/timestamps. Fixes bug 27165;
5405 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5407 o Minor bugfixes (client, memory usage):
5408 - When not running as a directory cache, there is no need to store
5409 the text of the current consensus networkstatus in RAM.
5410 Previously, however, clients would store it anyway, at a cost of
5411 over 5 MB. Now, they do not. Fixes bug 27247; bugfix
5414 o Minor bugfixes (client, ReachableAddresses):
5415 - Instead of adding a "reject *:*" line to ReachableAddresses when
5416 loading the configuration, add one to the policy after parsing it
5417 in parse_reachable_addresses(). This prevents extra "reject *.*"
5418 lines from accumulating on reloads. Fixes bug 20874; bugfix on
5419 0.1.1.5-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5421 o Minor bugfixes (code quality):
5422 - Rename sandbox_getaddrinfo() and other functions to no longer
5423 misleadingly suggest that they are sandbox-only. Fixes bug 26525;
5424 bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
5426 o Minor bugfixes (code safety):
5427 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
5428 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
5431 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
5432 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
5433 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
5434 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
5436 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
5437 - Refuse to start with relative file paths and RunAsDaemon set
5438 (regression from the fix for bug 22731). Fixes bug 28298; bugfix
5441 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, Onion Services):
5442 - In rend_service_parse_port_config(), disallow any input to remain
5443 after address-port pair was parsed. This will catch address and
5444 port being whitespace-separated by mistake of the user. Fixes bug
5445 27044; bugfix on 0.2.9.10.
5447 o Minor bugfixes (connection, relay):
5448 - Avoid a logging a BUG() stacktrace when closing connection held
5449 open because the write side is rate limited but not the read side.
5450 Now, the connection read side is simply shut down until Tor is
5451 able to flush the connection and close it. Fixes bug 27750; bugfix
5454 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows):
5455 - Stop reinstalling identical packages in our Windows CI. Fixes bug
5456 27464; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5457 - Install only the necessary mingw packages during our appveyor
5458 builds. This change makes the build a little faster, and prevents
5459 a conflict with a preinstalled mingw openssl that appveyor now
5460 ships. Fixes bugs 27765 and 27943; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
5461 - Explicitly specify the path to the OpenSSL library and do not
5462 download OpenSSL from Pacman, but instead use the library that is
5463 already provided by AppVeyor. Fixes bug 28574; bugfix on master.
5464 - Manually configure the zstd compiler options, when building using
5465 mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. The MSYS2 mingw zstd package does
5466 not come with a pkg-config file. Fixes bug 28454; bugfix
5468 - Stop using an external OpenSSL install, and stop installing MSYS2
5469 packages, when building using mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. Fixes
5470 bug 28399; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5472 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
5473 - Consider all routerinfo errors other than "not a server" to be
5474 transient for the purpose of "GETINFO exit-policy/*" controller
5475 request. Print stacktrace in the unlikely case of failing to
5476 recompute routerinfo digest. Fixes bug 27034; bugfix
5479 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
5480 - Fix an unreached code path where we checked the value of
5481 "hostname" inside send_resolved_hostname_cell(). Previously, we
5482 used it before checking it; now we check it first. Fixes bug
5483 28879; bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
5485 o Minor bugfixes (directory connection shutdown):
5486 - Avoid a double-close when shutting down a stalled directory
5487 connection. Fixes bug 26896; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5489 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions):
5490 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
5491 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
5492 were the same, the default setting (0) for
5493 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
5494 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
5497 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel):
5498 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to an
5499 HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix
5502 o Minor bugfixes (ipv6):
5503 - In addrs_in_same_network_family(), we choose the subnet size based
5504 on the IP version (IPv4 or IPv6). Previously, we chose a fixed
5505 subnet size of /16 for both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. Fixes bug
5506 15518; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5508 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
5509 - Permit the "shutdown()" system call, which is apparently used by
5510 OpenSSL under some circumstances. Fixes bug 28183; bugfix
5513 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
5514 - Stop talking about the Named flag in log messages. Clients have
5515 ignored the Named flag since 0.3.2. Fixes bug 28441; bugfix
5517 - As a precaution, do an early return from log_addr_has_changed() if
5518 Tor is running as client. Also, log a stack trace for debugging as
5519 this function should only be called when Tor runs as server. Fixes
5520 bug 26892; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
5521 - Refrain from mentioning bug 21018 in the logs, as it is already
5522 fixed. Fixes bug 25477; bugfix on 0.2.9.8.
5524 o Minor bugfixes (logging, documentation):
5525 - When SafeLogging is enabled, scrub IP address in
5526 channel_tls_process_netinfo_cell(). Also, add a note to manpage
5527 that scrubbing is not guaranteed on loglevels below Notice. Fixes
5528 bug 26882; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
5530 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
5531 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
5532 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
5533 - Fix a small memory leak when calling Tor with --dump-config. Fixes
5534 bug 27893; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5536 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding):
5537 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
5538 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5540 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v2):
5541 - Log at level "info", not "warning", in the case that we do not
5542 have a consensus when a .onion request comes in. This can happen
5543 normally while bootstrapping. Fixes bug 27040; bugfix
5546 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
5547 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
5548 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
5549 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
5550 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
5551 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5552 - Build the service descriptor's signing key certificate before
5553 uploading, so we always have a fresh one: leaving no chances for
5554 it to expire service side. Fixes bug 27838; bugfix
5556 - Stop dumping a stack trace when trying to connect to an intro
5557 point without having a descriptor for it. Fixes bug 27774; bugfix
5559 - When selecting a v3 rendezvous point, don't only look at the
5560 protover, but also check whether the curve25519 onion key is
5561 present. This way we avoid picking a relay that supports the v3
5562 rendezvous but for which we don't have the microdescriptor. Fixes
5563 bug 27797; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5564 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
5565 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
5566 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
5567 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5568 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
5569 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
5571 - When replacing a descriptor in the client cache, make sure to
5572 close all client introduction circuits for the old descriptor, so
5573 we don't end up with unusable leftover circuits. Fixes bug 27471;
5574 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5576 o Minor bugfixes (OS compatibility):
5577 - Properly handle configuration changes that move a listener to/from
5578 wildcard IP address. If the first attempt to bind a socket fails,
5579 close the old listener and try binding the socket again. Fixes bug
5580 17873; bugfix on 0.0.8pre-1.
5582 o Minor bugfixes (performance)::
5583 - Rework node_is_a_configured_bridge() to no longer call
5584 node_get_all_orports(), which was performing too many memory
5585 allocations. Fixes bug 27224; bugfix on 0.2.3.9.
5587 o Minor bugfixes (protover):
5588 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
5589 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
5592 o Minor bugfixes (protover, rust):
5593 - Reject extra commas in version strings. Fixes bug 27197; bugfix
5595 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
5596 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
5597 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
5598 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
5599 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
5600 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
5601 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
5602 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
5603 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
5604 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5606 o Minor bugfixes (relay shutdown, systemd):
5607 - Notify systemd of ShutdownWaitLength so it can be set to longer
5608 than systemd's TimeoutStopSec. In Tor's systemd service file, set
5609 TimeoutSec to 60 seconds to allow Tor some time to shut down.
5610 Fixes bug 28113; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
5612 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics):
5613 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
5614 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
5615 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
5617 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
5618 - Consider the fact that we'll be making direct connections to our
5619 entry and guard nodes when computing the fraction of nodes that
5620 have their descriptors. Also, if we are using bridges and there is
5621 at least one bridge with a full descriptor, treat the fraction of
5622 guards available as 100%. Fixes bug 25886; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
5623 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5624 - Update the message logged on relays when DirCache is disabled.
5625 Since 0.3.3.5-rc, authorities require DirCache (V2Dir) for the
5626 Guard flag. Fixes bug 24312; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
5628 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
5629 - Stop running stem's unit tests as part of "make test-stem", but
5630 continue to run stem's unit and online tests during "make test-
5631 stem-full". Fixes bug 28568; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
5632 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
5633 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5634 - Make the hs_service tests use the same time source when creating
5635 the introduction point and when testing it. Now tests work better
5636 on very slow systems like ARM or Travis. Fixes bug 27810; bugfix
5638 - Revise the "conditionvar_timeout" test so that it succeeds even on
5639 heavily loaded systems where the test threads are not scheduled
5640 within 200 msec. Fixes bug 27073; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
5641 - Fix two unit tests to work when HOME environment variable is not
5642 set. Fixes bug 27096; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
5643 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
5644 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
5645 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
5646 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
5647 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
5648 - When logging a version mismatch in our openssl_version tests,
5649 report the actual offending version strings. Fixes bug 26152;
5650 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
5651 - Fix forking tests on Windows when there is a space somewhere in
5652 the path. Fixes bug 26437; bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
5654 o Minor bugfixes (Windows):
5655 - Correctly identify Windows 8.1, Windows 10, and Windows Server
5656 2008 and later from their NT versions. Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on
5657 0.2.2.34; reported by Keifer Bly.
5658 - On recent Windows versions, the GetVersionEx() function may report
5659 an earlier Windows version than the running OS. To avoid user
5660 confusion, add "[or later]" to Tor's version string on affected
5661 versions of Windows. Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on 0.2.2.34; reported
5663 - Remove Windows versions that were never supported by the
5664 GetVersionEx() function. Stop duplicating the latest Windows
5665 version in get_uname(). Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on 0.2.2.34;
5666 reported by Keifer Bly.
5668 o Code simplification and refactoring:
5669 - When parsing a port configuration, make it more obvious to static
5670 analyzer tools that we always initialize the address. Closes
5672 - Divide more large Tor source files -- especially ones that span
5673 multiple areas of functionality -- into smaller parts, including
5674 onion.c and main.c. Closes ticket 26747.
5675 - Divide the "routerparse.c" module into separate modules for each
5676 group of parsed objects. Closes ticket 27924.
5677 - Move protover_rust.c to the same place protover.c was moved to.
5678 Closes ticket 27814.
5679 - Split directory.c into separate pieces for client, server, and
5680 common functionality. Closes ticket 26744.
5681 - Split the non-statistics-related parts from the rephist.c and
5682 geoip.c modules. Closes ticket 27892.
5683 - Split the router.c file into relay-only and shared components, to
5684 help with future modularization. Closes ticket 27864.
5685 - Divide the routerlist.c and dirserv.c modules into smaller parts.
5686 Closes ticket 27799.
5687 - 'updateFallbackDirs.py' now ignores the blacklist file, as it's not
5688 longer needed. Closes ticket 26502.
5689 - Include paths to header files within Tor are now qualified by
5690 directory within the top-level src directory.
5691 - Many structures have been removed from the centralized "or.h"
5692 header, and moved into their own headers. This will allow us to
5693 reduce the number of places in the code that rely on each
5694 structure's contents and layout. Closes ticket 26383.
5695 - Remove ATTR_NONNULL macro from codebase. Resolves ticket 26527.
5696 - Remove GetAdaptersAddresses_fn_t. The code that used it was
5697 removed as part of the 26481 refactor. Closes ticket 27467.
5698 - Rework Tor SOCKS server code to use Trunnel and benefit from
5699 autogenerated functions for parsing and generating SOCKS wire
5700 format. New implementation is cleaner, more maintainable and
5701 should be less prone to heartbleed-style vulnerabilities.
5702 Implements a significant fraction of ticket 3569.
5703 - Split sampled_guards_update_from_consensus() and
5704 select_entry_guard_for_circuit() into subfunctions. In
5705 entry_guards_update_primary() unite three smartlist enumerations
5706 into one and move smartlist comparison code out of the function.
5707 Closes ticket 21349.
5708 - Tor now assumes that you have standards-conformant stdint.h and
5709 inttypes.h headers when compiling. Closes ticket 26626.
5710 - Unify our bloom filter logic. Previously we had two copies of this
5711 code: one for routerlist filtering, and one for address set
5712 calculations. Closes ticket 26510.
5713 - Use the simpler strcmpstart() helper in
5714 rend_parse_v2_service_descriptor instead of strncmp(). Closes
5716 - Utility functions that can perform a DNS lookup are now wholly
5717 separated from those that can't, in separate headers and C
5718 modules. Closes ticket 26526.
5721 - In the tor-resolve(1) manpage, fix the reference to socks-
5722 extensions.txt by adding a web URL. Resolves ticket 27853.
5723 - Mention that we require Python to be 2.7 or newer for some
5724 integration tests that we ship with Tor. Resolves ticket 27677.
5725 - Copy paragraph and URL to Tor's code of conduct document from
5726 CONTRIBUTING to new CODE_OF_CONDUCT file. Resolves ticket 26638.
5727 - Remove old instructions from INSTALL document. Closes ticket 26588.
5728 - Warn users that they should not include MyFamily line(s) in their
5729 torrc when running Tor bridge. Closes ticket 26908.
5732 - Tor no longer supports building with the dmalloc library. For
5733 debugging memory issues, we suggest using gperftools or msan
5734 instead. Closes ticket 26426.
5735 - Tor no longer attempts to run on Windows environments without the
5736 GetAdaptersAddresses() function. This function has existed since
5737 Windows XP, which is itself already older than we support.
5738 - Remove Tor2web functionality for version 2 onion services. The
5739 Tor2webMode and Tor2webRendezvousPoints options are now obsolete.
5740 (This feature was never shipped in vanilla Tor and it was only
5741 possible to use this feature by building the support at compile
5742 time. Tor2webMode is not implemented for version 3 onion services.)
5743 Closes ticket 26367.
5746 - Increase logging and tag all log entries with timestamps in
5747 test_rebind.py. Provides diagnostics for issue 28229.
5749 o Code simplification and refactoring (shared random, dirauth):
5750 - Change many tor_assert() to use BUG() instead. The idea is to not
5751 crash a dirauth but rather scream loudly with a stacktrace and let
5752 it continue run. The shared random subsystem is very resilient and
5753 if anything wrong happens with it, at worst a non coherent value
5754 will be put in the vote and discarded by the other authorities.
5755 Closes ticket 19566.
5757 o Documentation (onion services):
5758 - Improve HSv3 client authorization by making some options more
5759 explicit and detailed. Closes ticket 28026. Patch by Mike Tigas.
5760 - Document in the man page that changing ClientOnionAuthDir value or
5761 adding a new file in the directory will not work at runtime upon
5762 sending a HUP if Sandbox 1. Closes ticket 28128.
5763 - Note in the man page that the only real way to fully revoke an
5764 onion service v3 client authorization is by restarting the tor
5765 process. Closes ticket 28275.
5768 Changes in version 0.3.4.9 - 2018-11-02
5769 Tor 0.3.4.9 is the second stable release in its series; it backports
5770 numerous fixes, including a fix for a bandwidth management bug that
5771 was causing memory exhaustion on relays. Anyone running an earlier
5772 version of Tor 0.3.4.9 should upgrade.
5774 o Major bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
5775 - Fix compilation on ARM (and other less-used CPUs) when compiling
5776 with OpenSSL before 1.1. Fixes bug 27781; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5778 o Major bugfixes (mainloop, bootstrap, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
5779 - Make sure Tor bootstraps and works properly if only the
5780 ControlPort is set. Prior to this fix, Tor would only bootstrap
5781 when a client port was set (Socks, Trans, NATD, DNS or HTTPTunnel
5782 port). Fixes bug 27849; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5784 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
5785 - When our write bandwidth limit is exhausted, stop writing on the
5786 connection. Previously, we had a typo in the code that would make
5787 us stop reading instead, leading to relay connections being stuck
5788 indefinitely and consuming kernel RAM. Fixes bug 28089; bugfix
5791 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
5792 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
5793 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
5794 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5796 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
5797 - Don't do a distcheck with --disable-module-dirauth in Travis.
5798 Implements ticket 27252.
5799 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
5800 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
5801 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
5802 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
5803 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
5804 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
5805 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
5807 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
5808 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
5809 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
5810 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
5812 o Minor features (geoip):
5813 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
5814 Country database. Closes ticket 27991.
5816 o Minor bugfixes (32-bit OSX and iOS, timing, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
5817 - Fix an integer overflow bug in our optimized 32-bit millisecond-
5818 difference algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Previously, it
5819 would overflow when calculating the difference between two times
5820 more than 47 days apart. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
5822 - Improve the precision of our 32-bit millisecond difference
5823 algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139;
5824 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5825 - Relax the tolerance on the mainloop/update_time_jumps test when
5826 running on 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
5829 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
5830 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
5831 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
5834 o Minor bugfixes (CI, appveyor, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
5835 - Only install the necessary mingw packages during our appveyor
5836 builds. This change makes the build a little faster, and prevents
5837 a conflict with a preinstalled mingw openssl that appveyor now
5838 ships. Fixes bugs 27943 and 27765; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
5840 o Minor bugfixes (code safety, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
5841 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
5842 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
5844 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
5845 - Stop reinstalling identical packages in our Windows CI. Fixes bug
5846 27464; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5848 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
5849 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
5850 with a different relay, instead making a BUG() warning. Fixes bug
5851 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5853 o Minor bugfixes (directory connection shutdown, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
5854 - Avoid a double-close when shutting down a stalled directory
5855 connection. Fixes bug 26896; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5857 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
5858 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to an
5859 HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix
5862 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
5863 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
5864 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5866 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
5867 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
5868 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
5871 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
5872 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
5873 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
5874 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
5875 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5877 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
5878 - When selecting a v3 rendezvous point, don't only look at the
5879 protover, but also check whether the curve25519 onion key is
5880 present. This way we avoid picking a relay that supports the v3
5881 rendezvous but for which we don't have the microdescriptor. Fixes
5882 bug 27797; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5884 o Minor bugfixes (protover, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
5885 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
5886 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
5889 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
5890 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
5891 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
5892 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
5893 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
5894 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
5895 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
5896 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5898 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
5899 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
5900 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
5901 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
5903 o Minor bugfixes (rust, directory authority, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
5904 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
5905 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
5906 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
5907 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
5909 o Minor bugfixes (rust, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
5910 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
5911 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5912 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
5913 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
5914 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5916 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
5917 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
5918 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
5919 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
5920 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
5921 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
5923 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
5924 - Make the hs_service tests use the same time source when creating
5925 the introduction point and when testing it. Now tests work better
5926 on very slow systems like ARM or Travis. Fixes bug 27810; bugfix
5929 o Minor bugfixes (testing, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
5930 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
5931 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
5932 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
5933 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
5936 Changes in version 0.2.9.17 - 2018-09-10
5937 Tor 0.2.9.17 backports numerous bugfixes from later versions of Tor.
5939 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
5940 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
5941 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
5942 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
5944 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
5945 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
5947 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
5948 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
5949 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
5950 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
5952 o Minor features (geoip):
5953 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
5954 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
5956 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
5957 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
5958 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
5959 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
5961 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
5962 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
5963 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
5964 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
5965 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
5966 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
5967 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
5968 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
5971 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
5972 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
5973 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
5974 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
5976 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
5977 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
5978 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
5979 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
5981 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
5982 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
5983 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
5984 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5986 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
5987 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
5988 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
5989 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
5990 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
5992 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
5993 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
5994 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
5997 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
5998 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
5999 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
6000 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
6001 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
6003 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
6004 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
6005 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
6008 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
6009 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
6010 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
6011 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6013 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
6014 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
6015 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
6017 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
6018 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
6019 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
6022 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6023 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
6024 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
6025 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
6026 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
6028 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6029 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
6030 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
6033 Changes in version 0.3.2.12 - 2018-09-10
6034 Tor 0.3.2.12 backport numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
6036 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
6037 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
6038 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
6039 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
6041 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6042 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
6044 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
6045 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
6046 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
6047 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
6049 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6050 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
6053 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
6054 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
6055 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
6056 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
6058 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6059 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
6060 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
6061 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
6063 o Minor features (geoip):
6064 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
6065 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
6067 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
6068 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
6069 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
6070 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
6071 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
6072 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
6073 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
6075 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6076 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
6077 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
6078 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
6079 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
6080 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
6081 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
6082 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
6085 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6086 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
6087 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
6088 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
6090 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
6091 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
6092 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
6093 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
6095 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6096 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
6097 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
6098 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
6099 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6101 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
6102 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
6103 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
6104 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
6105 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
6107 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
6108 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
6109 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
6112 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6113 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
6114 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
6115 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
6116 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
6118 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
6119 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
6120 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
6123 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6124 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
6125 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
6128 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
6129 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
6130 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
6133 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6134 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
6136 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
6137 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
6138 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
6139 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
6141 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
6142 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
6143 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
6144 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6146 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
6147 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
6148 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
6150 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
6151 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
6152 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
6153 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
6154 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6155 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
6156 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
6159 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility):
6160 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on OpenSSL
6161 internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL behavior in
6162 a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p. Fixes bug 27226;
6163 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
6165 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6166 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
6167 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
6168 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
6169 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
6171 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6172 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
6173 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
6176 Changes in version 0.3.3.10 - 2018-09-10
6177 Tor 0.3.3.10 backports numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
6179 o Minor features (bug workaround, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6180 - Compile correctly on systems that provide the C11 stdatomic.h
6181 header, but where C11 atomic functions don't actually compile.
6182 Closes ticket 26779; workaround for Debian issue 903709.
6184 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
6185 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
6186 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
6187 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
6189 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6190 - Backport Travis rust distcheck to 0.3.3. Closes ticket 24629.
6191 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
6193 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
6194 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
6195 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
6196 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
6198 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6199 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
6202 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
6203 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
6204 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
6205 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
6207 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6208 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
6209 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
6210 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
6212 o Minor features (geoip):
6213 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
6214 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
6216 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
6217 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
6218 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
6219 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
6220 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
6221 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
6222 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
6224 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6225 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
6226 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
6227 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
6228 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
6229 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
6230 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
6231 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
6234 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6235 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
6236 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
6237 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
6239 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
6240 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
6241 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
6242 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
6244 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6245 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
6246 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
6247 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
6248 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6250 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
6251 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
6252 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
6253 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
6254 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
6256 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
6257 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
6258 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
6261 o Minor bugfixes (in-process restart, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6262 - Always call tor_free_all() when leaving tor_run_main(). When we
6263 did not, restarting tor in-process would cause an assertion
6264 failure. Fixes bug 26948; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6266 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6267 - Fix a bug in our sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
6268 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
6269 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
6270 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
6272 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
6273 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
6274 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
6277 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6278 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
6279 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
6282 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
6283 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
6284 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
6287 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
6288 - Work around two different bugs in the OS X 10.10 and later SDKs
6289 that would prevent us from successfully targeting earlier versions
6290 of OS X. Fixes bug 26876; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6292 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6293 - Fix compilation of the unit tests on GNU/Hurd, which does not
6294 define PATH_MAX. Fixes bug 26873; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch
6297 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6298 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
6300 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
6301 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
6302 - Protover parsing was accepting the presence of whitespace in
6303 version strings, which the C implementation would choke on, e.g.
6304 "Desc=1\t,2". Fixes bug 27177; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
6305 - Protover parsing was ignoring a 2nd hyphen and everything after
6306 it, accepting entries like "Link=1-5-foo". Fixes bug 27164; bugfix
6308 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
6309 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
6310 - cd to ${abs_top_builddir}/src/rust before running cargo in
6311 src/test/test_rust.sh. This makes the working directory consistent
6312 between builds and tests. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
6314 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
6315 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
6316 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
6317 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6319 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
6320 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
6321 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
6323 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
6324 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
6325 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
6326 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
6327 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6328 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
6329 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
6332 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6333 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
6334 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
6335 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
6336 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
6338 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
6339 - Stop sending ed25519 link specifiers in v3 onion service introduce
6340 cells and descriptors, when the rendezvous or introduction point
6341 doesn't support ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 26627;
6342 bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
6344 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6345 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
6346 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
6349 Changes in version 0.3.4.8 - 2018-09-10
6350 Tor 0.3.4.8 is the first stable release in its series; it includes
6351 compilation and portability fixes.
6353 The Tor 0.3.4 series includes improvements for running Tor in
6354 low-power and embedded environments, which should help performance in
6355 general. We've begun work on better modularity, and included preliminary
6356 changes on the directory authority side to accommodate a new bandwidth
6357 measurement system. We've also integrated more continuous-integration
6358 systems into our development process, and made corresponding changes to
6359 Tor's testing infrastructure. Finally, we've continued to refine
6360 our anti-denial-of-service code.
6362 Below are the changes since 0.3.3.9. For a list of only the changes
6363 since 0.3.4.7-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
6365 o New system requirements:
6366 - Tor no longer tries to support old operating systems without
6367 mmap() or some local equivalent. Apparently, compilation on such
6368 systems has been broken for some time, without anybody noticing or
6369 complaining. Closes ticket 25398.
6371 o Major features (directory authority, modularization):
6372 - The directory authority subsystem has been modularized. The code
6373 is now located in src/or/dirauth/, and is compiled in by default.
6374 To disable the module, the configure option
6375 --disable-module-dirauth has been added. This module may be
6376 disabled by default in some future release. Closes ticket 25610.
6378 o Major features (main loop, CPU usage):
6379 - When Tor is disabled (via DisableNetwork or via hibernation), it
6380 no longer needs to run any per-second events. This change should
6381 make it easier for mobile applications to disable Tor while the
6382 device is sleeping, or Tor is not running. Closes ticket 26063.
6383 - Tor no longer enables all of its periodic events by default.
6384 Previously, Tor would enable all possible main loop events,
6385 regardless of whether it needed them. Furthermore, many of these
6386 events are now disabled when Tor is hibernating or DisableNetwork
6387 is set. This is a big step towards reducing client CPU usage by
6388 reducing the amount of wake-ups the daemon does. Closes tickets
6390 - The bandwidth-limitation logic has been refactored so that
6391 bandwidth calculations are performed on-demand, rather than every
6392 TokenBucketRefillInterval milliseconds. This change should improve
6393 the granularity of our bandwidth calculations, and limit the
6394 number of times that the Tor process needs to wake up when it is
6395 idle. Closes ticket 25373.
6396 - Move responsibility for many operations from a once-per-second
6397 callback to a callback that is only scheduled as needed. Moving
6398 this functionality has allowed us to disable the callback when
6399 Tor's network is disabled. Once enough items are removed from our
6400 once-per-second callback, we can eliminate it entirely to conserve
6401 CPU when idle. The functionality removed includes: closing
6402 connections, circuits, and channels (ticket 25932); consensus
6403 voting (25937); flushing log callbacks (25951); honoring delayed
6404 SIGNEWNYM requests (25949); rescanning the consensus cache
6405 (25931); saving the state file to disk (25948); warning relay
6406 operators about unreachable ports (25952); and keeping track of
6407 Tor's uptime (26009).
6409 o Minor features (accounting):
6410 - When Tor becomes dormant, it now uses a scheduled event to wake up
6411 at the right time. Previously, we would use the per-second timer
6412 to check whether to wake up, but we no longer have any per-second
6413 timers enabled when the network is disabled. Closes ticket 26064.
6415 o Minor features (bug workaround):
6416 - Compile correctly on systems that provide the C11 stdatomic.h
6417 header, but where C11 atomic functions don't actually compile.
6418 Closes ticket 26779; workaround for Debian issue 903709.
6420 o Minor features (code quality):
6421 - Add optional spell-checking for the Tor codebase, using the
6422 "misspell" program. To use this feature, run "make check-typos".
6423 Closes ticket 25024.
6425 o Minor features (compatibility):
6426 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
6427 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
6428 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
6429 - Tor now detects versions of OpenSSL 1.1.0 and later compiled with
6430 the no-deprecated option, and builds correctly with them. Closes
6431 tickets 19429, 19981, and 25353.
6433 o Minor features (compilation):
6434 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
6435 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
6436 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
6437 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
6438 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
6439 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
6440 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
6441 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
6444 o Minor features (compression, zstd):
6445 - When running with zstd, Tor now considers using advanced functions
6446 that the zstd maintainers have labeled as potentially unstable. To
6447 prevent breakage, Tor will only use this functionality when the
6448 runtime version of the zstd library matches the version with which
6449 Tor was compiled. Closes ticket 25162.
6451 o Minor features (configuration):
6452 - The "DownloadSchedule" options have been renamed to end with
6453 "DownloadInitialDelay". The old names are still allowed, but will
6454 produce a warning. Comma-separated lists are still permitted for
6455 these options, but all values after the first are ignored (as they
6456 have been since 0.2.9). Closes ticket 23354.
6458 o Minor features (continuous integration):
6459 - Log the compiler path and version during Appveyor builds.
6460 Implements ticket 27449.
6461 - Show config.log and test-suite.log after failed Appveyor builds.
6462 Also upload the zipped full logs as a build artifact. Implements
6464 - Backport Travis rust distcheck to 0.3.3. Closes ticket 24629.
6465 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
6467 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
6468 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
6469 - Only post Appveyor IRC notifications when the build fails.
6470 Implements ticket 27275.
6471 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
6472 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
6473 - Add the necessary configuration files for continuous integration
6474 testing on Windows, via the Appveyor platform. Closes ticket
6475 25549. Patches from Marcin Cieślak and Isis Lovecruft.
6477 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust):
6478 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
6481 o Minor features (control port):
6482 - Introduce GETINFO "current-time/{local,utc}" to return the local
6483 and UTC times respectively in ISO format. This helps a controller
6484 like Tor Browser detect a time-related error. Closes ticket 25511.
6485 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6486 - Introduce new fields to the CIRC_BW event. There are two new
6487 fields in each of the read and written directions. The DELIVERED
6488 fields report the total valid data on the circuit, as measured by
6489 the payload sizes of verified and error-checked relay command
6490 cells. The OVERHEAD fields report the total unused bytes in each
6491 of these cells. Closes ticket 25903.
6493 o Minor features (controller):
6494 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
6495 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
6496 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
6498 o Minor features (directory authorities):
6499 - Stop warning about incomplete bw lines before the first complete
6500 bw line has been found, so that additional header lines can be
6501 ignored. Fixes bug 25960; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha
6502 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
6503 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
6504 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
6506 o Minor features (directory authority):
6507 - Directory authorities now open their key-pinning files as O_SYNC,
6508 to limit their chances of accidentally writing partial lines.
6509 Closes ticket 23909.
6511 o Minor features (directory authority, forward compatibility):
6512 - Make the lines of the measured bandwidth file able to contain
6513 their entries in any order. Previously, the node_id entry needed
6514 to come first. Closes ticket 26004.
6516 o Minor features (entry guards):
6517 - Introduce a new torrc option NumPrimaryGuards for controlling the
6518 number of primary guards. Closes ticket 25843.
6520 o Minor features (geoip):
6521 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
6522 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
6524 o Minor features (performance):
6525 - Avoid a needless call to malloc() when processing an incoming
6526 relay cell. Closes ticket 24914.
6527 - Make our timing-wheel code run a tiny bit faster on 32-bit
6528 platforms, by preferring 32-bit math to 64-bit. Closes
6530 - Avoid a needless malloc()/free() pair every time we handle an ntor
6531 handshake. Closes ticket 25150.
6533 o Minor features (Rust, portability):
6534 - Rust cross-compilation is now supported. Closes ticket 25895.
6536 o Minor features (testing):
6537 - Add a unit test for voting_schedule_get_start_of_next_interval().
6538 Closes ticket 26014, and helps make unit test coverage
6540 - A new unittests module specifically for testing the functions in
6541 the (new-ish) bridges.c module has been created with new
6542 unittests, raising the code coverage percentages. Closes 25425.
6543 - We now have improved testing for addressmap_get_virtual_address()
6544 function. This should improve our test coverage, and make our test
6545 coverage more deterministic. Closes ticket 25993.
6547 o Minor features (timekeeping, circuit scheduling):
6548 - When keeping track of how busy each circuit have been recently on
6549 a given connection, use coarse-grained monotonic timers rather
6550 than gettimeofday(). This change should marginally increase
6551 accuracy and performance. Implements part of ticket 25927.
6553 o Minor features (unit tests):
6554 - Test complete bandwidth measurements files, and test that
6555 incomplete bandwidth lines only give warnings when the end of the
6556 header has not been detected. Fixes bug 25947; bugfix
6559 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth management):
6560 - Consider ourselves "low on write bandwidth" if we have exhausted
6561 our write bandwidth some time in the last second. This was the
6562 documented behavior before, but the actual behavior was to change
6563 this value every TokenBucketRefillInterval. Fixes bug 25828;
6564 bugfix on 0.2.3.5-alpha.
6566 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
6567 - Add a missing lock acquisition in the shutdown code of the control
6568 subsystem. Fixes bug 25675; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Found by
6569 Coverity; this is CID 1433643.
6571 o Minor bugfixes (code style):
6572 - Fixed multiple includes of transports.h in src/or/connection.c
6573 Fixes bug 25261; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
6574 - Remove the unused variable n_possible from the function
6575 channel_get_for_extend(). Fixes bug 25645; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha
6577 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
6578 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
6579 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
6580 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
6581 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
6582 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
6583 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
6584 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
6586 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
6587 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
6588 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
6589 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
6590 - Refrain from compiling unit testing related object files when
6591 --disable-unittests is set to configure script. Fixes bug 24891;
6592 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
6593 - The --enable-fatal-warnings flag now affects Rust code as well.
6594 Closes ticket 26245.
6595 - Avoid a compiler warning when casting the return value of
6596 smartlist_len() to double with DEBUG_SMARTLIST enabled. Fixes bug
6597 26283; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
6599 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows):
6600 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
6601 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
6602 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
6604 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
6605 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
6606 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
6607 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
6608 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
6610 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
6611 - Respond with more human-readable error messages to GETINFO exit-
6612 policy/* requests. Also, let controller know if an error is
6613 transient (response code 551) or not (response code 552). Fixes
6614 bug 25852; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
6615 - Parse the "HSADDRESS=" parameter in HSPOST commands properly.
6616 Previously, it was misparsed and ignored. Fixes bug 26523; bugfix
6617 on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
6618 - Make CIRC_BW event reflect the total of all data sent on a
6619 circuit, including padding and dropped cells. Also fix a mis-
6620 counting bug when STREAM_BW events were enabled. Fixes bug 25400;
6621 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
6623 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, flow control):
6624 - Upon receiving a stream-level SENDME cell, verify that our window
6625 has not grown too large. Fixes bug 26214; bugfix on svn
6628 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
6629 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
6630 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
6633 o Minor bugfixes (directory client):
6634 - When unverified-consensus is verified, rename it to cached-
6635 consenus. Fixes bug 4187; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
6636 - Fixed launching a certificate fetch always during the scheduled
6637 periodic consensus fetch by fetching only in those cases when
6638 consensus are waiting for certs. Fixes bug 24740; bugfix
6641 o Minor bugfixes (error reporting):
6642 - Improve tolerance for directory authorities with skewed clocks.
6643 Previously, an authority with a clock more than 60 seconds ahead
6644 could cause a client with a correct clock to warn that the
6645 client's clock was behind. Now the clocks of a majority of
6646 directory authorities have to be ahead of the client before this
6647 warning will occur. Fixes bug 25756; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
6649 o Minor bugfixes (in-process restart):
6650 - Always call tor_free_all() when leaving tor_run_main(). When we
6651 did not, restarting tor in-process would cause an assertion
6652 failure. Fixes bug 26948; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6654 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
6655 - Fix a bug in our sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
6656 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
6657 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
6658 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
6660 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
6661 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
6662 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
6665 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
6666 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
6667 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
6669 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
6670 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
6672 - Recompute some consensus information after detecting a clock jump,
6673 or after transitioning from a non-live consensus to a live
6674 consensus. We do this to avoid having an outdated state, and
6675 miscalculating the index for next-generation onion services. Fixes
6676 bug 24977; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6678 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
6679 - Fix compilation of the unit tests on GNU/Hurd, which does not
6680 define PATH_MAX. Fixes bug 26873; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch
6682 - Work around two different bugs in the OS X 10.10 and later SDKs
6683 that would prevent us from successfully targeting earlier versions
6684 of OS X. Fixes bug 26876; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6685 - Do not align mmap length, as it is not required by POSIX, and the
6686 getpagesize function is deprecated. Fixes bug 25399; bugfix
6689 o Minor bugfixes (portability, FreeBSD):
6690 - In have_enough_mem_for_dircache(), the variable DIRCACHE_MIN_MEM_MB
6691 does not stringify on FreeBSD, so we switch to tor_asprintf().
6692 Fixes bug 20887; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6694 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics):
6695 - When a relay is collecting internal statistics about how many
6696 create cell requests it has seen of each type, accurately count
6697 the requests from relays that temporarily fall out of the
6698 consensus. (To be extra conservative, we were already ignoring
6699 requests from clients in our counts, and we continue ignoring them
6700 here.) Fixes bug 24910; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
6702 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
6703 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
6705 - Protover parsing was accepting the presence of whitespace in
6706 version strings, which the C implementation would choke on, e.g.
6707 "Desc=1\t,2". Fixes bug 27177; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
6708 - Protover parsing was ignoring a 2nd hyphen and everything after
6709 it, accepting entries like "Link=1-5-foo". Fixes bug 27164; bugfix
6711 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
6712 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
6713 - cd to ${abs_top_builddir}/src/rust before running cargo in
6714 src/test/test_rust.sh. This makes the working directory consistent
6715 between builds and tests. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
6717 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web):
6718 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web
6719 clients fail to authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes
6720 bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6722 o Minor bugfixes (test coverage tools):
6723 - Update our "cov-diff" script to handle output from the latest
6724 version of gcov, and to remove extraneous timestamp information
6725 from its output. Fixes bugs 26101 and 26102; bugfix
6728 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
6729 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
6730 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
6731 - When testing workqueue event-cancellation, make sure that we
6732 actually cancel an event, and that cancel each event with equal
6733 probability. (It was previously possible, though extremely
6734 unlikely, for our event-canceling test not to cancel any events.)
6735 Fixes bug 26008; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
6736 - Repeat part of the test in test_client_pick_intro() a number of
6737 times, to give it consistent coverage. Fixes bug 25996; bugfix
6739 - Remove randomness from the hs_common/responsible_hsdirs test, so
6740 that it always takes the same path through the function it tests.
6741 Fixes bug 25997; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6742 - Change the behavior of the "channel/outbound" test so that it
6743 never causes a 10-second rollover for the EWMA circuitmux code.
6744 Previously, this behavior would happen randomly, and result in
6745 fluctuating test coverage. Fixes bug 25994; bugfix
6747 - Use X509_new() to allocate certificates that will be freed later
6748 with X509_free(). Previously, some parts of the unit tests had
6749 used tor_malloc_zero(), which is incorrect, and which caused test
6750 failures on Windows when they were built with extra hardening.
6751 Fixes bugs 25943 and 25944; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by
6753 - While running the circuit_timeout test, fix the PRNG to a
6754 deterministic AES stream, so that the test coverage from this test
6755 will itself be deterministic. Fixes bug 25995; bugfix
6758 o Minor bugfixes (testing, bootstrap):
6759 - When calculating bootstrap progress, check exit policies and the
6760 exit flag. Previously, Tor would only check the exit flag, which
6761 caused race conditions in small and fast networks like chutney.
6762 Fixes bug 27236; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
6764 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney):
6765 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
6766 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
6767 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
6768 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6769 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
6770 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
6773 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility):
6774 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
6775 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
6776 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
6777 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
6779 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
6780 - Stop sending ed25519 link specifiers in v3 onion service introduce
6781 cells and descriptors, when the rendezvous or introduction point
6782 doesn't support ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 26627;
6783 bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
6785 o Minor bugfixes (vanguards):
6786 - Allow the last hop in a vanguard circuit to be the same as our
6787 first, to prevent the adversary from influencing guard node choice
6788 by choice of last hop. Also prevent the creation of A - B - A
6789 paths, or A - A paths, which are forbidden by relays. Fixes bug
6790 25870; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6792 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation):
6793 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
6794 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
6796 o Code simplification and refactoring:
6797 - Remove duplicate code in parse_{c,s}method_line and bootstrap
6798 their functionalities into a single function. Fixes bug 6236;
6799 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
6800 - We remove the PortForwarding and PortForwardingHelper options,
6801 related functions, and the port_forwarding tests. These options
6802 were used by the now-deprecated Vidalia to help ordinary users
6803 become Tor relays or bridges. Closes ticket 25409. Patch by
6805 - In order to make the OR and dir checking function in router.c less
6806 confusing we renamed some functions and
6807 consider_testing_reachability() has been split into
6808 router_should_check_reachability() and
6809 router_do_reachability_checks(). Also we improved the documentation
6810 in some functions. Closes ticket 18918.
6811 - Initial work to isolate Libevent usage to a handful of modules in
6812 our codebase, to simplify our call structure, and so that we can
6813 more easily change event loops in the future if needed. Closes
6815 - Introduce a function to call getsockname() and return tor_addr_t,
6816 to save a little complexity throughout the codebase. Closes
6818 - Make hsdir_index in node_t a hsdir_index_t rather than a pointer
6819 as hsdir_index is always present. Also, we move hsdir_index_t into
6820 or.h. Closes ticket 23094. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6821 - Merge functions used for describing nodes and suppress the
6822 functions that do not allocate memory for the output buffer
6823 string. NODE_DESC_BUF_LEN constant and format_node_description()
6824 function cannot be used externally from router.c module anymore.
6825 Closes ticket 25432. Patch by valentecaio.
6826 - Our main loop has been simplified so that all important operations
6827 happen inside events. Previously, some operations had to happen
6828 outside the event loop, to prevent infinite sequences of event
6829 activations. Closes ticket 25374.
6830 - Put a SHA1 public key digest in hs_service_intro_point_t, and use
6831 it in register_intro_circ() and service_intro_point_new(). This
6832 prevents the digest from being re-calculated each time. Closes
6833 ticket 23107. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6834 - Refactor token-bucket implementations to use a common backend.
6835 Closes ticket 25766.
6836 - Remove extern declaration of stats_n_seconds_working variable from
6837 main, protecting its accesses with get_uptime() and reset_uptime()
6838 functions. Closes ticket 25081, patch by “valentecaio”.
6839 - Remove our previous logic for "cached gettimeofday()" -- our
6840 coarse monotonic timers are fast enough for this purpose, and far
6841 less error-prone. Implements part of ticket 25927.
6842 - Remove the return value for fascist_firewall_choose_address_base(),
6843 and sister functions such as fascist_firewall_choose_address_node()
6844 and fascist_firewall_choose_address_rs(). Also, while we're here,
6845 initialize the ap argument as leaving it uninitialized can pose a
6846 security hazard. Closes ticket 24734. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6847 - Rename two fields of connection_t struct. timestamp_lastwritten is
6848 renamed to timestamp_last_write_allowed and timestamp_lastread is
6849 renamed to timestamp_last_read_allowed. Closes ticket 24714, patch
6851 - Since Tor requires C99, remove our old workaround code for libc
6852 implementations where free(NULL) doesn't work. Closes ticket 24484.
6853 - Use our standard rate-limiting code to deal with excessive
6854 libevent failures, rather than the hand-rolled logic we had
6855 before. Closes ticket 26016.
6856 - We remove the return value of node_get_prim_orport() and
6857 node_get_prim_dirport(), and introduce node_get_prim_orport() in
6858 node_ipv6_or_preferred() and node_ipv6_dir_preferred() in order to
6859 check for a null address. Closes ticket 23873. Patch by
6861 - We switch to should_record_bridge_info() in
6862 geoip_note_client_seen() and options_need_geoip_info() instead of
6863 accessing the configuration values directly. Fixes bug 25290;
6864 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6866 o Deprecated features:
6867 - As we are not recommending 0.2.5 anymore, we require relays that
6868 once had an ed25519 key associated with their RSA key to always
6869 have that key, instead of allowing them to drop back to a version
6870 that didn't support ed25519. This means they need to use a new RSA
6871 key if they want to downgrade to an older version of tor without
6872 ed25519. Closes ticket 20522.
6875 - Directory authorities will no longer support voting according to
6876 any consensus method before consensus method 25. This keeps
6877 authorities compatible with all authorities running 0.2.9.8 and
6878 later, and does not break any clients or relays. Implements ticket
6879 24378 and proposal 290.
6880 - The PortForwarding and PortForwardingHelper features have been
6881 removed. The reasoning is, given that implementations of NAT
6882 traversal protocols within common consumer grade routers are
6883 frequently buggy, and that the target audience for a NAT punching
6884 feature is a perhaps less-technically-inclined relay operator,
6885 when the helper fails to setup traversal the problems are usually
6886 deep, ugly, and very router specific, making them horrendously
6887 impossible for technical support to reliable assist with, and thus
6888 resulting in frustration all around. Unfortunately, relay
6889 operators who would like to run relays behind NATs will need to
6890 become more familiar with the port forwarding configurations on
6891 their local router. Closes 25409.
6892 - The TestingEnableTbEmptyEvent option has been removed. It was used
6893 in testing simulations to measure how often connection buckets
6894 were emptied, in order to improve our scheduling, but it has not
6895 been actively used in years. Closes ticket 25760.
6896 - The old "round-robin" circuit multiplexer (circuitmux)
6897 implementation has been removed, along with a fairly large set of
6898 code that existed to support it. It has not been the default
6899 circuitmux since we introduced the "EWMA" circuitmux in 0.2.4.x,
6900 but it still required an unreasonable amount of memory and CPU.
6901 Closes ticket 25268.
6904 Changes in version 0.3.3.9 - 2018-07-13
6905 Tor 0.3.3.9 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
6906 bridge relays should upgrade.
6908 o Directory authority changes:
6909 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
6910 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
6911 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
6914 Changes in version 0.3.2.11 - 2018-07-13
6915 Tor 0.3.2.11 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
6916 bridge relays should upgrade. We also take this opportunity to backport
6919 o Directory authority changes:
6920 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
6921 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
6922 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
6924 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.3.3.7):
6925 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
6926 Closes ticket 26343.
6928 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
6929 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
6930 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
6931 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
6932 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
6934 o Major bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
6935 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
6936 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
6938 o Minor features (sandbox, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
6939 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
6940 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
6941 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
6943 o Minor feature (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
6944 - Update the Travis CI configuration to use the stable Rust channel,
6945 now that we have decided to require that. Closes ticket 25714.
6947 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
6948 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
6949 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
6950 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
6951 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
6952 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
6954 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
6955 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
6956 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
6957 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
6959 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
6960 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
6961 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
6964 o Minor features (geoip):
6965 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
6966 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
6968 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
6969 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
6970 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
6971 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
6972 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
6974 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
6975 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
6976 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
6978 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
6979 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
6980 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
6981 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
6982 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6983 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
6984 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
6985 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
6988 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
6989 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
6990 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
6991 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
6992 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
6993 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
6995 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
6996 - Document that the PerConnBW{Rate,Burst} options will fall back to
6997 their corresponding consensus parameters only if those parameters
6998 are set. Previously we had claimed that these values would always
6999 be set in the consensus. Fixes bug 25296; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
7001 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
7002 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
7003 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
7004 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
7005 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
7007 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7008 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
7009 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
7012 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
7013 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
7014 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
7016 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
7017 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
7018 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
7019 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
7021 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7022 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
7023 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7024 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
7025 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
7026 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
7027 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7029 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
7030 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
7031 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
7032 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
7035 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7036 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
7037 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7039 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
7040 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
7041 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7043 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
7044 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
7045 onion service introduction point creation finishing within 5
7046 seconds of real clock time. Fixes bug 25450; bugfix
7049 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
7050 - Fix a C99 compliance issue in our configuration script that caused
7051 compilation issues when compiling Tor with certain versions of
7052 xtools. Fixes bug 25474; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
7054 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
7055 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
7056 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
7058 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
7059 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
7060 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
7063 Changes in version 0.2.9.16 - 2018-07-13
7064 Tor 0.2.9.16 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
7065 bridge relays should upgrade. We also take this opportunity to backport
7068 o Directory authority changes:
7069 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
7070 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
7071 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
7073 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.3.3.7):
7074 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
7075 Closes ticket 26343.
7077 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7078 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
7079 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
7080 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
7081 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
7083 o Minor features (sandbox, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
7084 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
7085 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
7086 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
7088 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7089 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
7090 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
7091 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
7092 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
7093 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
7095 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
7096 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
7097 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
7100 o Minor features (geoip):
7101 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
7102 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
7104 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7105 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
7106 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
7107 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
7108 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
7110 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7111 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
7112 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
7114 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
7115 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
7116 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
7117 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
7120 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
7121 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
7122 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
7123 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
7124 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
7125 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
7127 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
7128 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
7129 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
7130 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
7131 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
7133 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7134 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
7135 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
7138 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
7139 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
7140 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
7142 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
7143 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
7144 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
7145 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
7147 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
7148 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
7149 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
7151 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
7152 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
7153 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
7156 Changes in version 0.3.3.8 - 2018-07-09
7157 Tor 0.3.3.8 backports several changes from the 0.3.4.x series, including
7158 fixes for a memory leak affecting directory authorities.
7160 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
7161 - Stop leaking memory on directory authorities when planning to
7162 vote. This bug was crashing authorities by exhausting their
7163 memory. Fixes bug 26435; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
7165 o Major bugfixes (rust, testing, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
7166 - Make sure that failing tests in Rust will actually cause the build
7167 to fail: previously, they were ignored. Fixes bug 26258; bugfix
7170 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
7171 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
7172 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
7175 o Minor features (geoip):
7176 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
7177 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
7179 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
7180 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
7181 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
7182 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
7184 o Minor bugfixes (circuit path selection, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7185 - Don't count path selection failures as circuit build failures.
7186 This change should eliminate cases where Tor blames its guard or
7187 the network for situations like insufficient microdescriptors
7188 and/or overly restrictive torrc settings. Fixes bug 25705; bugfix
7191 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
7192 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
7193 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
7194 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
7195 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
7197 o Minor bugfixes (control port, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
7198 - Handle the HSADDRESS= argument to the HSPOST command properly.
7199 (Previously, this argument was misparsed and thus ignored.) Fixes
7200 bug 26523; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
7202 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
7203 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
7204 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
7206 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
7207 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
7208 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
7209 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
7212 o Minor bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7213 - When shutting down, Tor now clears all the flags in the control.c
7214 module. This should prevent a bug where authentication cookies are
7215 not generated on restart. Fixes bug 25512; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7217 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
7218 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
7219 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
7220 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
7221 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7222 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
7223 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
7224 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
7228 Changes in version 0.3.3.7 - 2018-06-12
7229 Tor 0.3.3.7 backports several changes from the 0.3.4.x series, including
7230 fixes for bugs affecting compatibility and stability.
7232 o Directory authority changes:
7233 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
7234 Closes ticket 26343.
7236 o Minor features (geoip):
7237 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
7238 Country database. Closes ticket 26351.
7240 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
7241 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
7242 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
7243 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
7244 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
7245 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
7247 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
7248 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
7249 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7251 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
7252 - Improve accuracy of the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port event's
7253 TIMEOUT_RATE and CLOSE_RATE fields. (We were previously
7254 miscounting the total number of circuits for these field values.)
7255 Fixes bug 26121; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7257 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
7258 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
7259 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
7261 o Minor bugfixes (path selection, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7262 - Only select relays when they have the descriptors we prefer to use
7263 for them. This change fixes a bug where we could select a relay
7264 because it had _some_ descriptor, but reject it later with a
7265 nonfatal assertion error because it didn't have the exact one we
7266 wanted. Fixes bugs 25691 and 25692; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
7269 Changes in version 0.3.3.6 - 2018-05-22
7270 Tor 0.3.3.6 is the first stable release in the 0.3.3 series. It
7271 backports several important fixes from the 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7273 The Tor 0.3.3 series includes controller support and other
7274 improvements for v3 onion services, official support for embedding Tor
7275 within other applications, and our first non-trivial module written in
7276 the Rust programming language. (Rust is still not enabled by default
7277 when building Tor.) And as usual, there are numerous other smaller
7278 bugfixes, features, and improvements.
7280 Below are the changes since 0.3.2.10. For a list of only the changes
7281 since 0.3.3.5-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
7283 o New system requirements:
7284 - When built with Rust, Tor now depends on version 0.2.39 of the
7285 libc crate. Closes tickets 25310 and 25664.
7287 o Major features (embedding):
7288 - There is now a documented stable API for programs that need to
7289 embed Tor. See tor_api.h for full documentation and known bugs.
7290 Closes ticket 23684.
7291 - Tor now has support for restarting in the same process.
7292 Controllers that run Tor using the "tor_api.h" interface can now
7293 restart Tor after Tor has exited. This support is incomplete,
7294 however: we fixed crash bugs that prevented it from working at
7295 all, but many bugs probably remain, including a possibility of
7296 security issues. Implements ticket 24581.
7298 o Major features (IPv6, directory documents):
7299 - Add consensus method 27, which adds IPv6 ORPorts to the microdesc
7300 consensus. This information makes it easier for IPv6 clients to
7301 bootstrap and choose reachable entry guards. Implements
7303 - Add consensus method 28, which removes IPv6 ORPorts from
7304 microdescriptors. Now that the consensus contains IPv6 ORPorts,
7305 they are redundant in microdescs. This change will be used by Tor
7306 clients on 0.2.8.x and later. (That is to say, with all Tor
7307 clients that have IPv6 bootstrap and guard support.) Implements
7309 - Expand the documentation for AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity when it is
7310 set by different numbers of authorities. Fixes 23870
7313 o Major features (onion service v3, control port):
7314 - The control port now supports commands and events for v3 onion
7315 services. It is now possible to create ephemeral v3 services using
7316 ADD_ONION. Additionally, several events (HS_DESC, HS_DESC_CONTENT,
7317 CIRC and CIRC_MINOR) and commands (GETINFO, HSPOST, ADD_ONION and
7318 DEL_ONION) have been extended to support v3 onion services. Closes
7319 ticket 20699; implements proposal 284.
7321 o Major features (onion services):
7322 - Provide torrc options to pin the second and third hops of onion
7323 service circuits to a list of nodes. The option HSLayer2Guards
7324 pins the second hop, and the option HSLayer3Guards pins the third
7325 hop. These options are for use in conjunction with experiments
7326 with "vanguards" for preventing guard enumeration attacks. Closes
7328 - When v3 onion service clients send introduce cells, they now
7329 include the IPv6 address of the rendezvous point, if it has one.
7330 Current v3 onion services running 0.3.2 ignore IPv6 addresses, but
7331 in future Tor versions, IPv6-only v3 single onion services will be
7332 able to use IPv6 addresses to connect directly to the rendezvous
7333 point. Closes ticket 23577. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7335 o Major features (relay):
7336 - Implement an option, ReducedExitPolicy, to allow an Tor exit relay
7337 operator to use a more reasonable ("reduced") exit policy, rather
7338 than the default one. If you want to run an exit node without
7339 thinking too hard about which ports to allow, this one is for you.
7340 Closes ticket 13605. Patch from Neel Chauhan.
7342 o Major features (rust, portability, experimental):
7343 - Tor now ships with an optional implementation of one of its
7344 smaller modules (protover.c) in the Rust programming language. To
7345 try it out, install a Rust build environment, and configure Tor
7346 with "--enable-rust --enable-cargo-online-mode". This should not
7347 cause any user-visible changes, but should help us gain more
7348 experience with Rust, and plan future Rust integration work.
7349 Implementation by Chelsea Komlo. Closes ticket 22840.
7351 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, security, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7352 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
7353 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
7354 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
7355 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
7357 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authority, denial-of-service):
7358 - Fix a bug that could have allowed an attacker to force a directory
7359 authority to use up all its RAM by passing it a maliciously
7360 crafted protocol versions string. Fixes bug 25517; bugfix on
7361 0.2.9.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2018-005.
7363 o Major bugfixes (crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7364 - Avoid a rare assertion failure in the circuit build timeout code
7365 if we fail to allow any circuits to actually complete. Fixes bug
7366 25733; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
7368 o Major bugfixes (netflow padding):
7369 - Stop adding unneeded channel padding right after we finish
7370 flushing to a connection that has been trying to flush for many
7371 seconds. Instead, treat all partial or complete flushes as
7372 activity on the channel, which will defer the time until we need
7373 to add padding. This fix should resolve confusing and scary log
7374 messages like "Channel padding timeout scheduled 221453ms in the
7375 past." Fixes bug 22212; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7377 o Major bugfixes (networking):
7378 - Tor will no longer reject IPv6 address strings from Tor Browser
7379 when they are passed as hostnames in SOCKS5 requests. Fixes bug
7380 25036, bugfix on Tor 0.3.1.2.
7382 o Major bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7383 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
7384 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
7386 o Major bugfixes (performance, load balancing):
7387 - Directory authorities no longer vote in favor of the Guard flag
7388 for relays without directory support. Starting in Tor
7389 0.3.0.1-alpha, clients have been avoiding using such relays in the
7390 Guard position, leading to increasingly broken load balancing for
7391 the 5%-or-so of Guards that don't advertise directory support.
7392 Fixes bug 22310; bugfix on 0.3.0.6.
7394 o Major bugfixes (relay):
7395 - If we have failed to connect to a relay and received a connection
7396 refused, timeout, or similar error (at the TCP level), do not try
7397 that same address/port again for 60 seconds after the failure has
7398 occurred. Fixes bug 24767; bugfix on 0.0.6.
7400 o Major bugfixes (relay, denial of service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7401 - Impose a limit on circuit cell queue size. The limit can be
7402 controlled by a consensus parameter. Fixes bug 25226; bugfix
7405 o Minor features (cleanup):
7406 - Tor now deletes the CookieAuthFile and ExtORPortCookieAuthFile
7407 when it stops. Closes ticket 23271.
7409 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7410 - Avoid some compilation warnings with recent versions of LibreSSL.
7411 Closes ticket 26006.
7413 o Minor features (config options):
7414 - Change the way the default value for MaxMemInQueues is calculated.
7415 We now use 40% of the hardware RAM if the system has 8 GB RAM or
7416 more. Otherwise we use the former value of 75%. Closes
7419 o Minor features (continuous integration):
7420 - Update the Travis CI configuration to use the stable Rust channel,
7421 now that we have decided to require that. Closes ticket 25714.
7423 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7424 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
7425 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
7426 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
7427 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
7428 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
7430 o Minor features (defensive programming):
7431 - Most of the functions in Tor that free objects have been replaced
7432 with macros that free the objects and set the corresponding
7433 pointers to NULL. This change should help prevent a large class of
7434 dangling pointer bugs. Closes ticket 24337.
7435 - Where possible, the tor_free() macro now only evaluates its input
7436 once. Part of ticket 24337.
7437 - Check that microdesc ed25519 ids are non-zero in
7438 node_get_ed25519_id() before returning them. Implements ticket
7439 24001, patch by "aruna1234".
7441 o Minor features (directory authority):
7442 - When directory authorities are unable to add signatures to a
7443 pending consensus, log the reason why. Closes ticket 24849.
7445 o Minor features (embedding):
7446 - Tor can now start with a preauthenticated control connection
7447 created by the process that launched it. This feature is meant for
7448 use by programs that want to launch and manage a Tor process
7449 without allowing other programs to manage it as well. For more
7450 information, see the __OwningControllerFD option documented in
7451 control-spec.txt. Closes ticket 23900.
7452 - On most errors that would cause Tor to exit, it now tries to
7453 return from the tor_main() function, rather than calling the
7454 system exit() function. Most users won't notice a difference here,
7455 but it should be significant for programs that run Tor inside a
7456 separate thread: they should now be able to survive Tor's exit
7457 conditions rather than having Tor shut down the entire process.
7458 Closes ticket 23848.
7459 - Applications that want to embed Tor can now tell Tor not to
7460 register any of its own POSIX signal handlers, using the
7461 __DisableSignalHandlers option. Closes ticket 24588.
7463 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
7464 - Avoid selecting fallbacks that change their IP addresses too
7465 often. Select more fallbacks by ignoring the Guard flag, and
7466 allowing lower cutoffs for the Running and V2Dir flags. Also allow
7467 a lower bandwidth, and a higher number of fallbacks per operator
7468 (5% of the list). Implements ticket 24785.
7469 - Update the fallback whitelist and blacklist based on opt-ins and
7470 relay changes. Closes tickets 22321, 24678, 22527, 24135,
7473 o Minor features (fallback directory mirror configuration):
7474 - Add a nickname to each fallback in a C comment. This makes it
7475 easier for operators to find their relays, and allows stem to use
7476 nicknames to identify fallbacks. Implements ticket 24600.
7477 - Add a type and version header to the fallback directory mirror
7478 file. Also add a delimiter to the end of each fallback entry. This
7479 helps external parsers like stem and Relay Search. Implements
7481 - Add an extrainfo cache flag for each fallback in a C comment. This
7482 allows stem to use fallbacks to fetch extra-info documents, rather
7483 than using authorities. Implements ticket 22759.
7484 - Add the generateFallbackDirLine.py script for automatically
7485 generating fallback directory mirror lines from relay fingerprints.
7486 No more typos! Add the lookupFallbackDirContact.py script for
7487 automatically looking up operator contact info from relay
7488 fingerprints. Implements ticket 24706, patch by teor and atagar.
7489 - Reject any fallback directory mirror that serves an expired
7490 consensus. Implements ticket 20942, patch by "minik".
7491 - Remove commas and equals signs from external string inputs to the
7492 fallback list. This avoids format confusion attacks. Implements
7494 - Remove the "weight=10" line from fallback directory mirror
7495 entries. Ticket 24681 will maintain the current fallback weights
7496 by changing Tor's default fallback weight to 10. Implements
7498 - Stop logging excessive information about fallback netblocks.
7499 Implements ticket 24791.
7501 o Minor features (forward-compatibility):
7502 - If a relay supports some link authentication protocol that we do
7503 not recognize, then include that relay's ed25519 key when telling
7504 other relays to extend to it. Previously, we treated future
7505 versions as if they were too old to support ed25519 link
7506 authentication. Closes ticket 20895.
7508 o Minor features (geoip):
7509 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 1 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country
7510 database. Closes ticket 26104.
7512 o Minor features (heartbeat):
7513 - Add onion service information to our heartbeat logs, displaying
7514 stats about the activity of configured onion services. Closes
7517 o Minor features (instrumentation, development):
7518 - Add the MainloopStats option to allow developers to get
7519 instrumentation information from the main event loop via the
7520 heartbeat messages. We hope to use this to improve Tor's behavior
7521 when it's trying to sleep. Closes ticket 24605.
7523 o Minor features (IPv6):
7524 - Make IPv6-only clients wait for microdescs for relays, even if we
7525 were previously using descriptors (or were using them as a bridge)
7526 and have a cached descriptor for them. Implements ticket 23827.
7527 - When a consensus has IPv6 ORPorts, make IPv6-only clients use
7528 them, rather than waiting to download microdescriptors. Implements
7531 o Minor features (log messages):
7532 - Improve log message in the out-of-memory handler to include
7533 information about memory usage from the different compression
7534 backends. Closes ticket 25372.
7535 - Improve a warning message that happens when we fail to re-parse an
7536 old router because of an expired certificate. Closes ticket 20020.
7537 - Make the log more quantitative when we hit MaxMemInQueues
7538 threshold exposing some values. Closes ticket 24501.
7540 o Minor features (logging):
7541 - Clarify the log messages produced when getrandom() or a related
7542 entropy-generation mechanism gives an error. Closes ticket 25120.
7543 - Added support for the Android logging subsystem. Closes
7546 o Minor features (performance):
7547 - Support predictive circuit building for onion service circuits
7548 with multiple layers of guards. Closes ticket 23101.
7549 - Use stdatomic.h where available, rather than mutexes, to implement
7550 atomic_counter_t. Closes ticket 23953.
7552 o Minor features (performance, 32-bit):
7553 - Improve performance on 32-bit systems by avoiding 64-bit division
7554 when calculating the timestamp in milliseconds for channel padding
7555 computations. Implements ticket 24613.
7556 - Improve performance on 32-bit systems by avoiding 64-bit division
7557 when timestamping cells and buffer chunks for OOM calculations.
7558 Implements ticket 24374.
7560 o Minor features (performance, OSX, iOS):
7561 - Use the mach_approximate_time() function (when available) to
7562 implement coarse monotonic time. Having a coarse time function
7563 should avoid a large number of system calls, and improve
7564 performance slightly, especially under load. Closes ticket 24427.
7566 o Minor features (performance, windows):
7567 - Improve performance on Windows Vista and Windows 7 by adjusting
7568 TCP send window size according to the recommendation from
7569 SIO_IDEAL_SEND_BACKLOG_QUERY. Closes ticket 22798. Patch
7572 o Minor features (sandbox):
7573 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
7574 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
7575 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
7577 o Minor features (storage, configuration):
7578 - Users can store cached directory documents somewhere other than
7579 the DataDirectory by using the CacheDirectory option. Similarly,
7580 the storage location for relay's keys can be overridden with the
7581 KeyDirectory option. Closes ticket 22703.
7583 o Minor features (testing):
7584 - Add a "make test-rust" target to run the rust tests only. Closes
7587 o Minor features (testing, debugging, embedding):
7588 - For development purposes, Tor now has a mode in which it runs for
7589 a few seconds, then stops, and starts again without exiting the
7590 process. This mode is meant to help us debug various issues with
7591 ticket 23847. To use this feature, compile with
7592 --enable-restart-debugging, and set the TOR_DEBUG_RESTART
7593 environment variable. This is expected to crash a lot, and is
7594 really meant for developers only. It will likely be removed in a
7595 future release. Implements ticket 24583.
7597 o Minor bugfixes (build, rust):
7598 - Fix output of autoconf checks to display success messages for Rust
7599 dependencies and a suitable rustc compiler version. Fixes bug
7600 24612; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
7601 - Don't pass the --quiet option to cargo: it seems to suppress some
7602 errors, which is not what we want to do when building. Fixes bug
7603 24518; bugfix on 0.3.1.7.
7604 - Build correctly when building from outside Tor's source tree with
7605 the TOR_RUST_DEPENDENCIES option set. Fixes bug 22768; bugfix
7608 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
7609 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
7610 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
7611 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
7613 o Minor bugfixes (channel, client):
7614 - Better identify client connection when reporting to the geoip
7615 client cache. Fixes bug 24904; bugfix on 0.3.1.7.
7617 o Minor bugfixes (circuit, cannibalization):
7618 - Don't cannibalize preemptively-built circuits if we no longer
7619 recognize their first hop. This situation can happen if our Guard
7620 relay went off the consensus after the circuit was created. Fixes
7621 bug 24469; bugfix on 0.0.6.
7623 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7624 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
7625 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
7628 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
7629 - Fix a C99 compliance issue in our configuration script that caused
7630 compilation issues when compiling Tor with certain versions of
7631 xtools. Fixes bug 25474; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
7633 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
7634 - Restore the correct operation of the RESOLVE command, which had
7635 been broken since we added the ability to enable/disable DNS on
7636 specific listener ports. Fixes bug 25617; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
7637 - Avoid a (nonfatal) assertion failure when extending a one-hop
7638 circuit from the controller to become a multihop circuit. Fixes
7639 bug 24903; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
7641 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
7642 - Remove a nonworking, unnecessary check to see whether a circuit
7643 hop's identity digest was set when the circuit failed. Fixes bug
7644 24927; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
7646 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7647 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
7648 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
7649 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
7650 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
7652 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, IPv6):
7653 - When creating a routerstatus (vote) from a routerinfo (descriptor),
7654 set the IPv6 address to the unspecified IPv6 address, and
7655 explicitly initialize the port to zero. Fixes bug 24488; bugfix
7658 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
7659 - Document that the PerConnBW{Rate,Burst} options will fall back to
7660 their corresponding consensus parameters only if those parameters
7661 are set. Previously we had claimed that these values would always
7662 be set in the consensus. Fixes bug 25296; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
7664 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7665 - Stop saying in the manual that clients cache ipv4 dns answers from
7666 exit relays. We haven't used them since 0.2.6.3-alpha, and in
7667 ticket 24050 we stopped even caching them as of 0.3.2.6-alpha, but
7668 we forgot to say so in the man page. Fixes bug 26052; bugfix
7671 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay DNS retries):
7672 - Re-attempt timed-out DNS queries 3 times before failure, since our
7673 timeout is 5 seconds for them, but clients wait 10-15. Also allow
7674 slightly more timeouts per resolver when an exit has multiple
7675 resolvers configured. Fixes bug 21394; bugfix on 0.3.1.9.
7677 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directory mirrors):
7678 - Make updateFallbackDirs.py search harder for python. (Some OSs
7679 don't put it in /usr/bin.) Fixes bug 24708; bugfix
7682 o Minor bugfixes (hibernation, bandwidth accounting, shutdown):
7683 - When hibernating, close connections normally and allow them to
7684 flush. Fixes bug 23571; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Also fixes
7686 - Do not attempt to launch self-reachability tests when entering
7687 hibernation. Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
7688 - Resolve several bugs related to descriptor fetching on bridge
7689 clients with bandwidth accounting enabled. (This combination is
7690 not recommended!) Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix
7692 - When hibernating, do not attempt to launch DNS checks. Fixes a
7693 case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
7694 - When hibernating, do not try to upload or download descriptors.
7695 Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
7697 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, bridges):
7698 - Tor now always sets IPv6 preferences for bridges. Fixes bug 24573;
7699 bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
7700 - Tor now sets IPv6 address in the routerstatus as well as in the
7701 router descriptors when updating addresses for a bridge. Closes
7702 ticket 24572; bugfix on 0.2.4.5-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
7704 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
7705 - When running with the sandbox enabled, reload configuration files
7706 correctly even when %include was used. Previously we would crash.
7707 Fixes bug 22605; bugfix on 0.3.1. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
7709 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7710 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
7711 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
7713 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
7714 - Fix a (mostly harmless) race condition when invoking
7715 LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN message from a subthread while the torrc options
7716 are changing. Fixes bug 23954; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
7718 o Minor bugfixes (man page, SocksPort):
7719 - Remove dead code from the old "SocksSocket" option, and rename
7720 SocksSocketsGroupWritable to UnixSocksGroupWritable. The old
7721 option still works, but is deprecated. Fixes bug 24343; bugfix
7724 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
7725 - Avoid possible at-exit memory leaks related to use of Libevent's
7726 event_base_once() function. (This function tends to leak memory if
7727 the event_base is closed before the event fires.) Fixes bug 24584;
7728 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
7729 - Fix a harmless memory leak in tor-resolve. Fixes bug 24582; bugfix
7732 o Minor bugfixes (network IPv6 test):
7733 - Tor's test scripts now check if "ping -6 ::1" works when the user
7734 runs "make test-network-all". Fixes bug 24677; bugfix on
7735 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
7737 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
7738 - string_is_valid_hostname() will not consider IP strings to be
7739 valid hostnames. Fixes bug 25055; bugfix on Tor 0.2.5.5.
7741 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
7742 - Avoid an assertion failure when the next onion service descriptor
7743 rotation type is out of sync with the consensus's valid-after
7744 time. Instead, log a warning message with extra information, so we
7745 can better hunt down the cause of this assertion. Fixes bug 25306;
7746 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7748 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7749 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
7750 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7751 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
7752 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
7753 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
7754 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7756 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
7757 - If we are configured to offer a single onion service, don't log
7758 long-term established one hop rendezvous points in the heartbeat.
7759 Fixes bug 25116; bugfix on 0.2.9.6-rc.
7761 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
7762 - Reduce the number of circuits that will be opened at once during
7763 the circuit build timeout phase. This is done by increasing the
7764 idle timeout to 3 minutes, and lowering the maximum number of
7765 concurrent learning circuits to 10. Fixes bug 24769; bugfix
7767 - Avoid calling protocol_list_supports_protocol() from inside tight
7768 loops when running with cached routerinfo_t objects. Instead,
7769 summarize the relevant protocols as flags in the routerinfo_t, as
7770 we do for routerstatus_t objects. This change simplifies our code
7771 a little, and saves a large amount of short-term memory allocation
7772 operations. Fixes bug 25008; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
7774 o Minor bugfixes (performance, timeouts):
7775 - Consider circuits for timeout as soon as they complete a hop. This
7776 is more accurate than applying the timeout in
7777 circuit_expire_building() because that function is only called
7778 once per second, which is now too slow for typical timeouts on the
7779 current network. Fixes bug 23114; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
7780 - Use onion service circuits (and other circuits longer than 3 hops)
7781 to calculate a circuit build timeout. Previously, Tor only
7782 calculated its build timeout based on circuits that planned to be
7783 exactly 3 hops long. With this change, we include measurements
7784 from all circuits at the point where they complete their third
7785 hop. Fixes bug 23100; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
7787 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7788 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
7789 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7791 o Minor bugfixes (Rust FFI):
7792 - Fix a minor memory leak which would happen whenever the C code
7793 would call the Rust implementation of
7794 protover_get_supported_protocols(). This was due to the C version
7795 returning a static string, whereas the Rust version newly allocated
7796 a CString to pass across the FFI boundary. Consequently, the C
7797 code was not expecting to need to free() what it was given. Fixes
7798 bug 25127; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7800 o Minor bugfixes (spelling):
7801 - Use the "misspell" tool to detect and fix typos throughout the
7802 source code. Fixes bug 23650; bugfix on various versions of Tor.
7803 Patch from Deepesh Pathak.
7805 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
7806 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
7807 onion service introduction point creation finishing within 5
7808 seconds of real clock time. Fixes bug 25450; bugfix
7810 - Give out Exit flags in bootstrapping networks. Fixes bug 24137;
7811 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
7813 o Minor bugfixes (unit test, monotonic time):
7814 - Increase a constant (1msec to 10msec) in the monotonic time test
7815 that makes sure the nsec/usec/msec times read are synchronized.
7816 This change was needed to accommodate slow systems like armel or
7817 when the clock_gettime() is not a VDSO on the running kernel.
7818 Fixes bug 25113; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
7820 o Code simplification and refactoring:
7821 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
7822 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
7823 - Remove the old (deterministic) directory retry logic entirely:
7824 We've used exponential backoff exclusively for some time. Closes
7826 - Remove the unused nodelist_recompute_all_hsdir_indices(). Closes
7828 - Remove a series of counters used to track circuit extend attempts
7829 and connection status but that in reality we aren't using for
7830 anything other than stats logged by a SIGUSR1 signal. Closes
7832 - Remove /usr/athena from search path in configure.ac. Closes
7834 - Remove duplicate code in node_has_curve25519_onion_key() and
7835 node_get_curve25519_onion_key(), and add a check for a zero
7836 microdesc curve25519 onion key. Closes ticket 23966, patch by
7837 "aruna1234" and teor.
7838 - Rewrite channel_rsa_id_group_set_badness to reduce temporary
7839 memory allocations with large numbers of OR connections (e.g.
7840 relays). Closes ticket 24119.
7841 - Separate the function that deletes ephemeral files when Tor
7843 - Small changes to Tor's buf_t API to make it suitable for use as a
7844 general-purpose safe string constructor. Closes ticket 22342.
7845 - Switch -Wnormalized=id to -Wnormalized=nfkc in configure.ac to
7846 avoid source code identifier confusion. Closes ticket 24467.
7847 - The tor_git_revision[] constant no longer needs to be redeclared
7848 by everything that links against the rest of Tor. Done as part of
7849 ticket 23845, to simplify our external API.
7850 - We make extend_info_from_node() use node_get_curve25519_onion_key()
7851 introduced in ticket 23577 to access the curve25519 public keys
7852 rather than accessing it directly. Closes ticket 23760. Patch by
7854 - Add a function to log channels' scheduler state changes to aid
7855 debugging efforts. Closes ticket 24531.
7858 - Improved the documentation of AccountingStart parameter. Closes
7860 - Update the documentation for "Log" to include the current list of
7861 logging domains. Closes ticket 25378.
7862 - Add documentation on how to build tor with Rust dependencies
7863 without having to be online. Closes ticket 22907; bugfix
7865 - Clarify the behavior of RelayBandwidth{Rate,Burst} with client
7866 traffic. Closes ticket 24318.
7867 - Document that OutboundBindAddress doesn't apply to DNS requests.
7868 Closes ticket 22145. Patch from Aruna Maurya.
7870 o Code simplification and refactoring (channels):
7871 - Remove the incoming and outgoing channel queues. These were never
7872 used, but still took up a step in our fast path.
7873 - The majority of the channel unit tests have been rewritten and the
7874 code coverage has now been raised to 83.6% for channel.c. Closes
7876 - Remove other dead code from the channel subsystem: All together,
7877 this cleanup has removed more than 1500 lines of code overall and
7878 adding very little except for unit test.
7880 o Code simplification and refactoring (circuit rendezvous):
7881 - Split the client-side rendezvous circuit lookup into two
7882 functions: one that returns only established circuits and another
7883 that returns all kinds of circuits. Closes ticket 23459.
7885 o Code simplification and refactoring (controller):
7886 - Make most of the variables in networkstatus_getinfo_by_purpose()
7887 const. Implements ticket 24489.
7889 o Documentation (backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7890 - Correct an IPv6 error in the documentation for ExitPolicy. Closes
7891 ticket 25857. Patch from "CTassisF".
7893 o Documentation (man page):
7894 - The HiddenServiceVersion torrc option accepts only one number:
7895 either version 2 or 3. Closes ticket 25026; bugfix
7898 o Documentation (manpage, denial of service):
7899 - Provide more detail about the denial-of-service options, by
7900 listing each mitigation and explaining how they relate. Closes
7904 Changes in version 0.3.1.10 - 2018-03-03
7905 Tor 0.3.1.10 backports a number of bugfixes, including important fixes for
7908 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
7909 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
7911 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
7912 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
7914 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
7917 All directory authorities should upgrade to one of the versions
7918 released today. Relays running 0.3.1.x may wish to update to one of
7919 the versions released today, for the DoS mitigations.
7921 Please note: according to our release calendar, Tor 0.3.1 will no
7922 longer be supported after 1 July 2018. If you will be running Tor
7923 after that date, you should make sure to plan to upgrade to the latest
7924 stable version, or downgrade to 0.2.9 (which will receive long-term
7927 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
7928 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
7929 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
7930 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
7933 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
7934 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
7935 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
7936 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
7937 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
7938 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
7939 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
7940 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
7941 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
7942 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
7943 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
7944 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
7945 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
7947 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
7948 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
7949 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
7951 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
7952 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
7953 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
7954 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
7955 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
7956 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
7957 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
7959 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
7960 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
7961 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7963 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
7964 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
7965 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
7966 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
7967 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
7968 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
7969 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7971 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
7972 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
7973 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
7974 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
7976 o Minor feature (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
7977 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
7978 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
7979 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
7981 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
7982 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
7983 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
7984 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
7985 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
7986 Closes ticket 24978.
7988 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors, backport from 0.3.2.9):
7989 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
7990 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
7991 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
7992 information. Closes ticket 24801.
7993 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
7994 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
7995 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
7996 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
7998 o Minor features (geoip):
7999 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
8002 o Minor bugfix (channel connection, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
8003 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
8004 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
8005 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
8006 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
8008 o Minor bugfix (directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
8009 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
8010 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
8011 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
8012 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
8014 o Minor bugfixes (address selection, backport from 0.3.2.9):
8015 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
8016 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
8017 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
8018 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
8021 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
8022 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
8023 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
8024 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
8025 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
8026 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
8027 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
8028 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
8029 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
8030 - Don't try fetching microdescriptors from relays that have failed
8031 to deliver them in the past. Fixes bug 23817; bugfix
8034 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.7-rc):
8035 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
8036 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
8038 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
8039 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
8040 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
8043 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
8044 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
8045 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
8046 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
8047 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
8048 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
8049 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
8051 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
8052 - Recover better from empty or corrupt files in the consensus cache
8053 directory. Fixes bug 24099; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8054 - When a consensus diff calculation is only partially successful,
8055 only record the successful parts as having succeeded. Partial
8056 success can happen if (for example) one compression method fails
8057 but the others succeed. Previously we misrecorded all the
8058 calculations as having succeeded, which would later cause a
8059 nonfatal assertion failure. Fixes bug 24086; bugfix
8062 o Minor bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
8063 - Tor now updates its guard state when it reads a consensus
8064 regardless of whether it's missing descriptors. That makes tor use
8065 its primary guards to fetch descriptors in some edge cases where
8066 it would previously have used fallback directories. Fixes bug
8067 23862; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8069 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
8070 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
8071 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
8072 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8074 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage, backport from 0.3.2.8-rc):
8075 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
8076 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
8077 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
8078 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
8081 o Minor bugfixes (network layer, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
8082 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
8083 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
8084 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
8085 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
8086 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
8088 o Minor bugfixes (path selection, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
8089 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
8090 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
8091 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
8092 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
8093 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
8094 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
8095 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
8096 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
8097 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
8098 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
8099 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
8101 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
8102 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
8103 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
8104 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8106 o Minor bugfixes (OSX, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
8107 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
8108 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
8109 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
8111 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc, backport from 0.3.2.9):
8112 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
8113 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
8114 to cyptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
8117 o Minor bugfixes (relay, partial backport):
8118 - Make the internal channel_is_client() function look at what sort
8119 of connection handshake the other side used, rather than whether
8120 the other side ever sent a create_fast cell to us. Backports part
8121 of the fixes from bugs 22805 and 24898.
8123 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
8124 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
8126 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
8127 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
8129 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
8130 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
8131 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
8134 Changes in version 0.2.9.15 - 2018-03-03
8135 Tor 0.2.9.15 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
8138 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
8139 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
8141 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
8142 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
8144 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
8147 All directory authorities should upgrade to one of the versions
8148 released today. Relays running 0.2.9.x may wish to update to one of
8149 the versions released today, for the DoS mitigations.
8151 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
8152 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
8153 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
8154 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
8157 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation):
8158 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
8159 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
8160 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
8161 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
8162 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
8163 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
8164 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
8165 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
8166 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
8167 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
8168 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
8169 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
8171 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping):
8172 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
8173 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
8174 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
8175 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
8176 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
8177 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
8178 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
8179 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
8181 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior):
8182 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
8183 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
8184 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
8185 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
8186 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
8187 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
8189 o Minor feature (relay statistics):
8190 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
8191 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
8192 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
8194 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL):
8195 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
8196 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
8197 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
8198 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
8199 Closes ticket 24978.
8201 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
8202 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
8203 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
8204 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
8206 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
8207 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
8208 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
8209 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
8210 information. Closes ticket 24801.
8211 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
8212 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
8213 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
8214 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
8216 o Minor features (geoip):
8217 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
8220 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
8221 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
8222 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
8224 o Minor bugfix (channel connection):
8225 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
8226 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
8227 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
8228 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
8230 o Minor bugfix (directory authority):
8231 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
8232 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
8233 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
8234 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
8236 o Minor bugfixes (address selection):
8237 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
8238 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
8239 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
8240 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
8243 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
8244 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
8245 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
8247 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
8248 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
8249 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
8252 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
8253 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
8254 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
8255 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
8256 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
8257 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
8258 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
8260 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage):
8261 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
8262 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
8263 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
8264 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
8267 o Minor bugfixes (network layer):
8268 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
8269 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
8270 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
8271 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
8272 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
8274 o Minor bugfixes (OSX):
8275 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
8276 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
8277 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
8279 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
8280 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
8281 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
8282 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
8283 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
8284 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
8285 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
8286 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
8287 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
8288 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
8289 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
8290 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
8292 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc):
8293 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
8294 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
8295 to cryptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
8298 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
8299 - Make the internal channel_is_client() function look at what sort
8300 of connection handshake the other side used, rather than whether
8301 the other side ever sent a create_fast cell to us. Backports part
8302 of the fixes from bugs 22805 and 24898.
8304 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
8305 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
8307 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
8308 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
8311 Changes in version 0.3.2.10 - 2018-03-03
8312 Tor 0.3.2.10 is the second stable release in the 0.3.2 series. It
8313 backports a number of bugfixes, including important fixes for security
8316 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
8317 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
8319 Additionally, it backports a fix for a bug whose severity we have
8320 upgraded: Bug 24700, which was fixed in 0.3.3.2-alpha, can be remotely
8321 triggered in order to crash relays with a use-after-free pattern. As
8322 such, we are now tracking that bug as TROVE-2018-002 and
8323 CVE-2018-0491, and backporting it to earlier releases. This bug
8324 affected versions 0.3.2.1-alpha through 0.3.2.9, as well as version
8327 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
8328 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
8330 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
8333 Relays running 0.3.2.x SHOULD upgrade to one of the versions released
8334 today, for the fix to TROVE-2018-002. Directory authorities should
8335 also upgrade. (Relays on earlier versions might want to update too for
8336 the DoS mitigations.)
8338 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
8339 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
8340 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
8341 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
8344 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, KIST, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
8345 - Avoid adding the same channel twice in the KIST scheduler pending
8346 list, which could lead to remote denial-of-service use-after-free
8347 attacks against relays. Fixes bug 24700; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8349 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
8350 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
8351 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
8352 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
8353 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
8354 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
8355 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
8356 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
8357 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
8358 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
8359 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
8360 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
8361 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
8363 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
8364 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
8365 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
8366 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
8367 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
8368 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
8369 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
8370 - New-style (v3) onion services now obey the "max rendezvous circuit
8371 attempts" logic. Previously they would make as many rendezvous
8372 circuit attempts as they could fit in the MAX_REND_TIMEOUT second
8373 window before giving up. Fixes bug 24894; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8375 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
8376 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
8377 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8379 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
8380 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
8381 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
8382 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
8383 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
8384 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
8385 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8387 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, consensus, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
8388 - The scheduler subsystem was failing to promptly notice changes in
8389 consensus parameters, making it harder to switch schedulers
8390 network-wide. Fixes bug 24975; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8392 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
8393 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
8394 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
8395 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
8397 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
8398 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
8399 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
8400 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
8401 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
8402 Closes ticket 24978.
8404 o Minor features (geoip):
8405 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
8408 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
8409 - When logging a failure to create an onion service's descriptor,
8410 also log what the problem with the descriptor was. Diagnostic
8413 o Minor bugfix (channel connection, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
8414 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
8415 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
8416 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
8417 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
8419 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
8420 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
8421 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
8422 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
8423 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
8424 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
8425 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
8427 o Minor bugfix (directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
8428 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
8429 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
8430 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
8431 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
8433 o Minor bugfixes (build, rust, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
8434 - When building with Rust on OSX, link against libresolv, to work
8435 around the issue at https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/46797.
8436 Fixes bug 24652; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8438 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
8439 - Remove a BUG() statement when a client fetches an onion descriptor
8440 that has a lower revision counter than the one in its cache. This
8441 can happen in normal circumstances due to HSDir desync. Fixes bug
8442 24976; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8444 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
8445 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
8446 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
8447 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8449 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
8450 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
8451 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
8452 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8454 o Minor bugfixes (OSX, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
8455 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
8456 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
8457 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
8459 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
8460 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
8462 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
8463 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
8465 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
8466 - Fix a memory leak in the scheduler/loop_kist unit test. Fixes bug
8467 25005; bugfix on 0.3.2.7-rc.
8469 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
8470 - Look at the "HSRend" protocol version, not the "HSDir" protocol
8471 version, when deciding whether a consensus entry can support the
8472 v3 onion service protocol as a rendezvous point. Fixes bug 25105;
8473 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8475 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
8476 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
8477 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
8479 o Documentation (backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha)
8480 - Document that operators who run more than one relay or bridge are
8481 expected to set MyFamily and ContactInfo correctly. Closes
8485 Changes in version 0.3.2.9 - 2018-01-09
8486 Tor 0.3.2.9 is the first stable release in the 0.3.2 series.
8488 The 0.3.2 series includes our long-anticipated new onion service
8489 design, with numerous security features. (For more information, see
8490 our blog post at https://blog.torproject.org/fall-harvest.) We also
8491 have a new circuit scheduler algorithm for improved performance on
8492 relays everywhere (see https://blog.torproject.org/kist-and-tell),
8493 along with many smaller features and bugfixes.
8495 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support each stable release
8496 series for at least the next nine months, or for three months after
8497 the first stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. If
8498 you need a release with long-term support, we recommend that you stay
8499 with the 0.2.9 series.
8501 Below is a list of the changes since 0.3.1.7. For a list of all
8502 changes since 0.3.2.8-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
8504 o Directory authority changes:
8505 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
8506 Closes ticket 23910.
8507 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
8508 Closes ticket 23592.
8509 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
8510 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
8511 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
8512 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
8513 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
8516 o Major features (next-generation onion services):
8517 - Tor now supports the next-generation onion services protocol for
8518 clients and services! As part of this release, the core of
8519 proposal 224 has been implemented and is available for
8520 experimentation and testing by our users. This newer version of
8521 onion services ("v3") features many improvements over the legacy
8524 a) Better crypto (replaced SHA1/DH/RSA1024
8525 with SHA3/ed25519/curve25519)
8527 b) Improved directory protocol, leaking much less information to
8530 c) Improved directory protocol, with smaller surface for
8533 d) Better onion address security against impersonation.
8535 e) More extensible introduction/rendezvous protocol.
8537 f) A cleaner and more modular codebase.
8539 You can identify a next-generation onion address by its length:
8540 they are 56 characters long, as in
8541 "4acth47i6kxnvkewtm6q7ib2s3ufpo5sqbsnzjpbi7utijcltosqemad.onion".
8543 In the future, we will release more options and features for v3
8544 onion services, but we first need a testing period, so that the
8545 current codebase matures and becomes more robust. Planned features
8546 include: offline keys, advanced client authorization, improved
8547 guard algorithms, and statistics. For full details, see
8550 Legacy ("v2") onion services will still work for the foreseeable
8551 future, and will remain the default until this new codebase gets
8552 tested and hardened. Service operators who want to experiment with
8553 the new system can use the 'HiddenServiceVersion 3' torrc
8554 directive along with the regular onion service configuration
8555 options. For more information, see our blog post at
8556 "https://blog.torproject.org/fall-harvest". Enjoy!
8558 o Major feature (scheduler, channel):
8559 - Tor now uses new schedulers to decide which circuits should
8560 deliver cells first, in order to improve congestion at relays. The
8561 first type is called "KIST" ("Kernel Informed Socket Transport"),
8562 and is only available on Linux-like systems: it uses feedback from
8563 the kernel to prevent the kernel's TCP buffers from growing too
8564 full. The second new scheduler type is called "KISTLite": it
8565 behaves the same as KIST, but runs on systems without kernel
8566 support for inspecting TCP implementation details. The old
8567 scheduler is still available, under the name "Vanilla". To change
8568 the default scheduler preference order, use the new "Schedulers"
8569 option. (The default preference order is "KIST,KISTLite,Vanilla".)
8571 Matt Traudt implemented KIST, based on research by Rob Jansen,
8572 John Geddes, Christ Wacek, Micah Sherr, and Paul Syverson. For
8573 more information, see the design paper at
8574 http://www.robgjansen.com/publications/kist-sec2014.pdf and the
8575 followup implementation paper at https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.01044.
8576 Closes ticket 12541. For more information, see our blog post at
8577 "https://blog.torproject.org/kist-and-tell".
8579 o Major bugfixes (security, general):
8580 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
8581 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
8582 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
8583 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
8584 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
8585 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
8586 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
8588 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authority):
8589 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
8590 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
8591 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
8594 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2):
8595 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
8596 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
8597 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
8598 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
8599 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
8600 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
8601 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
8602 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
8603 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
8604 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
8605 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
8608 o Major bugfixes (security, relay):
8609 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
8610 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
8611 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
8612 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
8613 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
8614 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
8615 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
8616 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
8618 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping):
8619 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
8620 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
8621 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
8622 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
8623 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
8624 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
8625 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
8626 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
8627 - Don't try fetching microdescriptors from relays that have failed
8628 to deliver them in the past. Fixes bug 23817; bugfix
8631 o Major bugfixes (circuit prediction):
8632 - Fix circuit prediction logic so that a client doesn't treat a port
8633 as being "handled" by a circuit if that circuit already has
8634 isolation settings on it. This change should make Tor clients more
8635 responsive by improving their chances of having a pre-created
8636 circuit ready for use when a request arrives. Fixes bug 18859;
8637 bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
8639 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS):
8640 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
8641 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
8642 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
8643 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
8644 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
8647 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure):
8648 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
8649 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
8650 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
8652 o Major bugfixes (usability, control port):
8653 - Report trusted clock skew indications as bootstrap errors, so
8654 controllers can more easily alert users when their clocks are
8655 wrong. Fixes bug 23506; bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha.
8657 o Minor features (bridge):
8658 - Bridge relays can now set the BridgeDistribution config option to
8659 add a "bridge-distribution-request" line to their bridge
8660 descriptor, which tells BridgeDB how they'd like their bridge
8661 address to be given out. (Note that as of Oct 2017, BridgeDB does
8662 not yet implement this feature.) As a side benefit, this feature
8663 provides a way to distinguish bridge descriptors from non-bridge
8664 descriptors. Implements tickets 18329.
8665 - When handling the USERADDR command on an ExtOrPort, warn when the
8666 transports provides a USERADDR with no port. In a future version,
8667 USERADDR commands of this format may be rejected. Detects problems
8668 related to ticket 23080.
8670 o Minor features (bug detection):
8671 - Log a warning message with a stack trace for any attempt to call
8672 get_options() during option validation. This pattern has caused
8673 subtle bugs in the past. Closes ticket 22281.
8675 o Minor features (build, compilation):
8676 - The "check-changes" feature is now part of the "make check" tests;
8677 we'll use it to try to prevent misformed changes files from
8678 accumulating. Closes ticket 23564.
8679 - Tor builds should now fail if there are any mismatches between the
8680 C type representing a configuration variable and the C type the
8681 data-driven parser uses to store a value there. Previously, we
8682 needed to check these by hand, which sometimes led to mistakes.
8683 Closes ticket 23643.
8685 o Minor features (client):
8686 - You can now use Tor as a tunneled HTTP proxy: use the new
8687 HTTPTunnelPort option to open a port that accepts HTTP CONNECT
8688 requests. Closes ticket 22407.
8689 - Add an extra check to make sure that we always use the newer guard
8690 selection code for picking our guards. Closes ticket 22779.
8691 - When downloading (micro)descriptors, don't split the list into
8692 multiple requests unless we want at least 32 descriptors.
8693 Previously, we split at 4, not 32, which led to significant
8694 overhead in HTTP request size and degradation in compression
8695 performance. Closes ticket 23220.
8696 - Improve log messages when missing descriptors for primary guards.
8697 Resolves ticket 23670.
8699 o Minor features (command line):
8700 - Add a new commandline option, --key-expiration, which prints when
8701 the current signing key is going to expire. Implements ticket
8702 17639; patch by Isis Lovecruft.
8704 o Minor features (control port):
8705 - If an application tries to use the control port as an HTTP proxy,
8706 respond with a meaningful "This is the Tor control port" message,
8707 and log the event. Closes ticket 1667. Patch from Ravi
8709 - Provide better error message for GETINFO desc/(id|name) when not
8710 fetching router descriptors. Closes ticket 5847. Patch by
8712 - Add GETINFO "{desc,md}/download-enabled", to inform the controller
8713 whether Tor will try to download router descriptors and
8714 microdescriptors respectively. Closes ticket 22684.
8715 - Added new GETINFO targets "ip-to-country/{ipv4,ipv6}-available",
8716 so controllers can tell whether the geoip databases are loaded.
8717 Closes ticket 23237.
8718 - Adds a timestamp field to the CIRC_BW and STREAM_BW bandwidth
8719 events. Closes ticket 19254. Patch by "DonnchaC".
8721 o Minor features (development support):
8722 - Developers can now generate a call-graph for Tor using the
8723 "calltool" python program, which post-processes object dumps. It
8724 should work okay on many Linux and OSX platforms, and might work
8725 elsewhere too. To run it, install calltool from
8726 https://gitweb.torproject.org/user/nickm/calltool.git and run
8727 "make callgraph". Closes ticket 19307.
8729 o Minor features (directory authority):
8730 - Make the "Exit" flag assignment only depend on whether the exit
8731 policy allows connections to ports 80 and 443. Previously relays
8732 would get the Exit flag if they allowed connections to one of
8733 these ports and also port 6667. Resolves ticket 23637.
8735 o Minor features (ed25519):
8736 - Add validation function to checks for torsion components in
8737 ed25519 public keys, used by prop224 client-side code. Closes
8738 ticket 22006. Math help by Ian Goldberg.
8740 o Minor features (exit relay, DNS):
8741 - Improve the clarity and safety of the log message from evdns when
8742 receiving an apparently spoofed DNS reply. Closes ticket 3056.
8744 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
8745 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
8746 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
8747 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
8748 information. Closes ticket 24801.
8749 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
8750 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
8751 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
8752 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
8754 o Minor features (geoip):
8755 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 5 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
8758 o Minor features (integration, hardening):
8759 - Add a new NoExec option to prevent Tor from running other
8760 programs. When this option is set to 1, Tor will never try to run
8761 another program, regardless of the settings of
8762 PortForwardingHelper, ClientTransportPlugin, or
8763 ServerTransportPlugin. Once NoExec is set, it cannot be disabled
8764 without restarting Tor. Closes ticket 22976.
8766 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
8767 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
8768 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
8770 o Minor features (logging):
8771 - Provide better warnings when the getrandom() syscall fails. Closes
8773 - Downgrade a pair of log messages that could occur when an exit's
8774 resolver gave us an unusual (but not forbidden) response. Closes
8776 - Improve the message we log when re-enabling circuit build timeouts
8777 after having received a consensus. Closes ticket 20963.
8778 - Log more circuit information whenever we are about to try to
8779 package a relay cell on a circuit with a nonexistent n_chan.
8780 Attempt to diagnose ticket 8185.
8781 - Improve info-level log identification of particular circuits, to
8782 help with debugging. Closes ticket 23645.
8783 - Improve the warning message for specifying a relay by nickname.
8784 The previous message implied that nickname registration was still
8785 part of the Tor network design, which it isn't. Closes
8787 - If the sandbox filter fails to load, suggest to the user that
8788 their kernel might not support seccomp2. Closes ticket 23090.
8790 o Minor features (onion service, circuit, logging):
8791 - Improve logging of many callsite in the circuit subsystem to print
8792 the circuit identifier(s).
8793 - Log when we cleanup an intro point from a service so we know when
8794 and for what reason it happened. Closes ticket 23604.
8796 o Minor features (portability):
8797 - Tor now compiles correctly on arm64 with libseccomp-dev installed.
8798 (It doesn't yet work with the sandbox enabled.) Closes
8800 - Check at configure time whether uint8_t is the same type as
8801 unsigned char. Lots of existing code already makes this
8802 assumption, and there could be strict aliasing issues if the
8803 assumption is violated. Closes ticket 22410.
8805 o Minor features (relay):
8806 - When choosing which circuits can be expired as unused, consider
8807 circuits from clients even if those clients used regular CREATE
8808 cells to make them; and do not consider circuits from relays even
8809 if they were made with CREATE_FAST. Part of ticket 22805.
8810 - Reject attempts to use relative file paths when RunAsDaemon is
8811 set. Previously, Tor would accept these, but the directory-
8812 changing step of RunAsDaemon would give strange and/or confusing
8813 results. Closes ticket 22731.
8815 o Minor features (relay statistics):
8816 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
8817 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
8818 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
8820 o Minor features (reverted deprecations):
8821 - The ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses flag can once again be set in
8822 non-testing Tor networks, so long as they do not use the default
8823 directory authorities. This change also removes the deprecation of
8824 this flag from 0.2.9.2-alpha. Closes ticket 21031.
8826 o Minor features (robustness):
8827 - Change several fatal assertions when flushing buffers into non-
8828 fatal assertions, to prevent any recurrence of 23690.
8830 o Minor features (startup, safety):
8831 - When configured to write a PID file, Tor now exits if it is unable
8832 to do so. Previously, it would warn and continue. Closes
8835 o Minor features (static analysis):
8836 - The BUG() macro has been changed slightly so that Coverity no
8837 longer complains about dead code if the bug is impossible. Closes
8840 o Minor features (testing):
8841 - Our fuzzing tests now test the encrypted portions of v3 onion
8842 service descriptors. Implements more of 21509.
8843 - Add a unit test to make sure that our own generated platform
8844 string will be accepted by directory authorities. Closes
8846 - The default chutney network tests now include tests for the v3
8847 onion service design. Make sure you have the latest version of
8848 chutney if you want to run these. Closes ticket 22437.
8849 - Add a unit test to verify that we can parse a hardcoded v2 onion
8850 service descriptor. Closes ticket 15554.
8852 o Minor bugfixes (address selection):
8853 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
8854 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
8855 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
8856 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
8859 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrapping):
8860 - When warning about state file clock skew, report the correct
8861 direction for the detected skew. Fixes bug 23606; bugfix
8864 o Minor bugfixes (bridge clients, bootstrap):
8865 - Retry directory downloads when we get our first bridge descriptor
8866 during bootstrap or while reconnecting to the network. Keep
8867 retrying every time we get a bridge descriptor, until we have a
8868 reachable bridge. Fixes part of bug 24367; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
8869 - Stop delaying bridge descriptor fetches when we have cached bridge
8870 descriptors. Instead, only delay bridge descriptor fetches when we
8871 have at least one reachable bridge. Fixes part of bug 24367;
8872 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
8873 - Stop delaying directory fetches when we have cached bridge
8874 descriptors. Instead, only delay bridge descriptor fetches when
8875 all our bridges are definitely unreachable. Fixes part of bug
8876 24367; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
8878 o Minor bugfixes (bridge):
8879 - Overwrite the bridge address earlier in the process of retrieving
8880 its descriptor, to make sure we reach it on the configured
8881 address. Fixes bug 20532; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
8883 o Minor bugfixes (build, compilation):
8884 - Fix a compilation warning when building with zstd support on
8885 32-bit platforms. Fixes bug 23568; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
8886 and fixed by Andreas Stieger.
8887 - When searching for OpenSSL, don't accept any OpenSSL library that
8888 lacks TLSv1_1_method(): Tor doesn't build with those versions.
8889 Additionally, look in /usr/local/opt/openssl, if it's present.
8890 These changes together repair the default build on OSX systems
8891 with Homebrew installed. Fixes bug 23602; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
8892 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
8893 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
8894 - Fix a memory leak warning in one of the libevent-related
8895 configuration tests that could occur when manually specifying
8896 -fsanitize=address. Fixes bug 24279; bugfix on 0.3.0.2-alpha.
8897 Found and patched by Alex Xu.
8898 - Fix unused-variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
8899 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
8901 o Minor bugfixes (certificate handling):
8902 - Fix a time handling bug in Tor certificates set to expire after
8903 the year 2106. Fixes bug 23055; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Found by
8904 Coverity as CID 1415728.
8906 o Minor bugfixes (client):
8907 - By default, do not enable storage of client-side DNS values. These
8908 values were unused by default previously, but they should not have
8909 been cached at all. Fixes bug 24050; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
8911 o Minor bugfixes (client, usability):
8912 - Refrain from needlessly rejecting SOCKS5-with-hostnames and
8913 SOCKS4a requests that contain IP address strings, even when
8914 SafeSocks in enabled, as this prevents user from connecting to
8915 known IP addresses without relying on DNS for resolving. SafeSocks
8916 still rejects SOCKS connections that connect to IP addresses when
8917 those addresses are _not_ encoded as hostnames. Fixes bug 22461;
8918 bugfix on Tor 0.2.6.2-alpha.
8920 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
8921 - Call htons() in extend_cell_format() for encoding a 16-bit value.
8922 Previously we used ntohs(), which happens to behave the same on
8923 all the platforms we support, but which isn't really correct.
8924 Fixes bug 23106; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
8925 - For defense-in-depth, make the controller's write_escaped_data()
8926 function robust to extremely long inputs. Fixes bug 19281; bugfix
8927 on 0.1.1.1-alpha. Reported by Guido Vranken.
8928 - Fix several places in our codebase where a C compiler would be
8929 likely to eliminate a check, based on assuming that undefined
8930 behavior had not happened elsewhere in the code. These cases are
8931 usually a sign of redundant checking or dubious arithmetic. Found
8932 by Georg Koppen using the "STACK" tool from Wang, Zeldovich,
8933 Kaashoek, and Solar-Lezama. Fixes bug 24423; bugfix on various
8936 o Minor bugfixes (compression):
8937 - Handle a pathological case when decompressing Zstandard data when
8938 the output buffer size is zero. Fixes bug 23551; bugfix
8941 o Minor bugfixes (consensus expiry):
8942 - Check for adequate directory information correctly. Previously, Tor
8943 would reconsider whether it had sufficient directory information
8944 every 2 minutes. Fixes bug 23091; bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha.
8946 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
8947 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
8948 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
8951 o Minor bugfixes (control port, onion services):
8952 - Report "FAILED" instead of "UPLOAD_FAILED" "FAILED" for the
8953 HS_DESC event when a service is not able to upload a descriptor.
8954 Fixes bug 24230; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
8956 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache):
8957 - Recover better from empty or corrupt files in the consensus cache
8958 directory. Fixes bug 24099; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8959 - When a consensus diff calculation is only partially successful,
8960 only record the successful parts as having succeeded. Partial
8961 success can happen if (for example) one compression method fails
8962 but the others succeed. Previously we misrecorded all the
8963 calculations as having succeeded, which would later cause a
8964 nonfatal assertion failure. Fixes bug 24086; bugfix
8967 o Minor bugfixes (directory client):
8968 - On failure to download directory information, delay retry attempts
8969 by a random amount based on the "decorrelated jitter" algorithm.
8970 Our previous delay algorithm tended to produce extra-long delays
8971 too easily. Fixes bug 23816; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
8973 o Minor bugfixes (directory protocol):
8974 - Directory servers now include a "Date:" http header for response
8975 codes other than 200. Clients starting with a skewed clock and a
8976 recent consensus were getting "304 Not modified" responses from
8977 directory authorities, so without the Date header, the client
8978 would never hear about a wrong clock. Fixes bug 23499; bugfix
8980 - Make clients wait for 6 seconds before trying to download a
8981 consensus from an authority. Fixes bug 17750; bugfix
8984 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
8985 - Document better how to read gcov, and what our gcov postprocessing
8986 scripts do. Fixes bug 23739; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
8987 - Fix manpage to not refer to the obsolete (and misspelled)
8988 UseEntryGuardsAsDirectoryGuards parameter in the description of
8989 NumDirectoryGuards. Fixes bug 23611; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
8991 o Minor bugfixes (DoS-resistance):
8992 - If future code asks if there are any running bridges, without
8993 checking if bridges are enabled, log a BUG warning rather than
8994 crashing. Fixes bug 23524; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8996 o Minor bugfixes (entry guards):
8997 - Tor now updates its guard state when it reads a consensus
8998 regardless of whether it's missing descriptors. That makes tor use
8999 its primary guards to fetch descriptors in some edge cases where
9000 it would previously have used fallback directories. Fixes bug
9001 23862; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9003 o Minor bugfixes (format strictness):
9004 - Restrict several data formats to decimal. Previously, the
9005 BuildTimeHistogram entries in the state file, the "bw=" entries in
9006 the bandwidth authority file, and the process IDs passed to the
9007 __OwningControllerProcess option could all be specified in hex or
9008 octal as well as in decimal. This was not an intentional feature.
9009 Fixes bug 22802; bugfixes on 0.2.2.1-alpha, 0.2.2.2-alpha,
9012 o Minor bugfixes (heartbeat):
9013 - If we fail to write a heartbeat message, schedule a retry for the
9014 minimum heartbeat interval number of seconds in the future. Fixes
9015 bug 19476; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
9017 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
9018 - Suppress a log notice when relay descriptors arrive. We already
9019 have a bootstrap progress for this so no need to log notice
9020 everytime tor receives relay descriptors. Microdescriptors behave
9021 the same. Fixes bug 23861; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
9022 - Remove duplicate log messages regarding opening non-local
9023 SocksPorts upon parsing config and opening listeners at startup.
9024 Fixes bug 4019; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
9025 - Use a more comprehensible log message when telling the user
9026 they've excluded every running exit node. Fixes bug 7890; bugfix
9028 - When logging the number of descriptors we intend to download per
9029 directory request, do not log a number higher than then the number
9030 of descriptors we're fetching in total. Fixes bug 19648; bugfix
9032 - When warning about a directory owned by the wrong user, log the
9033 actual name of the user owning the directory. Previously, we'd log
9034 the name of the process owner twice. Fixes bug 23487; bugfix
9036 - Fix some messages on unexpected errors from the seccomp2 library.
9037 Fixes bug 22750; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
9038 - The tor specification says hop counts are 1-based, so fix two log
9039 messages that mistakenly logged 0-based hop counts. Fixes bug
9040 18982; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha and 0.2.4.5-alpha. Patch by teor.
9041 Credit to Xiaofan Li for reporting this issue.
9043 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance):
9044 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
9045 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
9046 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
9047 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
9048 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
9050 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, defensive programming):
9051 - Clear the target address when node_get_prim_orport() returns
9052 early. Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
9054 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage):
9055 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
9056 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
9057 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
9058 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
9061 o Minor bugfixes (network layer):
9062 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
9063 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
9064 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
9065 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
9066 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
9068 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
9069 - The introduction circuit was being timed out too quickly while
9070 waiting for the rendezvous circuit to complete. Keep the intro
9071 circuit around longer instead of timing out and reopening new ones
9072 constantly. Fixes bug 23681; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
9073 - Rename the consensus parameter "hsdir-interval" to "hsdir_interval"
9074 so it matches dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 24262; bugfix
9076 - When handling multiple SOCKS request for the same .onion address,
9077 only fetch the service descriptor once.
9078 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
9079 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
9080 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9081 - When reloading configured onion services, copy all information
9082 from the old service object. Previously, some data was omitted,
9083 causing delays in descriptor upload, and other bugs. Fixes bug
9084 23790; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
9086 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
9087 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
9088 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
9089 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
9090 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
9091 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
9092 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
9093 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
9094 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
9095 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
9096 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
9097 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
9099 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
9100 - Stop using the PATH_MAX variable, which is not defined on GNU
9101 Hurd. Fixes bug 23098; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9102 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
9103 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
9104 to cryptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
9107 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
9108 - When uploading our descriptor for the first time after startup,
9109 report the reason for uploading as "Tor just started" rather than
9110 leaving it blank. Fixes bug 22885; bugfix on 0.2.3.4-alpha.
9111 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
9112 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
9113 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
9114 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
9115 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
9116 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
9117 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
9118 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
9120 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
9121 - Fix a spurious fuzzing-only use of an uninitialized value. Found
9122 by Brian Carpenter. Fixes bug 24082; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
9123 - Test that IPv6-only clients can use microdescriptors when running
9124 "make test-network-all". Requires chutney master 61c28b9 or later.
9125 Closes ticket 24109.
9126 - Prevent scripts/test/coverage from attempting to move gcov output
9127 to the root directory. Fixes bug 23741; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9128 - Capture and detect several "Result does not fit" warnings in unit
9129 tests on platforms with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 21800; bugfix
9131 - Fix additional channelpadding unit test failures by using mocked
9132 time instead of actual time for all tests. Fixes bug 23608; bugfix
9134 - Fix a bug in our fuzzing mock replacement for crypto_pk_checksig(),
9135 to correctly handle cases where a caller gives it an RSA key of
9136 under 160 bits. (This is not actually a bug in Tor itself, but
9137 rather in our fuzzing code.) Fixes bug 24247; bugfix on
9138 0.3.0.3-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz as issue 4177.
9139 - Fix a broken unit test for the OutboundAddress option: the parsing
9140 function was never returning an error on failure. Fixes bug 23366;
9141 bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
9142 - Fix a signed-integer overflow in the unit tests for
9143 dir/download_status_random_backoff, which was untriggered until we
9144 fixed bug 17750. Fixes bug 22924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
9146 o Minor bugfixes (usability, control port):
9147 - Stop making an unnecessary routerlist check in NETINFO clock skew
9148 detection; this was preventing clients from reporting NETINFO clock
9149 skew to controllers. Fixes bug 23532; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
9151 o Code simplification and refactoring:
9152 - Remove various ways of testing circuits and connections for
9153 "clientness"; instead, favor channel_is_client(). Part of
9155 - Extract the code for handling newly-open channels into a separate
9156 function from the general code to handle channel state
9157 transitions. This change simplifies our callgraph, reducing the
9158 size of the largest strongly connected component by roughly a
9159 factor of two. Closes ticket 22608.
9160 - Remove dead code for largely unused statistics on the number of
9161 times we've attempted various public key operations. Fixes bug
9162 19871; bugfix on 0.1.2.4-alpha. Fix by Isis Lovecruft.
9163 - Remove several now-obsolete functions for asking about old
9164 variants directory authority status. Closes ticket 22311; patch
9166 - Remove some of the code that once supported "Named" and "Unnamed"
9167 routers. Authorities no longer vote for these flags. Closes
9169 - Rename the obsolete malleable hybrid_encrypt functions used in TAP
9170 and old hidden services, to indicate that they aren't suitable for
9171 new protocols or formats. Closes ticket 23026.
9172 - Replace our STRUCT_OFFSET() macro with offsetof(). Closes ticket
9173 22521. Patch from Neel Chauhan.
9174 - Split the enormous circuit_send_next_onion_skin() function into
9175 multiple subfunctions. Closes ticket 22804.
9176 - Split the portions of the buffer.c module that handle particular
9177 protocols into separate modules. Part of ticket 23149.
9178 - Use our test macros more consistently, to produce more useful
9179 error messages when our unit tests fail. Add coccinelle patches to
9180 allow us to re-check for test macro uses. Closes ticket 22497.
9182 o Deprecated features:
9183 - The ReachableDirAddresses and ClientPreferIPv6DirPort options are
9184 now deprecated; they do not apply to relays, and they have had no
9185 effect on clients since 0.2.8.x. Closes ticket 19704.
9186 - Deprecate HTTPProxy/HTTPProxyAuthenticator config options. They
9187 only applies to direct unencrypted HTTP connections to your
9188 directory server, which your Tor probably isn't using. Closes
9192 - Add notes in man page regarding OS support for the various
9193 scheduler types. Attempt to use less jargon in the scheduler
9194 section. Closes ticket 24254.
9195 - Clarify that the Address option is entirely about setting an
9196 advertised IPv4 address. Closes ticket 18891.
9197 - Clarify the manpage's use of the term "address" to clarify what
9198 kind of address is intended. Closes ticket 21405.
9199 - Document that onion service subdomains are allowed, and ignored.
9200 Closes ticket 18736.
9201 - Clarify in the manual that "Sandbox 1" is only supported on Linux
9202 kernels. Closes ticket 22677.
9203 - Document all values of PublishServerDescriptor in the manpage.
9204 Closes ticket 15645.
9205 - Improve the documentation for the directory port part of the
9206 DirAuthority line. Closes ticket 20152.
9207 - Restore documentation for the authorities' "approved-routers"
9208 file. Closes ticket 21148.
9211 - The AllowDotExit option has been removed as unsafe. It has been
9212 deprecated since 0.2.9.2-alpha. Closes ticket 23426.
9213 - The ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses flag can no longer be set on
9214 non-testing networks. It has been deprecated since 0.2.9.2-alpha.
9215 Closes ticket 21031.
9216 - The controller API no longer includes an AUTHDIR_NEWDESCS event:
9217 nobody was using it any longer. Closes ticket 22377.
9220 Changes in version 0.3.1.9 - 2017-12-01:
9221 Tor 0.3.1.9 backports important security and stability fixes from the
9222 0.3.2 development series. All Tor users should upgrade to this
9223 release, or to another of the releases coming out today.
9225 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
9226 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
9227 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
9228 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
9229 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
9230 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
9231 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
9232 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
9233 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
9234 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
9235 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
9237 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
9238 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
9239 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
9240 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
9241 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
9242 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
9243 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
9246 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
9247 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
9248 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
9249 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
9250 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
9252 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
9253 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
9254 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
9255 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
9256 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
9257 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
9258 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
9259 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
9260 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
9262 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
9263 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
9264 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
9265 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
9266 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
9267 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
9270 o Minor features (bridge):
9271 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
9272 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
9273 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
9274 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
9277 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
9278 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
9281 o Minor features (geoip):
9282 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
9285 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
9286 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
9287 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
9288 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
9289 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
9291 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
9292 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
9293 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
9295 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
9296 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
9297 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
9298 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
9299 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
9300 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
9302 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
9303 - Rename the consensus parameter "hsdir-interval" to "hsdir_interval"
9304 so it matches dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 24262; bugfix
9307 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
9308 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
9309 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
9310 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
9311 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
9314 Changes in version 0.3.0.13 - 2017-12-01
9315 Tor 0.3.0.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
9316 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
9317 to another of the releases coming out today.
9319 Note: the Tor 0.3.0 series will no longer be supported after 26 Jan
9320 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
9321 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
9323 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
9324 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
9325 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
9326 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
9327 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
9328 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
9329 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
9330 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
9331 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
9332 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
9333 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
9335 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
9336 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
9337 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
9338 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
9339 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
9340 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
9341 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
9344 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
9345 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
9346 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
9347 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
9348 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
9350 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
9351 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
9352 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
9353 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
9354 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
9355 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
9356 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
9357 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
9358 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
9360 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
9361 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
9362 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
9363 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
9364 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
9365 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
9368 o Minor features (security, windows, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
9369 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
9370 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
9371 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
9372 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
9373 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
9375 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
9376 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
9377 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
9378 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
9379 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
9382 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
9383 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
9386 o Minor features (geoip):
9387 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
9390 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
9391 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
9392 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
9393 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
9394 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
9396 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
9397 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
9398 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
9400 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
9401 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
9402 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
9403 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
9404 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
9405 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
9407 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
9408 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
9409 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
9410 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
9411 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
9413 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
9414 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
9415 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
9418 Changes in version 0.2.9.14 - 2017-12-01
9419 Tor 0.3.0.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
9420 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
9421 to another of the releases coming out today.
9423 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
9424 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
9425 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
9426 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
9427 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
9428 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
9431 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
9432 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
9433 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
9434 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
9435 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
9436 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
9437 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
9438 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
9439 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
9440 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
9441 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
9443 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
9444 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
9445 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
9446 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
9447 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
9448 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
9449 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
9452 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
9453 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
9454 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
9455 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
9456 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
9458 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
9459 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
9460 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
9461 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
9462 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
9463 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
9465 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
9466 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
9467 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
9468 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
9469 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
9472 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
9473 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
9476 o Minor features (geoip):
9477 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
9480 o Minor features (security, windows, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
9481 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
9482 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
9483 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
9484 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
9485 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
9487 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
9488 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
9489 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
9490 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
9491 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
9493 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
9494 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
9495 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
9497 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
9498 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
9499 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
9500 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
9501 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
9502 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
9504 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
9505 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
9506 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
9507 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
9508 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
9510 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
9511 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
9512 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
9515 Changes in version 0.2.8.17 - 2017-12-01
9516 Tor 0.2.8.17 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
9517 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
9518 to another of the releases coming out today.
9520 Note: the Tor 0.2.8 series will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
9521 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade with
9522 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
9524 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
9525 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
9526 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
9527 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
9528 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
9529 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
9530 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
9531 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
9532 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
9533 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
9534 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
9535 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
9536 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
9537 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
9538 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
9541 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
9542 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
9543 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
9544 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
9545 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
9547 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
9548 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path through
9549 ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the version of
9550 our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part of bug 21534;
9551 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012
9554 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
9555 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
9556 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
9557 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
9558 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
9561 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
9562 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
9565 o Minor features (geoip):
9566 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
9569 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
9570 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
9571 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
9574 Changes in version 0.2.5.16 - 2017-12-01
9575 Tor 0.2.5.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
9576 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
9577 to another of the releases coming out today.
9579 Note: the Tor 0.2.5 series will no longer be supported after 1 May
9580 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade to
9581 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
9583 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
9584 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
9585 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
9586 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
9587 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
9588 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
9589 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
9590 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
9591 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
9592 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
9593 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
9594 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
9595 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
9596 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
9597 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
9600 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
9601 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
9602 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
9603 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
9604 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
9605 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
9607 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
9608 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
9609 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
9610 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
9611 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
9614 o Minor features (geoip):
9615 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
9619 Changes in version 0.2.5.15 - 2017-10-25
9620 Tor 0.2.5.15 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
9621 series. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
9623 Note: the Tor 0.2.5 series will no longer be supported after 1 May
9624 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade to
9625 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
9627 o Directory authority changes:
9628 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
9629 Closes ticket 23910.
9630 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
9631 Closes ticket 23592.
9633 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
9634 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
9635 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
9636 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
9637 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
9639 o Minor features (geoip):
9640 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
9643 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
9644 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
9645 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
9646 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
9647 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
9648 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
9649 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
9650 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
9651 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
9653 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
9654 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
9655 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
9656 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
9657 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
9658 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
9659 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
9660 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
9661 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
9664 Changes in version 0.2.8.16 - 2017-10-25
9665 Tor 0.2.8.16 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
9666 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
9667 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
9669 Note: the Tor 0.2.8 series will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
9670 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
9671 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
9673 o Directory authority changes:
9674 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
9675 Closes ticket 23910.
9676 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
9677 Closes ticket 23592.
9679 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
9680 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
9681 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
9682 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
9684 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
9685 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
9686 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
9687 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
9688 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
9690 o Minor features (geoip):
9691 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
9695 Changes in version 0.2.9.13 - 2017-10-25
9696 Tor 0.2.9.13 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
9697 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
9698 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
9700 o Directory authority changes:
9701 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
9702 Closes ticket 23910.
9703 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
9704 Closes ticket 23592.
9706 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
9707 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
9708 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
9709 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
9711 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
9712 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
9713 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
9714 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
9715 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
9717 o Minor features (geoip):
9718 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
9721 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
9722 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
9723 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
9724 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
9725 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
9726 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
9727 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
9728 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
9731 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
9732 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
9733 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
9735 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
9736 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
9737 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
9738 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
9739 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
9740 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
9741 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
9744 Changes in version 0.3.0.12 - 2017-10-25
9745 Tor 0.3.0.12 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
9746 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
9747 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
9749 Note: the Tor 0.3.0 series will no longer be supported after 26 Jan
9750 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
9751 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
9753 o Directory authority changes:
9754 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
9755 Closes ticket 23910.
9756 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
9757 Closes ticket 23592.
9759 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
9760 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
9761 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
9762 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
9764 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
9765 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
9766 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
9767 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
9768 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
9770 o Minor features (geoip):
9771 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
9774 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
9775 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
9776 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
9777 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
9778 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
9779 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
9780 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
9781 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
9784 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
9785 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
9786 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
9787 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9789 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
9790 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
9791 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
9793 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
9794 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
9795 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
9796 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
9797 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
9798 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
9799 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
9802 Changes in version 0.3.1.8 - 2017-10-25
9803 Tor 0.3.1.8 is the second stable release in the 0.3.1 series.
9804 It includes several bugfixes, including a bugfix for a crash issue
9805 that had affected relays under memory pressure. It also adds
9806 a new directory authority, Bastet.
9808 o Directory authority changes:
9809 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
9810 Closes ticket 23910.
9811 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
9812 Closes ticket 23592.
9814 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
9815 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
9816 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
9817 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
9819 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
9820 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
9821 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
9822 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
9823 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
9825 o Minor features (geoip):
9826 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
9829 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
9830 - Fix a compilation warning when building with zstd support on
9831 32-bit platforms. Fixes bug 23568; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
9832 and fixed by Andreas Stieger.
9834 o Minor bugfixes (compression, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
9835 - Handle a pathological case when decompressing Zstandard data when
9836 the output buffer size is zero. Fixes bug 23551; bugfix
9839 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
9840 - Remove the length limit on HTTP status lines that authorities can
9841 send in their replies. Fixes bug 23499; bugfix on 0.3.1.6-rc.
9843 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
9844 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
9845 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
9846 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9848 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
9849 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
9850 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
9852 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
9853 - Fix additional channelpadding unit test failures by using mocked
9854 time instead of actual time for all tests. Fixes bug 23608; bugfix
9858 Changes in version 0.2.8.15 - 2017-09-18
9859 Tor 0.2.8.15 backports a collection of bugfixes from later
9862 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
9863 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
9864 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
9865 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
9867 Note that Tor 0.2.8.x will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
9868 2018. We suggest that you upgrade to the latest stable release if
9869 possible. If you can't, we recommend that you upgrade at least to
9870 0.2.9, which will be supported until 2020.
9872 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
9873 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
9874 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
9875 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
9876 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
9879 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
9882 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
9883 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
9884 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
9887 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
9888 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
9889 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
9890 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
9891 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
9892 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
9893 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
9894 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
9895 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
9897 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
9898 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
9899 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
9900 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
9901 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
9902 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
9903 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
9904 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
9905 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
9908 Changes in version 0.2.9.12 - 2017-09-18
9909 Tor 0.2.9.12 backports a collection of bugfixes from later
9912 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
9913 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
9914 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
9915 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
9917 o Major features (security, backport from 0.3.0.2-alpha):
9918 - Change the algorithm used to decide DNS TTLs on client and server
9919 side, to better resist DNS-based correlation attacks like the
9920 DefecTor attack of Greschbach, Pulls, Roberts, Winter, and
9921 Feamster. Now relays only return one of two possible DNS TTL
9922 values, and clients are willing to believe DNS TTL values up to 3
9923 hours long. Closes ticket 19769.
9925 o Major bugfixes (crash, directory connections, backport from 0.3.0.5-rc):
9926 - Fix a rare crash when sending a begin cell on a circuit whose
9927 linked directory connection had already been closed. Fixes bug
9928 21576; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
9930 o Major bugfixes (DNS, backport from 0.3.0.2-alpha):
9931 - Fix a bug that prevented exit nodes from caching DNS records for
9932 more than 60 seconds. Fixes bug 19025; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
9934 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
9935 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
9936 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
9937 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
9939 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
9940 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
9941 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
9942 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
9943 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
9945 o Minor features (code style, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
9946 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
9947 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
9948 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
9950 o Minor features (geoip):
9951 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
9954 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
9955 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
9956 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
9957 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
9959 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
9960 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug 22915;
9961 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
9962 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt support
9963 on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
9964 - When building with certain versions the mingw C header files, avoid
9965 float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions isfinite(),
9966 isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
9968 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.7):
9969 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for running tor_sscanf()
9970 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
9972 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
9973 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
9974 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
9977 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.1.7):
9978 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
9979 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
9980 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an
9981 empty body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
9983 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
9984 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
9985 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
9986 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
9987 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
9988 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
9990 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
9991 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
9992 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
9993 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
9994 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
9995 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
9996 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
9997 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
9998 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
10000 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
10001 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
10002 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
10003 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
10005 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
10006 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
10007 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10009 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
10010 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
10011 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
10012 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
10013 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
10015 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.0.5-rc):
10016 - Avoid a double-marked-circuit warning that could happen when we
10017 receive DESTROY cells under heavy load. Fixes bug 20059; bugfix
10020 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
10021 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
10022 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
10023 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
10024 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
10026 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
10027 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
10028 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
10029 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
10030 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
10031 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
10032 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
10033 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
10034 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
10037 Changes in version 0.3.0.11 - 2017-09-18
10038 Tor 0.3.0.11 backports a collection of bugfixes from Tor the 0.3.1
10041 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
10042 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
10043 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
10044 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
10046 o Minor features (code style, backport from 0.3.1.7):
10047 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
10048 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
10049 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
10052 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
10055 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.7):
10056 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for calling tor_sscanf()
10057 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
10059 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.1.7):
10060 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
10061 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
10062 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an empty
10063 body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
10065 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
10066 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
10067 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
10068 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
10070 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
10071 - Remove a forgotten debugging message when an introduction point
10072 successfully establishes a hidden service prop224 circuit with
10074 - Change three other log_warn() for an introduction point to
10075 protocol warnings, because they can be failure from the network
10076 and are not relevant to the operator. Fixes bug 23078; bugfix on
10077 0.3.0.1-alpha and 0.3.0.2-alpha.
10080 Changes in version 0.3.1.7 - 2017-09-18
10081 Tor 0.3.1.7 is the first stable release in the 0.3.1 series.
10083 With the 0.3.1 series, Tor now serves and downloads directory
10084 information in more compact formats, to save on bandwidth overhead. It
10085 also contains a new padding system to resist netflow-based traffic
10086 analysis, and experimental support for building parts of Tor in Rust
10087 (though no parts of Tor are in Rust yet). There are also numerous
10088 small features, bugfixes on earlier release series, and groundwork for
10089 the hidden services revamp of 0.3.2.
10091 This release also includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a security bug
10092 that affects hidden services running with the SafeLogging option
10093 disabled. For more information, see
10094 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
10096 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support each stable release
10097 series for at least the next nine months, or for three months after
10098 the first stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. If
10099 you need a release with long-term support, we recommend that you stay
10100 with the 0.2.9 series.
10102 Below is a list of the changes since 0.3.0. For a list of all
10103 changes since 0.3.1.6-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
10105 o New dependencies:
10106 - To build with zstd and lzma support, Tor now requires the
10107 pkg-config tool at build time.
10109 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden services, loggging):
10110 - Fix a bug where we could log uninitialized stack when a certain
10111 hidden service error occurred while SafeLogging was disabled.
10112 Fixes bug #23490; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
10113 This is also tracked as TROVE-2017-008 and CVE-2017-0380.
10115 o Major features (build system, continuous integration):
10116 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
10117 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
10118 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
10119 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
10120 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
10121 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
10122 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
10123 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
10125 o Major features (directory protocol):
10126 - Tor relays and authorities can now serve clients an abbreviated
10127 version of the consensus document, containing only the changes
10128 since an older consensus document that the client holds. Clients
10129 now request these documents when available. When both client and
10130 server use this new protocol, they will use far less bandwidth (up
10131 to 94% less) to keep the client's consensus up-to-date. Implements
10132 proposal 140; closes ticket 13339. Based on work by Daniel Martí.
10133 - Tor can now compress directory traffic with lzma or with zstd
10134 compression algorithms, which can deliver better bandwidth
10135 performance. Because lzma is computationally expensive, it's only
10136 used for documents that can be compressed once and served many
10137 times. Support for these algorithms requires that tor is built
10138 with the libzstd and/or liblzma libraries available. Implements
10139 proposal 278; closes ticket 21662.
10140 - Relays now perform the more expensive compression operations, and
10141 consensus diff generation, in worker threads. This separation
10142 avoids delaying the main thread when a new consensus arrives.
10144 o Major features (experimental):
10145 - Tor can now build modules written in Rust. To turn this on, pass
10146 the "--enable-rust" flag to the configure script. It's not time to
10147 get excited yet: currently, there is no actual Rust functionality
10148 beyond some simple glue code, and a notice at startup to tell you
10149 that Rust is running. Still, we hope that programmers and
10150 packagers will try building Tor with Rust support, so that we can
10151 find issues and solve portability problems. Closes ticket 22106.
10153 o Major features (traffic analysis resistance):
10154 - Connections between clients and relays now send a padding cell in
10155 each direction every 1.5 to 9.5 seconds (tunable via consensus
10156 parameters). This padding will not resist specialized
10157 eavesdroppers, but it should be enough to make many ISPs' routine
10158 network flow logging less useful in traffic analysis against
10161 Padding is negotiated using Tor's link protocol, so both relays
10162 and clients must upgrade for this to take effect. Clients may
10163 still send padding despite the relay's version by setting
10164 ConnectionPadding 1 in torrc, and may disable padding by setting
10165 ConnectionPadding 0 in torrc. Padding may be minimized for mobile
10166 users with the torrc option ReducedConnectionPadding. Implements
10167 Proposal 251 and Section 2 of Proposal 254; closes ticket 16861.
10168 - Relays will publish 24 hour totals of padding and non-padding cell
10169 counts to their extra-info descriptors, unless PaddingStatistics 0
10170 is set in torrc. These 24 hour totals are also rounded to
10171 multiples of 10000.
10173 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
10174 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure when a hidden service
10175 handles a malformed BEGIN cell. Fixes bug 22493, tracked as
10176 TROVE-2017-004 and as CVE-2017-0375; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
10177 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
10178 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
10179 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
10182 o Major bugfixes (path selection, security):
10183 - When choosing which guard to use for a circuit, avoid the exit's
10184 family along with the exit itself. Previously, the new guard
10185 selection logic avoided the exit, but did not consider its family.
10186 Fixes bug 22753; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2017-
10187 006 and CVE-2017-0377.
10189 o Major bugfixes (connection usage):
10190 - We use NETINFO cells to try to determine if both relays involved
10191 in a connection will agree on the canonical status of that
10192 connection. We prefer the connections where this is the case for
10193 extend cells, and try to close connections where relays disagree
10194 on their canonical status early. Also, we now prefer the oldest
10195 valid connection for extend cells. These two changes should reduce
10196 the number of long-term connections that are kept open between
10197 relays. Fixes bug 17604; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
10198 - Relays now log hourly statistics (look for
10199 "channel_check_for_duplicates" lines) on the total number of
10200 connections to other relays. If the number of connections per
10201 relay is unexpectedly large, this log message is at notice level.
10202 Otherwise it is at info.
10204 o Major bugfixes (entry guards):
10205 - When starting with an old consensus, do not add new entry guards
10206 unless the consensus is "reasonably live" (under 1 day old). Fixes
10207 one root cause of bug 22400; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
10208 - Don't block bootstrapping when a primary bridge is offline and we
10209 can't get its descriptor. Fixes bug 22325; fixes one case of bug
10210 21969; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
10212 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support):
10213 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
10214 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
10215 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
10217 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service):
10218 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
10219 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
10220 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
10221 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
10223 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake):
10224 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
10225 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
10226 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
10227 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
10228 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
10229 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
10232 o Major bugfixes (relays, key management):
10233 - Regenerate link and authentication certificates whenever the key
10234 that signs them changes; also, regenerate link certificates
10235 whenever the signed key changes. Previously, these processes were
10236 only weakly coupled, and we relays could (for minutes to hours)
10237 wind up with an inconsistent set of keys and certificates, which
10238 other relays would not accept. Fixes two cases of bug 22460;
10239 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
10240 - When sending an Ed25519 signing->link certificate in a CERTS cell,
10241 send the certificate that matches the x509 certificate that we
10242 used on the TLS connection. Previously, there was a race condition
10243 if the TLS context rotated after we began the TLS handshake but
10244 before we sent the CERTS cell. Fixes a case of bug 22460; bugfix
10247 o Minor features (security, windows):
10248 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
10249 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
10250 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
10251 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
10252 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
10254 o Minor features (bridge authority):
10255 - Add "fingerprint" lines to the networkstatus-bridges file produced
10256 by bridge authorities. Closes ticket 22207.
10258 o Minor features (code style):
10259 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
10260 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
10261 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
10263 o Minor features (config options):
10264 - Allow "%include" directives in torrc configuration files. These
10265 directives import the settings from other files, or from all the
10266 files in a directory. Closes ticket 1922. Code by Daniel Pinto.
10267 - Make SAVECONF return an error when overwriting a torrc that has
10268 includes. Using SAVECONF with the FORCE option will allow it to
10269 overwrite torrc even if includes are used. Related to ticket 1922.
10270 - Add "GETINFO config-can-saveconf" to tell controllers if SAVECONF
10271 will work without the FORCE option. Related to ticket 1922.
10273 o Minor features (controller):
10274 - Warn the first time that a controller requests data in the long-
10275 deprecated 'GETINFO network-status' format. Closes ticket 21703.
10277 o Minor features (defaults):
10278 - The default value for UseCreateFast is now 0: clients which
10279 haven't yet received a consensus document will now use a proper
10280 ntor handshake to talk to their directory servers whenever they
10281 can. Closes ticket 21407.
10282 - Onion key rotation and expiry intervals are now defined as a
10283 network consensus parameter, per proposal 274. The default
10284 lifetime of an onion key is increased from 7 to 28 days. Old onion
10285 keys will expire after 7 days by default. This change will make
10286 consensus diffs much smaller, and save significant bandwidth.
10287 Closes ticket 21641.
10289 o Minor features (defensive programming):
10290 - Create a pair of consensus parameters, nf_pad_tor2web and
10291 nf_pad_single_onion, to disable netflow padding in the consensus
10292 for non-anonymous connections in case the overhead is high. Closes
10295 o Minor features (diagnostic):
10296 - Add a stack trace to the bug warnings that can be logged when
10297 trying to send an outgoing relay cell with n_chan == 0. Diagnostic
10298 attempt for bug 23105.
10299 - Add logging messages to try to diagnose a rare bug that seems to
10300 generate RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificates dated in the 1970s. We
10301 think this is happening because of incorrect system clocks, but
10302 we'd like to know for certain. Diagnostic for bug 22466.
10303 - Avoid an assertion failure, and log a better error message, when
10304 unable to remove a file from the consensus cache on Windows.
10305 Attempts to mitigate and diagnose bug 22752.
10307 o Minor features (directory authority):
10308 - Improve the message that authorities report to relays that present
10309 RSA/Ed25519 keypairs that conflict with previously pinned keys.
10310 Closes ticket 22348.
10312 o Minor features (directory cache, consensus diff):
10313 - Add a new MaxConsensusAgeForDiffs option to allow directory cache
10314 operators with low-resource environments to adjust the number of
10315 consensuses they'll store and generate diffs from. Most cache
10316 operators should leave it unchanged. Helps to work around
10319 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
10320 - Update the fallback directory mirror whitelist and blacklist based
10321 on operator emails. Closes task 21121.
10322 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
10323 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
10324 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
10325 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
10327 o Minor features (geoip):
10328 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
10331 o Minor features (hidden services, logging):
10332 - Log a message when a hidden service descriptor has fewer
10333 introduction points than specified in
10334 HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints. Closes tickets 21598.
10335 - Log a message when a hidden service reaches its introduction point
10336 circuit limit, and when that limit is reset. Follow up to ticket
10337 21594; closes ticket 21622.
10338 - Warn user if multiple entries in EntryNodes and at least one
10339 HiddenService are used together. Pinning EntryNodes along with a
10340 hidden service can be possibly harmful; for instance see ticket
10341 14917 or 21155. Closes ticket 21155.
10343 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
10344 - We now have a document storage backend compatible with the Linux
10345 seccomp2 sandbox. This backend is used for consensus documents and
10346 diffs between them; in the long term, we'd like to use it for
10347 unparseable directory material too. Closes ticket 21645
10348 - Increase the maximum allowed size passed to mprotect(PROT_WRITE)
10349 from 1MB to 16MB. This was necessary with the glibc allocator in
10350 order to allow worker threads to allocate more memory -- which in
10351 turn is necessary because of our new use of worker threads for
10352 compression. Closes ticket 22096.
10354 o Minor features (logging):
10355 - Log files are no longer created world-readable by default.
10356 (Previously, most distributors would store the logs in a non-
10357 world-readable location to prevent inappropriate access. This
10358 change is an extra precaution.) Closes ticket 21729; patch
10361 o Minor features (performance):
10362 - Our Keccak (SHA-3) implementation now accesses memory more
10363 efficiently, especially on little-endian systems. Closes
10365 - Add an O(1) implementation of channel_find_by_global_id(), to
10366 speed some controller functions.
10368 o Minor features (relay, configuration):
10369 - The MyFamily option may now be repeated as many times as desired,
10370 for relays that want to configure large families. Closes ticket
10371 4998; patch by Daniel Pinto.
10373 o Minor features (relay, performance):
10374 - Always start relays with at least two worker threads, to prevent
10375 priority inversion on slow tasks. Part of the fix for bug 22883.
10376 - Allow background work to be queued with different priorities, so
10377 that a big pile of slow low-priority jobs will not starve out
10378 higher priority jobs. This lays the groundwork for a fix for
10381 o Minor features (safety):
10382 - Add an explicit check to extrainfo_parse_entry_from_string() for
10383 NULL inputs. We don't believe this can actually happen, but it may
10384 help silence a warning from the Clang analyzer. Closes
10387 o Minor features (testing):
10388 - Add more tests for compression backend initialization. Closes
10390 - Add a "--disable-memory-sentinels" feature to help with fuzzing.
10391 When Tor is compiled with this option, we disable a number of
10392 redundant memory-safety failsafes that are intended to stop bugs
10393 from becoming security issues. This makes it easier to hunt for
10394 bugs that would be security issues without the failsafes turned
10395 on. Closes ticket 21439.
10396 - Add a general event-tracing instrumentation support to Tor. This
10397 subsystem will enable developers and researchers to add fine-
10398 grained instrumentation to their Tor instances, for use when
10399 examining Tor network performance issues. There are no trace
10400 events yet, and event-tracing is off by default unless enabled at
10401 compile time. Implements ticket 13802.
10402 - Improve our version parsing tests: add tests for typical version
10403 components, add tests for invalid versions, including numeric
10404 range and non-numeric prefixes. Unit tests 21278, 21450, and
10405 21507. Partially implements 21470.
10407 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting):
10408 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
10409 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
10410 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
10412 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
10413 - Accurately identify client connections by their lack of peer
10414 authentication. This means that we bail out earlier if asked to
10415 extend to a client. Follow-up to 21407. Fixes bug 21406; bugfix
10418 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warnings):
10419 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug
10420 22915; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
10421 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt
10422 support on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
10423 - When building with certain versions of the mingw C header files,
10424 avoid float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions
10425 isfinite(), isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix
10428 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
10429 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for calling tor_sscanf()
10430 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
10432 o Minor bugfixes (compression):
10433 - When spooling compressed data to an output buffer, don't try to
10434 spool more data when there is no more data to spool and we are not
10435 trying to flush the input. Previously, we would sometimes launch
10436 compression requests with nothing to do, which interferes with our
10437 22672 checks. Fixes bug 22719; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
10439 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
10440 - Do not crash when starting with LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0. Fixes
10441 bug 22252; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
10443 o Minor bugfixes (connection lifespan):
10444 - Allow more control over how long TLS connections are kept open:
10445 unify CircuitIdleTimeout and PredictedPortsRelevanceTime into a
10446 single option called CircuitsAvailableTimeout. Also, allow the
10447 consensus to control the default values for both this preference
10448 and the lifespan of relay-to-relay connections. Fixes bug 17592;
10449 bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
10450 - Increase the initial circuit build timeout testing frequency, to
10451 help ensure that ReducedConnectionPadding clients finish learning
10452 a timeout before their orconn would expire. The initial testing
10453 rate was set back in the days of TAP and before the Tor Browser
10454 updater, when we had to be much more careful about new clients
10455 making lots of circuits. With this change, a circuit build timeout
10456 is learned in about 15-20 minutes, instead of 100-120 minutes.
10458 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
10459 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
10460 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
10461 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an empty
10462 body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
10463 - GETINFO onions/current and onions/detached no longer respond with
10464 551 on empty lists. Fixes bug 21329; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
10465 - Trigger HS descriptor events on the control port when the client
10466 fails to pick a hidden service directory for a hidden service.
10467 This can happen if all the hidden service directories are in
10468 ExcludeNodes, or they have all been queried within the last 15
10469 minutes. Fixes bug 22042; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
10471 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
10472 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
10473 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
10475 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support):
10476 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
10477 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
10478 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
10479 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
10480 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
10482 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming):
10483 - Detect and break out of infinite loops in our compression code. We
10484 don't think that any such loops exist now, but it's best to be
10485 safe. Closes ticket 22672.
10486 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
10487 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
10488 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
10489 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
10490 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
10491 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
10492 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
10493 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
10495 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
10496 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
10497 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
10498 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
10499 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
10500 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
10501 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
10502 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
10504 - When rejecting a router descriptor for running an obsolete version
10505 of Tor without ntor support, warn about the obsolete tor version,
10506 not the missing ntor key. Fixes bug 20270; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
10507 - Prevent the shared randomness subsystem from asserting when
10508 initialized by a bridge authority with an incomplete configuration
10509 file. Fixes bug 21586; bugfix on 0.2.9.8.
10511 o Minor bugfixes (error reporting, windows):
10512 - When formatting Windows error messages, use the English format to
10513 avoid codepage issues. Fixes bug 22520; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-alpha.
10516 o Minor bugfixes (exit-side DNS):
10517 - Fix an untriggerable assertion that checked the output of a
10518 libevent DNS error, so that the assertion actually behaves as
10519 expected. Fixes bug 22244; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by Andrey
10520 Karpov using PVS-Studio.
10522 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
10523 - Make the usage example in updateFallbackDirs.py actually work, and
10524 explain what it does. Fixes bug 22270; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
10525 - Decrease the guard flag average required to be a fallback. This
10526 allows us to keep relays that have their guard flag removed when
10527 they restart. Fixes bug 20913; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
10528 - Decrease the minimum number of fallbacks to 100. Fixes bug 20913;
10529 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
10530 - Make sure fallback directory mirrors have the same address, port,
10531 and relay identity key for at least 30 days before they are
10532 selected. Fixes bug 20913; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
10534 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx):
10535 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
10536 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
10537 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
10539 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
10540 - Increase the number of circuits that a service is allowed to
10541 open over a specific period of time. The value was lower than it
10542 should be (8 vs 12) in the normal case of 3 introduction points.
10543 Fixes bug 22159; bugfix on 0.3.0.5-rc.
10544 - Fix a BUG warning during HSv3 descriptor decoding that could be
10545 cause by a specially crafted descriptor. Fixes bug 23233; bugfix
10546 on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Bug found by "haxxpop".
10547 - Stop printing a cryptic warning when a hidden service gets a
10548 request to connect to a virtual port that it hasn't configured.
10549 Fixes bug 16706; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
10550 - Simplify hidden service descriptor creation by using an existing
10551 flag to check if an introduction point is established. Fixes bug
10552 21599; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
10554 o Minor bugfixes (link handshake):
10555 - Lower the lifetime of the RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificate to six
10556 months, and regenerate it when it is within one month of expiring.
10557 Previously, we had generated this certificate at startup with a
10558 ten-year lifetime, but that could lead to weird behavior when Tor
10559 was started with a grossly inaccurate clock. Mitigates bug 22466;
10560 mitigation on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
10562 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
10563 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
10564 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10565 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
10566 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
10567 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
10568 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
10570 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
10571 - When decompressing, do not warn if we fail to decompress using a
10572 compression method that we merely guessed. Fixes part of bug
10573 22670; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
10574 - When decompressing, treat mismatch between content-encoding and
10575 actual compression type as a protocol warning. Fixes part of bug
10576 22670; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
10577 - Downgrade "assigned_to_cpuworker failed" message to info-level
10578 severity. In every case that can reach it, either a better warning
10579 has already been logged, or no warning is warranted. Fixes bug
10580 22356; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
10581 - Log a better message when a directory authority replies to an
10582 upload with an unexpected status code. Fixes bug 11121; bugfix
10584 - Downgrade a log statement about unexpected relay cells from "bug"
10585 to "protocol warning", because there is at least one use case
10586 where it can be triggered by a buggy tor implementation. Fixes bug
10587 21293; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
10589 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
10590 - Remove a forgotten debugging message when an introduction point
10591 successfully establishes a hidden service prop224 circuit with
10593 - Change three other log_warn() for an introduction point to
10594 protocol warnings, because they can be failure from the network
10595 and are not relevant to the operator. Fixes bug 23078; bugfix on
10596 0.3.0.1-alpha and 0.3.0.2-alpha.
10598 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
10599 - Inform the geoip and rephist modules about all requests, even on
10600 relays that are only fetching microdescriptors. Fixes a bug
10601 related to 21585; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
10603 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
10604 - Fix a small memory leak at exit from the backtrace handler code.
10605 Fixes bug 21788; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
10606 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
10607 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
10608 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
10609 - Fix a small memory leak when validating a configuration that uses
10610 two or more AF_UNIX sockets for the same port type. Fixes bug
10611 23053; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. This is CID 1415725.
10613 o Minor bugfixes (process behavior):
10614 - When exiting because of an error, always exit with a nonzero exit
10615 status. Previously, we would fail to report an error in our exit
10616 status in cases related to __OwningControllerProcess failure,
10617 lockfile contention, and Ed25519 key initialization. Fixes bug
10618 22720; bugfix on versions 0.2.1.6-alpha, 0.2.2.28-beta, and
10619 0.2.7.2-alpha respectively. Reported by "f55jwk4f"; patch
10622 o Minor bugfixes (robustness, error handling):
10623 - Improve our handling of the cases where OpenSSL encounters a
10624 memory error while encoding keys and certificates. We haven't
10625 observed these errors in the wild, but if they do happen, we now
10626 detect and respond better. Fixes bug 19418; bugfix on all versions
10627 of Tor. Reported by Guido Vranken.
10629 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
10630 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
10631 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
10632 - Use unbuffered I/O for utility functions around the
10633 process_handle_t type. This fixes unit test failures reported on
10634 OpenBSD and FreeBSD. Fixes bug 21654; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
10635 - Make display of captured unit test log messages consistent. Fixes
10636 bug 21510; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
10637 - Make test-network.sh always call chutney's test-network.sh.
10638 Previously, this only worked on systems which had bash installed,
10639 due to some bash-specific code in the script. Fixes bug 19699;
10640 bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc. Follow-up to ticket 21581.
10641 - Fix a memory leak in the link-handshake/certs_ok_ed25519 test.
10642 Fixes bug 22803; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
10643 - The unit tests now pass on systems where localhost is misconfigured
10644 to some IPv4 address other than 127.0.0.1. Fixes bug 6298; bugfix
10647 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency):
10648 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
10649 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
10650 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
10651 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
10653 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service):
10654 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
10655 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
10656 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
10657 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
10658 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
10659 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
10661 o Minor bugfixes (windows, relay):
10662 - Resolve "Failure from drain_fd: No error" warnings on Windows
10663 relays. Fixes bug 21540; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
10665 o Code simplification and refactoring:
10666 - Break up the 630-line function connection_dir_client_reached_eof()
10667 into a dozen smaller functions. This change should help
10668 maintainability and readability of the client directory code.
10669 - Isolate our use of the openssl headers so that they are only
10670 included from our crypto wrapper modules, and from tests that
10671 examine those modules' internals. Closes ticket 21841.
10672 - Simplify our API to launch directory requests, making it more
10673 extensible and less error-prone. Now it's easier to add extra
10674 headers to directory requests. Closes ticket 21646.
10675 - Our base64 decoding functions no longer overestimate the output
10676 space that they need when parsing unpadded inputs. Closes
10678 - Remove unused "ROUTER_ADDED_NOTIFY_GENERATOR" internal value.
10679 Resolves ticket 22213.
10680 - The logic that directory caches use to spool request to clients,
10681 serving them one part at a time so as not to allocate too much
10682 memory, has been refactored for consistency. Previously there was
10683 a separate spooling implementation per type of spoolable data. Now
10684 there is one common spooling implementation, with extensible data
10685 types. Closes ticket 21651.
10686 - Tor's compression module now supports multiple backends. Part of
10687 the implementation for proposal 278; closes ticket 21663.
10690 - Add a manpage description for the key-pinning-journal file. Closes
10692 - Correctly note that bandwidth accounting values are stored in the
10693 state file, and the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. Closes
10695 - Document more of the files in the Tor data directory, including
10696 cached-extrainfo, secret_onion_key{,_ntor}.old, hidserv-stats,
10697 approved-routers, sr-random, and diff-cache. Found while fixing
10699 - Clarify the manpage for the (deprecated) torify script. Closes
10701 - Clarify the behavior of the KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth sub-option.
10702 Closes ticket 21873.
10703 - Correct documentation about the default DataDirectory value.
10704 Closes ticket 21151.
10705 - Document the default behavior of NumEntryGuards and
10706 NumDirectoryGuards correctly. Fixes bug 21715; bugfix
10708 - Document key=value pluggable transport arguments for Bridge lines
10709 in torrc. Fixes bug 20341; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10710 - Note that bandwidth-limiting options don't affect TCP headers or
10711 DNS. Closes ticket 17170.
10713 o Removed features (configuration options, all in ticket 22060):
10714 - These configuration options are now marked Obsolete, and no longer
10715 have any effect: AllowInvalidNodes, AllowSingleHopCircuits,
10716 AllowSingleHopExits, ExcludeSingleHopRelays, FastFirstHopPK,
10717 TLSECGroup, WarnUnsafeSocks. They were first marked as deprecated
10718 in 0.2.9.2-alpha and have now been removed. The previous default
10719 behavior is now always chosen; the previous (less secure) non-
10720 default behavior is now unavailable.
10721 - CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout and
10722 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout were deprecated in
10723 0.2.9.2-alpha and now have been removed. HS circuits never close
10724 on circuit build timeout; they have a longer timeout period.
10725 - {Control,DNS,Dir,Socks,Trans,NATD,OR}ListenAddress were deprecated
10726 in 0.2.9.2-alpha and now have been removed. Use the ORPort option
10727 (and others) to configure listen-only and advertise-only addresses.
10729 o Removed features (tools):
10730 - We've removed the tor-checkkey tool from src/tools. Long ago, we
10731 used it to help people detect RSA keys that were generated by
10732 versions of Debian affected by CVE-2008-0166. But those keys have
10733 been out of circulation for ages, and this tool is no longer
10734 required. Closes ticket 21842.
10737 Changes in version 0.3.0.10 - 2017-08-02
10738 Tor 0.3.0.10 backports a collection of small-to-medium bugfixes
10739 from the current Tor alpha series. OpenBSD users and TPROXY users
10740 should upgrade; others are probably okay sticking with 0.3.0.9.
10742 o Major features (build system, continuous integration, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
10743 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
10744 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
10745 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
10746 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
10747 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
10748 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
10749 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
10750 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
10752 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
10753 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
10754 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
10755 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
10757 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
10758 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
10759 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
10760 handling of "0xbar" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
10761 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
10763 o Minor features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
10764 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
10767 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting, backport from 0.3.1.2-alpha):
10768 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
10769 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
10770 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
10772 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warnings, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
10773 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug 22915;
10774 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
10775 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt
10776 support on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
10777 - When building with certain versions of the mingw C header files,
10778 avoid float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions
10779 isfinite(), isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix
10782 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
10783 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
10784 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
10787 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
10788 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
10789 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
10790 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
10791 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
10792 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
10794 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
10795 - When rejecting a router descriptor for running an obsolete version
10796 of Tor without ntor support, warn about the obsolete tor version,
10797 not the missing ntor key. Fixes bug 20270; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
10799 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
10800 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
10801 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10803 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha)
10804 - Fix a memory leak in the link-handshake/certs_ok_ed25519 test.
10805 Fixes bug 22803; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
10808 Changes in version 0.3.0.9 - 2017-06-29
10809 Tor 0.3.0.9 fixes a path selection bug that would allow a client
10810 to use a guard that was in the same network family as a chosen exit
10811 relay. This is a security regression; all clients running earlier
10812 versions of 0.3.0.x or 0.3.1.x should upgrade to 0.3.0.9 or
10815 This release also backports several other bugfixes from the 0.3.1.x
10818 o Major bugfixes (path selection, security, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
10819 - When choosing which guard to use for a circuit, avoid the exit's
10820 family along with the exit itself. Previously, the new guard
10821 selection logic avoided the exit, but did not consider its family.
10822 Fixes bug 22753; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2017-
10823 006 and CVE-2017-0377.
10825 o Major bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
10826 - Don't block bootstrapping when a primary bridge is offline and we
10827 can't get its descriptor. Fixes bug 22325; fixes one case of bug
10828 21969; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
10830 o Major bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
10831 - When starting with an old consensus, do not add new entry guards
10832 unless the consensus is "reasonably live" (under 1 day old). Fixes
10833 one root cause of bug 22400; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
10835 o Minor features (geoip):
10836 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
10839 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
10840 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
10841 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
10842 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
10843 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
10845 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
10846 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
10847 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
10848 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
10849 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
10851 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
10852 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
10853 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
10854 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
10855 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
10856 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
10857 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
10858 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
10859 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
10862 Changes in version 0.3.0.8 - 2017-06-08
10863 Tor 0.3.0.8 fixes a pair of bugs that would allow an attacker to
10864 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
10865 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
10866 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-004 and TROVE-2017-005.
10868 Tor 0.3.0.8 also includes fixes for several key management bugs
10869 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
10870 bugfixes described below.
10872 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security, backport
10873 from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
10874 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure when a hidden service
10875 handles a malformed BEGIN cell. Fixes bug 22493, tracked as
10876 TROVE-2017-004 and as CVE-2017-0375; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
10877 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
10878 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
10879 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
10882 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
10883 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
10884 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
10885 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
10886 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
10887 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
10888 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
10891 o Major bugfixes (relays, key management, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
10892 - Regenerate link and authentication certificates whenever the key
10893 that signs them changes; also, regenerate link certificates
10894 whenever the signed key changes. Previously, these processes were
10895 only weakly coupled, and we relays could (for minutes to hours)
10896 wind up with an inconsistent set of keys and certificates, which
10897 other relays would not accept. Fixes two cases of bug 22460;
10898 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
10899 - When sending an Ed25519 signing->link certificate in a CERTS cell,
10900 send the certificate that matches the x509 certificate that we
10901 used on the TLS connection. Previously, there was a race condition
10902 if the TLS context rotated after we began the TLS handshake but
10903 before we sent the CERTS cell. Fixes a case of bug 22460; bugfix
10906 o Major bugfixes (hidden service v3, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
10907 - Stop rejecting v3 hidden service descriptors because their size
10908 did not match an old padding rule. Fixes bug 22447; bugfix on
10911 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
10912 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
10913 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
10914 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
10915 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
10917 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
10918 - Do not crash when starting with LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0. Fixes
10919 bug 22252; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
10921 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
10922 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
10923 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
10925 o Minor bugfixes (link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
10926 - Lower the lifetime of the RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificate to six
10927 months, and regenerate it when it is within one month of expiring.
10928 Previously, we had generated this certificate at startup with a
10929 ten-year lifetime, but that could lead to weird behavior when Tor
10930 was started with a grossly inaccurate clock. Mitigates bug 22466;
10931 mitigation on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
10933 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority, backport from
10935 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
10936 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
10937 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
10940 Changes in version 0.2.9.11 - 2017-06-08
10941 Tor 0.2.9.11 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
10942 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
10943 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
10944 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
10945 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
10947 Tor 0.2.9.11 also backports fixes for several key management bugs
10948 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
10949 bugfixes described below.
10951 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security, backport
10952 from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
10953 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
10954 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
10955 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
10958 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
10959 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
10960 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
10961 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
10962 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
10963 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
10964 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
10967 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
10968 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
10969 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
10970 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
10971 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
10973 o Minor features (future-proofing, backport from 0.3.0.7):
10974 - Tor no longer refuses to download microdescriptors or descriptors if
10975 they are listed as "published in the future". This change will
10976 eventually allow us to stop listing meaningful "published" dates
10977 in microdescriptor consensuses, and thereby allow us to reduce the
10978 resources required to download consensus diffs by over 50%.
10979 Implements part of ticket 21642; implements part of proposal 275.
10981 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.0.4-rc)
10982 - Directory authorities now reject relays running versions
10983 0.2.9.1-alpha through 0.2.9.4-alpha, because those relays
10984 suffer from bug 20499 and don't keep their consensus cache
10985 up-to-date. Resolves ticket 20509.
10987 o Minor features (geoip):
10988 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
10991 o Minor bugfixes (control port, backport from 0.3.0.6):
10992 - The GETINFO extra-info/digest/<digest> command was broken because
10993 of a wrong base16 decode return value check, introduced when
10994 refactoring that API. Fixes bug 22034; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
10996 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
10997 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
10998 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
11000 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.0.7):
11001 - The getpid() system call is now permitted under the Linux seccomp2
11002 sandbox, to avoid crashing with versions of OpenSSL (and other
11003 libraries) that attempt to learn the process's PID by using the
11004 syscall rather than the VDSO code. Fixes bug 21943; bugfix
11007 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority, backport
11008 from 0.3.1.2-alpha):
11009 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
11010 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
11011 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
11013 Changes in version 0.2.8.14 - 2017-06-08
11014 Tor 0.2.7.8 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
11015 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
11016 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
11017 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
11018 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
11020 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
11021 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
11022 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
11023 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
11026 o Minor features (geoip):
11027 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11030 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
11031 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
11032 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
11033 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
11034 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
11036 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
11037 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
11038 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
11040 Changes in version 0.2.7.8 - 2017-06-08
11041 Tor 0.2.7.8 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
11042 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
11043 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
11044 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
11045 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
11047 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
11048 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
11049 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
11050 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
11053 o Minor features (geoip):
11054 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11057 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
11058 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
11059 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
11062 Changes in version 0.2.6.12 - 2017-06-08
11063 Tor 0.2.6.12 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
11064 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
11065 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
11066 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
11067 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
11069 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
11070 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
11071 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
11072 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
11075 o Minor features (geoip):
11076 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11079 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
11080 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
11081 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
11083 Changes in version 0.2.5.14 - 2017-06-08
11084 Tor 0.2.5.14 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
11085 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
11086 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
11087 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
11088 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
11090 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
11091 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
11092 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
11093 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
11096 o Minor features (geoip):
11097 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11100 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
11101 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
11102 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
11104 Changes in version 0.2.4.29 - 2017-06-08
11105 Tor 0.2.4.29 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
11106 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
11107 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
11108 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
11109 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
11111 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
11112 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
11113 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
11114 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
11117 o Minor features (geoip):
11118 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11121 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
11122 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
11123 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
11126 Changes in version 0.3.0.7 - 2017-05-15
11127 Tor 0.3.0.7 fixes a medium-severity security bug in earlier versions
11128 of Tor 0.3.0.x, where an attacker could cause a Tor relay process
11129 to exit. Relays running earlier versions of Tor 0.3.0.x should upgrade;
11130 clients are not affected.
11132 o Major bugfixes (hidden service directory, security):
11133 - Fix an assertion failure in the hidden service directory code, which
11134 could be used by an attacker to remotely cause a Tor relay process to
11135 exit. Relays running earlier versions of Tor 0.3.0.x should upgrade.
11136 should upgrade. This security issue is tracked as TROVE-2017-002.
11137 Fixes bug 22246; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11140 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11143 o Minor features (future-proofing):
11144 - Tor no longer refuses to download microdescriptors or descriptors
11145 if they are listed as "published in the future". This change will
11146 eventually allow us to stop listing meaningful "published" dates
11147 in microdescriptor consensuses, and thereby allow us to reduce the
11148 resources required to download consensus diffs by over 50%.
11149 Implements part of ticket 21642; implements part of proposal 275.
11151 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
11152 - The getpid() system call is now permitted under the Linux seccomp2
11153 sandbox, to avoid crashing with versions of OpenSSL (and other
11154 libraries) that attempt to learn the process's PID by using the
11155 syscall rather than the VDSO code. Fixes bug 21943; bugfix
11159 Changes in version 0.3.0.6 - 2017-04-26
11160 Tor 0.3.0.6 is the first stable release of the Tor 0.3.0 series.
11162 With the 0.3.0 series, clients and relays now use Ed25519 keys to
11163 authenticate their link connections to relays, rather than the old
11164 RSA1024 keys that they used before. (Circuit crypto has been
11165 Curve25519-authenticated since 0.2.4.8-alpha.) We have also replaced
11166 the guard selection and replacement algorithm to behave more robustly
11167 in the presence of unreliable networks, and to resist guard-
11170 This series also includes numerous other small features and bugfixes,
11171 along with more groundwork for the upcoming hidden-services revamp.
11173 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support the Tor 0.3.0
11174 release series for at least the next nine months, or for three months
11175 after the first stable release of the 0.3.1 series: whichever is
11176 longer. If you need a release with long-term support, we recommend
11177 that you stay with the 0.2.9 series.
11179 Below are the changes since 0.2.9.10. For a list of only the changes
11180 since 0.3.0.5-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
11182 o Major features (directory authority, security):
11183 - The default for AuthDirPinKeys is now 1: directory authorities
11184 will reject relays where the RSA identity key matches a previously
11185 seen value, but the Ed25519 key has changed. Closes ticket 18319.
11187 o Major features (guard selection algorithm):
11188 - Tor's guard selection algorithm has been redesigned from the
11189 ground up, to better support unreliable networks and restrictive
11190 sets of entry nodes, and to better resist guard-capture attacks by
11191 hostile local networks. Implements proposal 271; closes
11194 o Major features (next-generation hidden services):
11195 - Relays can now handle v3 ESTABLISH_INTRO cells as specified by
11196 prop224 aka "Next Generation Hidden Services". Service and clients
11197 don't use this functionality yet. Closes ticket 19043. Based on
11198 initial code by Alec Heifetz.
11199 - Relays now support the HSDir version 3 protocol, so that they can
11200 can store and serve v3 descriptors. This is part of the next-
11201 generation onion service work detailed in proposal 224. Closes
11204 o Major features (protocol, ed25519 identity keys):
11205 - Clients now support including Ed25519 identity keys in the EXTEND2
11206 cells they generate. By default, this is controlled by a consensus
11207 parameter, currently disabled. You can turn this feature on for
11208 testing by setting ExtendByEd25519ID in your configuration. This
11209 might make your traffic appear different than the traffic
11210 generated by other users, however. Implements part of ticket
11211 15056; part of proposal 220.
11212 - Relays now understand requests to extend to other relays by their
11213 Ed25519 identity keys. When an Ed25519 identity key is included in
11214 an EXTEND2 cell, the relay will only extend the circuit if the
11215 other relay can prove ownership of that identity. Implements part
11216 of ticket 15056; part of proposal 220.
11217 - Relays now use Ed25519 to prove their Ed25519 identities and to
11218 one another, and to clients. This algorithm is faster and more
11219 secure than the RSA-based handshake we've been doing until now.
11220 Implements the second big part of proposal 220; Closes
11223 o Major features (security):
11224 - Change the algorithm used to decide DNS TTLs on client and server
11225 side, to better resist DNS-based correlation attacks like the
11226 DefecTor attack of Greschbach, Pulls, Roberts, Winter, and
11227 Feamster. Now relays only return one of two possible DNS TTL
11228 values, and clients are willing to believe DNS TTL values up to 3
11229 hours long. Closes ticket 19769.
11231 o Major bugfixes (client, onion service, also in 0.2.9.9):
11232 - Fix a client-side onion service reachability bug, where multiple
11233 socks requests to an onion service (or a single slow request)
11234 could cause us to mistakenly mark some of the service's
11235 introduction points as failed, and we cache that failure so
11236 eventually we run out and can't reach the service. Also resolves a
11237 mysterious "Remote server sent bogus reason code 65021" log
11238 warning. The bug was introduced in ticket 17218, where we tried to
11239 remember the circuit end reason as a uint16_t, which mangled
11240 negative values. Partially fixes bug 21056 and fixes bug 20307;
11241 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
11243 o Major bugfixes (crash, directory connections):
11244 - Fix a rare crash when sending a begin cell on a circuit whose
11245 linked directory connection had already been closed. Fixes bug
11246 21576; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
11248 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
11249 - During voting, when marking a relay as a probable sybil, do not
11250 clear its BadExit flag: sybils can still be bad in other ways
11251 too. (We still clear the other flags.) Fixes bug 21108; bugfix
11254 o Major bugfixes (DNS):
11255 - Fix a bug that prevented exit nodes from caching DNS records for
11256 more than 60 seconds. Fixes bug 19025; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
11258 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 Exits):
11259 - Stop rejecting all IPv6 traffic on Exits whose exit policy rejects
11260 any IPv6 addresses. Instead, only reject a port over IPv6 if the
11261 exit policy rejects that port on more than an IPv6 /16 of
11262 addresses. This bug was made worse by 17027 in 0.2.8.1-alpha,
11263 which rejected a relay's own IPv6 address by default. Fixes bug
11264 21357; bugfix on commit 004f3f4e53 in 0.2.4.7-alpha.
11266 o Major bugfixes (parsing):
11267 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
11268 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
11269 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
11270 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
11271 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
11272 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
11273 - When parsing a malformed content-length field from an HTTP
11274 message, do not read off the end of the buffer. This bug was a
11275 potential remote denial-of-service attack against Tor clients and
11276 relays. A workaround was released in October 2016, to prevent this
11277 bug from crashing Tor. This is a fix for the underlying issue,
11278 which should no longer matter (if you applied the earlier patch).
11279 Fixes bug 20894; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Bug found by fuzzing
11280 using AFL (http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/).
11282 o Major bugfixes (scheduler):
11283 - Actually compare circuit policies in ewma_cmp_cmux(). This bug
11284 caused the channel scheduler to behave more or less randomly,
11285 rather than preferring channels with higher-priority circuits.
11286 Fixes bug 20459; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
11288 o Major bugfixes (security, also in 0.2.9.9):
11289 - Downgrade the "-ftrapv" option from "always on" to "only on when
11290 --enable-expensive-hardening is provided." This hardening option,
11291 like others, can turn survivable bugs into crashes--and having it
11292 on by default made a (relatively harmless) integer overflow bug
11293 into a denial-of-service bug. Fixes bug 21278 (TROVE-2017-001);
11294 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
11296 o Minor feature (client):
11297 - Enable IPv6 traffic on the SocksPort by default. To disable this,
11298 a user will have to specify "NoIPv6Traffic". Closes ticket 21269.
11300 o Minor feature (fallback scripts):
11301 - Add a check_existing mode to updateFallbackDirs.py, which checks
11302 if fallbacks in the hard-coded list are working. Closes ticket
11303 20174. Patch by haxxpop.
11305 o Minor feature (protocol versioning):
11306 - Add new protocol version for proposal 224. HSIntro now advertises
11307 version "3-4" and HSDir version "1-2". Fixes ticket 20656.
11309 o Minor features (ciphersuite selection):
11310 - Allow relays to accept a wider range of ciphersuites, including
11311 chacha20-poly1305 and AES-CCM. Closes the other part of 15426.
11312 - Clients now advertise a list of ciphersuites closer to the ones
11313 preferred by Firefox. Closes part of ticket 15426.
11315 o Minor features (controller):
11316 - Add "GETINFO sr/current" and "GETINFO sr/previous" keys, to expose
11317 shared-random values to the controller. Closes ticket 19925.
11318 - When HSFETCH arguments cannot be parsed, say "Invalid argument"
11319 rather than "unrecognized." Closes ticket 20389; patch from
11322 o Minor features (controller, configuration):
11323 - Each of the *Port options, such as SocksPort, ORPort, ControlPort,
11324 and so on, now comes with a __*Port variant that will not be saved
11325 to the torrc file by the controller's SAVECONF command. This
11326 change allows TorBrowser to set up a single-use domain socket for
11327 each time it launches Tor. Closes ticket 20956.
11328 - The GETCONF command can now query options that may only be
11329 meaningful in context-sensitive lists. This allows the controller
11330 to query the mixed SocksPort/__SocksPort style options introduced
11331 in feature 20956. Implements ticket 21300.
11333 o Minor features (diagnostic, directory client):
11334 - Warn when we find an unexpected inconsistency in directory
11335 download status objects. Prevents some negative consequences of
11338 o Minor features (directory authorities):
11339 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors that claim to be
11340 malformed versions of Tor. Helps prevent exploitation of
11342 - Reject version numbers with components that exceed INT32_MAX.
11343 Otherwise 32-bit and 64-bit platforms would behave inconsistently.
11344 Fixes bug 21450; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
11346 o Minor features (directory authority):
11347 - Add a new authority-only AuthDirTestEd25519LinkKeys option (on by
11348 default) to control whether authorities should try to probe relays
11349 by their Ed25519 link keys. This option will go away in a few
11350 releases--unless we encounter major trouble in our ed25519 link
11351 protocol rollout, in which case it will serve as a safety option.
11353 o Minor features (directory cache):
11354 - Relays and bridges will now refuse to serve the consensus they
11355 have if they know it is too old for a client to use. Closes
11358 o Minor features (ed25519 link handshake):
11359 - Advertise support for the ed25519 link handshake using the
11360 subprotocol-versions mechanism, so that clients can tell which
11361 relays can identity themselves by Ed25519 ID. Closes ticket 20552.
11363 o Minor features (entry guards):
11364 - Add UseEntryGuards to TEST_OPTIONS_DEFAULT_VALUES in order to not
11365 break regression tests.
11366 - Require UseEntryGuards when UseBridges is set, in order to make
11367 sure bridges aren't bypassed. Resolves ticket 20502.
11369 o Minor features (fallback directories):
11370 - Allow 3 fallback relays per operator, which is safe now that we
11371 are choosing 200 fallback relays. Closes ticket 20912.
11372 - Annotate updateFallbackDirs.py with the bandwidth and consensus
11373 weight for each candidate fallback. Closes ticket 20878.
11374 - Display the relay fingerprint when downloading consensuses from
11375 fallbacks. Closes ticket 20908.
11376 - Exclude relays affected by bug 20499 from the fallback list.
11377 Exclude relays from the fallback list if they are running versions
11378 known to be affected by bug 20499, or if in our tests they deliver
11379 a stale consensus (i.e. one that expired more than 24 hours ago).
11380 Closes ticket 20539.
11381 - Make it easier to change the output sort order of fallbacks.
11382 Closes ticket 20822.
11383 - Reduce the minimum fallback bandwidth to 1 MByte/s. Part of
11385 - Require fallback directories to have the same address and port for
11386 7 days (now that we have enough relays with this stability).
11387 Relays whose OnionOO stability timer is reset on restart by bug
11388 18050 should upgrade to Tor 0.2.8.7 or later, which has a fix for
11389 this issue. Closes ticket 20880; maintains short-term fix
11391 - Require fallbacks to have flags for 90% of the time (weighted
11392 decaying average), rather than 95%. This allows at least 73% of
11393 clients to bootstrap in the first 5 seconds without contacting an
11394 authority. Part of ticket 18828.
11395 - Select 200 fallback directories for each release. Closes
11398 o Minor features (fingerprinting resistance, authentication):
11399 - Extend the length of RSA keys used for TLS link authentication to
11400 2048 bits. (These weren't used for forward secrecy; for forward
11401 secrecy, we used P256.) Closes ticket 13752.
11403 o Minor features (geoip):
11404 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11407 o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.9.9):
11408 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11411 o Minor features (infrastructure):
11412 - Implement smartlist_add_strdup() function. Replaces the use of
11413 smartlist_add(sl, tor_strdup(str)). Closes ticket 20048.
11415 o Minor features (linting):
11416 - Enhance the changes file linter to warn on Tor versions that are
11417 prefixed with "tor-". Closes ticket 21096.
11419 o Minor features (logging):
11420 - In several places, describe unset ed25519 keys as "<unset>",
11421 rather than the scary "AAAAAAAA...AAA". Closes ticket 21037.
11423 o Minor features (portability, compilation):
11424 - Autoconf now checks to determine if OpenSSL structures are opaque,
11425 instead of explicitly checking for OpenSSL version numbers. Part
11427 - Support building with recent LibreSSL code that uses opaque
11428 structures. Closes ticket 21359.
11430 o Minor features (relay):
11431 - We now allow separation of exit and relay traffic to different
11432 source IP addresses, using the OutboundBindAddressExit and
11433 OutboundBindAddressOR options respectively. Closes ticket 17975.
11434 Written by Michael Sonntag.
11436 o Minor features (reliability, crash):
11437 - Try better to detect problems in buffers where they might grow (or
11438 think they have grown) over 2 GB in size. Diagnostic for
11441 o Minor features (testing):
11442 - During 'make test-network-all', if tor logs any warnings, ask
11443 chutney to output them. Requires a recent version of chutney with
11444 the 21572 patch. Implements 21570.
11446 o Minor bugfix (control protocol):
11447 - The reply to a "GETINFO config/names" request via the control
11448 protocol now spells the type "Dependent" correctly. This is a
11449 breaking change in the control protocol. (The field seems to be
11450 ignored by the most common known controllers.) Fixes bug 18146;
11451 bugfix on 0.1.1.4-alpha.
11452 - The GETINFO extra-info/digest/<digest> command was broken because
11453 of a wrong base16 decode return value check, introduced when
11454 refactoring that API. Fixes bug 22034; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
11456 o Minor bugfix (logging):
11457 - Don't recommend the use of Tor2web in non-anonymous mode.
11458 Recommending Tor2web is a bad idea because the client loses all
11459 anonymity. Tor2web should only be used in specific cases by users
11460 who *know* and understand the issues. Fixes bug 21294; bugfix
11463 o Minor bugfixes (bug resilience):
11464 - Fix an unreachable size_t overflow in base64_decode(). Fixes bug
11465 19222; bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Found by Guido Vranken; fixed by
11466 Hans Jerry Illikainen.
11468 o Minor bugfixes (build):
11469 - Replace obsolete Autoconf macros with their modern equivalent and
11470 prevent similar issues in the future. Fixes bug 20990; bugfix
11473 o Minor bugfixes (certificate expiration time):
11474 - Avoid using link certificates that don't become valid till some
11475 time in the future. Fixes bug 21420; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha
11477 o Minor bugfixes (client):
11478 - Always recover from failures in extend_info_from_node(), in an
11479 attempt to prevent any recurrence of bug 21242. Fixes bug 21372;
11480 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
11481 - When clients that use bridges start up with a cached consensus on
11482 disk, they were ignoring it and downloading a new one. Now they
11483 use the cached one. Fixes bug 20269; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
11485 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
11486 - Repair a couple of (unreachable or harmless) cases of the risky
11487 comparison-by-subtraction pattern that caused bug 21278.
11489 o Minor bugfixes (config):
11490 - Don't assert on startup when trying to get the options list and
11491 LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is set to 0: we are currently parsing the
11492 options so of course they aren't ready yet. Fixes bug 21062;
11493 bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
11495 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
11496 - Accept non-space whitespace characters after the severity level in
11497 the `Log` option. Fixes bug 19965; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
11498 - Support "TByte" and "TBytes" units in options given in bytes.
11499 "TB", "terabyte(s)", "TBit(s)" and "terabit(s)" were already
11500 supported. Fixes bug 20622; bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
11502 o Minor bugfixes (configure, autoconf):
11503 - Rename the configure option --enable-expensive-hardening to
11504 --enable-fragile-hardening. Expensive hardening makes the tor
11505 daemon abort when some kinds of issues are detected. Thus, it
11506 makes tor more at risk of remote crashes but safer against RCE or
11507 heartbleed bug category. We now try to explain this issue in a
11508 message from the configure script. Fixes bug 21290; bugfix
11511 o Minor bugfixes (consensus weight):
11512 - Add new consensus method that initializes bw weights to 1 instead
11513 of 0. This prevents a zero weight from making it all the way to
11514 the end (happens in small testing networks) and causing an error.
11515 Fixes bug 14881; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
11517 o Minor bugfixes (crash prevention):
11518 - Fix an (currently untriggerable, but potentially dangerous) crash
11519 bug when base32-encoding inputs whose sizes are not a multiple of
11520 5. Fixes bug 21894; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
11522 o Minor bugfixes (dead code):
11523 - Remove a redundant check for PidFile changes at runtime in
11524 options_transition_allowed(): this check is already performed
11525 regardless of whether the sandbox is active. Fixes bug 21123;
11526 bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
11528 o Minor bugfixes (descriptors):
11529 - Correctly recognise downloaded full descriptors as valid, even
11530 when using microdescriptors as circuits. This affects clients with
11531 FetchUselessDescriptors set, and may affect directory authorities.
11532 Fixes bug 20839; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
11534 o Minor bugfixes (directory mirrors):
11535 - Allow relays to use directory mirrors without a DirPort: these
11536 relays need to be contacted over their ORPorts using a begindir
11537 connection. Fixes one case of bug 20711; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
11538 - Clarify the message logged when a remote relay is unexpectedly
11539 missing an ORPort or DirPort: users were confusing this with a
11540 local port. Fixes another case of bug 20711; bugfix
11543 o Minor bugfixes (directory system):
11544 - Bridges and relays now use microdescriptors (like clients do)
11545 rather than old-style router descriptors. Now bridges will blend
11546 in with clients in terms of the circuits they build. Fixes bug
11547 6769; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
11548 - Download all consensus flavors, descriptors, and authority
11549 certificates when FetchUselessDescriptors is set, regardless of
11550 whether tor is a directory cache or not. Fixes bug 20667; bugfix
11551 on all recent tor versions.
11553 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
11554 - Update the tor manual page to document every option that can not
11555 be changed while tor is running. Fixes bug 21122.
11557 o Minor bugfixes (ed25519 certificates):
11558 - Correctly interpret ed25519 certificates that would expire some
11559 time after 19 Jan 2038. Fixes bug 20027; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
11561 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
11562 - Avoid checking fallback candidates' DirPorts if they are down in
11563 OnionOO. When a relay operator has multiple relays, this
11564 prioritizes relays that are up over relays that are down. Fixes
11565 bug 20926; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
11566 - Stop failing when OUTPUT_COMMENTS is True in updateFallbackDirs.py.
11567 Fixes bug 20877; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
11568 - Stop failing when a relay has no uptime data in
11569 updateFallbackDirs.py. Fixes bug 20945; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
11571 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
11572 - Clean up the code for expiring intro points with no associated
11573 circuits. It was causing, rarely, a service with some expiring
11574 introduction points to not open enough additional introduction
11575 points. Fixes part of bug 21302; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
11576 - Resolve two possible underflows which could lead to creating and
11577 closing a lot of introduction point circuits in a non-stop loop.
11578 Fixes bug 21302; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
11579 - Stop setting the torrc option HiddenServiceStatistics to "0" just
11580 because we're not a bridge or relay. Instead, we preserve whatever
11581 value the user set (or didn't set). Fixes bug 21150; bugfix
11584 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
11585 - Make hidden services check for failed intro point connections,
11586 even when they have exceeded their intro point creation limit.
11587 Fixes bug 21596; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
11588 - Make hidden services with 8 to 10 introduction points check for
11589 failed circuits immediately after startup. Previously, they would
11590 wait for 5 minutes before performing their first checks. Fixes bug
11591 21594; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
11592 - Stop ignoring misconfigured hidden services. Instead, refuse to
11593 start tor until the misconfigurations have been corrected. Fixes
11594 bug 20559; bugfix on multiple commits in 0.2.7.1-alpha
11597 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
11598 - Make IPv6-using clients try harder to find an IPv6 directory
11599 server. Fixes bug 20999; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
11600 - When IPv6 addresses have not been downloaded yet (microdesc
11601 consensus documents don't list relay IPv6 addresses), use hard-
11602 coded addresses for authorities, fallbacks, and configured
11603 bridges. Now IPv6-only clients can use microdescriptors. Fixes bug
11604 20996; bugfix on b167e82 from 19608 in 0.2.8.5-alpha.
11606 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak at exit):
11607 - Fix a small harmless memory leak at exit of the previously unused
11608 RSA->Ed identity cross-certificate. Fixes bug 17779; bugfix
11611 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
11612 - Allow the number of introduction points to be as low as 0, rather
11613 than as low as 3. Fixes bug 21033; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
11615 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
11616 - Use "OpenBSD" compiler macro instead of "OPENBSD" or "__OpenBSD__".
11617 It is supported by OpenBSD itself, and also by most OpenBSD
11618 variants (such as Bitrig). Fixes bug 20980; bugfix
11621 o Minor bugfixes (portability, also in 0.2.9.9):
11622 - Avoid crashing when Tor is built using headers that contain
11623 CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, but then tries to run on an older kernel
11624 without CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE. Fixes bug 21035; bugfix
11626 - Fix Libevent detection on platforms without Libevent 1 headers
11627 installed. Fixes bug 21051; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
11629 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
11630 - Avoid a double-marked-circuit warning that could happen when we
11631 receive DESTROY cells under heavy load. Fixes bug 20059; bugfix
11633 - Honor DataDirectoryGroupReadable when tor is a relay. Previously,
11634 initializing the keys would reset the DataDirectory to 0700
11635 instead of 0750 even if DataDirectoryGroupReadable was set to 1.
11636 Fixes bug 19953; bugfix on 0.0.2pre16. Patch by "redfish".
11638 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
11639 - Fix Raspbian build issues related to missing socket errno in
11640 test_util.c. Fixes bug 21116; bugfix on 0.2.8.2. Patch by "hein".
11641 - Remove undefined behavior from the backtrace generator by removing
11642 its signal handler. Fixes bug 21026; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
11643 - Use bash in src/test/test-network.sh. This ensures we reliably
11644 call chutney's newer tools/test-network.sh when available. Fixes
11645 bug 21562; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
11647 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve):
11648 - The tor-resolve command line tool now rejects hostnames over 255
11649 characters in length. Previously, it would silently truncate them,
11650 which could lead to bugs. Fixes bug 21280; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
11651 Patch by "junglefowl".
11653 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
11654 - Allow the unit tests to pass even when DNS lookups of bogus
11655 addresses do not fail as expected. Fixes bug 20862 and 20863;
11656 bugfix on unit tests introduced in 0.2.8.1-alpha
11657 through 0.2.9.4-alpha.
11659 o Minor bugfixes (util):
11660 - When finishing writing a file to disk, if we were about to replace
11661 the file with the temporary file created before and we fail to
11662 replace it, remove the temporary file so it doesn't stay on disk.
11663 Fixes bug 20646; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Patch by fk.
11665 o Minor bugfixes (Windows services):
11666 - Be sure to initialize the monotonic time subsystem before using
11667 it, even when running as an NT service. Fixes bug 21356; bugfix
11670 o Minor bugfixes (Windows):
11671 - Check for getpagesize before using it to mmap files. This fixes
11672 compilation in some MinGW environments. Fixes bug 20530; bugfix on
11673 0.1.2.1-alpha. Reported by "ice".
11675 o Code simplification and refactoring:
11676 - Abolish all global guard context in entrynodes.c; replace with new
11677 guard_selection_t structure as preparation for proposal 271.
11678 Closes ticket 19858.
11679 - Extract magic numbers in circuituse.c into defined variables.
11680 - Introduce rend_service_is_ephemeral() that tells if given onion
11681 service is ephemeral. Replace unclear NULL-checkings for service
11682 directory with this function. Closes ticket 20526.
11683 - Refactor circuit_is_available_for_use to remove unnecessary check.
11684 - Refactor circuit_predict_and_launch_new for readability and
11685 testability. Closes ticket 18873.
11686 - Refactor code to manipulate global_origin_circuit_list into
11687 separate functions. Closes ticket 20921.
11688 - Refactor large if statement in purpose_needs_anonymity to use
11689 switch statement instead. Closes part of ticket 20077.
11690 - Refactor the hashing API to return negative values for errors, as
11691 is done as throughout the codebase. Closes ticket 20717.
11692 - Remove data structures that were used to index or_connection
11693 objects by their RSA identity digests. These structures are fully
11694 redundant with the similar structures used in the
11695 channel abstraction.
11696 - Remove duplicate code in the channel_write_*cell() functions.
11697 Closes ticket 13827; patch from Pingl.
11698 - Remove redundant behavior of is_sensitive_dir_purpose, refactor to
11699 use only purpose_needs_anonymity. Closes part of ticket 20077.
11700 - The code to generate and parse EXTEND and EXTEND2 cells has been
11701 replaced with code automatically generated by the
11704 o Documentation (formatting):
11705 - Clean up formatting of tor.1 man page and HTML doc, where <pre>
11706 blocks were incorrectly appearing. Closes ticket 20885.
11708 o Documentation (man page):
11709 - Clarify many options in tor.1 and add some min/max values for
11710 HiddenService options. Closes ticket 21058.
11713 - Change '1' to 'weight_scale' in consensus bw weights calculation
11714 comments, as that is reality. Closes ticket 20273. Patch
11716 - Clarify that when ClientRejectInternalAddresses is enabled (which
11717 is the default), multicast DNS hostnames for machines on the local
11718 network (of the form *.local) are also rejected. Closes
11720 - Correct the value for AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee in the manpage, from
11721 250 KBytes to 2 MBytes. Fixes bug 20435; bugfix on 0.2.5.6-alpha.
11722 - Include the "TBits" unit in Tor's man page. Fixes part of bug
11723 20622; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
11724 - Small fixes to the fuzzing documentation. Closes ticket 21472.
11725 - Stop the man page from incorrectly stating that HiddenServiceDir
11726 must already exist. Fixes 20486.
11727 - Update the description of the directory server options in the
11728 manual page, to clarify that a relay no longer needs to set
11729 DirPort in order to be a directory cache. Closes ticket 21720.
11731 o Removed features:
11732 - The AuthDirMaxServersPerAuthAddr option no longer exists: The same
11733 limit for relays running on a single IP applies to authority IP
11734 addresses as well as to non-authority IP addresses. Closes
11736 - The UseDirectoryGuards torrc option no longer exists: all users
11737 that use entry guards will also use directory guards. Related to
11738 proposal 271; implements part of ticket 20831.
11741 - Add tests for networkstatus_compute_bw_weights_v10.
11742 - Add unit tests circuit_predict_and_launch_new.
11743 - Extract dummy_origin_circuit_new so it can be used by other
11745 - New unit tests for tor_htonll(). Closes ticket 19563. Patch
11746 from "overcaffeinated".
11747 - Perform the coding style checks when running the tests and fail
11748 when coding style violations are found. Closes ticket 5500.
11751 Changes in version 0.2.8.13 - 2017-03-03
11752 Tor 0.2.8.13 backports a security fix from later Tor
11753 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.8.12 or earlier should upgrade to this
11754 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
11755 release series, and if they build Tor with the --enable-expensive-hardening
11758 Note that support for Tor 0.2.8.x is ending next year: we will not issue
11759 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.8.x series after 1 Jan 2018. If you need
11760 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
11762 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
11763 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
11764 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
11765 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
11766 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
11767 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
11768 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
11770 o Minor features (geoip):
11771 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11775 Changes in version 0.2.7.7 - 2017-03-03
11776 Tor 0.2.7.7 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
11777 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.7.6 or earlier should upgrade to
11778 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
11781 Note that support for Tor 0.2.7.x is ending this year: we will not issue
11782 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.7.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
11783 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
11785 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
11786 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
11788 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
11789 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
11790 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
11792 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
11793 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
11794 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
11797 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
11798 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
11799 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
11800 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
11801 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
11802 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
11803 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
11804 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
11805 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
11807 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
11808 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
11809 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
11810 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
11811 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
11812 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
11813 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
11814 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
11815 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
11816 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
11817 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
11818 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
11819 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
11821 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
11822 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
11823 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
11824 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
11825 Reported by Guido Vranken.
11827 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
11828 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
11829 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
11831 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
11832 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
11833 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
11834 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
11835 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
11836 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
11837 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
11840 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
11841 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
11842 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
11843 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
11844 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
11845 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
11846 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
11848 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
11849 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
11850 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
11851 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
11854 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
11855 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
11856 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
11857 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
11859 o Minor features (geoip):
11860 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11864 Changes in version 0.2.6.11 - 2017-03-03
11865 Tor 0.2.6.11 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
11866 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.6.10 or earlier should upgrade to
11867 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
11870 Note that support for Tor 0.2.6.x is ending this year: we will not issue
11871 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.6.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
11872 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
11874 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
11875 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
11877 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
11878 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
11879 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
11881 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
11882 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
11883 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
11886 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
11887 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
11888 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
11889 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
11890 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
11891 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
11892 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
11893 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
11894 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
11896 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
11897 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
11898 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
11899 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
11900 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
11901 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
11902 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
11903 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
11904 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
11906 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
11907 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
11908 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
11909 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
11910 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
11912 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
11913 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
11914 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
11915 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
11916 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
11919 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
11920 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
11921 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
11922 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
11923 Reported by Guido Vranken.
11925 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
11926 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
11927 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
11929 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
11930 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
11931 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
11932 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
11933 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
11934 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
11937 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
11938 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
11939 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
11940 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
11941 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
11942 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
11943 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
11946 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
11947 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
11948 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
11949 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
11950 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
11951 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
11952 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
11954 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
11955 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
11956 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
11957 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
11960 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
11961 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
11962 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
11963 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
11965 o Minor features (geoip):
11966 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11969 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
11970 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
11971 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
11974 Changes in version 0.2.5.13 - 2017-03-03
11975 Tor 0.2.5.13 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
11976 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.5.13 or earlier should upgrade to
11977 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
11980 Note that support for Tor 0.2.5.x is ending next year: we will not issue
11981 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.5.x series after 1 May 2018. If you need
11982 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
11984 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
11985 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
11987 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
11988 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
11989 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
11991 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
11992 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
11993 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
11996 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
11997 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
11998 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
11999 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
12000 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
12001 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
12002 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
12003 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
12004 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
12006 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
12007 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
12008 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
12009 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
12010 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
12011 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
12012 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
12013 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
12014 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
12016 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
12017 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
12018 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
12019 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
12020 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
12022 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
12023 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
12024 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
12025 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
12026 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
12029 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
12030 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
12031 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
12032 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
12033 Reported by Guido Vranken.
12035 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
12036 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
12037 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
12039 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
12040 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
12041 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
12042 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
12043 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
12044 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
12047 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
12048 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
12049 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
12050 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
12051 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
12052 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
12053 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
12056 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
12057 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
12058 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
12059 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
12060 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
12061 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
12062 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
12064 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
12065 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
12066 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
12067 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
12070 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
12071 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
12072 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
12073 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
12075 o Minor features (geoip):
12076 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12079 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
12080 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
12081 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
12083 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling, backport from 0.2.7.2-alpha):
12084 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
12085 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
12086 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
12087 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
12088 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
12090 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
12091 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
12092 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
12096 Changes in version 0.2.4.28 - 2017-03-03
12097 Tor 0.2.4.28 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
12098 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.4.27 or earlier should upgrade to
12099 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
12102 Note that support for Tor 0.2.4.x is ending soon: we will not issue
12103 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.4.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
12104 a Tor release series with long-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
12106 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
12107 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
12109 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
12110 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
12111 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
12113 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
12114 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
12115 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
12118 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
12119 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
12120 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
12121 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
12122 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
12123 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
12124 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
12125 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
12126 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
12128 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
12129 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
12130 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
12131 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
12132 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
12133 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
12134 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
12135 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
12136 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
12138 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
12139 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
12140 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
12141 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
12142 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
12145 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
12146 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
12147 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
12148 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
12149 Reported by Guido Vranken.
12151 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
12152 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
12153 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
12155 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
12156 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
12157 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
12158 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
12159 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
12160 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
12163 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
12164 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
12165 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
12166 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
12167 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
12168 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
12169 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
12172 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
12173 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
12174 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
12175 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
12176 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
12177 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
12178 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
12180 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
12181 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
12182 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
12183 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
12186 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
12187 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
12188 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
12189 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
12191 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
12192 - Make it harder for attackers to overload hidden services with
12193 introductions, by blocking multiple introduction requests on the
12194 same circuit. Resolves ticket 15515.
12196 o Minor features (geoip):
12197 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12200 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
12201 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
12202 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
12204 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
12205 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
12206 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
12210 Changes in version 0.2.9.10 - 2017-03-01
12211 Tor 0.2.9.10 backports a security fix from later Tor release. It also
12212 includes fixes for some major issues affecting directory authorities,
12213 LibreSSL compatibility, and IPv6 correctness.
12215 The Tor 0.2.9.x release series is now marked as a long-term-support
12216 series. We intend to backport security fixes to 0.2.9.x until at
12217 least January of 2020.
12219 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, 0.3.0.3-alpha):
12220 - During voting, when marking a relay as a probable sybil, do not
12221 clear its BadExit flag: sybils can still be bad in other ways
12222 too. (We still clear the other flags.) Fixes bug 21108; bugfix
12225 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 Exits, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
12226 - Stop rejecting all IPv6 traffic on Exits whose exit policy rejects
12227 any IPv6 addresses. Instead, only reject a port over IPv6 if the
12228 exit policy rejects that port on more than an IPv6 /16 of
12229 addresses. This bug was made worse by 17027 in 0.2.8.1-alpha,
12230 which rejected a relay's own IPv6 address by default. Fixes bug
12231 21357; bugfix on commit 004f3f4e53 in 0.2.4.7-alpha.
12233 o Major bugfixes (parsing, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
12234 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
12235 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
12236 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
12237 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
12238 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
12239 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
12241 o Minor features (directory authorities, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
12242 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors that claim to be
12243 malformed versions of Tor. Helps prevent exploitation of
12245 - Reject version numbers with components that exceed INT32_MAX.
12246 Otherwise 32-bit and 64-bit platforms would behave inconsistently.
12247 Fixes bug 21450; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
12249 o Minor features (geoip):
12250 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12253 o Minor features (portability, compilation, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
12254 - Autoconf now checks to determine if OpenSSL structures are opaque,
12255 instead of explicitly checking for OpenSSL version numbers. Part
12257 - Support building with recent LibreSSL code that uses opaque
12258 structures. Closes ticket 21359.
12260 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
12261 - Repair a couple of (unreachable or harmless) cases of the risky
12262 comparison-by-subtraction pattern that caused bug 21278.
12264 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
12265 - The tor-resolve command line tool now rejects hostnames over 255
12266 characters in length. Previously, it would silently truncate them,
12267 which could lead to bugs. Fixes bug 21280; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
12268 Patch by "junglefowl".
12271 Changes in version 0.2.9.9 - 2017-01-23
12272 Tor 0.2.9.9 fixes a denial-of-service bug where an attacker could
12273 cause relays and clients to crash, even if they were not built with
12274 the --enable-expensive-hardening option. This bug affects all 0.2.9.x
12275 versions, and also affects 0.3.0.1-alpha: all relays running an affected
12276 version should upgrade.
12278 This release also resolves a client-side onion service reachability
12279 bug, and resolves a pair of small portability issues.
12281 o Major bugfixes (security):
12282 - Downgrade the "-ftrapv" option from "always on" to "only on when
12283 --enable-expensive-hardening is provided." This hardening option,
12284 like others, can turn survivable bugs into crashes -- and having
12285 it on by default made a (relatively harmless) integer overflow bug
12286 into a denial-of-service bug. Fixes bug 21278 (TROVE-2017-001);
12287 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
12289 o Major bugfixes (client, onion service):
12290 - Fix a client-side onion service reachability bug, where multiple
12291 socks requests to an onion service (or a single slow request)
12292 could cause us to mistakenly mark some of the service's
12293 introduction points as failed, and we cache that failure so
12294 eventually we run out and can't reach the service. Also resolves a
12295 mysterious "Remote server sent bogus reason code 65021" log
12296 warning. The bug was introduced in ticket 17218, where we tried to
12297 remember the circuit end reason as a uint16_t, which mangled
12298 negative values. Partially fixes bug 21056 and fixes bug 20307;
12299 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12301 o Minor features (geoip):
12302 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12305 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
12306 - Avoid crashing when Tor is built using headers that contain
12307 CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, but then tries to run on an older kernel
12308 without CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE. Fixes bug 21035; bugfix
12310 - Fix Libevent detection on platforms without Libevent 1 headers
12311 installed. Fixes bug 21051; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
12314 Changes in version 0.2.8.12 - 2016-12-19
12315 Tor 0.2.8.12 backports a fix for a medium-severity issue (bug 21018
12316 below) where Tor clients could crash when attempting to visit a
12317 hostile hidden service. Clients are recommended to upgrade as packages
12318 become available for their systems.
12320 It also includes an updated list of fallback directories, backported
12323 Now that the Tor 0.2.9 series is stable, only major bugfixes will be
12324 backported to 0.2.8 in the future.
12326 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backported from 0.2.9.8):
12327 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
12328 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
12329 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
12330 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
12331 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
12332 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
12333 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
12334 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
12336 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backported from 0.2.9.8):
12337 - Replace the 81 remaining fallbacks of the 100 originally
12338 introduced in Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha in March 2016, with a list of 177
12339 fallbacks (123 new, 54 existing, 27 removed) generated in December
12340 2016. Resolves ticket 20170.
12342 o Minor features (geoip, backported from 0.2.9.7-rc):
12343 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
12347 Changes in version 0.2.9.8 - 2016-12-19
12348 Tor 0.2.9.8 is the first stable release of the Tor 0.2.9 series.
12350 The Tor 0.2.9 series makes mandatory a number of security features
12351 that were formerly optional. It includes support for a new shared-
12352 randomness protocol that will form the basis for next generation
12353 hidden services, includes a single-hop hidden service mode for
12354 optimizing .onion services that don't actually want to be hidden,
12355 tries harder not to overload the directory authorities with excessive
12356 downloads, and supports a better protocol versioning scheme for
12357 improved compatibility with other implementations of the Tor protocol.
12359 And of course, there are numerous other bugfixes and improvements.
12361 This release also includes a fix for a medium-severity issue (bug
12362 21018 below) where Tor clients could crash when attempting to visit a
12363 hostile hidden service. Clients are recommended to upgrade as packages
12364 become available for their systems.
12366 Below are listed the changes since Tor 0.2.8.11. For a list of
12367 changes since 0.2.9.7-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
12369 o New system requirements:
12370 - When building with OpenSSL, Tor now requires version 1.0.1 or
12371 later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 and earlier are no longer supported by the
12372 OpenSSL team, and should not be used. Closes ticket 20303.
12373 - Tor now requires Libevent version 2.0.10-stable or later. Older
12374 versions of Libevent have less efficient backends for several
12375 platforms, and lack the DNS code that we use for our server-side
12376 DNS support. This implements ticket 19554.
12377 - Tor now requires zlib version 1.2 or later, for security,
12378 efficiency, and (eventually) gzip support. (Back when we started,
12379 zlib 1.1 and zlib 1.0 were still found in the wild. 1.2 was
12380 released in 2003. We recommend the latest version.)
12382 o Deprecated features:
12383 - A number of DNS-cache-related sub-options for client ports are now
12384 deprecated for security reasons, and may be removed in a future
12385 version of Tor. (We believe that client-side DNS caching is a bad
12386 idea for anonymity, and you should not turn it on.) The options
12387 are: CacheDNS, CacheIPv4DNS, CacheIPv6DNS, UseDNSCache,
12388 UseIPv4Cache, and UseIPv6Cache.
12389 - A number of options are deprecated for security reasons, and may
12390 be removed in a future version of Tor. The options are:
12391 AllowDotExit, AllowInvalidNodes, AllowSingleHopCircuits,
12392 AllowSingleHopExits, ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses,
12393 CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout,
12394 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout,
12395 ExcludeSingleHopRelays, FastFirstHopPK, TLSECGroup,
12396 UseNTorHandshake, and WarnUnsafeSocks.
12397 - The *ListenAddress options are now deprecated as unnecessary: the
12398 corresponding *Port options should be used instead. These options
12399 may someday be removed. The affected options are:
12400 ControlListenAddress, DNSListenAddress, DirListenAddress,
12401 NATDListenAddress, ORListenAddress, SocksListenAddress,
12402 and TransListenAddress.
12404 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, new since 0.2.9.7-rc):
12405 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
12406 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
12407 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
12408 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
12409 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
12410 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
12411 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
12412 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
12414 o Major features (build, hardening):
12415 - Tor now builds with -ftrapv by default on compilers that support
12416 it. This option detects signed integer overflow (which C forbids),
12417 and turns it into a hard-failure. We do not apply this option to
12418 code that needs to run in constant time to avoid side-channels;
12419 instead, we use -fwrapv in that code. Closes ticket 17983.
12420 - When --enable-expensive-hardening is selected, stop applying the
12421 clang/gcc sanitizers to code that needs to run in constant time.
12422 Although we are aware of no introduced side-channels, we are not
12423 able to prove that there are none. Related to ticket 17983.
12425 o Major features (circuit building, security):
12426 - Authorities, relays, and clients now require ntor keys in all
12427 descriptors, for all hops (except for rare hidden service protocol
12428 cases), for all circuits, and for all other roles. Part of
12430 - Authorities, relays, and clients only use ntor, except for
12431 rare cases in the hidden service protocol. Part of ticket 19163.
12433 o Major features (compilation):
12434 - Our big list of extra GCC warnings is now enabled by default when
12435 building with GCC (or with anything like Clang that claims to be
12436 GCC-compatible). To make all warnings into fatal compilation
12437 errors, pass --enable-fatal-warnings to configure. Closes
12439 - Use the Autoconf macro AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS to automatically
12440 turn on C and POSIX extensions. (Previously, we attempted to do
12441 this on an ad hoc basis.) Closes ticket 19139.
12443 o Major features (directory authorities, hidden services):
12444 - Directory authorities can now perform the shared randomness
12445 protocol specified by proposal 250. Using this protocol, directory
12446 authorities generate a global fresh random value every day. In the
12447 future, this value will be used by hidden services to select
12448 HSDirs. This release implements the directory authority feature;
12449 the hidden service side will be implemented in the future as part
12450 of proposal 224. Resolves ticket 16943; implements proposal 250.
12452 o Major features (downloading, random exponential backoff):
12453 - When we fail to download an object from a directory service, wait
12454 for an (exponentially increasing) randomized amount of time before
12455 retrying, rather than a fixed interval as we did before. This
12456 prevents a group of Tor instances from becoming too synchronized,
12457 or a single Tor instance from becoming too predictable, in its
12458 download schedule. Closes ticket 15942.
12460 o Major features (resource management):
12461 - Tor can now notice it is about to run out of sockets, and
12462 preemptively close connections of lower priority. (This feature is
12463 off by default for now, since the current prioritizing method is
12464 yet not mature enough. You can enable it by setting
12465 "DisableOOSCheck 0", but watch out: it might close some sockets
12466 you would rather have it keep.) Closes ticket 18640.
12468 o Major features (single-hop "hidden" services):
12469 - Add experimental HiddenServiceSingleHopMode and
12470 HiddenServiceNonAnonymousMode options. When both are set to 1,
12471 every hidden service on that Tor instance becomes a non-anonymous
12472 Single Onion Service. Single Onions make one-hop (direct)
12473 connections to their introduction and rendezvous points. One-hop
12474 circuits make Single Onion servers easily locatable, but clients
12475 remain location-anonymous. This is compatible with the existing
12476 hidden service implementation, and works on the current Tor
12477 network without any changes to older relays or clients. Implements
12478 proposal 260, completes ticket 17178. Patch by teor and asn.
12480 o Major features (subprotocol versions):
12481 - Tor directory authorities now vote on a set of recommended
12482 "subprotocol versions", and on a set of required subprotocol
12483 versions. Clients and relays that lack support for a _required_
12484 subprotocol version will not start; those that lack support for a
12485 _recommended_ subprotocol version will warn the user to upgrade.
12486 This change allows compatible implementations of the Tor protocol(s)
12487 to exist without pretending to be 100% bug-compatible with
12488 particular releases of Tor itself. Closes ticket 19958; implements
12489 part of proposal 264.
12491 o Major bugfixes (circuit building):
12492 - Hidden service client-to-intro-point and service-to-rendezvous-
12493 point circuits use the TAP key supplied by the protocol, to avoid
12494 epistemic attacks. Fixes bug 19163; bugfix on 0.2.4.18-rc.
12496 o Major bugfixes (download scheduling):
12497 - Avoid resetting download status for consensuses hourly, since we
12498 already have another, smarter retry mechanism. Fixes bug 8625;
12499 bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
12500 - If a consensus expires while we are waiting for certificates to
12501 download, stop waiting for certificates.
12502 - If we stop waiting for certificates less than a minute after we
12503 started downloading them, do not consider the certificate download
12504 failure a separate failure. Fixes bug 20533; bugfix
12506 - When using exponential backoff in test networks, use a lower
12507 exponent, so the delays do not vary as much. This helps test
12508 networks bootstrap consistently. Fixes bug 20597; bugfix on 20499.
12510 o Major bugfixes (exit policies):
12511 - Avoid disclosing exit outbound bind addresses, configured port
12512 bind addresses, and local interface addresses in relay descriptors
12513 by default under ExitPolicyRejectPrivate. Instead, only reject
12514 these (otherwise unlisted) addresses if
12515 ExitPolicyRejectLocalInterfaces is set. Fixes bug 18456; bugfix on
12516 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by teor.
12518 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
12519 - Allow Tor clients with appropriate controllers to work with
12520 FetchHidServDescriptors set to 0. Previously, this option also
12521 disabled descriptor cache lookup, thus breaking hidden services
12522 entirely. Fixes bug 18704; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Patch by "twim".
12523 - Clients now require hidden services to include the TAP keys for
12524 their intro points in the hidden service descriptor. This prevents
12525 an inadvertent upgrade to ntor, which a malicious hidden service
12526 could use to distinguish clients by consensus version. Fixes bug
12527 20012; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch by teor.
12529 o Major bugfixes (relay, resolver, logging):
12530 - For relays that don't know their own address, avoid attempting a
12531 local hostname resolve for each descriptor we download. This
12532 will cut down on the number of "Success: chose address 'x.x.x.x'"
12533 log lines, and also avoid confusing clock jumps if the resolver
12534 is slow. Fixes bugs 20423 and 20610; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12536 o Minor features (port flags):
12537 - Add new flags to the *Port options to give finer control over which
12538 requests are allowed. The flags are NoDNSRequest, NoOnionTraffic,
12539 and the synthetic flag OnionTrafficOnly, which is equivalent to
12540 NoDNSRequest, NoIPv4Traffic, and NoIPv6Traffic. Closes enhancement
12541 18693; patch by "teor".
12543 o Minor features (build, hardening):
12544 - Detect and work around a libclang_rt problem that would prevent
12545 clang from finding __mulodi4() on some 32-bit platforms, and thus
12546 keep -ftrapv from linking on those systems. Closes ticket 19079.
12547 - When building on a system without runtime support for the runtime
12548 hardening options, try to log a useful warning at configuration
12549 time, rather than an incomprehensible warning at link time. If
12550 expensive hardening was requested, this warning becomes an error.
12551 Closes ticket 18895.
12553 o Minor features (client, directory):
12554 - Since authorities now omit all routers that lack the Running and
12555 Valid flags, we assume that any relay listed in the consensus must
12556 have those flags. Closes ticket 20001; implements part of
12559 o Minor features (code safety):
12560 - In our integer-parsing functions, ensure that the maximum value we
12561 allow is no smaller than the minimum value. Closes ticket 19063;
12562 patch from "U+039b".
12564 o Minor features (compilation, portability):
12565 - Compile correctly on MacOS 10.12 (aka "Sierra"). Closes
12568 o Minor features (config):
12569 - Warn users when descriptor and port addresses are inconsistent.
12570 Mitigates bug 13953; patch by teor.
12572 o Minor features (controller):
12573 - Allow controllers to configure basic client authorization on
12574 hidden services when they create them with the ADD_ONION controller
12575 command. Implements ticket 15588. Patch by "special".
12576 - Fire a STATUS_SERVER controller event whenever the hibernation
12577 status changes between "awake"/"soft"/"hard". Closes ticket 18685.
12578 - Implement new GETINFO queries for all downloads that use
12579 download_status_t to schedule retries. This allows controllers to
12580 examine the schedule for pending downloads. Closes ticket 19323.
12582 o Minor features (development tools, etags):
12583 - Teach the "make tags" Makefile target how to correctly find
12584 "MOCK_IMPL" function definitions. Patch from nherring; closes
12587 o Minor features (directory authority):
12588 - After voting, if the authorities decide that a relay is not
12589 "Valid", they no longer include it in the consensus at all. Closes
12590 ticket 20002; implements part of proposal 272.
12591 - Directory authorities now only give the Guard flag to a relay if
12592 they are also giving it the Stable flag. This change allows us to
12593 simplify path selection for clients. It should have minimal effect
12594 in practice, since >99% of Guards already have the Stable flag.
12595 Implements ticket 18624.
12596 - Directory authorities now write their v3-status-votes file out to
12597 disk earlier in the consensus process, so we have a record of the
12598 votes even if we abort the consensus process. Resolves
12601 o Minor features (fallback directory list, new since 0.2.9.7-rc):
12602 - Replace the 81 remaining fallbacks of the 100 originally
12603 introduced in Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha in March 2016, with a list of 177
12604 fallbacks (123 new, 54 existing, 27 removed) generated in December
12605 2016. Resolves ticket 20170.
12607 o Minor features (hidden service):
12608 - Stop being so strict about the payload length of "rendezvous1"
12609 cells. We used to be locked in to the "TAP" handshake length, and
12610 now we can handle better handshakes like "ntor". Resolves
12613 o Minor features (infrastructure, time):
12614 - Tor now includes an improved timer backend, so that we can
12615 efficiently support tens or hundreds of thousands of concurrent
12616 timers, as will be needed for some of our planned anti-traffic-
12617 analysis work. This code is based on William Ahern's "timeout.c"
12618 project, which implements a "tickless hierarchical timing wheel".
12619 Closes ticket 18365.
12620 - Tor now uses the operating system's monotonic timers (where
12621 available) for internal fine-grained timing. Previously we would
12622 look at the system clock, and then attempt to compensate for the
12623 clock running backwards. Closes ticket 18908.
12625 o Minor features (logging):
12626 - Add a set of macros to check nonfatal assertions, for internal
12627 use. Migrating more of our checks to these should help us avoid
12628 needless crash bugs. Closes ticket 18613.
12629 - Provide a more useful warning message when configured with an
12630 invalid Nickname. Closes ticket 18300; patch from "icanhasaccount".
12631 - When dumping unparseable router descriptors, optionally store them
12632 in separate files, named by digest, up to a configurable size
12633 limit. You can change the size limit by setting the
12634 MaxUnparseableDescSizeToLog option, and disable this feature by
12635 setting that option to 0. Closes ticket 18322.
12637 o Minor features (performance):
12638 - Change the "optimistic data" extension from "off by default" to
12639 "on by default". The default was ordinarily overridden by a
12640 consensus option, but when clients were bootstrapping for the
12641 first time, they would not have a consensus to get the option
12642 from. Changing this default saves a round-trip during startup.
12643 Closes ticket 18815.
12645 o Minor features (relay, usability):
12646 - When the directory authorities refuse a bad relay's descriptor,
12647 encourage the relay operator to contact us. Many relay operators
12648 won't notice this line in their logs, but it's a win if even a few
12649 learn why we don't like what their relay was doing. Resolves
12652 o Minor features (security, TLS):
12653 - Servers no longer support clients that lack AES ciphersuites.
12654 (3DES is no longer considered an acceptable cipher.) We believe
12655 that no such Tor clients currently exist, since Tor has required
12656 OpenSSL 0.9.7 or later since 2009. Closes ticket 19998.
12658 o Minor features (testing):
12659 - Disable memory protections on OpenBSD when performing our unit
12660 tests for memwipe(). The test deliberately invokes undefined
12661 behavior, and the OpenBSD protections interfere with this. Patch
12662 from "rubiate". Closes ticket 20066.
12663 - Move the test-network.sh script to chutney, and modify tor's test-
12664 network.sh to call the (newer) chutney version when available.
12665 Resolves ticket 19116. Patch by teor.
12666 - Use the lcov convention for marking lines as unreachable, so that
12667 we don't count them when we're generating test coverage data.
12668 Update our coverage tools to understand this convention. Closes
12670 - Our link-handshake unit tests now check that when invalid
12671 handshakes fail, they fail with the error messages we expected.
12672 - Our unit testing code that captures log messages no longer
12673 prevents them from being written out if the user asked for them
12674 (by passing --debug or --info or --notice or --warn to the "test"
12675 binary). This change prevents us from missing unexpected log
12676 messages simply because we were looking for others. Related to
12678 - The unit tests now log all warning messages with the "BUG" flag.
12679 Previously, they only logged errors by default. This change will
12680 help us make our testing code more correct, and make sure that we
12681 only hit this code when we mean to. In the meantime, however,
12682 there will be more warnings in the unit test logs than before.
12683 This is preparatory work for ticket 19999.
12684 - The unit tests now treat any failure of a "tor_assert_nonfatal()"
12685 assertion as a test failure.
12686 - We've done significant work to make the unit tests run faster.
12688 o Minor features (testing, ipv6):
12689 - Add the hs-ipv6 chutney target to make test-network-all's IPv6
12690 tests. Remove bridges+hs, as it's somewhat redundant. This
12691 requires a recent chutney version that supports IPv6 clients,
12692 relays, and authorities. Closes ticket 20069; patch by teor.
12693 - Add the single-onion and single-onion-ipv6 chutney targets to
12694 "make test-network-all". This requires a recent chutney version
12695 with the single onion network flavors (git c72a652 or later).
12696 Closes ticket 20072; patch by teor.
12698 o Minor features (Tor2web):
12699 - Make Tor2web clients respect ReachableAddresses. This feature was
12700 inadvertently enabled in 0.2.8.6, then removed by bugfix 19973 on
12701 0.2.8.7. Implements feature 20034. Patch by teor.
12703 o Minor features (unix domain sockets):
12704 - When configuring a unix domain socket for a SocksPort,
12705 ControlPort, or Hidden service, you can now wrap the address in
12706 quotes, using C-style escapes inside the quotes. This allows unix
12707 domain socket paths to contain spaces. Resolves ticket 18753.
12709 o Minor features (user interface):
12710 - Tor now supports the ability to declare options deprecated, so
12711 that we can recommend that people stop using them. Previously, this
12712 was done in an ad-hoc way. There is a new --list-deprecated-options
12713 command-line option to list all of the deprecated options. Closes
12716 o Minor features (virtual addresses):
12717 - Increase the maximum number of bits for the IPv6 virtual network
12718 prefix from 16 to 104. In this way, the condition for address
12719 allocation is less restrictive. Closes ticket 20151; feature
12722 o Minor bug fixes (circuits):
12723 - Use the CircuitBuildTimeout option whenever
12724 LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled. Previously, we would respect
12725 the option when a user disabled it, but not when it was disabled
12726 because some other option was set. Fixes bug 20073; bugfix on
12727 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch by teor.
12729 o Minor bugfixes (build):
12730 - The current Git revision when building from a local repository is
12731 now detected correctly when using git worktrees. Fixes bug 20492;
12732 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
12734 o Minor bugfixes (relay address discovery):
12735 - Stop reordering IP addresses returned by the OS. This makes it
12736 more likely that Tor will guess the same relay IP address every
12737 time. Fixes issue 20163; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha, ticket 17027.
12738 Reported by René Mayrhofer, patch by "cypherpunks".
12740 o Minor bugfixes (memory allocation):
12741 - Change how we allocate memory for large chunks on buffers, to
12742 avoid a (currently impossible) integer overflow, and to waste less
12743 space when allocating unusually large chunks. Fixes bug 20081;
12744 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Issue identified by Guido Vranken.
12746 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
12747 - Remember the directory server we fetched the consensus or previous
12748 certificates from, and use it to fetch future authority
12749 certificates. This change improves bootstrapping performance.
12750 Fixes bug 18963; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12752 o Minor bugfixes (circuits):
12753 - Make sure extend_info_from_router() is only called on servers.
12754 Fixes bug 19639; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12756 o Minor bugfixes (client, fascistfirewall):
12757 - Avoid spurious warnings when ReachableAddresses or FascistFirewall
12758 is set. Fixes bug 20306; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
12760 o Minor bugfixes (client, unix domain sockets):
12761 - Disable IsolateClientAddr when using AF_UNIX backed SocksPorts as
12762 the client address is meaningless. Fixes bug 20261; bugfix
12765 o Minor bugfixes (code style):
12766 - Fix an integer signedness conversion issue in the case conversion
12767 tables. Fixes bug 19168; bugfix on 0.2.1.11-alpha.
12769 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
12770 - Build correctly on versions of libevent2 without support for
12771 evutil_secure_rng_add_bytes(). Fixes bug 19904; bugfix
12773 - When building with Clang, use a full set of GCC warnings.
12774 (Previously, we included only a subset, because of the way we
12775 detected them.) Fixes bug 19216; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
12776 - Detect Libevent2 functions correctly on systems that provide
12777 libevent2, but where libevent1 is linked with -levent. Fixes bug
12778 19904; bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha. Patch from Rubiate.
12779 - Run correctly when built on Windows build environments that
12780 require _vcsprintf(). Fixes bug 20560; bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
12782 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
12783 - When parsing quoted configuration values from the torrc file,
12784 handle Windows line endings correctly. Fixes bug 19167; bugfix on
12785 0.2.0.16-alpha. Patch from "Pingl".
12787 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
12788 - Authorities now sort the "package" lines in their votes, for ease
12789 of debugging. (They are already sorted in consensus documents.)
12790 Fixes bug 18840; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
12791 - Die with a more useful error when the operator forgets to place
12792 the authority_signing_key file into the keys directory. This
12793 avoids an uninformative assert & traceback about having an invalid
12794 key. Fixes bug 20065; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
12795 - When allowing private addresses, mark Exits that only exit to
12796 private locations as such. Fixes bug 20064; bugfix
12798 - When parsing a detached signature, make sure we use the length of
12799 the digest algorithm instead of a hardcoded DIGEST256_LEN in
12800 order to avoid comparing bytes out-of-bounds with a smaller digest
12801 length such as SHA1. Fixes bug 19066; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
12803 o Minor bugfixes (getpass):
12804 - Defensively fix a non-triggerable heap corruption at do_getpass()
12805 to protect ourselves from mistakes in the future. Fixes bug
12806 19223; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Bug found by Guido Vranken, patch
12809 o Minor bugfixes (guard selection):
12810 - Don't mark guards as unreachable if connection_connect() fails.
12811 That function fails for local reasons, so it shouldn't reveal
12812 anything about the status of the guard. Fixes bug 14334; bugfix
12814 - Use a single entry guard even if the NumEntryGuards consensus
12815 parameter is not provided. Fixes bug 17688; bugfix
12818 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
12819 - Increase the minimum number of internal circuits we preemptively
12820 build from 2 to 3, so a circuit is available when a client
12821 connects to another onion service. Fixes bug 13239; bugfix
12823 - Allow hidden services to run on IPv6 addresses even when the
12824 IPv6Exit option is not set. Fixes bug 18357; bugfix
12826 - Stop logging intro point details to the client log on certain
12827 error conditions. Fixed as part of bug 20012; bugfix on
12828 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch by teor.
12829 - When deleting an ephemeral hidden service, close its intro points
12830 even if they are not completely open. Fixes bug 18604; bugfix
12832 - When configuring hidden services, check every hidden service
12833 directory's permissions. Previously, we only checked the last
12834 hidden service. Fixes bug 20529; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
12836 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, testing):
12837 - Check for IPv6 correctly on Linux when running test networks.
12838 Fixes bug 19905; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc; patch by teor.
12840 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
12841 - Add permission to run the sched_yield() and sigaltstack() system
12842 calls, in order to support versions of Tor compiled with asan or
12843 ubsan code that use these calls. Now "sandbox 1" and
12844 "--enable-expensive-hardening" should be compatible on more
12845 systems. Fixes bug 20063; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
12847 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
12848 - Downgrade a harmless log message about the
12849 pending_entry_connections list from "warn" to "info". Mitigates
12851 - Log a more accurate message when we fail to dump a microdescriptor.
12852 Fixes bug 17758; bugfix on 0.2.2.8-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
12853 - When logging a directory ownership mismatch, log the owning
12854 username correctly. Fixes bug 19578; bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta.
12855 - When we are unable to remove the bw_accounting file, do not warn
12856 if the reason we couldn't remove it was that it didn't exist.
12857 Fixes bug 19964; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from pastly.
12859 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
12860 - Fix a series of slow memory leaks related to parsing torrc files
12861 and options. Fixes bug 19466; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
12862 - Avoid a small memory leak when informing worker threads about
12863 rotated onion keys. Fixes bug 20401; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
12864 - Fix a small memory leak when receiving AF_UNIX connections on a
12865 SocksPort. Fixes bug 20716; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
12866 - When moving a signed descriptor object from a source to an
12867 existing destination, free the allocated memory inside that
12868 destination object. Fixes bug 20715; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
12869 - Fix a memory leak and use-after-free error when removing entries
12870 from the sandbox's getaddrinfo() cache. Fixes bug 20710; bugfix on
12871 0.2.5.5-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
12872 - Fix a small, uncommon memory leak that could occur when reading a
12873 truncated ed25519 key file. Fixes bug 18956; bugfix
12876 o Minor bugfixes (option parsing):
12877 - Count unix sockets when counting client listeners (SOCKS, Trans,
12878 NATD, and DNS). This has no user-visible behavior changes: these
12879 options are set once, and never read. Required for correct
12880 behavior in ticket 17178. Fixes bug 19677; bugfix on
12881 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by teor.
12883 o Minor bugfixes (options):
12884 - Check the consistency of UseEntryGuards and EntryNodes more
12885 reliably. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch
12887 - Stop changing the configured value of UseEntryGuards on
12888 authorities and Tor2web clients. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on
12889 commits 51fc6799 in 0.1.1.16-rc and acda1735 in 0.2.4.3-alpha.
12892 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
12893 - Ensure relays don't make multiple connections during bootstrap.
12894 Fixes bug 20591; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12895 - Do not try to parallelize workers more than 16x without the user
12896 explicitly configuring us to do so, even if we do detect more than
12897 16 CPU cores. Fixes bug 19968; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
12899 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
12900 - The test-stem and test-network makefile targets now depend only on
12901 the tor binary that they are testing. Previously, they depended on
12902 "make all". Fixes bug 18240; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Based on a
12903 patch from "cypherpunks".
12904 - Allow clients to retry HSDirs much faster in test networks. Fixes
12905 bug 19702; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
12906 - Avoid a unit test failure on systems with over 16 detectable CPU
12907 cores. Fixes bug 19968; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
12908 - Let backtrace tests work correctly under AddressSanitizer:
12909 disable ASAN's detection of segmentation faults while running
12910 test_bt.sh, so that we can make sure that our own backtrace
12911 generation code works. Fixes bug 18934; bugfix
12912 on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
12913 - Fix the test-network-all target on out-of-tree builds by using the
12914 correct path to the test driver script. Fixes bug 19421; bugfix
12916 - Stop spurious failures in the local interface address discovery
12917 unit tests. Fixes bug 20634; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha; patch by
12919 - Use ECDHE ciphers instead of ECDH in tortls tests. LibreSSL has
12920 removed the ECDH ciphers which caused the tests to fail on
12921 platforms which use it. Fixes bug 20460; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12922 - The tor_tls_server_info_callback unit test no longer crashes when
12923 debug-level logging is turned on. Fixes bug 20041; bugfix
12926 o Minor bugfixes (time):
12927 - Improve overflow checks in tv_udiff and tv_mdiff. Fixes bug 19483;
12928 bugfix on all released tor versions.
12929 - When computing the difference between two times in milliseconds,
12930 we now round to the nearest millisecond correctly. Previously, we
12931 could sometimes round in the wrong direction. Fixes bug 19428;
12932 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
12934 o Minor bugfixes (Tor2web):
12935 - Prevent Tor2web clients from running hidden services: these services
12936 are not anonymous due to the one-hop client paths. Fixes bug
12937 19678. Patch by teor.
12939 o Minor bugfixes (user interface):
12940 - Display a more accurate number of suppressed messages in the log
12941 rate-limiter. Previously, there was a potential integer overflow
12942 in the counter. Now, if the number of messages hits a maximum, the
12943 rate-limiter doesn't count any further. Fixes bug 19435; bugfix
12945 - Fix a typo in the passphrase prompt for the ed25519 identity key.
12946 Fixes bug 19503; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12948 o Code simplification and refactoring:
12949 - Remove redundant declarations of the MIN macro. Closes
12951 - Rename tor_dup_addr() to tor_addr_to_str_dup() to avoid confusion.
12952 Closes ticket 18462; patch from "icanhasaccount".
12953 - Split the 600-line directory_handle_command_get function into
12954 separate functions for different URL types. Closes ticket 16698.
12957 - Add module-level internal documentation for 36 C files that
12958 previously didn't have a high-level overview. Closes ticket 20385.
12959 - Correct the IPv6 syntax in our documentation for the
12960 VirtualAddrNetworkIPv6 torrc option. Closes ticket 19743.
12961 - Correct the minimum bandwidth value in torrc.sample, and queue a
12962 corresponding change for torrc.minimal. Closes ticket 20085.
12963 - Fix spelling of "--enable-tor2web-mode" in the manpage. Closes
12964 ticket 19153. Patch from "U+039b".
12965 - Module-level documentation for several more modules. Closes
12966 tickets 19287 and 19290.
12967 - Document the --passphrase-fd option in the tor manpage. Fixes bug
12968 19504; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
12969 - Document the default PathsNeededToBuildCircuits value that's used
12970 by clients when the directory authorities don't set
12971 min_paths_for_circs_pct. Fixes bug 20117; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
12972 Patch by teor, reported by Jesse V.
12973 - Fix manual for the User option: it takes a username, not a UID.
12974 Fixes bug 19122; bugfix on 0.0.2pre16 (the first version to have
12976 - Fix the description of the --passphrase-fd option in the
12977 tor-gencert manpage. The option is used to pass the number of a
12978 file descriptor to read the passphrase from, not to read the file
12979 descriptor from. Fixes bug 19505; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-alpha.
12982 - We no longer include the (dead, deprecated) bufferevent code in
12983 Tor. Closes ticket 19450. Based on a patch from "U+039b".
12985 o Removed features:
12986 - Remove support for "GET /tor/bytes.txt" DirPort request, and
12987 "GETINFO dir-usage" controller request, which were only available
12988 via a compile-time option in Tor anyway. Feature was added in
12989 0.2.2.1-alpha. Resolves ticket 19035.
12990 - There is no longer a compile-time option to disable support for
12991 TransPort. (If you don't want TransPort, just don't use it.) Patch
12992 from "U+039b". Closes ticket 19449.
12995 - Run more workqueue tests as part of "make check". These had
12996 previously been implemented, but you needed to know special
12997 command-line options to enable them.
12998 - We now have unit tests for our code to reject zlib "compression
12999 bombs". (Fortunately, the code works fine.)
13002 Changes in version 0.2.8.11 - 2016-12-08
13003 Tor 0.2.8.11 backports fixes for additional portability issues that
13004 could prevent Tor from building correctly on OSX Sierra, or with
13005 OpenSSL 1.1. Affected users should upgrade; others can safely stay
13008 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
13009 - Avoid compilation errors when building on OSX Sierra. Sierra began
13010 to support the getentropy() and clock_gettime() APIs, but created
13011 a few problems in doing so. Tor 0.2.9 has a more thorough set of
13012 workarounds; in 0.2.8, we are just using the /dev/urandom and mach
13013 monotonic time interfaces. Fixes bug 20865. Bugfix
13016 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
13017 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 1.1 and less commonly-used CPU
13018 architectures. Closes ticket 20588.
13021 Changes in version 0.2.8.10 - 2016-12-02
13022 Tor 0.2.8.10 backports a fix for a bug that would sometimes make clients
13023 unusable after they left standby mode. It also backports fixes for
13024 a few portability issues and a small but problematic memory leak.
13026 o Major bugfixes (client reliability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
13027 - When Tor leaves standby because of a new application request, open
13028 circuits as needed to serve that request. Previously, we would
13029 potentially wait a very long time. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
13032 o Major bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
13033 - Clients now respond to new application stream requests immediately
13034 when they arrive, rather than waiting up to one second before
13035 starting to handle them. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
13038 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.6-rc):
13039 - Work around a bug in the OSX 10.12 SDK that would prevent us from
13040 successfully targeting earlier versions of OSX. Resolves
13043 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
13044 - Fix implicit conversion warnings under OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug
13045 20551; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
13047 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
13048 - Work around a memory leak in OpenSSL 1.1 when encoding public
13049 keys. Fixes bug 20553; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
13051 o Minor features (geoip):
13052 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
13056 Changes in version 0.2.8.9 - 2016-10-17
13057 Tor 0.2.8.9 backports a fix for a security hole in previous versions
13058 of Tor that would allow a remote attacker to crash a Tor client,
13059 hidden service, relay, or authority. All Tor users should upgrade to
13060 this version, or to 0.2.9.4-alpha. Patches will be released for older
13063 o Major features (security fixes, also in 0.2.9.4-alpha):
13064 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
13065 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
13066 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
13067 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
13068 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
13069 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
13070 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
13071 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
13073 o Minor features (geoip):
13074 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
13078 Changes in version 0.2.8.8 - 2016-09-23
13079 Tor 0.2.8.8 fixes two crash bugs present in previous versions of the
13080 0.2.8.x series. Relays running 0.2.8.x should upgrade, as should users
13081 who select public relays as their bridges.
13083 o Major bugfixes (crash):
13084 - Fix a complicated crash bug that could affect Tor clients
13085 configured to use bridges when replacing a networkstatus consensus
13086 in which one of their bridges was mentioned. OpenBSD users saw
13087 more crashes here, but all platforms were potentially affected.
13088 Fixes bug 20103; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
13090 o Major bugfixes (relay, OOM handler):
13091 - Fix a timing-dependent assertion failure that could occur when we
13092 tried to flush from a circuit after having freed its cells because
13093 of an out-of-memory condition. Fixes bug 20203; bugfix on
13094 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to "cypherpunks" for help diagnosing
13097 o Minor feature (fallback directories):
13098 - Remove broken fallbacks from the hard-coded fallback directory
13099 list. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor.
13101 o Minor features (geoip):
13102 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
13106 Changes in version 0.2.8.7 - 2016-08-24
13107 Tor 0.2.8.7 fixes an important bug related to the ReachableAddresses
13108 option in 0.2.8.6, and replaces a retiring bridge authority. Everyone
13109 who sets the ReachableAddresses option, and all bridges, are strongly
13110 encouraged to upgrade.
13112 o Directory authority changes:
13113 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
13114 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
13116 o Major bugfixes (client, security):
13117 - Only use the ReachableAddresses option to restrict the first hop
13118 in a path. In earlier versions of 0.2.8.x, it would apply to
13119 every hop in the path, with a possible degradation in anonymity
13120 for anyone using an uncommon ReachableAddress setting. Fixes bug
13121 19973; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
13123 o Minor features (geoip):
13124 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 2 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
13127 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
13128 - Remove an inappropriate "inline" in tortls.c that was causing
13129 warnings on older versions of GCC. Fixes bug 19903; bugfix
13132 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
13133 - Avoid logging a NULL string pointer when loading fallback
13134 directory information. Fixes bug 19947; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha
13135 and 0.2.8.1-alpha. Report and patch by "rubiate".
13138 Changes in version 0.2.8.6 - 2016-08-02
13140 Tor 0.2.8.6 is the first stable version of the Tor 0.2.8 series.
13142 The Tor 0.2.8 series improves client bootstrapping performance,
13143 completes the authority-side implementation of improved identity
13144 keys for relays, and includes numerous bugfixes and performance
13145 improvements throughout the program. This release continues to
13146 improve the coverage of Tor's test suite. For a full list of
13147 changes since Tor 0.2.7, see the ReleaseNotes file.
13149 Below is a list of the changes since Tor 0.2.7.
13151 o New system requirements:
13152 - Tor no longer attempts to support platforms where the "time_t"
13153 type is unsigned. (To the best of our knowledge, only OpenVMS does
13154 this, and Tor has never actually built on OpenVMS.) Closes
13156 - Tor no longer supports versions of OpenSSL with a broken
13157 implementation of counter mode. (This bug was present in OpenSSL
13158 1.0.0, and was fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.0a.) Tor still detects, but no
13159 longer runs with, these versions.
13160 - Tor now uses Autoconf version 2.63 or later, and Automake 1.11 or
13161 later (released in 2008 and 2009 respectively). If you are
13162 building Tor from the git repository instead of from the source
13163 distribution, and your tools are older than this, you will need to
13164 upgrade. Closes ticket 17732.
13166 o Directory authority changes:
13167 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
13168 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
13170 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
13172 o Major features (directory system):
13173 - Include a trial list of default fallback directories, based on an
13174 opt-in survey of suitable relays. Doing this should make clients
13175 bootstrap more quickly and reliably, and reduce the load on the
13176 directory authorities. Closes ticket 15775. Patch by teor.
13177 Candidates identified using an OnionOO script by weasel, teor,
13178 gsathya, and karsten.
13179 - Previously only relays that explicitly opened a directory port
13180 (DirPort) accepted directory requests from clients. Now all
13181 relays, with and without a DirPort, accept and serve tunneled
13182 directory requests that they receive through their ORPort. You can
13183 disable this behavior using the new DirCache option. Closes
13185 - When bootstrapping multiple consensus downloads at a time, use the
13186 first one that starts downloading, and close the rest. This
13187 reduces failures when authorities or fallback directories are slow
13188 or down. Together with the code for feature 15775, this feature
13189 should reduces failures due to fallback churn. Implements ticket
13190 4483. Patch by teor. Implements IPv4 portions of proposal 210 by
13191 mikeperry and teor.
13193 o Major features (security, Linux):
13194 - When Tor starts as root on Linux and is told to switch user ID, it
13195 can now retain the capability to bind to low ports. By default,
13196 Tor will do this only when it's switching user ID and some low
13197 ports have been configured. You can change this behavior with the
13198 new option KeepBindCapabilities. Closes ticket 8195.
13200 o Major bugfixes (client, bootstrapping):
13201 - Check if bootstrap consensus downloads are still needed when the
13202 linked connection attaches. This prevents tor making unnecessary
13203 begindir-style connections, which are the only directory
13204 connections tor clients make since the fix for 18483 was merged.
13205 - Fix some edge cases where consensus download connections may not
13206 have been closed, even though they were not needed. Related to fix
13208 - Make relays retry consensus downloads the correct number of times,
13209 rather than the more aggressive client retry count. Fixes part of
13212 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash):
13213 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
13214 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
13216 o Major bugfixes (ed25519, voting):
13217 - Actually enable support for authorities to match routers by their
13218 Ed25519 identities. Previously, the code had been written, but
13219 some debugging code that had accidentally been left in the
13220 codebase made it stay turned off. Fixes bug 17702; bugfix
13222 - When collating votes by Ed25519 identities, authorities now
13223 include a "NoEdConsensus" flag if the ed25519 value (or lack
13224 thereof) for a server does not reflect the majority consensus.
13225 Related to bug 17668; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13226 - When generating a vote with keypinning disabled, never include two
13227 entries for the same ed25519 identity. This bug was causing
13228 authorities to generate votes that they could not parse when a
13229 router violated key pinning by changing its RSA identity but
13230 keeping its Ed25519 identity. Fixes bug 17668; fixes part of bug
13231 18318. Bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13233 o Major bugfixes (key management):
13234 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
13235 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
13236 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
13237 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
13238 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
13239 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
13242 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy):
13243 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
13244 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
13245 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
13246 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
13248 o Major bugfixes (security, compilation):
13249 - Correctly detect compiler flags on systems where _FORTIFY_SOURCE
13250 is predefined. Previously, our use of -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE would
13251 cause a compiler warning, thereby making other checks fail, and
13252 needlessly disabling compiler-hardening support. Fixes one case of
13253 bug 18841; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta. Patch from "trudokal".
13254 - Repair hardened builds under the clang compiler. Previously, our
13255 use of _FORTIFY_SOURCE would conflict with clang's address
13256 sanitizer. Fixes bug 14821; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
13258 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers):
13259 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
13260 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
13261 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
13262 Reported by Guido Vranken.
13264 o Major bugfixes (testing):
13265 - Fix a bug that would block 'make test-network-all' on systems where
13266 IPv6 packets were lost. Fixes bug 19008; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
13268 o Major bugfixes (user interface):
13269 - Correctly give a warning in the cases where a relay is specified
13270 by nickname, and one such relay is found, but it is not officially
13271 Named. Fixes bug 19203; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
13273 o Minor features (accounting):
13274 - Added two modes to the AccountingRule option: One for limiting
13275 only the number of bytes sent ("AccountingRule out"), and one for
13276 limiting only the number of bytes received ("AccountingRule in").
13277 Closes ticket 15989; patch from "unixninja92".
13279 o Minor features (bug-resistance):
13280 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
13281 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
13282 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
13283 - Use tor_snprintf() and tor_vsnprintf() even in external and low-
13284 level code, to harden against accidental failures to NUL-
13285 terminate. Part of ticket 17852. Patch from jsturgix. Found
13288 o Minor features (build):
13289 - Detect systems with FreeBSD-derived kernels (such as GNU/kFreeBSD)
13290 as having possible IPFW support. Closes ticket 18448. Patch from
13291 Steven Chamberlain.
13292 - Since our build process now uses "make distcheck", we no longer
13293 force "make dist" to depend on "make check". Closes ticket 17893;
13294 patch from "cypherpunks".
13295 - Tor now builds once again with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development
13296 branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre5 and 1.1.0-pre6-dev). We have been
13297 tracking OpenSSL 1.1 development as it has progressed, and fixing
13298 numerous compatibility issues as they arose. See tickets
13299 17549, 17921, 17984, 19499, and 18286.
13300 - When building manual pages, set the timezone to "UTC", so that the
13301 output is reproducible. Fixes bug 19558; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
13302 Patch from intrigeri.
13304 o Minor features (clients):
13305 - Make clients, onion services, and bridge relays always use an
13306 encrypted begindir connection for directory requests. Resolves
13307 ticket 18483. Patch by teor.
13309 o Minor features (controller):
13310 - Add 'GETINFO exit-policy/reject-private/[default,relay]', so
13311 controllers can examine the the reject rules added by
13312 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate. This makes it easier for stem to display
13314 - Adds the FallbackDir entries to 'GETINFO config/defaults'. Closes
13315 tickets 16774 and 17817. Patch by George Tankersley.
13316 - New 'GETINFO hs/service/desc/id/' command to retrieve a hidden
13317 service descriptor from a service's local hidden service
13318 descriptor cache. Closes ticket 14846.
13320 o Minor features (crypto):
13321 - Add SHA3 and SHAKE support to crypto.c. Closes ticket 17783.
13322 - Add SHA512 support to crypto.c. Closes ticket 17663; patch from
13324 - Improve performance when hashing non-multiple of 8 sized buffers,
13325 based on Andrew Moon's public domain SipHash-2-4 implementation.
13326 Fixes bug 17544; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
13327 - Validate the hard-coded Diffie-Hellman parameters and ensure that
13328 p is a safe prime, and g is a suitable generator. Closes
13330 - When allocating a digest state object, allocate no more space than
13331 we actually need. Previously, we would allocate as much space as
13332 the state for the largest algorithm would need. This change saves
13333 up to 672 bytes per circuit. Closes ticket 17796.
13335 o Minor features (directory downloads):
13336 - Add UseDefaultFallbackDirs, which enables any hard-coded fallback
13337 directory mirrors. The default is 1; set it to 0 to disable
13338 fallbacks. Implements ticket 17576. Patch by teor.
13339 - Wait for busy authorities and fallback directories to become non-
13340 busy when bootstrapping. (A similar change was made in 6c443e987d
13341 for directory caches chosen from the consensus.) Closes ticket
13342 17864; patch by teor.
13344 o Minor features (geoip):
13345 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
13348 o Minor features (hidden service directory):
13349 - Streamline relay-side hsdir handling: when relays consider whether
13350 to accept an uploaded hidden service descriptor, they no longer
13351 check whether they are one of the relays in the network that is
13352 "supposed" to handle that descriptor. Implements ticket 18332.
13354 o Minor features (IPv6):
13355 - Add ClientPreferIPv6DirPort, which is set to 0 by default. If set
13356 to 1, tor prefers IPv6 directory addresses.
13357 - Add ClientUseIPv4, which is set to 1 by default. If set to 0, tor
13358 avoids using IPv4 for client OR and directory connections.
13359 - Add address policy assume_action support for IPv6 addresses.
13360 - Add an argument 'ipv6=address:orport' to the DirAuthority and
13361 FallbackDir torrc options, to specify an IPv6 address for an
13362 authority or fallback directory. Add hard-coded ipv6 addresses for
13363 directory authorities that have them. Closes ticket 17327; patch
13364 from Nick Mathewson and teor.
13365 - Allow users to configure directory authorities and fallback
13366 directory servers with IPv6 addresses and ORPorts. Resolves
13368 - Limit IPv6 mask bits to 128.
13369 - Make tor_ersatz_socketpair work on IPv6-only systems. Fixes bug
13370 17638; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Patch by teor.
13371 - Try harder to obey the IP version restrictions "ClientUseIPv4 0",
13372 "ClientUseIPv6 0", "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort", and
13373 "ClientPreferIPv6DirPort". Closes ticket 17840; patch by teor.
13374 - Warn when comparing against an AF_UNSPEC address in a policy, it's
13375 almost always a bug. Closes ticket 17863; patch by teor.
13376 - routerset_parse now accepts IPv6 literal addresses. Fixes bug
13377 17060; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Patch by teor.
13379 o Minor features (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
13380 - Reject attempts to change our Address with "Sandbox 1" enabled.
13381 Changing Address with Sandbox turned on would never actually work,
13382 but previously it would fail in strange and confusing ways. Found
13383 while fixing 18548.
13385 o Minor features (logging):
13386 - When logging to syslog, allow a tag to be added to the syslog
13387 identity (the string prepended to every log message). The tag can
13388 be configured with SyslogIdentityTag and defaults to none. Setting
13389 it to "foo" will cause logs to be tagged as "Tor-foo". Closes
13392 o Minor features (portability):
13393 - Use timingsafe_memcmp() where available. Closes ticket 17944;
13394 patch from <logan@hackers.mu>.
13396 o Minor features (relay, address discovery):
13397 - Add a family argument to get_interface_addresses_raw() and
13398 subfunctions to make network interface address interogation more
13399 efficient. Now Tor can specifically ask for IPv4, IPv6 or both
13400 types of interfaces from the operating system. Resolves
13402 - When get_interface_address6_list(.,AF_UNSPEC,.) is called and
13403 fails to enumerate interface addresses using the platform-specific
13404 API, have it rely on the UDP socket fallback technique to try and
13405 find out what IP addresses (both IPv4 and IPv6) our machine has.
13406 Resolves ticket 17951.
13408 o Minor features (replay cache):
13409 - The replay cache now uses SHA256 instead of SHA1. Implements
13410 feature 8961. Patch by teor, issue reported by rransom.
13412 o Minor features (robustness):
13413 - Exit immediately with an error message if the code attempts to use
13414 Libevent without having initialized it. This should resolve some
13415 frequently-made mistakes in our unit tests. Closes ticket 18241.
13417 o Minor features (security, clock):
13418 - Warn when the system clock appears to move back in time (when the
13419 state file was last written in the future). Tor doesn't know that
13420 consensuses have expired if the clock is in the past. Patch by
13421 teor. Implements ticket 17188.
13423 o Minor features (security, exit policies):
13424 - ExitPolicyRejectPrivate now rejects more private addresses by
13425 default. Specifically, it now rejects the relay's outbound bind
13426 addresses (if configured), and the relay's configured port
13427 addresses (such as ORPort and DirPort). Fixes bug 17027; bugfix on
13428 0.2.0.11-alpha. Patch by teor.
13430 o Minor features (security, memory erasure):
13431 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
13432 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
13433 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
13435 - Set the unused entries in a smartlist to NULL. This helped catch
13436 a (harmless) bug, and shouldn't affect performance too much.
13437 Implements ticket 17026.
13438 - Use SecureMemoryWipe() function to securely clean memory on
13439 Windows. Previously we'd use OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() function.
13440 Implements feature 17986.
13441 - Use explicit_bzero or memset_s when present. Previously, we'd use
13442 OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() function. Closes ticket 7419; patches
13443 from <logan@hackers.mu> and <selven@hackers.mu>.
13445 o Minor features (security, RNG):
13446 - Adjust Tor's use of OpenSSL's RNG APIs so that they absolutely,
13447 positively are not allowed to fail. Previously we depended on
13448 internal details of OpenSSL's behavior. Closes ticket 17686.
13449 - Never use the system entropy output directly for anything besides
13450 seeding the PRNG. When we want to generate important keys, instead
13451 of using system entropy directly, we now hash it with the PRNG
13452 stream. This may help resist certain attacks based on broken OS
13453 entropy implementations. Closes part of ticket 17694.
13454 - Use modern system calls (like getentropy() or getrandom()) to
13455 generate strong entropy on platforms that have them. Closes
13458 o Minor features (security, win32):
13459 - Set SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE on Win32 to avoid a local port-stealing
13460 attack. Fixes bug 18123; bugfix on all tor versions. Patch
13463 o Minor features (unix domain sockets):
13464 - Add a new per-socket option, RelaxDirModeCheck, to allow creating
13465 Unix domain sockets without checking the permissions on the parent
13466 directory. (Tor checks permissions by default because some
13467 operating systems only check permissions on the parent directory.
13468 However, some operating systems do look at permissions on the
13469 socket, and tor's default check is unneeded.) Closes ticket 18458.
13472 o Minor features (unix file permissions):
13473 - Defer creation of Unix sockets until after setuid. This avoids
13474 needing CAP_CHOWN and CAP_FOWNER when using systemd's
13475 CapabilityBoundingSet, or chown and fowner when using SELinux.
13476 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
13477 - If any directory created by Tor is marked as group readable, the
13478 filesystem group is allowed to be either the default GID or the
13479 root user. Allowing root to read the DataDirectory prevents the
13480 need for CAP_READ_SEARCH when using systemd's
13481 CapabilityBoundingSet, or dac_read_search when using SELinux.
13482 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
13483 - Introduce a new DataDirectoryGroupReadable option. If it is set to
13484 1, the DataDirectory will be made readable by the default GID.
13485 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
13487 o Minor bugfixes (accounting):
13488 - The max bandwidth when using 'AccountRule sum' is now correctly
13489 logged. Fixes bug 18024; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch
13490 from "unixninja92".
13492 o Minor bugfixes (assert, portability):
13493 - Fix an assertion failure in memarea.c on systems where "long" is
13494 shorter than the size of a pointer. Fixes bug 18716; bugfix
13497 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
13498 - Consistently use the consensus download schedule for authority
13499 certificates. Fixes bug 18816; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
13501 o Minor bugfixes (build):
13502 - Avoid spurious failures from configure files related to calling
13503 exit(0) in TOR_SEARCH_LIBRARY. Fixes bug 18626; bugfix on
13504 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
13505 - Do not link the unit tests against both the testing and non-
13506 testing versions of the static libraries. Fixes bug 18490; bugfix
13508 - Resolve warnings when building on systems that are concerned with
13509 signed char. Fixes bug 18728; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha
13511 - Silence spurious clang-scan warnings in the ed25519_donna code by
13512 explicitly initializing some objects. Fixes bug 18384; bugfix on
13513 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by teor.
13514 - When libscrypt.h is found, but no libscrypt library can be linked,
13515 treat libscrypt as absent. Fixes bug 19161; bugfix
13517 - Cause the unit tests to compile correctly on mingw64 versions that
13518 lack sscanf. Fixes bug 19213; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
13519 - Don't try to use the pthread_condattr_setclock() function unless
13520 it actually exists. Fixes compilation on NetBSD-6.x. Fixes bug
13521 17819; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
13522 - Fix backtrace compilation on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 17827; bugfix
13524 - Fix search for libevent libraries on OpenBSD (and other systems
13525 that install libevent 1 and libevent 2 in parallel). Fixes bug
13526 16651; bugfix on 0.1.0.7-rc. Patch from "rubiate".
13527 - Isolate environment variables meant for tests from the rest of the
13528 build system. Fixes bug 17818; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
13529 - Mark all object files that include micro-revision.i as depending
13530 on it, so as to make parallel builds more reliable. Fixes bug
13531 17826; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
13532 - Remove config.log only from make distclean, not from make clean.
13533 Fixes bug 17924; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
13534 - Replace usage of 'INLINE' with 'inline'. Fixes bug 17804; bugfix
13536 - Remove an #endif from configure.ac so that we correctly detect the
13537 presence of in6_addr.s6_addr32. Fixes bug 17923; bugfix
13540 o Minor bugfixes (client, bootstrap):
13541 - Count receipt of new microdescriptors as progress towards
13542 bootstrapping. Previously, with EntryNodes set, Tor might not
13543 successfully repopulate the guard set on bootstrapping. Fixes bug
13544 16825; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
13546 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
13547 - Fix a bad memory handling bug that would occur if we had queued a
13548 cell on a channel's incoming queue. Fortunately, we can't actually
13549 queue a cell like that as our code is constructed today, but it's
13550 best to avoid this kind of error, even if there isn't any code
13551 that triggers it today. Fixes bug 18570; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
13552 - Assert that allocated memory held by the reputation code is freed
13553 according to its internal counters. Fixes bug 17753; bugfix
13555 - Assert when the TLS contexts fail to initialize. Fixes bug 17683;
13557 - Update to the latest version of Trunnel, which tries harder to
13558 avoid generating code that can invoke memcpy(p,NULL,0). Bug found
13559 by clang address sanitizer. Fixes bug 18373; bugfix
13561 - When closing an entry connection, generate a warning if we should
13562 have sent an end cell for it but we haven't. Fixes bug 17876;
13563 bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
13565 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
13566 - Fix a tiny memory leak when parsing a port configuration ending in
13567 ":auto". Fixes bug 18374; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
13569 o Minor bugfixes (containers):
13570 - If we somehow attempt to construct a heap with more than
13571 1073741822 elements, avoid an integer overflow when maintaining
13572 the heap property. Fixes bug 18296; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
13574 o Minor bugfixes (controller, microdescriptors):
13575 - Make GETINFO dir/status-vote/current/consensus conform to the
13576 control specification by returning "551 Could not open cached
13577 consensus..." when not caching consensuses. Fixes bug 18920;
13578 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
13580 o Minor bugfixes (crypto):
13581 - Check the return value of HMAC() and assert on failure. Fixes bug
13582 17658; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by teor.
13584 o Minor bugfixes (directories):
13585 - When fetching extrainfo documents, compare their SHA256 digests
13586 and Ed25519 signing key certificates with the routerinfo that led
13587 us to fetch them, rather than with the most recent routerinfo.
13588 Otherwise we generate many spurious warnings about mismatches.
13589 Fixes bug 17150; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13590 - When generating a URL for a directory server on an IPv6 address,
13591 wrap the IPv6 address in square brackets. Fixes bug 18051; bugfix
13592 on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Malek.
13594 o Minor bugfixes (downloading):
13595 - Predict more correctly whether we'll be downloading over HTTP when
13596 we determine the maximum length of a URL. This should avoid a
13597 "BUG" warning about the Squid HTTP proxy and its URL limits. Fixes
13600 o Minor bugfixes (exit policies, security):
13601 - Refresh an exit relay's exit policy when interface addresses
13602 change. Previously, tor only refreshed the exit policy when the
13603 configured external address changed. Fixes bug 18208; bugfix on
13604 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by teor.
13606 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
13607 - Mark fallbacks as "too busy" when they return a 503 response,
13608 rather than just marking authorities. Fixes bug 17572; bugfix on
13609 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by teor.
13610 - When requesting extrainfo descriptors from a trusted directory
13611 server, check whether it is an authority or a fallback directory
13612 which supports extrainfo descriptors. Fixes bug 18489; bugfix on
13613 0.2.4.7-alpha. Reported by atagar, patch by teor.
13615 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, client):
13616 - Handle the case where the user makes several fast consecutive
13617 requests to the same .onion address. Previously, the first six
13618 requests would each trigger a descriptor fetch, each picking a
13619 directory (there are 6 overall) and the seventh one would fail
13620 because no directories were left, thereby triggering a close on
13621 all current directory connections asking for the hidden service.
13622 The solution here is to not close the connections if we have
13623 pending directory fetches. Fixes bug 15937; bugfix
13626 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, control port):
13627 - Add the onion address to the HS_DESC event for the UPLOADED action
13628 both on success or failure. It was previously hardcoded with
13629 UNKNOWN. Fixes bug 16023; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13631 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, directory):
13632 - Bridges now refuse "rendezvous2" (hidden service descriptor)
13633 publish attempts. Suggested by ticket 18332.
13635 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
13636 - Update the limits in max_dl_per_request for IPv6 address length.
13637 Fixes bug 17573; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
13639 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
13640 - Allow more syscalls when running with "Sandbox 1" enabled:
13641 sysinfo, getsockopt(SO_SNDBUF), and setsockopt(SO_SNDBUFFORCE). On
13642 some systems, these are required for Tor to start. Fixes bug
13643 18397; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
13644 - Allow IPPROTO_UDP datagram sockets when running with "Sandbox 1",
13645 so that get_interface_address6_via_udp_socket_hack() can work.
13646 Fixes bug 19660; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
13647 - Allow the setrlimit syscall, and the prlimit and prlimit64
13648 syscalls, which some libc implementations use under the hood.
13649 Fixes bug 15221; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
13650 - Avoid a 10-second delay when starting as a client with "Sandbox 1"
13651 enabled and no DNS resolvers configured. This should help TAILS
13652 start up faster. Fixes bug 18548; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
13653 - Fix a crash when using offline master ed25519 keys with the Linux
13654 seccomp2 sandbox enabled. Fixes bug 17675; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
13655 - Allow statistics to be written to disk when "Sandbox 1" is
13656 enabled. Fixes bugs 19556 and 19957; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha and
13657 0.2.6.1-alpha respectively.
13659 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
13660 - In log messages that include a function name, use __FUNCTION__
13661 instead of __PRETTY_FUNCTION__. In GCC, these are synonymous, but
13662 with clang __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ has extra information we don't
13663 need. Fixes bug 16563; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Fix by Tom van
13665 - Remove needless quotes from a log message about unparseable
13666 addresses. Fixes bug 17843; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
13667 - Scrub service name in "unrecognized service ID" log messages.
13668 Fixes bug 18600; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha.
13669 - When logging information about an unparsable networkstatus vote or
13670 consensus, do not say "vote" when we mean consensus. Fixes bug
13671 18368; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
13672 - When we can't generate a signing key because OfflineMasterKey is
13673 set, do not imply that we should have been able to load it. Fixes
13674 bug 18133; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13675 - When logging a malformed hostname received through socks4, scrub
13676 it if SafeLogging says we should. Fixes bug 17419; bugfix
13679 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety):
13680 - Avoid freeing an uninitialized pointer when opening a socket fails
13681 in get_interface_addresses_ioctl(). Fixes bug 18454; bugfix on
13682 0.2.3.11-alpha. Reported by toralf and "cypherpunks", patch
13684 - Fix a memory leak in "tor --list-fingerprint". Fixes part of bug
13685 18672; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
13686 - Fix a memory leak in tor-gencert. Fixes part of bug 18672; bugfix
13689 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
13690 - Avoid reporting a spurious error when we decide that we don't need
13691 to terminate a pluggable transport because it has already exited.
13692 Fixes bug 18686; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
13694 o Minor bugfixes (pointer arithmetic):
13695 - Fix a bug in memarea_alloc() that could have resulted in remote
13696 heap write access, if Tor had ever passed an unchecked size to
13697 memarea_alloc(). Fortunately, all the sizes we pass to
13698 memarea_alloc() are pre-checked to be less than 128 kilobytes.
13699 Fixes bug 19150; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha. Bug found by
13702 o Minor bugfixes (private directory):
13703 - Prevent a race condition when creating private directories. Fixes
13704 part of bug 17852; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13. Part of ticket 17852.
13705 Patch from jsturgix. Found with Flawfinder.
13707 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
13708 - Check that both the ORPort and DirPort (if present) are reachable
13709 before publishing a relay descriptor. Otherwise, relays publish a
13710 descriptor with DirPort 0 when the DirPort reachability test takes
13711 longer than the ORPort reachability test. Fixes bug 18050; bugfix
13712 on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "starlight", patch by teor.
13713 - Resolve some edge cases where we might launch an ORPort
13714 reachability check even when DisableNetwork is set. Noticed while
13715 fixing bug 18616; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
13717 o Minor bugfixes (relays, hidden services):
13718 - Refuse connection requests to private OR addresses unless
13719 ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set. Previously, tor would connect,
13720 then refuse to send any cells to a private address. Fixes bugs
13721 17674 and 8976; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by teor.
13723 o Minor bugfixes (security, hidden services):
13724 - Prevent hidden services connecting to client-supplied rendezvous
13725 addresses that are reserved as internal or multicast. Fixes bug
13726 8976; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by dgoulet and teor.
13728 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
13729 - Consistently check for overflow in round_*_to_next_multiple_of
13730 functions, and add unit tests with additional and maximal values.
13731 Fixes part of bug 13192; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
13732 - Handle edge cases in the laplace functions: avoid division by
13733 zero, avoid taking the log of zero, and silence clang type
13734 conversion warnings using round and trunc. Add unit tests for edge
13735 cases with maximal values. Fixes part of bug 13192; bugfix
13737 - We now include consensus downloads via IPv6 in our directory-
13738 request statistics. Fixes bug 18460; bugfix on 0.2.3.14-alpha.
13740 o Minor bugfixes (test networks, IPv6):
13741 - Allow internal IPv6 addresses in descriptors in test networks.
13742 Fixes bug 17153; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Patch by teor, reported
13745 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
13746 - Check the full results of SHA256 and SHA512 digests in the unit
13747 tests. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha. Patch by teor.
13748 - Fix a memory leak in the ntor test. Fixes bug 17778; bugfix
13750 - Fix a small memory leak that would occur when the
13751 TestingEnableCellStatsEvent option was turned on. Fixes bug 18673;
13752 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
13753 - Make unit tests pass on IPv6-only systems, and systems without
13754 localhost addresses (like some FreeBSD jails). Fixes bug 17632;
13755 bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by teor.
13756 - The test for log_heartbeat was incorrectly failing in timezones
13757 with non-integer offsets. Instead of comparing the end of the time
13758 string against a constant, compare it to the output of
13759 format_local_iso_time when given the correct input. Fixes bug
13760 18039; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
13761 - We no longer disable assertions in the unit tests when coverage is
13762 enabled. Instead, we require you to say --disable-asserts-in-tests
13763 to the configure script if you need assertions disabled in the
13764 unit tests (for example, if you want to perform branch coverage).
13765 Fixes bug 18242; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
13767 o Minor bugfixes (time handling):
13768 - When correcting a corrupt 'struct tm' value, fill in the tm_wday
13769 field. Otherwise, our unit tests crash on Windows. Fixes bug
13770 18977; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
13771 - Avoid overflow in tor_timegm when parsing dates in and after 2038
13772 on platforms with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 18479; bugfix on
13773 0.0.2pre14. Patch by teor.
13775 o Minor bugfixes (tor-gencert):
13776 - Correctly handle the case where an authority operator enters a
13777 passphrase but sends an EOF before sending a newline. Fixes bug
13778 17443; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by junglefowl.
13780 o Code simplification and refactoring:
13781 - Clean up a little duplicated code in
13782 crypto_expand_key_material_TAP(). Closes ticket 17587; patch
13784 - Decouple the list of streams waiting to be attached to circuits
13785 from the overall connection list. This change makes it possible to
13786 attach streams quickly while simplifying Tor's callgraph and
13787 avoiding O(N) scans of the entire connection list. Closes
13789 - Extract the more complicated parts of circuit_mark_for_close()
13790 into a new function that we run periodically before circuits are
13791 freed. This change removes more than half of the functions
13792 currently in the "blob". Closes ticket 17218.
13793 - Move logging of redundant policy entries in
13794 policies_parse_exit_policy_internal into its own function. Closes
13795 ticket 17608; patch from "juce".
13796 - Quote all the string interpolations in configure.ac -- even those
13797 which we are pretty sure can't contain spaces. Closes ticket
13798 17744. Patch from zerosion.
13799 - Remove code for configuring OpenSSL dynamic locks; OpenSSL doesn't
13800 use them. Closes ticket 17926.
13801 - Remove specialized code for non-inplace AES_CTR. 99% of our AES is
13802 inplace, so there's no need to have a separate implementation for
13803 the non-inplace code. Closes ticket 18258. Patch from Malek.
13804 - Simplify return types for some crypto functions that can't
13805 actually fail. Patch from Hassan Alsibyani. Closes ticket 18259.
13806 - When a direct directory request fails immediately on launch,
13807 instead of relaunching that request from inside the code that
13808 launches it, instead mark the connection for teardown. This change
13809 simplifies Tor's callback and prevents the directory-request
13810 launching code from invoking itself recursively. Closes
13814 - Add a description of the correct use of the '--keygen' command-
13815 line option. Closes ticket 17583; based on text by 's7r'.
13816 - Change build messages to refer to "Fedora" instead of "Fedora
13817 Core", and "dnf" instead of "yum". Closes tickets 18459 and 18426.
13818 Patches from "icanhasaccount" and "cypherpunks".
13819 - Document the contents of the 'datadir/keys' subdirectory in the
13820 manual page. Closes ticket 17621.
13821 - Document the minimum HeartbeatPeriod value. Closes ticket 15638.
13822 - Explain actual minima for BandwidthRate. Closes ticket 16382.
13823 - Fix a minor formatting typo in the manpage. Closes ticket 17791.
13824 - Mention torspec URL in the manpage and point the reader to it
13825 whenever we mention a document that belongs in torspce. Fixes
13827 - Stop recommending use of nicknames to identify relays in our
13828 MapAddress documentation. Closes ticket 18312.
13830 o Removed features:
13831 - Remove client-side support for connecting to Tor relays running
13832 versions of Tor before 0.2.3.6-alpha. These relays didn't support
13833 the v3 TLS handshake protocol, and are no longer allowed on the
13834 Tor network. Implements the client side of ticket 11150. Based on
13835 patches by Tom van der Woerdt.
13836 - We no longer maintain an internal freelist in memarea.c.
13837 Allocators should be good enough to make this code unnecessary,
13838 and it's doubtful that it ever had any performance benefit.
13841 - Add unit tests to check for common RNG failure modes, such as
13842 returning all zeroes, identical values, or incrementing values
13843 (OpenSSL's rand_predictable feature). Patch by teor.
13844 - Always test both ed25519 backends, so that we can be sure that our
13845 batch-open replacement code works. Part of ticket 16794.
13846 - Cover dns_resolve_impl() in dns.c with unit tests. Implements a
13847 portion of ticket 16831.
13848 - Fix several warnings from clang's address sanitizer produced in
13850 - Log more information when the backtrace tests fail. Closes ticket
13851 17892. Patch from "cypherpunks."
13852 - More unit tests for compat_libevent.c, procmon.c, tortls.c,
13853 util_format.c, directory.c, and options_validate.c. Closes tickets
13854 17075, 17082, 17084, 17003, and 17076 respectively. Patches from
13856 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on FreeBSD until we
13857 solve bug 17808. Closes ticket 18204.
13858 - Unit tests for directory_handle_command_get. Closes ticket 17004.
13859 Patch from Reinaldo de Souza Jr.
13862 Changes in version 0.2.7.6 - 2015-12-10
13863 Tor version 0.2.7.6 fixes a major bug in entry guard selection, as
13864 well as a minor bug in hidden service reliability.
13866 o Major bugfixes (guard selection):
13867 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
13868 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
13869 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
13870 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
13871 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
13874 o Minor features (geoip):
13875 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 1 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
13878 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
13879 - When checking for net/pfvar.h, include netinet/in.h if possible.
13880 This fixes transparent proxy detection on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
13881 17551; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Patch from "rubiate".
13882 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
13883 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
13885 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
13886 - When displaying an IPv6 exit policy, include the mask bits
13887 correctly even when the number is greater than 31. Fixes bug
13888 16056; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch from "gturner".
13889 - The wrong list was used when looking up expired intro points in a
13890 rend service object, causing what we think could be reachability
13891 issues for hidden services, and triggering a BUG log. Fixes bug
13892 16702; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13893 - Fix undefined behavior in the tor_cert_checksig function. Fixes
13894 bug 17722; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13897 Changes in version 0.2.7.5 - 2015-11-20
13898 The Tor 0.2.7 release series is dedicated to the memory of Tor user
13899 and privacy advocate Caspar Bowden (1961-2015). Caspar worked
13900 tirelessly to advocate human rights regardless of national borders,
13901 and oppose the encroachments of mass surveillance. He opposed national
13902 exceptionalism, he brought clarity to legal and policy debates, he
13903 understood and predicted the impact of mass surveillance on the world,
13904 and he laid the groundwork for resisting it. While serving on the Tor
13905 Project's board of directors, he brought us his uncompromising focus
13906 on technical excellence in the service of humankind. Caspar was an
13907 inimitable force for good and a wonderful friend. He was kind,
13908 humorous, generous, gallant, and believed we should protect one
13909 another without exception. We honor him here for his ideals, his
13910 efforts, and his accomplishments. Please honor his memory with works
13911 that would make him proud.
13913 Tor 0.2.7.5 is the first stable release in the Tor 0.2.7 series.
13915 The 0.2.7 series adds a more secure identity key type for relays,
13916 improves cryptography performance, resolves several longstanding
13917 hidden-service performance issues, improves controller support for
13918 hidden services, and includes small bugfixes and performance
13919 improvements throughout the program. This release series also includes
13920 more tests than before, and significant simplifications to which parts
13921 of Tor invoke which others. For a full list of changes, see below.
13923 o New system requirements:
13924 - Tor no longer includes workarounds to support Libevent versions
13925 before 1.3e. Libevent 2.0 or later is recommended. Closes
13927 - Tor no longer supports copies of OpenSSL that are missing support
13928 for Elliptic Curve Cryptography. (We began using ECC when
13929 available in 0.2.4.8-alpha, for more safe and efficient key
13930 negotiation.) In particular, support for at least one of P256 or
13931 P224 is now required, with manual configuration needed if only
13932 P224 is available. Resolves ticket 16140.
13933 - Tor no longer supports versions of OpenSSL before 1.0. (If you are
13934 on an operating system that has not upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0 or
13935 later, and you compile Tor from source, you will need to install a
13936 more recent OpenSSL to link Tor against.) These versions of
13937 OpenSSL are still supported by the OpenSSL, but the numerous
13938 cryptographic improvements in later OpenSSL releases makes them a
13939 clear choice. Resolves ticket 16034.
13941 o Major features (controller):
13942 - Add the ADD_ONION and DEL_ONION commands that allow the creation
13943 and management of hidden services via the controller. Closes
13945 - New "GETINFO onions/current" and "GETINFO onions/detached"
13946 commands to get information about hidden services created via the
13947 controller. Part of ticket 6411.
13948 - New HSFETCH command to launch a request for a hidden service
13949 descriptor. Closes ticket 14847.
13950 - New HSPOST command to upload a hidden service descriptor. Closes
13951 ticket 3523. Patch by "DonnchaC".
13953 o Major features (Ed25519 identity keys, Proposal 220):
13954 - Add support for offline encrypted Ed25519 master keys. To use this
13955 feature on your tor relay, run "tor --keygen" to make a new master
13956 key (or to make a new signing key if you already have a master
13957 key). Closes ticket 13642.
13958 - All relays now maintain a stronger identity key, using the Ed25519
13959 elliptic curve signature format. This master key is designed so
13960 that it can be kept offline. Relays also generate an online
13961 signing key, and a set of other Ed25519 keys and certificates.
13962 These are all automatically regenerated and rotated as needed.
13963 Implements part of ticket 12498.
13964 - Directory authorities now vote on Ed25519 identity keys along with
13965 RSA1024 keys. Implements part of ticket 12498.
13966 - Directory authorities track which Ed25519 identity keys have been
13967 used with which RSA1024 identity keys, and do not allow them to
13968 vary freely. Implements part of ticket 12498.
13969 - Microdescriptors now include Ed25519 identity keys. Implements
13970 part of ticket 12498.
13971 - Add a --newpass option to allow changing or removing the
13972 passphrase of an encrypted key with tor --keygen. Implements part
13974 - Add a new OfflineMasterKey option to tell Tor never to try loading
13975 or generating a secret Ed25519 identity key. You can use this in
13976 combination with tor --keygen to manage offline and/or encrypted
13977 Ed25519 keys. Implements ticket 16944.
13978 - On receiving a HUP signal, check to see whether the Ed25519
13979 signing key has changed, and reload it if so. Closes ticket 16790.
13980 - Significant usability improvements for Ed25519 key management. Log
13981 messages are better, and the code can recover from far more
13982 failure conditions. Thanks to "s7r" for reporting and diagnosing
13985 o Major features (ECC performance):
13986 - Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 signature verification by
13987 using Ed25519-donna's batch verification support. Implements
13989 - Improve the speed of Ed25519 operations and Curve25519 keypair
13990 generation when built targeting 32 bit x86 platforms with SSE2
13991 available. Implements ticket 16535.
13992 - Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 operations by using the
13993 public-domain Ed25519-donna by Andrew M. ("floodyberry").
13994 Implements ticket 16467.
13995 - Improve the runtime speed of the ntor handshake by using an
13996 optimized curve25519 basepoint scalarmult implementation from the
13997 public-domain Ed25519-donna by Andrew M. ("floodyberry"), based on
13998 ideas by Adam Langley. Implements ticket 9663.
14000 o Major features (Hidden services):
14001 - Hidden services, if using the EntryNodes option, are required to
14002 use more than one EntryNode, in order to avoid a guard discovery
14003 attack. (This would only affect people who had configured hidden
14004 services and manually specified the EntryNodes option with a
14005 single entry-node. The impact was that it would be easy to
14006 remotely identify the guard node used by such a hidden service.
14007 See ticket for more information.) Fixes ticket 14917.
14008 - Add the torrc option HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints, to
14009 specify a fixed number of introduction points. Its maximum value
14010 is 10 and default is 3. Using this option can increase a hidden
14011 service's reliability under load, at the cost of making it more
14012 visible that the hidden service is facing extra load. Closes
14014 - Remove the adaptive algorithm for choosing the number of
14015 introduction points, which used to change the number of
14016 introduction points (poorly) depending on the number of
14017 connections the HS sees. Closes ticket 4862.
14019 o Major features (onion key cross-certification):
14020 - Relay descriptors now include signatures of their own identity
14021 keys, made using the TAP and ntor onion keys. These signatures
14022 allow relays to prove ownership of their own onion keys. Because
14023 of this change, microdescriptors will no longer need to include
14024 RSA identity keys. Implements proposal 228; closes ticket 12499.
14026 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy, also in 0.2.6.9):
14027 - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream
14028 isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group
14029 was being overwritten by a default value when the listener
14030 connection was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on
14031 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by "jojelino".
14033 o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability, also in 0.2.6.10):
14034 - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a
14035 client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug
14036 14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability
14037 regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since
14038 we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in
14039 some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much
14040 of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix
14043 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
14044 - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
14045 flag to relays without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
14046 can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
14048 - When cannibalizing a circuit for an introduction point, always
14049 extend to the chosen exit node (creating a 4 hop circuit).
14050 Previously Tor would use the current circuit exit node, which
14051 changed the original choice of introduction point, and could cause
14052 the hidden service to skip excluded introduction points or
14053 reconnect to a skipped introduction point. Fixes bug 16260; bugfix
14056 o Major bugfixes (memory leaks):
14057 - Fix a memory leak in ed25519 batch signature checking. Fixes bug
14058 17398; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
14060 o Major bugfixes (open file limit):
14061 - The open file limit wasn't checked before calling
14062 tor_accept_socket_nonblocking(), which would make Tor exceed the
14063 limit. Now, before opening a new socket, Tor validates the open
14064 file limit just before, and if the max has been reached, return an
14065 error. Fixes bug 16288; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
14067 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness):
14068 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
14069 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
14070 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
14071 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
14074 o Major bugfixes (stability, also in 0.2.6.10):
14075 - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds
14076 of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400;
14077 bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch
14078 by "cypherpunks_backup".
14079 - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when
14080 connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden
14081 service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix
14084 o Minor features (client, SOCKS):
14085 - Add GroupWritable and WorldWritable options to unix-socket based
14086 SocksPort and ControlPort options. These options apply to a single
14087 socket, and override {Control,Socks}SocketsGroupWritable. Closes
14089 - Relax the validation done to hostnames in SOCKS5 requests, and
14090 allow a single trailing '.' to cope with clients that pass FQDNs
14091 using that syntax to explicitly indicate that the domain name is
14092 fully-qualified. Fixes bug 16674; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
14093 - Relax the validation of hostnames in SOCKS5 requests, allowing the
14094 character '_' to appear, in order to cope with domains observed in
14095 the wild that are serving non-RFC compliant records. Resolves
14098 o Minor features (client-side privacy):
14099 - New KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth option to indefinitely extend circuit
14100 lifespan when IsolateSOCKSAuth and streams with SOCKS
14101 authentication are attached to the circuit. This allows
14102 applications like TorBrowser to manage circuit lifetime on their
14103 own. Implements feature 15482.
14104 - When logging malformed hostnames from SOCKS5 requests, respect
14105 SafeLogging configuration. Fixes bug 16891; bugfix on 0.1.1.16-rc.
14107 o Minor features (clock-jump tolerance):
14108 - Recover better when our clock jumps back many hours, like might
14109 happen for Tails or Whonix users who start with a very wrong
14110 hardware clock, use Tor to discover a more accurate time, and then
14111 fix their clock. Resolves part of ticket 8766.
14113 o Minor features (command-line interface):
14114 - Make --hash-password imply --hush to prevent unnecessary noise.
14115 Closes ticket 15542. Patch from "cypherpunks".
14116 - Print a warning whenever we find a relative file path being used
14117 as torrc option. Resolves issue 14018.
14119 o Minor features (compilation):
14120 - Give a warning as early as possible when trying to build with an
14121 unsupported OpenSSL version. Closes ticket 16901.
14122 - Use C99 variadic macros when the compiler is not GCC. This avoids
14123 failing compilations on MSVC, and fixes a log-file-based race
14124 condition in our old workarounds. Original patch from Gisle Vanem.
14126 o Minor features (control protocol):
14127 - Support network-liveness GETINFO key and NETWORK_LIVENESS event in
14128 the control protocol. Resolves ticket 15358.
14130 o Minor features (controller):
14131 - Add DirAuthority lines for default directory authorities to the
14132 output of the "GETINFO config/defaults" command if not already
14133 present. Implements ticket 14840.
14134 - Controllers can now use "GETINFO hs/client/desc/id/..." to
14135 retrieve items from the client's hidden service descriptor cache.
14136 Closes ticket 14845.
14137 - Implement a new controller command "GETINFO status/fresh-relay-
14138 descs" to fetch a descriptor/extrainfo pair that was generated on
14139 demand just for the controller's use. Implements ticket 14784.
14141 o Minor features (directory authorities):
14142 - Directory authorities no longer vote against the "Fast", "Stable",
14143 and "HSDir" flags just because they were going to vote against
14144 "Running": if the consensus turns out to be that the router was
14145 running, then the authority's vote should count. Patch from Peter
14146 Retzlaff; closes issue 8712.
14148 o Minor features (directory authorities, security, also in 0.2.6.9):
14149 - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag.
14150 For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806
14151 HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil
14152 attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable to
14153 require at the very least 7 days, while maintaining the 96 hours
14154 uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243.
14156 o Minor features (DoS-resistance):
14157 - Make it harder for attackers to overload hidden services with
14158 introductions, by blocking multiple introduction requests on the
14159 same circuit. Resolves ticket 15515.
14161 o Minor features (geoip):
14162 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
14165 o Minor features (hidden services):
14166 - Add the new options "HiddenServiceMaxStreams" and
14167 "HiddenServiceMaxStreamsCloseCircuit" to allow hidden services to
14168 limit the maximum number of simultaneous streams per circuit, and
14169 optionally tear down the circuit when the limit is exceeded. Part
14171 - Client now uses an introduction point failure cache to know when
14172 to fetch or keep a descriptor in their cache. Previously, failures
14173 were recorded implicitly, but not explicitly remembered. Closes
14175 - Relays need to have the Fast flag to get the HSDir flag. As this
14176 is being written, we'll go from 2745 HSDirs down to 2342, a ~14%
14177 drop. This change should make some attacks against the hidden
14178 service directory system harder. Fixes ticket 15963.
14179 - Turn on hidden service statistics collection by setting the torrc
14180 option HiddenServiceStatistics to "1" by default. (This keeps
14181 track only of the fraction of traffic used by hidden services, and
14182 the total number of hidden services in existence.) Closes
14184 - To avoid leaking HS popularity, don't cycle the introduction point
14185 when we've handled a fixed number of INTRODUCE2 cells but instead
14186 cycle it when a random number of introductions is reached, thus
14187 making it more difficult for an attacker to find out the amount of
14188 clients that have used the introduction point for a specific HS.
14189 Closes ticket 15745.
14191 o Minor features (logging):
14192 - Include the Tor version in all LD_BUG log messages, since people
14193 tend to cut and paste those into the bugtracker. Implements
14196 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
14197 - When launching managed pluggable transports on Linux systems,
14198 attempt to have the kernel deliver a SIGTERM on tor exit if the
14199 pluggable transport process is still running. Resolves
14201 - When launching managed pluggable transports, setup a valid open
14202 stdin in the child process that can be used to detect if tor has
14203 terminated. The "TOR_PT_EXIT_ON_STDIN_CLOSE" environment variable
14204 can be used by implementations to detect this new behavior.
14205 Resolves ticket 15435.
14207 o Minor bugfixes (torrc exit policies):
14208 - In each instance above, usage advice is provided to avoid the
14209 message. Resolves ticket 16069. Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug
14210 16069; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
14211 - In torrc, "accept6 *" and "reject6 *" ExitPolicy lines now only
14212 produce IPv6 wildcard addresses. Previously they would produce
14213 both IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard addresses. Patch by "teor". Fixes part
14214 of bug 16069; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
14215 - When parsing torrc ExitPolicies, we now issue an info-level
14216 message when expanding an "accept/reject *" line to include both
14217 IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard addresses. Related to ticket 16069.
14218 - When parsing torrc ExitPolicies, we now warn for a number of cases
14219 where the user's intent is likely to differ from Tor's actual
14220 behavior. These include: using an IPv4 address with an accept6 or
14221 reject6 line; using "private" on an accept6 or reject6 line; and
14222 including any ExitPolicy lines after accept *:* or reject *:*.
14223 Related to ticket 16069.
14225 o Minor bugfixes (command-line interface):
14226 - When "--quiet" is provided along with "--validate-config", do not
14227 write anything to stdout on success. Fixes bug 14994; bugfix
14229 - When complaining about bad arguments to "--dump-config", use
14230 stderr, not stdout.
14231 - Print usage information for --dump-config when it is used without
14232 an argument. Also, fix the error message to use different wording
14233 and add newline at the end. Fixes bug 15541; bugfix
14236 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
14237 - Fix compilation of sandbox.c with musl-libc. Fixes bug 17347;
14238 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from 'jamestk'.
14239 - Repair compilation with the most recent (unreleased, alpha)
14240 vesions of OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes part of ticket 17237.
14242 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, also in 0.2.6.9):
14243 - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is
14244 installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on
14245 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
14247 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, unit tests):
14248 - Only add the default fallback directories when the DirAuthorities,
14249 AlternateDirAuthority, and FallbackDir directory config options
14250 are set to their defaults. The default fallback directory list is
14251 currently empty, this fix will only change tor's behavior when it
14252 has default fallback directories. Includes unit tests for
14253 consider_adding_dir_servers(). Fixes bug 15642; bugfix on
14254 90f6071d8dc0 in 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
14256 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
14257 - Add the descriptor ID in each HS_DESC control event. It was
14258 missing, but specified in control-spec.txt. Fixes bug 15881;
14259 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
14261 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
14262 - For correctness, avoid modifying a constant string in
14263 handle_control_postdescriptor. Fixes bug 15546; bugfix
14265 - Remove side-effects from tor_assert() calls. This was harmless,
14266 because we never disable assertions, but it is bad style and
14267 unnecessary. Fixes bug 15211; bugfix on 0.2.5.5, 0.2.2.36,
14269 - When calling channel_free_list(), avoid calling smartlist_remove()
14270 while inside a FOREACH loop. This partially reverts commit
14271 17356fe7fd96af where the correct SMARTLIST_DEL_CURRENT was
14272 incorrectly removed. Fixes bug 16924; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
14274 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling, also in 0.2.6.10):
14275 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
14276 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
14277 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
14278 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
14279 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
14281 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
14282 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
14283 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
14285 - Remove an extraneous newline character from the end of hidden
14286 service descriptors. Fixes bug 15296; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
14288 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
14289 - Use the sandbox in tor_open_cloexec whether or not O_CLOEXEC is
14290 defined. Patch by "teor". Fixes bug 16515; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
14291 - Allow bridge authorities to run correctly under the seccomp2
14292 sandbox. Fixes bug 16964; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
14293 - Add the "hidserv-stats" filename to our sandbox filter for the
14294 HiddenServiceStatistics option to work properly. Fixes bug 17354;
14295 bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from David Goulet.
14297 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.10):
14298 - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need
14299 these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix
14300 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor".
14302 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.9):
14303 - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox
14304 code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by
14306 - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relay, by allowing the
14307 renaming of secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex
14308 syscalls. Fixes bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by
14311 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
14312 - When building Tor under Clang, do not include an extra set of
14313 parentheses in log messages that include function names. Fixes bug
14314 15269; bugfix on every released version of Tor when compiled with
14315 recent enough Clang.
14317 o Minor bugfixes (network):
14318 - When attempting to use fallback technique for network interface
14319 lookup, disregard loopback and multicast addresses since they are
14320 unsuitable for public communications.
14322 o Minor bugfixes (open file limit):
14323 - Fix set_max_file_descriptors() to set by default the max open file
14324 limit to the current limit when setrlimit() fails. Fixes bug
14325 16274; bugfix on tor- 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch by dgoulet.
14327 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
14328 - Check correctly for Windows socket errors in the workqueue
14329 backend. Fixes bug 16741; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
14330 - Try harder to normalize the exit status of the Tor process to the
14331 standard-provided range. Fixes bug 16975; bugfix on every version
14333 - Use libexecinfo on FreeBSD to enable backtrace support. Fixes part
14334 of bug 17151; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from Marcin Cieślak.
14336 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
14337 - Ensure that worker threads actually exit when a fatal error or
14338 shutdown is indicated. This fix doesn't currently affect the
14339 behavior of Tor, because Tor workers never indicates fatal error
14340 or shutdown except in the unit tests. Fixes bug 16868; bugfix
14342 - Fix a rarely-encountered memory leak when failing to initialize
14343 the thread pool. Fixes bug 16631; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
14344 from "cypherpunks".
14345 - Unblock threads before releasing the work queue mutex to ensure
14346 predictable scheduling behavior. Fixes bug 16644; bugfix
14349 o Minor bugfixes (security, exit policies):
14350 - ExitPolicyRejectPrivate now also rejects the relay's published
14351 IPv6 address (if any), and any publicly routable IPv4 or IPv6
14352 addresses on any local interfaces. ticket 17027. Patch by "teor".
14353 Fixes bug 17027; bugfix on 0.2.0.11-alpha.
14355 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
14356 - Disregard the ConnDirectionStatistics torrc options when Tor is
14357 not a relay since in that mode of operation no sensible data is
14358 being collected and because Tor might run into measurement hiccups
14359 when running as a client for some time, then becoming a relay.
14360 Fixes bug 15604; bugfix on 0.2.2.35.
14362 o Minor bugfixes (systemd):
14363 - Tor's systemd unit file no longer contains extraneous spaces.
14364 These spaces would sometimes confuse tools like deb-systemd-
14365 helper. Fixes bug 16162; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
14367 o Minor bugfixes (test networks):
14368 - When self-testing reachability, use ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses to
14369 determine if local/private addresses imply reachability. The
14370 previous fix used TestingTorNetwork, which implies
14371 ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses, but this excluded rare configurations
14372 where ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set but TestingTorNetwork is
14373 not. Fixes bug 15771; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by "teor",
14374 issue discovered by CJ Ess.
14376 o Minor bugfixes (tests, also in 0.2.6.9):
14377 - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug
14378 16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
14380 o Code simplification and refactoring:
14381 - Change the function that's called when we need to retry all
14382 downloads so that it only reschedules the downloads to happen
14383 immediately, rather than launching them all at once itself. This
14384 further simplifies Tor's callgraph.
14385 - Define WINVER and _WIN32_WINNT centrally, in orconfig.h, in order
14386 to ensure they remain consistent and visible everywhere.
14387 - Move some format-parsing functions out of crypto.c and
14388 crypto_curve25519.c into crypto_format.c and/or util_format.c.
14389 - Move the client-only parts of init_keys() into a separate
14390 function. Closes ticket 16763.
14391 - Move the hacky fallback code out of get_interface_address6() into
14392 separate function and get it covered with unit-tests. Resolves
14394 - Refactor hidden service client-side cache lookup to intelligently
14395 report its various failure cases, and disentangle failure cases
14396 involving a lack of introduction points. Closes ticket 14391.
14397 - Remove some vestigial workarounds for the MSVC6 compiler. We
14398 haven't supported that in ages.
14399 - Remove the unused "nulterminate" argument from buf_pullup().
14400 - Simplify the microdesc_free() implementation so that it no longer
14401 appears (to code analysis tools) to potentially invoke a huge
14402 suite of other microdesc functions.
14403 - Simply the control graph further by deferring the inner body of
14404 directory_all_unreachable() into a callback. Closes ticket 16762.
14405 - The link authentication code has been refactored for better
14406 testability and reliability. It now uses code generated with the
14407 "trunnel" binary encoding generator, to reduce the risk of bugs
14408 due to programmer error. Done as part of ticket 12498.
14409 - Treat the loss of an owning controller as equivalent to a SIGTERM
14410 signal. This removes a tiny amount of duplicated code, and
14411 simplifies our callgraph. Closes ticket 16788.
14412 - Use our own Base64 encoder instead of OpenSSL's, to allow more
14413 control over the output. Part of ticket 15652.
14414 - When generating an event to send to the controller, we no longer
14415 put the event over the network immediately. Instead, we queue
14416 these events, and use a Libevent callback to deliver them. This
14417 change simplifies Tor's callgraph by reducing the number of
14418 functions from which all other Tor functions are reachable. Closes
14420 - Wrap Windows-only C files inside '#ifdef _WIN32' so that tools
14421 that try to scan or compile every file on Unix won't decide that
14425 - Fix capitalization of SOCKS in sample torrc. Closes ticket 15609.
14426 - Improve the descriptions of statistics-related torrc options in
14427 the manpage to describe rationale and possible uses cases. Fixes
14429 - Improve the layout and formatting of ./configure --help messages.
14430 Closes ticket 15024. Patch from "cypherpunks".
14431 - Include a specific and (hopefully) accurate documentation of the
14432 torrc file's meta-format in doc/torrc_format.txt. This is mainly
14433 of interest to people writing programs to parse or generate torrc
14434 files. This document is not a commitment to long-term
14435 compatibility; some aspects of the current format are a bit
14436 ridiculous. Closes ticket 2325.
14437 - Include the TUNING document in our source tarball. It is referred
14438 to in the ChangeLog and an error message. Fixes bug 16929; bugfix
14440 - Note that HiddenServicePorts can take a unix domain socket. Closes
14442 - Recommend a 40 GB example AccountingMax in torrc.sample rather
14443 than a 4 GB max. Closes ticket 16742.
14444 - Standardize on the term "server descriptor" in the manual page.
14445 Previously, we had used "router descriptor", "server descriptor",
14446 and "relay descriptor" interchangeably. Part of ticket 14987.
14447 - Advise users on how to configure separate IPv4 and IPv6 exit
14448 policies in the manpage and sample torrcs. Related to ticket 16069.
14449 - Fix an error in the manual page and comments for
14450 TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir[IsStrict], which suggested that a HSDir
14451 required "ORPort connectivity". While this is true, it is in no
14452 way unique to the HSDir flag. Of all the flags, only HSDirs need a
14453 DirPort configured in order for the authorities to assign that
14454 particular flag. Patch by "teor". Fixed as part of 14882; bugfix
14456 - Fix the usage message of tor-resolve(1) so that it no longer lists
14457 the removed -F option. Fixes bug 16913; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
14460 - Remove `USE_OPENSSL_BASE64` and the corresponding fallback code
14461 and always use the internal Base64 decoder. The internal decoder
14462 has been part of tor since 0.2.0.10-alpha, and no one should
14463 be using the OpenSSL one. Part of ticket 15652.
14464 - Remove the 'tor_strclear()' function; use memwipe() instead.
14465 Closes ticket 14922.
14466 - Remove the code that would try to aggressively flush controller
14467 connections while writing to them. This code was introduced in
14468 0.1.2.7-alpha, in order to keep output buffers from exceeding
14469 their limits. But there is no longer a maximum output buffer size,
14470 and flushing data in this way caused some undesirable recursions
14471 in our call graph. Closes ticket 16480.
14472 - The internal pure-C tor-fw-helper tool is now removed from the Tor
14473 distribution, in favor of the pure-Go clone available from
14474 https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor-fw-helper.git/ . The libraries
14475 used by the C tor-fw-helper are not, in our opinion, very
14476 confidence- inspiring in their secure-programming techniques.
14477 Closes ticket 13338.
14479 o Removed features:
14480 - Remove the (seldom-used) DynamicDHGroups feature. For anti-
14481 fingerprinting we now recommend pluggable transports; for forward-
14482 secrecy in TLS, we now use the P-256 group. Closes ticket 13736.
14483 - Remove the HidServDirectoryV2 option. Now all relays offer to
14484 store hidden service descriptors. Related to 16543.
14485 - Remove the VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 option, since all
14486 authorities have long set it to 1. Closes ticket 16543.
14487 - Remove the undocumented "--digests" command-line option. It
14488 complicated our build process, caused subtle build issues on
14489 multiple platforms, and is now redundant since we started
14490 including git version identifiers. Closes ticket 14742.
14491 - Tor no longer contains checks for ancient directory cache versions
14492 that didn't know about microdescriptors.
14493 - Tor no longer contains workarounds for stat files generated by
14494 super-old versions of Tor that didn't choose guards sensibly.
14497 - The test-network.sh script now supports performance testing.
14498 Requires corresponding chutney performance testing changes. Patch
14499 by "teor". Closes ticket 14175.
14500 - Add a new set of callgraph analysis scripts that use clang to
14501 produce a list of which Tor functions are reachable from which
14502 other Tor functions. We're planning to use these to help simplify
14503 our code structure by identifying illogical dependencies.
14504 - Add new 'test-full' and 'test-full-online' targets to run all
14505 tests, including integration tests with stem and chutney.
14506 - Autodetect CHUTNEY_PATH if the chutney and Tor sources are side-
14507 by-side in the same parent directory. Closes ticket 16903. Patch
14509 - Document use of coverity, clang static analyzer, and clang dynamic
14510 undefined behavior and address sanitizers in doc/HACKING. Include
14511 detailed usage instructions in the blacklist. Patch by "teor".
14512 Closes ticket 15817.
14513 - Make "bridges+hs" the default test network. This tests almost all
14514 tor functionality during make test-network, while allowing tests
14515 to succeed on non-IPv6 systems. Requires chutney commit 396da92 in
14516 test-network-bridges-hs. Closes tickets 16945 (tor) and 16946
14517 (chutney). Patches by "teor".
14518 - Make the test-workqueue test work on Windows by initializing the
14519 network before we begin.
14520 - New make target (make test-network-all) to run multiple applicable
14521 chutney test cases. Patch from Teor; closes 16953.
14522 - Now that OpenSSL has its own scrypt implementation, add an unit
14523 test that checks for interoperability between libscrypt_scrypt()
14524 and OpenSSL's EVP_PBE_scrypt() so that we could not use libscrypt
14525 and rely on EVP_PBE_scrypt() whenever possible. Resolves
14527 - The link authentication protocol code now has extensive tests.
14528 - The relay descriptor signature testing code now has
14530 - The test_workqueue program now runs faster, and is enabled by
14531 default as a part of "make check".
14532 - Unit test dns_resolve(), dns_clip_ttl() and dns_get_expiry_ttl()
14533 functions in dns.c. Implements a portion of ticket 16831.
14534 - Use environment variables rather than autoconf substitutions to
14535 send variables from the build system to the test scripts. This
14536 change should be easier to maintain, and cause 'make distcheck' to
14537 work better than before. Fixes bug 17148.
14538 - When building Tor with testing coverage enabled, run Chutney tests
14539 (if any) using the 'tor-cov' coverage binary.
14540 - When running test-network or test-stem, check for the absence of
14541 stem/chutney before doing any build operations.
14542 - Add a test to verify that the compiler does not eliminate our
14543 memwipe() implementation. Closes ticket 15377.
14544 - Add make rule `check-changes` to verify the format of changes
14545 files. Closes ticket 15180.
14546 - Add unit tests for control_event_is_interesting(). Add a compile-
14547 time check that the number of events doesn't exceed the capacity
14548 of control_event_t.event_mask. Closes ticket 15431, checks for
14549 bugs similar to 13085. Patch by "teor".
14550 - Command-line argument tests moved to Stem. Resolves ticket 14806.
14551 - Integrate the ntor, backtrace, and zero-length keys tests into the
14552 automake test suite. Closes ticket 15344.
14553 - Remove assertions during builds to determine Tor's test coverage.
14554 We don't want to trigger these even in assertions, so including
14555 them artificially makes our branch coverage look worse than it is.
14556 This patch provides the new test-stem-full and coverage-html-full
14557 configure options. Implements ticket 15400.
14558 - New TestingDirAuthVote{Exit,Guard,HSDir}IsStrict flags to
14559 explicitly manage consensus flags in testing networks. Patch by
14560 "robgjansen", modified by "teor". Implements part of ticket 14882.
14561 - Check for matching value in server response in ntor_ref.py. Fixes
14562 bug 15591; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported and fixed
14564 - Set the severity correctly when testing
14565 get_interface_addresses_ifaddrs() and
14566 get_interface_addresses_win32(), so that the tests fail gracefully
14567 instead of triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 15759; bugfix on
14568 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported by Nicolas Derive.
14570 Changes in version 0.2.6.10 - 2015-07-12
14571 Tor version 0.2.6.10 fixes some significant stability and hidden
14572 service client bugs, bulletproofs the cryptography init process, and
14573 fixes a bug when using the sandbox code with some older versions of
14574 Linux. Everyone running an older version, especially an older version
14575 of 0.2.6, should upgrade.
14577 o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability):
14578 - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a
14579 client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug
14580 14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability
14581 regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since
14582 we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in
14583 some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much
14584 of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix
14587 o Major bugfixes (stability):
14588 - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds
14589 of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400;
14590 bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch
14591 by "cypherpunks_backup".
14592 - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when
14593 connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden
14594 service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix
14597 o Minor features (geoip):
14598 - Update geoip to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
14599 - Update geoip6 to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
14601 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling):
14602 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
14603 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
14604 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
14605 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
14606 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
14608 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
14609 - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need
14610 these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix
14611 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor".
14614 Changes in version 0.2.6.9 - 2015-06-11
14615 Tor 0.2.6.9 fixes a regression in the circuit isolation code, increases the
14616 requirements for receiving an HSDir flag, and addresses some other small
14617 bugs in the systemd and sandbox code. Clients using circuit isolation
14618 should upgrade; all directory authorities should upgrade.
14620 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
14621 - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream
14622 isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group was
14623 being overwritten by a default value when the listener connection
14624 was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
14627 o Minor feature (directory authorities, security):
14628 - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag.
14629 For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806
14630 HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil
14631 attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable which
14632 takes at the very least 7 days to do so and by keeping the 96
14633 hours uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243.
14635 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
14636 - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is
14637 installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on
14638 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
14640 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
14641 - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relaymby renaming of
14642 secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex syscalls. Fixes
14643 bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by Peter Palfrader.
14644 - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox
14645 code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by
14648 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
14649 - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug
14650 16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
14653 Changes in version 0.2.6.8 - 2015-05-21
14654 Tor 0.2.6.8 fixes a bit of dodgy code in parsing INTRODUCE2 cells, and
14655 fixes an authority-side bug in assigning the HSDir flag. All directory
14656 authorities should upgrade.
14658 o Major bugfixes (hidden services, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
14659 - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
14660 flag to relays without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
14661 can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
14664 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
14665 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
14666 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
14669 o Minor features (geoip):
14670 - Update geoip to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
14671 - Update geoip6 to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
14675 Changes in version 0.2.6.7 - 2015-04-06
14676 Tor 0.2.6.7 fixes two security issues that could be used by an
14677 attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients visiting hidden
14678 services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as possible; clients
14679 should upgrade whenever packages become available.
14681 This release also contains two simple improvements to make hidden
14682 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
14684 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
14685 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
14686 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
14687 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
14688 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
14689 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
14690 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
14692 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
14693 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
14694 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
14695 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
14696 Resolves ticket 15515.
14697 - Decrease the amount of reattempts that a hidden service performs
14698 when its rendezvous circuits fail. This reduces the computational
14699 cost for running a hidden service under heavy load. Resolves
14703 Changes in version 0.2.5.12 - 2015-04-06
14704 Tor 0.2.5.12 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that
14705 could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients
14706 visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as
14707 possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available.
14709 This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden
14710 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
14712 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
14713 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
14714 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
14715 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
14716 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
14717 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
14718 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
14720 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
14721 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
14722 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
14723 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
14724 Resolves ticket 15515.
14727 Changes in version 0.2.4.27 - 2015-04-06
14728 Tor 0.2.4.27 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that
14729 could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients
14730 visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as
14731 possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available.
14733 This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden
14734 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
14736 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
14737 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
14738 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
14739 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
14740 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
14741 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
14742 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
14744 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
14745 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
14746 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
14747 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
14748 Resolves ticket 15515.
14751 Changes in version 0.2.6.6 - 2015-03-24
14752 Tor 0.2.6.6 is the first stable release in the 0.2.6 series.
14754 It adds numerous safety, security, correctness, and performance
14755 improvements. Client programs can be configured to use more kinds of
14756 sockets, AutomapHosts works better, the multithreading backend is
14757 improved, cell transmission is refactored, test coverage is much
14758 higher, more denial-of-service attacks are handled, guard selection is
14759 improved to handle long-term guards better, pluggable transports
14760 should work a bit better, and some annoying hidden service performance
14761 bugs should be addressed.
14763 o New compiler and system requirements:
14764 - Tor 0.2.6.x requires that your compiler support more of the C99
14765 language standard than before. The 'configure' script now detects
14766 whether your compiler supports C99 mid-block declarations and
14767 designated initializers. If it does not, Tor will not compile.
14769 We may revisit this requirement if it turns out that a significant
14770 number of people need to build Tor with compilers that don't
14771 bother implementing a 15-year-old standard. Closes ticket 13233.
14772 - Tor no longer supports systems without threading support. When we
14773 began working on Tor, there were several systems that didn't have
14774 threads, or where the thread support wasn't able to run the
14775 threads of a single process on multiple CPUs. That no longer
14776 holds: every system where Tor needs to run well now has threading
14777 support. Resolves ticket 12439.
14779 o Deprecated versions and removed support:
14780 - Tor relays older than 0.2.4.18-rc are no longer allowed to
14781 advertise themselves on the network. Closes ticket 13555.
14782 - Tor clients no longer support connecting to hidden services
14783 running on Tor 0.2.2.x and earlier; the Support022HiddenServices
14784 option has been removed. (There shouldn't be any hidden services
14785 running these versions on the network.) Closes ticket 7803.
14787 o Directory authority changes:
14788 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
14789 closes ticket 14487.
14790 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
14791 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
14792 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
14794 o Major features (bridges):
14795 - Expose the outgoing upstream HTTP/SOCKS proxy to pluggable
14796 transports if they are configured via the "TOR_PT_PROXY"
14797 environment variable. Implements proposal 232. Resolves
14800 o Major features (changed defaults):
14801 - Prevent relay operators from unintentionally running exits: When a
14802 relay is configured as an exit node, we now warn the user unless
14803 the "ExitRelay" option is set to 1. We warn even more loudly if
14804 the relay is configured with the default exit policy, since this
14805 can indicate accidental misconfiguration. Setting "ExitRelay 0"
14806 stops Tor from running as an exit relay. Closes ticket 10067.
14808 o Major features (client performance, hidden services):
14809 - Allow clients to use optimistic data when connecting to a hidden
14810 service, which should remove a round-trip from hidden service
14811 initialization. See proposal 181 for details. Implements
14814 o Major features (directory system):
14815 - Upon receiving an unparseable directory object, if its digest
14816 matches what we expected, then don't try to download it again.
14817 Previously, when we got a descriptor we didn't like, we would keep
14818 trying to download it over and over. Closes ticket 11243.
14819 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors from a directory
14820 server, we no longer launch multiple simultaneous requests to the
14821 same server. This reduces load on the directory servers,
14822 especially when directory guards are in use. Closes ticket 9969.
14823 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors over a tunneled
14824 connection, do not limit the length of our requests to what the
14825 Squid proxy is willing to handle. Part of ticket 9969.
14826 - Authorities can now vote on the correct digests and latest
14827 versions for different software packages. This allows packages
14828 that include Tor to use the Tor authority system as a way to get
14829 notified of updates and their correct digests. Implements proposal
14830 227. Closes ticket 10395.
14832 o Major features (guards):
14833 - Introduce the Guardfraction feature to improves load balancing on
14834 guard nodes. Specifically, it aims to reduce the traffic gap that
14835 guard nodes experience when they first get the Guard flag. This is
14836 a required step if we want to increase the guard lifetime to 9
14837 months or greater. Closes ticket 9321.
14839 o Major features (hidden services):
14840 - Make HS port scanning more difficult by immediately closing the
14841 circuit when a user attempts to connect to a nonexistent port.
14842 Closes ticket 13667.
14843 - Add a HiddenServiceStatistics option that allows Tor relays to
14844 gather and publish statistics about the overall size and volume of
14845 hidden service usage. Specifically, when this option is turned on,
14846 an HSDir will publish an approximate number of hidden services
14847 that have published descriptors to it the past 24 hours. Also, if
14848 a relay has acted as a hidden service rendezvous point, it will
14849 publish the approximate amount of rendezvous cells it has relayed
14850 the past 24 hours. The statistics themselves are obfuscated so
14851 that the exact values cannot be derived. For more details see
14852 proposal 238, "Better hidden service stats from Tor relays". This
14853 feature is currently disabled by default. Implements feature 13192.
14855 o Major features (performance):
14856 - Make the CPU worker implementation more efficient by avoiding the
14857 kernel and lengthening pipelines. The original implementation used
14858 sockets to transfer data from the main thread to the workers, and
14859 didn't allow any thread to be assigned more than a single piece of
14860 work at once. The new implementation avoids communications
14861 overhead by making requests in shared memory, avoiding kernel IO
14862 where possible, and keeping more requests in flight at once.
14863 Implements ticket 9682.
14865 o Major features (relay):
14866 - Raise the minimum acceptable configured bandwidth rate for bridges
14867 to 50 KiB/sec and for relays to 75 KiB/sec. (The old values were
14868 20 KiB/sec.) Closes ticket 13822.
14869 - Complete revision of the code that relays use to decide which cell
14870 to send next. Formerly, we selected the best circuit to write on
14871 each channel, but we didn't select among channels in any
14872 sophisticated way. Now, we choose the best circuits globally from
14873 among those whose channels are ready to deliver traffic.
14875 This patch implements a new inter-cmux comparison API, a global
14876 high/low watermark mechanism and a global scheduler loop for
14877 transmission prioritization across all channels as well as among
14878 circuits on one channel. This schedule is currently tuned to
14879 (tolerantly) avoid making changes in network performance, but it
14880 should form the basis for major circuit performance increases in
14881 the future. Code by Andrea; tuning by Rob Jansen; implements
14884 o Major features (sample torrc):
14885 - Add a new, infrequently-changed "torrc.minimal". This file is
14886 similar to torrc.sample, but it will change as infrequently as
14887 possible, for the benefit of users whose systems prompt them for
14888 intervention whenever a default configuration file is changed.
14889 Making this change allows us to update torrc.sample to be a more
14890 generally useful "sample torrc".
14892 o Major features (security, unix domain sockets):
14893 - Allow SocksPort to be an AF_UNIX Unix Domain Socket. Now high risk
14894 applications can reach Tor without having to create AF_INET or
14895 AF_INET6 sockets, meaning they can completely disable their
14896 ability to make non-Tor network connections. To create a socket of
14897 this type, use "SocksPort unix:/path/to/socket". Implements
14899 - Support mapping hidden service virtual ports to AF_UNIX sockets.
14900 The syntax is "HiddenServicePort 80 unix:/path/to/socket".
14901 Implements ticket 11485.
14903 o Major bugfixes (client, automap):
14904 - Repair automapping with IPv6 addresses. This automapping should
14905 have worked previously, but one piece of debugging code that we
14906 inserted to detect a regression actually caused the regression to
14907 manifest itself again. Fixes bug 13811 and bug 12831; bugfix on
14908 0.2.4.7-alpha. Diagnosed and fixed by Francisco Blas
14911 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
14912 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
14913 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
14916 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
14917 - Do not assign the HSDir flag to relays if they are not Valid, or
14918 currently hibernating. Fixes 12573; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
14920 o Major bugfixes (directory bandwidth performance):
14921 - Don't flush the zlib buffer aggressively when compressing
14922 directory information for clients. This should save about 7% of
14923 the bandwidth currently used for compressed descriptors and
14924 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 11787; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
14926 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
14927 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
14928 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
14929 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
14931 o Major bugfixes (FreeBSD IPFW transparent proxy):
14932 - Fix address detection with FreeBSD transparent proxies, when
14933 "TransProxyType ipfw" is in use. Fixes bug 15064; bugfix
14936 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
14937 - When closing an introduction circuit that was opened in parallel
14938 with others, don't mark the introduction point as unreachable.
14939 Previously, the first successful connection to an introduction
14940 point would make the other introduction points get marked as
14941 having timed out. Fixes bug 13698; bugfix on 0.0.6rc2.
14943 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
14944 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
14945 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
14946 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
14948 o Major bugfixes (mixed relay-client operation):
14949 - When running as a relay and client at the same time (not
14950 recommended), if we decide not to use a new guard because we want
14951 to retry older guards, only close the locally-originating circuits
14952 passing through that guard. Previously we would close all the
14953 circuits through that guard. Fixes bug 9819; bugfix on
14954 0.2.1.1-alpha. Reported by "skruffy".
14956 o Major bugfixes (pluggable transports):
14957 - Initialize the extended OR Port authentication cookie before
14958 launching pluggable transports. This prevents a race condition
14959 that occurred when server-side pluggable transports would cache the
14960 authentication cookie before it has been (re)generated. Fixes bug
14961 15240; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
14963 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
14964 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
14965 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout is passed to
14966 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
14967 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
14968 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
14969 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
14970 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
14972 o Minor features (build):
14973 - New --disable-system-torrc compile-time option to prevent Tor from
14974 looking for the system-wide torrc or torrc-defaults files.
14975 Resolves ticket 13037.
14977 o Minor features (client):
14978 - Clients are now willing to send optimistic data (before they
14979 receive a 'connected' cell) to relays of any version. (Relays
14980 without support for optimistic data are no longer supported on the
14981 Tor network.) Resolves ticket 13153.
14983 o Minor features (client):
14984 - Validate hostnames in SOCKS5 requests more strictly. If SafeSocks
14985 is enabled, reject requests with IP addresses as hostnames.
14986 Resolves ticket 13315.
14988 o Minor features (controller):
14989 - Add a "SIGNAL HEARTBEAT" controller command that tells Tor to
14990 write an unscheduled heartbeat message to the log. Implements
14992 - Include SOCKS_USERNAME and SOCKS_PASSWORD values in controller
14993 events so controllers can observe circuit isolation inputs. Closes
14995 - ControlPort now supports the unix:/path/to/socket syntax as an
14996 alternative to the ControlSocket option, for consistency with
14997 SocksPort and HiddenServicePort. Closes ticket 14451.
14998 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
14999 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
15000 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
15001 - Messages about problems in the bootstrap process now include
15002 information about the server we were trying to connect to when we
15003 noticed the problem. Closes ticket 15006.
15005 o Minor features (Denial of service resistance):
15006 - Count the total number of bytes used storing hidden service
15007 descriptors against the value of MaxMemInQueues. If we're low on
15008 memory, and more than 20% of our memory is used holding hidden
15009 service descriptors, free them until no more than 10% of our
15010 memory holds hidden service descriptors. Free the least recently
15011 fetched descriptors first. Resolves ticket 13806.
15012 - When we have recently been under memory pressure (over 3/4 of
15013 MaxMemInQueues is allocated), then allocate smaller zlib objects
15014 for small requests. Closes ticket 11791.
15016 o Minor features (directory authorities):
15017 - Don't list relays with a bandwidth estimate of 0 in the consensus.
15018 Implements a feature proposed during discussion of bug 13000.
15019 - In tor-gencert, report an error if the user provides the same
15020 argument more than once.
15021 - If a directory authority can't find a best consensus method in the
15022 votes that it holds, it now falls back to its favorite consensus
15023 method. Previously, it fell back to method 1. Neither of these is
15024 likely to get enough signatures, but "fall back to favorite"
15025 doesn't require us to maintain support an obsolete consensus
15026 method. Implements part of proposal 215.
15028 o Minor features (geoip):
15029 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
15030 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
15033 o Minor features (guard nodes):
15034 - Reduce the time delay before saving guard status to disk from 10
15035 minutes to 30 seconds (or from one hour to 10 minutes if
15036 AvoidDiskWrites is set). Closes ticket 12485.
15038 o Minor features (heartbeat):
15039 - On relays, report how many connections we negotiated using each
15040 version of the Tor link protocols. This information will let us
15041 know if removing support for very old versions of the Tor
15042 protocols is harming the network. Closes ticket 15212.
15044 o Minor features (hidden service):
15045 - Make Sybil attacks against hidden services harder by changing the
15046 minimum time required to get the HSDir flag from 25 hours up to 96
15047 hours. Addresses ticket 14149.
15048 - New option "HiddenServiceAllowUnknownPorts" to allow hidden
15049 services to disable the anti-scanning feature introduced in
15050 0.2.6.2-alpha. With this option not set, a connection to an
15051 unlisted port closes the circuit. With this option set, only a
15052 RELAY_DONE cell is sent. Closes ticket 14084.
15053 - When re-enabling the network, don't try to build introduction
15054 circuits until we have successfully built a circuit. This makes
15055 hidden services come up faster when the network is re-enabled.
15056 Patch from "akwizgran". Closes ticket 13447.
15057 - When we fail to retrieve a hidden service descriptor, send the
15058 controller an "HS_DESC FAILED" controller event. Implements
15060 - New HiddenServiceDirGroupReadable option to cause hidden service
15061 directories and hostname files to be created group-readable. Patch
15062 from "anon", David Stainton, and "meejah". Closes ticket 11291.
15064 o Minor features (interface):
15065 - Implement "-f -" command-line option to read torrc configuration
15066 from standard input, if you don't want to store the torrc file in
15067 the file system. Implements feature 13865.
15069 o Minor features (logging):
15070 - Add a count of unique clients to the bridge heartbeat message.
15071 Resolves ticket 6852.
15072 - Suppress "router info incompatible with extra info" message when
15073 reading extrainfo documents from cache. (This message got loud
15074 around when we closed bug 9812 in 0.2.6.2-alpha.) Closes
15076 - Elevate hidden service authorized-client message from DEBUG to
15077 INFO. Closes ticket 14015.
15078 - On Unix-like systems, you can now use named pipes as the target of
15079 the Log option, and other options that try to append to files.
15080 Closes ticket 12061. Patch from "carlo von lynX".
15081 - When opening a log file at startup, send it every log message that
15082 we generated between startup and opening it. Previously, log
15083 messages that were generated before opening the log file were only
15084 logged to stdout. Closes ticket 6938.
15085 - Add a TruncateLogFile option to overwrite logs instead of
15086 appending to them. Closes ticket 5583.
15087 - Quiet some log messages in the heartbeat and at startup. Closes
15090 o Minor features (portability, Solaris):
15091 - Threads are no longer disabled by default on Solaris; we believe
15092 that the versions of Solaris with broken threading support are all
15093 obsolete by now. Resolves ticket 9495.
15095 o Minor features (relay):
15096 - Re-check our address after we detect a changed IP address from
15097 getsockname(). This ensures that the controller command "GETINFO
15098 address" will report the correct value. Resolves ticket 11582.
15100 - A new AccountingRule option lets Relays set whether they'd like
15101 AccountingMax to be applied separately to inbound and outbound
15102 traffic, or applied to the sum of inbound and outbound traffic.
15103 Resolves ticket 961. Patch by "chobe".
15104 - When identity keypair is generated for first time, log a
15105 congratulatory message that links to the new relay lifecycle
15106 document. Implements feature 10427.
15108 o Minor features (security, memory wiping):
15109 - Ensure we securely wipe keys from memory after
15110 crypto_digest_get_digest and init_curve25519_keypair_from_file
15111 have finished using them. Resolves ticket 13477.
15113 o Minor features (security, out-of-memory handling):
15114 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, allocate less memory for
15115 temporary data structures. Fixes issue 10115.
15116 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, consider more types of
15117 buffers, including those on directory connections, and zlib
15118 buffers. Resolves ticket 11792.
15120 o Minor features (stability):
15121 - Add assertions in our hash-table iteration code to check for
15122 corrupted values that could cause infinite loops. Closes
15125 o Minor features (systemd):
15126 - Various improvements and modernizations in systemd hardening
15127 support. Closes ticket 13805. Patch from Craig Andrews.
15128 - Where supported, when running with systemd, report successful
15129 startup to systemd. Part of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
15130 - When running with systemd, support systemd watchdog messages. Part
15131 of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
15133 o Minor features (testing networks):
15134 - Add the TestingDirAuthVoteExit option, which lists nodes to assign
15135 the "Exit" flag regardless of their uptime, bandwidth, or exit
15136 policy. TestingTorNetwork must be set for this option to have any
15137 effect. Previously, authorities would take up to 35 minutes to
15138 give nodes the Exit flag in a test network. Partially implements
15140 - Drop the minimum RendPostPeriod on a testing network to 5 seconds,
15141 and the default on a testing network to 2 minutes. Drop the
15142 MIN_REND_INITIAL_POST_DELAY on a testing network to 5 seconds, but
15143 keep the default on a testing network at 30 seconds. This reduces
15144 HS bootstrap time to around 25 seconds. Also, change the default
15145 time in test-network.sh to match. Closes ticket 13401. Patch
15147 - Create TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir to correspond to
15148 TestingDirAuthVoteExit/Guard. Ensures that authorities vote the
15149 HSDir flag for the listed relays regardless of uptime or ORPort
15150 connectivity. Respects the value of VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2.
15151 Partial implementation for ticket 14067. Patch by "teor".
15153 o Minor features (tor2web mode):
15154 - Introduce the config option Tor2webRendezvousPoints, which allows
15155 clients in Tor2webMode to select a specific Rendezvous Point to be
15156 used in HS circuits. This might allow better performance for
15157 Tor2Web nodes. Implements ticket 12844.
15159 o Minor features (transparent proxy):
15160 - Update the transparent proxy option checks to allow for both ipfw
15161 and pf on OS X. Closes ticket 14002.
15162 - Use the correct option when using IPv6 with transparent proxy
15163 support on Linux. Resolves 13808. Patch by Francisco Blas
15166 o Minor features (validation):
15167 - Check all date/time values passed to tor_timegm and
15168 parse_rfc1123_time for validity, taking leap years into account.
15169 Improves HTTP header validation. Implemented with bug 13476.
15170 - In correct_tm(), limit the range of values returned by system
15171 localtime(_r) and gmtime(_r) to be between the years 1 and 8099.
15172 This means we don't have to deal with negative or too large dates,
15173 even if a clock is wrong. Otherwise we might fail to read a file
15174 written by us which includes such a date. Fixes bug 13476.
15175 - Stop allowing invalid address patterns like "*/24" that contain
15176 both a wildcard address and a bit prefix length. This affects all
15177 our address-range parsing code. Fixes bug 7484; bugfix
15180 o Minor bugfixes (bridge clients):
15181 - When configured to use a bridge without an identity digest (not
15182 recommended), avoid launching an extra channel to it when
15183 bootstrapping. Fixes bug 7733; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
15185 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
15186 - When DisableNetwork is set, do not launch pluggable transport
15187 plugins, and if any are running, terminate them. Fixes bug 13213;
15188 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
15190 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
15191 - Fix several instances of possible integer overflow/underflow/NaN.
15192 Fixes bug 13104; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha and later. Patches
15194 - In circuit_build_times_calculate_timeout() in circuitstats.c,
15195 avoid dividing by zero in the pareto calculations. This traps
15196 under clang's "undefined-trap" sanitizer. Fixes bug 13290; bugfix
15198 - Fix an integer overflow in format_time_interval(). Fixes bug
15199 13393; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
15200 - Set the correct day of year value when the system's localtime(_r)
15201 or gmtime(_r) functions fail to set struct tm. Not externally
15202 visible. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
15203 - Avoid unlikely signed integer overflow in tor_timegm on systems
15204 with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
15206 o Minor bugfixes (certificate handling):
15207 - If an authority operator accidentally makes a signing certificate
15208 with a future publication time, do not discard its real signing
15209 certificates. Fixes bug 11457; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
15210 - Remove any old authority certificates that have been superseded
15211 for at least two days. Previously, we would keep superseded
15212 certificates until they expired, if they were published close in
15213 time to the certificate that superseded them. Fixes bug 11454;
15214 bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
15216 o Minor bugfixes (client):
15217 - Fix smartlist_choose_node_by_bandwidth() so that relays with the
15218 BadExit flag are not considered worthy candidates. Fixes bug
15219 13066; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
15220 - Use the consensus schedule for downloading consensuses, and not
15221 the generic schedule. Fixes bug 11679; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
15222 - Handle unsupported or malformed SOCKS5 requests properly by
15223 responding with the appropriate error message before closing the
15224 connection. Fixes bugs 12971 and 13314; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13.
15226 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
15227 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
15228 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
15229 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
15230 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
15231 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
15232 - Prevent changes to other options from removing the wildcard value
15233 "." from "AutomapHostsSuffixes". Fixes bug 12509; bugfix
15235 - Allow MapAddress and AutomapHostsOnResolve to work together when
15236 an address is mapped into another address type (like .onion) that
15237 must be automapped at resolve time. Fixes bug 7555; bugfix
15240 o Minor bugfixes (client, bridges):
15241 - When we are using bridges and we had a network connectivity
15242 problem, only retry connecting to our currently configured
15243 bridges, not all bridges we know about and remember using. Fixes
15244 bug 14216; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
15246 o Minor bugfixes (client, DNS):
15247 - Report the correct cached DNS expiration times on SOCKS port or in
15248 DNS replies. Previously, we would report everything as "never
15249 expires." Fixes bug 14193; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
15250 - Avoid a small memory leak when we find a cached answer for a
15251 reverse DNS lookup in a client-side DNS cache. (Remember, client-
15252 side DNS caching is off by default, and is not recommended.) Fixes
15253 bug 14259; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
15255 o Minor bugfixes (client, IPv6):
15256 - Reject socks requests to literal IPv6 addresses when IPv6Traffic
15257 flag is not set; and not because the NoIPv4Traffic flag was set.
15258 Previously we'd looked at the NoIPv4Traffic flag for both types of
15259 literal addresses. Fixes bug 14280; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
15261 o Minor bugfixes (client, microdescriptors):
15262 - Use a full 256 bits of the SHA256 digest of a microdescriptor when
15263 computing which microdescriptors to download. This keeps us from
15264 erroneous download behavior if two microdescriptor digests ever
15265 have the same first 160 bits. Fixes part of bug 13399; bugfix
15267 - Reset a router's status if its microdescriptor digest changes,
15268 even if the first 160 bits remain the same. Fixes part of bug
15269 13399; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
15271 o Minor bugfixes (client, torrc):
15272 - Stop modifying the value of our DirReqStatistics torrc option just
15273 because we're not a bridge or relay. This bug was causing Tor
15274 Browser users to write "DirReqStatistics 0" in their torrc files
15275 as if they had chosen to change the config. Fixes bug 4244; bugfix
15277 - When GeoIPExcludeUnknown is enabled, do not incorrectly decide
15278 that our options have changed every time we SIGHUP. Fixes bug
15279 9801; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch from "qwerty1".
15281 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
15282 - Fix a compilation warning on s390. Fixes bug 14988; bugfix
15284 - Silence clang warnings under --enable-expensive-hardening,
15285 including implicit truncation of 64 bit values to 32 bit, const
15286 char assignment to self, tautological compare, and additional
15287 parentheses around equality tests. Fixes bug 13577; bugfix
15289 - Fix a clang warning about checking whether an address in the
15290 middle of a structure is NULL. Fixes bug 14001; bugfix
15292 - The address of an array in the middle of a structure will always
15293 be non-NULL. clang recognises this and complains. Disable the
15294 tautologous and redundant check to silence this warning. Fixes bug
15295 14001; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
15296 - Compile correctly with (unreleased) OpenSSL 1.1.0 headers.
15297 Addresses ticket 14188.
15298 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
15299 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
15300 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
15301 - Do not compile any code related to Tor2Web mode when Tor2Web mode
15302 is not enabled at compile time. Previously, this code was included
15303 in a disabled state. See discussion on ticket 12844.
15304 - Allow our configure script to build correctly with autoconf 2.62
15305 again. Fixes bug 12693; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
15306 - Improve the error message from ./configure to make it clear that
15307 when asciidoc has not been found, the user will have to either add
15308 --disable-asciidoc argument or install asciidoc. Resolves
15311 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
15312 - Report "down" in response to the "GETINFO entry-guards" command
15313 when relays are down with an unreachable_since value. Previously,
15314 we would report "up". Fixes bug 14184; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
15315 - Avoid crashing on a malformed EXTENDCIRCUIT command. Fixes bug
15316 14116; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
15318 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
15319 - Return an error when the second or later arguments of the
15320 "setevents" controller command are invalid events. Previously we
15321 would return success while silently skipping invalid events. Fixes
15322 bug 13205; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Reported by "fpxnns".
15324 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
15325 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
15326 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
15327 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
15328 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
15329 - Do not attempt to download extrainfo documents which we will be
15330 unable to validate with a matching server descriptor. Fixes bug
15331 13762; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
15332 - Fix a bug that was truncating AUTHDIR_NEWDESC events sent to the
15333 control port. Fixes bug 14953; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
15334 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
15335 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
15336 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
15337 - When running as a v3 directory authority, advertise that you serve
15338 extra-info documents so that clients who want them can find them
15339 from you too. Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
15341 o Minor bugfixes (directory system):
15342 - Always believe that v3 directory authorities serve extra-info
15343 documents, whether they advertise "caches-extra-info" or not.
15344 Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
15345 - Check the BRIDGE_DIRINFO flag bitwise rather than using equality.
15346 Previously, directories offering BRIDGE_DIRINFO and some other
15347 flag (i.e. microdescriptors or extrainfo) would be ignored when
15348 looking for bridges. Partially fixes bug 13163; bugfix
15351 o Minor bugfixes (file handling):
15352 - Stop failing when key files are zero-length. Instead, generate new
15353 keys, and overwrite the empty key files. Fixes bug 13111; bugfix
15354 on all versions of Tor. Patch by "teor".
15355 - Stop generating a fresh .old RSA onion key file when the .old file
15356 is missing. Fixes part of 13111; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
15357 - Avoid overwriting .old key files with empty key files.
15358 - Skip loading zero-length extrainfo store, router store, stats,
15359 state, and key files.
15360 - Avoid crashing when trying to reload a torrc specified as a
15361 relative path with RunAsDaemon turned on. Fixes bug 13397; bugfix
15364 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
15365 - Close the introduction circuit when we have no more usable intro
15366 points, instead of waiting for it to time out. This also ensures
15367 that no follow-up HS descriptor fetch is triggered when the
15368 circuit eventually times out. Fixes bug 14224; bugfix on 0.0.6.
15369 - When fetching a hidden service descriptor for a down service that
15370 was recently up, do not keep refetching until we try the same
15371 replica twice in a row. Fixes bug 14219; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
15372 - Correctly send a controller event when we find that a rendezvous
15373 circuit has finished. Fixes bug 13936; bugfix on 0.1.1.5-alpha.
15374 - Pre-check directory permissions for new hidden-services to avoid
15375 at least one case of "Bug: Acting on config options left us in a
15376 broken state. Dying." Fixes bug 13942; bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
15377 - When fetching hidden service descriptors, we now check not only
15378 for whether we got the hidden service we had in mind, but also
15379 whether we got the particular descriptors we wanted. This prevents
15380 a class of inefficient but annoying DoS attacks by hidden service
15381 directories. Fixes bug 13214; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported
15384 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
15385 - Make transparent proxy support work along with the seccomp2
15386 sandbox. Fixes part of bug 13808; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch
15387 by Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera.
15388 - Fix a memory leak in tor-resolve when running with the sandbox
15389 enabled. Fixes bug 14050; bugfix on 0.2.5.9-rc.
15390 - Allow glibc fatal errors to be sent to stderr before Tor exits.
15391 Previously, glibc would try to write them to /dev/tty, and the
15392 sandbox would trap the call and make Tor exit prematurely. Fixes
15393 bug 14759; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
15395 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
15396 - Avoid crashing when there are more log domains than entries in
15397 domain_list. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
15398 - Downgrade warnings about RSA signature failures to info log level.
15399 Emit a warning when an extra info document is found incompatible
15400 with a corresponding router descriptor. Fixes bug 9812; bugfix
15402 - Make connection_ap_handshake_attach_circuit() log the circuit ID
15403 correctly. Fixes bug 13701; bugfix on 0.0.6.
15405 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
15406 - Check for orconns and use connection_or_close_for_error() rather
15407 than connection_mark_for_close() directly in the getsockopt()
15408 failure case of connection_handle_write_impl(). Fixes bug 11302;
15409 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
15411 o Minor bugfixes (parsing):
15412 - Stop accepting milliseconds (or other junk) at the end of
15413 descriptor publication times. Fixes bug 9286; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25.
15414 - Support two-number and three-number version numbers correctly, in
15415 case we change the Tor versioning system in the future. Fixes bug
15416 13661; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
15418 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
15419 - Fix the ioctl()-based network interface lookup code so that it
15420 will work on systems that have variable-length struct ifreq, for
15422 - Use the correct datatype in the SipHash-2-4 function to prevent
15423 compilers from assuming any sort of alignment. Fixes bug 15436;
15424 bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
15426 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
15427 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
15428 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
15429 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
15430 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
15432 - Clear all memory targeted by tor_addr_{to,from}_sockaddr(), not
15433 just the part that's used. This makes it harder for data leak bugs
15434 to occur in the event of other programming failures. Resolves
15437 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
15438 - When generating our family list, remove spaces from around the
15439 entries. Fixes bug 12728; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
15440 - If our previous bandwidth estimate was 0 bytes, allow publishing a
15441 new relay descriptor immediately. Fixes bug 13000; bugfix
15444 o Minor bugfixes (shutdown):
15445 - When shutting down, always call event_del() on lingering read or
15446 write events before freeing them. Otherwise, we risk double-frees
15447 or read-after-frees in event_base_free(). Fixes bug 12985; bugfix
15450 o Minor bugfixes (small memory leaks):
15451 - Avoid leaking memory when using IPv6 virtual address mappings.
15452 Fixes bug 14123; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by Tom van
15455 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
15456 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
15457 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
15459 o Minor bugfixes (systemd support):
15460 - Run correctly under systemd with the RunAsDaemon option set. Fixes
15461 part of bug 14141; bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc. Patch from Tomasz Torcz.
15462 - Inform the systemd supervisor about more changes in the Tor
15463 process status. Implements part of ticket 14141. Patch from
15466 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks):
15467 - Fix TestingDirAuthVoteGuard to properly give out Guard flags in a
15468 testing network. Fixes bug 13064; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
15469 - Stop using the default authorities in networks which provide both
15470 AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority. Partially
15471 fixes bug 13163; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
15473 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks, fast startup):
15474 - Allow Tor to build circuits using a consensus with no exits. If
15475 the consensus has no exits (typical of a bootstrapping test
15476 network), allow Tor to build circuits once enough descriptors have
15477 been downloaded. This assists in bootstrapping a testing Tor
15478 network. Fixes bug 13718; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch
15480 - When V3AuthVotingInterval is low, give a lower If-Modified-Since
15481 header to directory servers. This allows us to obtain consensuses
15482 promptly when the consensus interval is very short. This assists
15483 in bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718
15484 and 13963; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
15485 - Stop assuming that private addresses are local when checking
15486 reachability in a TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when testing, assume
15487 all OR connections are remote. (This is necessary due to many test
15488 scenarios running all relays on localhost.) This assists in
15489 bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes bug 13924; bugfix on
15490 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by "teor".
15491 - Avoid building exit circuits from a consensus with no exits. Now
15492 thanks to our fix for 13718, we accept a no-exit network as not
15493 wholly lost, but we need to remember not to try to build exit
15494 circuits on it. Closes ticket 13814; patch by "teor".
15495 - Stop requiring exits to have non-zero bandwithcapacity in a
15496 TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when TestingMinExitFlagThreshold is 0,
15497 ignore exit bandwidthcapacity. This assists in bootstrapping a
15498 testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718 and 13839; bugfix
15499 on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
15500 - Add "internal" to some bootstrap statuses when no exits are
15501 available. If the consensus does not contain Exits, Tor will only
15502 build internal circuits. In this case, relevant statuses will
15503 contain the word "internal" as indicated in the Tor control-
15504 spec.txt. When bootstrap completes, Tor will be ready to build
15505 internal circuits. If a future consensus contains Exits, exit
15506 circuits may become available. Fixes part of bug 13718; bugfix on
15507 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch by "teor".
15508 - Decrease minimum consensus interval to 10 seconds when
15509 TestingTorNetwork is set, or 5 seconds for the first consensus.
15510 Fix assumptions throughout the code that assume larger intervals.
15511 Fixes bugs 13718 and 13823; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch
15513 - Avoid excluding guards from path building in minimal test
15514 networks, when we're in a test network and excluding guards would
15515 exclude all relays. This typically occurs in incredibly small tor
15516 networks, and those using "TestingAuthVoteGuard *". Fixes part of
15517 bug 13718; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha. Patch by "teor".
15519 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
15520 - Avoid a side-effect in a tor_assert() in the unit tests. Fixes bug
15521 15188; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha. Patch from Tom van der Woerdt.
15522 - Stop spawn test failures due to a race condition between the
15523 SIGCHLD handler updating the process status, and the test reading
15524 it. Fixes bug 13291; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
15525 - Avoid passing an extra backslash when creating a temporary
15526 directory for running the unit tests on Windows. Fixes bug 12392;
15527 bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
15529 o Minor bugfixes (TLS):
15530 - Check more thoroughly throughout the TLS code for possible
15531 unlogged TLS errors. Possible diagnostic or fix for bug 13319.
15533 o Minor bugfixes (transparent proxy):
15534 - Use getsockname, not getsockopt, to retrieve the address for a
15535 TPROXY-redirected connection. Fixes bug 13796; bugfix
15538 o Minor bugfixes (windows):
15539 - Remove code to special-case handling of NTE_BAD_KEYSET when
15540 acquiring windows CryptoAPI context. This error can't actually
15541 occur for the parameters we're providing. Fixes bug 10816; bugfix
15544 o Minor bugfixes (zlib):
15545 - Avoid truncating a zlib stream when trying to finalize it with an
15546 empty output buffer. Fixes bug 11824; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
15548 o Code simplification and refactoring:
15549 - Change the entry_is_live() function to take named bitfield
15550 elements instead of an unnamed list of booleans. Closes
15552 - Refactor and unit-test entry_is_time_to_retry() in entrynodes.c.
15553 Resolves ticket 12205.
15554 - Use calloc and reallocarray functions instead of multiply-
15555 then-malloc. This makes it less likely for us to fall victim to an
15556 integer overflow attack when allocating. Resolves ticket 12855.
15557 - Use the standard macro name SIZE_MAX, instead of our
15559 - Document usage of the NO_DIRINFO and ALL_DIRINFO flags clearly in
15560 functions which take them as arguments. Replace 0 with NO_DIRINFO
15561 in a function call for clarity. Seeks to prevent future issues
15563 - Avoid 4 null pointer errors under clang static analysis by using
15564 tor_assert() to prove that the pointers aren't null. Fixes
15566 - Rework the API of policies_parse_exit_policy() to use a bitmask to
15567 represent parsing options, instead of a confusing mess of
15568 booleans. Resolves ticket 8197.
15569 - Introduce a helper function to parse ExitPolicy in
15570 or_options_t structure.
15571 - Move fields related to isolating and configuring client ports into
15572 a shared structure. Previously, they were duplicated across
15573 port_cfg_t, listener_connection_t, and edge_connection_t. Failure
15574 to copy them correctly had been the cause of at least one bug in
15575 the past. Closes ticket 8546.
15576 - Refactor the get_interface_addresses_raw() doom-function into
15577 multiple smaller and simpler subfunctions. Cover the resulting
15578 subfunctions with unit-tests. Fixes a significant portion of
15580 - Remove workaround in dirserv_thinks_router_is_hs_dir() that was
15581 only for version <= 0.2.2.24 which is now deprecated. Closes
15583 - Remove a test for a long-defunct broken version-one
15585 - Refactor main loop to extract the 'loop' part. This makes it
15586 easier to run Tor under Shadow. Closes ticket 15176.
15587 - Stop using can_complete_circuits as a global variable; access it
15588 with a function instead.
15589 - Avoid using operators directly as macro arguments: this lets us
15590 apply coccinelle transformations to our codebase more directly.
15591 Closes ticket 13172.
15592 - Combine the functions used to parse ClientTransportPlugin and
15593 ServerTransportPlugin into a single function. Closes ticket 6456.
15594 - Add inline functions and convenience macros for inspecting channel
15595 state. Refactor the code to use convenience macros instead of
15596 checking channel state directly. Fixes issue 7356.
15597 - Document all members of was_router_added_t and rename
15598 ROUTER_WAS_NOT_NEW to ROUTER_IS_ALREADY_KNOWN to make it less
15599 confusable with ROUTER_WAS_TOO_OLD. Fixes issue 13644.
15600 - In connection_exit_begin_conn(), use END_CIRC_REASON_TORPROTOCOL
15601 constant instead of hardcoded value. Fixes issue 13840.
15602 - Refactor our generic strmap and digestmap types into a single
15603 implementation, so that we can add a new digest256map
15607 - Add a doc/TUNING document with tips for handling large numbers of
15608 TCP connections when running busy Tor relay. Update the warning
15609 message to point to this file when running out of sockets
15610 operating system is allowing to use simultaneously. Resolves
15612 - Adding section on OpenBSD to our TUNING document. Thanks to mmcc
15613 for writing the OpenBSD-specific tips. Resolves ticket 13702.
15614 - Make the tor-resolve documentation match its help string and its
15615 options. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
15616 - Log a more useful error message from tor-resolve when failing to
15617 look up a hidden service address. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
15618 - Document the bridge-authority-only 'networkstatus-bridges' file.
15619 Closes ticket 13713; patch from "tom".
15620 - Fix typo in PredictedPortsRelevanceTime option description in
15621 manpage. Resolves issue 13707.
15622 - Stop suggesting that users specify relays by nickname: it isn't a
15623 good idea. Also, properly cross-reference how to specify relays in
15624 all parts of manual documenting options that take a list of
15625 relays. Closes ticket 13381.
15626 - Clarify the HiddenServiceDir option description in manpage to make
15627 it clear that relative paths are taken with respect to the current
15628 working directory. Also clarify that this behavior is not
15629 guaranteed to remain indefinitely. Fixes issue 13913.
15631 o Distribution (systemd):
15632 - systemd unit file: only allow tor to write to /var/lib/tor and
15633 /var/log/tor. The rest of the filesystem is accessible for reading
15634 only. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 12751.
15635 - systemd unit file: ensure that the process and all its children
15636 can never gain new privileges. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
15638 - systemd unit file: set up /var/run/tor as writable for the Tor
15639 service. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 13196.
15641 o Downgraded warnings:
15642 - Don't warn when we've attempted to contact a relay using the wrong
15643 ntor onion key. Closes ticket 9635.
15646 - Remove some lingering dead code that once supported mempools.
15647 Mempools were disabled by default in 0.2.5, and removed entirely
15648 in 0.2.6.3-alpha. Closes more of ticket 14848; patch
15651 o Removed features (directory authorities):
15652 - Remove code that prevented authorities from listing Tor relays
15653 affected by CVE-2011-2769 as guards. These relays are already
15654 rejected altogether due to the minimum version requirement of
15655 0.2.3.16-alpha. Closes ticket 13152.
15656 - The "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" option no longer has any effect, as
15657 the fingerprints file (approved-routers) has been deprecated.
15658 - Directory authorities do not support being Naming dirauths anymore.
15659 The "NamingAuthoritativeDir" config option is now obsolete.
15660 - Directory authorities do not support giving out the BadDirectory
15662 - Directory authorities no longer advertise or support consensus
15663 methods 1 through 12 inclusive. These consensus methods were
15664 obsolete and/or insecure: maintaining the ability to support them
15665 served no good purpose. Implements part of proposal 215; closes
15668 o Removed features:
15669 - To avoid confusion with the "ExitRelay" option, "ExitNode" is no
15670 longer silently accepted as an alias for "ExitNodes".
15671 - The --enable-mempool and --enable-buf-freelists options, which
15672 were originally created to work around bad malloc implementations,
15673 no longer exist. They were off-by-default in 0.2.5. Closes
15675 - We no longer remind the user about configuration options that have
15676 been obsolete since 0.2.3.x or earlier. Patch by Adrien Bak.
15677 - Remove our old, non-weighted bandwidth-based node selection code.
15678 Previously, we used it as a fallback when we couldn't perform
15679 weighted bandwidth-based node selection. But that would only
15680 happen in the cases where we had no consensus, or when we had a
15681 consensus generated by buggy or ancient directory authorities. In
15682 either case, it's better to use the more modern, better maintained
15683 algorithm, with reasonable defaults for the weights. Closes
15685 - Remove the --disable-curve25519 configure option. Relays and
15686 clients now are required to support curve25519 and the
15688 - The old "StrictEntryNodes" and "StrictExitNodes" options, which
15689 used to be deprecated synonyms for "StrictNodes", are now marked
15690 obsolete. Resolves ticket 12226.
15691 - Clients don't understand the BadDirectory flag in the consensus
15692 anymore, and ignore it.
15694 o Removed platform support:
15695 - We no longer include special code to build on Windows CE; as far
15696 as we know, nobody has used Tor on Windows CE in a very long time.
15697 Closes ticket 11446.
15699 o Testing (test-network.sh):
15700 - Stop using "echo -n", as some shells' built-in echo doesn't
15701 support "-n". Instead, use "/bin/echo -n". Partially fixes
15703 - Stop an apparent test-network hang when used with make -j2. Fixes
15705 - Add a --delay option to test-network.sh, which configures the
15706 delay before the chutney network tests for data transmission.
15707 Partially implements ticket 13161.
15710 - Test that tor does not fail when key files are zero-length. Check
15711 that tor generates new keys, and overwrites the empty key files.
15712 - Test that tor generates new keys when keys are missing
15713 (existing behavior).
15714 - Test that tor does not overwrite key files that already contain
15715 data (existing behavior). Tests bug 13111. Patch by "teor".
15716 - New "make test-stem" target to run stem integration tests.
15717 Requires that the "STEM_SOURCE_DIR" environment variable be set.
15718 Closes ticket 14107.
15719 - Make the test_cmdline_args.py script work correctly on Windows.
15720 Patch from Gisle Vanem.
15721 - Move the slower unit tests into a new "./src/test/test-slow"
15722 binary that can be run independently of the other tests. Closes
15724 - New tests for many parts of channel, relay, and circuitmux
15725 functionality. Code by Andrea; part of 9262.
15726 - New tests for parse_transport_line(). Part of ticket 6456.
15727 - In the unit tests, use chgrp() to change the group of the unit
15728 test temporary directory to the current user, so that the sticky
15729 bit doesn't interfere with tests that check directory groups.
15731 - Add unit tests for resolve_my_addr(). Part of ticket 12376; patch
15733 - Refactor the function that chooses guard nodes so that it can more
15734 easily be tested; write some tests for it.
15735 - Fix and re-enable the fgets_eagain unit test. Fixes bug 12503;
15736 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks."
15737 - Create unit tests for format_time_interval(). With bug 13393.
15738 - Add unit tests for tor_timegm signed overflow, tor_timegm and
15739 parse_rfc1123_time validity checks, correct_tm year clamping. Unit
15740 tests (visible) fixes in bug 13476.
15741 - Add a "coverage-html" make target to generate HTML-visualized
15742 coverage results when building with --enable-coverage. (Requires
15743 lcov.) Patch from Kevin Murray.
15744 - Enable the backtrace handler (where supported) when running the
15746 - Revise all unit tests that used the legacy test_* macros to
15747 instead use the recommended tt_* macros. This patch was generated
15748 with coccinelle, to avoid manual errors. Closes ticket 13119.
15750 Changes in version 0.2.5.11 - 2015-03-17
15751 Tor 0.2.5.11 is the second stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
15753 It backports several bugfixes from the 0.2.6 branch, including a
15754 couple of medium-level security fixes for relays and exit nodes.
15755 It also updates the list of directory authorities.
15757 o Directory authority changes:
15758 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
15759 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
15760 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
15761 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
15762 closes ticket 14487.
15764 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
15765 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
15766 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
15769 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
15770 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
15771 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
15772 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
15773 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
15774 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
15775 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
15776 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
15778 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
15779 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
15780 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
15781 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
15783 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
15784 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
15785 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
15786 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
15788 o Minor features (controller):
15789 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
15790 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
15791 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
15793 o Minor features (geoip):
15794 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
15795 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
15798 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
15799 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
15800 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
15801 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
15802 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
15803 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
15805 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
15806 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
15807 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
15808 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
15810 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
15811 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
15812 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
15813 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
15814 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
15815 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
15816 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
15817 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
15819 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
15820 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
15821 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
15823 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
15824 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
15825 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
15826 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
15827 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
15831 Changes in version 0.2.4.26 - 2015-03-17
15832 Tor 0.2.4.26 includes an updated list of directory authorities. It
15833 also backports a couple of stability and security bugfixes from 0.2.5
15836 o Directory authority changes:
15837 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
15838 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
15839 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
15840 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
15841 closes ticket 14487.
15843 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability, also in 0.2.6.3-alpha):
15844 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
15845 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
15846 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
15848 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security, also in 0.2.6.4-rc):
15849 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
15850 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
15851 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
15852 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
15853 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
15854 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
15855 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
15857 o Minor features (geoip):
15858 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
15859 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
15862 Changes in version 0.2.5.10 - 2014-10-24
15863 Tor 0.2.5.10 is the first stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
15865 It adds several new security features, including improved
15866 denial-of-service resistance for relays, new compiler hardening
15867 options, and a system-call sandbox for hardened installations on Linux
15868 (requires seccomp2). The controller protocol has several new features,
15869 resolving IPv6 addresses should work better than before, and relays
15870 should be a little more CPU-efficient. We've added support for more
15871 OpenBSD and FreeBSD transparent proxy types. We've improved the build
15872 system and testing infrastructure to allow unit testing of more parts
15873 of the Tor codebase. Finally, we've addressed several nagging pluggable
15874 transport usability issues, and included numerous other small bugfixes
15875 and features mentioned below.
15877 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.2.3.x; those Tor versions
15878 have accumulated many known flaws; everyone should upgrade.
15880 o Major features (security):
15881 - The ntor handshake is now on-by-default, no matter what the
15882 directory authorities recommend. Implements ticket 8561.
15883 - Make the "tor-gencert" tool used by directory authority operators
15884 create 2048-bit signing keys by default (rather than 1024-bit, since
15885 1024-bit is uncomfortably small these days). Addresses ticket 10324.
15886 - Warn about attempts to run hidden services and relays in the same
15887 process: that's probably not a good idea. Closes ticket 12908.
15888 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
15889 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
15890 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
15892 o Major features (relay security, DoS-resistance):
15893 - When deciding whether we have run out of memory and we need to
15894 close circuits, also consider memory allocated in buffers for
15895 streams attached to each circuit.
15897 This change, which extends an anti-DoS feature introduced in
15898 0.2.4.13-alpha and improved in 0.2.4.14-alpha, lets Tor exit relays
15899 better resist more memory-based DoS attacks than before. Since the
15900 MaxMemInCellQueues option now applies to all queues, it is renamed
15901 to MaxMemInQueues. This feature fixes bug 10169.
15902 - Avoid hash-flooding denial-of-service attacks by using the secure
15903 SipHash-2-4 hash function for our hashtables. Without this
15904 feature, an attacker could degrade performance of a targeted
15905 client or server by flooding their data structures with a large
15906 number of entries to be stored at the same hash table position,
15907 thereby slowing down the Tor instance. With this feature, hash
15908 table positions are derived from a randomized cryptographic key,
15909 and an attacker cannot predict which entries will collide. Closes
15911 - If you don't specify MaxMemInQueues yourself, Tor now tries to
15912 pick a good value based on your total system memory. Previously,
15913 the default was always 8 GB. You can still override the default by
15914 setting MaxMemInQueues yourself. Resolves ticket 11396.
15916 o Major features (bridges and pluggable transports):
15917 - Add support for passing arguments to managed pluggable transport
15918 proxies. Implements ticket 3594.
15919 - Bridges now track GeoIP information and the number of their users
15920 even when pluggable transports are in use, and report usage
15921 statistics in their extra-info descriptors. Resolves tickets 4773
15923 - Don't launch pluggable transport proxies if we don't have any
15924 bridges configured that would use them. Now we can list many
15925 pluggable transports, and Tor will dynamically start one when it
15926 hears a bridge address that needs it. Resolves ticket 5018.
15927 - The bridge directory authority now assigns status flags (Stable,
15928 Guard, etc) to bridges based on thresholds calculated over all
15929 Running bridges. Now bridgedb can finally make use of its features
15930 to e.g. include at least one Stable bridge in its answers. Fixes
15933 o Major features (controller):
15934 - Extend ORCONN controller event to include an "ID" parameter,
15935 and add four new controller event types CONN_BW, CIRC_BW,
15936 CELL_STATS, and TB_EMPTY that show connection and circuit usage.
15937 The new events are emitted in private Tor networks only, with the
15938 goal of being able to better track performance and load during
15939 full-network simulations. Implements proposal 218 and ticket 7359.
15941 o Major features (relay performance):
15942 - Speed up server-side lookups of rendezvous and introduction point
15943 circuits by using hashtables instead of linear searches. These
15944 functions previously accounted between 3 and 7% of CPU usage on
15945 some busy relays. Resolves ticket 9841.
15946 - Avoid wasting CPU when extending a circuit over a channel that is
15947 nearly out of circuit IDs. Previously, we would do a linear scan
15948 over possible circuit IDs before finding one or deciding that we
15949 had exhausted our possibilities. Now, we try at most 64 random
15950 circuit IDs before deciding that we probably won't succeed. Fixes
15951 a possible root cause of ticket 11553.
15953 o Major features (seccomp2 sandbox, Linux only):
15954 - Use the seccomp2 syscall filtering facility on Linux to limit
15955 which system calls Tor can invoke. This is an experimental,
15956 Linux-only feature to provide defense-in-depth against unknown
15957 attacks. To try turning it on, set "Sandbox 1" in your torrc
15958 file. Please be ready to report bugs. We hope to add support
15959 for better sandboxing in the future, including more fine-grained
15960 filters, better division of responsibility, and support for more
15961 platforms. This work has been done by Cristian-Matei Toader for
15962 Google Summer of Code. Resolves tickets 11351 and 11465.
15964 o Major features (testing networks):
15965 - Make testing Tor networks bootstrap better: lower directory fetch
15966 retry schedules and maximum interval without directory requests,
15967 and raise maximum download tries. Implements ticket 6752.
15968 - Add make target 'test-network' to run tests on a Chutney network.
15969 Implements ticket 8530.
15971 o Major features (other):
15972 - On some platforms (currently: recent OSX versions, glibc-based
15973 platforms that support the ELF format, and a few other
15974 Unix-like operating systems), Tor can now dump stack traces
15975 when a crash occurs or an assertion fails. By default, traces
15976 are dumped to stderr (if possible) and to any logs that are
15977 reporting errors. Implements ticket 9299.
15979 o Deprecated versions:
15980 - Tor 0.2.3.x has reached end-of-life; it has received no patches or
15981 attention for some while.
15983 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authorities):
15984 - Directory authorities now include a digest of each relay's
15985 identity key as a part of its microdescriptor.
15987 This is a workaround for bug 11743 (reported by "cypherpunks"),
15988 where Tor clients do not support receiving multiple
15989 microdescriptors with the same SHA256 digest in the same
15990 consensus. When clients receive a consensus like this, they only
15991 use one of the relays. Without this fix, a hostile relay could
15992 selectively disable some client use of target relays by
15993 constructing a router descriptor with a different identity and the
15994 same microdescriptor parameters and getting the authorities to
15995 list it in a microdescriptor consensus. This fix prevents an
15996 attacker from causing a microdescriptor collision, because the
15997 router's identity is not forgeable.
15999 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround):
16000 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
16001 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes
16002 bug 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
16004 o Major bugfixes (client):
16005 - Perform circuit cleanup operations even when circuit
16006 construction operations are disabled (because the network is
16007 disabled, or because there isn't enough directory information).
16008 Previously, when we were not building predictive circuits, we
16009 were not closing expired circuits either. Fixes bug 8387; bugfix on
16010 0.1.1.11-alpha. This bug became visible in 0.2.4.10-alpha when we
16011 became more strict about when we have "enough directory information
16012 to build circuits".
16014 o Major bugfixes (client, pluggable transports):
16015 - When managing pluggable transports, use OS notification facilities
16016 to learn if they have crashed, and don't attempt to kill any
16017 process that has already exited. Fixes bug 8746; bugfix
16020 o Major bugfixes (relay denial of service):
16021 - Instead of writing destroy cells directly to outgoing connection
16022 buffers, queue them and intersperse them with other outgoing cells.
16023 This can prevent a set of resource starvation conditions where too
16024 many pending destroy cells prevent data cells from actually getting
16025 delivered. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed". Fixes bug 7912;
16026 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
16028 o Major bugfixes (relay):
16029 - Avoid queuing or sending destroy cells for circuit ID zero when we
16030 fail to send a CREATE cell. Fixes bug 12848; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
16031 Found and fixed by "cypherpunks".
16032 - Fix ORPort reachability detection on relays running behind a
16033 proxy, by correctly updating the "local" mark on the controlling
16034 channel when changing the address of an or_connection_t after the
16035 handshake. Fixes bug 12160; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
16036 - Use a direct dirport connection when uploading non-anonymous
16037 descriptors to the directory authorities. Previously, relays would
16038 incorrectly use tunnel connections under a fairly wide variety of
16039 circumstances. Fixes bug 11469; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
16040 - When a circuit accidentally has the same circuit ID for its
16041 forward and reverse direction, correctly detect the direction of
16042 cells using that circuit. Previously, this bug made roughly one
16043 circuit in a million non-functional. Fixes bug 12195; this is a
16044 bugfix on every version of Tor.
16046 o Minor features (security):
16047 - New --enable-expensive-hardening option to enable security
16048 hardening options that consume nontrivial amounts of CPU and
16049 memory. Right now, this includes AddressSanitizer and UbSan, which
16050 are supported in newer versions of GCC and Clang. Closes ticket
16052 - Authorities now assign the Guard flag to the fastest 25% of the
16053 network (it used to be the fastest 50%). Also raise the consensus
16054 weight that guarantees the Guard flag from 250 to 2000. For the
16055 current network, this results in about 1100 guards, down from 2500.
16056 This step paves the way for moving the number of entry guards
16057 down to 1 (proposal 236) while still providing reasonable expected
16058 performance for most users. Implements ticket 12690.
16060 o Minor features (security, memory management):
16061 - Memory allocation tricks (mempools and buffer freelists) are now
16062 disabled by default. You can turn them back on with
16063 --enable-mempools and --enable-buf-freelists respectively. We're
16064 disabling these features because malloc performance is good enough
16065 on most platforms, and a similar feature in OpenSSL exacerbated
16066 exploitation of the Heartbleed attack. Resolves ticket 11476.
16068 o Minor features (bridge client):
16069 - Report a more useful failure message when we can't connect to a
16070 bridge because we don't have the right pluggable transport
16071 configured. Resolves ticket 9665. Patch from Fábio J. Bertinatto.
16073 o Minor features (bridge):
16074 - Add an ExtORPortCookieAuthFileGroupReadable option to make the
16075 cookie file for the ExtORPort g+r by default.
16077 o Minor features (bridges, pluggable transports):
16078 - Bridges now write the SHA1 digest of their identity key
16079 fingerprint (that is, a hash of a hash of their public key) to
16080 notice-level logs, and to a new hashed-fingerprint file. This
16081 information will help bridge operators look up their bridge in
16082 Globe and similar tools. Resolves ticket 10884.
16083 - Improve the message that Tor displays when running as a bridge
16084 using pluggable transports without an Extended ORPort listener.
16085 Also, log the message in the log file too. Resolves ticket 11043.
16086 - Add threshold cutoffs to the networkstatus document created by
16087 the Bridge Authority. Fixes bug 1117.
16088 - On Windows, spawn background processes using the CREATE_NO_WINDOW
16089 flag. Now Tor Browser Bundle 3.5 with pluggable transports enabled
16090 doesn't pop up a blank console window. (In Tor Browser Bundle 2.x,
16091 Vidalia set this option for us.) Implements ticket 10297.
16093 o Minor features (build):
16094 - The configure script has a --disable-seccomp option to turn off
16095 support for libseccomp on systems that have it, in case it (or
16096 Tor's use of it) is broken. Resolves ticket 11628.
16097 - Assume that a user using ./configure --host wants to cross-compile,
16098 and give an error if we cannot find a properly named
16099 tool-chain. Add a --disable-tool-name-check option to proceed
16100 nevertheless. Addresses ticket 9869. Patch by Benedikt Gollatz.
16101 - If we run ./configure and the compiler recognizes -fstack-protector
16102 but the linker rejects it, warn the user about a potentially missing
16103 libssp package. Addresses ticket 9948. Patch from Benedikt Gollatz.
16104 - Add support for `--library-versions` flag. Implements ticket 6384.
16105 - Return the "unexpected sendme" warnings to a warn severity, but make
16106 them rate limited, to help diagnose ticket 8093.
16107 - Detect a missing asciidoc, and warn the user about it, during
16108 configure rather than at build time. Fixes issue 6506. Patch from
16111 o Minor features (client):
16112 - Add a new option, PredictedPortsRelevanceTime, to control how long
16113 after having received a request to connect to a given port Tor
16114 will try to keep circuits ready in anticipation of future requests
16115 for that port. Patch from "unixninja92"; implements ticket 9176.
16117 o Minor features (config options and command line):
16118 - Add an --allow-missing-torrc commandline option that tells Tor to
16119 run even if the configuration file specified by -f is not available.
16120 Implements ticket 10060.
16121 - Add support for the TPROXY transparent proxying facility on Linux.
16122 See documentation for the new TransProxyType option for more
16123 details. Implementation by "thomo". Closes ticket 10582.
16125 o Minor features (config options):
16126 - Config (torrc) lines now handle fingerprints which are missing
16127 their initial '$'. Resolves ticket 4341; improvement over 0.0.9pre5.
16128 - Support a --dump-config option to print some or all of the
16129 configured options. Mainly useful for debugging the command-line
16130 option parsing code. Helps resolve ticket 4647.
16131 - Raise awareness of safer logging: notify user of potentially
16132 unsafe config options, like logging more verbosely than severity
16133 "notice" or setting SafeLogging to 0. Resolves ticket 5584.
16134 - Add a new configuration option TestingV3AuthVotingStartOffset
16135 that bootstraps a network faster by changing the timing for
16136 consensus votes. Addresses ticket 8532.
16137 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportOptions" that allows
16138 bridge operators to pass configuration parameters to their
16139 pluggable transports. Resolves ticket 8929.
16140 - The config (torrc) file now accepts bandwidth and space limits in
16141 bits as well as bytes. (Anywhere that you can say "2 Kilobytes",
16142 you can now say "16 kilobits", and so on.) Resolves ticket 9214.
16145 o Minor features (controller):
16146 - Make the entire exit policy available from the control port via
16147 GETINFO exit-policy/*. Implements enhancement 7952. Patch from
16149 - Because of the fix for ticket 11396, the real limit for memory
16150 usage may no longer match the configured MaxMemInQueues value. The
16151 real limit is now exposed via GETINFO limits/max-mem-in-queues.
16152 - Add a new "HS_DESC" controller event that reports activities
16153 related to hidden service descriptors. Resolves ticket 8510.
16154 - New "DROPGUARDS" controller command to forget all current entry
16155 guards. Not recommended for ordinary use, since replacing guards
16156 too frequently makes several attacks easier. Resolves ticket 9934;
16158 - Implement the TRANSPORT_LAUNCHED control port event that
16159 notifies controllers about new launched pluggable
16160 transports. Resolves ticket 5609.
16162 o Minor features (diagnostic):
16163 - When logging a warning because of bug 7164, additionally check the
16164 hash table for consistency (as proposed on ticket 11737). This may
16165 help diagnose bug 7164.
16166 - When we log a heartbeat, log how many one-hop circuits we have
16167 that are at least 30 minutes old, and log status information about
16168 a few of them. This is an attempt to track down bug 8387.
16169 - When encountering an unexpected CR while writing text to a file on
16170 Windows, log the name of the file. Should help diagnosing
16172 - Give more specific warnings when a client notices that an onion
16173 handshake has failed. Fixes ticket 9635.
16174 - Add significant new logging code to attempt to diagnose bug 12184,
16175 where relays seem to run out of available circuit IDs.
16176 - Improve the diagnostic log message for bug 8387 even further to
16177 try to improve our odds of figuring out why one-hop directory
16178 circuits sometimes do not get closed.
16179 - Add more log messages to diagnose bug 7164, which causes
16180 intermittent "microdesc_free() called but md was still referenced"
16181 warnings. We now include more information, to figure out why we
16182 might be cleaning a microdescriptor for being too old if it's
16183 still referenced by a live node_t object.
16184 - Log current accounting state (bytes sent and received + remaining
16185 time for the current accounting period) in the relay's heartbeat
16186 message. Implements ticket 5526; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
16188 o Minor features (geoip):
16189 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
16192 o Minor features (interface):
16193 - Generate a warning if any ports are listed in the SocksPolicy,
16194 DirPolicy, AuthDirReject, AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, or
16195 AuthDirBadExit options. (These options only support address
16196 ranges.) Fixes part of ticket 11108.
16198 o Minor features (kernel API usage):
16199 - Use the SOCK_NONBLOCK socket type, if supported, to open nonblocking
16200 sockets in a single system call. Implements ticket 5129.
16202 o Minor features (log messages):
16203 - When ServerTransportPlugin is set on a bridge, Tor can write more
16204 useful statistics about bridge use in its extrainfo descriptors,
16205 but only if the Extended ORPort ("ExtORPort") is set too. Add a
16206 log message to inform the user in this case. Resolves ticket 9651.
16207 - When receiving a new controller connection, log the origin address.
16208 Resolves ticket 9698; patch from "sigpipe".
16209 - When logging OpenSSL engine status at startup, log the status of
16210 more engines. Fixes ticket 10043; patch from Joshua Datko.
16212 o Minor features (log verbosity):
16213 - Demote the message that we give when a flushing connection times
16214 out for too long from NOTICE to INFO. It was usually meaningless.
16215 Resolves ticket 5286.
16216 - Don't log so many notice-level bootstrapping messages at startup
16217 about downloading descriptors. Previously, we'd log a notice
16218 whenever we learned about more routers. Now, we only log a notice
16219 at every 5% of progress. Fixes bug 9963.
16220 - Warn less verbosely when receiving a malformed
16221 ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cell. Fixes ticket 11279.
16223 o Minor features (performance):
16224 - If we're using the pure-C 32-bit curve25519_donna implementation
16225 of curve25519, build it with the -fomit-frame-pointer option to
16226 make it go faster on register-starved hosts. This improves our
16227 handshake performance by about 6% on i386 hosts without nacl.
16228 Closes ticket 8109.
16230 o Minor features (relay):
16231 - If a circuit timed out for at least 3 minutes, check if we have a
16232 new external IP address, and publish a new descriptor with the new
16233 IP address if it changed. Resolves ticket 2454.
16235 o Minor features (testing):
16236 - If Python is installed, "make check" now runs extra tests beyond
16237 the unit test scripts.
16238 - When bootstrapping a test network, sometimes very few relays get
16239 the Guard flag. Now a new option "TestingDirAuthVoteGuard" can
16240 specify a set of relays which should be voted Guard regardless of
16241 their uptime or bandwidth. Addresses ticket 9206.
16243 o Minor features (transparent proxy, *BSD):
16244 - Support FreeBSD's ipfw firewall interface for TransPort ports on
16245 FreeBSD. To enable it, set "TransProxyType ipfw". Resolves ticket
16246 10267; patch from "yurivict".
16247 - Support OpenBSD's divert-to rules with the pf firewall for
16248 transparent proxy ports. To enable it, set "TransProxyType
16249 pf-divert". This allows Tor to run a TransPort transparent proxy
16250 port on OpenBSD 4.4 or later without root privileges. See the
16251 pf.conf(5) manual page for information on configuring pf to use
16252 divert-to rules. Closes ticket 10896; patch from Dana Koch.
16254 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client):
16255 - Stop accepting bridge lines containing hostnames. Doing so would
16256 cause clients to perform DNS requests on the hostnames, which was
16257 not sensible behavior. Fixes bug 10801; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
16259 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
16260 - Avoid potential crashes or bad behavior when launching a
16261 server-side managed proxy with ORPort or ExtORPort temporarily
16262 disabled. Fixes bug 9650; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
16263 - Fix a bug where the first connection works to a bridge that uses a
16264 pluggable transport with client-side parameters, but we don't send
16265 the client-side parameters on subsequent connections. (We don't
16266 use any pluggable transports with client-side parameters yet,
16267 but ScrambleSuit will soon become the first one.) Fixes bug 9162;
16268 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Based on a patch from "rl1987".
16270 o Minor bugfixes (build, auxiliary programs):
16271 - Stop preprocessing the "torify" script with autoconf, since
16272 it no longer refers to LOCALSTATEDIR. Fixes bug 5505; patch
16274 - The tor-fw-helper program now follows the standard convention and
16275 exits with status code "0" on success. Fixes bug 9030; bugfix on
16276 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Arlo Breault.
16277 - Corrected ./configure advice for what openssl dev package you should
16278 install on Debian. Fixes bug 9207; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
16280 o Minor bugfixes (client):
16281 - Avoid "Tried to open a socket with DisableNetwork set" warnings
16282 when starting a client with bridges configured and DisableNetwork
16283 set. (Tor launcher starts Tor with DisableNetwork set the first
16284 time it runs.) Fixes bug 10405; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
16285 - Improve the log message when we can't connect to a hidden service
16286 because all of the hidden service directory nodes hosting its
16287 descriptor are excluded. Improves on our fix for bug 10722, which
16288 was a bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
16289 - Raise a control port warning when we fail to connect to all of
16290 our bridges. Previously, we didn't inform the controller, and
16291 the bootstrap process would stall. Fixes bug 11069; bugfix on
16293 - Exit immediately when a process-owning controller exits.
16294 Previously, tor relays would wait for a little while after their
16295 controller exited, as if they had gotten an INT signal -- but this
16296 was problematic, since there was no feedback for the user. To do a
16297 clean shutdown, controllers should send an INT signal and give Tor
16298 a chance to clean up. Fixes bug 10449; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
16299 - Stop attempting to connect to bridges before our pluggable
16300 transports are configured (harmless but resulted in some erroneous
16301 log messages). Fixes bug 11156; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
16302 - Fix connections to IPv6 addresses over SOCKS5. Previously, we were
16303 generating incorrect SOCKS5 responses, and confusing client
16304 applications. Fixes bug 10987; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
16306 o Minor bugfixes (client, DNSPort):
16307 - When using DNSPort, try to respond to AAAA requests with AAAA
16308 answers. Previously, we hadn't looked at the request type when
16309 deciding which answer type to prefer. Fixes bug 10468; bugfix on
16311 - When receiving a DNS query for an unsupported record type, reply
16312 with no answer rather than with a NOTIMPL error. This behavior
16313 isn't correct either, but it will break fewer client programs, we
16314 hope. Fixes bug 10268; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Original patch
16317 o Minor bugfixes (client, logging during bootstrap):
16318 - Only report the first fatal bootstrap error on a given OR
16319 connection. This stops us from telling the controller bogus error
16320 messages like "DONE". Fixes bug 10431; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
16321 - Avoid generating spurious warnings when starting with
16322 DisableNetwork enabled. Fixes bug 11200 and bug 10405; bugfix on
16325 o Minor bugfixes (closing OR connections):
16326 - If write_to_buf() in connection_write_to_buf_impl_() ever fails,
16327 check if it's an or_connection_t and correctly call
16328 connection_or_close_for_error() rather than
16329 connection_mark_for_close() directly. Fixes bug 11304; bugfix on
16331 - When closing all connections on setting DisableNetwork to 1, use
16332 connection_or_close_normally() rather than closing OR connections
16333 out from under the channel layer. Fixes bug 11306; bugfix on
16336 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
16337 - Previously we used two temporary files when writing descriptors to
16338 disk; now we only use one. Fixes bug 1376.
16339 - Remove an erroneous (but impossible and thus harmless) pointer
16340 comparison that would have allowed compilers to skip a bounds
16341 check in channeltls.c. Fixes bugs 10313 and 9980; bugfix on
16342 0.2.0.10-alpha. Noticed by Jared L Wong and David Fifield.
16343 - Fix an always-true assertion in pluggable transports code so it
16344 actually checks what it was trying to check. Fixes bug 10046;
16345 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Found by "dcb".
16347 o Minor bugfixes (command line):
16348 - Use a single command-line parser for parsing torrc options on the
16349 command line and for finding special command-line options to avoid
16350 inconsistent behavior for torrc option arguments that have the same
16351 names as command-line options. Fixes bugs 4647 and 9578; bugfix on
16353 - No longer allow 'tor --hash-password' with no arguments. Fixes bug
16354 9573; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
16356 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
16357 - Compile correctly with builds and forks of OpenSSL (such as
16358 LibreSSL) that disable compression. Fixes bug 12602; bugfix on
16359 0.2.1.1-alpha. Patch from "dhill".
16360 - Restore the ability to compile Tor with V2_HANDSHAKE_SERVER
16361 turned off (that is, without support for v2 link handshakes). Fixes
16362 bug 4677; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Patch from "piet".
16363 - In routerlist_assert_ok(), don't take the address of a
16364 routerinfo's cache_info member unless that routerinfo is non-NULL.
16365 Fixes bug 13096; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha. Patch by "teor".
16366 - Fix a large number of false positive warnings from the clang
16367 analyzer static analysis tool. This should make real warnings
16368 easier for clang analyzer to find. Patch from "teor". Closes
16370 - Resolve GCC complaints on OpenBSD about discarding constness in
16371 TO_{ORIGIN,OR}_CIRCUIT functions. Fixes part of bug 11633; bugfix
16372 on 0.1.1.23. Patch from Dana Koch.
16373 - Resolve clang complaints on OpenBSD with -Wshorten-64-to-32 due to
16374 treatment of long and time_t as comparable types. Fixes part of
16375 bug 11633. Patch from Dana Koch.
16376 - When deciding whether to build the 64-bit curve25519
16377 implementation, detect platforms where we can compile 128-bit
16378 arithmetic but cannot link it. Fixes bug 11729; bugfix on
16379 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch from "conradev".
16380 - Fix compilation when DNS_CACHE_DEBUG is enabled. Fixes bug 11761;
16381 bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha. Found by "cypherpunks".
16382 - Fix compilation with dmalloc. Fixes bug 11605; bugfix
16384 - Build and run correctly on systems like OpenBSD-current that have
16385 patched OpenSSL to remove get_cipher_by_char and/or its
16386 implementations. Fixes issue 13325.
16388 o Minor bugfixes (controller and command-line):
16389 - If changing a config option via "setconf" fails in a recoverable
16390 way, we used to nonetheless write our new control ports to the
16391 file described by the "ControlPortWriteToFile" option. Now we only
16392 write out that file if we successfully switch to the new config
16393 option. Fixes bug 5605; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch from "Ryman".
16395 o Minor bugfixes (directory server):
16396 - No longer accept malformed http headers when parsing urls from
16397 headers. Now we reply with Bad Request ("400"). Fixes bug 2767;
16398 bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
16399 - When sending a compressed set of descriptors or microdescriptors,
16400 make sure to finalize the zlib stream. Previously, we would write
16401 all the compressed data, but if the last descriptor we wanted to
16402 send was missing or too old, we would not mark the stream as
16403 finished. This caused problems for decompression tools. Fixes bug
16404 11648; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
16406 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
16407 - Only retry attempts to connect to a chosen rendezvous point 8
16408 times, not 30. Fixes bug 4241; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
16410 o Minor bugfixes (interface):
16411 - Reject relative control socket paths and emit a warning. Previously,
16412 single-component control socket paths would be rejected, but Tor
16413 would not log why it could not validate the config. Fixes bug 9258;
16414 bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
16416 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
16417 - Fix a bug where clients using bridges would report themselves
16418 as 50% bootstrapped even without a live consensus document.
16419 Fixes bug 9922; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
16420 - Suppress a warning where, if there's only one directory authority
16421 in the network, we would complain that votes and signatures cannot
16422 be uploaded to other directory authorities. Fixes bug 10842;
16423 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
16424 - Report bootstrapping progress correctly when we're downloading
16425 microdescriptors. We had updated our "do we have enough microdescs
16426 to begin building circuits?" logic most recently in 0.2.4.10-alpha
16427 (see bug 5956), but we left the bootstrap status event logic at
16428 "how far through getting 1/4 of them are we?" Fixes bug 9958;
16429 bugfix on 0.2.2.36, which is where they diverged (see bug 5343).
16431 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
16432 - Downgrade "Unexpected onionskin length after decryption" warning
16433 to a protocol-warn, since there's nothing relay operators can do
16434 about a client that sends them a malformed create cell. Resolves
16435 bug 12996; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
16436 - Log more specific warnings when we get an ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS
16437 cell on a cannibalized or non-OR circuit. Resolves ticket 12997.
16438 - When logging information about an EXTEND2 or EXTENDED2 cell, log
16439 their names correctly. Fixes part of bug 12700; bugfix
16441 - When logging information about a relay cell whose command we don't
16442 recognize, log its command as an integer. Fixes part of bug 12700;
16443 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
16444 - Escape all strings from the directory connection before logging
16445 them. Fixes bug 13071; bugfix on 0.1.1.15. Patch from "teor".
16446 - Squelch a spurious LD_BUG message "No origin circuit for
16447 successful SOCKS stream" in certain hidden service failure cases;
16449 - Downgrade the severity of the 'unexpected sendme cell from client'
16450 from 'warn' to 'protocol warning'. Closes ticket 8093.
16452 o Minor bugfixes (misc code correctness):
16453 - In munge_extrainfo_into_routerinfo(), check the return value of
16454 memchr(). This would have been a serious issue if we ever passed
16455 it a non-extrainfo. Fixes bug 8791; bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Patch
16457 - On the chance that somebody manages to build Tor on a
16458 platform where time_t is unsigned, correct the way that
16459 microdesc_add_to_cache() handles negative time arguments.
16460 Fixes bug 8042; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
16461 - Fix various instances of undefined behavior in channeltls.c,
16462 tor_memmem(), and eventdns.c that would cause us to construct
16463 pointers to memory outside an allocated object. (These invalid
16464 pointers were not accessed, but C does not even allow them to
16465 exist.) Fixes bug 10363; bugfixes on 0.1.1.1-alpha, 0.1.2.1-alpha,
16466 0.2.0.10-alpha, and 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "bobnomnom".
16467 - Use the AddressSanitizer and Ubsan sanitizers (in clang-3.4) to
16468 fix some miscellaneous errors in our tests and codebase. Fixes bug
16469 11232. Bugfixes on versions back as far as 0.2.1.11-alpha.
16470 - Always check return values for unlink, munmap, UnmapViewOfFile;
16471 check strftime return values more often. In some cases all we can
16472 do is report a warning, but this may help prevent deeper bugs from
16473 going unnoticed. Closes ticket 8787; bugfixes on many, many tor
16475 - Fix numerous warnings from the clang "scan-build" static analyzer.
16476 Some of these are programming style issues; some of them are false
16477 positives that indicated awkward code; some are undefined behavior
16478 cases related to constructing (but not using) invalid pointers;
16479 some are assumptions about API behavior; some are (harmlessly)
16480 logging sizeof(ptr) bytes from a token when sizeof(*ptr) would be
16481 correct; and one or two are genuine bugs that weren't reachable
16482 from the rest of the program. Fixes bug 8793; bugfixes on many,
16485 o Minor bugfixes (node selection):
16486 - If ExcludeNodes is set, consider non-excluded hidden service
16487 directory servers before excluded ones. Do not consider excluded
16488 hidden service directory servers at all if StrictNodes is
16489 set. (Previously, we would sometimes decide to connect to those
16490 servers, and then realize before we initiated a connection that
16491 we had excluded them.) Fixes bug 10722; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
16492 Reported by "mr-4".
16493 - If we set the ExitNodes option but it doesn't include any nodes
16494 that have the Exit flag, we would choose not to bootstrap. Now we
16495 bootstrap so long as ExitNodes includes nodes which can exit to
16496 some port. Fixes bug 10543; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
16498 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
16499 - Avoid a bug where every successful connection made us recompute
16500 the flag telling us whether we have sufficient information to
16501 build circuits. Previously, we would forget our cached value
16502 whenever we successfully opened a channel (or marked a router as
16503 running or not running for any other reason), regardless of
16504 whether we had previously believed the router to be running. This
16505 forced us to run an expensive update operation far too often.
16506 Fixes bug 12170; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
16507 - Avoid using tor_memeq() for checking relay cell integrity. This
16508 removes a possible performance bottleneck. Fixes part of bug
16509 12169; bugfix on 0.2.1.31.
16511 o Minor bugfixes (platform-specific):
16512 - When dumping a malformed directory object to disk, save it in
16513 binary mode on Windows, not text mode. Fixes bug 11342; bugfix on
16515 - Don't report failures from make_socket_reuseable() on incoming
16516 sockets on OSX: this can happen when incoming connections close
16517 early. Fixes bug 10081.
16519 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
16520 - Avoid another 60-second delay when starting Tor in a pluggable-
16521 transport-using configuration when we already have cached
16522 descriptors for our bridges. Fixes bug 11965; bugfix
16525 o Minor bugfixes (protocol correctness):
16526 - When receiving a VERSIONS cell with an odd number of bytes, close
16527 the connection immediately since the cell is malformed. Fixes bug
16528 10365; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom"; fix by
16531 o Minor bugfixes (relay, other):
16532 - We now drop CREATE cells for already-existent circuit IDs and for
16533 zero-valued circuit IDs, regardless of other factors that might
16534 otherwise have called for DESTROY cells. Fixes bug 12191; bugfix
16536 - When rejecting DATA cells for stream_id zero, still count them
16537 against the circuit's deliver window so that we don't fail to send
16538 a SENDME. Fixes bug 11246; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
16540 o Minor bugfixes (relay, threading):
16541 - Check return code on spawn_func() in cpuworker code, so that we
16542 don't think we've spawned a nonworking cpuworker and write junk to
16543 it forever. Fix related to bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor
16544 versions. Found by "skruffy".
16545 - Use a pthread_attr to make sure that spawn_func() cannot return an
16546 error while at the same time launching a thread. Fix related to
16547 bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor versions. Reported
16550 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges):
16551 - Avoid crashing on a malformed resolv.conf file when running a
16552 relay using Libevent 1. Fixes bug 8788; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
16553 - Non-exit relays no longer launch mock DNS requests to check for
16554 DNS hijacking. This has been unnecessary since 0.2.1.7-alpha, when
16555 non-exit relays stopped servicing DNS requests. Fixes bug 965;
16556 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Patch from Matt Pagan.
16557 - Bridges now report complete directory request statistics. Related
16558 to bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
16559 - Bridges now never collect statistics that were designed for
16560 relays. Fixes bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
16562 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
16563 - Fix all valgrind warnings produced by the unit tests. There were
16564 over a thousand memory leak warnings previously, mostly produced
16565 by forgetting to free things in the unit test code. Fixes bug
16566 11618, bugfixes on many versions of Tor.
16568 o Minor bugfixes (tor-fw-helper):
16569 - Give a correct log message when tor-fw-helper fails to launch.
16570 (Previously, we would say something like "tor-fw-helper sent us a
16571 string we could not parse".) Fixes bug 9781; bugfix
16574 o Minor bugfixes (trivial memory leaks):
16575 - Fix a small memory leak when signing a directory object. Fixes bug
16576 11275; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
16577 - Resolve some memory leaks found by coverity in the unit tests, on
16578 exit in tor-gencert, and on a failure to compute digests for our
16579 own keys when generating a v3 networkstatus vote. These leaks
16580 should never have affected anyone in practice.
16582 o Code simplification and refactoring:
16583 - Remove some old fallback code designed to keep Tor clients working
16584 in a network with only two working relays. Elsewhere in the code we
16585 have long since stopped supporting such networks, so there wasn't
16586 much point in keeping it around. Addresses ticket 9926.
16587 - Reject 0-length EXTEND2 cells more explicitly. Fixes bug 10536;
16588 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported by "cypherpunks".
16589 - Extract the common duplicated code for creating a subdirectory
16590 of the data directory and writing to a file in it. Fixes ticket
16591 4282; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
16592 - Since OpenSSL 0.9.7, the i2d_*() functions support allocating output
16593 buffer. Avoid calling twice: i2d_RSAPublicKey(), i2d_DHparams(),
16594 i2d_X509(), and i2d_PublicKey(). Resolves ticket 5170.
16595 - Add a set of accessor functions for the circuit timeout data
16596 structure. Fixes ticket 6153; patch from "piet".
16597 - Clean up exit paths from connection_listener_new(). Closes ticket
16598 8789. Patch from Arlo Breault.
16599 - Since we rely on OpenSSL 0.9.8 now, we can use EVP_PKEY_cmp()
16600 and drop our own custom pkey_eq() implementation. Fixes bug 9043.
16601 - Use a doubly-linked list to implement the global circuit list.
16602 Resolves ticket 9108. Patch from Marek Majkowski.
16603 - Remove contrib/id_to_fp.c since it wasn't used anywhere.
16604 - Remove constants and tests for PKCS1 padding; it's insecure and
16605 shouldn't be used for anything new. Fixes bug 8792; patch
16607 - Remove instances of strcpy() from the unit tests. They weren't
16608 hurting anything, since they were only in the unit tests, but it's
16609 embarrassing to have strcpy() in the code at all, and some analysis
16610 tools don't like it. Fixes bug 8790; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha and
16611 0.2.3.8-alpha. Patch from Arlo Breault.
16612 - Remove is_internal_IP() function. Resolves ticket 4645.
16613 - Remove unused function circuit_dump_by_chan from circuitlist.c.
16614 Closes issue 9107; patch from "marek".
16615 - Change our use of the ENUM_BF macro to avoid declarations that
16617 - Get rid of router->address, since in all cases it was just the
16618 string representation of router->addr. Resolves ticket 5528.
16621 - Adjust the URLs in the README to refer to the new locations of
16622 several documents on the website. Fixes bug 12830. Patch from
16624 - Document 'reject6' and 'accept6' ExitPolicy entries. Resolves
16626 - Update manpage to describe some of the files you can expect to
16627 find in Tor's DataDirectory. Addresses ticket 9839.
16628 - Clean up several option names in the manpage to match their real
16629 names, add the missing documentation for a couple of testing and
16630 directory authority options, remove the documentation for a
16631 V2-directory fetching option that no longer exists. Resolves
16633 - Correct the documentation so that it lists the correct directory
16634 for the stats files. (They are in a subdirectory called "stats",
16636 - In the manpage, move more authority-only options into the
16637 directory authority section so that operators of regular directory
16638 caches don't get confused.
16639 - Fix the layout of the SOCKSPort flags in the manpage. Fixes bug
16640 11061; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
16641 - Resolve warnings from Doxygen.
16642 - Document in the manpage that "KBytes" may also be written as
16643 "kilobytes" or "KB", that "Kbits" may also be written as
16644 "kilobits", and so forth. Closes ticket 9222.
16645 - Document that the ClientOnly config option overrides ORPort.
16646 Our old explanation made ClientOnly sound as though it did
16647 nothing at all. Resolves bug 9059.
16648 - Explain that SocksPolicy, DirPolicy, and similar options don't
16649 take port arguments. Fixes the other part of ticket 11108.
16650 - Fix a comment about the rend_server_descriptor_t.protocols field
16651 to more accurately describe its range. Also, make that field
16652 unsigned, to more accurately reflect its usage. Fixes bug 9099;
16653 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
16654 - Fix the manpage's description of HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient:
16655 the maximum client name length is 16, not 19. Fixes bug 11118;
16656 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
16659 - The contrib directory has been sorted and tidied. Before, it was
16660 an unsorted dumping ground for useful and not-so-useful things.
16661 Now, it is divided based on functionality, and the items which
16662 seemed to be nonfunctional or useless have been removed. Resolves
16663 ticket 8966; based on patches from "rl1987".
16665 o Removed code and features:
16666 - Clients now reject any directory authority certificates lacking
16667 a dir-key-crosscert element. These have been included since
16668 0.2.1.9-alpha, so there's no real reason for them to be optional
16669 any longer. Completes proposal 157. Resolves ticket 10162.
16670 - Remove all code that existed to support the v2 directory system,
16671 since there are no longer any v2 directory authorities. Resolves
16673 - Remove the HSAuthoritativeDir and AlternateHSAuthority torrc
16674 options, which were used for designating authorities as "Hidden
16675 service authorities". There has been no use of hidden service
16676 authorities since 0.2.2.1-alpha, when we stopped uploading or
16677 downloading v0 hidden service descriptors. Fixes bug 10881; also
16678 part of a fix for bug 10841.
16679 - Remove /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL that was meant to help debug WFU
16680 and MTBF calculations, but that nobody was using. Fixes bug 11742.
16681 - The TunnelDirConns and PreferTunnelledDirConns options no longer
16682 exist; tunneled directory connections have been available since
16683 0.1.2.5-alpha, and turning them off is not a good idea. This is a
16684 brute-force fix for 10849, where "TunnelDirConns 0" would break
16686 - Remove all code for the long unused v1 directory protocol.
16687 Resolves ticket 11070.
16688 - Remove all remaining code related to version-0 hidden service
16689 descriptors: they have not been in use since 0.2.2.1-alpha. Fixes
16690 the rest of bug 10841.
16691 - Remove migration code from when we renamed the "cached-routers"
16692 file to "cached-descriptors" back in 0.2.0.8-alpha. This
16693 incidentally resolves ticket 6502 by cleaning up the related code
16694 a bit. Patch from Akshay Hebbar.
16696 o Test infrastructure:
16697 - Tor now builds each source file in two modes: a mode that avoids
16698 exposing identifiers needlessly, and another mode that exposes
16699 more identifiers for testing. This lets the compiler do better at
16700 optimizing the production code, while enabling us to take more
16701 radical measures to let the unit tests test things.
16702 - The production builds no longer include functions used only in
16703 the unit tests; all functions exposed from a module only for
16704 unit-testing are now static in production builds.
16705 - Add an --enable-coverage configuration option to make the unit
16706 tests (and a new src/or/tor-cov target) to build with gcov test
16708 - Update to the latest version of tinytest.
16709 - Improve the tinytest implementation of string operation tests so
16710 that comparisons with NULL strings no longer crash the tests; they
16711 now just fail, normally. Fixes bug 9004; bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
16712 - New macros in test.h to simplify writing mock-functions for unit
16713 tests. Part of ticket 11507. Patch from Dana Koch.
16714 - We now have rudimentary function mocking support that our unit
16715 tests can use to test functions in isolation. Function mocking
16716 lets the tests temporarily replace a function's dependencies with
16717 stub functions, so that the tests can check the function without
16718 invoking the other functions it calls.
16721 - Complete tests for the status.c module. Resolves ticket 11507.
16722 Patch from Dana Koch.
16723 - Add more unit tests for the <circid,channel>->circuit map, and
16724 the destroy-cell-tracking code to fix bug 7912.
16725 - Unit tests for failing cases of the TAP onion handshake.
16726 - More unit tests for address-manipulation functions.
16728 o Distribution (systemd):
16729 - Include a tor.service file in contrib/dist for use with systemd.
16730 Some distributions will be able to use this file unmodified;
16731 others will need to tweak it, or write their own. Patch from Jamie
16732 Nguyen; resolves ticket 8368.
16733 - Verify configuration file via ExecStartPre in the systemd unit
16734 file. Patch from intrigeri; resolves ticket 12730.
16735 - Explicitly disable RunAsDaemon in the systemd unit file. Our
16736 current systemd unit uses "Type = simple", so systemd does not
16737 expect tor to fork. If the user has "RunAsDaemon 1" in their
16738 torrc, then things won't work as expected. This is e.g. the case
16739 on Debian (and derivatives), since there we pass "--defaults-torrc
16740 /usr/share/tor/tor-service-defaults-torrc" (that contains
16741 "RunAsDaemon 1") by default. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
16745 Changes in version 0.2.4.25 - 2014-10-20
16746 Tor 0.2.4.25 disables SSL3 in response to the recent "POODLE" attack
16747 (even though POODLE does not affect Tor). It also works around a crash
16748 bug caused by some operating systems' response to the "POODLE" attack
16749 (which does affect Tor).
16751 o Major security fixes (also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
16752 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
16753 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
16754 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
16756 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround, also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
16757 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
16758 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes bug
16759 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
16762 Changes in version 0.2.4.24 - 2014-09-22
16763 Tor 0.2.4.24 fixes a bug that affects consistency and speed when
16764 connecting to hidden services, and it updates the location of one of
16765 the directory authorities.
16768 - Clients now send the correct address for their chosen rendezvous
16769 point when trying to access a hidden service. They used to send
16770 the wrong address, which would still work some of the time because
16771 they also sent the identity digest of the rendezvous point, and if
16772 the hidden service happened to try connecting to the rendezvous
16773 point from a relay that already had a connection open to it,
16774 the relay would reuse that connection. Now connections to hidden
16775 services should be more robust and faster. Also, this bug meant
16776 that clients were leaking to the hidden service whether they were
16777 on a little-endian (common) or big-endian (rare) system, which for
16778 some users might have reduced their anonymity. Fixes bug 13151;
16779 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
16781 o Directory authority changes:
16782 - Change IP address for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
16784 o Minor features (geoip):
16785 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
16789 Changes in version 0.2.4.23 - 2014-07-28
16790 Tor 0.2.4.23 brings us a big step closer to slowing down the risk from
16791 guard rotation, and also backports several important fixes from the
16792 Tor 0.2.5 alpha release series.
16795 - Clients now look at the "usecreatefast" consensus parameter to
16796 decide whether to use CREATE_FAST or CREATE cells for the first hop
16797 of their circuit. This approach can improve security on connections
16798 where Tor's circuit handshake is stronger than the available TLS
16799 connection security levels, but the tradeoff is more computational
16800 load on guard relays. Implements proposal 221. Resolves ticket 9386.
16801 - Make the number of entry guards configurable via a new
16802 NumEntryGuards consensus parameter, and the number of directory
16803 guards configurable via a new NumDirectoryGuards consensus
16804 parameter. Implements ticket 12688.
16807 - Fix a bug in the bounds-checking in the 32-bit curve25519-donna
16808 implementation that caused incorrect results on 32-bit
16809 implementations when certain malformed inputs were used along with
16810 a small class of private ntor keys. This bug does not currently
16811 appear to allow an attacker to learn private keys or impersonate a
16812 Tor server, but it could provide a means to distinguish 32-bit Tor
16813 implementations from 64-bit Tor implementations. Fixes bug 12694;
16814 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Bug found by Robert Ransom; fix from
16818 - Warn and drop the circuit if we receive an inbound 'relay early'
16819 cell. Those used to be normal to receive on hidden service circuits
16820 due to bug 1038, but the buggy Tor versions are long gone from
16821 the network so we can afford to resume watching for them. Resolves
16822 the rest of bug 1038; bugfix on 0.2.1.19.
16823 - Correct a confusing error message when trying to extend a circuit
16824 via the control protocol but we don't know a descriptor or
16825 microdescriptor for one of the specified relays. Fixes bug 12718;
16826 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
16827 - Avoid an illegal read from stack when initializing the TLS
16828 module using a version of OpenSSL without all of the ciphers
16829 used by the v2 link handshake. Fixes bug 12227; bugfix on
16830 0.2.4.8-alpha. Found by "starlight".
16833 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 10 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
16837 Changes in version 0.2.4.22 - 2014-05-16
16838 Tor 0.2.4.22 backports numerous high-priority fixes from the Tor 0.2.5
16839 alpha release series. These include blocking all authority signing
16840 keys that may have been affected by the OpenSSL "heartbleed" bug,
16841 choosing a far more secure set of TLS ciphersuites by default, closing
16842 a couple of memory leaks that could be used to run a target relay out
16843 of RAM, and several others.
16845 o Major features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
16846 - Block authority signing keys that were used on authorities
16847 vulnerable to the "heartbleed" bug in OpenSSL (CVE-2014-0160). (We
16848 don't have any evidence that these keys _were_ compromised; we're
16849 doing this to be prudent.) Resolves ticket 11464.
16851 o Major bugfixes (security, OOM):
16852 - Fix a memory leak that could occur if a microdescriptor parse
16853 fails during the tokenizing step. This bug could enable a memory
16854 exhaustion attack by directory servers. Fixes bug 11649; bugfix
16857 o Major bugfixes (TLS cipher selection, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
16858 - The relay ciphersuite list is now generated automatically based on
16859 uniform criteria, and includes all OpenSSL ciphersuites with
16860 acceptable strength and forward secrecy. Previously, we had left
16861 some perfectly fine ciphersuites unsupported due to omission or
16862 typo. Resolves bugs 11513, 11492, 11498, 11499. Bugs reported by
16863 'cypherpunks'. Bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
16864 - Relays now trust themselves to have a better view than clients of
16865 which TLS ciphersuites are better than others. (Thanks to bug
16866 11513, the relay list is now well-considered, whereas the client
16867 list has been chosen mainly for anti-fingerprinting purposes.)
16868 Relays prefer: AES over 3DES; then ECDHE over DHE; then GCM over
16869 CBC; then SHA384 over SHA256 over SHA1; and last, AES256 over
16870 AES128. Resolves ticket 11528.
16871 - Clients now try to advertise the same list of ciphersuites as
16872 Firefox 28. This change enables selection of (fast) GCM
16873 ciphersuites, disables some strange old ciphers, and stops
16874 advertising the ECDH (not to be confused with ECDHE) ciphersuites.
16875 Resolves ticket 11438.
16877 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, security):
16878 - When running a hidden service, do not allow TunneledDirConns 0:
16879 trying to set that option together with a hidden service would
16880 otherwise prevent the hidden service from running, and also make
16881 it publish its descriptors directly over HTTP. Fixes bug 10849;
16882 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
16884 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
16885 - Avoid sending a garbage value to the controller when a circuit is
16886 cannibalized. Fixes bug 11519; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
16888 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
16889 - Stop leaking memory when we successfully resolve a PTR record.
16890 Fixes bug 11437; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
16892 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
16893 - Avoid 60-second delays in the bootstrapping process when Tor is
16894 launching for a second time while using bridges. Fixes bug 9229;
16895 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
16897 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
16898 - Give the correct URL in the warning message when trying to run a
16899 relay on an ancient version of Windows. Fixes bug 9393.
16901 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
16902 - Fix a compilation error when compiling with --disable-curve25519.
16903 Fixes bug 9700; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
16906 - Downgrade the warning severity for the the "md was still
16907 referenced 1 node(s)" warning. Tor 0.2.5.4-alpha has better code
16908 for trying to diagnose this bug, and the current warning in
16909 earlier versions of tor achieves nothing useful. Addresses warning
16912 o Minor features (log verbosity, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
16913 - When we run out of usable circuit IDs on a channel, log only one
16914 warning for the whole channel, and describe how many circuits
16915 there were on the channel. Fixes part of ticket 11553.
16917 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
16918 - Decrease the lower limit of MaxMemInCellQueues to 256 MBytes (but
16919 leave the default at 8GBytes), to better support Raspberry Pi
16920 users. Fixes bug 9686; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
16922 o Documentation (backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
16923 - Correctly document that we search for a system torrc file before
16924 looking in ~/.torrc. Fixes documentation side of 9213; bugfix on
16928 Changes in version 0.2.4.21 - 2014-02-28
16929 Tor 0.2.4.21 further improves security against potential adversaries who
16930 find breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and backports several stability
16931 and robustness patches from the 0.2.5 branch.
16933 o Major features (client security):
16934 - When we choose a path for a 3-hop circuit, make sure it contains
16935 at least one relay that supports the NTor circuit extension
16936 handshake. Otherwise, there is a chance that we're building
16937 a circuit that's worth attacking by an adversary who finds
16938 breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and that chance changes the game
16939 theory. Implements ticket 9777.
16942 - Do not treat streams that fail with reason
16943 END_STREAM_REASON_INTERNAL as indicating a definite circuit failure,
16944 since it could also indicate an ENETUNREACH connection error. Fixes
16945 part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
16947 o Code simplification and refactoring:
16948 - Remove data structures which were introduced to implement the
16949 CellStatistics option: they are now redundant with the new timestamp
16950 field in the regular packed_cell_t data structure, which we did
16951 in 0.2.4.18-rc in order to resolve bug 9093. Resolves ticket 10870.
16954 - Always clear OpenSSL bignums before freeing them -- even bignums
16955 that don't contain secrets. Resolves ticket 10793. Patch by
16957 - Build without warnings under clang 3.4. (We have some macros that
16958 define static functions only some of which will get used later in
16959 the module. Starting with clang 3.4, these give a warning unless the
16960 unused attribute is set on them.) Resolves ticket 10904.
16961 - Update geoip and geoip6 files to the February 7 2014 Maxmind
16962 GeoLite2 Country database.
16965 - Set the listen() backlog limit to the largest actually supported
16966 on the system, not to the value in a header file. Fixes bug 9716;
16967 bugfix on every released Tor.
16968 - Treat ENETUNREACH, EACCES, and EPERM connection failures at an
16969 exit node as a NOROUTE error, not an INTERNAL error, since they
16970 can apparently happen when trying to connect to the wrong sort
16971 of netblocks. Fixes part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
16972 - Fix build warnings about missing "a2x" comment when building the
16973 manpages from scratch on OpenBSD; OpenBSD calls it "a2x.py".
16974 Fixes bug 10929; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
16975 - Avoid a segfault on SIGUSR1, where we had freed a connection but did
16976 not entirely remove it from the connection lists. Fixes bug 9602;
16977 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
16978 - Fix a segmentation fault in our benchmark code when running with
16979 Fedora's OpenSSL package, or any other OpenSSL that provides
16980 ECDH but not P224. Fixes bug 10835; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
16981 - Turn "circuit handshake stats since last time" log messages into a
16982 heartbeat message. Fixes bug 10485; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
16984 o Documentation fixes:
16985 - Document that all but one DirPort entry must have the NoAdvertise
16986 flag set. Fixes bug 10470; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha / 0.2.3.16-alpha.
16989 Changes in version 0.2.4.20 - 2013-12-22
16990 Tor 0.2.4.20 fixes potentially poor random number generation for users
16991 who 1) use OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, 2) set "HardwareAccel 1" in their
16992 torrc file, 3) have "Sandy Bridge" or "Ivy Bridge" Intel processors,
16993 and 4) have no state file in their DataDirectory (as would happen on
16994 first start). Users who generated relay or hidden service identity
16995 keys in such a situation should discard them and generate new ones.
16997 This release also fixes a logic error that caused Tor clients to build
16998 many more preemptive circuits than they actually need.
17001 - Do not allow OpenSSL engines to replace the PRNG, even when
17002 HardwareAccel is set. The only default builtin PRNG engine uses
17003 the Intel RDRAND instruction to replace the entire PRNG, and
17004 ignores all attempts to seed it with more entropy. That's
17005 cryptographically stupid: the right response to a new alleged
17006 entropy source is never to discard all previously used entropy
17007 sources. Fixes bug 10402; works around behavior introduced in
17008 OpenSSL 1.0.0. Diagnosis and investigation thanks to "coderman"
17010 - Fix assertion failure when AutomapHostsOnResolve yields an IPv6
17011 address. Fixes bug 10465; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
17012 - Avoid launching spurious extra circuits when a stream is pending.
17013 This fixes a bug where any circuit that _wasn't_ unusable for new
17014 streams would be treated as if it were, causing extra circuits to
17015 be launched. Fixes bug 10456; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
17018 - Avoid a crash bug when starting with a corrupted microdescriptor
17019 cache file. Fixes bug 10406; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
17020 - If we fail to dump a previously cached microdescriptor to disk, avoid
17021 freeing duplicate data later on. Fixes bug 10423; bugfix on
17022 0.2.4.13-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom".
17025 Changes in version 0.2.4.19 - 2013-12-11
17026 The Tor 0.2.4 release series is dedicated to the memory of Aaron Swartz
17027 (1986-2013). Aaron worked on diverse projects including helping to guide
17028 Creative Commons, playing a key role in stopping SOPA/PIPA, bringing
17029 transparency to the U.S government's PACER documents, and contributing
17030 design and development for Tor and Tor2Web. Aaron was one of the latest
17031 martyrs in our collective fight for civil liberties and human rights,
17032 and his death is all the more painful because he was one of us.
17034 Tor 0.2.4.19, the first stable release in the 0.2.4 branch, features
17035 a new circuit handshake and link encryption that use ECC to provide
17036 better security and efficiency; makes relays better manage circuit
17037 creation requests; uses "directory guards" to reduce client enumeration
17038 risks; makes bridges collect and report statistics about the pluggable
17039 transports they support; cleans up and improves our geoip database;
17040 gets much closer to IPv6 support for clients, bridges, and relays; makes
17041 directory authorities use measured bandwidths rather than advertised
17042 ones when computing flags and thresholds; disables client-side DNS
17043 caching to reduce tracking risks; and fixes a big bug in bridge
17044 reachability testing. This release introduces two new design
17045 abstractions in the code: a new "channel" abstraction between circuits
17046 and or_connections to allow for implementing alternate relay-to-relay
17047 transports, and a new "circuitmux" abstraction storing the queue of
17048 circuits for a channel. The release also includes many stability,
17049 security, and privacy fixes.
17051 o Major features (new circuit handshake):
17052 - Tor now supports a new circuit extension handshake designed by Ian
17053 Goldberg, Douglas Stebila, and Berkant Ustaoglu. Our original
17054 circuit extension handshake, later called "TAP", was a bit slow
17055 (especially on the relay side), had a fragile security proof, and
17056 used weaker keys than we'd now prefer. The new circuit handshake
17057 uses Dan Bernstein's "curve25519" elliptic-curve Diffie-Hellman
17058 function, making it significantly more secure than the older
17059 handshake, and significantly faster. Tor can use one of two built-in
17060 pure-C curve25519-donna implementations by Adam Langley, or it
17061 can link against the "nacl" library for a tuned version if present.
17063 The built-in version is very fast for 64-bit systems when building
17064 with GCC. The built-in 32-bit version is still faster than the
17065 old TAP protocol, but using libnacl is better on most such hosts.
17067 Implements proposal 216; closes ticket 7202.
17069 o Major features (better link encryption):
17070 - Relays can now enable the ECDHE TLS ciphersuites when available
17071 and appropriate. These ciphersuites let us negotiate forward-secure
17072 TLS secret keys more safely and more efficiently than with our
17073 previous use of Diffie-Hellman modulo a 1024-bit prime. By default,
17074 public relays prefer the (faster) P224 group, and bridges prefer
17075 the (more common) P256 group; you can override this with the
17078 This feature requires clients running 0.2.3.17-beta or later,
17079 and requires both sides to be running OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later
17080 with ECC support. OpenSSL 1.0.1, with the compile-time option
17081 "enable-ec_nistp_64_gcc_128", is highly recommended.
17083 Implements the relay side of proposal 198; closes ticket 7200.
17085 - Re-enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 when built with OpenSSL 1.0.1e or later.
17086 Resolves ticket 6055. (OpenSSL before 1.0.1 didn't have TLS 1.1 or
17087 1.2, and OpenSSL from 1.0.1 through 1.0.1d had bugs that prevented
17088 renegotiation from working with TLS 1.1 or 1.2, so we had disabled
17089 them to solve bug 6033.)
17091 o Major features (relay performance):
17092 - Instead of limiting the number of queued onionskins (aka circuit
17093 create requests) to a fixed, hard-to-configure number, we limit
17094 the size of the queue based on how many we expect to be able to
17095 process in a given amount of time. We estimate the time it will
17096 take to process an onionskin based on average processing time
17097 of previous onionskins. Closes ticket 7291. You'll never have to
17098 configure MaxOnionsPending again.
17099 - Relays process the new "NTor" circuit-level handshake requests
17100 with higher priority than the old "TAP" circuit-level handshake
17101 requests. We still process some TAP requests to not totally starve
17102 0.2.3 clients when NTor becomes popular. A new consensus parameter
17103 "NumNTorsPerTAP" lets us tune the balance later if we need to.
17104 Implements ticket 9574.
17106 o Major features (client bootstrapping resilience):
17107 - Add a new "FallbackDir" torrc option to use when we can't use
17108 a directory mirror from the consensus (either because we lack a
17109 consensus, or because they're all down). Currently, all authorities
17110 are fallbacks by default, and there are no other default fallbacks,
17111 but that will change. This option will allow us to give clients a
17112 longer list of servers to try to get a consensus from when first
17113 connecting to the Tor network, and thereby reduce load on the
17114 directory authorities. Implements proposal 206, "Preconfigured
17115 directory sources for bootstrapping". We also removed the old
17116 "FallbackNetworkstatus" option, since we never got it working well
17117 enough to use it. Closes bug 572.
17118 - If we have no circuits open, use a relaxed timeout (the
17119 95th-percentile cutoff) until a circuit succeeds. This heuristic
17120 should allow Tor to succeed at building circuits even when the
17121 network connection drastically changes. Should help with bug 3443.
17123 o Major features (use of guards):
17124 - Support directory guards (proposal 207): when possible, clients now
17125 use their entry guards for non-anonymous directory requests. This
17126 can help prevent client enumeration. Note that this behavior only
17127 works when we have a usable consensus directory, and when options
17128 about what to download are more or less standard. In the future we
17129 should re-bootstrap from our guards, rather than re-bootstrapping
17130 from the preconfigured list of directory sources that ships with
17131 Tor. Resolves ticket 6526.
17132 - Raise the default time that a client keeps an entry guard from
17133 "1-2 months" to "2-3 months", as suggested by Tariq Elahi's WPES
17134 2012 paper. (We would make it even longer, but we need better client
17135 load balancing first.) Also, make the guard lifetime controllable
17136 via a new GuardLifetime torrc option and a GuardLifetime consensus
17137 parameter. Start of a fix for bug 8240; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
17139 o Major features (bridges with pluggable transports):
17140 - Bridges now report the pluggable transports they support to the
17141 bridge authority, so it can pass the supported transports on to
17142 bridgedb and/or eventually do reachability testing. Implements
17144 - Automatically forward the TCP ports of pluggable transport
17145 proxies using tor-fw-helper if PortForwarding is enabled. Implements
17148 o Major features (geoip database):
17149 - Maxmind began labelling Tor relays as being in country "A1",
17150 which breaks by-country node selection inside Tor. Now we use a
17151 script to replace "A1" ("Anonymous Proxy") entries in our geoip
17152 file with real country codes. This script fixes about 90% of "A1"
17153 entries automatically and uses manual country code assignments to
17154 fix the remaining 10%. See src/config/README.geoip for details.
17156 - Add GeoIP database for IPv6 addresses. The new config option
17158 - Update to the October 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
17160 o Major features (IPv6):
17161 - Clients who set "ClientUseIPv6 1" may connect to entry nodes over
17162 IPv6. Set "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort 1" to make this even more likely
17163 to happen. Implements ticket 5535.
17164 - All kind of relays, not just bridges, can now advertise an IPv6
17165 OR port. Implements ticket 6362.
17166 - Relays can now exit to IPv6 addresses: make sure that you have IPv6
17167 connectivity, then set the IPv6Exit flag to 1. Also make sure your
17168 exit policy reads as you would like: the address * applies to all
17169 address families, whereas *4 is IPv4 address only, and *6 is IPv6
17170 addresses only. On the client side, you'll need to wait for enough
17171 exits to support IPv6, apply the "IPv6Traffic" flag to a SocksPort,
17172 and use Socks5. Closes ticket 5547, implements proposal 117 as
17173 revised in proposal 208.
17174 - Bridge authorities now accept IPv6 bridge addresses and include
17175 them in network status documents. Implements ticket 5534.
17176 - Directory authorities vote on IPv6 OR ports. Implements ticket 6363.
17178 o Major features (directory authorities):
17179 - Directory authorities now prefer using measured bandwidths to
17180 advertised ones when computing flags and thresholds. Resolves
17182 - Directory authorities that vote measured bandwidths about more
17183 than a threshold number of relays now treat relays with
17184 unmeasured bandwidths as having bandwidth 0 when computing their
17185 flags. Resolves ticket 8435.
17186 - Directory authorities now support a new consensus method (17)
17187 where they cap the published bandwidth of relays for which
17188 insufficient bandwidth measurements exist. Fixes part of bug 2286.
17189 - Directory authorities that set "DisableV2DirectoryInfo_ 1" no longer
17190 serve any v2 directory information. Now we can test disabling the
17191 old deprecated v2 directory format, and see whether doing so has
17192 any effect on network load. Begins to fix bug 6783.
17194 o Major features (build and portability):
17195 - Switch to a nonrecursive Makefile structure. Now instead of each
17196 Makefile.am invoking other Makefile.am's, there is a master
17197 Makefile.am that includes the others. This change makes our build
17198 process slightly more maintainable, and improves parallelism for
17199 building with make -j. Original patch by Stewart Smith; various
17200 fixes by Jim Meyering.
17201 - Where available, we now use automake's "silent" make rules by
17202 default, so that warnings are easier to spot. You can get the old
17203 behavior with "make V=1". Patch by Stewart Smith for ticket 6522.
17204 - Resume building correctly with MSVC and Makefile.nmake. This patch
17205 resolves numerous bugs and fixes reported by ultramage, including
17206 7305, 7308, 7309, 7310, 7312, 7313, 7315, 7316, and 7669.
17208 o Security features:
17209 - Switch to a completely time-invariant approach for picking nodes
17210 weighted by bandwidth. Our old approach would run through the
17211 part of the loop after it had made its choice slightly slower
17212 than it ran through the part of the loop before it had made its
17213 choice. Addresses ticket 6538.
17214 - Disable the use of Guard nodes when in Tor2WebMode. Guard usage
17215 by tor2web clients allows hidden services to identify tor2web
17216 clients through their repeated selection of the same rendezvous
17217 and introduction point circuit endpoints (their guards). Resolves
17220 o Major bugfixes (relay denial of service):
17221 - When we have too much memory queued in circuits (according to a new
17222 MaxMemInCellQueues option), close the circuits that have the oldest
17223 queued cells, on the theory that those are most responsible for
17224 us running low on memory. This prevents us from running out of
17225 memory as a relay if circuits fill up faster than they can be
17226 drained. Fixes bugs 9063 and 9093; bugfix on the 54th commit of
17227 Tor. This bug is a further fix beyond bug 6252, whose fix was
17228 merged into 0.2.3.21-rc.
17229 - Reject bogus create and relay cells with 0 circuit ID or 0 stream
17230 ID: these could be used to create unexpected streams and circuits
17231 which would count as "present" to some parts of Tor but "absent"
17232 to others, leading to zombie circuits and streams or to a bandwidth
17233 denial-of-service. Fixes bug 7889; bugfix on every released version
17234 of Tor. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
17235 - Avoid a bug where our response to TLS renegotiation under certain
17236 network conditions could lead to a busy-loop, with 100% CPU
17237 consumption. Fixes bug 5650; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
17239 o Major bugfixes (asserts, crashes, leaks):
17240 - Prevent the get_freelists() function from running off the end of
17241 the list of freelists if it somehow gets an unrecognized
17242 allocation. Fixes bug 8844; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by
17244 - Avoid a memory leak where we would leak a consensus body when we
17245 find that a consensus which we couldn't previously verify due to
17246 missing certificates is now verifiable. Fixes bug 8719; bugfix
17248 - If we are unable to save a microdescriptor to the journal, do not
17249 drop it from memory and then reattempt downloading it. Fixes bug
17250 9645; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
17251 - Fix an assertion failure that would occur when disabling the
17252 ORPort setting on a running Tor process while accounting was
17253 enabled. Fixes bug 6979; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
17254 - Avoid an assertion failure on OpenBSD (and perhaps other BSDs)
17255 when an exit connection with optimistic data succeeds immediately
17256 rather than returning EINPROGRESS. Fixes bug 9017; bugfix on
17258 - Fix a memory leak that would occur whenever a configuration
17259 option changed. Fixes bug 8718; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
17261 o Major bugfixes (relay rate limiting):
17262 - When a TLS write is partially successful but incomplete, remember
17263 that the flushed part has been flushed, and notice that bytes were
17264 actually written. Reported and fixed pseudonymously. Fixes bug 7708;
17265 bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.5-rc.
17266 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst values from 5MB/10MB
17267 to 1GB/1GB. The previous defaults were intended to be "basically
17268 infinite", but it turns out they're now limiting our 100mbit+
17269 relays and bridges. Fixes bug 6605; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha (the
17270 last time we raised it).
17271 - No longer stop reading or writing on cpuworker connections when
17272 our rate limiting buckets go empty. Now we should handle circuit
17273 handshake requests more promptly. Resolves bug 9731.
17275 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
17276 - When we mark a circuit as unusable for new circuits, have it
17277 continue to be unusable for new circuits even if MaxCircuitDirtiness
17278 is increased too much at the wrong time, or the system clock jumps
17279 backwards. Fixes bug 6174; bugfix on 0.0.2pre26.
17280 - If ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses ("do not believe DNS queries
17281 which have resolved to internal addresses") is set, apply that
17282 rule to IPv6 as well. Fixes bug 8475; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
17283 - When an exit relay rejects a stream with reason "exit policy", but
17284 we only know an exit policy summary (e.g. from the microdesc
17285 consensus) for it, do not mark the relay as useless for all exiting.
17286 Instead, mark just the circuit as unsuitable for that particular
17287 address. Fixes part of bug 7582; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
17289 o Major bugfixes (stream isolation):
17290 - Allow applications to get proper stream isolation with
17291 IsolateSOCKSAuth. Many SOCKS5 clients that want to offer
17292 username/password authentication also offer "no authentication". Tor
17293 had previously preferred "no authentication", so the applications
17294 never actually sent Tor their auth details. Now Tor selects
17295 username/password authentication if it's offered. You can disable
17296 this behavior on a per-SOCKSPort basis via PreferSOCKSNoAuth. Fixes
17297 bug 8117; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
17298 - Follow the socks5 protocol when offering username/password
17299 authentication. The fix for bug 8117 exposed this bug, and it
17300 turns out real-world applications like Pidgin do care. Bugfix on
17301 0.2.3.2-alpha; fixes bug 8879.
17303 o Major bugfixes (client circuit building):
17304 - Alter circuit build timeout measurement to start at the point
17305 where we begin the CREATE/CREATE_FAST step (as opposed to circuit
17306 initialization). This should make our timeout measurements more
17307 uniform. Previously, we were sometimes including ORconn setup time
17308 in our circuit build time measurements. Should resolve bug 3443.
17309 - If the circuit build timeout logic is disabled (via the consensus,
17310 or because we are an authority), then don't build testing circuits.
17311 Fixes bug 9657; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
17313 o Major bugfixes (client-side DNS):
17314 - Turn off the client-side DNS cache by default. Updating and using
17315 the DNS cache is now configurable on a per-client-port
17316 level. SOCKSPort, DNSPort, etc lines may now contain
17317 {No,}Cache{IPv4,IPv6,}DNS lines to indicate that we shouldn't
17318 cache these types of DNS answers when we receive them from an
17319 exit node in response to an application request on this port, and
17320 {No,}UseCached{IPv4,IPv6,DNS} lines to indicate that if we have
17321 cached DNS answers of these types, we shouldn't use them. It's
17322 potentially risky to use cached DNS answers at the client, since
17323 doing so can indicate to one exit what answers we've gotten
17324 for DNS lookups in the past. With IPv6, this becomes especially
17325 problematic. Using cached DNS answers for requests on the same
17326 circuit would present less linkability risk, since all traffic
17327 on a circuit is already linkable, but it would also provide
17328 little performance benefit: the exit node caches DNS replies
17329 too. Implements a simplified version of Proposal 205. Implements
17332 o Major bugfixes (hidden service privacy):
17333 - Limit hidden service descriptors to at most ten introduction
17334 points, to slow one kind of guard enumeration. Fixes bug 9002;
17335 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
17337 o Major bugfixes (directory fetching):
17338 - If the time to download the next old-style networkstatus is in
17339 the future, do not decline to consider whether to download the
17340 next microdescriptor networkstatus. Fixes bug 9564; bugfix on
17342 - We used to always request authority certificates by identity digest,
17343 meaning we'd get the newest one even when we wanted one with a
17344 different signing key. Then we would complain about being given
17345 a certificate we already had, and never get the one we really
17346 wanted. Now we use the "fp-sk/" resource as well as the "fp/"
17347 resource to request the one we want. Fixes bug 5595; bugfix on
17350 o Major bugfixes (bridge reachability):
17351 - Bridges now send AUTH_CHALLENGE cells during their v3 handshakes;
17352 previously they did not, which prevented them from receiving
17353 successful connections from relays for self-test or bandwidth
17354 testing. Also, when a relay is extending a circuit to a bridge,
17355 it needs to send a NETINFO cell, even when the bridge hasn't sent
17356 an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell. Fixes bug 9546; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
17358 o Major bugfixes (control interface):
17359 - When receiving a new configuration file via the control port's
17360 LOADCONF command, do not treat the defaults file as absent.
17361 Fixes bug 9122; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
17363 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
17364 - Stop marking every relay as having been down for one hour every
17365 time we restart a directory authority. These artificial downtimes
17366 were messing with our Stable and Guard flag calculations. Fixes
17367 bug 8218 (introduced by the fix for 1035). Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
17368 - When computing directory thresholds, ignore any rejected-as-sybil
17369 nodes during the computation so that they can't influence Fast,
17370 Guard, etc. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
17372 - When marking a node as a likely sybil, reset its uptime metrics
17373 to zero, so that it cannot time towards getting marked as Guard,
17374 Stable, or HSDir. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
17376 - Fix a bug in the voting algorithm that could yield incorrect results
17377 when a non-naming authority declared too many flags. Fixes bug 9200;
17378 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
17380 o Internal abstraction features:
17381 - Introduce new channel_t abstraction between circuits and
17382 or_connection_t to allow for implementing alternate OR-to-OR
17383 transports. A channel_t is an abstract object which can either be a
17384 cell-bearing channel, which is responsible for authenticating and
17385 handshaking with the remote OR and transmitting cells to and from
17386 it, or a listening channel, which spawns new cell-bearing channels
17387 at the request of remote ORs. Implements part of ticket 6465.
17388 - Make a channel_tls_t subclass of channel_t, adapting it to the
17389 existing or_connection_t code. The V2/V3 protocol handshaking
17390 code which formerly resided in command.c has been moved below the
17391 channel_t abstraction layer and may be found in channeltls.c now.
17392 Implements the rest of ticket 6465.
17393 - Introduce new circuitmux_t storing the queue of circuits for
17394 a channel; this encapsulates and abstracts the queue logic and
17395 circuit selection policy, and allows the latter to be overridden
17396 easily by switching out a policy object. The existing EWMA behavior
17397 is now implemented as a circuitmux_policy_t. Resolves ticket 6816.
17399 o New build requirements:
17400 - Tor now requires OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later is
17401 strongly recommended.
17402 - Tor maintainers now require Automake version 1.9 or later to build
17403 Tor from the Git repository. (Automake is not required when building
17404 from a source distribution.)
17406 o Minor features (protocol):
17407 - No longer include the "opt" prefix when generating routerinfos
17408 or v2 directories: it has been needless since Tor 0.1.2. Closes
17410 - Reject EXTEND cells sent to nonexistent streams. According to the
17411 spec, an EXTEND cell sent to _any_ nonzero stream ID is invalid, but
17412 we were only checking for stream IDs that were currently in use.
17413 Found while hunting for more instances of bug 6271. Bugfix on
17414 0.0.2pre8, which introduced incremental circuit construction.
17415 - Tor relays and clients now support a better CREATE/EXTEND cell
17416 format, allowing the sender to specify multiple address, identity,
17417 and handshake types. Implements Robert Ransom's proposal 200;
17418 closes ticket 7199.
17419 - Reject as invalid most directory objects containing a NUL.
17420 Belt-and-suspender fix for bug 8037.
17422 o Minor features (security):
17423 - Clear keys and key-derived material left on the stack in
17424 rendservice.c and rendclient.c. Check return value of
17425 crypto_pk_write_private_key_to_string() in rend_service_load_keys().
17426 These fixes should make us more forward-secure against cold-boot
17427 attacks and the like. Fixes bug 2385.
17428 - Use our own weak RNG when we need a weak RNG. Windows's rand() and
17429 Irix's random() only return 15 bits; Solaris's random() returns more
17430 bits but its RAND_MAX says it only returns 15, and so on. Motivated
17431 by the fix for bug 7801; bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha.
17433 o Minor features (control protocol):
17434 - Add a "GETINFO signal/names" control port command. Implements
17436 - Provide default values for all options via "GETINFO config/defaults".
17437 Implements ticket 4971.
17438 - Allow an optional $ before the node identity digest in the
17439 controller command GETINFO ns/id/<identity>, for consistency with
17440 md/id/<identity> and desc/id/<identity>. Resolves ticket 7059.
17441 - Add CACHED keyword to ADDRMAP events in the control protocol
17442 to indicate whether a DNS result will be cached or not. Resolves
17444 - Generate bootstrapping status update events correctly when fetching
17445 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 9927.
17447 o Minor features (path selection):
17448 - When deciding whether we have enough descriptors to build circuits,
17449 instead of looking at raw relay counts, look at which fraction
17450 of (bandwidth-weighted) paths we're able to build. This approach
17451 keeps clients from building circuits if their paths are likely to
17452 stand out statistically. The default fraction of paths needed is
17453 taken from the consensus directory; you can override it with the
17454 new PathsNeededToBuildCircuits option. Fixes ticket 5956.
17455 - When any country code is listed in ExcludeNodes or ExcludeExitNodes,
17456 and we have GeoIP information, also exclude all nodes with unknown
17457 countries "??" and "A1". This behavior is controlled by the
17458 new GeoIPExcludeUnknown option: you can make such nodes always
17459 excluded with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 1", and disable the feature
17460 with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 0". Setting "GeoIPExcludeUnknown auto"
17461 gets you the default behavior. Implements feature 7706.
17463 o Minor features (hidden services):
17464 - Improve circuit build timeout handling for hidden services.
17465 In particular: adjust build timeouts more accurately depending
17466 upon the number of hop-RTTs that a particular circuit type
17467 undergoes. Additionally, launch intro circuits in parallel
17468 if they timeout, and take the first one to reply as valid.
17469 - The Tor client now ignores sub-domain components of a .onion
17470 address. This change makes HTTP "virtual" hosting
17471 possible: http://foo.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ and
17472 http://bar.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ can be two different websites
17473 hosted on the same hidden service. Implements proposal 204.
17474 - Enable Tor to read configuration, state, and key information from
17475 a FIFO. Previously Tor would only read from files with a positive
17476 stat.st_size. Code from meejah; fixes bug 6044.
17478 o Minor features (clients):
17479 - Teach bridge-using clients to avoid 0.2.2.x bridges when making
17480 microdescriptor-related dir requests, and only fall back to normal
17481 descriptors if none of their bridges can handle microdescriptors
17482 (as opposed to the fix in ticket 4013, which caused them to fall
17483 back to normal descriptors if *any* of their bridges preferred
17484 them). Resolves ticket 4994.
17485 - Tweak tor-fw-helper to accept an arbitrary amount of arbitrary
17486 TCP ports to forward. In the past it only accepted two ports:
17487 the ORPort and the DirPort.
17489 o Minor features (protecting client timestamps):
17490 - Clients no longer send timestamps in their NETINFO cells. These were
17491 not used for anything, and they provided one small way for clients
17492 to be distinguished from each other as they moved from network to
17493 network or behind NAT. Implements part of proposal 222.
17494 - Clients now round timestamps in INTRODUCE cells down to the nearest
17495 10 minutes. If a new Support022HiddenServices option is set to 0, or
17496 if it's set to "auto" and the feature is disabled in the consensus,
17497 the timestamp is sent as 0 instead. Implements part of proposal 222.
17498 - Stop sending timestamps in AUTHENTICATE cells. This is not such
17499 a big deal from a security point of view, but it achieves no actual
17500 good purpose, and isn't needed. Implements part of proposal 222.
17501 - Reduce down accuracy of timestamps in hidden service descriptors.
17502 Implements part of proposal 222.
17504 o Minor features (bridges):
17505 - Make bridge relays check once a minute for whether their IP
17506 address has changed, rather than only every 15 minutes. Resolves
17507 bugs 1913 and 1992.
17508 - Bridge statistics now count bridge clients connecting over IPv6:
17509 bridge statistics files now list "bridge-ip-versions" and
17510 extra-info documents list "geoip6-db-digest". The control protocol
17511 "CLIENTS_SEEN" and "ip-to-country" queries now support IPv6. Initial
17512 implementation by "shkoo", addressing ticket 5055.
17513 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportListenAddr" to let bridge
17514 operators select the address where their pluggable transports will
17515 listen for connections. Resolves ticket 7013.
17516 - Randomize the lifetime of our SSL link certificate, so censors can't
17517 use the static value for filtering Tor flows. Resolves ticket 8443;
17518 related to ticket 4014 which was included in 0.2.2.33.
17520 o Minor features (relays):
17521 - Option OutboundBindAddress can be specified multiple times and
17522 accepts IPv6 addresses. Resolves ticket 6876.
17524 o Minor features (IPv6, client side):
17525 - AutomapHostsOnResolve now supports IPv6 addresses. By default, we
17526 prefer to hand out virtual IPv6 addresses, since there are more of
17527 them and we can't run out. To override this behavior and make IPv4
17528 addresses preferred, set NoPreferIPv6Automap on whatever SOCKSPort
17529 or DNSPort you're using for resolving. Implements ticket 7571.
17530 - AutomapHostsOnResolve responses are now randomized, to avoid
17531 annoying situations where Tor is restarted and applications
17532 connect to the wrong addresses.
17533 - Never try more than 1000 times to pick a new virtual address when
17534 AutomapHostsOnResolve is set. That's good enough so long as we
17535 aren't close to handing out our entire virtual address space;
17536 if you're getting there, it's best to switch to IPv6 virtual
17539 o Minor features (IPv6, relay/authority side):
17540 - New config option "AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity 1" that directory
17541 authorities should set if they have IPv6 connectivity and want to
17542 do reachability tests for IPv6 relays. Implements feature 5974.
17543 - A relay with an IPv6 OR port now sends that address in NETINFO
17544 cells (in addition to its other address). Implements ticket 6364.
17546 o Minor features (directory authorities):
17547 - Directory authorities no long accept descriptors for any version of
17548 Tor before 0.2.2.35, or for any 0.2.3 release before 0.2.3.10-alpha.
17549 These versions are insecure, unsupported, or both. Implements
17551 - When directory authorities are computing thresholds for flags,
17552 never let the threshold for the Fast flag fall below 4096
17553 bytes. Also, do not consider nodes with extremely low bandwidths
17554 when deciding thresholds for various directory flags. This change
17555 should raise our threshold for Fast relays, possibly in turn
17556 improving overall network performance; see ticket 1854. Resolves
17558 - Directory authorities now include inside each vote a statement of
17559 the performance thresholds they used when assigning flags.
17560 Implements ticket 8151.
17561 - Add an "ignoring-advertised-bws" boolean to the flag-threshold lines
17562 in directory authority votes to describe whether they have enough
17563 measured bandwidths to ignore advertised (relay descriptor)
17564 bandwidth claims. Resolves ticket 8711.
17566 o Minor features (path bias detection):
17567 - Path Use Bias: Perform separate accounting for successful circuit
17568 use. Keep separate statistics on stream attempt rates versus stream
17569 success rates for each guard. Provide configurable thresholds to
17570 determine when to emit log messages or disable use of guards that
17571 fail too many stream attempts. Resolves ticket 7802.
17572 - Create three levels of Path Bias log messages, as opposed to just
17573 two. These are configurable via consensus as well as via the torrc
17574 options PathBiasNoticeRate, PathBiasWarnRate, PathBiasExtremeRate.
17575 The default values are 0.70, 0.50, and 0.30 respectively.
17576 - Separate the log message levels from the decision to drop guards,
17577 which also is available via torrc option PathBiasDropGuards.
17578 PathBiasDropGuards still defaults to 0 (off).
17579 - Deprecate PathBiasDisableRate in favor of PathBiasDropGuards
17580 in combination with PathBiasExtremeRate.
17581 - Increase the default values for PathBiasScaleThreshold and
17582 PathBiasCircThreshold from (200, 20) to (300, 150).
17583 - Add in circuit usage accounting to path bias. If we try to use a
17584 built circuit but fail for any reason, it counts as path bias.
17585 Certain classes of circuits where the adversary gets to pick your
17586 destination node are exempt from this accounting. Usage accounting
17587 can be specifically disabled via consensus parameter or torrc.
17588 - Convert all internal path bias state to double-precision floating
17589 point, to avoid roundoff error and other issues.
17590 - Only record path bias information for circuits that have completed
17591 *two* hops. Assuming end-to-end tagging is the attack vector, this
17592 makes us more resilient to ambient circuit failure without any
17593 detection capability loss.
17595 o Minor features (build):
17596 - Tor now builds correctly on Bitrig, an OpenBSD fork. Patch from
17597 dhill. Resolves ticket 6982.
17598 - Compile on win64 using mingw64. Fixes bug 7260; patches from
17600 - Work correctly on Unix systems where EAGAIN and EWOULDBLOCK are
17601 separate error codes; or at least, don't break for that reason.
17602 Fixes bug 7935. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
17604 o Build improvements (autotools):
17605 - Warn if building on a platform with an unsigned time_t: there
17606 are too many places where Tor currently assumes that time_t can
17607 hold negative values. We'd like to fix them all, but probably
17609 - Do not report status verbosely from autogen.sh unless the -v flag
17610 is specified. Fixes issue 4664. Patch from Onizuka.
17611 - Detect and reject attempts to build Tor with threading support
17612 when OpenSSL has been compiled without threading support.
17614 - Try to detect if we are ever building on a platform where
17615 memset(...,0,...) does not set the value of a double to 0.0. Such
17616 platforms are permitted by the C standard, though in practice
17617 they're pretty rare (since IEEE 754 is nigh-ubiquitous). We don't
17618 currently support them, but it's better to detect them and fail
17619 than to perform erroneously.
17620 - We no longer warn so much when generating manpages from their
17622 - Use Ville Laurikari's implementation of AX_CHECK_SIGN() to determine
17623 the signs of types during autoconf. This is better than our old
17624 approach, which didn't work when cross-compiling.
17626 o Minor features (log messages, warnings):
17627 - Detect when we're running with a version of OpenSSL other than the
17628 one we compiled with. This conflict has occasionally given people
17629 hard-to-track-down errors.
17630 - Warn users who run hidden services on a Tor client with
17631 UseEntryGuards disabled that their hidden services will be
17632 vulnerable to http://freehaven.net/anonbib/#hs-attack06 (the
17633 attack which motivated Tor to support entry guards in the first
17634 place). Resolves ticket 6889.
17635 - Warn when we are binding low ports when hibernation is enabled;
17636 previously we had warned when we were _advertising_ low ports with
17637 hibernation enabled. Fixes bug 7285; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
17638 - Issue a warning when running with the bufferevents backend enabled.
17639 It's still not stable, and people should know that they're likely
17640 to hit unexpected problems. Closes ticket 9147.
17642 o Minor features (log messages, notices):
17643 - Refactor resolve_my_address() so it returns the method by which we
17644 decided our public IP address (explicitly configured, resolved from
17645 explicit hostname, guessed from interfaces, learned by gethostname).
17646 Now we can provide more helpful log messages when a relay guesses
17647 its IP address incorrectly (e.g. due to unexpected lines in
17648 /etc/hosts). Resolves ticket 2267.
17649 - Track how many "TAP" and "NTor" circuit handshake requests we get,
17650 and how many we complete, and log it every hour to help relay
17651 operators follow trends in network load. Addresses ticket 9658.
17653 o Minor features (log messages, diagnostics):
17654 - If we fail to free a microdescriptor because of bug 7164, log
17655 the filename and line number from which we tried to free it.
17656 - We compute the overhead from passing onionskins back and forth to
17657 cpuworkers, and report it when dumping statistics in response to
17658 SIGUSR1. Supports ticket 7291.
17659 - Add another diagnostic to the heartbeat message: track and log
17660 overhead that TLS is adding to the data we write. If this is
17661 high, we are sending too little data to SSL_write at a time.
17662 Diagnostic for bug 7707.
17663 - Log packaged cell fullness as part of the heartbeat message.
17664 Diagnosis to try to determine the extent of bug 7743.
17665 - Add more detail to a log message about relaxed timeouts, to help
17667 - When learning a fingerprint for a bridge, log its corresponding
17668 transport type. Implements ticket 7896.
17669 - Warn more aggressively when flushing microdescriptors to a
17670 microdescriptor cache fails, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031,
17671 or at least make it more diagnosable.
17672 - Improve the log message when "Bug/attack: unexpected sendme cell
17673 from client" occurs, to help us track bug 8093.
17674 - Improve debugging output to help track down bug 8185 ("Bug:
17675 outgoing relay cell has n_chan==NULL. Dropping.")
17677 o Minor features (log messages, quieter bootstrapping):
17678 - Log fewer lines at level "notice" about our OpenSSL and Libevent
17679 versions and capabilities when everything is going right. Resolves
17680 part of ticket 6736.
17681 - Omit the first heartbeat log message, because it never has anything
17682 useful to say, and it clutters up the bootstrapping messages.
17683 Resolves ticket 6758.
17684 - Don't log about reloading the microdescriptor cache at startup. Our
17685 bootstrap warnings are supposed to tell the user when there's a
17686 problem, and our bootstrap notices say when there isn't. Resolves
17687 ticket 6759; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
17688 - Don't log "I learned some more directory information" when we're
17689 reading cached directory information. Reserve it for when new
17690 directory information arrives in response to a fetch. Resolves
17692 - Don't complain about bootstrapping problems while hibernating.
17693 These complaints reflect a general code problem, but not one
17694 with any problematic effects (no connections are actually
17695 opened). Fixes part of bug 7302; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
17697 o Minor features (testing):
17698 - In our testsuite, create temporary directories with a bit more
17699 entropy in their name to make name collisions less likely. Fixes
17701 - Add benchmarks for DH (1024-bit multiplicative group) and ECDH
17702 (P-256) Diffie-Hellman handshakes to src/or/bench.
17703 - Add benchmark functions to test onion handshake performance.
17706 - The DirServer option is now DirAuthority, for consistency with
17707 current naming patterns. You can still use the old DirServer form.
17709 o Minor bugfixes (protocol):
17710 - Fix the handling of a TRUNCATE cell when it arrives while the
17711 circuit extension is in progress. Fixes bug 7947; bugfix on 0.0.7.1.
17712 - When a Tor client gets a "truncated" relay cell, the first byte of
17713 its payload specifies why the circuit was truncated. We were
17714 ignoring this 'reason' byte when tearing down the circuit, resulting
17715 in the controller not being told why the circuit closed. Now we
17716 pass the reason from the truncated cell to the controller. Bugfix
17717 on 0.1.2.3-alpha; fixes bug 7039.
17718 - Fix a misframing issue when reading the version numbers in a
17719 VERSIONS cell. Previously we would recognize [00 01 00 02] as
17720 'version 1, version 2, and version 0x100', when it should have
17721 only included versions 1 and 2. Fixes bug 8059; bugfix on
17722 0.2.0.10-alpha. Reported pseudonymously.
17723 - Make the format and order of STREAM events for DNS lookups
17724 consistent among the various ways to launch DNS lookups. Fixes
17725 bug 8203; bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc. Patch by "Desoxy".
17727 o Minor bugfixes (syscalls and disk interaction):
17728 - Always check the return values of functions fcntl() and
17729 setsockopt(). We don't believe these are ever actually failing in
17730 practice, but better safe than sorry. Also, checking these return
17731 values should please analysis tools like Coverity. Patch from
17732 'flupzor'. Fixes bug 8206; bugfix on all versions of Tor.
17733 - Avoid double-closing the listener socket in our socketpair()
17734 replacement (used on Windows) in the case where the addresses on
17735 our opened sockets don't match what we expected. Fixes bug 9400;
17736 bugfix on 0.0.2pre7. Found by Coverity.
17737 - Correctly store microdescriptors and extrainfo descriptors that
17738 include an internal NUL byte. Fixes bug 8037; bugfix on
17739 0.2.0.1-alpha. Bug reported by "cypherpunks".
17740 - If for some reason we fail to write a microdescriptor while
17741 rebuilding the cache, do not let the annotations from that
17742 microdescriptor linger in the cache file, and do not let the
17743 microdescriptor stay recorded as present in its old location.
17744 Fixes bug 9047; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
17745 - Use direct writes rather than stdio when building microdescriptor
17746 caches, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031, or at least make it
17749 o Minor fixes (config options):
17750 - Warn and fail if a server is configured not to advertise any
17751 ORPorts at all. (We need *something* to put in our descriptor,
17752 or we just won't work.)
17753 - Behave correctly when the user disables LearnCircuitBuildTimeout
17754 but doesn't tell us what they would like the timeout to be. Fixes
17755 bug 6304; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
17756 - Rename the (internal-use-only) UsingTestingNetworkDefaults option
17757 to start with a triple-underscore so the controller won't touch it.
17758 Patch by Meejah. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
17759 - Rename the (testing-use-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option
17760 so it doesn't start with _. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
17761 - When autodetecting the number of CPUs, use the number of available
17762 CPUs in preference to the number of configured CPUs. Inform the
17763 user if this reduces the number of available CPUs. Fixes bug 8002;
17764 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
17765 - Command-line option "--version" implies "--quiet". Fixes bug 6997.
17766 - Make it an error when you set EntryNodes but disable UseGuardNodes,
17767 since it will (surprisingly to some users) ignore EntryNodes. Fixes
17768 bug 8180; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
17769 - Avoid overflows when the user sets MaxCircuitDirtiness to a
17770 ridiculously high value, by imposing a (ridiculously high) 30-day
17771 maximum on MaxCircuitDirtiness.
17773 o Minor bugfixes (control protocol):
17774 - Stop sending a stray "(null)" in some cases for the server status
17775 "EXTERNAL_ADDRESS" controller event. Resolves bug 8200; bugfix
17777 - The ADDRMAP command can no longer generate an ill-formed error
17778 code on a failed MAPADDRESS. It now says "internal" rather than
17779 an English sentence fragment with spaces in the middle. Bugfix on
17780 Tor 0.2.0.19-alpha.
17782 o Minor bugfixes (clients / edges):
17783 - When we receive a RELAY_END cell with the reason DONE, or with no
17784 reason, before receiving a RELAY_CONNECTED cell, report the SOCKS
17785 status as "connection refused". Previously we reported these cases
17786 as success but then immediately closed the connection. Fixes bug
17787 7902; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
17788 - If the guard we choose first doesn't answer, we would try the
17789 second guard, but once we connected to the second guard we would
17790 abandon it and retry the first one, slowing down bootstrapping.
17791 The fix is to treat all our initially chosen guards as acceptable
17792 to use. Fixes bug 9946; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
17793 - When choosing which stream on a formerly stalled circuit to wake
17794 first, make better use of the platform's weak RNG. Previously,
17795 we had been using the % ("modulo") operator to try to generate a
17796 1/N chance of picking each stream, but this behaves badly with
17797 many platforms' choice of weak RNG. Fixes bug 7801; bugfix on
17800 o Minor bugfixes (path bias detection):
17801 - If the state file's path bias counts are invalid (presumably from a
17802 buggy Tor prior to 0.2.4.10-alpha), make them correct. Also add
17803 additional checks and log messages to the scaling of Path Bias
17804 counts, in case there still are remaining issues with scaling.
17805 Should help resolve bug 8235.
17806 - Prevent rounding error in path bias counts when scaling
17807 them down, and use the correct scale factor default. Also demote
17808 some path bias related log messages down a level and make others
17809 less scary sounding. Fixes bug 6647. Bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
17810 - Remove a source of rounding error during path bias count scaling;
17811 don't count cannibalized circuits as used for path bias until we
17812 actually try to use them; and fix a circuit_package_relay_cell()
17813 warning message about n_chan==NULL. Fixes bug 7802.
17814 - Paste the description for PathBias parameters from the man
17815 page into or.h, so the code documents them too. Fixes bug 7982;
17816 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
17818 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
17819 - Stop trying to resolve our hostname so often (e.g. every time we
17820 think about doing a directory fetch). Now we reuse the cached
17821 answer in some cases. Fixes bugs 1992 (bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc)
17822 and 2410 (bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha).
17823 - When examining the list of network interfaces to find our address,
17824 do not consider non-running or disabled network interfaces. Fixes
17825 bug 9904; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. Patch from "hantwister".
17827 o Minor bugfixes (blocking resistance):
17828 - Only disable TLS session ticket support when running as a TLS
17829 server. Now clients will blend better with regular Firefox
17830 connections. Fixes bug 7189; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.23-rc.
17832 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
17833 - Use square brackets around IPv6 addresses in numerous places
17834 that needed them, including log messages, HTTPS CONNECT proxy
17835 requests, TransportProxy statefile entries, and pluggable transport
17836 extra-info lines. Fixes bug 7011; patch by David Fifield.
17838 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
17839 - Reject consensus votes with more than 64 known-flags. We aren't even
17840 close to that limit yet, and our code doesn't handle it correctly.
17841 Fixes bug 6833; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
17842 - Correctly handle votes with more than 31 flags. Fixes bug 6853;
17843 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
17845 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
17846 - Avoid leaking memory if we fail to compute a consensus signature
17847 or we generate a consensus we can't parse. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
17848 - Fix a memory leak when receiving headers from an HTTPS proxy. Bugfix
17849 on 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 7816.
17850 - Fix a memory leak during safe-cookie controller authentication.
17851 Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha; fixes bug 7816.
17852 - Free some more still-in-use memory at exit, to make hunting for
17853 memory leaks easier. Resolves bug 7029.
17855 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
17856 - Increase the width of the field used to remember a connection's
17857 link protocol version to two bytes. Harmless for now, since the
17858 only currently recognized versions are one byte long. Reported
17859 pseudonymously. Fixes bug 8062; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
17860 - Fix a crash when debugging unit tests on Windows: deallocate a
17861 shared library with FreeLibrary, not CloseHandle. Fixes bug 7306;
17862 bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Reported by "ultramage".
17863 - When detecting the largest possible file descriptor (in order to
17864 close all file descriptors when launching a new program), actually
17865 use _SC_OPEN_MAX. The old code for doing this was very, very broken.
17866 Fixes bug 8209; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Found by Coverity; this
17868 - Avoid a crash if we fail to generate an extrainfo descriptor.
17869 Fixes bug 8208; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Found by Coverity;
17870 this is CID 718634.
17871 - Avoid an off-by-one error when checking buffer boundaries when
17872 formatting the exit status of a pluggable transport helper.
17873 This is probably not an exploitable bug, but better safe than
17874 sorry. Fixes bug 9928; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc. Bug found by
17876 - Get rid of a couple of harmless clang warnings, where we compared
17877 enums to ints. These warnings are newly introduced in clang 3.2.
17879 o Minor bugfixes (code cleanliness):
17880 - Avoid use of reserved identifiers in our C code. The C standard
17881 doesn't like us declaring anything that starts with an
17882 underscore, so let's knock it off before we get in trouble. Fix
17883 for bug 1031; bugfix on the first Tor commit.
17884 - Fix round_to_power_of_2() so it doesn't invoke undefined behavior
17885 with large values. This situation was untriggered, but nevertheless
17886 incorrect. Fixes bug 6831; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
17887 - Fix an impossible buffer overrun in the AES unit tests. Fixes
17888 bug 8845; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Found by eugenis.
17889 - Fix handling of rendezvous client authorization types over 8.
17890 Fixes bug 6861; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
17891 - Remove a couple of extraneous semicolons that were upsetting the
17892 cparser library. Patch by Christian Grothoff. Fixes bug 7115;
17893 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
17894 - When complaining about a client port on a public address, log
17895 which address we're complaining about. Fixes bug 4020; bugfix on
17896 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Tom Fitzhenry.
17898 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, warnings):
17899 - If we encounter a write failure on a SOCKS connection before we
17900 finish our SOCKS handshake, don't warn that we closed the
17901 connection before we could send a SOCKS reply. Fixes bug 8427;
17902 bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
17903 - Fix a directory authority warn caused when we have a large amount
17904 of badexit bandwidth. Fixes bug 8419; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
17905 - Downgrade "Failed to hand off onionskin" messages to "debug"
17906 severity, since they're typically redundant with the "Your computer
17907 is too slow" messages. Fixes bug 7038; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
17908 - Avoid spurious warnings when configuring multiple client ports of
17909 which only some are nonlocal. Previously, we had claimed that some
17910 were nonlocal when in fact they weren't. Fixes bug 7836; bugfix on
17913 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, other):
17914 - Fix log messages and comments to avoid saying "GMT" when we mean
17915 "UTC". Fixes bug 6113.
17916 - When rejecting a configuration because we were unable to parse a
17917 quoted string, log an actual error message. Fixes bug 7950; bugfix
17919 - Correctly recognize that [::1] is a loopback address. Fixes
17920 bug 8377; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
17921 - Don't log inappropriate heartbeat messages when hibernating: a
17922 hibernating node is _expected_ to drop out of the consensus,
17923 decide it isn't bootstrapped, and so forth. Fixes bug 7302;
17924 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
17925 - Eliminate several instances where we use "Nickname=ID" to refer to
17926 nodes in logs. Use "Nickname (ID)" instead. (Elsewhere, we still use
17927 "$ID=Nickname", which is also acceptable.) Fixes bug 7065. Bugfix
17930 o Minor bugfixes (build):
17931 - Fix some bugs in tor-fw-helper-natpmp when trying to build and
17932 run it on Windows. More bugs likely remain. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
17933 Fixes bug 7280; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
17935 o Documentation fixes:
17936 - Make the torify manpage no longer refer to tsocks; torify hasn't
17937 supported tsocks since 0.2.3.14-alpha.
17938 - Make the tor manpage no longer reference tsocks.
17939 - Fix the GeoIPExcludeUnknown documentation to refer to
17940 ExcludeExitNodes rather than the currently nonexistent
17941 ExcludeEntryNodes. Spotted by "hamahangi" on tor-talk.
17942 - Resolve a typo in torrc.sample.in. Fixes bug 6819; bugfix on
17944 - Say "KBytes" rather than "KB" in the man page (for various values
17945 of K), to further reduce confusion about whether Tor counts in
17946 units of memory or fractions of units of memory. Resolves ticket 7054.
17947 - Update tor-fw-helper.1.txt and tor-fw-helper.c to make option
17948 names match. Fixes bug 7768.
17949 - Fix the documentation of HeartbeatPeriod to say that the heartbeat
17950 message is logged at notice, not at info.
17951 - Clarify the usage and risks of setting the ContactInfo torrc line
17952 for your relay or bridge. Resolves ticket 9854.
17953 - Add anchors to the manpage so we can link to the html version of
17954 the documentation for specific options. Resolves ticket 9866.
17955 - Replace remaining references to DirServer in man page and
17956 log entries. Resolves ticket 10124.
17958 o Removed features:
17959 - Stop exporting estimates of v2 and v3 directory traffic shares
17960 in extrainfo documents. They were unneeded and sometimes inaccurate.
17961 Also stop exporting any v2 directory request statistics. Resolves
17963 - Drop support for detecting and warning about versions of Libevent
17964 before 1.3e. Nothing reasonable ships with them any longer; warning
17965 the user about them shouldn't be needed. Resolves ticket 6826.
17966 - Now that all versions before 0.2.2.x are disallowed, we no longer
17967 need to work around their missing features. Remove a bunch of
17968 compatibility code.
17971 - The tor-tsocks.conf is no longer distributed or installed. We
17972 recommend that tsocks users use torsocks instead. Resolves
17974 - Remove some of the older contents of doc/ as obsolete; move others
17975 to torspec.git. Fixes bug 8965.
17977 o Code simplification:
17978 - Avoid using character buffers when constructing most directory
17979 objects: this approach was unwieldy and error-prone. Instead,
17980 build smartlists of strings, and concatenate them when done.
17981 - Rename "isin" functions to "contains", for grammar. Resolves
17983 - Rename Tor's logging function log() to tor_log(), to avoid conflicts
17984 with the natural logarithm function from the system libm. Resolves
17986 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h, so that we don't
17987 need to hand-roll our own pointer and list structures whenever we
17988 need them. (We can't rely on a sys/queue.h, since some operating
17989 systems don't have them, and the ones that do have them don't all
17990 present the same extensions.)
17991 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h (originally by
17993 - Enhance our internal sscanf replacement so that we can eliminate
17994 the last remaining uses of the system sscanf. (Though those uses
17995 of sscanf were safe, sscanf itself is generally error prone, so
17996 we want to eliminate when we can.) Fixes ticket 4195 and Coverity
17998 - Replace all calls to snprintf() outside of src/ext with
17999 tor_snprintf(). Also remove the #define to replace snprintf with
18000 _snprintf on Windows; they have different semantics, and all of
18001 our callers should be using tor_snprintf() anyway. Fixes bug 7304.
18004 - Add a wrapper function for the common "log a message with a
18006 - Split the onion.c file into separate modules for the onion queue
18007 and the different handshakes it supports.
18008 - Move the client-side address-map/virtual-address/DNS-cache code
18009 out of connection_edge.c into a new addressmap.c module.
18010 - Move the entry node code from circuitbuild.c to its own file.
18011 - Move the circuit build timeout tracking code from circuitbuild.c
18013 - Source files taken from other packages now reside in src/ext;
18014 previously they were scattered around the rest of Tor.
18015 - Move the generic "config" code into a new file, and have "config.c"
18016 hold only torrc- and state-related code. Resolves ticket 6823.
18017 - Move the core of our "choose a weighted element at random" logic
18018 into its own function, and give it unit tests. Now the logic is
18019 testable, and a little less fragile too.
18020 - Move ipv6_preferred from routerinfo_t to node_t. Addresses bug 4620.
18021 - Move last_reachable and testing_since from routerinfo_t to node_t.
18022 Implements ticket 5529.
18023 - Add replaycache_t structure, functions and unit tests, then refactor
18024 rend_service_introduce() to be more clear to read, improve, debug,
18025 and test. Resolves bug 6177.
18028 - Remove some now-needless code that tried to aggressively flush
18029 OR connections as data was added to them. Since 0.2.0.1-alpha, our
18030 cell queue logic has saved us from the failure mode that this code
18031 was supposed to prevent. Removing this code will limit the number
18032 of baroque control flow paths through Tor's network logic. Reported
18033 pseudonymously on IRC. Fixes bug 6468; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18034 - Remove unused code for parsing v1 directories and "running routers"
18035 documents. Fixes bug 6887.
18036 - Remove the marshalling/unmarshalling code for sending requests to
18037 cpuworkers over a socket, and instead just send structs. The
18038 recipient will always be the same Tor binary as the sender, so
18039 any encoding is overkill.
18040 - Remove the testing_since field of node_t, which hasn't been used
18041 for anything since 0.2.0.9-alpha.
18042 - Finally remove support for malloc_good_size and malloc_usable_size.
18043 We had hoped that these functions would let us eke a little more
18044 memory out of our malloc implementation. Unfortunately, the only
18045 implementations that provided these functions are also ones that
18046 are already efficient about not overallocation: they never got us
18047 more than 7 or so bytes per allocation. Removing them saves us a
18048 little code complexity and a nontrivial amount of build complexity.
18051 Changes in version 0.2.3.25 - 2012-11-19
18052 The Tor 0.2.3 release series is dedicated to the memory of Len "rabbi"
18053 Sassaman (1980-2011), a long-time cypherpunk, anonymity researcher,
18054 Mixmaster maintainer, Pynchon Gate co-designer, CodeCon organizer,
18055 programmer, and friend. Unstinting in his dedication to the cause of
18056 freedom, he inspired and helped many of us as we began our work on
18057 anonymity, and inspires us still. Please honor his memory by writing
18058 software to protect people's freedoms, and by helping others to do so.
18060 Tor 0.2.3.25, the first stable release in the 0.2.3 branch, features
18061 significantly reduced directory overhead (via microdescriptors),
18062 enormous crypto performance improvements for fast relays on new
18063 enough hardware, a new v3 TLS handshake protocol that can better
18064 resist fingerprinting, support for protocol obfuscation plugins (aka
18065 pluggable transports), better scalability for hidden services, IPv6
18066 support for bridges, performance improvements like allowing clients
18067 to skip the first round-trip on the circuit ("optimistic data") and
18068 refilling token buckets more often, a new "stream isolation" design
18069 to isolate different applications on different circuits, and many
18070 stability, security, and privacy fixes.
18072 Major features (v3 directory protocol):
18073 - Clients now use microdescriptors instead of regular descriptors
18074 to build circuits. Microdescriptors are authority-generated
18075 summaries of regular descriptors' contents, designed to change very
18076 rarely (see proposal 158 for details). This feature is designed
18077 to save bandwidth, especially for clients on slow internet
18078 connections. Use "UseMicrodescriptors 0" to disable it.
18079 - Caches now download, cache, and serve microdescriptors, as well
18080 as multiple "flavors" of the consensus, including a flavor that
18081 describes microdescriptors.
18083 o Major features (build hardening):
18084 - Enable gcc and ld hardening by default. Resolves ticket 5210.
18086 o Major features (relay scaling):
18087 - When built to use OpenSSL 1.0.1, and built for an x86 or x86_64
18088 instruction set, take advantage of OpenSSL's AESNI, bitsliced, or
18089 vectorized AES implementations as appropriate. These can be much,
18090 much faster than other AES implementations.
18091 - When using OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, use OpenSSL's counter mode
18092 implementation. It makes AES_CTR about 7% faster than our old one
18093 (which was about 10% faster than the one OpenSSL used to provide).
18094 Resolves ticket 4526.
18095 - Use OpenSSL's EVP interface for AES encryption, so that all AES
18096 operations can use hardware acceleration (if present). Resolves
18098 - Unconditionally use OpenSSL's AES implementation instead of our
18099 old built-in one. OpenSSL's AES has been better for a while, and
18100 relatively few servers should still be on any version of OpenSSL
18101 that doesn't have good optimized assembly AES.
18103 o Major features (blocking resistance):
18104 - Update TLS cipher list to match Firefox 8 and later. Resolves
18106 - Remove support for clients falsely claiming to support standard
18107 ciphersuites that they can actually provide. As of modern OpenSSL
18108 versions, it's not necessary to fake any standard ciphersuite,
18109 and doing so prevents us from using better ciphersuites in the
18110 future, since servers can't know whether an advertised ciphersuite
18111 is really supported or not. Some hosts -- notably, ones with very
18112 old versions of OpenSSL or where OpenSSL has been built with ECC
18113 disabled -- will stand out because of this change; TBB users should
18114 not be affected. Implements the client side of proposal 198.
18115 - Implement a new handshake protocol (v3) for authenticating Tors to
18116 each other over TLS. It should be more resistant to fingerprinting
18117 than previous protocols, and should require less TLS hacking for
18118 future Tor implementations. Implements proposal 176.
18119 - Allow variable-length padding cells, to disguise the length of
18120 Tor's TLS records. Implements part of proposal 184.
18121 - While we're trying to bootstrap, record how many TLS connections
18122 fail in each state, and report which states saw the most failures
18123 in response to any bootstrap failures. This feature may speed up
18124 diagnosis of censorship events. Implements ticket 3116.
18126 o Major features (pluggable transports):
18127 - Clients and bridges can now be configured to use a separate
18128 "transport" proxy. This approach makes the censorship arms race
18129 easier by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation plugins.
18130 Implements proposal 180 (tickets 2841 and 3472).
18132 o Major features (DoS resistance):
18133 - Now that Tor 0.2.0.x is completely deprecated, enable the final
18134 part of "Proposal 110: Avoiding infinite length circuits" by
18135 refusing all circuit-extend requests that do not use a relay_early
18136 cell. This change helps Tor resist a class of denial-of-service
18137 attacks by limiting the maximum circuit length.
18138 - Tear down the circuit if we get an unexpected SENDME cell. Clients
18139 could use this trick to make their circuits receive cells faster
18140 than our flow control would have allowed, or to gum up the network,
18141 or possibly to do targeted memory denial-of-service attacks on
18142 entry nodes. Fixes bug 6252. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor --
18143 from July 2002, before the release of Tor 0.0.0.
18145 o Major features (hidden services):
18146 - Adjust the number of introduction points that a hidden service
18147 will try to maintain based on how long its introduction points
18148 remain in use and how many introductions they handle. Fixes
18150 - Add a "tor2web mode" for clients that want to connect to hidden
18151 services non-anonymously (and possibly more quickly). As a safety
18152 measure to try to keep users from turning this on without knowing
18153 what they are doing, tor2web mode must be explicitly enabled at
18154 compile time, and a copy of Tor compiled to run in tor2web mode
18155 cannot be used as a normal Tor client. Implements feature 2553.
18157 o Major features (IPv6):
18158 - Clients can now connect to private bridges over IPv6. Bridges
18159 still need at least one IPv4 address in order to connect to
18160 other relays. Note that we don't yet handle the case where the
18161 user has two bridge lines for the same bridge (one IPv4, one
18162 IPv6). Implements parts of proposal 186.
18164 o Major features (directory authorities):
18165 - Use a more secure consensus parameter voting algorithm. Now at
18166 least three directory authorities or a majority of them must
18167 vote on a given parameter before it will be included in the
18168 consensus. Implements proposal 178.
18169 - Remove the artificially low cutoff of 20KB to guarantee the Fast
18170 flag. In the past few years the average relay speed has picked
18171 up, and while the "top 7/8 of the network get the Fast flag" and
18172 "all relays with 20KB or more of capacity get the Fast flag" rules
18173 used to have the same result, now the top 7/8 of the network has
18174 a capacity more like 32KB. Bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc. Fixes bug 4489.
18176 o Major features (performance):
18177 - Exit nodes now accept and queue data on not-yet-connected streams.
18178 Previously, the client wasn't allowed to send data until the
18179 stream was connected, which slowed down all connections. This
18180 change will enable clients to perform a "fast-start" on streams
18181 and send data without having to wait for a confirmation that the
18182 stream has opened. Patch from Ian Goldberg; implements the server
18183 side of Proposal 174.
18184 - When using an exit relay running 0.2.3.x, clients can now
18185 "optimistically" send data before the exit relay reports that
18186 the stream has opened. This saves a round trip when starting
18187 connections where the client speaks first (such as web browsing).
18188 This behavior is controlled by a consensus parameter (currently
18189 disabled). To turn it on or off manually, use the "OptimisticData"
18190 torrc option. Implements proposal 181; code by Ian Goldberg.
18191 - Add a new TokenBucketRefillInterval option to refill token buckets
18192 more frequently than once per second. This should improve network
18193 performance, alleviate queueing problems, and make traffic less
18194 bursty. Implements proposal 183; closes ticket 3630. Design by
18195 Florian Tschorsch and Björn Scheuermann; implementation by
18197 - Raise the threshold of server descriptors needed (75%) and exit
18198 server descriptors needed (50%) before we will declare ourselves
18199 bootstrapped. This will make clients start building circuits a
18200 little later, but makes the initially constructed circuits less
18201 skewed and less in conflict with further directory fetches. Fixes
18204 o Major features (relays):
18205 - Relays now try regenerating and uploading their descriptor more
18206 frequently if they are not listed in the consensus, or if the
18207 version of their descriptor listed in the consensus is too
18208 old. This fix should prevent situations where a server declines
18209 to re-publish itself because it has done so too recently, even
18210 though the authorities decided not to list its recent-enough
18211 descriptor. Fix for bug 3327.
18213 o Major features (stream isolation):
18214 - You can now configure Tor so that streams from different
18215 applications are isolated on different circuits, to prevent an
18216 attacker who sees your streams as they leave an exit node from
18217 linking your sessions to one another. To do this, choose some way
18218 to distinguish the applications: have them connect to different
18219 SocksPorts, or have one of them use SOCKS4 while the other uses
18220 SOCKS5, or have them pass different authentication strings to the
18221 SOCKS proxy. Then, use the new SocksPort syntax to configure the
18222 degree of isolation you need. This implements Proposal 171.
18223 - There's a new syntax for specifying multiple client ports (such as
18224 SOCKSPort, TransPort, DNSPort, NATDPort): you can now just declare
18225 multiple *Port entries with full addr:port syntax on each.
18226 The old *ListenAddress format is still supported, but you can't
18227 mix it with the new *Port syntax.
18229 o Major features (bufferevents):
18230 - Tor can now optionally build with the "bufferevents" buffered IO
18231 backend provided by Libevent 2. To use this feature, make sure you
18232 have the latest possible version of Libevent, and pass the
18233 --enable-bufferevents flag to configure when building Tor from
18234 source. This feature will make our networking code more flexible,
18235 let us stack layers on each other, and let us use more efficient
18236 zero-copy transports where available.
18237 - Add experimental support for running on Windows with IOCP and no
18238 kernel-space socket buffers. This feature is controlled by a new
18239 "UserspaceIOCPBuffers" config option (off by default), which has
18240 no effect unless Tor has been built with bufferevents enabled,
18241 you're running on Windows, and you've set "DisableIOCP 0". In the
18242 long run, this may help solve or mitigate bug 98.
18244 o Major features (path selection):
18245 - The EntryNodes option can now include country codes like {de} or IP
18246 addresses or network masks. Previously we had disallowed these
18247 options because we didn't have an efficient way to keep the list up
18248 to date. Addresses ticket 1982, but see bug 2798 for an unresolved
18251 o Major features (port forwarding):
18252 - Add support for automatic port mapping on the many home routers
18253 that support NAT-PMP or UPnP. To build the support code, you'll
18254 need to have the libnatpnp library and/or the libminiupnpc library,
18255 and you'll need to enable the feature specifically by passing
18256 "--enable-upnp" and/or "--enable-natpnp" to ./configure. To turn
18257 it on, use the new PortForwarding option.
18259 o Major features (logging):
18260 - Add a new 'Heartbeat' log message type to periodically log a message
18261 describing Tor's status at level Notice. This feature is meant for
18262 operators who log at notice, and want to make sure that their Tor
18263 server is still working. Implementation by George Kadianakis.
18264 - Make logging resolution configurable with a new LogTimeGranularity
18265 option, and change the default from 1 millisecond to 1 second.
18266 Implements enhancement 1668.
18268 o Major features (other):
18269 - New "DisableNetwork" config option to prevent Tor from launching any
18270 connections or accepting any connections except on a control port.
18271 Bundles and controllers can set this option before letting Tor talk
18272 to the rest of the network, for example to prevent any connections
18273 to a non-bridge address. Packages like Orbot can also use this
18274 option to instruct Tor to save power when the network is off.
18275 - Try to use system facilities for enumerating local interface
18276 addresses, before falling back to our old approach (which was
18277 binding a UDP socket, and calling getsockname() on it). That
18278 approach was scaring OS X users whose draconian firewall
18279 software warned about binding to UDP sockets regardless of
18280 whether packets were sent. Now we try to use getifaddrs(),
18281 SIOCGIFCONF, or GetAdaptersAddresses(), depending on what the
18282 system supports. Resolves ticket 1827.
18283 - Add experimental support for a "defaults" torrc file to be parsed
18284 before the regular torrc. Torrc options override the defaults file's
18285 options in the same way that the command line overrides the torrc.
18286 The SAVECONF controller command saves only those options which
18287 differ between the current configuration and the defaults file. HUP
18288 reloads both files. Implements task 4552.
18290 o New directory authorities:
18291 - Add Faravahar (run by Sina Rabbani) as the ninth v3 directory
18292 authority. Closes ticket 5749.
18294 o Security/privacy fixes:
18295 - Avoid read-from-freed-memory and double-free bugs that could occur
18296 when a DNS request fails while launching it. Fixes bug 6480;
18297 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18298 - Reject any attempt to extend to an internal address. Without
18299 this fix, a router could be used to probe addresses on an internal
18300 network to see whether they were accepting connections. Fixes bug
18301 6710; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
18302 - Close any connection that sends unrecognized junk before the TLS
18303 handshake. Solves an issue noted in bug 4369.
18304 - The advertised platform of a relay now includes only its operating
18305 system's name (e.g., "Linux", "Darwin", "Windows 7"), and not
18306 its service pack level (for Windows) or its CPU architecture
18307 (for Unix). Also drop the "git-XYZ" tag in the version. Packagers
18308 can insert an extra string in the platform line by setting the
18309 preprocessor variable TOR_BUILD_TAG. Resolves bug 2988.
18310 - Disable TLS session tickets. OpenSSL's implementation was giving
18311 our TLS session keys the lifetime of our TLS context objects, when
18312 perfect forward secrecy would want us to discard anything that
18313 could decrypt a link connection as soon as the link connection
18314 was closed. Fixes bug 7139; bugfix on all versions of Tor linked
18315 against OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later. Found by Florent Daignière.
18316 - Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so
18317 that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory,
18318 the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler
18319 was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the
18320 memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program,
18321 hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that
18322 by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler
18323 is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use
18324 a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352.
18325 Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov.
18327 o Major bugfixes (crashes and asserts):
18328 - Avoid a pair of double-free and use-after-mark bugs that can
18329 occur with certain timings in canceled and re-received DNS
18330 requests. Fixes bug 6472; bugfix on 0.0.7rc1.
18331 - Fix a denial of service attack by which any directory authority
18332 could crash all the others, or by which a single v2 directory
18333 authority could crash everybody downloading v2 directory
18334 information. Fixes bug 7191; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
18335 - Fix an assert that directory authorities could trigger on sighup
18336 during some configuration state transitions. We now don't treat
18337 it as a fatal error when the new descriptor we just generated in
18338 init_keys() isn't accepted. Fixes bug 4438; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
18339 - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
18340 version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
18343 o Major bugfixes (clients):
18344 - If we are unable to find any exit that supports our predicted ports,
18345 stop calling them predicted, so that we don't loop and build
18346 hopeless circuits indefinitely. Fixes bug 3296; bugfix on 0.0.9pre6,
18347 which introduced predicted ports.
18348 - Check at each new consensus whether our entry guards were picked
18349 long enough ago that we should rotate them. Previously, we only
18350 did this check at startup, which could lead to us holding a guard
18351 indefinitely. Fixes bug 5380; bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc.
18352 - When fetching a bridge descriptor from a bridge authority,
18353 always do so anonymously, whether we have been able to open
18354 circuits or not. Partial fix for bug 1938; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
18355 This behavior makes it *safer* to use UpdateBridgesFromAuthority,
18356 but we'll need to wait for bug 6010 before it's actually usable.
18358 o Major bugfixes (directory voting):
18359 - Check more thoroughly to prevent a rogue authority from
18360 double-voting on any consensus directory parameter. Previously,
18361 authorities would crash in this case if the total number of
18362 votes for any parameter exceeded the number of active voters,
18363 but would let it pass otherwise. Partially fixes bug 5786; bugfix
18365 - When computing weight parameters, behave more robustly in the
18366 presence of a bad bwweightscale value. Previously, the authorities
18367 would crash if they agreed on a sufficiently broken weight_scale
18368 value; now, they use a reasonable default and carry on. Fixes the
18369 rest of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
18370 - If authorities are unable to get a v2 consensus document from other
18371 directory authorities, they no longer fall back to fetching
18372 them from regular directory caches. Fixes bug 5635; bugfix on
18373 0.2.2.26-beta, where routers stopped downloading v2 consensus
18374 documents entirely.
18376 o Major bugfixes (relays):
18377 - Fix a bug handling SENDME cells on nonexistent streams that could
18378 result in bizarre window values. Report and patch contributed
18379 pseudonymously. Fixes part of bug 6271. This bug was introduced
18380 before the first Tor release, in svn commit r152.
18381 - Don't update the AccountingSoftLimitHitAt state file entry whenever
18382 tor gets started. This prevents a wrong average bandwidth
18383 estimate, which would cause relays to always start a new accounting
18384 interval at the earliest possible moment. Fixes bug 2003; bugfix
18385 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Reported by Bryon Eldridge, who also helped
18386 immensely in tracking this bug down.
18387 - Fix a possible crash bug when checking for deactivated circuits
18388 in connection_or_flush_from_first_active_circuit(). Fixes bug 6341;
18389 bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Bug report and fix received pseudonymously.
18390 - Set the SO_REUSEADDR socket option before we call bind() on outgoing
18391 connections. This change should allow busy exit relays to stop
18392 running out of available sockets as quickly. Fixes bug 4950;
18393 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
18395 o Major bugfixes (blocking resistance):
18396 - Bridges no longer include their address in NETINFO cells on outgoing
18397 OR connections, to allow them to blend in better with clients.
18398 Removes another avenue for enumerating bridges. Reported by
18399 "troll_un". Fixes bug 4348; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha, when NETINFO
18400 cells were introduced.
18401 - Warn the user when HTTPProxy, but no other proxy type, is
18402 configured. This can cause surprising behavior: it doesn't send
18403 all of Tor's traffic over the HTTPProxy -- it sends unencrypted
18404 directory traffic only. Resolves ticket 4663.
18406 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
18407 - Improve hidden service robustness: when an attempt to connect to
18408 a hidden service ends, be willing to refetch its hidden service
18409 descriptors from each of the HSDir relays responsible for them
18410 immediately. Previously, we would not consider refetching the
18411 service's descriptors from each HSDir for 15 minutes after the last
18412 fetch, which was inconvenient if the hidden service was not running
18413 during the first attempt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 3335.
18414 - Hidden services now ignore the timestamps on INTRODUCE2 cells.
18415 They used to check that the timestamp was within 30 minutes
18416 of their system clock, so they could cap the size of their
18417 replay-detection cache, but that approach unnecessarily refused
18418 service to clients with wrong clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha, when
18419 the v3 intro-point protocol (the first one which sent a timestamp
18420 field in the INTRODUCE2 cell) was introduced; fixes bug 3460.
18421 - When one of a hidden service's introduction points appears to be
18422 unreachable, stop trying it. Previously, we would keep trying
18423 to build circuits to the introduction point until we lost the
18424 descriptor, usually because the user gave up and restarted Tor.
18425 Fixes part of bug 3825.
18427 o Changes to default torrc file:
18428 - Stop listing "socksport 9050" in torrc.sample. We open a socks
18429 port on 9050 by default anyway, so this should not change anything
18431 - Stop mentioning the deprecated *ListenAddress options in
18432 torrc.sample. Fixes bug 5438.
18433 - Document unit of bandwidth-related options in sample torrc.
18435 - Fix broken URLs in the sample torrc file, and tell readers about
18436 the OutboundBindAddress, ExitPolicyRejectPrivate, and
18437 PublishServerDescriptor options. Addresses bug 4652.
18439 o Minor features (directory authorities):
18440 - Consider new, removed or changed IPv6 OR ports a non-cosmetic
18441 change when the authority is deciding whether to accept a newly
18442 uploaded descriptor. Implements ticket 6423.
18443 - Directory authorities are now a little more lenient at accepting
18444 older router descriptors, or newer router descriptors that don't
18445 make big changes. This should help ameliorate past and future
18446 issues where routers think they have uploaded valid descriptors,
18447 but the authorities don't think so. Fix for ticket 2479.
18448 - Authority operators can now vote for all relays in a given
18449 set of countries to be BadDir/BadExit/Invalid/Rejected.
18450 - Provide two consensus parameters (FastFlagMinThreshold and
18451 FastFlagMaxThreshold) to control the range of allowable bandwidths
18452 for the Fast directory flag. These allow authorities to run
18453 experiments on appropriate requirements for being a "Fast" node.
18454 The AuthDirFastGuarantee config value still applies. Implements
18457 o Minor features (bridges / bridge authorities):
18458 - Make bridge SSL certificates a bit more stealthy by using random
18459 serial numbers, in the same fashion as OpenSSL when generating
18460 self-signed certificates. Implements ticket 4584.
18461 - Tag a bridge's descriptor as "never to be sent unencrypted".
18462 This shouldn't matter, since bridges don't open non-anonymous
18463 connections to the bridge authority and don't allow unencrypted
18464 directory connections from clients, but we might as well make
18465 sure. Closes bug 5139.
18466 - The Bridge Authority now writes statistics on how many bridge
18467 descriptors it gave out in total, and how many unique descriptors
18468 it gave out. It also lists how often the most and least commonly
18469 fetched descriptors were given out, as well as the median and
18470 25th/75th percentile. Implements tickets 4200 and 4294.
18472 o Minor features (IPv6):
18473 - Make the code that clients use to detect an address change be
18474 IPv6-aware, so that it won't fill clients' logs with error
18475 messages when trying to get the IPv4 address of an IPv6
18476 connection. Implements ticket 5537.
18477 - Relays now understand an IPv6 address when they get one from a
18478 directory server. Resolves ticket 4875.
18480 o Minor features (hidden services):
18481 - Expire old or over-used hidden service introduction points.
18482 Required by fix for bug 3460.
18483 - Reduce the lifetime of elements of hidden services' Diffie-Hellman
18484 public key replay-detection cache from 60 minutes to 5 minutes. This
18485 replay-detection cache is now used only to detect multiple
18486 INTRODUCE2 cells specifying the same rendezvous point, so we can
18487 avoid launching multiple simultaneous attempts to connect to it.
18488 - When a hidden service's introduction point times out, consider
18489 trying it again during the next attempt to connect to the
18490 HS. Previously, we would not try it again unless a newly fetched
18491 descriptor contained it. Required by fixes for bugs 1297 and 3825.
18493 o Minor features (relays):
18494 - Relays now include a reason for regenerating their descriptors
18495 in an HTTP header when uploading to the authorities. This will
18496 make it easier to debug descriptor-upload issues in the future.
18497 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
18498 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
18499 - Replace files in stats/ rather than appending to them. Now that we
18500 include statistics in extra-info descriptors, it makes no sense to
18501 keep old statistics forever. Implements ticket 2930.
18502 - Relays that set "ConnDirectionStatistics 1" write statistics on the
18503 bidirectional use of connections to disk every 24 hours.
18504 - Add a GeoIP file digest to the extra-info descriptor. Implements
18507 o Minor features (new config options):
18508 - New config option "DynamicDHGroups" (disabled by default) provides
18509 each bridge with a unique prime DH modulus to be used during
18510 SSL handshakes. This option attempts to help against censors
18511 who might use the Apache DH modulus as a static identifier for
18512 bridges. Addresses ticket 4548.
18513 - New config option "DisableDebuggerAttachment" (on by default)
18514 to prevent basic debugging attachment attempts by other processes.
18515 Supports Mac OS X and Gnu/Linux. Resolves ticket 3313.
18516 - Ordinarily, Tor does not count traffic from private addresses (like
18517 127.0.0.1 or 10.0.0.1) when calculating rate limits or accounting.
18518 There is now a new option, CountPrivateBandwidth, to disable this
18519 behavior. Patch from Daniel Cagara.
18521 o Minor features (different behavior for old config options):
18522 - Allow MapAddress directives to specify matches against super-domains,
18523 as in "MapAddress *.torproject.org *.torproject.org.torserver.exit".
18524 Implements issue 933.
18525 - Don't disable the DirPort when we cannot exceed our AccountingMax
18526 limit during this interval because the effective bandwidthrate is
18527 low enough. This is useful in a situation where AccountMax is only
18528 used as an additional safeguard or to provide statistics.
18529 - Add port 6523 (Gobby) to LongLivedPorts. Patch by intrigeri;
18530 implements ticket 3439.
18531 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes, and there are
18532 enough of them listed as Guard so that we don't need to consider
18533 the non-guard entries, prefer the ones listed with the Guard flag.
18534 - If you set the NumCPUs option to 0, Tor will now try to detect how
18535 many CPUs you have. This is the new default behavior.
18536 - The NodeFamily option -- which let you declare that you want to
18537 consider nodes to be part of a family whether they list themselves
18538 that way or not -- now allows IP address ranges and country codes.
18540 o Minor features (new command-line config behavior):
18541 - Slightly change behavior of "list" options (that is, config
18542 options that can appear more than once) when they appear both in
18543 torrc and on the command line. Previously, the command-line options
18544 would be appended to the ones from torrc. Now, the command-line
18545 options override the torrc options entirely. This new behavior
18546 allows the user to override list options (like exit policies and
18547 ports to listen on) from the command line, rather than simply
18548 appending to the list.
18549 - You can get the old (appending) command-line behavior for "list"
18550 options by prefixing the option name with a "+".
18551 - You can remove all the values for a "list" option from the command
18552 line without adding any new ones by prefixing the option name
18555 o Minor features (controller, new events):
18556 - Extend the control protocol to report flags that control a circuit's
18557 path selection in CIRC events and in replies to 'GETINFO
18558 circuit-status'. Implements part of ticket 2411.
18559 - Extend the control protocol to report the hidden service address
18560 and current state of a hidden-service-related circuit in CIRC
18561 events and in replies to 'GETINFO circuit-status'. Implements part
18563 - Include the creation time of a circuit in CIRC and CIRC2
18564 control-port events and the list produced by the 'GETINFO
18565 circuit-status' control-port command.
18566 - Add a new CONF_CHANGED event so that controllers can be notified
18567 of any configuration changes made by other controllers, or by the
18568 user. Implements ticket 1692.
18569 - Add a new SIGNAL event to the controller interface so that
18570 controllers can be notified when Tor handles a signal. Resolves
18571 issue 1955. Patch by John Brooks.
18573 o Minor features (controller, new getinfo options):
18574 - Expose our view of whether we have gone dormant to the controller,
18575 via a new "GETINFO dormant" value. Torbutton and other controllers
18576 can use this to avoid doing periodic requests through Tor while
18577 it's dormant (bug 4718). Resolves ticket 5954.
18578 - Add a new GETINFO option to get total bytes read and written. Patch
18579 from pipe, revised by atagar. Resolves ticket 2345.
18580 - Implement new GETINFO controller fields to provide information about
18581 the Tor process's pid, euid, username, and resource limits.
18583 o Minor features (controller, other):
18584 - Allow controllers to request an event notification whenever a
18585 circuit is cannibalized or its purpose is changed. Implements
18586 part of ticket 3457.
18587 - Use absolute path names when reporting the torrc filename in the
18588 control protocol, so a controller can more easily find the torrc
18589 file. Resolves bug 1101.
18590 - When reporting the path to the cookie file to the controller,
18591 give an absolute path. Resolves ticket 4881.
18593 o Minor features (log messages):
18594 - Add more information to a log statement that might help track down
18595 bug 4091. If you're seeing "Bug: tor_addr_is_internal() called with a
18596 non-IP address" messages (or any Bug messages, for that matter!),
18597 please let us know about it.
18598 - If EntryNodes are given, but UseEntryGuards is set to 0, warn that
18599 EntryNodes will have no effect. Resolves issue 2571.
18600 - Try to make the introductory warning message that Tor prints on
18601 startup more useful for actually finding help and information.
18602 Resolves ticket 2474.
18603 - When the system call to create a listener socket fails, log the
18604 error message explaining why. This may help diagnose bug 4027.
18606 o Minor features (other):
18607 - When we fail to initialize Libevent, retry with IOCP disabled so we
18608 don't need to turn on multi-threading support in Libevent, which in
18609 turn requires a working socketpair(). This is a workaround for bug
18610 4457, which affects Libevent versions from 2.0.1-alpha through
18612 - When starting as root and then changing our UID via the User
18613 control option, and we have a ControlSocket configured, make sure
18614 that the ControlSocket is owned by the same account that Tor will
18615 run under. Implements ticket 3421; fix by Jérémy Bobbio.
18616 - Accept attempts to include a password authenticator in the
18617 handshake, as supported by SOCKS5. This handles SOCKS clients that
18618 don't know how to omit a password when authenticating. Resolves
18620 - Check for and recover from inconsistency in the microdescriptor
18621 cache. This will make it harder for us to accidentally free a
18622 microdescriptor without removing it from the appropriate data
18623 structures. Fixes issue 3135; issue noted by "wanoskarnet".
18624 - Shorten links in the tor-exit-notice file. Patch by Christian Kujau.
18626 o Minor bugfixes (code security):
18627 - Prevent a null-pointer dereference when receiving a data cell
18628 for a nonexistent stream when the circuit in question has an
18629 empty deliver window. We don't believe this is triggerable,
18630 since we don't currently allow deliver windows to become empty,
18631 but the logic is tricky enough that it's better to make the code
18632 robust. Fixes bug 5541; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
18633 - Fix a (harmless) integer overflow in cell statistics reported by
18634 some fast relays. Fixes bug 5849; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
18635 - Fix our implementation of crypto_random_hostname() so it can't
18636 overflow on ridiculously large inputs. (No Tor version has ever
18637 provided this kind of bad inputs, but let's be correct in depth.)
18638 Fixes bug 4413; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Fix by Stephen Palmateer.
18639 - Add a (probably redundant) memory clear between iterations of
18640 the router status voting loop, to prevent future coding errors
18641 where data might leak between iterations of the loop. Resolves
18644 o Minor bugfixes (wrapper functions):
18645 - Abort if tor_vasprintf() fails in connection_printf_to_buf() (a
18646 utility function used in the control-port code). This shouldn't
18647 ever happen unless Tor is completely out of memory, but if it did
18648 happen and Tor somehow recovered from it, Tor could have sent a log
18649 message to a control port in the middle of a reply to a controller
18650 command. Fixes part of bug 3428; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
18651 - Fix some (not actually triggerable) buffer size checks in usage of
18652 tor_inet_ntop(). Fixes bug 4434; bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch
18654 - Fix parsing of some corner-cases with tor_inet_pton(). Fixes
18655 bug 4515; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fix by Anders Sundman.
18656 - Enforce correct return behavior of tor_vsscanf() when the '%%'
18657 pattern is used. Fixes bug 5558. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13.
18658 - Make our replacement implementation of strtok_r() compatible with
18659 the standard behavior of strtok_r(). Patch by nils. Fixes bug 5091;
18660 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
18661 - Find more places in the code that should have been testing for
18662 invalid sockets using the SOCKET_OK macro. Required for a fix
18663 for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
18665 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
18666 - Check return value of fputs() when writing authority certificate
18667 file. Fixes Coverity issue 709056; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18668 - When building Tor on Windows with -DUNICODE (not default), ensure
18669 that error messages, filenames, and DNS server names are always
18670 NUL-terminated when we convert them to a single-byte encoding.
18671 Fixes bug 5909; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
18672 - Fix a memory leak when trying to launch a DNS request when the
18673 nameservers are unconfigurable. Fixes bug 5916; bugfix on Tor
18675 - Correct file sizes when reading binary files on Cygwin, to avoid
18676 a bug where Tor would fail to read its state file. Fixes bug 6844;
18677 bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
18678 - Make sure to set *socket_error in all error cases in
18679 connection_connect(), so it can't produce a warning about
18680 errno being zero from errno_to_orconn_end_reason(). Bugfix on
18681 0.2.1.1-alpha; resolves ticket 6028.
18682 - Initialize conn->addr to a valid state in spawn_cpuworker(). Fixes
18683 bug 4532; found by "troll_un".
18685 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
18686 - Allow one-hop directory-fetching circuits the full "circuit build
18687 timeout" period, rather than just half of it, before failing them
18688 and marking the relay down. This fix should help reduce cases where
18689 clients declare relays (or worse, bridges) unreachable because
18690 the TLS handshake takes a few seconds to complete. Fixes bug 6743;
18691 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha, where we changed the timeout from a static
18693 - Ensure we don't cannibalize circuits that are longer than three hops
18694 already, so we don't end up making circuits with 5 or more
18695 hops. Patch contributed by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 5231; bugfix on
18696 0.1.0.1-rc which introduced cannibalization.
18698 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
18699 - Don't publish a new relay descriptor when we reload our onion key,
18700 unless the onion key has actually changed. Fixes bug 3263 and
18701 resolves another cause of bug 1810. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
18702 - When relays refuse a "create" cell because their queue of pending
18703 create cells is too big (typically because their cpu can't keep up
18704 with the arrival rate), send back reason "resource limit" rather
18705 than reason "internal", so network measurement scripts can get a
18706 more accurate picture. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha; fixes bug 7037.
18707 - Exit nodes don't need to fetch certificates for authorities that
18708 they don't recognize; only directory authorities, bridges,
18709 and caches need to do that. Fixes part of bug 2297; bugfix on
18712 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority / mirrors):
18713 - Avoid O(n^2) performance characteristics when parsing a large
18714 extrainfo cache. Fixes bug 5828; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18715 - Authorities no longer include any router in their microdescriptor
18716 consensuses for which they couldn't generate or agree on a
18717 microdescriptor. Fixes the second piece of bug 6404; fix on
18719 - When checking for requested signatures on the latest consensus
18720 before serving it to a client, make sure to check the right
18721 consensus flavor. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
18722 - Fix an edge case where TestingTorNetwork is set but the authorities
18723 and relays all have an uptime of zero, so the private Tor network
18724 could briefly lack support for hidden services. Fixes bug 3886;
18725 bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
18726 - Directory caches no longer refuse to clean out descriptors because
18727 of missing v2 networkstatus documents, unless they're configured
18728 to retrieve v2 networkstatus documents. Fixes bug 4838; bugfix on
18729 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch by Daniel Bryg.
18730 - Don't serve or accept v2 hidden service descriptors over a relay's
18731 DirPort. It's never correct to do so, and disabling it might
18732 make it more annoying to exploit any bugs that turn up in the
18733 descriptor-parsing code. Fixes bug 7149.
18735 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services, client-side):
18736 - Assert that hidden-service-related operations are not performed
18737 using single-hop circuits. Previously, Tor would assert that
18738 client-side streams are not attached to single-hop circuits,
18739 but not that other sensitive operations on the client and service
18740 side are not performed using single-hop circuits. Fixes bug 3332;
18742 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing the list of supported
18743 rendezvous/introduction protocols in a hidden service descriptor.
18744 Previously, Tor would have confused (as-yet-unused) protocol version
18745 numbers greater than 32 with lower ones on many platforms. Fixes
18746 bug 6827; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Found by George Kadianakis.
18747 - Don't close hidden service client circuits which have almost
18748 finished connecting to their destination when they reach
18749 the normal circuit-build timeout. Previously, we would close
18750 introduction circuits which are waiting for an acknowledgement
18751 from the introduction point, and rendezvous circuits which have
18752 been specified in an INTRODUCE1 cell sent to a hidden service,
18753 after the normal CBT. Now, we mark them as 'timed out', and launch
18754 another rendezvous attempt in parallel. This behavior change can
18755 be disabled using the new CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout
18756 option. Fixes part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
18758 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services, service-side):
18759 - Don't close hidden-service-side rendezvous circuits when they
18760 reach the normal circuit-build timeout. This behavior change can
18761 be disabled using the new
18762 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout option. Fixes the
18763 remaining part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
18764 - Don't launch more than 10 service-side introduction-point circuits
18765 for a hidden service in five minutes. Previously, we would consider
18766 launching more introduction-point circuits if at least one second
18767 had passed without any introduction-point circuits failing. Fixes
18768 bug 4607; bugfix on 0.0.7pre1.
18770 o Minor bugfixes (config option behavior):
18771 - If the user tries to set MyFamily on a bridge, refuse to
18772 do so, and warn about the security implications. Fixes bug 4657;
18773 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
18774 - The "--quiet" and "--hush" options now apply not only to Tor's
18775 behavior before logs are configured, but also to Tor's behavior in
18776 the absence of configured logs. Fixes bug 3550; bugfix on
18778 - Change the AllowDotExit rules so they should actually work.
18779 We now enforce AllowDotExit only immediately after receiving an
18780 address via SOCKS or DNSPort: other sources are free to provide
18781 .exit addresses after the resolution occurs. Fixes bug 3940;
18782 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
18783 - Make "LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0" work more reliably. Specifically,
18784 don't depend on the consensus parameters or compute adaptive
18785 timeouts when it is disabled. Fixes bug 5049; bugfix on
18787 - After we pick a directory mirror, we would refuse to use it if
18788 it's in our ExcludeExitNodes list, resulting in mysterious failures
18789 to bootstrap for people who just wanted to avoid exiting from
18790 certain locations. Fixes bug 5623; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
18791 - When told to add a bridge with the same digest as a preexisting
18792 bridge but a different addr:port, change the addr:port as
18793 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
18794 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
18796 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
18797 - Allow manual 'authenticate' commands to the controller interface
18798 from netcat (nc) as well as telnet. We were rejecting them because
18799 they didn't come with the expected whitespace at the end of the
18800 command. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 2893.
18801 - Report a real bootstrap problem to the controller on router
18802 identity mismatch. Previously we just said "foo", which probably
18803 made a lot of sense at the time. Fixes bug 4169; bugfix on
18805 - When we receive a SIGHUP and the controller __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP
18806 option is set to 0 (which Vidalia version 0.2.16 now does when
18807 a SAVECONF attempt fails), perform other actions that SIGHUP
18808 usually causes (like reopening the logs). Fixes bug 5095; bugfix
18810 - Correctly handle checking the permissions on the parent
18811 directory of a control socket in the root directory. Bug found
18812 by Esteban Manchado Velázquez. Fixes bug 5089; bugfix on Tor
18814 - End AUTHCHALLENGE error messages (in the control protocol) with
18815 a CRLF. Fixes bug 5760; bugfix on 0.2.2.36.
18817 o Minor bugfixes (network reading/writing):
18818 - Disable writing on marked-for-close connections when they are
18819 blocked on bandwidth, to prevent busy-looping in Libevent. Fixes
18820 bug 5263; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13, where we first added a special
18821 case for flushing marked connections.
18822 - Make sure that there are no unhandled pending TLS errors before
18823 reading from a TLS stream. We had checks in 0.1.0.3-rc, but
18824 lost them in 0.1.0.5-rc when we refactored read_to_buf_tls().
18825 Bugfix on 0.1.0.5-rc; fixes bug 4528.
18826 - Detect SSL handshake even when the initial attempt to write the
18827 server hello fails. Fixes bug 4592; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
18828 - If the client fails to set a reasonable set of ciphersuites
18829 during its v2 handshake renegotiation, allow the renegotiation to
18830 continue nevertheless (i.e. send all the required certificates).
18831 Fixes bug 4591; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
18833 o Minor bugfixes (other):
18834 - Exit nodes now correctly report EADDRINUSE and EADDRNOTAVAIL as
18835 resource exhaustion, so that clients can adjust their load to
18836 try other exits. Fixes bug 4710; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc, which
18837 started using END_STREAM_REASON_RESOURCELIMIT.
18838 - Don't check for whether the address we're using for outbound
18839 connections has changed until after the outbound connection has
18840 completed. On Windows, getsockname() doesn't succeed until the
18841 connection is finished. Fixes bug 5374; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
18842 - Don't hold a Windows file handle open for every file mapping;
18843 the file mapping handle is sufficient. Fixes bug 5951; bugfix on
18845 - Fix wrong TCP port range in parse_port_range(). Fixes bug 6218;
18846 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
18847 - If we fail to write a microdescriptor to the disk cache, do not
18848 continue replacing the old microdescriptor file. Fixes bug 2954;
18849 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
18851 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, path selection):
18852 - Downgrade "set buildtimeout to low value" messages to "info"
18853 severity; they were never an actual problem, there was never
18854 anything reasonable to do about them, and they tended to spam logs
18855 from time to time. Fixes bug 6251; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
18856 - Rate-limit the "Weighted bandwidth is 0.000000" message, and add
18857 more information to it, so that we can track it down in case it
18858 returns again. Mitigates bug 5235.
18859 - Check CircuitBuildTimeout and LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in
18860 options_validate(); warn if LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled and
18861 CircuitBuildTimeout is set unreasonably low. Resolves ticket 5452.
18862 - Issue a log message if a guard completes less than 40% of your
18863 circuits. Threshold is configurable by torrc option
18864 PathBiasNoticeRate and consensus parameter pb_noticepct. There is
18865 additional, off-by-default code to disable guards which fail too
18866 many circuits. Addresses ticket 5458.
18868 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, client):
18869 - Downgrade "Got a certificate, but we already have it" log messages
18870 from warning to info, except when we're a dirauth. Fixes bug 5238;
18871 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
18872 - Fix the log message describing how we work around discovering
18873 that our version is the ill-fated OpenSSL 0.9.8l. Fixes bug
18874 4837; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
18875 - When logging about a disallowed .exit name, do not also call it
18876 an "invalid onion address". Fixes bug 3325; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
18877 - Fix a log message suggesting that people contact a non-existent
18878 email address. Fixes bug 3448.
18879 - Rephrase the log message emitted if the TestSocks check is
18880 successful. Patch from Fabian Keil; fixes bug 4094.
18881 - Log (at debug level) whenever a circuit's purpose is changed.
18882 - Log SSL state transitions at log level DEBUG, log domain
18883 HANDSHAKE. This can be useful for debugging censorship events.
18884 Implements ticket 3264.
18885 - We now log which torrc file we're using on startup. Implements
18887 - Rate-limit log messages when asked to connect anonymously to
18888 a private address. When these hit, they tended to hit fast and
18889 often. Also, don't bother trying to connect to addresses that we
18890 are sure will resolve to 127.0.0.1: getting 127.0.0.1 in a directory
18891 reply makes us think we have been lied to, even when the address the
18892 client tried to connect to was "localhost." Resolves ticket 2822.
18894 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, non-client):
18895 - Downgrade "eventdns rejected address" message to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN.
18896 Fixes bug 5932; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
18897 - Don't log that we have "decided to publish new relay descriptor"
18898 unless we are actually publishing a descriptor. Fixes bug 3942;
18899 bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
18900 - Log which authority we're missing votes from when we go to fetch
18901 them from the other auths.
18902 - Replace "Sending publish request" log messages with "Launching
18903 upload", so that they no longer confusingly imply that we're
18904 sending something to a directory we might not even be connected
18905 to yet. Fixes bug 3311; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
18906 - Warn when Tor is configured to use accounting in a way that can
18907 link a hidden service to some other hidden service or public
18908 address. Resolves ticket 6490.
18909 - Fix a minor formatting issue in one of tor-gencert's error messages.
18913 - Update to the latest version of the tinytest unit testing framework.
18914 This includes a couple of bugfixes that can be relevant for
18915 running forked unit tests on Windows, and removes all reserved
18917 - Avoid a false positive in the util/threads unit test by increasing
18918 the maximum timeout time. Fixes bug 6227; bugfix on 0.2.0.4-alpha.
18919 - Make it possible to set the TestingTorNetwork configuration
18920 option using AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority
18921 as an alternative to setting DirServer. Addresses ticket 6377.
18922 - Add a unit test for the environment_variable_names_equal() function.
18923 - A wide variety of new unit tests by Esteban Manchado Velázquez.
18924 - Numerous new unit tests for functions in util.c and address.c by
18926 - The long-disabled benchmark tests are now split into their own
18927 ./src/test/bench binary.
18928 - The benchmark tests can now use more accurate timers than
18929 gettimeofday() when such timers are available.
18930 - Use tt_assert(), not tor_assert(), for checking for test failures.
18931 This makes the unit tests more able to go on in the event that
18934 o Build improvements:
18935 - Use the dead_strip option when building Tor on OS X. This reduces
18936 binary size by almost 19% when linking openssl and libevent
18937 statically, which we do for Tor Browser Bundle.
18938 - Provide a better error message about possible OSX Asciidoc failure
18939 reasons. Fixes bug 6436.
18940 - Detect attempts to build Tor on (as yet hypothetical) versions
18941 of Windows where sizeof(intptr_t) != sizeof(SOCKET). Partial
18942 fix for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
18943 - On Windows, we now define the _WIN32_WINNT macros only if they
18944 are not already defined. This lets the person building Tor decide,
18945 if they want, to require a later version of Windows.
18946 - Our autogen.sh script now uses autoreconf to launch autoconf,
18947 automake, and so on. This is more robust against some of the failure
18948 modes associated with running the autotools pieces on their own.
18949 - Running "make version" now displays the version of Tor that
18950 we're about to build. Idea from katmagic; resolves issue 4400.
18951 - Make 'tor --digests' list hashes of all Tor source files. Bugfix
18952 on 0.2.2.4-alpha; fixes bug 3427.
18953 - New --enable-static-tor configure option for building Tor as
18954 statically as possible. Idea, general hackery and thoughts from
18955 Alexei Czeskis, John Gilmore, Jacob Appelbaum. Implements ticket
18957 - Limited, experimental support for building with nmake and MSVC.
18959 o Build requirements:
18960 - Building Tor with bufferevent support now requires Libevent
18961 2.0.13-stable or later. Previous versions of Libevent had bugs in
18962 SSL-related bufferevents and related issues that would make Tor
18963 work badly with bufferevents. Requiring 2.0.13-stable also allows
18964 Tor with bufferevents to take advantage of Libevent APIs
18965 introduced after 2.0.8-rc.
18966 - Our build system requires automake 1.6 or later to create the
18967 Makefile.in files. Previously, you could have used 1.4.
18968 This only affects developers and people building Tor from git;
18969 people who build Tor from the source distribution without changing
18970 the Makefile.am files should be fine.
18971 - Detect when we try to build on a platform that doesn't define
18972 AF_UNSPEC to 0. We don't work there, so refuse to compile.
18974 o Build fixes (compile/link):
18975 - Format more doubles with %f, not %lf. Patch from grarpamp to make
18976 Tor build correctly on older BSDs again. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on
18978 - When building with --enable-static-tor on OpenBSD, do not
18979 erroneously attempt to link -lrt. Fixes bug 5103.
18980 - Set _WIN32_WINNT to 0x0501 consistently throughout the code, so
18981 that IPv6 stuff will compile on MSVC, and compilation issues
18982 will be easier to track down. Fixes bug 5861.
18983 - Fix build and 64-bit compile warnings from --enable-openbsd-malloc.
18984 Fixes bug 6379. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
18985 - Make Tor build correctly again with -DUNICODE -D_UNICODE defined.
18986 Fixes bug 6097; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
18988 o Build fixes (other):
18989 - Use the _WIN32 macro throughout our code to detect Windows.
18990 (Previously we had used the obsolete 'WIN32' and the idiosyncratic
18992 - Properly handle the case where the build-tree is not the same
18993 as the source tree when generating src/common/common_sha1.i,
18994 src/or/micro-revision.i, and src/or/or_sha1.i. Fixes bug 3953;
18995 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18996 - During configure, search for library containing cos function as
18997 libm lives in libcore on some platforms (BeOS/Haiku). Linking
18998 against libm was hard-coded before. Fixes the first part of bug
18999 4727; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin Hebnes
19001 - Prevent a false positive from the check-spaces script, by disabling
19002 the "whitespace between function name and (" check for functions
19005 o Packaging (RPM) changes:
19006 - Update our default RPM spec files to work with mock and rpmbuild
19007 on RHEL/Fedora. They have an updated set of dependencies and
19008 conflicts, a fix for an ancient typo when creating the "_tor"
19009 user, and better instructions. Thanks to Ondrej Mikle for the
19010 patch series. Fixes bug 6043.
19011 - On OpenSUSE, create the /var/run/tor directory on startup if it
19012 is not already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
19014 o Code refactoring (safety):
19015 - Do not use SMARTLIST_FOREACH for any loop whose body exceeds
19016 10 lines. Also, don't nest them. Doing so in the past has
19017 led to hard-to-debug code. The new style is to use the
19018 SMARTLIST_FOREACH_{BEGIN,END} pair. Addresses issue 6400.
19019 - Use macros to indicate OpenSSL versions, so we don't need to worry
19020 about accidental hexadecimal bit shifts.
19021 - Use tor_sscanf() in place of scanf() in more places through the
19022 code. This makes us a little more locale-independent, and
19023 should help shut up code-analysis tools that can't tell
19024 a safe sscanf string from a dangerous one.
19025 - Convert more instances of tor_snprintf+tor_strdup into tor_asprintf.
19026 - Use the smartlist_add_asprintf() alias more consistently.
19028 o Code refactoring (consolidate):
19029 - A major revision to our internal node-selecting and listing logic.
19030 Tor already had at least two major ways to look at the question of
19031 "which Tor servers do we know about": a list of router descriptors,
19032 and a list of entries in the current consensus. With
19033 microdescriptors, we're adding a third. Having so many systems
19034 without an abstraction layer over them was hurting the codebase.
19035 Now, we have a new "node_t" abstraction that presents a consistent
19036 interface to a client's view of a Tor node, and holds (nearly) all
19037 of the mutable state formerly in routerinfo_t and routerstatus_t.
19038 - Move tor_gettimeofday_cached() into compat_libevent.c, and use
19039 Libevent's notion of cached time when possible.
19040 - Remove duplicate code for invoking getrlimit() from control.c.
19041 - Use OpenSSL's built-in SSL_state_string_long() instead of our
19042 own homebrewed ssl_state_to_string() replacement. Patch from
19043 Emile Snyder. Fixes bug 4653.
19044 - Change the symmetric cipher interface so that creating and
19045 initializing a stream cipher are no longer separate functions.
19047 o Code refactoring (separate):
19048 - Make a new "entry connection" struct as an internal subtype of "edge
19049 connection", to simplify the code and make exit connections smaller.
19050 - Split connection_about_to_close() into separate functions for each
19052 - Rewrite the listener-selection logic so that parsing which ports
19053 we want to listen on is now separate from binding to the ports
19056 o Code refactoring (name changes):
19057 - Rename a handful of old identifiers, mostly related to crypto
19058 structures and crypto functions. By convention, our "create an
19059 object" functions are called "type_new()", our "free an object"
19060 functions are called "type_free()", and our types indicate that
19061 they are types only with a final "_t". But a handful of older
19062 types and functions broke these rules, with function names like
19063 "type_create" or "subsystem_op_type", or with type names like
19065 - Rename Tor functions that turn strings into addresses, so that
19066 "parse" indicates that no hostname resolution occurs, and
19067 "lookup" indicates that hostname resolution may occur. This
19068 should help prevent mistakes in the future. Fixes bug 3512.
19069 - Use the name "CERTS" consistently to refer to the new cell type;
19070 we were calling it CERT in some places and CERTS in others.
19071 - Use a TOR_INVALID_SOCKET macro when initializing a socket to an
19072 invalid value, rather than just -1.
19073 - Rename the bench_{aes,dmap} functions to test_*, so that tinytest
19074 can pick them up when the tests aren't disabled. Bugfix on
19075 0.2.2.4-alpha which introduced tinytest.
19077 o Code refactoring (other):
19078 - Defensively refactor rend_mid_rendezvous() so that protocol
19079 violations and length checks happen in the beginning. Fixes
19081 - Remove the pure attribute from all functions that used it
19082 previously. In many cases we assigned it incorrectly, because the
19083 functions might assert or call impure functions, and we don't have
19084 evidence that keeping the pure attribute is worthwhile. Implements
19085 changes suggested in ticket 4421.
19086 - Move the replay-detection cache for the RSA-encrypted parts of
19087 INTRODUCE2 cells to the introduction point data structures.
19088 Previously, we would use one replay-detection cache per hidden
19089 service. Required by fix for bug 3460.
19090 - The helper programs tor-gencert, tor-resolve, and tor-checkkey
19091 no longer link against Libevent: they never used it, but
19092 our library structure used to force them to link it.
19094 o Removed features and files:
19095 - Remove all internal support for unpadded RSA. We never used it, and
19096 it would be a bad idea to start.
19097 - Remove some workaround code for OpenSSL 0.9.6 (which is no longer
19099 - Remove some redundant #include directives throughout the code.
19100 Patch from Andrea Gelmini.
19101 - Remove some old code to remember statistics about which descriptors
19102 we've served as a directory mirror. The feature wasn't used and
19103 is outdated now that microdescriptors are around.
19104 - Remove some old code to work around even older versions of Tor that
19105 used forked processes to handle DNS requests. Such versions of Tor
19106 are no longer in use as relays.
19107 - The "torify" script no longer supports the "tsocks" socksifier
19108 tool, since tsocks doesn't support DNS and UDP right for Tor.
19109 Everyone should be using torsocks instead. Fixes bugs 3530 and
19110 5180. Based on a patch by "ugh".
19111 - Remove the torrc.bridge file: we don't use it for anything, and
19112 it had become badly desynchronized from torrc.sample. Resolves
19116 - Begin a doc/state-contents.txt file to explain the contents of
19117 the Tor state file. Fixes bug 2987.
19118 - Clarify the documentation for the Alternate*Authority options.
19120 - Document the --defaults-torrc option, and the new semantics for
19121 overriding, extending, and clearing lists of options. Closes
19123 - Add missing man page documentation for consensus and microdesc
19124 files. Resolves ticket 6732.
19125 - Fix some typos in the manpages. Patch from A. Costa. Fixes bug 6500.
19127 o Documentation fixes:
19128 - Improve the manual's documentation for the NT Service command-line
19129 options. Addresses ticket 3964.
19130 - Clarify SessionGroup documentation slightly; resolves ticket 5437.
19131 - Document the changes to the ORPort and DirPort options, and the
19132 fact that {OR/Dir}ListenAddress is now unnecessary (and
19133 therefore deprecated). Resolves ticket 5597.
19134 - Correct a broken faq link in the INSTALL file. Fixes bug 2307.
19135 - Clarify that hidden services are TCP only. Fixes bug 6024.
19138 Changes in version 0.2.2.39 - 2012-09-11
19139 Tor 0.2.2.39 fixes two more opportunities for remotely triggerable
19143 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
19144 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
19145 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
19146 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
19147 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
19148 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
19149 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
19153 Changes in version 0.2.2.38 - 2012-08-12
19154 Tor 0.2.2.38 fixes a remotely triggerable crash bug, and fixes a timing
19155 attack that could in theory leak path information.
19158 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
19159 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
19160 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
19161 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
19162 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
19163 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
19164 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
19165 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
19166 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
19167 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
19168 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
19169 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
19170 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
19171 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
19174 Changes in version 0.2.2.37 - 2012-06-06
19175 Tor 0.2.2.37 introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
19176 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
19180 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
19181 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
19182 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
19183 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
19184 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
19185 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
19186 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
19187 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
19188 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
19189 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
19190 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
19193 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
19194 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
19197 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
19198 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
19201 Changes in version 0.2.2.36 - 2012-05-24
19202 Tor 0.2.2.36 updates the addresses for two of the eight directory
19203 authorities, fixes some potential anonymity and security issues,
19204 and fixes several crash bugs.
19206 Tor 0.2.1.x has reached its end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many
19207 known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should upgrade. If
19208 you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete, stop using
19209 those packages and upgrade anyway.
19211 o Directory authority changes:
19212 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
19213 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
19217 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
19218 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
19219 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
19220 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
19221 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
19222 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
19223 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
19224 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
19225 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
19226 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
19227 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
19228 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
19229 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
19230 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
19231 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
19232 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
19233 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
19234 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
19235 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
19236 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
19237 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
19238 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
19239 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
19240 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
19241 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
19242 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
19243 this attack. Fixes bug 5185; implements proposal 193.
19246 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
19247 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
19248 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
19249 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
19251 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
19252 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
19254 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
19255 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
19256 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
19257 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
19258 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
19259 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
19260 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
19261 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
19264 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
19265 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
19266 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
19267 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
19268 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
19269 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
19270 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
19271 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
19272 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
19273 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
19274 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
19275 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
19276 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
19277 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
19278 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
19279 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
19280 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
19281 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
19282 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
19283 Esteban Manchado Velázques.
19284 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
19285 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
19286 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
19287 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
19288 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
19289 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
19290 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
19291 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
19292 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
19293 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
19294 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
19295 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
19296 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
19297 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
19298 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
19299 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
19300 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
19301 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
19302 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
19303 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
19304 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed SETCIRCUITPURPOSE
19305 command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
19306 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
19307 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
19308 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
19309 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
19311 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
19312 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
19313 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
19314 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
19315 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
19316 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
19317 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
19318 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
19319 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
19320 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
19321 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
19322 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
19323 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
19324 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
19325 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
19328 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
19329 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
19330 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
19331 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
19333 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
19336 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
19337 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
19338 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
19339 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
19340 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
19341 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
19342 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
19345 Changes in version 0.2.2.35 - 2011-12-16
19346 Tor 0.2.2.35 fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in Tor's
19347 buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
19349 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
19350 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
19351 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
19352 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
19353 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
19354 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
19355 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
19356 (which Tor does not do by default).
19358 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
19359 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
19360 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
19361 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
19362 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
19364 Tor 0.2.2.35 also fixes several bugs in previous versions, including
19365 crash bugs for unusual configurations, and a long-term bug that
19366 would prevent Tor from starting on Windows machines with draconian
19369 With this release, we remind everyone that 0.2.0.x has reached its
19370 formal end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many known flaws, and
19371 nobody should be using them. You should upgrade -- ideally to the
19372 0.2.2.x series. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are
19373 obsolete, stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
19375 The Tor 0.2.1.x series is also approaching its end-of-life: it will no
19376 longer receive support after some time in early 2012.
19379 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
19380 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
19381 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
19382 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
19383 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
19384 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
19385 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
19386 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
19388 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
19389 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
19390 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
19391 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
19392 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
19393 close based on processing a cell on it.
19394 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
19395 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
19396 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
19397 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
19398 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
19399 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
19400 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
19401 - Don't crash when we're running as a relay and don't have a GeoIP
19402 file. Bugfix on 0.2.2.34; fixes bug 4340. This backports a fix
19403 we've had in the 0.2.3.x branch already.
19404 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
19405 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
19406 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
19407 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
19408 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34.
19411 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
19412 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
19413 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
19414 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
19415 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
19416 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
19417 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
19419 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
19420 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
19421 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
19422 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
19423 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
19424 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
19425 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
19426 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
19427 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
19428 - Fix a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
19429 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
19430 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
19431 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
19432 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
19433 - Backport fixes for a pair of compilation warnings on Windows.
19434 Fixes bug 4521; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta and on 0.2.2.29-beta.
19435 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str on an address of
19436 unknown type, we would have done a strdup on an uninitialized
19437 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
19438 Reported by "troll_un".
19439 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
19440 tor_addr_lookup. Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
19441 Reported by "troll_un".
19442 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
19443 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
19444 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
19445 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
19448 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
19449 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
19450 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
19451 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
19452 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
19453 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
19454 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
19455 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
19456 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
19457 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
19458 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
19460 o Packaging changes:
19461 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
19462 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
19465 Changes in version 0.2.1.32 - 2011-12-16
19466 Tor 0.2.1.32 backports important security and privacy fixes for
19467 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
19468 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
19469 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
19471 The Tor 0.2.1.x series will reach formal end-of-life some time in
19472 early 2012; we will stop releasing patches for it then.
19474 o Major bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
19475 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
19476 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
19477 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
19478 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
19479 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
19480 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
19481 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
19482 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
19485 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
19488 Changes in version 0.2.2.34 - 2011-10-26
19489 Tor 0.2.2.34 fixes a critical anonymity vulnerability where an attacker
19490 can deanonymize Tor users. Everybody should upgrade.
19492 The attack relies on four components: 1) Clients reuse their TLS cert
19493 when talking to different relays, so relays can recognize a user by
19494 the identity key in her cert. 2) An attacker who knows the client's
19495 identity key can probe each guard relay to see if that identity key
19496 is connected to that guard relay right now. 3) A variety of active
19497 attacks in the literature (starting from "Low-Cost Traffic Analysis
19498 of Tor" by Murdoch and Danezis in 2005) allow a malicious website to
19499 discover the guard relays that a Tor user visiting the website is using.
19500 4) Clients typically pick three guards at random, so the set of guards
19501 for a given user could well be a unique fingerprint for her. This
19502 release fixes components #1 and #2, which is enough to block the attack;
19503 the other two remain as open research problems. Special thanks to
19504 "frosty_un" for reporting the issue to us!
19506 Clients should upgrade so they are no longer recognizable by the TLS
19507 certs they present. Relays should upgrade so they no longer allow a
19508 remote attacker to probe them to test whether unpatched clients are
19509 currently connected to them.
19511 This release also fixes several vulnerabilities that allow an attacker
19512 to enumerate bridge relays. Some bridge enumeration attacks still
19513 remain; see for example proposal 188.
19515 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
19516 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
19517 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
19518 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
19519 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
19520 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
19521 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
19522 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
19523 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
19524 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
19525 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
19526 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
19527 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
19528 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
19529 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
19530 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
19531 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
19532 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
19535 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (bridge enumeration):
19536 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
19537 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
19538 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
19539 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
19540 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
19541 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
19542 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
19543 when bridges were introduced.
19544 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
19545 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
19546 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
19547 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
19548 Found by "frosty_un".
19551 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
19552 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
19554 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
19555 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
19556 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
19557 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
19558 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
19559 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
19560 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
19563 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
19564 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
19565 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
19566 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
19567 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
19568 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
19569 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
19570 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
19571 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
19572 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
19573 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
19574 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
19575 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
19576 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
19577 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
19578 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
19579 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
19580 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
19582 o Minor bugfixes (log messages and documentation):
19583 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
19584 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
19585 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
19586 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
19587 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
19588 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
19589 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
19590 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
19591 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
19592 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
19593 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
19596 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
19597 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
19598 Backported from 0.2.3.1-alpha; implements ticket 3951.
19599 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
19602 Changes in version 0.2.1.31 - 2011-10-26
19603 Tor 0.2.1.31 backports important security and privacy fixes for
19604 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
19605 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
19606 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
19608 o Security fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
19609 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
19610 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
19611 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
19612 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
19613 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
19614 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
19615 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
19616 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
19617 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
19619 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
19620 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
19621 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
19622 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
19623 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
19624 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
19625 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
19626 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
19627 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
19628 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
19629 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
19630 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
19631 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
19632 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
19633 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
19634 Found by "frosty_un".
19635 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
19636 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
19637 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
19638 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
19639 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
19640 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
19641 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
19642 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
19643 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
19644 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
19645 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
19646 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
19647 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
19648 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
19649 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
19650 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
19651 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
19652 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
19653 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
19655 o Minor bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
19656 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
19657 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
19658 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
19659 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
19660 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
19661 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
19662 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
19664 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
19665 enabled. Fixes bug 1526.
19666 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
19667 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
19668 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
19669 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
19670 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
19671 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
19672 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
19673 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
19674 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
19675 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
19677 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
19678 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19679 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
19680 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19681 - Require that introduction point keys and onion keys have public
19682 exponent 65537. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
19683 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
19684 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
19685 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
19687 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
19689 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
19690 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
19691 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
19692 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
19693 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
19694 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
19695 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
19696 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
19698 o Minor bugfixes (only in 0.2.1.x):
19699 - Resume using micro-version numbers in 0.2.1.x: our Debian packages
19700 rely on them. Bugfix on 0.2.1.30.
19701 - Use git revisions instead of svn revisions when generating our
19702 micro-version numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
19704 o Minor features (also included in 0.2.2.x):
19705 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
19706 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
19707 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
19708 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
19711 Changes in version 0.2.2.33 - 2011-09-13
19712 Tor 0.2.2.33 fixes several bugs, and includes a slight tweak to Tor's
19713 TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run this new version
19714 reachable from Iran again.
19717 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
19718 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
19719 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
19721 o Minor features (security):
19722 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
19723 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
19724 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
19725 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
19726 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
19727 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
19728 that these attacks are infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
19729 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
19730 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
19731 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
19734 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
19735 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
19736 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
19737 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
19738 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
19739 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
19740 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
19741 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
19742 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
19744 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
19745 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
19746 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
19747 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
19748 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
19749 raised by bug 3898.
19750 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
19751 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
19752 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
19753 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
19754 fixes part of bug 2442.
19755 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
19756 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
19757 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
19759 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
19760 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
19761 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
19762 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
19763 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
19766 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
19767 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
19768 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
19769 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
19770 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
19771 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
19774 Changes in version 0.2.2.32 - 2011-08-27
19775 The Tor 0.2.2 release series is dedicated to the memory of Andreas
19776 Pfitzmann (1958-2010), a pioneer in anonymity and privacy research,
19777 a founder of the PETS community, a leader in our field, a mentor,
19778 and a friend. He left us with these words: "I had the possibility
19779 to contribute to this world that is not as it should be. I hope I
19780 could help in some areas to make the world a better place, and that
19781 I could also encourage other people to be engaged in improving the
19782 world. Please, stay engaged. This world needs you, your love, your
19783 initiative -- now I cannot be part of that anymore."
19785 Tor 0.2.2.32, the first stable release in the 0.2.2 branch, is finally
19786 ready. More than two years in the making, this release features improved
19787 client performance and hidden service reliability, better compatibility
19788 for Android, correct behavior for bridges that listen on more than
19789 one address, more extensible and flexible directory object handling,
19790 better reporting of network statistics, improved code security, and
19791 many many other features and bugfixes.
19793 o Major features (client performance):
19794 - When choosing which cells to relay first, relays now favor circuits
19795 that have been quiet recently, to provide lower latency for
19796 low-volume circuits. By default, relays enable or disable this
19797 feature based on a setting in the consensus. They can override
19798 this default by using the new "CircuitPriorityHalflife" config
19799 option. Design and code by Ian Goldberg, Can Tang, and Chris
19801 - Directory authorities now compute consensus weightings that instruct
19802 clients how to weight relays flagged as Guard, Exit, Guard+Exit,
19803 and no flag. Clients use these weightings to distribute network load
19804 more evenly across these different relay types. The weightings are
19805 in the consensus so we can change them globally in the future. Extra
19806 thanks to "outofwords" for finding some nasty security bugs in
19807 the first implementation of this feature.
19809 o Major features (client performance, circuit build timeout):
19810 - Tor now tracks how long it takes to build client-side circuits
19811 over time, and adapts its timeout to local network performance.
19812 Since a circuit that takes a long time to build will also provide
19813 bad performance, we get significant latency improvements by
19814 discarding the slowest 20% of circuits. Specifically, Tor creates
19815 circuits more aggressively than usual until it has enough data
19816 points for a good timeout estimate. Implements proposal 151.
19817 - Circuit build timeout constants can be controlled by consensus
19818 parameters. We set good defaults for these parameters based on
19819 experimentation on broadband and simulated high-latency links.
19820 - Circuit build time learning can be disabled via consensus parameter
19821 or by the client via a LearnCircuitBuildTimeout config option. We
19822 also automatically disable circuit build time calculation if either
19823 AuthoritativeDirectory is set, or if we fail to write our state
19824 file. Implements ticket 1296.
19826 o Major features (relays use their capacity better):
19827 - Set SO_REUSEADDR socket option on all sockets, not just
19828 listeners. This should help busy exit nodes avoid running out of
19829 useable ports just because all the ports have been used in the
19830 near past. Resolves issue 2850.
19831 - Relays now save observed peak bandwidth throughput rates to their
19832 state file (along with total usage, which was already saved),
19833 so that they can determine their correct estimated bandwidth on
19834 restart. Resolves bug 1863, where Tor relays would reset their
19835 estimated bandwidth to 0 after restarting.
19836 - Lower the maximum weighted-fractional-uptime cutoff to 98%. This
19837 should give us approximately 40-50% more Guard-flagged nodes,
19838 improving the anonymity the Tor network can provide and also
19839 decreasing the dropoff in throughput that relays experience when
19840 they first get the Guard flag.
19841 - Directory authorities now take changes in router IP address and
19842 ORPort into account when determining router stability. Previously,
19843 if a router changed its IP or ORPort, the authorities would not
19844 treat it as having any downtime for the purposes of stability
19845 calculation, whereas clients would experience downtime since the
19846 change would take a while to propagate to them. Resolves issue 1035.
19847 - New AccelName and AccelDir options add support for dynamic OpenSSL
19848 hardware crypto acceleration engines.
19850 o Major features (relays control their load better):
19851 - Exit relays now try harder to block exit attempts from unknown
19852 relays, to make it harder for people to use them as one-hop proxies
19853 a la tortunnel. Controlled by the refuseunknownexits consensus
19854 parameter (currently enabled), or you can override it on your
19855 relay with the RefuseUnknownExits torrc option. Resolves bug 1751;
19856 based on a variant of proposal 163.
19857 - Add separate per-conn write limiting to go with the per-conn read
19858 limiting. We added a global write limit in Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha,
19859 but never per-conn write limits.
19860 - New consensus params "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst" to let us
19861 rate-limit client connections as they enter the network. It's
19862 controlled in the consensus so we can turn it on and off for
19863 experiments. It's starting out off. Based on proposal 163.
19865 o Major features (controllers):
19866 - Export GeoIP information on bridge usage to controllers even if we
19867 have not yet been running for 24 hours. Now Vidalia bridge operators
19868 can get more accurate and immediate feedback about their
19869 contributions to the network.
19870 - Add an __OwningControllerProcess configuration option and a
19871 TAKEOWNERSHIP control-port command. Now a Tor controller can ensure
19872 that when it exits, Tor will shut down. Implements feature 3049.
19874 o Major features (directory authorities):
19875 - Directory authorities now create, vote on, and serve multiple
19876 parallel formats of directory data as part of their voting process.
19877 Partially implements Proposal 162: "Publish the consensus in
19879 - Directory authorities now agree on and publish small summaries
19880 of router information that clients can use in place of regular
19881 server descriptors. This transition will allow Tor 0.2.3 clients
19882 to use far less bandwidth for downloading information about the
19883 network. Begins the implementation of Proposal 158: "Clients
19884 download consensus + microdescriptors".
19885 - The directory voting system is now extensible to use multiple hash
19886 algorithms for signatures and resource selection. Newer formats
19887 are signed with SHA256, with a possibility for moving to a better
19888 hash algorithm in the future.
19889 - Directory authorities can now vote on arbitrary integer values as
19890 part of the consensus process. This is designed to help set
19891 network-wide parameters. Implements proposal 167.
19893 o Major features and bugfixes (node selection):
19894 - Revise and reconcile the meaning of the ExitNodes, EntryNodes,
19895 ExcludeEntryNodes, ExcludeExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, and Strict*Nodes
19896 options. Previously, we had been ambiguous in describing what
19897 counted as an "exit" node, and what operations exactly "StrictNodes
19898 0" would permit. This created confusion when people saw nodes built
19899 through unexpected circuits, and made it hard to tell real bugs from
19900 surprises. Now the intended behavior is:
19901 . "Exit", in the context of ExitNodes and ExcludeExitNodes, means
19902 a node that delivers user traffic outside the Tor network.
19903 . "Entry", in the context of EntryNodes, means a node used as the
19904 first hop of a multihop circuit. It doesn't include direct
19905 connections to directory servers.
19906 . "ExcludeNodes" applies to all nodes.
19907 . "StrictNodes" changes the behavior of ExcludeNodes only. When
19908 StrictNodes is set, Tor should avoid all nodes listed in
19909 ExcludeNodes, even when it will make user requests fail. When
19910 StrictNodes is *not* set, then Tor should follow ExcludeNodes
19911 whenever it can, except when it must use an excluded node to
19912 perform self-tests, connect to a hidden service, provide a
19913 hidden service, fulfill a .exit request, upload directory
19914 information, or fetch directory information.
19915 Collectively, the changes to implement the behavior fix bug 1090.
19916 - If EntryNodes, ExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, or ExcludeExitNodes
19917 change during a config reload, mark and discard all our origin
19918 circuits. This fix should address edge cases where we change the
19919 config options and but then choose a circuit that we created before
19921 - Make EntryNodes config option much more aggressive even when
19922 StrictNodes is not set. Before it would prepend your requested
19923 entrynodes to your list of guard nodes, but feel free to use others
19924 after that. Now it chooses only from your EntryNodes if any of
19925 those are available, and only falls back to others if a) they're
19926 all down and b) StrictNodes is not set.
19927 - Now we refresh your entry guards from EntryNodes at each consensus
19928 fetch -- rather than just at startup and then they slowly rot as
19929 the network changes.
19930 - Add support for the country code "{??}" in torrc options like
19931 ExcludeNodes, to indicate all routers of unknown country. Closes
19933 - ExcludeNodes now takes precedence over EntryNodes and ExitNodes: if
19934 a node is listed in both, it's treated as excluded.
19935 - ExcludeNodes now applies to directory nodes -- as a preference if
19936 StrictNodes is 0, or an absolute requirement if StrictNodes is 1.
19937 Don't exclude all the directory authorities and set StrictNodes to 1
19938 unless you really want your Tor to break.
19939 - ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes now override exit enclaving.
19940 - ExcludeExitNodes now overrides .exit requests.
19941 - We don't use bridges listed in ExcludeNodes.
19942 - When StrictNodes is 1:
19943 . We now apply ExcludeNodes to hidden service introduction points
19944 and to rendezvous points selected by hidden service users. This
19945 can make your hidden service less reliable: use it with caution!
19946 . If we have used ExcludeNodes on ourself, do not try relay
19947 reachability self-tests.
19948 . If we have excluded all the directory authorities, we will not
19949 even try to upload our descriptor if we're a relay.
19950 . Do not honor .exit requests to an excluded node.
19951 - When the set of permitted nodes changes, we now remove any mappings
19952 introduced via TrackExitHosts to now-excluded nodes. Bugfix on
19954 - We never cannibalize a circuit that had excluded nodes on it, even
19955 if StrictNodes is 0. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
19956 - Improve log messages related to excluded nodes.
19958 o Major features (misc):
19959 - Numerous changes, bugfixes, and workarounds from Nathan Freitas
19960 to help Tor build correctly for Android phones.
19961 - The options SocksPort, ControlPort, and so on now all accept a
19962 value "auto" that opens a socket on an OS-selected port. A
19963 new ControlPortWriteToFile option tells Tor to write its
19964 actual control port or ports to a chosen file. If the option
19965 ControlPortFileGroupReadable is set, the file is created as
19966 group-readable. Now users can run two Tor clients on the same
19967 system without needing to manually mess with parameters. Resolves
19968 part of ticket 3076.
19969 - Tor now supports tunneling all of its outgoing connections over
19970 a SOCKS proxy, using the SOCKS4Proxy and/or SOCKS5Proxy
19971 configuration options. Code by Christopher Davis.
19973 o Code security improvements:
19974 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
19975 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
19976 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
19977 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
19978 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
19979 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
19980 - Enable Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) and Data Execution
19981 Prevention (DEP) by default on Windows to make it harder for
19982 attackers to exploit vulnerabilities. Patch from John Brooks.
19983 - New "--enable-gcc-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
19984 to turn on gcc compile time hardening options. It ensures
19985 that signed ints have defined behavior (-fwrapv), enables
19986 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 (requiring -O2), adds stack smashing protection
19987 with canaries (-fstack-protector-all), turns on ASLR protection if
19988 supported by the kernel (-fPIE, -pie), and adds additional security
19989 related warnings. Verified to work on Mac OS X and Debian Lenny.
19990 - New "--enable-linker-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
19991 to turn on ELF specific hardening features (relro, now). This does
19992 not work with Mac OS X or any other non-ELF binary format.
19993 - Always search the Windows system directory for system DLLs, and
19994 nowhere else. Bugfix on 0.1.1.23; fixes bug 1954.
19995 - New DisableAllSwap option. If set to 1, Tor will attempt to lock all
19996 current and future memory pages via mlockall(). On supported
19997 platforms (modern Linux and probably BSD but not Windows or OS X),
19998 this should effectively disable any and all attempts to page out
19999 memory. This option requires that you start your Tor as root --
20000 if you use DisableAllSwap, please consider using the User option
20001 to properly reduce the privileges of your Tor.
20003 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
20004 - Fix crash bug on platforms where gmtime and localtime can return
20005 NULL. Windows 7 users were running into this one. Fixes part of bug
20006 2077. Bugfix on all versions of Tor. Found by boboper.
20007 - Introduce minimum/maximum values that clients will believe
20008 from the consensus. Now we'll have a better chance to avoid crashes
20009 or worse when a consensus param has a weird value.
20010 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
20011 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
20012 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
20013 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
20014 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
20015 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
20017 - If we're in the pathological case where there's no exit bandwidth
20018 but there is non-exit bandwidth, or no guard bandwidth but there
20019 is non-guard bandwidth, don't crash during path selection. Bugfix
20021 - Fix a crash bug when trying to initialize the evdns module in
20022 Libevent 2. Bugfix on 0.2.1.16-rc.
20024 o Major bugfixes (stability):
20025 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
20026 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
20027 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
20028 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
20029 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
20030 - Treat an unset $HOME like an empty $HOME rather than triggering an
20031 assert. Bugfix on 0.0.8pre1; fixes bug 1522.
20032 - More gracefully handle corrupt state files, removing asserts
20033 in favor of saving a backup and resetting state.
20034 - Instead of giving an assertion failure on an internal mismatch
20035 on estimated freelist size, just log a BUG warning and try later.
20036 Mitigates but does not fix bug 1125.
20037 - Fix an assert that got triggered when using the TestingTorNetwork
20038 configuration option and then issuing a GETINFO config-text control
20039 command. Fixes bug 2250; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
20040 - If the cached cert file is unparseable, warn but don't exit.
20042 o Privacy fixes (relays/bridges):
20043 - Don't list Windows capabilities in relay descriptors. We never made
20044 use of them, and maybe it's a bad idea to publish them. Bugfix
20046 - If the Nickname configuration option isn't given, Tor would pick a
20047 nickname based on the local hostname as the nickname for a relay.
20048 Because nicknames are not very important in today's Tor and the
20049 "Unnamed" nickname has been implemented, this is now problematic
20050 behavior: It leaks information about the hostname without being
20051 useful at all. Fixes bug 2979; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, which
20052 introduced the Unnamed nickname. Reported by tagnaq.
20053 - Maintain separate TLS contexts and certificates for incoming and
20054 outgoing connections in bridge relays. Previously we would use the
20055 same TLS contexts and certs for incoming and outgoing connections.
20056 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses bug 988.
20057 - Maintain separate identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS
20058 contexts in bridge relays. Previously we would use the same
20059 identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS contexts. Bugfix on
20060 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses the other half of bug 988.
20061 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
20062 requests for "all descriptors". It used to include bridge
20063 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
20064 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
20066 o Privacy fixes (clients):
20067 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
20068 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
20069 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
20070 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
20071 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
20072 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
20073 - Start the process of disabling ".exit" address notation, since it
20074 can be used for a variety of esoteric application-level attacks
20075 on users. To reenable it, set "AllowDotExit 1" in your torrc. Fix
20077 - Reject attempts at the client side to open connections to private
20078 IP addresses (like 127.0.0.1, 10.0.0.1, and so on) with
20079 a randomly chosen exit node. Attempts to do so are always
20080 ill-defined, generally prevented by exit policies, and usually
20081 in error. This will also help to detect loops in transparent
20082 proxy configurations. You can disable this feature by setting
20083 "ClientRejectInternalAddresses 0" in your torrc.
20084 - Log a notice when we get a new control connection. Now it's easier
20085 for security-conscious users to recognize when a local application
20086 is knocking on their controller door. Suggested by bug 1196.
20088 o Privacy fixes (newnym):
20089 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
20090 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
20091 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
20092 - On SIGHUP, do not clear out all TrackHostExits mappings, client
20093 DNS cache entries, and virtual address mappings: that's what
20094 NEWNYM is for. Fixes bug 1345; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
20095 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
20096 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
20097 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
20098 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
20099 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
20100 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
20102 o Major bugfixes (relay bandwidth accounting):
20103 - Fix a bug that could break accounting on 64-bit systems with large
20104 time_t values, making them hibernate for impossibly long intervals.
20105 Fixes bug 2146. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre6; fix by boboper.
20106 - Fix a bug in bandwidth accounting that could make us use twice
20107 the intended bandwidth when our interval start changes due to
20108 daylight saving time. Now we tolerate skew in stored vs computed
20109 interval starts: if the start of the period changes by no more than
20110 50% of the period's duration, we remember bytes that we transferred
20111 in the old period. Fixes bug 1511; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
20113 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
20114 - Bridges now use "reject *:*" as their default exit policy. Bugfix
20115 on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Fixes bug 1113.
20116 - If you configure your bridge with a known identity fingerprint,
20117 and the bridge authority is unreachable (as it is in at least
20118 one country now), fall back to directly requesting the descriptor
20119 from the bridge. Finishes the feature started in 0.2.0.10-alpha;
20121 - Fix a bug where bridge users who configure the non-canonical
20122 address of a bridge automatically switch to its canonical
20123 address. If a bridge listens at more than one address, it
20124 should be able to advertise those addresses independently and
20125 any non-blocked addresses should continue to work. Bugfix on Tor
20126 0.2.0.3-alpha. Fixes bug 2510.
20127 - If you configure Tor to use bridge A, and then quit and
20128 configure Tor to use bridge B instead (or if you change Tor
20129 to use bridge B via the controller), it would happily continue
20130 to use bridge A if it's still reachable. While this behavior is
20131 a feature if your goal is connectivity, in some scenarios it's a
20132 dangerous bug. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 2511.
20133 - When the controller configures a new bridge, don't wait 10 to 60
20134 seconds before trying to fetch its descriptor. Bugfix on
20135 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 3198 (suggested by 2355).
20137 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
20138 - Many relays have been falling out of the consensus lately because
20139 not enough authorities know about their descriptor for them to get
20140 a majority of votes. When we deprecated the v2 directory protocol,
20141 we got rid of the only way that v3 authorities can hear from each
20142 other about other descriptors. Now authorities examine every v3
20143 vote for new descriptors, and fetch them from that authority. Bugfix
20145 - Authorities could be tricked into giving out the Exit flag to relays
20146 that didn't allow exiting to any ports. This bug could screw
20147 with load balancing and stats. Bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha; fixes bug
20148 1238. Bug discovered by Martin Kowalczyk.
20149 - If all authorities restart at once right before a consensus vote,
20150 nobody will vote about "Running", and clients will get a consensus
20151 with no usable relays. Instead, authorities refuse to build a
20152 consensus if this happens. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1066.
20154 o Major bugfixes (stream-level fairness):
20155 - When receiving a circuit-level SENDME for a blocked circuit, try
20156 to package cells fairly from all the streams that had previously
20157 been blocked on that circuit. Previously, we had started with the
20158 oldest stream, and allowed each stream to potentially exhaust
20159 the circuit's package window. This gave older streams on any
20160 given circuit priority over newer ones. Fixes bug 1937. Detected
20161 originally by Camilo Viecco. This bug was introduced before the
20162 first Tor release, in svn commit r152: it is the new winner of
20163 the longest-lived bug prize.
20164 - Fix a stream fairness bug that would cause newer streams on a given
20165 circuit to get preference when reading bytes from the origin or
20166 destination. Fixes bug 2210. Fix by Mashael AlSabah. This bug was
20167 introduced before the first Tor release, in svn revision r152.
20168 - When the exit relay got a circuit-level sendme cell, it started
20169 reading on the exit streams, even if had 500 cells queued in the
20170 circuit queue already, so the circuit queue just grew and grew in
20171 some cases. We fix this by not re-enabling reading on receipt of a
20172 sendme cell when the cell queue is blocked. Fixes bug 1653. Bugfix
20173 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Detected by Mashael AlSabah. Original patch by
20175 - Newly created streams were allowed to read cells onto circuits,
20176 even if the circuit's cell queue was blocked and waiting to drain.
20177 This created potential unfairness, as older streams would be
20178 blocked, but newer streams would gladly fill the queue completely.
20179 We add code to detect this situation and prevent any stream from
20180 getting more than one free cell. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Partially
20183 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
20184 - Apply circuit timeouts to opened hidden-service-related circuits
20185 based on the correct start time. Previously, we would apply the
20186 circuit build timeout based on time since the circuit's creation;
20187 it was supposed to be applied based on time since the circuit
20188 entered its current state. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes part of bug 1297.
20189 - Improve hidden service robustness: When we find that we have
20190 extended a hidden service's introduction circuit to a relay not
20191 listed as an introduction point in the HS descriptor we currently
20192 have, retry with an introduction point from the current
20193 descriptor. Previously we would just give up. Fixes bugs 1024 and
20194 1930; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
20195 - Directory authorities now use data collected from their own
20196 uptime observations when choosing whether to assign the HSDir flag
20197 to relays, instead of trusting the uptime value the relay reports in
20198 its descriptor. This change helps prevent an attack where a small
20199 set of nodes with frequently-changing identity keys can blackhole
20200 a hidden service. (Only authorities need upgrade; others will be
20201 fine once they do.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 2709.
20202 - Stop assigning the HSDir flag to relays that disable their
20203 DirPort (and thus will refuse to answer directory requests). This
20204 fix should dramatically improve the reachability of hidden services:
20205 hidden services and hidden service clients pick six HSDir relays
20206 to store and retrieve the hidden service descriptor, and currently
20207 about half of the HSDir relays will refuse to work. Bugfix on
20208 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes part of bug 1693.
20210 o Major bugfixes (misc):
20211 - Clients now stop trying to use an exit node associated with a given
20212 destination by TrackHostExits if they fail to reach that exit node.
20213 Fixes bug 2999. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
20214 - Fix a regression that caused Tor to rebind its ports if it receives
20215 SIGHUP while hibernating. Bugfix in 0.1.1.6-alpha; closes bug 919.
20216 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
20217 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
20218 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
20220 o Minor features (relays):
20221 - Ensure that no empty [dirreq-](read|write)-history lines are added
20222 to an extrainfo document. Implements ticket 2497.
20223 - When bandwidth accounting is enabled, be more generous with how
20224 much bandwidth we'll use up before entering "soft hibernation".
20225 Previously, we'd refuse new connections and circuits once we'd
20226 used up 95% of our allotment. Now, we use up 95% of our allotment,
20227 AND make sure that we have no more than 500MB (or 3 hours of
20228 expected traffic, whichever is lower) remaining before we enter
20230 - Relays now log the reason for publishing a new relay descriptor,
20231 so we have a better chance of hunting down instances of bug 1810.
20232 Resolves ticket 3252.
20233 - Log a little more clearly about the times at which we're no longer
20234 accepting new connections (e.g. due to hibernating). Resolves
20236 - When AllowSingleHopExits is set, print a warning to explain to the
20237 relay operator why most clients are avoiding her relay.
20238 - Send END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE in response to EHOSTUNREACH errors.
20239 Clients before 0.2.1.27 didn't handle NOROUTE correctly, but such
20240 clients are already deprecated because of security bugs.
20242 o Minor features (network statistics):
20243 - Directory mirrors that set "DirReqStatistics 1" write statistics
20244 about directory requests to disk every 24 hours. As compared to the
20245 "--enable-geoip-stats" ./configure flag in 0.2.1.x, there are a few
20246 improvements: 1) stats are written to disk exactly every 24 hours;
20247 2) estimated shares of v2 and v3 requests are determined as mean
20248 values, not at the end of a measurement period; 3) unresolved
20249 requests are listed with country code '??'; 4) directories also
20250 measure download times.
20251 - Exit nodes that set "ExitPortStatistics 1" write statistics on the
20252 number of exit streams and transferred bytes per port to disk every
20254 - Relays that set "CellStatistics 1" write statistics on how long
20255 cells spend in their circuit queues to disk every 24 hours.
20256 - Entry nodes that set "EntryStatistics 1" write statistics on the
20257 rough number and origins of connecting clients to disk every 24
20259 - Relays that write any of the above statistics to disk and set
20260 "ExtraInfoStatistics 1" include the past 24 hours of statistics in
20261 their extra-info documents. Implements proposal 166.
20263 o Minor features (GeoIP and statistics):
20264 - Provide a log message stating which geoip file we're parsing
20265 instead of just stating that we're parsing the geoip file.
20266 Implements ticket 2432.
20267 - Make sure every relay writes a state file at least every 12 hours.
20268 Previously, a relay could go for weeks without writing its state
20269 file, and on a crash could lose its bandwidth history, capacity
20270 estimates, client country statistics, and so on. Addresses bug 3012.
20271 - Relays report the number of bytes spent on answering directory
20272 requests in extra-info descriptors similar to {read,write}-history.
20273 Implements enhancement 1790.
20274 - Report only the top 10 ports in exit-port stats in order not to
20275 exceed the maximum extra-info descriptor length of 50 KB. Implements
20277 - If writing the state file to disk fails, wait up to an hour before
20278 retrying again, rather than trying again each second. Fixes bug
20279 2346; bugfix on Tor 0.1.1.3-alpha.
20280 - Delay geoip stats collection by bridges for 6 hours, not 2 hours,
20281 when we switch from being a public relay to a bridge. Otherwise
20282 there will still be clients that see the relay in their consensus,
20283 and the stats will end up wrong. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes
20285 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
20287 o Minor features (clients):
20288 - When expiring circuits, use microsecond timers rather than
20289 one-second timers. This can avoid an unpleasant situation where a
20290 circuit is launched near the end of one second and expired right
20291 near the beginning of the next, and prevent fluctuations in circuit
20293 - If we've configured EntryNodes and our network goes away and/or all
20294 our entrynodes get marked down, optimistically retry them all when
20295 a new socks application request appears. Fixes bug 1882.
20296 - Always perform router selections using weighted relay bandwidth,
20297 even if we don't need a high capacity circuit at the time. Non-fast
20298 circuits now only differ from fast ones in that they can use relays
20299 not marked with the Fast flag. This "feature" could turn out to
20300 be a horrible bug; we should investigate more before it goes into
20302 - When we run out of directory information such that we can't build
20303 circuits, but then get enough that we can build circuits, log when
20304 we actually construct a circuit, so the user has a better chance of
20305 knowing what's going on. Fixes bug 1362.
20306 - Log SSL state transitions at debug level during handshake, and
20307 include SSL states in error messages. This may help debug future
20308 SSL handshake issues.
20310 o Minor features (directory authorities):
20311 - When a router changes IP address or port, authorities now launch
20312 a new reachability test for it. Implements ticket 1899.
20313 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any versions of
20314 Tor between 0.2.1.3-alpha and 0.2.1.18 inclusive; they have
20315 known bugs that keep RELAY_EARLY cells from working on rendezvous
20316 circuits. Followup to fix for bug 2081.
20317 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any version of Tor
20318 older than 0.2.0.26-rc. That version is the earliest that fetches
20319 current directory information correctly. Fixes bug 2156.
20320 - Directory authorities now do an immediate reachability check as soon
20321 as they hear about a new relay. This change should slightly reduce
20322 the time between setting up a relay and getting listed as running
20323 in the consensus. It should also improve the time between setting
20324 up a bridge and seeing use by bridge users.
20325 - Directory authorities no longer launch a TLS connection to every
20326 relay as they startup. Now that we have 2k+ descriptors cached,
20327 the resulting network hiccup is becoming a burden. Besides,
20328 authorities already avoid voting about Running for the first half
20329 hour of their uptime.
20330 - Directory authorities now log the source of a rejected POSTed v3
20331 networkstatus vote, so we can track failures better.
20332 - Backport code from 0.2.3.x that allows directory authorities to
20333 clean their microdescriptor caches. Needed to resolve bug 2230.
20335 o Minor features (hidden services):
20336 - Use computed circuit-build timeouts to decide when to launch
20337 parallel introduction circuits for hidden services. (Previously,
20338 we would retry after 15 seconds.)
20339 - Don't allow v0 hidden service authorities to act as clients.
20340 Required by fix for bug 3000.
20341 - Ignore SIGNAL NEWNYM commands on relay-only Tor instances. Required
20342 by fix for bug 3000.
20343 - Make hidden services work better in private Tor networks by not
20344 requiring any uptime to join the hidden service descriptor
20345 DHT. Implements ticket 2088.
20346 - Log (at info level) when purging pieces of hidden-service-client
20347 state because of SIGNAL NEWNYM.
20349 o Minor features (controller interface):
20350 - New "GETINFO net/listeners/(type)" controller command to return
20351 a list of addresses and ports that are bound for listeners for a
20352 given connection type. This is useful when the user has configured
20353 "SocksPort auto" and the controller needs to know which port got
20354 chosen. Resolves another part of ticket 3076.
20355 - Have the controller interface give a more useful message than
20356 "Internal Error" in response to failed GETINFO requests.
20357 - Add a TIMEOUT_RATE keyword to the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port
20358 event, to give information on the current rate of circuit timeouts
20359 over our stored history.
20360 - The 'EXTENDCIRCUIT' control port command can now be used with
20361 a circ id of 0 and no path. This feature will cause Tor to build
20362 a new 'fast' general purpose circuit using its own path selection
20364 - Added a BUILDTIMEOUT_SET controller event to describe changes
20365 to the circuit build timeout.
20366 - New controller command "getinfo config-text". It returns the
20367 contents that Tor would write if you send it a SAVECONF command,
20368 so the controller can write the file to disk itself.
20370 o Minor features (controller protocol):
20371 - Add a new ControlSocketsGroupWritable configuration option: when
20372 it is turned on, ControlSockets are group-writeable by the default
20373 group of the current user. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio; implements
20375 - Tor now refuses to create a ControlSocket in a directory that is
20376 world-readable (or group-readable if ControlSocketsGroupWritable
20377 is 0). This is necessary because some operating systems do not
20378 enforce permissions on an AF_UNIX sockets. Permissions on the
20379 directory holding the socket, however, seems to work everywhere.
20380 - Warn when CookieAuthFileGroupReadable is set but CookieAuthFile is
20381 not. This would lead to a cookie that is still not group readable.
20382 Closes bug 1843. Suggested by katmagic.
20383 - Future-proof the controller protocol a bit by ignoring keyword
20384 arguments we do not recognize.
20386 o Minor features (more useful logging):
20387 - Revise most log messages that refer to nodes by nickname to
20388 instead use the "$key=nickname at address" format. This should be
20389 more useful, especially since nicknames are less and less likely
20390 to be unique. Resolves ticket 3045.
20391 - When an HTTPS proxy reports "403 Forbidden", we now explain
20392 what it means rather than calling it an unexpected status code.
20393 Closes bug 2503. Patch from Michael Yakubovich.
20394 - Rate-limit a warning about failures to download v2 networkstatus
20395 documents. Resolves part of bug 1352.
20396 - Rate-limit the "your application is giving Tor only an IP address"
20397 warning. Addresses bug 2000; bugfix on 0.0.8pre2.
20398 - Rate-limit "Failed to hand off onionskin" warnings.
20399 - When logging a rate-limited warning, we now mention how many messages
20400 got suppressed since the last warning.
20401 - Make the formerly ugly "2 unknown, 7 missing key, 0 good, 0 bad,
20402 2 no signature, 4 required" messages about consensus signatures
20403 easier to read, and make sure they get logged at the same severity
20404 as the messages explaining which keys are which. Fixes bug 1290.
20405 - Don't warn when we have a consensus that we can't verify because
20406 of missing certificates, unless those certificates are ones
20407 that we have been trying and failing to download. Fixes bug 1145.
20409 o Minor features (log domains):
20410 - Add documentation for configuring logging at different severities in
20411 different log domains. We've had this feature since 0.2.1.1-alpha,
20412 but for some reason it never made it into the manpage. Fixes
20414 - Make it simpler to specify "All log domains except for A and B".
20415 Previously you needed to say "[*,~A,~B]". Now you can just say
20417 - Add a "LogMessageDomains 1" option to include the domains of log
20418 messages along with the messages. Without this, there's no way
20419 to use log domains without reading the source or doing a lot
20421 - Add a new "Handshake" log domain for activities that happen
20422 during the TLS handshake.
20424 o Minor features (build process):
20425 - Make compilation with clang possible when using
20426 "--enable-gcc-warnings" by removing two warning options that clang
20427 hasn't implemented yet and by fixing a few warnings. Resolves
20429 - Detect platforms that brokenly use a signed size_t, and refuse to
20430 build there. Found and analyzed by doorss and rransom.
20431 - Fix a bunch of compile warnings revealed by mingw with gcc 4.5.
20433 - Add support for statically linking zlib by specifying
20434 "--enable-static-zlib", to go with our support for statically
20435 linking openssl and libevent. Resolves bug 1358.
20436 - Instead of adding the svn revision to the Tor version string, report
20437 the git commit (when we're building from a git checkout).
20438 - Rename the "log.h" header to "torlog.h" so as to conflict with fewer
20440 - New --digests command-line switch to output the digests of the
20441 source files Tor was built with.
20442 - Generate our manpage and HTML documentation using Asciidoc. This
20443 change should make it easier to maintain the documentation, and
20444 produce nicer HTML. The build process fails if asciidoc cannot
20445 be found and building with asciidoc isn't disabled (via the
20446 "--disable-asciidoc" argument to ./configure. Skipping the manpage
20447 speeds up the build considerably.
20449 o Minor features (options / torrc):
20450 - Warn when the same option is provided more than once in a torrc
20451 file, on the command line, or in a single SETCONF statement, and
20452 the option is one that only accepts a single line. Closes bug 1384.
20453 - Warn when the user configures two HiddenServiceDir lines that point
20454 to the same directory. Bugfix on 0.0.6 (the version introducing
20455 HiddenServiceDir); fixes bug 3289.
20456 - Add new "perconnbwrate" and "perconnbwburst" consensus params to
20457 do individual connection-level rate limiting of clients. The torrc
20458 config options with the same names trump the consensus params, if
20459 both are present. Replaces the old "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst"
20460 consensus params which were broken from 0.2.2.7-alpha through
20461 0.2.2.14-alpha. Closes bug 1947.
20462 - New config option "WarnUnsafeSocks 0" disables the warning that
20463 occurs whenever Tor receives a socks handshake using a version of
20464 the socks protocol that can only provide an IP address (rather
20465 than a hostname). Setups that do DNS locally over Tor are fine,
20466 and we shouldn't spam the logs in that case.
20467 - New config option "CircuitStreamTimeout" to override our internal
20468 timeout schedule for how many seconds until we detach a stream from
20469 a circuit and try a new circuit. If your network is particularly
20470 slow, you might want to set this to a number like 60.
20471 - New options for SafeLogging to allow scrubbing only log messages
20472 generated while acting as a relay. Specify "SafeLogging relay" if
20473 you want to ensure that only messages known to originate from
20474 client use of the Tor process will be logged unsafely.
20475 - Time and memory units in the configuration file can now be set to
20476 fractional units. For example, "2.5 GB" is now a valid value for
20478 - Support line continuations in the torrc config file. If a line
20479 ends with a single backslash character, the newline is ignored, and
20480 the configuration value is treated as continuing on the next line.
20483 o Minor features (unit tests):
20484 - Revise our unit tests to use the "tinytest" framework, so we
20485 can run tests in their own processes, have smarter setup/teardown
20486 code, and so on. The unit test code has moved to its own
20487 subdirectory, and has been split into multiple modules.
20488 - Add a unit test for cross-platform directory-listing code.
20489 - Add some forgotten return value checks during unit tests. Found
20491 - Use GetTempDir to find the proper temporary directory location on
20492 Windows when generating temporary files for the unit tests. Patch
20495 o Minor features (misc):
20496 - The "torify" script now uses torsocks where available.
20497 - Make Libevent log messages get delivered to controllers later,
20498 and not from inside the Libevent log handler. This prevents unsafe
20499 reentrant Libevent calls while still letting the log messages
20501 - Certain Tor clients (such as those behind check.torproject.org) may
20502 want to fetch the consensus in an extra early manner. To enable this
20503 a user may now set FetchDirInfoExtraEarly to 1. This also depends on
20504 setting FetchDirInfoEarly to 1. Previous behavior will stay the same
20505 as only certain clients who must have this information sooner should
20507 - Expand homedirs passed to tor-checkkey. This should silence a
20508 coverity complaint about passing a user-supplied string into
20509 open() without checking it.
20510 - Make sure to disable DirPort if running as a bridge. DirPorts aren't
20511 used on bridges, and it makes bridge scanning somewhat easier.
20512 - Create the /var/run/tor directory on startup on OpenSUSE if it is
20513 not already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
20515 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
20516 - When a relay decides that its DNS is too broken for it to serve
20517 as an exit server, it advertised itself as a non-exit, but
20518 continued to act as an exit. This could create accidental
20519 partitioning opportunities for users. Instead, if a relay is
20520 going to advertise reject *:* as its exit policy, it should
20521 really act with exit policy "reject *:*". Fixes bug 2366.
20522 Bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha. Bugfix by user "postman" on trac.
20523 - Publish a router descriptor even if generating an extra-info
20524 descriptor fails. Previously we would not publish a router
20525 descriptor without an extra-info descriptor; this can cause fast
20526 exit relays collecting exit-port statistics to drop from the
20527 consensus. Bugfix on 0.1.2.9-rc; fixes bug 2195.
20528 - When we're trying to guess whether we know our IP address as
20529 a relay, we would log various ways that we failed to guess
20530 our address, but never log that we ended up guessing it
20531 successfully. Now add a log line to help confused and anxious
20532 relay operators. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1534.
20533 - For bandwidth accounting, calculate our expected bandwidth rate
20534 based on the time during which we were active and not in
20535 soft-hibernation during the last interval. Previously, we were
20536 also considering the time spent in soft-hibernation. If this
20537 was a long time, we would wind up underestimating our bandwidth
20538 by a lot, and skewing our wakeup time towards the start of the
20539 accounting interval. Fixes bug 1789. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
20540 - Demote a confusing TLS warning that relay operators might get when
20541 someone tries to talk to their ORPort. It is not the operator's
20542 fault, nor can they do anything about it. Fixes bug 1364; bugfix
20544 - Change "Application request when we're believed to be offline."
20545 notice to "Application request when we haven't used client
20546 functionality lately.", to clarify that it's not an error. Bugfix
20547 on 0.0.9.3; fixes bug 1222.
20549 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
20550 - When a client starts or stops using bridges, never use a circuit
20551 that was built before the configuration change. This behavior could
20552 put at risk a user who uses bridges to ensure that her traffic
20553 only goes to the chosen addresses. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes
20555 - Do not reset the bridge descriptor download status every time we
20556 re-parse our configuration or get a configuration change. Fixes
20557 bug 3019; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
20558 - Users couldn't configure a regular relay to be their bridge. It
20559 didn't work because when Tor fetched the bridge descriptor, it found
20560 that it already had it, and didn't realize that the purpose of the
20561 descriptor had changed. Now we replace routers with a purpose other
20562 than bridge with bridge descriptors when fetching them. Bugfix on
20563 0.1.1.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1776.
20564 - In the special case where you configure a public exit relay as your
20565 bridge, Tor would be willing to use that exit relay as the last
20566 hop in your circuit as well. Now we fail that circuit instead.
20567 Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 2403. Reported by "piebeer".
20569 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
20570 - We now ask the other side of a stream (the client or the exit)
20571 for more data on that stream when the amount of queued data on
20572 that stream dips low enough. Previously, we wouldn't ask the
20573 other side for more data until either it sent us more data (which
20574 it wasn't supposed to do if it had exhausted its window!) or we
20575 had completely flushed all our queued data. This flow control fix
20576 should improve throughput. Fixes bug 2756; bugfix on the earliest
20577 released versions of Tor (svn commit r152).
20578 - When a client finds that an origin circuit has run out of 16-bit
20579 stream IDs, we now mark it as unusable for new streams. Previously,
20580 we would try to close the entire circuit. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
20581 - Make it explicit that we don't cannibalize one-hop circuits. This
20582 happens in the wild, but doesn't turn out to be a problem because
20583 we fortunately don't use those circuits. Many thanks to outofwords
20584 for the initial analysis and to swissknife who confirmed that
20585 two-hop circuits are actually created.
20586 - Resolve an edge case in path weighting that could make us misweight
20587 our relay selection. Fixes bug 1203; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
20588 - Make the DNSPort option work with libevent 2.x. Don't alter the
20589 behavior for libevent 1.x. Fixes bug 1143. Found by SwissTorExit.
20591 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
20592 - Make directory authorities more accurate at recording when
20593 relays that have failed several reachability tests became
20594 unreachable, so we can provide more accuracy at assigning Stable,
20595 Guard, HSDir, etc flags. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Resolves bug 2716.
20596 - Directory authorities are now more robust to hops back in time
20597 when calculating router stability. Previously, if a run of uptime
20598 or downtime appeared to be negative, the calculation could give
20599 incorrect results. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha; noticed when fixing
20601 - Directory authorities will now attempt to download consensuses
20602 if their own efforts to make a live consensus have failed. This
20603 change means authorities that restart will fetch a valid
20604 consensus, and it means authorities that didn't agree with the
20605 current consensus will still fetch and serve it if it has enough
20606 signatures. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; fixes bug 1300.
20607 - Never vote for a server as "Running" if we have a descriptor for
20608 it claiming to be hibernating, and that descriptor was published
20609 more recently than our last contact with the server. Bugfix on
20610 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 911.
20611 - Directory authorities no longer change their opinion of, or vote on,
20612 whether a router is Running, unless they have themselves been
20613 online long enough to have some idea. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
20616 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
20617 - Log malformed requests for rendezvous descriptors as protocol
20618 warnings, not warnings. Also, use a more informative log message
20619 in case someone sees it at log level warning without prior
20620 info-level messages. Fixes bug 2748; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
20621 - Accept hidden service descriptors if we think we might be a hidden
20622 service directory, regardless of what our consensus says. This
20623 helps robustness, since clients and hidden services can sometimes
20624 have a more up-to-date view of the network consensus than we do,
20625 and if they think that the directory authorities list us a HSDir,
20626 we might actually be one. Related to bug 2732; bugfix on
20628 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
20629 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
20631 - Clients and hidden services now use HSDir-flagged relays for hidden
20632 service descriptor downloads and uploads even if the relays have no
20633 DirPort set and the client has disabled TunnelDirConns. This will
20634 eventually allow us to give the HSDir flag to relays with no
20635 DirPort. Fixes bug 2722; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
20636 - Only limit the lengths of single HS descriptors, even when multiple
20637 HS descriptors are published to an HSDir relay in a single POST
20638 operation. Fixes bug 2948; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by hsdir.
20640 o Minor bugfixes (controllers):
20641 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
20642 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
20643 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
20644 - Send a SUCCEEDED stream event to the controller when a reverse
20645 resolve succeeded. Fixes bug 3536; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1. Issue
20646 discovered by katmagic.
20647 - Remove a trailing asterisk from "exit-policy/default" in the
20648 output of the control port command "GETINFO info/names". Bugfix
20650 - Make the SIGNAL DUMP controller command work on FreeBSD. Fixes bug
20651 2917. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
20652 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
20653 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
20654 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
20655 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
20656 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
20657 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
20658 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
20660 - When a controller changes TrackHostExits, remove mappings for
20661 hosts that should no longer have their exits tracked. Bugfix on
20663 - When a controller changes VirtualAddrNetwork, remove any mappings
20664 for hosts that were automapped to the old network. Bugfix on
20666 - When a controller changes one of the AutomapHosts* options, remove
20667 any mappings for hosts that should no longer be automapped. Bugfix
20669 - Fix an off-by-one error in calculating some controller command
20670 argument lengths. Fortunately, this mistake is harmless since
20671 the controller code does redundant NUL termination too. Found by
20672 boboper. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
20673 - Fix a bug in the controller interface where "GETINFO ns/asdaskljkl"
20674 would return "551 Internal error" rather than "552 Unrecognized key
20675 ns/asdaskljkl". Bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
20676 - Don't spam the controller with events when we have no file
20677 descriptors available. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. (Rate-limiting
20678 for log messages was already solved from bug 748.)
20679 - Emit a GUARD DROPPED controller event for a case we missed.
20680 - Ensure DNS requests launched by "RESOLVE" commands from the
20681 controller respect the __LeaveStreamsUnattached setconf options. The
20682 same goes for requests launched via DNSPort or transparent
20683 proxying. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1525.
20685 o Minor bugfixes (config options):
20686 - Tor used to limit HttpProxyAuthenticator values to 48 characters.
20687 Change the limit to 512 characters by removing base64 newlines.
20688 Fixes bug 2752. Fix by Michael Yakubovich.
20689 - Complain if PublishServerDescriptor is given multiple arguments that
20690 include 0 or 1. This configuration will be rejected in the future.
20691 Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; closes bug 1107.
20692 - Disallow BridgeRelay 1 and ORPort 0 at once in the configuration.
20693 Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha; closes bug 928.
20695 o Minor bugfixes (log subsystem fixes):
20696 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
20697 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
20699 - Be more consistent in our treatment of file system paths. "~" should
20700 get expanded to the user's home directory in the Log config option.
20701 Fixes bug 2971; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha, which introduced the
20702 feature for the -f and --DataDirectory options.
20704 o Minor bugfixes (memory management):
20705 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
20706 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
20707 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
20708 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
20709 - Save a couple bytes in memory allocation every time we escape
20710 certain characters in a string. Patch from Florian Zumbiehl.
20712 o Minor bugfixes (protocol correctness):
20713 - When checking for 1024-bit keys, check for 1024 bits, not 128
20714 bytes. This allows Tor to correctly discard keys of length 1017
20715 through 1023. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
20716 - Require that introduction point keys and onion handshake keys
20717 have a public exponent of 65537. Starts to fix bug 3207; bugfix
20719 - Handle SOCKS messages longer than 128 bytes long correctly, rather
20720 than waiting forever for them to finish. Fixes bug 2330; bugfix
20721 on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Found by doorss.
20722 - Never relay a cell for a circuit we have already destroyed.
20723 Between marking a circuit as closeable and finally closing it,
20724 it may have been possible for a few queued cells to get relayed,
20725 even though they would have been immediately dropped by the next
20726 OR in the circuit. Fixes bug 1184; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
20727 - Never queue a cell for a circuit that's already been marked
20729 - Fix a spec conformance issue: the network-status-version token
20730 must be the first token in a v3 consensus or vote. Discovered by
20731 "parakeep". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
20732 - A networkstatus vote must contain exactly one signature. Spec
20733 conformance issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
20734 - When asked about a DNS record type we don't support via a
20735 client DNSPort, reply with NOTIMPL rather than an empty
20736 reply. Patch by intrigeri. Fixes bug 3369; bugfix on 2.0.1-alpha.
20737 - Make more fields in the controller protocol case-insensitive, since
20738 control-spec.txt said they were.
20740 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
20741 - Fix a log message that said "bits" while displaying a value in
20742 bytes. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 3318; bugfix on
20744 - Downgrade "no current certificates known for authority" message from
20745 Notice to Info. Fixes bug 2899; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
20746 - Correctly describe errors that occur when generating a TLS object.
20747 Previously we would attribute them to a failure while generating a
20748 TLS context. Patch by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc; fixes
20750 - Fix an instance where a Tor directory mirror might accidentally
20751 log the IP address of a misbehaving Tor client. Bugfix on
20753 - Stop logging at severity 'warn' when some other Tor client tries
20754 to establish a circuit with us using weak DH keys. It's a protocol
20755 violation, but that doesn't mean ordinary users need to hear about
20756 it. Fixes the bug part of bug 1114. Bugfix on 0.1.0.13.
20757 - If your relay can't keep up with the number of incoming create
20758 cells, it would log one warning per failure into your logs. Limit
20759 warnings to 1 per minute. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre10; fixes bug 1042.
20761 o Minor bugfixes (build fixes):
20762 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
20763 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
20764 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
20765 - Fix warnings that newer versions of autoconf produce during
20766 ./autogen.sh. These warnings appear to be harmless in our case,
20767 but they were extremely verbose. Fixes bug 2020.
20768 - Squash a compile warning on OpenBSD. Reported by Tas; fixes
20771 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
20772 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
20773 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
20774 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
20775 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
20776 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
20777 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
20778 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
20779 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
20780 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
20781 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
20782 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
20783 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
20784 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
20785 - Use a wide type to hold sockets when built for 64-bit Windows.
20787 - Fix an issue that prevented static linking of libevent on
20788 some platforms (notably Linux). Fixes bug 2698; bugfix on 0.2.1.23,
20789 where we introduced the "--with-static-libevent" configure option.
20790 - Fix a bug with our locking implementation on Windows that couldn't
20791 correctly detect when a file was already locked. Fixes bug 2504,
20792 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
20793 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
20795 - Fix IPv6-related connect() failures on some platforms (BSD, OS X).
20796 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes first part of bug 2660. Patch by
20799 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
20800 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
20801 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
20802 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
20803 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
20804 - Make connection_printf_to_buf()'s behavior sane. Its callers
20805 expect it to emit a CRLF iff the format string ends with CRLF;
20806 it actually emitted a CRLF iff (a) the format string ended with
20807 CRLF or (b) the resulting string was over 1023 characters long or
20808 (c) the format string did not end with CRLF *and* the resulting
20809 string was 1021 characters long or longer. Bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha;
20810 fixes part of bug 3407.
20811 - Make send_control_event_impl()'s behavior sane. Its callers
20812 expect it to always emit a CRLF at the end of the string; it
20813 might have emitted extra control characters as well. Bugfix on
20814 0.1.1.9-alpha; fixes another part of bug 3407.
20815 - Make crypto_rand_int() check the value of its input correctly.
20816 Previously, it accepted values up to UINT_MAX, but could return a
20817 negative number if given a value above INT_MAX+1. Found by George
20818 Kadianakis. Fixes bug 3306; bugfix on 0.2.2pre14.
20819 - Fix a potential null-pointer dereference while computing a
20820 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, found with the help of
20822 - If we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3 legacy keypair,
20823 warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead. Bugfix on
20824 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
20825 - Resolve an untriggerable issue in smartlist_string_num_isin(),
20826 where if the function had ever in the future been used to check
20827 for the presence of a too-large number, it would have given an
20828 incorrect result. (Fortunately, we only used it for 16-bit
20829 values.) Fixes bug 3175; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
20830 - Be more careful about reporting the correct error from a failed
20831 connect() system call. Under some circumstances, it was possible to
20832 look at an incorrect value for errno when sending the end reason.
20833 Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
20834 - Correctly handle an "impossible" overflow cases in connection byte
20835 counting, where we write or read more than 4GB on an edge connection
20836 in a single second. Bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
20837 - Avoid a double mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
20838 transparent proxy connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Fixes
20840 - Correctly detect failure to allocate an OpenSSL BIO. Fixes bug 2378;
20841 found by "cypherpunks". This bug was introduced before the first
20842 Tor release, in svn commit r110.
20843 - Fix a bug in bandwidth history state parsing that could have been
20844 triggered if a future version of Tor ever changed the timing
20845 granularity at which bandwidth history is measured. Bugfix on
20846 Tor 0.1.1.11-alpha.
20847 - Add assertions to check for overflow in arguments to
20848 base32_encode() and base32_decode(); fix a signed-unsigned
20849 comparison there too. These bugs are not actually reachable in Tor,
20850 but it's good to prevent future errors too. Found by doorss.
20851 - Avoid a bogus overlapped memcpy in tor_addr_copy(). Reported by
20853 - Set target port in get_interface_address6() correctly. Bugfix
20854 on 0.1.1.4-alpha and 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes second part of bug 2660.
20855 - Fix an impossible-to-actually-trigger buffer overflow in relay
20856 descriptor generation. Bugfix on 0.1.0.15.
20857 - Fix numerous small code-flaws found by Coverity Scan Rung 3.
20859 o Minor bugfixes (code improvements):
20860 - After we free an internal connection structure, overwrite it
20861 with a different memory value than we use for overwriting a freed
20862 internal circuit structure. Should help with debugging. Suggested
20864 - If OpenSSL fails to make a duplicate of a private or public key, log
20865 an error message and try to exit cleanly. May help with debugging
20866 if bug 1209 ever remanifests.
20867 - Some options used different conventions for uppercasing of acronyms
20868 when comparing manpage and source. Fix those in favor of the
20869 manpage, as it makes sense to capitalize acronyms.
20870 - Take a first step towards making or.h smaller by splitting out
20871 function definitions for all source files in src/or/. Leave
20872 structures and defines in or.h for now.
20873 - Remove a few dead assignments during router parsing. Found by
20875 - Don't use 1-bit wide signed bit fields. Found by coverity.
20876 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
20877 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
20878 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
20879 - The memarea code now uses a sentinel value at the end of each area
20880 to make sure nothing writes beyond the end of an area. This might
20881 help debug some conceivable causes of bug 930.
20882 - Always treat failure to allocate an RSA key as an unrecoverable
20884 - Add some more defensive programming for architectures that can't
20885 handle unaligned integer accesses. We don't know of any actual bugs
20886 right now, but that's the best time to fix them. Fixes bug 1943.
20888 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
20889 - Fix a rare bug in rend_fn unit tests: we would fail a test when
20890 a randomly generated port is 0. Diagnosed by Matt Edman. Bugfix
20891 on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1808.
20892 - Where available, use Libevent 2.0's periodic timers so that our
20893 once-per-second cleanup code gets called even more closely to
20894 once per second than it would otherwise. Fixes bug 943.
20895 - Ignore OutboundBindAddress when connecting to localhost.
20896 Connections to localhost need to come _from_ localhost, or else
20897 local servers (like DNS and outgoing HTTP/SOCKS proxies) will often
20899 - Update our OpenSSL 0.9.8l fix so that it works with OpenSSL 0.9.8m
20901 - If any of the v3 certs we download are unparseable, we should
20902 actually notice the failure so we don't retry indefinitely. Bugfix
20903 on 0.2.0.x; reported by "rotator".
20904 - When Tor fails to parse a descriptor of any kind, dump it to disk.
20905 Might help diagnosing bug 1051.
20906 - Make our 'torify' script more portable; if we have only one of
20907 'torsocks' or 'tsocks' installed, don't complain to the user;
20908 and explain our warning about tsocks better.
20909 - Fix some urls in the exit notice file and make it XHTML1.1 strict
20910 compliant. Based on a patch from Christian Kujau.
20912 o Documentation changes:
20913 - Modernize the doxygen configuration file slightly. Fixes bug 2707.
20914 - Resolve all doxygen warnings except those for missing documentation.
20916 - Add doxygen documentation for more functions, fields, and types.
20917 - Convert the HACKING file to asciidoc, and add a few new sections
20918 to it, explaining how we use Git, how we make changelogs, and
20919 what should go in a patch.
20920 - Document the default socks host and port (127.0.0.1:9050) for
20922 - Removed some unnecessary files from the source distribution. The
20923 AUTHORS file has now been merged into the people page on the
20924 website. The roadmaps and design doc can now be found in the
20925 projects directory in svn.
20927 o Deprecated and removed features (config):
20928 - Remove the torrc.complete file. It hasn't been kept up to date
20929 and users will have better luck checking out the manpage.
20930 - Remove the HSAuthorityRecordStats option that version 0 hidden
20931 service authorities could use to track statistics of overall v0
20932 hidden service usage.
20933 - Remove the obsolete "NoPublish" option; it has been flagged
20934 as obsolete and has produced a warning since 0.1.1.18-rc.
20935 - Caches no longer download and serve v2 networkstatus documents
20936 unless FetchV2Networkstatus flag is set: these documents haven't
20937 haven't been used by clients or relays since 0.2.0.x. Resolves
20940 o Deprecated and removed features (controller):
20941 - The controller no longer accepts the old obsolete "addr-mappings/"
20942 or "unregistered-servers-" GETINFO values.
20943 - The EXTENDED_EVENTS and VERBOSE_NAMES controller features are now
20944 always on; using them is necessary for correct forward-compatible
20947 o Deprecated and removed features (misc):
20948 - Hidden services no longer publish version 0 descriptors, and clients
20949 do not request or use version 0 descriptors. However, the old hidden
20950 service authorities still accept and serve version 0 descriptors
20951 when contacted by older hidden services/clients.
20952 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
20953 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
20954 - Remove everything related to building the expert bundle for OS X.
20955 It has confused many users, doesn't work right on OS X 10.6,
20956 and is hard to get rid of once installed. Resolves bug 1274.
20957 - Remove support for .noconnect style addresses. Nobody was using
20958 them, and they provided another avenue for detecting Tor users
20959 via application-level web tricks.
20960 - When we fixed bug 1038 we had to put in a restriction not to send
20961 RELAY_EARLY cells on rend circuits. This was necessary as long
20962 as relays using Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18-alpha were
20963 active. Now remove this obsolete check. Resolves bug 2081.
20964 - Remove workaround code to handle directory responses from servers
20965 that had bug 539 (they would send HTTP status 503 responses _and_
20966 send a body too). Since only server versions before
20967 0.2.0.16-alpha/0.1.2.19 were affected, there is no longer reason to
20968 keep the workaround in place.
20969 - Remove the old 'fuzzy time' logic. It was supposed to be used for
20970 handling calculations where we have a known amount of clock skew and
20971 an allowed amount of unknown skew. But we only used it in three
20972 places, and we never adjusted the known/unknown skew values. This is
20973 still something we might want to do someday, but if we do, we'll
20974 want to do it differently.
20975 - Remove the "--enable-iphone" option to ./configure. According to
20976 reports from Marco Bonetti, Tor builds fine without any special
20977 tweaking on recent iPhone SDK versions.
20980 Changes in version 0.2.1.30 - 2011-02-23
20981 Tor 0.2.1.30 fixes a variety of less critical bugs. The main other
20982 change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays
20983 and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
20984 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
20985 buys us time until we roll out a better solution.
20988 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
20989 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
20990 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
20991 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
20992 the rest of bug 1074.
20993 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
20994 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
20995 Found by "piebeer".
20996 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
20997 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
20998 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
20999 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
21000 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
21001 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
21002 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21005 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
21007 - Update to the February 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
21010 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
21011 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
21012 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28. Found by "doorss".
21013 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
21014 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
21015 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
21016 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
21017 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
21018 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
21019 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
21020 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
21022 o Packaging changes:
21023 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
21024 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
21025 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
21026 - Do not include Git version tags as though they are SVN tags when
21027 generating a tarball from inside a repository that has switched
21028 between branches. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
21031 Changes in version 0.2.1.29 - 2011-01-15
21032 Tor 0.2.1.29 continues our recent code security audit work. The main
21033 fix resolves a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote
21034 code execution. Other fixes address a variety of assert and crash bugs,
21035 most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
21037 o Major bugfixes (security):
21038 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
21039 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
21040 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
21042 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
21043 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
21044 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
21045 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
21046 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
21047 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
21048 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
21049 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
21051 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
21052 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
21053 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
21054 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
21055 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
21056 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
21057 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
21058 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
21059 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
21060 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
21061 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
21062 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
21063 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
21064 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
21067 o Minor bugfixes (other):
21068 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
21069 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
21070 bug reported by doorss.
21071 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
21072 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
21073 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
21074 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
21075 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
21077 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
21078 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
21079 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
21080 - Correctly handle wrapping around when we run out of virtual
21081 address space. Found by cypherpunks; bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
21084 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
21085 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
21088 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
21089 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
21090 Automake 1.7 or later.
21091 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
21092 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
21093 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
21094 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
21097 Changes in version 0.2.1.28 - 2010-12-17
21098 Tor 0.2.1.28 does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
21099 exploitable bugs. We also took this opportunity to change the IP address
21100 for one of our directory authorities, and to update the geoip database
21104 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
21105 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
21106 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
21107 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
21109 o Directory authority changes:
21110 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
21113 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
21116 Changes in version 0.2.1.27 - 2010-11-23
21117 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
21118 Tor 0.2.1.27 makes relays work with openssl 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b. We
21119 also took this opportunity to fix several crash bugs, integrate a new
21120 directory authority, and update the bundled GeoIP database.
21123 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
21124 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
21125 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
21126 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
21127 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
21128 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
21129 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
21130 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
21131 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
21132 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
21133 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
21134 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
21135 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
21136 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
21137 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
21138 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
21139 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
21140 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
21141 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
21142 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
21143 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
21144 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
21145 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
21148 - Move to the November 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather
21149 than the June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that
21150 count how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we'll
21151 have more accurate data, especially for many African countries.
21153 o New directory authorities:
21154 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
21158 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in directory caches or
21159 bridge users when using a very short voting interval on a testing
21160 network. Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on
21162 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
21163 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
21164 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
21165 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
21166 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
21167 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
21169 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
21170 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
21171 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
21174 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
21175 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
21176 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
21177 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
21178 it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
21179 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
21180 Patch from mingw-san.
21183 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
21184 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
21185 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
21186 - Stop shipping the old doc/website/ directory in the tarball. We
21187 changed the website format in late 2010, and what we shipped in
21188 0.2.1.26 really wasn't that useful anyway.
21191 Changes in version 0.2.1.26 - 2010-05-02
21192 Tor 0.2.1.26 addresses the recent connection and memory overload
21193 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
21194 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
21195 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
21197 This release also fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL libraries
21198 that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
21201 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
21202 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
21203 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
21204 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
21205 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
21206 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
21207 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
21208 their directory fetches over TLS).
21209 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
21210 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
21211 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
21212 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
21213 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
21214 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
21215 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
21216 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
21219 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
21220 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
21224 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
21225 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
21226 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
21227 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
21228 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
21229 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
21230 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21233 Changes in version 0.2.1.25 - 2010-03-16
21234 Tor 0.2.1.25 fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.1.23 that could
21235 prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also fixes
21236 several minor potential security bugs.
21239 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
21240 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
21241 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
21242 0.2.1.23; fixes bug 1269.
21243 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
21244 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
21245 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
21248 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
21249 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
21251 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
21252 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
21253 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
21254 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
21257 Changes in version 0.2.1.24 - 2010-02-21
21258 Tor 0.2.1.24 makes Tor work again on the latest OS X -- this time
21262 - Work correctly out-of-the-box with even more vendor-patched versions
21263 of OpenSSL. In particular, make it so Debian and OS X don't need
21264 customized patches to run/build.
21267 Changes in version 0.2.1.23 - 2010-02-13
21268 Tor 0.2.1.23 fixes a huge client-side performance bug, makes Tor work
21269 again on the latest OS X, and updates the location of a directory
21272 o Major bugfixes (performance):
21273 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
21274 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
21275 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
21276 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
21277 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
21278 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
21279 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
21282 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
21283 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
21284 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
21285 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
21286 libraries in a security patch.
21287 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
21288 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
21289 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
21290 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
21294 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
21295 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
21298 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
21299 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
21300 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
21301 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
21302 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
21305 Changes in version 0.2.1.22 - 2010-01-19
21306 Tor 0.2.1.22 fixes a critical privacy problem in bridge directory
21307 authorities -- it would tell you its whole history of bridge descriptors
21308 if you make the right directory request. This stable update also
21309 rotates two of the seven v3 directory authority keys and locations.
21311 o Directory authority changes:
21312 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
21316 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
21317 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
21318 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
21321 Changes in version 0.2.1.21 - 2009-12-21
21322 Tor 0.2.1.21 fixes an incompatibility with the most recent OpenSSL
21323 library. If you use Tor on Linux / Unix and you're getting SSL
21324 renegotiation errors, upgrading should help. We also recommend an
21325 upgrade if you're an exit relay.
21328 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
21329 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
21330 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, of course, but OpenSSL
21331 0.9.8l won't work unless we say we are.
21332 - Avoid crashing if the client is trying to upload many bytes and the
21333 circuit gets torn down at the same time, or if the flip side
21334 happens on the exit relay. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1150.
21337 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
21338 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
21339 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21340 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
21341 - Fix a couple of very-hard-to-trigger memory leaks, and one hard-to-
21342 trigger platform-specific option misparsing case found by Coverity
21344 - Fix a compilation warning on Fedora 12 by removing an impossible-to-
21345 trigger assert. Fixes bug 1173.
21348 Changes in version 0.2.1.20 - 2009-10-15
21349 Tor 0.2.1.20 fixes a crash bug when you're accessing many hidden
21350 services at once, prepares for more performance improvements, and
21351 fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
21353 The Windows and OS X bundles also include a more recent Vidalia,
21354 and switch from Privoxy to Polipo.
21356 The OS X installers are now drag and drop. It's best to un-install
21357 Tor/Vidalia and then install this new bundle, rather than upgrade. If
21358 you want to upgrade, you'll need to update the paths for Tor and Polipo
21359 in the Vidalia Settings window.
21362 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
21363 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
21364 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
21365 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
21366 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
21368 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
21369 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
21371 - Avoid segfault in rare cases when finishing an introduction circuit
21372 as a client and finding out that we don't have an introduction key
21373 for it. Fixes bug 1073. Reported by Aaron Swartz.
21376 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
21377 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
21378 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
21380 o New directory authorities:
21381 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
21383 - Move moria1 and tonga to alternate IP addresses.
21386 - Fix a signed/unsigned compile warning in 0.2.1.19.
21387 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
21389 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
21390 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
21391 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
21392 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
21393 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
21394 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
21395 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
21396 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
21397 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
21398 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
21399 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
21400 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
21401 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
21402 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
21403 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
21404 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
21405 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
21407 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
21408 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
21409 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090. Bugfix on
21411 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
21412 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
21416 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
21417 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
21418 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
21419 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
21420 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
21423 Changes in version 0.2.1.19 - 2009-07-28
21424 Tor 0.2.1.19 fixes a major bug with accessing and providing hidden
21428 - Make accessing hidden services on 0.2.1.x work right again.
21429 Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha; workaround for bug 1038. Diagnosis and
21430 part of patch provided by "optimist".
21433 - When a relay/bridge is writing out its identity key fingerprint to
21434 the "fingerprint" file and to its logs, write it without spaces. Now
21435 it will look like the fingerprints in our bridges documentation,
21436 and confuse fewer users.
21439 - Relays no longer publish a new server descriptor if they change
21440 their MaxAdvertisedBandwidth config option but it doesn't end up
21441 changing their advertised bandwidth numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.28-rc;
21442 fixes bug 1026. Patch from Sebastian.
21443 - Avoid leaking memory every time we get a create cell but we have
21444 so many already queued that we refuse it. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha;
21445 fixes bug 1034. Reported by BarkerJr.
21448 Changes in version 0.2.1.18 - 2009-07-24
21449 Tor 0.2.1.18 lays the foundations for performance improvements,
21450 adds status events to help users diagnose bootstrap problems, adds
21451 optional authentication/authorization for hidden services, fixes a
21452 variety of potential anonymity problems, and includes a huge pile of
21453 other features and bug fixes.
21455 o Major features (clients):
21456 - Start sending "bootstrap phase" status events to the controller,
21457 so it can keep the user informed of progress fetching directory
21458 information and establishing circuits. Also inform the controller
21459 if we think we're stuck at a particular bootstrap phase. Implements
21461 - Clients replace entry guards that were chosen more than a few months
21462 ago. This change should significantly improve client performance,
21463 especially once more people upgrade, since relays that have been
21464 a guard for a long time are currently overloaded.
21465 - Network status consensus documents and votes now contain bandwidth
21466 information for each relay. Clients use the bandwidth values
21467 in the consensus, rather than the bandwidth values in each
21468 relay descriptor. This approach opens the door to more accurate
21469 bandwidth estimates once the directory authorities start doing
21470 active measurements. Implements part of proposal 141.
21472 o Major features (relays):
21473 - Disable and refactor some debugging checks that forced a linear scan
21474 over the whole server-side DNS cache. These accounted for over 50%
21475 of CPU time on a relatively busy exit node's gprof profile. Also,
21476 disable some debugging checks that appeared in exit node profile
21477 data. Found by Jacob.
21478 - New DirPortFrontPage option that takes an html file and publishes
21479 it as "/" on the DirPort. Now relay operators can provide a
21480 disclaimer without needing to set up a separate webserver. There's
21481 a sample disclaimer in contrib/tor-exit-notice.html.
21483 o Major features (hidden services):
21484 - Make it possible to build hidden services that only certain clients
21485 are allowed to connect to. This is enforced at several points,
21486 so that unauthorized clients are unable to send INTRODUCE cells
21487 to the service, or even (depending on the type of authentication)
21488 to learn introduction points. This feature raises the bar for
21489 certain kinds of active attacks against hidden services. Design
21490 and code by Karsten Loesing. Implements proposal 121.
21491 - Relays now store and serve v2 hidden service descriptors by default,
21492 i.e., the new default value for HidServDirectoryV2 is 1. This is
21493 the last step in proposal 114, which aims to make hidden service
21494 lookups more reliable.
21496 o Major features (path selection):
21497 - ExitNodes and Exclude*Nodes config options now allow you to restrict
21498 by country code ("{US}") or IP address or address pattern
21499 ("255.128.0.0/16"). Patch from Robert Hogan. It still needs some
21500 refinement to decide what config options should take priority if
21501 you ask to both use a particular node and exclude it.
21503 o Major features (misc):
21504 - When building a consensus, do not include routers that are down.
21505 This cuts down 30% to 40% on consensus size. Implements proposal
21507 - New TestingTorNetwork config option to allow adjustment of
21508 previously constant values that could slow bootstrapping. Implements
21509 proposal 135. Patch from Karsten.
21510 - Convert many internal address representations to optionally hold
21511 IPv6 addresses. Generate and accept IPv6 addresses in many protocol
21512 elements. Make resolver code handle nameservers located at IPv6
21514 - More work on making our TLS handshake blend in: modify the list
21515 of ciphers advertised by OpenSSL in client mode to even more
21516 closely resemble a common web browser. We cheat a little so that
21517 we can advertise ciphers that the locally installed OpenSSL doesn't
21519 - Use the TLS1 hostname extension to more closely resemble browser
21522 o Security fixes (anonymity/entropy):
21523 - Never use a connection with a mismatched address to extend a
21524 circuit, unless that connection is canonical. A canonical
21525 connection is one whose address is authenticated by the router's
21526 identity key, either in a NETINFO cell or in a router descriptor.
21527 - Implement most of proposal 110: The first K cells to be sent
21528 along a circuit are marked as special "early" cells; only K "early"
21529 cells will be allowed. Once this code is universal, we can block
21530 certain kinds of denial-of-service attack by requiring that EXTEND
21531 commands must be sent using an "early" cell.
21532 - Resume using OpenSSL's RAND_poll() for better (and more portable)
21533 cross-platform entropy collection again. We used to use it, then
21534 stopped using it because of a bug that could crash systems that
21535 called RAND_poll when they had a lot of fds open. It looks like the
21536 bug got fixed in late 2006. Our new behavior is to call RAND_poll()
21537 at startup, and to call RAND_poll() when we reseed later only if
21538 we have a non-buggy OpenSSL version.
21539 - When the client is choosing entry guards, now it selects at most
21540 one guard from a given relay family. Otherwise we could end up with
21541 all of our entry points into the network run by the same operator.
21542 Suggested by Camilo Viecco. Fix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
21543 - Do not use or believe expired v3 authority certificates. Patch
21544 from Karsten. Bugfix in 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 851.
21545 - Drop begin cells to a hidden service if they come from the middle
21546 of a circuit. Patch from lark.
21547 - When we erroneously receive two EXTEND cells for the same circuit
21548 ID on the same connection, drop the second. Patch from lark.
21549 - Authorities now vote for the Stable flag for any router whose
21550 weighted MTBF is at least 5 days, regardless of the mean MTBF.
21551 - Clients now never report any stream end reason except 'MISC'.
21552 Implements proposal 148.
21554 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
21555 - Parse dates and IPv4 addresses in a locale- and libc-independent
21556 manner, to avoid platform-dependent behavior on malformed input.
21557 - Fix a crash that occurs on exit nodes when a nameserver request
21558 timed out. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; our CLEAR debugging code had
21559 been suppressing the bug since 0.1.2.10-alpha. Partial fix for
21561 - Do not assume that a stack-allocated character array will be
21562 64-bit aligned on platforms that demand that uint64_t access is
21563 aligned. Possible fix for bug 604.
21564 - Resolve a very rare crash bug that could occur when the user forced
21565 a nameserver reconfiguration during the middle of a nameserver
21566 probe. Fixes bug 526. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
21567 - Avoid a "0 divided by 0" calculation when calculating router uptime
21568 at directory authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
21569 - Fix an assertion bug in parsing policy-related options; possible fix
21571 - Rate-limit too-many-sockets messages: when they happen, they happen
21572 a lot and end up filling up the disk. Resolves bug 748.
21573 - Fix a race condition that could cause crashes or memory corruption
21574 when running as a server with a controller listening for log
21576 - Avoid crashing when we have a policy specified in a DirPolicy or
21577 SocksPolicy or ReachableAddresses option with ports set on it,
21578 and we re-load the policy. May fix bug 996.
21579 - Fix an assertion failure on 64-bit platforms when we allocated
21580 memory right up to the end of a memarea, then realigned the memory
21581 one step beyond the end. Fixes a possible cause of bug 930.
21582 - Protect the count of open sockets with a mutex, so we can't
21583 corrupt it when two threads are closing or opening sockets at once.
21584 Fix for bug 939. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21586 o Major bugfixes (clients):
21587 - Discard router descriptors as we load them if they are more than
21588 five days old. Otherwise if Tor is off for a long time and then
21589 starts with cached descriptors, it will try to use the onion keys
21590 in those obsolete descriptors when building circuits. Fixes bug 887.
21591 - When we choose to abandon a new entry guard because we think our
21592 older ones might be better, close any circuits pending on that
21593 new entry guard connection. This fix should make us recover much
21594 faster when our network is down and then comes back. Bugfix on
21595 0.1.2.8-beta; found by lodger.
21596 - When Tor clients restart after 1-5 days, they discard all their
21597 cached descriptors as too old, but they still use the cached
21598 consensus document. This approach is good for robustness, but
21599 bad for performance: since they don't know any bandwidths, they
21600 end up choosing at random rather than weighting their choice by
21601 speed. Fixed by the above feature of putting bandwidths in the
21604 o Major bugfixes (relays):
21605 - Relays were falling out of the networkstatus consensus for
21606 part of a day if they changed their local config but the
21607 authorities discarded their new descriptor as "not sufficiently
21608 different". Now directory authorities accept a descriptor as changed
21609 if BandwidthRate or BandwidthBurst changed. Partial fix for bug 962;
21610 patch by Sebastian.
21611 - Ensure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
21612 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
21613 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779; fixes a bug on 0.1.0.4-rc.
21614 - Directory authorities were neglecting to mark relays down in their
21615 internal histories if the relays fall off the routerlist without
21616 ever being found unreachable. So there were relays in the histories
21617 that haven't been seen for eight months, and are listed as being
21618 up for eight months. This wreaked havoc on the "median wfu" and
21619 "median mtbf" calculations, in turn making Guard and Stable flags
21620 wrong, hurting network performance. Fixes bugs 696 and 969. Bugfix
21623 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
21624 - When establishing a hidden service, introduction points that
21625 originate from cannibalized circuits were completely ignored
21626 and not included in rendezvous service descriptors. This might
21627 have been another reason for delay in making a hidden service
21628 available. Bugfix from long ago (0.0.9.x?)
21630 o Major bugfixes (memory and resource management):
21631 - Fixed some memory leaks -- some quite frequent, some almost
21632 impossible to trigger -- based on results from Coverity.
21633 - Speed up parsing and cut down on memory fragmentation by using
21634 stack-style allocations for parsing directory objects. Previously,
21635 this accounted for over 40% of allocations from within Tor's code
21636 on a typical directory cache.
21637 - Use a Bloom filter rather than a digest-based set to track which
21638 descriptors we need to keep around when we're cleaning out old
21639 router descriptors. This speeds up the computation significantly,
21640 and may reduce fragmentation.
21642 o New/changed config options:
21643 - Now NodeFamily and MyFamily config options allow spaces in
21644 identity fingerprints, so it's easier to paste them in.
21645 Suggested by Lucky Green.
21646 - Allow ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy again. We had
21647 rejected them in 0.1.0.15, because back in 2005 they were commonly
21648 misconfigured and ended up as spam targets. We hear they are better
21649 locked down these days.
21650 - Make TrackHostExit mappings expire a while after their last use, not
21651 after their creation. Patch from Robert Hogan.
21652 - Add an ExcludeExitNodes option so users can list a set of nodes
21653 that should be be excluded from the exit node position, but
21654 allowed elsewhere. Implements proposal 151.
21655 - New --hush command-line option similar to --quiet. While --quiet
21656 disables all logging to the console on startup, --hush limits the
21657 output to messages of warning and error severity.
21658 - New configure/torrc options (--enable-geoip-stats,
21659 DirRecordUsageByCountry) to record how many IPs we've served
21660 directory info to in each country code, how many status documents
21661 total we've sent to each country code, and what share of the total
21662 directory requests we should expect to see.
21663 - Make outbound DNS packets respect the OutboundBindAddress setting.
21664 Fixes the bug part of bug 798. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
21665 - Allow separate log levels to be configured for different logging
21666 domains. For example, this allows one to log all notices, warnings,
21667 or errors, plus all memory management messages of level debug or
21668 higher, with: Log [MM] debug-err [*] notice-err file /var/log/tor.
21669 - Update to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
21671 o Minor features (relays):
21672 - Raise the minimum rate limiting to be a relay from 20000 bytes
21673 to 20480 bytes (aka 20KB/s), to match our documentation. Also
21674 update directory authorities so they always assign the Fast flag
21675 to relays with 20KB/s of capacity. Now people running relays won't
21676 suddenly find themselves not seeing any use, if the network gets
21678 - If we're a relay and we change our IP address, be more verbose
21679 about the reason that made us change. Should help track down
21680 further bugs for relays on dynamic IP addresses.
21681 - Exit servers can now answer resolve requests for ip6.arpa addresses.
21682 - Implement most of Proposal 152: allow specialized servers to permit
21683 single-hop circuits, and clients to use those servers to build
21684 single-hop circuits when using a specialized controller. Patch
21685 from Josh Albrecht. Resolves feature request 768.
21686 - When relays do their initial bandwidth measurement, don't limit
21687 to just our entry guards for the test circuits. Otherwise we tend
21688 to have multiple test circuits going through a single entry guard,
21689 which makes our bandwidth test less accurate. Fixes part of bug 654;
21690 patch contributed by Josh Albrecht.
21692 o Minor features (directory authorities):
21693 - Try not to open more than one descriptor-downloading connection
21694 to an authority at once. This should reduce load on directory
21695 authorities. Fixes bug 366.
21696 - Add cross-certification to newly generated certificates, so that
21697 a signing key is enough information to look up a certificate. Start
21698 serving certificates by <identity digest, signing key digest>
21699 pairs. Implements proposal 157.
21700 - When a directory authority downloads a descriptor that it then
21701 immediately rejects, do not retry downloading it right away. Should
21702 save some bandwidth on authorities. Fix for bug 888. Patch by
21704 - Directory authorities now serve a /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL to
21705 help debug WFU and MTBF calculations.
21706 - In directory authorities' approved-routers files, allow
21707 fingerprints with or without space.
21709 o Minor features (directory mirrors):
21710 - When a download gets us zero good descriptors, do not notify
21711 Tor that new directory information has arrived.
21712 - Servers support a new URL scheme for consensus downloads that
21713 allows the client to specify which authorities are trusted.
21714 The server then only sends the consensus if the client will trust
21715 it. Otherwise a 404 error is sent back. Clients use this
21716 new scheme when the server supports it (meaning it's running
21717 0.2.1.1-alpha or later). Implements proposal 134.
21719 o Minor features (bridges):
21720 - If the bridge config line doesn't specify a port, assume 443.
21721 This makes bridge lines a bit smaller and easier for users to
21723 - If we're using bridges and our network goes away, be more willing
21724 to forgive our bridges and try again when we get an application
21727 o Minor features (hidden services):
21728 - When the client launches an introduction circuit, retry with a
21729 new circuit after 30 seconds rather than 60 seconds.
21730 - Launch a second client-side introduction circuit in parallel
21731 after a delay of 15 seconds (based on work by Christian Wilms).
21732 - Hidden services start out building five intro circuits rather
21733 than three, and when the first three finish they publish a service
21734 descriptor using those. Now we publish our service descriptor much
21735 faster after restart.
21736 - Drop the requirement to have an open dir port for storing and
21737 serving v2 hidden service descriptors.
21739 o Minor features (build and packaging):
21740 - On Linux, use the prctl call to re-enable core dumps when the User
21742 - Try to make sure that the version of Libevent we're running with
21743 is binary-compatible with the one we built with. May address bug
21745 - Add a new --enable-local-appdata configuration switch to change
21746 the default location of the datadir on win32 from APPDATA to
21747 LOCAL_APPDATA. In the future, we should migrate to LOCAL_APPDATA
21748 entirely. Patch from coderman.
21749 - Build correctly against versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later that
21750 are built without support for deprecated functions.
21751 - On platforms with a maximum syslog string length, truncate syslog
21752 messages to that length ourselves, rather than relying on the
21753 system to do it for us.
21754 - Automatically detect MacOSX versions earlier than 10.4.0, and
21755 disable kqueue from inside Tor when running with these versions.
21756 We previously did this from the startup script, but that was no
21757 help to people who didn't use the startup script. Resolves bug 863.
21758 - Build correctly when configured to build outside the main source
21759 path. Patch from Michael Gold.
21760 - Disable GCC's strict alias optimization by default, to avoid the
21761 likelihood of its introducing subtle bugs whenever our code violates
21762 the letter of C99's alias rules.
21763 - Change the contrib/tor.logrotate script so it makes the new
21764 logs as "_tor:_tor" rather than the default, which is generally
21765 "root:wheel". Fixes bug 676, reported by Serge Koksharov.
21766 - Change our header file guard macros to be less likely to conflict
21767 with system headers. Adam Langley noticed that we were conflicting
21768 with log.h on Android.
21769 - Add a couple of extra warnings to --enable-gcc-warnings for GCC 4.3,
21770 and stop using a warning that had become unfixably verbose under
21772 - Use a lockfile to make sure that two Tor processes are not
21773 simultaneously running with the same datadir.
21774 - Allow OpenSSL to use dynamic locks if it wants.
21775 - Add LIBS=-lrt to Makefile.am so the Tor RPMs use a static libevent.
21777 o Minor features (controllers):
21778 - When generating circuit events with verbose nicknames for
21779 controllers, try harder to look up nicknames for routers on a
21780 circuit. (Previously, we would look in the router descriptors we had
21781 for nicknames, but not in the consensus.) Partial fix for bug 941.
21782 - New controller event NEWCONSENSUS that lists the networkstatus
21783 lines for every recommended relay. Now controllers like Torflow
21784 can keep up-to-date on which relays they should be using.
21785 - New controller event "clients_seen" to report a geoip-based summary
21786 of which countries we've seen clients from recently. Now controllers
21787 like Vidalia can show bridge operators that they're actually making
21789 - Add a 'getinfo status/clients-seen' controller command, in case
21790 controllers want to hear clients_seen events but connect late.
21791 - New CONSENSUS_ARRIVED event to note when a new consensus has
21792 been fetched and validated.
21793 - Add an internal-use-only __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP option for
21794 controllers to prevent SIGHUP from reloading the configuration.
21796 - Return circuit purposes in response to GETINFO circuit-status.
21798 - Serve the latest v3 networkstatus consensus via the control
21799 port. Use "getinfo dir/status-vote/current/consensus" to fetch it.
21800 - Add a "GETINFO /status/bootstrap-phase" controller option, so the
21801 controller can query our current bootstrap state in case it attaches
21802 partway through and wants to catch up.
21803 - Provide circuit purposes along with circuit events to the controller.
21805 o Minor features (tools):
21806 - Do not have tor-resolve automatically refuse all .onion addresses;
21807 if AutomapHostsOnResolve is set in your torrc, this will work fine.
21808 - Add a -p option to tor-resolve for specifying the SOCKS port: some
21809 people find host:port too confusing.
21810 - Print the SOCKS5 error message string as well as the error code
21811 when a tor-resolve request fails. Patch from Jacob.
21813 o Minor bugfixes (memory and resource management):
21814 - Clients no longer cache certificates for authorities they do not
21815 recognize. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
21816 - Do not use C's stdio library for writing to log files. This will
21817 improve logging performance by a minute amount, and will stop
21818 leaking fds when our disk is full. Fixes bug 861.
21819 - Stop erroneous use of O_APPEND in cases where we did not in fact
21820 want to re-seek to the end of a file before every last write().
21821 - Fix a small alignment and memory-wasting bug on buffer chunks.
21823 - Add a malloc_good_size implementation to OpenBSD_malloc_linux.c,
21824 to avoid unused RAM in buffer chunks and memory pools.
21825 - Reduce the default smartlist size from 32 to 16; it turns out that
21826 most smartlists hold around 8-12 elements tops.
21827 - Make dumpstats() log the fullness and size of openssl-internal
21829 - If the user has applied the experimental SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS
21830 patch to their OpenSSL, turn it on to save memory on servers. This
21831 patch will (with any luck) get included in a mainline distribution
21833 - Fix a memory leak when v3 directory authorities load their keys
21834 and cert from disk. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21835 - Stop using malloc_usable_size() to use more area than we had
21836 actually allocated: it was safe, but made valgrind really unhappy.
21837 - Make the assert_circuit_ok() function work correctly on circuits that
21838 have already been marked for close.
21839 - Fix uninitialized size field for memory area allocation: may improve
21840 memory performance during directory parsing.
21842 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
21843 - Stop reloading the router list from disk for no reason when we
21844 run out of reachable directory mirrors. Once upon a time reloading
21845 it would set the 'is_running' flag back to 1 for them. It hasn't
21846 done that for a long time.
21847 - When we had picked an exit node for a connection, but marked it as
21848 "optional", and it turned out we had no onion key for the exit,
21849 stop wanting that exit and try again. This situation may not
21850 be possible now, but will probably become feasible with proposal
21851 158. Spotted by rovv. Fixes another case of bug 752.
21852 - Fix a bug in address parsing that was preventing bridges or hidden
21853 service targets from being at IPv6 addresses.
21854 - Do not remove routers as too old if we do not have any consensus
21855 document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
21856 - When an exit relay resolves a stream address to a local IP address,
21857 do not just keep retrying that same exit relay over and
21858 over. Instead, just close the stream. Addresses bug 872. Bugfix
21859 on 0.2.0.32. Patch from rovv.
21860 - Made Tor a little less aggressive about deleting expired
21861 certificates. Partial fix for bug 854.
21862 - Treat duplicate certificate fetches as failures, so that we do
21863 not try to re-fetch an expired certificate over and over and over.
21864 - Do not say we're fetching a certificate when we'll in fact skip it
21865 because of a pending download.
21866 - If we have correct permissions on $datadir, we complain to stdout
21867 and fail to start. But dangerous permissions on
21868 $datadir/cached-status/ would cause us to open a log and complain
21869 there. Now complain to stdout and fail to start in both cases. Fixes
21870 bug 820, reported by seeess.
21872 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
21873 - When we made bridge authorities stop serving bridge descriptors over
21874 unencrypted links, we also broke DirPort reachability testing for
21875 bridges. So bridges with a non-zero DirPort were printing spurious
21876 warns to their logs. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Fixes bug 709.
21877 - Don't allow a bridge to publish its router descriptor to a
21878 non-bridge directory authority. Fixes part of bug 932.
21879 - When we change to or from being a bridge, reset our counts of
21880 client usage by country. Fixes bug 932.
21882 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
21883 - Log correct error messages for DNS-related network errors on
21885 - Actually return -1 in the error case for read_bandwidth_usage().
21886 Harmless bug, since we currently don't care about the return value
21887 anywhere. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
21888 - Provide a more useful log message if bug 977 (related to buffer
21889 freelists) ever reappears, and do not crash right away.
21890 - We were already rejecting relay begin cells with destination port
21891 of 0. Now also reject extend cells with destination port or address
21892 of 0. Suggested by lark.
21893 - When we can't transmit a DNS request due to a network error, retry
21894 it after a while, and eventually transmit a failing response to
21895 the RESOLVED cell. Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
21896 - Solve a bug that kept hardware crypto acceleration from getting
21897 enabled when accounting was turned on. Fixes bug 907. Bugfix on
21899 - When a canonical connection appears later in our internal list
21900 than a noncanonical one for a given OR ID, always use the
21901 canonical one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 805.
21903 - Avoid some nasty corner cases in the logic for marking connections
21904 as too old or obsolete or noncanonical for circuits. Partial
21906 - Fix another interesting corner-case of bug 891 spotted by rovv:
21907 Previously, if two hosts had different amounts of clock drift, and
21908 one of them created a new connection with just the wrong timing,
21909 the other might decide to deprecate the new connection erroneously.
21910 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha.
21911 - If one win32 nameserver fails to get added, continue adding the
21912 rest, and don't automatically fail.
21913 - Fix a bug where an unreachable relay would establish enough
21914 reachability testing circuits to do a bandwidth test -- if
21915 we already have a connection to the middle hop of the testing
21916 circuit, then it could establish the last hop by using the existing
21917 connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, exposed when we made testing
21918 circuits no longer use entry guards in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
21920 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
21921 - Limit uploaded directory documents to be 16M rather than 500K.
21922 The directory authorities were refusing v3 consensus votes from
21923 other authorities, since the votes are now 504K. Fixes bug 959;
21924 bugfix on 0.0.2pre17 (where we raised it from 50K to 500K ;).
21925 - Directory authorities should never send a 503 "busy" response to
21926 requests for votes or keys. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha; exposed by
21928 - Fix code so authorities _actually_ send back X-Descriptor-Not-New
21929 headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21931 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
21932 - When we can't find an intro key for a v2 hidden service descriptor,
21933 fall back to the v0 hidden service descriptor and log a bug message.
21934 Workaround for bug 1024.
21935 - In very rare situations new hidden service descriptors were
21936 published earlier than 30 seconds after the last change to the
21937 service. (We currently think that a hidden service descriptor
21938 that's been stable for 30 seconds is worth publishing.)
21939 - If a hidden service sends us an END cell, do not consider
21940 retrying the connection; just close it. Patch from rovv.
21941 - If we are not using BEGIN_DIR cells, don't attempt to contact hidden
21942 service directories if they have no advertised dir port. Bugfix
21945 o Minor bugfixes (tools):
21946 - In the torify(1) manpage, mention that tsocks will leak your
21949 o Minor bugfixes (controllers):
21950 - If the controller claimed responsibility for a stream, but that
21951 stream never finished making its connection, it would live
21952 forever in circuit_wait state. Now we close it after SocksTimeout
21953 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; reported by Mike Perry.
21954 - Make DNS resolved controller events into "CLOSED", not
21955 "FAILED". Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves
21957 - The control port would close the connection before flushing long
21958 replies, such as the network consensus, if a QUIT command was issued
21959 before the reply had completed. Now, the control port flushes all
21960 pending replies before closing the connection. Also fix a spurious
21961 warning when a QUIT command is issued after a malformed or rejected
21962 AUTHENTICATE command, but before the connection was closed. Patch
21963 by Marcus Griep. Fixes bugs 1015 and 1016.
21964 - Fix a bug that made stream bandwidth get misreported to the
21967 o Deprecated and removed features:
21968 - The old "tor --version --version" command, which would print out
21969 the subversion "Id" of most of the source files, is now removed. It
21970 turned out to be less useful than we'd expected, and harder to
21972 - RedirectExits has been removed. It was deprecated since
21974 - Finally remove deprecated "EXTENDED_FORMAT" controller feature. It
21975 has been called EXTENDED_EVENTS since 0.1.2.4-alpha.
21976 - Cell pools are now always enabled; --disable-cell-pools is ignored.
21977 - Directory mirrors no longer fetch the v1 directory or
21978 running-routers files. They are obsolete, and nobody asks for them
21979 anymore. This is the first step to making v1 authorities obsolete.
21980 - Take out the TestVia config option, since it was a workaround for
21981 a bug that was fixed in Tor 0.1.1.21.
21982 - Mark RendNodes, RendExcludeNodes, HiddenServiceNodes, and
21983 HiddenServiceExcludeNodes as obsolete: they never worked properly,
21984 and nobody seems to be using them. Fixes bug 754. Bugfix on
21985 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch from Christian Wilms.
21986 - Remove all backward-compatibility code for relays running
21987 versions of Tor so old that they no longer work at all on the
21990 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
21991 - Tool-assisted documentation cleanup. Nearly every function or
21992 static variable in Tor should have its own documentation now.
21993 - Rename the confusing or_is_obsolete field to the more appropriate
21994 is_bad_for_new_circs, and move it to or_connection_t where it
21996 - Move edge-only flags from connection_t to edge_connection_t: not
21997 only is this better coding, but on machines of plausible alignment,
21998 it should save 4-8 bytes per connection_t. "Every little bit helps."
21999 - Rename ServerDNSAllowBrokenResolvConf to ServerDNSAllowBrokenConfig
22000 for consistency; keep old option working for backward compatibility.
22001 - Simplify the code for finding connections to use for a circuit.
22002 - Revise the connection_new functions so that a more typesafe variant
22003 exists. This will work better with Coverity, and let us find any
22004 actual mistakes we're making here.
22005 - Refactor unit testing logic so that dmalloc can be used sensibly
22006 with unit tests to check for memory leaks.
22007 - Move all hidden-service related fields from connection and circuit
22008 structure to substructures: this way they won't eat so much memory.
22009 - Squeeze 2-5% out of client performance (according to oprofile) by
22010 improving the implementation of some policy-manipulation functions.
22011 - Change the implementation of ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes to
22012 be more efficient. Formerly it was quadratic in the number of
22013 servers; now it should be linear. Fixes bug 509.
22014 - Save 16-22 bytes per open circuit by moving the n_addr, n_port,
22015 and n_conn_id_digest fields into a separate structure that's
22016 only needed when the circuit has not yet attached to an n_conn.
22017 - Optimize out calls to time(NULL) that occur for every IO operation,
22018 or for every cell. On systems like Windows where time() is a
22019 slow syscall, this fix will be slightly helpful.
22022 Changes in version 0.2.0.35 - 2009-06-24
22024 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
22025 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
22026 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
22027 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
22028 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
22031 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
22032 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
22033 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
22034 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
22035 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
22036 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
22037 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
22038 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
22039 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
22040 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
22043 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
22044 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
22045 0.2.0.33; fixes bug 672.
22046 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
22047 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
22048 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
22049 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
22050 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
22053 Changes in version 0.2.0.34 - 2009-02-08
22054 Tor 0.2.0.34 features several more security-related fixes. You should
22055 upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or a
22056 directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
22057 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit).
22059 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.1.2.x. Those Tor versions
22060 have many known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should
22061 upgrade. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete,
22062 stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
22065 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
22066 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
22067 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
22068 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
22069 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
22070 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.0.33.
22071 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
22072 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
22075 - Fix compilation on systems where time_t is a 64-bit integer.
22076 Patch from Matthias Drochner.
22077 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
22078 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
22081 Changes in version 0.2.0.33 - 2009-01-21
22082 Tor 0.2.0.33 fixes a variety of bugs that were making relays less
22083 useful to users. It also finally fixes a bug where a relay or client
22084 that's been off for many days would take a long time to bootstrap.
22086 This update also fixes an important security-related bug reported by
22087 Ilja van Sprundel. You should upgrade. (We'll send out more details
22088 about the bug once people have had some time to upgrade.)
22091 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
22092 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
22095 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
22096 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
22097 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
22098 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
22099 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha;
22100 reported by "wood".
22101 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
22102 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
22103 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
22104 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
22105 identify a connection.
22106 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
22107 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
22108 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
22109 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
22110 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
22111 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
22112 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
22113 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
22114 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
22115 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
22117 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
22118 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could be
22119 useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in practice
22120 it just means we spend many minutes trying directory mirrors that
22121 are long gone from the network. Also discard router descriptors as
22122 we load them if they are more than five days old, since the onion
22123 key is probably wrong by now. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
22126 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
22127 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
22129 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
22130 - Compile without warnings on solaris.
22131 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
22132 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
22133 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
22134 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880.
22135 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
22136 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
22138 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
22139 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, we retry failed
22140 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
22141 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
22142 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
22143 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
22144 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
22145 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
22146 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
22147 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
22148 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
22149 Fixes one case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
22150 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
22151 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
22152 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
22153 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
22154 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
22155 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
22156 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous descriptor to
22157 the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor with the same ID.
22158 Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
22159 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
22160 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
22161 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
22162 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
22163 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
22164 840. Patch from rovv.
22165 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
22166 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
22167 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
22169 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
22170 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
22171 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
22172 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
22173 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
22174 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
22175 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
22177 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
22178 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP. Bugfix on
22179 0.0.6pre1. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
22182 - Report the case where all signatures in a detached set are rejected
22183 differently than the case where there is an error handling the
22185 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
22186 descriptors, print out a more useful error message rather than
22187 triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
22188 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
22189 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
22190 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
22191 ServerDNSRandomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
22192 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
22193 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
22195 - Check DNS replies for more matching fields to better resist DNS
22197 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
22198 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed, or
22202 Changes in version 0.2.0.32 - 2008-11-20
22203 Tor 0.2.0.32 fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
22204 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
22205 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
22206 services, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
22207 variety of other issues.
22210 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
22211 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
22212 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
22213 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
22214 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
22215 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
22216 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848 and 857.
22217 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
22218 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
22219 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
22220 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
22221 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
22224 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
22225 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
22227 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
22228 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
22229 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
22230 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
22231 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
22232 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
22233 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
22234 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
22235 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
22236 requests failed, because the router descriptor has not been
22237 downloaded yet. In these cases, do not attempt to upload the
22238 rendezvous descriptor, but wait until the router descriptor is
22239 downloaded and retry. Likewise, do not attempt to fetch a rendezvous
22240 descriptor from a hidden service directory for which the router
22241 descriptor has not yet been downloaded. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
22245 - Fix several infrequent memory leaks spotted by Coverity.
22246 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
22247 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
22248 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
22249 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
22250 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
22251 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
22252 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
22253 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
22254 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
22255 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
22256 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
22257 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
22258 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
22259 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch from by rovv.
22260 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
22261 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
22262 list. It has been gone for many months.
22263 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
22264 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fixes bug 862.
22265 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
22268 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
22269 - Make DNS resolved events into "CLOSED", not "FAILED". Bugfix on
22270 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves bug 807.
22273 Changes in version 0.2.0.31 - 2008-09-03
22274 Tor 0.2.0.31 addresses two potential anonymity issues, starts to fix
22275 a big bug we're seeing where in rare cases traffic from one Tor stream
22276 gets mixed into another stream, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
22279 - Make sure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
22280 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
22281 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc.
22282 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
22283 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
22284 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
22286 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
22287 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
22288 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
22289 pointed out by rovv.
22292 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
22293 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22294 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
22295 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
22296 - Pick size of default geoip filename string correctly on windows.
22297 Fixes bug 806. Bugfix on 0.2.0.30.
22298 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
22299 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
22300 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
22301 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22302 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
22303 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open
22304 /dev/pf before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from
22305 Christopher Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
22306 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
22307 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
22308 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
22309 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
22310 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit is
22311 getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly. Bugfix on
22312 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
22315 Changes in version 0.2.0.30 - 2008-07-15
22316 This new stable release switches to a more efficient directory
22317 distribution design, adds features to make connections to the Tor
22318 network harder to block, allows Tor to act as a DNS proxy, adds separate
22319 rate limiting for relayed traffic to make it easier for clients to
22320 become relays, fixes a variety of potential anonymity problems, and
22321 includes the usual huge pile of other features and bug fixes.
22323 o New v3 directory design:
22324 - Tor now uses a new way to learn about and distribute information
22325 about the network: the directory authorities vote on a common
22326 network status document rather than each publishing their own
22327 opinion. Now clients and caches download only one networkstatus
22328 document to bootstrap, rather than downloading one for each
22329 authority. Clients only download router descriptors listed in
22330 the consensus. Implements proposal 101; see doc/spec/dir-spec.txt
22332 - Set up moria1, tor26, and dizum as v3 directory authorities
22333 in addition to being v2 authorities. Also add three new ones:
22334 ides (run by Mike Perry), gabelmoo (run by Karsten Loesing), and
22335 dannenberg (run by CCC).
22336 - Switch to multi-level keys for directory authorities: now their
22337 long-term identity key can be kept offline, and they periodically
22338 generate a new signing key. Clients fetch the "key certificates"
22339 to keep up to date on the right keys. Add a standalone tool
22340 "tor-gencert" to generate key certificates. Implements proposal 103.
22341 - Add a new V3AuthUseLegacyKey config option to make it easier for
22342 v3 authorities to change their identity keys if another bug like
22343 Debian's OpenSSL RNG flaw appears.
22344 - Authorities and caches fetch the v2 networkstatus documents
22345 less often, now that v3 is recommended.
22347 o Make Tor connections stand out less on the wire:
22348 - Use an improved TLS handshake designed by Steven Murdoch in proposal
22349 124, as revised in proposal 130. The new handshake is meant to
22350 be harder for censors to fingerprint, and it adds the ability
22351 to detect certain kinds of man-in-the-middle traffic analysis
22352 attacks. The new handshake format includes version negotiation for
22353 OR connections as described in proposal 105, which will allow us
22354 to improve Tor's link protocol more safely in the future.
22355 - Enable encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays,
22356 so censor tools that block Tor directory connections based on their
22357 plaintext patterns will no longer work. This means Tor works in
22358 certain censored countries by default again.
22359 - Stop including recognizeable strings in the commonname part of
22360 Tor's x509 certificates.
22362 o Implement bridge relays:
22363 - Bridge relays (or "bridges" for short) are Tor relays that aren't
22364 listed in the main Tor directory. Since there is no complete public
22365 list of them, even an ISP that is filtering connections to all the
22366 known Tor relays probably won't be able to block all the bridges.
22367 See doc/design-paper/blocking.pdf and proposal 125 for details.
22368 - New config option BridgeRelay that specifies you want to be a
22369 bridge relay rather than a normal relay. When BridgeRelay is set
22370 to 1, then a) you cache dir info even if your DirPort ins't on,
22371 and b) the default for PublishServerDescriptor is now "bridge"
22372 rather than "v2,v3".
22373 - New config option "UseBridges 1" for clients that want to use bridge
22374 relays instead of ordinary entry guards. Clients then specify
22375 bridge relays by adding "Bridge" lines to their config file. Users
22376 can learn about a bridge relay either manually through word of
22377 mouth, or by one of our rate-limited mechanisms for giving out
22378 bridge addresses without letting an attacker easily enumerate them
22379 all. See https://www.torproject.org/bridges for details.
22380 - Bridge relays behave like clients with respect to time intervals
22381 for downloading new v3 consensus documents -- otherwise they
22382 stand out. Bridge users now wait until the end of the interval,
22383 so their bridge relay will be sure to have a new consensus document.
22385 o Implement bridge directory authorities:
22386 - Bridge authorities are like normal directory authorities, except
22387 they don't serve a list of known bridges. Therefore users that know
22388 a bridge's fingerprint can fetch a relay descriptor for that bridge,
22389 including fetching updates e.g. if the bridge changes IP address,
22390 yet an attacker can't just fetch a list of all the bridges.
22391 - Set up Tonga as the default bridge directory authority.
22392 - Bridge authorities refuse to serve bridge descriptors or other
22393 bridge information over unencrypted connections (that is, when
22394 responding to direct DirPort requests rather than begin_dir cells.)
22395 - Bridge directory authorities do reachability testing on the
22396 bridges they know. They provide router status summaries to the
22397 controller via "getinfo ns/purpose/bridge", and also dump summaries
22398 to a file periodically, so we can keep internal stats about which
22399 bridges are functioning.
22400 - If bridge users set the UpdateBridgesFromAuthority config option,
22401 but the digest they ask for is a 404 on the bridge authority,
22402 they fall back to contacting the bridge directly.
22403 - Bridges always use begin_dir to publish their server descriptor to
22404 the bridge authority using an anonymous encrypted tunnel.
22405 - Early work on a "bridge community" design: if bridge authorities set
22406 the BridgePassword config option, they will serve a snapshot of
22407 known bridge routerstatuses from their DirPort to anybody who
22408 knows that password. Unset by default.
22409 - Tor now includes an IP-to-country GeoIP file, so bridge relays can
22410 report sanitized aggregated summaries in their extra-info documents
22411 privately to the bridge authority, listing which countries are
22412 able to reach them. We hope this mechanism will let us learn when
22413 certain countries start trying to block bridges.
22414 - Bridge authorities write bridge descriptors to disk, so they can
22415 reload them after a reboot. They can also export the descriptors
22416 to other programs, so we can distribute them to blocked users via
22417 the BridgeDB interface, e.g. via https://bridges.torproject.org/
22418 and bridges@torproject.org.
22420 o Tor can be a DNS proxy:
22421 - The new client-side DNS proxy feature replaces the need for
22422 dns-proxy-tor: Just set "DNSPort 9999", and Tor will now listen
22423 for DNS requests on port 9999, use the Tor network to resolve them
22424 anonymously, and send the reply back like a regular DNS server.
22425 The code still only implements a subset of DNS.
22426 - Add a new AutomapHostsOnResolve option: when it is enabled, any
22427 resolve request for hosts matching a given pattern causes Tor to
22428 generate an internal virtual address mapping for that host. This
22429 allows DNSPort to work sensibly with hidden service users. By
22430 default, .exit and .onion addresses are remapped; the list of
22431 patterns can be reconfigured with AutomapHostsSuffixes.
22432 - Add an "-F" option to tor-resolve to force a resolve for a .onion
22433 address. Thanks to the AutomapHostsOnResolve option, this is no
22434 longer a completely silly thing to do.
22436 o Major features (relay usability):
22437 - New config options RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst:
22438 a separate set of token buckets for relayed traffic. Right now
22439 relayed traffic is defined as answers to directory requests, and
22440 OR connections that don't have any local circuits on them. See
22441 proposal 111 for details.
22442 - Create listener connections before we setuid to the configured
22443 User and Group. Now non-Windows users can choose port values
22444 under 1024, start Tor as root, and have Tor bind those ports
22445 before it changes to another UID. (Windows users could already
22447 - Added a new ConstrainedSockets config option to set SO_SNDBUF and
22448 SO_RCVBUF on TCP sockets. Hopefully useful for Tor servers running
22449 on "vserver" accounts. Patch from coderman.
22451 o Major features (directory authorities):
22452 - Directory authorities track weighted fractional uptime and weighted
22453 mean-time-between failures for relays. WFU is suitable for deciding
22454 whether a node is "usually up", while MTBF is suitable for deciding
22455 whether a node is "likely to stay up." We need both, because
22456 "usually up" is a good requirement for guards, while "likely to
22457 stay up" is a good requirement for long-lived connections.
22458 - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which relays
22459 to advertise as Guards: they must be in the top 7/8 in terms of
22460 how long we have known about them, and above the median of those
22461 nodes in terms of weighted fractional uptime.
22462 - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which relays
22463 to advertise as Stable: when we have 4 or more days of data, use
22464 median measured MTBF rather than median declared uptime. Implements
22466 - Directory authorities accept and serve "extra info" documents for
22467 routers. Routers now publish their bandwidth-history lines in the
22468 extra-info docs rather than the main descriptor. This step saves
22469 60% (!) on compressed router descriptor downloads. Servers upload
22470 extra-info docs to any authority that accepts them; directory
22471 authorities now allow multiple router descriptors and/or extra
22472 info documents to be uploaded in a single go. Authorities, and
22473 caches that have been configured to download extra-info documents,
22474 download them as needed. Implements proposal 104.
22475 - Authorities now list relays who have the same nickname as
22476 a different named relay, but list them with a new flag:
22477 "Unnamed". Now we can make use of relays that happen to pick the
22478 same nickname as a server that registered two years ago and then
22479 disappeared. Implements proposal 122.
22480 - Store routers in a file called cached-descriptors instead of in
22481 cached-routers. Initialize cached-descriptors from cached-routers
22482 if the old format is around. The new format allows us to store
22483 annotations along with descriptors, to record the time we received
22484 each descriptor, its source, and its purpose: currently one of
22485 general, controller, or bridge.
22487 o Major features (other):
22488 - New config options WarnPlaintextPorts and RejectPlaintextPorts so
22489 Tor can warn and/or refuse connections to ports commonly used with
22490 vulnerable-plaintext protocols. Currently we warn on ports 23,
22491 109, 110, and 143, but we don't reject any. Based on proposal 129
22492 by Kevin Bauer and Damon McCoy.
22493 - Integrate Karsten Loesing's Google Summer of Code project to publish
22494 hidden service descriptors on a set of redundant relays that are a
22495 function of the hidden service address. Now we don't have to rely
22496 on three central hidden service authorities for publishing and
22497 fetching every hidden service descriptor. Implements proposal 114.
22498 - Allow tunnelled directory connections to ask for an encrypted
22499 "begin_dir" connection or an anonymized "uses a full Tor circuit"
22500 connection independently. Now we can make anonymized begin_dir
22501 connections for (e.g.) more secure hidden service posting and
22504 o Major bugfixes (crashes and assert failures):
22505 - Stop imposing an arbitrary maximum on the number of file descriptors
22506 used for busy servers. Bug reported by Olaf Selke; patch from
22508 - Avoid possible failures when generating a directory with routers
22509 with over-long versions strings, or too many flags set.
22510 - Fix a rare assert error when we're closing one of our threads:
22511 use a mutex to protect the list of logs, so we never write to the
22512 list as it's being freed. Fixes the very rare bug 575, which is
22513 kind of the revenge of bug 222.
22514 - Avoid segfault in the case where a badly behaved v2 versioning
22515 directory sends a signed networkstatus with missing client-versions.
22516 - When we hit an EOF on a log (probably because we're shutting down),
22517 don't try to remove the log from the list: just mark it as
22518 unusable. (Bulletproofs against bug 222.)
22520 o Major bugfixes (code security fixes):
22521 - Detect size overflow in zlib code. Reported by Justin Ferguson and
22523 - Rewrite directory tokenization code to never run off the end of
22524 a string. Fixes bug 455. Patch from croup.
22525 - Be more paranoid about overwriting sensitive memory on free(),
22526 as a defensive programming tactic to ensure forward secrecy.
22528 o Major bugfixes (anonymity fixes):
22529 - Reject requests for reverse-dns lookup of names that are in
22530 a private address space. Patch from lodger.
22531 - Never report that we've used more bandwidth than we're willing to
22532 relay: it leaks how much non-relay traffic we're using. Resolves
22534 - As a client, do not believe any server that tells us that an
22535 address maps to an internal address space.
22536 - Warn about unsafe ControlPort configurations.
22537 - Directory authorities now call routers Fast if their bandwidth is
22538 at least 100KB/s, and consider their bandwidth adequate to be a
22539 Guard if it is at least 250KB/s, no matter the medians. This fix
22540 complements proposal 107.
22541 - Directory authorities now never mark more than 2 servers per IP as
22542 Valid and Running (or 5 on addresses shared by authorities).
22543 Implements proposal 109, by Kevin Bauer and Damon McCoy.
22544 - If we're a relay, avoid picking ourselves as an introduction point,
22545 a rendezvous point, or as the final hop for internal circuits. Bug
22546 reported by taranis and lodger.
22547 - Exit relays that are used as a client can now reach themselves
22548 using the .exit notation, rather than just launching an infinite
22549 pile of circuits. Fixes bug 641. Reported by Sebastian Hahn.
22550 - Fix a bug where, when we were choosing the 'end stream reason' to
22551 put in our relay end cell that we send to the exit relay, Tor
22552 clients on Windows were sometimes sending the wrong 'reason'. The
22553 anonymity problem is that exit relays may be able to guess whether
22554 the client is running Windows, thus helping partition the anonymity
22555 set. Down the road we should stop sending reasons to exit relays,
22556 or otherwise prevent future versions of this bug.
22557 - Only update guard status (usable / not usable) once we have
22558 enough directory information. This was causing us to discard all our
22559 guards on startup if we hadn't been running for a few weeks. Fixes
22561 - When our directory information has been expired for a while, stop
22562 being willing to build circuits using it. Fixes bug 401.
22564 o Major bugfixes (peace of mind for relay operators)
22565 - Non-exit relays no longer answer "resolve" relay cells, so they
22566 can't be induced to do arbitrary DNS requests. (Tor clients already
22567 avoid using non-exit relays for resolve cells, but now servers
22568 enforce this too.) Fixes bug 619. Patch from lodger.
22569 - When we setconf ClientOnly to 1, close any current OR and Dir
22570 listeners. Reported by mwenge.
22572 o Major bugfixes (other):
22573 - If we only ever used Tor for hidden service lookups or posts, we
22574 would stop building circuits and start refusing connections after
22575 24 hours, since we falsely believed that Tor was dormant. Reported
22577 - Add a new __HashedControlSessionPassword option for controllers
22578 to use for one-off session password hashes that shouldn't get
22579 saved to disk by SAVECONF --- Vidalia users were accumulating a
22580 pile of HashedControlPassword lines in their torrc files, one for
22581 each time they had restarted Tor and then clicked Save. Make Tor
22582 automatically convert "HashedControlPassword" to this new option but
22583 only when it's given on the command line. Partial fix for bug 586.
22584 - Patch from "Andrew S. Lists" to catch when we contact a directory
22585 mirror at IP address X and he says we look like we're coming from
22586 IP address X. Otherwise this would screw up our address detection.
22587 - Reject uploaded descriptors and extrainfo documents if they're
22588 huge. Otherwise we'll cache them all over the network and it'll
22589 clog everything up. Suggested by Aljosha Judmayer.
22590 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
22591 and Tor *did* manage to reuse one of the preemptively built
22592 circuits, it didn't correctly remember which one it used,
22593 so it asked for another one soon after, until there were no
22594 more preemptive circuits, at which point it launched one from
22595 scratch. Bugfix on 0.0.9.x.
22597 o Rate limiting and load balancing improvements:
22598 - When we add data to a write buffer in response to the data on that
22599 write buffer getting low because of a flush, do not consider the
22600 newly added data as a candidate for immediate flushing, but rather
22601 make it wait until the next round of writing. Otherwise, we flush
22602 and refill recursively, and a single greedy TLS connection can
22603 eat all of our bandwidth.
22604 - When counting the number of bytes written on a TLS connection,
22605 look at the BIO actually used for writing to the network, not
22606 at the BIO used (sometimes) to buffer data for the network.
22607 Looking at different BIOs could result in write counts on the
22608 order of ULONG_MAX. Fixes bug 614.
22609 - If we change our MaxAdvertisedBandwidth and then reload torrc,
22610 Tor won't realize it should publish a new relay descriptor. Fixes
22611 bug 688, reported by mfr.
22612 - Avoid using too little bandwidth when our clock skips a few seconds.
22613 - Choose which bridge to use proportional to its advertised bandwidth,
22614 rather than uniformly at random. This should speed up Tor for
22615 bridge users. Also do this for people who set StrictEntryNodes.
22617 o Bootstrapping faster and building circuits more intelligently:
22618 - Fix bug 660 that was preventing us from knowing that we should
22619 preemptively build circuits to handle expected directory requests.
22620 - When we're checking if we have enough dir info for each relay
22621 to begin establishing circuits, make sure that we actually have
22622 the descriptor listed in the consensus, not just any descriptor.
22623 - Correctly notify one-hop connections when a circuit build has
22624 failed. Possible fix for bug 669. Found by lodger.
22625 - Clients now hold circuitless TLS connections open for 1.5 times
22626 MaxCircuitDirtiness (15 minutes), since it is likely that they'll
22627 rebuild a new circuit over them within that timeframe. Previously,
22628 they held them open only for KeepalivePeriod (5 minutes).
22630 o Performance improvements (memory):
22631 - Add OpenBSD malloc code from "phk" as an optional malloc
22632 replacement on Linux: some glibc libraries do very poorly with
22633 Tor's memory allocation patterns. Pass --enable-openbsd-malloc to
22634 ./configure to get the replacement malloc code.
22635 - Switch our old ring buffer implementation for one more like that
22636 used by free Unix kernels. The wasted space in a buffer with 1mb
22637 of data will now be more like 8k than 1mb. The new implementation
22638 also avoids realloc();realloc(); patterns that can contribute to
22639 memory fragmentation.
22640 - Change the way that Tor buffers data that it is waiting to write.
22641 Instead of queueing data cells in an enormous ring buffer for each
22642 client->OR or OR->OR connection, we now queue cells on a separate
22643 queue for each circuit. This lets us use less slack memory, and
22644 will eventually let us be smarter about prioritizing different kinds
22646 - Reference-count and share copies of address policy entries; only 5%
22647 of them were actually distinct.
22648 - Tune parameters for cell pool allocation to minimize amount of
22650 - Keep unused 4k and 16k buffers on free lists, rather than wasting 8k
22651 for every single inactive connection_t. Free items from the
22652 4k/16k-buffer free lists when they haven't been used for a while.
22653 - Make memory debugging information describe more about history
22654 of cell allocation, so we can help reduce our memory use.
22655 - Be even more aggressive about releasing RAM from small
22656 empty buffers. Thanks to our free-list code, this shouldn't be too
22657 performance-intensive.
22658 - Log malloc statistics from mallinfo() on platforms where it exists.
22659 - Use memory pools to allocate cells with better speed and memory
22660 efficiency, especially on platforms where malloc() is inefficient.
22661 - Add a --with-tcmalloc option to the configure script to link
22662 against tcmalloc (if present). Does not yet search for non-system
22665 o Performance improvements (socket management):
22666 - Count the number of open sockets separately from the number of
22667 active connection_t objects. This will let us avoid underusing
22668 our allocated connection limit.
22669 - We no longer use socket pairs to link an edge connection to an
22670 anonymous directory connection or a DirPort test connection.
22671 Instead, we track the link internally and transfer the data
22672 in-process. This saves two sockets per "linked" connection (at the
22673 client and at the server), and avoids the nasty Windows socketpair()
22675 - We were leaking a file descriptor if Tor started with a zero-length
22676 cached-descriptors file. Patch by "freddy77".
22678 o Performance improvements (CPU use):
22679 - Never walk through the list of logs if we know that no log target
22680 is interested in a given message.
22681 - Call routerlist_remove_old_routers() much less often. This should
22682 speed startup, especially on directory caches.
22683 - Base64 decoding was actually showing up on our profile when parsing
22684 the initial descriptor file; switch to an in-process all-at-once
22685 implementation that's about 3.5x times faster than calling out to
22687 - Use a slightly simpler string hashing algorithm (copying Python's
22688 instead of Java's) and optimize our digest hashing algorithm to take
22689 advantage of 64-bit platforms and to remove some possibly-costly
22691 - When implementing AES counter mode, update only the portions of the
22692 counter buffer that need to change, and don't keep separate
22693 network-order and host-order counters on big-endian hosts (where
22694 they are the same).
22695 - Add an in-place version of aes_crypt() so that we can avoid doing a
22696 needless memcpy() call on each cell payload.
22697 - Use Critical Sections rather than Mutexes for synchronizing threads
22698 on win32; Mutexes are heavier-weight, and designed for synchronizing
22701 o Performance improvements (bandwidth use):
22702 - Don't try to launch new descriptor downloads quite so often when we
22703 already have enough directory information to build circuits.
22704 - Version 1 directories are no longer generated in full. Instead,
22705 authorities generate and serve "stub" v1 directories that list
22706 no servers. This will stop Tor versions 0.1.0.x and earlier from
22707 working, but (for security reasons) nobody should be running those
22709 - Avoid going directly to the directory authorities even if you're a
22710 relay, if you haven't found yourself reachable yet or if you've
22711 decided not to advertise your dirport yet. Addresses bug 556.
22712 - If we've gone 12 hours since our last bandwidth check, and we
22713 estimate we have less than 50KB bandwidth capacity but we could
22714 handle more, do another bandwidth test.
22715 - Support "If-Modified-Since" when answering HTTP requests for
22716 directories, running-routers documents, and v2 and v3 networkstatus
22717 documents. (There's no need to support it for router descriptors,
22718 since those are downloaded by descriptor digest.)
22719 - Stop fetching directory info so aggressively if your DirPort is
22720 on but your ORPort is off; stop fetching v2 dir info entirely.
22721 You can override these choices with the new FetchDirInfoEarly
22724 o Changed config option behavior (features):
22725 - Configuration files now accept C-style strings as values. This
22726 helps encode characters not allowed in the current configuration
22727 file format, such as newline or #. Addresses bug 557.
22728 - Add hidden services and DNSPorts to the list of things that make
22729 Tor accept that it has running ports. Change starting Tor with no
22730 ports from a fatal error to a warning; we might change it back if
22731 this turns out to confuse anybody. Fixes bug 579.
22732 - Make PublishServerDescriptor default to 1, so the default doesn't
22733 have to change as we invent new directory protocol versions.
22734 - Allow people to say PreferTunnelledDirConns rather than
22735 PreferTunneledDirConns, for those alternate-spellers out there.
22736 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst to 5MB/10MB, to
22737 accommodate the growing number of servers that use the default
22738 and are reaching it.
22739 - Make it possible to enable HashedControlPassword and
22740 CookieAuthentication at the same time.
22741 - When a TrackHostExits-chosen exit fails too many times in a row,
22742 stop using it. Fixes bug 437.
22744 o Changed config option behavior (bugfixes):
22745 - Do not read the configuration file when we've only been told to
22746 generate a password hash. Fixes bug 643. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5. Fix
22747 based on patch from Sebastian Hahn.
22748 - Actually validate the options passed to AuthDirReject,
22749 AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, and AuthDirBadExit.
22750 - Make "ClientOnly 1" config option disable directory ports too.
22751 - Don't stop fetching descriptors when FetchUselessDescriptors is
22752 set, even if we stop asking for circuits. Bug reported by tup
22754 - Servers used to decline to publish their DirPort if their
22755 BandwidthRate or MaxAdvertisedBandwidth were below a threshold. Now
22756 they look only at BandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthRate.
22757 - Treat "2gb" when given in torrc for a bandwidth as meaning 2gb,
22758 minus 1 byte: the actual maximum declared bandwidth.
22759 - Make "TrackHostExits ." actually work. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x.
22760 - Make the NodeFamilies config option work. (Reported by
22761 lodger -- it has never actually worked, even though we added it
22763 - If Tor is invoked from something that isn't a shell (e.g. Vidalia),
22764 now we expand "-f ~/.tor/torrc" correctly. Suggested by Matt Edman.
22766 o New config options:
22767 - New configuration options AuthDirMaxServersPerAddr and
22768 AuthDirMaxServersperAuthAddr to override default maximum number
22769 of servers allowed on a single IP address. This is important for
22770 running a test network on a single host.
22771 - Three new config options (AlternateDirAuthority,
22772 AlternateBridgeAuthority, and AlternateHSAuthority) that let the
22773 user selectively replace the default directory authorities by type,
22774 rather than the all-or-nothing replacement that DirServer offers.
22775 - New config options AuthDirBadDir and AuthDirListBadDirs for
22776 authorities to mark certain relays as "bad directories" in the
22777 networkstatus documents. Also supports the "!baddir" directive in
22778 the approved-routers file.
22779 - New config option V2AuthoritativeDirectory that all v2 directory
22780 authorities must set. This lets v3 authorities choose not to serve
22781 v2 directory information.
22783 o Minor features (other):
22784 - When we're not serving v2 directory information, there is no reason
22785 to actually keep any around. Remove the obsolete files and directory
22786 on startup if they are very old and we aren't going to serve them.
22787 - When we negotiate a v2 link-layer connection (not yet implemented),
22788 accept RELAY_EARLY cells and turn them into RELAY cells if we've
22789 negotiated a v1 connection for their next step. Initial steps for
22791 - When we have no consensus, check FallbackNetworkstatusFile (defaults
22792 to $PREFIX/share/tor/fallback-consensus) for a consensus. This way
22793 we can start out knowing some directory caches. We don't ship with
22794 a fallback consensus by default though, because it was making
22795 bootstrapping take too long while we tried many down relays.
22796 - Authorities send back an X-Descriptor-Not-New header in response to
22797 an accepted-but-discarded descriptor upload. Partially implements
22799 - If we find a cached-routers file that's been sitting around for more
22800 than 28 days unmodified, then most likely it's a leftover from
22801 when we upgraded to 0.2.0.8-alpha. Remove it. It has no good
22803 - When we (as a cache) download a descriptor because it was listed
22804 in a consensus, remember when the consensus was supposed to expire,
22805 and don't expire the descriptor until then.
22806 - Optionally (if built with -DEXPORTMALLINFO) export the output
22807 of mallinfo via http, as tor/mallinfo.txt. Only accessible
22809 - Tag every guard node in our state file with the version that
22810 we believe added it, or with our own version if we add it. This way,
22811 if a user temporarily runs an old version of Tor and then switches
22812 back to a new one, she doesn't automatically lose her guards.
22813 - When somebody requests a list of statuses or servers, and we have
22814 none of those, return a 404 rather than an empty 200.
22815 - Merge in some (as-yet-unused) IPv6 address manipulation code. (Patch
22817 - Add an HSAuthorityRecordStats option that hidden service authorities
22818 can use to track statistics of overall hidden service usage without
22819 logging information that would be as useful to an attacker.
22820 - Allow multiple HiddenServicePort directives with the same virtual
22821 port; when they occur, the user is sent round-robin to one
22822 of the target ports chosen at random. Partially fixes bug 393 by
22823 adding limited ad-hoc round-robining.
22824 - Revamp file-writing logic so we don't need to have the entire
22825 contents of a file in memory at once before we write to disk. Tor,
22828 o Minor bugfixes (other):
22829 - Alter the code that tries to recover from unhandled write
22830 errors, to not try to flush onto a socket that's given us
22832 - Directory mirrors no longer include a guess at the client's IP
22833 address if the connection appears to be coming from the same /24
22834 network; it was producing too many wrong guesses.
22835 - If we're trying to flush the last bytes on a connection (for
22836 example, when answering a directory request), reset the
22837 time-to-give-up timeout every time we manage to write something
22839 - Reject router descriptors with out-of-range bandwidthcapacity or
22840 bandwidthburst values.
22841 - If we can't expand our list of entry guards (e.g. because we're
22842 using bridges or we have StrictEntryNodes set), don't mark relays
22843 down when they fail a directory request. Otherwise we're too quick
22844 to mark all our entry points down.
22845 - Authorities no longer send back "400 you're unreachable please fix
22846 it" errors to Tor servers that aren't online all the time. We're
22847 supposed to tolerate these servers now.
22848 - Let directory authorities startup even when they can't generate
22849 a descriptor immediately, e.g. because they don't know their
22851 - Correctly enforce that elements of directory objects do not appear
22852 more often than they are allowed to appear.
22853 - Stop allowing hibernating servers to be "stable" or "fast".
22854 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
22855 cached-routers while Tor was running. (Reported by janbar)
22856 - Check return values from pthread_mutex functions.
22857 - When opening /dev/null in finish_daemonize(), do not pass the
22858 O_CREAT flag. Fortify was complaining, and correctly so. Fixes
22859 bug 742; fix from Michael Scherer. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre19.
22861 o Controller features:
22862 - The GETCONF command now escapes and quotes configuration values
22863 that don't otherwise fit into the torrc file.
22864 - The SETCONF command now handles quoted values correctly.
22865 - Add "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" so controllers can
22866 ask about source, timestamp of arrival, purpose, etc. We need
22867 something like this to help Vidalia not do GeoIP lookups on bridge
22869 - Allow multiple HashedControlPassword config lines, to support
22870 multiple controller passwords.
22871 - Accept LF instead of CRLF on controller, since some software has a
22872 hard time generating real Internet newlines.
22873 - Add GETINFO values for the server status events
22874 "REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED" and "GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR". Patch from
22876 - There is now an ugly, temporary "desc/all-recent-extrainfo-hack"
22877 GETINFO for Torstat to use until it can switch to using extrainfos.
22878 - New config option CookieAuthFile to choose a new location for the
22879 cookie authentication file, and config option
22880 CookieAuthFileGroupReadable to make it group-readable.
22881 - Add a SOURCE_ADDR field to STREAM NEW events so that controllers can
22882 match requests to applications. Patch from Robert Hogan.
22883 - Add a RESOLVE command to launch hostname lookups. Original patch
22885 - Add GETINFO status/enough-dir-info to let controllers tell whether
22886 Tor has downloaded sufficient directory information. Patch from Tup.
22887 - You can now use the ControlSocket option to tell Tor to listen for
22888 controller connections on Unix domain sockets on systems that
22889 support them. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
22890 - New "GETINFO address-mappings/*" command to get address mappings
22891 with expiry information. "addr-mappings/*" is now deprecated.
22893 - Add a new config option __DisablePredictedCircuits designed for
22894 use by the controller, when we don't want Tor to build any circuits
22896 - Let the controller specify HOP=%d as an argument to ATTACHSTREAM,
22897 so we can exit from the middle of the circuit.
22898 - Implement "getinfo status/circuit-established".
22899 - Implement "getinfo status/version/..." so a controller can tell
22900 whether the current version is recommended, and whether any versions
22901 are good, and how many authorities agree. Patch from "shibz".
22902 - Controllers should now specify cache=no or cache=yes when using
22903 the +POSTDESCRIPTOR command.
22904 - Add a "PURPOSE=" argument to "STREAM NEW" events, as suggested by
22905 Robert Hogan. Fixes the first part of bug 681.
22906 - When reporting clock skew, and we know that the clock is _at least
22907 as skewed_ as some value, but we don't know the actual value,
22908 report the value as a "minimum skew."
22910 o Controller bugfixes:
22911 - Generate "STATUS_SERVER" events rather than misspelled
22912 "STATUS_SEVER" events. Caught by mwenge.
22913 - Reject controller commands over 1MB in length, so rogue
22914 processes can't run us out of memory.
22915 - Change the behavior of "getinfo status/good-server-descriptor"
22916 so it doesn't return failure when any authority disappears.
22917 - Send NAMESERVER_STATUS messages for a single failed nameserver
22919 - When the DANGEROUS_VERSION controller status event told us we're
22920 running an obsolete version, it used the string "OLD" to describe
22921 it. Yet the "getinfo" interface used the string "OBSOLETE". Now use
22922 "OBSOLETE" in both cases.
22923 - Respond to INT and TERM SIGNAL commands before we execute the
22924 signal, in case the signal shuts us down. We had a patch in
22925 0.1.2.1-alpha that tried to do this by queueing the response on
22926 the connection's buffer before shutting down, but that really
22927 isn't the same thing at all. Bug located by Matt Edman.
22928 - Provide DNS expiry times in GMT, not in local time. For backward
22929 compatibility, ADDRMAP events only provide GMT expiry in an extended
22930 field. "GETINFO address-mappings" always does the right thing.
22931 - Use CRLF line endings properly in NS events.
22932 - Make 'getinfo fingerprint' return a 551 error if we're not a
22933 server, so we match what the control spec claims we do. Reported
22935 - Fix a typo in an error message when extendcircuit fails that
22936 caused us to not follow the \r\n-based delimiter protocol. Reported
22938 - When tunneling an encrypted directory connection, and its first
22939 circuit fails, do not leave it unattached and ask the controller
22940 to deal. Fixes the second part of bug 681.
22941 - Treat some 403 responses from directory servers as INFO rather than
22942 WARN-severity events.
22944 o Portability / building / compiling:
22945 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings, check for whether Apple's
22946 warning "-Wshorten-64-to-32" is available.
22947 - Support compilation to target iPhone; patch from cjacker huang.
22948 To build for iPhone, pass the --enable-iphone option to configure.
22949 - Port Tor to build and run correctly on Windows CE systems, using
22950 the wcecompat library. Contributed by Valerio Lupi.
22951 - Detect non-ASCII platforms (if any still exist) and refuse to
22952 build there: some of our code assumes that 'A' is 65 and so on.
22953 - Clear up some MIPSPro compiler warnings.
22954 - Make autoconf search for libevent, openssl, and zlib consistently.
22955 - Update deprecated macros in configure.in.
22956 - When warning about missing headers, tell the user to let us
22957 know if the compile succeeds anyway, so we can downgrade the
22959 - Include the current subversion revision as part of the version
22960 string: either fetch it directly if we're in an SVN checkout, do
22961 some magic to guess it if we're in an SVK checkout, or use
22962 the last-detected version if we're building from a .tar.gz.
22963 Use this version consistently in log messages.
22964 - Correctly report platform name on Windows 95 OSR2 and Windows 98 SE.
22965 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
22966 partial results on small file reads.
22967 - Build without verbose warnings even on gcc 4.2 and 4.3.
22968 - On Windows, correctly detect errors when listing the contents of
22969 a directory. Fix from lodger.
22970 - Run 'make test' as part of 'make dist', so we stop releasing so
22971 many development snapshots that fail their unit tests.
22972 - Add support to detect Libevent versions in the 1.4.x series
22974 - Add command-line arguments to unit-test executable so that we can
22975 invoke any chosen test from the command line rather than having
22976 to run the whole test suite at once; and so that we can turn on
22977 logging for the unit tests.
22978 - Do not automatically run configure from autogen.sh. This
22979 non-standard behavior tended to annoy people who have built other
22981 - Fix a macro/CPP interaction that was confusing some compilers:
22982 some GCCs don't like #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments.
22984 - Fix macro collision between OpenSSL 0.9.8h and Windows headers.
22985 Fixes bug 704; fix from Steven Murdoch.
22986 - Correctly detect transparent proxy support on Linux hosts that
22987 require in.h to be included before netfilter_ipv4.h. Patch
22990 o Logging improvements:
22991 - When we haven't had any application requests lately, don't bother
22992 logging that we have expired a bunch of descriptors.
22993 - When attempting to open a logfile fails, tell us why.
22994 - Only log guard node status when guard node status has changed.
22995 - Downgrade the 3 most common "INFO" messages to "DEBUG". This will
22996 make "INFO" 75% less verbose.
22997 - When SafeLogging is disabled, log addresses along with all TLS
22999 - Report TLS "zero return" case as a "clean close" and "IO error"
23000 as a "close". Stop calling closes "unexpected closes": existing
23001 Tors don't use SSL_close(), so having a connection close without
23002 the TLS shutdown handshake is hardly unexpected.
23003 - When we receive a consensus from the future, warn about skew.
23004 - Make "not enough dir info yet" warnings describe *why* Tor feels
23005 it doesn't have enough directory info yet.
23006 - On the USR1 signal, when dmalloc is in use, log the top 10 memory
23007 consumers. (We already do this on HUP.)
23008 - Give more descriptive well-formedness errors for out-of-range
23009 hidden service descriptor/protocol versions.
23010 - Stop recommending that every server operator send mail to tor-ops.
23011 Resolves bug 597. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
23012 - Improve skew reporting: try to give the user a better log message
23013 about how skewed they are, and how much this matters.
23014 - New --quiet command-line option to suppress the default console log.
23015 Good in combination with --hash-password.
23016 - Don't complain that "your server has not managed to confirm that its
23017 ports are reachable" if we haven't been able to build any circuits
23019 - Detect the reason for failing to mmap a descriptor file we just
23020 wrote, and give a more useful log message. Fixes bug 533.
23021 - Always prepend "Bug: " to any log message about a bug.
23022 - When dumping memory usage, list bytes used in buffer memory
23024 - When running with dmalloc, dump more stats on hup and on exit.
23025 - Put a platform string (e.g. "Linux i686") in the startup log
23026 message, so when people paste just their logs, we know if it's
23027 OpenBSD or Windows or what.
23028 - When logging memory usage, break down memory used in buffers by
23030 - When we are reporting the DirServer line we just parsed, we were
23031 logging the second stanza of the key fingerprint, not the first.
23032 - Even though Windows is equally happy with / and \ as path separators,
23033 try to use \ consistently on Windows and / consistently on Unix: it
23034 makes the log messages nicer.
23035 - On OSX, stop warning the user that kqueue support in libevent is
23036 "experimental", since it seems to have worked fine for ages.
23038 o Contributed scripts and tools:
23039 - Update linux-tor-prio.sh script to allow QoS based on the uid of
23040 the Tor process. Patch from Marco Bonetti with tweaks from Mike
23042 - Include the "tor-ctrl.sh" bash script by Stefan Behte to provide
23043 Unix users an easy way to script their Tor process (e.g. by
23044 adjusting bandwidth based on the time of the day).
23045 - In the exitlist script, only consider the most recently published
23046 server descriptor for each server. Also, when the user requests
23047 a list of servers that _reject_ connections to a given address,
23048 explicitly exclude the IPs that also have servers that accept
23049 connections to that address. Resolves bug 405.
23050 - Include a new contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file that exit relay
23051 operators can put on their website to help reduce abuse queries.
23053 o Newly deprecated features:
23054 - The status/version/num-versioning and status/version/num-concurring
23055 GETINFO controller options are no longer useful in the v3 directory
23056 protocol: treat them as deprecated, and warn when they're used.
23057 - The RedirectExits config option is now deprecated.
23059 o Removed features:
23060 - Drop the old code to choke directory connections when the
23061 corresponding OR connections got full: thanks to the cell queue
23062 feature, OR conns don't get full any more.
23063 - Remove the old "dns worker" server DNS code: it hasn't been default
23064 since 0.1.2.2-alpha, and all the servers are using the new
23066 - Remove the code to generate the oldest (v1) directory format.
23067 - Remove support for the old bw_accounting file: we've been storing
23068 bandwidth accounting information in the state file since
23069 0.1.2.5-alpha. This may result in bandwidth accounting errors
23070 if you try to upgrade from 0.1.1.x or earlier, or if you try to
23071 downgrade to 0.1.1.x or earlier.
23072 - Drop support for OpenSSL version 0.9.6. Just about nobody was using
23073 it, it had no AES, and it hasn't seen any security patches since
23075 - Stop overloading the circuit_t.onionskin field for both "onionskin
23076 from a CREATE cell that we are waiting for a cpuworker to be
23077 assigned" and "onionskin from an EXTEND cell that we are going to
23078 send to an OR as soon as we are connected". Might help with bug 600.
23079 - Remove the tor_strpartition() function: its logic was confused,
23080 and it was only used for one thing that could be implemented far
23082 - Remove the contrib scripts ExerciseServer.py, PathDemo.py,
23083 and TorControl.py, as they use the old v0 controller protocol,
23084 and are obsoleted by TorFlow anyway.
23085 - Drop support for v1 rendezvous descriptors, since we never used
23086 them anyway, and the code has probably rotted by now. Based on
23087 patch from Karsten Loesing.
23088 - Stop allowing address masks that do not correspond to bit prefixes.
23089 We have warned about these for a really long time; now it's time
23090 to reject them. (Patch from croup.)
23091 - Remove an optimization in the AES counter-mode code that assumed
23092 that the counter never exceeded 2^68. When the counter can be set
23093 arbitrarily as an IV (as it is by Karsten's new hidden services
23094 code), this assumption no longer holds.
23095 - Disable the SETROUTERPURPOSE controller command: it is now
23099 Changes in version 0.1.2.19 - 2008-01-17
23100 Tor 0.1.2.19 fixes a huge memory leak on exit relays, makes the default
23101 exit policy a little bit more conservative so it's safer to run an
23102 exit relay on a home system, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
23105 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
23106 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
23107 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
23108 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
23109 on network address.
23112 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
23113 buckets to become negative. Fixes bug 544.
23114 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
23115 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry.
23116 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
23117 service descriptor database even when DirPort is zero.
23118 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
23119 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
23120 crashing or mis-answering these requests.
23121 - When we decide to send a 503 response to a request for servers, do
23122 not then also send the server descriptors: this defeats the whole
23123 purpose. Fixes bug 539.
23126 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
23127 rebuild our server descriptor.
23128 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
23129 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about
23130 unknown routers in a config option. (Patch from mwenge.)
23131 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
23132 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
23133 nonstandard integer types.
23134 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
23135 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
23136 - If we were having problems getting a particular descriptor from the
23137 directory caches, and then we learned about a new descriptor for
23138 that router, we weren't resetting our failure count. Reported
23140 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
23141 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out there
23142 that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such bodies
23143 when they receive them.
23144 - Run correctly on systems where rlim_t is larger than unsigned long.
23145 This includes some 64-bit systems.
23146 - Run correctly on platforms (like some versions of OS X 10.5) where
23147 the real limit for number of open files is OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max
23148 from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES).
23149 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure.
23150 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
23151 router_get_by_hexdigest().
23152 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
23153 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
23157 Changes in version 0.1.2.18 - 2007-10-28
23158 Tor 0.1.2.18 fixes many problems including crash bugs, problems with
23159 hidden service introduction that were causing huge delays, and a big
23160 bug that was causing some servers to disappear from the network status
23161 lists for a few hours each day.
23163 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
23164 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
23165 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
23166 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451:
23167 "connection_stop_writing: Assertion conn->write_event failed"
23168 Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
23169 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
23170 rend_process_relay_cell().
23172 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
23173 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
23174 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
23175 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
23176 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
23177 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
23178 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. These
23179 changes could speed up hidden service connections dramatically.
23181 o Major bugfixes (other):
23182 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we get a
23183 HUP signal. This led (in a roundabout way) to some servers getting
23184 dropped from the networkstatus lists for a few hours each day.
23185 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
23186 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
23187 circuit cannibalization).
23188 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
23189 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
23190 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
23191 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
23192 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
23193 consensus. Fixes bug 529.
23196 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
23197 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. Resolves
23199 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
23200 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is
23201 absent. Resolves bug 467.
23202 - Fix a user-triggerable segfault in expand_filename(). (There isn't
23203 a way to trigger this remotely.)
23204 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
23205 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
23206 were reporting the dir port.)
23207 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
23208 command. Bugfix on 0.1.2.17.
23209 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
23210 the future. Fixes bug 434.
23211 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
23213 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
23214 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
23215 the onion key from getting rotated.
23216 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
23217 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
23218 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
23219 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff
23220 is fishy. Resolves bug 463.
23221 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
23222 option. Patch from Robert Hogan.
23225 Changes in version 0.1.2.17 - 2007-08-30
23226 Tor 0.1.2.17 features a new Vidalia version in the Windows and OS
23227 X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for the
23228 ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
23229 security risks. Everybody who uses Vidalia (or another controller)
23232 In addition, this Tor update fixes major load balancing problems with
23233 path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many people
23236 o Major bugfixes (security):
23237 - We removed support for the old (v0) control protocol. It has been
23238 deprecated since Tor 0.1.1.1-alpha, and keeping it secure has
23239 become more of a headache than it's worth.
23241 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
23242 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
23243 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
23245 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
23246 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
23247 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
23248 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
23249 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
23250 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
23252 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
23253 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
23254 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
23255 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
23256 circuit every 15 seconds. Fixes bug 454; reported by lodger.
23258 o Minor features (controller):
23259 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
23260 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
23261 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
23262 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
23264 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
23265 - Save on most routerlist_assert_ok() calls in routerlist.c, thus
23266 greatly speeding up loading cached-routers from disk on startup.
23267 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
23268 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and now
23269 its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice powers of
23270 two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values slightly over
23271 powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
23273 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
23274 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
23275 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
23276 Based on patch from Mike Perry.
23277 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
23278 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
23279 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
23280 if we ran off the end of the list.
23281 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
23282 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
23283 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
23284 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
23285 every time we change any piece of our config.
23286 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
23287 encourage people using them to stop.
23288 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. Original patch
23290 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
23291 servers to choose a circuit.
23292 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
23293 unparseable piece of it.
23296 Changes in version 0.1.2.16 - 2007-08-01
23297 Tor 0.1.2.16 fixes a critical security vulnerability that allows a
23298 remote attacker in certain situations to rewrite the user's torrc
23299 configuration file. This can completely compromise anonymity of users
23300 in most configurations, including those running the Vidalia bundles,
23301 TorK, etc. Or worse.
23303 o Major security fixes:
23304 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
23305 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
23308 Changes in version 0.1.2.15 - 2007-07-17
23309 Tor 0.1.2.15 fixes several crash bugs, fixes some anonymity-related
23310 problems, fixes compilation on BSD, and fixes a variety of other
23311 bugs. Everybody should upgrade.
23313 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
23314 - Fix compile on FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD. Oops.
23316 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
23317 - Try even harder not to dereference the first character after
23318 an mmap(). Reported by lodger.
23319 - Fix a crash bug in directory authorities when we re-number the
23320 routerlist while inserting a new router.
23321 - When the cached-routers file is an even multiple of the page size,
23322 don't run off the end and crash. (Fixes bug 455; based on idea
23324 - Fix eventdns.c behavior on Solaris: It is critical to include
23325 orconfig.h _before_ sys/types.h, so that we can get the expected
23326 definition of _FILE_OFFSET_BITS.
23328 o Major bugfixes (security):
23329 - Fix a possible buffer overrun when using BSD natd support. Bug
23331 - When sending destroy cells from a circuit's origin, don't include
23332 the reason for tearing down the circuit. The spec says we didn't,
23333 and now we actually don't. Reported by lodger.
23334 - Keep streamids from different exits on a circuit separate. This
23335 bug may have allowed other routers on a given circuit to inject
23336 cells into streams. Reported by lodger; fixes bug 446.
23337 - If there's a never-before-connected-to guard node in our list,
23338 never choose any guards past it. This way we don't expand our
23339 guard list unless we need to.
23341 o Minor bugfixes (guard nodes):
23342 - Weight guard selection by bandwidth, so that low-bandwidth nodes
23343 don't get overused as guards.
23345 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
23346 - Correctly count the number of authorities that recommend each
23347 version. Previously, we were under-counting by 1.
23348 - Fix a potential crash bug when we load many server descriptors at
23349 once and some of them make others of them obsolete. Fixes bug 458.
23351 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
23352 - Stop tearing down the whole circuit when the user asks for a
23353 connection to a port that the hidden service didn't configure.
23356 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
23357 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
23358 cached-routers while Tor was running. Reported by janbar.
23359 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by
23360 bandwidth. Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact
23361 unlikely. Patch from lodger.
23362 - Backport a couple of memory leak fixes.
23363 - Backport miscellaneous cosmetic bugfixes.
23366 Changes in version 0.1.2.14 - 2007-05-25
23367 Tor 0.1.2.14 changes the addresses of two directory authorities (this
23368 change especially affects those who serve or use hidden services),
23369 and fixes several other crash- and security-related bugs.
23371 o Directory authority changes:
23372 - Two directory authorities (moria1 and moria2) just moved to new
23373 IP addresses. This change will particularly affect those who serve
23374 or use hidden services.
23376 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
23377 - If a directory server runs out of space in the connection table
23378 as it's processing a begin_dir request, it will free the exit stream
23379 but leave it attached to the circuit, leading to unpredictable
23380 behavior. (Reported by seeess, fixes bug 425.)
23381 - Fix a bug in dirserv_remove_invalid() that would cause authorities
23382 to corrupt memory under some really unlikely scenarios.
23383 - Tighten router parsing rules. (Bugs reported by Benedikt Boss.)
23384 - Avoid segfaults when reading from mmaped descriptor file. (Reported
23387 o Major bugfixes (security):
23388 - When choosing an entry guard for a circuit, avoid using guards
23389 that are in the same family as the chosen exit -- not just guards
23390 that are exactly the chosen exit. (Reported by lodger.)
23392 o Major bugfixes (resource management):
23393 - If a directory authority is down, skip it when deciding where to get
23394 networkstatus objects or descriptors. Otherwise we keep asking
23395 every 10 seconds forever. Fixes bug 384.
23396 - Count it as a failure if we fetch a valid network-status but we
23397 don't want to keep it. Otherwise we'll keep fetching it and keep
23398 not wanting to keep it. Fixes part of bug 422.
23399 - If all of our dirservers have given us bad or no networkstatuses
23400 lately, then stop hammering them once per minute even when we
23401 think they're failed. Fixes another part of bug 422.
23404 - Actually set the purpose correctly for descriptors inserted with
23405 purpose=controller.
23406 - When we have k non-v2 authorities in our DirServer config,
23407 we ignored the last k authorities in the list when updating our
23409 - Correctly back-off from requesting router descriptors that we are
23410 having a hard time downloading.
23411 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
23412 partial results on small file reads.
23413 - Don't rebuild the entire router store every time we get 32K of
23414 routers: rebuild it when the journal gets very large, or when
23415 the gaps in the store get very large.
23418 - When routers publish SVN revisions in their router descriptors,
23419 authorities now include those versions correctly in networkstatus
23421 - Warn when using a version of libevent before 1.3b to run a server on
23422 OSX or BSD: these versions interact badly with userspace threads.
23425 Changes in version 0.1.2.13 - 2007-04-24
23426 This release features some major anonymity fixes, such as safer path
23427 selection; better client performance; faster bootstrapping, better
23428 address detection, and better DNS support for servers; write limiting as
23429 well as read limiting to make servers easier to run; and a huge pile of
23430 other features and bug fixes. The bundles also ship with Vidalia 0.0.11.
23432 Tor 0.1.2.13 is released in memory of Rob Levin (1955-2006), aka lilo
23433 of the Freenode IRC network, remembering his patience and vision for
23434 free speech on the Internet.
23436 o Major features, client performance:
23437 - Weight directory requests by advertised bandwidth. Now we can
23438 let servers enable write limiting but still allow most clients to
23439 succeed at their directory requests. (We still ignore weights when
23440 choosing a directory authority; I hope this is a feature.)
23441 - Stop overloading exit nodes -- avoid choosing them for entry or
23442 middle hops when the total bandwidth available from non-exit nodes
23443 is much higher than the total bandwidth available from exit nodes.
23444 - Rather than waiting a fixed amount of time between retrying
23445 application connections, we wait only 10 seconds for the first,
23446 10 seconds for the second, and 15 seconds for each retry after
23447 that. Hopefully this will improve the expected user experience.
23448 - Sometimes we didn't bother sending a RELAY_END cell when an attempt
23449 to open a stream fails; now we do in more cases. This should
23450 make clients able to find a good exit faster in some cases, since
23451 unhandleable requests will now get an error rather than timing out.
23453 o Major features, client functionality:
23454 - Implement BEGIN_DIR cells, so we can connect to a directory
23455 server via TLS to do encrypted directory requests rather than
23456 plaintext. Enable via the TunnelDirConns and PreferTunneledDirConns
23457 config options if you like. For now, this feature only works if
23458 you already have a descriptor for the destination dirserver.
23459 - Add support for transparent application connections: this basically
23460 bundles the functionality of trans-proxy-tor into the Tor
23461 mainline. Now hosts with compliant pf/netfilter implementations
23462 can redirect TCP connections straight to Tor without diverting
23463 through SOCKS. (Based on patch from tup.)
23464 - Add support for using natd; this allows FreeBSDs earlier than
23465 5.1.2 to have ipfw send connections through Tor without using
23466 SOCKS. (Patch from Zajcev Evgeny with tweaks from tup.)
23468 o Major features, servers:
23469 - Setting up a dyndns name for your server is now optional: servers
23470 with no hostname or IP address will learn their IP address by
23471 asking the directory authorities. This code only kicks in when you
23472 would normally have exited with a "no address" error. Nothing's
23473 authenticated, so use with care.
23474 - Directory servers now spool server descriptors, v1 directories,
23475 and v2 networkstatus objects to buffers as needed rather than en
23476 masse. They also mmap the cached-routers files. These steps save
23478 - Stop requiring clients to have well-formed certificates, and stop
23479 checking nicknames in certificates. (Clients have certificates so
23480 that they can look like Tor servers, but in the future we might want
23481 to allow them to look like regular TLS clients instead. Nicknames
23482 in certificates serve no purpose other than making our protocol
23483 easier to recognize on the wire.) Implements proposal 106.
23485 o Improvements on DNS support:
23486 - Add "eventdns" asynchronous dns library originally based on code
23487 from Adam Langley. Now we can discard the old rickety dnsworker
23488 concept, and support a wider variety of DNS functions. Allows
23489 multithreaded builds on NetBSD and OpenBSD again.
23490 - Add server-side support for "reverse" DNS lookups (using PTR
23491 records so clients can determine the canonical hostname for a given
23492 IPv4 address). Only supported by servers using eventdns; servers
23493 now announce in their descriptors if they don't support eventdns.
23494 - Workaround for name servers (like Earthlink's) that hijack failing
23495 DNS requests and replace the no-such-server answer with a "helpful"
23496 redirect to an advertising-driven search portal. Also work around
23497 DNS hijackers who "helpfully" decline to hijack known-invalid
23498 RFC2606 addresses. Config option "ServerDNSDetectHijacking 0"
23499 lets you turn it off.
23500 - Servers now check for the case when common DNS requests are going to
23501 wildcarded addresses (i.e. all getting the same answer), and change
23502 their exit policy to reject *:* if it's happening.
23503 - When asked to resolve a hostname, don't use non-exit servers unless
23504 requested to do so. This allows servers with broken DNS to be
23505 useful to the network.
23506 - Start passing "ipv4" hints to getaddrinfo(), so servers don't do
23507 useless IPv6 DNS resolves.
23508 - Specify and implement client-side SOCKS5 interface for reverse DNS
23509 lookups (see doc/socks-extensions.txt). Also cache them.
23510 - When we change nameservers or IP addresses, reset and re-launch
23511 our tests for DNS hijacking.
23513 o Improvements on reachability testing:
23514 - Servers send out a burst of long-range padding cells once they've
23515 established that they're reachable. Spread them over 4 circuits,
23516 so hopefully a few will be fast. This exercises bandwidth and
23517 bootstraps them into the directory more quickly.
23518 - When we find our DirPort to be reachable, publish a new descriptor
23519 so we'll tell the world (reported by pnx).
23520 - Directory authorities now only decide that routers are reachable
23521 if their identity keys are as expected.
23522 - Do DirPort reachability tests less often, since a single test
23523 chews through many circuits before giving up.
23524 - Avoid some false positives during reachability testing: don't try
23525 to test via a server that's on the same /24 network as us.
23526 - Start publishing one minute or so after we find our ORPort
23527 to be reachable. This will help reduce the number of descriptors
23528 we have for ourselves floating around, since it's quite likely
23529 other things (e.g. DirPort) will change during that minute too.
23530 - Routers no longer try to rebuild long-term connections to directory
23531 authorities, and directory authorities no longer try to rebuild
23532 long-term connections to all servers. We still don't hang up
23533 connections in these two cases though -- we need to look at it
23534 more carefully to avoid flapping, and we likely need to wait til
23535 0.1.1.x is obsolete.
23537 o Improvements on rate limiting:
23538 - Enable write limiting as well as read limiting. Now we sacrifice
23539 capacity if we're pushing out lots of directory traffic, rather
23540 than overrunning the user's intended bandwidth limits.
23541 - Include TLS overhead when counting bandwidth usage; previously, we
23542 would count only the bytes sent over TLS, but not the bytes used
23544 - Servers decline directory requests much more aggressively when
23545 they're low on bandwidth. Otherwise they end up queueing more and
23546 more directory responses, which can't be good for latency.
23547 - But never refuse directory requests from local addresses.
23548 - Be willing to read or write on local connections (e.g. controller
23549 connections) even when the global rate limiting buckets are empty.
23550 - Flush local controller connection buffers periodically as we're
23551 writing to them, so we avoid queueing 4+ megabytes of data before
23553 - Revise and clean up the torrc.sample that we ship with; add
23554 a section for BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst.
23556 o Major features, NT services:
23557 - Install as NT_AUTHORITY\LocalService rather than as SYSTEM; add a
23558 command-line flag so that admins can override the default by saying
23559 "tor --service install --user "SomeUser"". This will not affect
23560 existing installed services. Also, warn the user that the service
23561 will look for its configuration file in the service user's
23562 %appdata% directory. (We can't do the "hardwire the user's appdata
23563 directory" trick any more, since we may not have read access to that
23565 - Support running the Tor service with a torrc not in the same
23566 directory as tor.exe and default to using the torrc located in
23567 the %appdata%\Tor\ of the user who installed the service. Patch
23569 - Add an --ignore-missing-torrc command-line option so that we can
23570 get the "use sensible defaults if the configuration file doesn't
23571 exist" behavior even when specifying a torrc location on the
23573 - When stopping an NT service, wait up to 10 sec for it to actually
23574 stop. (Patch from Matt Edman; resolves bug 295.)
23576 o Directory authority improvements:
23577 - Stop letting hibernating or obsolete servers affect uptime and
23579 - Stop listing hibernating servers in the v1 directory.
23580 - Authorities no longer recommend exits as guards if this would shift
23581 too much load to the exit nodes.
23582 - Authorities now specify server versions in networkstatus. This adds
23583 about 2% to the size of compressed networkstatus docs, and allows
23584 clients to tell which servers support BEGIN_DIR and which don't.
23585 The implementation is forward-compatible with a proposed future
23586 protocol version scheme not tied to Tor versions.
23587 - DirServer configuration lines now have an orport= option so
23588 clients can open encrypted tunnels to the authorities without
23589 having downloaded their descriptors yet. Enabled for moria1,
23590 moria2, tor26, and lefkada now in the default configuration.
23591 - Add a BadDirectory flag to network status docs so that authorities
23592 can (eventually) tell clients about caches they believe to be
23593 broken. Not used yet.
23594 - Allow authorities to list nodes as bad exits in their
23595 approved-routers file by fingerprint or by address. If most
23596 authorities set a BadExit flag for a server, clients don't think
23597 of it as a general-purpose exit. Clients only consider authorities
23598 that advertise themselves as listing bad exits.
23599 - Patch from Steve Hildrey: Generate network status correctly on
23600 non-versioning dirservers.
23601 - Have directory authorities allow larger amounts of drift in uptime
23602 without replacing the server descriptor: previously, a server that
23603 restarted every 30 minutes could have 48 "interesting" descriptors
23605 - Reserve the nickname "Unnamed" for routers that can't pick
23606 a hostname: any router can call itself Unnamed; directory
23607 authorities will never allocate Unnamed to any particular router;
23608 clients won't believe that any router is the canonical Unnamed.
23610 o Directory mirrors and clients:
23611 - Discard any v1 directory info that's over 1 month old (for
23612 directories) or over 1 week old (for running-routers lists).
23613 - Clients track responses with status 503 from dirservers. After a
23614 dirserver has given us a 503, we try not to use it until an hour has
23615 gone by, or until we have no dirservers that haven't given us a 503.
23616 - When we get a 503 from a directory, and we're not a server, we no
23617 longer count the failure against the total number of failures
23618 allowed for the object we're trying to download.
23619 - Prepare for servers to publish descriptors less often: never
23620 discard a descriptor simply for being too old until either it is
23621 recommended by no authorities, or until we get a better one for
23622 the same router. Make caches consider retaining old recommended
23623 routers for even longer.
23624 - Directory servers now provide 'Pragma: no-cache' and 'Expires'
23625 headers for content, so that we can work better in the presence of
23626 caching HTTP proxies.
23627 - Stop fetching descriptors if you're not a dir mirror and you
23628 haven't tried to establish any circuits lately. (This currently
23629 causes some dangerous behavior, because when you start up again
23630 you'll use your ancient server descriptors.)
23632 o Major fixes, crashes:
23633 - Stop crashing when the controller asks us to resetconf more than
23634 one config option at once. (Vidalia 0.0.11 does this.)
23635 - Fix a longstanding obscure crash bug that could occur when we run
23636 out of DNS worker processes, if we're not using eventdns. (Resolves
23638 - Fix an assert that could trigger if a controller quickly set then
23639 cleared EntryNodes. (Bug found by Udo van den Heuvel.)
23640 - Avoid crash when telling controller about stream-status and a
23641 stream is detached.
23642 - Avoid sending junk to controllers or segfaulting when a controller
23643 uses EVENT_NEW_DESC with verbose nicknames.
23644 - Stop triggering asserts if the controller tries to extend hidden
23645 service circuits (reported by mwenge).
23646 - If we start a server with ClientOnly 1, then set ClientOnly to 0
23647 and hup, stop triggering an assert based on an empty onion_key.
23648 - Mask out all signals in sub-threads; only the libevent signal
23649 handler should be processing them. This should prevent some crashes
23650 on some machines using pthreads. (Patch from coderman.)
23651 - Disable kqueue on OS X 10.3 and earlier, to fix bug 371.
23653 o Major fixes, anonymity/security:
23654 - Automatically avoid picking more than one node from the same
23655 /16 network when constructing a circuit. Add an
23656 "EnforceDistinctSubnets" option to let people disable it if they
23657 want to operate private test networks on a single subnet.
23658 - When generating bandwidth history, round down to the nearest
23659 1k. When storing accounting data, round up to the nearest 1k.
23660 - When we're running as a server, remember when we last rotated onion
23661 keys, so that we will rotate keys once they're a week old even if
23662 we never stay up for a week ourselves.
23663 - If a client asked for a server by name, and there's a named server
23664 in our network-status but we don't have its descriptor yet, we
23665 could return an unnamed server instead.
23666 - Reject (most) attempts to use Tor circuits with length one. (If
23667 many people start using Tor as a one-hop proxy, exit nodes become
23668 a more attractive target for compromise.)
23669 - Just because your DirPort is open doesn't mean people should be
23670 able to remotely teach you about hidden service descriptors. Now
23671 only accept rendezvous posts if you've got HSAuthoritativeDir set.
23672 - Fix a potential race condition in the rpm installer. Found by
23674 - Do not log IPs with TLS failures for incoming TLS
23675 connections. (Fixes bug 382.)
23677 o Major fixes, other:
23678 - If our system clock jumps back in time, don't publish a negative
23679 uptime in the descriptor.
23680 - When we start during an accounting interval before it's time to wake
23681 up, remember to wake up at the correct time. (May fix bug 342.)
23682 - Previously, we would cache up to 16 old networkstatus documents
23683 indefinitely, if they came from nontrusted authorities. Now we
23684 discard them if they are more than 10 days old.
23685 - When we have a state file we cannot parse, tell the user and
23686 move it aside. Now we avoid situations where the user starts
23687 Tor in 1904, Tor writes a state file with that timestamp in it,
23688 the user fixes her clock, and Tor refuses to start.
23689 - Publish a new descriptor after we hup/reload. This is important
23690 if our config has changed such that we'll want to start advertising
23691 our DirPort now, etc.
23692 - If we are using an exit enclave and we can't connect, e.g. because
23693 its webserver is misconfigured to not listen on localhost, then
23694 back off and try connecting from somewhere else before we fail.
23696 o New config options or behaviors:
23697 - When EntryNodes are configured, rebuild the guard list to contain,
23698 in order: the EntryNodes that were guards before; the rest of the
23699 EntryNodes; the nodes that were guards before.
23700 - Do not warn when individual nodes in the configuration's EntryNodes,
23701 ExitNodes, etc are down: warn only when all possible nodes
23702 are down. (Fixes bug 348.)
23703 - Put a lower-bound on MaxAdvertisedBandwidth.
23704 - Start using the state file to store bandwidth accounting data:
23705 the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. We'll keep generating it
23706 for a while for people who are still using 0.1.2.4-alpha.
23707 - Try to batch changes to the state file so that we do as few
23708 disk writes as possible while still storing important things in
23710 - The state file and the bw_accounting file get saved less often when
23711 the AvoidDiskWrites config option is set.
23712 - Make PIDFile work on Windows.
23713 - Add internal descriptions for a bunch of configuration options:
23714 accessible via controller interface and in comments in saved
23716 - Reject *:563 (NNTPS) in the default exit policy. We already reject
23717 NNTP by default, so this seems like a sensible addition.
23718 - Clients now reject hostnames with invalid characters. This should
23719 avoid some inadvertent info leaks. Add an option
23720 AllowNonRFC953Hostnames to disable this behavior, in case somebody
23721 is running a private network with hosts called @, !, and #.
23722 - Check for addresses with invalid characters at the exit as well,
23723 and warn less verbosely when they fail. You can override this by
23724 setting ServerDNSAllowNonRFC953Addresses to 1.
23725 - Remove some options that have been deprecated since at least
23726 0.1.0.x: AccountingMaxKB, LogFile, DebugLogFile, LogLevel, and
23727 SysLog. Use AccountingMax instead of AccountingMaxKB, and use Log
23728 to set log options. Mark PathlenCoinWeight as obsolete.
23729 - Stop accepting certain malformed ports in configured exit policies.
23730 - When the user uses bad syntax in the Log config line, stop
23731 suggesting other bad syntax as a replacement.
23732 - Add new config option "ResolvConf" to let the server operator
23733 choose an alternate resolve.conf file when using eventdns.
23734 - If one of our entry guards is on the ExcludeNodes list, or the
23735 directory authorities don't think it's a good guard, treat it as
23736 if it were unlisted: stop using it as a guard, and throw it off
23737 the guards list if it stays that way for a long time.
23738 - Allow directory authorities to be marked separately as authorities
23739 for the v1 directory protocol, the v2 directory protocol, and
23740 as hidden service directories, to make it easier to retire old
23741 authorities. V1 authorities should set "HSAuthoritativeDir 1"
23742 to continue being hidden service authorities too.
23743 - Remove 8888 as a LongLivedPort, and add 6697 (IRCS).
23744 - Make TrackExitHosts case-insensitive, and fix the behavior of
23745 ".suffix" TrackExitHosts items to avoid matching in the middle of
23747 - New DirPort behavior: if you have your dirport set, you download
23748 descriptors aggressively like a directory mirror, whether or not
23749 your ORPort is set.
23752 - Create a new file ReleaseNotes which was the old ChangeLog. The
23753 new ChangeLog file now includes the notes for all development
23755 - Add a new address-spec.txt document to describe our special-case
23756 addresses: .exit, .onion, and .noconnnect.
23757 - Fork the v1 directory protocol into its own spec document,
23758 and mark dir-spec.txt as the currently correct (v2) spec.
23760 o Packaging, porting, and contrib
23761 - "tor --verify-config" now exits with -1(255) or 0 depending on
23762 whether the config options are bad or good.
23763 - The Debian package now uses --verify-config when (re)starting,
23764 to distinguish configuration errors from other errors.
23765 - Adapt a patch from goodell to let the contrib/exitlist script
23766 take arguments rather than require direct editing.
23767 - Prevent the contrib/exitlist script from printing the same
23768 result more than once.
23769 - Add support to tor-resolve tool for reverse lookups and SOCKS5.
23770 - In the hidden service example in torrc.sample, stop recommending
23771 esoteric and discouraged hidden service options.
23772 - Patch from Michael Mohr to contrib/cross.sh, so it checks more
23773 values before failing, and always enables eventdns.
23774 - Try to detect Windows correctly when cross-compiling.
23775 - Libevent-1.2 exports, but does not define in its headers, strlcpy.
23776 Try to fix this in configure.in by checking for most functions
23777 before we check for libevent.
23778 - Update RPMs to require libevent 1.2.
23779 - Experimentally re-enable kqueue on OSX when using libevent 1.1b
23780 or later. Log when we are doing this, so we can diagnose it when
23781 it fails. (Also, recommend libevent 1.1b for kqueue and
23782 win32 methods; deprecate libevent 1.0b harder; make libevent
23783 recommendation system saner.)
23784 - Build with recent (1.3+) libevents on platforms that do not
23785 define the nonstandard types "u_int8_t" and friends.
23786 - Remove architecture from OS X builds. The official builds are
23787 now universal binaries.
23788 - Run correctly on OS X platforms with case-sensitive filesystems.
23789 - Correctly set maximum connection limit on Cygwin. (This time
23791 - Start compiling on MinGW on Windows (patches from Mike Chiussi
23793 - Start compiling on MSVC6 on Windows (patches from Frediano Ziglio).
23794 - Finally fix the openssl warnings from newer gccs that believe that
23795 ignoring a return value is okay, but casting a return value and
23796 then ignoring it is a sign of madness.
23797 - On architectures where sizeof(int)>4, still clamp declarable
23798 bandwidth to INT32_MAX.
23800 o Minor features, controller:
23801 - Warn the user when an application uses the obsolete binary v0
23802 control protocol. We're planning to remove support for it during
23803 the next development series, so it's good to give people some
23805 - Add STREAM_BW events to report per-entry-stream bandwidth
23806 use. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
23807 - Rate-limit SIGNEWNYM signals in response to controllers that
23808 impolitely generate them for every single stream. (Patch from
23809 mwenge; closes bug 394.)
23810 - Add a REMAP status to stream events to note that a stream's
23811 address has changed because of a cached address or a MapAddress
23813 - Make REMAP stream events have a SOURCE (cache or exit), and
23814 make them generated in every case where we get a successful
23815 connected or resolved cell.
23816 - Track reasons for OR connection failure; make these reasons
23817 available via the controller interface. (Patch from Mike Perry.)
23818 - Add a SOCKS_BAD_HOSTNAME client status event so controllers
23819 can learn when clients are sending malformed hostnames to Tor.
23820 - Specify and implement some of the controller status events.
23821 - Have GETINFO dir/status/* work on hosts with DirPort disabled.
23822 - Reimplement GETINFO so that info/names stays in sync with the
23824 - Implement "GETINFO fingerprint".
23825 - Implement "SETEVENTS GUARD" so controllers can get updates on
23826 entry guard status as it changes.
23827 - Make all connections to addresses of the form ".noconnect"
23828 immediately get closed. This lets application/controller combos
23829 successfully test whether they're talking to the same Tor by
23830 watching for STREAM events.
23831 - Add a REASON field to CIRC events; for backward compatibility, this
23832 field is sent only to controllers that have enabled the extended
23833 event format. Also, add additional reason codes to explain why
23834 a given circuit has been destroyed or truncated. (Patches from
23836 - Add a REMOTE_REASON field to extended CIRC events to tell the
23837 controller why a remote OR told us to close a circuit.
23838 - Stream events also now have REASON and REMOTE_REASON fields,
23839 working much like those for circuit events.
23840 - There's now a GETINFO ns/... field so that controllers can ask Tor
23841 about the current status of a router.
23842 - A new event type "NS" to inform a controller when our opinion of
23843 a router's status has changed.
23844 - Add a GETINFO events/names and GETINFO features/names so controllers
23845 can tell which events and features are supported.
23846 - A new CLEARDNSCACHE signal to allow controllers to clear the
23847 client-side DNS cache without expiring circuits.
23848 - Fix CIRC controller events so that controllers can learn the
23849 identity digests of non-Named servers used in circuit paths.
23850 - Let controllers ask for more useful identifiers for servers. Instead
23851 of learning identity digests for un-Named servers and nicknames
23852 for Named servers, the new identifiers include digest, nickname,
23853 and indication of Named status. Off by default; see control-spec.txt
23854 for more information.
23855 - Add a "getinfo address" controller command so it can display Tor's
23856 best guess to the user.
23857 - New controller event to alert the controller when our server
23858 descriptor has changed.
23859 - Give more meaningful errors on controller authentication failure.
23860 - Export the default exit policy via the control port, so controllers
23861 don't need to guess what it is / will be later.
23863 o Minor bugfixes, controller:
23864 - When creating a circuit via the controller, send a 'launched'
23865 event when we're done, so we follow the spec better.
23866 - Correct the control spec to match how the code actually responds
23867 to 'getinfo addr-mappings/*'. Reported by daejees.
23868 - The control spec described a GUARDS event, but the code
23869 implemented a GUARD event. Standardize on GUARD, but let people
23870 ask for GUARDS too. Reported by daejees.
23871 - Give the controller END_STREAM_REASON_DESTROY events _before_ we
23872 clear the corresponding on_circuit variable, and remember later
23873 that we don't need to send a redundant CLOSED event. (Resolves part
23875 - Report events where a resolve succeeded or where we got a socks
23876 protocol error correctly, rather than calling both of them
23878 - Change reported stream target addresses to IP consistently when
23879 we finally get the IP from an exit node.
23880 - Send log messages to the controller even if they happen to be very
23882 - Flush ERR-level controller status events just like we currently
23883 flush ERR-level log events, so that a Tor shutdown doesn't prevent
23884 the controller from learning about current events.
23885 - Report the circuit number correctly in STREAM CLOSED events. Bug
23886 reported by Mike Perry.
23887 - Do not report bizarre values for results of accounting GETINFOs
23888 when the last second's write or read exceeds the allotted bandwidth.
23889 - Report "unrecognized key" rather than an empty string when the
23890 controller tries to fetch a networkstatus that doesn't exist.
23891 - When the controller does a "GETINFO network-status", tell it
23892 about even those routers whose descriptors are very old, and use
23893 long nicknames where appropriate.
23894 - Fix handling of verbose nicknames with ORCONN controller events:
23895 make them show up exactly when requested, rather than exactly when
23897 - Controller signals now work on non-Unix platforms that don't define
23898 SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 the way we expect.
23899 - Respond to SIGNAL command before we execute the signal, in case
23900 the signal shuts us down. Suggested by Karsten Loesing.
23901 - Handle reporting OR_CONN_EVENT_NEW events to the controller.
23903 o Minor features, code performance:
23904 - Major performance improvement on inserting descriptors: change
23905 algorithm from O(n^2) to O(n).
23906 - Do not rotate onion key immediately after setting it for the first
23908 - Call router_have_min_dir_info half as often. (This is showing up in
23909 some profiles, but not others.)
23910 - When using GCC, make log_debug never get called at all, and its
23911 arguments never get evaluated, when no debug logs are configured.
23912 (This is showing up in some profiles, but not others.)
23913 - Statistics dumped by -USR2 now include a breakdown of public key
23914 operations, for profiling.
23915 - Make the common memory allocation path faster on machines where
23916 malloc(0) returns a pointer.
23917 - Split circuit_t into origin_circuit_t and or_circuit_t, and
23918 split connection_t into edge, or, dir, control, and base structs.
23919 These will save quite a bit of memory on busy servers, and they'll
23920 also help us track down bugs in the code and bugs in the spec.
23921 - Use OpenSSL's AES implementation on platforms where it's faster.
23922 This could save us as much as 10% CPU usage.
23924 o Minor features, descriptors and descriptor handling:
23925 - Avoid duplicate entries on MyFamily line in server descriptor.
23926 - When Tor receives a router descriptor that it asked for, but
23927 no longer wants (because it has received fresh networkstatuses
23928 in the meantime), do not warn the user. Cache the descriptor if
23929 we're a cache; drop it if we aren't.
23930 - Servers no longer ever list themselves in their "family" line,
23931 even if configured to do so. This makes it easier to configure
23932 family lists conveniently.
23934 o Minor fixes, confusing/misleading log messages:
23935 - Display correct results when reporting which versions are
23936 recommended, and how recommended they are. (Resolves bug 383.)
23937 - Inform the server operator when we decide not to advertise a
23938 DirPort due to AccountingMax enabled or a low BandwidthRate.
23939 - Only include function names in log messages for info/debug messages.
23940 For notice/warn/err, the content of the message should be clear on
23941 its own, and printing the function name only confuses users.
23942 - Remove even more protocol-related warnings from Tor server logs,
23943 such as bad TLS handshakes and malformed begin cells.
23944 - Fix bug 314: Tor clients issued "unsafe socks" warnings even
23945 when the IP address is mapped through MapAddress to a hostname.
23946 - Fix misleading log messages: an entry guard that is "unlisted",
23947 as well as not known to be "down" (because we've never heard
23948 of it), is not therefore "up".
23950 o Minor fixes, old/obsolete behavior:
23951 - Start assuming we can use a create_fast cell if we don't know
23952 what version a router is running.
23953 - We no longer look for identity and onion keys in "identity.key" and
23954 "onion.key" -- these were replaced by secret_id_key and
23955 secret_onion_key in 0.0.8pre1.
23956 - We no longer require unrecognized directory entries to be
23958 - Drop compatibility with obsolete Tors that permit create cells
23959 to have the wrong circ_id_type.
23960 - Remove code to special-case "-cvs" ending, since it has not
23961 actually mattered since 0.0.9.
23962 - Don't re-write the fingerprint file every restart, unless it has
23965 o Minor fixes, misc client-side behavior:
23966 - Always remove expired routers and networkstatus docs before checking
23967 whether we have enough information to build circuits. (Fixes
23969 - When computing clock skew from directory HTTP headers, consider what
23970 time it was when we finished asking for the directory, not what
23972 - Make our socks5 handling more robust to broken socks clients:
23973 throw out everything waiting on the buffer in between socks
23974 handshake phases, since they can't possibly (so the theory
23975 goes) have predicted what we plan to respond to them.
23976 - Expire socks connections if they spend too long waiting for the
23977 handshake to finish. Previously we would let them sit around for
23978 days, if the connecting application didn't close them either.
23979 - And if the socks handshake hasn't started, don't send a
23980 "DNS resolve socks failed" handshake reply; just close it.
23981 - If the user asks to use invalid exit nodes, be willing to use
23983 - Track unreachable entry guards correctly: don't conflate
23984 'unreachable by us right now' with 'listed as down by the directory
23985 authorities'. With the old code, if a guard was unreachable by us
23986 but listed as running, it would clog our guard list forever.
23987 - Behave correctly in case we ever have a network with more than
23988 2GB/s total advertised capacity.
23989 - Claim a commonname of Tor, rather than TOR, in TLS handshakes.
23990 - Fix a memory leak when we ask for "all" networkstatuses and we
23991 get one we don't recognize.
23994 Changes in version 0.1.1.26 - 2006-12-14
23995 o Security bugfixes:
23996 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
23997 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
23998 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
23999 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
24003 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
24004 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
24005 unlisted router (reported by seeess).
24008 Changes in version 0.1.1.25 - 2006-11-04
24010 - When a client asks us to resolve (rather than connect to)
24011 an address, and we have a cached answer, give them the cached
24012 answer. Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
24013 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we predict
24014 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
24015 its circuits on demand.
24016 - If none of our live entry guards have a high uptime, but we
24017 require a guard with a high uptime, try adding a new guard before
24018 we give up on the requirement. This patch should make long-lived
24019 connections more stable on average.
24020 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
24021 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
24022 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
24024 o Security bugfixes:
24025 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
24026 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
24029 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
24031 - Avoid possibility of controller-triggered crash when misusing
24032 certain commands from a v0 controller on platforms that do not
24033 handle printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
24034 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
24035 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
24036 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
24037 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
24038 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
24041 Changes in version 0.1.1.24 - 2006-09-29
24043 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
24044 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
24045 - Fix major performance regression from 0.1.0.x: instead of checking
24046 whether we have enough directory information every time we want to
24047 do something, only check when the directory information has changed.
24048 This should improve client CPU usage by 25-50%.
24049 - Don't crash if, after a server has been running for a while,
24050 it can't resolve its hostname.
24051 - When a client asks us to resolve (not connect to) an address,
24052 and we have a cached answer, give them the cached answer.
24053 Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
24056 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
24057 - Don't crash when the controller receives a third argument to an
24058 "extendcircuit" request.
24059 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
24060 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
24061 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
24062 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
24064 - Fix security bug on NetBSD that could allow someone to force
24065 uninitialized RAM to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This
24066 only affects NetBSD and other platforms that do not bounds-check
24068 - Warn user when using libevent 1.1a or earlier with win32 or kqueue
24069 methods: these are known to be buggy.
24070 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
24071 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
24072 we don't recognize.
24075 Changes in version 0.1.1.23 - 2006-07-30
24077 - Fast Tor servers, especially exit nodes, were triggering asserts
24078 due to a bug in handling the list of pending DNS resolves. Some
24079 bugs still remain here; we're hunting them.
24080 - Entry guards could crash clients by sending unexpected input.
24081 - More fixes on reachability testing: if you find yourself reachable,
24082 then don't ever make any client requests (so you stop predicting
24083 circuits), then hup or have your clock jump, then later your IP
24084 changes, you won't think circuits are working, so you won't try to
24085 test reachability, so you won't publish.
24088 - Avoid a crash if the controller does a resetconf firewallports
24089 and then a setconf fascistfirewall=1.
24090 - Avoid an integer underflow when the dir authority decides whether
24091 a router is stable: we might wrongly label it stable, and compute
24092 a slightly wrong median stability, when a descriptor is published
24094 - Fix a place where we might trigger an assert if we can't build our
24095 own server descriptor yet.
24098 Changes in version 0.1.1.22 - 2006-07-05
24100 - Fix a big bug that was causing servers to not find themselves
24101 reachable if they changed IP addresses. Since only 0.1.1.22+
24102 servers can do reachability testing correctly, now we automatically
24103 make sure to test via one of these.
24104 - Fix to allow clients and mirrors to learn directory info from
24105 descriptor downloads that get cut off partway through.
24106 - Directory authorities had a bug in deciding if a newly published
24107 descriptor was novel enough to make everybody want a copy -- a few
24108 servers seem to be publishing new descriptors many times a minute.
24110 - Fix a rare bug that was causing some servers to complain about
24111 "closing wedged cpuworkers" and skip some circuit create requests.
24112 - Make the Exit flag in directory status documents actually work.
24115 Changes in version 0.1.1.21 - 2006-06-10
24116 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.1.20:
24117 - Fix a rare crash on Tor servers that have enabled hibernation.
24118 - Fix a seg fault on startup for Tor networks that use only one
24119 directory authority.
24120 - Fix an assert from a race condition that occurs on Tor servers
24121 while exiting, where various threads are trying to log that they're
24122 exiting, and delete the logs, at the same time.
24123 - Make our unit tests pass again on certain obscure platforms.
24126 - Add support for building SUSE RPM packages.
24127 - Speed up initial bootstrapping for clients: if we are making our
24128 first ever connection to any entry guard, then don't mark it down
24130 - When only one Tor server in the network is labelled as a guard,
24131 and we've already picked him, we would cycle endlessly picking him
24132 again, being unhappy about it, etc. Now we specifically exclude
24133 current guards when picking a new guard.
24134 - Servers send create cells more reliably after the TLS connection
24135 is established: we were sometimes forgetting to send half of them
24136 when we had more than one pending.
24137 - If we get a create cell that asks us to extend somewhere, but the
24138 Tor server there doesn't match the expected digest, we now send
24139 a destroy cell back, rather than silently doing nothing.
24140 - Make options->RedirectExit work again.
24141 - Make cookie authentication for the controller work again.
24142 - Stop being picky about unusual characters in the arguments to
24143 mapaddress. It's none of our business.
24144 - Add a new config option "TestVia" that lets you specify preferred
24145 middle hops to use for test circuits. Perhaps this will let me
24146 debug the reachability problems better.
24148 o Log / documentation fixes:
24149 - If we're a server and some peer has a broken TLS certificate, don't
24150 log about it unless ProtocolWarnings is set, i.e., we want to hear
24151 about protocol violations by others.
24152 - Fix spelling of VirtualAddrNetwork in man page.
24153 - Add a better explanation at the top of the autogenerated torrc file
24154 about what happened to our old torrc.
24157 Changes in version 0.1.1.20 - 2006-05-23
24158 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.0.17:
24159 - Fix assert bug in close_logs() on exit: when we close and delete
24160 logs, remove them all from the global "logfiles" list.
24161 - Fix an assert error when we're out of space in the connection_list
24162 and we try to post a hidden service descriptor (reported by Peter
24164 - Fix a rare assert error when we've tried all intro points for
24165 a hidden service and we try fetching the service descriptor again:
24166 "Assertion conn->state != AP_CONN_STATE_RENDDESC_WAIT failed".
24167 - Setconf SocksListenAddress kills Tor if it fails to bind. Now back
24168 out and refuse the setconf if it would fail.
24169 - If you specify a relative torrc path and you set RunAsDaemon in
24170 your torrc, then it chdir()'s to the new directory. If you then
24171 HUP, it tries to load the new torrc location, fails, and exits.
24172 The fix: no longer allow a relative path to torrc when using -f.
24173 - Check for integer overflows in more places, when adding elements
24174 to smartlists. This could possibly prevent a buffer overflow
24175 on malicious huge inputs.
24177 o Security fixes, major:
24178 - When we're printing strings from the network, don't try to print
24179 non-printable characters. Now we're safer against shell escape
24180 sequence exploits, and also against attacks to fool users into
24181 misreading their logs.
24182 - Implement entry guards: automatically choose a handful of entry
24183 nodes and stick with them for all circuits. Only pick new guards
24184 when the ones you have are unsuitable, and if the old guards
24185 become suitable again, switch back. This will increase security
24186 dramatically against certain end-point attacks. The EntryNodes
24187 config option now provides some hints about which entry guards you
24188 want to use most; and StrictEntryNodes means to only use those.
24189 Fixes CVE-2006-0414.
24190 - Implement exit enclaves: if we know an IP address for the
24191 destination, and there's a running Tor server at that address
24192 which allows exit to the destination, then extend the circuit to
24193 that exit first. This provides end-to-end encryption and end-to-end
24194 authentication. Also, if the user wants a .exit address or enclave,
24195 use 4 hops rather than 3, and cannibalize a general circ for it
24197 - Obey our firewall options more faithfully:
24198 . If we can't get to a dirserver directly, try going via Tor.
24199 . Don't ever try to connect (as a client) to a place our
24200 firewall options forbid.
24201 . If we specify a proxy and also firewall options, obey the
24202 firewall options even when we're using the proxy: some proxies
24203 can only proxy to certain destinations.
24204 - Make clients regenerate their keys when their IP address changes.
24205 - For the OS X package's modified privoxy config file, comment
24206 out the "logfile" line so we don't log everything passed
24208 - Our TLS handshakes were generating a single public/private
24209 keypair for the TLS context, rather than making a new one for
24210 each new connection. Oops. (But we were still rotating them
24211 periodically, so it's not so bad.)
24212 - When we were cannibalizing a circuit with a particular exit
24213 node in mind, we weren't checking to see if that exit node was
24214 already present earlier in the circuit. Now we are.
24215 - Require server descriptors to list IPv4 addresses -- hostnames
24216 are no longer allowed. This also fixes potential vulnerabilities
24217 to servers providing hostnames as their address and then
24218 preferentially resolving them so they can partition users.
24219 - Our logic to decide if the OR we connected to was the right guy
24220 was brittle and maybe open to a mitm for invalid routers.
24222 o Security fixes, minor:
24223 - Adjust tor-spec.txt to parameterize cell and key lengths. Now
24224 Ian Goldberg can prove things about our handshake protocol more
24226 - Make directory authorities generate a separate "guard" flag to
24227 mean "would make a good entry guard". Clients now honor the
24228 is_guard flag rather than looking at is_fast or is_stable.
24229 - Try to list MyFamily elements by key, not by nickname, and warn
24230 if we've not heard of a server.
24231 - Start using RAND_bytes rather than RAND_pseudo_bytes from
24232 OpenSSL. Also, reseed our entropy every hour, not just at
24233 startup. And add entropy in 512-bit chunks, not 160-bit chunks.
24234 - Refuse server descriptors where the fingerprint line doesn't match
24235 the included identity key. Tor doesn't care, but other apps (and
24236 humans) might actually be trusting the fingerprint line.
24237 - We used to kill the circuit when we receive a relay command we
24238 don't recognize. Now we just drop that cell.
24239 - Fix a bug found by Lasse Overlier: when we were making internal
24240 circuits (intended to be cannibalized later for rendezvous and
24241 introduction circuits), we were picking them so that they had
24242 useful exit nodes. There was no need for this, and it actually
24243 aids some statistical attacks.
24244 - Start treating internal circuits and exit circuits separately.
24245 It's important to keep them separate because internal circuits
24246 have their last hops picked like middle hops, rather than like
24247 exit hops. So exiting on them will break the user's expectations.
24248 - Fix a possible way to DoS dirservers.
24249 - When the client asked for a rendezvous port that the hidden
24250 service didn't want to provide, we were sending an IP address
24251 back along with the end cell. Fortunately, it was zero. But stop
24254 o Packaging improvements:
24255 - Implement --with-libevent-dir option to ./configure. Improve
24256 search techniques to find libevent, and use those for openssl too.
24257 - Fix a couple of bugs in OpenSSL detection. Deal better when
24258 there are multiple SSLs installed with different versions.
24259 - Avoid warnings about machine/limits.h on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.
24260 - On non-gcc compilers (e.g. Solaris's cc), use "-g -O" instead of
24262 - Make unit tests (and other invocations that aren't the real Tor)
24263 run without launching listeners, creating subdirectories, and so on.
24264 - The OS X installer was adding a symlink for tor_resolve but
24265 the binary was called tor-resolve (reported by Thomas Hardly).
24266 - Now we can target arch and OS in rpm builds (contributed by
24267 Phobos). Also make the resulting dist-rpm filename match the
24269 - Apply Matt Ghali's --with-syslog-facility patch to ./configure
24270 if you log to syslog and want something other than LOG_DAEMON.
24271 - Fix the torify (tsocks) config file to not use Tor for localhost
24273 - Start shipping socks-extensions.txt, tor-doc-unix.html,
24274 tor-doc-server.html, and stylesheet.css in the tarball.
24275 - Stop shipping tor-doc.html, INSTALL, and README in the tarball.
24276 They are useless now.
24277 - Add Peter Palfrader's contributed check-tor script. It lets you
24278 easily check whether a given server (referenced by nickname)
24279 is reachable by you.
24280 - Add BSD-style contributed startup script "rc.subr" from Peter
24283 o Directory improvements -- new directory protocol:
24284 - See tor/doc/dir-spec.txt for all the juicy details. Key points:
24285 - Authorities and caches publish individual descriptors (by
24286 digest, by fingerprint, by "all", and by "tell me yours").
24287 - Clients don't download or use the old directory anymore. Now they
24288 download network-statuses from the directory authorities, and
24289 fetch individual server descriptors as needed from mirrors.
24290 - Clients don't download descriptors of non-running servers.
24291 - Download descriptors by digest, not by fingerprint. Caches try to
24292 download all listed digests from authorities; clients try to
24293 download "best" digests from caches. This avoids partitioning
24294 and isolating attacks better.
24295 - Only upload a new server descriptor when options change, 18
24296 hours have passed, uptime is reset, or bandwidth changes a lot.
24297 - Directory authorities silently throw away new descriptors that
24298 haven't changed much if the timestamps are similar. We do this to
24299 tolerate older Tor servers that upload a new descriptor every 15
24300 minutes. (It seemed like a good idea at the time.)
24301 - Clients choose directory servers from the network status lists,
24302 not from their internal list of router descriptors. Now they can
24303 go to caches directly rather than needing to go to authorities
24304 to bootstrap the first set of descriptors.
24305 - When picking a random directory, prefer non-authorities if any
24307 - Add a new flag to network-status indicating whether the server
24308 can answer v2 directory requests too.
24309 - Directory mirrors now cache up to 16 unrecognized network-status
24310 docs, so new directory authorities will be cached too.
24311 - Stop parsing, storing, or using running-routers output (but
24312 mirrors still cache and serve it).
24313 - Clients consider a threshold of "versioning" directory authorities
24314 before deciding whether to warn the user that he's obsolete.
24315 - Authorities publish separate sorted lists of recommended versions
24316 for clients and for servers.
24317 - Change DirServers config line to note which dirs are v1 authorities.
24318 - Put nicknames on the DirServer line, so we can refer to them
24319 without requiring all our users to memorize their IP addresses.
24320 - Remove option when getting directory cache to see whether they
24321 support running-routers; they all do now. Replace it with one
24322 to see whether caches support v2 stuff.
24323 - Stop listing down or invalid nodes in the v1 directory. This
24324 reduces its bulk by about 1/3, and reduces load on mirrors.
24325 - Mirrors no longer cache the v1 directory as often.
24326 - If we as a directory mirror don't know of any v1 directory
24327 authorities, then don't try to cache any v1 directories.
24329 o Other directory improvements:
24330 - Add lefkada.eecs.harvard.edu and tor.dizum.com as fourth and
24331 fifth authoritative directory servers.
24332 - Directory authorities no longer require an open connection from
24333 a server to consider him "reachable". We need this change because
24334 when we add new directory authorities, old servers won't know not
24335 to hang up on them.
24336 - Dir authorities now do their own external reachability testing
24337 of each server, and only list as running the ones they found to
24338 be reachable. We also send back warnings to the server's logs if
24339 it uploads a descriptor that we already believe is unreachable.
24340 - Spread the directory authorities' reachability testing over the
24341 entire testing interval, so we don't try to do 500 TLS's at once
24343 - Make the "stable" router flag in network-status be the median of
24344 the uptimes of running valid servers, and make clients pay
24345 attention to the network-status flags. Thus the cutoff adapts
24346 to the stability of the network as a whole, making IRC, IM, etc
24347 connections more reliable.
24348 - Make the v2 dir's "Fast" flag based on relative capacity, just
24349 like "Stable" is based on median uptime. Name everything in the
24350 top 7/8 Fast, and only the top 1/2 gets to be a Guard.
24351 - Retry directory requests if we fail to get an answer we like
24352 from a given dirserver (we were retrying before, but only if
24353 we fail to connect).
24354 - Return a robots.txt on our dirport to discourage google indexing.
24356 o Controller protocol improvements:
24357 - Revised controller protocol (version 1) that uses ascii rather
24358 than binary: tor/doc/control-spec.txt. Add supporting libraries
24359 in python and java and c# so you can use the controller from your
24360 applications without caring how our protocol works.
24361 - Allow the DEBUG controller event to work again. Mark certain log
24362 entries as "don't tell this to controllers", so we avoid cycles.
24363 - New controller function "getinfo accounting", to ask how
24364 many bytes we've used in this time period.
24365 - Add a "resetconf" command so you can set config options like
24366 AllowUnverifiedNodes and LongLivedPorts to "". Also, if you give
24367 a config option in the torrc with no value, then it clears it
24368 entirely (rather than setting it to its default).
24369 - Add a "getinfo config-file" to tell us where torrc is. Also
24370 expose guard nodes, config options/names.
24371 - Add a "quit" command (when when using the controller manually).
24372 - Add a new signal "newnym" to "change pseudonyms" -- that is, to
24373 stop using any currently-dirty circuits for new streams, so we
24374 don't link new actions to old actions. This also occurs on HUP
24375 or "signal reload".
24376 - If we would close a stream early (e.g. it asks for a .exit that
24377 we know would refuse it) but the LeaveStreamsUnattached config
24378 option is set by the controller, then don't close it.
24379 - Add a new controller event type "authdir_newdescs" that allows
24380 controllers to get all server descriptors that were uploaded to
24381 a router in its role as directory authority.
24382 - New controller option "getinfo desc/all-recent" to fetch the
24383 latest server descriptor for every router that Tor knows about.
24384 - Fix the controller's "attachstream 0" command to treat conn like
24385 it just connected, doing address remapping, handling .exit and
24386 .onion idioms, and so on. Now we're more uniform in making sure
24387 that the controller hears about new and closing connections.
24388 - Permit transitioning from ORPort==0 to ORPort!=0, and back, from
24389 the controller. Also, rotate dns and cpu workers if the controller
24390 changes options that will affect them; and initialize the dns
24391 worker cache tree whether or not we start out as a server.
24392 - Add a new circuit purpose 'controller' to let the controller ask
24393 for a circuit that Tor won't try to use. Extend the "extendcircuit"
24394 controller command to let you specify the purpose if you're starting
24395 a new circuit. Add a new "setcircuitpurpose" controller command to
24396 let you change a circuit's purpose after it's been created.
24397 - Let the controller ask for "getinfo dir/server/foo" so it can ask
24398 directly rather than connecting to the dir port. "getinfo
24399 dir/status/foo" also works, but currently only if your DirPort
24401 - Let the controller tell us about certain router descriptors
24402 that it doesn't want Tor to use in circuits. Implement
24403 "setrouterpurpose" and modify "+postdescriptor" to do this.
24404 - If the controller's *setconf commands fail, collect an error
24405 message in a string and hand it back to the controller -- don't
24406 just tell them to go read their logs.
24408 o Scalability, resource management, and performance:
24409 - Fix a major load balance bug: we were round-robin reading in 16 KB
24410 chunks, and servers with bandwidthrate of 20 KB, while downloading
24411 a 600 KB directory, would starve their other connections. Now we
24412 try to be a bit more fair.
24413 - Be more conservative about whether to advertise our DirPort.
24414 The main change is to not advertise if we're running at capacity
24415 and either a) we could hibernate ever or b) our capacity is low
24416 and we're using a default DirPort.
24417 - We weren't cannibalizing circuits correctly for
24418 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_C_ESTABLISH_REND and
24419 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_S_ESTABLISH_INTRO, so we were being forced to
24420 build those from scratch. This should make hidden services faster.
24421 - Predict required circuits better, with an eye toward making hidden
24422 services faster on the service end.
24423 - Compress exit policies even more: look for duplicate lines and
24425 - Generate 18.0.0.0/8 address policy format in descs when we can;
24426 warn when the mask is not reducible to a bit-prefix.
24427 - There used to be two ways to specify your listening ports in a
24428 server descriptor: on the "router" line and with a separate "ports"
24429 line. Remove support for the "ports" line.
24430 - Reduce memory requirements in our structs by changing the order
24431 of fields. Replace balanced trees with hash tables. Inline
24432 bottleneck smartlist functions. Add a "Map from digest to void*"
24433 abstraction so we can do less hex encoding/decoding, and use it
24434 in router_get_by_digest(). Many other CPU and memory improvements.
24435 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress to extract as much as possible from
24436 truncated compressed data. Try to extract as many
24437 descriptors as possible from truncated http responses (when
24438 purpose is DIR_PURPOSE_FETCH_ROUTERDESC).
24439 - Make circ->onionskin a pointer, not a static array. moria2 was using
24440 125000 circuit_t's after it had been up for a few weeks, which
24441 translates to 20+ megs of wasted space.
24442 - The private half of our EDH handshake keys are now chosen out
24443 of 320 bits, not 1024 bits. (Suggested by Ian Goldberg.)
24444 - Stop doing the complex voodoo overkill checking for insecure
24445 Diffie-Hellman keys. Just check if it's in [2,p-2] and be happy.
24446 - Do round-robin writes for TLS of at most 16 kB per write. This
24447 might be more fair on loaded Tor servers.
24448 - Do not use unaligned memory access on alpha, mips, or mipsel.
24449 It *works*, but is very slow, so we treat them as if it doesn't.
24451 o Other bugfixes and improvements:
24452 - Start storing useful information to $DATADIR/state, so we can
24453 remember things across invocations of Tor. Retain unrecognized
24454 lines so we can be forward-compatible, and write a TorVersion line
24455 so we can be backward-compatible.
24456 - If ORPort is set, Address is not explicitly set, and our hostname
24457 resolves to a private IP address, try to use an interface address
24458 if it has a public address. Now Windows machines that think of
24459 themselves as localhost can guess their address.
24460 - Regenerate our local descriptor if it's dirty and we try to use
24461 it locally (e.g. if it changes during reachability detection).
24462 This was causing some Tor servers to keep publishing the same
24463 initial descriptor forever.
24464 - Tor servers with dynamic IP addresses were needing to wait 18
24465 hours before they could start doing reachability testing using
24466 the new IP address and ports. This is because they were using
24467 the internal descriptor to learn what to test, yet they were only
24468 rebuilding the descriptor once they decided they were reachable.
24469 - It turns out we couldn't bootstrap a network since we added
24470 reachability detection in 0.1.0.1-rc. Good thing the Tor network
24471 has never gone down. Add an AssumeReachable config option to let
24472 servers and authorities bootstrap. When we're trying to build a
24473 high-uptime or high-bandwidth circuit but there aren't enough
24474 suitable servers, try being less picky rather than simply failing.
24475 - Newly bootstrapped Tor networks couldn't establish hidden service
24476 circuits until they had nodes with high uptime. Be more tolerant.
24477 - Really busy servers were keeping enough circuits open on stable
24478 connections that they were wrapping around the circuit_id
24479 space. (It's only two bytes.) This exposed a bug where we would
24480 feel free to reuse a circuit_id even if it still exists but has
24481 been marked for close. Try to fix this bug. Some bug remains.
24482 - When we fail to bind or listen on an incoming or outgoing
24483 socket, we now close it before refusing, rather than just
24484 leaking it. (Thanks to Peter Palfrader for finding.)
24485 - Fix a file descriptor leak in start_daemon().
24486 - On Windows, you can't always reopen a port right after you've
24487 closed it. So change retry_listeners() to only close and re-open
24488 ports that have changed.
24489 - Workaround a problem with some http proxies that refuse GET
24490 requests that specify "Content-Length: 0". Reported by Adrian.
24491 - Recover better from TCP connections to Tor servers that are
24492 broken but don't tell you (it happens!); and rotate TLS
24493 connections once a week.
24494 - Fix a scary-looking but apparently harmless bug where circuits
24495 would sometimes start out in state CIRCUIT_STATE_OR_WAIT at
24496 servers, and never switch to state CIRCUIT_STATE_OPEN.
24497 - Check for even more Windows version flags when writing the platform
24498 string in server descriptors, and note any we don't recognize.
24499 - Add reasons to DESTROY and RELAY_TRUNCATED cells, so clients can
24500 get a better idea of why their circuits failed. Not used yet.
24501 - Add TTLs to RESOLVED, CONNECTED, and END_REASON_EXITPOLICY cells.
24502 We don't use them yet, but maybe one day our DNS resolver will be
24503 able to discover them.
24504 - Let people type "tor --install" as well as "tor -install" when they
24505 want to make it an NT service.
24506 - Looks like we were never delivering deflated (i.e. compressed)
24507 running-routers lists, even when asked. Oops.
24508 - We were leaking some memory every time the client changed IPs.
24509 - Clean up more of the OpenSSL memory when exiting, so we can detect
24510 memory leaks better.
24511 - Never call free() on tor_malloc()d memory. This will help us
24512 use dmalloc to detect memory leaks.
24513 - Some Tor servers process billions of cells per day. These
24514 statistics are now uint64_t's.
24515 - Check [X-]Forwarded-For headers in HTTP requests when generating
24516 log messages. This lets people run dirservers (and caches) behind
24517 Apache but still know which IP addresses are causing warnings.
24518 - Fix minor integer overflow in calculating when we expect to use up
24519 our bandwidth allocation before hibernating.
24520 - Lower the minimum required number of file descriptors to 1000,
24521 so we can have some overhead for Valgrind on Linux, where the
24522 default ulimit -n is 1024.
24523 - Stop writing the "router.desc" file, ever. Nothing uses it anymore,
24524 and its existence is confusing some users.
24526 o Config option fixes:
24527 - Add a new config option ExitPolicyRejectPrivate which defaults
24528 to on. Now all exit policies will begin with rejecting private
24529 addresses, unless the server operator explicitly turns it off.
24530 - Bump the default bandwidthrate to 3 MB, and burst to 6 MB.
24531 - Add new ReachableORAddresses and ReachableDirAddresses options
24532 that understand address policies. FascistFirewall is now a synonym
24533 for "ReachableORAddresses *:443", "ReachableDirAddresses *:80".
24534 - Start calling it FooListenAddress rather than FooBindAddress,
24535 since few of our users know what it means to bind an address
24537 - If the user gave Tor an odd number of command-line arguments,
24538 we were silently ignoring the last one. Now we complain and fail.
24539 This wins the oldest-bug prize -- this bug has been present since
24540 November 2002, as released in Tor 0.0.0.
24541 - If you write "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1 6668" in your
24542 torrc rather than "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1:6668",
24543 it would silently ignore the 6668.
24544 - If we get a linelist or linelist_s config option from the torrc,
24545 e.g. ExitPolicy, and it has no value, warn and skip rather than
24546 silently resetting it to its default.
24547 - Setconf was appending items to linelists, not clearing them.
24548 - Add MyFamily to torrc.sample in the server section, so operators
24549 will be more likely to learn that it exists.
24550 - Make ContactInfo mandatory for authoritative directory servers.
24551 - MaxConn has been obsolete for a while now. Document the ConnLimit
24552 config option, which is a *minimum* number of file descriptors
24553 that must be available else Tor refuses to start.
24554 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
24555 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
24556 - Make MonthlyAccountingStart config option truly obsolete now.
24557 - Correct the man page entry on TrackHostExitsExpire.
24558 - Let directory authorities start even if they don't specify an
24559 Address config option.
24560 - Change "AllowUnverifiedNodes" to "AllowInvalidNodes", to
24561 reflect the updated flags in our v2 dir protocol.
24563 o Config option features:
24564 - Add a new config option FastFirstHopPK (on by default) so clients
24565 do a trivial crypto handshake for their first hop, since TLS has
24566 already taken care of confidentiality and authentication.
24567 - Let the user set ControlListenAddress in the torrc. This can be
24568 dangerous, but there are some cases (like a secured LAN) where it
24570 - New config options to help controllers: FetchServerDescriptors
24571 and FetchHidServDescriptors for whether to fetch server
24572 info and hidserv info or let the controller do it, and
24573 PublishServerDescriptor and PublishHidServDescriptors.
24574 - Also let the controller set the __AllDirActionsPrivate config
24575 option if you want all directory fetches/publishes to happen via
24576 Tor (it assumes your controller bootstraps your circuits).
24577 - Add "HardwareAccel" config option: support for crypto hardware
24578 accelerators via OpenSSL. Off by default, until we find somebody
24579 smart who can test it for us. (It appears to produce seg faults
24580 in at least some cases.)
24581 - New config option "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" for directory authorities
24582 as a panic button: if we get flooded with unusable servers we can
24583 revert to only listing servers in the approved-routers file.
24584 - Directory authorities can now reject/invalidate by key and IP,
24585 with the config options "AuthDirInvalid" and "AuthDirReject", or
24586 by marking a fingerprint as "!reject" or "!invalid" (as its
24587 nickname) in the approved-routers file. This is useful since
24588 currently we automatically list servers as running and usable
24589 even if we know they're jerks.
24590 - Add a new config option TestSocks so people can see whether their
24591 applications are using socks4, socks4a, socks5-with-ip, or
24592 socks5-with-fqdn. This way they don't have to keep mucking
24593 with tcpdump and wondering if something got cached somewhere.
24594 - Add "private:*" as an alias in configuration for policies. Now
24595 you can simplify your exit policy rather than needing to list
24596 every single internal or nonroutable network space.
24597 - Accept "private:*" in routerdesc exit policies; not generated yet
24598 because older Tors do not understand it.
24599 - Add configuration option "V1AuthoritativeDirectory 1" which
24600 moria1, moria2, and tor26 have set.
24601 - Implement an option, VirtualAddrMask, to set which addresses
24602 get handed out in response to mapaddress requests. This works
24603 around a bug in tsocks where 127.0.0.0/8 is never socksified.
24604 - Add a new config option FetchUselessDescriptors, off by default,
24605 for when you plan to run "exitlist" on your client and you want
24606 to know about even the non-running descriptors.
24607 - SocksTimeout: How long do we let a socks connection wait
24608 unattached before we fail it?
24609 - CircuitBuildTimeout: Cull non-open circuits that were born
24610 at least this many seconds ago.
24611 - CircuitIdleTimeout: Cull open clean circuits that were born
24612 at least this many seconds ago.
24613 - New config option SafeSocks to reject all application connections
24614 using unsafe socks protocols. Defaults to off.
24616 o Improved and clearer log messages:
24617 - Reduce clutter in server logs. We're going to try to make
24618 them actually usable now. New config option ProtocolWarnings that
24619 lets you hear about how _other Tors_ are breaking the protocol. Off
24621 - Divide log messages into logging domains. Once we put some sort
24622 of interface on this, it will let people looking at more verbose
24623 log levels specify the topics they want to hear more about.
24624 - Log server fingerprint on startup, so new server operators don't
24625 have to go hunting around their filesystem for it.
24626 - Provide dire warnings to any users who set DirServer manually;
24627 move it out of torrc.sample and into torrc.complete.
24628 - Make the log message less scary when all the dirservers are
24629 temporarily unreachable.
24630 - When tor_socketpair() fails in Windows, give a reasonable
24631 Windows-style errno back.
24632 - Improve tor_gettimeofday() granularity on windows.
24633 - We were printing the number of idle dns workers incorrectly when
24635 - Handle duplicate lines in approved-routers files without warning.
24636 - We were whining about using socks4 or socks5-with-local-lookup
24637 even when it's an IP address in the "virtual" range we designed
24638 exactly for this case.
24639 - Check for named servers when looking them up by nickname;
24640 warn when we're calling a non-named server by its nickname;
24641 don't warn twice about the same name.
24642 - Downgrade the dirserver log messages when whining about
24644 - Correct "your server is reachable" log entries to indicate that
24645 it was self-testing that told us so.
24646 - If we're trying to be a Tor server and running Windows 95/98/ME
24647 as a server, explain that we'll likely crash.
24648 - Provide a more useful warn message when our onion queue gets full:
24649 the CPU is too slow or the exit policy is too liberal.
24650 - Don't warn when we receive a 503 from a dirserver/cache -- this
24651 will pave the way for them being able to refuse if they're busy.
24652 - When we fail to bind a listener, try to provide a more useful
24653 log message: e.g., "Is Tor already running?"
24654 - Only start testing reachability once we've established a
24655 circuit. This will make startup on dir authorities less noisy.
24656 - Don't try to upload hidden service descriptors until we have
24657 established a circuit.
24658 - Tor didn't warn when it failed to open a log file.
24659 - Warn when listening on a public address for socks. We suspect a
24660 lot of people are setting themselves up as open socks proxies,
24661 and they have no idea that jerks on the Internet are using them,
24662 since they simply proxy the traffic into the Tor network.
24663 - Give a useful message when people run Tor as the wrong user,
24664 rather than telling them to start chowning random directories.
24665 - Fix a harmless bug that was causing Tor servers to log
24666 "Got an end because of misc error, but we're not an AP. Closing."
24667 - Fix wrong log message when you add a "HiddenServiceNodes" config
24668 line without any HiddenServiceDir line (reported by Chris Thomas).
24669 - Directory authorities now stop whining so loudly about bad
24670 descriptors that they fetch from other dirservers. So when there's
24671 a log complaint, it's for sure from a freshly uploaded descriptor.
24672 - When logging via syslog, include the pid whenever we provide
24673 a log entry. Suggested by Todd Fries.
24674 - When we're shutting down and we do something like try to post a
24675 server descriptor or rendezvous descriptor, don't complain that
24676 we seem to be unreachable. Of course we are, we're shutting down.
24677 - Change log line for unreachability to explicitly suggest /etc/hosts
24678 as the culprit. Also make it clearer what IP address and ports we're
24679 testing for reachability.
24680 - Put quotes around user-supplied strings when logging so users are
24681 more likely to realize if they add bad characters (like quotes)
24683 - NT service patch from Matt Edman to improve error messages on Win32.
24686 Changes in version 0.1.0.17 - 2006-02-17
24687 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
24688 - When servers with a non-zero DirPort came out of hibernation,
24689 sometimes they would trigger an assert.
24691 o Other important bugfixes:
24692 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
24693 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
24694 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
24695 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
24697 o Backported features:
24698 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
24699 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
24700 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
24701 without getting overloaded.
24702 - Whenever you get a 503 in response to a directory fetch, try
24703 once more. This will become important once servers start sending
24704 503's whenever they feel busy.
24705 - Fetch a new directory every 120 minutes, not every 40 minutes.
24706 Now that we have hundreds of thousands of users running the old
24707 directory algorithm, it's starting to hurt a lot.
24708 - Bump up the period for forcing a hidden service descriptor upload
24709 from 20 minutes to 1 hour.
24712 Changes in version 0.1.0.16 - 2006-01-02
24713 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
24714 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
24715 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
24716 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
24717 - It turns out sparc64 platforms crash on unaligned memory access
24718 too -- so detect and avoid this.
24719 - Handle truncated compressed data correctly (by detecting it and
24721 - Fix possible-but-unlikely free(NULL) in control.c.
24722 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
24723 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
24724 - Avoid potential infinite recursion when building a descriptor. (We
24725 don't know that it ever happened, but better to fix it anyway.)
24726 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
24727 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
24728 - Fix a memory stomping race bug when closing the joining point of two
24729 rendezvous circuits.
24730 - Fix an assert in time parsing found by Steven Murdoch.
24732 o Other bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
24733 - When we're doing reachability testing, provide more useful log
24734 messages so the operator knows what to expect.
24735 - Do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we are suppressing
24736 advertising it because of hibernation.
24737 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed -ldl.
24738 - One of the dirservers (tor26) changed its IP address.
24739 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
24740 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
24741 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
24742 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
24743 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
24744 - Give a more helpful log message when you try to change ORPort via
24745 the controller: you should upgrade Tor if you want that to work.
24746 - We were failing to parse Tor versions that start with "Tor ".
24747 - Tolerate faulty streams better: when a stream fails for reason
24748 exitpolicy, stop assuming that the router is lying about his exit
24749 policy. When a stream fails for reason misc, allow it to retry just
24750 as if it was resolvefailed. When a stream has failed three times,
24751 reset its failure count so we can try again and get all three tries.
24754 Changes in version 0.1.0.15 - 2005-09-23
24755 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
24756 - Reject ports 465 and 587 (spam targets) in default exit policy.
24757 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
24758 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
24759 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
24760 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
24761 - Don't try to print a null string when your server finds itself to
24762 be unreachable and the Address config option is empty.
24763 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
24764 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
24765 - Fix a minor memory leak in smartlist_string_remove().
24766 - We were only allowing ourselves to upload a server descriptor at
24767 most every 20 minutes, even if it changed earlier than that.
24768 - Clean up log entries that pointed to old URLs.
24771 Changes in version 0.1.0.14 - 2005-08-08
24772 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
24773 - Fix the other half of the bug with crypto handshakes
24775 - Fix an assert trigger if you send a 'signal term' via the
24776 controller when it's listening for 'event info' messages.
24779 Changes in version 0.1.0.13 - 2005-08-04
24780 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
24781 - Fix a critical bug in the security of our crypto handshakes.
24782 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
24783 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
24784 - Fix Windows installer to ship Tor license (thanks to Aphex for
24785 pointing out this oversight) and put a link to the doc directory
24787 - Explicitly set no-unaligned-access for sparc: it turns out the
24788 new gcc's let you compile broken code, but that doesn't make it
24792 Changes in version 0.1.0.12 - 2005-07-18
24793 o New directory servers:
24794 - tor26 has changed IP address.
24796 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
24797 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
24798 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
24799 pthreads libraries.
24800 - Don't trigger an assert if an authoritative directory server
24801 claims its dirport is 0.
24802 - Fix bug with removing Tor as an NT service: some people were
24803 getting "The service did not return an error." Thanks to Matt
24807 Changes in version 0.1.0.11 - 2005-06-30
24808 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
24809 - Fix major security bug: servers were disregarding their
24810 exit policies if clients behaved unexpectedly.
24811 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
24812 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
24813 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
24814 - The MAPADDRESS control command was broken.
24817 Changes in version 0.1.0.10 - 2005-06-14
24819 - Make NT services work and start on startup on Win32 (based on
24820 patch by Matt Edman). See the FAQ entry for details.
24821 - Make 'platform' string in descriptor more accurate for Win32
24822 servers, so it's not just "unknown platform".
24823 - REUSEADDR on normal platforms means you can rebind to the port
24824 right after somebody else has let it go. But REUSEADDR on Win32
24825 means you can bind to the port _even when somebody else already
24826 has it bound_! So, don't do that on Win32.
24827 - Clean up the log messages when starting on Win32 with no config
24829 - Allow seeding the RNG on Win32 even when you're not running as
24830 Administrator. If seeding the RNG on Win32 fails, quit.
24832 o Assert / crash bugs:
24833 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
24834 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
24835 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
24837 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
24838 Tor server triggers an assert. Stop asserting, and start handling
24839 TLS errors better in other situations too.
24840 - Fix a race condition that can trigger an assert when we have a
24841 pending create cell and an OR connection attempt fails.
24844 - Use pthreads for worker processes rather than forking. This was
24845 forced because when we forked, we ended up wasting a lot of
24846 duplicate ram over time.
24847 - Also switch to foo_r versions of some library calls to allow
24848 reentry and threadsafeness.
24849 - Implement --disable-threads configure option. Disable threads on
24850 netbsd and openbsd by default, because they have no reentrant
24851 resolver functions (!), and on solaris since it has other
24853 - Fix possible bug on threading platforms (e.g. win32) which was
24854 leaking a file descriptor whenever a cpuworker or dnsworker died.
24855 - Fix a minor memory leak when somebody establishes an introduction
24856 point at your Tor server.
24857 - Fix possible memory leak in tor_lookup_hostname(). (Thanks to
24859 - Add ./configure --with-dmalloc option, to track memory leaks.
24860 - And try to free all memory on closing, so we can detect what
24863 o Protocol correctness:
24864 - When we've connected to an OR and handshaked but didn't like
24865 the result, we were closing the conn without sending destroy
24866 cells back for pending circuits. Now send those destroys.
24867 - Start sending 'truncated' cells back rather than destroy cells
24868 if the circuit closes in front of you. This means we won't have
24869 to abandon partially built circuits.
24870 - Handle changed router status correctly when dirserver reloads
24871 fingerprint file. We used to be dropping all unverified descriptors
24872 right then. The bug was hidden because we would immediately
24873 fetch a directory from another dirserver, which would include the
24874 descriptors we just dropped.
24875 - Revise tor-spec to add more/better stream end reasons.
24876 - Revise all calls to connection_edge_end to avoid sending 'misc',
24877 and to take errno into account where possible.
24878 - Client now retries when streams end early for 'hibernating' or
24879 'resource limit' reasons, rather than failing them.
24880 - Try to be more zealous about calling connection_edge_end when
24881 things go bad with edge conns in connection.c.
24883 o Robustness improvements:
24884 - Better handling for heterogeneous / unreliable nodes:
24885 - Annotate circuits with whether they aim to contain high uptime
24886 nodes and/or high capacity nodes. When building circuits, choose
24888 - This means that every single node in an intro rend circuit,
24889 not just the last one, will have a minimum uptime.
24890 - New config option LongLivedPorts to indicate application streams
24891 that will want high uptime circuits.
24892 - Servers reset uptime when a dir fetch entirely fails. This
24893 hopefully reflects stability of the server's network connectivity.
24894 - If somebody starts his tor server in Jan 2004 and then fixes his
24895 clock, don't make his published uptime be a year.
24896 - Reset published uptime when we wake up from hibernation.
24897 - Introduce a notion of 'internal' circs, which are chosen without
24898 regard to the exit policy of the last hop. Intro and rendezvous
24899 circs must be internal circs, to avoid leaking information. Resolve
24900 and connect streams can use internal circs if they want.
24901 - New circuit pooling algorithm: keep track of what destination ports
24902 we've used recently (start out assuming we'll want to use 80), and
24903 make sure to have enough circs around to satisfy these ports. Also
24904 make sure to have 2 internal circs around if we've required internal
24905 circs lately (and with high uptime if we've seen that lately too).
24906 - Turn addr_policy_compare from a tristate to a quadstate; this should
24907 help address our "Ah, you allow 1.2.3.4:80. You are a good choice
24908 for google.com" problem.
24909 - When a client asks us for a dir mirror and we don't have one,
24910 launch an attempt to get a fresh one.
24911 - First cut at support for "create-fast" cells. Clients can use
24912 these when extending to their first hop, since the TLS already
24913 provides forward secrecy and authentication. Not enabled on
24916 o Reachability testing.
24917 - Your Tor server will automatically try to see if its ORPort and
24918 DirPort are reachable from the outside, and it won't upload its
24919 descriptor until it decides at least ORPort is reachable (when
24920 DirPort is not yet found reachable, publish it as zero).
24921 - When building testing circs for ORPort testing, use only
24922 high-bandwidth nodes, so fewer circuits fail.
24923 - Notice when our IP changes, and reset stats/uptime/reachability.
24924 - Authdirservers don't do ORPort reachability detection, since
24925 they're in clique mode, so it will be rare to find a server not
24926 already connected to them.
24927 - Authdirservers now automatically approve nodes running 0.1.0.2-rc
24931 - Now we allow two unverified servers with the same nickname
24932 but different keys. But if a nickname is verified, only that
24933 nickname+key are allowed.
24934 - If you're an authdirserver connecting to an address:port,
24935 and it's not the OR you were expecting, forget about that
24936 descriptor. If he *was* the one you were expecting, then forget
24937 about all other descriptors for that address:port.
24938 - Allow servers to publish descriptors from 12 hours in the future.
24939 Corollary: only whine about clock skew from the dirserver if
24940 he's a trusted dirserver (since now even verified servers could
24941 have quite wrong clocks).
24942 - Require servers that use the default dirservers to have public IP
24943 addresses. We have too many servers that are configured with private
24944 IPs and their admins never notice the log entries complaining that
24945 their descriptors are being rejected.
24947 o Efficiency improvements:
24948 - Use libevent. Now we can use faster async cores (like epoll, kpoll,
24949 and /dev/poll), and hopefully work better on Windows too.
24950 - Apple's OS X 10.4.0 ships with a broken kqueue API, and using
24951 kqueue on 10.3.9 causes kernel panics. Don't use kqueue on OS X.
24952 - Find libevent even if it's hiding in /usr/local/ and your
24953 CFLAGS and LDFLAGS don't tell you to look there.
24954 - Be able to link with libevent as a shared library (the default
24955 after 1.0d), even if it's hiding in /usr/local/lib and even
24956 if you haven't added /usr/local/lib to your /etc/ld.so.conf,
24957 assuming you're running gcc. Otherwise fail and give a useful
24959 - Switch to a new buffer management algorithm, which tries to avoid
24960 reallocing and copying quite as much. In first tests it looks like
24961 it uses *more* memory on average, but less cpu.
24962 - Switch our internal buffers implementation to use a ring buffer,
24963 to hopefully improve performance for fast servers a lot.
24964 - Reenable the part of the code that tries to flush as soon as an
24965 OR outbuf has a full TLS record available. Perhaps this will make
24966 OR outbufs not grow as huge except in rare cases, thus saving lots
24967 of CPU time plus memory.
24968 - Improve performance for dirservers: stop re-parsing the whole
24969 directory every time you regenerate it.
24970 - Keep a big splay tree of (circid,orconn)->circuit mappings to make
24971 it much faster to look up a circuit for each relay cell.
24972 - Remove most calls to assert_all_pending_dns_resolves_ok(),
24973 since they're eating our cpu on exit nodes.
24974 - Stop wasting time doing a case insensitive comparison for every
24975 dns name every time we do any lookup. Canonicalize the names to
24976 lowercase when you first see them.
24979 - Handle unavailable hidden services better. Handle slow or busy
24980 hidden services better.
24981 - Cannibalize GENERAL circs to be C_REND, C_INTRO, S_INTRO, and S_REND
24982 circ as necessary, if there are any completed ones lying around
24983 when we try to launch one.
24984 - Make hidden services try to establish a rendezvous for 30 seconds
24985 after fetching the descriptor, rather than for n (where n=3)
24986 attempts to build a circuit.
24987 - Adjust maximum skew and age for rendezvous descriptors: let skew
24988 be 48 hours rather than 90 minutes.
24989 - Reject malformed .onion addresses rather then passing them on as
24990 normal web requests.
24993 - More Tor controller support. See
24994 http://tor.eff.org/doc/control-spec.txt for all the new features,
24995 including signals to emulate unix signals from any platform;
24996 redirectstream; extendcircuit; mapaddress; getinfo; postdescriptor;
24997 closestream; closecircuit; etc.
24998 - Encode hashed controller passwords in hex instead of base64,
24999 to make it easier to write controllers.
25000 - Revise control spec and implementation to allow all log messages to
25001 be sent to controller with their severities intact (suggested by
25002 Matt Edman). Disable debug-level logs while delivering a debug-level
25003 log to the controller, to prevent loop. Update TorControl to handle
25004 new log event types.
25006 o New config options/defaults:
25007 - Begin scrubbing sensitive strings from logs by default. Turn off
25008 the config option SafeLogging if you need to do debugging.
25009 - New exit policy: accept most low-numbered ports, rather than
25010 rejecting most low-numbered ports.
25011 - Put a note in the torrc about abuse potential with the default
25013 - Add support for CONNECTing through https proxies, with "HttpsProxy"
25015 - Add HttpProxyAuthenticator and HttpsProxyAuthenticator support
25016 based on patch from Adam Langley (basic auth only).
25017 - Bump the default BandwidthRate from 1 MB to 2 MB, to accommodate
25018 the fast servers that have been joining lately. (Clients are now
25019 willing to load balance over up to 2 MB of advertised bandwidth
25021 - New config option MaxAdvertisedBandwidth which lets you advertise
25022 a low bandwidthrate (to not attract as many circuits) while still
25023 allowing a higher bandwidthrate in reality.
25024 - Require BandwidthRate to be at least 20kB/s for servers.
25025 - Add a NoPublish config option, so you can be a server (e.g. for
25026 testing running Tor servers in other Tor networks) without
25027 publishing your descriptor to the primary dirservers.
25028 - Add a new AddressMap config directive to rewrite incoming socks
25029 addresses. This lets you, for example, declare an implicit
25030 required exit node for certain sites.
25031 - Add a new TrackHostExits config directive to trigger addressmaps
25032 for certain incoming socks addresses -- for sites that break when
25033 your exit keeps changing (based on patch from Mike Perry).
25034 - Split NewCircuitPeriod option into NewCircuitPeriod (30 secs),
25035 which describes how often we retry making new circuits if current
25036 ones are dirty, and MaxCircuitDirtiness (10 mins), which describes
25037 how long we're willing to make use of an already-dirty circuit.
25038 - Change compiled-in SHUTDOWN_WAIT_LENGTH from a fixed 30 secs to
25039 a config option "ShutdownWaitLength" (when using kill -INT on
25041 - Fix an edge case in parsing config options: if they say "--"
25042 on the commandline, it's not a config option (thanks weasel).
25043 - New config option DirAllowPrivateAddresses for authdirservers.
25044 Now by default they refuse router descriptors that have non-IP or
25045 private-IP addresses.
25046 - Change DirFetchPeriod/StatusFetchPeriod to have a special "Be
25047 smart" default value: low for servers and high for clients.
25048 - Some people were putting "Address " in their torrc, and they had
25049 a buggy resolver that resolved " " to 0.0.0.0. Oops.
25050 - If DataDir is ~/.tor, and that expands to /.tor, then default to
25051 LOCALSTATEDIR/tor instead.
25052 - Implement --verify-config command-line option to check if your torrc
25053 is valid without actually launching Tor.
25055 o Logging improvements:
25056 - When dirservers refuse a server descriptor, we now log its
25057 contactinfo, platform, and the poster's IP address.
25058 - Only warn once per nickname from add_nickname_list_to_smartlist()
25059 per failure, so an entrynode or exitnode choice that's down won't
25061 - When we're connecting to an OR and he's got a different nickname/key
25062 than we were expecting, only complain loudly if we're an OP or a
25063 dirserver. Complaining loudly to the OR admins just confuses them.
25064 - Whine at you if you're a server and you don't set your contactinfo.
25065 - Warn when exit policy implicitly allows local addresses.
25066 - Give a better warning when some other server advertises an
25067 ORPort that is actually an apache running ssl.
25068 - If we get an incredibly skewed timestamp from a dirserver mirror
25069 that isn't a verified OR, don't warn -- it's probably him that's
25071 - When a dirserver causes you to give a warn, mention which dirserver
25073 - Initialize libevent later in the startup process, so the logs are
25074 already established by the time we start logging libevent warns.
25075 - Use correct errno on win32 if libevent fails.
25076 - Check and warn about known-bad/slow libevent versions.
25077 - Stop warning about sigpipes in the logs. We're going to
25078 pretend that getting these occasionally is normal and fine.
25080 o New contrib scripts:
25081 - New experimental script tor/contrib/exitlist: a simple python
25082 script to parse directories and find Tor nodes that exit to listed
25084 - New experimental script tor/contrib/ExerciseServer.py (needs more
25085 work) that uses the controller interface to build circuits and
25086 fetch pages over them. This will help us bootstrap servers that
25087 have lots of capacity but haven't noticed it yet.
25088 - New experimental script tor/contrib/PathDemo.py (needs more work)
25089 that uses the controller interface to let you choose whole paths
25091 "<hostname>.<path,separated by dots>.<length of path>.path"
25092 - New contributed script "privoxy-tor-toggle" to toggle whether
25093 Privoxy uses Tor. Seems to be configured for Debian by default.
25094 - Have torctl.in/tor.sh.in check for location of su binary (needed
25098 - chdir() to your datadirectory at the *end* of the daemonize process,
25099 not the beginning. This was a problem because the first time you
25100 run tor, if your datadir isn't there, and you have runasdaemon set
25101 to 1, it will try to chdir to it before it tries to create it. Oops.
25102 - Fix several double-mark-for-close bugs, e.g. where we were finding
25103 a conn for a cell even if that conn is already marked for close.
25104 - Stop most cases of hanging up on a socks connection without sending
25106 - Fix a bug in the RPM package: set home directory for _tor to
25107 something more reasonable when first installing.
25108 - Stop putting nodename in the Platform string in server descriptors.
25109 It doesn't actually help, and it is confusing/upsetting some people.
25110 - When using preferred entry or exit nodes, ignore whether the
25111 circuit wants uptime or capacity. They asked for the nodes, they
25113 - Tie MAX_DIR_SIZE to MAX_BUF_SIZE, so now directory sizes won't get
25114 artificially capped at 500kB.
25115 - Cache local dns resolves correctly even when they're .exit
25117 - If we're hibernating and we get a SIGINT, exit immediately.
25118 - tor-resolve requests were ignoring .exit if there was a working circuit
25119 they could use instead.
25120 - Pay more attention to the ClientOnly config option.
25121 - Resolve OS X installer bugs: stop claiming to be 0.0.9.2 in certain
25122 installer screens; and don't put stuff into StartupItems unless
25123 the user asks you to.
25126 - Rewrite address "serifos.exit" to "externalIP.serifos.exit"
25127 rather than just rejecting it.
25128 - If our clock jumps forward by 100 seconds or more, assume something
25129 has gone wrong with our network and abandon all not-yet-used circs.
25130 - When an application is using socks5, give him the whole variety of
25131 potential socks5 responses (connect refused, host unreachable, etc),
25132 rather than just "success" or "failure".
25133 - A more sane version numbering system. See
25134 http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/version-spec.txt for details.
25135 - Change version parsing logic: a version is "obsolete" if it is not
25136 recommended and (1) there is a newer recommended version in the
25137 same series, or (2) there are no recommended versions in the same
25138 series, but there are some recommended versions in a newer series.
25139 A version is "new" if it is newer than any recommended version in
25141 - Report HTTP reasons to client when getting a response from directory
25142 servers -- so you can actually know what went wrong.
25143 - Reject odd-looking addresses at the client (e.g. addresses that
25144 contain a colon), rather than having the server drop them because
25146 - Stop publishing socksport in the directory, since it's not
25147 actually meant to be public. For compatibility, publish a 0 there
25149 - Since we ship our own Privoxy on OS X, tweak it so it doesn't write
25150 cookies to disk and doesn't log each web request to disk. (Thanks
25151 to Brett Carrington for pointing this out.)
25152 - Add OSX uninstall instructions. An actual uninstall script will
25154 - Add "opt hibernating 1" to server descriptor to make it clearer
25155 whether the server is hibernating.
25158 Changes in version 0.0.9.10 - 2005-06-16
25159 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (backported from 0.1.0.10):
25160 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
25161 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
25162 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
25166 Changes in version 0.0.9.9 - 2005-04-23
25167 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
25168 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
25169 Tor server triggers an assert. This release contains a minimal
25170 backport from the broader fix that we put into 0.1.0.4-rc.
25173 Changes in version 0.0.9.8 - 2005-04-07
25174 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
25175 - We have a bug that I haven't found yet. Sometimes, very rarely,
25176 cpuworkers get stuck in the 'busy' state, even though the cpuworker
25177 thinks of itself as idle. This meant that no new circuits ever got
25178 established. Here's a workaround to kill any cpuworker that's been
25179 busy for more than 100 seconds.
25182 Changes in version 0.0.9.7 - 2005-04-01
25183 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
25184 - Fix another race crash bug (thanks to Glenn Fink for reporting).
25185 - Compare identity to identity, not to nickname, when extending to
25186 a router not already in the directory. This was preventing us from
25187 extending to unknown routers. Oops.
25188 - Make sure to create OS X Tor user in <500 range, so we aren't
25189 creating actual system users.
25190 - Note where connection-that-hasn't-sent-end was marked, and fix
25191 a few really loud instances of this harmless bug (it's fixed more
25195 Changes in version 0.0.9.6 - 2005-03-24
25196 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (crashes and asserts):
25197 - Add new end stream reasons to maintenance branch. Fix bug where
25198 reason (8) could trigger an assert. Prevent bug from recurring.
25199 - Apparently win32 stat wants paths to not end with a slash.
25200 - Fix assert triggers in assert_cpath_layer_ok(), where we were
25201 blowing away the circuit that conn->cpath_layer points to, then
25202 checking to see if the circ is well-formed. Backport check to make
25203 sure we dont use the cpath on a closed connection.
25204 - Prevent circuit_resume_edge_reading_helper() from trying to package
25205 inbufs for marked-for-close streams.
25206 - Don't crash on hup if your options->address has become unresolvable.
25207 - Some systems (like OS X) sometimes accept() a connection and tell
25208 you the remote host is 0.0.0.0:0. If this happens, due to some
25209 other mis-features, we get confused; so refuse the conn for now.
25211 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (other):
25212 - Fix harmless but scary "Unrecognized content encoding" warn message.
25213 - Add new stream error reason: TORPROTOCOL reason means "you are not
25214 speaking a version of Tor I understand; say bye-bye to your stream."
25215 - Be willing to cache directories from up to ROUTER_MAX_AGE seconds
25216 into the future, now that we are more tolerant of skew. This
25217 resolves a bug where a Tor server would refuse to cache a directory
25218 because all the directories it gets are too far in the future;
25219 yet the Tor server never logs any complaints about clock skew.
25220 - Mac packaging magic: make man pages useable, and do not overwrite
25221 existing torrc files.
25222 - Make OS X log happily to /var/log/tor/tor.log
25225 Changes in version 0.0.9.5 - 2005-02-22
25226 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
25227 - Fix an assert race at exit nodes when resolve requests fail.
25228 - Stop picking unverified dir mirrors--it only leads to misery.
25229 - Patch from Matt Edman to make NT services work better. Service
25230 support is still not compiled into the executable by default.
25231 - Patch from Dmitri Bely so the Tor service runs better under
25232 the win32 SYSTEM account.
25233 - Make tor-resolve actually work (?) on Win32.
25234 - Fix a sign bug when getrlimit claims to have 4+ billion
25235 file descriptors available.
25236 - Stop refusing to start when bandwidthburst == bandwidthrate.
25237 - When create cells have been on the onion queue more than five
25238 seconds, just send back a destroy and take them off the list.
25241 Changes in version 0.0.9.4 - 2005-02-03
25242 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
25243 - Fix an assert bug that took down most of our servers: when
25244 a server claims to have 1 GB of bandwidthburst, don't
25246 - Don't crash as badly if we have spawned the max allowed number
25247 of dnsworkers, or we're out of file descriptors.
25248 - Block more file-sharing ports in the default exit policy.
25249 - MaxConn is now automatically set to the hard limit of max
25250 file descriptors we're allowed (ulimit -n), minus a few for
25252 - Give a clearer message when servers need to raise their
25253 ulimit -n when they start running out of file descriptors.
25254 - SGI Compatibility patches from Jan Schaumann.
25255 - Tolerate a corrupt cached directory better.
25256 - When a dirserver hasn't approved your server, list which one.
25257 - Go into soft hibernation after 95% of the bandwidth is used,
25258 not 99%. This is especially important for daily hibernators who
25259 have a small accounting max. Hopefully it will result in fewer
25260 cut connections when the hard hibernation starts.
25261 - Load-balance better when using servers that claim more than
25262 800kB/s of capacity.
25263 - Make NT services work (experimental, only used if compiled in).
25266 Changes in version 0.0.9.3 - 2005-01-21
25267 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
25268 - Backport the cpu use fixes from main branch, so busy servers won't
25269 need as much processor time.
25270 - Work better when we go offline and then come back, or when we
25271 run Tor at boot before the network is up. We do this by
25272 optimistically trying to fetch a new directory whenever an
25273 application request comes in and we think we're offline -- the
25274 human is hopefully a good measure of when the network is back.
25275 - Backport some minimal hidserv bugfixes: keep rend circuits open as
25276 long as you keep using them; actually publish hidserv descriptors
25277 shortly after they change, rather than waiting 20-40 minutes.
25278 - Enable Mac startup script by default.
25279 - Fix duplicate dns_cancel_pending_resolve reported by Giorgos Pallas.
25280 - When you update AllowUnverifiedNodes or FirewallPorts via the
25281 controller's setconf feature, we were always appending, never
25283 - When you update HiddenServiceDir via setconf, it was screwing up
25284 the order of reading the lines, making it fail.
25285 - Do not rewrite a cached directory back to the cache; otherwise we
25286 will think it is recent and not fetch a newer one on startup.
25287 - Workaround for webservers that lie about Content-Encoding: Tor
25288 now tries to autodetect compressed directories and compression
25289 itself. This lets us Proxypass dir fetches through apache.
25292 Changes in version 0.0.9.2 - 2005-01-04
25293 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (crashes and asserts):
25294 - Fix an assert on startup when the disk is full and you're logging
25296 - If you do socks4 with an IP of 0.0.0.x but *don't* provide a socks4a
25297 style address, then we'd crash.
25298 - Fix an assert trigger when the running-routers string we get from
25299 a dirserver is broken.
25300 - Make worker threads start and run on win32. Now win32 servers
25302 - Bandaid (not actually fix, but now it doesn't crash) an assert
25303 where the dns worker dies mysteriously and the main Tor process
25304 doesn't remember anything about the address it was resolving.
25306 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (Win32):
25307 - Workaround for brain-damaged __FILE__ handling on MSVC: keep Nick's
25308 name out of the warning/assert messages.
25309 - Fix a superficial "unhandled error on read" bug on win32.
25310 - The win32 installer no longer requires a click-through for our
25311 license, since our Free Software license grants rights but does not
25313 - Win32: When connecting to a dirserver fails, try another one
25314 immediately. (This was already working for non-win32 Tors.)
25315 - Stop trying to parse $HOME on win32 when hunting for default
25317 - Make tor-resolve.c work on win32 by calling network_init().
25319 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (other):
25320 - Make 0.0.9.x build on Solaris again.
25321 - Due to a fencepost error, we were blowing away the \n when reporting
25322 confvalue items in the controller. So asking for multiple config
25323 values at once couldn't work.
25324 - When listing circuits that are pending on an opening OR connection,
25325 if we're an OR we were listing circuits that *end* at us as
25326 being pending on every listener, dns/cpu worker, etc. Stop that.
25327 - Dirservers were failing to create 'running-routers' or 'directory'
25328 strings if we had more than some threshold of routers. Fix them so
25329 they can handle any number of routers.
25330 - Fix a superficial "Duplicate mark for close" bug.
25331 - Stop checking for clock skew for OR connections, even for servers.
25332 - Fix a fencepost error that was chopping off the last letter of any
25333 nickname that is the maximum allowed nickname length.
25334 - Update URLs in log messages so they point to the new website.
25335 - Fix a potential problem in mangling server private keys while
25336 writing to disk (not triggered yet, as far as we know).
25337 - Include the licenses for other free software we include in Tor,
25338 now that we're shipping binary distributions more regularly.
25341 Changes in version 0.0.9.1 - 2004-12-15
25342 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
25343 - Make hibernation actually work.
25344 - Make HashedControlPassword config option work.
25345 - When we're reporting event circuit status to a controller,
25346 don't use the stream status code.
25349 Changes in version 0.0.9 - 2004-12-12
25350 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Crashes and asserts):
25351 - Catch and ignore SIGXFSZ signals when log files exceed 2GB; our
25352 write() call will fail and we handle it there.
25353 - When we run out of disk space, or other log writing error, don't
25354 crash. Just stop logging to that log and continue.
25355 - Fix isspace() and friends so they still make Solaris happy
25356 but also so they don't trigger asserts on win32.
25357 - Fix assert failure on malformed socks4a requests.
25358 - Fix an assert bug where a hidden service provider would fail if
25359 the first hop of his rendezvous circuit was down.
25360 - Better handling of size_t vs int, so we're more robust on 64
25363 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Win32):
25364 - Make windows sockets actually non-blocking (oops), and handle
25365 win32 socket errors better.
25366 - Fix parse_iso_time on platforms without strptime (eg win32).
25367 - win32: when being multithreaded, leave parent fdarray open.
25368 - Better handling of winsock includes on non-MSV win32 compilers.
25369 - Change our file IO stuff (especially wrt OpenSSL) so win32 is
25371 - Make unit tests work on win32.
25373 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Path selection and streams):
25374 - Calculate timeout for waiting for a connected cell from the time
25375 we sent the begin cell, not from the time the stream started. If
25376 it took a long time to establish the circuit, we would time out
25377 right after sending the begin cell.
25378 - Fix router_compare_addr_to_addr_policy: it was not treating a port
25379 of * as always matching, so we were picking reject *:* nodes as
25380 exit nodes too. Oops.
25381 - When read() failed on a stream, we would close it without sending
25382 back an end. So 'connection refused' would simply be ignored and
25383 the user would get no response.
25384 - Stop a sigpipe: when an 'end' cell races with eof from the app,
25385 we shouldn't hold-open-until-flush if the eof arrived first.
25386 - Let resolve conns retry/expire also, rather than sticking around
25388 - Fix more dns related bugs: send back resolve_failed and end cells
25389 more reliably when the resolve fails, rather than closing the
25390 circuit and then trying to send the cell. Also attach dummy resolve
25391 connections to a circuit *before* calling dns_resolve(), to fix
25392 a bug where cached answers would never be sent in RESOLVED cells.
25394 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Circuits):
25395 - Finally fix a bug that's been plaguing us for a year:
25396 With high load, circuit package window was reaching 0. Whenever
25397 we got a circuit-level sendme, we were reading a lot on each
25398 socket, but only writing out a bit. So we would eventually reach
25399 eof. This would be noticed and acted on even when there were still
25400 bytes sitting in the inbuf.
25401 - Use identity comparison, not nickname comparison, to choose which
25402 half of circuit-ID-space each side gets to use. This is needed
25403 because sometimes we think of a router as a nickname, and sometimes
25404 as a hex ID, and we can't predict what the other side will do.
25406 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Other):
25407 - Fix a whole slew of memory leaks.
25408 - Disallow NDEBUG. We don't ever want anybody to turn off debug.
25409 - If we are using select, make sure we stay within FD_SETSIZE.
25410 - When poll() is interrupted, we shouldn't believe the revents values.
25411 - Add a FAST_SMARTLIST define to optionally inline smartlist_get
25412 and smartlist_len, which are two major profiling offenders.
25413 - If do_hup fails, actually notice.
25414 - Flush the log file descriptor after we print "Tor opening log file",
25415 so we don't see those messages days later.
25416 - Hidden service operators now correctly handle version 1 style
25417 INTRODUCE1 cells (nobody generates them still, so not a critical
25419 - Handle more errnos from accept() without closing the listener.
25420 Some OpenBSD machines were closing their listeners because
25421 they ran out of file descriptors.
25422 - Some people had wrapped their tor client/server in a script
25423 that would restart it whenever it died. This did not play well
25424 with our "shut down if your version is obsolete" code. Now people
25425 don't fetch a new directory if their local cached version is
25427 - Make our autogen.sh work on ksh as well as bash.
25428 - Better torrc example lines for dirbindaddress and orbindaddress.
25429 - Improved bounds checking on parsed ints (e.g. config options and
25430 the ones we find in directories.)
25431 - Stop using separate defaults for no-config-file and
25432 empty-config-file. Now you have to explicitly turn off SocksPort,
25433 if you don't want it open.
25434 - We were starting to daemonize before we opened our logs, so if
25435 there were any problems opening logs, we would complain to stderr,
25436 which wouldn't work, and then mysteriously exit.
25437 - If a verified OR connects to us before he's uploaded his descriptor,
25438 or we verify him and hup but he still has the original TLS
25439 connection, then conn->nickname is still set like he's unverified.
25441 o Code security improvements, inspired by Ilja:
25442 - tor_snprintf wrapper over snprintf with consistent (though not C99)
25444 - Replace sprintf with tor_snprintf. (I think they were all safe, but
25446 - Replace strcpy/strncpy with strlcpy in more places.
25447 - Avoid strcat; use tor_snprintf or strlcat instead.
25449 o Features (circuits and streams):
25450 - New circuit building strategy: keep a list of ports that we've
25451 used in the past 6 hours, and always try to have 2 circuits open
25452 or on the way that will handle each such port. Seed us with port
25453 80 so web users won't complain that Tor is "slow to start up".
25454 - Make kill -USR1 dump more useful stats about circuits.
25455 - When warning about retrying or giving up, print the address, so
25456 the user knows which one it's talking about.
25457 - If you haven't used a clean circuit in an hour, throw it away,
25458 just to be on the safe side. (This means after 6 hours a totally
25459 unused Tor client will have no circuits open.)
25460 - Support "foo.nickname.exit" addresses, to let Alice request the
25461 address "foo" as viewed by exit node "nickname". Based on a patch
25462 from Geoff Goodell.
25463 - If your requested entry or exit node has advertised bandwidth 0,
25465 - Be more greedy about filling up relay cells -- we try reading again
25466 once we've processed the stuff we read, in case enough has arrived
25467 to fill the last cell completely.
25468 - Refuse application socks connections to port 0.
25469 - Use only 0.0.9pre1 and later servers for resolve cells.
25471 o Features (bandwidth):
25472 - Hibernation: New config option "AccountingMax" lets you
25473 set how many bytes per month (in each direction) you want to
25474 allow your server to consume. Rather than spreading those
25475 bytes out evenly over the month, we instead hibernate for some
25476 of the month and pop up at a deterministic time, work until
25477 the bytes are consumed, then hibernate again. Config option
25478 "MonthlyAccountingStart" lets you specify which day of the month
25479 your billing cycle starts on.
25480 - Implement weekly/monthly/daily accounting: now you specify your
25481 hibernation properties by
25482 AccountingMax N bytes|KB|MB|GB|TB
25483 AccountingStart day|week|month [day] HH:MM
25484 Defaults to "month 1 0:00".
25485 - Let bandwidth and interval config options be specified as 5 bytes,
25486 kb, kilobytes, etc; and as seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks.
25488 o Features (directories):
25489 - New "router-status" line in directory, to better bind each verified
25490 nickname to its identity key.
25491 - Clients can ask dirservers for /dir.z to get a compressed version
25492 of the directory. Only works for servers running 0.0.9, of course.
25493 - Make clients cache directories and use them to seed their router
25494 lists at startup. This means clients have a datadir again.
25495 - Respond to content-encoding headers by trying to uncompress as
25497 - Clients and servers now fetch running-routers; cache
25498 running-routers; compress running-routers; serve compressed
25500 - Make moria2 advertise a dirport of 80, so people behind firewalls
25501 will be able to get a directory.
25502 - Http proxy support
25503 - Dirservers translate requests for http://%s:%d/x to /x
25504 - You can specify "HttpProxy %s[:%d]" and all dir fetches will
25505 be routed through this host.
25506 - Clients ask for /tor/x rather than /x for new enough dirservers.
25507 This way we can one day coexist peacefully with apache.
25508 - Clients specify a "Host: %s%d" http header, to be compatible
25509 with more proxies, and so running squid on an exit node can work.
25510 - Protect dirservers from overzealous descriptor uploading -- wait
25511 10 seconds after directory gets dirty, before regenerating.
25513 o Features (packages and install):
25514 - Add NSI installer contributed by J Doe.
25515 - Apply NT service patch from Osamu Fujino. Still needs more work.
25516 - Commit VC6 and VC7 workspace/project files.
25517 - Commit a tor.spec for making RPM files, with help from jbash.
25518 - Add contrib/torctl.in contributed by Glenn Fink.
25519 - Make expand_filename handle ~ and ~username.
25520 - Use autoconf to enable largefile support where necessary. Use
25521 ftello where available, since ftell can fail at 2GB.
25522 - Ship src/win32/ in the tarball, so people can use it to build.
25523 - Make old win32 fall back to CWD if SHGetSpecialFolderLocation
25526 o Features (ui controller):
25527 - Control interface: a separate program can now talk to your
25528 client/server over a socket, and get/set config options, receive
25529 notifications of circuits and streams starting/finishing/dying,
25530 bandwidth used, etc. The next step is to get some GUIs working.
25531 Let us know if you want to help out. See doc/control-spec.txt .
25532 - Ship a contrib/tor-control.py as an example script to interact
25533 with the control port.
25534 - "tor --hash-password zzyxz" will output a salted password for
25535 use in authenticating to the control interface.
25536 - Implement the control-spec's SAVECONF command, to write your
25537 configuration to torrc.
25538 - Get cookie authentication for the controller closer to working.
25539 - When set_conf changes our server descriptor, upload a new copy.
25540 But don't upload it too often if there are frequent changes.
25542 o Features (config and command-line):
25543 - Deprecate unofficial config option abbreviations, and abbreviations
25544 not on the command line.
25545 - Configuration infrastructure support for warning on obsolete
25547 - Give a slightly more useful output for "tor -h".
25548 - Break DirFetchPostPeriod into:
25549 - DirFetchPeriod for fetching full directory,
25550 - StatusFetchPeriod for fetching running-routers,
25551 - DirPostPeriod for posting server descriptor,
25552 - RendPostPeriod for posting hidden service descriptors.
25553 - New log format in config:
25554 "Log minsev[-maxsev] stdout|stderr|syslog" or
25555 "Log minsev[-maxsev] file /var/foo"
25556 - DirPolicy config option, to let people reject incoming addresses
25557 from their dirserver.
25558 - "tor --list-fingerprint" will list your identity key fingerprint
25560 - Make tor --version --version dump the cvs Id of every file.
25561 - New 'MyFamily nick1,...' config option for a server to
25562 specify other servers that shouldn't be used in the same circuit
25563 with it. Only believed if nick1 also specifies us.
25564 - New 'NodeFamily nick1,nick2,...' config option for a client to
25565 specify nodes that it doesn't want to use in the same circuit.
25566 - New 'Redirectexit pattern address:port' config option for a
25567 server to redirect exit connections, e.g. to a local squid.
25568 - Add "pass" target for RedirectExit, to make it easier to break
25569 out of a sequence of RedirectExit rules.
25570 - Make the dirservers file obsolete.
25571 - Include a dir-signing-key token in directories to tell the
25572 parsing entity which key is being used to sign.
25573 - Remove the built-in bulky default dirservers string.
25574 - New config option "Dirserver %s:%d [fingerprint]", which can be
25575 repeated as many times as needed. If no dirservers specified,
25576 default to moria1,moria2,tor26.
25577 - Make 'Routerfile' config option obsolete.
25578 - Discourage people from setting their dirfetchpostperiod more often
25579 than once per minute.
25581 o Features (other):
25582 - kill -USR2 now moves all logs to loglevel debug (kill -HUP to
25583 get back to normal.)
25584 - Accept *:706 (silc) in default exit policy.
25585 - Implement new versioning format for post 0.1.
25586 - Distinguish between TOR_TLS_CLOSE and TOR_TLS_ERROR, so we can
25587 log more informatively.
25588 - Check clock skew for verified servers, but allow unverified
25589 servers and clients to have any clock skew.
25590 - Make sure the hidden service descriptors are at a random offset
25591 from each other, to hinder linkability.
25592 - Clients now generate a TLS cert too, in preparation for having
25593 them act more like real nodes.
25594 - Add a pure-C tor-resolve implementation.
25595 - Use getrlimit and friends to ensure we can reach MaxConn (currently
25596 1024) file descriptors.
25597 - Raise the max dns workers from 50 to 100.
25600 Changes in version 0.0.8.1 - 2004-10-13
25602 - Fix a seg fault that can be triggered remotely for Tor
25603 clients/servers with an open dirport.
25604 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
25605 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
25606 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
25607 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
25608 intermittent connections.
25609 - Fix a bug in parsing opt keywords with objects.
25610 - Fix a stale pointer assert bug when a stream detaches and
25612 - Fix a string format vulnerability (probably not exploitable)
25613 in reporting stats locally.
25614 - Fix an assert trigger: sometimes launching circuits can fail
25615 immediately, e.g. because too many circuits have failed recently.
25616 - Fix a compile warning on 64 bit platforms.
25619 Changes in version 0.0.8 - 2004-08-25
25621 - Made our unit tests compile again on OpenBSD 3.5, and tor
25622 itself compile again on OpenBSD on a sparc64.
25623 - We were neglecting milliseconds when logging on win32, so
25624 everything appeared to happen at the beginning of each second.
25625 - Check directory signature _before_ you decide whether you're
25626 you're running an obsolete version and should exit.
25627 - Check directory signature _before_ you parse the running-routers
25628 list to decide who's running.
25629 - Check return value of fclose while writing to disk, so we don't
25630 end up with broken files when servers run out of disk space.
25631 - Port it to SunOS 5.9 / Athena
25632 - Fix two bugs in saving onion keys to disk when rotating, so
25633 hopefully we'll get fewer people using old onion keys.
25634 - Remove our mostly unused -- and broken -- hex_encode()
25635 function. Use base16_encode() instead. (Thanks to Timo Lindfors
25636 for pointing out this bug.)
25637 - Only pick and establish intro points after we've gotten a
25639 - Fix assert triggers: if the other side returns an address 0.0.0.0,
25640 don't put it into the client dns cache.
25641 - If a begin failed due to exit policy, but we believe the IP
25642 address should have been allowed, switch that router to exitpolicy
25643 reject *:* until we get our next directory.
25645 o Protocol changes:
25646 - 'Extend' relay cell payloads now include the digest of the
25647 intended next hop's identity key. Now we can verify that we're
25648 extending to the right router, and also extend to routers we
25649 hadn't heard of before.
25652 - Tor nodes can now act as relays (with an advertised ORPort)
25653 without being manually verified by the dirserver operators.
25654 - Uploaded descriptors of unverified routers are now accepted
25655 by the dirservers, and included in the directory.
25656 - Verified routers are listed by nickname in the running-routers
25657 list; unverified routers are listed as "$<fingerprint>".
25658 - We now use hash-of-identity-key in most places rather than
25659 nickname or addr:port, for improved security/flexibility.
25660 - AllowUnverifiedNodes config option to let circuits choose no-name
25661 routers in entry,middle,exit,introduction,rendezvous positions.
25662 Allow middle and rendezvous positions by default.
25663 - When picking unverified routers, skip those with low uptime and/or
25664 low bandwidth, depending on what properties you care about.
25665 - ClientOnly option for nodes that never want to become servers.
25666 - Directory caching.
25667 - "AuthoritativeDir 1" option for the official dirservers.
25668 - Now other nodes (clients and servers) will cache the latest
25669 directory they've pulled down.
25670 - They can enable their DirPort to serve it to others.
25671 - Clients will pull down a directory from any node with an open
25672 DirPort, and check the signature/timestamp correctly.
25673 - Authoritative dirservers now fetch directories from other
25674 authdirservers, to stay better synced.
25675 - Running-routers list tells who's down also, along with noting
25676 if they're verified (listed by nickname) or unverified (listed
25678 - Allow dirservers to serve running-router list separately.
25679 This isn't used yet.
25680 - You can now fetch $DIRURL/running-routers to get just the
25681 running-routers line, not the whole descriptor list. (But
25682 clients don't use this yet.)
25683 - Clients choose nodes proportional to advertised bandwidth.
25684 - Clients avoid using nodes with low uptime as introduction points.
25685 - Handle servers with dynamic IP addresses: don't just replace
25686 options->Address with the resolved one at startup, and
25687 detect our address right before we make a routerinfo each time.
25688 - 'FascistFirewall' option to pick dirservers and ORs on specific
25689 ports; plus 'FirewallPorts' config option to tell FascistFirewall
25690 which ports are open. (Defaults to 80,443)
25691 - Try other dirservers immediately if the one you try is down. This
25692 should tolerate down dirservers better now.
25693 - ORs connect-on-demand to other ORs
25694 - If you get an extend cell to an OR you're not connected to,
25695 connect, handshake, and forward the create cell.
25696 - The authoritative dirservers stay connected to everybody,
25697 and everybody stays connected to 0.0.7 servers, but otherwise
25698 clients/servers expire unused connections after 5 minutes.
25699 - When servers get a sigint, they delay 30 seconds (refusing new
25700 connections) then exit. A second sigint causes immediate exit.
25701 - File and name management:
25702 - Look for .torrc if no CONFDIR "torrc" is found.
25703 - If no datadir is defined, then choose, make, and secure ~/.tor
25705 - If torrc not found, exitpolicy reject *:*.
25706 - Expands ~/ in filenames to $HOME/ (but doesn't yet expand ~arma).
25707 - If no nickname is defined, derive default from hostname.
25708 - Rename secret key files, e.g. identity.key -> secret_id_key,
25709 to discourage people from mailing their identity key to tor-ops.
25710 - Refuse to build a circuit before the directory has arrived --
25711 it won't work anyway, since you won't know the right onion keys
25713 - Parse tor version numbers so we can do an is-newer-than check
25714 rather than an is-in-the-list check.
25715 - New socks command 'resolve', to let us shim gethostbyname()
25717 - A 'tor_resolve' script to access the socks resolve functionality.
25718 - A new socks-extensions.txt doc file to describe our
25719 interpretation and extensions to the socks protocols.
25720 - Add a ContactInfo option, which gets published in descriptor.
25721 - Write tor version at the top of each log file
25722 - New docs in the tarball:
25724 - Document that you should proxy your SSL traffic too.
25725 - Log a warning if the user uses an unsafe socks variant, so people
25726 are more likely to learn about privoxy or socat.
25727 - Log a warning if you're running an unverified server, to let you
25728 know you might want to get it verified.
25729 - Change the default exit policy to reject the default edonkey,
25730 kazaa, gnutella ports.
25731 - Add replace_file() to util.[ch] to handle win32's rename().
25732 - Publish OR uptime in descriptor (and thus in directory) too.
25733 - Remember used bandwidth (both in and out), and publish 15-minute
25734 snapshots for the past day into our descriptor.
25735 - Be more aggressive about trying to make circuits when the network
25736 has changed (e.g. when you unsuspend your laptop).
25737 - Check for time skew on http headers; report date in response to
25739 - If the entrynode config line has only one node, don't pick it as
25741 - Add strict{entry|exit}nodes config options. If set to 1, then
25742 we refuse to build circuits that don't include the specified entry
25744 - OutboundBindAddress config option, to bind to a specific
25745 IP address for outgoing connect()s.
25746 - End truncated log entries (e.g. directories) with "[truncated]".
25749 Changes in version 0.0.7.3 - 2004-08-12
25750 o Stop dnsworkers from triggering an assert failure when you
25751 ask them to resolve the host "".
25754 Changes in version 0.0.7.2 - 2004-07-07
25755 o A better fix for the 0.0.0.0 problem, that will hopefully
25756 eliminate the remaining related assertion failures.
25759 Changes in version 0.0.7.1 - 2004-07-04
25760 o When an address resolves to 0.0.0.0, treat it as a failed resolve,
25761 since internally we use 0.0.0.0 to signify "not yet resolved".
25764 Changes in version 0.0.7 - 2004-06-07
25765 o Fixes for crashes and other obnoxious bugs:
25766 - Fix an epipe bug: sometimes when directory connections failed
25767 to connect, we would give them a chance to flush before closing
25769 - When we detached from a circuit because of resolvefailed, we
25770 would immediately try the same circuit twice more, and then
25771 give up on the resolve thinking we'd tried three different
25773 - Limit the number of intro circuits we'll attempt to build for a
25774 hidden service per 15-minute period.
25775 - Check recommended-software string *early*, before actually parsing
25776 the directory. Thus we can detect an obsolete version and exit,
25777 even if the new directory format doesn't parse.
25778 o Fixes for security bugs:
25779 - Remember which nodes are dirservers when you startup, and if a
25780 random OR enables his dirport, don't automatically assume he's
25781 a trusted dirserver.
25783 - Directory connections were asking the wrong poll socket to
25784 start writing, and not asking themselves to start writing.
25785 - When we detached from a circuit because we sent a begin but
25786 didn't get a connected, we would use it again the first time;
25787 but after that we would correctly switch to a different one.
25788 - Stop warning when the first onion decrypt attempt fails; they
25789 will sometimes legitimately fail now that we rotate keys.
25790 - Override unaligned-access-ok check when $host_cpu is ia64 or
25791 arm. Apparently they allow it but the kernel whines.
25792 - Dirservers try to reconnect periodically too, in case connections
25794 - Fix some memory leaks in directory servers.
25795 - Allow backslash in Win32 filenames.
25796 - Made Tor build complain-free on FreeBSD, hopefully without
25797 breaking other BSD builds. We'll see.
25798 - Check directory signatures based on name of signer, not on whom
25799 we got the directory from. This will let us cache directories more
25801 - Rotate dnsworkers and cpuworkers on SIGHUP, so they get new config
25804 - Doxygen markup on all functions and global variables.
25805 - Make directory functions update routerlist, not replace it. So
25806 now directory disagreements are not so critical a problem.
25807 - Remove the upper limit on number of descriptors in a dirserver's
25808 directory (not that we were anywhere close).
25809 - Allow multiple logfiles at different severity ranges.
25810 - Allow *BindAddress to specify ":port" rather than setting *Port
25811 separately. Allow multiple instances of each BindAddress config
25812 option, so you can bind to multiple interfaces if you want.
25813 - Allow multiple exit policy lines, which are processed in order.
25814 Now we don't need that huge line with all the commas in it.
25815 - Enable accept/reject policies on SOCKS connections, so you can bind
25816 to 0.0.0.0 but still control who can use your OP.
25817 - Updated the man page to reflect these features.
25820 Changes in version 0.0.6.2 - 2004-05-16
25821 o Our integrity-checking digest was checking only the most recent cell,
25822 not the previous cells like we'd thought.
25823 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
25826 Changes in version 0.0.6.1 - 2004-05-06
25827 o Fix two bugs in our AES counter-mode implementation (this affected
25828 onion-level stream encryption, but not TLS-level). It turns
25829 out we were doing something much more akin to a 16-character
25830 polyalphabetic cipher. Oops.
25831 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
25832 o Retire moria3 as a directory server, and add tor26 as a directory
25836 Changes in version 0.0.6 - 2004-05-02
25838 - Hidden services and rendezvous points are implemented. Go to
25839 http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/ for an index of currently available
25840 hidden services. (This only works via a socks4a proxy such as
25841 Privoxy, and currently it's quite slow.)
25842 - We now rotate link (tls context) keys and onion keys.
25843 - CREATE cells now include oaep padding, so you can tell
25844 if you decrypted them correctly.
25845 - Retry stream correctly when we fail to connect because of
25846 exit-policy-reject (should try another) or can't-resolve-address.
25847 - When we hup a dirserver and we've *removed* a server from the
25848 approved-routers list, now we remove that server from the
25849 in-memory directories too.
25850 - Add bandwidthburst to server descriptor.
25851 - Directories now say which dirserver signed them.
25852 - Use a tor_assert macro that logs failed assertions too.
25853 - Since we don't support truncateds much, don't bother sending them;
25854 just close the circ.
25855 - Fetch randomness from /dev/urandom better (not via fopen/fread)
25856 - Better debugging for tls errors
25857 - Set Content-Type on the directory and hidserv descriptor.
25858 - Remove IVs from cipher code, since AES-ctr has none.
25860 - Fix an assert trigger for exit nodes that's been plaguing us since
25861 the days of 0.0.2prexx (thanks weasel!)
25862 - Fix a bug where we were closing tls connections intermittently.
25863 It turns out openssl keeps its errors around -- so if an error
25864 happens, and you don't ask about it, and then another openssl
25865 operation happens and succeeds, and you ask if there was an error,
25866 it tells you about the first error.
25867 - Fix a bug that's been lurking since 27 may 03 (!)
25868 When passing back a destroy cell, we would use the wrong circ id.
25869 - Don't crash if a conn that sent a begin has suddenly lost its circuit.
25870 - Some versions of openssl have an SSL_pending function that erroneously
25871 returns bytes when there is a non-application record pending.
25872 - Win32 fixes. Tor now compiles on win32 with no warnings/errors.
25873 o We were using an array of length zero in a few places.
25874 o Win32's gethostbyname can't resolve an IP to an IP.
25875 o Win32's close can't close a socket.
25876 o Handle windows socket errors correctly.
25878 - check for <sys/limits.h> so we build on FreeBSD again, and
25879 <machine/limits.h> for NetBSD.
25882 Changes in version 0.0.5 - 2004-03-30
25883 o Install torrc as torrc.sample -- we no longer clobber your
25885 o Fix mangled-state bug in directory fetching (was causing sigpipes).
25886 o Only build circuits after we've fetched the directory: clients were
25887 using only the directory servers before they'd fetched a directory.
25888 This also means longer startup time; so it goes.
25889 o Fix an assert trigger where an OP would fail to handshake, and we'd
25890 expect it to have a nickname.
25891 o Work around a tsocks bug: do a socks reject when AP connection dies
25892 early, else tsocks goes into an infinite loop.
25893 o Hold socks connection open until reply is flushed (if possible)
25894 o Make exit nodes resolve IPs to IPs immediately, rather than asking
25895 the dns farm to do it.
25896 o Fix c99 aliasing warnings in rephist.c
25897 o Don't include server descriptors that are older than 24 hours in the
25899 o Give socks 'reject' replies their whole 15s to attempt to flush,
25900 rather than seeing the 60s timeout and assuming the flush had failed.
25901 o Clean automake droppings from the cvs repository
25902 o Add in a 'notice' log level for things the operator should hear
25903 but that aren't warnings
25906 Changes in version 0.0.4 - 2004-03-26
25907 o When connecting to a dirserver or OR and the network is down,
25911 Changes in version 0.0.3 - 2004-03-26
25912 o Warn and fail if server chose a nickname with illegal characters
25913 o Port to Solaris and Sparc:
25914 - include missing header fcntl.h
25915 - have autoconf find -lsocket -lnsl automatically
25916 - deal with hardware word alignment
25917 - make uname() work (solaris has a different return convention)
25918 - switch from using signal() to sigaction()
25919 o Preliminary work on reputation system:
25920 - Keep statistics on success/fail of connect attempts; they're published
25921 by kill -USR1 currently.
25922 - Add a RunTesting option to try to learn link state by creating test
25923 circuits, even when SocksPort is off.
25924 - Remove unused open circuits when there are too many.
25927 Changes in version 0.0.2 - 2004-03-19
25928 - Include strlcpy and strlcat for safer string ops
25929 - define INADDR_NONE so we compile (but still not run) on solaris
25932 Changes in version 0.0.2pre27 - 2004-03-14
25934 - Allow internal tor networks (we were rejecting internal IPs,
25935 now we allow them if they're set explicitly).
25936 - And fix a few endian issues.
25939 Changes in version 0.0.2pre26 - 2004-03-14
25941 - If a stream times out after 15s without a connected cell, don't
25942 try that circuit again: try a new one.
25943 - Retry streams at most 4 times. Then give up.
25944 - When a dirserver gets a descriptor from an unknown router, it
25945 logs its fingerprint (so the dirserver operator can choose to
25946 accept it even without mail from the server operator).
25947 - Inform unapproved servers when we reject their descriptors.
25948 - Make tor build on Windows again. It works as a client, who knows
25950 - Clearer instructions in the torrc for how to set up a server.
25951 - Be more efficient about reading fd's when our global token bucket
25952 (used for rate limiting) becomes empty.
25954 - Stop asserting that computers always go forward in time. It's
25956 - When we sent a cell (e.g. destroy) and then marked an OR connection
25957 expired, we might close it before finishing a flush if the other
25958 side isn't reading right then.
25959 - Don't allow dirservers to start if they haven't defined
25960 RecommendedVersions
25961 - We were caching transient dns failures. Oops.
25962 - Prevent servers from publishing an internal IP as their address.
25963 - Address a strcat vulnerability in circuit.c
25966 Changes in version 0.0.2pre25 - 2004-03-04
25968 - Put the OR's IP in its router descriptor, not its fqdn. That way
25969 we'll stop being stalled by gethostbyname for nodes with flaky dns,
25972 - If the user typed in an address that didn't resolve, the server
25976 Changes in version 0.0.2pre24 - 2004-03-03
25978 - Fix an assertion failure in dns.c, where we were trying to dequeue
25979 a pending dns resolve even if it wasn't pending
25980 - Fix a spurious socks5 warning about still trying to write after the
25981 connection is finished.
25982 - Hold certain marked_for_close connections open until they're finished
25983 flushing, rather than losing bytes by closing them too early.
25984 - Correctly report the reason for ending a stream
25985 - Remove some duplicate calls to connection_mark_for_close
25986 - Put switch_id and start_daemon earlier in the boot sequence, so it
25987 will actually try to chdir() to options.DataDirectory
25988 - Make 'make test' exit(1) if a test fails; fix some unit tests
25989 - Make tor fail when you use a config option it doesn't know about,
25990 rather than warn and continue.
25991 - Make --version work
25992 - Bugfixes on the rpm spec file and tor.sh, so it's more up to date
25995 Changes in version 0.0.2pre23 - 2004-02-29
25997 - Print a statement when the first circ is finished, so the user
25998 knows it's working.
25999 - If a relay cell is unrecognized at the end of the circuit,
26000 send back a destroy. (So attacks to mutate cells are more
26002 - New config option 'excludenodes' to avoid certain nodes for circuits.
26003 - When it daemonizes, it chdir's to the DataDirectory rather than "/",
26004 so you can collect coredumps there.
26006 - Fix a bug in tls flushing where sometimes data got wedged and
26007 didn't flush until more data got sent. Hopefully this bug was
26008 a big factor in the random delays we were seeing.
26009 - Make 'connected' cells include the resolved IP, so the client
26010 dns cache actually gets populated.
26011 - Disallow changing from ORPort=0 to ORPort>0 on hup.
26012 - When we time-out on a stream and detach from the circuit, send an
26013 end cell down it first.
26014 - Only warn about an unknown router (in exitnodes, entrynodes,
26015 excludenodes) after we've fetched a directory.
26018 Changes in version 0.0.2pre22 - 2004-02-26
26020 - Servers publish less revealing uname information in descriptors.
26021 - More memory tracking and assertions, to crash more usefully when
26023 - If the default torrc isn't there, just use some default defaults.
26024 Plus provide an internal dirservers file if they don't have one.
26025 - When the user tries to use Tor as an http proxy, give them an http
26026 501 failure explaining that we're a socks proxy.
26027 - Dump a new router.desc on hup, to help confused people who change
26028 their exit policies and then wonder why router.desc doesn't reflect
26030 - Clean up the generic tor.sh init script that we ship with.
26032 - If the exit stream is pending on the resolve, and a destroy arrives,
26033 then the stream wasn't getting removed from the pending list. I
26034 think this was the one causing recent server crashes.
26035 - Use a more robust poll on OSX 10.3, since their poll is flaky.
26036 - When it couldn't resolve any dirservers, it was useless from then on.
26037 Now it reloads the RouterFile (or default dirservers) if it has no
26039 - Move the 'tor' binary back to /usr/local/bin/ -- it turns out
26040 many users don't even *have* a /usr/local/sbin/.
26043 Changes in version 0.0.2pre21 - 2004-02-18
26045 - There's a ChangeLog file that actually reflects the changelog.
26046 - There's a 'torify' wrapper script, with an accompanying
26047 tor-tsocks.conf, that simplifies the process of using tsocks for
26048 tor. It even has a man page.
26049 - The tor binary gets installed to sbin rather than bin now.
26050 - Retry streams where the connected cell hasn't arrived in 15 seconds
26051 - Clean up exit policy handling -- get the default out of the torrc,
26052 so we can update it without forcing each server operator to fix
26054 - Allow imaps and pop3s in default exit policy
26056 - Prevent picking middleman nodes as the last node in the circuit
26059 Changes in version 0.0.2pre20 - 2004-01-30
26061 - We now have a deb package, and it's in debian unstable. Go to
26062 it, apt-getters. :)
26063 - I've split the TotalBandwidth option into BandwidthRate (how many
26064 bytes per second you want to allow, long-term) and
26065 BandwidthBurst (how many bytes you will allow at once before the cap
26066 kicks in). This better token bucket approach lets you, say, set
26067 BandwidthRate to 10KB/s and BandwidthBurst to 10MB, allowing good
26068 performance while not exceeding your monthly bandwidth quota.
26069 - Push out a tls record's worth of data once you've got it, rather
26070 than waiting until you've read everything waiting to be read. This
26071 may improve performance by pipelining better. We'll see.
26072 - Add an AP_CONN_STATE_CONNECTING state, to allow streams to detach
26073 from failed circuits (if they haven't been connected yet) and attach
26075 - Expire old streams that haven't managed to connect. Some day we'll
26076 have them reattach to new circuits instead.
26079 - Fix several memory leaks that were causing servers to become bloated
26081 - Fix a few very rare assert triggers. A few more remain.
26082 - Setuid to User _before_ complaining about running as root.
26085 Changes in version 0.0.2pre19 - 2004-01-07
26087 - Fix deadlock condition in dns farm. We were telling a child to die by
26088 closing the parent's file descriptor to him. But newer children were
26089 inheriting the open file descriptor from the parent, and since they
26090 weren't closing it, the socket never closed, so the child never read
26091 eof, so he never knew to exit. Similarly, dns workers were holding
26092 open other sockets, leading to all sorts of chaos.
26093 - New cleaner daemon() code for forking and backgrounding.
26094 - If you log to a file, it now prints an entry at the top of the
26095 logfile so you know it's working.
26096 - The onionskin challenge length was 30 bytes longer than necessary.
26097 - Started to patch up the spec so it's not quite so out of date.
26100 Changes in version 0.0.2pre18 - 2004-01-02
26102 - Fix endian issues with the 'integrity' field in the relay header.
26103 - Fix a potential bug where connections in state
26104 AP_CONN_STATE_CIRCUIT_WAIT might unexpectedly ask to write.
26107 Changes in version 0.0.2pre17 - 2003-12-30
26109 - Made --debuglogfile (or any second log file, actually) work.
26110 - Resolved an edge case in get_unique_circ_id_by_conn where a smart
26111 adversary could force us into an infinite loop.
26114 - Each onionskin handshake now includes a hash of the computed key,
26115 to prove the server's identity and help perfect forward secrecy.
26116 - Changed cell size from 256 to 512 bytes (working toward compatibility
26118 - Changed cell length to 2 bytes, and moved it to the relay header.
26119 - Implemented end-to-end integrity checking for the payloads of
26121 - Separated streamid from 'recognized' (otherwise circuits will get
26122 messed up when we try to have streams exit from the middle). We
26123 use the integrity-checking to confirm that a cell is addressed to
26125 - Randomize the initial circid and streamid values, so an adversary who
26126 breaks into a node can't learn how many circuits or streams have
26130 Changes in version 0.0.2pre16 - 2003-12-14
26132 - Fixed a bug that made HUP trigger an assert
26133 - Fixed a bug where a circuit that immediately failed wasn't being
26134 counted as a failed circuit in counting retries.
26137 - Now we close the circuit when we get a truncated cell: otherwise we're
26138 open to an anonymity attack where a bad node in the path truncates
26139 the circuit and then we open streams at him.
26140 - Add port ranges to exit policies
26141 - Add a conservative default exit policy
26142 - Warn if you're running tor as root
26143 - on HUP, retry OR connections and close/rebind listeners
26144 - options.EntryNodes: try these nodes first when picking the first node
26145 - options.ExitNodes: if your best choices happen to include any of
26146 your preferred exit nodes, you choose among just those preferred
26148 - options.ExcludedNodes: nodes that are never picked in path building
26151 Changes in version 0.0.2pre15 - 2003-12-03
26152 o Robustness and bugfixes:
26153 - Sometimes clients would cache incorrect DNS resolves, which would
26154 really screw things up.
26155 - An OP that goes offline would slowly leak all its sockets and stop
26157 - A wide variety of bugfixes in exit node selection, exit policy
26158 handling, and processing pending streams when a new circuit is
26160 - Pick nodes for a path only from those the directory says are up
26161 - Choose randomly from all running dirservers, not always the first one
26162 - Increase allowed http header size for directory fetch.
26163 - Stop writing to stderr (if we're daemonized it will be closed).
26164 - Enable -g always, so cores will be more useful to me.
26165 - Switch "-lcrypto -lssl" to "-lssl -lcrypto" for broken distributions.
26168 - Wrote a man page. It lists commonly used options.
26171 - Change default loglevel to warn.
26172 - Make PidFile default to null rather than littering in your CWD.
26173 - OnionRouter config option is now obsolete. Instead it just checks
26175 - Moved to a single unified torrc file for both clients and servers.
26178 Changes in version 0.0.2pre14 - 2003-11-29
26179 o Robustness and bugfixes:
26180 - Force the admin to make the DataDirectory himself
26181 - to get ownership/permissions right
26182 - so clients no longer make a DataDirectory and then never use it
26183 - fix bug where a client who was offline for 45 minutes would never
26184 pull down a directory again
26185 - fix (or at least hide really well) the dns assert bug that was
26186 causing server crashes
26187 - warnings and improved robustness wrt clockskew for certs
26188 - use the native daemon(3) to daemonize, when available
26189 - exit if bind() fails
26190 - exit if neither socksport nor orport is defined
26191 - include our own tor_timegm (Win32 doesn't have its own)
26192 - bugfix for win32 with lots of connections
26193 - fix minor bias in PRNG
26194 - make dirserver more robust to corrupt cached directory
26197 - Wrote the design document (woo)
26199 o Circuit building and exit policies:
26200 - Circuits no longer try to use nodes that the directory has told them
26202 - Exit policies now support bitmasks (18.0.0.0/255.0.0.0) and
26203 bitcounts (18.0.0.0/8).
26204 - Make AP connections standby for a circuit if no suitable circuit
26205 exists, rather than failing
26206 - Circuits choose exit node based on addr/port, exit policies, and
26207 which AP connections are standing by
26208 - Bump min pathlen from 2 to 3
26209 - Relay end cells have a payload to describe why the stream ended.
26210 - If the stream failed because of exit policy, try again with a new
26212 - Clients have a dns cache to remember resolved addresses.
26213 - Notice more quickly when we have no working circuits
26216 - APPort is now called SocksPort
26217 - SocksBindAddress, ORBindAddress, DirBindAddress let you configure
26219 - RecommendedVersions is now a config variable rather than
26220 hardcoded (for dirservers)
26221 - Reloads config on HUP
26222 - Usage info on -h or --help
26223 - If you set User and Group config vars, it'll setu/gid to them.
26225 Changes in version 0.0.2pre13 - 2003-10-19
26226 o General stability:
26227 - SSL_write no longer fails when it returns WANTWRITE and the number
26228 of bytes in the buf has changed by the next SSL_write call.
26229 - Fix segfault fetching directory when network is down
26230 - Fix a variety of minor memory leaks
26231 - Dirservers reload the fingerprints file on HUP, so I don't have
26232 to take down the network when I approve a new router
26233 - Default server config file has explicit Address line to specify fqdn
26236 - Buffers grow and shrink as needed (Cut process size from 20M to 2M)
26237 - Make listener connections not ever alloc bufs
26239 o Autoconf improvements:
26240 - don't clobber an external CFLAGS in ./configure
26241 - Make install now works
26242 - create var/lib/tor on make install
26243 - autocreate a tor.sh initscript to help distribs
26244 - autocreate the torrc and sample-server-torrc with correct paths
26246 o Log files and Daemonizing now work:
26247 - If --DebugLogFile is specified, log to it at -l debug
26248 - If --LogFile is specified, use it instead of commandline
26249 - If --RunAsDaemon is set, tor forks and backgrounds on startup